Chapter 1: The Book of Truth (2)
Carrying the gravitational acceleration that fell from a height of thousands of meters and the weight of a heavy metal book a foot square, it instantly pierced the skull of the demon wolf, and the corner of the book of truth touched the demon core, the source of magic power located in the demon wolf's brain, and instantly the main body shone brightly, absorbing all the energy of this fourth-order demon core that was worth a thousand gold in human society, turning into a point of light and dissipating.
After returning to the main material world of the unknown universe, the Book of Truth, which had been silent for many years, was replenished with energy for the first time, and some of the artifact functions were instantly restored.
It was found that there was a humanoid high-level intelligent creature with critically endangered life nearby, which should be the human race of this world, and it belonged to the most malleable adolescent stage, so he immediately extracted the soul mark of the creature, fused with the soul of the contractor, that is, the nominal owner of the artifact of the Book of Truth, and put it into the mind of the human.
After consuming most of the remaining power of the fourth-order demonic beast crystal nucleus, all the injuries on the target's body were repaired, and then the spirit of the artifact fell into silence again as the main body was thrown into the host's soul space.
Half an hour later, the soul and body were completely merged, and when he woke up from the darkness, Donald knew that he was no longer in his original world.
After some panic, Donald, who had fused the memories of his previous body owner, knew his environment and the dangerous situation, and under the pressure of survival, he quickly calmed down, and cautiously walked in the direction of the town for a long time before returning to his home in embarrassment.
His current identity is a seventeen-year-old aristocratic boy, but he is not the kind of nobleman who can spend money and run rampant.
As a down-and-out aristocrat from a disadvantaged family, the Merlinner family is currently left with only Donald, the only heir.
Although the Merlina family had the nobility of hereditary knighthood, it was only an honorary title, and the family's fiefdom was lost several generations ago, and the remaining property and manor were sold one after another. If it weren't for the fact that there were two mills and one product workshop at home, it would not be able to maintain the life of the nobility at all. It wasn't until soon after Donald was born that his father fell into the trap of the villain, and the last bit of dependence was also taken away, and his father, who had no wealth and status, could not bear the ridicule of the small nobles and wealthy merchant classes who were inferior to his own in the past, and died of a sudden illness.
Donald's fragile mother died a few years ago, and now the only thing Donald has is an old house in a civilian neighborhood and an old servant who is also lonely and poor but faithfully raised him.
Before the age of eighteen and adulthood, a noble heir like him could not obtain the status of a formal knight, if it was a wealthy aristocratic family with a domain and estates and other properties, it was fine, and without an official knighthood, at most he could be a local squire, and there was no hurry about it. But Donald's poor and white situation, with no territory and no background, if he can't obtain knighthood, then it is estimated that he will be deprived of his noble status and unable to inherit the knightly glory that their family has inherited for nearly three hundred years.
Once you lose your nobility, it's almost impossible to get it back. Without this identity, whether it is to join the army or get an errand under other nobles, such an opportunity will not appear, and it can be said that the future is dark!
However, his parents died early, he was an orphan, and because of the lack of tuition, he never entered the Kingdom Knight Academy to study, let alone have the opportunity to be sent to a nobleman to be a knight squire and receive formal aristocratic training.
In this way, the chance of passing the regular knight test is almost zero.
Thinking of this, Donald couldn't help but feel sad for the original owner of his body.
"I have been living like a commoner for several generations, and I still hold on to the aristocratic status as a superior person, and I can't open the pot at home. ”
"At least you can live a little more comfortably that way, and you don't have to slap your swollen face and become fat. ”
But it may be that the memory and character of the original owner are still playing tricks on Donald, and subconsciously, Donald is still very insistent on the glory of the nobility, so in the past few days, he has not let the only servant and butler who watched him grow up notice anything abnormal.
"But this kind of life will be gone forever with my arrival!"
At that time, Donald was secretly excited in his heart, because with the arrival of the new Donald, he was followed by a miracle treasure.
It was the culprit that caused him to cross, a magical book of truth that existed in his body and could change his fate.
The miraculous effects of this book of truth were discovered on the third day of his travel. When his physical condition was initially stabilized, Donald got up at night, and while old Kod was asleep, he went to the study alone to look for some books, hoping to learn more about the world.
After all, although the memories of the original body owner were absorbed by him, they were also relatively scattered, and he couldn't figure it out for a while. And how much does a seventeen-year-old boy who can't get an aristocratic education know about the world? So Donald, who has the thoughts of his past life, plans to be at peace when he comes, and wants to make some mental preparations in advance to pave the way for his future life.
When he turned on the lamp in the old study, he inadvertently touched the only valuable magic device in the house, the elemental crystal crystal filled in the magic crystal lamp.
Although this is only a tenth of the lowest level of blank crystals, that is, after the energy of the elemental crystals has been used, there are still defective products with low residual energy.
This blank crystal is generally used in this world for lighting or some small trick that requires little magic power, and is only used by ordinary people and the most strapped magic apprentices.
However, even this lowest-grade blank crystal is enough to cause a reaction from the Book of Truth, which is extremely energy-starved after repairing the host's body.
After absorbing the faint energy in the blank crystal and converting it into a weak divine power, the artifact spirit of the Book of Truth opened up the functions of the current artifact to Donald.
Looking at the pale golden metal book phantom in front of him, after opening it, you can see the dense summoning icons inside, Donald was surprised and delighted to find that those familiar images were the large-scale magical strategy games he was most keen on in his previous life, in the world of Warcraft, various characters, troops, construction units and other items.
At the same time, the Book of Truth responded to him, accepting the idea of the artifact spirit, and Donald quickly learned the usefulness of the patterns.
