Hearing Konstantin's undisguised vicious threat, Leonid couldn't help but tremble, pushed his father's arm away, and stood up with difficulty. Natalia rushed over at the right time, supporting Leonid in place of Matvey, whose body had not yet fully repaired, and looked at Konstantin with complex emotions such as hatred and fear.

The devil's gaze turned from Matvey's face to Roland.

"And you, my Tieflin brother, I am touched by the smell of my relatives in you, even though you have a good disguise."

"I'm really sorry, I hate you the most when you leave the Nine Prisons and run around, calling your brothers and friends affectionately, but what you think in your heart is 'When you meet a fellow countryman in another country, you will be stabbed in the back'." Roland didn't bother to go around in circles with such a guy with a false face.

Konstantin smiled and said unhurriedly: "Since you are so frank, I won't hide it, of course you are not stupid, but after all, you are a magic caster, and your pure intelligence level is probably not high, this is your weakness." ”

"Oh? It's interesting, but how you can prove that you're intellectually superior, like competing with me in a quiz? Roland sneered.

"Hehe, if you're confident in guessing riddles, that's fine."

Konstantin raised his right hand, and the spider-web-like shadow stretched out from his palm, like countless straws connected to the shadow realm, extracting the dark origin that made up this plane and gathering it in his palm, transforming it into magic that was both real and illusory.

Roland opened the "Pupil of Destiny" to carefully identify the dark magic in the palm of the Chain Demon Lord, and couldn't help but feel a pang in his heart, thinking of the legendary 9-ring illusion.

Among the eight arcane schools, illusion is very inconspicuous, and if a spellcaster intends to become a specialized mage of a particular school, he will often choose spells, variations, protection, plastic energy, necromancy, and other schools that are recognized as more powerful, and there are very few who are willing to focus on illusion. After all, the school of illusion lacks the kind of powerful offensive spells that are decisive and most illusions are uncertain, whether they can be effective on the target depends on whether the opponent can see through the illusion created by the caster, if the opponent is determined and calm enough not to be fooled by the illusion, the illusionist is reduced to a clown who sings a one-man show, and makes people laugh in vain.

However, there are no absolutes, and illusion is not as trivial as it seems. Roland remembers discussing a topic with Nikita not long ago: Spells, Plastics, Protection, Change, Prophecy, Necromancy, Confusion, and Illusion, which of the eight arcane schools is the most abundant and comprehensive in terms of spells to deal with all kinds of situations?

The answer given by Roland is "the school of spells". In his opinion, this is obvious, the spell school has the richest list of spells among the eight schools, covering the five sub-schools of summoning, calling, teleporting, creation and healing, and can manifest magic power into a certain creature, object and even energy at will, can summon monsters, call allies, void creations out of nothing, most of the short-range, long-distance and cross-plane teleportation spells belong to the spell school, and almost all spells that treat minor and serious injuries, regenerate limbs and resurrect the dead also belong to the spell school.

The School of Spells is undoubtedly the only of the eight Arcane Schools, and is like an all-encompassing "Arcane Trust" - whether it's attacking, defending, controlling, or just having fun, most of your needs can be found within the School of Spells.

With such a strong sense of existence, Roland had no reason to ignore it and choose another school. Of course, the other seven schools also have their own strengths, but when it comes to "rich and comprehensive spells", is there any other competitor worth mentioning in the school of spells?

In fact, Nikita's answer is the School of Illusion.

This sounds a bit ridiculous at first glance, the "School of Illusion", which pretends to be a ghost, how can it compare with the "School of Spells" to be omnipotent? But after thinking about it carefully, Roland had to admit that Miss Mage had made a wiser choice.

This is due to the fact that the "School of Illusion" has a series of unpopular and bizarre "Shadow" spells, the common feature of which is to simulate spells of other schools with a lower ring number than their own, this type of illusion includes:

4-ring "Phantom Spell", which can simulate all spells of the spell school that is not higher than 3 rings;

5 rings of "Phantom Shaping Technique", which can simulate all the spells of the Shaping School that are no higher than 4 rings;

7 rings of "High Shadow Spells", which can simulate all spells of the spell school that are not higher than 6 rings;

8-ring "Advanced Shadow Sculpting Technique", which can simulate all sculpting school spells that are no higher than 7 rings;

and the most powerful 9-ring "Yin Soul Spell", which can simulate all spells of the spell school that is no higher than 8 rings!

It can be seen that the Phantom series of illusions can simulate most spells and shaping spells, so the school of illusion is indeed more comprehensive than the school of spells in comparison. The reason why people tend to ignore the Phantom series of spells is because they have a common weakness: the simulated spells inevitably have unrealistic details, and if the other party sees through them as illusions, then the spell effect will be greatly reduced, and the lower the ring number of Phantom spells, the higher the discount. For example, the Phantom Spell spell, after being seen through as pirated, can only exert 20% of the effect of the genuine spell; The high-level Shadow Spell spell is better, and it can also exert 60% of the effect if it is seen through the pirated quality; As for the 9-ring Yin Soul Spell, even if it is seen through as an illusion, it can still exert at least 80% of its power!

Roland's "Pupil of Destiny" has a function similar to the "True Perception Technique", which can see through all illusions in the world, and of course he can recognize that Constantine is casting the 9-ring Yin Soul Spell spell at the moment.

He didn't ignore a detail related to the environment, in the shadow world, where the negative energy is extremely strong and there is the legendary "Shadow Demon Net", all illusions automatically get a 10% enhancement bonus, and the Yin Soul Spell spell can exert at least 90% of its power, which is not much different from the original spells it simulated.

In addition to this, Roland had also heard of some strange secret methods that could further enhance illusions, so that they eventually created such an almost counterintuitive result:

If you can't see through the illusion that the other person is casting, then you are lucky and will only take 100% spell damage; On the other hand, if you have a clever insight into the illusion that the other person is performing, then you will be miserable, and you will not only take normal damage, but also suffer additional spell damage because of your insight into the illusion - to put it bluntly, the more you see, the more miserable you will die.