"Fourth-Order Soul Spell 'Trace Brand':

"Leave a spiritual power imprint on the target, the caster can sense the direction of the imprint at any time, and the sensing distance is related to the caster's mental power strength."

A hint of the Book of All-Knowing Books popped into his mind, and Nolan's footsteps paused.

He suddenly turned his head, and the figure of the middle-aged man in the green robe had disappeared at the end of the corridor.

"Nolan?" Yuna noticed his strangeness and asked suspiciously.

"Who was that guy just now?" Nolan's face was a little ugly.

Walking on the road was marked by someone, don't think about it, the middle-aged man in the green robe definitely approached him deliberately with malice.

It reminded him of a bad past, and in his memory, this was the second time that the All-Knowing Book had helped him remind others of his plots.

The last time, when Rasti tried to put poison in his soup, he decoded the recipe for the poison from the soup.

And this time, the ...... analyzed Is it a soul spell?

Soul spells differ from traditional elemental spells in that they do not create elemental fluctuations during casting, making them more stealthy.

If an ordinary transcendent has not been exposed to soul spells, it is difficult to detect the movement of their spells.

Just like just now, even though there were two seventh-order knights, one sixth-order knight, and a mage guarding them, they didn't realize that they had been stalked by the blue-robed middle-aged man.

"I don't know." Julius shook his head, "If you can come in and out of here, you can also have status, if you care, you can ask Lord Bach or Mr. Alander tomorrow......

"What's the matter, you don't look good?"

Nolan stood still, his mind flashing through his mind.

His first choice was to immediately catch up with the middle-aged man in the green robe, and then arrest him to confront Bach.

Someone has been marked in the house of Flamael, and you, as the master, will not give me an explanation? How can I rest assured that I will cooperate with you?

But this approach is too coercive, and it is not sure which force sent this middle-aged man in the green robe.

Linfeng City was just an inconspicuous border city in the Roland Empire, and he didn't remember any enemies in Linfeng City.

So, think about it from another angle...... Is it possible for Flamel to steal from the guard?

Even at the dinner, Bach expressed a certain sincerity to himself, but for those in power, it is too normal to look like a thing.

Don't look at what he says, look at what he does.

Even if Alander and Herro genuinely wanted to cooperate with him, the final decision-maker was Bach, and he did not know Bach's true attitude towards him.

If that middle-aged man in a green robe was an assassin sent by Bach to test him, what should he do?

Wouldn't he arrest a middle-aged man in a green robe and confront him, wouldn't he throw himself into a trap and startle the snake?

What's more, if you chase it out now, whether you can catch the middle-aged man in the green robe is still two words.

Soul Mage...... This was the first time he had encountered this type of opponent, and seeing that everyone present was unaware, they should have no experience in dealing with him.

If you make a rash move, I'm afraid you won't get much benefit.

"Be careful, keep your spirits up." Nolan said in a deep voice, "I'm afraid this journey won't be so smooth. ”

He couldn't explain to everyone how he noticed something was wrong, so he could only give this vague reminder for the time being.

Although Julius and the others didn't understand what had just happened, they also nodded their heads when they saw his serious appearance.

When he got back to his room, Nolan immediately rechecked every corner.

Fortunately, the Book of Omniscience did not scan for anomalous supernatural powers, proving that the blue-robed middle-aged man had not done anything in his room at least.

"So, what do you do with this tracking brand?"

He walked into the bathroom and closed the door, looked at himself in front of the mirror, and frowned in thought.

The Tracking Brand is a soul spell that has no shape and is invisible to the naked eye, and can penetrate clothing to hit the target's body, which is equivalent to directly locking onto the main body.

Unless waiting until the brand's mental power is depleted, or if it is too far away from the caster, the caster can always obtain the target's specific location.

However, soul spells are better at stealth, and the target often unknowingly falls into the caster's trap.

And as long as you know that you have been stricken, a fourth-order spell, it is actually not so difficult to solve.

Some purification spells and special alchemy potions can remove the trace brand, so Nolan is not worried about this.

