The wizard era begins with the alchemist wizard

Chapter 397 Reconnaissance Array
"Support brigade, prepare, distance thirty-five, stage release, fire!"

Behind the fortress group, a huge number of spell support vehicles gathered together, silent and solemn, like a sleeping dragon.

Following the order of the legion commander, the sleeping dragon suddenly woke up and spewed out destructive dragon breath into the sky.

Thousands of fireballs shot out from the turret behind the support vehicle, drawing fiery arcs in the air and falling into the insect swarm.

In an instant, a huge amount of fire elements gathered together, making the power of the spell secondary.

The fire elemental storm is what the wizard really needs.

The burning wind with a temperature of over 100,000 degrees swept through the insect swarm, directly turning the insects into charcoal and ashes.

And this is just the aftermath of the fire elemental storm.

The fire elemental storm in the center of the battlefield was like a ruthless furnace, indiscriminately burning anything that dared to enter.

The insects within the range of the fire elemental storm, even the third-level creatures, were instantly turned into ashes. Even if there were some who were a little stronger, they only lived for a few more seconds.

Under the erosion of huge amounts of fire elements, the crystallization process, which would have taken thousands of years, was dramatically accelerated.

In the center of the fire elemental storm, even sesame-sized low-quality fire elemental gems appeared.

Then, the second wave of fireballs came.

This wave of fireballs instantly caused the fire element storm, which had already shown signs of dissipating, to expand again.

The wizards in the fortress group saw that a fire tornado appeared in the center of the fireball explosion.

And this tornado is still expanding gradually with the bombardment of fireball.

The violent fire element turned into a burning wind, directly cutting the insect swarm in half.

"My goodness, what else do we need to do?"

In the fortress, an old wizard looked at the fire tornado in the distance and muttered to himself unconsciously.

But soon, he discovered something was wrong.

The fireball stopped.

"Something is wrong, prepare to attack!"

Behind the fortress group, the commander of the Hellfire Legion fell into deep thought as he listened to his subordinates’ reports.

"Oh, I actually forgot about this."

He took out a communication crystal ball from his pocket, and after the call was connected, Jimmy's voice came from the crystal ball.

"What's wrong, Adams?"

"We may have to change our strategy, Jimmy." Legion Commander Adams said in a low voice, "I overlooked one thing.

Such intensive use of the same spell will result in a vacuum of free elements.

So the decision we made needs to be revised a little bit.”

"Elemental vacuum?" Jimmy said in surprise, "Indeed, I forgot about it too."

Elemental spells require a large number of elements to fill them, and wizards obviously cannot create these elements out of thin air.

Free elements are the source of elements in elemental spells.

However, the free elements in a unit space are limited. Once a certain element spell is used on a large scale and repeatedly, it will lead to the lack of a certain element in the unit space, and then cause the emergence of an element vacuum.

Once an elemental vacuum occurs, any spells involving that element will become unusable.

On the battlefield, the White Wizard Corps would basically not encounter an elemental vacuum due to range issues. However, the spells fired by the spell support vehicle were too far away from the casting location, and the elemental return speed was much slower than the speed used by the spell support vehicle, so an elemental vacuum appeared.

"I will find a few wizards who are familiar with the elements and calculate the unit space's carrying capacity for the magic support vehicle. You lead the convoy back first, leaving two brigades behind as support.

This wave of insects is not that big, the fortress group should be able to withstand it."

"it is good."

After hearing Jimmy's response, Adams immediately ordered the convoy to retreat, leaving only the first and second support battalions here in case of emergency.

"Oh, there really is a problem." Adams muttered to himself as he looked at the flames rising into the sky in the distance.

The troublesome insects in the swarm flashed through his mind, and he couldn't help but feel a headache.

"We can't rely on pure magic to suppress them. This battle will be difficult to fight."

……

In the Astral Fortress, Richard and his party were traveling through the black crystal channel.

Although the mission of the great wizard Garlon was arduous, it was not impossible to accomplish. Richard learned from the master controller that there was a radar-like detection array in this astral fortress.

Although this detection array was damaged when the fortress fell, there was no problem in enabling it to be activated at low power.

If it can be started, Richard should be able to find his way back.

The Snake King's ancestors had been to the ancient battlefield, so this place was not far from the poisonous swamp. As long as he could find the poisonous swamp, the Snake King would have a way to bring everyone back to the Crystal Tower.

Richard will then be able to use the previously recorded map to return to the floating city.

As for why he didn't use the teleportation array to go back, Richard just wanted to say that whoever wants to use that damn teleportation array can use it.

In other words, he and Ulises were lucky and were only separated during the teleportation. If they were less lucky, let alone whether they would be teleported to some messy place, the possibility of falling into the turbulence of time and space would be enough to stop Richard from going.

So, let’s just go back honestly.

