Smelting everything from pirates

Chapter 620: Getting Started with Meditation

"Is there any problem with this poem?" Barrett looked at Professor Bill Bohm with a little curiosity and asked.

However, when Bill Bohm was questioned, he suddenly had some astonished expressions, but he quickly realized it, looked at Barrett and said, "It's nothing Mr. Barrett, I hope you can put this song Poetry is forgotten in the mind, after all, the things involved are too big."

Hearing what Bill Bohm said, Barrett still nodded. Although there were many doubts in his mind, Barrett still believed that Bill Bohm should not do him much harm so far. heart.

"Let me take you out, Professor." After standing up from his seat, Barrett said to Professor Bill Bohm.

"I'm sorry to trouble you, Barrett. I heard that your Miskatonic University is planning to go to Egypt for investigation in a month. Do you have any plans to go to Egypt?" Bill Bohm looked back at Barrett and asked curiously. road.

In the past, Professor Wald had already invited Barrett to go to Egypt for a scientific investigation, and Barrett also agreed to this matter, so he simply said.

"I have already discussed with Professor Wald, and I plan to go directly to Egypt for investigation after the students return from vacation. But I don't know why, I always have some faint unease in my heart."

After saying this sentence, Barrett looked at Professor Bill Bohm.

But at this time, Professor Bilbom didn't know why he kept looking down at the poem Barrett translated for him.

At the same time, the unconscious muttering in his mouth seemed to be saying something, but the voice was too low, and Barrett could barely read some content from Professor Bill Bohm's lips.

"I don't know what Professor Bill Bohm was thinking about, but he didn't pay attention when he was going down the stairs." Barrett supported the old professor with one hand and sent him with the other. He left the stairwell.

After sending the old professor to the car, Barrett returned to his room.

Since returning to Arkham City, Barrett, apart from studying, has been studying the book that Charles gave Barrett.

It was the book engraved with various symbols that investigator Carter brought back, and there was a strange idea of ​​meditation on the last page.

In the past few days, Barrett has been observing and thinking about this meditation idea, but unfortunately, it is not known whether it is because Barrett has no talent or other reasons.

This meditation method has never been introduced, and can only wander outside the gate.

On this day, Barrett took out the book in his hand again, and read it carefully.

But I don't know why the set of 14 lines of poetry that I just translated for Professor Bill Bohm always came to my mind.

"Fungi from Yuggoth"

This poem lingers in Barrett's mind like a ghost, and it seems to have always existed in Barrett's heart like a curse.

At this time, Barrett tried his best to forget this poem, but the focus of forgetting became clearer and clearer.

As the poem entered Barrett's mind like a curse, it made Barrett feel more and more headaches, as if someone had shoved a grenade into his brain.

At the moment when his brain was about to explode, Barrett took out the incomplete Necronomicon

Holding this book with both hands, he shouted loudly to the sky: "In the eternal mansion, R'lyeh, the sleeping Cthulhu is waiting for you to fall asleep!"

After saying this, Barrett only felt that his whole body was soaked in a stream of sweat, but after touching his body up and down, he didn't secrete a drop of sweat from his body.

Kneeling on the ground, Barrett kept panting, but at this moment, Barrett seemed to see something different in his eyes.

That kind of thing is exactly the same as when he first saw a group of stars. In Barrett's eyes, he seemed to see his own cells and the flow of his own energy.

I saw the mutual exchange of blood in the blood vessels.This is a very wonderful feeling, but Barrett can only see it.

Even so, Barrett knew in his heart that he had definitely started to learn meditation at this moment. In the past, Professor Wald didn't tell Barrett what the sign of starting to learn meditation was.
But now Barrett understands in his heart that seeing his inner self is the sign of this meditation technique.

After Barrett started to meditate, he saw many different scenes when he looked at the book in front of him.

The content of the runes in front of the content of the meditation method has no secrets in front of Barrett, although many of the spells look very strange.

But Barrett can completely transform these runes to make them less powerful.

In the world of Cthulhu, it takes a lot of money to release spells, which has a lot to do with the mental state of the wizard who releases the spell, and even the casting area and celestial phenomena.

It even requires the wizard to sacrifice part of his own essence in the process of releasing the spell.

So to release spells, not everyone is like Barrett who picks up the rune in his hand and smashes it down to release the spell perfectly.

In the world of Cthulhu, those who cast spells like Barrett are actually a kind of alien.

Similar to what a wizard casts a spell called sacrifice.

There is such a record in Gail Martin's King of Blood.

"Magicians do use ditties to remember what to do first, but the lyrics themselves are meaningless. You can paint every spell on the wall of the stable, and every word is as tall as a person, If you don't activate his power, it's just a strange little song, and an ugly one at that."

In this passage, contract prayers and negotiations are required between the spellcaster and the mythical power. The bargaining chip for this is the price of the magician itself, or the common mana or rational value.

Even if Barrett's own soul quality is already extremely high, an equivalent exchange must be performed in order to release spells.

And now Barrett can learn most of the spells in the book recorded by Investigator Carter through meditation.

Although most of the above spells are not as lethal as a revolver, they can solve some special events at certain special times.

And this is also the only supernatural power that Barrett can master now.

In the first half of this book, it is mainly about spell science, and the content is even more comprehensive than Wikipedia.

The most important thing is that investigator Carter did not use the characters and symbols used by human beings to record, but mainly used the characters of a race of appearance to record, which made a lot of content in it compressed.

Although it is only a thin booklet, if it is to be translated, at least more than 80000 pages of English can be written.

It is not even possible to express all the content perfectly and in detail.

The so-called magic actually consists of three parts: consumption, description and effect.

The so-called consumption and effects have some mechanism-level influences in the game. It can be said that there is a loss of sanity value or a loss of physical damage or mana value.

But in real life, this kind of loss is even more terrifying, and even a certain organ of the body will be permanently lost.

When Barrett was walking on the Miskatonic campus, he saw an old professor whose legs were permanently taken away by a strange force.

After hearing Professor Wald's introduction, I realized that the old professor used his legs as sacrifices in the process of releasing the spell, and released a very powerful spell.

Besides, casting spells is very difficult

For the crazy cultists who are on the same side as the mythical gods, killing people is just one of the means to achieve their ends for this group of lunatics.

Therefore, it is often necessary to perform a living sacrifice ceremony to prepare for the release of spells, which is one of the reasons why it is very difficult to release spells.

In addition to the common spells, there are also some spells called folk spells. In fact, these so-called folk spells are a kind of bleached mythical magic.

In the inheritance of human beings, folk spells are passed down from generation to generation, although the power of these spells is gradually decreasing with the casting and inheritance of spells.

But perhaps it is precisely because of this that the harm of folk spells to the caster is not as terrifying as casting spells, so in the book recorded by investigator Carter, most of the spells are folk spells.

For example, a series of spells such as the common "healing method", "animal charm method" and "deep diver summoning method".

The cost of releasing these spells is not heavy, and even mortals can release them with a certain amount of sanity.

Barrett flipped through this book curiously. There are still many complicated places in the content of the book.

We still need to ask Barrett to study it carefully.

(End of this chapter)