Witch Troupe and the Undead

Seeing her gripping her neck with both hands and backing in, Roach guessed that this process had nothing to do with her own will, and it was more like she was dragged in by the collar. Livia and the fox girl whispered to each other for a while, and the latter also showed a strange expression on her fox face, as if she didn't know how to answer.

After a while, the fox girl took a deep breath, and the long fur on her face and pointed snout gradually retracted. Her phoenix eyes and cherry lips, and her round cheeks with a touch of baby fat, made her look even a bit childish. All the fur on her body also retracted, leaving only her white, ear-length hair and a pair of pointed fox ears.

"Oh! There's even a beast-eared girl form!" It wasn't Roach who made that lewd sound, but Leslie. The latter felt a surge of inspiration, but was then glared at fiercely by the fox girl.

“This is the shapeshifting half-beast form,” Livia explained. This form is the fox-human's shapeshifting form, a kind of disguise. The Fury state just now was their true form. Of course, as the fox-humans' power increases, they will eventually be able to permanently gain the ability to freely shapeshift without having to expend energy to maintain it for a long time, and they will also make human form one of their true forms.

It is said that the strongest fox-people shapeshifters can obtain up to nine different "true forms," ​​but this extraordinary path of shapeshifting has been lost in the fox-people's lineage.

It's not because of any internal reasons, such as being unable to cultivate to the highest level, but a very practical reason—fox people's transformation requires long-term observation and contact with the transformation target, and now those ancient behemoths are either extinct or no longer keep up with the times.

“Teacher Livia, this Alessian language is really too difficult. I think, since she can learn to transform, it means that her brain is fine, so why can’t she learn Luster language?” Livia tilted her head and looked at the fox girl. The latter said something, her voice clear and crisp like jade beads, completely different from the hoarseness in her fox-person mode, creating a peculiar contrast.

"So the last Pigsy in our pilgrimage team wasn't that demon, but this fox?" It has two forms, and its fortune level is over 3. Even if it's not skilled at using shapeshifting, it will reveal animalistic characteristics. Plus, it's strong and can eat. These two points make perfect sense.

However, they don't have any scriptures to retrieve right now, nor do they have anywhere to go. Livia has been studying the books, spellbooks, and crafting books she brought back from the Black Abyss Cemetery these past few days, seemingly intending to create a set of living armor.

“She said it was okay,” Livia relayed the fox girl’s words. “Also, she said she has a name and that we shouldn’t call her like we would call a dog.”

"What's her name?"

"Alessina means girl born in Alesia" (referencing Roman naming practices).

"Alessina," Roach repeated, meaning he remembered.

She seems very approachable.

"Hmm?" The little witch tilted her head, seemingly finding everything, whether human or not, easy to talk to. However, to Roach, she appeared even more docile than Leslie, that useless mermaid.

After all, although the useless mermaid seemed easy to talk to, that was only because she couldn't beat anything here. When Roach first met her, her arrogant demeanor and tone were not an act.

Over the next few days, Alessina seriously accepted the little witch's teaching. She became quite calm and unfazed by the words that would come up on their own and shout their meanings and grammar in her ear. Even the various animated objects in the room that had initially terrified Leslie were completely indifferent to her.

Luo Qi didn't even know if she was naturally calm and collected, or if she had simply lost her mind and was simply looking at all this bizarre and surreal world with the attitude that if she couldn't figure it out, she might as well not think about it.

Alessina's transformation time can theoretically last a whole day, but it cannot be maintained while sleeping, at least not until she reaches a certain level of proficiency. Therefore, her room and furniture need to be specially made to easily remove the white fuzz generated while sleeping.

For fox-people and other orcs, transforming into a half-beast form is a special combat mode. Simply put, it's similar to a berserker's rage mode. In this mode, because they don't have fur to block heat dissipation, they can exert greater strength and endurance, but they also lose the defensive power and pain tolerance that fur provides.

It belongs to the mode of exchanging defense for attack. In orc form, because of the fur, their defense is like wearing a leather armor. If they put on armor, they are very resistant to beatings, even fox people.

"Only those who reach the level of Warrior Captain can remain in human form even while sleeping, and even transform into one of their true forms."

This is the same for all orcs, including their subspecies. In Roach's understanding, it's similar to a berserker's special skill like Calm Berserk or Free Berserk. Human berserkers, after reaching a certain level, can enter a Calm Berserk mode without impairing their intelligence or judgment.

