old dream

Chapter 74 Improvement
The most typical one of the four folk witchcraft recorded in "An Analysis of the Witchcraft of Auxiliary Soldiers in Zhelan" has been lost due to the loss of life abundance, and the other is an invalid witchcraft used to illustrate the degree of inactivation of local magic. In the end, there are only two that can come in handy.

One is the sorcery used by the poor to retrieve their lost coins, and the other, just from the description, seems to be able to make people invulnerable in a short period of time.

The former seems rather tasteless.As for invulnerability, it's even more subtle.After all, the description is a bit exaggerated, and there is a degree of invulnerability. Kayu's soil gun and the alliance's "typewriter" can be regarded as guns. If you don't know the degree, it is difficult to really rely on it.

They are folk witchcraft after all.

For Colin, the specific effect may not be important, all he needs now is the spell for practice.

There is no accurate Ankh translation of their strange names, because even the locals themselves don't know the meaning of these names.According to the expatriate scholar Karn Foscher's speculation in the article, these syllable combinations should be taken from some scriptures written in the Gukayu language, but those scriptures are said to have all been used by the "Bright" living in the center of the continent. "King" are included in the palace, and allied scholars know very little about their contents and the mysterious "King of Light".

It is now clear that these two witchcrafts are essentially ritual magic, and the mirror component may be related to the black female Jiada.The main body of the content is a portrait, which is also a typical style of Kayu witchcraft. To use it, you need to draw a special complex pattern with the designated material.

In the days before the printing industry was widespread, the genre did prevent a witchcraft from being spread too widely.It will be difficult to describe only verbally, and the learner must start with the magic book that records the pattern.

But the trickier part is that these patterns can become more complex over time.Part of the reason is that some wizards don't understand the principle, but only make superfluous improvements based on guesswork.Because the stability of these primitive witchcraft is inherently low, the result is very random, so the improvement effect is often difficult to verify, and the wrong changes are saved.

However, most of these improvements were not originally intended to improve efficiency, but some people wanted to deliberately make witchcraft more difficult to learn and spread, in order to maintain the advantage of a small group of wizards.This phenomenon is common in the vast undeveloped Mongolian areas.

Those two tedious patterns are still vaguely showing an ancient story. Perhaps this greatly enhances its artistic value, and it can scare the layman more, but it makes the operation efficiency of the ceremony extremely low.In the end, it was simplified by Ji Lian to almost only the composition: some monotonous triangles and circles.

In the original version they also required the use of about fifteen materials blended into special inks, some of which were actually used as "fuel", some as "intentions", and most of them didn't work and were just a myth.

Combined with the analysis in the paper, Ji Li'an deduces the role played by each component.She directly replaced most of the troublesome ink recipes with some commonly used ritual components, and as for the fuel, she switched to the more efficient redstone.

After these sorting out, a primitive witchcraft has been improved to be close to modern witchcraft, and generally has a clear structure, so that the components can be adjusted at any time according to the location of the stars and the land, and the trigger is largely freed from the past contingency. , become more reliable.

But because the mirroring principle behind it is still unknown, the main part of the pattern still cannot change much.

……

"By the way, the 'space' and 'fuel' issues have been basically resolved, but the 'intent' is still somewhat unclear. It's not too much trouble, but you need to deal with the frequency adjustment before the ceremony. ."

Before closing the door, Ji Lian stuck her head out of the door and hurriedly reminded Colin.

These are no longer universal rituals, they require the shaman's consciousness to be on a specific frequency.

The more local-colored witchcraft, the more so.

She hadn't told Ji Lian that these materials came from Kayu, and of course she had no way of knowing which direction to tune in, so this step could only be done by Ke Lin himself.

According to the beginning of the article, these witchcrafts all point to the black goddess Kata, so using the instruments related to her should be able to adjust the frequency of consciousness to be close to that of Kayu.

But it is estimated that it is difficult to get anything related to him in Stade, even if it is just a pendant with a statue of him.So Colin had no choice but to settle for the next best thing, using a utensil related to her mid-continent variant, "Dark Mother Bod-Eves", or just something from Kayu.

And where you can buy this kind of thing, Colin happens to know one place.

……

Old Town Bug Market.

Almost half of the port and its extension at the lowermost reaches of the old city have been immersed in river water.

Originally, the main commodity was bug-man slave labor, because it had a semi-underground color since its birth, and now it has gradually become a gathering place for some strange commodities with unknown channels. Most of the witchcraft and fanatics will try their luck here, so this market has become the focus of the police detectives.

As soon as he entered the market, Colin felt overwhelmed by an unreal atmosphere.His experience has been unrealistic enough these days, but it lacks some "legendary" color compared to here.

The commodities here are more or less related to those unsolved mysteries, pseudosciences, famous alchemists in history.Just take two steps and you can see the four kinds of Otu Jindan that are said to make people free from cancer. Of course, they are all made up. In order to deceive, it is not so much selling goods as selling stories.

A mother-in-law jumped out of nowhere, dressed in tattered and dirty clothes with an obvious exotic style, holding a small bottle with black unknown liquid inside.

"The balsam gushing from the ground," she said mysteriously in a low voice, her accent too artificial because it imitated the exotic:
"It's the Kayu people on the other side of the world, the immortal water stolen from Mother Earth, these essences have been there for tens of thousands of years, as long as you pay five Asi, you can drink it to strengthen your body and live a long life. A hundred years old..."

To a certain extent, she didn't lie, tens of thousands of years, the essence of the earth or something.

Because Colin recognized what that thing was at a glance, and was even a little familiar.

That's a small bottle of oil.

(End of this chapter)