"This is... a magic spirit."
In the single dormitory of Broken Lake Prison, Ash looked at the sorcerer who was sleeping soundly in his palm, wearing blue striped pajamas, like a human cub, and felt a blood connection in his heart.
In the last adventure in the virtual world tonight, Ash and his companions went to the white fog area marked "Welcome" and found an adventure island inside.
Unlike the inheritance island, there is no danger or trials on the adventure island. There are only wild spirits laughing and playing on the island.
When they stepped onto the island, the magic spirits scattered, and even though they were sharp-eyed and quick-handed, they only managed to catch two magic spirits. The captured magic spirits thought they were unlucky and were willing to recognize them as their masters.
Each of them had a magic spirit. The magic spirit that Ash got was the human cub sleeping soundly in his palm - the 'substitute'.
"substitute"
"One-winged spirit"
"Restriction: The magician must be an intelligent primate creature."
"Basic effect: Creates an illusion that is identical to the target. It will shatter upon impact. If the target is an intelligent creature, it will obey the magician's orders."
"Passive effect: Slightly reduces pain."
"'If you feel pain, just treat yourself as someone else, and it won't hurt.'"
And what Sword Princess got was a water magic spirit, 'Riptide'.
"Rip Current"
"One-winged spirit"
"Restriction: There must be an unowned liquid nearby."
"Basic effect: Shoots out a stream of water with impact energy."
"Passive effect: Increases control over liquids."
"'The gentle flow is life, the violent flow is change. Nothing remains constant except the flow itself.'"
According to Sword Lady, the Torrent Spirit can be sold at a high price in her school, because the Torrent Spirit is a rare high-burst attack spirit in the water magic faction, and can also derive many powerful miracles, but it is very difficult to summon, so the price is extremely high, even higher than some two-winged spirits.
Although Ash really wanted to ask, "What does a paper man like you need money?", he changed his mind and thought that it might be the automatic upgrade mechanism in the game. Besides, he still had to cling to Fiora, and now was definitely not the time to have a conflict with Fiora - this was a critical period for the project, and he could offend anyone but not the only technical staff!
So the two of them happily completed the distribution of the spoils. Fiora was very satisfied, and Ash was even more satisfied: because the substitute spirit is one of the main spirits required in the Kill Me Miracle!
Ash's top priority is to gather a few magic spirits that can kill me and completely break the control of the chip on the back of the neck, otherwise he will not even be qualified to escape from prison!
He stared at the substitute spirit on his palm, secretly urging the inexplicable spiritual energy in his mind.
After Ash returned from the virtual world, he found that his mental consciousness had turned from virtual to real. It felt like imagination had really turned into a physical force, or like he had an invisible phantom limb. He could drive his mental power to touch everything in reality.
Without asking, Ash knew that this spiritual energy was the magic power that Sword Princess had mentioned many times. Magic power was the universal energy source of the magician, and it was also the basis for the magician to activate the magic spirit. A magician without magic power was no different from an ordinary person.
On the other hand, as long as you have magical powers, you are a magician, even if you are the worst magician.
But Ash remembered that before he entered the virtual realm, he didn't have any magical power at all.
Ash knew the source of these magical powers very well, because he was sailing in the virtual world with Sword Lady. Every layer of white fog that he broke through not only tempered his spirit, but also gathered free knowledge for him. Under the dual effects, he generated a universal energy source - magical power.
Therefore, after returning from the virtual world, Ash not only possessed the magic spirit, but also the magic power.
In other words, he has become a genuine magician of extremely high purity.
but…
Ash tried to use his mental tentacles to explore the body of the Stand Spirit, but the feedback he got was like the listening part of the Level 6 foreign language test. Not only could he not understand the whole thing, he couldn't even understand a single sentence description.
This is completely consistent with what Sword Princess said, 'As long as it is not a magic spirit summoned by you personally, you can't even analyze its structure.'
Since it cannot be analyzed, Ash certainly cannot find the door to truth from the stand spirit.
In other words, Ash is a magician who cannot enter the virtual realm on his own!
This is completely contrary to the magician system that Sword Lady talked about - every magician, no matter if he is extremely talented or a rotten wood that is difficult to carve, no matter if he is born into an extraordinary family or an orphan, without exception, first summons the magic spirit through learning and training, and then enters the virtual realm.
From ancient times to the present, there has never been a magician who is unlearned and unskilled!
The term magician originally refers to a 'master of magic'. Every magician can be a teacher of a skill!
But now, an exception has appeared!
Ash Hiss, an unlearned wandering soul from another world, crossed the threshold of knowledge and became a formal magician!
He suddenly remembered the legend of the golden fish and the stowaway that Jian Ji had just mentioned.
