Chapter 497: Nova of Frost

The withered vine monster's intelligence was obviously higher than that of the withered branch monster, and when they realized that the strength of their prey was beyond their control limit, they quickly detached from Clark and fled like the ebbing tide.

"It's too late to run away now!"

Clark raised his left hand with a sneer, and suddenly clenched his fist!

The ice-blue ring worn on his left middle finger burst out with a dazzling radiance of magic power, and the dense cold current burst out violently, covering all the space within twenty feet around him in the ice created by the extremely cold magic power. In the frost, all the withered vine monsters that hadn't had time to escape from this area were frozen in an instant, and they stood still stiffly, and white frost bloomed on the skin of the vines.

Witnessing the icy and snowy scene in front of him, Qiao An couldn't help being slightly moved: "Frost Nova!"

"Frost Nova" is a very famous 3-ring arcane spell, and spellcasters often compare "Frost Nova" with "Fireball".

These two third-level spells belong to the "Evocation School" and have the same level of lethality and damage range. Although the energy attributes used are diametrically opposed, both of them have achieved the ultimate in the optimization of "spell structure" and are regarded as An optimized example of level 3 spells.

Compared with "Fireball", "Frost Nova" chooses different optimization directions.

The basic range of "Fireball" is as high as 400 feet, just like the long-range cannon in arcane arts. The basic range of "Frost Nova" is only 100 feet. Freeze" effect.

The optimization result of "Frost Nova" is just like what Joan saw at this moment: In addition to suffering normal magic damage, the withered vine monster within the range of the spell attack was also frozen by the low temperature that instantly invaded the body, and became slow to move, and was chased by Clark. Stepping up and trampling on it, everything was smashed to pieces in an instant.

After eliminating the withered vine monsters on the river beach, Clark and Davis continued to search for traces of the withered vines along the bushy area.

Joan took a deep look at the ice-blue magic ring on Clark's left hand, planning to borrow the ring from Clark after the battle, analyze the enchanted "Frost Nova" in it, and copy it into his spell book. With Clark's forthright personality, he probably wouldn't refuse his request.

Clark and Davis' grandparents had reached the end of the river beach and stopped in front of a pine forest.

Joan heard that Clark and old man Gordon seemed to be arguing, so he hurried after him and asked Allen what happened.

"Clark wanted to enter the pine forest to search for monsters. My grandfather said it was too dangerous and he was determined not to let him enter the forest. Neither of them could convince the other, so they quarreled." Allen shrugged helplessly.

"With Clark's strength, no matter how many wither monsters ambushes in the forest, he can't pose a threat to him. Is Mr. Davis being too cautious?" Joan implicitly expressed his support for Clark.

"Brother Clark said the same thing! But my grandfather said that the environment of the pine forest is different from that of the river beach, and there are likely to be 'Dead Needle Monsters' hidden in the forest. This is the most difficult to deal with among the three common wither monsters. Stand still When it is not moving, it looks like a coniferous shrub, which is difficult to distinguish when mixed in the pine forest. Once it wakes up, it will become a monster covered with spikes, and it can shoot out the spikes on its body to hurt people. The power is comparable to Crossbow arrows!"

Allen solemnly described the horror of the "Dry Needle Monster" to Joan. In fact, he had never encountered a Dry Needle Monster himself, and these details were all told by Old Gordon.

After listening to the boy's story, Joan immediately remembered that during his sojourn in the Algonquin Valley this spring, he had witnessed the "Withered Monster Corps" invading Powhatan Village, and among them was the "Withered Needle Monster" that Allen called , very insidious, like to hide behind other wither monsters and shoot cold arrows, causing great damage to the Asa warriors defending their homeland.

"Can you shoot into the woods to lure the monster out?" Joan asked Allen.

The boy shook his head, and replied a little gloomily: "Grandpa said that the Dryneedles are very cunning, and they wouldn't leave the woods easily even if they heard gunshots, and we didn't dare to get too close to the woods—the shotgun's range is too short. When it comes to the Dry Needle Monster, the spikes shot by the opponent can also hurt us."

"Isn't it possible without shotguns?"

"Ordinary lead bullets have a long enough range, but it's a pity that they are not effective against wither monsters." Old Gordon turned around and answered Joan's question for Allen, "These evil activated plants are not as fatal as us humans. You don’t even feel pain, a bullet pierces through a tree trunk, and you can continue fighting unaffected.”

"I see." Joan said after thinking, "Now we have two problems to solve. The first is to confirm whether there are blight monsters hidden in the pine forest, and the second is to try to lure them out and destroy them."

"Brother Joan, do you have any good ideas?" Clark asked.

"Let's try it." Joan touched the storage bag and took out the "Branch of Irminsur". "Let's solve the first problem first."

Joan held up the "Branch of Irminsur", took two steps towards the pine forest, and calmed down to sense the magic fluctuations emanating from the branches.

Sure enough, the fluctuation of magic power became violent with his footsteps, and the "Branch of Irminsur" seemed to wake up, twisting the green branches and leaves to deflect towards the pine forest, and a scarlet halo appeared on the branches, like A warning lighthouse on the coast indicating reefs.

When "Old White" broke off this branch and gave it to Joan, he specifically explained that the "Branch of Irminsur" has two functions: it can temporarily turn the holder into a powerful "tree man", except In addition, it can also sense the surrounding activated plants.

Joan has used the transformation function of "Branch of Irminsur" many times, but as for the detection function, this is the first time he has tried it.

After a short period of speculation, Joan found that the detection method of the "Branch of Ilminthul" was very similar to the "siren" made of the tentacles of the digger, except that the "Branch of Ilminthul" only The activated plants are effective, and the detection range is much larger than that of the siren. The entire pasture, and even the town of Hows three miles away, the existence of all activated plants cannot escape the monitoring of the "Branch of Irminsur"!

In addition, Joan also discovered that the red halo emitted by the "Branch of El Minsur" was actually a warning, implying that there were evil activated plants nearby, which might pose a threat to him. If the detected neutral or good activated plants, the light from the "Branch of Irminsur" would not be as dazzling as it is at this moment.

"In this pine forest, there are a total of twenty-seven 'withered monsters' lurking, and twenty of them are just 'withered needle monsters'."

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