Chapter 365 Mysterious Lock

Since Essinger Mobile Fortress is a war fortress, it is naturally equipped with a lot of defensive and offensive weapons, and the Mystery Lock mentioned by the gold coins is actually a city defense system. This thing is basically the same thing as the protective shield in general system cities. The only difference is that this protective shield is a little bit special.

Generally speaking, city-level protective shields can be divided into many different levels according to the size of the coverage area, but this actually has no practical significance. In addition, the city shield can also be divided into four different levels: low-level, normal, high-level and super based on different energy strengths. Of course, this is just a rough classification, not very precise. This classification is directly related to the protective capabilities of urban protective shields. Low-level shields are easy to penetrate, while high-level shields are much better. Of course, the protection level is directly linked to energy consumption. Although the energy consumption of advanced urban shields can also be reduced by changing the design of the magic array and installing auxiliary magic arrays, just like high-horsepower cars usually have super-high fuel consumption, you can turbocharge Technology and lightweight bodies have allowed high-horsepower cars to reduce fuel consumption, but no matter how much the fuel consumption is reduced, a medium-sized truck will never be more fuel-efficient than a mini car.

Same reason. The advanced urban shield has excellent protection capabilities, but its energy consumption is also terrifyingly high. Moreover, high-level shields are not just about high energy consumption. High energy consumption means high magic density, which requires the magic protection generating device to have ultra-high tolerance, and it must also have a strong energy gathering effect, otherwise it will not be possible. Support such a protective cover.

In addition to the classification of protection strength, urban protective shields also have some other classifications, such as whether they have auxiliary energy and so on. In addition, there are three more meaningful classifications. The first is to see whether the protective cover is active protection, the second is to see whether the protective cover is one-way protection, and the third is to see whether the protective cover has the ability to withstand overload.

For a city's protective shield, the active protection system is far better than the passive protection system, because the passive protective shield is manually opened, and once activated, it cannot be turned off unless someone turns it off. Or something like running out of energy happens, otherwise it will stay on. Although the protective shield consumes a lot of energy when it resists attacks, this does not mean that it does not consume energy when no one attacks it. It is just that the energy consumption is much lower in this case. However, as a protective shield that can cover the entire city, just think about it and you will know that this thing does not consume much energy even if it usually does not. It is definitely a very scary number, and it cannot be really cheap enough to ignore it. If that's really the case. The cities in the game now should always have their protective shields turned on, but the actual situation is that unless there is a siege, no one will activate the protective shields.

Precisely because the protective cover starts to consume energy as soon as it is activated, the passive protective cover is obviously a money-burning machine. In comparison, active protective shields are much better. The active protective cover is actually two layers of protective cover that are closely connected together. The outer layer is extremely weak, almost as if there is nothing there. It is always activated, but because its protective strength is almost zero, Therefore, its energy consumption is so low that it can be ignored. Even an ordinary energy-gathering array can automatically complete the energy cycle. No extra energy is consumed at all.

This weak protective shield is the sensor of the active protective shield. When an external attack penetrates the first layer of shield, the second layer of truly powerful shield will be activated instantly. This powerful shield activates very quickly, basically ensuring that even beam attacks can be intercepted in time. When the attack is over, the second layer of protective shield will close immediately. In this way, the second layer of high-energy protective shield will only be activated at the moment of attack, and it will shut down immediately after the attack is over, without wasting any more energy.

Of course everyone likes this perfect design, but in fact not everyone can have it. As for the reason... the main reason is that I can't find it.

Currently, only a few guilds, including our Frost Rose Alliance, have the ability to produce active city shields. Although they are also sold in major system cities in various countries, you must first interact with the managers of those cities, and then brush up the relationship between you. Only after the relationship status is upgraded to "warmly welcomed" can they sell it to you. Of course, even if you have the ability to increase this relationship level, it does not mean that you will definitely be able to buy it. Because the system itself actually has restrictions on this, after reaching the relationship level, it only means that NPCs in the city will talk to you about this matter, but it does not mean that you will definitely be able to get the active city shield. Usually in this case, NPCs in the city will tell you that they have certain difficulties in making this kind of city shield. Either they lack some materials or they need some kind of technology. Anyway, they will give you a task, and you can only buy it after completing the task. Active shield, if it fails, say nothing. certainly. There is one last limitation: you have to have enough money. Relationships are relationships, and business is business. Even if someone is willing to sell it, the NPCs in the system city will not give you credit if you don’t have money.

