Chapter XII
At the foot of the stairs, the little young man held the posture of pointing at the Pastor Arnold on the ground with one hand, speechless for a moment, as if he was stunned, as if he wanted to say too much, and did not know how to ask.
After a while, he asked, "It is said that you claim to be a mage?"
"Not by claiming to be, I was originally a mage. Feng Yinqiu replied lightly.
"Are all the mages in the Western Continent like you, your wrist strength is amazing, and you can use magic and other messy things......
"I'm a little bit special. But there are also those who are stronger than me, and there are those who are more proficient in magic than me. Feng Yinqiu smiled, the things in that tavern were known to this person so quickly, which showed that this young mage's subordinates were not just a few thieves hiding in the shadows. "You've spent so much effort stalking and sneaking up on us, just wondering about this?"
"......," the little young man groaned again. "I saw you catch the chain lightning spell that Roynara used with your hand, and just now you used your hand to disintegrate the burst fireball and force field missile, tell me how you did it. ”
"So you were already there when you were in the dock of the harbor?" Feng Yinqiu was a little surprised. There were so many people there at the time, watching the excitement from far and near, he couldn't notice everyone.
With a bang, a field missile slammed into the side of Pastor Arnold's head, knocking the ground into a cloud of dirt, and the little man said coldly, "You just need to answer my question." ”
Feng Yinqiu didn't look threatened at all, but smiled and said, "Actually, you don't have to use such an unfriendly way, I also want to have a good exchange with a mage from the European continent about the arcane arts." ”
"What way I use it, it's my choice. Although the little man stood below, his eyes and tone seemed to be facing ants under his feet. "One last chance. If you don't want the head of this stick friend of yours to bloom, answer my question honestly. ”
"No, you don't have a choice. I am the one who has a choice. Feng Yinqiu still had a relaxed smile on his face, but his voice was slowly turning cold. "Pastor Arnold's safety is the only bargaining chip you can threaten me, and the greatest guarantee that you can leave safely. Also, you should know that Pastor Arnold and I have only known each other for a few days. Why would you think our friendship is important enough for me to bow down to a hostile and dangerous mage?"
The little man was stunned, the corners of his eyes twitched a few times, and there was still a very firm arrogance on his face: "What do ......you say is the biggest dependence?
"And I'll tell you, young man. Feng Yinqiu interrupted the little man's words, his face was completely devoid of smiles, his voice was light but calm, and the eyes that looked straight at the little man were cold and hard, like granite that had been frozen for a million years. "I've seen a lot of people die in front of me. There are people I admire, there are my friends, there are people I love, and there are my teachers. Sometimes I tried to save them, more often I couldn't do anything. Facing death is not too difficult for me to accept, and what I should do will not be shaken by this, and I can only try to make the death of the person who died for me more meaningful. For example, fulfilling their unfulfilled wishes, and avenging them. ”
"So, I give you a piece of advice, don't threaten me with others, and don't provoke me. ”
Feng Yinqiu's voice became deeper and deeper, and the voice that came out of his chest with the last sentence was a little distorted, but his eyes kept looking at the little man below, until he saw the deepest part of those green eyes.
The little man stopped talking, but his breathing began to be rapid, his thin chest rose and fell like a bellows, his white and delicate face slowly turned red, and a blood vessel on his temple beat slightly. After a while, he opened his mouth to say something, but he pursed his lips hard, just staring at Feng Yinqiu, as if he wanted to burn him directly with the anger in his eyes.
"Well, unnecessary anger and emotions don't make any sense. Since everyone is a mage, we should try to adopt a rational way of communication. It was Feng Yinqiu who spoke first, and his tone returned to his previous calmness. "It just so happens that I have a question for you, and you have a question for me, so why don't we exchange answers?"
The little man took a few more breaths, tried to calm his emotions, and then nodded: "Okay, although your primitive and low-level spell casting system is not worth mentioning, and it is simply insulting to the noble title of mage, I want to admit that you are right, reason is the greatest pride of mages." I wonder how you managed to disintegrate and manipulate a spell that was already fully formed. What do you want to know?"
