The Archmage Diante lying on the cashmere blanket has almost no human form. His limbs are cut flatly and kept at a certain distance from the torso. The astral body is used as a connection between the two to maintain blood circulation and perception transmission, emitting
With a ruby-like operational brilliance.
And around Diante are astral tentacles that look like dense grass. They are like a necromancer dissecting the corpse of the deceased. The ends of the tentacles have various sharp knife shapes, which cut open the entire chest and abdomen of Diante.
Parts of the ribs were removed to unknown places, and the living heart and lungs were beating and contracting.
Just as Master Nelum screamed, a bunch of astral tentacles penetrated Dianthe's ears. His eyes immediately turned white, his jaw twitched, and his saliva flowed out unconsciously. He was completely sick.
How can a lunatic guy look like a great mage who is proficient in necromancy?
Such a scene made Master Nelum feel dizzy. He looked at Xuan Weizi next to him with a hint of fear, and the other party said with a smile:
"This Archmage Diante was invited by Fusman to kill me. I caught him to better protect myself."
Master Nelum suddenly felt that he had underestimated Xuan Weizi in the past. Even if he guessed that he was very powerful, he did not expect that he could still capture Archmage Diante alive when facing him.
"But... Fusman actually invited Diante to assist? The Sail Leaf Province he is in charge of is currently busy killing fishmen!" Master Nelum suddenly saw a turning point: "Diante left his post without permission.
They also secretly colluded with Fusman, if the 'Missile Queen' finds out about it now, they will definitely be punished!"
Xuan Weizi reminded: "But right now Fusman still controls Huowu City, and it is impossible for our news to be transmitted back to the empire on the other side of the sea in a short time. What's more, your 'missile queen' will really take action because of this matter.
Punishment? If we look at it from another angle, Sir Nelem, your management is lax and you have lost your city and territory. The same thing, if you change the way of saying it, the nature may have changed."
"Uh... That's right." Master Nelum's interest was instantly extinguished by a basin of cold water from Xuan Weizi.
"So if we can't take back Huowu City, everything is in vain." Xuan Weizi pointed at Diante and said: "And I am a narrow-minded person with a weird temper and heretical behavior. This Archmage made a sneak attack for no reason and even killed me.
I am not going to let the doctor I am training live. But from the perspective of recycling and waste utilization, I can only seek more benefits from him."
Master Nelum glanced at Dean and remembered that this person had been eyeing the position of chief mage advisor of Huowu City a long time ago. After all, Huowu City is quite special. In addition to the Pentagram Tower, which spent a lot of money in the early days of colonial development,
It is built, and it also controls the trade and material distribution of the three autonomous provinces of Black Rock, Xuefeng, and Golden Crown Wood. It is also the logistics support center when fighting the indigenous people. The chief mage advisor of Fire Dance City is the Pentagram Tower in the New World.
The most important fat difference.
"Do what you want, doctor. Anyway, this guy came for me, and now he falls into your hands. He deserves to be unlucky!" Master Nelum gritted his teeth. Seeing the tragic scene of Diant being dismembered and dissected, he felt a few...
The pleasure of getting revenge for a big vengeance!
"Thank you very much. Oh, and these..." Xuan Weizi took out all Diant's magic items and said, "I collected a lot of things from this archmage, but it's a pity that I didn't care about them during the battle.
It’s not too much, and part of it was damaged. Lord Nelem, it’s better to see what else can be used than to have nothing left now.”
"Okay, very good." Now Nelem has completely lost his pretensions as chief mage advisor, and has regained the state of fighting in the New World, picking and identifying from a pile of magic items.
"Let me be honest with you, the doctor. I still have three safe houses in Fire Dance City, just for evacuation in times like this. There are sufficient reserves in them. It's a pity that I can't use the teleportation spell right now, so it's not convenient to go there." Nelum pinched.
He picked up a ring and said with narrowed eyes.
"Really?" Xuan Weizi rolled his eyes. He held a spell book made of crystal in his hand. He scratched and scratched with his fingers, and the picture flowed and changed. He said, "I can let Scout Asuka take a look."
"No, I originally designed the safe houses to be fully enclosed, and specially equipped with 'avoidance detection' and a bunch of protective spells. Unless other people use external force to break open, it will definitely make a big fuss.
." Nelum complained: "It's all that stinky bitch! If it weren't for her, I wouldn't have fallen to this point!"
