Vientiane Throne of Civilization

Chapter 1820 Requirements for Spells

For the rest of the journey, Zhou Xu mainly focused on meditation to recover. When he had extra energy, he would briefly study the newly acquired mantra spells.

The specific testing will have to wait until he returns to Blackmoon City and finds a suitable location.

Even just looking at the names of those mantras, he felt that these spells would probably cause quite serious damage to the terrain and environment. He certainly couldn't just find a remote lake or island to test them like before.

Zhou Xu had already decided on this location.

However, before that, upon returning to Blackmoon City, he obviously had to deal with the backlog of official business.

Compared to his previous trip to the Barton Islands, this time his absence was relatively short, and the backlog of work was naturally much less.

As always, after working overtime for a period of time to finish all the backlog of work and officially return to his daily work routine, Zhou Xu took a free afternoon to test the truth he had obtained earlier.

Zhou Xu has now arrived at a wasteland outside their Black Moon City.

This wasteland is the area on the outskirts of Salt Lake City. A route leads directly to the mountainous region. There used to be a mine near Salt Lake City, which was one of the earliest mines in their Great Zhou Dynasty.

While the mine was still there, it was too troublesome to start construction here, so the relevant departments put it on hold for the time being.

However, with continuous mining over the years, the output of this vein has been decreasing, and it is now basically depleted.

With the mine gone, this entire area can be said to be completely abandoned.

After all, it's right outside the capital, and such a large piece of land is just lying there abandoned. Besides wasting land resources, it doesn't look very nice either.

Therefore, the relevant departments have long been discussing the construction work here.

This area is neither too big nor too small, so building another city on top of it, which would be practically right next to Blackmoon City, would be pointless.

The most ideal solution right now would be to expand Blackmoon City and add another district.

Based on this, if the hollowed-out mines can be leveled, the space of the new area can be further increased.

For the Great Zhou Dynasty today, achieving this is no longer difficult.

According to the original plan of the construction engineering department, the explosives were to be used first, and then a steam excavator would be used to finish the job.

However, due to the vigorous development in various regions over the years, their internal financial resources are not abundant, and the Ministry of Finance simply cannot allocate funds in the short term. In addition, this project is not in a particularly urgent manner, so it has been delayed until now and has not yet started.

This is a perfect opportunity for Zhou Xu to test his newly acquired mantra spells.

"Have all the people been cleared out?"

Looking at the abandoned mine in front of him, Zhou Xu asked a question.

"Your Majesty, we have just confirmed that there is no one left in the area, and the outer perimeter has been sealed off with the assistance of the Imperial Guards to ensure that no one will accidentally wander in."

After confirming the situation, Zhou Xu nodded in satisfaction.

"Okay, you can leave now."

"Yes!"

After stretching his limbs slightly, Zhou Xu officially began testing the newly acquired mantra spells.

[Earthen wall!]

The first spell Zhou Xu used was this one, which was clearly a defensive spell.

In an instant, accompanied by a tremor in the ground and a rumbling sound, a wall made of earth and stone rapidly rose from the ground. A quick check revealed that, without any deliberate increase in strength, the rising earthen wall, when used normally, formed a square with sides of three meters, and its thickness was estimated to be half a meter.

Zhou Xu tried punching twice, but it didn't budge.

Of course, he's just giving it a try now; he'll put the serious tests later.

If an earthen wall can be built, then changing its attributes shouldn't be a problem either.

【firewall!】

Almost the instant he finished chanting, Zhou Xu heard a muffled 'boom' and blazing flames suddenly rose into the air, forming a wall of fire in front of him.

However, during this process, Zhou Xu soon discovered that the magical power within his body was being continuously depleted.

When he cut off the output of magic power, the wall of fire in front of him also dissipated.

This made the spell suddenly become quite subtle.

In contrast, the earthen wall is a one-time consumption; once successfully deployed, it requires no further attention and does not need to be maintained through continuous mana output.

Ultimately, does a firewall truly possess defensive capabilities?
Although the spell did indeed create the shape of a wall, it should be noted that fire has no physical form under normal circumstances, not even elemental flames.

If this wall of fire doesn't have any blocking ability, then it's just a simple burning effect.

To achieve this effect, he undoubtedly had better methods and didn't need to use this trick.

His requirements for mantras and spells naturally differed at different stages.

In his early days, he had very few mantras and his abilities were extremely limited. Even if the mantra spells that could be combined into effective combinations were not very effective, he could accept them, since they were better than nothing.

But now, the situation is different. Zhou Xu's current incantation techniques are very rich, which makes his requirements for incantation spells increasingly higher.

He is constantly eliminating some mantra spells that, while forming effective combinations, have less than satisfactory results.

A person's magical power is limited, whether in battle or in daily practice and research.

Why would you waste your magic power, time, and energy on spells that aren't very effective?

At this moment, in Zhou Xu's view, the fire wall was a spell with little value.

In a subsequent simple confirmation, he also basically confirmed that a series of combinations that change attributes, such as 'Wind Wall' and 'Water Wall', could be successfully cast, but the problem with these spells was the same as with Fire Wall.

Of all the wall-related spells, only the earthen wall effect seemed usable to Zhou Xu.

Okay, next one.

Spell tests are always tedious and tiring.

Often, he might need to test the same spell several times, or even dozens of times, to confirm its effect, but Zhou Xu himself enjoyed it.

The earthen walls that were erected during the previous testing of the earthen wall spell have now become targets for testing other spells!

[Ground spike attack!]

In an instant, a huge spike resembling the fang of a giant beast suddenly shot out from underground.

This attack was somewhat unsportsmanlike, directly destroying the foundation of the earthen wall and fundamentally dismantling its structure, making it extremely vulnerable.

Needless to say, with the emergence of the earth spikes, the entire thick earthen wall collapsed on the spot!
(End of this chapter)