Chapter 3365: Daphne's Determination

"Do you think war spells are goods on a shop shelf that you can pick and choose at will?"

Currently, Yongle City is equipped with four major war spells: Wide-Area Detection, Wide-Area Prohibition, Annihilation Light, and the Domain Protection, which was deployed not long ago and is capable of resisting Annihilation Light strikes.

Among these four major war spells, only Wide-Area Detection can take effect regardless of distance, but it is a fact that the greater the distance, the more interference there is and the lower the accuracy.

Of course, covering the entire Northland is not difficult; the biggest problem is simply a shortage of manpower.

The effective range of Annihilation Light is second only to Wide-Area Detection; although theoretically it can strike any location within the Plane, in reality, the greater the distance and the higher the excitation energy level, the harder it is to control precisely.

Because the Annihilation Light currently on Yongle City uses a dual-field interference design, forming multiple focal points through the interference of two fields for precision strikes, the advantage is obvious: the effect is far more precise than a single field.

The precision here refers not only to striking the target accurately but also to the ability to control the area covered by the Annihilation Light—points, lines, planes, and spaces; you can strike exactly where you say you will.

This is also the technical foundation that allows Kandela to summon Annihilation Light to clear the way; the Annihilation Light strike system can be understood as a set of high-precision CNC machine tools, and the Annihilation Light is equivalent to an indestructible cutting head.

As long as an accurate strike range can be provided, this Annihilation Light strike system of Yongle City is sufficient to support such strikes; the current precision is enough to support strikes of millimeter scale or higher.

The drawbacks are as obvious as the advantages, and the biggest drawback is the exceptionally high demand for computing power; if a precision strike has time-sensitive requirements, it is impossible to call for a strike today and have it arrive a month later.

But wanting to strike any range in the Main Plane precisely is very difficult; rather than obsessing over the precision strike range, it is better to strengthen the mobility of Yongle City—if you can't hit it, get closer and strike.

Precision strikes covering the entire Northland are not a difficult matter; rather, there are various problems existing outside of the strikes, such as why people would allow you to conduct strikes in areas covered by a Mythallar, and whether unauthorized strikes would be intercepted or even countered.

And Xia Shao, of course, could not possibly lend the Thought Robe he had already given to Niya to others; even he himself has to borrow it from Niya when he needs to use it!

But when used in a war context, it might not be much stronger than Yongle City.

This is also the limitation of a single-person weapon.

The ideal state would, of course, be to equip every strike target with a dual-field setup, but that is obviously impossible unless Yongle City is filled with Annihilation Light.

Therefore, in the usage design of war spells, Xia Shao added many manual control links early on, and the design that has already been completed will not suddenly change just because of current needs.

Furthermore, the greater the distance, the higher the energy level, and the higher the frequency, the greater the pressure on the Annihilation Light itself; in reality, it is just harder to achieve.

If it were someone else, there might be concerns about computing power, but Xia Shao absolutely has none; as long as he has a need, he can call upon the surplus computing power resources of the Computing Power Pool at any time.

Because it is dual-field interference, the more focal areas one wants to produce, the more complex the required calculations; in the future, multi-field interference could be used to reduce the difficulty of focusing calculations.

As for the control personnel, that is secondary; Xia Shao set up so many control personnel mainly to arrange for the surplus of high-level Mages—although there is no surplus at the moment, it is necessary to prepare for the future.

And producing a focal area (the actual strike area) through field interference is by no means just a matter of inputting coordinates; one must precisely calculate the process of field interference to concentrate the focal range onto the strike area.

It is just a pity that although the effective range of Wide-Area Detection is much larger than Domain Protection, the gap compared to the effective range of Annihilation Light is still very obvious, not to mention Wide-Area Prohibition.

Just like now, unless Xia Shao lends the Thought Robe to Kandela, the other party can only borrow the power of Yongle City and cannot borrow the power of the Thought Robe.

And the spell Domain Protection was seized by Xia Shao from the Darkness Society during the Meteier Incident; that Darkness Society member's public identity was precisely the City Lord of Meteier City.

Perhaps a single-person portable strategic weapon like the Thought Robe can be considered a truly epoch-making product, forming an absolute generational gap with other individual weapons of the same era.

As for now, Kandela requesting support for prohibition-type spells actually refers to remote support from the war spell Wide-Area Prohibition; after all, war spells often appear in sets—if there are detection-type and strike-type spells, there are naturally prohibition-type spells as well.

As for the present—

It is nothing more than the Mythallar having higher power and being able to conduct strikes without interruption, but the Elf World also has War Magic Artifacts; in fact, these war spells of Xia Shao all come from the Elf World, having only been translated and improved.

A Mythallar paired with war spells is undoubtedly more advantageous than a Spellcaster operating a War Magic Artifact, but to say that an absolute generational gap has been formed is still a bit too optimistic.

This is also the greatest significance of war spell carriers like Floating Cities.

Another purpose is to avoid risks caused by an excessively high degree of automation being too concentrated; once an enemy breaches the system's defenses, a higher degree of automation actually makes it more convenient for the enemy to take control.

In such a situation, Xia Shao does not believe his Annihilation Light can solve everything; at the very least, Yierlan has a high probability of possessing Domain Protection spells capable of resisting Annihilation Light, or even other spells with better effects.

Therefore, for him at present, the biggest problem is actually a lack of people; as for computing power, although pairing it with a Magic Computer is the right path, the Computing Power Pool can also serve as a substitute.

It is just that its greatest advantage is merely portability; it is invincible in single-person scenarios, and likely only legendary Artifacts could resist it.

If it were only used for burning glass, it could indeed cover and strike all unrestricted areas of the Main Plane; restricted areas refer to places like Mythallars and Magic Net-dead zones—striking those unconventional areas requires additional support.

The higher the requirement for the timeliness of a strike, the higher the required computing power support.

It is nothing more than some coming from the Projection Plane, and some operating directly from the real Main Plane.

Annihilation Light is indeed very powerful, so powerful that Xia Shao has only discovered one type of spell, Domain Protection, that can resist it so far; of course, theoretically, there is certainly more than this one—there are at least two others he knows of himself, but it is a pity that they cannot be realized for the time being and only exist in theory.