When he heard the words "life sacrifice", even Connor couldn't help but take a breath of air.
Shiloh felt that this term was a bit familiar. After thinking about it carefully, he finally remembered that he had seen records of this meditation method in the book "General History of Magic".
The so-called life sacrifice is a tricky practice that uses vitality in exchange for magic power. To put it simply, it is a weird practice that uses the magician's own vitality or the lives of other creatures to increase one's own magic power.
method.
Although magic is powerful and mysterious, basically everyone knows a little bit about the principles that drive magic.
Magic in the world is basically driven by the magic power of the magician himself, and the method of accumulating magic power requires not only the tenacity and diligence of the magician himself, but also talent, wealth, and luck.
While spending a lot of time meditating, accumulating magic power, and honing their spiritual power, magicians also need a lot of wealth to configure precious potions to stimulate their potential and match them with suitable magic props. The time, energy and wealth spent in this process
It's so huge that it can't be counted.
Because the conditions for cultivating magic power are too harsh and take an extremely long time, there will always be talented geniuses, or madmen in history, who accumulate magic power through various means and gradually evolve into magicians.
A heretical sect, the most famous of which is the Necromancer.
The magic power driven by the spells used by the necromancer has nothing to do with the magic power accumulated by the necromancer. Instead, it extracts the soul power of the undead.
As long as enough soul power can be collected, it can be used instead of magic power to use various powerful necromancy spells.
It's just that the method of collecting souls is too cruel, so most necromancers are regarded as heretics and darkness, and are public enemies of the human world.
Besides the undead system, there is another kind of spell, which is the life sacrifice meditation technique practiced by the magician in front of him.
Life sacrifice is simply the most unique faction among magicians. If ordinary magic is driven by magic power, and undead magic is driven by the power of the soul, then life sacrifice magic is driven by burning the magician's own vitality.
A kind of magic.
Magic power can be replenished and soul power can be collected, but human vitality cannot be replenished. Anyone who practices this kind of magic is without exception a short-lived ghost!
The more powerful the life spell, the more vitality it burns. Even in historical records, there are tragic cases of life mage aging and dying immediately after using magic.
His thoughts were brought back to reality, and Shiloh's eyes when he looked at this coward magician became strange. He asked tentatively: "Life sacrifice magic? How old are you now?"
"Sir, I will be 28 in two months."
As soon as this statement came out, everyone was in an uproar. Unexpectedly, the old magician in front of them was only 28 years old, several years younger than Connor.
this……
Everyone looked at each other in confusion, and there was a hint of pity in their eyes when they looked at the magician.
He has aged like this at the age of 28, and he probably doesn't have many years left to live.
"What's the name of the black mist magic you used today?"
"Life Corrosion is the only life magic I know now."
No wonder it's so powerful.
Shiloh nodded, feeling a little embarrassed.
The power of life magic was far beyond his expectation, but the price it had to pay was also too high.
I wanted to get some oil and water, but I didn't expect to find tasteless chicken ribs. It was a pity to throw them away because they were tasteless...
He can't really train a bunch of one-time magicians to dispatch!
"Sir, in addition to life spells, I also know ordinary spells, I think they are acceleration spells and the like."
Seeing Shiloh's gloomy and uncertain expression, the magician swallowed and hurriedly proved his worth.
Shiloh couldn't laugh or cry, thinking that what he likes is your powerful offensive magic. As for the acceleration spell, he really doesn't like it.
But now that the matter was over, Shiloh sighed and asked, "What's your name?"
"Sir, my name is Yale Yelder."
"Okay, Yale, you were captured in a fair battle. You are now my slave. From now on, you can follow me."
When Yale heard this, he thought that his life had been saved, but thinking that he had transformed from a noble magician to a hard worker who did other people's work, he couldn't help lamenting the unfairness of his fate, and it was even uglier than crying to squeeze someone out.
With a smile on his face, he said gratefully: "Thank you, sir! From now on, I will definitely serve you all the time!"
There was another one-time magician Yale in the team heading to the royal capital. Shiloh felt more and more that the composition of his team had become chaotic. He asked Yale for the meditation method of life sacrifice, so he sent everyone to rest and rush there early tomorrow morning.
Go to the royal capital.
That night.
Under the candlelight, Shiloh looked through the meditation methods recorded in Life Sacrifice and was secretly speechless.
Magicians who practice life-sacrifice spells are all crazy!
If you want to practice life sacrifice, you first need a source of life force, which is called a life weapon for short. The white crystal on the Yale staff is his life weapon.
Then, through the mysterious magic language, Gilala, he sacrificed his life and stored his powerful vitality in his life weapon, thus becoming a junior life-sacrifice mage.
It sounds very simple, but this kind of meditation method is hard to come by. Coupled with the resistance and destruction of the magic world, there are only a handful of life sacrifice meditation methods spread in the world.
There are only three types of life magic explained by Yale. One is a blessing spell: life expansion.
One is a lethal attack spell: Life Corrosion.
There is also a weird divination spell: life path.
According to Yale's explanation, the practice of life magic is too difficult, and he only mastered the magic of life corrosion.
It's better to hide this thing.
Shiloh put away the practice method of life sacrifice and lay on the bed. He tossed and turned for an unknown amount of time before finally falling asleep.
The next day, everything in the Storm Camp was ready, and everyone once again embarked on the journey to the royal capital.
The Iron Hand mercenary group respectfully sent Hilo away for a few miles, and then gave Hilo a token. According to the Iron Hand people, Hilo can use this token to enter and exit the Iron Hand mercenary territory at will, using the lowest price.
Hiring iron-hand mercenaries at high prices is a way for them to ingratiate themselves with Hero.
Shiloh didn't take it seriously, threw the token into the carriage, and left the Dragon Bone Camp.
Everyone ate and slept in the open air, crossed the Dragon Bone Mountains, and walked for another week, finally arriving at the Red Leaf Plain.
Early that morning, Connor said to Shiloh: "Your Highness, we have arrived at the boundary of the royal capital, and we will officially arrive at the royal capital in the afternoon."
"My subordinates have sent personnel to inform the royal capital of His Highness's arrival. His Highness can spend the night in his palace tonight."
Shiloh nodded, his face expressionless, but he already held the reins tightly.
After a long journey, he was finally able to see the most prosperous city in Pontos with his own eyes and lift up the mystery of the royal capital - Hertoli.