Chapter 43: 42. Temporary Energy Source

42. Temporary Energy Source

Zoe immediately pressed her hand on the sword hilt at her waist, but didn't draw it out decisively.

She gritted her teeth, and the surging blood gas flushed her face red. Even if the other party could be said to be pure villains, she hadn't made such psychological preparations for taking away other people's lives.

"I—"

"It's okay, don't have a burden for this."

Li Ang counted: "First, they violated guild laws. Taking action in this situation can get guild rewards."

"Secondly, adventuring between the clouds, what is pursued is a smooth mood and clear thoughts. Returning their behavior towards innocent people to them is a method recognized by the public."

"Finally, guild laws also stipulate that there is unlimited self-defense right when attacked. We are also villagers here, they pose a threat to us, and it is reasonable to kill them."

"Of course, if you can't take action for the time being, I will do it."

Zoe is Li Ang's first new partner. In the future, they may have to go through various decision-making moments together. From now on, he must take good care of her mentality transition, not let her be soft-hearted towards cruel enemies, but also not let her indulge in solving problems with killing.

"I, I think we can't let them go, but..."

Zoe looked at the warships around Satus Island: "Won't it affect our breakthrough because of me? I, I mean, fighting them because of my thoughts, don't you worry about exposing our tracks?"

"Considered comprehensively, very good."

Li Ang looked at Eden and said: "Since we are going to break through, there will always be a time of exposure. I think Ms. Eden originally intended to take action."

The woman nodded, and the furry beast ears on her head swayed along.

She turned her plump body, raised her hand forward, and generated ice mist at the same time as her wide sleeves fluttered.

The ice mist surged forward, immediately freezing the two soldiers who tried to draw their swords, freezing them into ice and immediately shattering them.

"Who is it!"

Attacked, the sergeant immediately scolded.

"Awoo—!"

Eden took a big step forward, leaned forward, and while her hands touched the ground, her body instantly grew larger in a piece of blue light. The thick dark blue fur fluttered like waves, rolling up ice mist, the temperature around dropped sharply, grass and trees frosted, and in the hazy, the Frost Sky Giant Wolf revealed its shape.

Its front paws swept horizontally, and the sergeant was immediately beaten into meat paste and pasted on the wall on the side. The giant wolf continued to move forward, like a chariot, and all the soldiers in front were either smashed to pieces or turned into ice dregs by the power of cold ice.

Eden didn't linger on attacking the soldiers, because it had discovered the warships in the distance beginning to change direction. It immediately summoned ice blade armor to wrap its body, turned into a death spiral, and hit a warship on the edge of the island.

Perhaps in the original plot, it was precisely because it defeated the soldiers who came to catch Zoe that it gained the girl's trust.

Li Ang withdrew his gaze from the giant wolf, pulled magic power, and condensed the ice frost left by Eden into a shaman's elemental arrow.

Beitang Hanbing is a special state of the water element. Casters can generally choose the form according to their needs. Li Ang chose to use sharp elemental ice blades to project towards the soldiers. Investing Rank 2 magic power, their armor could not block it, and they were harvested one after another by the ice blades.

In less than two minutes, the soldiers were killed by Li Ang, leaving only one person who looked like a sergeant.

Li Ang asked: "Who let you come here to catch children? Why?"

"For the Empire!" The sergeant only repeated this sentence.

Li Ang knows a little bit of interrogation methods.

Everything has spirituality, and the thinking and behavior of intelligent races are complex precisely because their spirituality is also extremely complex.

At this time, you can't operate directly like you do with spellcasting materials, you need fine control.

The strong's spirit is very powerful, Li Ang has to spend more effort, and for the ordinary soldiers in front of him, Li Ang didn't spend much time finding the spirituality related to will in his brain.

After eliminating this part of spirituality, the sergeant answered.

"It's the Emperor... the reason is unknown..."

After changing several ways of asking and knowing that this person was just executing orders and really didn't know the reason, Li Ang killed him and walked to the side to pick up that strange meter.

Its wriggling structure like a living thing, even through iron gloves, makes people feel a burst of nausea.

Wrapping it with cloth and putting it into his bag, Li Ang walked back to Zoe's side with his back to the reunited parents and children.

Seeing the girl a little stunned, he smiled and wiped the blood spots on his face: "Scared?"

"A little," Zoe seemed to be forcing herself to look at the blood of the dead: "But they are bad people, so I think it's no problem!"

"Let's go." Li Ang patted her on the shoulder.

In the air, after destroying a warship, Eden dashed and turned at high speed, skimming over the heads of the screaming villagers before flying back up into the high sky.

At the moment it flew by, Li Ang and Zoe jumped up together, grabbed its fur, and rose into the sky together.

When the two climbed onto the giant wolf's back, it had already left Satus Island in the blind spot of the remaining warships.

Zoe poked her head down and looked, her gaze passing through the faint clouds, reaching a piece of darkness and scarlet, which extended to the end of the arc in the distance. She looked up again, the horizon in front and the top of her head were endless starry sky.

"Just like this... left?"

