Great Elf Sage

The southern continent of Atalan, the easternmost city of Stuart. .

One year has passed since the defense of Stuart City, and people have recovered from the initial hesitation.

Now with the protection of Lord Sword Master Dalton and Master of Martial Arts Lord Simon, Stuart City no longer has to live such a life of fear. Even the functions of the surrounding villages as 'outposts' have mostly been revoked, and the people have Returning home, farming resumed, and after a year's bumper harvest, the entire Stuart territory once again became a prosperous scene.

The surrounding city-states that were hostile to Stuart did not dare to take any targeted action against Stuart after all the vitality warriors and elders they sent a year ago. They have been doing their duty honestly this year. Everyone lives in harmony and pretends nothing happened.

But Stuart City will not really pretend that everything happened, and the revenge of the dead compatriots must be avenged.

Therefore, over the past year, Stuart City has been recuperating on the surface, but in fact it has been gathering a new type of army. It is preparing to send troops to launch a war against those enemies and traitors after harvesting another season of food next year.

At this time, outside Stuart City, a strange team of young and old people gathered around an open space and prepared something.

Stuart's eldest lady Aria stood at the front of the team and said to everyone

"Everyone, what we are testing this time is the 'joint casting' that Miss Bella and Mr. Higgins mentioned before. It requires everyone's singing coordination and rhythm control to be relatively high. Please remember to chant in the order that has been arranged in advance. Sing the incantation..."

Young people and old people in the team agreed one after another.

After everyone lined up, a few old men took the lead and recited a long ancient Elvish incantation with a strange emphasis.

As the content of the spell deepened, the light of magic began to appear on the ground below the team's array and in the mid-air above, and the outline of the magic array began to loom.

These people are the Stuart magic researchers led by Alia. The elderly are all original scholars, while the young people were selected through some instruments to test the adaptability of magic after Nolan sent Bella and Higgins. students with better talents.

Through Bella and Higgins, two magicians among the golden elves, Nolan has been exporting magic knowledge to Stuart City for more than half a year.

Of course, like the 'Magic Academy' and 'Magic Association' in Aslan's continent, the magic taught here is also selective, which means it is another aspect of Nolan's subject.

The 'Magic Academy' in Aurora City is mainly responsible for the construction of specific magic ladders. The 'Magic Association' in the United Kingdom is mainly responsible for experimenting with methods of advancing the spiritual power ladder. On the Stuart City side, spells are A place of experimentation with chanting and spellcasting mediums.

Of course, the people in Stuart City didn't know this. They thought that magic must be cast through spells and media.

Nolan's initial magic ladder did not include incantation chanting and spell-casting media. The inspiration for this aspect came from the human magic research data unearthed in Stuart City.

About a thousand years ago, a group of scholars appeared in the southern continent of Atalan who studied the common truth between all things, and first coined the word "magic" in human language. This was the precedent for human beings to study magic.

Unlike other extraordinary systems, this human 'magic' does not just focus on a certain 'point', but incorporates the common points of all systems into its own theory, and has the potential to 'analyze the roots of the world'. This is why Nolan admits that it and his own definition of magic are the same thing.

The thing closest to the source of the world that humans can come into contact with is spiritual power, which is the emanation of the soul essence.

Since spiritual power is a direct product of the soul source and is an illusory energy between the material world and high-dimensional space, compared with the magic power that has fallen into the material world and possesses entities, spiritual power is something closer to the root of the world and can The magic that governs the same origin.

Extraordinary systems such as 'Vital Warrior', 'Fighting Knight', 'Mystic Sorcerer', etc., mostly pursue the truth of the world in the use and control of magic power, and are not recognized by Nolan as 'exploring the truth of the world'. 'The magic'.

The only things that interest Nolan are the 'Parliament of Destiny' and the 'human magic' discovered in Stuart City.

Through the conceptual artifact 'Key of Destiny', the Destiny Council comes into contact with the web of destiny in the high space. Its essential personality is even higher than the source of the soul. It is the closest existence to the root of the world that Nolan has seen and known.

Therefore, although the Destiny Council can only use the 'Key of Destiny' roughly, it is still regarded by Nolan as one of the biggest threats at this stage. Through the temptations of Arteus and Joss, he can completely control everything in the Key of Destiny. Nolan will not get involved too deeply before getting the information.

The 'human magic' in Stuart City is more interesting.

Human beings are a naturally born species in this world. The first human beings drank hair and drank blood, were ugly in appearance, and were no different from wild beasts. It was the conceptual radiation of the moderate ancient true spirits such as World Tree, which gradually evolved into what they are now, and they have the ability to The best wisdom among short-lived species.

But no matter what, human beings are still one of the short-lived species with the lowest status among all intelligent creatures.

As a short-lived species of low status, human beings cannot be born with powerful strength and extraordinary talents, but the inheritance of wisdom and knowledge gives them the ability to contact the real world, whether it is those rough extraordinary systems that are not recognized by Nolan, The 'human magic' that still amazes Nolan is slowly taking shape through generations of exploration.

The essence of 'human magic' is a set of 'extraordinary principles' that Nolan called Something that is a 'basic theory of magic'.

Due to the limitations of their own talents and vision, these human pioneers were unable to go too far into 'personal mastery of supernatural power'. However, humans are creatures that are good at using tools to create, so after years of experiments, they figured out A 'magical' path for humans.

‘Spell Chanting’ to assist meditation and ‘Material Spellcasting’ to assist spellcasting.

