I think you can't even imagine the happiness of a warlock.

For your own safety, you still need to be extremely cautious when using money bugs to avoid being hacked to death by the legendary boss who descended from the sky.

However, by studying the influence the white dragon exerts on its lair and surrounding territory, Chen and Lily were able to learn to further improve their planar attunement to the Great River Territory.

After all, in theory, Lily, who used plane synchronization for the entire Great River Territory, almost regarded the entire area covered and radiated by the Tree of Life as her own nest.

The area around a legendary dragon's lair is altered by the dragon's presence, which scholars often refer to as the "lair effect."

Take the unknown white dragon they faced as an example.

The Frost Moist Mountain where it lives has been experiencing constant wind and snow since it woke up. The snow in the surrounding frost plains has become thicker and thicker, but it has always maintained a certain height.

The excess snow disappears without a trace, which is confusing.

In fact, the blizzard from the edge of the water and air elemental planes appeared in this plane and disappeared again.

At the same time, the surrounding rivers within a few kilometers have frozen, and the new lives born within a few kilometers-except for the ancient enemy frost giants, all have a chance of becoming half-dragons.

Dragons do not necessarily need physical contact to spread their bloodline. Magic is the true essence of their power.

These additional half-dragons are naturally in affinity with the white dragon as the source, and undergo changes both physically and magically.

But correspondingly, their temperament will begin to move closer to the source of their bloodline. In the case of white dragons, they will become suspicious, cunning, slow and stupid.

Besides.

The dragon is immediately aware of the death of any creature within 1 kilometer of its lair and captures the last scene in their eyes.

Or you can enter the dreamland of any creature within 6 kilometers and act and transform as you like.

It can even sense anyone pronouncing its real name and hear the other person's communication with nearby people within a period of time.

"Isn't this close to the gods? Try bombing it with a DDOS attack?"

Chen Zhou wanted to try this trick when he heard that gods could sense other people's thoughts, but his strong desire to survive made him give up this act of seeking death.

Now that he knew that the giant dragon in the lair also had similar abilities, he couldn't bear it anymore.

"It's just that we don't know what its full name is yet..."

Chen still remembered that the other party called himself "David" when he was on top of the walls of Lionheart City. However, the dragon's full name is actually much longer than that, and is often complex and obscure, reflecting the grandeur of the dragon's ancient language.

"It's useless. It's not easy to call out the true names of dragons or various creatures."

Before Chen Xun could think about how to investigate the dragon's true name, Shushu on the side struck.

"There are two types of real names, one is a sociological code name, and the other is a name in the original language of the multiverse."

Hearing this, Chen recalled the echoes of creation that the spotted cat had spoken about.

"Is a true name in the magical sense something more special?"

"Of course. Is it possible that a name that a mortal can change casually can still have magical effects?" 』

There are many people named Zhang San, but the name "Zhang San" does not have any effect on the magical level. The only thing that can represent his ID number, his real name, is absolutely unique and can represent a person from the underlying logic. .

When you speak the original words of the universe, you are exercising the power of creation—for the power to describe things is the power to create them.

The true name covers everything in reality. Everything in the world now, in the past, and in the future has a true name, but just writing it down will not have special power.

Only by saying your true name loudly can you change everything in the world.

However, mantra speech is made up of hundreds of consonants and thousands of slightly varying vowels, and needs to be spoken with great rhythm.

This results in the chanter needing a huge amount of pronunciation guidance, and a book may take several pages to describe a real name.

"True Name Chanting" is the knowledge developed based on this technology.

"So isn't the ability of 'Real Name Alert' completely meaningless?" Chen Zhou already fully understood the difficulty of DDOS attacks. "It's simply impossible for thousands of people to chant the target's real name correctly at the same time, right?"

This is much more troublesome than the ability to be perceived by the other party just by mentioning God's name.

"Nevertheless, if a dragon understands mantra magic, it can also combine its true name with its first name to a certain extent, so that others will react when a specific name is called."

But even Lily doesn't know mantra magic, and it's absolutely impossible for Bailong to master such high-end knowledge.

Chen Zhou was thoughtful after hearing this. Doesn't this mean that as long as he learns mantra magic, he can also combine his real name with his given name?

"Lily has heard of that kind of ritual. It's very troublesome. Chanting the true name is even more difficult than casting magic. The word spirit is even more complicated and becomes more and more difficult the more you use it. 』

There are two types of real names:

One is a general real name, which is defined by the target creature type and what it is doing, such as "Civet Archangel fishing for fish."

The second is a private real name, which is a real name that only belongs to an individual, such as "XXX of XXX son of XXX".

Generally speaking, the more special the true name of an existence, the harder it is to chant it. Many people speculate that this is because these people can achieve more achievements, so the universe pays greater attention to these people.

As a result, these people's real names become more important to the universe and harder to pronounce.

Based on this perspective, if Chen hopes to accurately describe his real name, it may be more difficult than it would be for him to stand upside down on the horizontal bar and do a Thomas full spin while being randomly checked for a specific number of pi.

"It's such a troublesome system. No wonder I've never seen a true master."

But in contrast, a true master master who has mastered the relevant skills can easily achieve feats that even magic is difficult to achieve.

Some spellcasters who master both spellcasting and true name chanting can also perform true name chanting between spells when casting, making it more difficult for the target to resist the effects of their spells.

Even in the case of knowing the private real name of a specific being, it is possible to ignore the intensity of direct threats or even control the other party for one's own use.

Because of this, many powerful beings such as demon lords and devil princes in the outer world usually try their best to conceal their true names.

Of course, first they have to find out what their private real names are.

Considering that the real name magic was too difficult, Chen decisively gave up on DDOS attacks...unless he dared to try it with the real god.

"But true name magic does not require any quality or talent. It only needs to be smart enough and go through continuous practice, study, trial and error, and memorization. Maybe I can try to study it, Shushu."

Behind the Curtain:

The Origin of True Name Magic

The connotation of magical power in names is an enduring theme in fantasy literature. There have been many attempts to incorporate this theme into Dungeons and Dragons games before, and "Magic Tome" represents the effort to realize real names into a complete set of rules. huge effort. The main purpose of using this set of real name magic rules is to allow players to create and master characters who can use their real names. Characters can then learn the true names of specific things, gradually build up their own vocabulary, and deepen their control over everything in the world through these true names; however, staying true to the literary origins of true name magic does not integrate well with role-playing games.

For example, a true wizard who knows a goblin's true name will be very powerful when encountering goblins, but this true wizard may be weak when fighting other creatures, thus making venturing outside the goblin lair uninteresting.

The rules of true name magic need to break away from the original fantasy setting. This set of rules does not make nouns (such as the goblin's true name) the core power of true names, but makes verbs the rare and powerful source of true names. This means that no matter whether a True Master encounters a goblin or a troglodyte, he will be able to fight, and like other professions, his attacks and abilities are full of variables.