Lord of Arcane

Chapter 679
"The situation is a bit complicated. I have never seen such a curse before. There is a very strange and stubborn power attached to his leg. I need a little time to think about how to expel it."

After Bishop Ambrill finished speaking, he glanced at the petrified Jabas with a strange posture, then glanced at Polk lying on the wooden board, and said to Xia Duo:
"His condition is relatively mild and not life-threatening. If you agree, I will test the expulsion effect on him."

"Yes, I agree!" Without any hesitation, Xia Duo agreed to Bishop Ambriel's experiment, which happened to be convenient for him to conduct a more detailed observation.

As for the "very weird and stubborn power" that the bishop said, Xia Duo didn't take it seriously. For mages, magic is a very specific and quantifiable operation.

But for the clergy, magic is more like a vague and mysterious power with no specific form, which is completely understood through perception.

The two sides see the world from different angles.

The petrified state on Polk's legs is a strange power to Bishop Ambrill, but to Xia Duo, it is possible to understand the specific spells inside it.

On this issue, mages and clergy basically cannot talk together. Unless they are astral mages or priests of the goddess of magic, it is best not to talk about magic. It is really not a joke to talk about chicken and duck.

……

Next, Bishop Ambrill checked Jabas who was completely petrified, and after thinking for a while, he tried it on Polk.

Presented in Xia Duo's naked eye vision is an ever-changing sacred radiance agitating in the bishop's hands, while Polk's thighs that were illuminated did not change at all.

Not to mention that it has not returned to normal, it has not even deteriorated, as if the bishop's actions are completely useless.

But in the magic vision, this series of stimuli exposed some details of the petrification spell. Although the bishop is not good at magic, he has a keen intuition for magic.

His holy power shuttled and circulated in the strings of the magic net, bumping here and bumping there, like an adventurer who is constantly exploring in the mysterious fog.

Xia Duo quickly recorded some details of the petrification spell with simple arcane geometric figures, and at the same time silently analyzed the overall picture of the petrification spell constructed by these details.

……

After a while.

Polk, who was still lying quietly, suddenly let out a scream of "Ah—" and woke up from a deep sleep. Then he frantically beat the joint between the flesh and the petrified part of the thigh with his hands, and at the same time, his upper body was still struggling to think. to sit up.

Being interrupted so suddenly, the holy radiance surging in Bishop Ambrill's hand suddenly shrank and almost lost control. Fortunately, the bishop was experienced and calmed Polk in time. Afterwards, he wiped the sweat from his forehead and stood up. Said to Shado:
"I still underestimated this curse, it's too tricky! I'm going to rest for a while and try again."

After finishing speaking, he sat down on the unpacked chair next to him.

And Xia Duo just wanted to think about it, so he took out a small table and a set of tea sets, put them down on the space between the two chairs, and started making tea.

But this time he was not willing to take out the "Prime Bonu Leaf". After all, his own tea tree hadn't matured yet, and getting it from the elves was very unstable, and he had to risk being traced.

With just such a can of stock, even if you just drink it by yourself, it may not last long. It must be saved.

But even the foreign trade version of "Bonu No. [-]" still has a considerable refreshing effect, but after drinking the original leaves of Bonu for so many days, Xia Duo's mouth seems to have been spoiled, and he only sipped lightly. After taking two sips of "Bonu No. [-]", he put down the teacup and concentrated his mind on the spell notes in his hand.

Although the form of any spell will be different, but the essence is the same, it is the operation of the string of the magic net, and this unknown petrification spell is no exception.

It's just that whether it can be analyzed and whether it can be resolved is another matter.

Judging from the part of the information that has been collected, Xia Duo speculates that this petrification spell may be a field-type spell, rather than a spell that competes against a single target.

Perhaps a mage facing a single object can cause a partial petrification effect, but there is a very obvious difference in structure between field spells and single target spells.

To say it is a petrification spell, it is better to say it is a "petrochemical field".

Polk or Jabas accidentally triggered a certain mechanism, and a petrified field appeared there, turning everything in the field into a stone form.

Xia Duo recalled what he saw in the so-called ruins with the scouting spell before. There was indeed nothing but earth and rocks there. It seemed that only materials with a tendency towards the earth element could be exempted from this petrification effect.

Thinking of this, Xia Duo immediately got up and came to Jabas who was completely petrified, and forcibly broke off the petrified dagger pinned to his waist. The fracture was very clear——

The inside of the dagger sheath is not a metal dagger, but a stone dagger.

This was somewhat beyond Xia Duo's expectations. Could it be that the petrochemical field is so powerful that it can even transform metals?
But on the other hand, if one can master the transformation method of metal, wouldn't it be possible to generate various metal materials at will?
However, Xia Duo can't think about that far for the time being. Thinking about the conversion efficiency of elemental gems, you know that this generation method must be time-consuming and energy-consuming.

In the absence of efficient and cheap energy sources, such extremely expensive experiments can only be attempted occasionally in the laboratory.

Back to the field of petrification itself, Xia Duo can't judge how many rings it belongs to, but it is certain that it exceeds the 5th ring. Although he can't observe the deeper structure, but through reasonable speculation based on the nature of magic, he is very sure that it is still a spell. There are deeper structures.

But the problem is that based on the existing information, it is not enough for Xia Duo to deduce the deep structure of this petrification magic. Even if he can understand all the information related to the first five layers of the magic net, it is still difficult to further deduce this petrification magic. full details of .

This is somewhat similar to [Appraisal Technique]. At the level of the magic net that Xia Duo cannot observe, the complexity there is even shallower. This is like knowing all the information of a mobile phone chip, but also unable to know all the information of other parts .

While it may be possible to guess some, it can never be all.

If at this time, the mage who is trying to explore has enough theoretical reserves and experience in spell design, he may be able to complete the remaining spell details by himself. In this way, although there may be some subtle differences from the original spell, it is possible to Be completely consistent.

And Xia Duo, such a mage with both theory and experience, now only needs to collect more information.

After thinking for a moment, he picked up the teacup again, took a sip of the already cold tea, and said to Bishop Ambriel, "Bishop, continue?"

"it is good!"

After resting for a while, Ambriel has regained his energy, and during the rest, he had some new ideas, which made him a little more sure about this attempt.

(End of this chapter)