The thunder dragon refused to leave its nest. Salin took the opportunity to organize his thoughts and find a path that was suitable for him.
Now Salin understood. The reason he didn't die after drinking the Magic String Potion was because the potion was stored in the lightning-shaped mark on the badge, and some of its attributes were changed by the badge.
So if he wanted to achieve the highest level of magic, he had to consider the beginning of his magic.
Everything was related to the family badge. The badge contained the power of thunder and lightning, and the formation of his Magic String Potion would definitely be affected. But Salin also remembered that when the Magic String Potion was formed, he only saw the water element.
The secret of thunder and lightning might be related to the water element, and the so-called balance of the elements was also an illusion. Salin fell into deep meditation for the first time. It was also the first time he realized that a magician wasn't asleep when he meditated. His mind was clearly still working, but he couldn't calculate any magic formulas at this time. When he was extremely relaxed, he could recall the most vague things in his memory.
This memory was very complicated, and seemed very vague, but the feeling of his body was abnormally real. Salin recalled the moment when the badge released the thunder and lightning, and the things that he had neglected at that time appeared in his mind one by one.
He couldn't remember how the badge released the thunder and lightning, but he remembered all the elemental fluctuations and changes that his body had felt at that time.
He didn't understand the principle, but he had the deepest feeling. This …
Salin was a little scared. Wasn't this an ability that only magic beasts had? Could it be that the magic humans learned was inspired by magic beasts?
That was impossible. Humans were very strong in the past, and no magic beast could compare to them. There was no need for humans to learn how to fight from a lower level species.
Salin left his meditative state. This question puzzled him, but he knew that it was impossible for him to reveal the secret of magic on his own. How did magic originate, and why did it spread among humans?
But just now, he had experienced the feeling of releasing the thunder and lightning, and had a deeper understanding of the mageweath on the badge. Salin decided to do an experiment.
Salin had just come into contact with Water Flame Alchemy, so he couldn't really learn it yet. Fortunately, he now knew the true meaning of refining mageweaths, which was to let the elemental power circulate according to a set pattern in the mageweath. Even without Water Flame Alchemy, Salin could still roughly refine some simple items.
Now that he was rich, he directly took out the Hunter Spider. He had not used this little thing for a long time. In the past one or two years, the dangers that Salin encountered were not solved by the Hunter Spider. Most of the time, he just let the Hunter Spider lurk at the side and wait for an opportunity.
Excluding its eight legs, the Witcher Spider was only the size of a fist. It was a creature without a magic core, but it had the strength of a Level-4 Magician. Its tough body and sharp forelimbs were all that a Witcher Spider could do. When Shika smashed the Witcher Spider with his club, he only flattened it, but did not kill it.
Salin reanalyzed the body composition of the Witcher Spider and probed it with his perception. Only then did he realize that the patterns on the Witcher Spider's shell were actually mageweaths. Although the Witcher Spider's body was black, it still had magical properties.
These mageweaths were extremely complicated. Just like the patterns on Salin's badge, they were all three-dimensional.
Extremely strong endurance and amazing recovery were the implications of these mageweaths. Unfortunately, Salin had only discovered these mageweaths now. It was too late to study them. When Ainphent's parents made the Witcher Spider for Salin, they slightly damaged the structure of the mageweaths.
In other words, the current Witcher Spider puppet was not as sturdy as when it was alive. If it encountered a violent attack like Shika's, the puppet would be damaged or even irreparable.
The most well-preserved part of the mageweath was the front legs of the Witcher Spider. A bunch of sharp legs could still tear through the defense of a magic shield.
Salin studied the mageweath for a while and then gave up. The mageweath in the front legs of the Witcher Spider was the same as some advanced alchemy arrows. Advanced alchemy arrows were equipped with magic cores and could break through magic shields after being shot. Salin had never made an advanced alchemy arrow before, but he had seen the blueprints. At that time, he did not know that the mageweath was three-dimensional and existed inside the arrowhead.
Salin did not want to make such a three-dimensional mageweath. Before he learned Water Flame Alchemy, he could only make simple mageweaths. The magic core was taken out of the Witcher Spider. Salin first made a layer of the mageweath from his family's badge on the surface of the spider's body. He already had experience with this kind of mageweath, so it was very easy to make. He only needed to make the magic circle emit a weak electric current when it was activated.
Using fire elements to make magic equipment would inevitably cause some deviation. The higher the level of the mageweath, the smaller the deviation. Salin's fire alchemy was extremely crude. Although he was a level four mageweath, his control was similar to that of a level three mageweath. The control of the fire converted from water elements was not precise enough, so he could not make a fine mageweath at all.
