Chapter 100 Modern Warfare! Combat Test!

In a thicket covered with thorns.

Under the light mist, a strange eyeball emerged. Its diameter was about two centimeters, about the size of a small apple, and it was a semi-real ultra-micro structure. The eyeball was flying in the air ten meters above the ground. As if it had sensed something, it quickly hid in the dense black canopy when a three-eyed crow flew across the sky.

About a hundred meters away from this magic eye, there is another equally hidden magic eye, but it does not fly around. Instead, it is hidden on the trunk of a twisted tree, monitoring everything nearby in a full 360-degree angle without any blind spots.

“Isn’t this a miniature reconnaissance drone?”

Xiao En's figure was at the outskirts of the Black Forest. With him as the center, there were thirteen semi-real magic eyes scattered around within a range of about 1,600 meters. They all had 360-degree vision without blind spots, and the scanning field of view was about 40 to 50 meters. After dispersed action, they could detect all the information around. These magic eyes were quite hidden, with a hiding and detection ability close to that of a level 10 wanderer. They flew silently and had perfect maneuverability, and their performance was even better than the most advanced drones.

“Is it possible to realize the integrated reconnaissance and strike combat plan in modern warfare?”

Xiao En pondered for a while and found that he could only conduct reconnaissance at present, and did not have the ability to integrate reconnaissance and strike. He said to himself: "But with these reconnaissance magic eyes, I will be able to implement beyond-visual-range combat plans in the future."

Now, he has a clear understanding of the entire periphery of the Black Forest.

These reconnaissance eyes can last for ten hours without any need for recharging. Xiao En can resonate with these eyes through psychic energy, just like watching a surveillance video. If he takes these eyes back, everything the reconnaissance eyes see can be directly transmitted to his brain and reproduced by mysterious knowledge. It takes about six seconds to quickly review the recorded images of the eyes for an hour.

This means that Xiao En only needs one minute to read all the intelligence information that the reconnaissance magic eye has detected in ten hours.

This has the basic elements of modern information warfare.

"Test your abilities by fighting a modern war?"

"See how much my strength has improved?"

Xiao En deduced it in his mind and made a quick decision. He quickly put away his rare items one by one, and at the same time transformed the collected berries into magic berries.

The outer areas of the Black Forest.

This time, Sean entered this strange and deep forest without casting an invisibility spell, because all his thirteen reconnaissance magic eyes had been retracted and distributed around the forest at an interval of one magic eye every hundred meters.

At this moment, Xiao En is like having a God's perspective and does not need to be invisible to cover his tracks.

"The Reconnaissance Magic Eye will last for another six hours, which is more than enough."

Xiao En began to further explore the entire Black Forest area. His current field of vision was about 1,600 meters, which was even more exaggerated than when he turned on the perspective plug-in. After advancing several kilometers in the Black Forest, he soon found some traces of the enemy.

"The straight-line distance is about one kilometer. There are five enemies, all of them are deformed Crowmen."

Three hidden reconnaissance magic eyes flew up.

Under all-round surveillance, the enemy's every move could not escape Xiao En's eyes. They should be a hunting team of the Crowman tribe. There is no sign of farming in the wild mutant creatures nearby. They basically gather and hunt for their daily needs, which makes their tribe size not very large. However, because of nomadic hunting, their combat capability is very strong, equivalent to an ordinary night watchman. The strength of a Crowman warrior is roughly equal to William of the Dorne City Night Watch.

There is also a spellcaster among these monsters, who may be a warlock. His overall strength is about equal to six and a half William, roughly equivalent to a Daisy.

"Other Demon Eyes, disperse and scout!"

Xiao En's figure moved over quietly. Since this was a simulation of a modern war, information intelligence was definitely the first element. He needed to make sure that there were no other enemy support nearby to interfere with his next actions.

Next to a burning bonfire.

Five weird-looking Crowmen were eating. They were a vassal race of the Owlmen. They had a strange crow head, fine and sharp teeth in their mouths, and their bodies were covered with feathers. Hair meant they were weak to fire. It happened that Sean got the wizard's signature fireball spell from the Night Wizard's dimensional bag the day before yesterday, so he could practice with them.

The diet of the Crow People is quite complicated. They are omnivorous creatures. In a large pot, mushrooms, insects, dried meat and other ingredients are cooked. On the fire rack next to it, there is also a pickled tail roasted, which looks like the tail of a lizardman.

