The weather has not warmed up yet, but at least there is no longer heavy snowfall. Sir Salemi sent the young guard beside him to Lagen City, where there is the chapel of the Holy Lord Church, hoping to get support from there.
Days passed day by day, and the town of Chai Dui settled down. The ordinary townspeople did not know about the elimination of the Ordinary Guards. In other words, they did not know what those mages represented. Maybe they were just like the nobles.
The only thing that attracted some attention was the occasional explosion sound from the edge of the forest in the distance. It was said that it was Dr. Olenso doing some magic experiments. The townspeople did not dare to approach at will when they saw this.
When Xuan Weizi had some free time, he usually studied arcana and multiple languages with Theus, exchanged druid spells with Tar Valon, and even performed anatomy on the corpse of a middle-aged mage. He also learned about human physiology and magic in this world.
There is a deeper understanding of the relationship between effectiveness and interaction.
Of course, these things must be hidden from the Sheriff Sir Salemi, otherwise if he sees it, he will really think that Xuan Weizi is a necromancer.
As for the Pentagram Tower and the Imperial Legion, they seemed to have forgotten about the existence of such an arcane guard. Xuan Weizi still kept the communication crystal ball in the Phantom Pony carriage, but did not receive any news from it.
In addition, due to the improvement of Henmasiko now, he no longer has to stay near him. He can even go to the castle in the mountain to convey news to Sandori and Rosalin. Xuanweizi can also use Henmasiko to activate his celestial eye and directly observe the two of them.
Both sides can take into account the cultivation situation of each individual.
Sandoli is practicing very hard, and her soul spells are recovering quickly. Hengyizi is originally an elemental life gathered based on soul spells. She also has a very intuitive understanding of this, which can be confirmed by each other.
Rosalian, on the other hand, didn't seem to be interested in practicing. She was more willing to maintain her original form than change, and she also asked if there were any skills that could make her stronger and more agile.
"Stronger and more agile?" Xuan Weizi activated his soul and said in the form of Hengyizi: "Racial origin often determines the limit of physical ability. Although you are a magical beast, your basic qualities are much stronger than those of ordinary saber-toothed leopards.
, it is almost impossible to improve infinitely through practice."
Rosalin lay on the ground, like a lazy cat, waving her long tail, and said: "Is there really no way? Or like Sandori, it would be good to get more supernatural abilities."
"You put it lightly." Xuan Weizi said with a smile: "Sandori's long-term communication with the totem giant spirit in the past caused her body and mind to undergo transformation under the influence of the giant spirit and the spirit. The 'Soul Refining Skill' I taught
God's purpose is to allow her to explore her past potential, rather than simply improve."
Rosaleen raised her head and looked at Sandori who had used "Walking in the Sky". She looked as if she was walking in circles around the castle tower carefully, as if she were stepping on invisible stairs.
"Sandori didn't have such ability before. Is this considered potential?" Rosaleen said with some jealousy.
Xuan Weizi said: "This can only mean that Sanduoli didn't know enough about her abilities before, or that her soul magic had limitations in the past. I think so too. She has achieved breakthrough growth in such a short period of time."
Rosalin yawned and said, "You are so partial, teaching Sandori such a good skill."
"What are you talking about? It's obviously better to 'return and change shape', okay?" Xuan Weizi looked at Hengzhizi's ferocious bird face and looked like he was going to go crazy on the spot.
Rosalin was also taken aback: "Don't be so nervous? But I haven't developed any extra abilities recently?"
"That's because you don't use kung fu." Xuan Weizi conjured up a short stick and struck Rosalian's head with a mind blade, and said, "But you said before that you wanted stronger and more agile skills. In fact, there is nothing you can do about it.
."
"Say it quickly." Rosalin looked forward to it.
"After you experienced the 'internal movement', you should be able to feel some hazy and soft power in the internal organs radiating outward, right?" Xuan Weizi said: "Actually, this is the joint effect of two aspects. One is your inward perception.
It has been strengthened and you can feel your vitality starting; secondly, the internal organs functions have been initially integrated, and your vitality has become more lively."
"It seems that due to these circumstances, my appetite has improved recently and everything I eat tastes delicious." Rosalin also licked her mouth.
"Then I will teach you a newly discovered guidance technique. During the contact process, you should ignore body movements and focus on sensing the vitality." Xuan Weizi said.
Then Xuan Weizi told Rosalian about the "Twelve Postures of Dragon and Tiger Changing Tendons". This set of Daoyin techniques was originally created by Master Xu Jing when he saw giant pythons and tigers fighting in the mountains, and they were constantly fighting with each other.