Feng Yinqiu thought for a moment and asked, "That person suddenly exploded into a cloud of poisonous gas after he died just now, what kind of spell was that, why didn't I feel it before?"
"The secondary sac bursts, and like the burst fireball, it's a three-ring arcane. I used the primary trigger technique to keep it on that guy's body, and the trigger condition was that guy's death. You seem to have a certain degree of arcane perception, but the concealment of triggering spells and spell sequencing is very high, even the lowest level requires more than five rings of detection spells to detect, and your low-level ability like the instinct of the monster can't be discovered. ”
"I see, it's a clever spell trap. Feng Yinqiu nodded thoughtfully. This Euro spell is really wonderful, and similar means are actually not impossible to do, but it must be a method above the innate level. And this can be a spell that can be triggered by conditions, but it is only the kind of subtlety of the acquired spell, which is like a precision mechanism, and it is far less subtle than the innate realm that has its own artistic conception. "The secondary sac bursts, so there are advanced ones, and how many rings are the primary triggers?"
"The high-level ones are the big spells above the seven rings, such as the Rotten Sac Cataclysm, the Rotten Ghost Spirit, and only one can kill more than half of the people in this city. Ordinary sac parasitism is also a high-level arcane of the Six Rings, not just paralyzing toxic damage like this secondary spell, you should be glad I didn't bring that scroll, otherwise you would have been lying on the dissecting table by now. Speaking of spells, the confidence and brilliance on the little mage's face returned, and there was a bit of a gushing taste on his mouth. "As for the trigger series, there are from the fourth ring to the eighth ring, and the difficulty varies depending on the number of trigger conditions set. The highest level even has its own wisdom, and the profound principles and operating mechanisms are beyond the imagination of you Western mages, and it is useless for me to say any more. Okay, now you can tell me how the hell you took that lightning spell with your hands, how you eliminated the fireball spell just now. Damn, to control a fully formed arcane, at least the ability of the law arcane above the seven rings, even if it is eliminated, it is not so simple..."
"It's simple. Feel the laws in the spell fluctuate, the elements work, and then disassemble it. Whether it is lightning or flame, the fluctuation of the law is reflected by the operation of the elements, and if you control the law and calm the elements, you will naturally be able to eliminate and control the spell. ”
"Nonsense. You're not answering. The little mage glared at Feng Yinqiu. "It's like someone asks you how to take out the treasure buried at the bottom of the mountain, and you answer that you can lift the mountain up. It is difficult for a mage like you, who comes from a barbaric society in the West, to know such words as laws and elements, but how can you achieve such a degree of control? Through laws and elements, you can influence spells, but it is only simple destruction, not decomposition, and it is completely different from smashing people into a corpse with a stick, and smashing people into 206 bones and 639 muscles and various organs and various bodily fluids with a stick. ”
"But that's what I did. You don't believe it?" Feng Yinqiu smiled, looked at the little mage's determined expression that didn't even have doubts, and said, "Well, you give me your ring that can shoot fireballs... Ah, yes, that's empty, no. Do you have any other items that store spells, or scrolls, and give me one and I can show you. ”
The little mage was silent, as if he had thought for a moment, and then threw the thin wooden staff in his hand. Feng Yinqiu reached out and took it. This wooden staff is only the thickness of an ordinary person's thumb, and the wood is only quite aura, far from being hard, and it seems impossible to use it as a weapon, if it were not for a purple crystal the size of a pigeon's egg on the top of the staff, it would be like a carpenter's toy for a child.
With the help of the Miluo Rune, Feng Yinqiu just touched it and clearly perceived the spell mechanism contained in the wooden staff, he held the staff in one hand and the crystal at the head of the staff in the other, and used his own spirit to trigger an obvious joint point in the wooden staff, and the magic circle engraved in the crystal instantly began to operate.
Poof, the three-force field missile dissipated as soon as it formed at the top of the crystal, leaving only a breeze of air vibration. And in less than half a blink of an eye, all the power that ran on this wooden staff, and all the laws that were mobilized, all flowed through Feng Yinqiu's heart, and they were also copied by the Miluo Rune. He had finally 'rubbed' the first Euro spell in its entirety into the Miro Rune.
