Chapter 122: Bestiary (20,000 words)
Zhao Xu, who was asked, looked back in surprise, and found that he was actually just a first-level mage present.
"Talking about you." The fat man Lynch bumped Zhao Xu with his elbow, secretly thinking that the soft seat finally belonged to him.
If the previous one was a lecture given by the Master of the Five Rings, then the other party must know the "Shining Mithril" badge, and it would be 100% empty.
It's just that now it's the Nine Rings Mage Nuoqi, although this mage is really not young, but in the group of Nine Rings Mages, he is still very young.
Usually at Mystra's home, Lynch has heard his elders praise Notch's transformation skills.
He is thought to have entered the seed cultivation sequence of the legendary mage.
Maybe after a few hundred years, it will be the legendary mage Noki.
Most of these "young" senior mages have been proud of the sky since they were children, and they are full of arrogance, so they don't care about your unspoken rules, and the descendants of giants dare to follow the training.
The Nine Rings Mage didn't even dare to fart, it was tasteless.
Just when the fat man Lynch was so fantasizing, he noticed that Zhao Xu had stood up, and he couldn't help but start weaving the gossip topic after tea and dinner tonight.
The title "Mystic Shining Mithril Badge Holder, Pulpit Fury Choking Nine-Ring Mage" looks good.
"I-"
After Zhao Xu stood up, he was about to speak but hesitated.
It's just that after seeing him at this time, Nuoqi's face changed, and after taking a few deep breaths, he said slowly: "Well, since you have the heart to learn, sit down and listen to the lecture." ”
"Start now." Notch walked back to the large whiteboard and fell into deep thought.
At this time, many of the mages in the first row turned their heads and leaned over to look at Zhao Xu, but they didn't see anything strange.
On these high-level mages, all of them have used the "Magic Constant Technique" to stabilize the third-level arcane "Arcane Vision".
If it is not covered, these mages will have a faint blue light in their eyes, and they can see all the magical aura within forty or fifty meters.
As long as it is a magic item or a continuous spell, if it is not deliberately concealed, it will be hidden under the effect of this spell.
It is an upgraded version of the first-level spell "Detection Magic", which is faster to detect and no longer requires the caster to focus on maintaining the spell's effect.
Even if they stay focused, they can see if the corresponding creature has the ability to cast spells.
And in their eyes, Zhao Xu has nothing else except a Howard convenience bag that can emit magical aura.
Ever since Zhao Xu returned to Floating City and knew that Antinoya would leave a mark on the magic items she created, she had deliberately added a layer of cover to them.
Only a few high-level mages who were closer noticed that there was a silver chip pinned to the back of Zhao Xu's mage badge, and their sharp eyes immediately knew that this was the "Shining Mithril", which was rarely issued by the association.
Among them, the Mithril chip will also have three levels of proverbs, but the content of this proverb will not be known if it is not torn down.
However, any gold-level chip will be applied to prevent spell detection, so the secret vision cannot see the aura of this chip, and it can only be viewed with the naked eye of the most earthy turtle.
A nine-ring mage like Nuoqi is enough to get a badge of this level, and it stands to reason that there is no need to make this kid in front of him before clarifying the level of the following proverbs.
With this in mind, most of the mages who turned their heads returned to their original postures and continued to wait for the speech in front of them.
The Nine-Ring Mage is given a chip, usually inscribed with the lowest level "May the magic always be with you, please give the badge holder assistance." Proverbs.
Further up, it's not what ordinary Nine Ring Mages can obtain.
As for the legendary proverb "May the magic be with you, please try to help the badge holder in all corresponding matters", the president of the association, Os, is not eligible to wear it even if he gives birth to a son of the Nine Rings.
Thinking of this, the old mage closest to Zhao Xu lowered his head and wiped his somewhat blurry lenses and smiled.
By this time, Noki had manipulated the invisible servants who had been placed on the pulpit to assist, and had begun to write the simple configuration of the four core changes on the white drawing board.
