Chapter 268: Shadow Talisman
After lighting up all the "hanging wind chimes" in the laboratory, and sitting in front of the special workbench that had been prepared a long time ago, Ai Wen was just about to start working.
Grunt... Mutter...
I touched my stomach, I have been busy during the day since yesterday, and I haven't had time to eat until this morning.
The crew had already taken those demonized lizards to prepare the meal, so they should use the dry food in the "magic pocket" to pad it first?
"By the way, there's this!"
As he rummaged through his pockets to stock up on food, he suddenly saw the pure black lizard egg he had found earlier from the island. At that time, the situation was urgent, and I should have received it in the "magic pocket" easily, and I almost forgot about it.
"Well, a family just has to be neat. โ
Add water directly to the crucible in the lab, soak that volleyball-sized egg in it, and prepare to make a boiled egg.
It looked like the lizard eggs needed to be boiled a little longer, and Evan ignored them when he lit the alcohol lamp.
Calm down and start preparing to make your first "Wild Talisman".
"Wild Talisman" is a series of talismans with a wide variety. Other wood, stone, metal made of non-biological materials... And so on, each of which has more than one genre.
If it is subdivided by use, such as energy blessing, physical amplification, protection, attack, curse, blessing... It is even more vast, even if it is studied for a lifetime, it is difficult to count.
The "Wild Amulet" is one of the ancient traditions used by ancient wizards since the age of obscurantism.
It is mainly made from the runes mastered by wizards and the extraordinary materials of the creatures themselves to make various talismans with various uses.
To be more precise, it is based on transcendent materials, supplemented by runes, to fully stimulate the power of the original owner of the material, and use talismans to simulate or borrow the magical abilities of demonized creatures.
Although the variation is not as good as that of modern sorcery equipment, and it is extremely difficult to mass-produce due to the limitations of specific supernatural materials, the advantages of specialization are also very prominent.
It is worth mentioning that the "Black Panther Charm" in Aiwen's own hand, which can increase agility and reflexes by 20%, is actually one of the series.
However, speed, strength, and reflexes are only the most basic of them, and the various special "spell-like abilities" possessed by demonized creatures are the real treasures hidden behind the [Wild Talisman]!
Under the bright light of the hanging wind chimes, Ai Wen carefully studied the smooth surface of the scales in his hands, and circles of natural texture grew behind them.
With the help of "data-based vision", the production plan is silently designed.
There is no doubt that the "Shadow Lizard" has no other skills, but the ability to hide in the shadows is irrefutablely powerful!
With such a talisman, even an ordinary crappy assassin can instantly become an assassination master.
If it falls into the hands of Duncan, a veteran assassin from the "Eagle Nest", "Chameleon" Duncan, it will inevitably make his ability directly qualitatively change, and become a terrifying existence that even the great knights have to be careful to watch out for.
Ai Wen even wondered if the mysterious source of the transcendent profession "Shadow Lizard Ghost Thief" he inherited had some kind of relationship with the film world?
Even the most wasteful use of this amulet.
Let an ordinary person hold it in his hand, and he can also use the ability of shadow transformation to temporarily dodge the attacks of the material world, especially from the physical side, such as... Musket Focus! greatly increases the wielder's survivability.
Obviously, if it can be done, it will be a very practical amulet!
In the mystical knowledge inherited from the Rite of Flesh, a complete amulet is composed of three parts: "spiritual materials", "imagery", and "built-in runes", and then activated through specific rituals to become a true [Wild Amulet].
After thinking for a moment, Evan took out a blank piece of paper from the drawer and put the rune group design in his mind on the paper.
Having a "digital vision" to assist all intellectual occult knowledge is not difficult for Evan.
The most energy-consuming part is the part that belongs to the practice.
After repeatedly revising the design and experimenting with wood chips a few times, it was only when he was really confident that he could start working on it.
First take out a scale in the worst condition to try it out, Ai Wen does not expect to succeed in one go, the initial goal is to be able to complete all the processes step by step.
Then absorb the experience to correct the mistakes, and you can achieve the most basic effect of a talisman in the second or third one.
Evan sat at the workbench.
Holding the long black non-reflective scales of the dagger in one hand, and dipping the red potion with a thin beast pen in the other, there are runes written on the surface of the scales that are as regular as prints but full of spirituality.
Rustle Rustle โ
Because of the participation of extraordinary power from the beginning, just the simple writing of the runes made a strange sound like a bamboo branch cutting across the sand.
Evan didn't care about this vision.
The movements in the hands are constant, although it is not a smooth flow, but it is also pleasing to the eye.
After a full five minutes, the dagger's scales were already covered with extremely fine runes on both sides, dense on the front and sparse on the back, arranged in layers of rings.
