The mage arrives

"You mean, you plan to use silver dragon steel to make arrows to deal with the black dragon? Can you tell me your thoughts?" Cyprus Ding asked curiously.

"That's right." Gordon affirmed the old mage's guess, "But the arrows I need to deal with black dragons are a bit special. I don't just use silver dragon steel to make arrows, but to make arrows with arrow shafts. A huge arrow made entirely of this special metal, with a length of three meters and a shaft diameter of twelve centimeters."

"Such a huge arrow, do you want to carry a ballista to deal with the black dragon? Don't forget that in order to protect his new body, Timodaros set up a triple barrier inside and outside the black spider cave. , any creature that enters will alert it, and even make this cunning black dragon wake up in advance. I spent a lot of effort to make two fog hidden stones for you and Miss Falia, which can fool the black dragon defensive spells. If you want to carry a ballista to deal with the black dragon, then those ballista soldiers will definitely be discovered." Cyprus Ding said.

When discussing the details of how to kill the black dragon just now, the old mage had already explained the situation to Gordon and Faria, and handed them each a small round stone with fluorescent lights.It was precisely because of this that Gordon canceled the plan to let Ms. Bishop directly bring an elite army to help the dead souls of the Siding Kingdom kill the black dragon.

In this matter, the only human beings that Cyprustin and the others can rely on are himself and Faliya.

"Of course not." Gordon shook his head and said, "I don't need ballista. What's more, when we break out, it is impossible to carry such a heavy war machine as ballista."

He paused, and said in a tone that a salesman used when meeting a client for the first time: "Everyone, have you heard of the shrinking technique?"

"Shrinking Object? That three-ring transformation school spell that can shrink objects?" The old mage looked at Gordon with doubts, not knowing what the other party's plan was.Even legendary mages.For a moment, he couldn't see through Gordon's thoughts.

The elder brother Harford among the halflings is a transformation mage. Although his arcane skills are far inferior to Cyprus Ding, he thinks further: "I know that some transformation mages who lack offensive means can use shrinking To shrink the boulder, and then use it to smash people. Do you want to use this method to deal with the black dragon? Then why should I help you build that huge dragon steel arrow? Directly melt the dragon steel ore into a big lump, and then use Shrunk down, isn’t it enough? But I’m sorry to tell you that this method probably won’t cause too much damage to Timodaros.”

Gordon stretched out his left index finger and swayed it left and right, negating the strong-hearted halfling's guess.

Although both of them had better spell attainments than Gordon.However, after all, Cyprus Ding and Harford are characters from nearly a thousand years ago, and there are many new things that they don't understand.In other words, they are left behind.

Times are constantly evolving.Just as science and technology on Earth are constantly improving over time, so is the arcane magic in the world of Telos.It is also making continuous progress.

The Second Era, also known as the Age of the Dragon.Dragons will inherit the magic from the gods.Brought to the main material plane.But at that time, although the giant dragons were unparalleled as individual spellcasters, they didn't have a deep understanding and research of arcane arts.Dragons use spells more as a natural ability than as a knowledge and discipline.Come and explore.

In the third era, known as the glorious years of the Magic Age, there was the Sun Elf Empire first, then the Netherdulan Magic Empire and the Imaka Empire in the southern desert.Through continuous research on arcane art and its essential source energy, not only has this wonderful power been popularized throughout the world of Tyros, it has even been raised to the height of science.

What is science?

Science is a methodology and a knowledge system that reflects objective laws.On Earth, magic is mysterious and unscientific.But in the world of Telos, magic is based on the source energy and exists objectively.

So in this world, the study of arcane and magic is of course science.And the mage who is engaged in this research work can also be called a scientist.

During the Third Era, countless outstanding mages went on to conduct outstanding research on arcane arts. They not only summed up a large set of laws, methods, and knowledge, but also delineated the entire arcane art system based on the eight great schools. to date.

History sometimes runs backwards.The barbarian invasion led to the destruction of the Roman Empire, and Europe fell into the dark middle ages of barbarism and ignorance.The collapse of the Netherdulan magic empire also caused many precious magic knowledge to be annihilated in history and war.In a sense, the Fourth Era, which has just passed 1000 years ago, is also in the dark age of magic.

But in general, the times are still developing and advancing.

Archmage Cyprus Ding and Harford have been separated from the world for so long, so of course they don't know that even a small three-ring shrinkage technique can generate many interesting usages.

