Otherworld Advance Team
Chapter 643 - 636: Method of Charging

Chapter 643: Chapter 636: Method of Charging

During this time, the Advance Team has not been entirely idle but has instead been engaged in individual training. At Luoer’s request, Li Si replied to Wang Xu, allowing Feng to join the Advance Team as a temporary member.

Actually, Wang Xu only agreed because Luoer guaranteed it - otherwise, how could he so easily trust a person of unknown origin?

Since Feng’s height and physique were similar to that of Tangmo, Tangmo had her change into her own clothes, which did not seem out of place. However, what Feng found uncomfortable was that once she exited the research area, she had to wear a gas mask, which made her quite uncomfortable.

Although Feng would not be infected by the virus, she could become a carrier, so it was necessary to take some protective measures to prevent her from infecting others.

Though Dr. An Liang was confident in his scheme, both Li Si and Luoer didn’t quite believe in his gene deceiving plan. In their view, the best approach was to study the virus antibody and directly kill the invading virus. The idea of inhibiting infection by deceiving the virus felt like an act of self-deception.

Since Luoer had sustained injuries, the task of settling Feng fell onto Tangmo. This was also the first time she carried out such a task independently.

If Feng was to join the Advance Team, the question of her weapon and equipment would need to be addressed. While Feng was changing clothes, Tangmo inspected the longsword Feng carried with her. The blade was already severely worn out, and if she hadn’t guessed wrong, it should be the prophet’s former sword.

Though Feng’s main attack style was magic formulas and she didn’t need the blade to directly touch the target, Tangmo still considered it better to provide her with new weaponry due to the uncertainty.

After asking Feng’s opinion, Tangmo stored her original sword and found the Legion Commander of the Purification Legion, Carter, from whom she obtained a longsword bearing the crest of House Uzistas.

The longsword was Carter’s personal sidearm, but hearing that Tangmo needed it, he gave it to her in gratitude. After all, his sister was still studying under them, so building a good relationship was necessary. Besides, Carter had thought that his Legion would inevitably follow the path of Earth’s military forces, so having a longsword besides looking good was not as useful as a handgun.

Feng cherished her new longsword, cradled it in her arms, and rubbed it constantly, examining the exquisite carvings on it. She should be the second member of the Advance Team to wield a cold weapon, following Cheng Ziang. However, Feng’s situation was completely different from Cheng Ziang’s, leading them down two separate paths.

Cheng Ziang, equipped with cold weapons, could only exploit the close-quarters advantages of these weapons and even with full force, could not compete with traditional warm weapons. So, he eventually gave up on cold weapons and returned to wielding warm weapons.

However, Feng was different. Even armed with cold weapons, her combat power did not need to be less than other team members with warm weapons, and it could even be much stronger. So, she had none of Cheng Ziang’s worries.

Specifically, Feng’s combat power was made up of magic and cold weapons. Magic in Otherworld had home advantage and was in no way inferior to Earth’s firearms. Cheng Ziang’s downfall was primarily due to his low magic potential.

Having solved her weapon issue, Tangmo’s next task was to address Feng’s magic issue. After observation and testing for some time, Tangmo had basically confirmed that Feng’s magic formulas operated by utilizing the magic power stored in her body, rather than their method of absorbing magic and releasing it through circulation in their body.

To put it simply, Tangmo and her companions were like solar flashlights that shone when the sun was out and couldn’t shine without the sun. Feng, on the other hand, was like a flashlight with a battery - as long as the battery had power, she could shine, regardless of the presence of the sun.

Moreover, Feng’s method of magic use had a much larger output power compared to traditional magic and was released much faster. Traditional magic formulas required mages to absorb magic power before releasing it, so casting a magic formula required two steps. Since Feng had already absorbed the magic power into her body in advance, she could directly release it.

And because she stored the magic power in advance, Feng could release a large amount of magic power in a short time. The released power depended on her magical aptitude. For traditional mages to release the same amount of magic power, they would need to gather magic power over a period of time.

After figuring out Feng’s magic release mechanism, Tangmo also found a way to enhance Feng’s combat power. Essentially, it is to speed up her magic absorption rate, or to put it plainly, her charging speed. As long as Feng can absorb magic power quickly, she can maintain a long-lasting state of continuously using magic.

"Show me the carpet you use to charge yourself!" Tangmo stretched out her hand towards Feng, who was hugging her longsword close, unwilling to part with it.

"Charge...charge?" Feng tilted her head, staring at her with wide eyes in confusion.

"The carpet you use to absorb magic!" Tangmo explained.

"Oh," Feng nodded, put down her longsword, took the carpet out of her bag, and handed it to her, "Here you go."

After spending a short time around Tangmo, Feng had basically accepted her as someone she could trust, making her the second person Feng was willing to trust, after Luoer.

"Who drew this for you?" As soon as she saw the runes on the carpet, Tangmo’s old habit of finding fault came into play.

"What’s wrong?" Feng blinked and asked.

"So cumbersome, the line from here to here could be connected directly, but it goes round in a big circle, wasting time guiding the magic power, and it serves no purpose. And this line is a dead-end, at best it only fills this one line and doesn’t perform any function. While these runes seem complicated, it’s actually trivial and useless." Tangmo knitted her brows and said.

She looked at Feng and found that she was staring wide-eyed, looking innocent and not understanding what she was criticizing. So, she sighed heavily and said, "Never mind, you don’t understand even if I explain. Let me redraw it for you to improve your magic input speed."

Originally, Tangmo believed that the runes on this carpet were drawn so laboriously to limit the speed of magic power input. But she had once manually input magic power into Feng, and found that her body could fully bear the import of a large amount of magic power. The magic power input from this carpet was similar to a trickling stream; one couldn’t say it was poorly drawn, but the magic power input speed was really too slow.

According to Tangmo’s calculations, in order to fully charge Feng’s body with magic power, the runes on this carpet would take at least a whole day. If she could improve it a bit, she believed she could increase this peak value by more than five times.

Although Tangmo could also manually infuse magic power into Feng, it needs to be pointed out that the current method she has to infuse magic power into Feng’s body is the prelude spell of Radiant Singularity, which guides and aggregates atmospheric magic power, then transmits it through a medium to Feng’s body.

This process places a burden on Tangmo herself and should only be used in emergencies. If this method were to be used daily, her body would eventually suffer from Magic Erosion Disease.

As mentioned before, once a mage suffers from magic power erosion, it signifies the end of their magic career. Unlike Luoer, if Tangmo contracts Magic Erosion Disease, she would be directly rendered incapacitated.

She found a new carpet, located the materials needed to draw the runes, and brought these things to find Baiyue to help with the calculation and creating of the runes.

Actually, the process of drawing runes was one of Tangmo’s specialties; she could have easily done it all by herself. The main reason she sought Baiyue’s help was that she did not want Baiyue to benefit from it.

Recently, she found her position under threat as Baiyue was making her way into Luoer’s affections. Although she was willing to compete with Baiyue for Luoer, the current situation was clearly not in her favor. Therefore, she had to take some petty actions to regain some ground.