Da da da……

Accompanied by a burst of crisp footsteps, the door of the long-sealed information hall was opened by a black-robed wizard.

"Is this the information hall? What a pity."

Richard looked at the broken crystal creations in the hall and couldn't help feeling distressed.

If these things were intact, I wonder how much knowledge could be extracted from them.

Although that knowledge might not be useful, no wizard would have too much knowledge. In the center of the hall, there was a huge milky white crystal platform.

This crystal table is the operating platform of the reconnaissance array and is also the only crystal creation in the hall that is not completely damaged.

Richard came to the side and saw that under the main control, an operating interface suddenly appeared on the milky white control platform.

"Wow, I didn't expect that the Forerunners would specifically adapt the operating systems for different species."

According to Richard's judgment, the forerunners should not have such things as eyes, so this kind of visual operating interface is obviously designed for dragons.

According to the information on the operation interface, Richard quickly found a reconnaissance option.

The Forerunners designed ten gears for the reconnaissance array, and Richard decided to start with the smallest one.

[Level 1 reconnaissance array enabled]

Following the master controller's prompt, the surging energy from the power reactor immediately poured into the long-dormant energy transmission pipeline of the Star Fortress.

In an instant, many energy transmission pipelines were even broken.

But this does not affect the activation of the reconnaissance array.

With a buzzing sound, a broken shell somewhere outside the Star Fortress suddenly lit up with a blue-purple light.

A powerful energy wave was instantly released from the array, sweeping across hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of land around the fortress in a flash.

Next to the operating panel, a projection appeared in the air.

A map with a radius of 400 kilometers, centered on the Star Fortress, appeared in the projection in an instant.

Upon seeing this, Richard quickly recorded the map in his crystal ball.

According to the map, they only need to walk due north for more than 300 kilometers to reach the poisonous swamp.

"What a powerful reconnaissance array." Richard exclaimed sincerely, "This is only level one. If it were level five or six, I'm afraid the whole world would be included in it."

After putting the map away, Richard began to fumble around on the console.

I want to see what good technology this console can extract.

But when Richard saw the information given by the Miracle Furnace, he immediately lost interest.

[Raw Materials: Supreme Projector]

[Extractable information: 3D projection]

[Refining consumption: 5 mental power]

[Raw Materials: Supreme Control Bar]

[Extractable information: touch screen imaging technology]

[Refining consumption: 5 mental power]

"What a piece of crap."

Richard looked at the information given by the Miracle Furnace and couldn't help shaking his head.

These two technologies were of no use to him because the wizarding world already had such technologies.

If Richard wanted, he could buy it anytime.

"It seems that what we have here is just a front end. The real work is still on the reconnaissance array and the fortress main control."

After leaving the information hall, Richard turned to the main controller and asked how to get to the reconnaissance array.

Richard naturally didn't intend to let go of such a good thing.

After receiving the answer, Richard soon arrived outside the fortress.

Due to design problems, the reconnaissance array can only be contacted from the outside, so Richard can only come outside the Star Fortress to contact it under the energy radiation.

The ancient battlefield was filled with yellow sand, and the green radiation aurora penetrated the cracks in the astral fortress, gradually diluting into energy radiation invisible to the naked eye.

Richard activated his ever-changing combat body and came to the location of the reconnaissance array under the magic barrier.

The reconnaissance array is located in the middle of the fortress, which is the least damaged part of the fortress module.

What made Richard even happier was that the reconnaissance array was not a complete device, but was composed of components with a volume of about one cubic meter.

This also means that the refining consumption of this array will not be particularly exaggerated.

Richard fumbled around in the reconnaissance array for a while, and finally found a usable module, which he removed from the main body of the fortress.

[Raw materials: reconnaissance array module]

[Information that can be extracted: Reconnaissance array module manufacturing technology]

[Refining consumption: 200 mental power]

Looking at the information given by the Miracle Furnace, Richard put the module into his pocket with satisfaction.

But just as he was returning to the interior of the fortress, he suddenly followed a long and narrow crack that extended to the bottom of the fortress, and saw a cabin at the bottom of the fortress, where many crystal-like things were placed.

Richard was startled by this look.

Is there a material warehouse inside this fortress for daily repair and maintenance of the fortress?
Thinking of this, Richard hurried to the side of the crack and carefully observed what was inside.

If this is true, then he will probably make a small fortune again.

This star fortress not only has crystal parts, but also many metal parts.

If there are really materials in here, then there must be a lot of precious alchemical materials.

But after reading it, Richard took two steps back in a trance. He waved his staff and cast a mental appraisal spell on himself.

After making sure he was not hallucinating, he muttered to himself:
"Boy, this is a great success."

What lay behind the gap were not the materials for repairing the fortress, but thousands of armed puppets of the Forerunners.

(End of this chapter)