Xuan Weizi sensed various subtle changes in Diante's body through his astral body, raised his hand to calculate, and then asked: "By the way, I haven't asked yet, how did you escape?"
Nelem told Xuan Weizi about his escape experience, and finally asked curiously: "By the way, I also want to ask the doctor for advice. The bottle of 'life extension elixir' you gave me can actually be ignored."
The Anti-Magic Field provides me with healing, and also allows me to possess the 'Power of the Ox' and the 'Rage Technique'. How on earth is this done? If it weren't for it, I would really be dead."
Xuan Weizi turned around with a strange expression and said: "My bottle of 'life-extending elixir' only provides treatment, but... can you let me take a pulse?"
"Oh? I heard that you treat patients like this in Can Can Street, please take a look!" This time Nelem was not as taboo as last time. Instead, he took the initiative to reach out and fully trusted Xuan Weizi.
Xuan Weizi pressed his fingertips on Nelem's wrist, and Yun Shen Xing Qi deeply sensed him. He had "coveted for a long time" the body of the ninth-level mage, especially what kind of substantial changes would occur from the eighth to the ninth level.
Changes require in-depth and careful observation.
"Huh? Is it actually the meridians that have changed? It's just that this kind of meridians is not the way to follow the laws of heaven and earth, internal and external communication."
The root is the starting point of all great supernatural powers. Whether it is moving the five qi in the body or using spiritual thoughts to control changes, if you only rely on the inner strength of your body, it will be like trekking through mountains and rivers with a backpack on your shoulders. It will be difficult to carry a large amount of weight even if you exhaust your strength.
things.
But those who are good at internal and external communication will know that the magic of home is inseparable from the principle of yin and yang. Yin and yang are mutually rooted and intertwined. They are both relative and transformable. Internal and external spiritual energy, even energy, matter, information, ideas, etc., must be mutually based on the inside and outside.
, it is not that I alone instigate external forces, nor that I follow external things, but that I carry the yin and embrace the yang, and inject the qi to balance it."
This is also the reason why the perceptual abilities of cultivators are far superior to those of ordinary people. Ordinary people's senses such as vision and hearing do not actively receive external information, but passively receive information and then process it through the brain into five-sense cognition.
But it is not like radar sonar or detection spells in this world, which actively emit some kind of energy radiation to obtain specific feedback.
The perception ability of a cultivator is a combination of active and passive, and it is an observation of "how the object affects the subject." It is an observation that completely goes beyond simple understanding.
Taoist practice calls it "induction".
Xuanweizi put away his thoughts and returned to Nelem's body. Due to years of taking alchemical potions and casting spells to extend his life, Nelem's vitality was just like his appearance, and he was in his prime. But Xuanweizi was vaguely aware of it.
, this state of vitality is unnatural, just like relying on medicine to hold on. If you don't take medicine when the time comes, your organs, muscles and bones will age rapidly until they are in a state consistent with his actual life span.
Now Nelem is over eighty years old, and without the influence of magic, the theoretical maximum lifespan of humans in this world is about one hundred years old. Even a mage will still age and die without fundamental changes in his life characteristics.
.The slow thinking and deterioration of physical fitness caused by aging are also unavoidable without alchemy potions and special means.
However, for a ninth-level mage like Nelem, the meridians have undergone a very special transformation. In Xuan Weizi's view, it is like adjusting his own meridians into some kind of magic circuit. And it is different from the fumigation-like diffusion of the meridians of ordinary people.
, the meridians of the ninth-level mage are very clear, and at the same time they are connected with the arcane star chart, thereby refining and extracting a special energy flow, which circulates with the qi and blood in this magic circuit.
The "life-extending elixir" Xuanweizi gave Nelem had medicinal properties that remained in the meridians. Could it be related to this magic circuit?
"Let me ask one thing first." Xuan Weizi said: "What is that clear circuit in your body that has magical energy flowing through it?" Xuan Weizi suddenly didn't think of how to explain the meridians to Nelem.
"Oh, you mean the arcane matrix?" Nelum said: "I didn't expect Dr. Olenso to be able to discover it?"
"What is that?" Xuan Weizi thought for a while, and indeed the name Arcane Matrix was more appropriate.
"It was originally researched by the Eye of Mystery." Nelum said: "In the process of the mage being promoted from the eighth level to the ninth level, the connection with the arcane star map will cause the soul to have an 'overflow effect', and it will have the ability to enrich magical energy.
