Comprehensive network wizard, magic emperor

Chapter 193: Faction Battle Plan, Lv3 Mantra Illusion

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[Starry Eyes (Fairy)]: Wow, Mage, we are in the same camp!

[Hungry Leopard is Coming (Fairy)]: You made a dictionary so quickly, thank you for your hard work, sir.

Lin Bo and the Soul-Calling Witch chatted in the channel. [Starry Eyes] told about her experience of running the map this time. She completed six tasks and gradually increased the faction's friendship value. Finally, she was entrusted with an extremely difficult task. Unfortunately, she did not have enough time and was forced to exit the dungeon before completing it.

At this time, another message popped up, and the online players in the channel started to chat.

[Cold Rain (Necromancer)]: Are you interested in a 30-player raid? I'm looking for affixes for the raid.

[Skeleton Farming Expert (Necromancer)]: What exactly is that? A 30-player team, the difficulty must be incredibly high, right?

[Tombstone Wipe (Necromancer)]: This dungeon has three camps, and each camp has ten players. They team up to enter the map together. In this way, the plot forces of the three parties will be strengthened simultaneously, and no one will suffer. Everyone can complete the task based on their own ability.

Some enthusiastic old players explained to newcomers who have not tried affix copies and faction group battles that in multiplayer teams, the strength of non-friendly factions will be enhanced based on the number of players in each faction, rather than calculating the difficulty based on the total number of players.

When the number of players in a single camp reaches ten or more, the probability of mutation in the dungeon is very high, and the resulting affixes will also enhance the plot power of non-friendly camps.

[Dragon Devil Madman (Holy War)]: If you don't understand, why do we have to fight in a group? Wouldn't the losing player be miserable? If you want to farm affixes, can't you just find teammates on the same faction?

[Tombstone Scrape (Undead)]: Because the enemy camp players can enhance their own allies, otherwise when entering the dungeon, the camp allies may have been almost chopped down by the enhanced enemies.

[Tailor (Necromancer)]: Yes, the difficulty of the affix dungeon is too high. Without the help of local forces, it is almost impossible to clear the Purgatory level. The purpose of the team battle is to create a relatively fair environment. As for losses, they are inevitable. Try not to cause casualties. At worst, the losing faction will gain less.

After [Cold Rain] sent out the recruitment message, it took quite a while to gather enough teammates. It was said that this was the first time a team battle had been held in this dungeon channel, which was quite commemorative. The public screen was abuzz with discussion, with everyone speculating which faction would ultimately win.

Lin Bo regretted that he didn't join in the fun.

He and the Soul-Calling Witch agreed to run a map together next week to see if they could get together for a faction battle, and then he exited the chat interface.

It took five hours to smelt the Feather Scale Star Steel, and it was already late at night when these scarred steel balls were finally condensed into intact ingots.

Lin Bo recently planned to install an elevator directly to the lighthouse from the workshop, making it easier to travel to and from Titan. After assessing the foundation to ensure it would not damage the lighthouse's load-bearing structure and carefully mapping out the engineering design, construction began.

At the same time, he is also preparing to lay submarine cables, which is also a considerable project.

Since the Life Control Technique reached Level 2, rock excavation has become much easier. No longer needing to search for cracks and fissures, one can simply manipulate the rocks to separate. An elevator shaft can be completed in just an hour or two, though installing the elevator later takes much longer.

As for laying submarine cables, it is an even bigger project.

Lin Bo plans to place an order on the Duolian Duoyi platform to purchase qualified cables.

When it comes to the construction phase, he also needs to dive into the sea to explore the seabed and calculate the length of the cable required from the cave to the cape.

In addition, to be on the safe side, it is best to dig grooves on the seabed in shallow waters so that the cables can be buried in them to avoid being scratched by trawl nets and anchors of passing ships.

Lin Bo can manipulate the seawater away from him to create a cavity, so he can move in the sea, but this method is still quite laborious. He plans to build a simple and practical diving device to facilitate underwater operations.

