Chapter 171 Logistics Department Work (Part 2)
With just a quick recollection, Benjamin was able to count the number of logistics wizards who were going on this expedition: more than 270 people.
Compared to the total number of wizards exceeding 30,000, the proportion of logistics wizards is even less than 1%!
"The number of logistics department members... is so small?!" Jieming couldn't help but exclaim in surprise. Then he realized something and his face turned grim. "Doesn't that mean..."
Viola nodded in agreement and continued, "You'll have plenty of work to do later, so cherish your current 'relaxation'! I advise you to apply for a few more energy potions..."
Watching Viola walk away gracefully, the corners of Jieming's mouth couldn't help but twitch slightly: "Now... is it actually 'easy'?!!"
If I remember correctly... I haven't slept a wink these past few days?
If this is considered “relaxing”, then what about “busy”? !
Wait!
That being said...
I clearly came here to fight, so how did I end up being treated like a beast of burden without realizing it?!
Is this the ultimate fate of logistics wizards? ! !
Not to mention Benjamin, who was shaken in his mind, as time went on, the wizards of the logistics department researched more and more things.
It can be said that hundreds of rare resources have been found in just a few days!
This fully confirms the information released by Master Alvin - this plane is indeed a huge treasure trove!
Even some energy crystals that can be used as universal energy in wizard civilization - such as pure elemental crystal cores, magic crystals, etc. - can be said to be everywhere in this Flame Frost Plane!
Deep in almost every lava vein or at the bottom of a cold spring, there is a large pile of unmined raw crystals with an astonishing energy concentration, which makes every wizard who mines them unable to help but shine his eyes.
However, in addition to researching these precious and unique resources, the most important task for the logistics wizards at this stage is to analyze the intelligence of local creatures and elements.
This provides support for frontline combat wizards and also provides a basis for high-level wizards to formulate long-term strategic plans.
Because of the shortage of manpower, even a wizard like Jemin, who was of a lower level and specialized in alchemy and runes, was still assigned a seemingly simple but actually important task - analyzing the biological intelligence of the lava giant.
He needed to conduct a detailed dissection, analysis, and study of the captured lava giant.
Understand their weaknesses, physical structure, elemental affinities, and even their social habits.
"Send it in." Benjamin said through the internal communication rune.
Soon, an escort team consisting of alchemical puppets and some low-level wizards carried a lava giant that was bound by a magic circle and had fallen into a coma into the temporary laboratory where Jemin was.
Even in a coma, this lava giant still emitted suffocating heat.
It is about seven or eight meters tall, and its broad shoulders are like two small hills.
Its body structure is made of twisted and solidified red rocks, covered with irregular edges and cracks, as if it were a demon that walked directly out of a volcano.
Small streams of lava constantly flow slowly on the surface of the body, winding through the cracks of the rock skin like blood vessels, emitting a faint smell of sulfur and burnt air.
Its limbs are as thick as pillars, and it has only three fingers and toes, but the front ends are thick and have black nails, like extremely sharp shovels.
Its eyes were pure energy, like two burning embers, and even though they were closed at this moment, they still emitted a faint red light.
A light vapor escapes from the mouth and nose, proving that the temperature inside is still high.
Despite being captured and suppressed, every breath it took made the air around it hot and dry.
Jieming put on the special rune gloves, and the light of the "Eye of All Use" in his eyes suddenly lit up.
He wants to dig out all the hidden secrets from the body of this lava giant.
As he activated the "Universal Eye", his eyes were no longer focused on the material appearances visible to the naked eye.
The world has changed dramatically in his view.
The soft flames of the Blazing Grass, the energy fluctuations within the Ice Explosion Crystal, and the microscopic movements of every tissue in the body of the lava giant in front of him were all clearly visible.
"Start analyzing." Benjamin turned on the recorder next to him and whispered to himself.
While activating the Eye of All Uses, Jemin also activated alchemy. His mental power, like a tide, accompanied by the insight of the Eye of All Uses, began to penetrate the body of the lava giant in every possible way.
