Chapter 268 Reward
[Flying Stone Attack! ]
As he chanted the mantra, a basketball-sized stone bullet quickly took shape and whizzed into the trunk of the big tree in the distance.
In an instant, the big tree broke.
There was no use of the significantly more powerful combination of 'Enhanced Stone Attack'.
This combination consumes too much energy. He is now practicing and helping the logging team cut down some trees. If he exhausts his strength in just a few hits, then what is the point of practicing? The most basic use of "Flying Stone Attack" is nothing to say. Basically, it hits whatever you point at, and the power is enough.
But if you want to expand the upper limit, you have to learn to master the arc of the "Flying Stone Attack" and perform arc attacks.
This undoubtedly requires a lot of practice to improve experience and then achieve it.
Of course, if Zhou Xu doesn’t want to practice a lot, he now has other ways to take a shortcut.
【Flying Stone Control! 】
Before the stone bullet hit the target, Zhou Xu opened his mouth again.
An invisible force suddenly appeared on the stone bullet, causing the momentum of the stone bullet, which was originally flying in a straight line, to suddenly stagnate. Then it suddenly drew an arc and, with a "bang", hit the trunk of the big tree next to it.
Zhou Xu sighed as he glanced at the big tree that was still standing after taking his blow.
"It's not powerful enough."
Under normal circumstances, although a "flying stone attack" cannot directly break a large tree, it can still smash the main trunk to the point where it cannot bear its own weight and collapses.
However, once the 'Flying Stone Control' is used to interfere in the middle, the momentum of the 'Flying Stone Attack' will be greatly reduced, and the power will also be greatly reduced.
Under the condition of 'flying stone control', Zhou Xu could of course control the stone bullets in various ways, but the result of doing so was that the power of the stone bullets became smaller and smaller, and finally it hit the trunk of the tree with a 'bang', but only knocked off a layer of bark.
If 'Flying Stone Attack' is compared to a rock cannon, which directly launches a stone bullet to attack the opponent, then 'Flying Stone Control' is equivalent to grabbing the stone bullet in your hand and playing with it.
There is no need to say how huge the power gap between the two is.
Faced with this question, Zhou Xu fell into deep thought.
"The power of the flying stone has decreased because 'Flying Stone Control' has offset the momentum of the stone bullet to a certain extent in order to gain control of the stone bullet. If I follow the momentum of the stone bullet and use 'Flying Stone Control' to slightly adjust the attack trajectory and immediately cancel it, can I retain more power?"
Zhou Xu immediately started trying it out.
【Flying stone attack! 】
【Flying Stone Control! 】
Seizing the right opportunity, Zhou Xu directly used a combo. According to his previous thinking, he used the "Flying Stone Control" to slightly interfere with the attack trajectory of the stone bullet, and then immediately released it. The power was indeed much stronger.
However, there is still an impact. Compared with the pure "flying stone attack", the power is at least reduced by 30%.
[Forget it, I'll just use it as a surprise move occasionally, but don't count on it to increase your lethality.]
As his thoughts raced, Zhou Xu looked down at a stone at his feet.
As mentioned before, for this kind of stone, "Flying Stone Control" cannot be used to directly control it.
But he could change his mindset.
【Stone control! 】
Minus one mantra character, the combination suddenly becomes a simple manipulation stone.
At this moment, the stone at his feet floated up under the power of the mantra.
But this trick is actually not very useful. You can basically understand it as the power of mantra forming an invisible big hand to pick up the stone, and then he can control the invisible big hand to wave the stone at will by continuously consuming the power of mantra.
This of course includes hitting someone with the stone, or simply throwing the stone away.
The larger and heavier the stone being manipulated, the greater the consumption of this mantra.
Zhou Xu's comprehensive consideration of this mantra resulted in the following conclusion: 'It might be useful in some special situations occasionally, but most of the time, it is better to use the 'flying stone attack' directly.'
As Zhou Xu continued to practice and test, the big trees in the forest fell one after another.
In order not to consume too much of his mantra power, Zhou Xu stopped immediately when he felt a little tired.
After taking a few deep breaths, Zhou Xu turned to look at Zhou Chongshan who was waiting on the side.
At that moment, he clearly caught a hint of envy in Zhou Chongshan's eyes.
In fact, Zhou Chongshan had been thinking about this matter long before he learned that Shi Lei had been blessed by their leader and had the power to control the skeleton soldiers.
I wonder if I can also receive the leader’s blessing.
But then the leader seemed to have forgotten his existence, which made him feel a little lost.
Not sure if he saw through his thoughts, but at this moment, Zhou Xu's voice suddenly came.
"Chongshan, you did a great job in capturing Manshi alive. A bear skin is not enough to honor your achievement. When I am done with this, I will give you a blessing."
From the time he first surrendered to the present day, Zhou Chongshan has made considerable contributions, but in comparison, his rewards have been small.
After all, it was good enough to have something to eat before, so why would he think of any reward? Now that the conditions are better, Zhou Xu naturally does not intend to be stingy with his trusted general.
When Zhou Chongshan heard this, his body visibly tensed up.
"Chief, I dare not ask for a blessing."
"Don't think too much. I was planning to give it to you, but after I blessed Shi Lei, I consumed too much energy and couldn't bless you immediately. It happened to be the spring ploughing season, so I had to go back to Black Moon Village to take charge of the situation. That's why I've been delayed until now."
"I am ashamed!"
Zhou Xu's words immediately made Zhou Chongshan look ashamed.
Later he simply knelt down, kowtowed repeatedly, and expressed what was in his mind.
"I saw the leader bless Shi Lei before, but not me. I mistakenly thought that the leader valued Shi Lei more..."
Zhou Xu burst out laughing after hearing this.
"Don't worry, you are my most trusted subordinate. I, Zhou Xu, will never treat you unfairly."
As he spoke, Zhou Xu threw his sword directly towards Zhou Chongshan.
“Take it!”
"This is……"
After taking the saber, Zhou Chongshan pulled out a piece of the blade. After taking a look at it, a look of surprise immediately appeared on his face. Based on his intuition alone, he realized that this saber was by no means comparable to the copper sabers they were currently equipped with.
"This new sword is forged from the metal extracted from the red ore. The amount of red ore is limited, and there is only one of them. The director of the forging department spent three days forging and polishing it. I'm giving it to you as a reward, which is also considered part of the reward."
At this moment, Zhou Chongshan felt quite flattered. For a moment, he didn't know how to express his feelings at the moment. In the end, he summed it all up in one sentence...
"Thank you for the reward, Chief!"
(End of this chapter)
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