Chapter 458: Chapter 396: Dilemma and the Development of Inner Grotto Heaven
In a high-intensity testing laboratory on the Purgatory Sulfur Plane, Jeming frowned, remotely controlling a newly created Talisman Witchcraft Artifact for power testing.
With a slight mental movement, he controlled the disk-shaped witchcraft artifact, approximately thirty centimeters in diameter, suspended in mid-air.
The surface of the witchcraft artifact was densely engraved with a new composite pattern that fused Cultivation Immortality Talisman and Wizard Rune, with a fist-sized energy focusing crystal at the center.
Buzz...
As a mental command was issued, the focusing crystal at the center of the disk suddenly illuminated, emitting a dazzling white light.
A pure energy bullet composed of elements was triggered, trailing a long tail as it shot towards the "target zone" in the distance, expanded by space-folding technology in the test site.
The entire test site underwent special space-folding treatment, appearing externally as a hundred-meter square room, but the internal depth reached an astonishing five hundred kilometers.
The light projectile flew in the air for about three seconds, which wasn’t fast in actual combat but was sufficient in the test environment.
Following this, a blinding light rose from the direction of the target zone, glaring enough to necessitate squinting even with the protective screen.
There was no explosion sound, as no sound could propagate under the isolation of the energy shield.
Instead, it was a more essential shock: the multiple energy protective shields arranged throughout the test site trembled violently under an invisible giant hammer, deforming and buzzing under the strain.
Despite the "distance buffer" provided by space folding, the intense shock wave repeatedly reverberated and compounded within the test site, causing the tremors in the protective shield to grow increasingly severe, seeming ready to collapse at any moment.
Jeming paid no attention to the precarious protective shield. After all, it was designed for extreme tests; if it truly collapsed, he could repair it.
His focus was entirely on the nearby row of precise instruments, monitoring the real-time data stream.
Energy peak readings, destruction range simulation, elemental reaction intensity, space disturbance coefficient...
A few seconds later, the preliminary analysis result emerged.
Jeming looked at the data on the screen, his expression not showing optimism.
"Strictly speaking, the absolute power of this strike is quite impressive..." Jeming’s fingers brushed over several key parameters on the screen, sighed inwardly.
"The ’leveraging multiplier’ of elemental power by the Fourth Level Wizard combined with the ’mobilization multiplier’ of environmental energy by the Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivator. The multiplication of the two indeed causes this energy bullet, which is theoretically only Fourth Level, to have its total energy and impact range surge linearly..."
The data clearly showed: The total energy output and impact range of this strike had exceeded the usual standards of a Fifth Level Wizard, even indicating the threshold of the Sixth Level— theoretically enough to wreak "destructive havoc" on the ecosystem of a medium-sized continent.
"But..." Jeming’s brow furrowed more deeply, "the power is too dispersed!"
He pulled up a detailed energy distribution map.
It was a three-dimensional thermal map showing the energy density decay curve radiating outwards from the explosion center.
Unlike the usual witchcraft or Cultivation Immortality methods in group attacks, which strive for relatively uniform kill effects at every point within the attack range, the energy distribution of this light projectile showed an extremely steep decay curve.
From the explosion center as the origin, moving outward every kilometer, the energy density rapidly decreased by an order of magnitude.
At the edge of the attack range, the residual energy intensity was even less than one-millionth of the central region.
"This... it’s strikingly similar to the energy distribution pattern of nuclear bombs from my past life." Jeming couldn’t help frowning, "Although the attack range is vast, claimed to be ’country-level’ and even ’continent-level,’ the real lethal power between the core region and the edge region is not the same concept. A large amount of energy was wasted creating ’range,’ while the true ’lethal kill radius’ is much smaller."
The issue had been apparent since his promotion to Second Level Wizard.
Back then, he had simultaneously cultivated the Cultivation Immortality system, and the two power systems began to have subtle conflicts and redundancies in their mobilization of "environmental energy."
At the time of promoting to Third Level Wizard, he intended to address this issue.
However, the unexpected development of the "Fairness" plane greatly accelerated his advancement, followed by busy engagements in the construction of the Incense Fire Divine Dao, participation in Starfall Wizard’s research, etc., leaving this issue unresolved.
And now, with his promotion to Divinity Transformation Stage, the Cultivation Immortality system caused a qualitative change in environmental Spiritual Qi mobilization ability, finally highlighting the issue.
"Despite an attack range and total energy comparable to the Sixth Level Wizard, the actual kill effect in the core region only reached medium levels of the Fifth Level Wizard..." Jeming looked at the glaring comparative data on the screen.
"Furthermore, the peak energy duration is extremely short; as long as one withstands the initial wave of impact, the subsequent damage significantly diminishes. An experienced, well-prepared Fourth Level Wizard, equipped with excellent protective measures, might even survive the strike."
What does this imply?
It implies that over ninety percent of the energy dissipated inefficiently into the environment during the shock wave dispersion after the explosion, failing to fully convert into lethal damage to the target.
More intuitive data model simulations show that if this strike were used on a real continent, the explosion core region could potentially create a total destruction zone with a diameter of hundreds of kilometers.
