Act 278. Four rings
In the dining room, the all-seeing eye swept over the corner, and it saw that the children were being soothed, sitting obediently at the table, and the remaining mages were sitting around another table, as if discussing something.
Everything was fine, it was good.
But the all-seeing eye could not perceive that one person present was changing.
Reiner closed his eyes and immersed himself in the lake of his heart.
If Reiner was originally a mage of the third or fourth ring, then Agnes would never have put it in the dining room like this, but now, Reiner has been taken away from the storage bag and the Hohenheim gold cup, and on paper, he is just a mage of the first ring.
No one is alert to the possible threat posed by ants passing by at the door.
Reiner had already become a three-ring through the magic he had developed, and now, what he needed to do was to break through the low-level barriers and reach the middle-level mage.
At least you have to have the level of the four rings, so that you will not lose instantly in the competition for free magic.
On a lake full of life, with the arrival of Reiner, it gradually turns from day to night, and the stars are so bright that you can distinguish that in the dark night, these stars form two constellations.
The first is the spell model of the Flame Blast, which is a two-ring spell that allows Reiner to replace the original one-ring spell Fireball with a two-ring spell through the ability to overwrite, saving space for the Heartlake.
The second spell is the attack magic created by Reiner himself, although it is only at the level of the three rings, but due to the design that Reiner himself added to it, its destructive power is close to the five-ring spell, which is also Reiner's strongest attack method at present.
Next, Reiner had to engrave a four-ring spell in the heart lake to reach the level of the four rings, so that he would not fall behind in the battle against Agnes.
Reiner had already thought about the content of the four-ring spell, Isaris's illustrious armor.
As you can tell from the name, this is a defensive spell, different from the magic barrier below the three rings, Isaris's illustrious armor can not only defend against physical impact, but also resist pure magic attacks including various mental interference, and more importantly, this spell will be released autonomously when it perceives a sudden change in the external environment, which can be said to be an excellent magic barrier.
As for the disadvantages, it is probably that this spell is the most complex of its level as a four-ring magic, and if this magic is chosen as the magic engraved in the heart lake required for advancement, ordinary mages may have to delay for three to five years to successfully advance.
This one was developed by Isaris. The magic system invented by Lord Alberton has been registered in the Magic Association for more than fifty years, and there are no more than 100 mages who have exchanged and successfully engraved it into the Heart Lake, which shows that if Edgar's Heart Lake was engraved with this spell just now instead of the Wall of Sighs of Isaris, the outcome of the battle is still unknown.
After all, for most mages, the efficiency is the highest, they can be promoted to the fifth and sixth rings, and then replace them with other magic barrier spells, there is no need to smash this spell.
Closing his eyes, Reiner constructed a model of the spell in his mind.
It was an extremely complex three-dimensional figure, composed of thirty-five spell nodes and more than three hundred magic trajectories, unlike the previous plane pattern, this model was three-dimensional, so although the spell nodes were not even as many as the three-ring spells, its complexity was far greater than the three-ring spells.
The change from the third ring to the fourth ring is an evolution from a two-dimensional plane to a three-dimensional space, which for many mages is equivalent to expanding a dimension that many people cannot understand in their lifetimes.
But Reiner, for whom understanding multidimensional space is just adding a coordinate.
When he opened his eyes, a little starlight appeared in Reiner's deep pupils.
The sky was full of stars, and among them, thirty-five were unusually dazzling.
The other stars disappeared, and these dozens of stars swirled around, forming the spell model structure of Isaris's illustrious armor.
Immediately afterward, countless silver threads extended from the stars, entangled and intertwined, weaving an extremely complex three-dimensional network.
Reiner's hands were open, palms, countless silver threads connected to the ever-changing stars in the sky, and the intertwined network was like a ball of yarn that was cut and unorganized, making people's scalps tingle just by looking at it, even if there was only one wrong step, it would lead to the collapse of the entire spell model, and the whole game would be lost.
Reiner was mentally focused, he controlled every trajectory of his magic, his fingers moving nimbly, as if he were playing a light serenade.
As the speed of Reiner's fingers increased, the stars in the night sky began to shine rhythmically, which was the reaction of different magic nodes to pass the magic test.
The frequency of the starlight flickering faster and faster, as if the tempo of the music gradually increased, Reiner was immersed in it, his arms swung with it, and just as the music reached its climax, Reiner folded his hands together, and then, jerked to both sides.
It's like a marionette being tightened, and with Reiner's movements, the complex magical trajectory around the stars suddenly converges, like scattered yarns being tightened, if you change to someone else, it is very likely to hesitate at this step, leading to failure.
But Reiner's movements were confident and powerful, and he saw that around the dozens of bright stars in the sky, silver magic trails surrounded, forming a harmonious and elegant pattern.
As soon as Reiner's mind moved, he felt the magic intertwined from his body, covering the surface of his skin.
It was as if he had put on a transparent suit of armor, and it didn't look any different from the outside, but Reiner knew that Isaris's illustrious armor had been activated.
Reiner flew over a rock wall, raised his hand, and threw a punch at the rock wall.
Boom –
A loud bang erupted, and when the dust settled, I saw that Reiner's right hand had sunk deep into the rock wall, and the space around his arm was slightly twisted, isolating the rubble.
This was the inspiration Reiner received from the previous lady sheriff, using defensive spells to attack, and from the current situation, Reiner can fight against at least one infantry squadron with this spell alone.
He nodded in satisfaction, and then, Reiner conducted some spell tests to ensure that he could defend against most spells below the third ring, and at the same time had some resistance to the four-ring spells, and could hold out for a few seconds under the direct attack of the five-ring spells.
That's enough for Reiner.
Although he had never experienced a formal mage battle before, Reiner had already learned something from what he had seen before, and it was time to put it into practice.
After reacting the plan in his head, Reiner opened his eyes.
He returned to the real world from the lake of his heart, and everything around him seemed to be the same, but it seemed to be different from the past.
Before Reiner could savor the difference, the door opened.