Volume 18, Chapter 174: Strategic Spell Preparation

Chapter 174 Strategic Spell Preparation

"Then how much does it cost exactly?"

"It depends on the variety." Rose said: "There are two types of crystal balls, each with three capacities, and a total of six different models. The capacity of the crystal balls is divided into three levels: one thousand, ten thousand and one hundred thousand. , the one in your hand is a medium-sized magic storage crystal ball with a magic value of 10,000. In addition, according to the conversion ratio of absorbed magic power, it is divided into high-efficiency type and ordinary type. The one in your hand is the ordinary type, and the conversion rate is about 20% One is to input twenty magic powers and successfully store one magic power. The conversion rate of the high-efficiency type is slightly higher, probably reaching 12 to 1 to 13 to 1. Among them, the ordinary type crystal ball is based on the magic power storage capacity. Different, the cost prices are thirteen, sixteen and twenty respectively.”

"Crystal coins?"

"No, silver coins."

"What? What I have in my hand only costs sixteen silver coins? Isn't that just over one yuan when converted into RMB?"

"That's why I said it's cheap!" Rose smiled proudly: "The production method of this thing is so simple that you can't even imagine it. You just need to draw the alchemy magic array on a flat plate, then grind the white magic crystal into powder and pile it on top of the magic array. , and then input a small amount of magic power to activate it. Woma and the others set up a special assembly line in Steel City. One such assembly line can produce more than a hundred per minute, which is almost like printing a newspaper. Even the fast eyes can't keep up. Moreover, this assembly line only requires two NPCs to operate, and most of the production costs are transportation fees. The pure manufacturing cost is less than ten silver coins per crystal ball."

“What about the price of the high-efficiency model?”

"The price of the high-efficiency model is a little higher. Depending on the capacity, the manufacturing cost is ***10."

"gold?"

"No, it's a crystal coin."

"The efficiency has only improved a little, so why has the price increased so much?"

Rose also said with some frustration: "The post-production of the high-efficiency type is actually the same as that of the ordinary type. The extra cost is in the early stage. The ordinary type only needs to grind the scrapped white magic crystal into coarse powder and add it according to the required weight. , but the high-efficiency type must use an advanced pulverizer to grind the coarse powder into fine powder, and add a trace amount of pearl powder. The advanced pulverizer only costs a few dollars, and the cost is mainly on the pearl powder. Although the amount added is not It’s very big, but pearls are not bad after all, and buying pearls in large quantities will definitely increase the cost.”

"Wait a minute." I suddenly noticed an important point. "You said that a high-efficiency crystal ball requires adding pearl powder and crushing it thoroughly. Then can I think that as long as it is crushed as finely as possible and more pearl powder is added, the conversion rate can continue to be improved?"

"It can be changed, but it is not non-toxic. The current addition ratio is the most cost-effective solution that Wal-Mart and they have experimented with. Increasing the amount of pearl powder can indeed increase the conversion efficiency, but when When the ratio of pearl powder reaches one thousandth of the scrapped white magic crystal powder, it is the upper limit. At this time, the conversion rate can be increased to slightly higher than twelve to one. It can be said that the improvement effect is very weak. Continue to increase the ratio of pearl powder , the conversion rate will not only not increase but will also decrease, and the conversion may not even be completed.”

“Is there any other way to improve conversion rate?”

"Of course." Rose said: "Just add some red magic crystal powder. However, the ratio is very high, and there is no such thing as scrapping of red magic crystal. This in itself is equivalent to consumptive production. In the final calculation, one The cost price of a crystal ball may rise to more than thirty crystal coins, and the conversion rate is only eight to one."

I thought for a while and said: "No, this model should still be valuable. Although it is not cost-effective to equip ordinary players, it is definitely worth using for elites. As for the ordinary versions, the price difference between different capacities is not big anyway. , there is absolutely no need to produce three capacity levels. In this way, you go back and inform Woma, and we will produce it this way in the future. The ones with ordinary conversion rates will only produce two capacities of 100,000 magic values ​​and 1,000 magic values. After production, we will give it to our guild Each member of the guild is allocated one with a capacity of 100,000. The high-efficiency type only produces a model with 10,000 magic points. Members of the guild can use the ordinary type allocated with a little more money and guild contribution points to redeem it. If you want You can buy a few more, but the price and guild contribution point consumption will increase, and *** one person can buy up to three. In addition, we will also produce some special enhanced versions and give them to each guild with which we have good relations. Ten pieces, members of the guild can use the guild contribution points to redeem them, but it’s free of charge, and the contribution points can be charged slightly higher.”

"What about the regular low-capacity version?"

"For takeout. The guilds that have a good relationship with us will give them a discount price, and the hostile guilds will ask them to buy it on the black market. As for the price...it's just twenty crystal coins each. The related guilds will give them nine. A 50% discount is fine, and hardcore players like the Iron Crusaders, Northern Alliance, and Blood Alliance can consider a 20% discount."

"No problem, I'll do it right away."

