Sanctuary Paradise

Chapter 342 Rune Past

One day later, the Sorcerous Kingdom.

"Lord Black Sword, you said you still want to retreat?!"

On the training ground where explosions continued, Suo Liuxiang had a look of astonishment on his face when he heard what Xin Lailai had just said.

"Yes, what's the problem?"

"No...no, it's just that Lord Black Sword...due to time issues, the third line of defense has not been fully constructed yet. If the second line of defense is abandoned now, I'm afraid..."

Suo Liuxiang said, paused slightly, looking like he was hesitating to speak.

If they retreat all the way to the third line of defense, it will be equivalent to them voluntarily giving up 80% of the territory of the Sorcerous Kingdom. Considering the strategic depth of the Sorcerous Kingdom, which is not very wide, the situation at that time can be said to be a real attack on the city. .

"Don't worry, within a month, the human camp will not take the initiative to cross the second line of defense, so you only need to focus all your energy on the construction of the third line of defense and territory."

Xin Lailai explained in a leisurely manner while flipping through the book in his hand. A look of confusion appeared on Suo Liuxiang's face, but he still nodded out of trust in Xin Lailai's identity and said respectfully. said:

Xin Lailai said, casually taking out a palm-sized booklet from the storage space and throwing it into Suo Liuxiang's hands.

"This is just a countermeasure in case something unexpected happens while I'm away. Many of the places I want to go are outside the range of communication tools and magic."

"Well, go down. I will be out for a while. If anything happens, just do what is written here."

Did this guy misunderstand something again...:
He gave the backup plan to the other party simply because he felt that Suo Liuxiang, who was in charge of intelligence management, was the most suitable to give orders in the battle maid group. However, it was obvious that this move caused Suo Liuxiang to misunderstand certain aspects. thing……

As for the first-level BOSS unit?

"Yes, Lord Black Sword, I will definitely not disappoint your expectations!"

"Yes, Lord Black Sword."

"As you command, Lord Black Sword, I will notify Narberal and the others immediately and ask them to organize a retreat."

"This is……"

'Forget it, just let them be happy. '

Suo Liuxiang replied excitedly, and his whole body suddenly turned into liquid and got into the gap in the ground. Xin Lailai glanced at the scene on the training ground and saw that he could handle 20 fireballs at the same time with ease. Huo Yu and the others, who were in an offensive situation, nodded slightly and showed a look of satisfaction.

——Although Xin Lailai can indeed multi-task now, it would be an exaggeration to say that he can control dozens of magic spells while still focusing on studying.

"Well, try to add some second-level magic into it. Many units in the Overlord world have certain spell-casting abilities, and they still need to be trained specifically."

If this first-level team would have been in a tough fight when they encountered an enemy of the Quagoa King's level at the beginning, then now Huo Yu and others can fight even if they face a second-level mini-BOSS of the Frost Dragon King's level. Achieve a battle with the opponent while ensuring survival.

Xin Lailai said calmly. When Suo Liuxiang heard Xin Lailai's words, she looked at the pamphlet in her hand, her eyes lit up and her cheeks turned slightly red. She carefully put the pamphlet away and said in a somewhat excited tone:

After a week-long special training, and after relying on him to spend a lot of magic potions and alchemy potions refined with alchemy machinery regardless of the cost, the average attributes of Huo Yu and others have now reached 35 points. Among them, the mage girl Tianhuo and the sun warrior Huoyu relied on his guidance to greatly improve their spell specialization and heavy sword specialization levels.

"Okay, let's go down and report back to me if you have any new information."

Ling Yuzi's voice sounded in Xin Lailai's mind, because Xin Lailai needed to study "Fundamentals of Runes" wholeheartedly. In fact, she had been responsible for the training in the past few days, and this formed the shape in the eyes of Dotian and others. Xin Lailai can easily release the illusion of a large number of spells while concentrating on reading.

Unless you encounter a big BOSS that is equivalent to him at LV.10 or an overlord-level unit like Yamu and the Executioner, ordinary first-order lord-level units are basically impossible to be the opponent of the current Huoyu group. .

