Chapter 25: Bad Rumors
The Bone Talisman, also known as the Bone Talisman.
This is a specialty of the world of disgrace, and it is a mysterious object created by people who have mastered a certain amount of mystical knowledge using the bones and teeth of whalebones and other legendary animals.
- But most of the bone amulets are nothing more than folk imitations, imitations but useless fakes.
This should be very easy to understand, without mastering the mysterious knowledge, without mastering the skills of making bone talismans, ordinary people imitate the carving in the same way, but it is just an empty folk craft, at most only commemorative meaning and no practical effect.
They themselves didn't know what kind of meaning and mystery the rune marks carved into the bones and fangs represented, so naturally they couldn't expect the bone talisman made in this way to have mysterious power like great luck.
At the end of the day, it's not impossible, but it's certainly a low-probability thing.
As a result, real bone amulets are difficult to craft, and each one can have a rather unique effect on the user's physical or magical abilities.
These small objects are precious, with some unique effects and rare qualities that can give users invaluable kicker bonuses, and can even provide tactical assistance to those who have mastered mystical powers themselves.
True Bone Talismans only need to be carried with you, and you can directly get the magic effect bonuses of the Bone Talisman itself, and they don't need to be complicated to use, they will automatically provide the carrier with a variety of enhancements and boosts.
For example, it can increase the efficacy of the drugs used by the carrier, increase the physical fitness of the carrier, explosive power, swimming speed, bounce ability, and so on, and even directly enhance magic and supernatural abilities......
Legend has it that there are some extremely powerful and rare bone talismans, known as the Black Bone Amulet or the Dark Bone Talisman, which possess even the powerful effect of preventing death and disturbing fate.
It is said that before the founding of the Empire of the Islands, possession of bone charms, including Tavia's walrus ivory bone charms, was allowed to protect the health of the workers, extend the life of slaves, and benefit the upper class and nobility.
However, with the Industrial Revolution sparked by Esmond Rossball's research on whale oil, it is slowly unknown when the Abbey began to ban the use of bone charms and disparaged them as witchcraft creations.
Possessors of bone charms are believed to have committed crimes and have been poisoned by the Asylum, and it is said that a workshop has been set up in the backyard of the High Overseer's office dedicated to the destruction of bone charms with mysterious powers.
However, this has nothing to do with Mo Chen, although it is said that from the time he obtains the Outsider Demon Mark, as long as he is in the Shame World, then the Mortal Academy will definitely be his number one mortal enemy.
Either you die or I die.
But now, no matter how strong the Mortal Academy is, there is no way to enforce the law across planes, and even in the world of shame, Mo Chen will still use magic when he should use magic, and he will still use bone talismans when he should use bone talismans.
As for the current world, he naturally doesn't care much more about the views of the extreme cult that is beginning to move towards self-destruction.
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Mo Chen sat in the taxi, slowly taking stock of the bone talisman he had, and thinking about the bone talisman that he might need later.
When the city of Danwall fell, he seized the opportunity to make a small scavenger, and in addition to the six ancient runes, he also obtained more than a dozen bone talismans.
It's just that he didn't know what the function of each bone talisman was at the time, and he could only capture the flow of magic through the void perception, so as to distinguish the real from the fake, and then pack it away in one go.
But now, he has basically figured out the effect of each bone talisman.
In fact, it doesn't matter if you don't have mystical knowledge, the bone rune itself is a creation with magical magical effects. Even if you can't decipher the mysterious symbols on the bone talisman, you can't understand the meaning and mystery of the symbols.
It wasn't a problem for Mo Chen, his Void Perception was actually able to read a certain magical rhythm transmitted by the bone talisman itself, so as to roughly obtain the information in it.
Although it is not as mysterious as data, you can directly see all the parameters of the bone symbol.
But it's still no problem to roughly understand the specific effect of the magic effect possessed by the bone talisman itself. He was a little suspicious of the ability of those witches or master bone talisman makers, people with mystical powers, similar to the ability to identify—
It could be a similar magical ability like his own Void Perception.
After all, the Void Realm is the origin of all supernatural phenomena and magic, and he only directly grasps the power of magic through the Outsider Mark, while those witches and the like master the power of magic through their own research.
It should be essentially the same, and theoretically there will be no difference.
And this can also explain why Void Perception has the ability to "identify" the effect of bone runes, after all, it is the essence of the same origin, but the two are embodied in different forms.
As for why Mo Chen couldn't read the magic rhythm of the bone talisman at that time, so as to understand the general information and effect, it was because the bone talismans were piled up together at that time.
Not for a complicated reason, it's actually quite simple -
It's like people talking, and the average person is talking to two people at the same time on different topics, and there is a tendency to be a little anxious and confused, if there are more than a dozen people talking at the same time, and they are talking about different topics.
