Arcane Journey

Chapter 179 Transformation System Psionic Energy

Brian and Hellist walked out of the tunnel, followed the trail of scattered mud mephits, and came to another huge cave.

A swift, shallow river bisects the cave, and the walls on either side of the river are covered with short shoots of crystal clusters.

With the help of the faint light emitted by the crystal clusters, Brian discovered that on the walls of the cave, there were still many motionless mud mephits or earth mephits sticking to the walls, almost exactly like a pile of mud or rocks.

Just when he deliberately took two steps forward, the mephits were awakened instantly, squeaking like mice and pounced on him, accompanied by their supernatural breath and spell-like spells. strong acid.

Brian stood where he was, and he could clearly feel that the strength of this group of mephits was significantly enhanced compared to the mephits he just brushed. Their challenge level was probably at least around level 3.

If he just faced a group of such mephits, it is impossible for his wall of fire technique to achieve instant kill damage.

This made him understand that his trip was not in vain, because there was likely to be a mephit similar to the leader inside.

He didn't think about it anymore, before the mephits rushed over, he pointed the flaming wand towards the mephits, and the flames from the "burning hand" spewed out from the top of the wand, turning into a sea of ​​flames, and rushed everyone The mephits exploded into balls of gorgeous magical flames.

A series of prompts to gain 300 experience points kept jumping out from the prompt bar.

Helliste also used her psychic spells to kill those mephits that Brian had slipped through from time to time, which can be said to have achieved the level of meticulousness in the profession of bodyguards.

Just when the two of them cleaned up nearly a hundred mephits, there were two ear-piercing screams from the depths of the cave, and two mephits with wings spread up to one meter wide flew over.

Of the two mephits, one is thick and strong, similar to a gargoyle.

The other is made of disgusting slime and filth, looks like a dripping green slime, and emits a disgusting smell.

The former is an earth mephit, and the latter is a mud mephit.

Brian could tell from their size that these were definitely two mephit leaders, and their personal levels were at least around level 10.

Thinking of this, Brian looked at Hellist who was on the side, and said to her, "Catch these two mephits, I will keep them for other purposes."

Mephits are magical creatures made up of elemental energy. Their reproduction methods are very peculiar. As long as the elemental energy they have is absorbed to a certain extent, they can classify themselves into a second mephit.

If the number of mephits reaches more than a thousand, there will be an existence similar to a leader. This leader will devour the mephits, control the number of mephits, and improve its own strength.

When the strength of the mephit leaders meets the requirements for reproduction, they will stop devouring the mephits and reproduce stronger mephits.

These bred new mephits will devour the weaker mephits, and then split again to reproduce the same strength mephits, gradually replacing these weak mephits.

Until the number of the mephit group reaches a certain standard again, the mephit leader will devour the mephit again to improve its own strength, and so on.

Brian had been to the elemental plane of fire, and witnessed a fire mephit leader whose strength was in the legendary field. Almost all the mephits under him had a challenge level above level 7.

However, this kind of situation will only appear on the fire elemental plane with sufficient fire elemental energy. Given the conditions of the main material world, even in an area full of volcanoes, it is very difficult to produce a mephit leader of this level. of.

From this, it can be seen how rich the energy of the earth element is here. In just a hundred years or so, two mephit leaders were born.

And the fundamental reason why he asked Hellist to help him catch these two mephits was to put them in the wizard tower for training.

Because some spellcasters who specialize in the study of mephits, through the racial characteristics of mephits, have developed an elemental energy-gathering array that speeds up the reproduction of mephits.

Since the elemental energy-gathering circle needs to be supported by a huge amount of elemental energy, this kind of mephit, which is born with the ability to cast spells, has gradually become a high-end power for the wizard tower to guard and attack.

His purpose of obtaining the leaders of these two mephits is naturally obvious.

If they are under the blessing of the elemental energy-gathering circle, they will continuously reproduce the challenge level up to about level 3 mephit guards.

Regarding Brian's request, Helliste nodded slightly, and saw her slender white palm lightly waved, and a trace of celestial energy suddenly permeated around the two ferocious and fang-filled mephits.

The astral energy that emerged out of thin air covered the body surface of the mephit leader at a speed visible to the naked eye, and was wrapped into two crystal clear and shining astral crystals without any resistance.

This is the fourth-level ability "extraction technique". After any items, including living things, are sealed in the essence, they will not be affected by the passage of time. In terms of terms, it is entering a stagnant space.

In order to prevent the demon lord Graz'zt from sensing the location of the corrupted dragon egg, Brian used this ability.

"The two mephit leaders have completely lost their minds due to the disaster of Oremok." Hellist waved her hand, and two crystals reflecting silvery white luster floated in front of Brian.

"I know." Brian put it away and said nonchalantly, "They are pure elemental creatures. As long as the polluted energy is purified, the problem will naturally be solved."

After the leader of the mephit was settled, he no longer missed this place, and took Hellist to continue walking towards the original destination.

After a while, they came to an abandoned mine.

This was once the richest mine in Blingdenstone.

