Chapter 243: Ancient Magic
The tribe Woz encountered was called "Chung In"—a name Woz had chosen based on their pronunciation. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Because of the discovery of the "god", of course, it is more likely that because of the dragon's blood ice crystals everywhere, this large tribe settled in the very center of the grassland, and spent a week tirelessly bulldozing the grassland, leaving no debris of dragon's blood.
Seeing them as if they had been treasured, Woz remembered that dragon's blood was the legendary top-notch magic material. However, due to the fact that in Woz's era, the dragon clan was almost extinct, and there were no magicians who still used dragon blood as magic materials, and many spells in this era did not need auxiliary spell casting materials, so Woz ignored this point for a while.
For a short period of seven days, Woz was carefully worshipped by the tribe as some kind of sacred and noble being. Although he was speechless, his poor physical condition left him with little choice. At least these people have no ill will and are even willing to fulfill all of Woz's demands - as long as they can.
Woz was once again glad that he had practiced blood magic, and thanks to the super recovery ability brought by blood magic, Woz's various injuries were able to recover in just a few days. Of course, this is also the first real "break" in more than half a year for Woz.
Recovered, Woz wanders around the tribe's camp in the company of the Lina siblings. Woz observed the tribal group of the ancient people with interest, and from time to time asked the two next to him some detailed questions.
In the few days of recuperation, Wox also learned the language and writing of ancient societies by the way, which is not difficult for a good word magician.
To Woz's slight surprise, the language they used in their daily life was completely different from what they had sung during the Great God Sacrifice before!
Although the civilization development of the tribe still often causes Woltz to complain, their language and writing system has been quite perfect, except for the various nouns that will appear later, the language of the ancient people is not much different from the language system of later generations. The difference between the two is probably the same as that of two different foreign languages. So Woz learns easily, but when Woz tries to match the language with the ugly music he heard at the festival, he finds that the two are not at all the same thing!
Woz later inquired with the high priests of the tribe and learned that the music sung by all the people during the festival had been passed down from generation to generation since ancient times, and that no one in the tribe knew the true meaning of the music, let alone the true meaning of each syllable.
In the casting of magic, the chanting of spells is the main method. Woz was convinced that the Horde's all-hands chorus was a primitive form of "chanting of mantras", and that their so-called Grand Ritual was a large-scale magical ritual used to summon large-scale magical effects.
The reason Wadsey dared to come to this conclusion with such certainty was that he had studied the material in this area not long ago. When crusading against demon soldiers on Sirius Island, Woz's magic "Thousand Sacred Song" was actually borrowed from the large-scale magic rituals that were popular in ancient times.
Because the human race at that time had to fight against the overlord dragon in the sky, the human magic world at that time was popular with large-scale, amazingly powerful super-large magic, but did not pay much attention to accuracy or anything - after all, the size of the enemy was placed there, whether it was a dragon or other large magical beasts, in the battle with them, the big fireball was a few meters away was not a big deal at all.
Unlike later, when the magicians basically fought against the magicians themselves, the big magic became a complete waste, and in such battles, the error was likely to fail to hit the target even if it was only a few centimeters, so the later wizarding world found that the trend became the pursuit of precision and control, and the power of magic was placed on the second level of importance.
Of course, this is also related to the low tide of magic around the world at that time. When the Great War of the Human Dragons came to an end, the magic of the entire world began to fall into an unprecedented low period.
At that time, the soothsayers judged that it was the continuous war between humans and dragons that excessively drained the free magic in the world, which led to the depletion of the magic power in the future. At that time, it was impossible for the magicians to unleash large-scale magic and bombard indiscriminately as before, so they had to be more "budget-conscious".
It is precisely because of the world's depleted magic environment that Akunorolia, who won the chess game and achieved almost infinite magic, became even more invincible. In order to fight against Akunororia, Djelf and Igonirus, the Fire Dragon King, devised the "Eclipse" plan, sending the last remaining dragon-slayer wizards to the future, an era of abundant magic, in order to seek a chance to defeat Akunororia.
Woz felt something strange about the wandering magic in the environment, precisely because it was the magic of the last "magic orgasm" era.
Fortunately, this is still the same world after all, although the magic power is slightly different, it does not affect the normal use of Woz, and it can still be infected by his power, showing the power of the "Holy Ten" level. Woz knew that it was this vision that mobilized the magic of heaven and earth that was regarded as a miracle by this ancient tribe. So as to bow down to this "god" of himself.
Although Woz explained many times after the language was spoken, the end result was only a special being defined by the stubborn priests as "messengers of the gods".
Having just woken up from despair, Woz doesn't have much hope of returning to the future, so he slows down the pace of his life indefinitely, looking like he is slacking off.
If it weren't for the tribe's sacrificial magic that succeeded in piquing Woz's curiosity and reviving a little of his desire to study as a word mage, Woz wouldn't have even bothered to step out of his tent.
"Woo woo woo~" Suddenly, a loud horn alarm sounded from the lookout in the corner of the camp.
"Highest vigilance, supreme vigilance!" Someone shouted loudly at the same time.
In an instant, the entire tribe turned into a sophisticated machine that was running at a rapid pace, and each person was like a cog in this complex machine, moving at high speed but in an orderly manner.
