The conjecture of "Spirit Stamp" has been confirmed.
The appearance of the holy light rune substrate allowed the researchers in Cecil Territory to observe the effect of the spiritual stamp through experiments for the first time.
But there is no doubt that this is not good news.
Divine magic belongs to the gods, and mortals can only "pray" for the gifts of the gods through devout belief and obedience to dogma, so as to borrow the power of divine magic. This has always been taken for granted. Based on the information provided by Kamel and Wright, a living example of the "White Knight", Gawain, Pittman and others jointly proposed the conjecture of "Spirit Stamp", and believed that the key to let mortals master divine arts It was to break the steel seal. After seeing Amber's test, Gao Wen realized more deeply that it might not be so easy to break the steel seal.
Among Gao Wen's acquaintances, I'm afraid there is no one who disdains the God of Holy Light more than this elf's shame, but she still can't break the influence of the spiritual seal, which shows that the seal does not act on the human thinking level, but An instinctive reaction that is hard to control and hard to detect.
As Wright mentioned just now, that Kamel is not affected by the spiritual seal, Gawain is not too surprised that Kamel was a senior researcher of the "Rebel Project" a thousand years ago, and he has spent a whole thousand years of the seal In life, the strength of his mind is probably not lower than that of Wright, and his research project back then was to steal the power of the gods. His spiritual seal may have collapsed as early as when he saw the god's corpse of the giant deer Amorn solved.
"Actually... this can be regarded as an unexpected harvest," Gawain took the rune substrate in Wright's hand, and couldn't help but sigh, "It has become an 'observation device' for us to verify the spiritual seal..."
Then he put his finger on the copper medium on the edge of the rune substrate, and slowly injected magic power into it: "Maybe... I can try."
The light golden lines on the rune substrate quickly brightened under the infusion of magic power, and almost instantly, a mass of pure holy light condensed over the substrate.
"This..." Wright was stunned for a moment, "You...you even broke the spiritual seal?!"
Amber also looked at the holy light technique released by Gao Wen through the rune base plate as if she had seen a ghost. The last time she showed this expression was when the other party crawled out of the coffin: "You can do it anyway!"
Gao Wen just quietly looked at the ball of light floating in front of him, feeling its stable and pure magical reaction, but he didn't feel much surprise in his heart.
Just as he expected, as a visitor from a foreign land, who has nothing to do with the local gods, he was born without a spiritual stamp.
A swift little figure flew to Gao Wen's side, Emily stretched out her hand towards the holy light group, but stopped halfway hesitantly.
She looked up at Gao Wen, her big eyes were full of expectation: "Can I eat it?"
Although the little girl is simple-minded and her way of thinking is slightly different from that of ordinary people, she obviously still knows that Gao Wen is the lord, so she can't do anything casually.
Gao Wen smiled slightly, and put his hand on top of Emily's head: "Here you are."
The little girl hugged the holy light away happily, while Amber continued to look up and down Gao Wen with a look of seeing a ghost: "I really can't tell... When did you break the spiritual seal?"
"It's not surprising that the legendary hero who fought against the evil tide seven hundred years ago has such a will." Wright said next to him, but although he explained this to Amber, he still had some doubts in his heart: the spiritual seal is an inability to Breaking the "lock" perceived by one's own will not only requires a firm will, but also requires some kind of "consciousness" and "mutant thinking" with unknown principles, and the latter two elements have nothing to do with the strength of one's will .
How can ordinary people have sudden changes in thinking under normal circumstances? He himself broke through the spiritual seal because of long-term doubts and reflections on the God of Holy Light, as well as the impact of the Emily incident, and Kamel because of his rebellious plan back then, and the changes in life forms and thinking patterns during the millennium seal. Change, then Gao Wen...
Did this legendary hero also disobey the gods back then
Gawain noticed the doubt in Wright's eyes, but he didn't intend to explain all this, but brought the topic back to the right track: "The mind stamp prevents users from using their own magic power to drive the holy light substrate, but if I'm not mistaken... This holy light substrate is still usable, right?"
"As you said," Wright nodded, "The spiritual stamp only affects the user's mobilization of their own magic power, but the holy light substrate is also a type of rune substrate, and the rune substrate does not have to be driven by human magic power. It can Powered by the energy in the leyline, and the leyline... is mindless."
The magic net has no thoughts, so it is naturally not affected by the so-called "spiritual seal". Using the automatic operation of the magic net to drive the holy light rune is equivalent to bypassing the "human" factor. The way equipment works to cast spells is the foundation of Cecil's magic industry.
Cecil's magic industry took advantage of the loophole of the mind stamp under the circumstances of a mistake.
But Gawain knew that things would not be so simple: "Use the magic net to power the Holy Light rune array... a very critical process is required in the middle."
Wright opened his mouth, but before he could speak, Kamel's voice suddenly came from the direction of the church door: "It's an inverter array."
Gawain turned his head and saw Kamel, who was full of arcane radiance, floating towards this side. The arcane master said as he floated: "I was going to report to you about the Holy Light Substrate, but I didn't expect you to come to the church. I heard you discussing the energy supply of the Holy Light Base Board just outside the door."
