There was another reason why Salin decided to learn Crystal Finger. After meeting the black-robed bishop, he realized that with his current fighting ability, he was not much of a threat to professionals above level six. When Silva and Rex were by his side, he didn't feel too obvious, but once they left, Salin immediately felt a little embarrassed.
Against a swordsman, even a sacred swordsman, Salin had some special methods to gain an advantage. But if the enemy was a mage or a mage, he had almost no way to deal with them. Neris's power was limited by his own level and couldn't be used. The two of them combined couldn't really hurt the black-robed bishop.
If Banchagana hadn't come and scared off the black-robed bishop, Salin wouldn't be his match even if he advanced. This made Salin eager to learn a spell that was powerful enough to surpass the level limit. Crystal Finger's consumption wasn't that high. When Salin was learning it, he knew that this level-six spell would consume the same amount of magic strings as a level-five spell.
Learning Crystal Finger was much more difficult than Salin thought. This spell directly gave him four forms.
Crystal Finger. Water: Within ten meters, control six streams of water and shoot continuously. If the attack position is the same, the attack power of each stream is double the previous one. The length of the stream is the length of a mage's index finger. When the magic string is used up to level-seven, it starts to have the effect of water cutting.
Crystal Finger. Ice: Within ten meters, freeze the enemy's blood. It has the effect of piercing. This skill can be offset by divine arts, magic, and sword aura. During the offset, the enemy's strength is double that of normal. The effect of each attack is doubled. Can perform six attacks. Can perform level-two spells.
Crystal Finger. Steam: Within ten meters, heat the water element in the enemy's body and vaporize it. This skill can be offset by divine arts, magic, and sword aura. During the offset, the enemy's strength is double that of normal. The effect of each attack is doubled. Can perform six attacks. Can perform level-two spells.
Crystal Finger. Boundary: Standard level-seven spell. Temporarily unavailable.
This spell involved the knowledge of elemental conversion. If Salin hadn't systematically learned this knowledge before, it would take him at least a few years to learn Crystal Finger. From Joey, he obtained the skill of elemental conversion. Learning Crystal Finger now was only a matter of time. The fourth form required the power of a Magic Shooter to activate, but Salin only spent three days to learn the other three forms.
After that, he still had to practice. In the beginning, he needed to chant spells and make magic hand gestures together. Also, the activation time could not be instantaneous. If he wanted to learn Silent Casting, Instant Casting, and Level-2 Spellcasting, it would take the longest time.
Moreover, there was no way to shorten the learning time of these abilities. The only way was to repeatedly familiarize himself with the magic and gradually increase his body's reaction speed. Salin's only advantage was that his body had been modified by Joey, so he could learn any water element magic very quickly.
If others needed a month to familiarize themselves with a spell, Salin would take less than a week. Similarly, using Elemental Conversion to simulate the spells of the other five elements, Salin would need at least twice as much time as others.
This meant that Salin would have very few chances to learn and simulate the other five elements. He could only maintain a certain level of familiarity, and could not learn and simulate all of them. Otherwise, his advancement speed would probably be one-fifth that of other Magicians.
Salin was still unable to learn the form of Crystal Finger Boundary. It was a skill that could only be learned by a Magic Shooter. This skill would form a stable space of water elements within a radius of ten meters. Things like elemental chaos would not affect Salin's spellcasting. As for the other attribute abilities, Salin could not learn them now, and he had to explore the things left behind by Rafael himself, so he did not write them in detail.
However, Salin was very much looking forward to this skill. Last time, Nelis had risked her injuries to form a space of elemental disorder. If Salin had grasped the skill Crystal Finger at that time, the effects would have been much smaller. In close combat, he would definitely have been able to heavily injure the bishop, and he might even have been able to kill this expert with a demigod weapon.
The range of battle controlled by the Great Magician was almost the same as that of the Alchemy Crossbow, which was two hundred meters. Salin was now a fifth-rank magus, and could already meet this requirement.
However, his two most powerful skills were close-range attacks. Crystal Finger's attack range was around 10 meters, while Water Cut's attack range was at most 30 meters.
The most appropriate attack range for Ice Strike and Ice Totem was within 100 meters. The fifth-rank magic, Spring Strike, had an attack range of more than 100 meters, but it did not have the ability to track.
Water magic was truly powerful after becoming a Magic Shooter. The seventh-rank Crystal Guardian, Frost and Snow Mageweath, Ice Storm, and Blazing Flow were all powerful spells. However, most magicians rarely chose to use water magic as their main fighting method before level-seven, because it was too difficult to learn.
