Chapter 356 Soul Crystal
In this world, the treasures that can greatly improve magic qualifications are extremely precious, such as the fruit on the world tree, the juice of the tree of life, and the magic liquid found in the super-large magic crystal mine.
So far, only three super-large magic crystal mines have been found, and more than a dozen magic liquids can be mined every year. These magic liquids basically fall into the hands of the nobles of the Holy Glorious Empire, the Orc King's Court, and the Markholm Magic Kingdom.
Even the Grant royal family has no chance to intervene.
The world tree is located deep in the core of the earth and has long been blocked by the Seven Gods. The seven gods are eyeing the world tree. There have been many battles between the kingdoms. How could the fruit of the world tree fall into the hands of ordinary people?
Even the royal family of the Holy Glorious Empire, which has a close relationship with the God of Gloriousness, finds it difficult to get a treasure like the fruit of the world tree.
The tree of life is the sacred object of the elves, and it is not allowed to be touched by outsiders, unless you can destroy an elf tribe that controls the tree of life. Even if you trade a little water of life, you have to pay a high price, not to mention the juice of the tree of life?
Although magic liquid is relatively rare, it can still be produced continuously every year. However, the number of people who can use these treasures to improve their qualifications does not exceed 20.
If you don't have enough reincarnation skills, you will never get this level of treasure.
In addition to the top-level natural treasures, there is another way to greatly improve your qualifications, which is to be illuminated by the holy light and be favored by the gods.
The seven gods have been sleeping for many years, and now they will not easily respond to the prayers of believers.
In the past three thousand years, there have been very few people who have been favored by the gods. In the past few hundred years, it is probably only Richard who has been favored by the goddess of dawn.
Richard was illuminated by the holy light of dawn, and his mental power increased by six points, which is better than the legendary level Styx potion.
Because the Styx potion improves magic power, some magicians have outstanding talents, and the same mental power can convert into higher magic power. For example, Sophia increased her magic power by 60 points, but her mental power actually increased by only five points.
In addition to the above methods, the second-class is various precious potions and some special magic plants.
The legendary level Styx potion is already a very precious treasure. In the Magic Kingdom of Markholm, it is already the foundation of a large magic organization, and it will only be used on the most direct and talented wizards.
Even the top-level strongman of the plane, Albert Sacco, the Speaker of the Magic Council, may not be able to provide all his descendants with this level of potion. After all, the Sacco family has more than a hundred clansmen, and there are too many descendants. The precious resources can only be left to the most talented people.
It is also difficult for the Duke of the Holy Glorious Empire to get this level of potion.
After all, it is rare to find legendary undead creatures in the Dawn Plane.
The area where the Grant Kingdom is located is considered to be the key area of the ancient wizards and the undead war. In the past thirty years, only two undead armies have been discovered.
The last battle to block the channel to the dead spirit world killed three legendary undead, and only two legendary soul crystals were seized, and all fell into the hands of the Dawn Church. After all, in that battle, the priests of the Dawn Church played the greatest role, and even the legendary second-level priest Ma Wei La was exhausted.
As for ordinary soul crystals, because they did not control the battlefield, they did not pick up many, and most of them fell into the hands of the Grant royal family.
Although Richard participated in the battle, he was still a small figure after all, and the important spoils of war could not be divided into his hands.
In addition to refining potions, soul crystals can also serve as special alchemical materials to release soul-type spells. However, doing so is equivalent to wasting natural resources.
In addition, soul crystals are also used to create artificial intelligence. If soul crystals are used on powerful golems, a legendary helper can be artificially created. If used on a wizard tower, a smart tower spirit can also be created to serve as a helper in magic research.
The wizard towers built by ancient legendary wizards are often protected by legendary golems and have tower spirit helpers.
In addition, this special crystal can be used for magic research. It is also very beneficial to understand the origin of the world.
In the ancient wizard era, black wizards had the means to extract soul power and refine soul crystals. Black wizards acted recklessly and caused a very heavy killing of intelligent creatures.
Without the protection of the wizard organization, there is basically no population in the wilderness.
