Salin carefully figured out the more than 300 characters. He had never seen these characters before, but he could intuitively understand the meaning of each character. This was an advantage after learning Figaro's magic formula. As long as it was a regular character, Salin could easily read the meaning of it.
This was enough. Salin didn't want to create a piece of divine equipment like the Book of the Fallen. He just wanted to understand the origin of those evil spirits and how to destroy it.
Mages believed that the world was composed of six elements. In the beginning, each plane had only one origin and six elements. These six elements converged and gradually formed a plane. This process was very long, and the longer the evolution time, the longer the life of the plane.
These six elements were based on earth, water, wind, and fire, forming 24 basic changes.
So no matter how complicated the world was, every detail could be inversely deduced and the original appearance could be calculated.
In fact, there were 24 spaces in the necklace of the goddess, representing the 24 kinds of origins of the Myers Continent. After mastering all the origins, in theory, mages could begin to create their own world.
In the metal cheese-like pillar in Rafael's magic tower, a world was created according to this theory.
Of course, Salin didn't want to learn from Rafael. He only needed to understand a little bit of the local changes, and then he could completely kill those evil spirits.
Salin originally wouldn't learn other origins in a short time, but deep in the cage of the Black Deacon, Salin had no other choice.
The bodies of the evil spirits were still composed of six elements, so magic could hurt them. This was in line with the first law of the Myers Continent. Salin thought silently, overturning various possibilities one by one.
In the necklace of the goddess, the calculation speed was many times faster than outside, so Salin wasn't in a hurry.
Shika's rod danced wildly, and the evil spirits that pounced on her from all directions were knocked away. The ice pattern armor on the surface of her body had disappeared. Salin seemed to have entered a state of meditation for more than four hours.
The attacks of the evil spirits became more and more frequent, and the three of them took turns to rest. If it weren't for the two construct puppets blocking the attacks on one side, the situation would have become worse.
Neris, I want to rest for ten more minutes. Shika said, holding her weapon, sat opposite Salin, and closed her eyes as if she had fallen asleep.
"Hmm." Neris nodded and took out a large number of level 1 scrolls from her bracelet. These scrolls were obtained from Dragon Tooth Town. Neither Salin nor Rex wanted them. This was because level-1 scrolls were basically created by level-2 Mages, and they were only used to familiarize themselves with level-1 spells. There was no value in storing them.
That was why the materials used to craft Level 1 scrolls were very common, and the amount of magic they could store would not exceed three months. After three months, these scrolls would become useless.
If not for the arrival of Salin and the others, these rank 1 scrolls would have been sent out of Dragontooth Town the next day and quickly sold off in the nearby cities.
It was a level-1 scroll that could be used by Magic Apprentices. The low price was its advantage. Most mercenaries could not afford to hire mages, and even nobles might not be able to afford it. The price of the worst Class 1 Magic Scroll was only equivalent to a Class 1 Magic Core and would not exceed 5 gold coins.
Five gold coins was definitely not expensive. It could allow an apprentice to cast a level-one spell, such as Frost Spell.
Besieging a Level 3 or below Magic Beast, the Frost Formation could cause any target's speed to be irreversibly reduced, creating the conditions for the Swordsmen to launch a fatal attack.
Right now, Nelis was making good use of trash and did not waste too much stamina. She only unfurled scrolls one by one to defend against an attack. She could release scrolls, but this was an ability she had obtained after becoming an adult. Her mental strength was as strong as Salin's. As long as she had enough scrolls, Nelis was equivalent to a Mage with amazing physical strength.
Daniel seized every moment to recover his Undead Flames. He was no longer interested in investigating Nelis's ability to fight and release scrolls. The four hours of battle had made the Undead Flames behind him dim a bit more, and he urgently needed to replenish the power of the Magic Core.
Nelis's face was incomparably bewitching under the illumination of the purple flames. When she released the scrolls, her dark green eyes emitted a faintly discernible golden light that shone on the scrolls, and the magic was activated. More than a hundred used and discarded scrolls had piled up at her feet. The value of these scrolls added together might not even be as high as a valid Class 3 scroll. But now, the level was no longer important. Quantity was the only standard.
Nelis estimated that if she were to rest like this, it would not be a problem for her to last three to five days. The evil spirits were too weak, even weaker than the magical insects.
Salin suddenly opened his eyes, and Nelis just happened to open a Fireball scroll. A huge fireball shot out aimlessly. The Mage who made this scroll probably did not even grasp the essentials of Fireball.
Fireball itself was a Class 2 spell, and there was a simplified version of Class 1. The Class 1 Fireball did not have the ability to lock onto a target, but it would not fly out diagonally like this.
