Chapter 7: Meditation
"Meditation is the most basic and important ability of being a mage. A year passed quietly, and I don't know if it was the impact of physical improvement, Liu Li's language learning was very smooth, and her efficiency made Wells have to be amazed. And today, a year later, is the beginning of Liu Li's formal contact with the mysterious realm of magic.
Liu Li, who has passed his thirtieth birthday, has not even reached the standard of adulthood in this world, and he really doesn't know what to say about the world where the average life expectancy of ordinary people can reach more than 200 years. I don't know if it is the effect of "following the local customs" after crossing over or the effect of improving physical fitness, Liu Li can indeed clearly feel that the physical function has slowed down in terms of "aging".
"The purpose of the caster's meditation is familiarity with the free elements. It's like the 'novels' that you read when you were on Earth, the ultimate goal is to store the free elements in the body, so that your body can get used to the elements. However, I don't know what the specific situation is in other worlds, and there doesn't seem to be such a thing as a magical element in your world, but in Ode, absorbing magical elements is not an active process. As the body becomes more and more familiar with the elements, the elements that suit you will naturally integrate into your body, a process that ordinary people cannot adjust, and for more detailed control of their own bodies, mages cannot compare with martial artists anyway. The penetration and erosion of the elements on the body will cause more or less damage to the body, which is also the reason why the caster's body is usually weaker than the martial artist. However, in you, this pattern has been broken, and I have to say that your body that can even recover to the level of 'resurrection from the dead' is really very suitable for 'dual cultivation of law and martial arts'. Speaking of this, Wells was a little distracted, as if he had thought of some familiar person.
"This is a concept that my teacher once proposed, and although I am now ahead of him, many of his ideas still influence me today. He is not only a spellcaster, but also one of the most famous monster scholars. You know, the reason why Warcraft are called 'Demon' is because they can use the power of the elements. Whether it's through instinct or through wisdom. And the physical strength of Warcraft is much stronger than that of humans and other humanoid races. ”
After listening to Wells's words, Liu Li was also thinking quietly and did not make a decision immediately. Although in this world, his thirty-year-old age is only equivalent to the juvenile stage in the life of ordinary people, but after all, he has traveled through time, his mind has matured, and he still understands the truth that he must pay accordingly if he wants to get something. The dual cultivation of law and martial arts does sound beautiful, but it also means that ordinary people must pay double or even more sweat. It's not that I don't have the determination to persevere, but time is fair for everyone, and if you are distracted, you don't know what the final result will be. But if you really give up such an opportunity, you are destined to be unwilling.
"Teacher, I've decided, 'Double Cultivation of Law and Martial Arts'. In the end, the yearning in my heart overcame the worry about the future, since I have such a talent, I don't try to fight, it's really sorry for myself.
"Very good, I can't help you too much in terms of martial arts, but the strength of the commander of the city guard army is reasonable, I have already greeted him, and I will get up early tomorrow to report for duty." Wells was also prepared, after all, the two of them had been together for a year, and he could basically guess Liu Li's choice. "As for how magic and martial arts are combined, my teacher left a handbook, you can take it after today's study. Now, before I teach you meditation, I'll tell you in detail about the classification of our casters. ”
With Wells' description, Liu Li also has a more comprehensive understanding of the concept of a spellcaster in this world. Spellcasters are divided into three branches: manipulation, spell holding, and prayer.
Spell operators are known for their multiplicity of spells, and in the thousands of years of history of this world, spells are not static, and the research and development of new spells is basically done by spell operators. They have a wide variety of spells at their disposal, and they will respond with the most appropriate spells for each situation.
And the spell bearers are the group of people who are most familiar with spells. They will simplify the process of events and lengthy spells. Spell Burst is not out of reach for them, and they have far an advantage over other casters when dealing with unexpected situations.
Invokers are a group of people who are obsessed with the basics, and in their concept, all spells are inseparable from the basic elements. By increasing their mastery of the elements, they can always play different tricks with the same spell in their hands.
There is actually no obvious boundary between the three types of spellcasters, and the purpose of Wells's narration is not to let Liu Li make a choice, but to let Liu Li figure out for himself which direction to focus on in the process of spell learning. Wells himself is a field that is biased towards manipulation, but this direction is not necessarily suitable for Liu Li's character. Each responsible tutor will make these clear before instructing the students, allowing them to make their own choices.
