The Truth of Magic

Chapter 123: Monster Illustrated Book (20,000 words achieved)

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Zhao Xu, who was asked, turned around in surprise and looked around, realizing that he was actually the only first-level mage present.

"Talk about you." Fatty Lin Qi bumped Zhao Xu with his elbow, thinking that the soft seat finally belonged to him.

If the previous lecture was given by a fifth-ring mage, then the other person must know the "Shining Mithril" badge and would be 100% convinced.

But now it is the ninth-ring mage Nuoqi. Although this mage is actually quite old, he is still relatively young among the group of nine-ring mage.

Lynch usually heard the elders praise Nuoqi's transformation skills at Mystra's home.

It is thought that he has entered the seed cultivation sequence of legendary mage.

Maybe after a few hundred years, he will be the legendary mage Nuoqi.

Most of these "young" senior mages have been the pride of heaven since they were young. They are so arrogant that they don't care about your hidden rules. The descendants of giants dare to follow your instructions.

The Nine Ring Mage doesn't even dare to fart, so it's quite tasteless to do so.

Just when Fatty Lin Qi was fantasizing like this, he noticed that Zhao Xu had stood up, and he couldn't help but start to talk about the gossip topics after dinner tonight.

The title "The holder of the mysterious shining mithril badge, the nine-ring mage who choked with anger from the pulpit" seems good.

"I-"

After Zhao Xu stood up, he was about to speak but hesitated.

But when Nuo Qi saw him, his expression changed. After taking a few deep breaths, he slowly said, "Well, since you have the desire to learn, just sit down and listen to the lecture."

"Start now." Nuoqi walked directly back to the large whiteboard and fell into deep thought.

At this time, many mages in the first row turned their heads and leaned over to look at Zhao Xu, but they didn't see anything strange.

These high-level mages all have the third-level arcane "secret vision" stabilized by the "magic constancy technique".

If there is no cover, the eyes of these mages will emit a faint blue light, and they can see all magical auras within a range of forty to fifty meters.

As long as it is a magic item or a continuous spell, it will not be able to hide under the effect of this spell unless it is specially covered.

It is an upgraded version of the first-level spell "Detect Magic". In addition to faster detection, it no longer requires the caster to continue to concentrate to maintain the spell effect.

If they stay focused, they can even see whether the corresponding creature has the ability to cast spells.

In their eyes, Zhao Xu was nothing more than a Howard convenience bag that could emit magical light.

Since Zhao Xu returned to the Floating City and knew that Antinoya would leave marks on the magic items she created, he had deliberately added a layer of cover-up on them.

Only a few senior mages who were closer noticed that there was a silver chip pinned to the back of Zhao Xu's mage badge. Their sharp eyes immediately knew that this was the "shining mithril" that was rarely distributed by the association.

The mithril chip will also have mottos representing three levels, but the content of this motto will not be known unless it is torn off.

Any gold-level chip will be equipped with means to prevent spell detection, so the aura of the chip cannot be seen by arcane vision. The only way to check it is with the naked eye.

A nine-ring mage like Nuoqi is enough to get a badge of this level. It stands to reason that before clarifying the level of the motto behind it, there is no need to use this kid in front of him.

With this idea in mind, most of the mages who turned their heads returned to their original postures and continued to wait for the speech ahead.

The nine-ring mage gets a chip, usually with the lowest motto "May the magic be with you always, please help the badge holder." engraved on it.

What goes up further is not something that ordinary nine-ring mage can obtain.

As for the legendary motto "May magic always be with you, please try your best to assist the badge holder with all relevant matters." Even if Oss, the president of the association, gives birth to a son with nine rings, he is not qualified to wear it.

Thinking of this, the elderly mage closest to Zhao Xu lowered his head, wiped his somewhat blurry lenses, and smiled.

At this time, Nuoqi had already manipulated the invisible servants specially placed on the podium to assist, and controlled them to start writing the simple configuration of the four core changes on the white drawing board.

