book of old days

Chapter 186 You Have Today Too

In the dim smelting room, with the few rays of sunlight projected from the transom of the castle, Sean stared at the hat, waiting for its judgment.

"Is there a problem! Are you asking me a question! If you didn't summon me here, I really wonder if you are really a wizard... Wait a minute, are you really a wizard?"

Sean coughed, "Ahem, of course, it's just that the wizards on our side are a little different from yours. It's not surprising."

"Tsk tsk tsk, it's more than a little different. Take the magic source and drink it with water. Even the craziest black wizard on our side doesn't have the guts. After all, no one thinks that their life span is too long."

Sean sighed, maybe this cheap hat should be made.

"So what's the problem?"

Perhaps because he heard Sean's bad tone, the hat finally began to explain in detail.

"Magic does not exist in the material world, it is a kind of energy, an elusive existence.

If a magician wants to obtain magic power, he must meditate, absorb the magic power through the magic net, and integrate it into his own "spiritual realm". The spiritual realm and the soul are closely related. A powerful magician can have an immortal soul, but the body remains As fragile as a mortal, because for the flesh, magic is a strongly corrosive thing.

In our world, in some special areas, there will be a large amount of magic power, and the natural disaster called the tide of magic power will also bring a lot of magic power in a short period of time, causing tens of thousands of deaths and injuries every time , and after the tide of magic power is over, there will be a large number of mutated magic species that have been eroded by magic power.

Those creatures under the influence of magic for a long time usually die gradually, and only a few survive, and even then their bodies will undergo great changes, most of which are related to becoming mindless monsters.

Only a very few can gradually stabilize in the continuous evolution, and finally evolve into those magical creatures. "

But biological evolution is a long process. According to the research of Recadia College, it may take dozens of generations of reproduction and gene repair to become a stable species, and most of them will die during this process.

Of course, there are also some cases that can withstand the corrosion brought by magic power. Not only can they survive, but they can also obtain powerful mutation abilities, but this requires extremely strong vitality to do so. Only those creatures with extraordinary vitality—such as dragons , only then.

You don't look like that. "

Sean felt cold when he heard this. This is too miserable. No, the tide of magic power should be corroded by a large amount of magic power in a short period of time. He only absorbs a little bit every day, so it shouldn't be that bad.

"But according to my research, as long as you release the magic power in your body, you won't be corrupted by magic."

"Unless the biological structure of your world is completely different from that of our world, I don't think so. Maybe your experiment time is not enough, and there is no abnormality, but the magic power is like paint, and it is very viscous. Kind of like, if you fill a bucket with paint and pour it out, do you think the bucket will stay clean?"

Although it can still be used to hold water, it seems that there is no difference, but in essence, it is no longer the original bucket.

And what you are doing now is pouring paint into the bucket over and over again, each time the paint will leave a dry mark in the bucket, until one day you will find that the bucket is suddenly full and can no longer be used. Filled with water, at that time, tsk tsk tsk..."

Sean felt a little cold when he heard it, and asked tentatively, "But isn't this a good thing? That means one day my body will be full of magic power?"

"That's right, but the premise is that you can survive. The flesh of a creature is not that tough. If you light a big fire on your body, do you think you have mastered the power of the flame?"

"Uh, this..."

Sean understood the meaning of the hat now, but he didn't panic too much. After a short moment of annoyance, he began to quickly think about the solution. He had a terminal illness back then, and he was cured in the end.

"Is there no way to heal it? For example, if I use spiritual water to heal it?"

"You still have spiritual water? I didn't expect you to have fairies in the lake here, but I'm afraid it's useless. As far as I know, spiritual water can be used to heal injuries and drive away diseases, but the change of the body by magic power is not injuries and diseases. , but some kind of deeper influence."

"Then what if I never drink magic water from now on?"

The hat shook his 'head', "I'm afraid it's too late, magic power is a poison, a sweet poison, once you taste it, you can't get rid of it, magic power will leave a hole in your body, a hole that needs to be constantly filled A full hole that gets bigger the more you drink, but provides short-lived gratification.

If you don’t drink it, the emptiness in your heart will continue to torture you. I once saw a wizard whose magic was eliminated. He was like a walking dead, wandering aimlessly in the world following the traces of magic. That tortured and killed himself. "

Sean's back felt chills when he heard it, and he said in his heart, no, no, I won't end up like this, right?
"Hahahaha, you still have today, Sean, I'll tell you that something will happen to you sooner or later. This time, I won't treat you for you." Alhaz's triumphant clamor came from the mirror again.

This time Sean was in no mood to argue with him, "Shut up, you bastard."

The hat thought Sean was talking to him, and closed his mouth decisively.

"I'm not talking to you." Sean said angrily, he grabbed his hat, "Do you know that there are things that only I can see and hear, but no one else can see or hear? "

He thought to himself that even if he wanted to die, he had to find that bastard Alhaz first and then kill him again.

"You mean ghosts?"

"No, of course I'm not talking about ghosts. I have summoned spirits more than once. I can still tell the difference between ghosts and things. He will only appear in the mirror. To be precise, it is a person killed by me, for example Now, he's in this mirror."

Sean pointed to the mirror in his hand, and the hat looked at the mirror with a comforting expression on his face, "Maybe it's the influence of your magic power that caused you to have hallucinations? Sorry, I've never heard of such a thing."

Sean was a little disappointed. It seemed that even the hat didn't know what Alhaz was.

Maybe there will be a chance to ask the sphinx or the wise man of the oak tree in the future.

But the most urgent thing is to deal with the magic problem.

"So it's okay if I can fight that empty feeling?"

"Almost, but people's will is easily affected. I don't think you can bear it. Of course, it will be fine for a short time, but what you are facing may be a cry of pain."

"Hmph, that's not necessarily the case. You don't know me. You can't imagine how strong my willpower is." Sean said, and he had already made up his mind to quit before finding out how to solve the negative effects of magic power corrosion. Magic water.

(End of this chapter)