Chapter 1203 Countermeasures

"That's right, the dwarves have an almost fanatical desire for treasures buried deep in the ground. This desire seems to be engraved deep in their souls. Even death can't stop them from exploring mine veins. The dwarves' brains are even more stubborn like rocks. I'm afraid Mr. Klein won't listen to your advice." Medea said pessimistically.

Joan nodded heavily, trying to show his stance.

"I will truthfully convey your warning to Mr. Klein. If he insists on continuing to explore the veins, I have been entrusted to not break the contract halfway. I can only go with the prospecting team and do my best to help them eliminate the dangers encountered during the exploration. , even if it is a crystal python."

Hearing what he said, Medea knew it was useless to persuade her, so she forced a smile: "Since you have already made up your mind, I won't say any more... In short, I wish you a safe trip."

After finishing speaking, she softly chanted the casting incantation of the 5-ring "Teleportation Technique", and a silver beam of light rose from under her feet, and her slim figure merged into the teleportation light array, and immediately soared into the sky.

Joan watched Medea disappear, took a deep breath, put away her worries, and turned to the campfire.

Seeing his return, Hailar joked with a half-smile: "Joan, you and Medea have been chatting alone for so long, what are you whispering?"

Seeing Joan's serious face, Audrey quickly gave Hailar a wink, reminding her that Joan seemed to be in a bad mood, and it was best not to make such explicit jokes.

"By the way, why hasn't Medea come back? What is she up to?" Holden changed the topic at the right time.

"she left."

"Huh? Why did he run away without even saying hello? This person is really weird." Hailar was a little unhappy.

"Medea probably has something urgent to deal with, so she has to leave immediately, so she didn't have time to say goodbye to us." Audrey said lightly.

Her Royal Highness has long been dissatisfied with Medea's behavior of always pulling Joan aside to whisper, and now that the unsightly sorceress has finally left, she justifies Medea's reluctance, but she is secretly happy.

"Before Medea left, she advised me not to go deep into the navel to explore for mineral veins, because there may be monsters more dangerous than petrified lizards deep in the navel."

"Brother Joan, what monster are you referring to?" Klein asked alertly.

"A subspecies of earth element creature called 'Crystal Python' probably has psionic blood." Joan replied softly.

"What 'Crystal Python'? I've never heard of it!" Klein looked back at Scholz, "Have you heard of it?"

"It sounds familiar. The mushroom man by the swamp seems to have mentioned it once..." Scholz stroked his beard, frowned and recalled: "It seems to be a kind of big snake covered with blue ore armor. It moves deep in the navel, and I don't know anything else."

Klein turned to Joan, with an inquiring look in his eyes.

Joan nodded knowingly, and then described the rumors about the crystal python mentioned by Medea in detail, as well as his own speculation based on the rumors.

"If the information provided by Medea is not too exaggerated, the 'Crystal Python' is much harder to deal with than the petrified lizard. What's more troublesome is that we don't even know how many crystal pythons are entrenched deep in the navel and where their lairs are located. It is indeed very dangerous to break in so recklessly!" Audrey frowned.

"Dangerous is dangerous, but we can't give up exploring the ore veins in front of us. In the end, don't we want to enter the umbilical cord? What's the use of thinking so much!" Scholz said nonchalantly.

"We must go, but since we already know that there is danger, we have to do our best to take precautions in advance." Klein patted Joan's shoulder, his eyes full of expectation: "Brother, if we unfortunately encounter Jing Python attack, how do you think we should deal with that monster?"

Joan has been thinking about this question since hearing Medea mention monsters like crystal pythons.

With his rich knowledge and actual combat experience, Qiao An can find some restraint methods in view of the characteristics of the crystal python. Since Klein asked for advice in person, he is not humble, and publicly expresses the countermeasures he thought of.

Medea mentioned that the crystal python is an earth element creature formed from ore. From this, it can be imagined that cutting weapons such as swords, or piercing weapons such as spears are not suitable for attacking hard and rough ores. , it is difficult to cause damage to the ore body of the crystal python, but it is easy to be cracked by the blade.

Compared with these light and sharp weapons, Joan thinks that heavy blunt weapons, such as the war hammers that dwarves love to use, are more suitable for destroying the crystal python's ore armor.

Medea also revealed that the crystal python has strong resistance.

The four most commonly used elemental energies for offensive magic are ice, electricity, fire, and acid. The crystal python is immune to "freezing" and "electric shock". It is also difficult for fire attribute magic to penetrate its resistance, leaving only one acid attribute , resistance unknown.

Most ores can react with strong acids, including the magic crystal ores that make up the crystal python's body.

In fact, an important part of the refining of magic crystal ore is to soak the ore with acid solution, and remove a large part of the impurities dissolved in the acid solution through complex alchemy reactions.

From this point of view, Joan thinks that most of the crystal pythons cannot resist strong acid erosion, and acid weapons and magic can cause normal damage to it.

In fact, the number of acid-type spells is very small, and the only common one is "Acid Arrow". As a level 2 spell, its lethality can only be said to be average.

Using "acid arrows" to deal with a huge crystal python is like hitting a tiger with a slingshot. Even if you run out of spell slots, you may not be able to kill a crystal python. The efficiency is too low.

Fortunately, this is not a problem for Joan. Using the mythical path ability "energy replacement", he can convert other attributes of magic into acid attributes.

For example, changing "Frost Nova" into "Acid Nova", changing the attributes while maintaining the same power, is suitable for dealing with crystal pythons.

In fact, there is another type of spell that is more suitable for killing crystal pythons than acid magic.

From the name of the monster "Crystal Python", it can be seen that its body structure has "crystal" characteristics, and when it is bombarded by sound waves of a specific frequency, it will resonate, causing the crystal structure to disintegrate from the inside.

Almost all crystal creatures have sonic weakness, and Joan thinks that crystal pythons are no exception. If you use spells such as "shattering sound waves" to deal with the crystal python, it will cause double damage to it.

Based on the above analysis, if encountering a crystal python in the umbilical cord, Joan suggested that Hailaer and Holden use "shattering sound waves" as the main means of attack.

It doesn't matter that Audrey doesn't have "shattering sound waves" in her list of magic spells. The first-level magic spell "Thunder Slash" also belongs to the "sonic-type" attack magic. Audrey can prepare a few more in case of emergencies.

As for Klein and Scholz, there is no need to consider any spells, just use the warhammer to knock the crystal python to death.

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