Alice in the Land of Steam

Chapter 168 Will it become a new magic after the combination?

"Let me briefly explain to you the mechanism of element combination."

Behind the corner of the fork in the road, Ovella held the holy sword and sat against the wall, discussing the next battle strategy with the two companions in her mind. Of course, to be more precise, she was listening to Lingge's story unilaterally.

"I believe you have noticed in the previous battles that the timing and target of releasing elemental magic are determined by yourself. In other words, you can choose not to release a magic after chanting it, but to temporarily keep it. If you do this, then after you chant the next magic, the reserved magic will be combined with the new magic to form a more powerful and more unique combination magic. This is the so-called element combination mechanism."

Linger paused, and seeing that Aoweila still didn't quite understand, he simplified the description: "It can also be simply understood as combining two magics to create a new magic."

"Oh!" Ovella understood immediately.

Linger continued, "Except for special circumstances, elemental combination magic can only be formed by combining two magics with different attributes. After it hits the enemy, it will add a corrosion mark to it, causing it to fall into an elemental corrosion state. The attribute of the corrosion mark is determined by the first magic in the combination magic. For example, if you release a combination magic of water and fire attributes on the enemy, then the attribute of the corrosion mark is water, and vice versa. Corrosion marks of the same attribute will be covered, and corrosion marks of different attributes can coexist."

"In other words," Alice finally waited for an opportunity to interrupt and show off her rich game knowledge as a developer: "There are a maximum of five corrosion marks on the same enemy."

"No." Ling Ge said calmly: "It's four."

"Bullshit!"

Before Lingge finished speaking, Ovilla's eyes had completely lit up. The nebula was spinning like a vortex, sparkling. "It will cause four types of erosion explosions? In other words, you only need to use [Heavenly Divine] once to cause four types of magic damage at the same time!?"

Olvera blinked and felt the same way.

Alice subconsciously retorted: "Water, fire, light, wind, and thunder, the five elemental magics, aren't they the five marks?"

The elite monster in front of him, Shadow of Cruelty, has weaknesses to all attributes except light.

"This is the special case I mentioned." Ling Ge said: "Light attribute magic is the only magic that cannot be combined with other elemental magic, but it is also the only magic that can be combined with itself. The magic after the double light element combination is called [Heavenly Sacred]. It has no damage and no special effects. Its only function is to detonate the mark."

Olvera's eyes flickered in the light of the lantern.

Olvera immediately switched the holy sword in her hand into the holy book. When Alice in her mind saw this scene, she could only use "a little bit" to describe her current mood.

"Detonate... the mark?"

"That's right. While the Corrosion Mark is in effect, you can use [Heavenly Sacredness] to detonate all the marks on the target, causing heavy damage. The more types of marks on the target, the higher the damage when detonated. At the same time, detonating the mark will also create a corresponding attribute explosion, or corrosive explosion. If the target has a water attribute mark, it will create a water attribute corrosive explosion; and if there are marks of four attributes..."

"Give it a try, Miss Olvera." Linger said, "Use elemental magic to defeat the enemy in front of you. I will also provide some help within my ability. So please don't worry too much."

"I see!"

The princess nodded in agreement, then took a deep breath, stepped out from behind the corner, looked at the huge armor patrolling back and forth at the fork in the road, and began to chant the fireball magic. The gradually condensed orange-red fireball released astonishing heat, and the scorching heat distorted the surrounding void, which soon attracted the attention of the Cruel Shadow. It stopped and looked back. After the scarlet will-o'-the-wisp caught the enemy's figure, it jumped suddenly, and the cold evil and brutal killing intent flashed in its eyes, and finally even overflowed from the cold metal visor, which looked extremely terrifying.

It strode towards Olvera without hesitation, its footsteps on the hard stone floor, like a chariot rolling over, making a loud rumbling sound. The blades of the armor collided with each other, and the sound of metal rubbing against metal echoed hollowly in the corridor.

This ancient and dusty armor looked heavy, but its speed was not slow. It stopped at the fork in the road one moment, and was in front of Ovilla the next. It swung the ferocious giant sword with just one hand and smashed it down fiercely, tearing through the whistling wind.

A large shadow covered the area from top to bottom, completely swallowing up the flame of the lantern. Olvera, who had already chanted the fireball magic, did not choose to release it, but took the initiative to move forward, approaching the enemy, and at the critical moment, she rolled on the ground, relying on a brief moment of invincibility to avoid the powerful sword.

Before she had time to observe the situation around her, she heard a low sound of wind, like the claws of a wild beast attacking her. She jumped up instinctively and rose further in the air. At the same time, a hideous gauntlet with barbs passed by from below, and a clenched fist pierced through the darkness in the sky, breaking into pieces.

Both attacks missed the target. The giant's armored eyes flickered with ghostly fire. He put away the giant sword and put it on his shoulder. He was about to turn around and continue attacking, but Olvera, who had already landed, took this brief respite to chant the second magic: Wind Blade.

It only took 0.2 seconds of chanting for the dark green wind blade to take shape in an instant. As if responding to a call from someone, it wrapped around the orange-red fireball, shattering the flowing flames and blending into the howling storm.

Then, the blue wind and the red fire entangled with each other, forming a terrifying tornado, which instantly broke away from Olvera's control and attacked the giant armor at an astonishing speed. The amazing attraction swept everything around, plowing an ugly scar on the ground, and swept the dust, debris and even darkness in the air into the deepest part of the storm, gathering an unstoppable momentum and fiercely crashing into the huge enemy.

This is a combination of fire and wind magic: [Blazing Storm].

In the narrow corridor, the Giant Armor had no way to hide and was forced to face the terrifying tornado head-on.

The moment the two collided, there was an earth-shaking movement. Olvera was pushed back more than ten meters by the violent explosion of magic elements before she was safe. The giant armor who was in the center of the storm and completely bore the blows of flames and wind blades waved the giant sword in his hand fiercely and tore through the storm forcefully, but when he appeared in the field of vision again, his body was covered with dense scars and looked more shabby than before.

On the front of the battle-hardened, undamaged silver-white breastplate, there was a flame-shaped emblem, which flickered with a faint dark light at a specific frequency. Every time it flickered, a special effect of burning flames would appear on the giant's armored body, and the health bar above his head would also decrease.

[Erosion Mark·Fire: Add fire element erosion status to the enemy, causing 1% of current health to be damaged every second, and the damage caused is reduced by 30%. When the mark is detonated, it will cause 100% fire attribute explosion damage to the person holding the mark. This status cannot be dispelled, and the remaining duration is 1 minute and 29 seconds.]

"Success!"

When Olvera saw the erosion mark appear on the enemy's status bar, her tone of voice rose.

Lingge reminded her, "It's not time to be happy yet. The damage of detonating one mark is not enough. It would be better to add marks of the other three attributes as well."

"Okay, let me try!"

Olvera agreed immediately, held up the holy book with both hands, and chanted the magic again.

　Give me some meow
　　
　
(End of this chapter)