"Master, what is a taklama fish beast?" Nailisi observed the carcass of the fish beast in her hands, but did not see any danger. The growth rate of this thing was quite frightening.
"It is a general term for a few types of fish. Lex, tell me, I do not know much about this."
"Give me one." Lex took the carcass of a taklama fish beast from Nailisi's hands and observed it closely. After a while, she said, "There are more than forty species of taklama fish beasts. Their life force is extremely strong. A normal fish will die in a short period of time after leaving the water, but taklama fish beasts can live for at least a few days and can fly …"
"This one is a cold-toothed fish beast. Its innate magic is chewing. Once bitten, even the magic armor would not be able to hold on for long. These things move in groups, they are much scarier than piranhas. "
Nailisi did not refute. Even though this cold-toothed fish beast could be killed by her and the demons, it had just hatched and already had the ability to fly. They had struggled out of the ice. If a low grade magic beast was frozen by Saleen and Lex's two spells, it would have died immediately.
"The key is the fish eggs. Every time a fish lays eggs, there are at least thousands of them, and there are even hundreds of thousands of them. The eggs of taklama fish beasts will be preserved on land and turn into dust. Once there is water, they will hatch immediately. This is a species unique to the desert. There are not many edible prey in the desert, so these things will rarely become large monsters. When their food is depleted and there is no water, an adult fish beast will choose to die immediately after laying its eggs. "
"If it rains …" Saleen did not finish his sentence, but the people and demons in the carriage felt a chill. Just by holding a handful of the black sand in the beaker, there were already dozens of fish beast eggs inside. If it rained, hundreds of millions of fish beasts would hatch.
"Whether they hatch or not depends on the amount of food. If there is no food, these fish eggs will continue to sleep. "
Lex's words did not make everyone feel more relaxed. To the fish beasts, they were food. If the people from the Holy See came in, there would be more food.
"Master, let's return to Metatrin City. This desert is too detestable." Nailisi threw away the taklama fish beasts in her hands and said in disgust. She was not afraid of such things, but to a Magician, the Taklama Fish Beast was too scary. Because there were so many of them, Mages had limited magic chords. Puppets might not be able to deal enough damage to this thing, but what about ordinary soldiers? It was a moving pile of food.
"What's the weakness of this thing?" Sika was the calmest one. The Caucasus people believed that all living things had weaknesses and could be tamed.
"Their weakness is that their spiritual power isn't strong enough, so they can be destroyed with the Spiritual Shock spell. However, only juveniles can do that, "Lex replied. Everyone was still unable to relax. The effect of a mage's mental attack was obvious when used directly, but the number of times it could be used was pathetic. After repeated use, the first to break down would be the mage himself.
"There are more than 40 species of Taklama Fish Beasts, and they all have different attributes. Apart from the fact that their mental strength is not strong enough, they also have a common weakness, which is that their flying speed is not very fast."
Lex's addition was equivalent to not saying anything. No matter how slow their flying speed was, they would still be faster than a human's legs. Of course, demons were an exception. However, when a mage flew in an environment like the Purgatory Desert, their speed would be greatly reduced, and they would need to expend a lot of magic chords to deal with this unstable elemental environment. Unlike creatures that relied on wings, when a mage's magic chords were depleted, their speed would be reduced to that of a normal warrior.
"We can only hope that it doesn't rain. We will try our best to avoid places that might become water sources." Once Lex said this, even she found it weird. In the desert, water was the most precious thing. If there was a rain, many lives would be saved. Now, she hoped that there would be no rain, and she did not even want to come into contact with water sources.
What worried Saleen the most was not the fish beasts. The Taklama Fish Beasts were not very strong creatures. Before they reached adulthood, they only had a high resistance to water magic. If fire magic was used to deal with them, a large area would be burned. The worst thing was that once these fish beasts hatched, there would be a huge number of them, enough to provide food for other magic beasts.
Before they reached adulthood, most of the Taklama Fish Beasts were the prey of other magic beasts. Many magic beasts had already evolved skills to deal with fish beasts. This was a cycle of nature. Before the strong fish beasts grew up, they would provide opportunities for other magic beasts to survive.
"Aye, let's deal with these fish beasts first. Saleen, let's rest for half a day and focus on creating the Fire Ring of Resistance scroll. "Lex called out to her mages helplessly, then she took out a pile of blank scrolls and passed them to them.
The Fire Ring of Resistance was a level-3 defensive spell, its attributes were able to restrain the Taklama Fish Beasts. Lex had no choice but to use the scrolls to create this because her swordmasters needed protection. If not, the Taklama Fish Beasts would swarm them. The two Black Metal Grand Swordmasters were still fine. After wearing the Spirit Snake Armor, they could use the Sword Aura as they wished. The high grade swordmasters, however, needed to be protected by magic. Just a few spells on the armor would not be able to defend against the bites of the cold-toothed fish.
