The Ominous Lord of the Skaven

Chapter 23 The Eve
After figuring out everything, Ickert asked little Sasha to rest on the bed, but he couldn't sleep, so he went outside to investigate the situation of the vigil.

However, Ickert couldn't hide his inner irritability after all. The rats were ordered to strengthen their vigilance, but they didn't know anything about it and thought they were guarding against jackals!
Only Aris seemed to realize something, and the two reached a tacit agreement in the rest of the trip, and they stopped talking unless necessary.

The lord's silence also affected the atmosphere of the entire convoy. In the end, even the most heartless Ratman felt something was wrong. Genil was so depressed that he couldn't even eat goblin jerky.

The silent march did not stop until they approached Windsor. At this time, Ickert suddenly ordered a day's rest, and deliberately found an easy-to-defend position to camp.

With the previous atmosphere warning, everyone did not raise any doubts, and the experience along the way was enough to make them trust Ickert without reservation.

Under his arrangement, all the vehicles were taken to the outside, and the camp was quickly turned into a fortress. Each vehicle was tied with ropes, and the Ratman was always outside to monitor the situation.

Not only the guards, but even the cook unconsciously took the time to look outside. The wooden box containing the crossbow bolts was pried open early, and the villagers had to sit next to the ammunition even when resting. enemy!

When Ickert saw this, he didn't deliberately let the citizens relax, because he couldn't tell when the danger would come.

At this time, he was arranging the magic circle with the assistance of little Sasha. He lightly smashed the gems and arranged a circle around the car formation, and then used the "array sand table" to draw the "updraft" magic circle in the center of the car formation .

"The formation sand table is made of magic-guiding body materials with extremely high magic power. After engraving a magic circle once, it can be restored with magic power to achieve the effect of repeated use."

Because of the rare opportunity, Ickert decided to take this opportunity to explain to little Sasha. It doesn't matter whether you understand it or not, the important thing is to gain knowledge for the apprentice first.

Little Sasha encountered this scene for the first time in class, and could only nod repeatedly.

Anyway, what the teacher says is what.
"Then, we need to join the outer and inner rings with gem powder."

Ickert didn't blame him when he saw that little Sasha started to perform badly. After all, he was born in the imperial capital, a third-order mage with half a foot in the middle class!

If the apprentice understands it simply, how about losing face?

"After the gem is broken, it will be in an excited state. At this time, the magic pressure inside the gem will unconsciously start to dissipate until it maintains a balance with the environment's magic pressure.
This unstable state can maintain the excitation of the magic circle. Each gem is called a node, and the area covered by the node is the enchantment. The enchantment determines the effective range of the magic circle function.

Gemstones are a good magic-guiding material after being ground into powder, and using this characteristic can easily connect large-scale magic circles in the wild."

Little Sasha: "Abaa abaa."

Eckert: "."

"Ahem, the last ring of the formation, the core, is the formation sand table. This core formation represents the function of the formation. To make the formation effective, you must ensure the power supply of the functional formation."

After Ickert finished speaking, he took out a crystal from his rucksack, which was different from the crystal Sasha used to recover his magic power. This was a crystal full of magic power, exuding faint blue fluorescence.

Ickert inserted it in the center of the formation sand table, and the faint blue light was transmitted to the four directions along with the gem powder, and a formation surrounding the convoy was formed.

"Teacher, after being busy for so long, what is the function of this formation?"

Little Sasha, who wasn't even counted as a sorcerer's apprentice, didn't understand anything, so she simply asked about the specific effect of the Ikett circle.

And Ickert, who heard the apprentice finally asked the question, couldn't describe the smile on his face. To be honest, having an apprentice can really bring a lot of fun to the mage's journey.

Just like now, this feeling of answering other people's questions made him very comfortable, and he almost forgot about the possible crisis.

Who doesn't like to appear in public?
"I'll startle you when I say this formation, it's called 'updraft'!"

"Updraft?"

Little Sasha tilted her head in confusion.

She thought that magic itself was inexplicable enough, but she didn't expect the teacher's name to be even more inexplicable
Seeing little Sasha's reaction, Ickert also realized that he couldn't explain clearly.

"Ahem, the name is not important, the important thing is the function. In fact, the function of this magic circle is easy to understand, but before explaining the principle of the magic circle, I want to ask you a question first."

"Sasha, what do you think the perception of the undead is like?"

"Perception? Well... I don't know, I can't imagine it."

Sasha closed her eyes and thought, her brain was running fast, but she couldn't think of an answer even if she squeezed her pimples.

"It's actually very simple. Everything needs to receive information from the outside world, and then respond to it after processing it. It's like you want to eat an apple when you see it.

If the undead can act autonomously, then he must 'see' something. "

Ickert didn't keep it a secret, and started to analyze it directly.

"The flesh and blood of the dead have rotted away, which means they can no longer use their noses, eyes, and skin like humans, but the dead can't just be possessed by ghosts, and they can't use magic all over their bodies."

Little Sasha came back to her senses when she heard this, since the dead are resurrected, their actions must rely on the things that survive.
Ickert was very relieved to see that little Sasha had entered a state of thinking, but it was difficult to understand the subsequent analysis based on the knowledge that little Sasha had not received compulsory education.

Just like the air is not empty, Ikert can understand that the means of receiving information are nothing more than physical stimulation, chemical stimulation and light stimulation, and the undead whose flesh and blood have lost their activity can theoretically not receive most of the stimulation, or even if they receive it, they cannot process it. .

Therefore, there is only one answer left. In the magical world, the perception of the undead is only "magic power".

Among them, what is most likely to be the perception of the undead is the different properties of magic power in the process of spreading.

The reason for this analysis is the mage's "ringtone". If Ickert guessed correctly, it should be a special kind of magic shock, which drives the undead through changes in the frequency of magic ripples.

In addition, Ickert can also infer from Little Sasha's narration that the undead themselves have a certain attack direction, such as actively biting flesh and blood, showing aggressiveness towards living humans, and so on.

In Ickert's view, it should not be flesh and blood that guides the undead to attack the target, but the special magical nature of human flesh and blood!

What is a person who cannot use magic?The magic pressure in the body is the same as that of the outside world, and those who cannot condense magic power to form a high magic pressure are useless woods that cannot release spells!
Magic power exists in everyone's body, and a magician is just an individual who can condense, compress, and continuously absorb external magic power.

Therefore, everyone has their own magic power characteristics, and the magic power in the human body also has some racial characteristics. This kind of magic power with fixed characteristics is what the undead perceive!

(End of this chapter)