Salin spent a whole day and finally made a rough copy of the mageweath on the Witcher Spider. This was completely different from how he treated Fused Gods. Fused Gods were unique, and the Witcher Spider was just a test subject.
After making the lightning mageweath, Salin made the natural mageweath of the Thunder Dragon on the surface of the Witcher Spider. He knew that this kind of partial imitation would not be very effective, but he was only familiarizing himself with the feeling of lightning. Whether it would succeed or not was not within his consideration.
At most, the Witcher Spider would be destroyed. It was his toughest natural material. He could not make his own puppet yet.
Salin was a bit of a stingy person, but he also had the most basic characteristics of a mageweath. Once he entered the state of research, he did not care about any expenditure. In pursuit of the truth, a mageweath could take many kinds of risks and never knew regret.
When Salin was in Kushui Prefecture, he used dozens of magic cores every day, and this did not include the wastage when he tried to make scrolls. Salin did not care about the value of the items. Only a mageweath who was willing to invest could walk ahead of others.
The lightning mageweath and the Thunder Dragon mageweath had nothing in common, and there was no place for them to combine. Salin used his perception to simulate, looking for the most suitable method.
His stupid method was usually used by mageweaths without any inheritance. Without the guidance of a teacher, a self-taught mageweath could only learn a normal spell through constant simulation and exploration.
For a mageweath like Rex, most mageweaths started from the theory, and the teacher would tell him how to complete the details. The first step in learning magic was extremely simple.
A mageweath without the guidance of a teacher would spend most of his energy on this kind of simulation. Salin had a lot of theoretical knowledge, but he lacked Jason's direct guidance. Jason's essence inheritance could only be opened when he was at level-five. Now, all his knowledge was about the basics. It was enough for level-one to level-three, but it would be troublesome after level-four.
Jason hadn't expected Salin to become a Great Mage so quickly, so he had only taught him level-1 to level-3 knowledge. The rest were scattered bits and pieces, and Jason's own magic notes were also given to Salin. These years, Salin had gotten used to learning magic based on theoretical knowledge. Now that he was trying to deduce the compatibility of the two mageweaths through simulation, it was a very foreign thing to him.
Salin simulated the mageweath on a part of the Thunder Dragon's body and forged it with the mageweath on his family crest. This was a challenge for him. The mageweath on the family crest had a three-dimensional structure. Salin simplified it, but it would not change the three-dimensional structure. Otherwise, it would not contain electricity.
As for the mageweath on the surface of the Thunder Dragon's body, Salin only saw a flat surface. He did not use his mental strength to examine it. At that time, his mental strength could not detect the Thunder Dragon's body. The power of electricity could destroy the structure of mental strength. In other words, when the Thunder Dragon's body was covered in blue electricity, even a Magic Shooter could not lock onto it with magic.
This was the most terrifying part of the Thunder Dragon. If one could not lock onto it, then the magic would lose its tracking effect. Without accuracy, even the most powerful magic would be no different from magic cannons.
Salin used his perception to simulate for a few hours, but he still could not find the compatibility between the two mageweaths. He simply forged the Thunder Dragon mageweath on the outer layer of the lightning mageweath. The two mageweaths had no connection at all.
This was much easier for Salin. He only needed to control the distance between the mageweaths.
Including the mageweath that Ainphent's parents had forged for Salin's Hunter Spider, there were now three layers of mageweaths on the Hunter Spider puppet. The first layer was the mageweath that protected the original body structure of the Hunter Spider. The other two layers were related to the power of lightning. Salin still did not know how effective they were.
He took out the magic cores and reinstalled them on the Hunter Spider, allowing it to move.
The level-four magic cores on the Hunter Spider's body only shone for a second before dimming. Suddenly, blue electricity appeared on the surface of the Hunter Spider's body. This blue electricity was no different from the one on the surface of the Thunder Dragon's body, but it was much weaker.
The blue electricity flowed on the surface of the Hunter Spider's body. It did not attack, nor did it disappear. However, the level-four magic cores on the Hunter Spider were almost useless. The Hunter Spider was paralyzed, and Salin could not command it to do anything.
This was truly a huge waste. These six Class 4 Monster Cores were the first time Salin had installed them on the body of a Witcher Spider. The first time he had tried to condense electricity, and it was an unsuccessful experiment, it had caused these six Class 4 Monster Cores to be almost scrapped. If he wanted to rely on simulation to research the real way to release lightning, the cost would be astronomical.
Many Mages were not geniuses. They were only able to study in the field of magic if they were willing to invest. Salin was a little worried. He knew that this ability had never appeared on other Mages. He did not know who the creator of the badge was. Unless he could find this person's notebook, he would have to start from scratch.
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