This part is not an extra episode, it has something to do with the plot... Nagging
Let's call it a side story!
If you only like to read the story, you don't have to read this part, these are extra...
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The pair of enchanted rings made by Burris:
Magic things are very complicated, and it takes a long time to write them. If Boris tells them all through dialogue in the text, there will be a feeling of...the character becomes a standing painting, standing there and talking...feeling.
This part of the content has no effect on the main text, it’s nothing if you don’t write it, and it won’t make it more fun if you write it, it will only look cumbersome... So, it is omitted in the main text, and then Lott participates in the dialogue.
So, let’s introduce it in the side story book instead↓
This pair of rings has several functions. Among them, the functions of positioning each other and projecting a map on a blank plane have been described in the text. I will not repeat them here. I will only elaborate on other functions.
Sharing Protection: Enabled by default. For example, Boris cast the curse resistance spell for himself, and at the same time, the same magic will start to work on Lott. The status is enabled by default, but the user can actively disable it, that is, refuse to use it.
This function is of little significance to Lott, because he has magic immunity and rarely uses protective spells.
However, things cannot be generalized, and some protection techniques are related to physical attacks, so this function still has a little effect. (For example, Lott cannot be harmed by the magic lightning, but if the magic lightning smashes the mountain and the rock rolls down, it may still hurt him. At this time, if Burris can activate the force field shield, it can protect the two of them, Even if the two of them are not next to each other.)
Protection spells refer to... For example, certain spells can make oneself resist severe cold, make oneself immune to certain diseases, cover oneself in a force field barrier, give oneself temporary magic immunity, and so on. They are all aimed at themselves and belong to passive protection.
Shared Aid: It needs to be activated by the subject. For example, Boris let himself levitate and move. At this time, Lott can also use this spell directly. Lott needs to judge whether he needs it, and then turn on the sharing function through a spell. The mantra is very short, even non-magic people can learn it.
Assistance spells refer to: let yourself or others fly, levitate, walk underwater (ignoring pressure, buoyancy, etc.), jump over canyons... In short, it is to provide help to people, it is active, it is not offensive or destructive, and it can communicate with other people. Spells that work with spells (cooperate with other spells: e.g., fly up, throw explosive fireballs, perform an air strike... )
When Burris does not protect himself but protects a third person, Lott can also share the effect of the protection, but he cannot transfer this effect to others. For example: Burris allowed Earl Herolf to temporarily gain the ability to fly. At this time, Lott can also start sharing and fly in the way he likes. But Lott can only give this ability to himself. He can't choose not to fly by himself and let Odile take off.
When the protection spell ends, the spells on both parties will end. When the take-off or floating aid spell ends, people will not fall directly, and people will fall slowly at the end, so don't worry about it. ("Ending the spell" is also one of the links of casting the spell, not referring to the forcible termination of the spell. When the spell is forcibly terminated, for example, the caster is dead, unconscious, or the spell is interfered by an unknown force, floating in the air at this time only the subject is at risk of falling.)
Functional spell extraction: Lott can cast the magic that Boris has prepared for the outside world. For example, when they went out to explore together, they were temporarily separated, and Lott needed to use the ball of light to illuminate a cave. At this time, as long as Boris can use it now, Lott can use it directly.
This function is more complicated than protection and protection, because Lott must be familiar with the general classification of magic and understand what spells Boris can cast now.
Also, defense and protection are directly shared by two people, and spells against the outside world can only be used by one of them. That is to say, within the same period of time, if Boris has used a certain spell, Lot can no longer get it from him; The material must be re-prepared before it can be used again...
For example: to perform instant dog washing, the following preparations are required: a small pinch of special mineral powder + hair of the target dog + the caster needs to read a spell. Boris brought these materials, he was able to recite the spell accurately, and he was able to use the spell to mobilize the elemental power in it. Boris was writing something in the study, and Lott wanted to wash the dog under the tower. He used the "functional spell extraction" on the ring and successfully cast the instant dog washing technique. At this time, the mineral powder and dog hair brought by Burris will lose their effectiveness, and even if he utters the spell, he will not be able to wash the dog instantly.
Or, Boris had washed the dog three days ago, and today he is carrying materials that have lost their effectiveness, and he is not ready to cast the spell again. If Lott tries to extract the dog washing technique at this time, he will not succeed.
(Materials are divided into parts by default. If Boris brings enough materials to wash the dog 100 times, then the materials will only be consumed once for a spellcasting, and 100 parts will not be consumed by default. That is to say, At this point Lott can continue to wash the dog 99 times, or if he does not wash the dog, Burris can wash the dog again.)
