Chapter 131: The First Appearance of Strategic Magic
"Wake up, wake up." Ryan felt someone shaking him in his dream, and at the same time a female voice sounded in his ears.
Opening his eyes, his field of vision gradually became clearer. The face of a young black woman appeared in front of him. At this time, Ryan finally came to his senses. He remembered that he had just asked the railway agent to call him when the time was up.
"Okay, I'm awake. Thank you for reminding me." After saying that, Ryan got out of his sleeping bag, took out a bottle of water, washed his face and sobered up.
Taking out his pocket watch, Ryan found that the time had reached 3:30 in the morning, and it was time to start.
After asking the agent to wait in the middle of the tunnel, Ryan walked up to the altar and took out his wand. Xiaoqing, who had been wrapped around his left arm as an armband, swam down from his arm and fell to the altar. Then he turned into a python-sized one and circled around the altar.
Circle, the upper body stood up, and his head was stretched to the same height as Ryan's head.
After Xiaoqing was in place, Ryan began to wave his wand and recite the incantation. Xiaoqing's body slowly rotated around the altar in accordance with the rhythm of the incantation.
As the incantation was chanted, the gold and silver runes on the altar were lit one after another, emitting a hazy white light. The white light became brighter and brighter, and finally even overshadowed the brightness of the emergency lights on the wall.
At this time, the light on the runes no longer continued to brighten. Under the command of Ryan's magic, the runes composed of white light slowly detached from the altar, and then began to surround themselves with the waving of Ryan's wand.
The altar rotates, forming a white band of light flying in the air.
Different from the ritual magic that Ryan used to soothe the dead, Ryan now uses strategic magic that is almost lost in the modern magic world.
The release of strategic magic requires preparation in advance, and requires long-term motionless casting when activated. If this world was a magical world, Ryan would never use this kind of magic. Because when the casting starts, the place where the spell is cast will show abnormalities.
Magical reaction. If there are not a large number of personnel to help cover the person who releases strategic magic, he will become a living target.
In the world of Harry Potter, as wizards isolate themselves from the Muggle world, this kind of magic used in large-scale wars is gradually lost. After all, the population of the wizarding world is not very large, resulting in wars between pure wizards.
Small-scale battles. Therefore, this kind of strategic magic used on a large scale has slowly faded out of the wizarding world.
The inheritance of ancient Viking wizards that Ryan received was fortunate to retain a large amount of strategic magic. However, compared with the large-scale magic such as the army of the undead and the restoration of holy lands recorded in the inheritance, the Fatigue Mist that Ryan used today was just a certain
A weakened version of the original magic.
After all, if it is the original version, releasing it will either require a large amount of precious magic materials, a powerful wizard as a spell caster, or a sufficient number of trained wizards to work together to release it. So for the sake of convenience, the wizards developed
Many abridged versions of strategic magic are available for a wizard to use on a daily basis.
Naturally, the magic power of this abridged version is much smaller. For example, the original Fog of Exhaustion can release a magical mist covering a small city several kilometers away, but the abridged version can only cover the size of a base at close range.
Since it was Ryan's first time using this kind of magic today, out of careful consideration, he used the segmented spell casting technique in the inheritance. This technique can segment the magic power that needs to be injected at once without affecting the power of the magic.
Injection. However, the overall magic power consumption will be more, and the casting time will be greatly lengthened.
For example, today's magic theoretically only takes ten minutes to be released. But Ryan was worried that his magic power reserve could not be completed in one go, so he extended the entire casting time to thirty minutes. This way Ryan would have enough time.
Used to restore magic power and release magic.
This also means that this technique cannot be used in wizard battles in most situations in the Harry Potter world, because several times the casting time is enough for the opponent to beat the multi-stage caster into pieces.
Half of the time passed, and Ryan's spellcasting reached its climax. As he chanted the spell, Xiaoqing also opened his mouth and spit out stream after stream of light green mist that filled the basement.
Slowly following the command of the wand, the mist began to merge with the white luminous characters in the air. The characters also turned into an ominous green light.
Finally, the emerald green light filled the entire basement. Xiaoqing stopped spraying the mist, and the whole snake showed a feeling of exhaustion. Sweat appeared on Ryan's forehead, and bursts of soreness came from his arms and throat.
It was also burning and painful.
But he gritted his teeth and persisted, because the magic was about to be released successfully. In the chanting of the spell, one green light symbol after another went up through the ceiling and came to the ground. When these characters were exposed to the ground, all the colors quickly faded.
It turned into a light white mist, and then slowly drifted towards the airport.
If it were daytime, this abnormal phenomenon would likely be discovered by the sentries. But now it is night, and the sentries are not as vigilant as during the day. Not to mention that the airport is right on the seaside, and heavy fog often occurs here at night.
Fortunately, today happened to be a foggy day, so the magical fog was mixed into the sea fog. No one noticed this unusual situation. As time went by, the magical fog completely enveloped the Brotherhood's base. In
At the moment when Ryan's magic was completely released, the Brotherhood members suddenly found themselves paralyzed and unable to move, and then their vision turned black and they passed out.
After the ceremony, Ryan sat down on the altar, feeling a strong sense of exhaustion from body to soul. Xiaoqing also collapsed beside the altar in exhaustion and remained motionless. But he knew that there were still things to do at this time.
Doing is not the time to rest.
So Ryan asked Xiao Qing to shrink down to the size of an earthworm and put it in a bottle filled with sunlight crystals in his jacket pocket. Then he pulled the rope on the wall as agreed.
The other end of the rope is connected to a bell in the safe house. Ryan told others before that if the bell rings, it means that his magic is successful. Within eight hours, those who are attacked by the magic will be in a comatose state that cannot be awakened. They only need to deal with
The automatic weapons set up by the Brotherhood are enough.
After sitting against the wall for a while, Ryan packed up everything in the basement. Then he slowly walked along the passage toward the safe house.
After crawling out of the tunnel with difficulty, Ryan found that everyone in the room was sitting nervously looking at the door. After hearing the noise in the tunnel, a militiaman pulled Ryan out of the tunnel.
"What are you doing?" Ryan asked softly.
"We sent the investigators out." Knight nodded. "I hope he can bring us good news."