What he said was to open the spell book was actually to decipher the magic item. However, Xia Duo had no experience in this area before [New Biquge www.biqule.info], so after he started talking, he looked towards
Niya.
The specific operation still depends on her, but Xia Duo is not a big help or can't help. He is no stranger to the principles of cracking magic items, which is probably like the cracking software on earth.
If the essence of software is the specific route of electron flow, then magic is the specific route of energy flow.
The essence of spellcasting is the operation of the magic network. Energy runs in the magic network. No matter what magic item it is, it will eventually come down to the combination of the magic network strings (energy route).
Similar to the fact that software does not have encryption at the machine language level, magic does not have encryption at the level of individual elements. In theory, any magic item or spell is open source.
This is also why mages don't like to cast spells in front of mages of the same level, because it can easily reveal their secrets.
Encryption when casting spells has a certain effect, but it is of little significance. Casting spells itself is a mental task, and encryption makes the spell casting process fragmented and unsystematic, which is not conducive to one's own memory and mastery.
Encryption is often used in the creation of magic items.
Without being well versed in the principles of magic, a mage wouldn't even be able to tell whether it was encrypted or not.
In fact, if you don't consider understanding the specific spells used to design magic items, and don't consider the time cost, any encrypted magic item can be copied perfectly one-to-one.
This is just like the copying of software. In fact, it is a perfect copy of information such as "01010" from the bottom layer. However, the copying of magic items not only involves information copying, but also production.
But if you want to know the source code of the software, unless it is not encrypted, you can only crack it through decompilation and other methods.
Magic items are similar.
The spell book that Xia Duo obtained was an encrypted spell book, but he also speculated that the encryption should only be the "shell", and the content inside should not be encrypted.
After all, who in the right mind would write a diary using riddles?
But similarly, this encryption should also have some destruction characteristics, otherwise the encryption will be meaningless, and the content inside will not be able to be seen after forcible demolition.
In addition, this encryption should also be divided into different permission levels, otherwise it would be very troublesome to decrypt it every time you use it!
Therefore, if Xia Duo wants to open this spell book, he must at least complete the step of seizing the authority. Otherwise, he can only slowly unlock it.
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"I'll check first to see if there are any triggering damage spells."
Niya did not take action immediately. After all, it was a spell book written by a strange wizard. She was not sure whether the Feld wizard would include damaging spells in the spell book.
Of course, not just damaging spells, but any triggering spells need to be avoided.
Before the inspection, Niya first blessed herself with a full range of protective spells. A burst of magical light flashed through her. In Shado's magical vision, Niya had turned into a sparkling ball of light.
Xia Duo also cast spells for protection.
"Tower spirit, transformation spell laboratory protection mode, type 2 test mode."
Just as Niya finished her words, Xia Duo discovered that the magic network environment in the laboratory had undergone some slight adjustments, and had become - a little indescribable. Anyway, he did not find anything abnormal.
Immediately afterwards, Niya controlled the arcana and tried to connect the open magic network string of this spell book. This is a necessary step for using magic items. If there is no arcana, the only way is to connect the magic items with herself.
However, generally only relatively advanced magic items have such settings. Ordinary magic items will automatically generate a link as long as the user comes into contact with them for a long time. This time ranges from a few minutes to dozens of hours.
From this perspective, the magic items that a mage can use at the same time are limited, and it is unlikely that a person will have ten rings on his hand.
Niya's link attempt was not successful, but it was not considered a failure. At least it did not trigger any triggering spells. The spell book with a light yellow cover was still lying safely in the lead box.
"It seems that there is no triggering spell set on the link. I will pick it up and take a look to see if there is a triggering spell set on the touch."
Niya's eyes were shining, her tone was a little nervous and a little excited, but when Xia Duo saw her like this, she was a little worried about her state:
"Wait a minute, I'll try to use the [Identification Technique] first. See if there are any tamed alien slaves in Giles Tower, and let the slaves try to touch them."
"This spell book is at least connected to the fifth level of the magic network. We can't tell how many more there are behind it. The identification spell shouldn't work, right?" Niya was a little confused.
"It won't take much to try it, but you, you don't look like a calm spell caster in your current state."
When Xia Duo said this, Niya was surprised at first, but quickly reacted, "Sorry, this is my first time to conduct this type of cracking experiment. I will go find the slave now."
After saying that, Niya left the laboratory.
Xia Duo also mentioned slaves casually, but he didn't expect that there were actually slaves in Giles Tower. Xia Duo was somewhat repelled by the use of slaves, whether it was due to civilized moral concepts or practical interests.
But in Netheril, slaves are a very real problem. Except for aliens, even Nese people may become slaves.
In addition, even if slaves are not needed, as long as they are willing to pay, there will be a lot of people willing to participate in magic experiments.
Even on Earth, there are various medical experiment volunteers, but compared to the slaves in Netheril who have no right to choose, a complete set of volunteer recruitment procedures has long been formed on Earth, which can to a certain extent
Ensure the safety of volunteers.
As long as there is no evil intention, Chateau does not object to using living subjects for experiments. As for the danger, that is actually something that volunteers need to consider, or it is something that some review committees that have not yet formed need to consider.
If Netheril wants to develop, it will definitely form a relatively complete recruitment process for experimental volunteers. After all, to say the least, experimenters who actively participate will at least bring higher experimental efficiency than those who are forced to participate.
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Just when Niya left to contact the slave, Xia Duo was about to try using the [Identification Technique]. Although he knew that the probability of being directly identified was very slim, as he and Niya said, it would not be troublesome to try.
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And regardless of whether all the information in the spell book is identified or not, at least there will be no gain at all.