Inside the mirror space of Yin Forest.
Angor logged out of the game and returned to the mirror space as soon as possible.
He walked up the stairs and arrived at a classroom on the first floor.
The door of the classroom was ajar. Angor pushed it open with a little push.
Inside, Lady Keisha was lying on a desk with her wig hanging loosely over her head. If it weren't for the faint soul glow around her, she would look like she was sleeping.
The sound of Angor opening the door seemed to "wake" Keisha up. She looked at the door in confusion.
When she finally saw Angor's face, she slowly came back to her senses and floated up from the desk.
"You're back?"
Angor didn't answer. Instead, he looked down at the desk where Keisha was lying on.
There was a magic scroll on the desk that she had covered with her hair.
It was the Requiem Rune Angor gave to Keisha.
The reason why Keisha didn't show any signs of agitation and looked like she was asleep was because she was enjoying the effects of Soul Calming.
Keisha noticed Angor's gaze and felt a little embarrassed. "I've been feeling a bit emotional lately, so I used the Requiem Rune to calm myself down."
Before Angor could say anything, Keisha quickly changed the topic. "Let's not talk about that. Oh right, I've finished the blood ink you asked me to make, mister."
Keisha pointed at a bottle of blood ink on another desk. "Do you want to check it?"
"I saw it just now. Blood Ink did a great job." Angor saw Keisha first, and then Blood Ink was the next person he saw.
While talking to Keisha, Angor already used his spirit feelers to check the blood ink.
The blood ink was crimson in color, but there were specks of soul light flickering within it, like a crimson sunset bringing a starry sky with it.
This was the "Soul Ink" Angor was looking for.
Keisha made the blood ink perfectly, which meant she didn't stay idle for the whole night.
"Is there anything else I can help you with?" Keisha asked. "If there's nothing else, I'll be on my way —"
"Not yet —" Angor suddenly stopped. "Wait, here are ten scrolls. You can check them first."
Earlier, he carefully selected 20 runes related to Soul Control from Enchantment Cyclopaedia: For Beginners.
Ten of them required Soul Blood Ink, so he hadn't drawn them yet.
He had already finished the other ten runes.
Originally, he wanted to let Keisha try it all at once after drawing all 20 mageweaths. However, after thinking about it, he decided to test the 10 mageweaths that he had drawn first.
Perhaps there was a mageweath that could stop the dissipation of Soul Power among the 10 mageweaths?
Keisha didn't say no to his request.
Her mission was to test the scroll anyway, and it was not a difficult task. Angor would even give her the scroll after the test was over. She was more than happy to do it.
Following Angor's instruction, she began to try the pictures one by one.
"When I step on this magic scroll, I feel like I'm stuck in a quagmire, and I can't move at all. My Soul Power is still dissipating, but it's not as efficient … "
"This magic scroll can also slow down the dissipation of soul power. However, it can make you feel cold from the inside out, as if you're frozen …"
"This one is better than the other two. I feel like I'm stuck in a clay pot, and I can't move at all. But my Soul Power still can't be completely sealed …"
"This one's not bad either …"
Keisha knew that Angor cared most about whether his Soul Power would dissipate when he was relaxed. That was why she used this as the basis for her evaluation.
In terms of the dissipation of soul power, these ten magic scrolls were all better than the ones Zhang Tie had tested last time.
However, judging from the effect of the mageweath, Keisha still preferred the Requiem mageweath.
Angor sighed in his mind after listening to Keisha's explanation. These ten runes were still not good enough.
Still, he could see that "Soul Control" runes could indeed slow down the dissipation of Soul Power. However, none of the runes could completely stop the dissipation of Soul Power.
Angor waved a hand. "You can leave now. Take these scrolls with you. They're all yours."
Keisha looked delighted. "Okay, I'll be going now. Call me if you want to test them."
Although the effects of these mageweaths were not of much use to Keisha, Still, free things were always the best.
Keisha happily left the classroom with the scrolls in her arms.
When Angor was alone in the classroom, he sat down and began another round of drawing.
This time, he was going to use Soul Ink to draw new scrolls.
Since he had already determined the runes, he could draw them much faster this time.
In less than five minutes, he finished drawing ten runes.
However, he did not call Keisha in right away. Instead, he took out a notebook and recorded the results of the ten runes Keisha tested.
According to the speed at which Soul Power dissipated, the runes were sorted.
Next, he analyzed the runes in three dimensions: efficiency, effect, and effect on the soul. He was trying to find the real reason for the speed at which Soul Power dissipated.
Time passed bit by bit.
Several hours later, the horn of dawn sounded outside.
Angor finally looked up from his desk.
After a night of analysis, he did find some patterns. However, these patterns were not easy to explain. They were more like flashes of inspiration.
Perhaps, after obtaining more data, he would be able to conclude the corresponding pattern.
With that in mind, he looked at the "square" pattern on the blackboard and summoned a Hand of Spell. He gently tapped on the square.
Keisha was the creator of the "square". She was enjoying her beauty in front of her dressing table when Angor tapped on it. She immediately sensed a soul pull.
Two seconds later, Keisha's spirit body came out of the square pattern on the blackboard.
"Is there anything I can do for you?" Keisha didn't mind being summoned. She smiled at Angor.
Angor pointed at a stack of scrolls on the desk not far away.
Keisha nodded. "I understand. I'll start now."
Without saying a word, Keisha floated to the desk and placed the ten magic scrolls on the desk. Starting from the rightmost scroll, she activated them one by one and tested them one by one.
