From sailboats to star destroyers (Source: Web)

Chapter 13 Sometime ago, a gentle breeze turned the vibrant leaves of one tree yellow.

Miao Meng skillfully dodged the cannon fire, killed Wigg, skillfully dodged the axe, shot Lai En, and finally stood on the ocean, looking at the Storm Wizard in the distance with a calm expression.

[Complex Magic Device Deployed - The East Wind Arrives]

A staff with six slots appeared in Miao Meng's hand, followed by a magic circle with a circular structure, which was like a multi-stage acceleration track device.

The storm wizard, hiding deep within the island, suddenly felt a chill creep up from the back of his head. He looked around but found nothing amiss, so he began to wonder if he had suffered a stroke.

"Whoosh—Boom!"

However, the sudden, sharp sound of something tearing through the air shattered his illusions, and then the layers of protective gear on his body were torn apart by the violent explosion, just like several pieces of paper stacked together.

Of course, along with the damage to these equipment, the Storm Wizard's body flew up like a rag doll, eventually breaking into several pieces and landing on the island.

"The maximum output of the Belka-style magic 'Ammo Overload' is truly powerful. It's worth all my hard work over the past month to combine it into a staff for ultra-long-range attacks."

Miao Meng looked at the miniature mushroom cloud that had been built on the island, picked up his staff with satisfaction, and kissed it several times.

This was the first time he had perfectly cleared a dungeon in human form. Although the score wasn't high due to the use of a large number of magical artifacts, it was still a good demonstration of the power of his modified staff.

This was only a small step on his magical path, but a giant leap for Captain Bartholomew on his path to death.

This staff was not summoned through a class skill, but was the first magic wand that Miao Meng made by spending a lot of points and disaster coins to buy materials from dungeons and forums.

Composite Magic Device - Staff Type - East Wind Arrives: A novice creation by Magic Cannon Master Miao Meng, whose extreme pursuit of firepower resulted in this staff that can greatly alleviate the symptoms of insufficient firepower.

Additional skills: Ammo Overload (six slots); Wide Area Perception; Radiant Crystal.

Although compared to the Meadian Staff, it only replaces the defensive capabilities with the Ammo Overload skill, it is a major change to the main body structure, which can make up for the consumption of psionic energy by reloading ammunition.

Although each Radiant Crystal requires three bullets, when combined with the Wonderful Endless Bullet Pouch, the combined power of ten Crystals is enough to flatten an area the size of a football field.

The Ammo Overload skill unleashes the full power of the psionic energy contained within the ammo, enhancing the next attack. Therefore, 6 ammo represent twice the power of a crystal.

Unfortunately, due to limitations in materials and forensic evidence, although it is theoretically possible to make all 24 ammunition explode, in reality, fluctuations begin to appear after a single crystal is stacked three times, and it becomes extremely unstable after more than five times.

As for the ultimate stacking power, after paying the price of a weakened soul, Miao Meng also determined that the stacking of eight radiant crystals was already the limit of his control.

"Haha~ Now I can finally go to school with a clear conscience. I was originally planning to take a two-year leave of absence, but I didn't expect that the school courses would actually help me make further progress in this area."

Miao Meng had been struggling with the study of magic, remaining an outsider and unable to grasp its essence. However, during a casual chat at Grandpa Liao's house, he asked him what his major was.

Upon learning that he majored in computer science, the old man was quite excited. His eldest son had also majored in the same field and now works for a large company, where he is in charge of cloud computing.

Despite Miao Meng's emphasis that he studied digital media technology, which is more application-oriented, and that this was the major he chose to make it easier to find a job after graduation, he still couldn't escape Liao Ye's clutches.

I was forced to take several textbooks on network engineering written by the old man's eldest son from his hands before I could leave his house.

Although the books were so profound that they seemed like gibberish to him when he got them home, they also inspired him and deepened his understanding of the combination of magic and technology.

I found some teaching materials online, set up a small service base station locally, and purchased an AI intelligence product from a large company. By using them together, I successfully disassembled the basic magic device into several modular structures.

Of course, on the other hand, it is also because the Meadian magic device itself is based on the principles of modularity, refinement, and popularization, which is very much like a device designed for easy disassembly and training of newcomers.

The only troublesome part is comparing the same structure in several different Belka-style magical devices, selecting the groove structure, and its corresponding overload capacity.

Although this approach was essentially a shortcut and didn't actually teach Miao Meng how to create magical artifacts from scratch, it allowed him to skip the initial hurdles and, in turn, learn the theory through modular, practical guidance.

Therefore, facing enrollment again, Miao Meng is not as resistant now. However, this time the focus of the course needs to be adjusted, shifting from practical applications aimed at making money to overall computational theory.

Having tasted the benefits of computer analysis, relying solely on local small base stations is not enough to take it to the next level. However, if the base stations are to be expanded, it is inevitable that professional construction knowledge will be needed.

Unless Miao Meng wants to hand over such an extremely important matter to others, by bringing in employees from large companies whose safety is uncertain and who might leave backdoors.

Miao Meng was well aware that such things could be kept secret for a long time, but not forever. He was still reluctant to expose them until he had sufficient self-protection capabilities.

He wasn't that kind-hearted to pin his hopes on the kindness of others. If he were really that naive, he wouldn't even be able to leave with a whole corpse, let alone be an orphan.

After the familiar bounty arrived, Miao Meng looked at the strange items that he had already emptied quite a bit of, slightly curled his lip, and then exchanged the more than 800 points for a large amount of magical resources.

The staff I have now has many problems; it can only be considered a prototype. Before it can be truly put into use in battle, it needs a lot of improvements. Otherwise, I can't guarantee that it won't self-destruct one day while I'm using it.

"The forum on the general network is a good thing, but those magical materials are too expensive. If it weren't for the subsidies, I would have gone bankrupt long ago with the disaster coins I saved from the treasure cave."

Thinking of the Treasure Cave dungeon that disappeared after only half a month, Miao Meng sighed repeatedly. Even if he could only earn a few hundred coins per run, it was still better than the "Tales of the Sea" dungeon, which only yielded rewards once a day.

When Miao Meng complained, he completely ignored the high drop rate brought by his Golden Rule. For other newbies, they would be lucky to get any junk from a single level 1 dungeon during their probationary period.

He would still be able to pull out a blue enchanted item every now and then, and his pure Calamity Coin income, not counting the treasure chests, could easily reach three figures.

Of course, this is also because Miao Meng used a lot of resources to purchase magical materials and was not sensitive to the prices of ordinary materials, which led to a misperception of the value of currency.

As we all know, magic is never cheap, even for a multi-dimensional online forum.