Lightning elemental mages weren't common in the Aishi world, but they weren't rare either.
In the Aishi world's magic system, wind, fire, earth, and water were the four foundational elements. They were the origin of all magic, but they were also the most basic and original way to control the elements … Of course, mages of these four elements were the most common.
It was said that mages of the four elements took up 40% of all mages. Of all elemental mages, wind, fire, earth, and water mages took up more than 80% of all elemental mages.
Among the remaining 20%, the spellcasters of thunder, ice, and lava were called advanced/mutated elemental magic.
For example, ice mages were an advanced branch of water mages. Lightning mages were also an advanced branch of wind mages. Just as ice mages had far more attack power than water mages, thunder mages had far more attack power than wind mages.
Typically speaking, mages of advanced magic would wait until their elemental magic reached a certain level before starting to learn it. After all, the entire job class system was built up step by step like this.
It wasn't that nobody had skipped the beginning stages and directly learned advanced magic. However, there would always be something missing later on. It would be quite easy to reach a bottleneck or have a lack of knowledge. There would also be problems with one's elemental affinity. Usually, the gains wouldn't make up for the losses.
Of course, there would always be exceptions. It wasn't that there weren't any mages with unique talent who were able to learn advanced magic at a high level, but it was just that such mages were quite rare … These mages who were able to skip levels were either due to their unique bloodlines or because they weren't ordinary to begin with.
For ordinary human mages, the requirements for advanced magic were quite high. It was quite difficult to learn basic elemental magic, but they still had to start all over again. Their lifespans were too short, so the number of mages who practiced advanced magic would never increase. Only in special environments and regions would there be a large number of advanced elemental mages.
For example, there were many ice mages in the Northlands. It would be impossible for traditional water mages to find liquid water that they could control. In contrast, ice mages would be greatly buffed by the environment there. It would be an understatement to say that their combat strength would be doubled.
Similarly, it would be impossible to find ice mages in tropical regions. There were many fire mages, and there were also many fire elemental magic spells.
The wind element was everywhere in Aishi and Ansorenne. It was rarely affected by the environment, but it wasn't very popular. The main reason was that low-level and mid-level mages lacked destructive power. Wind blades, whirlwinds, and other similar spells had decent AOE, but low unit damage. By the time a mage could summon tornadoes or hurricanes to destroy the world … any mage at that level would be able to destroy the world.
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.. Wind mages were few in number, and it would be incredibly difficult for them to level up to lightning mages. Not only that, the lightning element was incredibly violent and difficult to tame. It would be far too easy for them to accidentally kill themselves.
Although humans did indeed have an advantage in attack, the number of lightning mages humans had never increased … Elves had far too long lifespans, and their magic systems were far more complete. It was much safer and faster for them to train in. There were far too many advanced mages and magic mages, so I won't talk about that for now.
The first batch of explorers would have to enter a wasteland filled with thunderstorms. They would have to work in an environment filled with lightning elemental energy for a long period of time. Although theoretically speaking, lightning magic armor would be able to resist lightning strikes, even the slightest bit of lightning elemental energy would be enough to kill any ordinary person who wasn't a lightning mage.
And on the other hand, the amount of lightning elemental energy in the wasteland was far too high. Flowing liquid lightning, ball lightning, and mysterious plasma lightning filled the wasteland. This would obviously be fatal. Not only would lightning mages have high resistance to lightning, they would also be able to use their elemental perception to avoid danger.
It wasn't difficult to find lightning mages in the Thunderstorm Wasteland. Finding lightning mages in such an extreme environment was already something that the explorers had learned from their own experiences.
"A3, how's the situation on your side? Have the Lightning Tigers left? "
Although the Black Diamond Armor was slightly larger than its counterparts, it was unusually agile. Lightning flashed across its surface from time to time. Although the lightning couldn't hurt it, the heat that came from nowhere was still unbearable even though it had a thermal insulation layer installed.
The magic armor was half-kneeling on the high ground overlooking the wasteland. His body was lying in the overly 'warm' cockpit. Rorschach was trying his best to focus on scanning the surroundings for enemies. He was drenched in sweat. What he missed the most was the cold shower in the dormitory.
"A3 replied that the Lightning Beasts couldn't find anything to eat. They have left for almost ten minutes. It seems like they won't be coming back today …"
"Alright, open up the protective layer. Let's get back to work. Good job, kid. I'll treat you to some cold beer when we get back. "
"Heh, I'm still underage …"
The disbelief and jeering from the communicator interrupted Rorschach's words. After all, this two-meter-tall figure and his performance in the past few days didn't look like an underage at all.
Then, with a loud bang, the ground cracked open. A huge black beast crawled out from it. It opened its mouth and black figures walked out from it.