Among them, the largest mines also contain veins of common metals such as iron and copper, as well as veins of many rare minerals, such as mithril and adamantine, and the group of mines also includes some crystal caves that are used by the Snebli as gemstone mining sites.

The huge mine is composed of several small-scale mines scattered around Blingdenstone City. The subterranean gnomes have carefully designed the entrance so that only those who are familiar with the route can successfully enter the mine network.

For Brian, there is no need to worry about this, because beside him is a legendary psion who is proficient in the six fields of psionic energy.

Apparently, this question was not a problem for her at all.

After a while, Helisite opened her bright eyes, looked at Brian, and pointed him to the right path.

After walking into the mine, with the help of the sickly light emitted by the fungus, Brian saw a deep crater formed in front of him like a meteorite impact.

In the deep pit, there are still dilapidated wooden frames and rail mine cars built in the old mines.

A mechanical lift, eroded by time, has been built from the cliff and extends to the bottom of the mine.

Brian glanced around, following Helliste's gaze, and fixed his gaze on a hole in the mine.

In the halo of fungal disease, there is a faint crystal light emitted by gemstones at the entrance of the cave.

"click"

The two had just used the levitation technique to fall to the bottom of the pit when Brian heard the sound of rolling gravel.

He looked along the source of the sound and happened to see a rough stone about 3 meters away. He suddenly stretched out his hands and feet made of fine gravel and stood up. He moved his body as if stretching, and then took heavy steps towards the two people. ran over.

At the same time, amidst bursts of muffled loud noises, huge monsters as high as 3 meters all ran out of the pile of rocks and shadows in a similar manner.

They looked like human figures made of dirt and rocks, mainly composed of stones, precious metals, and gems.

These were earth elementals, and Brian recognized these guys easily.

And from their size, it can be seen that this is a group of medium-sized earth elementals with a challenge level of around level 5.

More than 20 medium-sized earth elementals ran over one by one with their strong and sturdy thighs, and the ground trembled.

Rather than running, it looked more like a slowed-down run.

It can be seen from this that the earth elemental is the slowest of all elemental monsters.

When an ordinary civilian encounters an earth element, he can easily escape when the opponent does not release throwing long-range spells.

The elemental monsters have no emotion, they are ruthless opponents, but Brian can see the angry color emitting scarlet light from their prismatic eyes.

Obviously, all the earth elements here have fallen into a state of madness due to the Oremok disaster, so that the originally absolutely neutral camp has become an evil camp full of aggressive desires.

As the earth elementals ran slowly, some earth elementals had even grabbed the stones on the ground, or released their own spell-like spells, and attacked Brian and the others.

Helisite quickly propped up the barrier to block the long-range attacks of the earth elements.

Brian calmly chanted the spell, and threw a fireball the size of a washbasin towards the place where the earth elementals stood most densely.

Accompanied by a loud bang, the five earth elementals were blown upside down, and cracks appeared on their bodies made of mud and rocks.

However, compared to the tenacious vitality of the earth elemental, Brian's fireball technique did not produce enough power to kill instantly.

"Use transformation-type psychic powers to deal with them." Helliste glanced at Brian's attack and reminded him:

"Although the burst of arcane energy is stronger than psionic energy, at least half of the burst's damage cannot be applied to the enemy. This is considered invalid damage, but psionic energy is different. Just try it and you will know."

Facing Hellist's suggestion, Brian naturally accepted it unceremoniously.

——"Third-level power: energy burst (flame)!"

He concentrated his mind and locked his eyes on the five earth elementals that had been bombed by the fireball. With a thought, irregular astral energy seeped out from the void, turned into a violent flame, exploded, and submerged the five earth elementals.

Immediately afterwards, he received five reminders to gain about 2000 experience.

He saw the five dead earth elementals fell on their backs, their limbs separated, and turned into a pile of ruins, and the flames produced by the energy explosion did not harm anything except the earth elementals, not even the air waves of the explosion.

That is to say, the burst of flames transformed from psionic energy actually acted on the five earth elementals without any overflow.

Compared with arcane energy, although the damage and range of psionic energy are not that terrifying, but in terms of concentrated strikes, psionic energy clearly has an absolute advantage.

"Actually, against creatures with a hard surface like earth elementals, the most effective effect is sound wave damage." After Heliste blocked the stones thrown by earth elementals for Brian, she reminded: "Because sound wave damage will ignore The enemy's defense directly acts on the body. You can try again."

——"Third-level ability: energy burst (sonic wave)!"

Brian locked onto the other four earth elementals, and with a thought, the celestial energy transformed into a musical note appeared in the group of earth elementals, and suddenly rotated and stretched, erupting into a piercing gust of wind, raging from the surface of the four earth elementals within the range And pass.

"Kacha! Kacha! Kacha!..."

The bodies of the four earth elements suddenly stopped, and the hard surface was shaken out of dense cracks at a speed visible to the naked eye, and turned into a pile of rubble amidst the bang.

"I didn't expect the transformation power you released to be so powerful."

Seeing the four medium-sized earth elementals that were killed in an instant, a strange color flashed in Helisite's beautiful eyes, and she muttered to herself: "Didn't you choose the field of creation? Even if it was the field of transformation, the damage would be too much." It can't be that high."

