When seeing this scene, Benjamin looked a little stunned.
He remembered that he had seen such a scene before.
-At the first opening ceremony, a priest committed suicide and attacked the auditorium, using a magical technique similar to the divine magic, which caused them a lot of trouble. At that time, characters representing the element of light could be seen in the priest's eyes.
After such a long time, he didn't expect that he would see such a scene again today.
"Are you okay? Are you conscious? Do you feel any strange spiritual power?" Therefore, he waved everyone back and asked the experimental mage carefully at the same time.
The mage froze on the spot and seemed to react for a while before slowly speaking.
"I...it's okay."
He shook his head and said.
Benjamin observed the other party's appearance for a while, and felt that there was indeed nothing unusual, his mind was clear, and there was no spiritual power coming from the elemental plane. So he breathed a sigh of relief.
But... Since everything is fine, is their experiment a success
Obviously, looking at the other mages around, they didn't consider the danger at all. Instead, they looked eager to try, and there was even a bit of excitement in their eyes.
—They may have finally found a way to learn magic using runes!
This can be regarded as the main goal they have been pursuing in the past six months.
"You can try any magic." So Benjamin said expectantly.
The mage nodded. As a guinea pig and a volunteer, he looked the most confused. At this moment, he was like a child who was suddenly given the power to move mountains and needed a process of feeling his own changes.
He reached out and took a deep breath. As the magic wave spread and the characters in his eyes flashed slightly, a water ball quietly appeared in his hand.
Suddenly, everyone was stunned.
"You... don't need the spell anymore?" someone asked.
The mage frowned and thought for a while, then nodded.
The whole laboratory was boiling.
Everyone gathered around him, holding notebooks with experimental records in their hands, and all kinds of questions popped out of their mouths. Obviously, this mage has broken through the previous bottleneck and entered another realm. And this way of breaking through bottlenecks can be said to be quite subversive.
—Use runes and the backlash of magic.
A few mages even chanted spells and began to try this method on themselves. For a time, the magic power fluctuations in the entire laboratory became denser, and then, there were bursts of dazzling white light, like lightning flashing in front of people's eyes.
"I...I succeeded."
"There is a rune. As soon as I close my eyes, I can feel it flashing in the darkness... This is an effective method. We can imprint the rune into our own spirits."
"Really... my mental power has fluctuated, and it can grow again!"
Each of the mages who can be gathered here has been stuck for at least ten and a half years, and their mental strength is like a pool of stagnant water, which has never increased at all. Therefore, when they found a way to break through the bottleneck, they were as excited as a traveler who found an oasis in the desert.
They have read countless books about magic and studied all kinds of strange meditation methods. However, no matter how much they learn from the systems left by their predecessors, in the end, that knowledge can only guide them to this step, and they will stay at this step forever. This is the end of the old magic system. Where should the new step be taken? There is no answer to this question.
When they studied runes, they originally wanted to find a new way out of this end point. They tried every means to apply the runes to themselves. Some people carve runes, some eat runes, some people draw the runes a thousand times in their minds... some people die in the process.
No one expected that the final solution would be so easy and so incredible.
"Master Dean, how did you come up with this idea?"
"Just...just thinking about it."
Benjamin scratched his head and replied. In fact, he didn't do anything, he just found a way to move his own process of condensing runes into the real world. As for magic backlash, he had never thought about it before, but it turned out to be the most critical part of the process.
This can be regarded as unintentional.
Now, the mages have successfully integrated the runes into their own spiritual power. This move is a huge breakthrough for the entire magic world. Although Benjamin still has many questions in his mind - what changes will happen to the mage after integrating the runes? What are the requirements for using this method? Will there be sequels…
But there is no doubt that the old magic system in this world may be about to undergo a complete change.
About ten minutes later, the shadows of runes flashed in the eyes of all the mages in the laboratory. In the process of completion, some people use water balloons as carriers, but others use flames, rocks... and even breeze. Everyone's magic path is different, and even a formless existence like wind can be compressed into a wind line and then draw an invisible rune in the air.
Then, they made a series of attempts while Benjamin watched.
"Their ability to control individual elements has become stronger, and their mental power has also increased." The system monitored the data and reported it to Benjamin one by one. "Whether it is fire element runes or water element runes, they can enhance the corresponding Elemental control."
Benjamin nodded thoughtfully and said, "So... they have also become single-line mages?"
The system said: "No, their combination with runes is not as profound as yours. Therefore, they are luckier than you and can still use other types of magic, but their power will be weakened a lot."
"All right… "
Although the process is similar, these people have not opened up the space of consciousness after all, so the situation is still very different from Benjamin's.
From what has been observed so far, they can still use a lot of magic, unlike before when Benjamin could only use three. Their control over magic has also improved, but it is far from Benjamin's arbitrary control.
In short, the runes did not completely subvert their way of casting spells. Their original strength was retained, but they opened up further paths.
As for how to go further…
"The original meditation rules will definitely no longer work for you." Benjamin said, "If you want to meditate now, you should constantly capture the free elements between heaven and earth, absorb them into runes, and use these elements to strengthen your Runes.”
These mages were stunned for a moment.
"Dean... you seem to know a lot about these things."
Benjamin smiled and did not answer.
No need to ask, he has always meditated like this, how could he not understand