It was a very shallow and monotonous contact with the magic web, and it was indeed just a simple arcane. Detached from the power of the five elements, detached from the physical object, and purely manifesting the power in the void, this is extremely difficult to do in the Shenzhou Dao Law. But in this European continent, where the laws of heaven and earth are different, with the help of this magic net that is completely integrated with heaven and earth, it can be easily done.
The three-force field missile ejected from Feng Yinqiu's fingertips and shot straight into the sky, spanning nearly 100 meters before the force field gradually disintegrated, and finally dissipated into three clear winds. Because it was only copied from the wooden staff, the number and power of this force field missile were naturally exactly the same, and Feng Yinqiu could vaguely feel that there seemed to be some room for improvement, but that was only meaningful for those who had truly mastered this spell.
"Did you see that?" said Wind Yinqiu tossed the wooden staff back to the little mage.
"What do I see? So you're going to use a force field missile?" the little mage didn't seem to understand.
"No, that's what I just learned. Dismantling the elements and perceiving the fluctuations of the magic web and the law is not a difficult task for me, if I can disassemble it completely, and perceive it completely, I can fully learn this spell. It's like this force field missile. ”
“...... Not very funny jokes. Or do I not understand the joke of your Western mage's joke?" the little mage showed an expression that was trying to understand. "You're saying that you don't need to meditatively perceive the magic web, you don't need to memorize spell formulas, you only need to touch it once to instantly dismantle the arcane and learn the arcane by the turbulence of the laws of perception and the elements? Well, even if the force field missile is just a simple arcane ring, it can be compared to a human body, but at least it can be considered a lizard, a snake, a frog and the like. That's also impossible. ”
“... You still don't believe it, but I did. Feng Yinqiu spread his hands, thought for a moment and said, "If you still have any complicated arcane items or scrolls that you think I can't learn before, you can try them again." ”
Feng Yinqiu's words are just a matter of saying. It stands to reason that in this hostile situation, no matter how high-level spell items there are, they will never be sent to the other party again, and there is no reason to support the enemy on the spot. But after the little mage looked at him stunned for a while, he actually put away the wooden staff, took out a scroll from his waist and threw it over.
Feng Yinqiu was half stunned, and took the scroll half warily. But I felt that there were no traps in it, and it was really a scroll inscribed with arcane art. Of course, he didn't say much, and under the spiritual stimulation, the scroll turned into ashes in the arcane aura, and a law fluctuation that was far more complex and grand than the force field missile just now flowed by, but in the end, it did not give birth to a spell, and at the same time disappeared in the hands of Feng Yinqiu, it was also engraved into the Miluo rune.
It was a rather advanced arcane art, more complex and more powerful than the lightning spell that the harbor governor had cast on the ship. However, for Feng Yinqiu, even if it is a thousand times more complicated, it is the same, because it is not really up to him to understand the memory, the Miluo rune in his sea of consciousness is like a boundless void, and no matter how many law imprints are engraved, there is no end in Feng Yinqiu's perception.
Moreover, Feng Yinqiu could clearly feel that through this spell and the magic net and the laws of heaven and earth, the true talisman of all things did seem a little more 'lively'. Although it is still far from re-manifesting the innate spirit runes in it, it is indeed developing in this direction.
As soon as his mind moved, the laws and fluctuations that had just been engraved in the true talisman immediately appeared, and through the indescribable connection and evolution of the magic web, they emerged in the way of the convergence of several elements and energies. A long sword condensed from colorful brilliance was generated in Feng Yinqiu's hand, and with a wave of his hand, a small tree the thickness of an arm beside the path was broken in two. As soon as the upper half of the tree slipped down, the fracture suddenly burned, as if it had been cut off by an extremely high temperature, but the remaining half of the cut was only sizzling, and the wood near the section bubbled in the rapid deformation in a strong sour smell.
"This arcane... It's kind of interesting. Is it the fourth ring or the fifth ring?" Feng Yinqiu looked at the colorful long sword in his hand, and couldn't help but be slightly moved, with a look of admiration in his eyes. He can say that he doesn't know the sword at all, just just waved his hand, and almost didn't feel any obstacle to cut off the small tree like cutting tofu, it can be seen that the long sword condensed by this colorful light is really very sharp, and it actually brings out two completely different killing effects under one sword, if you really want to take such a sword, the damage is definitely far above the ordinary sword wound.