Of course, it is possible to buy a submarine directly on the trading platform, but he does not actually need professional ship equipment. He only needs a strong and reliable iron shell that can withstand water pressure. There is no need to install a power system. If it is not used, it can be disassembled quickly so that it will not be left to gather dust and rust.

Coming out of the underground workshop, he stood in the courtyard. The late-night north wind howled beneath the cape sky, rustling the night watchman's coat. The damp chill stripped the warmth from his ears and fingertips, leaving a faint laugh in Lin Bo's ear.

These cold air masses, sweeping all the way from the northern reaches of the Fertile Continent, had long ago foretold their arrival to the mages, and now, having traveled a long way, they had arrived true to their word. In a few days, the tail end of autumn would freeze away, and winter would soon descend upon the Windward Islands. This was a busy time for stockpiling oil and charcoal, pickling vegetables for the winter, and smoking poultry, livestock, and fish.

Lin Bo exhaled a light white breath into the air and continued to head to the East Cliff Grottoes construction according to the schedule.

The seagulls preparing to hibernate have gathered in the caves, which is warmer than their northern habitats. However, without thick winter feathers, they will still be frozen to death in the cold wave.

The super seagulls that had been transplanted with mimicking mycelium had put on thick brown and yellow clothes in the blink of an eye, as if they were wearing down jackets, and their bodies had become fatter.

To ensure a fertile winter, you need to heat your mushroom garden and provide ample biomass. Mushrooms are not picky eaters, so feeding them wood will keep them well fed. The fertilizer produced in the [Botanical Garden] instance is plentiful, so sprinkling some occasionally can replenish the nutrients they need.

Lin Bo planned to use the Gene Weaver this winter to improve some high-yield crops and make them widely available before spring. The crops in the [Botanical Garden] instance all grew strangely and weren't suitable for direct use. It would be more appropriate to transform the native crops of the Sail Islands to better suit their local conditions.

Before dawn, Lin Bo had been building the computer room. The most important ventilation, dust removal and cooling systems had been installed, and the rest was just decoration work.

When we returned to the lighthouse, the howling cold wind from last night had died down, and a drizzling autumn rain began to fall again.

Most of today's visitors have put on more clothes. There are also patients from poor families who are still wearing thin clothes. They go into the warm lighthouse and their bodies no longer shiver after being wet in the rain.

Iron One, disguised as a red-haired baboon, was wearing an old blanket today, while Lin Bo changed into the white woolen sweater he had made.

Visitors entering the lighthouse are first greeted by the sight of baboons wearing blankets. Even if they are familiar with the animals that live in the lighthouse, they are still taken aback.

"Wow, this big guy with fur all over his body can also feel cold?" the visitor asked curiously.

"It's just pretending." Lin Bo smiled and shook his head.

[Skill check successful... [Mantra Illusion] Proficiency +4.4]

In the past, these neighbors were already used to it, so they rarely provided illusion proficiency. But today, they carefully observed the baboon and could not find any flaws, so the skill judgment was triggered again.

That evening, after bidding farewell to the townspeople, tourists and believers, the lighthouse returned to peace.

True Word Illusion: Lv2 (3001.9/3000) Basic True Word, conceals the true name of an object and changes its appearance

The appearance is the same, but the heart is different; the name is not the same. - Proverbs

【Upgrade requirements met】

"Upgrade." Lin Bo sat behind the table on the first floor, bathed in the light. Outside the open door opposite him was the dark dusk.

Ding--

真言幻术：Lv3（1.9/8000）（知识残卷0/1）（职业特性未解锁）基础真言术，口诵真名，制造出的幻象物体能够产生真实效应

Things are empty and illusory, truth is as it seems—Proverbs

Chapter 194: True and False, Fire Divination

Lin Bo glanced around, taking in the tables, chairs, walls, doors, window panes, the courtyard and grass outside the tower, the paths trampled by visitors among the grass and trees, the low wall, the horizon outside the wall, and the gray-purple night sky above the horizon, the sparse stars and the moon.

