CHAPTER XXI
"Condense the magic into the wand. Hans said.
When Lin Juexiao heard this, he tried to channel those quiet magic powers to his right hand holding the wand.
The difference between channeling magic and channeling vindictive energy lies in the different objects. Fighting energy is active in the body, rushing forward with a little guidance, while magic is quiet in the body, and it takes a stronger mind to push it.
Therefore, the mental power of a magician is often much stronger than that of ordinary people and other professions, which is also the most basic requirement for becoming a magician.
Lin Juexiao has a foundation for using Dou Qi, and this process is completed quickly. Then he channeled his magic into his wand—like he poured fighting energy into a dagger.
But something different happened: the magic vanished as soon as the wand was introduced.
Lin Juexiao suddenly raised his wand in front of his eyes strangely, and tried again, he was sure that he had channeled magic power into his wand, but it disappeared.
Hans, of course, knew what was going on, and said with a slight smile: "Once the magic leaves the body, it becomes extremely active and easily dissipates and volatilizes. What should I do at this time?" he taught the adventurer, usually telling him the method directly, and then letting him practice it repeatedly, but at this time he wanted to guide the young man to think.
"Do you use mental power to control?" Lin Juexiao thought thoughtfully.
"Yes, you try again. Hans smiled and nodded.
So, while Lin Juexiao channeled the magic power into the wand, he strengthened the mental power, controlled the magic power that wanted to be scattered around, and tried his best to concentrate them in the wand.
"Now they're all in the wand. Lin Juexiao said happily.
"Well, in that case, why not try to condense them into the air at the end of the wand?" said Hans.
"I'll try. Lin Juexiao said, and after speaking, he closed his eyes.
He calmed down, fully focused, and pulled the mana out of his wand and condensed it into the air at the end—it was exhausting, and he had to work hard to keep it in the air and not dissipate.
Then he opened his eyes and saw a small cloud of light blue energy at the end of the wand, the size of a ping-pong ball, vaguely changing in size, very unstable, but real.
"Swing it out. Hans said.
Lin Juexiao was a little reluctant to give up this small glowing energy group that he had just created, but he still listened to Hans's words and waved forward-
The little ball of energy flew halfway through and suddenly disappeared.
Seeing this, Lin Juexiao said disappointedly: "This magic bullet is too useless. ”
"Hehehe-hehe-" Hans laughed, "you're a substandard magic bullet, a real magic bullet, it should be like this." ”
Hans said, and he didn't raise his wand, let alone wave it, and a light blue energy mass the size of a basketball appeared in front of him, and flew straight out, until it hit the protective shield that Hans had placed on this building, and then exploded, with great power.
In comparison, Lin Juexiao's magic bullet was like a balloon that had leaked air and accidentally flew out.
"Huh?" Lin Juexiaoqi said, "Why is it different from what I use?"
"Your spiritual power is not strong enough, your magic power is not condensed enough, and you are not proficient in the control of magic power. Hans laughed.
"Looks like you have to practice hard. Lin Juexiao muttered.
"It's good to be able to release the magic bullet for the first time. Hans applauded.
"Why did you just let the magic bullet fly out without waving your wand?" Lin Juexiao obviously noticed the details just now and asked.
"I used a magic bullet at the same time as a manipulation spell. Hans replied.
"Controlling magic ......" Lin Juexiao's eyes lit up and asked, "Can you teach me this?"
"Nope. Hans refused.
"Ah......" Lin Juexiao didn't expect the great magician Hans to refuse so simply, a very neat "no", not even perfunctory.
"I'll teach you new magic when you can unleash a qualified magic bullet, so practice hard until then. Hans smiled slightly.
"Oh well. Lin Juexiao said.
"One more thing, about magic. Hans said.
"The mana in the body automatically recovers, but very slowly. Meditation not only speeds up recovery, but also allows the total amount of mana to gradually increase, which is the foundation that a mage must master. ”
Lin Juexiao nodded and listened carefully.
Hans continued, "Just now, we were channeling magic outside of the body. Meditation is the absorption of the magic in the nature that surrounds us. This is the opposite process, you need to feel the tiny magic in the air with your heart, and use your spiritual power to direct them into your body - this is not like magic bullets that are easy to get started, you need to experience them slowly. ”
"Until then, you can first use the blue potion sold at the grocery store to restore mana, although this potion does not increase the total amount of mana, but it is effective when you need to restore mana for a short period of time, and there are no side effects. ”
"So, as long as the magician keeps drinking the blue potion, can't he keep releasing magic to fight?" Lin Juexiao asked.
"The blue potion only restores mana faster than meditation, and it is not enough to counteract the mana expended by releasing the magic, only a little support. Moreover, even if the magic power is unlimited, the mental power of the magician is limited. Hans explained.
"I see. Lin Juexiao said.
"Hmm. That's it for today, you should go find a place to rest. I don't need to teach you this, you're an adventurer. Hans smiled slightly.