Finally, in the center of the front of the smooth scales, they form a somewhat three-dimensional spiritual "shadow".
This is the core of the Wild Talisman's abilities!
The semi-finished amulet is placed on a custom-made snow-white ceramic table for the test bench.
Evan was silent for a moment, mobilizing his own spirituality, and the index finger and thumb of his left hand were pinched and made a gesture like a wing, covering the scales, and uttering an inaudible incantation from his mouth:
celโโ
[Hidden]
The spirituality of the medicinal liquid on the scales was stimulated, and after a burst of golden-red light was faintly emitted, it instantly disappeared as if it had seeped into the inside of the scales.
By the time the transcendent aura had dissipated, the half-finished talisman had reverted back to its original swarthy and reflective appearance.
Picking up the scales again, Aven took out the carving knife and went directly to the next process - "Ming Deliberate Image".
The knightly practice that he has insisted on since he was a child has endowed Ai Wen with far more powerful wrist strength and control than those wizards who rely on witchcraft to complete the extraordinary transformation of the body.
However, since "imagery" is called "image", of course, it cannot simply carve the image of the owner of the spiritual material.
Instead, the carving knife is used as the "pen" and the wizard's own spirituality is used as the "paint", leaving the image that best represents the creature in the mind of the maker on the amulet.
Once the knife is cut, it does not stop.
Ai Wen didn't need to draw in advance like an ordinary carver, and his extraordinary memory and thinking skills allowed him to achieve an extraordinary level of accurate reproduction!
Able to perfectly embody the "imagery" in the brain.
Rustle rustle ....
The hard scales gradually reveal a slightly abstract but very expressive image of a lizard.
However, it was not those small lizards that were no more than two meters long, but the lizard king of the lizard group who had a hexagonal bone crown like a giant beast Godzilla!
Obviously, in Aven's mind, that is the ultimate form that represents the Shadow Lizard race!
"Perhaps, plucking a random scale from its body is much stronger than the spirituality of the essence of these ordinary lizards..."
Gently blowing off the debris from the scales, Aven was a little fantasizing.
But he also knew that the idea was as whimsical as a mortal pulling out a tiger's beard and using medicine.
If you want to make a talisman from the scales of the Lizard King, unless you also become a third-order high-ranking wizard, you also have the ability to enter the Shadow World at will.
The first two processes had been completed, and Aven placed the amulet face up on the ceramic countertop.
It already has the image of a lizard king with both the hazy sense of "shadowing" and the majesty of a giant beast, and his skills may not be clever, but he is full of rhyme.
Then, he took out a "Tree of Life Graphic" hand-drawn with the best transcendent animal skin paper he could find, and solemnly hung it on the wall of the cabin behind the workbench.
On the snow-white and silky paper like a girl's skin, it is an "inverted tree" with dark green as the main body and various symbolic symbols such as red, purple, yellow, and blue.
The final initiation ritual is different from house to family, and of course Ewen uses the inheritance from the "Rite of Flesh and Blood".
Even if it has not been materialized, the "Tree of Life" that exists in the underworld space, as the mysterious source of the school, already has some kind of supernatural that mortal wizards do not have!
Evan formed a pentagram in the shape of a pentagram with wooden nails, swords, cattle drives, fish hooks, and mammalian molars that had been prepared long ago, and surrounded the half-finished "Wild Amulet" in the middle.
Then light a piece of incense.
As the green smoke rose up, a mysterious atmosphere suddenly descended on the workbench, and a dark transcendent aura began to circulate on the surface of the amulet.
The shadows seemed to become thicker, and even the laboratory lit up with the hanging wind chimes suddenly became much darker.
Seeing this vision, Evan nodded.
I feel that my first craftsmanship is not perfect enough to meet the expectations of the design, but it is not without the slightest effect.
The initiation ceremony has been initiated, but this process cannot be completed overnight, and it will take at least half an hour or so to conceive.
Sniff โ
The smell of the kitchen was already coming from the end of his nose, and since it was still over for a while, Evan decided to go and have a full meal first.
As a transcendent person, he has strong energy and tenacious vitality, and sometimes it is common to engage in research for days and nights without sleeping.
But even if he can also live without eating for a period of time and living on water, Evan feels that life would be too boring if he lost food.
"Schnitzel, meatballs, rosemary pan-fried, charcoal kebab slices.... It's a bit like a mix of beef and chicken, so I want to eat it!
It seems that the Chardonnay wine brought by Milan has also been opened...."
His keen sense of smell could easily distinguish the various aromas in the air, and he couldn't help but swallow.
Bang โ
Pushing the door open and preparing to enjoy the lizard meat feast, Evan had already forgotten about his "boiled eggs".