Chapter 1568 Destruction Ray
"Master went to the stock exchange, Mr. Vida needs him urgently?"
"It's nothing urgent, Duo'er, go ahead, I'll use the laboratory."
"Okay, Mr. Vader, if you need any help, just ask me, can you have dinner here tonight?" Duo'er smiled.
Judging from what she said, the tutor probably won't come back for dinner. Qiao An wanted to avoid suspicion, but seeing the expectation in Duo'er's eyes, she couldn't bear to disappoint her, so she silently nodded and agreed.
"Great! I'm going to cook some newly learned specialty dishes, please try them!"
Duo'er happily got busy.
Seeing her happy appearance, Qiao An was also infected and felt very happy.
Going to the desk and sitting down, Joan first unfolded the scroll that Pinkerton gave him to see what rare spells it recorded.
It took Joan 20 minutes to read the scroll carefully, put it back on the table gently, and let out a long sigh of relief to relieve the excitement.
Brother Pinkerton is so interesting, this scroll really brought Joan a huge surprise!
What is recorded on the scroll is a 4-level transformation spell called "Destruction Ray", which can just be learned at Joan's current mage level.
Using this spell, the caster can emit a blue ray that automatically hits and causes up to 15 levels of damage to a specific target.
At first glance, this spell looks very ordinary, its range is only more than 50 feet, and it can only hit one target. The lethality of 15 energy level is the normal level of a 4th level spell.
But the devil is in the details.
After analyzing the configuration of "Destruction Ray", Joan was surprised to find that this spell was only effective for a specific target, that is, the construct.
Spells specially used to destroy constructs are already considered rare and rare. Compared with similar spells, "Destruction Ray" has two outstanding advantages.
First, the "destruction ray" ignores magic resistance, which means that this spell can be used to destroy golems that usually have the characteristic of "immunity to magic"!
Second, the "destruction ray" cannot be exempted. No matter how hard the target construct is, even a smart golem with strong spiritual will, as long as it hits, it will definitely be able to cause real damage.
It is no exaggeration to say that "Destruction Ray" is a genuine "Construct Buster"!
For arcane spellcasters, golems are one of the most difficult enemy types, and Joan has a deep understanding of this.
When facing golems, most of the magic is useless, and mages are not good at hand-to-hand combat, so it is difficult to find countermeasures to restrain golems.
With the "Destruction Ray", this trouble is easily solved, and the golem is a lamb waiting to be slaughtered in front of the "Destruction Ray".
In Joan's view, the greatest value of "Destruction Ray" is that it provides a core configuration that he has never seen before to break magic resistance.
As long as he masters the design principle of this core configuration, with the enhancement of spellcasting ability, he can carry out various magic changes on the basis of "destruction ray" in the future, such as optimizing the range, enhancing the lethality, expanding the lethal range, etc. Then develop a spell that is more powerful than the "destruction ray" and is specially used to deal with constructs.
If you have to say that "Destroy Ray" has any flaws, it is that this spell will still be restricted by the "Anti-Magic Field", and cannot be used to deal with mythical and legendary constructs like "Ice Colossus".
Of course, Joan didn't expect a 4-level spell to restrain the legendary colossus, that would be too unrealistic.
Joan wrote "Destruction Ray" into his spell book, then opened the storage bag, and took out the blood sample that Mrs. Josephine had obtained for him.
The blood sample belonged to "The Wasp" Jenny.
Jenny is an 11th-level druid. Although she does not have an arcane profession, she has a purer "worm blood" than Joan.
After applying the "myth analysis technique" to her blood sample, Joan unearthed many spells closely related to "worm blood" as she wished, and also obtained a brand new super magic skill.
Joan first came to check the blood spells analyzed from Jenny's blood sample.
Joan has already transcribed most of the spells, such as the 7th-level spell "Insect Erosion" predicted by the "Myth Analysis Technique", and there are 5 new spells that have not been touched before, and they are 3rd-level "Insect Swarm Form" , 4-ring "swarm cloak" and "disaster beetle", 5-ring "swarm whip", and 6-ring "anti-living creature shield".
These spells all have encrypted imprints, and Joan cannot directly copy them. Fortunately, this little trouble couldn't help him, an "old driver", and he just followed the old method to successfully crack the encrypted imprint.
After completing the cracking, Qiao An first copied the simplest 3-ring transformation spell "Insect Swarm Form".
The configuration of this spell is very similar to "Gas Form", and it also has similarities with "Liquify". From these similarities, it is not difficult to guess the characteristics of "Swarm Form".
After the spell is cast, the subject's flesh and blood will automatically disintegrate, temporarily transforming into a swarm of insects.
"Insect Swarm Form" does not specify what kind of insect swarm it will transform into, but as a third-level spell, the magic power level limits the subject to only become ultra-miniature insects that are common in nature.
It’s nothing more than ants, spiders, mosquitoes, bees, centipedes, etc. Anything bigger than a scorpion will do.
Joan remembered that when she was in Bailun Mountain, the Wasp used the "swarm form" and turned into a group of ferocious wasps.
If he was allowed to choose, he would also choose to become a swarm of wasps.
Flying insects usually have more advantages than crawling on the ground. Among the common flying insects in nature, it is difficult to find a species more ferocious than wasps, not to mention that his "insectoid bloodline" has the characteristics of bees. Turning into a hive form is more in line with one's own nature.
The duration of the "swarm form", as well as the size of the swarm, are proportional to the caster's level.
Counting the additional 3 spellcasting levels of "mythical mana", Joan is equivalent to a level 11 spellcaster.
If he comes to cast "swarm form", he can maintain this form for up to 11 hours.
Each casting level corresponds to 1,000 insects. Joan casts the "Bug Swarm Form", and the wasp colony transformed from the flesh can contain up to 11,000 wasps in total.
After all, wasps are different from more social bees. It is difficult to find such a large-scale wasp family in nature, but it is not difficult for Joan to imagine the spectacular scene of tens of thousands of wasps flying in swarms, covering the sky and blocking out the sun.
After becoming the "worm swarm form", the physical attributes of the subject will also change accordingly, but they can retain their own spiritual attributes and all memories.
The subject who has lost the human form cannot speak normally, which will bring obstacles to communication and spellcasting, but after becoming familiar with the form of the swarm, insects with different frequencies can be used to replace language.
However, Qiao An didn't think it was necessary to bother. Before using the "Bug Swarm Form", he only needed to add a "Ventriloquism" to solve the language barrier.