Witch Special

Lin Zhenxi looked through the familiars she had signed before, both living and non-living, and felt that none of them could adapt to such extreme environments. Just when Lin Zhenxi felt a little confused, she found the answer she was looking for on the last page.

Natural Water, a former member of the Monster Association, possesses the ability to manipulate water. Although it looks similar to a slime, it is fundamentally different from those slow-moving, soft, translucent jelly monsters.

Ever since discovering the existence of natural water, Lin Zhenxi had her sights set on it. She had contracted slimes, and while these monsters weren't particularly useful above ground except for being cute, they were quite useful for exploring narrow tunnels. Furthermore, their low intelligence allowed them to be summoned in large numbers, giving them a numerical advantage.

If the ability to manipulate water flow could be given to slimes, the slimes under Lin Zhenxi would no longer be useless. Ever since obtaining the core of natural water, Lin Zhenxi began researching how to transfer the properties of natural water to slimes.

The two entities truly shared many similarities, and Lin Zhenxi's transference went smoothly. Through research on the core of natural water, Lin Zhenxi discovered the secret of its affinity with water flow. He then transformed the core of the slime group he had contracted, resulting in the natural water slime, a new type of slime capable of manipulating water flow.

While still slime-like in appearance, their bodies are made of pure water instead of a jelly-like, sticky substance. They possess the ability to manipulate the water in their bodies and the surrounding environment, and can even merge themselves and their cores into the water, greatly enhancing their survivability.

If you want to avoid being harmed by currents, blending in is a good way. Natural water slimes can blend in with water, making them immune to the intense pressure. On land, as long as they aren't in arid, water-scarce environments like deserts, they won't be in any danger. As for the extremely cold polar regions... try adding antifreeze to the natural water slimes responsible for those areas.

After selecting the courier responsible for delivering the "tower seeds", Lin Zhenxi immediately began to transform the production line of memory crystals, changing the magic inscriptions engraved inside, and turning the crystals originally used to store memories into "tower seeds" that can absorb energy from the earth veins and automatically grow into tall towers.

Fortunately, Lin Zhenxi's fundamental skills were solid enough. She spent a day manually completing her first "tower seed" and then dropped it into the uninhabited area outside City Z. After sinking into the ground, the "tower seed" automatically connected to the nearby earth veins, drawing energy from them to grow stronger. Soon, with a slight tremor in the ground, a slender stone pillar broke through the soil and grew at a visible rate. Soon, it was taller than Lin Zhenxi's head, and its growth rate continued unabated.

Lin Zhenxi watched it grow until it reached several dozen meters in height before leaving. The speed at which the "Tower Seed" could draw energy from the earth's veins was limited, and the growth rate of the "Tower Seed" was certainly not as fast as Lin Zhenxi's own floating city. Fortunately, it would grow on its own even without care. An optimistic estimate was that a "Tower Seed" would be fully grown within seven days of being planted. However, this also depended on the abundance of the local earth's veins; if the veins were not dense enough, the rate of energy absorption would naturally be slower.

The design of the "Tower Seed" was complete, and the next step was mass production. Lin Zhenxi shut down one of Baizhi's memory crystal production lines and began to modify it, preparing to use it to produce "Tower Seeds."

As for whether this will lead to insufficient production of memory crystals? It's fine. Memory crystals have been on the market for a long time and have always been in short supply. Those who have reserved their reservations and are waiting for their products to arrive have already waited so long, so they probably don't mind waiting a little longer, right?

By the time Lin Zhenxi finished modifying the production line and debugging it, another day had passed, and Lin Zhenxi had been busy all night. When the production line started and he saw the first fully automatically produced "tower seed" rolling off the assembly line, Lin Zhenxi turned around and went back to his suspended tower to catch up on some sleep.

The modified production line, operating at full capacity, could produce approximately one thousand "tower seeds" a day... well, actually, a little over eight hundred and sixty, or about one every hundred seconds. Lin Zhenxi needed a total of twenty thousand "tower seeds," and all of them could be produced in less than a month. This speed was sufficient, as Lin Zhenxi still needed to figure out a delivery mechanism to transport the natural water slimes responsible for delivering the tower seeds to the designated locations. Otherwise, expecting them to crawl there on their own would be a waste of time.

With the problem of "tower seeding" and the selection of couriers to deliver the "tower seeds" solved, the only thing left to do was to solve the problem of "delivery," and Lin Zhenxi's global tower seeding project could officially begin. As for how to deliver the seeds, Lin Zhenxi currently has two ideas and plans to test which one is more suitable.

