Tower Defense Game: My Eternal Kingdom

Chapter 151 Harvest and Accidents

"It's not a man-made magic, it needs a steady supply of mana, and it can't be distracted.

No magician would be bored enough to cast a guardian spell here without interruption for... a long time. "

Cheng thought deeply.

"Then what makes up this dark field can only be the magic circle."

He draws conclusions.

Then there was a deep sense of curiosity.

Most of the items related to magic that Cheng Shen has seen so far are limited to runes with independent structures.

And the magic circle,

It is a dense combination structure composed of countless runes and magic patterns.

Speaking of which, he just got the ancient sacrificial mask, which should be regarded as a high-level magic equipment.

Among them, the structural parts between the runes are somewhat similar to the composition of the magic circle.

But it can only be regarded as an incomplete microcosm.

Durability limit.

It is the greatest manifestation of incompleteness.

A real magic circle must not only have the basic components of absorbing energy, transforming energy, and transmitting energy.

What's more, it is necessary to maintain the material itself that makes up the magic circle, so that it can be nourished for a long time and will not be easily damaged.

In this way, to achieve the goal that a magic circle can maintain operation for hundreds of thousands of years without being looked after.

This is fundamentally different from magic equipment that will be scrapped due to the exhaustion of durability after being used for a period of time.

for example.

The former is equivalent to a single life individual, and its activity cycle is just the moment when the life particles are active.

The magic circle is a complete ecological cycle that may not be eternal, but at least it can last for a long time.

on the basis of,
It is an important part of the purpose of forming a magic circle.

Therefore, to build a complete magic circle, it can be roughly divided into three steps temporarily.

Formation base composed of basic functional runes and energy transmission lines,

The main body of the magic circle is composed of special functional symbols such as maintenance, reinforcement, circulation, and concealment,

and a core of elemental runes that affect the primary effect.

Among them, the composition of each part will have one or more key axes based on substantial objects.

That is, the eyes.

To break the magic circle by conventional means, it is necessary to find these eyes.

of course.

There is also a brute force solution.

It is impossible for any magic circle to be built out of thin air, but some materials with magic properties must be used as the structural foundation.

But brute force cracking the magic circle means facing the strongest power it can erupt.

Without the powerful strength enough to crush, doing so is courting death.

Moreover, most protective magic circles usually contain a self-destructive structure. Once the brute-force cracking is triggered and the self-destructive structure is triggered, everything in the magic circle will be instantly destroyed.

There is also a third case.

It is the sealing circle.

This type of magic circle generally suppresses monsters and disasters that the magic circle builder cannot destroy.

It would be quite stupid to destroy the magic circle and release the contents without knowing why.

"Protect...or seal?"

Cheng Shen looked forward.

At the beginning, he judged that the dark mist was not aggressive, so it was a protective magic circle.

But when the second thought arises, I can't help but think a little more.

"You retreat one after another."

Cheng Shen said to Arjieka and the soldiers.

Then, he walked forward, a thick golden-red halo surged in his eyes, as if two kinds of energy flames that were incompatible with each other, full of gelatinous texture, merged into a slowly flowing river, slowly dragging move up.

the closer.

In his eyes, the pervasive dark matter became more and more detailed.

It was not pure mist, but a series of wandering magic runes, thousands of which gathered together and supported the continuous operation of the entire magic circle according to a certain structure and operation law.

Condensation, extraction, transformation, energy...

At a glance.

Cheng Shen immediately saw countless basic functional runes that he had mastered.

There are many others that he has not touched, and at this moment, under the influence of spiritual resonance, their symbolic names are automatically interpreted.

break down,

Reorganization,

solidification,

……

Cheng Shen was trembling with excitement.

Suppress the joy in my heart.

Building a magic circle often requires thousands of magic runes, although many of them are repeated to enhance the effect.

But it is also a huge treasure trove for him!

of course.

And only for him.

As someone else, at most they can only see the traces of energy flow in the magic circle, and use this to trace the source, find the eye of the circle, and crack it.

But he can directly see every basic composition!

Straight to the essence!

Deciphering the magic circle suddenly became unimportant at this moment, Cheng Shen was very hungry and greedy to decipher all visible rune structures.

Rapidly enriched his knowledge base.

Just for a moment.

