The Witcher: Elemental Lords

This is quite a project.

Dore now somewhat regretted not having studied alchemy professionally, so he could manufacture some mechanical puppets; now he had to rely entirely on his own efforts, which was too difficult.

The Wizard Tower descended into the mountains, and after circling around, it easily located the relevant trees and timber.

Aisiyi, Bal, Dore, and the dog worked together, and before long, dozens of high-grade timbers were neatly stacked on a clearing.

At this point, Dore didn't plan to go out searching anymore; he needed to refine these timbers and turn them into genuine materials.

The Wizard Tower stood on the ground, and Dore, standing beside it, applied the Tower's power to himself, then with a casual gesture, the timbers flew up and were quickly transformed by the power.

Runes appeared out of thin air, branded onto the wood.

These runes could increase the wood's strength, enhance its inherent toughness, and also expel impurities.

Building a Wizard Tower was an immense project, usually requiring an entire team of alchemist wizards to complete.

One person could do it, but the speed would be infuriatingly slow; one's own strength, alchemy skills, and magical reserves were all stumbling blocks in the construction process.

Dore, with the Wizard Tower backing him, possessed an independent energy source, but even so, the speed of processing the timber was not fast.

As long as the intensity of his mental power was limited, even if he and his clone worked together, the speed would still be slow.

Processing one piece of wood every ten minutes, and building from the third floor to the twelfth, entirely composed of various timbers and other materials, would take at least several months to complete.

However, the current situation left him no choice; the appearance of the fiend made even the usually carefree Lord Bal feel very apprehensive, so the construction and upgrade of the Wizard Tower was imperative.

Although lacking various metals and some important supporting materials, and the tower body might be incomplete, at least the magic array could be erected.

As long as the magic array could be upgraded to level six or seven, their safety would be greatly enhanced; the essence of the Wizard Tower was never the complete tower body, but the wizard array contained within.

After the three discussed it, they each took on their responsibilities: Bal and Aisiyi went to find timber, while Dore stayed put to refine the wood, construct the tower body, and finally build the wizard array, which had to be able to resist the invasion of a level five Mind Devil at the very least.

Mind Devils were creatures of pure mental energy, so all that was needed was an array that blocked all mental energy: resisting illusions, resisting sounds, resisting various visual temptations.

As long as no major mistakes were made, there would basically be no problems.

However, the characteristics of Mind Devils were also very obvious: they could use any means to invade a person's mental power and destroy their spirit, which had to be guarded against.

Dore was still wondering how such terrifying things could exist in this world.

"Lord Bal, what is the origin of Mind Devils?" Dore asked as he refined the timber.

"The origin of Mind Devils is unclear; they have existed since ancient times, but every world has the protection of gods, so Mind Devils generally cannot invade.

They wander in the void and have always had a great erosive effect on the living world; in this world, they probably found a loophole and entered, consuming all living things."

"Mind Devils are infinitely varied, and Mind Devils above level seven almost possess immortal characteristics."

Dore had already read this information.

He thought about it and realized that the characteristics of Mind Devils were similar to mental viruses, and moreover, viruses with particularly strong infectivity and replicability, viruses that could change the inherent human characteristics of mental power, which made it much easier to understand.

But treating mental power as human tissue and resisting viruses and bacteria from the outside was somewhat difficult, because although a person's mental power seemed pure, its internal structure was very complex, and mental power was a person's thoughts; how could thoughts be defended?

Will? Belief? Self?

These could all be used as references, but their actual use still needed to be verified.

Thinking of this, Dore could only first build the Wizard Tower.

While thinking about how to resist, Dore also thought about the essence of a wizard; if one wanted to avoid being infected by viruses, there was only one way: to make one's mental power strong, and to improve the essence of one's mental power through various means, which was like when he used hallucinogenic potions to train his mental power, training his will, strengthening his mind, and strengthening his belief, to achieve a certain effect.

Dore refined runes while thinking about these issues, and then acted on his thoughts.

How to train? Actually, it was simple: the process of condensing runes was one way; runes were a manifestation of the power of heaven and earth, and the power inherent in the runes represented the power of heaven and earth; by comprehending the power of the runes, one could purify one's own power to a certain extent.

Time passed little by little, and he didn't know how many days had passed, but Dore's Wizard Tower had already been built to the tenth floor.

When Bal and Aisiyi returned for the last time, Bal said, "Let's change places; the quality trees in this place have all been found by us."

Dore accepted the timber, slowly sat up from the top of the tower, and said, "Okay."

He looked at the direction; hundreds of kilometers away, there was another mountain, and it was far from the central area, so he controlled the Wizard Tower, rose from the ground, and flew towards the distance.

Before long, they arrived in this area, found a place to land, and prepared to do their respective jobs.

At this moment, Dore and the others simultaneously saw a very large warship flying from a distance, heading towards the central area.

On the warship, a banner of the Lai Kingdom was hung very clearly on the ship, very conspicuous.

Aisiyi looked worriedly, "Should we remind them?"

Dore thought for a moment, "We can remind them; if they go over there now without precautions, they will be providing nourishment to the Mind Devils, and may even be infected and betray the human race, which will cause more people to die."

To be possessed by a Mind Devil was equivalent to being dead, and they didn't want so many more enemies of the human race.

Thinking of this, he said, "I'll send it; when I was reading just now, I learned a technique that can send messages, but can make them unable to find out who sent it."

Aisiyi was stunned, "There's such a technique?"

Dore wove the information he had obtained and the information about the fiend into a ball of light, instantly launched it, and then ignored them and continued with his alchemy.

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Ying Kingdom.

The huge warship slowly floated in the sky, with great deterrent force, and the surrounding birds flew far away, daring not approach at all.

There were not many people on the warship, only a dozen or so, but all of these people were powerful and, after receiving the exact location of the Upper Wind Elder's residence, they quickly gathered the people they could summon and set off together towards the residence.

They had already discovered the strangeness of this world; it was very strange.

These birds in the sky were also particularly peculiar; their physical bodies were terrifyingly strong, but their mental power was pitifully low, so their strength was also very strange.