In Carrion Bay, Roach spread out his small stool and cast his fishing rod into the sea. Not far away, Alessina glanced at his fishing rod with a look of disgust, found a few pieces of driftwood on the shore, sharpened them with a knife, and jumped onto the reef.

The smooth, damp reefs, washed clean by the sea, were like flat ground beneath her feet. Soon, Alessina leaped onto a reef almost hidden among the waves, her right hand raised high, her ears spinning rapidly as if listening to the sounds of fish beneath the waves. "Splash!" The wooden fork slammed down, and a large, deep red fish writhed wildly on the fork.

Alessina glanced smugly at Roach, who remained unmoved, guarding his fishing rod and holding a book of arcane magic, studying the relevant knowledge of arcane gems and artificial bloodline implants, especially the section on arcane gems.

Besides using special crystal nuclei like Hellfire Cores, it can also be made with ordinary gemstones, with the same effect. However, the latter requires a high quality gemstone, and the material of the gemstone itself makes it very difficult to carve the rune matrix.

Therefore, generally speaking, gemstone-made items are used to be inlaid on the core and processed into a composite mysterious jewel as a reinforcement component. This way, even if adding more functions causes conflicts and overload damage, the ordinary gemstone-made items will definitely be eliminated first.

In Roach's understanding, if the Arcane Gems were an automated spell machine, then these gems were like extra modules that doubled as fuses, preventing things like the most expensive Hellfire Crystal from being destroyed by his own clumsy craftsmanship.

The next stage of the Mystic Creation is divided into three branches, which means that Roach must choose a direction. Just like a wizard who has reached a certain level must choose one of the three positive Mystic Sources to specialize in, becoming a life wizard, an elemental wizard, or a mental wizard. Of course, he can also choose to go down the negative Mystic Source and become a villain that everyone hates, such as a psychic or a hell wizard.

The three branches of the Mystic Sorcerer are "Rune Master," "Puppeteer," and "Anatomy Master." Roach does not consider the last one, although it is the simplest. It follows a path similar to modern anatomy and medicine, studying the mysteries of the human body and monsters, analyzing the source of monster power, and specializing in the path of artificial bloodline implants such as extraordinary jewels. It is also the path with the highest achievement.

Not only can they modify themselves, but they can also modify their subordinates, creating powerful synthetic beasts that combine the characteristics of various monsters to artificially create an unstable genetic lineage that may even collapse on the spot, but is indeed extremely powerful.

However, doing this means, as the name suggests, that it involves a large number of inhumane live dissections, and you'll inevitably have to dig up the ancestral graves of various noble bloodlines and theological nobles, and who knows, you might even have to dig up the imperial tombs of the empire's ancestors—"a profession that becomes extinct by its own merits~" Roach sincerely exclaimed, "It's truly courageous."

In order to study whether the Gift was a branch of the Mystic Arts, and whether the heritable characteristic of the Holy Mark, which is unique to those favored by the gods, was influenced by biological genes or by an alien parasite, they actually dug up the tombs of saints in the Papacy, and even dismembered the Pope's body.

Those families of the Church's chosen ones, those with stigmata, couldn't even prevent their mothers from being cooked to a perfect, or even nine-tenths done, no wonder even lawful and good priests like the Oath Keepers would go berserk.

Roach felt he shouldn't do this deadly thing, even though, professionally speaking, it was the best fit for his skills. Whether it was digging up corpses or ancestral graves, he was a professional at it.

Even ordinary people might not be able to find the locations of those ancient tombs, but if you give Roach a Luoyang shovel, he might actually be able to dig up the ancestral graves of the first church saints to obtain the Stigmata and the Pope's family.

Of the remaining two, the puppeteers don't create robots; their goal is to activate the secret source. Their theory holds that the secret source itself has no consciousness, but the secret source as a whole should possess some kind of weak collective consciousness. Magic is alive, and their aim is to awaken this activity of magic, thereby creating an "activated secret source."

In Roach's understanding, it was roughly equivalent to someone specializing in "magical automation." As an Earthling, he was quite inclined towards this major because the puppet didn't necessarily have to be a human or any other living being; it was essentially a magical automaton.

Therefore, magical automatic machine guns, magical tanks, magical bombers, and magical drones are also possible—however, this profession is too difficult.

The only group of arcane sorcerers who weren't eliminated was mainly because they were too similar to construct alchemists. Moreover, these guys were all nerdy geeks who didn't care about anything else. Aside from their plan to spread supernatural powers and leave the nobles without food, they didn't really attract any hatred.

