Witch Special

After some discussion, Child Emperor finally agreed to provide support for Lin Zhenxi's energy supply. After inquiring about Lin Zhenxi's energy needs, Child Emperor quickly completed the deployment and adjustment of the resources at his disposal, freeing up an energy source sufficient for Lin Zhenxi's use and preparing to send it to J City as quickly as possible.

Lin Zhenxi couldn't help but twitch her lips when she heard Child Emperor say that the energy source she needed would arrive within half an hour. The nearest city to J City is hundreds of kilometers away, and there's no highway in between, so air transport is the only option. You said you could deliver the goods in half an hour. Did you deliver them by rocket?

However, the tech giants in this world are still very reliable. Since Child Emperor said it's okay, Lin Zhenxi will just assume he can do it. The energy source will take another half hour to arrive, so Lin Zhenxi can use this time to do some preliminary preparations.

After listening to Child Emperor's description of the problem, Lin Zhenxi actually had a plan. It's just soil erosion and a decrease in the land's support capacity, so wouldn't hardening it just be the solution? Isn't that right? Turning mud into stone?

Although turning fossils into mud and mud into stone are both low-level magic, what is now in front of Lin Zhenxi is not a tactical target, but a super-giant modern city with a population of hundreds of millions and tall buildings.

Regardless of the type of magic, if its range of influence can reach thousands or even tens of thousands of square kilometers, it is definitely considered strategic-level. Generally speaking, this type of strategic-level magic is often a forbidden spell, requiring the collective chanting of an entire army of magicians to complete. Very few people can perform this level of magic alone.

Any magician who can cast forbidden spells on his own is equivalent to a walking nuclear bomb, and is a strategic resource that will be valued wherever he goes.

But forbidden spells are forbidden spells, and strategic magic is strategic magic. Strategic magic is often forbidden spells, but there is more than just strategic magic.

Strategic-level magic is classified as forbidden because the magic power required is too great, and it's simply impossible for an individual to cast it alone. In other words, as long as the magic power supply is sufficient, the requirements for casting strategic-level magic are actually not high.

However, magic power is basically positively correlated with magical attainments. It is absolutely a very low probability event to have huge magic power but no magical literacy to match it.

Even with Lin Zhenxi's transformed magic power, it is very difficult for him to release the strategic-level magic of turning mud into stone. At least in terms of range, it is absolutely impossible to cover the entire J City. I'm afraid it will be difficult to even cover one-tenth of it. You can imagine how high the magic power of those magicians who can cast forbidden spells with their bare hands is.

But... the Great Teacher should be able to do it, right? After all, she can even interfere with the movement of the sun, moon, and stars. With the Philosopher's Stone in hand, it would be easy for her to cast a forbidden spell.

Well, set a goal and make your own philosopher’s stone!

However, Lin Zhenxi's magic power had only just been converted to liquid form; compression hadn't even begun. Solidifying it was still a long way off, and the gap between solidifying magic power and the perfect crystallization of the Philosopher's Stone was immeasurable. Therefore, if Lin Zhenxi wanted to complete his Philosopher's Stone, it would probably be a matter of a lifetime.

Putting aside his lofty ambitions, Lin Zhenxi began the preliminary arrangements for the strategic-level magic of turning mud into stone.

The most significant characteristic of strategic-level magic is its vast reach. To achieve this range, countless magic nodes are often required. Once the magic is channeled and infused with magical energy, these countless nodes will simultaneously reach activation conditions, instantly connecting to form a single entity, achieving the desired effect across a wide area.

Whether it's the well-known strategic magic such as land sinking, thundercloud storm, meteor shower, or the large-scale fossil-to-mud, mud-to-stone, poisonous swamp, and acid mist, the principles of implementation are actually similar, and they all involve great force to create miracles.

This type of strategic magic, which only required mana and didn't require a thorough understanding of the magic's properties, was considered low-class within the Forbidden Spells, relegated to the very bottom of the contempt chain. Great wizards who only knew strategic magic were generally too embarrassed to don the red robes reserved for Forbidden Spell Mages.

Lin Zhenxi's current task was to evenly distribute the magic nodes throughout J City, ensuring that the strategic-level mud-to-stone magic could cover the entire city. This was an impossible task for a single person, but fortunately, in addition to Yanyan, Lin Zhenxi had other helpers.

Although it is unrealistic to expect those familiars to help with magic experiments, Lin Zhenxi can place magic nodes on them and then let them drill into the ground to become the magic nodes needed to release strategic magic.

So, come out, my familiars.

The wand in Lin Zhenxi's hand quietly shifted, shedding its dark brown exterior to become as smooth as white jade. Soon, a white jade flute appeared in Lin Zhenxi's hand. Lin Zhenxi channeled her magic power into the flute, and it began to emit a melodious sound.

