Chapter 3367: Returning to the Past

————Still rushing, it will take a while~~

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"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 that 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 further 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 further the distance and the higher the excitation energy level, the harder it is to control precisely.

This is because the Annihilation Light currently on Yongle City uses a dual-field interference design, forming multiple focal points through the interference of two fields to conduct 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—point, line, plane, or space; it strikes exactly where it is told to.

This is also the technical foundation that allows Kandela to summon Annihilation Light to clear a path. 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.

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

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

Therefore, in the usage design of War Spells, Xia Shao has added many manual control links from the beginning, and the design that has already been completed will not suddenly change because of current needs.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

As for now, Kandela requesting support from prohibition-type spells actually refers to remote support from the War Spell Wide-Area Detection. 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.

And Xia Shao is, of course, impossible to lend the Thought Robe that was given to Niya to others; even he himself has to borrow it from Niya when he wants to use it!

It is 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.

Precision strikes covering the entire Northland are not a difficult task; rather, there are various difficulties outside of the strikes. For example, why would people allow you to conduct strikes in areas covered by a Mythallar, and whether unauthorized strikes will be blocked or even countered.

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

It is nothing more than the Mythallar having higher power, conducting strikes non-stop, but the Elf World also has Magic Artifacts. In fact, these War Spells of Xia Shao's actually all come from the Elf World, having only been translated and improved.

The advantages are obvious, but the disadvantages are also numerous. The biggest disadvantage is the extremely high requirement for computing power. Usually, precision strikes have timeliness requirements; it is impossible to call for a strike today and have the strike arrive a month later.

And the spell Domain Protection was obtained by Xia Shao from the Darkness Society during the Meteier Incident, and that Darkness Society member's public identity was precisely the lord of Meteier City.

If it were someone else, there might be worries 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.

This is also the limitation of individual weapons.

If it is only used to burn glass, then it can indeed cover and strike all unrestricted areas in the Main Plane. Restricted areas refer to places like Mythallars and abnormal Magic Net areas; striking those unconventional areas requires additional support.

As for the present—

Its biggest advantage is merely its portability; used in single-person scenarios, it can be called invincible, and presumably only legendary Artifacts could resist it.

There is another purpose, which is to avoid the risks caused by an excessively high degree of automation being too concentrated. Once the enemy breaks through the system's defense line, the higher the degree of automation, the more convenient it is for the enemy to control.

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

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

Because it is dual-field interference, the more focal areas one wants to produce, the more complex the calculations required. In the future, one could use multi-field interference to simplify the focus calculation difficulty.

But when used in war scenarios, it may not necessarily be stronger than Yongle City.

This is also the greatest significance of War Spell carriers like Floating Cities.

Under such circumstances, Xia Shao does not believe that his Annihilation Light can solve everything. At the very least, the Yierlan side has a high probability of possessing Domain Protection spells capable of resisting Annihilation Light, or even other spells with even better effects.