"It just happened to be here," Gao Wen nodded, and continued the topic, "The inverter array is a very sensitive thing, I believe that if you hadn't encountered a bottleneck in this, you would have given me the results of the Holy Light Substrate After all, the real thing has been produced.”
"There was a pastor who tried to improve the divine art and used magic to directly drive the holy light array, but was punished by the gods and burned to ashes. We have to be cautious about the experience of previous failures," Kamel said in a serious tone, "We don't Know what the nature of the gods is, but the phenomenon of 'divine punishment' does exist."
Having said that, he paused and looked at Wright: "Fortunately, Wright broke the stencil and awakened the White Knight's ability. By detecting the energy flow when he casts a spell, and calculating the spell model he sensed, we reconstructed a new one. The holy light circle completely eliminated the connection structure with the god of holy light in the magic circle, blocking the judgment process of "divine punishment". Subsequent experiments proved that this treatment is effective, but if we reverse the Changing the formation to power the Holy Light substrate... will most likely re-establish this dangerous connection."
Although the pure magic energy flowing in the magic net is a convenient and easy-to-use general-purpose energy source, it cannot provide energy for the magical rune system because it is too "general-purpose". The divine magic rune system can only accept two types of energy, one is the corresponding divine magic power, and the other is the magic power adjusted by human spiritual power, and the pure magic energy in the magic net has not been " The factor of "people" has been processed, which is obviously not applicable.
Therefore, if you want to use the magic net to charge magical runes, you must use the "inverted array" technology developed by Pittman: the inverted array can replace the role of "prayer" and process pure magic energy .
The inverter array is a mature technology, which has been widely used in alchemy factories, but it is also a dangerous technology: it is stealing the authority of the gods.
After the inverter array appeared, Gawain issued an order that this technology is only allowed to be used in the field of druid spells at this stage because the druid god "Amorn the Giant Deer" has been confirmed dead, and other The god corpse was suppressed in the Shadow Realm. Even if the inverter array was stealing natural divine power, there was no danger of causing divine punishment, but using the inverter array to power other divine arts was not necessarily the case.
The other gods are still alive, not only are they alive, they can call back their believers...
Although Gawain knew that all the gods died once, there are signs that those gods slaughtered by the Zentraedi in ancient times have all been resurrected. At least there is something sitting on the throne of the God of Holy Light Yes, from the bottom of his heart, Gao Wen really didn't want to attract the attention of any god on the throne at this stage...
Amber also realized the danger of the inverter array. She struggled with Gawain, and after struggling for a long time, she said without confidence: "Just steal a little... What if the God of Holy Light can't find it?"
Gao Wen glared at this guy immediately: "You have an occupational disease, right? What is stealing? Do you think it's you picking out someone's wallet in a tavern?"
Amber shrank her neck: "That's all I'm going to say, can't you just say it..."
"There are a large number of rune structures simulating divine arts in the inverter array, and this structure cannot be removed. It is likely to attract the attention of the 'gods', but on the other hand, in the whole process, The magic net that provides energy, the inverter array that converts energy, and the rune substrate that releases divine magic, all three units do not have any "mind" involved, and what people do is just pull the trigger of the rune, so in theory this process is still It is possible to bypass the 'God's Punishment' judgment," Kamel said of his own considerations, "The only thing we can't be sure about now is..."
Gao Wen didn't wait for Kamel to finish speaking before he spoke: "We can't be sure whether the 'God's Punishment' will still happen under the premise that the entire spell-casting process is completely automatic and does not involve the Mind Seal, nor can we be sure that 'pull the trigger'" Does the action also introduce human's "mental factors" into the process of casting spells, and it is impossible to determine whether this will indirectly lead to "God's punishment", is that right?"
"Everything is just as you said." The light on Kamel's body flickered slightly. "Although people just pulled the rune trigger to connect to this system, the simple action of pulling the trigger...is also the result of thinking."
Gao Wen frowned, and couldn't help whispering to himself: "Could it be related to the observer effect... the observer effect in the macroscopic world?"
Kamel didn't hear clearly: "What did you say?"
"No, it's nothing." Gawain waved his hand, "I don't think 'pulling the trigger' should belong to the process of casting spells, because the process of casting spells is a closed-loop structure in the system formed by the magic net-rune substrate, and the process is controlled by people from the outside. Among them, its spiritual power does not resonate with any magic power, and whether the spiritual power participates is an important sign of the spell-casting process. Of course, this is just my personal opinion, how about it... We must design an experimental plan to verify it. "
Kamel nodded: "It is not difficult to formulate such an experimental plan. The difficult thing is how to ensure the safety of the experimental process. We may attract the attention of the gods. This cost is too high, and we must solve its hidden dangers."
Gawain looked at Kamel's eyes or at the two balls of arcane light that should have been his eyes: "What do you think?"
Kamel was silent for a moment, then said slowly and firmly: "I apply to restart some of the laboratories in the rebellious fortress."
Gao Wen didn't answer him directly, but asked a question: "Is there anything else that can be used?"
"The laboratories in the outer fortress area have been completely destroyed, and the protection systems are all offline, but the ones in the rebellious fortress... can still be used!"