Many functional spells are related to manipulating elements, such as light balls, watering, freezing, dimming or brightening the light in the area, burning or disappearing fires, making objects or areas wetter or drier... (not draining a lake or It sucks all the water out of a person's body! It doesn't exist! It's just a small change!)
It is difficult for these spells to cause fatal damage, unless of course they are used to hurt others deliberately, such as secretly setting fires and so on. The flame of this spell is real fire and can be extinguished in normal ways, or easily extinguished by another spellcaster with a extinguishing fire spell. This is one of the differences between functional spells, element manipulation spells, and high-level arcane spells such as divergence, curse, and kill.
The ring currently does not have the function of sharing high-level arcane spells. Every spell in high-level arcane arts is a comprehensive discipline, which is very troublesome.
For example, when Boris found and opened the door to the Swamp of the Dead, the knowledge involved and used covered many aspects, not just a certain necromancy or a certain summoning from another world. For another example, the spear he pinned on Yriel is also a comprehensive research result involving space magic, necromancy, alien science, and possibly element manipulation.
The learning, preparation and casting of high-level arcane arts are more troublesome, and what is even more troublesome is the adaptation and influence on the caster's own physique during the learning process, so this kind of thing may have different effects for everyone, and it is difficult to achieve shared.
Generally speaking, there is no need for mages to share high-level arcane arts. The opponent may not be able to use them flexibly, and it may consume their own important strategic preparations.
Also, the sharing and extraction functions of the ring are limited to the arcane abilities of both wearers, excluding divine arts, innate strange powers, special skills of special races, abilities of the blood of warlocks, etc.
Sharing is two-way. If Lott also learns a lot of spells in the future, Boris can share them with him when needed. But for now... Lotter doesn't know how to cast spells...
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About the life of the character:
Because I always write fantasy, and several previous articles have pulled the protagonist’s lifespan to roughly the same level, so after the end of this article, more than one reader has questions about lifespan: Although Lott has no power, his life The attribute is the true god, and even if Boris is twenty years old now, he will still be bald in the future... Ah no, no matter how old he is.
Here's what I think about this issue:
(Some are long... and some are irrelevant to this article, please read selectively... Thank you for those who are willing to listen to me...)
Burris is an eighty-four-year-old man. His first eighty-four years gave him a wealth of knowledge and experience, which made his mind mature and broadened his vision from the small White Tower to the Confederation of Ten Nations... maybe in the future There is also the entire continent, including the west of the Western Mountains, even to the sea, even other continents, other worlds... For mages, the yearning for unknown knowledge is a necessary driving force in life.
Most people in their eighties are no longer ambitious. This is determined by hardware conditions. The body and affect the mind, will bind a person's abilities and thoughts.
In the third dimension, there are many elderly people who are healthy, neither blind nor deaf, and they cannot learn electronic products. Are they really stupid, no, are they too dazzled to see clearly, or too weak to look at their smartphones for a while? No, at least quite a few of them are not for these reasons. Of course, there are also elderly people who are seriously ill, that is another matter, and there are also some quite healthy elderly people who are obviously still healthy, but they are daunted by new things.
A healthy eighty-year-old man is actually much smarter than a six-year-old child. But there are certain things that six-year-old children can learn and are willing to learn, but old people are not interested or even reject them before learning.
This is not because the elderly are really "old and can't do it", but because the weakened body affects the will.
Deep in their souls they know: their future is very short, there is no possibility, no motivation. The elderly do not "feel" that they are abandoned by the times, but objectively, they are abandoned by time. In other words, each of us is being left behind by time, but younger people have not noticed it yet.
In a person's life, "this moment" is the transition point between the "first half" and the "second half". People like to look to the side with more time.
An eighteen-year-old person has only eighteen years in the first half of his life, and he does not know how many years are left in the second half of his life. Therefore, when he looks at the longer side, he will have all kinds of curiosity, all kinds of motivation, and all kinds of ambitions .
For example, for an 80-year-old man, the first half of his life is 80 years, and the second half... If you say a long life, you only have 20 years left, and if you say that you live to 120 years, it is only 40 years.
Eighty-year-old man, don't have such high expectations for "forty years". He still clearly remembers himself at the age of forty, and also remembers how short the time has been from the middle-aged man at the age of forty to today, just in the flick of a finger. So this eighty-year-old man has too little time ahead, so he tends to look at the longer side—his past.
So people think that old people like nostalgia and talk about the past...they have no future. How will smart machines develop, can unmanned supermarkets work, what new technology Gugou has developed, how will VR be integrated with life, how many years will there be a major technological revolution, can banks be completely unmanned, and a certain actor will be a star in the future. How the road develops... They don't want to think about it, there is no need to think about it, they can't see it.
