Chapter 1188 Variation

Qiao An didn't intend to fight hand-to-hand with scavengers. There was no need to take antiviral medicine, so he took out a small piece of black agate and cast a spell to create "Mage's Nether Palm".

As soon as their side was ready for the emergency, Medea's concerns became true. Across a wall of flames rising, three hazy black shadows were rapidly approaching.

Accompanied by the sharp and ear-piercing sounds of insects, the three scavenging insects slammed into the fire wall almost at the same time. Enduring the pain of the flames, they squirmed their thick and bloated bodies, forcibly broke through the fire wall, and swooped towards Joan and the others. come over.

Audrey and Hailar hurried forward with their swords, and each stopped a scavenger.

Holden didn't care about playing the flute at the moment, he pulled out his magic pistol and fired frequently, trying to prevent the monster from approaching.

It's a pity that I was unlucky, even firing three shots failed to trigger a single enchanting effect. A small bullet hit the huge insect body, and the damage caused was far from enough to repel the strong and fierce carrion insects.

Joan remotely controlled the "Mage's Nether Palm" at the right time to help Holden share the pressure. He pressed the head of the third scavenger and pushed it back to the wall of fire.

The taste of the butt being scorched by the fire is not very pleasant. The scavengers instinctively curl up to increase the friction between themselves and the ground, so as to avoid being pushed towards the wall of fire by the big black hand. A rain of foul-smelling green paralyzing venom!

"Mage's Nether Palm" is essentially a mass of negative energy bound by a force field shell. It has no flesh and blood substance, and of course it will not be affected by paralyzing toxins. Trouble, I tried my best to remotely control the giant palm, but I still couldn't push the heavy monster.

"It shouldn't be!"

Joan scratched his head.

He has roughly weighed the weight of the scavengers through the wrestling just now.

He can figure out the geometric model of the scavengers curled up into a ball, the ground contact area, and the general friction coefficient of the ground surface with a little use of his brain.

According to the calculation results, the "Mage Nether Palm" with 20 points of strength should not be difficult to push the scavengers. How could that guy stay still?

Full of confusion, Joan raised his hand and twisted the lamp head on the helmet, and hit the search beam on the contact area between the scavengers and the ground. Taking a closer look under the light, the corners of his eyes couldn't help but twitch.

Nima! So you are cheating!

Joan originally thought that he had miscalculated the friction force, but the facts showed that his calculation was correct, but he ignored an important factor.

The abdomen of the scavenging insect quietly secretes a large amount of mucus, which is like super glue, tightly bonding its body to the rough surface, greatly enhancing the friction force, no wonder it can't be pushed.

Joan stared angrily at the big bug that stuck itself to the ground, thinking about whether to blast it with a "fireball".

However, after thinking about it, he came up with a new idea, and decided to try out the spell taught by Moriarty's mentor while this guy lay on the ground and pretended to be dead.

Joan grabbed a handful of fine sand on the spot and used the "Dividing Mystery Technique" to split his consciousness.

The main consciousness focuses on maintaining the "Mage's Nether Palm", while the secondary consciousness casts the third-level necromancy spell "Sands of Time", and transmits the spell effect to the carrion insects through the "Mage's Nether Palm".

"Vanwa!"

Joan chanted a mantra that symbolized the passage of time and decay, and then threw dust in his hands.

Negative energy emerges from the turbid sand and dust, like a cold undercurrent, and is injected into the carrion insect through the "Mage Nether Palm", making the strange insect instantly aged 40 years.

The lifespan of insect-shaped creatures is usually relatively short, so there is a proverb that "mayfly grows old overnight".

According to Joan's prediction, the average lifespan of scavengers should not be much longer. The scavenger under his control at this moment is already an adult, and if it is forty years older, even if it does not die of old age on the spot, at least it will be too old to crawl.

However, the effect of the spell was completely beyond Joan's expectations.

The scavengers were deprived of 40 years of lifespan by the "Sands of Time". Instead of showing signs of aging, they became thicker and their body length nearly doubled!

The scene in front of him surprised Joan, and he quickly used "advanced internal vision" to examine why the carrion insects became like this.

The results of the investigation made him dumbfounded.

The adult scavenger was hit by the "Sands of Time", and unexpectedly evolved into a "mature scavenger", not only doubling in size, but also gaining an additional 4 points in strength and constitution!

This is really self-defeating!

This unexpected result made Joan feel a little embarrassed at first, but after a while he became happy, as if opening a door to a new world!

It turns out that in addition to the standard usage of accelerating aging, "Sands of Time" can also accelerate the growth of certain species with particularly long lifespans, such as scavengers!

The adult scavenger grows 40 years old, only one age group has been raised, and it has evolved into a mature scavenger.

From this, it is not difficult to estimate that although scavengers look like short-lived worms, they are actually quite long-lived creatures, with an average lifespan of no less than 200 years!

A big bug with low intelligence can live for such a long time, but the average life expectancy of modern humans is only 50 years old, and this is the result of the generally long-lived extraordinary professionals who raise the average...

Joan had to admit a cold reality: the average lifespan of a race does not entirely depend on the level of civilization.

Putting aside distracting thoughts, Joan looked up at the giant worm that had been ripened by his inadvertent spell.

Fortunately, the intelligence level of the scavengers did not increase significantly with the growth of age. Feeling at a loss for their own drastic changes, they still curled up in a ball in a daze.

After thinking about it for a while, Qiao An decided not to kill the scavenger for the time being, but to cast the third-level spell "Dominate Insects" to try to control its spirit.

"Dominate insects" can only take effect on insects in theory, but there is a vague area here, that is, can creatures with the special blood of "insectoid subspecies" be classified as insects?

If you strictly follow the biological taxonomy, the answer is no.

However, Qiao An had experimented on Lingling, the demon hunter spider, and "Dominating Insects" could also play a certain role on her, an abyssal demon with arachnid characteristics, but the effect was not so obvious.

Inspired by that experiment, after returning to school, Joan made some adjustments to the spell configuration of "Dominate Insects", shortening the duration of the spell from "days" to "hours". unit.

The saved magic power is used to expand the scope of the subject, no longer limited to insect creatures in the standard sense, but applicable to all creatures with "worm subspecies".