So how many people can distinguish clearly and accurately capture the useful information hidden in it?
A total of thirteen bone amulets, all of which were genuine magical items, and there were no imitations. After all, this was stolen by Mo Chen himself from the bank vault, not bought it on Pinduoduo.
And the most important thing is that there is no such thing as "contraception" in these bone talismans...... Subtle magical effects.
After all, strictly speaking, this type of magical effect is useful and useless, and useless if it is useless. If there really is this type of bone talisman, it is estimated that they will be taken away by collectors for their own use, or sold to those nobles who need it.
The ones left behind are the kind that the nobles can't use and can't look down on-
For example, it strengthens the ability of swordsmanship and fighting, and increases the speed of running with all your might...... These precious bone talismans are useless to the nobles.
How could they possibly need to run, or need to fight on their own, just like those inferior people? Therefore, the bone talisman with a powerful effect only has the value of collection for them, but it is the kind that the effect is subtle and can't be complained about......
is the most popular among the nobles.
Mo Chen has no intention of commenting on this kind of behavior, which can probably be regarded as a manifestation of "meat eaters"? But that's just right, distribution on demand, hello, hello, hello, everyone.
He just brought out all the bone talismans he had, which were the props needed for the next "performance".
The effect of the bone talisman is fixed, and he has already tested it during the day today, and the conclusion is that the magic effect of the bone talisman is not limited like a magic ability, whether it is acting on himself or on the outside world, it can be exerted.
Such a discovery finally made Mo Chen's mood a lot better.
It seems that the problem of retreating from the environment is not so serious, although his most important means are restricted, but the use of the magic power of the bone talisman can still make up for it to a certain extent.
Now, it's time to use these magic items to test your ideas.
"Here we are, guest."
In the night in the suburbs, under the sign of a road in the middle of nowhere, the taxi slowly stopped, and the driver turned around and said.
The middle-aged uncle looked at the young man in the back seat, wanted to speak and stopped, and after thinking for a while, he said slowly:
"Then again, did you make an appointment with someone? It's very remote, and sometimes there are some bad rumors...... It's better to be careful anyway. ”
"Well, don't worry, it's okay, it's okay to get here."
Mo Chen nodded, looked at the meter, and was about to take out his mobile phone to scan the code. But he didn't know what to think, and then he took back his phone, opened his wallet, and pulled out a brand new bill.
The taxi driver sighed, he just ran the business, he couldn't help the customer with ideas, and the advice was the limit, and the other party didn't listen to him.
It's just that it's dark and autumn, and there is no shop in front of the village here, so I just hope it's really okay.
The kind middle-aged uncle took the banknote, looked back at it with the help of the light on the dashboard, and then skillfully began to look for money. But at this time, he heard the sound of a car door coming from the back seat.
"Guest, please wait a minute, I haven't asked you for money yet."
“……”
“……”
"Guest?" Without any answer, the driver raised an eyebrow, and didn't care about looking for money, he looked up at the rearview mirror, and then looked back.
There was no one in the back seat, no one outside the car, no one everywhere.
He hurriedly got out of the car to check, walked around the taxi, and found that there was no one in front of him, left and right, as if in just two seconds, the young man disappeared into thin air as soon as he got out of the car.
There's no reason for this at all, where can he run to?! Bolt is good enough, but it takes about nine seconds to run out of a distance of 100 meters, and he is still the kind of sprint with all his strength.
Who can run away in two or three seconds without any movement to the point where they can't see people at all? The terrain around is so flat that there is no place to hide.
“……!!”
The taxi driver's face turned pale instantly, and some bad rumors came to his heart, making him feel that his scalp was about to explode, and he couldn't care about anything, so he hurriedly got in the car and started the taxi and turned his head, and ran away in a puff of smoke.
In the shadows next to the street sign, Mo Chen had been quietly watching the whole process, watching the taxi drive away quickly and crookedly at the beginning, and immediately nodded with great satisfaction.
He looked down at what he was holding, an index finger-sized bone talisman.
If you had to choose a name, it would probably be "sculptural", which would be appropriate.
Because the effect of this bone talisman is quite powerful-
As long as you are not fighting or making too big movements, then when you stand still, most people will subconsciously ignore you, even if you are standing in front of him.
The disadvantage is that you can't be noticed until the bone charm has taken effect, for example, if you are talking to someone and you stand still after speaking, it makes no sense that the person has already noticed you.
On the other hand, even if you are talking to someone at the beginning, but for some reason the other person does not continue to pay attention to you on the way, and you move to another place without being noticed, then the bone charm can be useful.
In short, if someone notices you at the beginning, and you don't need to "find" you in the rest of the process-
The bone charm is useless.
But if someone else notices you at the beginning, but then for some reason, can't pinpoint where you are, and needs to "find" you again—
The bone charm would disrupt his perception.