"Wow~Wow~"
35 bi-winged aberrations were flying twenty or thirty meters above the ground.
They work in pairs, carrying 17 sturdy metal boxes and fly across the sand sea.
The leading double-winged aberration flew at the front of the team, turning its head and looking around.
As an aberration without facial features, it collects smell information and sound information at the same time through the small pores on its skin.
In underground spaces such as corridors, tunnels, caves, etc., aberrations have a very strong ability to distinguish between friend and foe. Even after a distance of hundreds of meters and several right-angled turns, they could still spot the humans hiding behind the corners of the corridor.
But in the dry rocky wasteland, there are seas of sand filled with "porous" structures everywhere. The sound cannot travel very far before it is completely absorbed by the sand.
As a result, the aberrations rely on sound and smell, greatly reducing their sensory ability to identify their enemies.
A sudden disaster struck.
"Bang bang bang bang..."
A series of explosions exploded in the sand sea.
A dozen black cannon barrels protruded from the bottom of the sand, firing cannonballs at the two-winged aberrations in the sky.
These alchemical cannon barrels with a caliber of 70 mm shoot out alchemical cannonballs at a rate of 3 rounds per second. In just one second, more than 50 alchemical cannonballs are sent to the double-winged aberration.
The alchemical cannonball exploded in the air, but instead of bursting out with bright firelight and scorching flames, it scattered a large area of shining white powder into the air.
A white smoke mass with a diameter of more than a hundred meters enveloped all the double-winged aberrations.
Before the two-winged aberration could do anything, a figure lifted up the alchemy cloak disguised as sand and fired a shot into the white smoke.
The alchemy bullet, entangled with lightning sparks, plunged into the white smoke with a whoosh, triggering a massive thunder and lightning!
"Crack! Crack! Crack!"
White smoke exploded collectively, electric snakes scurried around, lightning roared, and the dark sky was suddenly illuminated by dense thunder and lightning.
The metal box shattered by lightning exploded and turned into charred metal fragments.
The life potion in the box was also swept by lightning, and one glass tube after another exploded in the electric light, turning into glass shards and floating towards the sea of sand.
The two-winged aberration screamed repeatedly and was electrocuted into a charred black wreckage within three or two seconds, falling to the ground with a pungent burnt smell.
The lightning and thunder in the sky lasted for about five seconds.
The moment the electric light disappeared, there were already many charred remains on the sand directly below, as well as a large number of metal fragments and glass slag. A few metal boxes survived, barely leaving a "whole corpse" in the lightning bombardment. Several winged aberrations that were not completely dead fell to the ground and howled, their cries extremely miserable.
A giant gray bear rose from beneath the sand.
It wears metal plate leather armor. Helmets, breastplates, pauldrons, arm guards, and leg guards are all available.
On its back is an alchemical turret fixed with shoulder straps and leather buckles.
The alchemy turret has a boxy metal base. Connected to the base is a gun mount that can rotate 360 degrees and an alchemy gun barrel.
Following the movements of the giant gray bear, more than ten smaller grizzly bears stood up from under the sand.
The giant gray bear shook its body, scattered large amounts of yellow sand, uttered human words, and shouted to the other grizzly bears around it:
"Anjali led people to collect the life potion, and everyone else used plasma bullets to hit the aberrations that were not dead!"
This giant gray bear was transformed by Darik.
Compared with lower-level alchemists, he becomes larger after activating bear-like alchemical weapons.
His team members all used the same alchemy weapons, but they were only two-thirds of his length and could barely carry the alchemy turret on their backs.
Following Dalek's order, the grizzly bears wearing metal and leather armor took action.
They put the alchemy turret behind them into the alchemy stone.
Some rushed to the metal box.
Another group of people took out firearms from the alchemy stone, pulled the triggers at the wailing winged aberrations, and fired bullets emitting electric light into them. Even the aberrations that were burned to black charcoal could not escape the plasma bullets. They were all shot a few times by the Gold Merchant's Sword.
Li Nuo watched the two groups of team members clean up the situation in an orderly manner, and silently took back the wand in his hand.
It was really embarrassing... He never had a chance to take action from beginning to end and became an idle bystander.
Li Nuo shrugged slightly, thinking this was not bad.
There are soul fragments on the remains of the two-winged aberration at the scene.
Alchemists are aware of the existence of soul fragments, and the Gold Merchant's Sword is no exception.
Li Nuo and Darik discussed it and handed over all the soul fragments at the scene to the Gold Merchant Sword to collect.
The thing Darrick used to collect soul fragments was the soul-absorbing crystal that Li Nuo had seen in Betty's hand.
Three minutes later, Darrick and others tidied up the battlefield.
