Chapter 237: The Stars Fall
The temperature in the desert dropped to almost zero degrees after midnight, but even so, the young man was sweating incessantly. He wiped the beads of sweat from his cheeks with his hand and replied in a low voice, "That's the ancient script that the Noumerin Elves taught to the Oath Keepers, and during the Giant Wars, they used the powerful spells they manipulated to seal away enemies that were difficult for them to defeat. ”
But later, the elves used their extraordinary casting skills to engrave the Dragon Sacrifice on the Dragon Slayer Sword, and forged five legendary swords from it. Since then, it has become easier for people to defeat the Dark Dragon with the Holy Sword, and over time, people have forgotten the use of the Dragon Sacrifice Text. ”
"Later, the Noumerin Elves disappeared, the dark dragons gradually became difficult to find, and the Oath Keepers gradually sealed their swords, so there were fewer opportunities to use the Dragon Sacrifice Text. More than 300 years ago, the last Dragon Priest passed away, and the art disappeared completely. ”
"However, a hundred years ago, after Joshud defeated Nicol Bolas, he and the archmage Karatu somehow retrieved the inheritance of the Dragon Sacrifice Text, and sealed the power of Lifgard in Nicol Bolas's body in this place." The young man's words were full of regret: "Originally, this was the safest way"
"Originally?" Fang caught the twist in the other party's words.
The young man nodded: "Legend has it that the Dragon Sacrifice Text was born from the dragon language magic of the dragons, it imitates the basic pattern of the dragon language, and has more than thirteen thousand basic bytes, of which no two bytes are the same or similar. The caster pronounces different spells in different word order, and the corresponding effects are unique. ”
When Fang heard this, he already understood.
When asked about his understanding of history, he may not be as good as this young man who was born as a professional scholar, but when it comes to his understanding of magic, the other party is much inferior to him. After all, the magic system of contemporary mortals was also born out of the basic system of contemporary alchemy.
The Magician's Furnace was also designed and manufactured by the Alchemist. The core theory of the magic furnace is the basic knowledge of the ether.
The people who know the most about the magic of aether in this era are almost certainly not magicians and other spellcasters, but the top alchemists of our time.
The basic pattern of the Dragon's Sacrifice determines which spells the caster uses in a long spell, and in what order they are chanted, will determine how their spells will differ.
For the caster of spells, this is a fatal thing, it is like in the language of mortals, the words that have lost the wildcard, different sentences, different meanings, must be combined with different words. Even referring to nouns has different styles in different sentence structures.
It's like the word 'I' in 'I'm doing magic', if you replace it with 'I'm eating' or something similar, the word 'I' no longer exists, and is replaced by a completely unfamiliar spell. In this way, an almost endless number of sentences and mantras can be derived.
This is like the knowledge of the dragon engraved in the bloodline, and after a certain age, the inheritance is naturally awakened, and this knowledge appears in its memory as if it was innate, and naturally there is no problem. They even spoke to each other in such a primitive and complex language, but it was impossible for a mortal to memorize so many incantations, so many grammatical sequences.
It is only natural that this ancient and primitive method of spell casting was later changed by the Sinsas Serpents and Noumerin Elves, and formed the prototype of the contemporary magic system.
But this way of casting spells, while there are many troubles, also has an unexpected benefit.
Because the mantra, as the name suggests, is to dismantle wrinkles. Spell solving is a central topic for any type of spellcaster, when it is really just a simple process of reverse casting. This is not difficult for modern magic and alchemy, which have traces to follow.
For dismantling a spell is nothing more than the search for an inherent solution in one or more fixed forms.
But for the Dragon's Spell, the Spell Solver is no different from dealing with a flexible combination lock with hundreds of digits. These hundreds of passwords, not only are they selected from more than 13,000 basic bytes, but they also have a fixed order, and if one step is wrong, it will be a disaster for solving the spell.
Therefore, unless it is the dragons who have mastered the magic of the dragon language, it is almost impossible to solve such a spell by breaking it alone.
However, the dark dragon is cursed by Bahamut and does not possess the ability to perform dragon magic. And how could other dragons who hated traitors to their own people come and break the seal for them? Therefore, the Dragon Sacrifice Text seems to be one of the best means to seal the dark dragon.
Fang couldn't help but look at the 'combination lock' set by Caratu more than a hundred years ago by the young scholar on the side, wouldn't it be unlocked for this person? He asked the question, and the young man shook his head: "Of course not, I'm not as talented as Lord Karatu. However, Lord Karatu left a research manuscript for future generations to maintain the seal, and the manuscript was stored in the Great Library of the Silver Tower, and no one could read it for more than a hundred years. ”
“…… In fact, I became interested in the Dragon Sacrifice Text by accident, and this research is a public subject in the Silver Tower, and I use it as a means to promote myself to a full-fledged scholar. But my research, like everyone else, ran into trouble at the beginning. ”
To Fang's ears, the trouble that this young scholar encountered was actually quite simple. The Dragon's Sacrifice was lost nearly three centuries ago, and Karatu was left with only one instance of a spell, and that instance was the sealing of the profound Dark Dragon. In the absence of the interpretation of the basic spell, it is too normal for the other party to not understand this spell.