"Oh, by the way, the high-efficiency version with a capacity of 10,000 will be put up for auction every week with a hundred pieces at a minimum price of one hundred crystal coins. Hehe, this is a huge profit!"

"You only sell something worth more than a dozen silver coins for twenty crystal coins. How can you make a huge profit? But the price is indeed quite outrageous. We can make a big profit this time."

Rose is worthy of being the housekeeper of our Frost Rose Alliance. She has never been a queen in making money. But the price I offered this time is indeed not low, and coupled with the auction, I estimate that I can make a lot of money. Besides, compared to the selling price, our costs are already so low that they are almost negligible. What is there to be picky about in such a cost-effective business?

As soon as we finished talking about internal affairs, another artillery shell roared over from the opposite side. As soon as I heard the sound, I knew that the artillery shell was flying directly towards us, so I quickly stretched out my wings and completely enveloped the rose, and then Just after hearing a bang, the two of us were instantly surrounded by a ball of fire. However, not long after the fireball rose, my pair of huge wings suddenly blew out all the remaining flames, and we were not damaged at all.

"Damn Russians, the shelling has been going on for almost half an hour, why don't we see them approaching?"

This is not because I am impatient, but because the Russians' attack speed is really slow. It has been at least more than forty minutes since the Frozen Banshee ordered the entire army to advance. Otherwise, I and I would have been discussing the guild's miscellaneous things with Rose and King Chuang. In fact, I'm tired of waiting. However, the Russians are not in a hurry at all. Although their troops have been attacking, their speed is very slow. After such a long time, even a turtle should have crawled to our position, but the Russian forward actually There are still several hundred meters between us and our troops, so the speed of a snail is probably no more than that. However, although their troops attacked slowly, their shelling was fierce and terrifying. From the time the entire Russian invasion legion began to move to now, at least more than 100,000 artillery shells have fallen on our position, and many of them are magic crystal steam shells, which are not only amazingly powerful, but also terrifyingly dense. At first we thought the Russians were preparing for artillery fire, but who knew that they would continue to attack for half an hour without stopping. If we hadn't been prepared to resist the bombardment, there would probably have been no survivors on our position for such a long time.

"How long do you think it will take for them to make direct contact with us at the current speed?" Hongyue, who had just arrived at the front line, asked, looking at the craters all around.

"I think the Russians are scared." I pointed to the front line of the Russian army and said, "Looking at their expressions, it is clear that they are scared. Although their leaders know that this battle will cost a huge price, the ordinary members below Obviously they didn't fully understand their thoughts. Those people didn't want to fight us at all. Although they didn't resist, they were very unwilling to come up and die, so the attack speed was so slow. But having said that, what about our artillery group? How can we just How about watching people throw cannonballs over our heads?"

After hearing my words, Hongyue asked in surprise: "The artillery group is waiting for an ambush across the Yellow River. Didn't you make the plan yourself? Why didn't you know?"

"An ambush? Please, even if an ambush requires artillery groups, you can still leave a few artillery groups for me! Look, the Russians have no casualties at all. They can do whatever they want. *, if our shelling density was half that of the Russians, I think they would dare to go forward like this!"

"Then what should we do now?" Hongyue said with some worry: "The artillery group is already in place. If we move it here at this time, I'm afraid we will have to pull it back just after crossing the river without firing a few rounds. It doesn't seem very cost-effective. ah?"

After hearing Hong Yue's words, Rose suddenly turned around and looked at me and said, "Husband, isn't your trumpet a strategic mage? We have many high-level players here, so just use strategic spells to blast them."

"That's right." I patted my head and took out the communicator and said, "Military God, help me connect with all our elites on the battlefield."

"Already connected."

"Attention everyone, I am Guild President Ziri. The group of damn polar bears opposite us seemed to scare us. It took us so long to reach less than 500 meters. At this rate, it will probably be tomorrow when the two sides engage in battle. I don't want to wait for them to crawl over slowly, so I want to give them some motivation. Now listen carefully. All personnel will form an array immediately. The melee personnel will form a defensive front line, and the crossbowmen will insert themselves into the defense line. Auxiliary, the specific arrangement is at the disposal of the military god. Finally, all the magicians who know strategic magic will gather behind the defense line for me to let those greedy polar bears see our guild's unique strategic magic and give them a gift they will never forget. Now Everyone, please move."

As my order was issued, the frontal defense line our guild was responsible for immediately became chaotic. However, this chaos only looked chaotic. In fact, everyone knew what they were going to do. He was running around without any purpose, so he just looked a little messy.

Soon our new defense line gradually took shape in this large-scale movement of the entire army. The fish scale formation, which was originally composed of seven-man combat teams, instantly turned into a horizontal formation. The people in the front row were all main tank combatants wearing heavy plate armor, followed closely by high-sensitivity combatants. personnel and balanced combatants, and finally a row of 'shooters'. Although this kind of defense line has little offensive power, its defensive ability is definitely the strongest. Moreover, our front line is not composed of ordinary players.

