Chapter 13: The Manifestation of Magic

"Namo, look. Rick grabbed Namo's sleeve and said, "Magic Manifestation." 」

Magical Manifests look like creatures, but they are not creatures. It is simply a phenomenon caused by the operation of spells. Like smoke from fire, there is magic at work to create this image.

The monster stood up, its claws spread out, swinging from side to side.

The moment the monster opened its hand, the glass of water on the table of Xike was emptied, and the water flowed all over the table, dripping onto the ground. The waiter saw it and rushed with a mop, but he slipped on the water very unnaturally, and the waiter held on without falling, but the mop fell out of his hand.

The mop flew forward and crashed into the low cabinet.

The bottles on the low cabinet fell and shattered on the floor, and pieces of sharp glass lay next to Nick.

Then the legs of the chair broke.

Xi Ke leaned over and poured directly onto the glass shards!

In a moment of crisis, Seren stretched out his hand and passed his arm under the flank, and Naimo also grabbed the belt of the Syke, and the two of them held him in the air to avoid the danger of glass piercing.

After Xike landed safely, the waiter kept going, and Xike glared at the gray-skinned monster and told the waiter, "It's not your problem. 」

The gray-skinned monster raised its hand again. The magic lights on the ceiling flashed twice, all went out, and then exploded!

The waiter screamed in fright. Nick and Naimo open the parapet.

The hall was darkened, and Rick couldn't see clearly.

"Seren?" asked Rick. No response.

There was still a faint light outside the window, but suddenly, a dark shadow obscured all the light.

When he looked back, he saw a bat about the size of a carriage, with an ugly human face, and two pieces of flesh bulging from his cheeks that seemed to be laughing, and like a cramp. He threw himself at the glass and smashed the window to pieces!

Xi Ke unleashed his Demon Mist Demon Ash, and the gray mist pounced directly on the bat's face, and the bat screamed, and its entire head was gouged out by Ash, spurting blood from the broken neck and falling like rain on the glass and the parapet.

"Seren!" Crick shouted again.

His eyes could see more clearly in the darkness, and Naimor stood beside him, but he couldn't find Seren. The tables and chairs were all lying on the ground at some point, and the waiter and other guests were gone. On the other side, there were a lot of fish spinning around in the big fish tank against the wall, but now there are none.

Although it would have been relatively quiet at night, it is now eerily quiet. It's like even the sound of your own heartbeat, the sound of your muscles and bones moving when you move, and the sound of your internal organs moving, which you don't usually feel, but you always follow your voice all the time, and it's absolutely quiet.

The headless bat fell down into the pool with a thud, followed by a slur, a plur, a swaying sound. It sounds like it's right in your ears, not downstairs.

"What's going on? It's just the two of us?" Rick asked Namo.

"No, it's 'the two of us missing.'" Naimo looked out of the cracked window. All he could see was the light on the edge of the pool downstairs, and in the distance, where the building lights and street lamps had been lit, were now only dark. Very unnatural.

Naimo said, "We've been dragged into 'Replica Shijie'. 」

This place is not another shijie, but it is not a real shijie either. This is due to magic, and the temporary appearance of the gap shijie. There are both connections with reality shijie, and there are parts that do not affect each other.

From under the overturned tables and chairs, the gray-skinned monsters that Sick had seen before crawled out, one after another, crawling densely all over the floor, slowly crawling towards Sick and them, surrounding them.

"Bookworm, what do you see going on?" Naimo stood in front of Syke.

"It's not space magic. 」

Xi Ke covers one side of the eye, and the spatial vision of one eye is contrasted, and the field of view of the left and right eyes is contrasted. His normal eyes saw a dark interior with tables and chairs on the floor. The eye that was covered, but the spiritual vision saw a good haode, an emergency lighting room, and the magic lamp on his head flashed and was slowly being turned on again. He also saw Seren sitting in his original seat, Seren reached out and stood before the lamp went out, and now where there was no one, his hand was clutching something in mid-air, shaking back and forth.

Rick stretched out his hand, and it passed through where Serren was.

"Both of us are in the spirit body shijie now. Rick judged.

Seren is a knight and has magic immunity, so he was not dragged over and is still in the material shijie. This must have been caused by magic, but no one was seen casting a spell on the scene.

Now, there was only one table standing in the entire hall, the one they were sitting at. The table was empty, and the food he ordered was left on the other side along with Seren. Rick was surprised to find that he cared more about being separated from food than the crisis he was in now.

After two years of peaceful life and a deeper understanding of normal society, he thought that his reaction would be a little more like that of ordinary people, and it seemed that some habits could not be changed for a lifetime.

The gray-skinned monster jumped up from the ground, its mouth wide open to the point where it was more than their height, and pounced on the two of them. Naimo and Rick were back to back, shields, elbows, and heels together, knocking the monsters out one by one.

More gray-skinned monsters climbed down from the second floor, about thirty, and more all the time. Sooner or later, it will be impossible to hold on. There must be something wrong with the second floor, but Rick and Naimo are surrounded by monsters and can't go up.

Cyrke let out a cry from within, "Seren!"

From the darkness of the second floor, golden branches grew.

Intense golden light illuminated the room, and the branches grew longer and longer, hitting the ceiling and then drooping in all directions. As soon as the gray-skinned monster touched the branch, its skin melted and turned into a dry bone.

There was a loud "boom", like a building collapsing. Rick closed his eyes and pressed his ears.

When the voice fell silent, Syck noticed a light shining on his eyelids. He opened his eyes and found that the magic lamp on his head was intact and lit as usual. The tables and chairs are all standing well, and in the aquarium next to the wall, the fish swim freely, and the large floor-to-ceiling windows are not broken. There were only broken wine bottles on the ground, and the waiter was squatting on the ground and busy cleaning up. The guests were discussing what had just been done with the lights off.

