Chapter 2: Demonic Impact
Ain was also extremely embarrassed to hear the news when he was playing the game, although he did not choose to be born in the northwest of Rysel at that time, but the change of Rysel's border will always threaten the safety of Rysel - that is, this torn defense line defect indirectly led to the final destruction of Rysel.
But in his current status, if he said that he predicted that there would be a once-in-a-century snowfall in the future, no nobleman with real power would believe it, let alone predict that the invasion of the Drew's undead army would lead to the fall of several Northwest Fortresses. If they really say that, most of them will directly treat themselves as severe paranoids.
Of course, if it is in Ain's own interests, the crisis on the northwest border has nothing to do with him in the short term. While Far Winter is indeed located northwest of Rysel, Far East is also the capital of the northwest province of Rysel. Even without a legendary spellcaster or warrior to protect it, Winterfell would be unlikely to fall under Drew's endless Sea of Bones tactics - the biggest flaw of Drew's seemingly endless army of the undead, and there was nothing to do with a large city with a large amount of temple power when the high-level forces were equal.
In Ain's known history, the fall of Winterfell had nothing to do with Drew at the time of the fall of Rysel...... Instead, there is a repaired spatial rift hidden under Winterfell, and on the other side of this rift is a sub-plane with a huge amount of magical energy, and this spatial rift is usually guarded by several high-level mages, and in the event of a change, it is quickly reported and controlled-a small amount of leakage is allowed and beneficial, and these leaked magic energy will slowly change the constitution of the people in the city. There may not be a way to promote ordinary people to become spellcasters, but it is enough for spellcasters to take a shortcut on the way to try to connect to a deeper net.
Although it is said that the safety of the northwest has nothing to do with him, even if he encounters a serious crisis, Aine can run away, but there is one thing that Ain has always valued - in any case, it is better to have his own inheritance and the dignity of some nobles than to be a wandering mage in the wilderness. Even if you don't have your own fiefdom, let alone the funds to maintain dignity and luxury, it doesn't mean that you won't have it in the future, does it?
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Night was slowly falling, and Aine was already obediently rummaging through the space bag that Grean had given him. Although this space bag can only play a containment role, there is no way to reduce the weight of the contents, and it can be regarded as a secondary product, but for Ain, this is still a relatively useful secondary magic item.
The contents of the space bag were very simple, an ordinary oak wand, two spell books, one new and one old, and an inconspicuous and somewhat worn cloak. But Aine could see at a glance that this inconspicuous worn-out cloak was actually the most precious thing in the entire space bag—a magic item.
It's a real magic item, not the space bag or some of the gadgets that Ain used before.
After feeling the arcane fluctuations on the cloak for a moment, Ain was able to determine the magic attached to the cloak: a one-ring arcane feather fall three times a day, a two-ring arcane mirror once a day, and a three-ring arcane shift that could only be cast once.
Although this kind of magic item is very precious to ordinary people, it is picky in Ain's eyes, but after being picky for a long time, he still has to admire Gray's good intentions.
Even if the Feather Fall Technique seems a little weak, the Mirror Shadow Technique, which can create at least two illusions that are exactly the same as oneself for each caster level to confuse the opponent, is definitely rare among low-level arcane arts. Not to mention the Shift Technique, which can be triggered at a critical moment, this is Iron's greatest means of saving his life until he can connect to the third layer of the magic net and master the Shift Technique. Even if this spell can only be used once, its potential value in saving lives at critical moments should not be underestimated.
As for the other two spell books, they are more sparse and ordinary, one is the spell book that Grean used himself when he was at the low level, which records a large number of arcane arts with one to three rings, and the other is the notes written by Greion himself when he studied the arcane. However, what makes Ian more uncomfortable is that the Forbidden School of Gray, the Prophecy School and the Necromantic School, are not mentioned in this book, and the Prophecy School and the Necromantic School are still quite important in the low-level arcane. Although Ain, who can be officially connected to the first layer of the magic net soon, also has to choose his own forbidden school, but the prophecy school is absolutely impossible for Aine to give up, but if there is really no way, he can consider giving up the necromantic school, and the other forbidden school Ain is basically choosing one of the two schools of spells or plastic energy.