"A silver magician who finds a golden fish can sneak across to the continent of time and become a golden magician. I took the sword girl's ride and sneaked across to the sea of knowledge and became a silver magician..."
When others smuggle across the border, it is the upward and downward movement of the magician class, which is equivalent to the population movement between different regions of the same country, and is always an internal conflict; but when Ash smuggles across the border, it is like climbing over the wall from a primitive tribe to a developed country, which can be said to be a species invasion.
This is definitely a secret that must not be revealed, Ash thought.
Once other magicians discover that I am a stowaway, they will never let me go for the sake of protecting biodiversity.
substitute!
Ash muttered to himself, but nothing happened, the substitute spirit was still sleeping soundly on his palm.
The next second, a light screen suddenly popped up, and a series of information streams flashed across his eyes.
"Warning: You are trying to output magical power! This is prohibited!"
Ash slapped his head - yes, since the chip restricts him from entering the virtual realm, it will definitely restrict him from using magic power!
If you want to activate the magic spirit to perform a miracle, you must bypass the chip; if you want to bypass the chip, you must activate the magic spirit to perform a miracle to purify the chip... Damn, I've entered a vicious circle again!
"Sword Princess A Dream, save me—"
"Sword Princess?"
Ash shouted twice, but the dormitory was still empty. The elusive Sword Lady did not appear this time.
He changed his mind and realized that Sword Lady had been with him in the virtual world for a whole night and must be tired. Even a paper man needs to rest, so he decided not to disturb her today.
"If you've been hurt enough, use your hands to cut it open quickly, yesterday's curse. When night falls and day comes, only scars remain..."
Ash looked up and realized that it was already 8 o'clock the next morning, and the prison's early morning song played on time began to sound.
It was time to go for breakfast, as there was another deathmatch waiting for him in the Deathmatch Club.
... ..
..
In the meditation room of Jianhua University, Sonia slowly opened her eyes.
She stretched out her hand, and a young girl spirit in a white dress appeared in her palm.
If this magic spirit were to be made public, it would definitely attract the attention of many people - it is very rare for someone to gain something on the first day of entering the virtual realm, not to mention that Sonia had obtained such a precious trophy.
She did not lie to the viewers. The Torrent Spirit was indeed very popular on the Spirit Trading Platform of Jianhua University. Even in the entire Galatian world, it was considered a first-order one-winged spirit.
But she did not tell the whole truth: the value of the substitute spirit is also not low.
In fact, the price of a general magic spirit is one level higher than that of a specialized magic spirit. Unless the purpose is too narrow, a one-wing general magic spirit can be sold at the price of a two-wing specialized magic spirit.
After all, specialized magic spirits are only in demand by magicians of a specific faction, while general magic spirits can be used by all magicians. The supply exceeds the demand, so the price is naturally high.
So why did she hide the news
She wants the audience to discover her little thoughts.
As early as in the virtual world, Sonia discovered that the viewer could no longer read her thoughts.
Perhaps this is due to the limitations of the virtual world, but it doesn’t really mean much—after all, the viewer can listen to her inner voice in reality.
When they got the Substitute Spirit and the Torrent Spirit, even though Sonia couldn't see the viewer's expression, she could tell from his body movements that he wanted the Substitute Spirit very much, so Sonia went with the flow and gave the Substitute Spirit to the viewer.
After returning to reality, the viewer can learn from Sonia's inner voice: she knows the value of the substitute spirit, but she said to keep half and half, pretending that she made a big profit by getting the torrent spirit, just to make the viewer accept the substitute spirit calmly.
This kind of silly girl who is a little scheming, but her schemes are all for your own good, and her methods are so crude that you can see through them, even if she cannot cause a critical hit to the viewer, can at least greatly increase the viewer's favorability towards her.
I thought you were on the first level and I was on the second level, but you saw through me on the third level. However, the truth is that I was on the fourth level just to wait for you to see through me.
But the premise of all this is that Sonia has to hide the fact that she is actually on the fourth floor. This is not difficult for her - after two days of thinking training, Sonia has already been able to initially control her thinking and let herself think only about what she wants to think.
Sonia took back the torrent spirit and walked out of the meditation room.
"Viewer, I'm going back to take a shower, remember to step aside."
"A spectator?"
Walking out of the meditation building, Sonia looked around to make sure the viewer was really gone.
In the past two days, whenever Sonia called, the viewer would appear from a blind spot that Sonia couldn't see, without exception. This time, he didn't appear for several minutes, which could only mean that—
After exploring the virtual world, the viewer had to take a break and stop monitoring Sonia around the clock.
However, Sonia did not feel any joy at regaining her freedom. Instead, she felt as depressed as if she had brought a cake back to the dormitory only to find that the toilet had exploded!
I finally found an opportunity to prepare a sugar-coated bullet, but you ate the sugar coating and ran away!