I Build a Floating City in the Apocalypse – Chapter 117

Chapter 117

“Boom!”

The sound of the fireball exploding in the air caused everyone to fall into a brief silence, and then Bai Qing’s voice rang out.

“What’s all the commotion? It’s the apocalypse, isn’t it normal that mobile phones and computers can’t be used? Anyone who makes any more noise, get out!

Patrol team, keep an eye out. Anyone who dares to disrupt the order, hit them with a Lightning Spell!”

After Bai Qing finished his angry scolding, his tone suddenly changed and he continued.

“And what’s the big deal? If it’s broken, can’t it be repaired? Even if it can’t be repaired, can’t it be rebuilt?

Disperse!”

Under Bai Qing’s words and the deterrence of the Lightning Spell scrolls, everyone returned to silence.

Seeing this, Bai Qing immediately erected watchtowers in the market area and arranged for Job Changers who were Archers or ordinary people with good eyesight to take turns on duty. Relying on the high density of watchtowers, the constant watch of sentries replaced the role of surveillance.

The market area was the foundation of Yi Hao Village, and order in the market area could not be disrupted. Originally, it relied on surveillance and patrols, but now that the surveillance had failed, Bai Qing could only bite the bullet and arrange for human eyes to take over!

However, the effect did not disappoint Bai Qing. The overlapping fields of vision ensured that there were no blind spots, and the rotation of the field of vision had no discernible pattern. In addition, they were real people, so the deterrent effect was even greater than that of the original video surveillance.

Fang Bai had already returned to his own area when the watchtowers began to be built and did not continue to watch.

Continuing his research, the hustle and bustle of the outside world did not disturb the tranquility here. Fang Bai continued as usual, as if nothing had happened.

No, that couldn’t be said either. The magic still happened, leaving a trace.

The corner of Fang Bai’s mouth curled up slightly, and a hint of joy appeared in his eyes. Just before the elemental tide arrived, he was researching the Elemental Magic Plant Willow tree, and his Mental Power happened to be covering the willow tree at that time.

When the elemental tide washed over the willow tree, there was clearly a slight, almost imperceptible elemental fluctuation around the willow tree, as if two elemental forces had collided and splashed.

At this moment, Fang Bai made a bold guess based on the nature of the willow tree.

There was no so-called spell structure or spell model inside the willow tree.

The entire willow tree itself was a huge spell node. The willow tree’s ability to attract, exchange, and constrain Fire Elemental Power within a certain distance was actually the range of its field!

“Even if there is a spell model in the willow tree, it is not inside, but outside. It is a spell model with the willow tree itself as the absolute core node.”

Fang Bai pondered.

However, although he said so, Fang Bai actually preferred another possibility.

The Elemental Magic Plant Willow tree was a natural spell node, a living, super-large spell node, with a “field” while its nature was very simple, without any special effects.

This could not help but make Fang Bai think,

“If a super-large version of the spell model could be constructed using the willow tree as the core, would the power be terrifying? Would the effect be powerful?”

But as soon as this thought came up, Fang Bai extinguished it.

Because Fang Bai found that although the “field” of the willow tree was simple, it was also very complex.

The irregular shapes of the trunk and branches caused its “field” to be oddly shaped as well. Compared to a simple spherical spell node, the changes that occurred when this irregularly shaped spell node collided with the fields of other spell nodes would be hundreds or thousands of times greater than normal. This was not something that a newbie like Fang Bai could grasp.

However, Fang Bai found this inspiration very interesting.

Increasing the volume of a normal spell node could also lead to a stronger field and an increase in the power contained within it.

If one could coordinate the collision and friction between fields and accurately find the correct answer among countless possibilities, then the power of this spell would definitely not be low.

It was still feasible for Fang Bai to adjust the size and volume of elemental nodes within a certain range, but once the range was too large and deviated from the original framework of the spell model, the difficulty would instantly explode, reaching the same level of difficulty as creating a spell out of thin air.

After thinking for a while, Fang Bai continued to use his Mental Power to probe the inside of the Elemental Magic Plant Willow tree. Not only the willow tree, but also another Fire attribute magic plant and the semi-magic plant weeds were completely scanned by Fang Bai. Unfortunately, there was no gain, so he could only put this matter aside for the time being.

At this point, Fang Bai had dealt with all the magical beasts and magic plants he had, and all the spell models had been sorted out. Even many common spell nodes had been clarified by Fang Bai in terms of their specific properties.

If you compare it to words, then at this moment, Fang Bai had already learned 117 common words.

The breakthrough from zero to one is often the most difficult, and with the initial accumulation complete, it becomes easier and easier as you go further.

After mastering 117 common spell nodes, Fang Bai changed his approach and directly substituted them into spell models to deduce them in reverse.

In this way, the number of spell nodes Fang Bai mastered rose rapidly.

120… 131… 156… 271!

When the number of spell nodes Fang Bai mastered reached 271, all the spell nodes of the Fireball spell model had been mastered.

And Fang Bai’s growth continued. The previous week’s research on spell models and magical beasts seemed to be a silent accumulation, and this accumulation finally erupted at this moment, rapidly improving Fang Bai’s abilities.

Finally, Fang Bai stopped when he mastered 345 spell nodes. During this process, he included Fireball and Lightning Spell.

There were still unknown spell nodes remaining. Fang Bai tried them out, but they were not something he could currently analyze.

It wasn’t that he lacked ability, but simply that he lacked accumulation.

The Mage profession was ultimately a knowledge-based profession, and research had to be built on abundant knowledge.

As he continued to accumulate spell models and accumulated a certain amount of comparative and reference objects, the interpretation of these currently unanalyzable spell models would naturally appear in his mind.

So Fang Bai was not in a hurry.

After completing the spell node research, Fang Bai immediately began to think.

Fang Bai was thinking about his combat system.

Although Mages were researchers and belonged to the civilian category, logically speaking, they did not need to go to the battlefield to fight.

But in the apocalypse, anything was possible. Besides, although he had many Job Changers under his command and had also trained a few Knights, Fang Bai was still the strongest in Yi Hao Village. If the combat personnel could not defeat the enemy, he would have to go.

Therefore, Fang Bai wanted to think carefully from the perspective of a Mage and from the perspective of combat.

“How should a Mage fight?”