Volume 1 Song of the Ice Angel Chapter 6 Borrow money to buy props
Late at night, because he felt hungry, he woke up faintly, covered his painful head and opened his eyes, only to find that there was boundless darkness around him, and his first reaction was that he was blind, and he was scared a lot, and then he suddenly realized that this was the library, and quickly controlled the bracelet to turn on the crystal lamp above his head.
This bracelet is also magical, after wearing the bracelet, it will leave a 3D projection of the library in your mind, through which you can perform some operations, such as turning on and off the lights, cleaning, ventilation and so on.
Di Laier walked out of the door of the library, as the senior sister said, the door was fixed in the dining room, at this time, the night was thick, but the restaurant was brightly lit.
A middle-aged woman dressed as a cook stood in the corner, and when she saw Di Lai Er coming out, she hurriedly stepped forward, first saluted Di Lai Er, and then said softly: "My lord, I am your loyal servant, Suma Cook, I am waiting for your orders, you have not been out of the room for a day, you must be hungry, what do you need?"
Di Laier pondered for a moment and said, "One rice, one stir-fry." ”
Suma was stunned for a long time before he hesitated, "I understand, please wait." ”
Later, Di Laier understood why Suma hesitated, and his feelings were that other people's orders were for a medium-rare steak, or potato stewed lamb, and his answer was embarrassing in this world.
Suma was quick to serve a steaming bowl of rice and a portion of fried liver.
Di Laier tasted it, the rice was very fragrant and soft, and it was cooked just right, but I don't know how this cook made it, and the liver was also very delicious.
After eating, Di Laier asked curiously, "Aunt Suma, have you been waiting for me here?"
Suma looked a little panicked, and hurriedly said: "My lord, please don't call me that, if the prince hears about it, he will fire me, and I am here because there are often adults in the castle who need to eat supper, and today happens to be the one who is in charge of the night's work." ”
Di Laier nodded, turned around and went back to the library, the time was already late at night, but Di Laier did not have any sleep, he turned on the infinite meditation method, and his consciousness entered the meditative state again, this time the world was no longer pitch black, but something more.
In the center of the dark world, there is a fist-sized vortex of countless white points of light, which is the original meditative object, and the whole looks like a spinning poached egg.
The vortex slowly rotated, and five thin golden threads stretched out from the void, captured and absorbed by the vortex, and this golden thread was the so-called Yuan Qi.
Some knowledge converged into Di Laier's mind, and he understood that this vortex is the place where he stores his vitality, and the consumption of vitality will cause the vortex to be dim, and once it is exhausted, the vortex will be broken, which means that his meditation method will be broken, all penance will be dissipated, and everything will start again, except for those who have the heart of death, no one in this world dares to use the meditative thing to break it easily, even if it is better to be a prisoner than to lose everything.
This vortex absorbs Yuan Force from the outside world at all times, but the vortex in the meditative state absorbs much faster than normal.
This situation also belongs to magic alone, like the system needs to constantly exercise the body, so that the body can generate its own vitality, the priesthood is based on faith, and the machine needs both meditation and exercise, but the machine as a whole, the efficiency of absorption is far less than that of the system and magic.
Dileier only absorbed a quarter of an hour before he had to withdraw from the meditation space, and his concentration could only last for a quarter of an hour, after excessive concentration, people would feel very tired, Dileier felt unbearable, and just came out of a deep sleep again, and when he woke up again, it was already three poles of the sun.
After a brief lunch, De Lai buried himself in the stack of books again, this time preparing to learn the tricks of magic.
On the shelf where the magician is introduced, Dilai saw many basic magic tricks, changing flowers and rabbits.
The fundamental principle is still to use props to capture the characteristics of people's curiosity and knowledge-seeking psychology, and create incredible and unpredictable phenomena.
It is far from the magic under the title of magic mentioned in the book, in this world where almost everyone cultivates vitality, the so-called magic is just a small trick, the most important thing is that the magician also needs to bring his own props, and the props are the most important.
"Is it so miserable?" Di Lai wanted to cry without tears, he was poor enough, he ate and drank in other people's homes for nothing, and he still owed 300 million huge sums of money, how could he have the money to buy props?
But this also made Di Lai suspicious, he hurriedly went to find more books, and finally found a magician realm encyclopedia, the initial stage of magicians, the first-level magic apprentice, is in need of props, and there are not many means, the second-level magic assistant, can perform simple magic spells, illusions, and the physical body will also be strengthened, although it is still very wastewood, but the third-level magician has a magical ability, space shifting, although this space trick is quite weak, the weakest space magic is also an extremely rare existence, there are many space props in the world, but space magic is really few people can perform, as for the legendary time magic, which has never been performed in the history of the mainland.
But in any case, in the early and late stages, props are indispensable for magicians, and a large part of the magician's strength comes from props.