"Haha." Li Ang touched her little head: "The first few times of setting sail will have a sense of melancholy. Remember this feeling, it is very precious, and you won't have this greenness in the future."

The girl smiled, reached out and held Li Ang's hand, took it to her lap, held it tightly, and leaned the back of her head against his chest.

"Two, the danger has not passed." Eden reminded with the giant wolf's low roar.

It accelerated, and the wind in front blew violently. The few strands of chestnut hair extended from the edge of Zoe's helmet danced wildly backward.

"Ah, I know."

Li Ang stood up on the wolf's back to find balance, turned to face the three ships that started the magic power furnace to chase,: "Just catching my breath."

"Li Ang, are you going to attack them?" Zoe asked.

"Yes, running away is not a solution. The opponent's speed is not low, we can't shake them off."

The three ships didn't fire at Eden, probably because they saw Zoe on its back, fearing to hurt her, just a simple pursuit.

"How do you fight such a big ship?"

Li Ang smiled at her: "Victory doesn't necessarily mean hard-hitting to destroy the opponent. We are flesh and blood, we have to use strategies."

At his feet, more than a dozen magic guns were stacked together, which were grabbed by spirituality traction and brought to the giant wolf's back together just now.

"What should we do now!" Zoe saw that he seemed to have plans.

"Like this." Li Ang grabbed a magic gun, skillfully dismantled the structure, and took out its spirit core.

The operating principle of magic technology is similar to an energy source.

The spirit core is sealed with strong spiritual mineral molten core stone collected from the special mines of Makaina Island. Its core will pull magic power to heat itself, and after reaching the critical value, it will explode.

And the shell of the molten core stone is a magic inert material, not easily affected by magic power.

Usually, the self-explosion of molten core stone might take several years. They continuously bring active geological activities to Makaina Island.

But when the shell is opened, its self-explosion speed will be greatly increased.

Magic devices open its shell when needed and convert the magic power brought in into the energy needed.

As a weapon, this magic power will be guided into the barrel and converted into energy bullets to be fired.

Zoe followed suit. She didn't dismantle it fast, and if she encountered something she didn't understand, she would directly knock it open with the hilt of the Wind Breath Sword.

Rank 2 magic gun spirit cores, a total of sixteen, Li Ang used spirituality traction to make them surround his palm.

In his adventure years, since he started using high-rank equipment, he hasn't done this for a long time, and now he has a sense of nostalgia.

Only a spirituality control master like Li Ang can make things with the same spirituality superimpose spirituality on each other, aggregate into a large spiritual whole, and form a temporary energy source.

【Multiple Magic Spirit Cores 【Temporary】】

【A temporary energy source formed by using spirituality manipulation to temporarily superimpose multiple low-rank spirit cores. Due to the large number, the magic power output is relatively considerable】

【Rank: 2】

【Category: Energy Source】

【Magic Power Reserve before Critical: 310%】

【Critical Time: 10 seconds】

【Cooling Time: 3 minutes】

【Magic Power Tendency: Generate Fire Element】

The disadvantage of magic devices is that every use still has a small amount of magic power heating the inside of the molten core stone, which will still gradually approach the critical point. If you don't stop using it and let the magic power be absorbed by the inert shell for cooling, it may cause overheating and explosion. This point is also reflected when used as an energy source.

And energy sources made with ancient magic need charging time.

Magic guns using these spirit cores can only fire continuously for 10 seconds, and then they have to spend 3 minutes cooling down. Otherwise, soldiers holding this type of weapon would directly become spell turrets, and using magic technology would have conquered the entire sky long ago.

The temporary energy source in hand can pull in as much magic power as 3 Rank 2 casters before the critical point.

Even if it is a low-rank energy source, the efficiency of pulling magic power is purer than the human body itself, surpassing humans. The complex spirituality of intelligent life is mainly reflected in transforming the world through thinking, while various substances in the natural world are purer in attracting magic power.

Human's own ability is professional skills. No matter how strong the magic power is, only in the hands of a professional with superb skills can it exert miraculous effects.

Li Ang let Zoe hold the gathered spirit cores, and then opened the switches one by one, revealing the molten core stone core inside.

After all, it's just a temporary makeshift, and it's very troublesome to use.

Manipulating the magic power of the energy source and adding a part of his own magic power, Li Ang directly performed two elemental summoning spells. Two Rank 4 fire elements appeared beside him, like two fire people composed of flame vortexes without legs.

Although his own magic power was added, the consumption was very small. This is the effect of the energy source. If there is a high-rank energy source, it will be a huge help.

But low-rank spirit cores are still not good. After releasing two Rank 4 spells, the remaining magic power directly caused more than a dozen spirit cores to enter the critical point, and they were about to explode.

Zoe felt the pressing heat, nervous, and hurriedly turned off those switches.

Two fire element creatures jumped directly from the wolf's back. Their bodies were full of flames, light as nothing, and the heat sprayed by the flame vortexes could control the flight direction, successfully flying to the deck of a ship chasing from behind along the wind. ===== CHAPTER 44 =====