In fact, Ain was a generalist mage in the game of his previous life, that is, an all-round mage who did not have a specialized school or a forbidden school. Unfortunately, the rules of this world are different from the game, and any caster who connects to the magic web must abide by the rules of the magic lord Bokabu, the so-called forbidden school.
It's time to think about it in a few days...... Ain could only sigh, because he knew that on the day of Midwinter Festival in the Winter Year, a huge blast of magical energy rushed out from the ground of Winterfell. In the history of the game, this magical energy blast was a harbinger of the imminent complete collapse of the seal on the spatial rift under Winterfell. It's a pity that in the history of the game, Rysel didn't care about doing anything with this spatial rift, and after all, the entire Far Winter City was destroyed by the impact of magical energy.
And the biggest impact of this magic energy impact on Aine is the connection to the magic net. Now Ain can barely connect to the first layer of the magic net, and when he is affected by the huge amount of magic energy in the impact of the magic energy, he will definitely be able to firmly connect to the first layer of the magic net. That's when the ban school must be established.
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In the end, Grean chose to say goodbye, and even Ain, who woke up early in the morning without even preparing a spell, didn't know how Grean left. But now that he is gone, Aine has no way to say or do anything, so he can only silently make some preparations to deal with that magical energy impact.
Unlike ordinary meditation to obtain free magical arcane energy, this magic energy impact must be passively accepted, and if it is not handled well, it may cause more or less damage to one's body. However, for a mage like Ain, who had participated in the aftermath of Winterfell, this wave of magical energy was just child's play.
As the bell rang at the end of the year, Ain slowly closed his eyes and began to enter a meditative state.
The so-called damage caused by the impact of magic energy is the impact of the overfilled magic energy in the body on the sea of spirits. And Ain now chose to start slowly emptying his body of magical energy, although this process of emptying would be very painful to accumulate again, but this time it was unusual.
The bell rang again, and Aine clearly felt that the free magic energy was also rapidly activated, and the weak connection between himself and the magic net became more and more unstable.
Here it comes. Ain's heart sank, and he was in good spirits.
The bell was generated by the collision of the strikers of this impact, and under the base of the bell was the seal of the spatial gap and the place where the guardian mage was stationed.
"Hurry up and report this to the kingdom!" One of the caretakers, visibly dressed differently, immediately gave orders to his men.
"Your Excellency Vincennes...... Now that the connection between the telecommunication device and the magic net has been broken, I want to ......," one of the men said, fiddling with the magic device in his hand, sweating profusely.
They all know the seriousness of this matter.
"You keep watching, it's good that I have a teleportation spell prepared every day." The mage named Vincent said.
"Lord Vincennes, according to the information, the surrounding space will also become unstable now......"
"Damn it!"
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With the complete explosion of demonic energy, Ain's face turned pale, and a steady stream of demonic energy began to impact his spiritual sea.
This was a situation he had never expected, and he could only estimate now that something had happened to the gate in his spiritual sea, but he didn't dare to relax his control over the spiritual sea.
Unfortunately, under the massive impact, Ain's resistance became extremely ridiculous, and it didn't take long for him to faint completely.
Immediately after that, centered on Ain's head, a huge vortex of magical energy suddenly appeared. If it weren't for the interference of the magic energy impact on the magic net, those caretaker mages would immediately know about Ain's mutation through the magic device.
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"Sea of Spirits...... Sea of Spirits......" Aine seemed to be talking in a dream, but he suddenly woke up without repeating the last two sentences.
Last night...... Magical Impact...... The fragments of his memories quickly combined in Ain's mind, and Aine realized once again what had happened to him the previous night.
The sea of spirits has been invaded by demonic energy!
Aine suppressed the urge to directly feel the sea of spirits, and directly began to feel the magic net to prepare for magic, he didn't want to see the devastated sea of spirits directly.
But at this time, Aine realized that he had no way to connect with the magic net. Or to put it another way, Aine is completely unaware of the existence of the magic web.
Could it be that the impact of magical energy has created a short-lived area of dead magic? Aine still didn't dare to accept the fact that he couldn't feel the magic web, and while Ain kept trying to continue feeling the magic web, he took out the cloak through the space ring.
When a normal magic item is in the Dead Magic Zone, the magic power on it cannot be activated, but after Al took out the worn cloak, he easily activated the featherfall spell attached to it.
Ain's heart fell to the bottom.