Mr. Kai's long, dark hair is spread down to his waist.
It was an unusual hair color that was pitch black and dull.
That's not something ordinary people can have. It's a slightly reflective black color that can even remind people of a lightless night.
"Don't be nervous, Mr. Salvatore."
Mr. Kai's voice was unusually gentle: "If I were hostile to you, I wouldn't have brought you here."
"...Did you bring me here?"
Salvatore suddenly realized: "No wonder..."
Although his intuition is relatively accurate.
But no matter how lucky you are, you won't walk directly into the target's face for no reason without any information.
"Is it [Intuition Rewriting]?"
Salvatore recognized the spell immediately.
This is a silver-level spell from the Prophet School - a relatively rare hindrance spell among the Prophet School. But it is not a pure hindrance spell... Its effect is to make the target's intuition become "as the caster thinks."
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For example, suddenly the opponent "intuitively feels that the person in front of him is an enemy", or "intuitively feels that this person is easy to get along with", "intuitively feels that this attack should not be avoided", etc.
Because it does not require contact to take effect, and it does not have any special effects when it takes effect. Although the effect is not mandatory, it just makes the recipient "instinctively think so", but if it is guided according to the trend, it may actually be able to
What a particularly good effect it has.
"Yes," Mr. Kai nodded slightly, "I used this spell to bring you in.
"This way, we can avoid disturbing the people around us."
"...You really have bad intentions, right?"
Salvatore narrowed his eyes, put his hands in his arms, and held the mixture he made tightly: "The profession of Master Shaper has already rivaled the Prophet School... Then how did you use this spell?"
Although Salvatore himself knew that this was just a bluff - because after he changed his profession to an alchemist, his combat effectiveness could be said to have decreased instead of increased.
Even if you use a mixture, you may not be able to defeat this gold-level wizard.
Mr. Kai looked at him funny: "Don't be nervous, Mr. Salvatore.
"If I am really hostile to you..."
As he spoke, he casually took off a mask from the side and put it on top of his own mask.
Just like the scales of a fish being peeled off, pieces the size of a child's fist peeled off from his body, turning over - in the blink of an eye, Mr. Kai turned into Salvatore's appearance.
"Salvatore on the other side" was suddenly startled, his eyes widened, and he looked over in shock.
Salvatore was also shocked.
Like a cat with exploded hair, he looked at Mr. Kai in horror.
At that moment, even Salvatore himself thought he was looking in the mirror.
"...Then it will be impossible for you to walk out from here."
Mr. Kai said leisurely: "Of course, there may be a 'Salvatore' walking out of here, but that won't be you."
"...Tsk."
Salvatore smacked his lips.
Although it is a threat.
But when it came to this, Salvatore could understand that the other party did not have any malicious intent.
Although it may be strange to say this... but after a person who can easily hammer himself to death shows "a method that can easily destroy corpses and eliminate traces", you can actually believe that the opponent does not have any malicious intentions.
"I also understand what you are thinking...you think of me as someone's 'other self', right?"
Mr. Kai's tone was soft and gentle, and he explained softly like a very patient teacher: "Let's put it this way, Mr. Salvatore. If you see these blank masks, what will you think of first?"
"……mask?"
Salvatore repeated.
He looked at the blood-red smiling face, frowned slightly and looked at the blank masks hanging in the crimson curtain around him: "If you want to say... it's probably 'weird'."
"Then why do you think so?"
Without waiting for Salvatore's reply, Mr. Kai replied softly: "Is it because of my mask? It's like a clown...right?"
That's exactly what Salvatore had in mind.
It's just that he felt it was a bit impolite, so he didn't say anything.
"This is normal. This is also a kind of preconception, and I prefer to call it an 'after-image'."
Mr. Kai led Salvatore deeper into the room.
On the way he said casually: "Just like after you have looked at the sun and then look at a blank place, there will be an afterimage of the sun in your eyes.
"When you care about someone particularly, and when you see a stranger, that person's shadow will be in your mind. Just like when people look at a blank mask, different pictures will be reflected in their mind.
"Maybe it's a hero's mask, or it's an antique made of bronze, or it's maybe a funny mask, or maybe it's a mask painted as an animal. A blank mask is like a 'blank name', full of possibilities
.
"And this is also a primitive law of similarity - although it is not that similar, it is older than the modern law of similarity. When ancient priests held public ceremonies, they would apply eye shadow or wear stone
The purpose of making a mask is to make oneself more similar to the gods, thereby enhancing the effect of the ritual.
"Even if people have never seen gods, when they think of gods, they automatically think of priests."
Speaking of this, Mr. Kai said meaningfully: "And when you see Professor Wolf and Fufu, you will think of me... This is also very reasonable. Just like after you lose something, you will
The instinctive suspicion is the same as the first person who sees it——
"It's not because you think he is the most likely to take action, but because the moment you see his appearance, the vague 'suspect' you imagined in your mind is confirmed."
"...I haven't said what I saw yet."
Salvatore just felt that the doubts in his heart were getting deeper.
He frowned: "How do you know what I saw?"
"Because what I see is not the past, but the future."
Mr. Kai replied: "As you said... the Name Shaper needs to fight against the prophet school, which means that the Name Shaper cannot use the prophet spell.
"But this is not absolute - just like the elves' wind dancers cannot learn spells, but when they use spell energy, they can also achieve the same effect as casting spells..."
He said, leading Salvatore to the basement.
Although Salvatore was a little uneasy, he still followed behind.
Looking back at Salvatore, Mr. Kai couldn't help laughing: "You really dare to follow me."
"...Because after I calmed down, I carefully examined my thoughts and found that you did not have any malicious intentions."
Salvatore pursed his lips: "I'm sorry before... You are right, it is indeed just a 'remnant image'. I was not sure whether you were another identity of Professor Wolf, but when I saw
You can then 'fix it' on your own."
"I'm really pleased that you can react so quickly."
In an empty place, Mr. Kai said warmly: "However, you did guess one thing right..."
Under the dim candlelight, Mr. Kai opened his mask and placed it on the table nearby.