After a day of studying, Liu Li, who returned to his room, settled down and prepared to start his first meditation. Abandon the distractions in your mind and think about the choices you can't make.
The first meditation is the most important moment in a caster's life. In the initial meditation, the caster's affinity for different kinds of elements is also reflected in the meditation. Suppressing the apprehension and expectation in her heart, Liu Li naturally entered a state of omniscience, and the colorful world once again appeared in front of her.
According to Wells's instructions, the perception of the outside world will gradually become sluggish during meditation, and then the meditation space of one's own will unfold in the perception. A chaotic void gradually takes over every corner of consciousness, and then the elements that the caster is comfortable with gradually fill the space with their own colors. But Liu Li, who meditated deeply, was surprised to find that her meditation space was not empty as Wells said. The crystal blue that floats in the meditation space and occupies the most central position pulsates like a heart. He knew what it was, and although a year had passed, how could he have forgotten the culprit that had caused him to cross.
The meditation space that was supposed to gradually stabilize with the enrichment of the elements had already been formed before Liu Li had even come into contact with the spell, even when he had just crossed over. And at this moment, as Liu Li's first meditation began, the diffuse magical elements poured into the meditation space at an astonishing speed. Liu Li, who was immersed in meditation, didn't know how much movement she had caused.
Wells in the study watched in amazement as the magic elements around him gathered towards the mage tower, and then flowed to Liu Li's room through the runes inscribed in the mage tower. The raging elements even created storm tides, giving the entire mage tower an intense glow in the dark night.
Liu Li is not feeling well at the moment, the person in deep meditation should have lost all perception of the outside world, but he can feel a severe headache accompanied by bursts of dizziness, but he can't pass out. The whole brain is like a boil, absorbing the free elements around it. Around the pulsating blue of the meditation space, the colorful elements gradually turn from mist to water droplets, and then condense into crystals to cover them. The five colors of red, green, white, blue, and black are gathered together, but they become crystal clear and colorless, and a halo of color is diffused under the reflection of the blue that shines inside. Just when the elemental crystals finally filled the entire meditation space, Liu Li finally got his wish...... Loss of consciousness.
Although the meditation space had been filled with elemental crystals, the blue in the center seemed to shine even brighter. The elemental crystallization in Liu Li's obvious space is not a pure whole, but similar to countless crystal clusters, the only thing is that it is like a crystal cluster growing in all directions, and there is no gap between them. In this way, the crystals in the entire meditation space are filled with nodes one after another, and with the blue pulsation in the center, extremely fine blue light spreads out along each node, as if blood fills the blood vessels with the beating of the heart.
Even if Wells reacted quickly, he was caught a little off guard by the surprise that appeared now. The Mage Tower already had the effect of gathering the elements, but the elemental tide like a storm just now caused a burden on the runes and elemental passages inscribed in the tower to exceed the upper limit. He is indeed a fifth-order mage, and he is also a well-known figure on the entire continent, and the reason why he is a teacher is that he also has a good understanding of the various demonic beasts on the continent. But he didn't have much research on runes, and the Mage Tower wasn't entirely his private property. "I'm going to bleed profusely...... Thinking about the precious magical beast materials that he had painstakingly collected, he didn't know how many of them would fly into the pockets of those inscription masters like wings. ”
Walking into Liu Li's room, looking at the surrounding furnishings like a typhoon passing through, only the two-meter range around this student was safe and sound, and I couldn't help but have another headache. Fortunately, after checking Liu Li's state, he found that he was just asleep, and there was no damage on his body, but his physique had improved a little, and he couldn't help but settle down. It's rare to accept a baby student, as long as he doesn't have any accidents, everything else is easy to say. What surprised Wells even more was that the scattered elements around him were slowly but surely converging towards Liu Li's body, as if his whole person was in a meditative state all the time.
"I don't know if it's good or bad...... Forget it, let's give him a closer look tomorrow. Letting go of his worries about the students, Wells didn't stay here either. After all, there are still many things to be solved, the most important of which is, of course, the restoration of the Mage Tower.