He understood the essence of Tui Mo Shen Yin from it. However, for unknown reasons, this set of exercises was later stolen by the fox demon who sneaked into the mountains. After several transformations, it became a typical "demon method".
The physical structure and life cycle of magical beasts are different from those of humans. Since the Taoism of the Immortal family is too profound, it is better to teach a demon method. Let Rosalian concentrate on exercising her muscles and bones, which is at least one way, and she can also help Xuan by the way.
Wei Zi explores the potential of the physical functions of magical beasts.
As soon as Xuan Weizi finished explaining the exercises, he saw Sandoli's figure slowly falling from the air, with an excited expression on her face, and said, "I can finally fly. I couldn't even imagine it before!"
"You're not flying, you're just jogging in mid-air." Xuan Weizi said mercilessly: "If we really encounter a battle, the slow targets in mid-air are just targets. There is no stealth, decoy, or anti-detection
Without the help of spells, it would be more dangerous to fly rashly."
Although there are flying spells in this world, the speed is generally slow, just like running on the ground, and even not as good as the 100-meter flying man in the Olympic Games.
Although mage arcana has now developed some alternative flying spells, they are at best comparable to the speed of a horse. Therefore, the mage's fast movement ability is still mainly based on teleportation spells. If there is not enough spell cover, flying into the sky is actually a waste of time.
This is a very dangerous thing. A round of arrows or javelins can kill the mage.
Just in terms of speed, today's Henmasuko is accompanied by strong winds when he flutters his wings, and his body is as fast as an eagle. If he uses magic energy to form a force field power membrane at any cost, he can still shoot himself out like a living cannonball in one breath. Back then,
This is how Heng Mashizi successfully attacked Titus - but only if Titus's "Mirror Shadow Technique" was seen through by Xuan Weizi's heavenly eye.
So in an environment where magic skills are common, fighting is more like a chess game - you have "Flight", I have "Missile Storm"; you have "Mirror Shadow", I have "Arcane Vision"; you have "
"Any Gate", I have "Dimensional Anchor"...
What's more, when playing chess, each other's chess pieces are clear, but in actual combat, it is impossible to predict what cards the opponent has in hand. The reason why a mage is powerful does not lie in the individual mage itself, but because the mage has the ability to make various magic items. This is due to past spell casting.
What they don't have is, at least, it's far less developed than the mages are today.
Listening to Xuan Weizi's endless talk about his combat experience, Sandoli couldn't help but ask: "Then if we spirit messengers want to compete with the mage, do we also need to learn to make magic items?"
"Didn't the Banbeast tribe already start making magic items before?"
?"
Sanduoli shook her head with a solemn expression, and Xuan Weizi said: "Actually, enchantment is not difficult. It happens to be similar to the 'soul refining and divine connection' you practice, so I will teach you together."
Xuan Weizi himself was communicating with Titus in the tent these days, mainly to understand the knowledge of enchantment. Titus himself was good at making magic items and had also participated in enchanting work.
Enchantment is actually adding magical properties to ordinary objects, but it does not completely distort or change the object itself. Therefore, in the anti-magic field environment, enchanted items will also be suppressed in cost.
It can even be said that enchanting is the skill most likely to be developed after possessing the ability to cast spells. It is nothing more than transferring magical attributes to objects, so it is in line with the logic of development that the indigenous people can make bark armor.
According to Theus, the mages of the "Eye of Mystery" summed up ancient experience and developed modern arcane enchantment, which is further divided into "solar enchantment" and "soul enchantment".
The foundation of arcane enchantment is to use external energy sources, magic circles connected to the arcane star map, and various magic materials to reduce the consumption of the mage himself when making enchanted items.
In contrast, the enchanting skills of ancient witchcraft often directly consume the blood and vitality of the maker, and some simply consume the soul. Making magic items itself consumes the spellcasting ability of ancient wizards. And the "Eye of Mystery" has
A more precise statement——
"Their enchantment is just cutting out their own spell-casting abilities and storing them on foreign objects."
Therefore, when the "Eye of Mystery" clearly realized that the sun and soul are important sources of magical energy, they began to develop modern arcane enchantment, mass-produced enchanted weapons and armor, and became the expansion of the Great Londinium Empire.
During the process, it is the most precious thing that soldiers trust most.
So much so that there is a legend in the mage circle that in order to obtain more and greater magical energy, the "Eye of Mystery" wants to build a super solar cauldron with a radius of ten miles, and then raise it into the sky to chase the sun, continuously absorbing it throughout the sky.
