Act III: The Aftermath of a Bad Dream (1)
In the past few days, Frick's vision hallucinations have shown no signs of improving, and perhaps he is glad that he did not appear worse than that night. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
In fact, this symptom of turning what appears in front of him into a distorted hallucination at any point has seriously affected his life - for example, when he organizes books, he sees the book in his hand as a living thing, and when he talks to someone, he realizes that the other person or the surrounding environment has become a distorted appearance.
Maybe at first, he would have been frightened by this unpredictable sudden transformation, and he was terrified to find something that would calm him down, but now, whether the person in front of him suddenly turned into a monster or the water he drank was as red and sticky as blood, he would not be shaken.
The power of habit is amazing, and these illusions are only images in one's own mind, not things that exist in fact. After all, it's just a fantasy thing, no matter how fierce the monster is, it won't really hurt him, so naturally he can deal with it calmly.
Fortunately, although this situation is unpredictable, the duration of each vision is quite short, and it is not enough for him to face hallucinations from morning to night. Perhaps the news of him becoming a mage pig had spread throughout the Great Library, so it was not surprising that some people would occasionally be stunned for a moment when they saw him in action.
Of those who looked at him with "sympathy", only Suval expressed his concern to him, but he was quickly taken away. The young man was about to become a full-fledged scrivener in a while, so he was busy sorting out the materials that needed to be submitted every day.
The only things that could express his condolences were a few small breads stuffed with sweet cream and a large piece of chocolate, as if he had heard that these things were helpful in alleviating the after-effects of the spell. Whether this is true or not, the sweetness mixed in food is more reassuring than a sorcerer's experimental potion.
After all, after he reported to Dr. William Coulter that he had adverse reactions, the sorcerer immediately showed a keen interest in these phenomena, asked him to list the specific conditions, and made him drink some special potions in the name of "regulating the flow of magic in his body".
He wasn't sure if the colorful potions actually worked, but at least they didn't make Flick's visual hallucinations worse. He also found that the time to hallucinate gradually became regular, and he was finally able to find a place to rest when he was about to hallucinate.
However, it was also in the past few days that he had more and more strange dreams when he slept at night, and almost every night he would see some strange and strange scenes. Some of the dreams resemble scenes from books experienced in William Coulter's lab, the contents of books that have been browsed somewhere in the past, and some dreams resemble visions that appeared when you walked into the Great Library, full of grotesque landscapes.
Interestingly, Frick was able to keep his mind clear in all these various dream situations, and was able to determine where he was almost as soon as the dream unfolded in front of him. And when the dream is about to dissipate, a silver door will silently appear in front of him, but it will not give him a chance to open.
The silver door must have been something important, but he couldn't be sure if it was something real or a metaphor for some kind of reality. In particular, every time he recalled the features of that door while awake, he was always disturbed by a headache that blocked his thinking.
In fact, he should have thought about it in the first place, when he told William Coulter about what happened to him, the magician had already explained that he had no way to cure Frick's anomaly now, but at least he could concoct some potions to make him less uncomfortable.
True, he said "at least", proving that his treatment was at best "better than nothing", and at the cost of physical discomfort. After drinking the sparkling liquid that the Wizard had poured from the cauldron, Frick might be more effective at combating the visual illusions, but he clearly felt a lack of strength in his limbs, and while it didn't interfere with his daily movements, he would soon be out of breath after strenuous exercise.
"Try not to do anything too physically demanding during this time, now my potion is using a part of your vitality to stabilize those chaotic magic, if you consume too much energy in a short period of time, it is likely that they will become less effective, and you will not even be able to suppress the symptoms of visual illusions. ”
Frick's vision was due to his ability to match the spell Dr. Kurt was experimenting with, and the incense had interfered with Frick's original magic, causing him to hallucinate—as the Wizard explained.
