Mage Joan

In the battle of "Decapitation Pass", Qiao Ann's trophies include the remains of the frost worm after the explosion, and a phalanx of the Lich Lady Amanda.

Qiao An first analyzed the remains of the frost worm. A total of four sets of magic marks were found on this giant worm. The corresponding supernatural abilities were "Deep Cold Body", "Cold Breathing", "Shocking Trill", and "Burning Body". burst".

Frostworm’s blood vessels contain a high concentration of cold magic power, and the skin is extremely cold. When attacking the enemy, it will cause additional 4 levels of cold and cold damage. Those who hit the frostworm with melee weapons or fists will also suffer 1 energy level. The frostbite and the wound, the weapons they hold may even be cracked.

Frostworm's "extreme cold breath" is more powerful than mutant snow monsters, white dragons and even Sorem hounds. It radiates in a 60-foot cone, causing 15-level cold damage, which is equivalent to the 5-level spell "Ice Cone".

The supernatural vibrato produced by the frostworm's throat has two main functions.

Usually it can assist severely degraded eyes to detect surrounding movement, similar to the echolocation of bats. In combat, frostworms can also change the frequency of trills, increase magic output, and launch sonic mental attacks on hostile creatures within 100 feet. .

If the creature that hears the vibrato is not strong enough or has bad luck, it will be shocked and temporarily lose consciousness.

Frostworm’s "shock tremor" is a bit like the third-order psionic "Mind Blast", but the attack range is much larger than that of "Mind Blast", plus the "blind vision" function of echolocation. For a 7th-level spell.

Frostworm's most powerful trick is not "shocking tremor", nor "deep cold body" or "extreme cold spit", but a suicide attack that will only be launched when dying-"burning body"!

When the frostworm was dying, the extremely cold magic power rushing in the blood vessels was out of control. The flesh and blood of the whole body instantly froze into solid ice, losing its elasticity, unable to restrain the pressure rising rapidly in the body, and eventually exploded on its own. Creatures within 100 feet cause 12-level cold damage on average, plus 8-level piercing damage!

If only the damage range and destructive power are calculated, the magical energy level of "Burning Body Blast" is comparable to a 9th-level spell. Even considering the huge price of death, it is at least equivalent to a 7th-level spell.

Frostworm's size, natural armor, and physical attributes are outstanding among the "magic beast" species.

Qiao An actually wanted to inject the "Awakening Agent" prepared by Frostworm's blood, and combined with the transformation spell, using "Frostworm Form" as one of his tactical options.

However, when he thought of "burning the body" out of his control, he couldn't help but "retire".

It is better not to imitate this kind of monster that "blows" at every turn.

Qiao An first transcribed the four sets of magic marks of Frostworm, and then analyzed the phalanx of Granny Amanda.

The supernatural abilities of the lich lady can be divided into two categories: the supernatural abilities unique to the lich and the supernatural abilities derived from the witch profession.

The former consists of three items, "Fear of Aura", "Touch of Paralysis", and "Phylogenetic Rebirth"; the latter includes "Witchcraft" common to various witch professions, and "Styghe" unique to "Witch of Styx" Embrace".

Qiao An has collected many "fear aura" configurations from different monsters. The abilities of the same name of the lich are similar. The aura has a radiation radius of 60 feet, which is nothing more than a higher level of magic power, and the fear effect is more difficult to resist.

Lich’s haggard body is full of negative energy. When touching a living prey, negative energy can be injected into the prey through fingertips. If the opponent’s physique is not strong enough to resist the erosion of negative energy, it will be permanently paralyzed until the internal organs are exhausted. dead.

The reason why the lich is recognized as one of the most terrifying undead creatures in the world is mainly because the lich possesses a magical "phloem", also known as the "horcrux", which is used to store its soul.

It just destroys the body of the lich, and cannot really kill it. As long as the phylogeny is kept intact, the lich can come back to life after a period of time.

If you want to completely eliminate the Lich, you must find and destroy its phyla.

Liches, of course, are very aware of their own fatal weaknesses, so they always hide the phylogeny in a very secret place, and invent some spells specially used to cover the phylogeny, or divide the phylogeny into several parts and hide them in different places. Only by finding out all the parts one by one and combining them into a complete phylogeny can they be destroyed.

Qiao An has no way of knowing where Amanda's mother-in-law hid her phylactery, but by analyzing this phalanx, he has a preliminary understanding of the conditions that need to be met to make a qualified phylactery, and what rituals should be prepared next , In order to transform yourself from a living person into a lich, and the soul is stored in the phylogeny.

This evil and dark knowledge prompted Qiao An to have a terrible idea.

I have been pursuing the meaning of life all these years, but unfortunately I haven't been able to get a satisfactory answer yet.

So why don’t you change your mindset and transform yourself into a lich, gain a certain degree of "immortality", embrace death and get rid of the threat of death. After that, as an immortal, there is Is it necessary to pursue the meaning of life?

If this is really feasible, what reason do humans have for refusing to transform into a lich? Why do they have to cling to their fragile body and short life?

When a creature eliminates "death" in a physical sense, at the same time, "what is the meaning of life"-the question of the problem is also eliminated.

If we are unable to answer a question, we kill the question itself-is this approach a perfect answer to the question?

For example, one day in the future, mankind will eliminate all the smallpox viruses in the world through superb technical means. From then on, no one will suffer from this disease. Then the contemporary problem of "how to prevent smallpox" will not be perfectly solved?

For another example, one day in the future, human beings will achieve universal harmony, and everyone will be able to meet the basic needs of food and clothing. Children living in the future happy era cannot even understand what “hunger” means. Then there is the concept of “hunger”. Is there any value?

Logically speaking, there seems to be nothing wrong, but Qiao An vaguely thinks something is wrong.

Although it is not possible to clearly point out the crux of this kind of thinking for the time being, there is one thing Qiao An is sure that there are many benefits to becoming a lich, and at the same time he has to pay a great price.

For example, the loss of a living body, the loss of the ability to have children, will also be rejected by human society and forced to live in isolation.