Along with the sound of the flute, a large number of teleportation magic circles began to unfold around Lin Zhenxi. Countless huge black rats with shiny skin began to rush out of the magic circles, and under the control of the flute, they lined up neatly without any chaos.

Because the giant rats emerged from the magic circle so quickly, it wasn't long before the rooftop where Lin Zhenxi was standing was completely packed with giant black rats. Except for Lin Zhenxi's feet, the entire rooftop had turned completely dark. Countless rats stood upright, staring at Lin Zhenxi with their green bean-sized eyes.

The "Mouse-Calling Flute," which controls mice by playing the flute, is a reference to the fairy tale "The Pied Piper of Hamelin." Because it's a summoning spell, the effect has been improved to summon a vast number of giant mice that obey your commands.

Of course, since the effects of fairy tale magic are all based on the prototypes of fairy tales, this white jade flute is likely to have the ability to manipulate children's minds, but Lin Zhenxi is not interested in developing this function.

The rats summoned by the Rat Summoning Flute were also magical creatures, though they had the appearance and abilities of rats. Their core driving force was still magic. Therefore, Lin Zhenxi didn't need to worry about the aftermath of these rats; they would be directly transformed into magic nodes upon arrival, leaving no corpses behind.

Summoning so many rats in one breath was something Lin Zhenxi had never dared to think about before. However, Lin Zhenxi had grown a lot now, so she only felt a little chest tightness and shortness of breath, and was far from reaching the point of exhaustion of magic power.

There was no need to communicate with these magical creatures. Lin Zhenxi conveyed his will to the mice through the mouse flute, and they broke up into small groups, rushed to the railing of the rooftop in all directions, and jumped down directly.

Anyway, there was seawater underneath, which was enough to act as a buffer. These magical rats were quite tough, and as long as the magic power supporting their structure was not exhausted, they were almost completely indifferent to physical damage.

In the blink of an eye, the rats that had been swarming the rooftop vanished without a trace. However, before the rats arrived, Lin Zhenxi couldn't change the shape of her wand. She even had to maintain the magic power supply to the rat-calling flute, lest the magical rats go berserk and run away without receiving the flute's instructions.

Fortunately, Lin Zhenxi did not only have the elderberry wand available. She took out another enchantment wand specially used for drawing magic circles from the space cube. Grabbing Yanyan, who looked reluctant, she began to skillfully draw a spirit gathering magic circle that would convert the scattered energy around into magic power.

Since coming to this world, Lin Zhenxi has drawn countless magic circles of all sizes. He is so familiar with it that he can probably draw it exactly with his eyes closed.

After drawing the part of the magic circle responsible for energy conversion at an extremely fast speed, Lin Zhenxi immediately began drawing the strategic-level magic circle that turned mud into stone.

Once Child Emperor's energy source is in place, Lin Zhenxi will definitely focus on converting the enormous amount of energy into magic power. As for the subsequent magic guidance, it will be left to the magic circle itself. Fortunately, turning mud into stone is not difficult in itself, and the structure of the magic circle is also simple. Even if it is upgraded to the strategic level, its scale has only increased, not its complexity.

This kind of magic circle with a simple structure is often the most durable.

After some more effort, the man and the cat drew a strategic-level mud-to-stone magic circle on the tarmac, which covered an area many times larger than the normal mud-to-stone magic circle. Lin Zhenxi took out his personal terminal and took a look, and found that the time that Child Emperor had agreed with him on the phone had passed.

Several minutes!

But where's the stuff? Did that little brat leave me alone?

Just as Lin Zhenxi was complaining, a "boom boom" sound suddenly came from the sky, sounding like a plane flying overhead. However, unlike the sound of the plane that gradually faded away, this "boom boom" sound was actually getting closer and closer to Lin Zhenxi.

Suddenly, the thick, dark clouds above Lin Zhenxi's head were blown away by a violent force, revealing a large hole that allowed sunlight to filter in. Then, a round object that looked like a manned rocket's landing capsule descended at a steady speed from the hole in the clouds. The jets below continuously spewed flames downward, and the rumbling sound Lin Zhenxi heard was the sound of the jets igniting.

Driven by the rocket propeller, the circular cabin was rapidly approaching the rooftop where Lin Zhenxi was. When Lin Zhenxi saw the blazing red flames under the propeller, he suddenly "hissed" and quickly began to cover the magic circle under his feet with a fire-resistant barrier.

Magic circles require extremely high precision; even a single mistake in drawing a line or symbol will render the circle useless. If the pillar of fire were to burn it, Lin Zhenxi's half-hour of hard work would be completely wasted.