Bizarre Realm-Chapter 191 - 22: Modern Warfare! Combat Test! (Part 2)
This time the main purpose was to test a few spells he recently mastered. After completely converting his Wizard Level to Arcanist Level the day before yesterday, Shawn learned quite a few new spells in one go.
In this regard, he had to thank ’Nature’s Gift’!
Because for several nights, monsters from the Spirit Realm brought him warmth. Shawn, intent on balancing monster fighting and cultivation, mastered a lot of new spells.
The resources for wild hunting in the Bizarre Realm are truly abundant!
——Shadow Black Tentacles (4th ring spell).
Shawn calculated the casting distance and hid behind a dense, bent oak tree. Accompanied by the spell’s spiritual light, a swath of strong black tentacles suddenly emerged from under the feet of the crowmen. This spell came from the multi-legged mutated beast of the Spirit Realm, and Shawn caught a big fish on his first night out.
A gunpowder barrel almost blew it to death.
A multitude of black tentacles emerged from the casting area, soil, puddles, bushes, and even the big pot where crowmen were boiling thick soup, all had strong black tentacles bursting out. They tightly wrapped around every creature in this region, restraining them with great force, simultaneously tightening to cause crushing damage.
The black tentacles summoned by Shawn could stack his casting level, possessing extraordinary power akin to the Warrior Path. Once the tentacles captured and entwined successfully, they wouldn’t let go.
These crowmen were completely caught off guard, not even knowing the location of the enemy!
——Fireball Technique (3rd ring spell).
With calm composure, Shawn conjured a huge fireball, accompanied by a loud explosion that blasted a small depression with a diameter of about three meters on the ground. The crowman in the casting path was instantly blasted into pieces, and the other crowmen mostly reached a critically injured and dying state.
"The Fireball Technique, indeed the Mage’s signature ability, is top-tier among low ring spells in terms of power."
The casting distance of the Fireball Technique is exceptionally far.
With Shawn’s current casting level, he could probably cast the Fireball Technique from over two hundred meters away. With each increase in Professional Level, the casting distance can be extended, and if coupled with Super Magical Power, the range could directly more than double.
Note that many modern firearms don’t even have such a long effective range.
The explosion diameter of the Fireball Technique is about fifteen meters, with power comparable to a grenade launcher from the past life, plus an additional layer of incendiary damage.
Overall, the Fireball Technique is quite handy, being the Mage’s signature move. When Shawn casts a Fireball Technique, the battlefield is left with four and a half roasted crows.
Feathers should be cooked on low heat, the ancients did not deceive me.
"Shadow Black Tentacles need to be replaced."
"In fact, without Shadow Black Tentacles, I could still blow up one or two. However, without the initial control of black tentacles, that Warlock Path caster would be hard to deal with."
While fighting, Shawn was summarizing the experience, directly pulling out a gun to mow down the remaining heads.
Today’s combat goal was for him to challenge the entire perimeter of the crowmen settlement solo.
The embrace and binding of black tentacles could interrupt casting. Casters inherently have low Power Attributes, and being squeezed into bundles by black tentacles means no spells could be cast. Furthermore, without the binding of black tentacles, the enemy might react, not being caught off guard, and when the Fireball Technique flies, they could reflexively evade beforehand. Even if they get hit, it would only deal half the damage, not necessarily allowing them all to be taken down.
Overall, the tactic was correct; it just needed further Magic Power conservation.
"Entanglement Technique could also achieve a similar effect, but the casting distance of that Curio is a bit short. After all, it is a Druid spell, not my primary spell."
Shawn instructed the Reconnaissance Demon Eye to guard the surroundings, while he quickly landed to collect the spoils.
He had learned quite a few new spells from the Extraordinary Relics of the Night Witches. Because of the 1st ring spell Magic Missile from the Force Field System, his reliance on firearms wasn’t as high as before.
Magic Missile can automatically track enemies, just not as fast as bullets in flight.
In terms of damage, ordinary firearms were about the same as Magic Missile. Using game terminology, it’s all single-digit damage; luckily, ordinary monsters don’t have much health either. The effect of Magic Missile hitting enemies is similar to bullets, both being kinetic damage from the Force Field System. The advantage is automatically tracking enemies, and the downside is lacking the thrill of a bullet storm.