First of all, the external tissues appear to be hard rocks on the surface. However, through the microscopic perspective of the "Universal Eye", Jeming discovered that they are not simple mineral deposits, but alternative highly active skin and body tissues!
These "rock skins" are composed of extremely dense and elastic mineral crystals. Even under microscopic vision, one can see tiny energy veins flashing inside them.
When these crystal structures are subjected to external impact, they will partially collapse, and then quickly draw energy from the inside to fill it back, forming a terrifying self-repair ability.
What’s even more amazing is that even the seemingly flowing magma on their body surface is actually a form of their skin!
It is not a simple external secretion, but the external manifestation of the living plasma blood inside the lava giant's body.
These plasma liquids are rich in fire elements. They are not only responsible for transporting energy to the whole body, but also can exchange heat with the external environment to maintain the stable combustion of its core furnace.
In its normal state, this layer of living lava thinly covers the "rock skin", giving the lava giant its iconic red luster and terrifying high temperature.
After orally dictating this information to the recorder nearby, Jemin then turned his attention to the overall physical fitness of the lava giant.
"Luckily, I'm also good at runes, otherwise this thing would be impossible to calculate."
Muttering to himself, Jemin calculated the energy fluctuations in the lava giant's body and the operating efficiency of the energy system.
He discovered that even though this living specimen looked like an ordinary adult soldier, the "Universal Eye"'s assessment of its energy density, power matrix, and the state of elemental circulation in its body showed that it possessed a physique far superior to that of ordinary creatures.
It is no exaggeration to say that even the most ordinary lava giant, as long as it reaches adulthood, its physical fitness and energy level can easily reach the level of a first-level creature.
And if it is an elite individual similar to the one who fought against the wizard cannon fodder before, even each of them can reach the level of level two.
He continued to explore deeper into the lava giant's interior, searching for the secrets of its sensory and physiological systems.
The lava giant's visual system is completely different from that of humans.
Their eyes are not made up of lenses and retinas, but two "lava cores" emitting scarlet light.
Through the insight of the "Universal Eye", Jemin discovered that they are organs extremely sensitive to elemental energy and heat fluctuations.
They can directly "see" the trajectory of heat flow in the air, the frequency of lava pulsation, and even sense the weak energy radiation of elemental arrays in the distance.
They have very little need for visible light, and their vision is based on pure fire element perception. Even in darkness, as long as there is heat or fire element, they can see as clearly as in daylight.
Its auditory system is even more peculiar.
Jemin did not find any obvious earlobes, but he felt that there were a series of tiny resonance chambers and mineral crystals inside the lava giant's head.
These crystals can pick up vibrations; they are insensitive to high-frequency sounds but are surprisingly discerning to low-frequency infrasound and underground vibrations.
In this way, the Lava Giant can easily sense the movement of distant armies, the activity of magma inside volcanoes, and even impending changes deep in the earth's crust.
This is a type of earthquake sensing or vibration sensing capability that is highly adapted to the volcanic environment.
What surprised Jemin even more was that the lava giant, as a creature with obvious elemental characteristics, actually had a complete digestive system!
Through his alchemy and analysis of the "Eye of All Uses", a complex and efficient digestive tract was revealed in the body of the lava giant.
It is not the intestine of a traditional organism, but is formed by multiple layers of lava and can directly digest and decompose minerals.
This lava giant does not rely entirely on elemental energy for survival. It can even eat flesh creatures - Benjamin found residual, undigested biological remains in the esophagus inside the head.
This undoubtedly overturned his traditional understanding of elemental creatures.
This digestive system means they can draw energy from a wider range of sources, supplementing any deficiency in pure elemental energy.
He also noticed that despite appearing to be moving magma and rock, the creature needed to breathe.
Even when it was bound by witchcraft and fell into a coma, there were still regular heat waves and weak airflows flowing in and out of the several tiny cracks on its head and torso, indicating that breathing is also a necessary condition for its survival.
