Act VII: The Raven's Decision (8)
The usurpation of control of the technique went well, or rather, it was so smooth that it almost made Uls Leinster suspicious. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
He didn't face any decent resistance after manipulating the mana deep into the core area, and the remaining thoughts of the mages that had been left to protect the core Rubik's Cube before they dissipated were torn apart before they barely lasted a minute, revealing the part of the spell that controlled the spell.
This is indeed an extremely advanced and complex spell, and even Urs Leenster, who has seen many types of esoteric spells, cannot help but sigh that the mages who put it into practice are talented people he has never seen before. They succeeded in merging a number of incompatible techniques into a wonderful system, and finally created this phenomenon of "natural disaster" based on its erosive properties.
However, it is still too far from complete.
From the structure of the core Rubik's cube that he controlled, it can be seen that this spell still has traces of continuous repair, which is undoubtedly the hypothesis put forward by the mages during their research and the correction plan that they thought of after discovering the problem. The spell, which was still being experimented, was not yet one-tenth as powerful as expected, and it required a lot of mana to maintain and strengthen it, so it left far more traces of repair than he had originally expected.
Rush - even if Urs Leinster was only a third-rate wizard, he would not hesitate to come to such a conclusion when he saw someone put such an imperfect spell into use on the battlefield. While this spell capable of creating a "natural scourge" is powerful and powerful, it is fraught with uncertainty when used, and in the worst possible it can even drain the caster's life.
From these traces, it is clear that a spell is gradually perfected from the original idea to a practical strength, and this is often the most important part of the mage who disassembles it in reverse. It was only when the sorcerers who used their lives as the fuel for their spells brought these "fruits" to him that he realized that the spell was far from being developed to the point where it could be put into use.
He didn't know why these sorcerers would put a technology that was far from practical enough to be put into the battlefield, but it turned out that they failed because they lost control of it. Even using one's own life as fuel is not enough to drive this frighteningly large phenomenon.
In fact, Urs Leinster had already discovered when he was peeling back the cocoon of the structure of the spell that there was indeed a handful of heterogeneous magic of unknown origin mixed in the Rubik's Cube at the very core. Obviously, this spell is not just a mimic of the image of Calamity, and in order to simulate the same dangerous nature as much as possible, the person who designed this spell has even mixed some of the fragments that originally belonged to the "Scourge Designation" into the protocore of the spell.
Urs couldn't say exactly what their organization had cost to get their hands on this paltry fragment of magic, but the protocores that were the basis of the spell had clearly begun to decay. Maybe it did come from the Scourge designation, but that alone wasn't enough to pull off the massive spell.
The other party obviously knew that it was just a delusion to develop a spell phenomenon that could match the Scourge designation with a few samples wrapped in the core, so they also put great effort into constructing the Rubik's Cubes and spells. But I don't know if it's because the goal pursued is too far away, or because there is a fatal flaw in the algorithm of the orchestration, and in the end it can only get such a tragic result.
They must have taken many different countermeasures in the course of each experiment, and even if the "samples" they collected were originally sufficient to support the spell, they were worn away to the point of almost collapse at the touch of a button in the continuous experiments. In order to make up for this seemingly "insignificant" loss, the mages tried almost everything they could think of, and in the end they only made the previous wave.
Presumably, the researchers also know that what they have made is far from the real "natural disaster designation", so the next development is almost a matter of course. After numerous attempts, the heterogeneous beings made with several conflicting magical powers are the result of their current stage.
Unfortunately, this research will end here, and the more he learns about this spell, the more Urs Leinster feels that it is a dangerous technology that should not exist in this world. The idea of creating spells that are as powerful as the "Scourge Designation" is something that all researchers can understand just by hearing the proposal, but most of them tend to stop after learning how terrifying the ensuing disaster is.
Sorcerers are researchers, so in the past, many people only focused on the development of technology and theory, and did not care about what was developed and what was used for it. In the past, many spell products were made in this context, and while more than half of them were enough to be called epoch-making new technologies, they almost invariably became murder weapons, hunting the lives of different species on the battlefield.
The history of all intelligent species can be written as a history of war, and the so-called "peace" is nothing more than a gap in the preparation for the next war. When a new technology is developed by a force on its own and has not yet been learned, it will undoubtedly become one of their advantages on the battlefield.
If your enemies already have the tools to destroy you, will you surrender or give yourself a weapon to match them?, at least in terms of results, the vast majority of the world's undestroyed nations have chosen the latter, and the spells on the battlefield have evolved.
This is perhaps already a ridiculous fact...... Although almost no one laughs out loud about it. Not only do sorcerers create weapons that can be called natural disasters, but they also go to the front of politicians and force them to give their country a share of the first - often in the thousands.
As a result, the almost never-ending war became one of the fundamental forces driving the progress of magic, and many mages would not stop even knowing that their research would kill tens of thousands of people, and some of them were like the wreckage of the spells that had fallen into the susceptibility of the magic.
A well-known sorcerer once said that their lives were spent in search of knowledge, and if they ended up in the search for truth, there was nothing to regret. It is likely that these mages are acting on this belief, and it is not incomprehensible that these sorcerers would be able to burn themselves to make the spell more complete when the spell began to spiral out of control.
As a sorcerer, Urs Leinster naturally had a similar attachment to some of his spells—though not to the extent of giving him his whole life—weaving a spell like an artist would do with his own work, painstakingly trying to make it his life's work.
But no matter how obsessed Urs Leinster was with the study of magic, he would not treat his own life and that of his mages as expendables like those men. It's not that he still has any moral respect in his mind that must be followed, but he simply thinks that it is not worth it - after all, each of these mages who have joined the Raven Society has been studying in different fields for many years, and losing even one of them would be a huge loss.
Using a mage who must spend a lot of manpower and material resources to train like a consumable is no longer a "luxury" that can be described as "extravagant". Even if we only consider it purely from the aspect of consumption and talent training, I am afraid that even if we take the country as a unit, there is no way to compete with them in a war of attrition.
What haunts Urs Leinster even more is the consciousness of the enemy in battle, who is not afraid of death, and especially shows remarkable calmness and consciousness when "self-defeating". Even his servants who were willing to sacrifice for him were largely loyal to him, and they would not easily act on the premise of their own death in battle.
He has seen all kinds of enemies in the past few decades, but he is the only one who can not take his life seriously. Although he already knew that they were a difficult organization, he still felt that he couldn't figure out the details of them every time he fought each other.
Most of this victory was due to luck, and if the opponent could use about a third of the power of the spell as expected, then he would most likely have to flee in disgrace - otherwise he would only become the bait of the Scourge like the surrounding vegetation.
But at least now he can breathe a sigh of relief, the analysis of the Rubik's Cube has been completed, except for a few spells with reference value, the vast majority of this spell is extremely risky, and many areas will begin to eat away at the caster's vitality just by maintaining their operation.
After thinking about it for a few seconds, Urs Leinster immediately decided to abandon the spell, not even planning to continue the exploration according to the results of the other party's research. Perhaps its catastrophic power did have some value, but he was sure that following the path revealed by the enemy would only lead to ruin.
He looked at the molded natural disasters that were gradually disintegrating into the most basic mana as the Rubik's cube disintegrated little by little, and those cloudy mana were far from enough to restore the damage they caused, and even possibly polluted the surrounding environment. It was only then that Sir Leinster finally breathed a sigh of relief, at least within acceptable losses, and the match was still within his calculations.
It's a pity that at this moment, the last step of the calculation suddenly detached from his conception.