They pulled the motorcycle out from under the sand and drove away with Li Nuo, leaving the lightning-ravaged sand behind them.
From the time the two-winged aberration approached the preset ambush location to the time it finally drove away, in less than 5 minutes, the Gold Merchant's Sword completed a successful sneak attack.
All 35 double-winged aberrations were killed in battle. They were not even able to organize a decent counterattack, so they were turned into black charcoal and buried here forever.
Such an efficient battle fully reflects the alchemist's understanding of combat.
For them, efficiency always comes first.
Lightning is fatal to double-winged aberrations, so use lightning to ambush the enemy, regardless of the fact that lightning will damage the life potion.
Should we use a gentler method to sneak attack the enemy in order to obtain more life potions?
No no no!
Efficiency always comes first.
As for how many life potions you can get after the battle, it all depends on luck.
One box will make no loss, two boxes will make a small profit, and three boxes will make a profit.
Hence the scene of lightning and thunder just now.
The cannonballs that form large white powder are called "Thunderstorm Powder Cannonballs", a type of alchemy cannonball.
It itself has no lethality and can only form thunderstorm smoke that hovers in the air for about 10 seconds.
After being detonated with plasma bullets, the thunderstorm smoke will explode with its due power.
There are many such powerful and wide-ranging alchemical weapons in the hands of the Gold Merchant Sword.
During the preparation stage for the battle, Li Nuo was fortunate enough to see the inventory in the hands of Jin Shang Zhi Sword.
"Gravity bomb" that gathers all movable targets in a small area;
"Fire Carpet Bomb" that ignites a small area and keeps it burning for half an hour;
An "air-conditioning bomb" that blocks a small area with cold air currents at minus 50 degrees Celsius;
"Air-blocking bomb" that prevents flames from appearing in a large area and makes it impossible for all creatures in the area to breathe;
Several alchemical devices that can create poisonous mist, strong acid, and quagmire.
Not to mention alchemy props such as high-explosive mines and fixed fire-breathing devices.
According to Darik, during the Midas Dynasty, alchemists who specialized in fighting would rely on alchemy weapons to confront the enemy head-on at close range.
Now, times have changed.
Close combat is only a last resort.
More often than not, dedicated combat alchemists will use alchemy turrets, alchemy bombs, alchemy traps and other means to attack the enemy from a safe distance.
With the help of the Alchemy Stone, each Gold Merchant's Sword is a mobile alchemical arsenal, and it is also the kind that can transform into an armored grizzly bear to engage enemies at close range.
No matter what kind of enemy they are, they can take out alchemical weapons against such enemies from the alchemy stone.
There are many types of weapons, complete damage types, easy to carry weapons and ammunition, and strong combat adaptability. These are the advantages of the alchemist.
But correspondingly, the Alchemist's shortcomings are also obvious.
Each alchemical weapon corresponds to one or several operating manuals, and the learning cost is relatively high.
Secondly, each alchemical weapon and alchemical ammunition corresponds to an alchemical production line.
When a gold merchant's sword joins the battle, he must be followed by several alchemists who specialize in production work.
So when Li Nuo followed Daric and others to the temporary camp on the wild stone wasteland, he saw a large area of tents used to house the alchemy workshop.
Countless alchemical materials were brought here by first- and second-level alchemists using alchemy stones, and the alchemical props used in the gold merchant's sword were made in the workshop tent.
The entire temporary camp was in full swing, and only one-fifth of the people there were gold merchant swordsmen who specialized in combat. The rest were all non-combat alchemists serving logistics supplies.
Comparing this scene with that of a wizard who can cast a spell by raising his hand, it is not difficult to see where the wizard’s advantage lies:
A wizard, a single person, meditates alone and casts spells with the whole family.
Alchemists, in groups, one person shoots, and the whole group is busy.
It’s no wonder that upon hearing that Li Nuo planned to study alchemy in depth, Dinas had an expression on her face that said, “Don’t be fooled.”
Alchemy is indeed less convenient than magic.
Li Nuo sighed at the convenience of magic while following Darik into the tent.
According to the agreement before the war, he would take away 30% of the life potion and a reward.
In the spacious conference tent, Angeli directed her teammates to pile all the trophies from cleaning the battlefield onto the conference table.
In front of Li Nuo, the Swordsmen of the Gold Merchant counted the loot.
In the six metal boxes that survived the lightning storm, most of the life potions were intact, and there were a total of 300,000 life potions that could be used normally.
The life potions scattered on the sand were badly damaged. After careful inspection, there are less than 10,000 life potions that can be used normally.
These approximately 310,000 life potions were all the harvest from this ambush of the two-winged aberrant body.