Zhao Xu, who couldn't understand these for the time being, honestly lowered his head and took out the book "Basic 100 Questions for Metamorphosis Entry" in his hand and prepared to read it against each other.
This made Lynch, who was looking at the title of the book on the side, forcibly hold back a smile and almost choked back his internal injuries.
"Can anyone tell me why the four major transformations of the core system are so difficult to learn?"
At this time, Mage Notch suddenly became extremely serious.
After hearing this, the mages sitting in the back row were a little ignorant, isn't this the first question of transformation?
And most of the senior mages in the first row were bright-eyed, they didn't expect the hardest dry goods to come at the beginning.
"What is it?" Zhao Xu couldn't help but bow his head and asked Lynch.
The seats of everyone present were very separated, and it was not convenient to talk to each other.
If you really want to chat privately, these mages will also choose to use spells to solve it, after all, many of the content of the conversation involves major research secrets.
"Because you don't know, how can things that you don't know change." Lynch wasn't angry.
"Aren't there pictures and data of these creatures?" Zhao Xu was surprised.
Before he used his form change, he just looked at the monster illustrated book.
Who knows if Lynch looked at him with a problematic look on his face, "You can cook just by looking at the recipe?" ”
Those level 1 and 2 new mage masters who needed to perform the most had long been kicked out.
The rest are basically mages who have research tasks or belong to them, and no one needs to show anything more.
Let the most basic problem of the metamorphosis system fall into an awkward silence.
If you can't answer and shock everyone, these mages are too lazy to speak.
And Noki also expected it, and it was for this reason that he deliberately drove away those new magemen, and talking to himself was the way he was used to teaching.
None of the people present were qualified to answer the question he asked.
"The first meaning of transformation is to deeply understand what it is, so that you can change it."
"You can't ask a mage who has never seen an elf to use 'Transfiguration' to turn into an elf. It was even difficult for him to transform into another human he had never seen. ”
At this point, Mage Notch continued to manipulate the Invisible Servants to write a few simple sentences on the whiteboard.
And then there's the second fundamental problem, that even creatures that are well versed in the transformation process can fail to transform. So we've been digging into what it means to have a deep understanding of the target organism. ”
"And after our research a few days ago, we finally found a trick that can promote the success rate of the core four changes."
As Mage Noki spoke, several invisible servants split up and frantically wrote various spell formulas on a drawing board four or five people high.
Zhao Xu also hurriedly took out an Ayn Stone at this time, let go and floated it on his head, just now he had noticed that some mages also had Aine Stones on the top of their heads, so he didn't have many taboos.
And the fat man Lynch was originally attracted by the content written on the whiteboard, and suddenly heard Zhao Xu make a sound.
He turned his head directly, only to find that Zhao Xu took out a transparent prismatic Aine Stone.
Suddenly, Lynch gritted his teeth in sourness, when did the starting equipment of the First Ring Mage be 36,000 gold coins of Ainstone.
This thing is at a very high premium, and there are people who have bought seventy or eighty thousand gold coins in the auction hall of the Floating City.
He is still reluctant to buy one to play with, and can only look at his sister's greedy eyes.
And after Zhao Xu blessed the "reading magic", he finally began to barely understand the meaning of some formulas.
It's just that his intelligence is limited, and he often has to calculate several steps on the draft himself before he can come to the conclusion that the mages present do random mental arithmetic.
However, Zhao Xu was not depressed, at the beginning, when everyone learned spells, they were honestly making drafts.
As for him, a person with a wise heart to cast spells, he calculates according to the calculator, and now he naturally has to suffer a loss.
Zhao Xu, who began to embark on the path of mages in earnest, had enough patience to repeat the path taken by the majority of native mages.
"I'll go, that's what it means." Although the fat man Lynch only had five rings, he looked at the whiteboard with relish, and immediately slapped his legs and shouted.