Lin Juexiao laughed: "Okay, teacher." ”
When Hans heard Lin Juexiao call him a teacher, he was slightly stunned at first - the adventurers he taught did not call him a teacher, but they were all respectful "Great Magician Hans" and the like.
He is famous, his strength and knowledge have reached the realm of a master, and naturally he has disciples, but none of them are adventurers.
However, he liked Lin Juexiao's intelligence, so he gladly accepted this disciple. smiled slightly: "Go and prepare, otherwise it will be dark." In his words, he suddenly became a little more intimate and easy-going.
"Well, I'll see you tomorrow, teacher!"
When Lin Juexiao walked out of the magic library, the light in those magic jungles was much dimmer than before, and it seemed that it was already evening.
He asked a fairy with short blue hair on the road, "Where is the hotel?" - and the goblin said, "We don't have such a thing as a hotel, if you want to sleep, lie down in the hollow of the tree, no one will disturb you." With that, the elf flapped his wings and left.
Lin Juexiao did as the goblin said, wandering around looking for the tree hole. He looked left and right, admiring the surroundings of the Enchanted Forest.
There were small plants growing on branches everywhere in the Enchanted Jungle, and the one Lin Juexiao saw the most was an "ugly thing" about the length of a calf—they couldn't be classified into any one of the plants because they were so weird: their bodies were vines, and they had no leaves, just a slick vine-like body with coiled ends like a mosquito coil that was about to finish, but they didn't need to be attached to other objects, and they could stand upright like herbaceous plants on their own. Lin Juexiao flicked them, feeling a bit like dark green fake rubber.
The elves make rough frames of various shapes out of white rough stones, and then match them with vines, leaves, and wooden planks to create a unique shape, and then paint them with various colors such as red, blue, and yellow, and then they become the characteristic forest buildings of the Enchanted Jungle. In front of some of the houses, a platform was erected, surrounded by a silver parapet, like a small balcony. However, neither the elves nor the humans who live here seem to dry their clothes, nor do they know what they do with dirty clothes.
In many places along the branch path, you can see rope ladders made of branches and hemp rope. And in some places, it is about the laziness of the construction goblins: they only use a wooden block to nail it to the ground, and then put a hemp rope down for people to climb - it is easy to think that this is a little malice of some goblins towards humans.
As he walked and climbed, he looked enviously at the goblins that occasionally fluttered their wings and flew in the air, and suddenly it occurred to him that maybe there was magic that could fly. I can't help but be secretly excited.
He had always been free and casual, thinking that even if he couldn't find a place to live, it would be nothing if he fell to the ground and fell asleep. It is to look for it slowly, like a street parade, and there is no hurry.
When he came to a place where no one came and went, he found that at the end of the branch, there was a door-like hole in the trunk of a green tree, which could accommodate one person to enter and exit, and I thought it was the tree hole that the fairy said.
He walked to the hole in the tree and poked his head in to take a look: the space from the ground to the top was about three meters high, and the area was about the size of two beds. The ground is the heartwood of the tree trunk, flat and smooth, Lin Juexiao touched it with his fingers, and it was very clean. A closer look at the hollow reveals that there is no mold and very little dust, and it is no wonder that the short-haired fairy with blue hair would say that he sleeps in the hollow.
Lin Juexiao decided on the location and went to the grocery store to buy some daily necessities. At this time, he still had about two hundred gold coins on him, which he had exchanged for snail shells on Rainbow Island before, and he didn't know if he could buy them enough.
The grocery store in the Enchanted Jungle is also one with the trunk of the tree - as is everything in the buildings here. Next to the grocery store, a wooden board taller than a man is nailed to the ground, and a large potion bottle is drawn with green and white dye, representing the grocery store.
On the roof of the grocery store is a chubby glass container, bubbling that seems to be the device Teese called a potion maker. Above this, there was a spinning windmill behind which water was running and stored in a wooden box, which was carried to the house by a long iron pipe to supply water. Lin Juexiao was curious about these strange devices.
At this time, he happened to see a man in a dark purple robe, a dark purple wizard's hat with gold stripes, and a golden staff standing at the door of the grocery store. Lin Juexiao couldn't see his face clearly, only saw a lot of white hair that he exposed. Either way, this is a weird guy, and no one is going to provoke him.
Lin Juexiao asked him, "Hello, are you a magician?"
"I am Garnus. The man's voice was a little strange, and he didn't answer the question.
Fortunately, Lin Juexiao was not a normal person, and he said, "Hello, Garnus. Do you know what that windmill is for?"
Garnus didn't raise his head, and replied in a voice that seemed to be a mechanical stereo surround, "It's a device that absorbs moisture from the air and stores it in a wooden box as a water source, otherwise do you think that the magic jungle will not become moldy and rotten for no reason? Hmph, if you want me to say, they ¥#%@&!*......" The man suddenly began to speak something in a language that Lin Juexiao didn't understand.
Lin Juexiao interrupted him and said, "Thank you, Garnus. ”
The strange man was silent for a long time before he said, "You're welcome." It seems that he didn't know that Lin Juexiao had already walked into the grocery store.