Chapter 1918 Shadow Step
"Shadow Step" is a spell belonging to the "Teleportation Subcategory" of the Conjuration School, similar to the 4th ring "Anywhere Door", but the teleportation distance is only 1/4 of the Anywhere Door, and it is limited to teleportation in shadow environments. If exposed to light However, if there is no shadow area within a hundred yards that can be used as a springboard for teleportation, this spell cannot be activated.
Due to such limitations, "Shadow Step" is undoubtedly the most suitable for performing at night, and it also has a good performance in jungle areas or complex environments with many buildings, but it seems very weak in open areas with sufficient light.
Although there are various defects, "Shadow Step" has an outstanding advantage, that is, the casting process is very simple, there is no casting gesture, no casting materials are needed, and you can move instantly by chanting a start spell. For a teleportation spell, this one The advantage is more than enough to make up for all other shortcomings, especially in emergency situations, even more practical than "any door"!
In the battle on "Banana Island" yesterday, after Mustafa was shot and wounded by Hailar, he used this "Shadow Step" to leave the battlefield in an instant.
If Mustafa had switched to spells such as "Dimensional Door" or "Teleportation" that did not have the automatic instant cast feature, Joan saw that he wanted to run away, and threw the "Dimensional Anchor" directly to kill him. Nailed to the ground, now that nigger's bones are cold!
Sighing regretfully, Joan secretly decided that the next time he encounters Mustafa, nothing else will matter, and he will hit a "dimensional anchor" first.
Withdrawing his thoughts, Joan copied down the spell configurations of "Acid Touch", "Extremely Cold Touch", "Energized Fist" and "Shadow Step", closed the spell book, and yawned big. Lying in the hammock that gently rocks with the waves, it feels like sleeping in a cradle, and it doesn't take long to fall asleep.
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Compared with traveling on land, sailing at sea is actually more boring most of the time.
The "Coral" expedition ship is not a vacation cruise ship. There are no recreational facilities on board. Fishing and diving are the few recreational activities available. When the weather is bad, the crew and passengers can only play cards in the cabin. time.
Only a week after leaving the "Banana Island", Holden was tired of the boring life on board and couldn't help complaining.
However, as Hailaer said: "At sea, a boring life is a luxury of happiness. It is better to endure boredom in the calm sea than to seek excitement in the stormy sea."
Mid-September is the season when typhoons rage on the east coast of Wilnoa. Tropical low-pressure cyclones are often accompanied by devastating storms. Going to sea in this season will undoubtedly take great risks. Sister Zion from an inland country My younger brother has never seen the violent side of the sea so far, but Hailar, who grew up by the sea, knows that the current sunny and sunny weather is very precious.
Joan's sailing experience is not much richer than Zion's, but he never gets bored on the boat.
As long as there were books to read and spells to study, it made no difference to him whether he was in a library, a laboratory, or a cramped cabin.
Taking advantage of the leisure time during the voyage, Joan spent a week revising the manuscript, and sent it to the editorial department of "Abstract Exploration" using the "fax technique".
As the academic journal with the highest gold content in the world of Vales, "Aofa Exploration" is different from monthly journals such as "Aofa Review", "Aofa Journal" and "Aofa Journal". Expect.
Even if the thesis sent by Qiao An on the "Struggle for Survival in the Underdark Region" passes the review, it will not be published until the end of the year.
After the thesis was sent, Joan put this matter to rest for the time being, and had nothing to do on the boat, except occasionally chatting and playing cards with friends, fishing and diving, and spent most of the day studying spells.
Perhaps because of being at sea and being affected by the water environment, Joan spent a lot of time studying the 4th-level "liquefaction" and the 3rd-level "liquid alchemy", intending to combine the configurations of these two spells , to create a new spell.
This is not a sudden inspiration. In fact, Qiao An has applied the combination of "liquefaction" and "liquid alchemy" many times in actual combat, and has accumulated rich experience.
For example, when he was in the "Giant's Cup" adventure, Joan used this set of chain spells to turn himself into scorching hot molten iron, and boiled Alba, the fierce giant octopus of the mythical aboleth Shanluar's general. s.
Two months ago, when participating in the labyrinth race in the Underdark, Joan also blessed the two spells on Robin Hood, the Curry Jing, so that he could turn into an acid form at any time. played a key role.
Joan's original idea was to integrate the 4th-level "Liquification" and the 3rd-level "Liquid Alchemy" into a 5th-level spell. " and the full functionality of "Liquid Alchemy".
The highest-level spell that Joan can cast at present is the 5th ring. The problem facing him now is how to make "liquefaction" and "liquid alchemy" as perfect as possible under the premise of "budget" constraints.
Based on the experience of developing spells in the past, Joan listed three optimization plans.
First of all, position this new spell as a "mythical spell" and use "mythical power" to activate it.
"Mythical power" is purer magical power than spell slots. Although with Joan's current spellcasting ability, a piece of mythical power can be converted into a 5-level spell slot, the two are not completely equivalent.
For example, the "spell slot" and the "power of myth" are like containers carrying the "spell configuration". The volumes of the two are equal, but the "spell slot" is like a rigid glass. If the shape is put into the cup, either there are gaps at the corners, that is, the magic power that has not been fully utilized, or the corners are too large to be stuck in the mouth of the cup; the latter is soft and elastic, without a fixed shape, no matter No matter how strange the configuration of the magic spells are, they can be wrapped tightly and seamlessly. There is no such thing as being stuck and unable to be inserted, and the magic power can be used to the maximum extent to avoid waste.
After a whole day of research, Joan found that using "mythic power" instead of the 5th-level spell slots still couldn't achieve the desired effect, so he added a second optimization plan on this basis-rune runes!
Rune runes are the "mother of all writings" in the world. Every seemingly simple character contains profound meaning. As long as you find the rune that matches the spell configuration, you can get extra magic power levels and expand your horizons. The optimization space of the spell.