Shawn had yet to master the super magical ability of ’Instant Spell’. Higher ring spells were also quite scarce. For now, a missile storm might need to wait a little longer.
"However, as someone from modern Earth, it’s quite reasonable for me to like using firearms, right?"
"I like both bullet storm and missile storm."
"That’s quite reasonable, isn’t it?"
Shawn found that he was indeed suited to being a caster because he had an innate ’fear of insufficient firepower,’ which was the incurable kind.
——Vigilance Mode.
Shawn wasn’t sure if others’ Reconnaissance Demon Eyes were as flexible and useful as his, but he had Spiritual Energy, so he could directly communicate with the Reconnaissance Demon Eye using Mind Communication to issue new immediate commands.
Thirteen Reconnaissance Demon Eyes dispersed automatically like miniature drones.
Swarm operation requires strong intention; Shawn currently couldn’t manage it.
Shawn was scavenging for spoils and found a Magic Staff left behind by the crowman warlock.
"Luckily I took him down instantly. This guy had quite a few Curios on him!"
In team battles, prioritize dealing with high burst casters.
It’s quite similar to playing games in the past life.
Alert!
Suddenly alert, Shawn got up and immediately recalled nearby Reconnaissance Demon Eyes, while himself retreating in the opposite direction.
A tough opponent has arrived!
He couldn’t beat it at the moment, nor was he aware of the enemy’s capabilities.
——Cabin in the Woods [Large Construct] [Cursed Creation] [Animated Building].
A sound of heavy footsteps unfolded.
In the vision beyond Shawn’s sight, within the view of the Reconnaissance Demon Eye, an unusual cabin in the woods came stumbling over. It found the corpses of these crowmen and then disguised itself as an ordinary wooden cabin on top of their bodies, extending thorny vines as supporting columns, directly rooting and piercing into the corpses’ flesh.
It was digesting the crowmen’s bodies, drawing nutrients from the flesh.
"Can I defeat this thing?"
From a position about three hundred meters away, three Reconnaissance Demon Eyes were simultaneously monitoring this enemy from land, sea, and air.
He thought for a moment and decided to leave it at that, mostly because he was not sure about the enemy’s true capabilities. 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦
Last time, he died without knowing why.
This thing might be even harder to deal with than the Lizardman leader because Shawn hadn’t encountered knowledge of cursed creations yet.
"Don’t fight battles without complete confidence!"
Shawn withdrew the surrounding Reconnaissance Demon Eyes, reordered them to fly around himself, and currently needed to fight outside the enemy’s sight, making operations rather difficult.
However, there was an upside, that is, when Shawn launched an offensive, the enemy was basically in a caught-off-guard state.
"Reconnaissance and strike integration, next comes small-scale tactical slicing."
"I haven’t acquired any gate-opening spell yet."
"Relying solely on Dimensional Jump, at most, allows short-range raids on the battlefield. To completely simulate surgical knife action in modern warfare, I must further enhance teleportation abilities."
With one person’s capabilities, executing tactical slicing against a group of enemies, implementing actions such as disruption (Illusion Technique), rear-guard, and decapitation in small-scale combat.
Shawn had an indispensable spell, that is, Teleportation Gate.
Relying solely on his current Flying Skill was becoming a struggle; fewer enemies were encountered at present, but facing more enemies would make the Flying Skill seem inadequate.
"Today is just a tactical test."
"Currently, skills of modern warfare can be completely applied to battles in the Bizarre Realm; they just require casters to realize them."
"I currently lack summoning capabilities in the Spellcasting Series."
"If I had Summoning Spell, I could even use the Thirty-Six Stratagems from the past life on Earth, and the one of deceiving the enemy would be perfectly apt for letting summoned creatures fill holes."
Shawn’s tactical concepts were not for these crowmen, entirely treating the Lizardman Tribe as the imaginary enemy.
"Also the golem army."
"This requires a huge sum of money, and currently my financial capacity could only create one or two clay golems."
The tactical test continued.
Shawn was preparing to test the feasibility of disruption and decapitation in practice next. He hadn’t mastered much of the Illusion Series, but it should be fine to confuse small enemy groups.
He currently intended to apply all of Earth’s knowledge to the Bizarre Realm.
Moreover, if practical tests were feasible, he could also apply things from those sci-fi movies watched in the past life on Earth to reality.
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