Section XXXVII: Devouring 19
"Partner, if it weren't for this anti-magic armor, you'd be done. www.biquge.info"In the headphones, the voice of the master rejoiced.
Lu Wu looked at his backpack with palpitations. This magic was going to kill him at all, because the bag was directly torn in half. If he hadn't put the anti-magic armor he had picked up earlier, which had been taken from the corpse of the dead Kecha Goat, in his backpack, he would have lost half his life this time.
The bald man's body is split diagonally in two. Amber didn't kill him, or didn't have time to make up for it, because the last remaining Kecha Goat's soldier rushed out first, slashing him in two. Perhaps it was the bald head who killed his companion that made it obsessed. Because immediately after the bald head was killed, the creature fell - the one that would never get up again.
It all seemed to be over like this?Lu Wu now felt a sense of unreality. White ash died, the bald head died, and the soldiers of Kecha Goyat died. Wait, are the others awake now? How to explain it? Lu Wu didn't know what the consequences would be if the bald head died, but it was obvious that if he was to bear the consequences, it might be very troublesome and even dangerous.
"Lu Wu, are you worried about how to explain it afterwards?" Amber didn't know when she came to his side. Although there was a fierce battle just now, I don't know if it was an illusion, but now Amber looks radiant. However, there is a hint of sorrow in the midst of this joy. It's a very contradictory thing to say, but that's how Lu Wu really feels.
"Yes, the bald head knocked them unconscious with magic, and they don't know if they woke up or not. How do I explain it?" Lu Wu's mind was already thinking about letting Amber use illusions.
"Don't worry, it's going to be fine. Amber smiled. The sun shone on her body, and her smile seemed to be dyed with a layer of light. Although the smell of blood was permeated all around, Lu Wu unconsciously felt a movement in his heart.
"But ......"
"I'm also a warlock, so I know this. He must have used a magical impact to knock someone unconscious, a trick often used by warlocks in such situations. Amber said. "People who are attacked by this kind of magic will hinder their memories in the short term, so after the fact, as long as they make up a barely passable reason, they will believe whatever you say!"
"Will it have this effect?" Lu Wu couldn't believe it. But in retrospect, the answer makes sense. Because if this is not the case, how will the bald head explain to the others after killing Lu Wu? Wouldn't it be better to kill them all?
"Also, the ......" Amber stopped talking, but finally said it. "I think I understand what the hell is going on. As she spoke, she handed over the sulfur-like thing in her hand.
"What do you mean?" Lu Wuyi couldn't figure out what Amber meant, but he subconsciously reached out to take it.
When my hand touched the amber and the brimstone, I felt a will, or rather, a voice, ringing directly in my head. The situation was similar to Amber's telepathy, the voice instilling a passage, or a research report, into his mind in a mechanical, rigid rhythm.
It's not as magical as you might think, and it's about the same as listening to a recording, but it's faster than listening to it with your ears. After about a few tens of seconds, the sound ended.
It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a research report. Because it is an explanation of the study of the magic of warlocks, it is indeed relatively easy for people to understand in this way, and if it is a normal text or language report, Lu Wu may not be able to read it at all. It is mixed with a large number of concepts, terms, and even nouns that Lu Wu has never heard of and would be difficult to understand under normal circumstances.
It proposes the hypothesis that magic comes from the cracks in the spiritual and physical aspects.
In this world, it has become common knowledge that human souls (or spirit bodies) can be separated from the physical body, in fact, Lu Wu has been forcibly pulled out of his body once before by Amber. This report illustrates from the perspective of physiology and anatomy that there is no difference between genes and organs between warlocks and ordinary people, and from the perspective of the soul, there is no fundamental difference between warlocks and ordinary people in terms of will. However, the difference between the two (that is, whether there is magic or not) is indeed objective, so the hypothesis is that the difference between warlocks and ordinary people lies in the combination of body and spirit, normal humans can be firmly combined, while warlocks have a slight gap - it is this gap that opens the door to other dimensions, introduces high-dimensional energy into this world, and finally makes humans have magical power.
If that's all it takes, everyone on Earth knows that hypotheses are not worth much. The hypothesis only needs brain holes, and brain holes can explode a whole lot at any time. But in this study, based on this hypothesis, a view that is unprecedented for the world is proposed. That is, since magic comes from the so-called gaps between the soul and the body, it stands to reason that as long as the gaps can be artificially created and enlarged, then mortals can become warlocks, and warlocks can become stronger.
The former, even according to this hypothesis, is only theoretically possible - this is not mentioned for the time being, while the latter, the study gives a detailed explanation. In other words, any warlock can use his own magic power as a base, taking advantage of the unstable source of other warlocks' magic power to "intercept" a part of the gap from others. As for the so-called "instability", the most typical situation is that the warlock is dying or has just died.
The theory is very complicated, but the reality is very simple, to put it bluntly, any warlock can use a kind of magic to absorb a part of the source of other people's magic power in the short time when other warlocks are just dying. Kill a member of your own kind and you will take some of the opponent's power.
