"What method did those structures use to prevent me from teleporting out or using magic to contact the Chaos Demon Realm?"
Just as Esky was thinking, he heard Akins' call.
"Spider, coming from the top of the cave!"
Looking back, sure enough, the thing with eight sharp appendages hanging upside down from the top, fixing its body by inserting the appendages into the rocks, slowly moved towards the rats.
Esky subconsciously raised his paw, but then put it down.
Since the Horned Rat could not be contacted, even the Dimensional Wind Roar could not be released.
"Is there about 3500CN left?"
Eski felt the relatively abundant magical energy in his body and muttered to himself.
The dimensional energy in the mana pool is still enough, but it is not enough when facing more than forty structures. Other methods must be used to dismantle this thing.
Thinking of this, Esky did not look back and focused his gaze on the structure hanging upside down and crawling on the roof of the cave.
"Apprentice, the best way to learn magic is through on-site teaching."
"The so-called magic is a technology that uses spells to mobilize the relevant energy around us to create the reality we want.",
"To use magic other than the magic gifted by the Horned Rat, you must first learn the language of the spell."
Anoquayan recited it from Eski's mouth.
"This incantation is used to make the seeds of plants germinate quickly and make the plants useful for you. If you further modify it, for example, you will omit the link that requires seeds and replace it with the wind of magic."
"It works."
With another slightly modified spell, countless vines sprouted out of thin air on the top of the cave and continued to rush towards the spider.
It needs to prevent itself from falling to the ground and being damaged by magical fire, and it has far fewer appendages to use.
The appendages used for fixation were entangled in the fish that slipped through the net. Under the continuous will of the engineering warlock, the appendages of the spider structure fixed inside the rock wall were violently pulled out.
The metal threads hung the structure on the top of the rock wall like a spider web.
But this was the moment the engineering warlock was waiting for. He chanted filthy incantations, green lightning clouds gathered at Esky's fingertips, and then a thick dimensional lightning roared and hit the structure.
The structure immediately fell to the ground, and was wrapped in green and yellow magic flames all over the body. There were a lot of damage all over the body.
But it didn't stop and rushed forward as fast as its existing limbs could.
"There are 3400CN left."
Looking at the damaged structure in front of him, Esquimo calculated his mana pool and then spoke.
"In addition, if magic energy is mobilized and stored as a temporary mana pool, like just now, the power of the spell will increase, which will also increase the difficulty of releasing the spell. If the spell fails, all the mana you mobilized will be lost."
"The magical wind here is too precious, so I won't demonstrate the result of failure."
With that said, Eski turned and looked at the other rats.
"First of all, it is used to mobilize the wind of metal. I have notated the incantation in rat language. As long as you pronounce the first three sounds, the wind of magic and your magic talent will guide you to pronounce the rest."
Eski carved green words with his claws on the rock wall nearby.
Not only Aikins, but also all the other rats looked at the shimmering text.
The slave rats among them recited the string of magic words even faster than Aikins.
"Don't waste any effort. How can a mortal without magic vision cast a spell? Your will cannot be linked to mana."
Aikins laughed mercilessly, but was silenced by the engineer warlock's order.
"Turn its bones into lead, or something else to interfere with the structure of the construct."
"yes!"
Under the cold blue-purple scarlet gaze of the engineering warlock, Aikins responded immediately.
The red-haired rat focused all his attention on the wind of yellow metal around him and the moving target in front of him. He chanted with difficulty the word "Anoqui" written in rat language, but he didn't even know what it meant. Yan mantra.
Esky could see clearly that Metal Wind's response was very slow, and his efficiency was more than a hundred times higher than that of an ordinary apprentice.
However, it was okay to use the vines generated by the wind of life to fight against the structures. The metal wind directly affects these structures controlled by Nagash, which means that Eski's will will confront Nagash head-on.
And this confrontation...
"Mistake! Apprentice!"
Esky slapped Aikins with a paw, causing him to move from his original position.
The incantation that Aikins had repeated countless times and gradually became more proficient at, therefore stopped.
"But I don't feel anything."
