Jia Lan was pulled by an invisible force of wind element and flying in the air, but his heart was full of depression.
In the eyes of the mercenaries and magicians of the Golden Two-Headed Dragon Mercenary Group, this magician with a mysterious background seemed to be "omnipotent" and might even be regarded as the legendary "all-round magician".
However, only Jia Lan himself knew that his true strength was only at the level of "high-level magician apprentice", not even a real "arcane spellcaster".
Despite this, Jia Lan's strength should not be underestimated.
In the twenty years he spent in the Kolanburg Library, he accumulated a lot of knowledge and gained rich practical experience under the guidance of a 13th-level legendary teacher, which made him proficient in all fields.
In addition, due to the changes of the times, the concentration of arcane energy and the density of elements in the space have undergone tremendous changes. These changes have made Jia Lan, who originally had mediocre combat ability, a "strong man" in the eyes of others.
However, the gap in rank cannot be made up by profound knowledge alone.
In the pre-civilization era, "caster" is a general term covering many factions such as "arcane, secret, trickster, sorcerer, spirit, shadow" and so on.
Whether it is a "mage" or a "warlock", their spellcasting principles are inseparable from the roots of arcane magic, which involves a problem of "casting level".
The so-called "casting level" does not refer to the level of magic strength mastered by modern magicians, but to the level of "spell structure".
In the arcane magic system, spells are composed of different "rune components".
The higher the level of the spell, the more rune components there are and the more complex the structure.
In addition, on top of the planar components of the spell structure, there are more complex "multi-dimensional" and "phase" issues.
People often say "1st-level spells, 2nd-level spells", which actually refers to the inclusion of several-dimensional structures in the spell structure.
Those containing "one element" are called "one element spells" or "one-ring spells", and those containing "two elements" are called "two element spells" or "two-ring spells".
If "phase" is involved, there will be complex spell structures such as "one element single phase spells", "one element two phase spells", and "two element three phase spells".
These details are too complicated, so let's not talk about them for now.
With Jia Lan's strength, he could only construct "0-level spells", that is, "zero-ring spells" or "zero element spells" in the pre-civilization era.
To put it bluntly, it is an apprentice spell, and the highest one only involves a small amount of "one element spells".
It just so happens that most of the 0-level spells are "single component spells", which can only show basic spell effects when released.
Therefore, although Jia Lan has extensive knowledge of the arcane, he cannot release spells with complex effects.
For example, "Flying" is a "three-element three-phase" spell in the arcane magic. The complexity of its spell structure is beyond the control of Jia Lan at present.
Even if he knows the detailed spells and gestures of "Flying", it will be useless because he has not personally constructed the spell model of "Flying", so he cannot release this spell.
In this regard, Jia Lan feels that the magicians of the current era are simpler and more direct. They do not consider any structure or phase, but simply manipulate the elements to achieve their goals.
Of course, Jia Lan also knows that the "Wind Flying" of the wind magician is fundamentally different from the "Flying" he knows.
But even so, the flying height and speed of "Wind Flying" make him feel helpless. It is better to say that it is floating in the sky in a suspended state, carried by the air flow.
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As far as he knows, even the most basic flying technique can reach an altitude of 200 meters and a speed of 20 meters per second.
That's roughly equivalent to more than 70 kilometers per hour.
And the advanced flying technique can reach an altitude of 1,000 meters and a speed of more than 200 kilometers per hour.
It floated slowly in the sky, no more than twenty meters high, and its speed was so slow that it was a "living target"!
Okay, but in general, it is at least flying.
But in this situation, Jia Lan has no choice but to grit his teeth and concentrate on summoning four wind balls to ruthlessly shoot down the jumping rats below.
The impulse in Jia Lan's heart to get close to the rat queen is undoubtedly a gamble.
The rats that originally besieged the mercenaries were attracted by them at this moment, and gathered under their feet into a surging "rat wave".
Looking at the huge rats, scrambling to step on their companions and rushing into the air, the spectacular scene was a little inspiring, but it was stressful for the two magicians who acted as "live targets" in the air.
When Jia Lan heard the "crackling" sound of a dark magic rat biting its fangs less than two or three meters away from his feet, his original plan to capture the king first and directly eliminate the rat queen was disrupted. He had to wave his wand and planned to teach these minions a lesson.