The existence of magic armor was originally used by humans to deal with their own kind. To deal with magic beasts, a myriad of methods were needed.
Saleen searched through the scrolls stored in the demonic ring, then said to Lex, "I have two Mental Storm scrolls, both are level-6. What about you?"
"I have four," Lex replied. Lex replied. The Mental Storm had no problem dealing with the taklama fish beasts, but very few people created such scrolls. Saleen had hundreds of backup scrolls, but he only had two of them. Lex had more scrolls than Saleen, but she only had four.
Even though the Mental Storm was an area of effect attack, it was not an area of effect spell. The area of the attack was only a few hundred square meters. This was a spell that mages would use when they were surrounded by swordsmen. Swordsmen who did not have as much mental strength as mages would only need to release one Mental Storm for a mage to turn the situation around.
A few hundred square meters sounded huge, but in reality, the radius of the battle was only a dozen meters. This was the most suitable distance for a swordmaster to attack.
After Lex finished her answer, she did not bother with Saleen anymore. Instead, she began creating the Fire Ring of Resistance scroll.
Luckily, Lex had grand mages by her side this time, so the success rate of creating low grade scrolls would not be lower than eighty percent. Lex was most proficient in fire magic, so it was easy for her to deal with the young fish beasts. They were afraid that a heavy rain would cause an uncountable number of fish beasts to appear.
Saleen did not participate in the creation of the scrolls. He did not know how to resist the Fire Ring of Resistance spell, so there was no need for him to spend so much effort to deduce how to convert water elements into fire magic. He did not idle around either. Instead, he gathered some black sand and placed it into a crystal bottle. Then, he poured the restorative water in and sealed the bottle.
The power of the restorative water caused the fish eggs to hatch rapidly. Two fish beasts crawled out of the black sand and swam in the restorative water. This crystal bottle was a hundred times harder than a glass beaker, and it did not have any elemental attributes. It trapped the two young fish beasts inside.
Saleen took out a path of flames and added some magic powder. After mixing it, he placed the crystal bottle on top of it to heat it up. He was already very familiar with this when he was learning how to create magic medicine. He controlled the temperature of the flames very well. After a while, the temperature in the crystal bottle began to rise. The two fish beasts did not panic at all. As the temperature increased, Saleen measured at the side. The water in the crystal bottle was about to boil, but the fish beasts still did not feel anything.
In an enclosed space, the pressure of the water would increase after it was heated up. The temperature could also exceed the boiling point in a normal sense. Many magic medicines were created under high pressure. This time around, Saleen wanted to study the tolerance limits of the fish beasts.
The temperature slowly rose to two-hundred and twenty degrees. Only then did the two fish beasts start to hit the walls of the bottle. Saleen did not care about them. He only kept adding different types of burning medicine into the flame furnace to increase the temperature. Finally, the temperature in the crystal bottle reached a terrifying eight-hundred degrees. This was already the temperature of some of the lowest grade magic flames.
The two fish beasts flipped over and floated up.
Saleen kept all the records in his magic notes, then said to Lex, "Newborn fish beasts can be dealt with using the Fire Washing spell."
The four demons looked at Saleen enviously. The ability of a human to do research was something that demons did not have. More accurately, demons could not be bothered to do it. Saleen quickly found the tolerance limits of the fish beasts. This made it much easier for mages to deal with the fish beasts.
The Fire Washing spell was a level-0 spell. Its original purpose was to disperse toxins. At the same time, it had the functions of drying clothes and cleansing the body. This was an auxiliary spell for life. It was rarely used in battle because the temperature of the flames formed by the Fire Washing spell was not high and its effect time was short. For fish beasts that hated fire by nature, the Fire Washing spell was sufficient.
How many times could a grand mage cast the level-0 Fire Washing spell? Saleen had not calculated it himself. If he only used level-0 spells, he could fight for a long time like a grand swordmaster without worrying about the depletion of his magic chords.
Lex immediately let the mages under her experiment. Indeed, under the effect of the Fire Washing spell, the newly hatched fish beasts died one after another. The Fire Ring of Resistance killed the fish beasts in an instant. In comparison, the damage done to the fish beasts by water magic was pitiful. A spell of level-4 and above was required to kill the weak fish beasts.
Lex's swordmasters also joined in the experiment. In a sealed barrack, the fish beasts were hatched. The swordmasters used their various weapons and skills to attack them. Finally, they chose the Qin eight-sided sword as their weapon.
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