Chapter Twenty-Five: The First Magic
Since he had successfully meditated and sensed the "starry sky" during the apprenticeship stage, Lucien immediately suppressed all kinds of doubts and began to find his own "destiny star" according to the astrological meditation method.
The starry sky is vast, boundless, dotted with stars, endless, but after blending the soul and spiritual power and extending out, Lucien quickly sensed a familiar taste from the countless stars, a taste that belongs to him, so Lucien fluctuated his spiritual power and slowly moved closer to the still faint star.
I don't know how long it took, the spiritual power that blended with the soul feeling finally touched the seemingly illusory star, and then Lucien fused and connected the spiritual power with the star little by little according to the meditation method.
Suddenly, Lucian's spiritual power swayed violently like a string being struck, causing his soul to begin to vibrate.
Knowing that this was a necessary process and a critical moment, Lucien kept extending the rest of his spiritual power out of the ground, stabilizing the line of spiritual force that fluctuated so much that it was almost broken.
This spiritual line was gradually dyed with a layer of brilliant starlight, and slowly stabilized, and Lucien's soul was shocked, and there was a reflection of a star in it.
Greedily absorbing the "star" power from the thin star-like spiritual power to refine the soul and spiritual power, Lucien immersed himself in the astrological meditation method, until the soul developed a feeling of fullness, and then stopped, and switched to the elemental meditation method.
This time, Lucien did not use the power of the surrounding "earth, fire, wind, and water" to temper his soul and spiritual power, but only enhanced the spiritual power and the sense of "elements" through meditation, the stronger this induction, the faster he can cast elemental magic in the future, even if it is a magic that has built a seal model, it can shorten some magic buffer periods.
When Lucien felt a kind of exhaustion from the depths of his soul, he finished his first meditation and opened his eyes, and his deep black pupils were filled with excitement and joy.
"Even in a normal state, I can sense the reflection of the main star of destiny in my soul, and if I concentrate, I can even vaguely sense that in the distant sky, there is a star that has a mysterious and inexplicable connection with me, and I can borrow a tiny point of its power, and that spiritual force line seems to not exist, in another time and space. ”
Lucien thought happily, but soon, he noticed something strange, "Wait, I came back in time, why is there my 'Destiny Main Star' in this world? According to the theory of astrology, if Lucien died in the past, his Destiny Main Star would dim, slip, or disappear, and that familiar feeling just now was indeed the smell of my summer breeze, why did this happen? What is the reason?"
Unable to think of an explanation, Lucien could only put his doubts aside for the time being.
At the same time, through this meditation and after thoroughly interpreting the witch's magic notes, Lucien understood that if he wanted to feel the mental power of others, he had to use the corresponding magic, unless it was not long after the breakthrough and the mental power was still unstable, it could be directly discovered, and Benjamin should have judged that his mental power was slightly higher than normal by hearing the crying, not that the magic trap left by the witch he said was specifically aimed at a few people.
Of course, there is also a corresponding magic to restrain or hide the mental power.
After a short break, an excited Lucien opened the witch's magic notes, ready to see what apprentice-level informal magic he could currently learn.
With the "Destiny Main Star", Lucien can already learn the only three apprentice-level magic in astrological magic, which was learned by the witch after becoming a high-level magic apprentice, in the apprentice-level magic, it is a very powerful type, but due to the lack of mental power, the effect of Lucian's use will be worse, and after two or three uses, the mental power will dry up.
The division of magic apprentices is based on how much apprentice-level informal magic can be used by mental power from a perfect state to a dry state, with five apprenticeships, ten formal ones, and twenty high-level ones, that is to say, Lucien can only use five apprentice-level magic in a row at a time, and if he wants to use it again, he must rest or take magic potions to restore his mental power, while using apprentice-level magic in the astral system, Lucien is likely to only be able to use three in a row.
The three astrological apprentice spells are: "Elementary Astrology", "Starry Eye", and "Runaway Ring".
According to the witch, even if it is a beginner, it also requires a lot of knowledge, such as the laws of the movement of some stars, how to properly choose other stars with the main star of destiny when divination, etc., it is very complicated, it took her a few years to barely be able to use it, but due to insufficient knowledge, the results of astrology are basically inaccurate.
And in Lucian's eyes, the most troublesome thing about elementary astrology is that it needs a magic crystal ball made of pure and immaculate and rare morning crystals to assist, and he doesn't know where to find it, after all, there is only one witch family that has been passed down from generation to generation, but unfortunately she is carried with her and taken away by the church.