The objects in the field of vision, from near to far, gradually lost their colors. They were all covered by a thick veil of illusion, just like the furniture in an idle house was covered with dust sheets.

Everything before my eyes was a hazy grayish-white, and only the outlines of objects could distinguish them from each other.

Lin Bo raised his hand and lightly pressed the table, but the touch he felt was not like wood, but soft and tough gauze. When his perspective changed, his sense of touch was also affected. His brain deceived his senses, making his palm think that it was not touching wood.

The floor, the walls, the glass jars on the shelf, the flowers in the jars—everything felt as light and tough as silk, even Lin Bo's own flesh and blood. The wind blowing through the doors and windows brushed against his body like a piece of pale silk floating in the air, gently caressing his skin.

In his eyes, everything in the universe was assimilated, and everything was left with only a thin, empty shell.

The secret of Lv3 Mantra Illusion is not to make the illusion more realistic, but to regard the real world as an illusion, thereby making the effects of the illusionary objects become reality.

The mage whispered the rock's true name, projecting his magical power onto the ground before him, creating a triangular staircase from thin air. In his eyes, the illusion he had forged was also a hazy veil, no different from everything around him.

He tried to climb, following the ladder beam step by step.

If it was an unupgraded mantra illusion, the illusion would be ineffective the moment he stepped onto the ladder and his front and back feet left the ground.

But now, this illusory triangular ladder stood firmly in place. When Lin Bo stepped on the highest point, he could touch the ceiling of the first floor.

He looked down at this cosmic kingdom shrouded in a veil. Everything before his eyes was just a hazy gray-white outline. Even he himself found it difficult to distinguish between illusion and reality. There was no difference between truth and illusion.

With the upgrade complete, the veil of illusion disappears once more, the colors that once shrouded and obscured everything return to view, and the deceived senses return to normal.

Lin Bo blinked, looked at the stone triangular ladder under his feet, raised his hand to touch it, but no murmurs were heard, only an empty and dead silence, not the inaudible silence, which meant that it was still a false illusion.

I returned to the ground and tried to move the triangular ladder. Its heavy weight left marks on my skin.

Then, he pulled a steel bar from his ammunition pouch, formed it into a file, and scraped it across the ladder. A normal object would have been scraped off a layer of stone dust, but the phantom object had no substance, so the moment it was damaged, it collapsed like a deflated gas, dissipating without a trace.

Lin Bo nodded slightly. After several attempts, he became familiar with the nature of the illusory objects.

Before being destroyed, the properties and functions of the illusory object are no different from those of a real object, but it will immediately dissipate after being attacked, unless he continues to add magical power to maintain the illusion. However, the consumption each time is the same as re-casting the illusion.

Different illusions can withstand different types of damage. Liquids and gases are immune to damage, but they will dissipate when exposed to high temperatures or extreme cold.

Summoning creature illusions can cause real damage. Lin Bo created a group of phantom white wolves out of thin air. They could tear dried meat into pieces but could not digest and absorb it. After the illusion disappeared, the swallowed meat pieces fell to the spot.

Transmogrifying a living thing into an inanimate object can significantly alter its mass and size.

He transformed the large rocks that were dug out during the construction of the elevator shaft into paper. The original mountain of rocks became a stack of paper in his hand, which he could easily put into his pocket.

This was a highly effective storage method, but the illusion's duration was limited, and he could only maintain two Word Spirits at once, so it wasn't perfect. However, it could be used to develop new combat techniques, such as transforming large amounts of seawater into paper airplanes, which, when thrown, would create a massive wave after breaking.

Transforming a living creature into another living creature, such as transforming Titan into a baboon, in addition to the changes in size and weight, its movements also become more flexible, and it can perform various actions beyond its original mechanical structure. It no longer has a stiff and indifferent feeling. Except for the lack of rich facial expressions, it is a real flesh and blood animal.