The legendary soul crystal has been seized in this battle, and the refining of the Styx potion is not too difficult. If the Styx potion is successfully refined after the war, it will be of great help to Sofia, Wendy and other talented magicians.
Using such a potion can increase the mental power by five or six points. The mental power before the ninth ring is more than 40 points, which is the basis for the magician to break through the legend.
However, other magicians do not have attribute panels, and they are not clear about their mental power. They can only roughly estimate it based on magic power.
An ordinary magician with inferior talent and no adventure, after advancing to the ninth ring, has a mental power of about 33 points.
Even if he is favored by the gods, or has a chance to get a treasure that improves his qualifications, it is difficult to increase his mental power to more than 40 points, and there is basically no chance of breaking through the legend. Unless this magician is a genius in studying magic, has opened up a new magic path, invented a new spell template, and has been favored by the will of the world, the mental power can be increased by a few points.
However, 99% of the magicians in this world have a very shallow understanding of the nature of magic. They are all tool mages who have been promoted step by step. There are very few who can do magic research and make certain achievements.
Even Richard, who is lucky enough to learn from his past life experience, can only improve his mental power by eleven points through magic research.
However, Richard's contribution to magic research can almost be said to be unprecedented, and it is difficult for others to come later. If all the magic knowledge of the Harland Mage Association is made public, Richard's fame will immediately surpass Albert Sacco. This great magician who also pioneered a new field, only improved his mental power by magic research.
Sophia, Wendy and others have made some outstanding contributions to magic research with the help of Richard, but the increase in mental power is only three or four points.
Most magicians learn unsystematic and messy magic knowledge. Not only do they have no talent, but they also have difficulty in having the conditions to study magic. For most magicians, relying on this path to improve mental power and advance to legend is basically cut off.
For a wizard with medium talent, the spiritual power is roughly between 34 and 36 points after advancing to the ninth ring. It is also necessary to use treasures that increase spiritual power to have a chance to break through the bottleneck of legend.
Only wizards with superior talent, whose spiritual power is often above 37 points after advancing to the ninth ring, have the opportunity to break through the legendary level by using some potions that increase spiritual power.
Even a simple tool wizard can break through the legendary level as long as he has good talent.
In this battle tonight, more than 5,000 undead creatures were killed, and a lot of soul crystals of different levels were actually dropped, but some were destroyed by the starlight bomb, and the other was left on the battlefield.
Because the battle was still going on, and time was urgent, Richard and others had no time to pick up, so they could only hope to clean up the battlefield.
After collecting the legendary soul crystal, Richard saw that the gray fog was still surging. He knew in his heart: "The legendary bone dragon is not the most powerful enemy in the gray fog. There is an invisible hand in the dark. This enemy hidden in the dark is the mastermind behind the gray fog."
Richard turned his head and looked at the lake in the dark night. He found that Levin and others had retreated one kilometer away.
Unknowingly, Richard and his team had delayed for more than ten minutes.
Finding that the blocking mission had been completed, Richard immediately called on everyone to withdraw along the lake.
After killing the legendary bone dragon, the arrows of the undead army were blunt, with Sutton and Sylph as the core, which could easily kill a large number of undead creatures that chased up and take on the blocking mission.
In this way, everyone walked on the ice for about an hour, walked seven or eight kilometers of ice road, and finally reached the east of the salt lake.
At this time, long dragons of fire could be seen in the east. It turned out that the reinforcements were holding torches and rushed to the eastern part of the salt lake area.
With these 5,000 reinforcements, Richard finally put his worries aside.
The most troublesome thing about the undead in the gray fog is the huge number of people.
If there is no advantage in numbers, even if facing a legendary undead creature, Richard and others are confident of defeating the opponent. However, facing a steady stream of tens of thousands of undead creatures, the small army can't beat the opponent at all, and can only choose to withdraw.
After the two armies joined, Richard immediately ordered the felling of trees and the lighting of bonfires.
The reinforcements from Lot and Sam Castle had walked for four hours in the middle of the night, and they were already exhausted and freezing. The undead do not need to eat or drink, and are not afraid of the cold. In this respect, the human army is far inferior to the undead creatures.
Hundreds of bonfires were quickly lit, and just when the soldiers took a rest, roasted the fire, and drank a sip of water, the undead army had already rushed over from the east bank of the salt lake.