"You... You—" The little mage furrowed his brows, still not quite believing that Feng Yinqiu was as he said, trying to find the most appropriate explanation from the performance just now. "How did you delay the effectiveness of the scroll, right? The aura and effect of the scroll disappeared for a moment, no, I couldn't sense it, and then it reacted to you......"
Feng Yinqiu didn't say much, just waved his hand to cancel the spell, clapped his hands to indicate that there was nothing unusual in his hand, and then stretched out his finger a little, and another three-force field missile flew out of the night sky, and then there was a void grip, and the law engraved in the true talisman of all things flowed again, and the same colorful lightsaber appeared in his hand.
"The magic net is indeed two fluctuations, not an illusion. No, no... Impossible!" The little mage's big turquoise eyes almost flew out, and this time he couldn't find any other possibility. He has received the most orthodox mage education since he was a child, and his talent is both high and hard-working, and the basic knowledge of the arcane is very solid, and because of this, he can distinguish that there is no other possibility in this demonstration just now. The secondary rainbow sword is a very rare spell, not to mention the complexity and difficulty of learning, and the applicability is also narrow, even many archmages will not learn it, let alone a Western mage from another continent. And to temporarily cancel the rainbow sword, it must be a skill that can only be mastered by a mage who is familiar with using this arcane art, and it is impossible to achieve a stiff and rigid scroll effect, not to mention that there is also a force field missile spell between the two rainbow lights. The only explanation is that they were really two separate five-ring arcane rainbow lightsabers.
In other words, that Western mage was really as he said, just by simple contact, he disintegrated the spell from the law level, and then learned the spell from the law level.
"Still don't you believe it, why don't you give me two more spell scrolls to try?" Feng Yinqiu suddenly felt that this was really a wonderful situation.
“...... You, how did you do that?" But the little mage didn't mean to continue, he was dumbfounded, and even took back the finger that had been pointing at Pastor Arnold, and it seemed that if it weren't for the last bit of self-control and reason, maybe he would have rushed up and pulled Feng Yinqiu to take a closer look.
"Didn't I say it?, sense the changes in the magic net and the law, write it down, and then you can use it in the same way...... You give me two more spell scrolls..."
"Impossible... Impossible... The spell system of the Western Continent is very primitive and backward, I have read the records in the academy library, you primitive mages can't be so powerful, even if you are the president, you can't do this kind of thing......" The little mage looked depressed, he didn't know where the arrogance and confidence just now had gone, his eyes were scattered and unfocused, as if he couldn't even stand on his feet. “... How many mages like you can do it in the Western Continent?
Looking at the last bit of hope in the little mage's eyes, as if the whole world was about to collapse once it was shattered, Feng Yinqiu felt a little funny and couldn't bear to make fun of him, so he replied honestly: "Not much, just me." I'm a lot better than me, but I'm the only one who can do it. ”
"It turned out to be just a special individual with mutations...... "The little mage let out a long sigh of relief, and his spirit returned. "So... What is the difference between you and other mages, and how do you do that incredible manipulation of the law?"
"I just said..."
"What is the specific principle, what is the mechanism?" the little mage became a little excited, waving a gesture to explain to Feng Yinqiu. "Don't use that kind of general language, the root of the mage is reason, logic, and analysis, do you understand the meaning of these words? That is, ......"
"It's not that I don't want to say it, it's that you don't understand it. Feng Yinqiu shook his head, this Euro mage is really the same as the craftsmen who tweaked with the mechanism in the Shenji Hall that he knew before, and it was easy to enter a selfless and more sincere state of mind.
"I don't understand?" the little mage's eyes burned with rage again, as if he had been greatly insulted. "I've read the literature about your Western Continent culture, don't judge real mages with your primitive and low-level philosophical system! What nonsense like 'the real truth can't be stated' is actually your classic? It's just fooling fools like those magic stick and witch doctors. Everything that exists in this world can be understood through analysis, through logical judgment. There is absolutely nothing incomprehensible......"