But at this point, the young man glanced fearfully at the 'wanderer' in the middle of the square at the bottom of the pit, and said, "Until three years ago, I met that person. ”
"I was in a desperate situation of financial difficulties and no progress in research, and if I couldn't find a solution in a short period of time, I would have to leave my dream of studying and return to the ordinary life I used to have."
"And that's when he found me. Of course, there were other people who saw me at the time, perhaps his subordinates, who told me that he could provide some information and literature that would be useful for my research. But the price is that one day I have to do something for them. ”
"I didn't think much about it at the time, but the fact that scholars were rewarded for their labor in exchange for knowledge was also very common and widely advocated in the Silver Tower. And the information and documents that the other party brought after that were some very rare interpretations of the dragon's sacrifice text. ”
"I was surprised at the time, because there were very few large-scale and well-established studies of the Dragon Sacrifice Texts outside of the Silver Tower. But the manuscript that the other party gave me was obviously accumulated by many generations, and there were all kinds of experiences and notes on the understanding of the dragon sacrifice text. ”
At this point, he paused.
But then I came to realize that there was a very special thing in common among these notes and materials. The people who recorded them seemed to be researching how to unlock the seal of the Dragon Sacrifice Text. They seem to have an unusual interest in dismantling the Dragon Sacrifice Text. ”
Although Fang couldn't move, when he heard this, he already roughly understood where these manuscripts in the other party's hand came from. Compared to the Silver Tower, the power of the Dragon-worshippers in private is as large and deep. Since the time of the Dark Dragon, the other party must have done a lot of research around the Dragon Sacrifice Text, so it is only natural that he can come up with so many manuscripts.
Most of the research of the dragon worshippers will not be carried out in the open, so it is not surprising that the other party has not heard of these documents.
It is conceivable that he must have been the only one who was found by the 'Wanderer', but the other party obviously still has some genius. He was probably the only one of these researchers who had made progress and figured out the order of the Karatu Dragon's sacrificial texts.
That's why the 'Wanderers' finally chose him.
And no one knows better than the researcher himself what he or she is doing. The young man was clearly aware of the trouble he was in, and when he was contacted again years later, and then taken away by the Blood Shark Air Pirates, the other man realized what he was in.
Because of this, since coming to Idus, he has been looking for ways to convey information to the outside world. And the fake ring was obviously an important evidence of the Dragon Witch incident back then, and he probably tried everything he could to transfer it to Daubunigu.
But this didn't help, if it wasn't for the fact that Bunigu happened to save his group, at most he would have just come to this place to accompany the other party as a hard laborer.
But fortunately, the god of luck seems to be real.
Fang lowered his voice and asked, "In other words, you have found out the correct order of Karatu's recitation of the seal of the Dragon Sacrifice?" ”
The young man hung his head and nodded weakly.
Fang didn't care, and asked again: "Casting the dragon spell should be a rather complicated thing, right?" ”
"It's natural."
"What happens if I get it wrong?"
"How can you read it wrong?" The young man looked at him puzzled, probably thinking that the other had asked a rather childish question. If he had mispronounced the incantation at such an important moment? Even an apprentice magician wouldn't make the low-level mistake of mispronouncing a spell according to a spell.
"What if?"
......The young man was also a little confused, but when he thought about it, it seemed that they could only expect the other party to make such a low-level mistake. He thought for a moment and replied uncertainly, "Approximately...... Will it fail, right? ”
"What happens if you fail?"
"The spell locks and then automatically evolves into a new order, which is characteristic of the Dragon's Sacrifice Text."
"Okay," Fang replied, "I understand." ”
The young man looked at him a little inexplicably. In his eyes, Fang Zheng was firmly fixed to the ground by a dark light cable, and he couldn't even move his little finger, what the other party understood, he really didn't understand.
Could it be that the way of cursing in the heart makes the other party make low-level mistakes? But that's ridiculous.
But Fang didn't say a word, only glanced at Miss Attila from the corner of his eye, he had actually been planning all this since Fang had just begun, and the only one who couldn't rest assured at the moment was this elf lady.
He looked at the wanderer in the distance again, then moved his gaze to the bone dragon on the side who was pretending to be lying on the ground and pretending to be dead, and looked at it silently for a moment, and finally looked at the young man next to him: "Can I ask you to do something for me?" ”
"How?"
