"Mr. Barbarossa?"
Seeing the tall mage walking slowly, Joshua was a little curious: "Why are you here?"
The person who appeared in front of the warrior was none other than Barbarossa, the chief of the White Tower and the master of elements. After a brief moment of curiosity, Joshua saw that the other person was not the real person, but the incarnation of an element that was close to a normal person. fact.
This is very common. Legendary warriors with strong physical combat power rarely wander around in their true form. Sword masters who control holy swords are a special case. Because of their excessive strength, simply going out may cause various strange phenomena, so going out They are basically incarnations at the time, and Barnier and William pose little threat to their real bodies, so they can walk and adventure around the world as they please.
"After all, I am the leader of the largest mage organization in the world... It's a long story, Count Radcliffe. This should be the time to say hello, but because the matter is too important, we can only wait until later to say hello."
In response to Joshua's question, Barbarossa shook his head slightly. The mage's expression was heavy with a hint of a wry smile that he had seen something ridiculous. Joshua also understood from the postures of the other party, Barnier and William at this time, that this time What happened was indeed unusual, so he followed the other party to the crystal cabin in the center of the laboratory. Noisy sounds can be heard.
"Impossible... This completely goes against the nature of magic!"
"You are wrong. This is not actually a violation, but... it is even more incredible than a violation. I would rather it be a violation..."
"Test again? I still don't believe it!"
"Joshua is here. He is an expert in this field. Let him try it."
At this time, the two legendary mages were having a heated discussion, excluding all the complicated terminology, special magical nouns, and various local dialects with Xishan accents in the conversation. This is the general meaning. .
When Joshua arrived, they turned their heads and greeted him enthusiastically: "Are you here? Joshua, Barbarossa, hurry up, I need your help with something!"
What on earth... could make three legendary powerhouses so gloomy and serious? Moreover, these are three legendary spellcasters. When it comes to calmness and indifference, no one in this world should be able to surpass them.
Joshua was very confused. Of course, he was not one to talk nonsense. After the other party's warm invitation, the warrior came to the crystal cabin. He looked inside the cabin and looked at the 'thing' that even the legend was amazed by.
Then, Joshua saw an energetic pigeon walking in the cabin with its head held high.
White dove.
Joshua was stunned for a moment - he had not used the power of steel to see through before, so at this moment, he could clearly see the creature behind the white crystal barrier. It was a pure white pigeon that could be said to be a little fat. This pigeon is walking in the crystal cabin, making a rhythmic "coo" sound from time to time. Its red beady eyes are quite sharp, and it can be seen that it is in good spirits.
"Is this why you interrupted my practice and called me out of the Lord's Mansion?"
Joshua clicked his tongue, and his expression became a little strange: "A fat pigeon that can barely fill the gap between its teeth? You even traveled through time and space and came here from the East China Sea-"
"Don't complain in a hurry, Joshua, can you use the power of steel to detect the detailed life data of this pigeon?"
Before Joshua could complain, Barbarossa spoke first. The hairless mage seemed to know something more than the warrior. The element controller looked at the pigeon with a rare nervous look, and whispered in his mouth He muttered to himself: "Damn it, it's true, how is it possible... This is not magic at all!"
Barnier and William both agreed with Barbarossa's opinion. Therefore, no matter how incredible it was for Joshua, he could only confirm that the pigeon was indeed the target of their three legendary mages. The warrior tentatively used the power of steel to Perception was used to detect the detailed life data of the pigeon in front of him - a silvery glow was emitted from the palm of Joshua's outstretched right hand, shrouding the pigeon's head like a beam of light, fixing it in place, and scanning back and forth in detail.
Three seconds later, Joshua blinked and said, "It's normal."
"An ordinary Bavarian white pigeon is 17 centimeters long. It is in good health and has a lot of meat. It should taste good when grilled."
The soldier continued to scan, and then said casually: "There is no hereditary disease, no bacteria... Hey, that's interesting. This pigeon is very pure. There are no germs or dirt on it. Have you cleaned it?"
"Is there any more information?"
Listening carefully to the information from Joshua, both Barbarossa and Barnier William were very nervous. When they heard that the pigeon was all normal, the three of them looked at each other with incredible eyes. Barney Er immediately asked aloud: "I mean, is it a real life? How is it different from a normal pigeon?"
"What real life..."
This time it was Joshua's turn to be a little confused: "Isn't this just an ordinary white pigeon? Ah, the wings are a bit short, it may be a little difficult to fly, but you have raised it so fat, and you probably don't intend to let it fly. It delivers letters.”
"...Joshua can't scan it out either, so it seems certain."