This made the elderly mage who sat closest couldn't help but frown.
The low-level mages in these years are too unskilled to pretend, just like they knew back then that they had to lay the groundwork before they could cause the biggest turnaround.
Lynch usually calls himself a fat man to his family and servants, but he often has low self-esteem in his heart because of this double size.
Therefore, the transformation technique and the transformation technique that can temporarily change the body shape are his specialties.
Lynch's dream is also to wait until level 15 to master the spell of the Eight Rings "Transform Everything" and change him from a fat man to a thin man.
There are lower-level spells that can achieve the effect of slimming down, but none of them are as eternal and costly as the spell "Transform Everything".
"It's wonderful." The fat man Lynch kept chattering in Zhao Xu's ear.
It's just that the lines in his mouth are all fantastic, too exciting, too strong, how can it be or something, there is no substance at all.
At this time, Master Notch was already engrossed in the whiteboard, not saying a word, and not bothering to deal with the fat man who kept breaking his mouth.
All the languages are clearly spoken in these deconstructed spell models.
This is also the reason why he wants to drive away people who have not learned these spells, what is the point of listening to the book of heaven.
"Don't you understand?" The fat man Lynch noticed Zhao Xu's frowning demeanor at this time, and when he looked around, he found that his draft was still at the threshold of the initial entry.
"Mr. Lynch, may I please?"
Because Zhao Xu had never learned these spells, he was completely clueless, so he immediately asked humbly.
"Hehe, look at the triple decomposition under the soup structure in the seventh row, which is the most important core of Transfiguration, and it proves a long-held suspicion."
"What?"
After looking at Zhao Xu's appetite, Lynch finally opened his mouth and continued, "It's not just that if you don't have a deep understanding, you want to transform into a target creature, it's basically impossible. ”
"Even if there is a precedent for successfully transforming without knowing the target creature, it cannot be successfully reproduced."
Speaking of which, the fat man Lynch was ready to start magnifying his moves, shocking the silly boy in front of him.
Now there may be one more way to "deeply understand" the way, so that we don't have to take the most primitive way of getting along for a long time. ”
"So I'm afraid that the Floating City will have to deploy a lot of manpower to overcome this problem."
Listening to the words of the fat man Lynch, Zhao Xu fell into deep confusion.
Why didn't anyone tell him that the goal of the change of form must be deeply understood first?
Before he transformed into the Blazing Sky Servant, he just glanced at the Monster Illustrated Book.
"Mr. Lynch, apart from getting along for a long time, are there any other ways to 'get to know deeply'?" Zhao Xu said confusedly.
Lynch was already immersed in the content of the whiteboard at this time, and said impatiently: "The 100 questions in your hand, the eighty-seventh question, is to ask the transformation to deeply understand what the seventeen special cases are, and which ones cannot be copied. ”
After hearing this, Zhao Xu hurriedly opened the book in his hand until the page that the other party said.
"A deep understanding of Special Case XIII: By reading the Bestiary. The reading process is regarded as a link to a deep understanding of the target creature, and the transformation into the target creature has a success rate of more than 90%. ”
Zhao Xu recalled at this time that Antinoya deliberately walked over the bookshelf and chose to hand him the monster book.
It's just that this 100 questions don't explain what "Bestiary" is.
Zhao Xu had no choice but to continue to ask Lynch: "Mr. Lynch, do you know the Monster Illustrated Book?" ”
When Lynch heard this, his brows moved, and then he said, "You still fantasize about this thing?" ”
"Legend has it that this "Monster Illustrated Book" is a high-level artifact, and all the creatures that appear in the world will automatically record it on it. Its creator is Ernest the Arcane Monarch, but with the mysterious disappearance of the other party, the Bestiary has also disappeared, and everyone speculates that it is hidden in Ernest's Vault. ”
Zhao Xu suddenly felt that the "Monster Illustrated Book" in his dormitory was really a bit hot.