Xin Lailai looked at Suo Liuxiang's flushed and excited expression, recalling the experience he had during this period of being praised even for coughing. The corners of his eyes twitched slightly, and he didn't bother to explain anything, so he said directly:

"Lailai, they seem to be almost used to the current intensity of attacks. Do you want to continue to increase the difficulty?"

Xin Lailai nodded slightly and answered in his mind.

Due to the influence of its own extraordinary system in the Overlord world, spellcasting abilities can be said to have become extremely common at low levels, and for some special units, cross-level release is even more common.

For example, Narberal in the Battle Maid Group focuses almost all its levels on spellcasting. Although Narberal's own attributes can only be regarded as a third-level elite unit in the middle and lower reaches, it can release spells. The eighth-level magic in Overlord, which is the fourth-level magic in the paradise system, makes the opponent's actual strength directly reach the third-level boss level.

In terms of equipment, in Overlord's system, the quality of equipment goes from the lowest level all the way up to the artifact level, which happens to correspond to the white to epic level in the paradise system, and the biggest feature of the equipment in Overlord is the need to wear it. Specialization.

To put it simply, for people who do not meet the conditions, the requirements for wearing the equipment will become extremely high, or even impossible to wear at all. But for those who meet the conditions, some holy relic-level...that is, in the paradise system The golden equipment only requires attributes in your early twenties and early thirties to wear.

For example, in the original work, the strongest combat power on the human side, the special commander of the Black Scripture Force of the Silian Theocracy, Jue Die Jue Mie, relied on his own talents and professional specialties to forcibly wear fourth-level physical attributes. A suit of artifact-level equipment equivalent to the epic quality in the paradise system.

This is also why he has to conduct special training for Huo Yu and others. Although Huo Yu and others are not weak at the first level, according to the situation in the Overlord world, if they are unlucky, they will not be weak at the first level. It is not impossible to encounter a special BOSS unit in a hidden dungeon that appears to have first-level attributes, but relies on its equipment to be able to compete with second-level bosses or even bosses.

Of course, when encountering an unbeatable and powerful enemy, Xin Lailai will definitely take action. The most important reason why Chi Jia and Azheng are willing to hand over the seed-level newcomers in the group to him is because of his promise. The safety of Huo Yu and others will be ensured.

"The rest is up to you, but don't train too harshly. Try to leave them some strength to move."

"Ah."

After adding something in his mind to prevent overdoing it, Xin Lailai moved his eyes to the book in his hand with confidence. After taking a sip of tea on the portable table aside, he continued to immerse himself in the book in his hand.

Although it was indeed because of the request of 83203 that he studied runes so diligently at the beginning, but after getting started a little bit and realizing the depth and mystery of runes, Xin Lailai is no longer just motivated by completing the task. , but became truly interested in runes.

——Although this process cannot be said to be easy.

Unlike spells, runes do not have any entry-level theory that can be easily understood by a person who has just completed basic education. It is also based on many complex advanced spell theories, with the extraordinary energy in the spell theory second. It is a subject with a very high learning threshold based on the transformation laws and related extraordinary energy transformation and calculation formulas in complex environments.

To put it simply, if you read this book "Fundamentals of Runes" to someone who has never been exposed to the complete theory of magic, you can probably turn back to the cover after reading the introduction, and honestly put this thing back in your storage space .

Just the construction of the most basic 'absorption structure' and 'release structure' can be divided into four major schools and 273 branches according to different environments, materials, and needs, with a total of tens of thousands of varieties. Completely different approach to construction.

As for the construction of a more complex 'transformation structure', needless to say, any small detail change in the 'transformation structure' may lead to two completely different runes. It can be said that as a decision maker, The most critical part of the function of the article, the construction method of 'transformation structure' is theoretically close to infinite.

It is natural to imagine how many methods there are for constructing complete runes derived from this.

——Although the study of runes begins with magic theory, in terms of actual results, the complexity and development potential of runes allow it to be viewed as an independent system that is not inferior to magic.

This is not an exaggerated description, but a fact. Although today's runes seem to be a vassal of the magic system, in fact, according to the introduction in the book, before the golden age, runes...or talismans Wen has always existed as an independent large system.