Luo Qi is also well-suited to this field. After all, as a well-informed Earthling, even if he doesn't know much about automated machinery and engines, he at least knows which direction to take.

However, in the end, he still chose the one with the worst compatibility in theory—"Rune Master." Does that sound like someone who studies rune rules and spends all day carving and drawing? Wrong.

The entire research objective and career process of a Runecraftist is—"I'm thinking I can cram two more functions into this paradigm/gem/magic circle" and "My ideal is to create the largest magical bomb in the world!"

Other arcane sorcerers, including alchemists, pursue how to avoid explosions, while rune arcane sorcerers pursue how to create better explosions. Their ultimate skill is to cram multiple spell paradigms into a gem carrier to create a magical "grenade," and to make the rune effects mutually enhance each other, resulting in a qualitative change from a quantitative change.

Its first research outcome was: Prism Blast. What does that mean? It means condensing at least four or five elemental magics into a "Prism Magic of Elements," just like sunlight under a prism, and then stuffing this into a gem carrier. Finally, it uses a complex array of runes to connect this gem to a normal spell paradigm.

Then, when that spell paradigm is thrown out, it will explode in a very beautiful way, with colorful elemental effects exploding in turn, interfering with each other, and triggering a series of explosions. The more types of elemental magic that are stuffed in, the more unstable it is, the longer the explosion effect lasts, and the greater its power.

As for the spell paradigm used as the trigger, it's not important, but it was mentioned that if you don't want to blow yourself up, it's best to choose an effect that won't conflict with most elements. Roach calls this process the "passivation effect."

By adding an inert substance to these conflicting elements, they are brought to safety. Once launched, this inert substance is consumed, and the elements will... bang, blast both the enemy and themselves into pieces.

The strength indicator of a Rune Source Master is how many runes they can cram into a paradigm. Anyway, Roach was numb after seeing it. His talent and skills in learning this were progressing by leaps and bounds, but this thing... didn't it just further solidify his title as the Explosion Master?

From now on, I'm afraid that if I go into the city to buy something, I'll have eight servants watching me, and if I take out my wallet, someone nearby will shout: "Take cover!" So, in despair, Roach decided that since that's how it is, there's no other way. I might as well choose silver coins and copper coins as my carriers. You can choose between the "Alluring Silver Bullet Wave" and the "All-or-Nothing Throw"! (No mercy on his face) Anyway, money is cheaper than gems.

Chapter 74

Perhaps the newbie protection period had ended. Roach had read through the entire reference book without catching a fish, while Alessina was spearing a fish every now and then, filling her fish basket to the brim, the fish blood emitting a strong fishy smell. She glanced at Roach with a smug and proud look, puffing out her chest with an air of pride.

"..." Roach took out an obsidian and a carving knife, ignored her and slowly began to carve on the stone. Soon, a complex rune structure appeared on the stone. Then he filled the rune structure with the spell pattern he had made. As the turbid elemental essence spread along the grooves, Roach stood up.

"Fishing, is it really such an inconvenient thing?" With that, he threw the stone in his hand into the sea with force. The obsidian hit the seawater and was instantly agitated by the erosive effect of the seawater. "Boom!"

Lightning spread wildly in the salt water, and a large number of dead fish quickly spread across the surface. As the lightning spread, the water was electrolyzed and instantly detonated. The hydrogen-oxygen explosion spread scorching chlorine vapor in all directions, combining the effects of lightning, poison gas, explosion, and fire, yet using only a single lightning spell pattern, demonstrating the expertise of an explosion specialist.

Roach took out his net and scooped up the dead fish that the waves had pushed over one by one, quickly filling the bucket and fish basket completely. Alessina, who was standing to the side, was dumbfounded. She had always thought that Roach was the servant of the "Great Witch" (the little witch tilted her head), after all, his body full of fat and scars made him look like a servant who did manual labor and also served as a doorman.

Especially considering that Roach was previously responsible for making furniture for everyone, tending to the potion fields and vegetable gardens outside, chopping wood and splitting firewood—the work of a servant and gatekeeper—it turns out he's also an alchemist? And quite skilled at it, since a normal alchemist couldn't create a one-time alchemical tool as effortlessly as Roach.

The result of the two arguing was that they came back carrying several large bags of dead fish. Fortunately, there is now a Tauren who can use Hellfire, otherwise more than 90% of the profits would have had to be thrown into the garbage dump to ferment into fertilizer.

