Of course, the black stone is not the most expensive product in this shop. The most expensive thing is a sword hanging from the vine bracket in the shop!
The hilt is blue-gray, and the sword body is translucent, like a highly permeable crystal. With the sword tip downward, you can even faintly see the sword body shrinking and extending, as if a living creature is breathing.
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Seeing this sword, Sha Duo immediately thought of the psychic master from Zhamdas in the south whom he had just seen in Dawn Square. He seemed to be wearing a long sword of this shape around his waist.
It's just that the pressure the opponent gave him was too strong at the time, so he couldn't observe it carefully. Now when he looks back on his memory and compares that sword with the current one, it's like it was carved from the same mold.
Shado doesn't know how much the Psychic Master's sword is worth, but in this shop, this similar sword sells for up to 600,000, and it must be settled in Cormanthor gold coins (Hirmel).
It is a kind of magic gold coin that has been cast by a high mage. It is not just a matter of digging up some gold and melting it privately. It is an anti-counterfeiting measure, and it can also be regarded as a kind of credit currency made of gold.
The black stone worth 100,000 gold coins does not have such restrictions. Only gold coins that meet a certain standard are acceptable, such as the Mingshui gold coins currently used by Daxia Leader.
Even today, when the Northland Alliance has been established, perhaps the gold coin exchange certificate of the Netheril Arcane Federation can be used here.
It's just that Xia Duo couldn't come up with as much as 600,000 Cormanso gold coins in a short time. Otherwise, he really wanted to buy the sword back and study it carefully.
Although he was not able to observe the magic aura on this sword, Sha Duo was certain that it must be extraordinary based on the fact that the sword body slightly expanded and contracted like the breathing of a living creature.
After thinking about it, he came to the shop owner who was suspected of exercising his psychic powers and asked tentatively: "I have seen that sword before. What is its use?"
"Powerful human guest! That sword may be of no use to you. It is a focusing weapon that is only used by masters of psionic energy. The one you see is just a replica, not the authentic one from Zhamdas."
It was still the sound that came from the void at the beginning, but this time, under Xia Duo's careful observation, he finally discovered an abnormality that he had not noticed before -
The slight vibration of the magic network involves several combinations of magic network strings related to sound waves, but it is not directly operated by the caster, but is more like being reversely stimulated by the sudden appearance of sound waves.
Creatures on the main plane live in the magic network environment. The magic network is not a mechanical, fixed specific creation, but more like a dynamic feedback mechanism that maintains the balance and stability of elements.
Spellcasters can operate the Magic Network to create various magical effects that affect reality, but conversely, if reality changes out of thin air, this change will also have a counterproductive effect on the Magic Network environment.
The most fundamental point to judge whether it is magic is whether the changes in the magic network are within the magic system (broadly speaking, it refers to the energy operation and transformation system that conforms to the rules). If not, it is not magic.
Although Sha Duo observed at this moment that the vibration of magic involves several combinations of magic network strings related to sound waves, they are incomplete and cannot form an energy flow process that conforms to objective laws.
There are only a few spell-casting element units. If it were cast by Xia Duo, at most it would produce some noise without any practical significance, and it would be impossible to achieve the void sound transmission effect of the shop owner.
This means that the so-called psychic magic must contain elements that have nothing to do with objective laws, and there are quite a lot of them. It may even be the key!
Perhaps that is the power of idealism!
Xia Duo was thoughtful and continued to ask: "Boss, forgive me for being presumptuous, are you practicing spiritual energy?"
"Yes, I have been to Zhamdas in the south and received psychic enlightenment there. Only after I came into contact with this power did I know that this is the truth I have been pursuing!"
"truth?"
Xia Duo's heart moved, and he seemed to understand something. The shop owner of Emotion was a non-mainstream person before he practiced psychic powers. Generally speaking, in the elf society, the status of mages is the highest.
But what elf mages pursue is not the truth, at least the mainstream is not pursuing the truth, but the pursuit of the pinnacle of magic skills.
In layman's terms, you want to become a high mage.
If this step is achieved, the next step may be to seek to leave a mark of one's own in the mortal world, but this step is not necessarily related to magic. Founding a country or killing people may be possible.
The shop owner calls himself a seeker of truth, which is not mainstream. Now that he practices psychic powers, he is even more outside the mainstream.
Even in Netheril, there are very few mages who wholeheartedly pursue the truth. Almost everyone is busy with various desires in this mortal world.
Becoming a mage is the best way to realize these desires.
To a certain extent, Xia Duo is also such a person, but his desires or ideals have long since left the level of low-level taste and moved towards a broader world.
Truth is what he pursues, but it is not the only one, and he cannot easily change the only one like this shop owner.
For a moment, Xia Duo didn't know how to describe the other party. If he didn't insist, he didn't forget to practice even when receiving guests.
how to say?
This may be the complexity of intelligent creatures!
However, it is hard to say whether we can maintain the complexity of human nature after embarking on the path of idealism.
Xia Duo was quite emotional about this.
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While the shopkeeper was answering this time, he also observed the oscillation phenomenon of the magic net again, and at the same time he also confirmed his previous speculation——
Psychic magic contains components that have nothing to do with objective laws!
But if there are parts that conform to objective laws, it will cause the passive vibration of the magic net. This vibration has a certain delay and is not long, but at the critical moment of the battle, it is very likely to lead to very fatal consequences.
Furthermore, Xia Duo also thought, what if the power of psychic magic, which is determined by the ideal, completely contradicts the objective laws? Will there be no signs at all? The spell will be completed without a trace of movement?
Perhaps this is how Master Ilfarang has the unusually weird impression of psychic magic!
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Just when Xia Duo was about to ask the shop owner for more information related to psychic energy, the clever girl's voice appeared outside the door again——
"We have a guest, we have a guest! Welcome to Kalishiari's psychic cabin!"
Then, Lunasis, a moon elf maid with fair skin and graceful figure, walked in from the outside. After seeing Sha Duo, she walked straight over.
However, she didn't say anything when she got closer. After bowing, she just stood quietly beside Xia Duo.
The arrival of Lunasis made Shado swallow back what he originally wanted to say in an instant. Regardless of whether it was useful or not, he still didn't want the elf noble who was suspected of working for the Everesca Intelligence Department to know his thoughts and ideas.
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As for the other party knowing from the shop owner, Xia Duo can't control that much. Anyway, so far, he hasn't asked any overly sensitive questions.
His behavior is no different from that of a normal tourist.