Comprehensive network wizard, magic emperor

At this time, the teammates who had woken up were chatting and joking in the channel. They were discussing the plot of the dungeon time and space. Xiaohaige was fascinated by it and would throw out controversial opinions to attract everyone to participate.

Lin Bo took a look and the little brother put forward an explanation. When the disaster occurred, the botanical garden was in a state of near blockade, and the survivors needed to avoid being hunted by living plants. However, during this terrifying crisis, there were still people actively rescuing their companions.

Thanks to the dictionary provided by the wizard, Xiao Haige can now easily read the text information here and sort out a lot of key materials.

[Astrology Fan]: We assume that the rescuer's name is "Morning Star". Her activities are very wide, and traces of her can be found from Garden No. 1 to Garden No. 3. It is not clear how she broke through the hunting blockade of these living plants, but she is obviously running to save people.

Lin Bo didn't read the chat content carefully, but just checked the weapons and equipment.

The Whale Fire Ring placed in the bacterial cultivation box has already been charged and is in good condition.

After leaving the dormitory, Lin Bo realized that he was the last one out. The other teammates were already waiting in the hall. They had just woken up, and the knight and the warlock were still yawning.

[Lighthouse Guest]: Sorry for getting up late. The accommodation here is very good. I overslept.

Everyone agreed with Lin Bo's words that the accommodation conditions in this copy were indeed good, like a room in a luxury hotel.

They talked about their own short breaks in dungeons. They'd either wandered into the open wilderness, or wandered into dilapidated houses, eerie tombs, or haunted mines. Just having a bonfire was enough.

Everyone was ready and headed to Garden No. 4.

After entering the glass corridor, the ambient temperature suddenly dropped a lot. Cold wind kept blowing from a distance, and everything in front of me was covered with a thin layer of frost.

Those annoying exploding dandelions were frozen like ice sculptures, their color changing from orange to black and blue, making them quite inconspicuous.

The airbag explosions fell into a semi-dormant state, floating in the air like mines in the sea.

The group arrived at the entrance to Garden No. 4. The large gate was half-open, as if someone had just passed through. The howling cold wind blew from behind the gate.

Park No. 4 simulates extremely cold weather, with the temperature almost approaching that of the surface of the planet outside. The soothing biting cold wind whispers indifferently and coldly in the mage's ears.

The ground was pale white, and the weather simulation system in the dome was producing endless snowflakes.

The plants growing here are still lush. Although their trunks are relatively thin, they are tall and straight enough. They can also absorb electrical energy and convert it into heat energy to sustain life.

The vast number of tree roots buried in the soil release heat, melting the ice and snow on the surface. The rising water vapor cools down, forming a white mist around the tree trunks. Thick rime condenses on the treetops and leaves.

They need to pass through this ice crystal forest shrouded in cold fog to reach the central area.

The harsh environment of Garden No. 4 made everyone shiver, except the female orc who was almost indifferent.

Before entering the dungeon, everyone had prepared their own warming measures, but the alchemist had a better solution. She took out some homemade cold resistance potions and gave them to everyone. After taking them, the wind and snow blowing on the skin became much gentler.

Lin Bo took off his arm armor and let his palms touch the falling snowflakes.

Ice and snow's true name is water, but their conversational styles are quite different. Compared to the song-like narrative of flowing water, snowflakes are much more silent, telling the story of how rising water vapor gathers near dust particles and condenses into a hard, fine-grained structure.

This is a story about death and transformation.

The vitality of water dies, its body becomes hard, and it becomes cold snow.

The snowflakes in Lin Bo's palm melted into water by his body heat, and their words became lively again. But more snowflakes fell, telling him the story of desolation again and again.

He formed a sword finger seal with one hand, and whispered the true name of water, controlling the pool of melted water in the palm of his palm to rise. With the help of the power of resonance, he felt the process of water turning into ice and snow.

Like steel, water transmits a sense of pressure rather than temperature. Therefore, during this process, Lin Bo did not feel cold, but only sluggishness, stagnation, and stiffness.

He used the fierce control technique to shake the ice and snow into water. After stopping the control technique, the water froze again.

The other teammates saw the mage holding a ball of floating snowflakes, seemingly enjoying themselves, and would occasionally glance at him curiously. Then, suddenly, the mage stopped and remained where he was. Everyone else also paused and glanced around cautiously.

[Swift Beast]: Are there any enemies?

[No Shadow]: Apparently not. The wizard seems to be thinking. Let’s wait for him.