Roach gutted the dead fish, cut them open from the belly, and with Alessina's help, drained the blood. He then rubbed them with salt and a little sugar, and applied powdered, slightly poisonous seeds with a spicy flavor to the fish. He then hung them one by one on a smoking rack, and had the Minotaur use hellfire to set ablaze the dead branches he had brought back from the swamp mixed with the dry grass from the living forest.

Smoke swirled, and the air above the entire living forest was filled with the aroma of spices and thick smoke. This strange phenomenon could not be concealed by the witch's barrier.

"My lord, look over there!?" The ranger pointed to the living forest below the cliff. A thick cloud of smoke spread above the woodland, as if trying to obscure something. This immediately roused the treasure-hunting team, who had been about to give up.

"So that's how it is. The treasure is in the center of the living forest. However, we were deceived by those demonic trees in the forest and couldn't find its exact location. We could only find it when we came to Eagle Feather Cliff." The knight commander suddenly realized. But the team was in a bad state. They had to return to the camp outside the forest through the relatively safe side of the Black Forest to rest, replenish manpower, medicine, and arrows and ammunition.

The smoking process lasted all day, and it will take another 2-3 days to completely dry all the extra fish and turn them into reasonably delicious smoked fish. As for the slight toxicity of the powder, it had already become ineffective and deteriorated under high temperatures. All protein-based toxins cannot maintain their properties under high-temperature flames.

Therefore, there are exotic Southeast Asian foods like snake venom soup. However, if it's something like pufferfish toxin, then there's no saving you; even high-temperature cooking will still kill you.

While smoking fish, Roach was also trying to create basic equipment and tools as runestones, as well as various combat and auxiliary spell paradigms. Unlike the alchemist's magic tool master, the process of creating a truly complete Mystic Paradigm is extremely complicated.

Just by looking at the dazzling array of tools in Roach's workshop, you can tell that in addition to the test tubes, flasks, asbestos mesh, balances and other things commonly used in alchemy, there are also magical versions of angle grinders, drills, chisels, hammers, dozens of hooks and knives of different sizes, and so on. The foundation of a rune cryptana is runic literature.

If we understand a magical paradigm as a special chemical reagent, then the paradigm carrier is the reaction vessel, the essence is the catalyst and the reagent that provides the reaction energy, and the activation process is to trigger a precise reaction between the secret source and the alchemical materials through precise calculations, thereby simulating the effect of magic.

The three further branches are the process of advancing this "simulated magic" towards true "magic," progressing from imitating magic by utilizing the reactions between alchemical materials to directly analyze and reuse the underlying laws of magic through artificial magical organs, replicating bloodline power, and so on.

Now Roach needs to create the most crucial tool for rune masters, something akin to a lead-acid battery, so he won't have to carry around a huge array of alchemical materials and essences.

The entire structure is very different from a "battery" and is called a "rune disk". Roach used a high-grade material called living wood as the base disk, and grooves for each level of modules were carved and prepared on the base disk using various tools.

Although the book contains the correct terminology for Rune Source Warlocks, Roach still uses his own understanding to name and record the creation process. The structure on the base plate is divided into "Element Points" for storing Rune Source Essence Crystals, "Reaction Chambers" for installing alchemical materials, "Magic Circuits" outlined with mithril wires, and "Transmission Nodes" for installing output nodes.

Roach successfully created a basic version following the textbook, which included a reaction chamber and two rune disks with element points. Then he dismantled it. Rune Source Masters can only have one rune disk, and the rune disks of each other will interfere with each other. In Roach's understanding, it's like connecting the positive and negative terminals of two batteries into a loop without any electrical components. It would be really strange if it didn't short-circuit and explode.

The next step was to create the actual rune disk. Roach used his limited knowledge of electricity and some related physics and chemistry to understand it. Rather than a "battery," it was more like a special and complex electronic device used to simulate the "inspiration" signal output of a sorcerer, and it could also simulate the direct supernatural power output of other extraordinary professions.

By adjusting different runes, the magic and signals output are also injected into runestones made of materials such as gems, which are then converted into spell effects. These spell effects are then connected to each other through a more complex rune structure to form a composite spell effect.

"If we understand the entire structure as a cannon, then these rune stones are the cartridge cases, the runes are the fuses and the projectiles, and the output of the rune disk is various synthetic gunpowder, serving as the propellant and loading material..."

