The conjecture of the "Seal of the Mind" was confirmed.

The appearance of the Holy Light Rune Substrate allowed the researchers of Cecil to observe the effect of the Psychic Steel Seal for the first time through experiments.

But this is undoubtedly not good news.

Divine magic belongs to the gods, and mortals can only "pray" for the gifts of the gods through devout belief and obedience to dogma, so as to borrow the power of divine magic, which has always been taken for granted as a truth, but through the analysis of the changes in druid magic, through the information provided by Carmel, coupled with the living "White Knight" example of Wright, Gawain and Pittman and others jointly put forward the conjecture of the "Mental Steel Seal", and believed that the key to letting mortals master divine magic is to break this steel seal - and after seeing Amber's test, Gawain realized more deeply that it might not be so easy to break this steel seal.

Among the people Gawain knew, I am afraid that there was no one more disdainful of the God of Light than this elf shame, but she still could not break the influence of the Psychic Seal, which shows that the Steel Seal does not act on the level of human thinking, but is an instinctive reaction that is difficult to control and imperceptible.

As for the situation that Wright mentioned just now, Kamel is not affected by the Psychic Seal, Gawain is not too surprised - Carmel is a senior researcher of the "Disobedience Project" thousands of years ago, and has spent a thousand years of sealing life, and his mental strength is probably only high compared to Wright, and the project he studied back then was to steal the power of the gods, and his Psychic Seal may have disintegrated as early as when he saw the divine corpse of the giant deer Amorn.

"Actually...... This is also a windfall," Gawain took the rune substrate in Wright's hand and couldn't help but sigh, "It has become our 'observation device' to verify the Mind Steel Seal......"

Then he placed his finger on the copper medium on the edge of the rune substrate and slowly injected magic into it: "Perhaps...... I can try. ”

The pale golden lines on the rune substrate quickly brightened in the infusion of mana, and almost instantly, a ball of pure holy light condensed over the substrate.

"This ......," Wright was stunned, "you...... You even broke the Soul Seal?! ”

Amber also looked at Gawain's Holy Light Technique released through the rune substrate as if she had seen a ghost—the last time she had shown that expression was when she watched the other party crawl out of the coffin, "How can you do that!" ”

Gawain just quietly looked at the ball of light floating in front of him, feeling its steady and pure magical reaction, but there was not much surprise in his heart.

Just as he expected - as a visitor to a foreign land, he could be said to have nothing to do with the local gods, and he was born without a spiritual seal.

A swift little figure flew up to Gawain's side, and Emily reached out to the Holy Light Regiment, but hesitated to stop halfway through.

She looked up at Gawain, her big eyes full of anticipation: "Can you give it to me?" ”

Although the little girl has a simple mind and a slightly different way of thinking from ordinary people, she obviously still knows that Gawain is a lord, so she can't just mess around.

Gawain smiled slightly and put his hand on top of Emily's head: "Here you go." ”

The little girl happily took the holy light away, and Amber continued to look Gawain up and down with a hellish look: "I really can't see it...... When did you break the Mind Seal? ”

"It is not surprising that the legendary heroes who fought against the demon tide seven hundred years ago have such a will." Wright said something next to him, but although he explained Amber like this, he still had some doubts in his heart: the Spiritual Steel Seal is a kind of "lock" that cannot be detected by his own will, and breaking it requires not only a firm mind, but also some kind of "enlightenment" and "sudden change of thinking" with unknown principles, and the latter two elements actually have nothing to do with the strength of an individual's mind.

How can ordinary people have a sudden change in thinking under normal circumstances? He himself broke through the Psychic Steel Seal because of a long period of questioning and reflection on the God of Light, as well as the impact caused by the Emily incident, while Kamel was because of the disobedient plan of the year, and the change in life form and thinking mode during the thousand-year seal, so Gawain ......

Did this legendary hero also rebel against the gods back then?

Gawain noticed the confusion in Wright's eyes, but he didn't intend to explain it all, but instead brought the topic back on track: "The Psychic Seal makes it impossible for the user to use their own magic to drive the Beacon of Light, but if I'm not mistaken...... This holy light substrate is actually still usable, right? ”

"As you said," Wright nodded, "The Psychic Seal only affects the user's ability to mobilize their own mana, but the Holy Light Substrate is also a type of Rune Substrate, and the Rune Substrate doesn't have to be powered by human magic - it can be driven by the energy in the magic web, and the magic net ...... It's thoughtless. ”

The magic net has no thoughts, so it is naturally not affected by the so-called "spiritual steel seal", and using the automatic magic net to drive the holy light rune is equivalent to bypassing the "human" factor, and this way of working based on the magic net and external equipment to cast spells is the foundation of Cecil's magic industry.

Cecil's magic industry has exploited the loophole of the Psychic Steel Seal in a misguided situation.