The human magic system does not have 'magic formulas' like the Nolan system. According to the handbook obtained by Stuart, they use 'willpower' to cast spells through meditation, with the assistance of mantra chanting and spell-casting media. 'Willpower' comes from the 'thinking space', which is usually closed and needs to be opened by meditating and chanting special mantras before fighting.

In Nolan's view, this is actually a crude method of constructing magic spells. Under the self-hypnosis of mantra chanting, mental power affects the spell-casting medium, and finally achieves the release of supernatural power. The ‘thinking space’ is the sea of ​​consciousness in Nolan’s system.

Since humans do not have a complete theory of magic and have not analyzed the standard magic formulas of every magic, they need to practice 'prayer meditation' before fighting and pass a relatively standard special spell that can temporarily open the sea of ​​consciousness. As the starting sentence of all magic chanting incantations.

Magic formulas are illusory images constructed in the sea of ​​consciousness. The act of 'meditating and constructing magic formulas' itself is a way to assist mental power to change the state of magic in the environment. It can be said that the essence of casting magic is different from that of human beings. There is no difference in how magic is cast.

Of course, in fact, the magic code that Stuart obtained only recorded some simple spells written in ancient Elvish language, as well as some rough "casting recipes" of middle and low levels. Today's perfect "spell chanting" and 'Spellcasting Medium', which Nolan transformed and perfected after obtaining the contents of the codex through Bella and Higgins.

If humans want to learn and use magic, it is best to follow the path summarized by humans themselves. Therefore, 'spell chanting' and 'spell casting medium' are a crucial part of allowing magic to spread quickly in human society.

……

Dalton stood on a high slope, looking at the array of magicians below who, led by Aria, finally successfully cast a seven-ring high-level magic after many failures, and gently crushed a similar one in his hand. Magic spells.

Without the world's privileges, Dalton's mental power alone can easily support the construction of high-level magic!

"Is the method to advance your mental power your biggest problem..."

Dalton felt the vitality...or magic power in his body, felt the flow of magic power in his body, and after a series of transformations, it slowly seeped into his sea of ​​consciousness.

The magic power that has penetrated Dalton's sea of ​​consciousness is rapidly changing its form, turning into some kind of invisible and qualityless energy, and dissolving into the sea of ​​consciousness. Dalton has nearly consumed all the energy he has spent building high-level magic spells. Mental power is rapidly replenished as this energy dissipates.

It's just that this invisible and qualityless energy, after replenishing the consumed mental power, no longer dissolves, but re-condenses into magic power and escapes from Dalton's sea of ​​consciousness.

"Although I may not be qualified as a father, after all, I have traveled to other continents for so many years. I have broader knowledge than you in areas you don't know about..."

Reaching out and taking out a scroll, Dalton handed it to the golden elf Higgins behind him and said

"...I have collected many extraordinary system training methods in other continents over the years. I have tried to integrate the parts of them that are beneficial to spiritual power into Nolan's magic system. This is the spirit I have summarized over the past six months. The method of power replenishment... is not very complete yet, so I also wrote down the detailed information about the extraordinary power system in it, hoping to help Nolan..."

Higgins solemnly took the scroll and said with a smile

"You are actually a very good father. I think His Highness Nolan will be very grateful to you."

Dalton shook his head and said helplessly and somewhat self-deprecatingly.

"Maybe there is gratitude, but it is not gratitude to my incompetent father, but only gratitude to a person who helped improve the magic system."

Both father and son are guys with awkward personalities.

Higgins couldn't say anything on this, so he could only change the subject.

"Speaking of which, even His Highness Nolan has not found a way to increase mental power. How did the founders of these extraordinary systems and their founders found by Lord Dalton create such a path?"

Dalton thought for a while and said

"... If human beings want to get something, even if the other person is their own compatriot, they will use all cruel means to obtain it from the other person, such as life and soul... In the years of traveling, I have seen too much The ugliness and bloodiness of human beings in their pursuit of supernatural power, but hidden beneath these ugliness and bloodiness, are often paranoia for power and madness for truth... Perhaps it is precisely because we elves will not use such methods on our compatriots, Maybe it’s because we haven’t touched the mystery of the soul and haven’t found a way to increase our spiritual power…”

"It would be too cruel to use such a method to achieve the goal..."

……

Through the magic mark on Amanda, Nolan sensed that she and the Knights of Glory had encountered each other.

"Oh? First avenge the death of your teammates, make Anthony suffer, and then wait for an opportunity to take revenge on him..."

In the southwest of the United Kingdom, the Magic Society secretly induced Jos's 'Gandalf' clone. After receiving the news, he once again asked John, Julian and Shana to perform tasks outside, and began to spread the reputation of the Magic Society;

In the Rain Forest, 'Hohenheim', who had transformed Ron into 'Hall Monks', told him that Amanda was about to encounter Anthony, and allowed him to rush out of the laboratory, spread his wings and gallop towards the south... …

"Speaking of it, I seem to be twenty years old? Forget it, this kind of thing doesn't matter anyway. The most important thing now is to let the Council of Destiny and the God of War completely confront each other... Haha, Ateus and the Council of Destiny, this time I have carefully prepared the chess game for you, so you can’t restrain yourselves like this anymore~"

Feeling the tears of joy of Jos after finding the "Book of Destiny", the revenge of Amanda who sneaked into the Knights of Glory, the anxiety and anger of Holmonks galloping south...

Nolan, who had lifted the disguise of 'Hohenheim', raised the corners of his mouth.

"...Sure enough, humans are really awesome."

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To be continued (end of this volume).

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