The floating islands in the northwest of Ongji mostly relied on fishing for a living before the disaster. Due to the lack of clean fresh water to the north, there was a lack of settlements and the overall level of commerce and trade was not high.
After becoming a floating island, the area has been plagued by two major difficulties, and living standards have only barely returned to pre-disaster levels.
These two dilemmas are essentially one, fish and water.
In response to the crisis of floating islands that year, some floating islands concentrated their magical power to build embankments and intercepted some offshore resources. After becoming floating islands, they became equivalent to large saltwater lakes.
Saltwater lakes cannot directly solve the problem. Due to the small size of the water body, tidal phenomena are almost impossible to observe, a large number of coastal wetland and tidal flat resources have been depleted, and the scale of fisheries has also shrunk significantly. In the following years, through the development of artificial breeding in saltwater lakes, a group of people starved to death and gradually returned to a balance between supply and demand.
There is another problem that is difficult to solve, namely the desalination of sea water.
The main influencing factor in the early days of seawater desalination was the local salt industry. However, with the export of Phoenix Kingdom civil aircraft, the local people also knew that the salt industry was gradually transferred to the uninhabited ocean plate outside, doing business similar to the salt island.
However, the cessation of the salt industry has not completely solved the trend of seawater desalination. Affected by factors such as rainwater and mountain spring water, a certain amount of water overflows from the edge of the floating island every year. Although the overall desalination rate is not high, the trend has always existed.
In the past few years, the floating islands in this area have gradually given up on further building embankments to avoid dilution, because as the embankments increase, the risk of actual dam failure also accumulates little by little. The larger the embankments, the more mages are needed. They undergo regular maintenance.
The final solution is to introduce estuary fish species from the Luna River. These fish originally live in freshwater environments and have the ability to survive in pure freshwater.
The island's solution can only provide food for everyone, and the small balance can hardly provide development needs. It can barely purchase some external resources to withstand the little devils spreading through the grasslands and swamps.
Trade resources are mainly obtained through outer islands that are originally seabed.
The existence of a large number of outer islands provides local trade resources, but also makes local power relatively dispersed and the spread of news is not smooth enough.
When Phoenix Kingdom's anti-magic devices arrived in batches, most people didn't even know that something happened next to their homes.
Dragon-shaped creatures are not unique to the demon world. This area is not too far from the swamp to the north, and there are swamp flying dragons in the area, and they often fly to places where residents can see them.
Only this time, there were a lot of dragon-shaped creatures, and even the swamp flying dragon couldn't stand it.
The Swamp Wyvern has two legs and one pair of wings, mainly green and blue. The male has a red head and neck. It is of average size. The adult head and tail are about four meters long, with a wingspan of six to eight meters. Its total weight is less than 130 kilograms.
And this time, the ones outside Gate 4 that can fly over the floating island chasm are the Kusha Meilong and the Underworld Flying Dragon, which are also bigger than the Swamp Flying Dragon.
The total weight of the Huangquan Flying Dragon is around 200 kilograms. Its scales are grayish and yellowish. Its body shape is very similar to that of the Swamp Flying Dragon. It has two legs and one pair of wings. Both wings are hairless. With the chest as the center, the front-to-back ratio is 1:1.5. , and can completely fold its wings when moving on the ground, swimming like a wading bird.
The delivery personnel responsible for transporting the anti-magic device saw the corpses locally. Through on-site photo analysis, they believed that the ecological relationship between the two was relatively distant, and that they probably evolved from the convergence of the demon world and the exile.
The Underworld Flying Dragon itself is relatively weak. It is immune to poisons and most spells. It has no discharge-type lethality and relies entirely on its claws and teeth to fight. There is a weird ability that only takes effect after death, turning you into an undead species.
When it comes to undead species, we have to mention the specialties of the devil world.
The ghosts in the exile and the main world are not the same thing as the undead in the demon world. The former will gradually disappear over time when the concentration of magic power is insufficient and there is no relevant magic supply, and it is extremely lacking in physical interference capabilities; the latter can basically interfere with matter, and most will retain a part of the matter during life.
It's still the Underworld Flying Dragon. Tianshu Newspaper came to the local area to investigate and found that the Underworld Flying Dragon will turn into an undead in most cases of death. It can move around with its complete dead body, or only part of its bones are left.
The bones of the undead species are a general-purpose magic material in the demon world, and the non-wraith undead will be dead after losing all their bones.
The ability of the Underworld Flying Dragon after becoming undead will change according to the difference in the completeness of the dead body. In the complete form, it can release [Life Plunder]. By turning the target into undead, it can maintain its own activity for a longer period of time. It is a pity. This is an ability that requires continuous casting, and the release distance is relatively short, so it is not suitable for today's battlefields in the penal colony.
Judging from the comprehensive intelligence collected over a period of time after the anti-magic equipment was distributed through local businessmen, Kusha Meilong still poses a greater threat.
Although in theory, after using the magic-forbidden device to restrain Kushamelon's illusion, you can kill it with a few spears, but in actual combat, Kushamelon will not physically attack the creature directly facing it, but will only attack from the side or side. Sneak attacks from behind, and due to organizational problems in various places, the activation of the anti-magic device is often not so timely.
According to survivors who have encountered the incident, Kusha Meilong's illusion is relatively simple, and it only causes the scene to be dislocated, causing it to disappear into the illusion.
...Yes, it does not mean that the magic level is high, the effect must be complicated. It is not just illusion, including enchantment, spell, evocation and other factions. Their five-ring and six-ring effects are often very simple and direct. On the contrary, the fourth ring has many spells with complex effects, or it may be related to the fact that many mages are stuck in the fourth ring.
Kusha Meilong's illusion has a very wide range, and analysis suggests that any creature facing it within two hundred meters will be affected as long as there are no mental protection measures.
The 200-meter comparison firearm naturally has a short range, but in magic, this casting radius is really not small. A person two hundred meters away is smaller than a fingernail in human eyes. Kushamelon can accurately distinguish the concepts of facing and facing away from two hundred meters away, and cast spells on all facing creatures, which is enough to prove its excellent visual and picture processing capabilities.
Subsequently, the staff department supported the plan, and the reporter committed suicide on the spot and confirmed that if a symmetrical eye-shaped figure is painted on the back of the clothing, the target will still be affected. However, if Kusha Meilong is attacked in this way, if he goes around to the front, he will be able to see a blurry image. The movie, when the light is good, is a universal solution to crisis.
Taken together, it is very sensitive to the concept of "sight".
There has not yet been a swarm rampage at Gate 4. Kusha Meilong and Huangquan Feilong mostly travel alone, so the overall threat is relatively limited when prepared.
There is a situation that must be guarded against.
Lord Huangquan is on the chaotic side, and there is no concept of lord, which means that once there is a riot at Gate 4, Lord Huangquan can only drive the sheep himself, and the number will definitely be quite exaggerated.
Of course, thinking on the bright side, due to the lack of middle-level management, unless Lord Huangquan can visit the exile place in person, even if millions of various flying demons come here like sheep, they will be just a ragtag group of headless flies, and the overall threat will not be Much taller than the Imp Cluster.
After the investigation of the basic situation was completed, the Phoenix Kingdom made no further tactical moves. It only acted as a middleman to urge the surrounding areas to strengthen fortifications and transfer several early simple cement production technologies.
Without the cooperation of the magic array, fortifications are generally of little use. However, none of the flying species coming out of Gate 4 can use direct attack spells above the third level. In this case, ordinary fortifications can provide high security for personnel. It's worth it. If you can put up half a roof and ensure that someone is on duty at all times, it will be easy to control the damage.
(End of chapter)
