Chapter 759: Two Dark Clouds

Not long ago, Qiao An witnessed the old blind man cast the "giant insect technique" with his wand in the Qingbing mine, turning the centipedes summoned by "flying insects and beasts" into terrifying giant insects with a length of more than ten feet.

At that time, if Evelyn hadn't acted in time and cast the 4-ring arcane "black tentacles" to trap those big centipedes, Joan's situation would have become very dangerous.

How big can the "giant insect technique" make a small insect?

The answer to this question depends on the caster's level.

The higher the casting level, the more effective the "Giant Insect Technique" will be. It can make the insects subject to the spell bigger and stronger, and more obedient to the caster.

For spellcasters below level 9, when casting the "giant insect technique", at most they can only turn insects into a size similar to that of a human being, that is, six to seven feet long.

The old blind man is a level 8 druid. It stands to reason that he can only turn ordinary centipedes into seven feet long.

But Qiao An clearly remembered that after the old blind man cast the "giant insect technique" in the mine, all the centipedes were made to be more than ten feet long, which greatly exceeded his own mana level.

This is why?

The mystery lies in the amber ball inlaid on the head of the staff.

Specific gems embedded in wands can enhance specific spells.

This amber ball has the miraculous effect of enhancing the "giant insect technique".

When the old blind man casts "Giant Worm" with his wand, the amber ball can help him increase three spellcasting levels, which is equivalent to an 11th-level druid casting spells.

And when the casting level exceeds level 10, the power of the "giant insect technique" will be further enhanced, which can turn tiny insects into large monsters.

As far as the centipede was concerned, the original body length was only about one foot, but with the strengthening of the giant bug wand, the body length instantly increased to more than ten feet!

"Giant Insect Art" can only temporarily make the subject insect into a huge form, and the duration is also proportional to the level of the spell.

Counting the 3 extra levels of the amber ball, this wand can cast "Giant Worm" up to 10 times a day.

At a time, up to 11 centipedes or other similar-sized insects can be transformed into fourteen-foot-long giant insects, and the transformation time can last up to 11 minutes.

Joan is very interested in the "Giant Worm Art", but unfortunately it is a natural divine art, and there is no corresponding arcane version yet.

He couldn't analyze it like he did arcane art, and transcribe it into his own book, so he had to put away the "giant worm wand" and study it further when he had free time in the future.

Next, Joan opened the backpack and took out three monster corpses that had been shrunk by magic.

He'll start by dissecting the frost lizard's carcass.

Before moving the knife, cancel the "reduction operation".

The corpse of the frost lizard that was freed from the magic power swelled rapidly, and after a few seconds, it was the size of a mouse and returned to its original size.

The Frost Lizard is an elemental subspecies creature native to the cold plane.

The light blue blood flowing in the body, the temperature is far below freezing point, contains abundant energy of ice element.

After the frost lizard died, most of the cold energy in its body had been lost.

However, the coldness remaining in the blood is still enough to freeze the creatures that touch the corpse alive.

When the corpse was in a shrunken state, due to the relatively small body surface area, the amount of radiation from the cold magic power was relatively small, so Joan's feeling was not obvious.

Now that the corpse had returned to its original state, the amount of radiation from the cold magic power increased greatly. Joan's teeth chattered from the cold, and his stiff fingers could hardly hold the handle of the knife.

Qiao An hurriedly moved away from the corpse of the frost lizard, cast a spell in a hurry, and blessed himself with a 2-ring protection spell "Cold Resistance Barrier" to block the cold outside his body.

With this layer of magic barrier protection, Joan can safely and boldly touch the corpse of the frost lizard without suffering any frostbite.

He tapped the back of the corpse with the back of the knife, and the metal hit the frost lizard's hard and smooth scales, making a crisp sound.

Joan nodded in satisfaction, and swiped a knife to remove several ice-blue scales, exposing soft flesh and blood.

Next, Joan took out a large injection, fitted it with a needle, stuck it into the corpse, extracted the plasma containing cold energy, and stored it in two containers respectively.

One of the bottles of blood plasma has a volume of about one pint, which Joan prepares as a material for "blood interpretation".

The remaining blood was put into a larger metal bottle and sealed for future research on magic and alchemy.

The scales, leather, muscles, bones and internal organs of the frost lizard, Joan collected samples one by one, packaged and sealed them.

The remaining corpses were dehydrated with alchemy drugs, made into specimens, and stored in specimen boxes.

Next is the main event.

Joan first performed magic tricks to clean the blood on his body and hands, then took the low-temperature resistant ceramic flask containing the blood sample of the frost lizard, placed it on the desk, and performed blood interpretation with the No. 4 rune.

The spell completed successfully.

A wisp of blue mist rises slowly from the mouth of the ceramic bottle, forming lingering clouds in the sky, like a small blue cumulonimbus cloud.

Joan also noticed that there were two golden streamers made of countless magic runes in the ice-blue cloud, which slowly shuttled and swam. Under the light of the magic candle, there was a dreamlike beauty.

Based on past experience, Joan recognized that the two golden runes were "magic marks", corresponding to the two supernatural abilities of the frost lizard.

"Frost Armor", and "Frozen Aura".

Joan transcribed these two magical imprints into the spell book.

During the copying process, he was also thinking about a question.

In the arcane field, is there any spell corresponding to "Frost Armor" and "Frozen Aura"?

Even if you can't find exactly the same, the function is similar.

Unfortunately, he searched all over his memory, but couldn't find similar arcane spells.

This is different from the previous analysis of chokers and phase spiders.

The two magical imprints extracted from the blood of the Frost Lizard seemed unable to provide reference value for his arcane practice.

At least not yet.

Joan had a hunch.

Now he hasn't found the arcane arts corresponding to "Frost Armor" and "Frozen Aura".

This premonition is largely due to his pride in the subject.

The arcane specialty is all-encompassing, has a long history, and produces talented people in large numbers.

If the arcane subject is compared to a building, this "building" has basically been completed today.

Although objectively there are still some blank areas that need to be studied in depth, they are only a very small number of special cases, nothing more than "two dark clouds hanging over the arcane building".

Joan felt that the two supernatural abilities of the Frost Lizard seemed nothing unusual. There must be a corresponding arcane version, but he didn't know it yet.

Even if it really doesn't... that's okay, it's a good opportunity for a young student like him.

He can refer to these two magic imprints, write similar spell configurations, and then invent two brand new arcane spells, which can be regarded as adding two bricks and tiles to the perfection of the "arcane mansion" and making some contributions.