chsdbacks Chapter 16 Speculation, Slashing Technique
Chapter 16 Speculation, Slashing Technique
The difference lies in the fact that in the Soul School, the enhancement brought by the increase of spiritual power only applies to the soul, while in the Flesh School, the spiritual power only enhances the physical body. In the Balance School, the spiritual power enhances both the physical body and the soul, maintaining the balance between the soul and the body.
Similarly, the simplest indicator of a wizard's strength is the strength of their mental power—if a wizard's mental power is strong enough, they can even directly use their mental power to interfere with the spells that another wizard is casting.
A wizard with strong mental power can more easily penetrate the mental defenses of other wizards with his spells.
Meditation is the most common method for wizards to increase their spiritual power, and its existence is present throughout the lives of all wizards.
Even the legendary great wizards, even those extremely wealthy wizards who could find all sorts of potions to enhance their spiritual power, would not ignore or stop their meditation techniques.
For Luo Ang at present, meditation is his only means of increasing his spiritual power.
The mental strength of a normal ordinary person is between 0 and 5.
The mental strength of a wizard apprentice is between 5 and 30.
Starting from the first temporary spell slot, for every 5 points of mental strength gained, a wizard can try to invoke mystery to generate a new temporary spell slot, taking another step on the path to becoming a wizard. When a wizard apprentice's mental strength reaches 25 points, he can try to break through to become a first-level wizard, or continue to hone his skills, sharpening his mental strength to the limit of a wizard apprentice, which is the level of 30 points.
There are two methods for testing mental strength.
The first method involves a special magical artifact used by the academy's instructors when assessing their apprentices.
The second type of method involves the details within each meditation technique that apprentices can grasp themselves.
—Just like the Spiral Tree of Life meditation practiced by Loon.
After you've mastered the basics of meditation, the 'seed' that forms will show some patterns.
With each increase in Luo Ang's mental strength, an additional line would appear on the seed.
At the same time, if Luo Ang learns any spells or methods to tap into the body's power, the patterns on the corresponding seed will also show different changes.
Loon observed the patterns on the two seeds he had meditated.
Round and round and round.
Eight laps in total.
As Luo Ang meditated, the ninth circle of patterns slowly grew and closed.
After finishing his meditation, Luo Ang looked at his own body and suddenly had an idea.
"I am a wizard of the Balance School—the power of the body is also part of my own system."
"When I cast a spell, my physical strength is also mobilized."
"In other words, when I mobilize the power of my body, the power of my soul also moves accordingly."
"Doesn't this mean that wizards of the Balance School should also learn some methods of using physical strength?"
"So, the knightly skills those knights talked about?"
"The other spells all use mental power to invoke the ethereal mystery in order to demonstrate the power of the spell. There are some key points in this that I am not aware of, which is why I find it very difficult to cast spells."
"What if I directly use the real, unalterable power within my body to cast spells?"
Luo Ang immediately thought of the slashing spell among the seven spells.
Among the seven spells, the Slashing Spell is such a simple and unadorned spell.
It can manipulate mystical energy with its mental power, slashing out like a sword, cutting through everything with unparalleled sharpness.
It can also allow one to channel this power into the sword in their hand, just like those knights, and slash fiercely to tear the target apart.
Those knights had ways to increase their strength and secret techniques to make their swords sharper when they used their fighting skills.
However, this slashing technique directly skips those steps, achieving the goal in one step by adding one's own strength, as well as the quality and sharpness of the sword, to the slash, directly achieving the knights' ultimate goal of killing the enemy.
Compared to the skills of those knights, this slashing technique is more efficient and more powerful.
If, as stated in the wizard's introduction, knights are also a type of wizard, specifically knight wizards, then it is clear that this slashing technique should be one of the spells of a knight wizard.
"However, since knights are also a type of wizard, why hasn't the path of a knight expanded as much as that of a wizard?"
Why are knights so "weak" compared to wizards?
With a few questions suddenly arising in his mind, Luo Ang completely immersed himself in meditation.
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"Great wizard, my equally great master is almost here. May I ask if you may depart?" The voice of the goblin old Colin rang out outside the door the next afternoon, waking Loon from his meditative state.
This alone shows that old Colin was indeed quite experienced in serving wizards, knowing that one should not easily approach a wizard who might be meditating, and would rather wake Loon up from outside in a more exaggerated manner.
"Let's set off then." Luo Ang ended his meditation and pushed open the door to go out.
Seeing that there were no maids in Loon's house, the goblin old Colin couldn't help but feel a moment of disappointment.
Inside the carriage, Luo Ang took out the scroll of the slashing technique and used his deciphering technique to interpret its contents.
Compared to the spells that Loon had encountered before, the nodes and model of the Slash spell were quite strange.
At first glance, there are only eight nodes.
In reality, there are sixteen nodes, with light and dark intersecting, and the real and the virtual opposing each other.
In addition to using mental power to construct the eight nodes, eight corresponding nodes also need to be constructed within the wizard's body to support the flow of power within the body.
Compared to nodes drawn with mental power, nodes built within the body are much more troublesome.
Even if a spell node drawn with mental energy goes wrong, as long as the mental energy is withdrawn in time, at most it will only cause a brief fluctuation in mental energy, which can be recovered with a little rest.
However, the nodes that are built on one's own body constitute a permanent change to the body.
If something goes wrong, the consequences will be far-reaching and far-reaching.
However, from one perspective, while the physical "real" nodes are troublesome and have a greater subsequent impact, the improvement they bring to wizards is immediate.
After all, to cast a regular spell, you need to construct an entire spell model.
As for spells like slashing, part of their spell model already exists on the wizard's body, so there's no need to reconstruct them.
This means that once such a spell is mastered, it takes only half the time to cast a normal spell—while its power remains undiminished.
"This kind of spell is somewhat similar to those fixed spells," Luo Ang couldn't help but think.