The number of one-ring runes he has mastered has increased from the original 28 to 39, and the additions are basically precious functional runes!

"32 one-ring functional runes..."

Cheng Shen was shocked.

Just to build the foundation of this magic array, 32 different kinds of more than 2000 first-ring functional runes are needed!
What a complex and vast project!

Lawrence once told him that the definition of the ability of a normal rune carver is still vivid in his ears.

If it were an ordinary first-level rune carver to do this work, it would take at least two or three years!

Of course, the premise is that the talisman carver has not grown up in the process.

But it's amazing enough.

Cheng Shen was prepared that this magic circle would bring him some subversive cognition, but he still underestimated its complexity.

"No wonder……

Lawrence said that it is difficult for a formation mage to appear among thousands of talisman carving masters, and it is still difficult for this formation mage to reach an advanced level..."

Cheng Shen sighed softly.

Formation is a study, as the sublimation and complex evolution of runetics.

Not only transcendental talent is required.

It takes a lot of time!
It would take months or even years to build a magic circle. Even with the vigorous vitality comparable to that of a warrior, it would be difficult to achieve high achievements in this field before dying.

Unless the breakthrough is extraordinary.

Manpower is limited after all.

As for the extraordinary, the lifespan can easily reach thousands of years.

Cheng Shen quickly suppressed the unrealistic fantasy in his heart, although he did not deny that he had the potential to step into the extraordinary.

But the premise is that they can survive to that time under the threat of weirdness.

Cheng Shen then took a step forward.

At this moment, he was less than one meter away from the edge of the darkness.

The thick mist in front of him seemed to be inspired by something, and it separated strands of black threads, rushing towards him.

But every time it reaches a fixed distance, it will dissipate into nothingness.

"Range limitation..."

Cheng Shen was thoughtful.

Even so, he still felt an uncomfortable feeling in his body, as if some kind of living thing was wriggling, a little creepy.

But this kind of discomfort is nothing to him who has personally come into contact with the weirdness.

He squatted down and observed carefully. Sure enough, he saw the magic lines carved on the ground at the position corresponding to the boundary.

The lines are covered by black mist.

After hesitating for a moment, Cheng Shen stretched out his right hand and probed into the darkness.

As soon as his arm passed through that boundary, a thick black mist immediately covered it, and Cheng Shen immediately saw and felt that under the skin of his arm, thick earthworm patterns bulged and moved.

This is not a vision produced by hallucinations.

puff!
A lavender tentacle covered with tiny thorns suddenly tore through the skin of his arm, drilled out, and slowly twisted his body in the darkness.

Cheng Shen watched this scene with an attitude close to indifference.

"Erosion, corrosion, distortion..."

He calmly analyzed the whole process of the mutation in the arm.

Although the process is very fast.

However, the perception of the energy reaching the molecular structure allowed him to instantly grasp the staged effects of dark energy on the flesh and blood tissue.

and.

The negative emotional impact that comes with the erosion process cannot be ignored.

This was infinitely stronger and purer than the negative emotions he felt when he absorbed blood energy and resentful spirits. If it weren't for the special resistance of the bright red form, it would be very difficult for Cheng Shen to resist the erosion of resentment to this degree.

This is not because his willpower is not strong enough.

Rather, this kind of energy itself is already considered an existence beyond the limit.

According to records.

Ordinary creatures only need to live in the area where the dark breath leaks for a period of time, without being exposed to energy, they will be affected emotionally, become irritable and irritable, and will immediately deform into monsters after the trigger is triggered.

Even the high-level magicians of the old era couldn't do it directly touching the dark energy.

At this moment, he is equivalent to crossing four or five steps and conducting experiments!
Cheng Shen immediately withdrew his arm.

The price of directly touching the darkness was that his entire arm was completely distorted in just three seconds.

The skin on the arm became scorched black and distorted, like dry and wrinkled bark. Half a foot long purple tentacles drilled out of the flesh, and eyeballs grew from the top, and the eyes were full of evil and frantic scanning around everything.

Cheng Shen used his body to block the sight of the tentacles, preventing him from staring at ordinary soldiers, which would definitely not bring about any good changes.

He felt that a chaotic and muddy energy was still penetrating into his body from his arm.

Cheng Shen was not in a hurry to separate the arm with bright red.

He calmly looked at the deformed part, and tried to regain control of the arm.