Then, at this time, suppose an old man who is eighty-four years old and living on the mountain has returned to the age of twenty.
and! It is not that the soul travels back to the past more than 60 years ago, nor does it directly become a new person, but on the premise of retaining his existing knowledge and memory, at this moment, directly becomes twenty years old.
How amazing is this
His "second half" was suddenly lengthened. And what is extended is a healthy and quality life, not how many years to live with an aging body.
He suddenly had an infinite future.
Why don't we say it is decades at this time, but say it is an "infinite" future, because at this moment, people in their twenties in front of the computer screen can't see clearly what will happen in their future. A strong AI will appear in the next year, maybe an important person will appear in your life next Monday, maybe you will win the lottery next year, maybe you will be introduced to your dream company after graduating from college... There are a lot of possible good things.
Possibilities for bad things...of course there are a whole bunch. However, since the future is so long, people will have expectations for it, and will take the risk of being severely tortured by fate, step into the wind and rain called the future, bump and run in it, and even pursue a little bit of happiness.
From a modern point of view, rejuvenation may bring about the annoyance of "how to conceal this miracle and how to obtain legal status", but in the feudal society of the fantasy world (... ), this annoyance can be resolved anyway. So the benefits remain the same, and the annoyance has dropped a lot.
This is for ordinary people. And what about the experienced and knowledgeable old mage
Mage, a common occupation in this kind of fantasy stories, usually they love learning, are diligent and focused, and are ambitious. Facing the extended future, the will of the old mage who had been wasted will be rekindled. Originally, people had to "conquer the old", and the mage had to give up his ambition in front of the "old", but now, there is no need to give up!
In other words, for such a mage... who knows what else he can do in the future
Burris is eighty-four years old, and has become the most prestigious mage in the Ten-Nation Confederacy for decades. If he is given so many years now, wouldn't he go to heaven (hey
Then, there's Lott. In fact, Lott’s temperament is younger than that of Burris. I struggled with this before, and later felt that although he is also a lot of age, he has the biggest difference from human or elf old people: he has no “first half” and “second half.” " difference.
Even if he is imprisoned by himself and has lost part of his memory, even if he can't see the future, all of this is natural to him and will never end. Even if his future has no hope and no good things, at least there are pornographic books Look (…), at least one day he met a Nian Xiang, a little mage who wanted to take him out.
He would feel uncomfortable without freedom, but once he was free, he could immediately explore the world in front of him as actively and feverishly as a young man.
He can be abandoned by the world, but he will not feel abandoned by time.
An eighteen-year-old person lying at home like a salted fish, and an eighteen-year-old cat lying at home still feel different. This person may be simply lazy, may be in a bad mood recently, may be out of school, may be sick and inconvenient to go out, may be locked in the house by someone, or it may be a combination of many factors... In any case, his youthful nature is still there, but he is currently trapped in a small room. But the eighteen-year-old cat is different. It is lying here, just spending its old age in peace.
Therefore, even if a creature like Lott is actually older than a human elder, his mentality and perspective on things are completely different. Including black pine, he is also older than Burris' actual age, but he is in a period where the "future" is longer than the "past". He has time, is not afraid of wasting time, and loves to waste time more, just like many young humans People are the same, they don't have a ticking clock in their hearts, and they don't have an hourglass whose upper layer is getting thinner, and they don't need to think about these all the time, just enjoy the present moment.
As for Burris, he once heard the ticking of the clock and felt that the hourglass seemed to leak faster and faster. He has grown up non-stop all his life, and he has long been accustomed to living a life with clear goals and must be built.
Now that he has time again, he can move on with the accumulated knowledge.
It's like running a long distance to the last kilometer, the physical energy has been exhausted, and I thought it was over...Suddenly, this person's physical energy became the state after warming up and before starting the run, but the road he ran was not the same. He didn't return to the starting point... So, he could continue running without turning back, and without worrying about lack of physical strength. The road ahead is open to him, and there will be many scenery waiting for him.
Therefore, if there is no life span, this matter should be left to Boris and Lott to solve by themselves.
They are not ordinary people, and the future is still very long. They will encounter many thrilling things, and they may experience some crises from life to love. At the same time, they will make more achievements, create something, stabilize something, It may also open up a future that my brain can't imagine.
I don't need to forcibly equalize their lifespan, they will solve it by themselves.
Then answer a simple and rude question: Old? What are you afraid of getting old? Why the same lich
The answer is that this world is not Faerun, there are not as many liches as dogs, and the magic system is different from those. There are many shortcomings in becoming an undead creature, which makes it difficult to do many things. It is a low-quality life. Even for ordinary people, it is not a good thing.
Liches do exist, but they usually have their own reasons, and every family has their own hard-to-read scriptures. Liches or other undead creatures are not a good choice for human beings to seek eternal life, but it is a helpless move for a small number of people.