"That's right, it's the field of creation, but my arcane skill is evocation." Brian threw out a wave of sound wave power again, instantly killing the earth element approaching, and said to her:

"The plane of mind has given me the ability to fuse arcane and psionic powers together, so my arcane release skills can all be applied to psionic powers, including increasing the power of transformation-type psionic powers."

Among the six fields of psionic energy, the most explosive one is the transformation department psionic energy, which is equivalent to the evocation department of the magic school.

The transformation system of psionic energy is mainly to mobilize psionic energy, transform it into elemental energy, and attack the enemy.

The spells of the Evocation School, on the other hand, use magic power to create astonishingly powerful elemental energy, which is why the spells of the Evocation School belong to the Arcanist's realm of creation.

For Brian, who is a dual-cultivator of the Spiritual Athletics, from the moment he released the transformation system of psionic power, he suddenly realized that the release methods of the two seem to be different, but the final result is the same.

Therefore, under the influence of the "Arcane (Spiritual) Spell Amplification" characteristic, whether it is his spellcasting expertise, or the bonuses from the Arcanist professional characteristics and Battle Mage professional characteristics, or even the damage increase of the staff to fire spells, All can be applied to the psionic energy of the transformation system.

"So that's how it is." Helliste's exquisite face showed a sudden look, and she said to him in a slightly relaxed tone:

"So, the opening of the mind plane allows you to master the fusion of arcane and psionic powers. In this way, when your psion profession reaches the legendary realm, and then open the second layer of the mind plane, you It will be very simple."

"Brian, my expectation for your future has never been as strong as it is today." She stretched out her slender fingers to brush the hair that blocked her view, with a gentle smile on her face.

After finishing speaking, Hellist threw out a control psychic power, preventing a large group of earth elementals from appearing from the cave on the other side.

"Then I'll try not to let you down." Brian shrugged with a smile, and began to concentrate on brushing the earth elementals controlled by Helliste, who were motionless like statues.

In fact, he is also looking forward to what changes will happen to his improved Arcanist profession as he continues to improve.

After all, when he succeeded in advancing, even the goddess of magic was alarmed.

As for the profession of psion, his original intention of advancing was just to match his spellcasting profession, and he didn't intend to spend too much energy on it.

But with the appearance of Helliste, a Psion who masters all psionic powers, he can learn any psionic powers he can master without any worries, and the opening of the plane of mind, which made him realize that the profession of psions Potential, it is very likely that it is not lower than the Arcanist profession.

Seriously speaking, the spiritual secrets of the mind plane were researched by Heliste from the spiritual knowledge inherited from Atas, a world where spiritual power flourished to the extreme. Its potential can be imagined.

Brian didn't think about it anymore, and continued to focus on dealing with the remaining earth elemental creatures.

On the other hand, Hellist was like a spiritual mentor, protecting him from harm while guiding him in the release technique of spiritual energy.

Letting a professional whose strength reaches the legendary realm assist him in killing monsters and upgrading, for Brian, is a treatment he has never enjoyed in the game world.

He felt that he had never fought so comfortably as today.

In just a short period of time, while gaining a lot of experience, the psionic skills explained by this legendary psion also benefited him a lot, and he thoroughly understood the true meaning of the saying that practice is the test of truth.

When the encounter of the earth elements was about to end, with a bang, a large earth element 8 meters high and 2 meters wide, full of anger, suddenly appeared in front of Brian, made of living rocks.

He calmly stood on his feet, carefully sizing up the large earth elemental, ready to jump out of its attack range at any time.

As elemental creatures, according to strength, the earth elements are: small, medium, large, super large, giant, and the elder type and prophet type in the legendary field, and then the lord and prince.

So seeing the body shape of the earth element that suddenly appeared in front of him, he could judge the opponent's strength at a glance, and he could even feel the power contained in the opponent's living arms and legs.

When he was looking at the earth elemental, the earth elemental roared, like the impact of a boulder rolling down a cliff.

I saw its huge arm waving over, passing by the afterimage he avoided in time, and hammering heavily on the cave wall, smashing the extremely hard rock to pieces.

—— "Level [-] ability: energy ball (sound wave)!"

Brian calmly fixed his eyes on the body of the earth element, and used "Arcane Casting" to strengthen the spiritual energy he was about to release by consuming additional arcane energy.

He concentrated, and with a thought, the celestial energy seeped out from the void, mixed with the arcane energy that had just condensed from the air, and turned into a translucent energy ball that emitted an ear-piercing scream, hitting the large earth element's body on the chest.

There was a soft 'bang', as if the inconspicuous water polo burst, turning into a turbulent air wave and washing over the earth element's body.

Just as he was raising his arms to release the magic-like earth element, his burly body suddenly stopped, and the rough surface was suddenly shaken by the air waves, and dense cracks appeared, turning into a pile of fragments, and slowly sinking into the ground in the arms of.

"Target is dead!"

"Extracting soul energy..."

"Acquired experience points: 7200 points!"

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(End of this chapter)