The magical energy in the sun. Although this kind of thing has never been practiced, as long as you see the mage tower with the silver cauldron above, you can basically determine that it is the location of the "Eye of Mystery".
However, "soul enchantment" has a relatively bad reputation. The main reason is that since the enchantment techniques of ancient witchcraft in the past will consume the soul, it proves that the soul itself has magical effects and can naturally be used as energy for enchantment.
source.
And after research, compared with the magic energy in the sun that is easily dissipated and difficult to collect, the soul is naturally highly enriched in magic energy. Especially the more intelligent the life, the richer the magic energy contained in the soul.
As a result, the mages also specially compiled books such as "Soul Strength Level", "Racial Soul Classification", "Top Ten Gemstones and Processing Techniques for Storing Souls", etc., which were widely published and regularly revised and republished, once allowing the soul to
The science of enchantment is very prosperous.
However, the development of soul enchantment has quickly raised a question: "What creature's soul is most useful?"
Chickens, dogs, cattle and sheep? Birds and fish? Or goblins, lizardmen, jackals? No, no, no, they are human beings. The human soul is the most suitable variety for arcane enchantment.
At first, there were sporadic cases of wandering mages kidnapping rural children, then there were border villages that were destroyed by disguised attacks by gnolls, and then there was the underground slave market exposed by bards, in which many high mages and nobles participated.
The territorial nobles used various excuses to raise taxes, and sold the subjects who could not pay the taxes to slave traders as middlemen, and then sold them to mages as magic materials for stripping souls, forming a mature trafficking chain.
slave industry.
This incident was so serious that it once caused nationwide turmoil. Of course, the church was indispensable for this. The result was that the slave traders who were middlemen, the greedy housekeepers of the nobles, and the apprentices of the high mages were sent to the execution ground of the empire.
Since then, the law has banned "soul enchantment" and calmed the public's anger.
However, after the discovery of the New World, especially since the war with the indigenous tribes, "soul enchantment" gradually revived, and now it is a secret known to everyone.
It's just that the souls of the indigenous people are used, and even the poorest settlers in the Dominion are applauded - this sentence comes from the internal monthly magazine of the Magic Council.
"They, they actually..." Sanduoli heard Xuan Weizi's narration, and her whole body was shaking with hatred, and she couldn't even speak a complete sentence.
"Unless there are other better technologies to replace soul enchantment, don't expect the mages to make changes in a short time." Xuan Weizi said.
"You said so much, is there any better technology?" Rosalian asked from the side.
"I don't dare to say that." Xuan Weizi said: "It's just that 'soul refining and divine connection' can be seen as changing the magical properties on the surface of the soul. In fact, it is enchanting oneself. If Sandori can consolidate her soul
Isn't it another kind of enchantment to combine it with the soul, change the state of the soul, and allow the soul to attach and fuse with things?"
"Is this... really possible?" Shanduli's eyes were still red.
Xuan Weizi said: "Theoretically, it is possible, and this enchanting technique is inspired by your flowery short staff. If my idea is not wrong, not only can the soul be used to enchant, but the enchanted items will also be
Can continue to strengthen this skill again.
In fact, I speculate that Tu Randi also made bark armor in this way, but he communicated with the totem spirit, so he could make multiple pieces of bark armor by himself. But Tu Randi did this
, requires a high degree of integration between one’s own soul and the totem giant…”
Xuan Weizi didn't say much about the rest. He guessed that this was why after Tu Randi's death, his soul could resonate with the totem giant spirit and become violent. However, Tu Randi's approach did not break away from the scope of ancient witchcraft.
In the process of making bark armor, both one's own soul and the totem spirit are damaged, causing the soul captured by Xuan Weizi to be incomplete.
"The method I'm teaching you now will not damage your soul. The only prerequisite is that you can change the state of the free spirit. That requires very precise operations. It purely depends on your own skill. There is no shortcut." Xuan
Wei Zi said to Sandori.
"Then teach me quickly!" Sandori now wants to learn all these skills so that she can teach them to other tribes so that they can have the power to resist the mage.
"It's generally related to 'refining souls and cultivating gods'. I'll only talk about it once. By the way, I'll leave you with a 'memory seed' for future reference."
Today's Hengyizi can still transmit Xuanweizi's own psychic powers, and Xuanweizi injects new soul enchantment skills into Sandoli's astral body, becoming an invisible "seed of memory"
, so that it can be stored in Sanduoli's mind for a long time, just like the soul seal, she can completely recall the contents as long as she thinks about it.