Chapter 14: Garin's Speculation

Garin was thinking about the process of how he removed the witch doctor's spell. He clearly remembered all the feelings he had after being under the spell.

The spell lasted at least 30 seconds, and Omar and Varokal thought that their prince was able to break the transformation by relying on the treasures in the royal collection.

Only he himself knew that he had no chance of dodging Atadin's battle axe, and he even thought he would die on the spot.

According to the wizard knowledge circulating in the human world, normally, if someone is hit by a witch doctor's sorcery or a wizard's transformation spell such as turning someone into a sheep, their intelligence will be reduced.

In the caster's own words, using a similar transformation spell on any creature can turn it into an animal. The creature's appearance will change, as well as its brain structure. If it becomes a sheep or a rabbit, it will want to eat grass, and if it becomes a frog, it will want to eat insects and other animal instincts.

When Garin turned into a frog, his intelligence was reduced. He kept wanting to stick out his tongue to catch flying insects. It was impossible for him to control himself and use his frog body to avoid attacks.

The reason why he was able to wake up and remove the spell on his own was because of the Heart of Origin.

At that time, he felt the Heart of Origin in his mind emitting a wave of blue light for the first time. Then, in his daze, Garin seemed to hear a mechanical electronic sound.

"Host has been detected to be invaded by alien energy, threat level: low.

Querying for cleanup plan:

1. Use the magic immune body of the magic destroyer, which will not be affected by any magic after use.

This solution has been detected and has been transformed. It is currently unavailable.

Second, use a priest to dispel all magical effects on the host.

Testing plan, without training a priest, without researching priest expert training, you need to spend 470 gold coins to purchase the right to use this skill. "

At that time, Garin was affected by the activation of the Heart of Origin and immediately woke up, avoiding Atadin's attack. Then he decisively spent 470 gold and used the dispel skill to remove the spell and killed Atadin unexpectedly.

Garin didn't expect that the Heart of Origin had such an alarm function, and judging from the content of the alarm, he could also use magic immunity to become passive. In the future, would he not be afraid of alien magic such as transfiguration, fear, and deterrence cast on him?

I'm not even afraid of spell damage, which means I can be half a spellbreaker. How great! Please call me Garen. Mage Nemesis. Trollbane.

Another guess is that, after the base is fully developed and all arms and buildings are fully technologically advanced, will I be able to use all the skills of the trained arms?

This is not impossible. I just spent 470 gold coins to use a dispel skill. The reason for such a high price may be that I have not built a building to train priests, nor have I trained any priests.

However, this guess can be tried now. Garin took Varokar's shield in his hand, then focused his attention in his mind, connected his mental power to the Heart of Origin, and tried to convey to the Heart of Origin that he wanted to use the shield to defend this infantry skill.

"Shield defense is not currently researched. Current usage requirement: 300 gold."

Garin opened his eyes with a look of surprise. As expected, he could use the skills of his army.

Three hundred gold coins is twice the cost of researching shield defense. It may be because it has not been researched, so the usage requirements are very expensive. If it has been researched and the skills to train soldiers are available, would the usage threshold be much lower?

Garin feels that this new conjecture has a high probability of being correct, so there is no need to rush now, as it can be verified slowly later.

The next step is to reflect on my performance in this surprise attack.

Although it sounds good, he killed the most trolls this time, and even killed the two strongest professionals among the trolls.

But Garin knew that this was all thanks to Omar and Varokal, as they diverted most of the attention of the two trolls, and he just took advantage of the situation to snatch the head.

Moreover, he made two fatal mistakes. The first was that he left his two chief guards behind. He jumped and charged far away from the two men, leaving them out of the best distance for cover. He almost died in the sneak attack of the troll Atadin.

The second is that he got carried away in the battle. The witch doctor Toby and Atadin were both the best among the trolls and were good at seizing opportunities in battle. However, he advanced too recklessly and was hit by a spell, which invisibly made the two of them cooperate perfectly. If he hadn't had the help of the Heart of Origin, he might have died at the hands of Atadin.

If you want to change your destiny and the future of Stromgarde, you have to stay alive.

After reflecting on my mistakes, I will remember to stay calm next time and not be greedy for credit or act rashly. Being able to stand is output, and being alive is victory.

In short, stay steady and don't waste time.

While Garin was still daydreaming, Omar and three soldiers had already finished sorting out the troll supplies after an unknown amount of time.

Omar came to Garin and prepared to report the situation to him.

Garin was interrupted from his current thoughts by the sound of Omar's footsteps. He looked up at him and asked, "Is it over, Omar?"

"Yes, Your Highness. The trolls' supplies have been sorted out. They mainly include some newly tanned leather, fresh raptor meat, and some raptor eggs and a few cubs. The rest are the poison sacs of giant spiders."

After listening to what was said, Garin thought for a while and told Omar, "We should take back all the leather and raptor eggs. We should also try to take the cubs with us. After all, we don't know how to take care of tamed raptors. Whether they can survive depends on their luck. We can use the meat that we can recognize as raptor meat as food for the time being. We should throw away the meat of unknown origin."

There have been incidents of the Witherbark trolls eating human civilians in Stromgarde. Although they are not as crazy as the Evilbranch trolls to capture trolls from other tribes as food, they have no abstentions when it comes to humans. Garin doesn't want to eat meat from an unknown animal.

"Your Highness, those poison sacs should be used by the trolls to make their holy medicine. The Deadwood Tribe's day of sacrifice is approaching."

Garin knew what Omar meant by this reminder. Although Garin had never dealt with the trolls at the border, he had learned about it from the royal collection of books.

The Witherbark trolls and Stromgarde have been fighting for thousands of years, and both sides know each other well. The population of Stromgarde is far greater than that of the Witherbark tribe, so the Witherbark tribe has always been at a disadvantage. When the Stromgarde army launched a large-scale attack to wipe them out, they entered the continuous Alterac Mountains and waited until Stromgarde withdrew its troops before coming out of the mountains.

The King of Stromgarde of this generation is a legendary warrior, the pinnacle of mortals. The reason why the Deadwood could hold out for so long under the attack of Galen's father, Solastolbane, was because of the Loa spirits they believed in:

Shadra, the Spider God.