"Nine Sacred Weapons?" The middle-aged knight finally recalled the origin of those golden weapons, or rather, their original form. They were two of the nine sacred weapons recorded in the Holy Grimoire — Longinus' Spear and the Wind Chaser's Sword of Blessing. If that was the case, those golden lights were most likely holy light.
The middle-aged knight was both shocked and angry. For dogs, the more ferocious they were when hunting, the more they would win the favor of their owners. But at the same time, as the owners, they had to guard against the backlash of their beloved hounds. So every hound would have a collar around its neck.
Punishment Paladins were the hounds of the Heresy Court, so they naturally had collars around their necks.
Ironically, Punishment Paladins were the secret armed forces cultivated by the temple and the servants of the gods. What they feared the most was Holy Power!
This was the biggest secret of the Heresy Court. Both Sacred Weapons and Holy Light could greatly suppress Punishment Paladins, making them extremely weak.
Generally speaking, a Punishment Paladin could fight three to five knights of the same level, while an ordinary Paladin could only fight two opponents of the same level. But an ordinary Paladin could fight three Punishment Paladins at once.
It was precisely because of the fatal weakness of Punishment Paladins that the Heresy Court could never betray the temple.
However, what the middle-aged knight did not understand was how an outsider knew about this secret. Of course, what shocked him the most was the two spells that Lin Li had just released. It was one thing to simulate the form of a sacred artifact, but it was another thing to simulate a sacred artifact with a strong holy aura.
The middle-aged knight had never seen anything like this in his life. How could someone outside the temple have Holy Power?!
"Have you heard of Mimicry Magic?" The Archmage was very patient, and he even gave the three Punishment Paladins a lesson about it.
The concept of Mimicry Magic had been proposed more than a hundred years ago.
It was common knowledge that there were many power systems in the Dawn Continent, each of which was independent of the other. For example, mages cast spells with their own magic power, physical professions acquired more power by strengthening their bodies, priests relied on godly power, orc priests used ancestral power, and dwarf alchemists emphasized on equivalent exchange.
In the beginning, each power system had its own standard for judging the strength of cultivators. However, people later realized that it was too troublesome to do so, and it was easy to cause misunderstandings when cultivators of different power systems communicated with each other. Therefore, all the power systems were divided into nine levels, which was the standard used in the Dawn Continent. Cultivators of the same level with different power systems wouldn't have too big of a difference in strength.
However, being comparable didn't mean that the power systems could be interconnected. The cultivators of each power system could only use the power of their own system and couldn't use the power of other systems. For example, priests couldn't use spells, and priests couldn't use alchemy in battles. This was an iron law that even children on the Dawn Continent understood.
However, as curious people, Mages didn't believe this rule. So, some Mages came up with the idea of Mimicry Magic.
To put it simply, since magic elements could mimic natural forms such as ice, fire, rain, and mist, why couldn't they mimic other forms of power?
When this theory was first proposed, it was very exciting. If the concept of mimicry magic could be realized, it would mean that mages would become omnipotent in the future. They would be able to fight with their bodies like warriors, use alchemy and ancestral power, and heal themselves with divine spells when they were injured. There would be no way for other professions to survive.
However, dreams were always beautiful, but reality was cruel.
It was only after countless interested mages devoted themselves to relevant research that they realized that the so-called mimicry magic was actually just a beautiful fantasy that had tempting prospects but had no chance of being realized at all.
In order to simulate another kind of power other than magic, the first thing to do was to deeply understand that kind of power and understand its basic rules. The barriers between different power systems were far greater than the mages could imagine. It was almost an insurmountable gap.
However, Mages didn't give up. The more difficult the challenge, the more attractive it was to them.
The Sorcerer's Association even issued a huge reward for outstanding contributions to the field of mimicry magic. This action further stimulated the enthusiasm of the Sorcerers on the subject of mimicry magic.
At that time, if two Mages met in a place where Mages lived, they would be mistaken for a Super Otaku who never left the magic tower if they didn't talk about Mimicry Magic.
In the end, the Grand Mages and Supreme Mages couldn't sit still anymore. They all took action. However, they were more rational than ordinary Mages and had a clearer understanding of the difficulty of this topic. So, they decided to work together and formed a research team.
The team included almost a dozen of the most famous Mages in the magic world at that time. After some research, they finally decided to use the ancestral power of the Orcs as a breakthrough.
This choice was actually very easy to explain. The majesty of the Gods had long been deeply rooted in people's hearts. It was recorded in the Holy Bible that holy power originated from the Gods. As a higher level of power, it was naturally difficult for mortals to control, so it was the first to be eliminated.
The pure energy of physical power and magic was too different. It was not easy to mimic. Also, Mages were not interested in close combat, which was not elegant at all. So, the second option was eliminated.
The alchemy of the dwarves was more like a way of exchange than pure power. No matter how powerful an alchemist was, if he did not have enough valuable things, he would not be able to exchange them for anything rare, so alchemy was eventually on the list of things to be abandoned.
In the end, the Mages turned their attention to the ancestral power of the Orcs. As a pure energy, the ancestral power had many similarities with magic. Unlike the Gods, humans were not afraid of the ancestors of the Orcs. No matter how they looked at it, using the ancestral power was the best choice.
The research went on for ten years. Later on, historians called this period of history the Lost Ten Years. It was because magic had been in a state of stagnation for ten years, with almost no development.
The root cause was that most of the mages had put their energy into the research of mimicry magic. This caused the research on other topics to be in a state of stagnation. As a result, the research team made little progress in mimicry magic. In the end, they had to give up. The Magic Association learned from this painful experience and decided to increase the investment in basic subjects.
In the end, the once incomparably popular mimicry magic quickly withdrew from the stage of history.
Today, the middle-aged Paladin heard this somewhat strange term again. Not only that, he also saw with his own eyes this magic that should have only existed in the legends.
Rob raised his staff, and a golden Holy Bible appeared in his hand. The Archmage weighed it twice, as if he was estimating its weight. This action fell into the eyes of the three Punishment Paladins without a doubt, a great disrespect to the Gods.
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