The essence of the soul will impact the mage's consciousness and body. Generally speaking, this impact can be large or small. A mild one will cause a nosebleed, and a serious one may cause internal organs to rupture. And the mage is most unbearable when his consciousness falls into chaos, so he must change this.
situation."
As Xuan Weizi listened, he always felt that this was a bit like the mage version of "being possessed"?
Nelum continued: "However, the 'overflow effect' cannot be eliminated essentially, because it is the only way for the mage to move to a higher level and have a deeper connection with the arcane star map. So as long as the overflow effect is dealt with
Soul essence is enough. At this time, you need to use spell slots to carry the soul essence and stabilize it. In the process, an arcane matrix will be formed in the body.
Generally speaking, the arcane matrix of each ninth-level mage is unique, because the detailed mastery of arcana is different. Moreover, due to the specialization school, the arcane matrix of different types of mages will also have huge differences.
difference."
Xuan Weizi asked: "Does the Arcane Matrix also have a bonus for mages to cast specialized spells? It can even avoid the 'crowding effect' of spell constancy on spell casting ability, and enhance the corresponding specialized spells. For example, you used to
A constant protection spell."
"Yeah, but now, haha..." Nelem smiled ugly. Now all the triple constant protection spells on his body have been disintegrated. If he wants to reapply them, he will have to spend a lot of money.
Xuan Weizi suddenly realized that it was extremely difficult for Nelem to have three protective spells on his body at the same time, with nested effects. But now he knew that the other party relied on the arcane matrix.
He was immediately inspired by the special meridians he followed.
"No wonder Fusman relies on sending female spies and poisoning. If you only rely on external 'dispel magic', I'm afraid it's really difficult to dispel your protective spell." Xuan Weizi turned to smile and said:
"No, no, it was Finn Byron who came up with this idea."
Xuan Weizi had already roughly guessed that the poison used by the female spy should have destroyed the structure of the arcane matrix from the inside, causing the effective mechanism of Nelem's protective spell to be disintegrated. Then the female spy injured Nelem, leaving
He couldn't focus on adjusting the arcane matrix and re-improving the protective spells. At this time, another "anti-magic field" came, and Nelem, a ninth-level mage, was completely "streaking".
"What a good plan!" Xuan Weizi also secretly exclaimed. If he hadn't done this, how much money would it have cost to deal with a fully armed ninth-level mage who was good at protection?
However, this also gave Xuan Weizi a warning, that is, in the "anti-magic field" environment, many methods will be invalid, and he is still a "mortal body" at this time. Although he has the special ability of "Spiritual Root Jade Liquid"
, but there has been no qualitative change in the life characteristics of Xuantrini.
"But Nelem actually had the effects of 'ox power' and 'violence' in the anti-magic field? This is obviously a special ability!" Xuan Weizi thought carefully and said:
"My guess is that the effectiveness of the 'life-extending elixir' is guided by the arcane matrix and produces some kind of stimulating effect." Xuan Weizi explained to Nelem: "My 'life-extending elixir' is not a miracle of the church.
It is impossible to heal the injury out of thin air. Instead, it stimulates the underlying functions of your life, heals itself instantly and dispels toxins under the influence of the drug.
In addition, the effect of the drug mainly acts on the skin, muscles and bones, perhaps allowing the underlying functions of life to strengthen the strength of the muscles and bones... This is because of my follower." Xuan Weizi pointed to Wolf aside, who looked displeased.
Xie Di looked over.
"Him? What does this have to do with him?" Nelum glanced at Wolf, who had bulging muscles. That was not his favorite figure.
"When I developed the 'life-extending elixir', I summarized the changing characteristics of different people's life movements. This mad warrior is a good example!" Xuan Weizi said this, and at the same time he thought of many improved elixir recipes.
He already has a complete idea of the idea, especially the elixir to help cleanse the muscles and bones.
"By the way, do you have anything to eat here? I'm so hungry." Master Nelum said, holding his stomach in embarrassment.
Xuan Weizi chuckled and said: "It's okay to be hungry. Using the 'life-extending elixir' to heal yourself quickly will consume body nutrients."
Then he stepped forward and opened the small stove in front of Wolf. Inside was a pot of soup that had been simmered for a long time and had a rich aroma.