Chapter 195: Physics and Magic
Chapter 195: Physics and Magic
He saw that while the regular soldiers were able to keep up the defence at the hole, they were still struggling a lot against the monster. He could easily tell that if he did not do something to help them soon, the soldiers were going to fall eventually. It was only a matter of time before the sheer number of monsters overwhelmed them.
Adrian quickly scanned the battlefield.
And he could tell, just from this one single glance of the whole area, that while he, Sigrid, and Draven were deep in the middle of monster hoard, killing as many monsters as possible, there was way too much free space.
Due to this massive amount of free space, thousands of monsters were just running straight past them toward the broken wall.
The horde was basically completely ignoring the three powerhouses. Only a small fraction of the beasts were actually even trying to fight them.
And due to this realization, Adrian made a quick tactical decision.
He knew that the only reason why he even pushed forward in the first place was because he thought the mindless monsters would attack him. He assumed they would instinctively go for the closest human targets available.
But that was definitely not what happened.
He could see it happening live. All of the monsters were just charging blindly toward the soldiers. It was almost like their ultimate goal was the stone wall. They just desperately wanted to get inside that hole, almost like they wanted to find an egg to fuse with.
’This is not the right strategy.’ Adrian cursed himself.
He rushed back toward the wall as soon as possible. And again, everywhere he went, he saw monsters just flying through the air as his chakrams cleared the path.
Draven and Sigrid stayed right where they were and continued to fight.
Meanwhile, Adrian rushed back as quickly as he could. He jumped right on top of the massive ogres, used their broad shoulders as a literal foothold and triggered his Gust spell to rapidly propel himself forward toward the struggling soldiers.
By jumping on a few of these huge ogres, he managed to cross the distance and reach the soldiers pretty quickly.
He landed heavily on the ground and just stood there right in front of the wall of shields. Every single monster that got near him just got totally obliterated by his spinning rings.
But the new issue now was that the dead bodies just started piling up a lot faster.
So Adrian quickly adjusted his spell.
He tried to keep exactly five chakrams spinning around him defensively, instead of the full ten. And he tried to actively control the other five to move around to help the other soldiers nearby.
But the maximum range of his magic was a serious issue.
To have all of these chakrams rotating defensively, he could not really have them rotating at his maximum range. This was because when he rotated these chakrams, it involved both the centrifugal and centripetal physical forces.
And due to this physics problem, he needed to expend a massive amount of mana just to grip onto these chakrams while they were spinning and moving at high speeds. If his telekinetic grip was weak, he would lose them entirely.
The sheer strength of these invisible mana threads had to be incredibly strong. And the more distance he put between himself and the spinning rings, the more raw mana he had to use every single second.
And due to this heavy drain, it was not really practical to have these chakrams rotating all around him at the maximum distance.
So he usually just made the defensive chakrams rotate around him at a tight range of about a two to three meter radius.
As for the rest, the other five offensive rings, he tried to control them differently. Instead of just making them rotate around him, he just sent them flying straight forward, and then quickly brought them right back like a boomerang.
This specific method consumed much less mana compared to the circular rotation method. Because he just had to send it flying forward, let the kinetic momentum do the work, and then just pull it back.
He just needed to thicken and increase the strength of his mana strings exactly once. He only spiked the mana cost at the exact moment he needed to stop the chakrams from flying forward, right before pulling them back.
And that was basically it.
This time, he just needed to apply force at a specific point. It was basically exactly like applying the brakes on a speeding car. That is the only time when people actually apply heavy pressure on the brakes.
This used a similar concept. At the exact time where he needed to stop the chakrams in mid air, he needed to massively increase the raw strength of the mana strands before pulling. If he did not spike the power, he would just lose control of the chakrams entirely because the thin telekinetic thread was going to snap under the tension.
That was the fundamental limitation of telekinesis. The thicker the mana strand, the stronger the telekinesis was going to be, the more heavy weights a mage could lift, and the more physical force they could counter.
So he started doing this boomerang method.
But then he quickly realized that there was a massive flaw that he did not consider until now.
The only reason why he could even control so many chakrams to seamlessly rotate around him before was because it was an incredibly simple, highly repeatable action.
He just needed to make the metal rings spin without even having to think about the specific direction. He did not have to aim. He just needed to make them rotate in a single direction and they would just keep going on autopilot. He just needed to continue fueling that one simple thought.
But when he had to actively send individual chakrams forward and attack a specific monster, it was completely different.
[A/N: I feel better now. The fever is no more, but I still feel pretty tired so I’ll rest a bit more. Tomorrow onwards, we’ll be going back to 3 Chapters per day. I’ll make up to you guys in a few days.]