What he was thinking about was whether he needed to remove the tracking brand right away.

The blue-robed middle-aged man swaggered in front of him with the fact that he was a rare soul mage, indicating that he had full confidence in his own strength.

The opponent is careless, which is actually a good thing for himself.

Once the brand is cleared, the middle-aged man in the green robe will definitely be aware of it, so he will be vigilant, and the next shot will definitely be more difficult.

Since there will be a war sooner or later, it is better to plan and deliberately sell him a flaw, and in turn let him fall into his trap......

In this trap, he is the bait that lures the enemy into appearing.

Of course, there is also a question of whether you can withstand the opponent's first round of attacks.

If you are killed by the opponent at the beginning, any countermeasures are meaningless.

This is the sorrow of an alchemist, no matter how talented he is, as long as he has no strength, he will still be bullied by the transcendent at will.

However, he is not an ordinary alchemist, even if he is not extraordinary, he still has hole cards.

"Soul Spell ......"

Noren muttered as he pulled up his robe, revealing the black armguard on his left arm.

The "Duelist Armguard", this was the first magic guide he made, and it is also the self-defense weapon he carries with him to this day.

And after becoming a general staff officer, he also reworked the duelist.

The "Duelist Arm Guard" in his hand is now made of the same ceramic steel material as Valkyrie's equipment, and is also equipped with a vermilion-level magic crystal.

However, the Duelist Arm Guard emphasizes portability and lightweight, and it can be hidden in the robe from being detected by others, which is two different design ideas from the pure combat weapon Valkyrie.

Due to size limitations, the Duelist Armguard's Circle Structure Chamber can only be installed with a maximum of a third-order Circle.

Third-order spells are okay to solve the troubles of daily life, but if they are against high-level transcendentals, it is not enough.

However, this time he showed the duelist arm guard not to compete with the middle-aged man in the green robe, but to use it as an experiment-

He pulled out a blank magic card from the card slot of the duelist's armguard, and said silently:

"The Book of All-Knowing, give me a second-order attack soul spell."

In my mind, the pages of the book of omniscience began to turn.

The second-order soul spell "Shock Spell" has been obtained:

Inflicts psychic damage on targets with a spirit body, with loss of mind and even stun.

"Good." Nolan's fingers stroked the card surface, and the depths of his eyes lit up slightly,

“…… Next, "Shock", projection. ”

The next moment, a mysterious power flowed out of its fingers, and a subtle magic circle was quickly formed on the blank magic card surface.

The magic card "Shock Technique" has been crafted.

What is the on-site printing card!

Then he did the same, obtaining a third-order soul spell "Psychic Shock" and projecting it onto another blank magic card.

When he was ready, he walked out of the bathroom and said to Yuna, "Do me a favor." ”

"Hmm." Yuna nodded, "What do you need me to do?" ”

Noren handed Yuna the magic card printed with the second-order spell "Shock Technique" and said slowly, "Use a spell on me." ”

Yuna: "......? ”

Seeing her stunned for a moment, Nolan explained, "I want to confirm whether I have resistance to soul spells, so I need you to help me do an experiment."

"Don't worry, this is just a second-order soul spell, even if I don't have resistance, it won't cause any sequelae to me.

"As for the activation method of the soul circle, it is the same as wearing a raven mask to activate the soul link before, you should know how to do it."

As early as the first time he made a soul link with Yuna, he found that the Book of Omniscience could replace his mental power consumption to provide a soul link.

In other words, the book of omniscience is a part of his soul, and it is only natural to use its power.

The omniscient book could provide a vast amount of mental power, and he had been in contact with Yuna for hours during the war, but his mental power showed no signs of exhaustion.

With such a huge amount of spiritual power, does this mean that the Book of Omniscience can also resist spiritual attacks for itself?

Unlike Elemental Mages, Elemental Mages do not have resistance to the elementals.

For example, if a fire mage accidentally hits a fireball fired by an enemy, he will still be burned to death, after all, elemental mages are also made of flesh.