Everyone on this line of defense is an elite member of our guild. Almost everyone is above level 990, and there are even many who are above level 1,000. It is no exaggeration to say that in terms of individual combat power, this is already the strongest army in the world. If you want to break through its defense line head-on without paying more than ten times the casualties, it is simply a dream.

However... although the front line of defense looks scary, the real danger is not that line of defense. After all, no matter how strong the line of defense is, it is still a line of defense. If you don't provoke it, the line of defense itself will not be able to produce lethality. But behind this line of defense, the magic circle composed of a large group of mages is no joke.

Although the game "Zero" is not the first online game to propose the idea of ​​strategic spells, it is the most complete in the development and evolution of strategic spells. Not only does it have a large and complete power calculation system, it even has a A spell development system specially designed for large guilds. As long as your guild has enough funds and technical strength, you can develop special strategic spells suitable for your guild based on its characteristics. This kind of strategic spell can be an offensive spell, a defensive spell, or even an auxiliary spell. As long as you can think of it, it can be designed and developed through the development system, but the more demanding the requirements, the more difficult the research will be. The higher it is.

As the richest and most technically powerful guild in the world, our Frost Rose Alliance will naturally not lag behind others in terms of strategic spell research. In fact, our guild even has a large group of full-time players responsible for developing strategic spells, and because our guild has recruited a large number of veteran technical magic masters like Master Jiaha, our technical level in magic is definitely ahead of other industries. A lot. With such an advantage, even a fool wouldn't believe it if our guild didn't have a few bottom-of-the-box strategic spells.

Under the coordination between the God of War and I, the mage on our side quickly moved to the designated position, and as everyone stood in their position, a huge magic circle composed of people gradually appeared on the battlefield.

Because this strategic spell is so powerful, its requirements are relatively demanding. First of all, the precise positioning is very particular. Everyone involved in the spell release must stand in the corresponding position, and clearly know which part they belong to and what needs to be done. This process is a bit like the performance at the opening ceremony of a sports meeting where people are used to put together patterns and words. The entire pattern or text is composed of individual people. As long as one person stands in the wrong position, the pattern will be distorted or even completely wrong. 'chaos'. Compared with the performance at the opening ceremony, strategic spells have stricter requirements for positioning. As long as one person stands in the wrong position during the entire spell release process, the spell will fail and waste time and magic power, or the magic will backfire and destroy everyone. Participants were blown away together.

Just because strategic spells require too high a position, most guilds usually use small arrays for their strategic spells. There are actually six versions of each strategic spell. The first version is a single-player version of strategic spells. However, this spell generally does not appear on the battlefield because it is used to test data such as the feasibility and ultimate power of strategic spells. In fact, it is not very practical. value. In addition to the first version, the remaining five versions of strategic spells are Micro, Small, Medium, Large and Super. These five models are actually strategic spells with practical value, and each strategic spell will have all six versions of it from the day it is researched.

In fact, it can be seen from the name that the difference between different versions of strategic spells is in size. The small ones are less powerful and have lower requirements, while the larger ones are more powerful and have relatively higher requirements. Under normal circumstances, general guilds will only use two levels of strategic spells, micro and small, because these two levels are safer.

Miniature strategic spells usually only require seven or eight people to cast spells in combination, and do not require a strategic mage as the core, which means that only seven or eight mages can cast spells in one place. In addition, because the number of people is small, the positioning is relatively easy, and the miniature version of the strategic spell itself has a high error tolerance rate. Even if someone stands a little crooked, it is not a big deal.

Compared with the miniature version, the small version of strategic spells requires slightly more personnel. Under normal circumstances, small strategic spells require more than thirty mages to cast spells collectively, and at least one strategic mage must act as the core. In addition, starting from this level, strategic spells will have very strict positioning requirements, so most guilds will first send people to draw a magic circle on the ground, and then ask people to stand up according to the marks on the ground. The advantage of doing this is that it is less error-prone, but the disadvantage is that it takes a lot of time to draw the magic circle in advance. However, considering that strategic spells themselves do not fall into the category of rapid mobile strikes, it is barely acceptable to delay a little longer.

The medium-sized version of strategic spells is naturally more demanding than the previous two versions. This version of strategic spells is generally for hundreds of people, and depending on the spell type, multiple strategic spells may be needed to serve as nodes, and then a strategic mage with the highest strength will act as the guide. Of course, this kind of strategic spell arrangement on a scale of hundreds of people also requires lines to be drawn in advance for the mages to stand on, otherwise so many people will definitely make mistakes.

For general guilds, the above three are the limits they can use. Firstly, most guilds do not have that many mages to complete larger strategic spells. Secondly, they cannot guarantee accuracy. After all, large-scale and super-version strategic spells do not ensure correct positioning by drawing magic circles on the ground. Yes, unless there are special methods, ordinary guilds cannot afford this kind of thing.

But...unfortunately for the Russian Expeditionary Force, our Frost Rose Alliance happens to be able to play that kind of super strategic spell.