Feng Yinqiu rolled his eyes, he had no interest in this kind of verbal debate. And seriously speaking, he can't say that he fully understands what the true talisman in the sea is, and what the specific operation is. The masters of the two sects of Buddhism and Taoism, including the master, have explained it, but it is only a few brief sentences, and he does not know how to translate it into the European language - the law of the near path, the law of approaching the absolute truth... No, it seems that it is impossible to say that the absolute truth is so absolute, and the translation of the law does not seem to be accurate, so how can we say it? The embodiment of the truth? The embodiment of the law? -- this explanation even he himself felt more and more confused the more he explained, and as for the Buddhist method of borrowing a mandala to illustrate, he didn't know how to talk about it, so should he sit down and take out a pen and paper drawing to show this European master? Moreover, this little mage has clearly already confirmed the idea of Lao Tzu being the best in the world in the Euroo Law in his heart, and this kind of person who has already stood on his commanding heights will never be clear.
Glancing at the little mage who was foaming at the mouth, Feng Yinqiu said impatiently: "Just like you can't explain the operation mechanism of the magic net to a monkey, it's hard for you to understand a concept that you can't understand at all..."
"Monkey?" the little mage's body shook suddenly, and he was silent, only the anger in his eyes became more and more vigorous, and his face became more and more red, but then it slowly became whiter and whiter, and finally turned blue.
"Good, good. I've inquired, your name is the wind, aren't you?" the little mage's voice became proud and cold again, and a murderous aura loomed in his green eyes. "Stephanie Domingo de Orogreen, this is my name, you must remember it. Because your trip to Euro will end on the dissecting table in my lab. I'll dig out your brain, along with your eyes, and soak it in a life support solution, so you can see exactly how I have dug your insignificant low-level abilities out of your body through a series of precise surgeries and experiments to become part of our collection of myriad arcane materials. ”
"Stephanie? It seems to be a woman?" Feng Yinqiu was only a little surprised by this, he didn't see it before.
The little mage, no, it should be the female mage who glared at him one last time with those big green eyes, turned and left.
Looking at the back of the female mage, Feng Yinqiu was stunned for a moment before he came to his senses, and he actually got a little carried away with this mage, and actually forgot that this female mage was the person he was looking for now.
"Fellow Daoists, please stay!"
Feng Yinqiu casually said the words of Shenzhou Jianghu, kicked hard, the stone slab under his feet cracked, and the person was already shot out. This female mage has a lot to do with it, and she shows obvious hostility, and her spell methods are strange and difficult to prevent, and there is no reason to let her go. And this female mage seems to have forgotten to take the Arnold priest on the ground as a hostage, and it is a great opportunity to leave like this, so Feng Yinqiu is going all out this time, and in the blink of an eye, her body is more than ten meters away, and she is about to touch the female mage between her hands.
The female mage named Stephanie had just had time to look sideways at this time, but there was no trace of panic on her face, and a burst of white light flashed around her, and then her whole body disappeared along with the white light.
"This is..."Feng Yinqiu's hand wiped the white light and could only fall into the air, and he couldn't help but be surprised. In the Shenzhou Dao Method, even the most basic Five Elements Escape Method is a quite profound innate spell, and this escape method that directly breaks through the void is even more unheard of, I can't imagine that this female mage is using it casually. Of course, it's also possible that a spell item like a scroll is possible, but in any case, it seems that this method is not uncommon in Euro spells.
Bang bang bang, the two gangsters who fainted on the ground, and a few others who were originally restrained and couldn't move, suddenly all bulged up all over their bodies, and immediately exploded into several green poisonous mist, thinking that the escaped female mage didn't know what method to use, and all the arcane magic hidden in these people was stimulated. For a while, this highly poisonous mist was superimposed layer by layer, dyeing this radius of tens of meters into a dead green.
Feng Yinqiu carried the figure of Pastor Arnold and flew out with the green mist, turned to look at the fog behind him, and smiled: "Hehe... Interesting, interesting, 100,000 mysteries... Looks like we really need to take a good look at it. ”