"Coming back?" Rick asked Namo, turning to him.

"Hmm. Naimo nodded.

Serian wasn't around.

Nick turned his head and saw Seren coming down the stairs on the second floor, holding a holy sword in one hand, a five-centimeter-wide board of wood stuck in the tip of the sword.

"What just happened?" Seren sat back in his seat, the plank still stuck in his sword, and asked with a frown, "As soon as the lights go out, you two won't move. I shook you and you didn't react. 」

Rick changed to a chair with unbroken legs and sat down again.

"Our consciousness is being dragged to the other side. Nemotijk replied, ordering another glass of wine from the waiter.

Seren frowned and waited for Rick to explain.

Rick poked the plank with his sacrificial sword, pulled it from Seren's holy sword, and stuck it in the sacrificial sword to observe it closely. The planks are ordinary, made of logs, and carved with a fake magic symbol in the style of imitation foreign magic. The layman might think that this had little effect, but a true mage like Rick could see that it was just a pattern and had no meaning.

"There's something wrong with this thing, it's powerful magic. Rick pointed to the board and said, "Where did you find it, how did you come up with the idea of stabbing this thing?"

"I feel like you're telling me to do it. Serens said, "It was found at the foot of a table on the second floor. After you didn't move, I saw something gray squirming on the stairs to the second floor. I went upstairs to find the wriggling center, and I found this thing. 」

The table leg here is a straight pole under the tabletop, and a large disc with a slight convex disc is attached to the bottom as the table leg. So this thing lies under the foot of the table, and it is not visible from the outside.

"It's a magic weapon. The entity was destroyed by the Holy Sword, and there was no liliang left of the plank. Rick held the plank in his hand and looked at it, examining the remaining magic on it. "This kind of thing is too exaggerated, the Thousand People Blessing Methodβ€”there are still people who use this method to do the instrument. 」

"What is it?" asked Namo.

"I've read in books that in the past, when the structure of magic was not so clear, spells were almost always performed by mind. It's what we are talking about in the narrow sense of curse and prayer spells. At that time, there was a way to make Liliang's powerful magic weapon, which was to gather a thousand people, not all of them were mages, in fact, ignorant ordinary people were better. Tell them what kind of liliang the thing you want to make the artifact will have, and then ask them to take turns praying to the object one by one, praying that this thing really has that liliang. The book says that if these thousand people believe that this thing can indeed have liliang, after the prayer ceremony, the Dharma weapon will be born.

"The ritual utensils of ancient societies were all famous, and most of them were symbols of the state, but in fact, it has something to do with this. The prestige of the ritual itself is also the source of its liliang. The people believed that it could protect the country, and they gave it the liliang to do it. 」

"Is it possible to gather the pure will of a thousand people to form a resonant energy?" said Naimo, "It sounds simple, but it's actually difficult. Unifying the will is not an easy task. 」

He replied, "The people who participate in the ritual will be very energetic because they have to pray very strongly, and they will be very tired afterwards, and it will be difficult for them to concentrate on a daily basis. This disc is just a branch of the Great Dharma Instrument, and the main body is still elsewhere. 」

Rick put down the disc and stuffed the food into his mouth again, moving his gaze down to the pool as he ate. He stood up in surprise and leaned close to the glass.

Naimo was busy explaining to Seren about copying Shijie when he turned his head and asked, "What's wrong?"

"The water is turning red. He said, "I must write about this experience and submit it to the Wizard's Monthly. 」

The water in the pool downstairs turned an uneven red, and there were traces of red floating in it, as if it had dripped blood. Right before Xi Ke's eyes, the red faded again.

Naimo said, "I don't know where the mage stuffed this thing upstairs and hurt us. More importantly, how could Seren see the Greyskins?"

"Grayskins?" Serenian blinked.

"As far as the gray, wriggling thing you see, it should only be seen by me and Xi Ke in 'Copying Shijie'. How do you see that?"

"I saw it. Serian replied innocently.

"Impossible! What do you thinkβ€”" Naimo was about to ask him what he thought, but seeing how hard he was trying to stuff food into his mouth, Nemo lowered his eyebrows and said in a deep voice, "Give me a confession, what the hell is going on?"

Rick knows the answer!

"I just thought it was a spell error. Reluctantly, he stopped eating, craned his neck, and said, "Those two color-changing curses on you, I don't know what's going on, connect our senses. Don't worry, you guys run farther away and detonate the spell and you'll be fine. 」

"How can you rest assured! Quickly disarm the spell for me. Naimo intercepted the grilled fish that the waiter had just brought to him.

Nick stretched out his hand and grabbed the fish with Namo: "Don't!"

Serian grabbed the plate with both hands and snatched it away, ending the dispute between the two: "Anyway, after a long time, the holy sword will naturally eliminate the spell. The Knight's Sword has magic resistance.

"That's normal spells. Cursed spells are always a special case. Naimo said. Angrily, he picked up his chopsticks and directly picked up the whole piece of fish back meat and ate it: "-What are you doing with such an unstable spell?

Xi Ke took back the food with the fish, hunched his back and threatened the other two not to touch it. This pose looks like an angry feline.

After settling the bill and leaving the restaurant, Rick saw an advertising poster posted outside the door, saying that earlier in the day, at four o'clock in the afternoon, on the second floor of the restaurant, there was a "holy assembly" of "Master Bripegger".

Rick began to feel bad. They eat in this place because of various conditions, and those conditions are probably also caused by the gray monsters.

The photocopied materials that Naimo brought up, which said that the human trafficking record, were placed in the "Bripeg Center for Body, Mind and Spirit".