Chapter Fifty-Eight: The Department of Illusion
Whispering.
Like the other spell scrolls Xia Ran bought, they all come from the magic in a very classic game "The Elder Scrolls 5", although it is the most basic entry-level spell, which is classified as an illusion system.
Xia Ran was more impressed by this, because this game exists in the real dimension. Although it is an old game many years ago, from the current point of view, there are many shortcomings.
But after all, it is a precious memory of his past, and it was indeed very popular back then, and as soon as it was released, it was accompanied by "Paladin, Paladin, let him scatter his blood!" What is suffering? What is difficult? Throw it into the sea! The song of the Dragonborn is all the rage.
Until now, Xia Ran still remembers how much energy he once put into that game, but because he really has no talent in games, he has always been the most violent and boring genre.
It can be said that illusion and stealth are almost mandatory to practice, so he naturally remembers the significance of whispering for the introduction of illusion skills.
It's just that, after all, it's the setting of the game, and it's not clear whether it can still be based on the experience of the strategy in reality. Even if the laws of white space ensure the universality of the relevant spell abilities, it is not even possible to copy the game mechanics.
Although it is the most basic entry-level magic, it is also magic no matter how it is said, it is an extraordinary skill, and it is no longer an ordinary technique at the mortal level, so this time Xia Ran's study took a lot more time than before.
By the time the skill scroll that recorded the Whispering Technique suddenly shattered, scattered into a blurry light particle, and dissipated, it was already early in the morning.
Xia Ran, who was sitting in front of the desk, stayed for a while, then shook his head, and the next moment he suddenly felt a burst of dizziness in his brain, but this feeling came and went quickly.
Only then did he realize that he had been studying intensively for more than three hours, during which his attention was highly concentrated, and he had always been firmly tense, and he had not relaxed even for a second.
"That's so profound......," he muttered, holding up his fingers to rub his brow, and it took a moment to feel the swelling that had been caused by receiving so much information in a short period of time less.
Because of the impression left by the game, of course, he knew that the so-called illusion system was not a trick in the simple sense, nor was it a trick such as performing magic, but it should be magic that could affect the sensory thinking and mental mind of the target object.
The specific application seems to be to control or injure the target by means of coercive orders, demoralization, silence or paralysis, or to increase the morale of the target, so as to calm or unite the target.
Illusions can also cause the target to gain similar invisibility, night vision, and translucency...... And so on and so forth, and so on and so forth.
Or to put it more simply, like the whispering technique he had just learned and mastered now—
Its effect is to eliminate the sound caused by the caster's own movements.
Of course, it can also be said that it does not eliminate the voice of the caster himself, but affects the mental thinking of everyone around him, including the caster himself, so that they cannot hear the sound.
So, theoretically, this should be a principle mechanism that acts directly from the spiritual level and interferes with others? Moreover, the requirements for the use of the skill scrolls he purchased all require mental attributes first, followed by intelligence attributes and perception attributes.
The requirements of the former are generally more than 10 points, and different spells have different deviations, but the requirements of the latter two only require a standard value of not less than 5 points.
This also proves that illusion magic is a psychic ability in a broad sense.
However, according to what Xia Ran has just learned, a more accurate explanation is that illusion can change the world around the caster and interfere with certain physical laws, which is sometimes confused with the change system, mainly because both systems interfere with the original laws of things.
However, the illusion system is not bound to the laws of nature like the change system, the power of the change system comes from nature, and its effect also exists from the perspective of the objective world. However, illusions are only effective on the caster and the target, changing the target's visibility, creating or erasing light, and creating or erasing sounds......
And so on and so forth.
"By manipulating the light, it affects everything that the light hits, because the light itself is the purest form of magical energy, and it is also the same existence as the soul...... Therefore, with the development of this kind of knowledge, illusion can not only affect the senses of the recipient, but also become able to directly affect the mind of the affected person by distorting the soul receiver......"
Muttering to himself about the magic theory he had just learned, Xia Ran felt as if he had understood, but he didn't seem to understand it at all.
But this is also normal, he has just started to learn illusion magic, and he doesn't have to force it too much, it doesn't really matter if he knows why he doesn't know it. After all, it's like a baby who has just begun to grow, and it should be at the stage when it has just learned to "crawl".
There is still a gap between "standing", and it is always impossible to pursue "running" or even "flying" too ambitiously.
didn't think too much about it, Xia Ran was very self-aware, and just took out the next skill scroll...... It's just that when I was about to calm down and read, I found that it may have been too much of a drain on my mind before, and it is difficult to concentrate for a long time now.