In the rune system, they even have their own independent world view, which regards the gene of life, the code of the soul, the structure of matter... and even the mystery of the origin as a unique "rune structure" world view.

It sounds absurd, but in fact, this worldview is reasonable and actually exists. In the records of academic sects, there are actual records of the rune life system created according to this concept, as well as many things closely related to runes. Relevant extraordinary systems.

The most classic among them is the extraordinary system in the world of witches, the transcendent native world that has sunk in the abyss area due to the great invasion of the abyss, and no one knows the specific situation. According to records, in the world of witches, the most extensive system is a system called wizards, and the introductory practice method of this system is to build spiritual runes in the spiritual sea to strengthen one's body, spirit and soul. .

In a sense, this is very similar to some of the secret methods for training soul strength recorded in the "Soul Cultivation Manual" Shan Xi gave them, except that the improvement is more comprehensive and the route is more complete.

It was also influenced by this system based on runes that before the Golden Age, that is, runes had not been thoroughly analyzed into a discipline as it is today, but developed as a high-ranking and mysterious profession. At that time, the witch world was the place where the most rune masters were born in the entire star world.

——Of course, only before the golden age.

After the arrival of the Golden Age, due to the fall of the witch world and the rise of academic sects, the rune system can be said to have changed the most among all the mainstream systems in the star world.

If the change in the spell system is just a change in the development direction of each school in the spell system caused by the development of theory, and the foundation itself has not actually changed much, then the change in the rune system can be said to be the transformation of the old spell system. The roots of the literary system have been dug out.

As for why? The reason is also very simple, because in the past, there was no so-called basic theory for things like the rune system.

Yes, let alone the basic theory of the rune system in the past, in fact, there is not even a method that can be passed down stably. Like Xin Lailai now, he only needs to rely on a book "Fundamentals of Rune Literature" to directly learn from the basics. In-depth study of the entire rune system was something that rune masters and even rune masters would not even dare to think about in the past.

Because there is no general basic theory for guidance, in the past, whether it was learning or creating runes, it could be said that it was a matter of completely relying on talent.

The so-called rune teaching method is for each rune master to use his own description method and pass on his knowledge to his disciples according to his own understanding, just like the old masters in the old factory. If he is talented enough, If you can understand it with just one click, you will naturally learn it directly. If you are not talented enough and cannot understand what the other party is talking about, you will not be able to learn it no matter how you learn it.

This led to the fact that in the past rune system, except for a few common basic runes, most of the other high-level runes were almost lost over time, not because of anything else but simply those runes. The creator and successor did not find a new successor until their death, or the new successor could not learn all the runes.

It can be said that if it were placed in the past, such high-level things as runes would have basically nothing to do with people like Xin Lailai whose average qualifications did not exceed C level.

But now, he can rely on step-by-step study and accumulation of time to gradually take these things that only geniuses were qualified to master in the past and turn them into his own power.

As for why the rune system has undergone such a big change, there are actually many stories in it.

Unlike magic systems that are accustomed to relying on exploratory theories to develop, in fact, due to the influence of habits and thinking passed down from generation to generation, at the beginning of the Golden Age, it was rare that the rune system did not try to keep up with the times. system.

At that time, the rune masters were immersed in the grief of the fall of the witch world, a transcendent and native world that could be called the birthplace of the astral rune system, and were busy looking for someone who could inherit what they had learned and created throughout their lives. Heir of Runes.

The opportunity that really changed everything was a rune master named Len Salmo, who created the rune that could hammer the spiritual ocean and forge the spiritual ocean into the spiritual world. In the last few years of his life, the Grandmaster made a decision because he was unable to find an heir who could learn his own runes:
——He went to the Academic Sect and met all the top scholars who were staying there at the time, hoping to find someone among these top scholars from all over the star realm who could learn his own runes.

In fact, this was not a wise decision. The academic sects at that time did bring together top scholars in various fields, but precisely because they devoted their entire lives to the fields they studied, there could be no more redundant ones. The energy to learn the runes of a rune master.