But Gawain knew it wouldn't be that simple: "Use the magic net to power the Holy Light Rune Array...... There is a critical process in between. ”

Wright opened his mouth, but before he could speak, Carmel's voice suddenly came from the direction of the church door: "It's the inverter." ”

Gawain turned his head and saw Kamel, who was covered in arcane brilliance, floating towards him, and the arcane master said as he floated over, "I was about to report to you about the Holy Light Substrate, but I didn't expect you to come to the church. I've just heard you outside the door discussing the power supply of the Light Substrate. ”

"Coincidentally," Gawain nodded, continuing the topic, "The inverter array is a very sensitive thing, I believe that if it weren't for the bottleneck on this, you would have shown me the results of the Holy Light Substrate a long time ago—after all, the physical objects have been produced." ”

"There have been priests who tried to improve their divine arts and used magic to directly drive the Holy Light Array, only to be burned to ashes by divine punishment - we have to be cautious about the failure of our predecessors," Kamel said in a serious tone, "We don't know what the nature of the gods is, but the phenomenon of 'divine punishment' does exist. ”

Speaking of this, he paused for a moment and looked at Wright: "Fortunately, Wright broke the steel seal and awakened the ability of the White Knight, by detecting the energy flow when he cast the spell, and calculating the spell model he sensed, we reconstructed a new Holy Light Array, and completely eliminated the structure that established a connection with the Holy Light God in the magic circle, blocking the judgment process of 'Divine Punishment'...... It is highly likely that this dangerous connection will be re-established. ”

Although the pure magical energy flowing in the magic net is a convenient and easy-to-use general energy source, it is precisely because it is too "universal" that it cannot power the rune system of the divine arts. The rune system of the divine magic class can only accept two types of energy, one is the corresponding divine magic (such as the holy light energy stored in the holy light crystal), and the other is the magic power after being regulated by the human spiritual power (the magic power of priests and other clergy, or the magic power of other transcendent beings), and the pure magic energy in the magic net has not been processed by the factor of "human", which is obviously inappropriate.

Therefore, if you want to use the magic net to charge the magic runes, you must use the "inverter array" technology researched by Pittman: the inverter array can replace the role of the "praying man" and process the pure magic energy.

The Inverter Array is a well-established technology that has been widely used in alchemy factories, but it is also a dangerous technology: it is stealing the authority of the gods.

At the beginning, after the appearance of the inverter array, Gawain gave an order that only this technology should be applied to the field of druid spells at this stage - because the druid god "Giant Deer Amorn" has been confirmed dead, and its god corpse has been suppressed in the shadow world, even if the inverter array is stealing natural divine power, there is no danger of causing divine punishment, but it is not necessary to use the inverter array to power other divine arts.

The other gods are still alive, and even if they are alive, they can call their worshippers back (answer prayers)......

Although Gawain knew that all the gods had died once, there were all kinds of signs that those gods who had been slaughtered by the Zenith in ancient times had been resurrected, at least there was something sitting on the throne of the god of light now, and from the bottom of his heart, Gawain really didn't want to attract the attention of any of the gods on the throne at this stage......

Amber also realized the danger of the inverter array, she followed Gawain to get tangled, and after struggling for a long time, she said without confidence: "Just steal a little...... What if the God of Light can't find out? ”

Gawain suddenly glared at this guy: "You are an occupational disease, right-what do you mean by stealing, you think this is you digging someone's wallet in the tavern?" ”

Amber shrunk her neck: "I'll just say that, can't I say it......"

"There are a large number of rune structures that simulate divine magic in the inverter array, and this structure cannot be removed, it is likely to attract the attention of the 'gods', but on the other hand, in this whole process, the magic net that provides energy, the inverter array that converts energy, and the rune substrate that releases divine magic, the three units do not have any 'mind' involvement, and all people do is pull the rune trigger, so theoretically, this process can still bypass the 'divine punishment' judgment," Carmel said with his own considerations. The only thing we can't know for sure now is ......"

Gawain didn't wait for Kamel to finish speaking before he spoke: "We can't be sure if 'Divine Punishment' will still occur under the premise that the entire spell casting process is completely automatic and does not involve the Mind Seal, nor can we be sure whether the action of 'pulling the trigger' will also introduce the human 'mental factor' into the spell casting process, and we can't be sure whether this will indirectly lead to 'Divine Punishment', right?" ”

"Everything is as you said," the light on Kamel's body flickered slightly, "Although the person only pulled the rune trigger to connect to this system, the simple action of pulling the trigger is ...... It is also the result of being driven by thinking. ”

Gawain frowned, and couldn't help but whisper to himself, "Could it be related to the observer effect...... The Observer Effect of the Macrocosm? ”

Kamel didn't hear clearly: "What did you say?" ”

"No, it's nothing," Gawain waved his hand, "I don't think 'pulling the trigger' should be part of the spellcasting process, because the spellcasting process is a closed-loop structure in the system composed of magic nets and rune substrates, and in the process of external manipulation, people's mental power does not resonate with any magic power - and whether the spiritual power participates is an important indicator of the spellcasting process." Of course, this is just my personal opinion, how to do it exactly...... We had to devise an experimental protocol to verify it. ”

Kamel nodded: "It is not difficult to formulate such an experimental plan, the difficult thing is how to ensure the safety of the experimental process - we may attract the attention of the gods, this price is too high, we must solve its hidden dangers." ”

Gawain looked into Carmel's eyes—or at the two arcane rays of brilliance that he was supposed to be, "What do you think?" ”

Kamal was silent for a moment, then said slowly but firmly, "I have requested the reopening of some of the laboratories of the Rebellious Fortress. ”

Gawain didn't answer him directly, but asked a question: "Is there anything else that works?" ”

"The laboratories in the outer fortress area have been completely destroyed, and the protection systems are all offline, but the ...... in the fortress of disobedience It still works! ”