"It is possible to transform into divine power and soul imprints at the cost of energy and soul fragments, summon various creatures, items, and buildings set in Warcraft, and manifest them into the present world and become real existences. ”
"Can you really summon all the beings in the game?"
Along with the question in this surprise, Donald not only thought that if he could summon the bases, troops, and powerful heroes of the major races, and these beings would be in his own control and obey his command, then wouldn't he be able to easily dominate in this world? ?
However, seeing the cost of summoning high-level troops and powerful existences, Donald seemed to be poured a basin of cold water on his head, and he completely sobered up.
"Sure enough, don't think that there will be a return if you don't pay, the idea of looking at the sky and dropping pie is unacceptable!"
The summoning content in the Book of Truth is divided into four categories: normal minions, permanent minions, character skill exchanges, and summoning building units and items.
Normal minimons only need to consume some basic energy and a small amount of soul power, and the summoner's spiritual power can be used as a medium. The first thing that came to Donald's mind was the Warcraft Crystal Nucleus, an item that met these two conditions.
The Book of Truth also explains that the remaining soul imprints in the Monster Crystal Nucleus can make summoned creatures intelligent, but once the energy used by the summoned creatures in the crystal nucleus is exhausted, the summoned creatures will completely dissipate. As such, it can only be used as a material for normal summoning.
It can also continuously supply energy to maintain the existence of summoned creatures, but those huge consumption is probably difficult for the rich people of a large chamber of commerce to support for a long time, so it is better to use it at a critical moment.
Even the most useless critters and the most basic population peasant coolies of various races need to pay at least one first-order demonic beast crystal nucleus to be able to summon it, and it also has a time limit, after all, the remaining soul imprints are incomplete, and the energy of the crystal nucleus is also very limited, and after it is exhausted, the summoned creatures will disappear out of thin air.
There are also permanent summoning units, but although there is no limit to the number of people, if you want to create a permanent creature, you must prepare extremely precious soul power to be able to summon it successfully. As for the source of soul power, the magic core produced by the lower intelligent beings cannot be replaced, and Donald has no clue about this for the time being, so he may not be able to do it for a long time. To be able to touch the soul level, at this time, you need to be at least a special profession above the middle level to be possible.
Other inanimate buildings and items require elemental crystals and all similar energy crystals to summon, summoning items that can exist without a time limit because they are a conversion of energy and matter, but the cost is still not small.
What Donald values most is the last character skill exchange. With the improvement of the contract master's own strength, according to the division of the world's strength level, each time you reach a level authority, you can exchange the energy crystals that meet the current level for the seeds of the character's own skills in any summoning list, whether it is a hero of a race, a troop, or other wild creatures.
Of course, most of the magic and summoned creature skills are excepted, because the divine power comes from the gods, and the gods in the Book of Truth from the history of Warcraft are all virtual, and before they are summoned, they cannot replace the real gods to give mortal divine skills, and the summoned creatures are also virtual existences, and if you don't have enough soul power and life force, you need to pay a great price to create a life existence out of thin air.
All existences in the world, whether matter matter or energy, must follow certain laws to transform each other, and without the existence of the Book of Truth, which is almost like the Creator, unless you comprehend the laws of creation, you cannot create life out of thin air. Even with an artifact like the Book of Truth, creating life comes at a great cost.
This is the setting for the Book of Truth to collect the rules and information of this world.
Mages need the Monster Crystal Nucleus and Elemental Crystal to absorb the energy in them for their own use, whether it is casting spells, crafting equipment, or arranging magic circles, these are all indispensable. Both are basically non-renewable resources, but also important strategic reserves, and mainland countries are very strict in regulating their transportation and sales. As a result, the price has always been high.
One standard square is the universal unit of volume in this world, and only the size of an inch square, which is the lowest level of blank crystals of this size, also requires at least three silver moons to buy. That's the equivalent of two months' income for a civilian family.
On the other hand, the lower elemental hedron that is higher than the Blank Crystal will cost at least five gold soles.
As for the Warcraft crystal nucleus, the low-level crystal nucleus is generally cheap, and the lowest grade gold sol can buy a few. However, if calculated according to the actual volume, the price of a low-grade Warcraft crystal nucleus of the same volume is lower than that of a low-grade elemental crystal.
The reason why the low-level elemental crystals are more popular than the low-level Warcraft crystal nuclei is because the remaining Warcraft soul fragments in the Warcraft crystal nucleus are an impurity for mages, because of the influence of soul power, the effect of using them is worse than that of the elemental crystals condensed by pure elemental energy.
The middle and high-level Warcraft crystal nucleus is just the opposite, the higher the level of the Warcraft that reached a certain strength during life, the stronger the soul power in the crystal nucleus left after death, such a Warcraft crystal nucleus as the core of the spell-casting equipment, will give the equipment more spirituality, so that the value of the mid-to-high-level Warcraft crystal nucleus is higher than that of pure elemental crystals.
One gold sol is equal to ten silver moons, and one silver moon can be exchanged for a hundred of the lowest copper slots, and these three are the most common currencies in this world, according to Donald's understanding from previous lives, that is, gold, silver, and copper coins.
For the Merlinna family, who lacked financial resources and only relied on the half-acre of land in the backyard of the old servant Code, they could not even get three silver months now, unless they sold the last bit of value in the family.
In other words, he couldn't even afford the lowest-level Warcraft crystal nucleus, and the energy contained in the blank crystal that he could afford was too low to be useful, so Donald had been unable to verify whether the magical ability of the Book of Truth was real, so he had the idea of hunting Warcraft in the Green Cloak Forest not far from the town again.