Everyone in the tribe had contracted in a matter of seconds, except for the hunters who had gone to hunt far away, all the people near the camp had gathered in the square in the center of the camp - the same place where the previous sacrifice of Woz had been made, and tens of thousands of men, women, and children arranged around the altar of the core in hundreds of concentric circles, and under the leadership of the high priest, they sang the ugly music again.
"Earthy yellow, it's an earth dragon!Adult species!" At the same time, the sentinels on the lookout were constantly replenishing more detailed information.
When the High Priest heard further information from the invading enemy, his tone changed, and he led the entire tribe's chant to switch to another passage.
Woz stood outside the festival, carefully observing what was happening in front of him.
Something similar has happened more than once these days, perhaps because of the breath of dragon blood here, many of the recent ones are powerful demonic beasts and even earth dragons who have come to take revenge.
But even if the dragon attacked, this ordinary tribe without a single true strong person was able to dodge it unscathed, and successfully drove out these invaders every time!
And they rely on this set of chorus of 10,000 people!
This made Woz curious, and everything the tribe did completely went against a modern magician's view of magic.
They really make up for the huge gap in quality with quantity.
You know, in the modern wizarding world, it is generally accepted that "quantitative change does not necessarily produce qualitative change". The core concept is that ordinary magicians are just the ones who can't really defeat a Saint Ten Magicians no matter how many they are. In other words, "the strong are invincible".
In fact, the Fairy Tail Guild is one of the biggest providers of this theory. Therefore, the basic mode of people's battles is soldier against soldier, king against king. It is completely impossible to rely on the accumulation of the number of "soldiers" to fight against the "king".
Of course, it may also be the reason why no one has yet tried to put together tens of thousands of ordinary magicians to fight against the "king".
That's right, after observing Woz, he discovered the astonishing fact that almost all the adults in the tribe possessed mana reserves equivalent to the level of a full-fledged magician! In this day and age, everyone has such a level!
The chief said that their tribe is the most ordinary and ordinary, and the truly powerful tribes are those with many "supernatural beings".
The so-called "Anomalous One", after further questioning, Woz learned that it was a collective term for magicians who had mastered the magic of the elemental system.
According to their theories, Woz is also a "powerhouse" who manipulates the power of ice.
At first hearing such a strange name, Woz felt confused. But then he learned the real situation of this era.
These ancient people possessed a level of qualifications that were unimaginable to humans in later generations, and every normal person was a qualified magician - judging by the amount of magic alone. But they don't use this magic!
In other words, they don't have a full-fledged magic system at all. Humans in this era have not yet truly entered the age of magic, and the "magic" they master is mostly a crude use of magic in the body, such as to enhance the strength and speed of the body...... Forced to use magic into fighting spirit. The waste and efficiency caused were enough to make any magic apprentice in later generations stunned. Only a very small number of the most talented priests can master more abundant magic skills such as the elemental system after hard practice, and become "magicians" in the definition of later generations. This percentage is much lower than that of later generations.
The only thing they can really call "magic" is the chorus of this festival. It is also the earliest "Origin Magic".
Through large-scale rituals, thousands of individuals are connected together to perform large-scale magic. The essence of this ritual magic is an even more ancient "ancient incantation". Even the simple chanting of it is enough to unleash powerful magic—even if it has been so widely distorted that no one understands its true meaning.
The power of this ancient magic is so strong that the strength of a thousand people is enough to resist the attack of the dragon, and if tens of thousands of people use magic together, they can even compete with the dragon for several rounds.
Of course, due to the difficulty of movement and the inability to fly, the most humans can do is defeat the dragon, but it is difficult to prevent the dragon from escaping.
The earth dragon in the sky roared condescendingly, and a golden pillar of sand slammed down, while a transparent shield quietly appeared above the tribe, stubbornly blocking the dragon's roar. The sand pillar was bounced open, creating a sandstorm in the sky. Roaring unwillingly, the earth dragon even cursed a few times in human language before turning his head away.
Woz's eyes were blazing as he stared at the shield in the sky, marveling at it no matter how many times he looked at it. How could a spell that had been passed down for hundreds of years and been riddled with errors still exert such power! It was the strongest defensive magic Woz had ever seen other than the Fairy Ball, and even his words could not be said to be stronger than this.
Have to...... To master this magic!Woz suddenly had a fighting spirit in his heart, and he vaguely felt that this was probably one of the most effective ways to deal with Akunororia.
Learn this magic—it's made for the Song of a Thousand Members!And then go back and defeat Akunororia!The thought suddenly exploded in Woz's mind.
This is the world of magic, where magic can do anything!Immediately afterward, Wodds suddenly realized that although it was theoretically impossible to travel back in time to his original point in time, it was just that he had not found a suitable way!
Didn't the later Gerf also develop the "Eclipse" system to travel through time to the future?
Since he has been selected to become the opponent of the chess game, he will inevitably return to the chess game that belongs to him...... Although there will definitely be a lot of difficulties ahead, in the end it is just about developing a new magic.
Woz took a deep breath and pulled himself together, "Just find the direction, and then the rest will be easy - just fight against the magic of time." ”
As the tribe cheered as they drove the dragon away, Woz finally smiled confidently.