Akins said doubtfully.
If it was a spell error, his hearing, vision, or something else would have to be damaged.
Even if there is no nosebleed, is it considered a spell error? What's more, he had already seen that the spider monster's body had become heavy.
Eski unfolded his second vision and saw the subtle changes in the surrounding magical wind before he spoke.
"It's very slight. The consequence is probably the mutation of the next creature born within one kilometer. It has no effect on the caster."
As he spoke, he dragged Akins backwards while continuing.
"Forget it, stop casting spells."
The engineer's attention turned to the corpses on the ground - the corpses of the remaining rats that resisted were still left in place.
The retreating rats did not have the energy to take away their equipment, shields, weapons, and even armor.
Immediately, Eski exerted his will on the remaining weapons.
It is not easy to focus on hundreds of targets at the same time, but the blue-purple light in the eyes of the white-haired rat is even worse, and everything in front of Eski's eyes is covered by this blue-purple light.
The pain of having his will split gradually turned into a kind of enjoyment, and Esky's will smoothly covered all the knives, swords, and spears.
"Sharpening Weapons"
"Weapon enchantment."
"Spiritual Weapon"
After three sentences of Ano Kuyan's words, the superposition of the three most basic spells a hundred times quickly consumed approximately 1,700CN of energy in the mana pool.
The weapons belonging to the war dead floated up faintly, assuming a fighting posture in the air - they were given temporary life by the spell of spiritualized weapons, allowing them to fight according to the will of the caster.
However, Eski is reluctant to let these precious temporary magic beings go to the magic flame now.
He then continued to give orders to the other rats.
"Don't be idle and throw stones at me."
"But the place is too narrow, and the sling cannot be thrown away."
A slave rat with sharp eyes, red eyes with a hint of yellow, and a wet nose with nosebleeds tried to explain, but was suppressed by the high-octave voice of the engineering warlock.
"Don't you have claws?! Just throw it away."
The slaves then picked up the broken stones everywhere on the ground and threw them forward.
While the stone was flying in the air, another sentence of Anoquayan was spoken from Eski's mouth.
"The bomb curse."
Suddenly, the flight trajectory in the air was messy, and the rocks that had no chance of hitting the target all flew towards the structure as if they had eyes.
This is exactly the effect of the missile curse. All non-magical missiles flying in the air, including bullets and cannonballs, will automatically fly to the cursed person. Even if the slave rat throws it incorrectly, the power of the spell will make it accurate.
The stone bullet, which had been inexplicably accelerated, luckily hit the shell on the spider's head, breaking open a large bone, revealing the dimensional stone core inside.
"Damn, so much energy!"
The exposed dimensional stone and the nearby rune structure made Eski understand something.
The flames caused by the Scorch Flame Technique, filled with the energy of the dimension stone, not only caused damage to the structure, but also replenished the structure with energy.
No wonder the opponent's magical energy didn't drop much after he watched it for so long.
The energy of the construct...
Yes, the engineering warlock suddenly thought of it.
Since the structure consumes so much energy to dig out the mountain wall, there is no reason to say that sealing off the space consumes almost nothing.
"Not just space, but also gods. It's impossible for a mere structure to have that much energy... Maybe what they interfere with is perception."
Magic sight, strengthened.
With Anoquayan's brief chant, the blue-purple color in Eski's eyes temporarily faded away, and the world in front of him also turned into a world of magical winds.
As he looked further than the structure surrounding him, sure enough, the wind of magic appeared strangely distorted.
"This is...I understand."
Esky grinned.
Focusing his willpower on all the people and objects around him that needed to be taken away, he poured the dimensional stone powder in his breast pocket into his mouth, and his eyes dyed blue by magic burst into bright green.
"The world-dividing curse."
This time, the object of the curse was himself.
The five senses and the magical field of vision were completely blocked. If it were not for the marking points marked in advance, Esky would feel as if he did not exist in the world at all.
Under such circumstances, the engineering warlock followed his instinct and recited the teleportation spell.
"Curse lifted."
The next moment, the rats, who had recovered all their senses, discovered that most of the rats had arrived at a new passage.