With 20,000 towers covering 20,000 coordinates around the globe, expecting Lin Zhenxi to deliver them one by one was unrealistic. This had to be automated. Lin Zhenxi came up with two solutions. The first was, of course, the classic portal. By calculating the changes in fixed coordinate values, each portal opening would deliver a natural water slime to the desired location. With the Heart of the Rising Sun, this computational work was destined to be handled by the intelligent magic device. Lin Zhenxi only needed to provide the magic circle for the one-way portal.

But twenty thousand portals... just thinking about it makes me despair. With the low-quality magic array bases currently available in this world, they'd only be used ten times before becoming useless due to excessive magic exposure. Expecting a single magic array base to handle all the teleportation arrays was unrealistic. To handle twenty thousand portals, Lin Zhenxi would need to prepare at least two thousand magic arrays. That's a ridiculous amount of work! Even if Lin Zhenxi and Yanyan toiled day and night, skipping meals and sleep, it wouldn't take them ten days or even half a month to complete.

After talking about the difficulties of the first method, let’s move on to the second method, the magic cannon.

The human world is firing cannons, level one preparation!

That's how it works. Using the Magic Cannon, natural water slimes wrapped in "Tower Seeds" are launched like cannonballs. The Heart of the Rising Sun still relies on calculating the pitch angle and trajectory, accurately delivering each natural water slime to the designated area. The Magic Cannon is the main weapon of the Floating City. Lin Zhenxi personally provided the magic formula. As long as Lin Zhenxi can withstand the Magic Cannon, it can be fired continuously. Firing the Magic Cannon 20,000 times is much easier than opening 20,000 one-way portals.

However, the magic cannon gives the launched object a vector called "speed", which means that before the magic power disappears, the speed and direction of the object launched by the magic cannon will not change.

How do traditional artillery achieve cross-visual-range strikes? It's because gravity turns a straight-flying projectile into a parabola. However, the Magic Cannon is a direct-fire cannon that can't turn, so its range is inevitably shorter, confined to the range of direct observation.

Although the floating city serving as a gun mount can fly to high places to expand the shooting field of view, Lin Zhenxi's floating city is still in the most basic stage and cannot even fly out of the atmosphere. Even if it flies to the highest place, the area that can be covered by the magic cannon is still just a drop in the bucket compared to the surface of the entire planet.

In order to use the magic cannon to complete the global distribution of natural water slime, the floating city must fly around the planet in circles. Lin Zhenxi doesn't know how to calculate the exact number of circles, but it is definitely not a small number.

One method required thousands of magic circle bases, enough to make Lin Zhenxi and Yanyan vomit at the mere sight of a blank magic circle base after they'd been drawing forever. The other required the Floating City to continuously fly around the world, consuming countless resources. Both methods had such obvious drawbacks that Lin Zhenxi was torn between the two.

Ah, it feels so bad. What should I do if I don’t want to choose any of them?

What else can I do? I'll just keep struggling. Lin Zhenxi began to carefully review the power she possessed, trying to find other less tricky ways to deliver those natural water slimes.

Wait, there seems to be a third method...

This is also a new ability that Lin Zhenxi mastered after coming to this world, so Lin Zhenxi is not familiar enough with it, so he did not think of it at the first time.

"Astral projection" sounds like a very cool name, but the simple and easy-to-understand translation should actually be "projection of consciousness."

This ability, bound to the Floating City—more precisely, the fully expanded Glazed Altar—allows Lin Zhenxi's consciousness to be projected into any area covered by the Glazed Altar. Before this alternate world, Lin Zhenxi had never built a magic tower or expanded the Glazed Altar to such a vast extent, so naturally, he couldn't develop this ability. Therefore, this was a new ability Lin Zhenxi had mastered in this alternate world.

The projection of the consciousness is incorporeal and doesn't involve any physical interaction, so it can change its position extremely quickly, and the magic power consumption of each change is almost negligible. Even more amazingly, the consciousness itself can channel magic. As long as the consciousness exists, magic can be released locally, which is equivalent to using the glass altar as a medium to cast magic remotely.

Therefore, Lin Zhenxi only needed to project his consciousness over there, then use the familiar summon method on the spot to summon a natural water slime. The low cost of consciousness projection allowed this step to be repeated multiple times in a short period of time. Although Lin Zhenxi would undoubtedly be mentally exhausted, compared to the two previous methods of projection, which were obviously bottomless pits, the method of using consciousness projection and familiar summoning was already an acceptable and ideal method.

Okay, let's use this.