And this magic was named "Devouring". As the name suggests, it is to be able to devour the power of others and strengthen yourself. In particular, most of the content of the research report is devoted to the careful exposition of this hypothesis, as well as some experimental data, as well as some other references that Lu Wu does not understand. There is very little explanation of what really involves magic itself. Although Lu Wu is not a warlock, he can also feel that this "devouring" itself is a fairly simple technique. Any warlock can learn it in a short time - no, it doesn't even need to be learned, it only takes a little mental thought to figure it out.
It's not hard to understand. Sometimes, simple things are not necessarily easy to invent. The stirrup, for example, is one of the simplest inventions in the history of the earth, and anyone can understand what is going on after a little look at the real thing or the drawings. However, this does not affect the fact that humans on Earth rode horses for thousands of years before inventing the stirrup. Devouring magic is easy, but piercing through that layer of window paper is not easy.
And what is even more exaggerated is that this method can not only achieve the effect of strength enhancement, but also achieve the sublimation of strength. For example, if someone kills Amber, they will be able to devour First Law's magical abilities directly from Amber.
Lu Wu removed his hand from the sulfur, and suddenly, he understood what amber meant.
"Amber, you mean ......"
"This magic may have been passed down in secret. Amber said sadly. "Perhaps, someone is coveting my abilities. ”
There is a premise for "devouring", that is, the object of devouring must be killed. Devouring is simple, but killing a Warlock is not so simple. Especially when a low-level warlock wants to attack a high-level warlock, it is even more difficult. That's right, if the quality is not enough, the quantity can be made up. But everyone knows that it is normal for wolves to hunt goats, but if they hunt tigers...... It's not that it's impossible, but this group of wolves must at least have the consciousness of having more than one companion die.
Not to mention that "devouring" is really just devouring, not a buffet. The loot cannot be distributed.
For example, if someone wants to obtain the power of the First Law Warlock through Devouring, if nothing else, it is just the unique protection technique of the First Law, that is, the advance prediction, which is a trick that is almost incomprehensible. Any technology, magic, or trap will hardly have much effect on a person who can predict the future in advance (even if it is only a fraction of a second).
But as it happens, amber, which separates the spirit and the body, is an exception. Amber had already explained that when Amber's spirit body was on Earth, her body left in this world could not even be described as "fragile".
Is there a better goal for someone who wants to devour the magic of the First Law?
"I don't think there's a way for me to find ...... Someone else. Amber said with some gloom. "All warlocks can't ......"
It's not even a matter of fighting, it's that her body is defenseless. People don't need to fight with the spirit body at all, and they can directly play amber with a single move in seconds. Besides, Amber's case is different from the ordinary separation of spirit and body (such as Lu Wu's time), and the process of combining spirit and body again is quite lengthy and complicated. And in the process, she is so fragile that she doesn't even have the ability to resist damage.
"Amber, this kind of thing must be illegal, right?" Lu Wu wanted to make Amber more optimistic, so he said half-jokingly. "The First Lawrcher is so precious, worth it, I mean, worth the huge risk they are taking...... To attack you?"
"If it's the first law of magic," Amber looked at Lu Wu and said very seriously. "I think it's worth any risk. ”
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It had been ten days before the car returned to the city of Gashe, which meant the refugee camp on the outskirts of the city. The way back was much faster than the way they came. It wasn't that they were getting faster with a few fewer passengers, but because they no longer took the almost Brownian route that they had used to take - the white ash in charge of the reconnaissance was dead, and they couldn't spot the soldiers of Kecha Goat at a few sights, so they couldn't avoid the patrols that seemed to be everywhere in advance. So, they simply went straight lines.
As it turns out, walking in a straight line doesn't seem to be bad either. While the soldiers of Kecha Goyat didn't look friendly at all, they weren't fast enough. In other words, as long as they can detect it vigilantly in time and choose the right route, then the soldiers of Kecha Goyat will not be able to outrun the car.
Of course, it's dangerous at night. Perhaps it is for this reason that Aqi always wears exoskeleton armor on his body on the journey back. But fortunately, maybe they chose the camp the right way, maybe it was just luck, and the worst never happened. On the last day, they were able to see the town in the distance.
It was not clear whether the anesthetic was too effective or if the creature was nowhere near as strong as it seemed, but the captives who had been overturned by the narcotics were lying lifeless in the trunk of the car, without adding any unnecessary trouble to the return trip.
When approaching the city, Ah Qi used his terminal to contact his subordinates. So when the car stopped, they were unsurprisingly welcomed by many people. Some of the welcomers were regular soldiers wearing exoskeleton armor and holding heavy weapons with a murderous look, while others were unexpected, the "supreme commanders" of some other legions, a title that was a bit ironic at a time when the army was almost completely annihilated.
Nothing happened. The captives were quickly removed by a few people, and Aki was able to stand proudly in front of a group of former opponents.
"As I said, the task is simple. She loudly declared in front of the people who had spoken against her that she had chosen to forget about the deaths of the two warlocks she had hired.