Chapter 672 - Vol V Chapter 32 (1/2)

“Interesting! So interesting!”

While the battle went on at ground level, up in the air, where it was not far away from the battlefield, an invisible Sui Xiong was observing the two sides engaged in battle with great interest.

He was pleased with the performance of the clergymen. Baron Dahl’s wise decision did earn secret nods of approval from him. But at that moment, what interested him more, was in fact that gnome tribal chief.

Unlike the normal humans, Sui Xiong had great powers and adequate insight, so he had long seen through the true ability of this fellow—its other abilities were very ordinary, but there was just one aspect that it was very skilled in. That was its ability to suddenly become big.

This ability was not the “Giant Growth” that the spellcasters from the clean-up army had concluded. It was the Giant Worm Spell, another kind of marvelous spell with a specious nature.

Of the senior adventurers, there were some who had fought in battles that involved the extermination of magic beasts like bugs. In those battles, there would be occasional sightings of magic bugs that could execute amazing abilities and instantly become as big as humans, or even bigger than humans. The spellcasters carried out studies on this class of magic bugs, hoping to parse this amazing ability and develop it into a spell. It could then be used on humans or monster statues.

Take a moment to imagine this. Suppose two monster statues that were almost as tall as two people suddenly grew to a size that was ten times bigger. Just imagine how mighty would that be! Even if they could not persevere for long, for them to fight a battle in this state, even if it was only a dozen to 20 seconds, it would be more than enough to hit their enemy’s battle array, and at the same time, deal a heavy blow to their enemy’s morale. But after a period of research, everyone had to give up on this extremely tempting idea. Because even though they had spent a great amount of magic and resources and lost a great number of experimental bodies, they were still unable to make a crucial breakthrough in transferring this spell to “the humans” or “the monster statues.”

Over time, the number of spellcasters studying this class of magic bugs got fewer and fewer. Eventually, this kind of research became research content from an almost forsaken department. Only mages who lost in power struggles against one another would go to such a department. And they did so unwillingly. The supply of resources to study those things was pathetic, and that department seemed fated to never yield any research results—including the study of those bugs.

The only ones who seemed to reap a little success were the druids. They researched on the famous “Giant Worm Spell.” This spell could make a specially-bred magic bug almost 10 times bigger, so it only took a short while for them to become reliable comrades.

But today, Sui Xiong saw a living example.

This gnome tribal chief was supposedly of a unique bloodline—according to Sui Xiong’s analysis, it not only had a small portion of magic bug’s blood, but it also had a lot of giant’s blood. With the gnome’s blood bridging the two kinds of blood together, the combination would produce a wonderful effect. This ability that should originally have appeared on a bug-type magic beast would be transferred over to the tribal chief.

Although the degree of expansion it induced was much weaker than the original version of the “Giant Worm Spell,” it was still a great deal more powerful than the “Giant Growth” spell. If thorough research could be done in this situation, it was possible that a spell that was unique to Sui Xiong’s church would appear. Thereafter, when his clergymen went to war, they could loudly roar, “Give me strength, Holy Light,” then become a gigantic creature that stood taller than an entire house with an awe-inspiring and aggressive air.

Imagine this: the two armies confronting each other in battle where hundreds of clergymen would put on a show of the “Arrival of Avatar.” Even if their enemies were not frightened to death, the clergymen would still swing their weapons, which had also expanded into incomparably huge sizes, and harvest their enemies just like how they would do so to crops in the autumn fields.

In the face of such an army, no matter how brave and tenacious their enemies were, they were still vulnerable to the attacks of the clergymen.

Thinking of this, Sui Xiong could not help laughing more happily.