"This magic pattern gives me a very intimate feeling … However, it can only slow down the rate at which my Soul Energy dissipates by a very, very small amount."
"This one feels familiar too. It seems to be a binding effect. It can slow down the speed, but not by much."
Keisha tested several more scrolls in a row. Her answers were basically the same.
Judging from the rate of Soul Power dissipation, these scrolls did not even surpass the first Spirit Stream scroll.
When she reached the last two scrolls, Keisha could not help but ask.
"Why do all the mageweaths in this batch give me a sense of familiarity?"
"Also, they all have Soul Control effects, but I feel like I can get rid of them easily …"
"Because I used your soul energy to create the blood ink."
The blood ink contained Keisha's soul power. Therefore, to Keisha, these magic scrolls would give her a sense of intimacy. Also, they would not be able to control Keisha as much as before.
"I didn't know Soul Ink had such a thing … So, if we fight and you use these scrolls on me, they won't work as well?"
Angor was speechless.
Fight? Why? What's wrong with your mind?
"I'm just curious … What if a Rune Warlock's Soul Power was used by his enemy, and he doesn't know about it? Won't he suffer a great loss in the fight? "
"… No, I won't."
A Rune Warlock was not an idiot. Before using the scroll, he could tell whether the scrolls had anything to do with his enemy.
Besides, would the enemy leave their Soul Power to a Rune Warlock? Wouldn't they be cursed from afar?
After all, many Magi could curse someone to death just by using the remnants of their pheromones. Moreover, if the power of one's soul origin was captured by someone else, then as long as the mageweath Warlock had any ill intentions, one could forget about leaving alive.
Of course, if the Rune Warlock was an idiot and did not know that the scrolls had something to do with his or her enemy, he or she would suffer a great loss.
But at most, it would only be Soul Control Runes that would be affected.
Offensive Runes would not care about the source of the scrolls. They would only care about the power of the scrolls.
Keisha sighed in disappointment. "And here I was imagining you using these scrolls against me, only to find that they don't work, and I kill you instead … But I don't think that's going to happen."
Angor did not know what to say. Isn't that a little ridiculous?
Why would I do that to you? I'm not someone who will get rid of you after you've outlived your usefulness.
Besides, even if I do, I won't use the scrolls. I'll just shoot them and kill them with one shot.
Angor did not bother to answer. He pointed at the two remaining scrolls on the table and gestured for Keisha to go ahead.
Keisha understood. She stood on her tiptoes and floated onto the table.
She stepped on one of the scrolls with her bare feet and used her Soul Power to activate the rune.
Keisha closed her eyes and sensed the rune. Half a minute later, she said, "It's not an offensive Rune."
"???"
Hey, what are you imagining now? Don't be so paranoid!
Keisha coughed, and continued, "This mageweath has a better effect than all the previous mageweaths."
Keisha tried to recall what she felt before.
The moment she stepped on the scroll, she felt everything around her changed. It was as if she had fallen into a new space.
She felt like she was in a sealed room where the air was extremely thin and empty. Even time seemed to have stopped.
Whenever she was in such a place, Keisha always imagined that she would be attacked by blades or monsters at any moment. That was why she said "it's not an offensive Rune".
The sealed space only magnified the weak side of people's hearts and made them think of bad things.
However, since the ink used to draw the rune was made using Keisha's Soul Power, the sealed space felt very familiar to Keisha.
This familiar feeling made the walls around her feel less oppressive.
This was because Keisha felt that she could easily break through these four walls.
And she was right. She broke free from the sealed space and returned to the outside world without much effort.
"When I was in that sealed space, the rate at which my soul power dissipated was much slower than it would have been under normal circumstances."
For example, under normal circumstances, if Keisha released the restriction on her soul power, the amount of soul power dissipated would be 100 units per second. Under the effect of the Spirit Stream Rune, her Soul Power would dissipate 50 Soul Powers per second.
But now, when she was in the "sealed space" created by the rune, her Soul Power only dissipated 100 Soul Powers per ten seconds.
Normally, she would only dissipate one Soul Power every ten seconds.
This effect was better than all the runes he saw before.
Angor listened to Keisha's explanation and fell into deep thought. In his opinion, this rune was about the same as the other runes he saw before.
Even its level was about the same. In fact, it was even weaker than some of the runes he saw before.
But why was this mageweath so effective at controlling the dissipation of soul power?
Angor pondered for a few seconds and came up with an answer. Did it have something to do with the "sealed space"? Was it because she was in a sealed space that her Soul Power was trapped inside?
Angor wasn't sure if this was the right idea, but he might be able to find a way to find out more about this.
"What's this rune called?" Keisha asked curiously.
"Haunted House," Angor said.
"What?" Keisha was surprised.
"Haunted House Rune. It's called Haunted House. It's meant to be used together with other runes. "
If it was used with trap-type or illusion-type runes, it could cause people to lose their sense of direction and fall into all kinds of strange traps.
"If that's the case, then I was right …"
When she was in the sealed space, she had a feeling that she was about to be attacked.
"… A Haunted House Rune alone. There are no ghosts at all. It's just a cage for spirits. "
Keisha wanted to say something else, but Angor quickly cut her off. "Let's not talk about Haunted House Runes for now. If you're curious, I'll make you a complete Haunted House Rune later. It can be used together with trap-type and illusion-type runes.
"Now, let's finish the last rune first."
Keisha looked at the last scroll on the table.
(End of Chapter)
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