Next to the campfire was their harvest, including strange blue-green fruits, captured large insects, hunted deformed-horned deer, and half of the corpse of a lizardman.

The forest terrain has a richer variety of species, and their lives are easier than those of the Lizardmen. Occasionally, they can even catch some meat from Lizardmen hunters who cross the border during their hunts.

Little by little, Xiao En reached a distance of more than 200 meters.

He first cast the flying spell on himself, and then added the invisibility spell, so that he could become a completely invisible flying creature. Because he was not a wanderer, if he got too close, he might be detected by the enemy, as the Crowman's hearing was still very sharp.

This time, he mainly tested several spells he had recently mastered. After completely converting his wizard level to arcanist level the day before yesterday, Sean learned a lot of new spells in one go.

For this, he would like to thank 'the gift of nature'!
Because monsters from the spirit world had been bringing him warmth these past few nights, Xiao En was determined to fight monsters and practice at the same time, and he mastered a lot of new spells.

The jungle resources in the weird kingdom are really rich!

——Shadow Black Tentacles (4th level spell).

Xiao En calculated the casting distance and hid behind a dense and crooked oak tree. With the aura of the spell, a strong black tentacle suddenly emerged from under the feet of the crowmen. This spell came from the multi-legged deformed monster in the spirit world. Xiao En caught a big fish on the first day he went out at night.

A powder keg blew it half to death.

Black tentacles emerged from the casting area. Strong black tentacles emerged from the soil, puddles, bushes, and even the cauldron where the Crowmen were cooking thick soup. They tightly wrapped around all the creatures in the area, trapping them with great force and tightening to cause crushing damage.

The black tentacles summoned by Sean can stack their own spellcasting levels. They possess extraordinary powers close to those of a warrior, and will not let go once they succeed in grappling and entanglement.

These Crow People were caught completely off guard and didn't even know where the enemy was!
——Fireball (3rd level spell).

Xiao En calmly rubbed out a huge fireball, which was accompanied by a loud bang, and a small crater with a diameter of about three meters was blown out on the ground. The Crow Man who cast the spell was directly blown into pieces of broken limbs all over the ground, and the other Crow Men were basically in a state of serious injury and dying.

"It is worthy of being the mage's signature ability, Fireball. Its power is top-notch among low-level spells."

Fireball has a very long casting range.

With Sean's current spellcasting level, he can probably cast a fireball from more than two hundred meters away. Each subsequent career level will increase the casting distance. If combined with super magic abilities, the range can be more than doubled.

You should know that the effective range of many modern firearms is not that far.

The diameter of the fireball explosion is about fifteen meters, and its power is close to that of the howitzer in the previous life, with an additional layer of damage from an incendiary bomb.

Overall, Fireball is very useful. After all, it is the mage's signature skill. Once Xiao En cast the Fireball, only four and a half crows were left on the battlefield.

The presence of hair weakens the fire, the ancients were right.

"The shadowy black tentacles still need to be replaced."

"In fact, you can kill one or two without using the Shadow Tentacles. However, without the initial control of the Black Tentacles, it will be difficult to deal with the Warlock Path spellcaster."

While fighting, Xiao En summed up his experience and directly drew his gun to shoot and harvest the remaining heads.

Today's combat goal is for him to single-handedly defeat the entire outskirts of the Crow People settlement.

The black tentacles' grappling and restraining can interrupt spellcasting. The spellcaster's strength attribute is already low, and being strangled by the black tentacles makes it impossible to use any spells. Moreover, without the restraint of the black tentacles, the enemy may react and not be caught off guard. When the fireball is flying, they can dodge in advance. Even if they can be exploded, it will only cause half of the damage, and it is not necessarily possible to harvest them all.

Overall, the tactics are not wrong, but we need to save more mana. "Entangle can achieve a similar effect, but the casting distance of that magic item is a bit short. After all, it is a druid spell, not my main spell."

Xiao En asked the reconnaissance magic eyes to keep watch on the surroundings, while he quickly landed to collect the spoils.

He also learned a lot of new spells from the Night Witch's extraordinary relics. Now that he has the first-level force field spell Magic Missile, his dependence on firearms is not as high as before.

Magic missiles can automatically track enemies, but their flying speed is not as fast as bullets.

