"It's nothing, I just want to say hello to you and ask about something." Richard looked at the old man Lich and said calmly.
"Asking about something? Humph!" The old Lich was very angry after hearing what Richard said, "Now you need me! Just now you couldn't use me, so you threw me into the iron box. My anger hasn't subsided yet. .”
After a pause, the old Lich looked at Richard and became even more dissatisfied. He almost jumped and said, "What are you doing? What does this expression mean?"
"I just want to say that it was three days ago that I threw you into the iron box." Richard said.
"Three days... ago, is it so long?" The old man Lich was stunned for a moment, and then continued to shout without being affected, "Then I don't care! Anyway, you have to apologize to me! And you have to promise me free of charge, Help me resurrect. After that, I might consider helping you."
"Are you sure?" Richard looked at the old man Lich and asked seriously, "The things I want to ask you are not very difficult. I think, for you, it may be just a piece of cake. In comparison, , even you yourself cannot guarantee the chance of success in your resurrection. Is the gap between the two too big? This does not comply with the principle of equivalent exchange."
"No, in my eyes, this is in line with the principle of equivalent exchange." The Lich Old Man said loudly, "I will only help you if you help me resurrect, otherwise I will not provide you with any knowledge. After all, I'm not stupid, if you drain me of my knowledge bit by bit and you abandon me again, I will suffer a big loss."
"So, you choose to let me abandon you now?" Richard said meaningfully.
"If you abandon me now, you won't get any knowledge. Anyway, it's good that I don't suffer any loss." The old man Lich said, "So, think about it carefully. When you have thought about it and decided to resurrect me, come back and call me." Me. By the way, remember, don’t throw bugs next time, just tap the life box a few times and I will feel something. After all, I am no longer sleeping, understand!”
After saying these words, the old lich turned and returned to the life box, and the black smoke quickly dissipated.
"It seems like you didn't even listen to what I asked about." Richard looked at the phylactery in his hand and said. He shook his head helplessly, put the life box aside, and looked at the body of the old man Ford.
After looking at it for a few times, he turned his head and looked at the forbidden wizard book - "The Secret of Vaishya" placed on the iron shelf aside.
"Okay, let's try it for yourself." Richard said, walking to the iron shelf, taking down "The Secret of Vaishya", and started to study it while flipping through it.
Before, he said that it was a bit difficult for him to analyze the soul.
This is true.
But it was just a little difficult, not completely impossible. His confidence lay in the wizard's book "The Secret of Vaishya".
I think back then, this was something that attracted nearly a fourth-level wizard master, and the knowledge recorded in it was really astonishing. Not only are there soul-attacking spells such as "Soul Worm", but there are also spells that analyze soul memories, and there are more than one.
The main reason why he turned to the old man Lich for help was that studying the relevant spells in "The Secret of Vaishya" required a lot of time and energy, and it would probably only be used once, so the cost-effectiveness was too low.
But at present, the old man Lich proposes transaction conditions that are almost impossible to establish and refuses the transaction in a change of direction. Then he can only make a choice with low cost performance.
"Crash..."
Richard kept flipping through "Secrets of Vaishya", looking for a few spells that he had quickly browsed.
"Wow, wow, wow... Well, I found it." Richard said, turning to the back pages of "Secrets of Vaishya" and saw a total of three preliminary soul analysis spells written on it:
The first one, soul listening, can understand some things about the soul during its lifetime by listening to whispers. The advantage is that the difficulty is extremely low, but the disadvantage is...it doesn't work in many cases.
In Richard's opinion, this is more akin to a delayed hearing of a will, which is better than nothing, to be determined.
The second, soul connection, allows the caster to connect with the target soul, exchange information quickly, and obtain a large amount of information from the target soul in a short period of time.
The advantage is that it can analyze the soul to a great extent and clarify the soul memory. The disadvantage is that it is easily affected by the target soul memory. In most cases, the target soul memory will be regarded as one's own dream, and will be forgotten after a period of time. In a small number of cases, the target's soul memory will become part of one's own memory. If you use it too much, you may have a nervous breakdown.
In Richard's opinion, it is like a double-edged sword, with obvious advantages and disadvantages, so it is better to choose carefully.
The third, soul echo, the caster releases special energy fluctuations that act on the target soul, and then feeds back part of the information. This will allow the caster to roughly understand the condition of the target's soul, but it takes a little longer and requires higher environmental requirements.
In addition to being quiet, there cannot be too many soul creatures around (including but not limited to humans), otherwise the feedback will be affected or even biased.
The advantage is that there is no harm, the difficulty is relatively low, and it is easy to get started, but the restrictions are relatively large.
In Richard's opinion, taking everything into consideration, it may be the most suitable way. Although there are limitations, the environment in Eden definitely accommodates them.
So why are you hesitating
Richard took a breath and began to study the "Soul Echo" spell seriously.
One minute, two minutes, three minutes...
One hour, two hours, three hours...
Richard was immersed in research, and most of the day passed in the blink of an eye, and he could not even determine the specific time.
Richard was sitting at the table in the research room. The body on the table had been pushed to the ground at some point. At this time, the tabletop was covered with a large amount of papyrus, with dense numbers and formulas on it.
"Shashasha..."
Richard was still writing. After a long while, he stopped, looked at the numerical results on the last piece of papyrus, took a deep breath, and said to himself: "Well, if there is no problem, the magic power of 'Soul Echo' That’s how it works.”
"Then let's try it." Richard's eyes were determined, he stretched out his hands, picked up the body on the ground, and began to recite the spell.
While chanting the incantation, control the source of the law to release multiple strands of free energy elements, which run in sequence until they reach a specific state, and are released from the palm of your hand to take effect.
Finally, Richard pressed his hands towards the head of the corpse on the table.
But just halfway through pressing it, Richard's body suddenly shook, and his hands were thrown away by a repulsive force. His body shook several times before he stood still.
Richard's face turned slightly pale, and it took three seconds for the blood to return. This was because the spell failed for unknown reasons and suffered backlash.
The spells recorded in the "Secrets of Vaishya" are, after all, relatively taboo "evil spells." Even if they are relatively simple to get started with, it would take an ordinary wizard more than ten days or even several months to master them proficiently.
With his own ability, Richard greatly shortened this time through calculation, but it was still difficult to succeed the first time.
After all, he is still a human being and cannot completely transcend the limitations of the rules.
Otherwise, he would have been just like hatching an egg, hatching a nuclear weapon to solve all the troubles. Why bother to pile up raw materials from scratch.
After suffering the backlash from the spell, Richard's expression became serious and he whispered: "The release of 'Soul Echo' failed? So, the calculated way of mana operation is incorrect? Well, the backlash is not very serious, which means it is not It's completely wrong, but only part of it is wrong. It may be caused by some aspect's negligence. So which aspect is it? Maybe we need to change the mathematical method and recalculate it.
As Richard spoke, he picked up the quill and started calculating on the papyrus again. I had just written a few numbers when I realized that the body lying on the table was pressing down on the paper, which was in the way. Without thinking, I stretched out my hand and pushed. The body fell to the ground with a "dong" sound, and then rolled around several times. .
Richard didn't notice anything wrong, and just a thought flashed through his mind: Well, it's finally out of the way.
"Shashasha..."
Then Richard immersed himself in the world of mathematics and kept writing.
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