Fortunately, there were enemies on all sides. This huge fireball directly destroyed the bodies of more than a dozen evil spirits when it exploded. The evil spirits that pounced at her were kicked away by Nelis to revive.
Salin shook his head as he watched. If he were to release this scroll, he would discover the problem with the scroll when he opened it, and conduct magic correction. At least he could aim it at the target. Although Nelis could release the scroll, she did not know any magic herself, and could only release it randomly.
Magic released through the scroll that she had not learned could not be controlled. Most of the scrolls that Mages prepared were ones that they had learned themselves, or else the power would be greatly reduced. That was why Salin had a large number of intermediate scrolls on hand, but did not give a few to Nelis.
Letting Nelis learn to control magic through the scroll would consume a hundred times more energy than Salin. Salin was a Mage, and did not need to release the scroll to feel the details of magic every time. But to Nelis, the only way to familiarize herself with a spell was to release the scroll herself.
Nelis used up more than three hundred scrolls, and finally stopped the evil spirits' attack.
"Nelis, rest. Let me do it." Salin did not interfere. He was calculating the speed of these evil spirits, and thinking about how to accurately hit the evil spirits.
"Salin, let me do it?" Daniel volunteered.
"I want to control an evil spirit, but do not want to consume too much energy. What level of control can you use?" Salin knew that he could not succeed in one try. He had to experiment repeatedly, so he had to control the speed of consumption.
"Bone Shackles, a Class 1 Necromancy spell. I always thought it would not be very useful," Daniel replied embarrassedly.
"Alright, get ready." Salin panted, and saw that evil spirits were reviving one after another in the purple flames ahead. Fortunately, these evil spirits did not have vision, and were not under the direct command of the Black Deacon. Every time they revived, they had to search for traces of Salin and the others.
"Daniel, try to control a few more!" Salin said, and began to prepare the spell. His hand lit up with a green light, and a huge ice bomb condensed in Salin's hand. This ice bomb was already a few times bigger than a pumpkin, and it emitted a cold metallic luster.
Salin was extremely confident at this moment. He wanted to create absolute lethality with this Class 1 spell.
The surface of the ice bomb began to vaporize, forming a large ball of mist. This large ball was soon unable to suppress its expansion, and it began to split. Salin had already prepared the spell for more than a second, and the misty ice bomb was still in his hand. If it were any other Mage, they would have thrown this dangerous thing out long ago.
One ice bomb became two, two became four, four became eight, all the way until there were sixty-four of them. Salin finally felt that he could no longer control them. He released all the ice bombs that were shrouded in water vapor. Halfway through, the mist disintegrated and burned fiercely.
Explosions rang out incessantly. The ice bombs shattered, and flames shot in all directions. Everywhere they passed, evil spirits fell to the ground, and some were directly burned to ashes by the fireball.
Salin was overjoyed. The experiment this time was so successful that it exceeded his expectations.
Sixty-four ice bombs meant sixty-four Class 1 spells. In the past, this would have consumed a third of Salin's magic strings.
This time, Salin was experimenting with Sequence Spells. However, other people's Sequence Spells were very simple, just to make it easier to complete and not suffer from the backlash of magic.
Salin's Sequence Spells had simply made magic more complicated. Not only was the ice bomb not simplified, but it had also changed into three forms, incorporating the technique of elemental conversion.
Normally, a Class 4 Mage would use up all of his magic strings and fall into a relatively long period of weakness. Not only did Salin not feel weak, he even calculated the number of magic strings he had used up this time.
He had used up the magic strings equivalent to seven and a half Class 1 spells. In other words, this attack had the power of sixty-four strengthened Class 1 spells, but he had used less than one-eighth of the magic strings under normal circumstances.
This technique was not provided by Figaro's magic formula, but had been discovered by Salin when he was calculating the weaknesses of the evil spirits. When the evil spirits devoured corpses and split into a second evil spirit, the consumption was less. This contradicted the common sense of Mages, and Salin acutely discovered this.
If one thing wanted to be transformed into another, the energy consumed would not be less than the sum of the two transformed objects. This was common sense in alchemy.
But releasing magic was not alchemy, and those evil spirits were not giving birth. In the process of splitting, the evil spirits not only devoured corpses and souls, but also absorbed the energy in the icy flames.
While Salin was preparing the spell, he was also absorbing the elemental energy in this space. When the ice bomb split into two, Salin had only used up one and a half magic strings. When the ice bomb split for the second time, he maintained the same rate of consumption. It was not until the sixth split that Salin felt that he could not control it anymore and immediately released the spell.
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