Chapter 3368: An Unbeatable Enemy

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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, which was installed not long ago and can withstand Annihilation Light strikes.

Among these four 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.

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, its 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; you can hit exactly where you want.

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.

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

The most ideal state is, of course, not to pair every strike target with dual fields, but that is clearly impossible unless Yongle City is packed with Annihilation Light.

Because it is dual-field interference, the fewer focal areas one wants to produce, the simpler the required calculations; in the future, one could use fewer-field interference to reduce the difficulty of focusing calculations.

As for the present—

It is nothing more than the Mythallar having higher power, allowing for continuous strikes, but the Elf World also has War Magic Artifacts; in fact, Xia Shao's War Spells all come from the Elf World, having only been translated and improved.

This is also the limitation of single-person weapons.

As for the control personnel, that is secondary; the main purpose of Xia Shao setting up so many control personnel is to arrange for the surplus of low-level Mages—even though there is no surplus yet, he needs to prepare for the future.

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

Under these circumstances, 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.

Perhaps single-person portable strategic weapons like the Thought Robe are the true epoch-making products, forming an absolute generational gap with other individual weapons of the same era.

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 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.

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

Precision strikes covering the entire Northland are not difficult; rather, there are various difficulties 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 blocked or even countered.

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.

There is also the purpose of avoiding risks being too concentrated due to an excessively high degree of automation; once an enemy overcomes the system's defenses, a higher degree of automation actually makes it more convenient for the enemy to take control.

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 sub-millimeter strikes.

The benefits are obvious, but the drawbacks are also numerous; the biggest drawback is the extremely high requirement for computing power. Generally, precision strikes have time-sensitivity requirements; it is impossible to call for a strike today and have the strike arrive a month later.

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

And the spell Domain Protection was obtained by Xia Shao from the Darkness Society during the Meteier Incident; the identity of that Darkness Society member on the surface was precisely the lord of Meteier City.

But if used in a wartime situation, it might not be much stronger than Yongle City.

If it were someone else, there might be worries about computing power, but Xia Shao absolutely does not; as long as he has a need, he can call upon the surplus computing power resources of the Computing Power Pool at any time.

It is just that its greatest advantage is merely portability; it is invincible in single-person scenarios and can likely only be resisted by legendary Artifacts.

And Xia Shao is, of course, impossible to lend the Thought Robe—which he gave to Niya—to anyone else; even he has to borrow it from Niya when he wants to use it!

Furthermore, the further 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 harder to achieve.

If it were only used to melt glass, it could indeed cover strikes to all unrestricted areas of the Main Plane; restricted areas refer to places like Mythallars and abnormal Magic Net areas, and striking those unconventional areas requires additional support.

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

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

But wanting to strike any range of 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 hit it.

The higher the time-sensitivity requirement for a strike, the higher the required computing power support.

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