Lin Bo gradually grasped the process of water transforming into ice. Contrary to the high-frequency oscillations of the Fierce Control Technique, this process resulted in a weakening of the vibrations and a drop in temperature. From vibrant energy to dead silence, the ice and snow, using their language, taught the mage how to enter this cold, indifferent state.

A new faith in the art of bending opened up to him.

Closed to curiosity about the world, indifferent to the outside world, the power curled inward to suppress the vibration of matter itself.

He clenched his fist, and the water droplets wrapped in his palm were warmed by his body temperature.

Then, Lin Bo controlled his mind and let the cold and closed emotions envelop his mind. He felt the faint vibration of the water droplets and suppressed it with his mind, just like smoothing out the wrinkles of clothes and wiping away the waves on the sea.

After a while, he spread out his hands, and on his warm palm lay a cold ice crystal.

Ding--

[Professional behavior detected, skill determination successful! ]

[Activated professional skills: Mantra Control - Solid]

Mantra Control - Solidification: Lv1 (0/1000) Basic Mantra Control, by speaking the mantra, control all things to condense and cool down

Quiet as the earth, hidden deep within is immortality. —Proverbs

Lin Bo casually threw the ice crystal in his palm and found that his teammates were waiting quietly.

[Lighthouse Guest]: Sorry, I was distracted. Knight, be careful at one o'clock, there's something hiding behind the tree.

At this time, they were less than ten meters away from the edge of the forest. The trees in the mist looked like slender black shadows, and a faint smell of turpentine wafted out of the mist.

After forming visual synaesthesia at Level 3, Smell the Fragrance and Know the Essence, Lin Bo can see the distribution trajectory of smells.

In his eyes, the smell of turpentine was like a cloud ribbon, extending from in front of him to behind the tree.

Knight waved his hand and drove the Echo Illusion towards the woods. He followed behind, and his teammates also followed closely.

When they stepped into the thick mist, their vision was obscured and they could not see their hands in front of their faces.

Lin Bo whispered, "(Expletive) The fog here will quickly leave."

With him as the center, an invisible and colorless breeze blew, and the white mist in the air was like a flock of driven sheep, huddling together, bypassing the trees, and scattering away.

As the light from the sky fell, the rime on the treetops of the Ice Crystal Forest reflected a myriad of rainbow colors, and the hunched figure slowly cruising in the woods was also exposed to the players' field of vision.

[Swift Beast]: Prepare to engage the enemy!

These living trees resemble elderly humans, with thick dark blue skin that looks like it's covered with a layer of cracked rock. Their eyeballs are hidden behind two tiny holes on their faces, and sparse leafy branches hang down from their heads like half-bald hair.

They are not tall, but have quite strong bodies. The dense roots on their feet are embedded in the soil, allowing them to stand firmly. The roots on their hands are tightly wrapped into balls, like boxing gloves.

When the fog dissipated, the players discovered the enemy, and the group of tree people also discovered them and slowly approached them.

The artilleryman raised his heavy sniper rifle, took aim casually, and opened fire. The bullet, as thick as a finger, blasted a hole the size of a bowl in the body of a hunchbacked tree man, but failed to knock it down.

[Astrology Fan]: Aim for the chest. Their weak point is the heart inside the chest cavity.

The knight raised his greatsword and slashed down, landing on the treeman's skin with a dull thud, penetrating less than half a foot. He was met with a terrifying counterpunch from the treeman, a whistling wind that was unbearable. The knight's figure shimmered, switching positions with the nearby Echo Phantom, dodging the potentially fatal blow.

The white gorilla Master Song swung his flail and flattened the tree man's chest. Seeing this, the knight put away his sword, took out a two-handed warhammer from his backpack, smiled, and rushed towards the enemy again.

The little brother and the alchemist hid beside Lin Bo, one was responsible for waving flags and cheering for the summoned creatures, while the other threw alchemical bottles into the battlefield, creating pieces of burning flames.

Seeing his teammates perform bravely, Lin Bo just watched with peace of mind.

The rickety tree people are scattered around and their movements are slow, so the player is able to defeat them one by one and advance deeper into the forest.

After killing fifty-two tree men, they finally cleared out the miscellaneous soldiers outside and came to an open space in the forest.

The core area of ​​Garden No. 4 is shrouded in a small glass dome, like a greenhouse. It used to be as warm as spring inside, but now the walls of the greenhouse have been broken, and the bitter cold wind and snow have poured in, creating a low-temperature environment even more extreme than that in the forest area.

They crawled in through a huge hole in the greenhouse wall.

The elite monster in Park No. 4 was wandering in the snow with no intention of hiding, so the players saw it at a glance.