Almost all of these level-seven spells could be advanced to level-eight, saving magicians time to learn new spells. When advancing to level-nine, there would be another peak spell in water magic, which was a mature spell.
Rafael had made a superb summary of the six types of magic, so Salin no longer cared about the shortcomings of his Magic String. Anyway, if he studied water magic, his combat power would not be lower than other magicians after he became a Magic Shooter.
After Salin advanced to a fifth-rank magus, Nelis fell into a deep sleep again. She absorbed the heart essence of the Tiago Dragon and improved again. Now, her strength had surpassed that of the original Sika. It was just that he did not know if Sika would improve her strength again like Nelis after becoming a Battle Priest.
Salin was now very concerned about the strength of his equipment. The equipment he had was good, especially the devil suit. Last time, he was fine in the situation of elemental disorder. First, he had seen the opportunity early and canceled the magic he was using at that time. Second, the devil suit had an extremely strong stability, so the Magic String in his body was not affected by the elemental disorder at all.
It was just that the devil suit had existed for too long. Although the material was good, it was not suitable for a magician like Salin. In addition to learning level-five and level-six spells, Salin also spent part of his time every day learning Water Flame Alchemy. He was going to modify the devil suit himself. He was going to smelt the mageweath he learned from the Thunder Dragon into the devil suit.
He was not Nelis. It was impossible for him to control the mageweath to grow on his body. He did not know the three-dimensional magic in his pupils. Salin had a lot of expectations for the devil suit.
In essence, everything in the devil suit was priceless. For a magician, with such a suit, they would not have to worry about magic equipment.
After Salin advanced to level-five, he found that the space in the devil ring had increased. In other words, after he advanced to Magic Shooter, the space in the ring would expand to be enough for him to use.
After the devil bracelet was embedded with the dragon crystal, Salin almost did not need to use magic cores to restore the Magic String. Unless the dragon crystal was empty and needed to recover by itself.
The close-fitting devil magic robe was not a magic robe at all, because no magic robe could be stacked on the outside and worn on top of it. The devil magic robe had this ability. The double magic robe made the elemental environment around Salin extremely stable.
As for the devil magic book, its value was comparable to a gold magic book.
Salin had never developed the use of the magic book because his level was not high enough. After he advanced to Magic Shooter, the power of the magic book was reflected. He could pour magic into the gold and silver magic books at will and use it repeatedly. This was not like magic scrolls, which required a lot of materials, and was not limited by the level of the scroll.
The gold magic book could provide Salin with six level-seven spells, six level-eight spells, and six level-nine spells. The devil magic book could provide Salin with six unranked and unlimited spells. This way, Salin would have twenty-four more high-level spells than Magic Shooters of the same level.
What did twenty-four high-level spells mean? A large-scale level-seven spell could take care of dozens of swordsmen. Twenty-four high-level spells could kill thousands of swordsmen. A regular cavalry regiment consisted of ten thousand people, which was about a few hundred swordsmen.
These two magic books could allow Salin to defeat a cavalry regiment of ten thousand without exhausting his Magic String.
If he used scrolls to fight, other than the unbearable consumption, he also had to consider the difficulty of controlling the magic released by the scrolls. If he did not control the magic well, the lethality would decrease sharply. Swordsmen were not weak. If you could not use magic to lock onto them, with the speed of a swordsmen, it was not impossible to kill a Great Mage in close combat.
There were many swordsmen on the battlefield, and it was difficult to quickly distinguish them among the swordsmen. Mages rarely fought on the battlefield, because on the battlefield, if a mage could not fly, the death rate would not be low.
It took at least a few decades to train a Great Mage. Who would be willing to let a Great Mage take risks on the battlefield? Even if a mage went on the battlefield, he would be heavily protected by the soldiers, and would only act at the crucial moment.
But the magic books that Salin had could change this situation. From this, one could see how precious high-level magic books were.
Time flew by as he trained. In the blink of an eye, it was already deep winter. The city base was covered in snow. In such an environment, it was impossible for the Church to appear. The port was completely frozen. The warship of the Seriger Island was docked on a deserted island far away. There were also pirate ships. The warship was made of large amounts of high-level materials, so it would not disintegrate even if it was frozen. If the pirate ships were frozen, they would probably be completely destroyed.
Today, Salin was practicing Water Flame Alchemy. He could already release a ball of light blue water flame in his hand. He could control it for more than fifteen seconds, which was considered to be the beginner. Just as he was about to ask Neris about her progress, a level-2 Mage of the Seriger Island hurried into the temple. He came to Salin's room and whispered a few words in his ear.
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