He had no choice but to continue practicing meditation first, refining his spiritual essence and restoring his mental state, intending to repeat this cycle until it was close to the early morning when he learned another illusion magic...... Then wait until tomorrow night to continue, and then you will be able to study all in three days.
Even if you acquire a skill scroll and use a cause and effect crystal to lock in the future, you will directly reach the level of mastery as soon as you master the relevant abilities, but the process itself is more time-consuming.
After all, no matter how you say it, it is already the threshold of magic, and it involves a greater amount of esoteric theoretical knowledge, which is very mysterious.
Even if it is a low-level introductory magic, it will take more than three hours to learn one, Xia Ran felt that he had better hurry up, the remaining four skill scrolls add up, to say the least, it will take twelve hours to calculate.
And he can't spend half a day in one go, and his mental state doesn't allow it, so he can only divide it and arrange it like this.
Unlike the Whispering Technique, the remaining four illusion spells are more advanced, not only affecting the victim's senses, but also affecting the type of mind, which can make people go berserk or calm, and increase or eliminate the morale of the target......
Depending on the magic, the effect varies.
The art of courage can make the most timid cowards stand up and join the fight; Dread can break the courage of a strong warrior; The anger technique can stimulate the irritability in the depths of the enemy's heart, causing his endurance to decrease sharply, and even causing enemies to fight each other.
Calming can greatly reduce the aggressiveness of the target object, so that it can think more calmly and rationally, and will not be easily blinded by negative emotions such as anger, hatred, and violence.
It can be said that although these four illusion spells are all basic, if used well, they can deal with most situations and enemies.
- As long as his mental power is strong enough to be the target he wants to affect, or if he doesn't encounter a non-biological enemy like a robot that has no mental mind.
Considering the rules and regulations of the white space, perhaps in the world of the different dimension that he can enter at the moment, he can really walk sideways.
It is worth mentioning that it is obviously an illusion magic that affects the mind and emotions, and the learning requirements of calming are the highest compared to the other three, and it seems that it is much easier to trigger strong emotions than to let people withdraw from strong emotions.
But he pondered for a while, and it was indeed such a truth-
Even without using the mysterious power of illusion magic, which is beginning to be otherworldly, it is easy to provoke a person to go crazy, but for a person who is furious and crazy, it is very difficult to calm him down.
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When he walked out of the house the next day, Xia Ran stretched hard, feeling that he was in a good mood.
It seems that after a night of repeated consumption, recovery and tempering, the spiritual power has finally grown, although the spiritual attribute itself has not increased, but the growth coefficient has increased a little-
Because the white space did not digitize the values in this regard, he couldn't see his own blood bar, nor could he see his blue bar, but he knew that the upper limit of his spiritual power had increased a little compared to before.
Well, it shouldn't be a blue stripe, right? The real blue bar should be the special energy of "spiritual power" and "magic power" that has been further refined and transformed.
But that's it for the time being, the most important thing is that Xia Ran feels that he has found the right way to exercise. Maybe improving mental strength will be like exercising the body, not to maintain a full state is the best, but to continue to consume, recover, and repeat.
Muscles are also constantly being used, and through repeated muscle strength exercises, the muscle volume increases and the muscle strength increases. And if you don't contribute much, then you will definitely not be promoted for no reason.
In order to verify this truth, Xia Ran planned to maintain the release of the Light Voice Technique as much as possible today - practicing illusion and tempering spiritual power can be carried out simultaneously in a sense, without wasting time.
Not long after going out, Xia Ran found out...... Using transcendent spells is truly a wonderful feeling.
Whether it's walking or running, or the sound of one's own breathing, it can't be heard at all, and it's eliminated by the light sound technique......
Even if, in theory, the so-called sound cancellation is just an illusion of manipulation, the effect is the same. However, through experimentation, he also discovered the limitations of this illusion magic, or rather his own.
That is, the range of action currently seems to be only forty or fifty meters.
If the sound he made could not be heard from a distance of forty or fifty meters, then it was perfect, and those within the range of the soft sound technique ignored the sound, and those outside the range could not hear the sound.
But if the noise is loud, it will cause an awkward contradiction, and those who are close do not hear the sound, but those who are far away hear it......
- Of course, perhaps in some cases, this characteristic can be very useful, such as pretending to be a god or something.