Jia Lan originally planned to launch a "level 10 out-of-control fireball" at the "rat wave", but just when he injected the fire element into the magic wand, he felt his body suddenly sinking, and the exclamation of Rika, an intermediate wind magician, came to his ears.
Jia Lan quickly dispersed the gathered fire elements, sweating coldly. He was too close to the magician Reka who was maintaining the Wind Flying Technique, and his simulated magic had too strong a pulling effect on the elemental particles in the environment, which could easily affect the stability of other elemental magic.
Jia Lan was safe and sound when he released the wind ball, but when he switched to fire magic, he almost destroyed Reka's Wind Flying Technique.
As two magicians, they would definitely not die from falling, but the problem was that there was not only a hard ground below, but also a pile of dark magic rats piled up like a mountain. If they fell, they would probably be gnawed to pieces before they felt any pain.
Since he couldn't use explosive fire magic, and the damage of wind magic to the rat wave was negligible, Jia Lan had to find another way. He took out bottles of pottery from his pocket and smashed them hard at the rat wave, throwing dozens of bottles!
Magician Reka, who had just been startled, asked in shock: "Magician Jialan, what did you throw down?"
"Uh, nothing, a kind of alchemical oil..."
When Jialan saw that the rolling pile of rats was almost stained by the black oil flowing out of the broken pottery jar, he took out a black stone the size of an egg and reminded: "Magician Reka, hold the wind flying technique steady, there may be air flow impact..." As he said, he suddenly smashed the black stone in his hand down.
With a loud bang and a flash of fire, the pile of rats on the ground was instantly covered by a spreading flame!
The dark demon rats covered in flames screamed and fled in all directions. The originally piled-up waves of rats quickly disintegrated. In the blink of an eye, the dark demon rats on fire were all over the rat cage hall!
The dark demon rats with black oil on their fur were burned by the flames and lost their minds. They rushed and bit each other frantically without distinguishing between friend and foe. Soon, they rubbed the kerosene on their bodies onto other innocent dark demon rats. One spread to ten, ten spread to a hundred...
Everyone stared at the chaotic scene in front of them in amazement. Even Jia Lan himself was stunned. This was something he had never expected. A short sentence emerged in his mind: "A single spark can start a prairie fire!"
The rat group in the rat cage hall was too dense. The number of dark demon rats summoned by the rat queen had exceeded two thousand, and they were almost crowded together.
At this moment, nearly a hundred dark demon rats covered in black oil were running around with blazing flames, and soon ignited the thick fur of other dark demon rats.
The dark demon rats crowded together were like a group of furry tinders. Soon, the whole hall was filled with rats with flames all over their bodies, jumping and screaming wildly, like a pot of boiling water!
Jia Lan's face changed when he reacted, and he said, "Not good! Let's retreat!"
Magician Rika also understood what Jia Lan meant, and desperately urged the wind flying technique to fly towards the secret door, and had to keep lowering the altitude... The billowing black smoke had begun to cover the dome of the rat cage hall.
As soon as he fell back into the defensive formation formed by the mercenaries, Jia Lan waved his magic wand, and a thick earth spike smashed the earth wall that the earth magician had used to seal the secret door. He also threw a fireball, which blew away the rats behind the door and shouted, "Run!"
Jia Lan rushed out of the rat cage hall first, with the wind ball clearing the way, and the mercenaries who also knew that it was not suitable to stay here for a long time followed him and quickly withdrew from the secret door.
Fortunately, the number of dark demon rats that went around from other rat holes to the back of the crowd was not large, and they were quickly slaughtered in front of the mercenaries and magicians who had already started to fight desperately.
When everyone evacuated the secret door, the earth magicians sealed the secret door again with an earth wall.
The thieves scattered and looked for nearby smoke, and the earth magicians sealed them one by one!
After seeing everyone escape safely, Jia Lan breathed a sigh of relief, but when he looked up, he found that everyone was looking at him straight, and he was immediately embarrassed. This was the third time he almost killed his own people, right?
Jia Lan was also very frustrated. Is this the result of lack of experience? No wonder those adventurers in the pre-civilization would jokingly call his kind of magicians "academic magicians", saying that they have rich theoretical knowledge but lack practical experience...
