old dream

Chapter 46 Spell Strings

Late at night, Colin's room in the small attic.

The so-called displacement transfer method seems to be a spell that is widely used in a considerable range.

The so-called magic is nothing but a lighter ritual.

Because of its constant use, the 'Transmutation Method' is robust enough to operate on its own without intentional involvement.

Its function is only to complete the position conversion of two unrelated spiritual elements, and it is used as a basic unit in many large-scale spells.

After hundreds of years of continuous improvement, it has been difficult to verify which mirrors it is based on.Perhaps because of countless repetitions, it has become a stable enough mirror in itself.

Some people say that the moment a spell is completed, it is already a separate mirror image.Others say that they have to be reused countless times before they are gradually stripped from the original image.

Colin remembered what someone once said: "In fact, there is no road on the ground, and when more people walk, it becomes a road."

A spell is like a road, or a meandering riverbed, but they all change.

The riverbed is the rule that guides the river, and the river is the events that flow over time.

As people use it with different intentions and understandings countless times over the years, the riverbed is rerouted, and the connotation of the mirror image will gradually be rewritten.

Because in the depths of the world, the "spiritual power" that is inserted into the fuel will really have an impact.

In the prototype world above the virtual world, that is, the place where the mirror image is stored, a spell is no longer just an abstract form or technology as it appears in the material world, but more similar to a "living thing".

Because there, the mirror image of each spell itself is actually stored, that is, the "mold" and "drawing" shared by countless projections of it in the material world.

And the projection changes with the drawing.

As an artificially created mirror image, spells are far less stable than free mirror images, so they are relatively easy to be affected.

Every time the mirror resonance occurs, a force in a different direction will also be resonated to the mirror body, although its effect is extremely small.

But it was like countless strands of water, gradually carving marks on the riverbed.The riverbed is widening and deepening at any time, and at the same time, it will change its original direction unknowingly.

So a spell will be stable, mature and solidified under external force.At the same time, it will also deteriorate, degenerate, and inactivate due to various reasons.

Just like the same sentence in different times may express diametrically opposite meanings.

The evolution of a spell seems to be very similar to the evolution of language.Like a meandering wide river.

Therefore, allied scholars are not used to calling certain spells "magic" and "witchcraft" like the ancients, but they are used to calling them "spell lines".

Or call them "spell strings" because of their ability to be triggered by mental intent.

Today, the "fictional temple" erected by the First Order in the prototype world can accurately observe the most stable and profound spell strings.

Thus, it is possible to completely disable a spell.

The seven instant-death techniques and fifteen mental interference techniques that were common and easy to use in the past have been under the surveillance of various religious orders throughout the material realm.

Once the mirror resonance occurs on the monitored spell strings, the order can accurately trace the location of the caster in the material world.

And if the caster has poor concealment awareness, even the coordinates may be located.

…………

Colin began the ceremony.

The method of dividing the ritual space will not be repeated here.This is nothing but the process of creating a "white paper".

The method of displacement transfer is almost the simplest basic spell.Now it can be expressed all in one symbol.

towards the opposite two arrows.

The so-called coordinates have different expressions under different systems.Colin doubted that the so-called birth date in the previous life was also one of the ways to describe the coordinates.

But Giovanni's expression method seems to be a specific proportion of the elements of wind, fire, water, soil and four elements.

The coordinates that Colin measured for himself were [-] for wind, [-] for fire, [-] for water, and [-] for earth.

He has no research on spiritual mathematics and doesn't know what the numbers will mean.

Write the coordinates on one end of the arrow and place a whole block of redstone soaked in animal oil on the other end.It is said that the flow of spiritual essence will be blocked because of this, and a part of it will remain in the redstone ether.

With his current conditions, it is still impossible to control the precise displacement transfer.

The redstone used in this part can be used all the time, so he chose a complete block of higher grade.

Another five grams of ground redstone was used as fuel and was sprinkled in the salt ring.

In the end, the action of lighting the candle is still used as the trigger to signal the beginning of the ritual.

Colin gathered his consciousness and sensed the abundance of life in it.

They are still as bright as the stars, but they are much thinner now.

As usual, Colin carefully isolated the tiniest particles.Then focus on it.

The next moment, as if the sound of cavitation bursting came.It was displaced out of Colin's consciousness and annihilated in the ritual space on the table.

Instead, a more "rough" and indistinct force appeared in Colin's consciousness out of thin air.

About half of the redstone used as fuel in the salt circle is instantly turned into white powder
Colin felt a tingling sensation in the depths of his soul, which was the sequelae of using displacement transfer to transfer spiritual essence directly into consciousness.

The ego is repelling it, and the complete transformation of this spiritual element is a process that consumes vitality.

Colin felt it for a moment, and after using the transfer three times, he could restore his life abundantly.

But the dark burning at that time lasted for nearly two days.In this way, the depletion produced by swarming V. carinii stress is not unacceptable.

However, because we do not know the unknown consequences of the loss of the source, it is better to use it with caution in the future.

……

The next evening, I saw him again at the place agreed with Giovanni.

He looked Colin up and down, nodded and said, "It seems to have recovered a lot."

"Get ready," he said:
"Our enemy tonight is a true wizard."

(End of this chapter)