This time Gordon is going to use the method of shrinking objects to deal with the black dragon. One thing he is very proud of is that this is his original creation in "The Ancient Era".

Gao registered that it was when he was just a little fifth-level mage who had just mastered three-ring spells.Although he was a mage who majored in conjuration and evocation, but at that time, due to his limited pockets, he didn't have much choice. The first three-ring spell Gordon learned was the shrinking spell—no way, at that time he After brushing the Dungeon of the Black Witch Tower for a long time, a three-ring spell scroll of shrinking objects burst out.

Not long after learning the shrinking technique, Gordon formed a team to venture into the forest of dead bones with a recommended level of five to ten.They were very lucky. They went all the way and went deep into the heart of the forest without encountering too much trouble.But their luck was also very bad. When they found a hidden treasure, they were accidentally entangled by a giant corpse worm guarding the treasure.

The giant corpse worm is an evil monster with a challenge level of seventeen. It has a huge body, and an adult individual is as big as three buses connected together, but its movements are extremely fast and agile.They like to devour dead bodies and live in areas where negative energy gathers.This kind of creature doesn't have any strong protective power. Its body surface is a disgusting and thick pale fat layer, but its vitality is very strong. It belongs to the kind of monster with low defense but high blood volume.What's even more frightening is its amazing resilience. If the player can't deal enough damage to it in a short period of time, the giant corpse worm can quickly heal its wounds through the special ability of absorbing negative energy.

At that time, when Gordon and his low-level teammates faced the giant corpse worm, despite their desperate attacks and exhausted means, they were still unable to defeat this disgusting enemy, and were almost cornered in the end.Although a sword can cut a deep gash in the giant corpse worm, and although a magic missile can blow up a large piece of flesh of the giant corpse worm, there is no way to kill it without injuring its internal organs.

On the night when his teammates were out of ammunition and food and were going to watch black and white TV and go back to the city for free, Gordon had an idea and came up with a solution.He asked the ax fighters in the team to cut down a few ghost claw pine trees unique to the dead bone forest, and then processed them hastily to make huge arrows, and finally shrunk them down with the shrinking technique, turning them into arrows similar to ordinary arrows. same size as a vector.

Then, in the final battle with the giant corpse worm, Gordon asked the rangers in the team to shoot those special arrows, which deeply penetrated the giant corpse worm's body.

Although these arrows did not cause too much damage to the giant corpse worms that were not rough but had thick flesh, but when Gordon lifted the shrinking technique, the arrows instantly became thicker and longer by sixteen times, not only It pierced the thick skin of the giant corpse worm, and penetrated deeply into the body, dressing the internal organs of this big worm in a mess.

So everyone won an almost impossible victory.

In addition to the lucrative loot, the video of that fight was voted the best fight of the month by the operator, and Gordon got a nice bonus for it.

Now, Gordon is going to use his experience in "The Ancient Era" to let the black dragon try another usage of the shrinking technique.

Since the object cannot be processed in any way after the shrinking technique is applied, otherwise the spell will be invalid immediately.So Gordon could only ask the halfling to make dragon steel arrows for him first, and then cast the shrinking technique.

Moreover, since shrinking objects can only work on non-magic items, his method also has great limitations.There are many enchanted arrows that can break through the black dragon's defense, but there are very few arrows made of natural materials that can do this.Even with fine gold arrows, unless the shooting arm is amazing, and an extremely powerful crossbow is used, it is possible to do it.

But Yinlong Steel is different.This metal material has extremely strong restraint and extra damage ability against evil creatures such as black dragons, and this characteristic is inherent in itself, not added by spells.It is precisely because of this rare material that Gordon can use this special method to deal with the black dragon.

An ordinary arrow shot at the black dragon, as Falohide said, is just like a human being being pricked by a thin needle, and it won't even bleed.

But if the thin needle suddenly changed into a chopstick, it would be difficult.

After listening to Gordon's explanation, the halfling and the old mage finally understood the young man's plan.This wild idea made them open their mouths for a moment, and the wrinkles on their old faces deepened.

"A very unique idea." Cyprus Ding said slowly, stroking his long beard in an energetic state.

"But it's probably going to work wonders, isn't it?" Harford laughed.After listening to Gordon's narration, this innovative halfling mage has been in a state of excitement. (to be continued..)