Dilai pondered for a moment, and only thought of seeking the teacher's help, so he walked out of the stack, came to the dining room, rang the bell on the table, and soon the butler Yeke walked in.
Seeing that it was Di Laier, Yeke stepped forward and saluted, and then asked respectfully, "Is there something wrong with my lord?"
Di Laier asked: "Grandpa housekeeper, where is Teacher Zunwu?"
"Your Excellency has gone on patrol, and it will take ten days and half a month to come back at the earliest. Yeke replied respectfully, and then whispered: "My lord, you can call me Yeke, please don't call me grandfather, the Sealing Demon Castle is strict and insurmountable, you are embarrassing the villain by saying this, if outsiders hear it, they will laugh at us servants who don't understand the rules." ”
After saying that, Yeke saw Di Lai's face look embarrassed, and immediately suggested: "Have you encountered any hardships in your cultivation? I can take you to Miss Night Star, she is a fourth-level star warlock who is proficient in star magic, and may be able to help you." ”
Direel hesitated for a moment, then nodded in agreement.
The astrological platform where the night star is located is built on the mountain wall, located at the highest point of the castle, is a platform, within the mountain wall, a small room is carved out, during the day, the night star language in the house to study me, at night, on the platform to watch the stars, this is her way of practice.
When Di Laier arrived, Ye Xingyu was reading a book, and she was still very surprised to see Di Laier looking for her.
"What's the difficulty?" Nightstar Ying brought Di Lai into the room and found a chair for him to sit down.
The room was small, with a wardrobe, a small bed, a table, and the rest was half a room full of books.
After sitting down, Di Laier glanced at Yeke, who understood in seconds and hurriedly exited the room.
In this way, Di Laier still hesitated for a long time, and finally said to Ai Ai: "I want to borrow some money to buy some magic props." ”
Night Star's eyelids lifted slightly, indicating understanding, and then a ray of light flashed from the ring on her finger, and a purple money bag embroidered with stars appeared out of thin air in her white and delicate palm.
"There's fifteen gold coins in here, not enough to say. Nightstar Yu put the money bag in Di Lai's hand, and then suggested, "You can ask Yeke for help, he is the chief steward of the Demon Castle, he is very knowledgeable, and he was once in charge of the procurement of the entire castle. ”
Di Laier nodded, and then asked, "Senior sister, do you have any good ways to level up quickly?"
Ye Xingyu's beautiful big eyes looked at Di Laier, and slowly shook his head, "Cultivation is a step-by-step thing, career upgrading requires not only vitality, but also skills, each profession has its own unique skills and means, the swordsman's swordsmanship, the elementalist's magic, even if it is a temple knight who is blessed by the gods, they all need to master the corresponding skills, without skills, they will not have enough ability to control more advanced powers, and they will not be able to rise to a higher level, what you should do most is to cultivate basic skills." ”
Ye Xingyu saw that Di Laier was a little confused, and suggested with a smile: "You can go to street performances, many professionals will go to street performances at the beginning, such as me, I also used to be a soothsayer at the foot of the mountain for a while, well, the business was not bad at that time." ”
Dillais looked surprised, "How else can this be?"
Night Star nodded heavily, "Many professions, I can't see my own level, only if you have experienced everyone's test, you will know where you have come, remember that there is a profession called puppeteer, which is extremely rare, and its requirement is that the control of puppets needs to reach the level of fakeness, which only everyone and the enemy can have the final say, puppeteers often do spy work, so it is not like acting, then there is only death." ”
When Di Laier walked out of the room, he was still in a trance, he never thought about it, it turned out that upgrading also requires exercising skills, when playing games in the past, they were all fighting monsters, and when they had enough experience, they would upgrade, and the skills were all dead, or they would spend money to upgrade, life, it was really not a game, and the road ahead was still very long.
went out, handed over the money to Yeke, explained the props needed, and went back to the library, he didn't see it, after he left, Yeke walked into the room and respectfully returned the money.
The night department was very efficient, and the next day he prepared a complete set of magic show costumes, a large bouquet of roses, and a well-crafted deck of poker cards.
After returning to the library and studying carefully, he found that in addition to magic, magicians also need to be skilled in hypnosis, and they also need to understand a series of knowledge such as psychology, chemistry, physics, and later they need to be proficient in illusion, space magic, and so on.
In one sentence of the book, magicians are a profession of bells and whistles, and its strength depends on the knowledge you have at your disposal, which is far from being understood by a warrior with a full head of muscles.
After receiving the magic item, he asked Yeke to find a warrior and tried to put a poker in his pocket without the warrior noticing.
There is no doubt that he failed, hundreds of times in a row.
In the end, under the continuous blows, Di Laier was physically and mentally exhausted, and the whole person wilted like a cucumber that had been put for several days.
Magic, it's really not that easy to practice.