Darik brought a separate suitcase with storage space, filled it with 100,000 life potions and handed it to Li Nuo, along with a coin card with a denomination of 2 million aggregate coins.
Darrick got the remaining 210,000 life potions and was so happy that he couldn't stop smiling from ear to ear:
"If you have such important information next time, please tell me, Li Lei."
"No problem, Darik. With this cooperation experience, we can be considered acquainted."
Li Nuo carried a suitcase full of life potions in his hand and walked outside the tent accompanied by Darik, and said at the same time:
"I'm going to transfer this batch of life potions to my intelligence source now. After that, I will return directly to Gathering City. Again, Darik, you must be more careful when exploring the rift."
"I understand, we will be more careful." Darrick nodded solemnly.
"Okay, just send it here. Don't mention me to Fars and Conte. This operation must be kept secret."
"Well, don't worry. We're keeping things tight-lipped."
Li Nuo opened the door curtain and left, walking out of the camp alone.
Before entering the camp, he covered his figure with a cloak and hood, in order to avoid bumping into Conte and others.
After he left the camp, he walked around two gentle slopes. In an area where no one noticed, he transformed into a skull and flew to the sky.
The temporary camp of Jin Shang Sword is located directly east of the rift, on a desert, about 10 kilometers away from the rift.
A distance of 10 kilometers may be safe enough for an unsuspecting alchemist to avoid the aberrations wandering around the rift.
But Li Nuo knew very well that as a seven-ring psychic wizard, Samuelson only needed to use the "Psychic Beacon" to use "Psychic Sight" to have an unobstructed view of the entire camp.
Reason according to the normal sequence of events:
The moment the two-winged aberration transporting the life potion fails to return to the rift on time, Samuelson will use psychic magic and magic servants to actively search for the missing two-winged aberration.
Find the battle location along the established transportation route, then find the temporary camp based on the battle traces and the tracks on the sand sea, and then carefully screen to find the people who attacked the transportation team.
Even Li Nuo, a half-hearted psychic wizard, could think of this operation, let alone Samuelson, a seven-ring psychic wizard.
If this happens, then everyone involved in this incident will be identified by Samuelson with the help of "mental vision".
But what if this doesn't happen?
For example, Samuelson did not use psychic magic to search for the missing life potion at all, nor did he use psychic magic to peek into the alchemist's camp, nor did he wait for an opportunity to attack the camp and regain the life potion.
If none of these things happen, what does it mean?
Yes, this shows that Samuelson cannot spare the time and energy to pay attention to what is happening on the ground.
After losing the life potion that spawned the aberrant body, it could only endure the loss silently, unable to respond in any way to the incident.
Because once it takes away its mind to plan the action of retrieving the life potion, it will cause serious mistakes in another more important matter, and in the end the gain will outweigh the loss.
And this important thing that makes Samuelson dare not be distracted at all is to help the aberrations complete their magical enlightenment.
In the process of helping the aberrations gain magical enlightenment, Samuelson will be in a state where he cannot fight back or scold him.
In the entire nest of mutants, there are and only those mutants who have not participated in magical enlightenment and possible black-bone hermits and MI5 sergeants who can respond to outsiders with malicious intentions.
If Li Nuo really wanted to make a fortune in soul scraps, he absolutely couldn't miss this opportunity.
There is basis for his speculation.
In fact, before stealing the life potion with Darrick and others, Li Nuo used the information provided by Dinas to create a complete set of action plans.
The links are tightly linked, confirmed front and back, and directly hit the enemy's vital points.
This plan includes the prediction, interpretation and response measures for all events in the next three months, which can be described as comprehensive and detailed.
When Li Nuo and Dinas talked about this plan, the other party's eyes were full of admiration.
In this plan, Li Nuo mentioned a point:
Within one to three hours after the life potion is delivered to the temporary camp, whether Samuelson's spiritual magic appears around the temporary camp is the key to confirm whether Samuelson is undergoing magical enlightenment.
This directly determines whether Li Nuo should go to the underground lair to clean up.
If it turns out that Samuelson is indeed at a critical stage where he cannot be distracted, hehe, then don’t blame him for Li Nuo taking advantage of the situation~
Li Nuo still has this ability to predict.
Updated in two chapters today! There is another chapter to come!
Some book friends responded in the group, hoping that the author's book could be divided into two chapters, so that they can be deducted with discount coupons.
The author decided to listen to the opinions of book friends and make the following changes:
Starting from today, the updated content "in the next 20 days" will be divided into two chapters.
Since the updated contents "in the next 20 days" are all written as one chapter of 10,000 words, it may not be divided into two chapters. If it can be split into two chapters, the author will try his best to split it into two chapters.
Thank you all for your understanding and support!
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