For general skills, Lv3 is already the theoretical upper limit. Individual practitioners who are not players of the network may need to study hard for a lifetime to reach such a level. As for the higher level 4, it only exists in imagination.

Level 3 of professional skills is also a key qualitative change, and it is also an insurmountable hurdle. Although there are higher realms, they are like a rugged path hidden in the mountains, and only a very small number of professionals can reach them.

The knowledge fragments can make the impossible possible, which is the key factor that allows the players of the comprehensive network to surpass their predecessors.

Lin Bo now has two fragments in his hands, "Traces of the Winding Blood Snake" and "Evidence of the Existence of Dragons". The former can probably be used to upgrade the Mantra Transfiguration Spell, while the latter may be able to improve any type of Mantra Spell.

He had already planned to give up "The Winding Traces of the Blood Snake" and was going to focus on the fragments related to the field of truth. Whether "Evidence of the Existence of Dragons in the World" could break through the barriers of truth illusion was a key attempt.

Lin Bo stared at the upgrade requirements for the Mantra Illusion on the panel. It would take time to accumulate 8000 proficiency. He already had the knowledge fragments, but he still needed some unlocked professional features. This proved that with his current Lv8 True Name Mage professional level, he was not yet qualified to master the Level 4 Mantra Illusion.

Without key professional characteristics, the chance of failure in forcibly comprehending the knowledge fragments will be very high.

The loss of comprehension of the knowledge fragments is irreversible. Once the amount of disaster coins required for comprehension is too high, then even if you have this item in your hands, you can only sell it at a very low price, or even no one will be interested in it even if you lose money.

"It's still unknown when the class's features will be unlocked. To verify whether the True Mystery Fragments can improve your basic proficiency in Power Word, you either need to wait until Flow Control reaches Lv3, or learn a related general skill to quickly level up."

In the current version, a very common practice among players on the Internet is to study a large number of fragments in the same field and continuously accumulate basic proficiency, thereby greatly improving the training speed.

After a moment's deliberation, Lin Bo approached [Toxulus] at the Aoqi Magnificent Garden and ordered some prophecy-related skill books from him. This guy happened to be awake today and could offer advice to customers.

Prophecy is an important school of mysticism in the multiverse. There are many related skills, which can be generally divided into two types: one is real and effective, and the other is a deception that fools people.

Effective predictions are inseparable from reliable information sources and a logically rigorous reasoning process.

The source of information can be the divine power and evil demons in the multiverse, the spirits and monsters born in nature, the magnificent magic network and the great source, or it can come from camera systems and big data monitoring, etc.

The prophetic techniques that evolved from this include praying to divine power, worshiping demons, offering sacrifices to spirits, questioning ghosts, communicating with magic, human-machine induction, etc.

Lin Bo made his choice based on his own situation. For a player like him who lives in a world with a micro-demon background, most of the real and effective prophecies cannot be used, and he is not a magic network spellcaster, which basically blocks all the possible paths.

This is why prophetic knowledge cannot be used as a universal magical discipline for players on the multiverse. It does not have the universality of the multiverse.

[Toxulus]: It is indeed difficult to deal with a non-magic background. I suggest not to learn prophecy. It is a waste of disaster coins and energy.

[Lighthouse Guest]: I want a copy of "The Secret Ritual of Fire Divination"

[Tuo]: Have you thought about it? Once the product is used, it cannot be returned.

[Lighthouse Guest]: It’s just a little money, it’s a try

The "Secret Ritual of Fire Divination" that Lin Bo bought with 85 disaster coins is a fake prophecy technique with no practical use. It is said that it can determine good and bad luck, predict disasters, find objects and locate them, etc. If this ritual can anchor an information source, it may be really useful, but in the context of micro-demons, its effectiveness cannot be guaranteed.

The mage's plan is to use the false prophecy technique and his ability to listen to everything to deduce the true divination results, so that he can also gain skill proficiency.