——What's more, at that time, Rune was still regarded as a system that only relied on talent and not brains.

Therefore, of course, Len Salmo failed to get any results. Although he did find several scholars with top rune talents, those scholars said that they did not have the energy to learn and inherit the thousands of complex runes. Runes to the extreme.

This result made Len Salmo feel despairing. When he even thought that the runes he mastered would be lost like other runes that disappeared in history, a scholar suddenly gave him a suggestion:
'You can go find the chief. He is the wisest person in the entire academic sect. For him, maybe learning your runes is not a troublesome thing. '

Chief of the academic sect.

When he heard this suggestion, Len Salmo, who was already feeling desperate, was like a drowning man seeing a straw, and his whole body became extremely excited.

So, with the last hope, Len Salmo found the chief of the academic sect at that time. After expressing his intention, the gears of the rune system reform officially began to turn——

The chief of the academic sect at that time did not agree to his request, but said something that made the entire rune world angry:

'I have no interest in this kind of garbage that can only be put on the shelf. '

Trash that can only be shelved on the shelf.

Such comments undoubtedly instantly angered Len Salmo, who was the rune master. He angrily questioned the chief at the time, hoping that the other party would take back his words, but the other party only said that unless Len Salmo could make the runes From something that can only be passed down by word of mouth to a 'knowledge' that can truly be passed down, otherwise you will never take back those words.

So Len Salmo left, angry and dissatisfied, and took the chief's words to the other rune masters he knew.

For a moment, the entire rune world was shaken up by that sentence. A wise man recognized by the entire star world as unsurpassed in academics said in front of a rune master that the runes he mastered were rubbish. This was undoubtedly It's a slap in the face of all rune masters.

Without any suspense, the rune masters and masters at that time united together for the first time as never before, and jointly climbed to the gate of the academic sect, wanting to ask for an explanation.

The result was naturally in vain. No matter how powerful the power they gathered together was, compared with the chief of the academic sect who started the entire golden age and was supported by countless top scholars, they were still nothing more than a small boat. There might be some turmoil.

But it was impossible for the rune masters to be convinced. The chief's words insulted the entire rune system. No matter how they tolerated it, they could not tolerate the things they had invested their whole life in being insulted like this.

In the end, because they could not use external force to force the other party to apologize, the rune masters had to seriously consider the chief's words and try to get the other party to admit their mistakes:

——Let the runes turn into knowledge, and let the rune system turn into rune science.

At first, when Len Salmo said this, countless rune masters laughed at it.

If runes are really so easy to sort out basic theories and turn from scattered runes into systematic knowledge, why would they spend so much energy on passing on their own runes?
This is impossible.

This was what many rune masters, including Len Salmo, believed at the time.

However, humiliation must be washed away by someone. Even if they know it is impossible, someone still needs to work hard for it. Therefore, after unanimous discussion, Len Salmo and several other rune masters who also had no hope of finding a successor began to work together. The research path of transforming runes into runes.

And this is where the change begins.

From disbelief, to doubt, to experiments, conjectures, and proofs again and again...

In the end, after spending half a life's savings in exchange for a life-extending treasure, and after hundreds of years of hard work by more and more rune masters and masters who devoted themselves to this cause, the words of the leader of the academic sect were once Rune Master Len Salmo, who slammed the door angrily, came to the door of the academic sect in his last days, carrying a thin ten-page manuscript.

What is written on it is the original basic theory of runes, the original rune structure calculation formula - Len Salmo's formula.

There is no joy of finally letting out a bad breath, no pride of a young man returning from his studies, but only thanks and one more request.

'Thank you and the era you started. '

'You are the benefactor of the entire rune world, and therefore we would like to ask you to sign this manuscript. '

'It was your original words that finally gave the rune system a chance to shine with its true glory in this era. '

'——True knowledge should never be shelved. '

This is the origin of the original "Fundamentals of Runeology" and the words written on the title page of all current editions of "Fundamentals of Runeology".

At this point, the old rune system has completely come to an end. The runes that could only be passed down by talent have truly become a subject that anyone can try to learn as long as they are willing.

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(End of this chapter)