They were the same type of Thunderbolt Magic Armor as Rorschach. However, they were smaller and unarmed. Most of the equipment they brought were shovels, shovels, chainsaws, and other construction tools.
As soon as they came out, they started to get busy in the area. Some started to cut and arrange the walls, some were adjusting various instruments, and some were using special alloy bricks to build houses like building blocks.
"Guys, let's do it. We are already behind schedule."
"Heh, it's only good news when we are not behind schedule."
According to the original plan, this was already the full-scale construction phase of Vila Nova Dônia.
Due to the dense lightning strikes on the surface, it caused a lot of trouble for the construction. The first part of the construction was the underground part of Vila Nova Dônia. The main body was completed a week ago. Now, they were starting to build the surface layout.
Some things seemed easy but were difficult to do. Some things seemed difficult but were even more difficult to do … yep, that was referring to building a city in the wastelands.
There were no less difficulties than expected. The working environment here was unbearable for the dwarf masters who were used to living in furnaces. No matter how careful they were, there were still some who were permanently removed from the job.
Obstacles that weren't expected also popped up one by one.
For example, half an hour ago, the camp was attacked by a group of thunder elemental creatures. These thunder elemental creatures were the product of the thunderstorm season. They attacked and robbed all non-elemental creatures as they pleased.
Generally speaking, thunder elemental creatures liked to imitate the forms of various animals. After all, these animals still existed when there was no lightning in the wastelands.
These thunder elemental creatures attacked the Aishi People for the living and the primitive thunder elemental creatures.
At first, the Aishi People suffered some losses. For a period of time, they even sent warriors to surround and kill the thunder elemental creatures. Later, they realized that this was basically meaningless.
In an environment with a high elemental density, the elemental creatures were almost indestructible. Even if they were killed, another group would quickly appear. It was already disgusting enough that the thunder elemental creatures were constantly healing themselves while fighting. Also, if the thunder elemental creatures also multiplied while fighting, what was the point of fighting?
Fortunately, due to the extreme environment here, the Aishi People didn't meet any enemies apart from the thunder elemental creatures. The unfortunate part was that these thunder elemental creatures were already annoying enough.
For example, if they fought against the water elemental creatures in the ocean … it would be impossible to achieve anything.
Fortunately, the thunder elemental creatures weren't very intelligent. Their attacking and hunting behaviors were almost instinctive. After expending a lot of energy for no apparent reason, the Aishi People wisely chose to avoid battle.
If they hid underground, the thunder elemental creatures wouldn't be able to obtain anything. If they created bait, they would be able to lure the thunder elemental creatures away early. All they would need to do was waste some time.
However, it would be impossible for everyone to hide underground. There were some important facilities on the surface that couldn't be destroyed by the thunder elemental creatures. If the thunder elemental creatures attacked a critical area, the Aishi People would have to actively attack and try to lure the thunder elemental creatures away.
Considering how dangerous the job would be, the combat elemental creatures would definitely be the bait and sentries. At the very least, judging from the current situation, Rorschach was doing a good job.
Not only that, Rorschach wasn't responsible for the most dangerous part of the job.
According to the classical elemental theories of the mages in the Cloud Tower, elemental creatures would only be born in special environments with abnormally strong elemental tides and high elemental density, such as the various Elemental Planes.
After they were born, they would absorb the elemental power in their surroundings and evolve. When they evolved to a certain degree, they would even devour each other, merge, and evolve. In the end, they would become elemental giants, elemental lords, and other high-level elemental creatures.
Low-level elemental creatures had low intelligence and were easy to deal with. However, if an elemental lord with intelligence and the ability to control elemental beasts appeared … that would be truly dangerous. After all, the Aishi People had basically invaded this "half elemental plane." The high-level elemental creatures would definitely take the initiative to eliminate these "foreign creatures."
Once the thunderstorm season ended, this half elemental plane would directly disappear … But judging from the fact that there were still many thunder elemental creatures living in this wasteland, many of these thunder elemental creatures would definitely survive until the next thunderstorm season.
The longer an elemental creature lived, the easier it would be for it to evolve. High-level elemental creatures had an advantage in terms of combat strength, but their most frightening aspect was their ability to control elemental armies in such an environment.
And so, in order to prevent high-level elemental creatures and elemental lords from appearing, or at least preventing them from appearing around Vila Nova Dônia, the two thunder elemental descenders "A1" and "A2" who were even stronger than Rorschach brought their combat elemental members to hunt down any large-scale elemental creatures that could possibly evolve.
"Judging from the current situation, the cleanup is going quite smoothly. At the very least, I haven't seen any high-level elemental creatures …"
[… Shut up! Jinx Rorschach!]
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