No wonder all the professions of Rune Source Masters can be reduced to creating a powerful elemental explosion, because this reaction is the most intense and simplest. In fact, in addition to a simple explosion, Roach can create several different kinds of "ammunition".

Firefighting, burning and melting cities, anti-air fragmentation, anti-personnel shrapnel, EMP chaff, and some special magic projectiles, such as those targeting soul types. The biggest characteristic of rune masters and the other two factions is that they are both simple and complex. They organically combine the runes in their hands, then inject the magic power output from the rune disk to quickly form a simple spell pattern and load it into the runestone, so that they can use various effects.

However, compared to the other two factions, rune masters also have a major drawback: they are expensive, and frequent explosions mean that every failed experiment can wipe out their entire fortune.

Its advantage is its speed. As long as you have a rune disk, you can quickly output the corresponding magic power into the rune stone to form a magic effect that can be activated quickly. In Roach's understanding, it is similar to the talismans of ancient Chinese Taoist priests.

Powerful jade talismans can be meticulously engraved on jade tablets, or drawn on paper. If one is skilled enough, they can even draw them by hand, though the effect will be much weaker. Furthermore, rune masters are more materialistic than the other two, because their operation is literally manual; they cannot achieve automatic response with a thought. They must actually use their hands to manipulate and adjust the rune disc.

In addition to the basic structure, a true rune disk must also have reserved modules for other functions, such as a control module for controlling the speed of magic reaction, an adjustment module for controlling output, and a switch module for switching between different types of magic flows.

There are also resistor-like obstruction modules to prevent this thing from reacting away your precious alchemical materials at high speed when it's not in use.

"What is he doing?" Alessina asked curiously, looking at the small house that was exploding intermittently at the edge of the Witch's Clearing and emitting sounds of frustration.

“I advise you not to get close. You’re not him. If you get blown to pieces, you’re really dead.” Leslie leaned against the pool, combing her naturally curly, seaweed-colored hair. “He’s practically being crowned the Sage of Explosions.”

"What sage?"

"The Explosion Sage, although he didn't actually blow it up, everyone thinks he did it, turning a dangerous-level ruin into a dead zone." After all, no one can enter that place now; it's a genuine dead zone. The raging fire is still burning, and the cliffs have been scorched with tear-like marks.

Inside the workshop, Roach carefully closed the first cover, concealing the panel composed of colorful lines and crystal-clear essence crystals, successfully sealing off the core. Only then did he breathe a long sigh of relief, pressing down the two thin, smooth mithril protective plates with triangular, square, and round openings, securing them at the four corners.

After the complex layers of structure slowly came together, Roach had a short, cross-shaped device carved from gray dead wood, with intricate runes and inlaid gems on its surface.

The short arms of the cross have grooves for installing runestones. Simply put the processed runestones in, and they will automatically fill with the corresponding magic power according to the charging sequence and method set by Roach. Due to the installation of a fuse mechanism, the runestones stored inside will not be completely filled and activated.

All he had to do was turn on the switch, and the runestones would roll into his palm, turning into a magical rune grenade or something similar. The long shaft also had grooves for filling material bottles. Inserting the corresponding alchemical material bottle would generate the corresponding magic power, without the need for complicated operations such as filling and storing essence.

Roach prepared six material boxes, which was the maximum level his technology could support. The first was the most commonly used reaction material box made of alchemical materials such as flame tongues. As this material box, which was painted with red pigment on the outside, was put in, the entire rune disk became slightly warm, which meant that it had begun to operate.

The crystal in the center of the cross also lit up with a faint red light, representing Roach's current "ammunition." The next step was to insert the rectangular runestones one by one into the "magazine."

Through these "runestones," Roach can unleash magic in a "scientific way." The number of runestones inserted determines the number of spells he can use and the number of spell effects he can combine. As for whether it will explode... that depends on his skill.

Compared to the way arcane mages directly summon external magic, this casting method requires advance preparation. When casting, one needs to be familiar with which runestone slot corresponds to which spell, which alchemical material from which material box needs to be activated and channeled for the reaction, and whether the reaction needs to be compounded, etc.

If such an operation goes wrong... according to the book, the rune disk will explode, and the explosion will be very spectacular, enough to blast the rune source warlock in half on the spot.

This is why Roach installed mithril plates inside; it's a lesson learned by rune masters throughout history. Because of the mithril plates, an energy-gathering effect is created, and the explosive force will burst out towards the sides or back of the rune disk.