On the contrary, the witch found it complicated and troublesome, and it was difficult to learn the basic astrology-related knowledge, but Lucien found it easier, and a large part of it was the chaotic description of celestial mechanics at the high school level, and the hand-drawn astrological charts from memory.
Of course, in the choice of the main star and the stars, Lucien has to learn slowly, because this is the part of his knowledge that he can't understand, just like not understanding what stars will represent fate.
However, the thought that he would perform astrology with a magic crystal ball in the future gave Lucien a subtle feeling that would make him feel even more like an evil magician if he wore a black magic robe with a pullover.
The "Starry Eye" is similar to hypnosis, as well as trance-like magic, which requires the other party to look at their pupils, and they don't know what the Dao will be divided into the star system.
In Lucian's view, the "Runaway Ring" borrows the gravitational pull of the stars to form a three-dimensional ring about 20 centimeters thick that can manipulate the gravitational force to change slightly, and is mainly used for defense.
After a short break, Lucien decides to learn the first magic of his life, aiming for the "Runaway Ring".
This is due to the fact that the Eye of the Stars requires the casting ingredient "Nightstar Grass" powder to be combined, and other elemental apprentice-level informal magic is similar to the same, such as "Frost Ray" requires "Frost Stone" powder, "Acid Splash" requires "Brimstone", and so on.
Currently, there are very few spells that don't require casting materials, and it's basically the magic of other factions, such as the mage's hand of the change system.
Although Lucien can also learn the magic of other factions, he is an apprentice who has two types of magic, astrology and elemental, so it is relatively easy to learn these two factions of magic.
Following the spell-casting training recorded in the witch's magic notes, Lucien focused his mind, sensing the star in the night sky and the almost imperceptible force that hung down through the "Destiny Star" in his soul, and then whispered a spell, awkward and strange.
This time, after Lucien recited the incantation, he clearly sensed that as his voice vibrate, his spiritual power fluctuated, and there was a wonderful change, which began to combine with the gravitational pull of the star.
So Lucien hurriedly changed his spiritual power according to the shape of the simple rune of the "Runaway Ring".
Unfortunately, due to his unskillfulness, before Lucien could transform the rune, the combination of spiritual power and the gravitational force of the stars was terminated, and the spell cast failed.
After two breaks to regain his mental strength, Lucien finally succeeded in transforming the rune pattern after failing five times.
An invisible, faint light under the will of Lucien, successfully appeared on the wooden table of the repaired man, putting the candlestick within the range of magic.
With Lucien's manipulation, the flames on the candlesticks suddenly pressed low and suddenly sprang up, reflecting the hut in varying light and shade, creating an eerie and terrifying feeling, and it was not until two minutes later that the flames returned to normal.
Lucien clasped his hands together and pondered: "The range of gravitational changes is too small, which can only make the attacker have the feeling that the weapon is out of control, and the weight is uncertain, and it is not possible to make the weapon fall to the ground at once, or fly into the air, it is really only apprentice-level magic, and you have to cooperate with yourself to dodge to defend." ”
"And the casting time is too long, it took five seconds, but after becoming proficient, it should be able to compress to about three seconds. ”
"Anyway, this is the first magic I'll ever have. Lucien didn't expect that he would be able to learn the "Runaway Ring" so quickly, when the witch was learning this magic, it took a full month, so she was quite happy, "According to the witch's own records, she couldn't understand what 'star power' can cause the disorder of the earth element, so she couldn't analyze the structure of this magic in a short period of time, so she relied on practice over and over again, forcibly analyzed it, and accepted the fact of the effect, and I am just the opposite, it seems that in this world, sometimes, knowledge is equal to power." ”
While being happy, Lucien carefully recalled the process of casting the spell just now, looking for a way to shorten the casting time: "The effect of the spell seems to be to produce a specific frequency, so that the spiritual power vibrates, if I control the mental power to vibrate like this at the beginning, I don't know if the path will work? If it is successful, you can save the time for reciting the spell and control the casting time to about two seconds, but in this way, it seems that the requirements for mental power control are higher." ”
With an idea, Lucien practiced the "Runaway Ring" again, resting and practicing and repeating constantly, I don't know how many times, when Lucian felt that the short rest was no longer able to recover his mental power, the casting time of the "Runaway Ring" had been reduced to more than three seconds, and roughly recorded the specific frequency of this spell.
"Experiment with a spellless spell casting tomorrow morning, and then go buy some common, unsuspecting spellcasting materials and magic potion materials. Before falling into a deep sleep, Lucien was dazed and thought that for a magician, magical experiments were indispensable because they could help analyze the structure of spells, become proficient in magic, etc., even if the future path was not that of an alchemist.