Vientiane Throne of Civilization

Chapter 1119 New Ideas
After understanding the actual effect of 'Drinking Blood', Zhou Xu's analysis has just begun.

During this process, the more he studied, the more he could feel the power of the designer of the mantra "Drinking Blood".

Indeed, judging from the effects alone, the Wood Elf Mages' 'Energy Drain' is more versatile and more effective. Compared with 'Blooddrinking' and 'Energy Drain', it is simply a super degraded version.

In fact, Zhou Xu did think so at the beginning.

But he soon found out he was wrong.

'Energy Absorption' is indeed more versatile and has a stronger effect, but 'Blood Drinking' also has its own advantages, and its advantage lies in its low consumption!
The designer reduced the consumption by adding restrictions to this mantra, so that the consumption of "Blood Drinking" is controlled to a level that is almost the same as the consumption of "Sharpness" and "Toughness".

This also makes the effect of 'Drinking Blood' passively triggered throughout the process!

In the process of continuous in-depth research, Zhou Xu's enthusiasm for this enchanting mantra grew stronger and stronger.

Ten days later, inside the bedroom, Zhou Xu smiled as he looked at the enchanted mantra that he had perfectly copied in his palm.

This can be regarded as the skill of sharpening the sword and chopping firewood.

If I had not digested the knowledge in the inherited wisdom and done enough homework in advance, this research would definitely not have achieved such efficiency.

[Can this be used to add my 'fire attack'? ]

Zhou Xu subconsciously wanted to add "fire attack" as well, so as to further enhance the strength of this enchantment effect.

But he soon realized that he had made a stupid mistake.

It is specifically mentioned in the relevant knowledge of inherited wisdom that for small enchantments like this, the more mantras you stack, the better. It requires a balance.

Take the Red Flame Saber that their Great Zhou has already developed at this stage.

Although the triggering problem of Fiery Slash has been solved now, it cannot change the reality that that Fiery Slash will directly drain all the energy of the Red Flame Saber.

Under this premise, if you do not directly cast Flame Slash in battle, but instead use normal attacks first, relying on the passive effects of other enchantments to fight, consuming energy, and then cast Flame Slash, the power of Flame Slash will decrease, or even if the consumption is severe, Flame Slash will not be released directly.

Clearly, this is a situation where the balance is a bit off, with multiple enchantment effects piled together and starting to get in each other's way.

This is also related to the fact that the forging material itself is not good enough. Using better materials, such as the mithril of the silver steel sword, may be able to solve this problem.

He couldn't solve the problem of materials in a short period of time, but he could handle the problem of enchantment!
After digesting the knowledge carefully and gaining a new understanding of enchantment, Zhou Xu had already made up his mind that he would adjust the enchantment of the Red Flame Sabre.

He wanted to directly discard the effects of 'toughness' and 'sharpness', leaving only the effects of 'fire attack' and 'slow recovery of natural energy'.

This will turn the Scarlet Flame Saber into a more pure "explosive" sword!

The fight is all about that flaming slash!

As for whether removing the "toughness" and "sharpness" would affect the performance of the Red Flame Saber...

The answer is yes!

Compared with the original Red Flame Saber, its toughness and sharpness will definitely be reduced, but compared with the Crystal Iron Saber, this difference will become negligible.

The key lies in the fire crystal.

Li Gan had said before that when adding fire crystal to the forging process, the fire crystal will absorb the energy of the flame and allow the alloy to be more fully tempered, making the forged weapons tougher and sharper than ordinary crystal iron weapons!
Zhou Xu's current idea is very simple. He plans to launch two weapons, one of which is to be equipped to elite and ace troops after improvement, to kill the enemy with a flaming sword, or to target the enemy's elite troops with a red flaming sword.

The other one still uses crystal iron as the main material, without adding fire crystal. It is blessed with the ready-made enchantment mantra of the blood-drinking sword, and focuses on a blood-drinking sword with continuous combat capability!

Compared to fire crystal stone, crystal iron material is more abundant. As long as there is enough time, their troops within the Great Zhou can basically complete full coverage at this stage.

Now the positioning is clear.

The Red Flame Sabre is a tactical weapon for special situations, while the Bloodthirsty Sabre is a conventional weapon.

After thinking about the matter again in his mind, Zhou Xu felt that there was nothing wrong with it, and quickly called Li Gan over to give him instructions.

The Scarlet Flame Sabre had just completed a new version not long ago, so Li Gan had no idea that His Majesty was going to make another adjustment and was quite calm.

Weapons are something that need to be constantly updated.

Although more than one hundred Red Flame Sabers have been produced, the total number is still not that large. At this stage, they are at most being tried out on a small scale. The loss will not be too great if they are being updated now.

On the contrary, crystal-iron weapons have been forged in the Great Zhou for many years. There are tens of thousands of crystal-iron swords and spears. If they want to completely update these crystal-iron weapons, it will probably take more than two or three years.

When he thought of this and considered the workload, Li Gan began to feel a sense of pressure.

"Please rest assured, Your Majesty, I will definitely complete the task!"

After that, time passed quietly, and with the gradual increase in temperature, the season soon entered summer.

On this day, under the scorching sun, Xuan Yu, who was still serving as a messenger at the northeastern border, flew back to the palace of Black Moon City with a letter.

After taking down the letter and reading the contents, Zhou Xu couldn't help but be lost in thought.

The content here is Li Ce's retelling.

Simply put, the envoys of the female warrior tribe came to their border and told them that Queen Yalvet was going to hold a birthday party for her newly born heir and specially invited him to attend.

In the Qinzheng Hall, Li Bowen, who also knew the situation, frowned.

"For something like this, we in the Great Zhou usually send an envoy with gifts to offer congratulations. How can we ask Your Majesty to make this trip in person?!"

Li Bowen looked displeased when he said this, and so did Huo Qubing on the other side.

Let the Emperor of the Great Zhou go to the other party’s capital in person to attend the birthday banquet?
In their view, the actions of the female warrior clan somewhat showed that they did not take their Great Zhou seriously.

In response to this, Zhou Xu, who was in the know, coughed twice in embarrassment.

"Well, Queen Yalvette shouldn't be that kind of person. And the construction of the fortress on the northeastern border just started recently. I'll go over there to inspect it and attend the celebration banquet at the same time."

[The construction team just arrived a while ago, what is there to inspect now? ]

A hint of doubt flashed across Li Bowen's face, even a little puzzled.

Huo Qubing, who was standing by, seemed to be thinking about something. He lowered his head and pondered for a while, then looked up at their Majesty. It was unknown what he was thinking about, which made Zhou Xu feel very uncomfortable, as if he had something on his back and something stuck in his throat...

(End of this chapter)