Zhao Xu, who could not understand this for the time being, lowered his head honestly and took out the "100 Basic Questions for Getting Started with Transformation" in his hand and prepared to read it.

This made Lin Qi, who glanced at the title of the book, suppress his laughter and almost suffered internal injuries.

"Who can tell me why the four major transformation techniques of the core system are so difficult to learn?"

At this time, Master Nuoqi suddenly became extremely serious and said.

After hearing this, the mages sitting in the back row were a little confused. Isn't this the first question of transformation

As for the senior mages in the first row, most of them were naked. They didn't expect that the hardest stuff would come from the beginning.

"What is it?" Zhao Xu couldn't help but lowered his head and asked Lin Qi.

Everyone's seats were widely spaced apart, making it inconvenient to talk to each other.

If they really want to chat privately, these mages will choose to use spells to solve the problem. After all, many of the conversations involve important research secrets.

"Because you don't know, how can you change something you don't know?" Lin Qi was not angry.

"Aren't there pictures and data of these creatures?" Zhao Xu said in surprise.

Before he used the form change, he just looked at the monster illustration.

Who knew that Lin Qi looked at him with a questionable expression, "You can cook just by looking at the recipe?"

Those level 1 and level 2 novice mages who needed performance the most have long since been kicked out.

The rest are basically mages who have research tasks or affiliations, and no one needs to show anything.

Let this most basic question of the transformation system fall into awkward silence.

If they can't answer and shock everyone, these mages are too lazy to speak.

And Nuo Qi also expected it. He deliberately drove away the novice mages for this reason. Talking to himself was his accustomed teaching method.

No one present was qualified to answer the questions he asked.

"The first important thing about transformation is to have a deep understanding of what it is so that you can transform it."

"You can't ask a mage who has never seen an elf to use the 'Transformation Technique' to become an elf. It is even difficult for him to transform into another human being that he has never seen before."

Having said this, Master Noqi continued to control the invisible servant to write and outline a few simple sentences on the whiteboard.

"Then there is the second basic question. Even if you have a deep understanding of the creature to be transformed, the transformation may fail. So we have been studying how to deeply understand the target creature."

"After our research a few days ago, we finally discovered a little trick that can improve the success rate of the core four changes."

After Master Nuoqi said this, several invisible servants went to work separately, frantically writing various spell formulas on a drawing board that was four or five people high.

Zhao Xu also quickly took out an ioun stone at this time, let go and floated it to his head. He had just noticed that some mages also had ioun stones on their heads, so he didn't have much taboos.

Fatty Lin Qi, who was originally attracted by the content written on the whiteboard, suddenly heard Zhao Xu make a sound.

He turned back directly, only to find that Zhao Xu had taken out a transparent prism-shaped ioun stone.

Lin Qi suddenly gritted his teeth in anguish. When did a first-level mage's starting equipment include 36,000 gold coins worth of ioun stone

The price of this thing is so high that even 70,000 to 80,000 gold coins have been bought in the floating city’s auction house.

He still couldn't bear to buy one to play with, he could only look at his sister's greedy eyes.

After Zhao Xu received the "Reading Magic" blessing, he finally began to barely understand the meaning of some formulas.

It's just that his intelligence is limited, and he often has to calculate several steps on his own draft before he can come to the conclusion that the mages present are casually calculating.

However, Zhao Xu was not depressed. At the beginning, when everyone was learning spells, they worked honestly on drafts.

As a wise spellcaster, he calculated based on a calculator, so he would naturally suffer a bit now.

Zhao Xu, who has begun to seriously embark on the path of a mage, has enough patience to repeat the path traveled by many native mages.

"I'll go, that's what it means." Although Fatty Lynch only had five rings, he looked at the whiteboard with great interest and immediately clapped his legs and shouted.

This made the old mage sitting nearest couldn't help but frown.

The low-level mages these days are so unskilled at pretending, it's not like they knew they had to lay the groundwork first to create the biggest turning point.

Lynch usually calls himself Fatty to his family and servants, but in his heart he often feels inferior because of his double body shape.

Therefore, transformation techniques and deformation techniques that can temporarily change the body shape are his special skills.

