Chapter 253: Forced Matchmaking Failed
After telling Shi Lei to ask him if he had any questions about training, Zhou Xu turned and left.
As soon as I returned to the camp, I saw a soldier walking towards me carrying a heavy bear skin.
"This should be the bear skin on Manshi's body, right?"
"Yes."
In response, the soldier put down the bear skin and asked Zhou Xu what to do with it.
In this era, animal fur is one of the important resources. Bears are extremely ferocious beasts in the mountains, so their fur is naturally rarer, let alone a complete bear skin like this one.
The entire bear skin was peeled off completely from the head to the four legs. It is no exaggeration to say that it is a treasure.
The head part still had half of the skull attached to it. He simply put the skull on his head and it became a hat, and then he also put the whole bear skin on his body.
I have to say that this primitive man had some ideas behind what he did.
"What a pity, only half of the skull is left of this black bear's skeleton. Otherwise, we would have gotten another good skeleton beast."
Zhou Xu took off the heavy bear skin while talking to himself.
At the same time, Zhou Chongshan just happened to walk over from a distance. Seeing this, Zhou Xu immediately waved at Zhou Chongshan.
"Chongshan, you're here just in time."
As Zhou Xu spoke, he handed over the bear skin.
"You have done a great job in capturing Manshi alive this time, so I will give you this bear skin as a reward!"
Upon hearing this, Zhou Chongshan hurriedly said...
"Capturing Manshi alive is not the work of my subordinates alone. It is thanks to the support of the leader."
"Okay, stop talking about this, just take it if it's a reward for you."
As he spoke, Zhou Xu stuffed the thick bear skin into Zhou Chongshan's hand.
"Thank you, Chief!"
As an authentic primitive man, Zhou Chongshan certainly knew the value of this bear skin. When their leader directly handed it to him, he hurried to express his gratitude.
"Well, go and do your own thing."
After waving his hand and watching Zhou Chongshan leave, Zhou Xu found a place, selected a few soldiers to guard the surroundings, and then began to study the mantra he had just obtained.
After resting for a while, his mantra power has recovered a little, and it is time to start researching.
The main reason is that he has other arrangements to make later and doesn’t want this incident to affect his subsequent plans.
【Flying stone attack! 】
Let’s try the ready-made mantra combination of Manshi right at the beginning.
Although he had seen this effect on Manshi many times during previous battles, it was a completely different feeling when he performed it with his own hands.
With a wave of his hand, a basketball-sized stone bullet quickly condensed into shape, and then hit a towering tree in the distance in a straight line.
At that moment, wood chips flew everywhere, and a large piece of the thick trunk of the tree was smashed off on the spot, causing the entire trunk of the tree to break and fall to the ground with a loud bang.
Looking at the broken end of the tree, Zhou Xu couldn't suppress the joy on his face at all.
His joy was not due to the power of the "flying stone attack", but to the control!
It was also a long-range attack. When shooting arrows, he had to aim carefully, and there was no guarantee of a hit. But this "flying stone attack" was different. He only needed to glance at it casually, and the condensed stone bullet would fly to the position he had locked on.
It can be said that it hits wherever you point.
Of course, the effect cannot be compared with that of a tracking bullet. After locking, the attack trajectory of the stone bullet is basically a straight line. The speed is fast, but it is not as fast as an arrow.
If you understand the characteristics of stone bullets, it is not that difficult to dodge them.
This trick would definitely work when there were many people on the battlefield, but in a one-on-one duel, the only time Manshi used this stone bullet to hit Zhou Chongshan was by a close attack, and he dodged it the second time.
However, the attack of this stone bullet is not absolutely in a straight line. As long as the distance is long enough, the attack trajectory will slowly sink and draw an arc.
This is also a very normal physical phenomenon.
Otherwise, Manshi would not have been able to make the stone bullet fly directly over the heads of their soldiers and hit Zhou Xu who was standing behind.
Zhou Xu also tried it, and found that this trick was not so easy to do, and it required a lot of skills and proficiency.
He had no intention of starting to practice this right away; his main goal now was to continue researching new combinations of mantras and various possibilities.
[Strengthen flying stone attack! ]
The mantra phrase "strengthen" can be said to be a panacea.
Facts have proven that it can indeed work! At that moment, the power of the mantra surged, and the condensed stone bullet was obviously larger than before.
With one strike, the trunk of the towering tree was broken on the spot! The increase in power can be said to be visible to the naked eye! With this power, it feels like it can be used as a battering ram in the era of cold weapons! However, after adding the phrase "strengthen", the single consumption of the power of this new mantra combination suddenly became the one with the highest consumption among all his current mantra combinations.
Zhou Xu estimated that it would consume about one tenth of his mantra power to perform it once.
Apparently, this 'battering ram' isn't that useful.
Just like the phrase 'strengthen' is very versatile, to some extent the phrase 'attack' is also easier to match.
The more useful one is the four-word combination of 'attack enhancement'.
It is also easy to derive new BUFFs such as 'Skeleton Soldier Attack Enhancement' and 'Skeleton Beast Attack Enhancement', which can further increase the upper limit of your skeleton troops.
Of course, it is also possible to let 'Attack Enhancement' go solo without 'Enhancement' and use 'Skeleton Soldier Attack' and 'Skeleton Beast Attack'.
But the effect was not ideal, and he couldn't even see much difference at once.
This made Zhou Xu feel that it was not cost-effective for 'Attack' to go it alone, so he decided to just follow 'Strengthen' as a member of the group.
Basically, as long as the combination is based on the "closeness" relationship between the mantra characters, most of the combinations can be successful. Whether the effect is good or bad is another matter.
During this period, Zhou Xu also tried some combinations that he had come up with on his own.
For example...
【Controlled by stone soldiers! 】
【Controlled by flying skeleton soldiers! 】
【Insight Attack! 】
The result is that it is of no use and is just a waste of the power of one's mantra.
After trying to force the two to match up again to no avail, Zhou Xu didn't intend to waste his energy and quickly focused his attention on a combination of true words that had an obviously good relationship after he successfully acquired them.
That's 'give!'
[This mantra combination is completely valid, but when used alone, it has no effect. I'm afraid it needs to be used in combination with other mantras. ]
Zhou Xu quickly pondered over this mantra phrase.
[Give. Is it possible that I can give something to others? For example, the truth? ]
(End of this chapter)
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