Although part of it was obviously embedded in the wall and the flamethrower was completely fixed, that didn't matter.
Eski reopened the magic vision, and there were no longer those structures around him.
The engineering warlock smiled, ignoring the rats that were still wailing and melting into the wall, and led his apprentice and a few slave rats in the direction they came from.
He waited until the wailing could no longer be heard before he spoke.
"Okay, the crisis has been relieved for the time being. I will talk about the next magic knowledge while walking back."
The slave rats all pricked up their ears and glanced this way seriously.
But the engineer warlock didn't lower the volume.
"Wittrick asked you to use the warpstone?"
Eski asked.
"Those are the property of the engineering warlocks."
"Then it's been used."
The engineering warlock's words left Aikins unable to refute, and he just lowered his head.
Eski ignored his submission and just continued.
"Most of you are using it in a wasteful way."
"I subdivide the energy required to cast a spell into a minimum casting unit, Casting Number. The energy required to cast the simplest spell is 1CN, for example, ghost flame."
With that said, Eski released the lighting spell that every Skaven mage would use, and a bright green flame dripping with viscous liquid appeared in front of the engineering warlock's right paw.
"This is the energy of 1CN unit. It can support this flame to continue burning for 30 minutes. If it needs to last longer, 1CN of energy must be added."
"I can use this spell."
"You should first learn not to talk back, apprentice."
“This is so you can understand the concept of what I mean by CN.”
The Casting Number on the table is the difficulty of casting whether a spell can successfully supply spell energy. Esky appropriated its name into his own spell theory and used it as an energy unit.
But it was impossible for him to tell these rats the origin of the name CN, so he continued.
"In short, CN is the smallest unit for casting spells."
"Previously, in order to resist the spell of the necromancer Nagash, I released nearly 7000CN of mana at one time."
"The upper limit of my body's current mana pool is about 4000CN."
"In addition, I have already consumed more than 2,000 CN of mana by releasing counterattack spells, so the remaining energy needs to be replenished with dimensional stones."
"In this way, I need to make up 5000CN at once to ensure that after releasing the mana, I still have remaining mana pool."
"The energy contained in one gram of dimension stone is usually 20CN, so I swallowed about 250 grams of dimension stone into my stomach. This can minimize the energy escape compared to using it outside the body. Of course, it will also cause the dimension stone to The impact on the body is too strong, and even Skaven’s resistance to warpstone may not be able to withstand it.”
"Here we have to pay attention to the fact that the resonance between the dimension stones as a whole will be stronger, and the energy of the dimension stones is constantly changing. 20CN is just an approximate value. It will not even suddenly soar to 1000CN, or suddenly drop to 1CN. , is also possible.”
"Therefore, grinding the warpstone into powder can ensure that most of the warpstone energy is relatively stable at 20CN."
"Although grinding will consume part of the dimension stone, it is much better than being unable to successfully release the spell on the battlefield."
"For us engineering warlocks, it is relatively convenient. After all, the dimensional stone is originally ground into powder and mixed into fuel, medicine, explosives, or other similar things."
"I would like to remind you again that using newly mined warpstone or directly using warpstone coins is a very stupid behavior. Do not use it until there is a critical moment."
"The Dimension Stone is a very useful magic prop. It can supplement the energy required for any kind of spell. Because the Dimension Stone is an unfiltered mixture of eight magical winds, and it is the source of magic power directly from the Chaos Demon Realm."
"Thanks to the Great Horned Rat, we may be the only race in this world that can use warpstone relatively safely, with most risks borne only by slave rats."
"If a hairless monster uses this thing, they may immediately turn into a hissing horned beast. Even the most cautious mage among them will have a high probability of being ruined."
"Wait, hairless monsters? They don't have pointy ears."
"Apprentice, don't talk back."
Eski stopped the apprentice's voice again and continued to explain.
"Pointy-eared things can also mutate, so they are actually very cautious. They would rather dismantle the Eight Winds of Magic, causing instability in the material world and expansion of the Chaos Demon Realm, than use the Divine Stone."