In terms of damage, ordinary guns and magic missiles are similar, and both are single-digit damage in the game. Fortunately, ordinary monsters don't have much health. The effect of magic missiles on enemies is not much different from that of bullets, both are force field kinetic damage. The advantage is that they can track enemies by themselves, but the disadvantage is that they are not as refreshing as bullet storms.

Xiao En has not yet mastered the super-magic ability of 'instant spell casting', and higher-level spells are in short supply. For now, the missile storm will probably have to wait a little longer.

"But as a modern Earthling, it's reasonable for me to like using firearms, right?"

"Bullet Storm and Missile Storm, I like both."

“That makes sense, right?”

Xiao En found that he was indeed suitable to be a spellcaster because he had a natural fear of insufficient firepower, which was incurable.

——Alert mode.

Xiao En didn't know if other people's reconnaissance magic eyes were as flexible and useful as his, but he had psychic powers and could directly use telepathic communication to issue new and immediate commands to the reconnaissance magic eyes.

The thirteen reconnaissance magic eyes automatically dispersed like miniature drones.

Swarm operation requires a very strong will, which Sean cannot do at the moment.

Xiao En collected the spoils and found a staff left behind by a Crowman warlock.

"Luckily I killed it in one second. This guy has a lot of rare items on him!"

In team battles, prioritize eliminating high-burst spellcasters.

This is similar to playing games in the previous life.

alarm!

Xiao En suddenly became alert and immediately recalled the nearby reconnaissance magic eye, while evacuating in another direction.

Here comes a tough guy!

He can't win now and doesn't even know the enemy's strength.

——A cabin in the woods [large construct] [cursed creation] [activated building].

A dull sound of footsteps was heard.

Out of Sean's sight, within the field of vision of the reconnaissance magic eye, a strange forest hut slowly walked over. It discovered the bodies of these crow men, and then disguised itself as an ordinary wooden house on their bodies. Thorny vines extended from the supporting pillars of the feet and took root directly into the flesh of the corpses.

It was digesting the corpse of the Crow Man, drawing nutrients from the flesh and blood.

"Can I beat this thing?"

Xiao En was about three hundred meters away, with three reconnaissance magic eyes simultaneously monitoring the enemy by sea, land and air.

He thought about it and decided to give up, mainly because he didn't know how strong the enemy was.

The last time he died, his death was unclear.

Maybe this thing is more difficult to deal with than the lizardman leader, because Sean has never come into contact with this kind of cursed creature.

"Don't fight a battle you are completely unsure of winning!"

Xiao En retracted the reconnaissance magic eyes around him and flew around himself again. The reconnaissance and attack integrated operation now required him to fight outside the enemy's line of sight, and the operation was still quite difficult.

However, this also has an advantage, that is, when Xiao En launches the first attack, the enemy is basically caught off guard.

"Reconnaissance and strike integration, followed by small-scale tactical cutting."

"I haven't got the spell for the portal yet."

"If I only rely on dimension jumping, I can only conduct short-distance raids on the battlefield. If I want to fully simulate the surgical operations in modern warfare, I must further improve the ability of teleportation."

With the ability of one person, carry out tactical cutting against a group of enemies, and implement combat plans such as disruption (illusion), cutting off the rear, and decapitation in small-scale battles.

There is one spell that Sean can't get around, and that's the portal.

His current flying skills are a bit overwhelmed. He has encountered few enemies at the moment. When he faces more enemies, his flying skills will be stretched to the limit.

"Today is just a tactical test."

"At present, it seems that the techniques of modern warfare can be fully applied to battles in the Bizarre Kingdom. We just need a spellcaster to implement it."

"I currently lack the summoning ability of the conjuration department."

"If there is a summoning spell, I can even use the Thirty-Six Stratagems from my previous life. Making a feint to the east and attacking in the west is undoubtedly very suitable for summoning creatures to fill the gap."

Xiao En's tactical plan was not aimed at dealing with these Crow People, but all of them were based on the Lizardman Tribe as the imaginary enemy.

"And there are golem corps."

"This will require a huge amount of money. With my current financial resources, I estimate that I can only make one or two clay golems."

Tactical testing continues.

Xiao En is next going to test the feasibility of disruption and decapitation in actual combat. He doesn't have much knowledge of illusion abilities, but it should be no problem to use them to confuse small groups of enemies.

He now wants to put all the knowledge on Earth into practice in the weird kingdom.

Even more, if actual combat testing is feasible, the things in the science fiction movies that we watched on Earth in the previous life can also be used in reality.

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(End of this chapter)