[Gun Bullet Soul-stealing]: Is this guy really not a human?

Everyone felt the same exclamation as the magic artillery master.

Before them was a massive warrior on a steed, a majestic quadruped fashioned from serpentine vines, its head a pale raven's skull. The knight wore a full armored plate of woven vines and wielded a massive wooden sword, the thickness of a door panel, which trailed to the ground. His face was hidden beneath a pointed helmet.

Frost and snow seeped into the cracks in the vine armor, forming a layer of pale ice, creating an even more unbreakable defense.

Beside the elite monster is a group of hunchbacked tree people wearing the same armor. These are its knight followers.

Silently, the elite monster raised its giant sword and pointed it at everyone. It urged its vine horses to charge. The speed was not fast, but the horse's hooves were like fallen rocks rolling down the hillside, hitting the ground heavily and splashing up surging waves of snow.

Lin Bo pressed the wooden box. A noise drifted from beneath his mask, and a brilliant ring of whale fire leaped from the box. He formed a sword finger seal, then a flame seal. The whale fire expanded like a sun disk, slowly drifting forward.

The speed of the ring seems slow, but the whale fire on the surface has turned into a vortex, and its internal force is rapidly accumulating through rotation.

Just as the ring was about to collide with the giant sword of the tree knight, the wizard pointed his finger in the distance, and the rotating sun wheel shot out in an instant, turning into a blue silk, cutting through Fujima's head and embedding into the elite monster's chest armor.

A sonic boom exploded, and although the huge impact force did not knock the elite monster off its horse, it completely curbed its charging momentum.

Seeing that the elite monster was not dead yet, Lin Bo controlled the ring to pull out of his chest, then jumped up and covered the tree knight's neck, spinning rapidly. The inner ring's sharp blade slashed and cut off the armor neck guard, and then with another slash, cut off a huge and heavy head.

Dark red sap spurted out from the broken part, falling on the snow like a dripping blood rain.

The vine horse was ignited by the whale fire, and the headless body of the tree knight was also engulfed in the flames. He twitched twice and fell off the horse. The hot charred body melted the snow, and mist rose where he fell.

After seeing the most troublesome elite monster fall, the teammates shrugged and looked at each other, and set about dealing with the remaining armored treemen. It took a lot of effort to clear out all the miscellaneous soldiers in Garden No. 4.

[The conditions for clearing the instance have been met, and rewards are being calculated.]

Chapter 148 An Unwelcome Visitor to the Lighthouse

[Rewards for this dungeon: 800 Comprehensive Network Disaster Coins, 5000 General Experience, 4 Blood Clotting Fragrance Fruits (Gray), White Marching Horn Crossbow, Blue Rattan Ball Net, and "Gunlance Close Combat" (Skill Book)]

Limbaugh recalls the burning whale fire ring.

Normally, he would just wait for his overheated gear to cool slowly in the air, but now he had a new option.

The True Word Control Technique - Solid, can cool down the controlled objects.

If he had not been in such a frigid environment as Park No. 4, listening to the indifferent whispers of ice and snow, perhaps he would have activated this professional skill much later.

After all, Stone Tower Town didn't snow in winter, and the rivers didn't freeze. As for the winter wind, while cold, it was also noisy and likely wouldn't teach the mage such a deadly and cold faith in magic.

The effect of Solid Control is opposite to that of Fierce Control, but its control belief runs counter to that of Life Control. It requires the mage to abandon open imagination. The more indifferent and closed the mind is, the more it can promote this control technique.

He felt the fiery and restless heat of the Whale Fire Ring, and imagined his absolutely cold hands holding the ring in his palms, suppressing its vibrations, devouring its heat, and causing it to rush towards the extinction of its vitality.

The slightly reddish suspended silver ring quickly returned to its original color, and the heat waves lingering around it dissipated. After a while, it became as cold as the wind and snow.

This high-speed cooling will inevitably have a certain impact on the material. If the local temperature is uneven, it will cause cracks in the metal. However, the inhibitory force of the Solid Control Technique is very uniform, and the cooling rate at each point in the ring is almost the same.

The equipment was not damaged, it was just quenched and the material became stronger.

Lin Bo thought thoughtfully, both the Fierce Control Technique and the Solid Control Technique involve transformation. These two control techniques may be very suitable for alchemy.

However, I don't know whether these two opposite control techniques can coexist without conflicting with each other. This requires slow exploration and experimentation.

He returned the whalefire ring to the bacterial culture box and then injected some crude whale oil, fertilizer water, and metal powder into the box. This box was a living thing and needed regular feeding.