This breathing is not for simple oxygen exchange, but more for internal heat pump and element conversion, to ensure the stability of the core furnace and eliminate impurities produced by metabolism.
There is no doubt that the Lava Giant is extremely good at fire attacks.
Their body surfaces can transform into scorching magma and flames at any time, and they can ignite everything around them with a single strike.
They are naturally immune to fire, heat, and most heat-based poisons.
Their core furnace can transform all fire energy into their own power, which makes any fire witchcraft like a tonic to them.
Through further research, Jemin discovered an amazing characteristic of the lava giant race.
If a lava giant is exposed to excessively high temperatures for a long period of time, such as in the core of an active volcano, or is enveloped by powerful fire magic for a long period of time, its entire body will undergo a qualitative change and become a semi-liquid lava-like state.
In this state, its "rock skin" becomes softer and more fluid, its body loses its fixed shape, and physical attacks have little effect on them, as attacks will directly penetrate or be absorbed by the lava.
Moreover, even if part of the body is destroyed, it can be regenerated by absorbing lava from the surrounding environment, or even through amazing natural recovery abilities!
This shows that their body tissues themselves can exchange and switch freely between "rock solid" and "lava liquid" states.
Moreover, by drawing on external lava, they can greatly increase their strength and regeneration speed in a short period of time.
This is a terrifying adaptive ability that makes them nearly invincible in a fire environment.
There’s more.
Jeming switched the focus of the "Universal Eye" to the internal heat stabilization mechanism of the lava giant. He was surprised to find that these creatures were not afraid of low temperatures in a short period of time!
If a lava giant is suddenly attacked by extremely low temperatures, such as the frost breath from a yeti from the Frost Dark Realm, or a wizard's ice magic, the seemingly hard rock skin on its surface can quickly cool down, forming a structure with loose pores.
This process is like the physical "thermal expansion and contraction". The living lava inside will temporarily shrink toward the core, while a porous, hard insulating layer will quickly form on the outside to keep the scorching core furnace in the body warm.
This mechanism allows them to temporarily resist the damage of freezing, so small-scale low-temperature attacks are not as effective as imagined.
But this resistance is not without cost.
Once the entire lava giant is in an extremely low temperature, in this state of "low-temperature rigidity", the lava giant will not be destroyed immediately, but the circulation of its life energy will become sluggish.
This causes its powerful recovery ability to drop significantly, and its movement speed to slow down, as if it has entered a dormant or rigid state.
This discovery made Jie Ming's eyes shine brightly:
"Record, based on research, a possible and efficient killing method..."
He quickly drew up a preliminary tactical analysis on the magic network terminal:
"We can start with a cryogenic attack!" Benjamin noted in his report. "Use ice magic or other cryogenic attacks to force the lava giant's skin into an insulating, heat-retaining 'rigid' state. In this state, their regenerative abilities are greatly weakened. Then, we can more efficiently kill the lava giant with physical attacks!"
Ordinary fire attacks are almost ineffective against them, and purely physical attacks are also difficult to be effective when they are in liquid or regenerating state.
But combining low temperature and physical attacks can perfectly circumvent their two major defensive advantages.
"Also, the spell that can cause suffocation will unexpectedly be effective. Although it won't kill the giant, it can slow down the lava giant's movements for a short period of time."
However, Jemin also knew that the effective principle of most witchcraft that could cause suffocation was to cut off the respiratory tract of the organism, which would probably not be effective against a physiological structure like that of a lava giant.
However, there are countless types of witchcraft invented by wizards, and if you look carefully, you can find the witchcraft you need.
"Also, high-frequency sound waves can also be effective..."
He immediately uploaded the analysis report to the magic network and sent it to the senior commanders in the war zone.
"As expected, all living things have their weaknesses."
Rubbing his tired forehead, Benjamin raised the corners of his mouth slightly and closed the "Eye of All Uses".
(End of this chapter)
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