The second important classification of this urban protective cover is whether it is one-way protection. The more advantageous one is one-way protection rather than two-way protection. It seems that two-way protection has one more direction of protection than one-way protection, but in fact you can understand it if you think about it. When the protective shield is activated, it will form a complete enclosed space, so the protective shield actually has only two sides - the inside and the outside. The so-called one-way protection means that it only protects the outside world. People from outside who launch attacks into the city will be intercepted by the protective shield, but people in the city who fight back will not be affected in any way. But if your shield is two-way, that can be troublesome. Although the enemy's attack can't come in, your counterattack can't come out either. And whether it is an internal or external attack, it is an attack and will consume the energy of the protective shield. If it is an active protective cover, it is nothing if it is one-way. You can completely control it manually or install a control module to prevent the protective cover from being activated when an internal attack is launched. The time difference can prevent external attacks from being affected. But if it is a passive protective shield and it is two-way, it will be terrible. Apart from staring at the enemy, there is really nothing you can do.

The last category is whether the protective cover has the ability to withstand overload. This actually means whether the protective cover can remain intact after being penetrated. After a protective shield with anti-overload capability is penetrated, it will only allow the attack that penetrated it to pass through. As long as the energy core still has energy, it can continue to protect against subsequent attacks. Even some advanced models of anti-overload protective shields can still pass through. It can be achieved that only the point that is penetrated loses its protective ability at the same time, while the protective power of other locations does not decrease. You must know that this ability is very abnormal. Because a city is so large, there must be more than one point being attacked at the same time. Therefore, if a hole in one place causes the entire protective shield to collapse, even if it is repaired immediately afterwards, at that moment, attacks at other locations will It has passed through, which will cause a protective hole. Therefore, the best urban protective cover is the kind of protective cover that can resist overload and will not completely collapse after being penetrated.

The Mystic Shield equipped with our Essinger Mobile Fortress is a multi-protection fusion shield, and it can no longer be viewed simply as a protective shield.

According to the above classification, our Mystery Lock protection system can be regarded as a super protective cover with ultra-large scale, ultra-high strength, active, one-way, anti-overload, and multi-point hybrid protection. Moreover, in addition to having so many features, it also has a unique feature, that is - protective diffusion.

A general protective cover, no matter what classification it belongs to, is just a thin light film at the moment of protection. Our Mystery Lock does not have this layer of light film, but turns the almost thicknessless light film into a large fog covering the entire city and its surrounding areas. This large fog is our protective shield. It is not a thin layer, on the contrary, it is not only thick, but also terrifyingly thick.

General protective covers can only provide one-way protection at best. Once the enemy enters the inside of the protective cover, the protective cover will lose its effect because there is no protective capability inside the protective cover. But our puzzle lock is not. It cannot simply be said to be one-way or two-way protection, but it should be said to be human-visual protection. As long as it is an enemy attack, as long as you are shrouded in fog, no matter which direction you attack, you will be protected. If it is an attack from one of our own, similarly, no matter which direction you attack, you will not be affected in any way. . Therefore, the protective ability of Mysuo is simply incredible, because it can still provide protection even in urban street fighting.

Of course, because the thin layer of protective cover is spread over a large area of ​​fog, there is also a flaw in the mystery lock, that is, the protection strength must be increased by distance.

If an enemy launches an attack outside the shield, no matter what type of attack it is, it will immediately begin to be weakened as soon as it touches the shield, but it will not be blocked instantly like a normal shield, but will continue to Move forward, but the attack power will continue to decrease until the attack power drops to zero, and the attack will be completely intercepted. However, this process is not completed instantly, so if you happen to be standing on the edge of the protective shield, or the enemy is both in the protective shield with you, and the opponent is attacking close to you, then the Mystic Lock Shield can only provide very limited of protection. However, considering the advantages of the Mystic Lock protective cover, this flaw is actually nothing at all. In terms of protection strength alone, it completely surpasses those crystal bubble-like protective covers.

In fact, in addition to its protective power, the Mystic Lock Shield also has two awesome abilities. One of them is to disrupt direction and obscure vision, basically like a ghost punching a wall. Once any enemy enters the range of the mystery, their line of sight will be severely affected and their sense of direction will disappear. Therefore, most enemies will feel as if they have entered a ** array after entering. The group of Siberian protoss who are wandering around now is actually because they are controlled by the concealing ability of the mystery. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation.)