Hearing that the warrior seemed unable to get any more information, William couldn't help but shook his head. He sighed and said: "The worst result has arrived... From now on, the White Tower and the Imperial Royal Mage Association - no, it should be said, Mike All mage organizations on Rolf Continent must be prepared to deal with the impact."
Barbarossa was silent at this time, but when you saw the beating blood vessels on the top of his head and the eyes that could almost be said to be glaring at the pigeon, you could tell that this legendary strongman was not at peace in his heart.
You know, the last time when the powerful men from another world invaded and suppressed the Steel Python, the element controllers did not show such expressions.
"What on earth are you talking about?"
Regarding the situation in the mist of Yunshan at this time, Joshua was not in a hurry. He retracted the light beam in his hand, and then touched his chin in confusion - there were not many things that could make the legend question his three views, and the warrior couldn't think of it at the moment. What exactly was it, he asked: "Although I don't feel anything wrong - but what's wrong with this pigeon? Why are you so serious? It looks like an evil god is coming."
"Evil God? That's just a natural disaster. Although it is extremely powerful, at most it is a natural disaster that we cannot defeat and have to escape or die in battle. It..."
Barbarossa originally wanted to explain Joshua's words, but in the end, he just smiled bitterly, and Barnier took over: "And this pigeon... no, it's better to say it was magic, it really shattered it. All the truths we believed in in the past.”
"It's time for you to see the truth, Joshua." At this point, Barnier couldn't help but shook his head heavily. He whispered to William beside him: "Remove the 'transformation' magic."
The next moment, William clapped his hands, and just after a certain magic was lifted along with a burst of mental fluctuations, right in front of Joshua's eyes, the bird was originally very normal, with nothing special except for being fatter and having shorter wings. The Bavarian white pigeon here turned into a stone silently.
a rock.
8 cm long, 3 cm wide and 2 cm high, ordinary limestone can be seen everywhere on the continent, so much so that some people point to the stone on the ground and ask loudly, 'What is this?' ’, people who heard this inquiry would scratch their heads in confusion and say, ‘There is nothing here. 'The point of the stone.
"OMG… "
This time, it was the warrior's turn to be shocked. Even with Joshua's determination, he couldn't treat it calmly. The warrior couldn't help but take a breath: "Is this magic? When did you develop something of this level? !”
"No... we don't know, we don't even know if this... is magic..."
Rubbing his temples, Barnier held back the curse words that were about to come out and said in a tone that was already somewhat suppressed: "That's why we were shocked."
Under the heavy narration of the two legendary mages, Joshua finally knew the whole story.
About four days ago, the major mage academies in the Eastern Plains ushered in a new round of summer enrollment. Special patrol instructors will patrol around, looking for valuable and talented mage seeds to enroll in the academies. This is a common practice in the eastern plains. Of course, it does not mean that only those who are selected can enter the academy. In fact, each academy has examination rooms in various places. Anyone who feels that they have talent or intends to challenge their own possibilities can You can enter it and show your talents in order to be selected by the instructor.
And this happened in the Guantian White Pagoda examination room in a small town... It was a dull cloudy day, accompanied by scattered light rain, and the moist air was filled with the unique earthy smell of the countryside. In such an environment, a The seemingly ordinary eleven-year-old boy came to the examination table accompanied by his parents. He chose to use some kind of innate magic in order to enter the Warlock Department of the White Tower, and the instructor saw that this child did have good qualities. For the sake of the fluctuation of magic power, this request was allowed.
And the next moment, this child from the eastern plains and northern Bavarian hills easily turned a stone in his hand into a white dove that could fly and coo, as if it were truly alive.
Everything was as simple as breathing, but this shocking fact almost made the instructor stop breathing in shock.
"In fairy tales, those witches who live deep in forests and lakes have all kinds of strange abilities, such as superb alchemical craftsmanship, extremely profound and precise timing of the onset of curses, potions that make people youthful, and the ability to turn people into Animal Witchcraft.”
William stared at the stone in the crystal cabin. The handsome bard said in a rather dreamy tone: "The witch is the monster image of the magician in the eyes of ordinary people in ancient times. The wizard tower is the wizard tower, which protects the wizard." The monsters and colossus are just tamed monsters and alchemists. Most of her abilities are normal and any mage can do it... except this one."
"Turn pumpkins into carriages, turn people or inanimate things into animals... This is not something that magic can do, Joshua, this is something that can only happen in dreams."
"Needless to say, I know better than you."
Raising his hand, Joshua stopped William and Barbarossa who were about to continue speaking. He frowned and stared at the stone in front of him, as if he wanted to see through this ordinary piece of limestone - but in the end he Failed, he had wanted to see that it was a bad joke, but in the end he had to confirm that it was the truth.