He believes that the ability to visualize is actually something that Frick was born with, but because it is so inconspicuous, it has never been manifested. The evidence of this is that he has often dreamed of some wonderful scenes in the past, and can maintain a high degree of thinking ability in dreams, which is proof of the quality of "dreaming".
Because Flick's magical qualities were not good, he did not have a systematic mage education and did not have the opportunity to develop innate abilities. And while using those "incense" to explore the dream world, the interfering magic stimulated the power in his body, and began to make him see those hallucinations.
William Coulter argues that Flick's recent visual hallucinations are not a bad thing, but rather that he has developed his latent abilities as a result. As long as it takes enough time for the body to get used to the change, then he will no longer be affected by the visual vision.
True or false - Flick didn't really believe the sorcerer's words, but just thought he was fooling himself with such specious words. Even if it was a chance dream in the past that proved that he had the quality to dream, he didn't remember seeing any similar hallucinations.
Simply telling Frick his reasoning, Dr. Kurt asked Frick to bring a few simple bottles of potion: "Come, take these, they will balance the magic in your body." If you suddenly feel weak and short of breath after doing nothing, drink one pill immediately, and if your visual hallucinations become severe, mix them with some alcoholic beverages. ”
This is the potion that he mixed with various alchemy materials after finishing his examination of Frick, and he didn't care about Frick's eyes, and threw the materials into the alchemy cauldron after basic processing. And in the process of blending, the pungent smell wafting from the cauldron keeps making people want to sneeze.
Frick watched as he poured a few chopped eclipse grass and silver flakes into it, often used in pick-me-ups, and sometimes to alleviate severe headaches and fatigue caused by excessive mana consumption. In addition to these, there are all kinds of powders and fragments that I can't understand what the ingredients are, and just looking at the amount of incomplete material, Flick really can't be sure what they are.
The liquids contained in the glass tubes still retain a considerable amount of heat, and their golden-red glow is reminiscent of magma surging deep in the leylines. Looking at these warm liquids, the coolness caused by the illusion also dissipated a little, giving people an inexplicable sense of reliability.
While Frick was intrigued by the golden red potion, William Kurt was silent about what he was made of.
"Let's take a break from the spell experiments on the book experience for the time being, it's still a bit dangerous to use incense when the magic is not stable. After watching Flick put the potion away, Dr. Coulter said, "You should come to me twice a day so that I can observe your symptoms and adjust your treatment plan - you know, the magic in your body is not static, and this is the best way to ensure efficiency." ”
William Coulter's research uses magic to convert the story into information and channel it into people's consciousness, so it is not surprising that the recipient will have a slight rejection reaction. And since it is the use of incense to guide people to experience the story of books in dreams, a scribe with the quality of dreaming is undoubtedly a very suitable spell receptor.
Perhaps the sorcerer was just trying to keep him involved in the experiment with this rhetoric, and if the symptoms of the vision were just one of the inevitable side effects of the spell, then there was no way to maximize the benefits of Flick's disincentive or premature consumption of the element.
If he wants to popularize the current immature technology, then minimizing the side effects as much as possible is a necessary step. The Wonder Potion that is now being experimented with on Frick will probably not officially start on the market until the spell experiment is declared successful.
"Okay, I see. ”
He nodded silently, then saluted William Coulter and prepared to leave his lab. But at this moment, the vision attacked him again, and although the mage in front of him did not change, the neat laboratory turned scarlet in a trance.
It was almost as if it was in the guts of some giant animal, and the slightly raised red flesh on the wall was still trembling restlessly. Even though he had seen many disgusting visions, the impact on him this time was too strong, and he immediately felt a churn in his stomach.
"Sierra Leone, what's wrong with you?"
Noticing that Frick's face had changed several times in just a few seconds, Dr. Coulter immediately stepped forward and stared into his eyes. He had apparently noticed another anomaly in Frick, but he wasn't sure what had happened in the scrivener's vision.
But the moment he grabbed Frick's hand, the vision vanished.