Lord of Arcane

Chapter 942 Expulsion spell killing will start

Fortunately, murlocs weren't really amphibious creatures. Although they could go ashore, they couldn't leave the water for too long, which limited their range of activities.

Otherwise, it is really a species that is even more troublesome than goblins.

Of course, it's not much better now. The murlocs can go ashore, even if it's only for a limited time, but the people sent by the Severton Council really have the patience to search one by one near the river that is hundreds or even kilometers long?

And then clean up all the murlocs without pulling one by one?
Xia Duo doesn't doubt that this person has such ability, but whether he will do so is a big question mark.

This is like on the earth, the general manufacturers are capable of controlling the pass rate of the manufactured goods at 100%, but in fact they will not do so at all.

Cost and marginal utility must be balanced to achieve a maximum benefit ratio. Unless it is a vital product, such as a parachute, who would do such a "thankless" thing!

Xia Duo can almost conclude that in the future, the Wolfburg River Basin and the North-South Nether River Basin will definitely be a paradise for those "fish" who slipped through the net.

At that time, there will be another creature called "Murloc" in the regular cleaning list of the territory.

As for the moment, the reason why Eberke said that he might not be able to stop the tide of murlocs was more because he was worried about all kinds of troubles after the murlocs were born with wisdom.

Without wisdom, murlocs are just wild animals with strong reproductive ability. As long as high-value applications related to murlocs are developed, no amount of murlocs will be enough to kill them.

Similar to the crayfish in Xia Duo's hometown, the reproductive ability is stronger than that of the murlocs, but in the end it is reduced to the point where artificial breeding is needed to keep up with the supply.

But if you have wisdom, you will be able to run, escape, and sneak attack, and the most important thing is to develop civilization, that is, to master real power, instead of using numbers to kill the enemy.

Then it cannot be treated with common sense.

Now it is obvious that the murlocs are intelligent, at least they have the potential to be intelligent, and they will be very busy in the future!
……

Standing by the river and watching for a while, Xia Duo knew it was time to act when he saw a murloc trying to get ashore to bypass the ice barrier in the water.

Otherwise, when the murlocs dispersed, he wouldn't have the energy to catch them one by one.

"Uncle Eberke, I'll go to the north to clean up the murlocs. You ask Niya to increase the manpower. Don't let the murlocs go over the fence to the south."

After finishing speaking, Xia Duo was about to leave when he suddenly remembered something, so he added: "By the way, Uncle Eberke, you can ask Saitos, the steward of Mingshui Chamber of Commerce, about the spells that restrict or expel murlocs. , which is very important for us to maintain the safety of the waters around the territory!"

The Mingshui Chamber of Commerce must be able to raise murlocs in an open water like Lake Mecht, and it must have related spells. In fact, Xia Duo had also asked Saitos and even Pelokan about this issue, but there was no answer.

The focus of such spells is not murlocs, but special elemental units with restrictive or expulsion effects. Knowing a murloc-related spell, one can naturally transform spells suitable for other creatures.

The Mingshui Chamber of Commerce intends to keep it, and Xia Duo can understand it, but now the murloc has almost become a public hazard in Netheril, and if it is kept hidden, it will only provoke public outrage.

At least in the future, the various territories that may share the management costs of the murlocs will be very dissatisfied with the Mingshui Chamber of Commerce.

After all, the murloc was raised by the Grand Arcanist Horn, but it was the Mingshui Chamber of Commerce who actually operated it. It was not easy to target the Grand Arcanist, and it would not be a problem to make things difficult for the Mingshui Chamber of Commerce.

Xia Duo believed that the Mingshui Chamber of Commerce would not refuse this time, not to mention that Xia Duo did not get the spell for nothing, and he would also pay the corresponding spell transfer fee.

Hello, hello, hello everyone, is really good!

After briefly describing the effect of that spell with Eberke, Shadou took off into the air and flew north along the route that the Wolfburg River came from.

……

While flying through the clouds and fog, Xia Duo was also paying attention to the situation of the murlocs in the river. After flying for a while, he discovered a phenomenon that was different from the detection results shared by Niya in the mind link before——

There are more murlocs going ashore!

Moreover, the murlocs themselves fought, and even killed and suffered casualties.

This is even more serious than what we saw in Savile Town. It seems that the further north the murlocs are, the higher the probability of awakening their self-awareness and becoming wise murlocs!
Of course, that's not the case in reality. When Xia Duo came to a position 20 miles away from Savile Town, the proportion of intelligent murlocs was almost stable.

That's as much as one-fifth!
"Perhaps it is possible to awaken all of them!"

Xia Duo guessed at will without any psychological burden that the murlocs themselves should have wisdom, but the ancestors of these murlocs were artificially "castrated" with wisdom, and now they just regained the wisdom they should have.

As for why there is no psychological burden, it is natural that he has long been mentally prepared that the murlocs are all intelligent species, and they are nothing more than another "aquatic goblin".

What else could it be?

Although it is a very troublesome and stubborn disease, how to deal with it, after so many years of human development, there has been a plan. If Xia Duo completely ignores it, the territory will spontaneously appear a fixed cleaning procedure——

Soldiers take the initiative to clean up regularly + adventurers have long-term tasks.

As for now, Xia Duo came here purely to reduce the pressure on the Savile soldiers who are still fighting in the north, to avoid too many intelligent murlocs, and to avoid obstacles and wreak havoc in the territory. It has nothing to do with the future.

Anyway, the cleanup personnel sent by the Severton Conference will come later. Most of the existing murlocs in the Wolfburg River Basin, no matter whether they have regained their wisdom or not, are going to die.

There is no doubt about that.

And what Xia Duo is doing now is just slightly adjusting the death date of some murlocs.

Such a thing itself is meaningless, but who made him still hold the title of acting lord of Savile Land, how could he ignore it!

Furthermore, thinking of that method in Mysia, he has been suppressing the desire to try it immediately. Even if there are not a lot of intelligent murlocs awakened, there is a high probability that he will sneak over and try it.

……

After continuing to fly north for a certain distance, Xia Duo stopped on a moss-covered boulder on the bank of the Wolfburg River.

Wanku has a little bit of green in it, which is not the only one, but it is also one of the few vivid colors in this winter season, but it is a pity that this place is about to be stained with blood.

I just don't know if the blood of the murlocs can make these mosses grow stronger next spring!

After laughing at himself, Xia Duo had a thought, and his blood ability [Wind Control] moved accordingly, blocking all the strong fishy smell coming from the river surface within a foot of his body.

Furthermore, the controlled airspace continued to spread, bringing a large area of ​​the surrounding airspace into his conscious control, but any disturbance could not escape his perception.

But it was still a little unsafe, after all, it was outside the mage tower, and Xia Duo then cast a series of spells such as evasion detection, detection detection, and alert protection to completely cover this area.

After completing all the preliminary preparations, he started the real killing feast.

(End of this chapter)