Normally, this can protect the runemaster from being instantly destroyed, but it doesn't guarantee that others standing nearby won't die. And because of this characteristic, the runemaster is definitely the branch of arcane sorcerers most familiar with explosions.

Therefore, they also developed techniques such as throwing rune disks out like super rockets, and stuffing multiple conflicting magical powers into a rune stone and launching it to see how many people it could kill.

Of course, this method is very powerful, but it is also very expensive. It took Roach two weeks to make a single rune plate. He failed countless times and wasted countless materials along the way. If it explodes, it will be gone in an instant, and all two weeks will be wasted.

Given his current rank as a formal arcane mage, and his salary as a disguised alchemist, not counting material costs, he would lose a single gold coin.

"No wonder rune source sorcerers are universally hated; if you don't take the crooked path, your money really won't last long." Roach now felt like he was making a fortune with every cannon shot.

At the same time, I understood why the "rune disc" has such a cross structure - it is convenient to throw the cross boomerang when it is about to explode. Although the ordinary compass-shaped rune disc is simple to manufacture, if you are not skilled, you really can't throw it far - if you can't throw it far, you will blow yourself up, right?

At the end of the book, Roach also saw the three-dimensional rune disk of a high-level rune master. It can only be said that the multi-layered hollow thing that looks similar to a censer is designed in this way because if a rune disk of this level explodes, the shape of a cross boomerang is no longer enough to throw it beyond the blast radius. Only this chain ball design can throw it far enough.

The book also lists many painful lessons learned by rune masters in the past. For example, some rune masters made their runes in the shape of belts to look cool, but when they exploded, the birds were blown away.

He made himself into the shape of a backpack and successfully accelerated himself to the first cosmic velocity. Anyway, his companions couldn't find where he flew off to; he was probably completely obliterated.

The one shaped like a holy book didn't hurt me, but it was too heavy, like a brick, so it didn't fly very far when it exploded, killing eight of my teammates instead.

Page after page, line after line, were stained with blood and tears. Between the lines, Luo Qi could see the phrase, "Improper design leads to tears from loved ones."

At the end, the author of this Rune Source Spellbook strongly recommends that learners practice throwing techniques, especially throwing cross darts. He also mentions that if the technique is not up to par, it is best not to throw into a crowd, as you might accidentally hit your own teammate on the back of the head with a rune disc, wiping out the entire vanguard of the team.

The wording was so poignant, it seemed like every word was written in blood. It was also a case of finding joy in hardship. The rune masters had researched several ways to use this property to create the simple rune disk that Roach made for the first time, and combined it with specific materials and rune stones to make magical versions of booby traps and landmines.

At the end of the spellbook, the author included a list of common causes of death and taboos for novice rune masters, such as not putting a strap on the rune disk and making sure you can throw it away in time before it explodes, instead of struggling with the strap.

For example, don't polish the outer shell of the rune disk; make it as rough as possible, otherwise it might slip and fall on your feet, which could be fatal. Also, always keep shield potions on hand, so that if you don't throw it out of the blast radius, at least you'll have some hope.

And after Roach completed the rune disk, a new page appeared on his panel for the first time: [Profession] [Rune Source Master: Explosion is an art; art is an explosion. Living next to explosions, seeking inspiration as fleeting as fireworks amidst the rapid surge of energy.]

Simply creating an explosion is merely a clumsy imitation by mediocre people; it contains the most fundamental mysteries and the most primordial forms of the universe. Below is [Professional Tutorial 1]: [Creating a timed, directional runestone device with three or more anti-detonation mechanisms.]

"Isn't this... a terrorist skill?" With its timer and various sophisticated anti-cracking detonation mechanisms, Roach felt that once he made this thing, it would be a waste of the illustrated tutorial if he didn't find a fancy building to bomb it.

Chapter Seventy-Five: Playing with Tears

The three runestones are inserted into their respective slots in sequence: "Prism Blast," "Acid Erosion," and "Force Field Dart." Prism Blast is an auxiliary runestone. Once activated, it automatically absorbs the magic power generated by the rune disk and injects it into any runestone and spell paradigm currently in use. The Mystic Paradigm becomes extremely unstable while increasing the multi-elemental damage effect.

Acid Etching is a common runestone. By adjusting the runestone's output of earth elemental magic, it can apply a strong acid effect to any ordinary liquid through contact, and can also imbue any shaping arcane paradigm with a strong acid effect.