A 'fact' that seems ordinary, but can actually shake the truth and completely destroy the existing magic system.
To give life to inanimate matter? This doesn't sound difficult. Whether it's Barnier, who often summons rune puppets to help with work, or any mage who is proficient in the elemental system, they can do similar things. They can summon elements, send puppets, and incarnate themselves. Thousands and thousands - even Joshua can do similar things. He once used authority as the source to create the unprecedented steel element "No. 1".
But this kind of profound magic is fundamentally different from turning a stone into a bird.
Giving life to elements is actually creating a self-circulation of energy, and then adding the most basic self-will to this cycle, which is the simplest artificial soul. With the cycle of energy and self-will, even if it is invisible energy It can also have life-like reactions. This is the truth of creating elemental life, a kind of energy robot. In terms of its nature, the steel element is not that complicated. The authority from the world built a new energy cycle from scratch and merged it with steel. Joshua's power gave it will and power. Wisdom is the gathering of spirits. In a sense, it is innate intelligence placed in a mechanical body.
These are magic spells that may seem miraculous but actually make sense. Even if they are complicated, no one would be surprised by them... But turning a stone into a bird is different.
"The change of particles, from inorganic matter to organic matter, the transformation of mass... gives spirituality, animality, muscles and even genetic instinct... How is this possible?"
Joshua murmured to himself, still speaking various words in his mouth, and the warrior's eyes were full of incredible shock - only the truly strong know the difficulty of 'transformation', turning pebbles into gold, Turning wood into bread is a difficult skill that goes deep into the depths of basic particles. It requires meticulous spirit, keen observation and extremely precise control. Even a legend may not be able to do it for everyone - and now, a A child who walked out of a ravine could actually use the incredible magic of turning inorganic objects into a conscious being
"This is not a special case - as you can see, William and I have also learned the magic of turning inanimate substances into doves, but this is not so much learning, but rather just learning how to use it. I have no knowledge of it at all. Understand how it works!"
After seeing that Joshua was in the same shock as they were at the beginning, Barnier coughed, and then slowly said: "Originally, when we mages use magic, we need to understand all the runes in this spell, and we need to understand each of them. What kind of energy can each rune induce, and then arrange and combine them one by one, and finally write a formed spell - just like when we program information terminals recently, we must understand what each command can do, and accurately Only by writing it can the entity of the spell be constructed.”
"But now... to use this transformation technique, I only need to pay magic power, and then... then I don't know what happened, but it succeeded anyway."
In Barnier's voice that seemed to be complaining, William interjected: "How should I put it - it's like a magic scroll. We mages cast spells in real time and need to use our minds to combine runes and induce energy, while the user of the magic scroll only needs to activate That’s it, they don’t need to know how to make scrolls or how to write runes, they just need to touch it lightly with their spirit and put in a little bit of insignificant magic power, and then it’s done.”
"Just like the alchemy guns and cannons of the dwarves." Barbarossa then said in a dull tone: "Press the trigger, press the button - the user does not need to know how to make the cannon, he only needs to know how to use it, just like There is a great being who has already prepared all the channels for us to use this magic, and is just waiting for us to fill up the 'ammunition' of magic power."
"This is a technological black box." Joshua also said in a deep voice: "Or, in other words, a 'magic black box'!"
The four legendary powerhouses fell into the same shock and confusion. They said in unison: "What on earth is going on?!"
"The fairy tale spells come true... it's quite scary, to be honest."
Even in the face of many legendary monsters attacking in the void, Barnier, who was fighting against the dragon kings in the world of Kronos, took a deep breath. He looked at the cabin above his head. The legendary mage who first discovered this matter His eyes penetrated the barrier of the world and looked into the void. His voice was trembling: "This is not a special case. Joshua, William, Barbarossa, I have been to the void before, and I have performed in the void and other lifeless worlds. This spell—I even went to the world of Kronos and cast it, and it worked."
They knew the meaning behind this matter better than anyone else. Whether it was Joshua or William, Barbarossa’s eyes changed. They who knew about the existence of the magic network originally felt the same way. They felt that this was probably the same thing as those in the previous era. The 'guns' designed by powerful gods and strong men are now just an ordinary warlock child who found this long-sealed 'weapon'... But now it seems that is not the case.
"Yes, that's right, just like you thought."
Looking around at everyone's expressions, the rune controller, the old mage Barnier, nodded slowly and heavily: "This is not the unique magic network spell inscribed in Mycroft's world by the predecessors of the Glorious Era. It is effective in the Yuan Universe... which means that if this is a mutation-"
"Then this must be a mutation that affects the entire multiverse!"
Half an hour late, this is yesterday’s 5,000 words
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(End of chapter)