Otherworld Advance Team
Chapter 553 - 546: Spirit Body Test

Chapter 553: Chapter 546: Spirit Body Test

Two days after returning to Divine Wood Town, Li Si decided to carry out some basic tests on Fulajie’er to see what abilities she possessed. They found a relatively open area and prepared to conduct the experiment.

According to Li Si’s idea, if Fulajie’er’s abilities were outstanding enough, he planned to assign her to the Advance Team to enhance their combat effectiveness. Of course, this request couldn’t be made in front of Nightingale, as she would most likely refuse considering her temperament.

So, Li Si planned to take a roundabout approach and have Fulajie’er suggest it herself. After all, he could tell that the young girl seemed to be quite fond of Luo’er and she probably wouldn’t reject the idea of assisting him.

The tests mainly involved magic usage and communication-related issues. Fulajie’er had previously demonstrated a speed of two kilometers per second, which Li Si thought could be a useful communication tool.

Communication had always been a significant factor limiting the combat power of the Advance Team. Earth’s radio communication technology was not feasible in the Otherworld, so communication had always been a significant problem for the Advance Team.

Furthermore, Fulajie’er’s body was now entirely composed of magic. Li Si wondered if she would encounter resistance when casting magic spells.

In the Otherworld, a person’s magic level usually depended on their personal qualifications, which were genetically determined and nearly impossible to change postnatally. So even if Tangmo disliked learning magic, her magic skills were much higher than those of Hu Daoke and others.

Now that Fulajie’er’s body was entirely composed of magic, theoretically, there should be no constraints in this respect, right?

"Fula, get ready, we are going to fire!" As he checked the bullets in his pistol, Luo’er spoke to Fulajie’er, who was not far away.

"Fula, do you remember the shield spells I taught you?" Nightingale asked her.

"I said I remember it, how many times are you going to ask me?" Fulajie’er complained, drifting back and forth in the air.

"Ready!" Luo’er loaded the bullet and prepared to shoot. Honestly, shooting at Fulajie’er was a bit out of his comfort zone, but he was aware that Fulajie’er’s body was now bulletproof, making his shot meaningless.

"Bystanders retreat to cover, beware of stray bullets!" Li Si warned. Bullets striking the shield could rebound.

With a wave of Fulajie’er’s little hand, an invisible shield immediately appeared in front of her. Being a ghost, she didn’t need to chant magic, she just needed to recite the spells in her heart to manipulate the magic.

"Level-1 shield magic should be able to withstand close-range pistol fire." Tangmo stared at the virtually invisible shield with a furrowed brow.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Luo’er fired three shots. As expected, all the bullets were blocked. This was different from ordinary shield magic. Bullets hitting the shield did not rebound but were instead absorbed by it. Onlookers could even see the ripples on the shield when the bullet hit it.

This was unexpected to everyone because ordinary shield magic was very rigid, making bullets likely to rebound upon impact. It was seldom the case where bullets were absorbed by the shield, with no deformation occurring.

"How did you do it?" Luo’er asked, his eyes wide open, after ejecting the magazine.

"I don’t know, I thought about catching the bullet, and then I caught it." Fulajie’er answered innocently.

"So that’s how it is." Nightingale calmly walked forward and directly took the bullets suspended in air into her hand. Fulajie’er then cancelled the shield, and the remaining bullets immediately fell to the ground.

"Could a ghost use magic to catch a bullet?" Luo’er asked, a bit confused.

"Of course not," Nightingale explained casually, "actually anyone who controls shield magic can manipulate the hardness of the shield, guiding the bullet to exhaust its kinetic energy, and then catch it."

"I don’t understand again." Luo’er said, scratching his head awkwardly.

"The shield is not completely hard." While saying so, Nightingale casually tossed a bullet head towards Fulajie’er, who immediately understood and deployed her shield, capturing the bullet head again.

"Experienced mages can actually control the hardness of their shields. So when the bullet is shot, their shields deform a little, neutralize the bullet’s kinetic energy, and then capture the bullet head." Nightingale continued.

"But it seems we never saw such a thing happen." Luo’er said.

"Of course, because most people are afraid to do so, they just dare to maximize the hardness of the shield to block the bullets. Controlling the shield’s hardness is a dangerous thing because if not handled properly, the shield may not be able to stop the bullet, leading to the mage being hit." Nightingale explained.

"Then Fula..." Luo’er asked hesitantly.

"Fula is a spirit body, she is not afraid of bullets. So when facing the muzzle, she doesn’t need to worry about being hit by the bullet, so she can calmly control the hardness of the shield. Your two little lovers also know this kind of magic, they just dare not use it." After looking at Luo’er, Nightingale said.

"What little lovers." Luo’er scratched his head, saying awkwardly.

Next, they continued the magic experiment and reached a conclusion that Fulajie’er could now use any kind of magic, as long as she could remember the spells.

In principle, the current Fulajie’er was almost invincible. Perhaps her only weakness was the crystal that constrained her soul, similar to Achilles’ Heel in the Homeric Epics.

Next was the communication experiment. The advance team was distributed all around, conducting information exchange through Fulajie’er. During the experiment, they found that Fulajie’er was still using her previous method. She disassembled her body, teleported directly to the person, and then reconstructed her body in front of them for communication.

This raised two main questions. How should Fulajie’er position the team members? After all, even though Fulajie’er was powerful, she was originally a mortal and couldn’t calculate large amounts of data like artificial intelligence. Secondly, Fulajie’er had to reconstruct her body every time she appeared, causing severe magical disturbances, which directly exposed the team members’ location.

In fact, when the test reached this point, Nightingale had roughly guessed Li Si’s intentions, but didn’t unveil it immediately. After all, it depended on Fulajie’er’s opinion. If she was willing to follow Luo’er, Nightingale would have nothing to say.

To solve these two problems, solutions could only be found in magic. Nightingale’s idea was to use magic crystals to release mineral magic, enabling Fulajie’er to capture the mineral magic in the air and find the team members’ location.

About the magic disturbance issue when reconstructing her body, Nightingale already had a solution. Previously, the advance team, who attacked the God-Creating Base, was equipped with a magic crystal device that could release magic into the air at any time. This was because they were worried that the ghost they carried might not be able to adapt to areas with weak magic.

If every team member wore such a device, then Fulajie’er could use the mineral magic in the magic crystal for body reconstitution, thus greatly reducing the magic disturbance in the air. As for the little magic that maintained her body, it was almost negligible, only a magic genius like Tangmo could sense it at a close distance.

However, concerning Fulajie’er disassembly of her body, Tangmo had thought of a good magic attacking method. He suggested having her teleport to the enemy’s location for reconstitution and, before disassembly, turn the magic that composed her body into other damaging substances, like magic flames. Further, by combining the principle of localized explosion, they could turn Fulajie’er’s disassembly process into a self-destruction process, thus damaging the enemy’s army.

Fulajie’er’s thoughts, on the other hand, were quite straightforward. She would simply carry out whatever they tasked her with. After all, through Luo’er, she not only freed her body, but also found her sister, so she deeply trusted Luo’er. Therefore, Nightingale was well aware that once Luo’er proposed that Fulajie’er follow him, she would certainly not oppose.