But soul mages are different, because soul mages have to cast soul spells, their spiritual power will be more powerful than ordinary transcendents.

And people with strong mental power have a natural resistance to soul spells, and using soul spells to attack soul mages with strong mental power is not ideal.

Therefore, the soul mage's nemesis is actually another soul mage.

Although he is not a soul mage, due to the existence of the Book of All-Knowing, his spiritual power may be stronger than most soul mages.

This means that you should be very resistant to soul spells—in theory.

Now, it's time to prove your theory right.

Since Nolan said so, Yuna could only do so, and she unbuttoned the two buttons of her collar and inserted the magic card of "Shock" into the collar, which fit perfectly against the large area of snow-white skin on her chest.

"I'm going to ...... Cast a spell, huh? ”

Seeing Nolan nodding, she concentrated her mental power on the magic card on her chest, and activated the soul circle on the card in the same way as she used to activate the soul link.

The second-order soul spell "Shock Technique" is activated!

More tranquil than activating a normal magic guide, the surface of the magic card lit up with a faint blue light.

The Soul Circle extracted a portion of Yuna's spiritual power, and immediately condensed it, striking at Noren like an invisible spike.

Nolan stood in place, feeling a heavy, invisible pressure coming from Yuna's direction.

Unlike the coercion of the Eighth-Order Knights, coercion is the prototype of the "realm", which is the initial control of the surrounding things, and it acts on both the soul and the physical level.

The pressure of the soul spell did not damage his body, and the invisible spikes sank into his body and went straight to his soul.

"Hum—"

And at the same time as being directly struck by the invisible spirit spikes, the Book of Omniscient Omniscience also moved.

Its vast ocean of spiritual power encircled its soul itself like the safest fortress in the world, and the spiritual spikes of the Shock Technique could not break through the defenses of the Book of All-Knowing and All-Knowing at all, and the offensive was easily disintegrated like a mud cow entering the sea.

Even, because the lethality of the second-order soul spell was not enough at all, if it weren't for the slight light of the Book of All-Knowing, he wouldn't have known that he had been attacked by a spirit.

Is this the "Shock Technique"? It's really shocking

"Come, step up." Nolan handed Yuna the magic card of the third-order spell "Psychic Shock".

Seeing that he was like no one, Yuna was also relieved, and immediately activated the "Spiritual Shock" circle.

A mental shock struck Nolan, and this time the pressure he felt seemed to be a little greater than the shock technique.

But that was all, he was still conscious, and he didn't feel any obvious discomfort.

"How could it be ......" Yuna showed a look of surprise when she saw that his face was still as usual.

If she hadn't cast a soul spell with her own hands, she would have thought nothing had happened just now.

"I had this premonition before, and it seems that people's physiques are really different." Noren curled the corners of his mouth.

If you have enough resistance to soul spells, it's not that you can't be qualified for the position of bait.

But he still has to find out one more thing - is the middle-aged man in the green robe who tried to murder him Bach or not?

If so, even if he killed the middle-aged man in the green robe, he would still be in danger, after all, Bach was the lord of Flamel.

But if Bach wanted to harm himself, he would be able to control his own itinerary even if he didn't have to track the brand.

Flamel is his home base, and he can get any news he wants at any time, so why bother?

In addition, Carl is in Linfeng City, and the news of his own creation of a new magic circle has also been spread through the Alchemy Society branch of Linfeng City.

Even if Bach intends to "exchange one for one at the limit", "kill people and seize research results", it is impossible to hide it, and once it is exposed, Flamel's reputation will be ruined.

Seeing that the atmosphere of today's dinner is just right, as long as he is not crazy, he will definitely not put aside good cooperation and do this kind of thing that burns jade and loses both.

Therefore, when you think about it, the probability that Bach is behind it is very low.

"It seems that someone is getting in the way......" After figuring out the key to the matter, Nolan narrowed his eyes slightly, thoughtful.

Who is the person who doesn't want Flamel to cooperate with Impex City?

(End of chapter)