Lord of Arcane

Chapter 525 Deciphering the Spell Book

He said he was opening the spell book, but he was actually cracking the magic item, but Xia Duo had no experience in this area before, so after talking about the beginning, he looked at Niya.

The specific operation still depends on her, but Xia Duo is not very helpful or helpful. He is no stranger to the principle of cracking magic items, which is probably like cracking software on earth.

If the essence of software is the specific route of electron flow, then magic is the specific route of energy flow.

The essence of casting spells is the operation of the magic net. Energy runs in the magic net. No matter what kind of magic item it is, it will eventually come down to the combination of the magic net's strings (energy route).

Similar to software that does not have encryption at the level of machine language, magic does not have encryption at the level of individual elements. In theory, any magic item or any spell is open source.

This is why mages don't like to cast spells in front of mages of the same level, because it is easy to reveal their secrets.

Encryption when casting spells has certain effects, but it is of little significance. Casting spells is a brain-consuming thing. Encryption makes the process of casting spells fragmented and unsystematic, which is not conducive to one's own memory and mastery.

Encryption is often used in the crafting of magic items.

Without being very proficient in the principles of magic, a mage wouldn't even be able to tell if it was encrypted.

In fact, if you don't consider understanding the specific spells designed by the magic item, and don't consider the time cost, any encrypted magic item can be perfectly copied one-to-one.

This is like, the copying of software is actually a perfect copying from the bottom layer, information like "01010", but the copying of magic items not only includes the information copying link, but also the production link.

But if you want to know the source code of the software, unless it is not encrypted, otherwise, you can only crack it by decompiling or other methods.

Magic items are similar.

The spell book that Xia Duo obtained was an encrypted spell book, but he also speculated that the encrypted one should only be the "shell", and the contents inside should not be encrypted.

After all, who in normal life would write a diary with riddles!
But in the same way, this encryption should also have some destruction features, otherwise the encryption is meaningless, and the content inside cannot be seen after the forced demolition.

In addition, this encryption should also be divided into different permission levels, otherwise it will be very troublesome to decrypt it every time you use it!

Therefore, if Xia Duo wants to open this spell book, he must at least complete the step of seizing the authority, otherwise, he can only unlock it slowly.

……

"I'll check first to see if there are any triggering damage spells."

Niya didn't do it right away. After all, it was a spell book written by an unfamiliar mage. She wasn't sure if that mage Feld would include damage spells in the spell book.

Of course, not just damage spells, any trigger spells need to be avoided.

Before the inspection, Niya blessed herself with all-round protective spells, and a burst of magic flashed. In Xia Duo's magical vision, Niya had already turned into a shining ball of light.

Xia Duo also cast magic protection.

"Ta Ling, transformation spell laboratory protection mode, type 2 test mode."

Just as Niya finished speaking, Xia Duo found that the magic net environment in this laboratory had been slightly adjusted, becoming—became a little indescribable, anyway, he didn't find anything abnormal.

Immediately afterwards, Niya controlled the arcane energy and tried to link the open magic net string of the spell book. This is a necessary step for using magic items. If there is no arcane energy, the only way to connect the magic item to itself is to connect.

However, generally only relatively advanced magic items have such settings. Ordinary magic items, as long as the user has been in contact with them for a long time, a link will be automatically generated. This time may range from a few minutes to dozens of hours.

From this point of view, the magic items that a mage can use at the same time are limited, and it is unlikely that a person will have ten rings on his hand.

Niya's connection attempt was not successful, but it was not considered a failure, at least it did not trigger any triggering spells. The spell book with a light yellow cover was still lying safely in the lead box.

"It doesn't look like there is a trigger spell set on the link. I'm going to pick it up and see if there is a trigger spell set against the touch."

Niya's eyes were shining brightly, her tone was a little nervous, but also a little excited, but seeing her like this, Xia Duo was a little worried about her state:

"Wait a minute, I'll try to use the [Identification Technique] first, you can see if there are any tame alien slaves in Gilles High Tower, let the slaves try to touch it."

"This spell book is at least linked to the fifth layer of the magic net, and we have no way of judging how much is left behind. The identification technique should not work, right?" Niya was a little puzzled.

"It doesn't take much trouble to try it, but you, your current state doesn't look like a calm spellcaster."

When Xia Duo said this, Niya was startled at first, but quickly reacted, "Sorry, it's also the first time for me to conduct this kind of cracking experiment, and I'm going to find a slave now."

After speaking, Niya left the laboratory.

Xia Duo also mentioned slaves casually, but he didn't expect that there were slaves in Gilles High Tower. Xia Duo was somewhat repulsive about using slaves, whether it was out of civilized moral concepts or practical interests.

But in Netheril, slavery is a very real problem. Except for aliens, even Netherese can become slaves.

In addition, even if there is no need for slaves, as long as they are willing to pay, there will be a lot of people willing to participate in magic experiments.

Even on Earth, there are volunteers for various medical experiments, but compared to Netheril, where slaves have no right to choose, a complete set of volunteer recruitment procedures has long been formed on Earth, which can to a certain extent Ensure the safety of volunteers.

As long as there is no evil intention, Xia Duo does not reject the use of living bodies for experiments.As for the danger, it is actually something that volunteers need to consider, or something that some review committees that have not yet formed need to consider.

If Netheril wants to develop, it will definitely form a relatively complete procedure for recruiting experiment volunteers. After all, taking a step back, experimenters who actively participate will at least bring higher experiment efficiency than those who are forced to participate.

……

Just when Niya left to contact the slave, Xia Duo was going to use [Identification Technique] to try it out. Although he knew that the probability of being able to identify it directly was very small, as he and Nya said, it would not take too much trouble to try it. .

And regardless of whether all the information in the spell book has been identified, at least there will be no gain at all.

(End of this chapter)