Lynch's dream is to wait until he reaches level 15 to master the eight-ring "Transform All Things" spell, transforming him from a fat man into a thin man.

There are indeed lower-level spells that can achieve the effect of losing weight, but they are not as permanent as the "Transform All Things" spell and have the lowest cost.

"It's so wonderful." Fatty Lin Qi kept nagging in Zhao Xu's ear.

It’s just that the lines coming out of his mouth are too great, too wonderful, too powerful, how is it possible, etc., without any substance at all.

At this time, Master Nuoqi was fully focused on the whiteboard. He didn't say a word, and he didn't bother to pay attention to the fat man who kept talking.

All languages are clearly explained in these deconstructed spell models.

This is also the reason why he wants to drive away people who have not learned these spells. What is the point of listening to the heavenly book.

"Don't you understand?" Fatty Lin Qi noticed Zhao Xu's frowning expression at this time, and when he looked around, he found that the draft he wrote was still at the threshold of the initial entry.

"Mr. Lynch, may I ask for advice?"

Because Zhao Xu had never learned these spells and had no clue at all, he immediately asked humbly.

"Haha, look at the triple decomposition under the soup structure in the seventh row. That is the most important core of the transfiguration technique. It confirms a long-standing suspicion we have had."

"What?"

After looking at Zhao Xu's appetite, Lin Qi finally spoke and continued, "I just said that it is basically impossible to transform into a target creature without a deep understanding of it."

"Even if there are precedents of successful transformation without understanding the target creature, it cannot be successfully recreated."

Having said this, Fatty Lynch was about to start using his powerful moves to shock the silly boy in front of him.

"Now in the way of "deep understanding", there may be another way to save us from taking the most primitive way of getting along with each other for a long time."

"So I'm afraid the floating city will have to deploy a lot of manpower to overcome this problem."

Listening to Fatty Lin Qi's words, Zhao Xu fell into deep confusion.

Why didn't anyone tell him that the goal of body change selection must be deeply understood first

Before he transformed into the Blazing God's Attendant, he just looked at the Monster Manual.

"Mr. Lin Qi, besides getting along for a long time, are there any other ways to 'understand deeply'?" Zhao Xu asked confused.

Lynch was already immersed in the content on the whiteboard and said impatiently: "The 100 questions in your hand, the eighty-seventh question, are to ask the deformation to deeply understand what the seventeen special cases are, and which special cases cannot be copied."

After hearing this, Zhao Xu quickly opened the book in his hand until he reached the page the other party mentioned.

"Special Case 13 of Deep Understanding: By reading the Monster Manual. The reading process is regarded as a link to achieve a deep understanding of the target creature, and the transformation into the target creature has a success rate of more than 90%."

At this time, Zhao Xu recalled that Antinoya walked to the bookshelf specifically and chose the monster illustrated book handed to him by hand.

It's just that this 100 Questions book doesn't explain what the "Monster Manual" is.

At this time, Zhao Xu could only continue to ask Lin Qi: "Mr. Lin Qi, do you know the "Monster Manual"?"

After Lin Qi heard this, he frowned and then said, "Do you still fantasize about this thing?"

"It is said that this "Monster Manual" is a high-level artifact, and all creatures that appear in the world will be automatically recorded on it. Its creator is the arcane king Ernest, but as the other party mysteriously disappeared, this "Monster Manual" The Monster Manual has also disappeared, and everyone speculates that it is hidden in Ernest’s secret cache.”

Zhao Xu suddenly felt that the "Monster Manual" placed in his dormitory was really hot.

PS: I suddenly felt that I was not kind enough if I replaced 2k ten words with 20,000 words, and I lost all the change.

Counting that I owe you another chapter, I will update 4 chapters for 3k tomorrow, which adds up to more than 13,000.

PS2: As for the monthly tickets, I will observe them for a few more days. If I can keep up with the top ten monthly tickets for new books, I will update the list. Now this update is a basic operation and does not waste everyone’s monthly tickets.

(End of chapter)