"If something happens later, can you take the lady over there and escape in the direction of the skull dragon?"
"The skull-dragon!?" The young man was taken aback, and forgot to ask, 'What will happen later?', and only looked at the huge undead creature not far away. The bone dragon didn't have much to do with the 'wanderer', but it wasn't enough to eat him one bite at a time.
"Don't worry, I promise you won't have any problems," Fang replied, "and if something happens later, you don't have any other better way to escape, do you?" ”
The young man looked at the 'wanderer' with a pale face and nodded involuntarily.
"So listen to me, I promise you won't die, I promised Mr. Bunigu to take you out intact."
"All right," the young man nodded, "I'll try as much as I can." ”
But as soon as he changed his mind, he asked, "What will happen later?" ”
"Don't ask, just look."
Fang replied.
He looked at the 'wanderer' quietly, and the other party didn't seem to take the three of them seriously at all, only focused on Eve. He had his daughter kneel in the center of the circle, then stepped back to bring Dresse with him.
When the two of them were ready, he silently looked at the words that appeared on the ground, word by word, and began to silently recite the incantation on it.
At first, the other party just sang silently. But later, as the magic gathered from all directions, the other party's chanting involuntarily became higher and higher, almost echoing above the square at the bottom of the pit.
He was engrossed in it, and as he recited the incantation more and more, a faint purple flame appeared between the glowing words on the ground.
And when the 'wanderer' saw this scene, he finally couldn't help but show a hint of surprise.
This is still outside the illusion, and it was the first time Fang saw the other party show a different expression.
But he knew in his heart that it was now
Although his whole body was completely immobile, he didn't need to move anything for the Fire Djinn to seal the closed-loop order. With just a flash of thought, magic power poured out from the core crystal of the main core of the magic furnace behind him, and pierced through the resonance crystal.
Sink into the clockwork elf.
And the next moment, a golden flame burst out from the inside of the clockwork goblin that was 'anchored' with him. The Clockwork Fairy's main core crystal exploded with a bang, and the huge impact instantly tore through its shell, and at the same moment, the dark light cord between the 'Clockwork Fairy' and Fang naturally lost its purpose.
Fang felt that he had regained his mobility in an instant.
The second order he gave was to go all out, increase his shield to the maximum state, and at the same time put the magic furnace directly into overload mode. And directly from the information space, summon a sword-wielding man.
The closed-loop instruction is then encapsulated.
These two commands were completed almost the moment he untied them, and the next moment, a huge force swept from behind him. The golden flames seemed to engulf him, and in an instant his paltry shield value was wiped out.
Then the impact force acted on him, directly lifting him out of the way, hitting the ground, rolling for more than a dozen laps before he got up, but the dark ritual that had not taken effect before finally had an effect.
The moment he received the impact, he avoided the most fatal blow.
Fang got up from the ground, and his health was almost only a layer of blood. But he didn't mean to recover, because in front of such an opponent, there was actually no difference between his full state and his empty state, and he didn't even look back to see the young man's condition.
If nothing else, the other party should be knocked out of the way by the sword-wielder who has encapsulated the closed-loop order.
But now his primary goal is no longer these trivial things.
The moment the explosion is generated.
The 'wanderer' had already noticed the movement in this direction, and he looked back at Fang who had broken free, and froze slightly. But this little surprise was not enough for him to complete the spell, he only indifferently chanted the spell while reaching out to Fang Yiyi.
A dark ball of light flew in the direction again.
But Fang already knew how to crack this trick.
He threw two clockwork goblins and flew forward, and after the dark ball of light hit the first clockwork goblin, it connected to the second clockwork goblin, and then pulled them, spun and flew out, fell to the ground, and fell to pieces.
Seeing this scene, Fang took the opportunity to flash to the side.
The 'Wanderer' probably didn't expect his spell to be dodged by such a stupid method, and glanced at Fang with some surprise. But he was still calm, and once again reached out to Fang Yiyi
But before he could cast the spell, he heard Fang roar angrily:
"Try my spells first!"
The 'wanderer' was slightly stunned, what kind of spell can an alchemist do? But when he looked around, he saw that the young man waved his hand, and a golden star was rising from behind him.
There were twenty or thirty of them in the twinkling stars, arranged at equal distances from each other, just like the stars in the sky. Fang Jiang pointed his hand at him, and a twinkling starlight suddenly rose up along with his gesture.
Then he pressed down, just like a storm, golden arcs of light were shooting towards the 'wanderer'.
And in the distance.
The young man who was knocked away by the sword-wielding man just happened to see this spectacular scene when he got up from the ground with a disgraced face. He couldn't help but open his mouth wide, and finally understood what Fang was saying, and something would happen later.
What kind of situation does it refer to?
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