Some difficulty.

But his palms were still slowly closed.

"The strength... has doubled, and if you use this arm to attack the enemy, I'm afraid it will also have a strong dark erosion effect..."

Cheng Shen sensed the change.

Not only that.

He quickly gained control of the dark energy molecules contained in his arms.

In the magic circle, isolated by the effect of the formation, he couldn't directly use the natural energy to affect the energy changes in it.

If only it could be done.

Facing the enemy, he doesn't even need to do anything, he can easily deal with it by directly detonating the elemental energy in his body.

Obviously.

The energy control talent at this stage is still not able to do this.

But right now this part of the dark energy already belongs to him.

"It's strange...the intensity level of dark energy doesn't seem to be higher than basic elements such as earth, wind, water, and fire...it's basically the same intensity!"

Cheng Shen said in surprise.

He originally thought that dark energy might be a kind of high-level energy like concentrated magic energy.

But now it seems that is not the case.

The reason why dark energy is so dangerous is because of its negative nature, which has a catastrophic effect on ordinary life.

In fact, as long as one deforms oneself or transforms into an undead, even a low-level dark mage can easily grasp this kind of energy...

"enough."

Cheng Shen immediately decided to interrupt the test.

But at this moment, a cold and terrifying aura suddenly erupted in his body, and the dark energy swaying in his body was instantly assimilated into a dead silence, and the tentacles growing on his arms withered in an instant!
The wet, foul-smelling seawater seeped out of his skin.

In a blink of an eye.

Soak him all over!
"not good!"

Cheng Shen's heart trembled, the erosion of dark energy actually detonated the deep sea curse hidden in his body in advance!
puff!
Without the slightest hesitation, he made a decisive decision. A golden dagger appeared in his left hand, and he stabbed violently in the chest!
call!
The spirit-eliminating blade sank into his chest, and white flames erupted from the dagger, covering him all over!When the flame met the sea water, there was a violent reaction immediately, and together with his body, it evaporated into a large piece of ashes!

laugh……!
Cheng Shen couldn't feel the pain, but he could feel that his vitality was rapidly weakening.

The Spirit Eliminating Blade itself is a strange thing with a curse, just using it can make people pay the price of their lives.When Cheng Shen used it to attack himself at this time, he was facing the erosion of another strange force!

But this situation has actually been rehearsed countless times in his mind.

This is also the inspiration brought to him by witnessing Aoki fusing two strange powers at the same time!

However, Cheng Shen's purpose is not to suppress the curse of the deep sea through the curse of the spirit-eliminating blade, so as to achieve a check and balance effect. Although it can prevent the curse from erupting, it will also turn him into a strange coexistence!

Not to mention.

There is more than just a deep sea curse hidden in his body!
This kind of check and balance cannot be achieved at all, and he will still be assimilated by the strangeness when the curse of the apple breaks out!

What Cheng Shen has to do is to take advantage of the gap between the spirit-eliminating blade to fight against the curse of the deep sea, and strive for an opportunity to escape!

Whoa!

His body suddenly melted into a pool of blood, but at this moment, the blood was no longer bright red, half of it turned into a turbid substance like sea water, and half of the black surface was filled with white flames, forming a dividing line in the middle.

Just within this dividing line with only one gap wide, a bloody arrow shot out!
"leave here!"

Cheng Shen's voice came out from the blood arrow, which immediately gave the bewildered Arjieka and the soldiers a backbone.

"Withdraw, withdraw!"

Da Meng had seen the strange horror before, and hurriedly ordered the soldiers to evacuate from the ruins, not daring to look at the blood left on the ground.

for a moment.

The whole team withdrew from the ruins nearly a hundred meters away.

And Cheng Shen, after abandoning [-]% of his body, has also recovered to a healthy blood volume through the high recovery effect of passive skills.

His face was still pale.

I have lingering fears.

Fortunately, he passed the dark erosion test of the scarletization.

Otherwise, he wouldn't even have a chance to escape in his normal form, and he would be assimilated by the weirdness in an instant!
What Cheng Shen is most worried about is whether he, who has been assimilated by strangeness, is considered dead, or is he another life form recognized by the system?
if the latter one.

He didn't even have a chance to trigger the passive resurrection and trigger the curse of the apple!
(End of this chapter)