It is very uncomfortable for an army to fight against such a tireless monster.
Richard glanced around and found that some soldiers looked terrified. He immediately stood up and shouted: "Don't be afraid, these skeletons are very weak and can't penetrate your shields and armor.
Show your courage, we will definitely defeat these annoying undead creatures. As your lord, I am willing to swear that as long as you don't retreat, I will never retreat a step.
Besides, we have no way to retreat. Behind us are the two castles of Lot and Sam, and our wives, children, parents, and friends are in the castles. In order to protect our loved ones, we can't retreat a step now. The only choice is to defeat the undead and defeat the opponent!"
After a brief mobilization, with the Seventh Brigade as the core, more than 5,000 soldiers formed a circle and suddenly collided with the undead army.
The archers inside the circle took the lead in launching an attack. The sharpshooters shot explosive arrows one after another, and ordinary archers also shot rockets. In an instant, thousands of rockets shot into the gray fog.
Explosive arrows have a very good killing effect on undead creatures, and each arrow can basically kill a powerful opponent. However, ordinary rockets are not lethal enough to undead creatures.
Seeing this scene, Richard immediately ordered the archers to stop shooting arrows and attack the undead creatures with guns and shields.
The soldiers in the Harland territory are all comprehensive arms. Every soldier must be equipped with a strong bow and crossbow. Soldiers who are not strong enough to pull a strong bow cannot enter the main army at all. They can only catch thieves in the city defense army and the public security army, maintain public order, and undertake second-line defense tasks.
Soldiers with great strength and good archery skills are born to be comprehensive attackers. Even if they cannot draw bows and shoot arrows, they have advantages in close combat with great strength and are good players.
Of course, the strongest soldiers in Harland are not archers, but grenadiers. Grenadiers are selected based on strength, and they are usually tall and strong.
Most grenadiers are nearly two meters tall and have a strength of about six points, which is almost comparable to the strength of first-level professionals.
Harland has nearly 50,000 soldiers, and only about 3,000 grenadiers can be selected. This kind of soldier with a strong physique is rarer than professionals in the army.
After the archers stopped shooting, they saw the undead creatures entering the range, and the strong grenadiers immediately took action.
The grenadiers threw alchemical bombs quickly, and in an instant, there were puffs of gunpowder smoke in the undead army, dispersing the gray fog.
Alchemical bombs have a very good killing effect on undead. A round of hundreds of alchemical bombs can clear at least thousands of undead creatures in an instant.
Seeing the good damage effect, the grenadiers fought more crazily.
For this battle, the defenders of Losa Basin almost emptied the alchemical bomb warehouse, and the reserve of alchemical bombs was very sufficient.
After more than ten years of accumulation, the reserve of alchemical bombs in Harland has increased to 60,000, enough for several fierce battles.
After five consecutive rounds of throwing, the grenadiers consumed two thousand alchemical bombs, and the undead army has been reduced by about four thousand.
But the number of undead creatures seemed to be endless, surrounding the circle.
In an instant, the sound of slashing was deafening, and the soldiers waved their spears and swords vigorously, fighting with countless skeletons and zombies.
In just half an hour, with the circle as the center, the outside was filled with five feet thick white bones.
In the war that started tonight, Richard led the soldiers of Harland to eliminate more than 20,000 undead creatures.
Although there are many undead creatures, they cannot afford such a heavy loss.
After continuous fighting until now, the scale of the gray fog has finally stopped expanding. Now every time an undead is killed, the gray fog will be weakened.
Just as the grenadiers were about to throw alchemical bombs, they suddenly heard the sound of "Da! Da! Da!", and hundreds of Death Knights riding on bone horses rushed out of the gray fog.
The strong power of death attached to the bone spears, lingering around the Death Knights for a long time. The Death Knights stretched out their hands and wiped the bone spears, and the fire of the dead was immediately ignited on the bone spears.
The Death Knights raised the bone spears and launched a fierce attack from the front of the circle. These Death Knights are already at level four or five.
More than a hundred Death Knights launched a surprise attack, and the lethality and destructive power are already very good.