The conjecture of the "Mind Stamp" was confirmed.
The appearance of the holy light rune board allowed Cecil's researchers to observe the effects of the Mind Stamp for the first time through experiments.
But this was undoubtedly not good news.
The divine arts belonged to the gods, and mortals could only "pray" for the gods' grace through devout faith and obedience to the dogma to borrow the power of the divine arts. This had always been taken for granted. But after analyzing the changes in Druil's divine arts, the information provided by Kamel, and the living example of the "White Knight", Gwen, Pitman, and the others jointly proposed the conjecture of the "Mind Stamp" and believed that the key to allowing mortals to master the divine arts was to break this stamp. And after seeing Amber's test, Gwen realized that it was not that easy to break this stamp.
Among all the people Gwen knew, there was probably no one who despised the God of Holy Light more than this disgrace of the elves, but she still could not break the influence of the Mind Stamp. This meant that the stamp did not work on the human mind, but on an uncontrollable and undetectable instinctive reaction.
Gwen was not too surprised when Wright mentioned that Kamel was not affected by the Mind Stamp. Kamel was a senior researcher of the "Disobedience Project" a thousand years ago and had lived a sealed life for a thousand years. His will was probably stronger than Wright's, and his research project was to steal the power of the gods. His Mind Stamp had probably collapsed when he saw the corpse of Amoun the Giant Deer.
"Actually... this is an unexpected gain." Gwen took the rune board from Wright's hand and could not help but sigh. "It has become an 'observation device' for us to verify the Mind Stamp..."
Then he put his finger on the purple copper medium on the edge of the rune board and slowly injected magic into it. "Maybe... I can try."
The pale golden lines on the rune board quickly lit up as magic poured in. Almost in an instant, a pure and holy light condensed above the board.
"This …" Wright was dumbfounded. "You … you actually broke the Spirit Steel Seal?!"
Amber looked at Gawain's holy light as if she had seen a ghost. The last time she showed such an expression was when she saw Gawain crawling out of the coffin. "How can you do that?!"
Gwen calmly looked at the ball of light floating in front of him, feeling its stable and pure magic reaction, but he wasn't surprised.
It was just as he had expected. As a guest from another dimension, he could be said to be completely unrelated to the local Gods, so he naturally did not have a Spirit Steel Seal.
A small and nimble figure flew to Gwen's side. Emily reached out her hand towards the Holy Light, but hesitated and stopped halfway.
She looked up at Gwen, her big eyes full of expectation. "Can I eat it?"
Although the little girl was simple-minded and her way of thinking was slightly different from ordinary people, she obviously knew that Gwen was the lord and couldn't act recklessly.
Gwen smiled and put his hand on Emily's head. "It's for you."
The little girl happily took away the Holy Light, while Amber continued to look up and down at Gwen. "I really couldn't tell … When did you break the Spirit Steel Seal?"
"It's not surprising that the legendary hero who fought against the Demonic Wave 700 years ago has such willpower," Wright said. But although he explained it to Amber, he still had some doubts in his heart. The Spirit Steel Seal was a kind of "lock" that could not be detected by one's own willpower. Breaking it not only required a strong will, but also some kind of unknown "awareness" and "sudden change in thinking", and the latter two elements had nothing to do with the strength of one's willpower.
How could ordinary people have sudden changes in thinking under normal circumstances? He had broken through the Soul Stamp Seal because he had questioned and reflected on the God of Holy Light for a long time, as well as the impact of Emily's incident. Kamal had broken through the Soul Stamp Seal because of his disobedience plan, as well as the changes in his life form and thinking pattern during the thousand-year seal. Then, Gawain...
Did this legendary hero also disobey the gods?
Gwen noticed the doubt in Wright's eyes, but he did not intend to explain all this. Instead, he pulled the topic back on track. "The Spirit Steel Seal prevents the user from using their own magic to drive the Holy Light Substrate, but if I'm not wrong … this Holy Light Substrate can still be used, right?"
"As you said," Wright nodded. "The Spirit Steel Seal only affects the user's magic, but the Holy Light Substrate is also a kind of rune substrate. The rune substrate does not have to be powered by human magic. It can be powered by the energy of the Magic Net, and the Magic Net … has no mind of its own."
The Magic Net had no mind of its own, so naturally, it was not affected by the so-called Spirit Steel Seal. Using the Magic Net to power the Holy Light Rune was equivalent to bypassing the "human" factor. And this way of using the Magic Net and external equipment to cast spells was the foundation of Cecil's magic engineering industry.
Cecil's magic engineering industry had taken advantage of the loophole created by the Spirit Steel Seal through a freak combination of factors.
But Gwen knew that things were not that simple. "Using the Magic Net to power the Holy Light Rune Array … There is a very critical process in the middle."
Wright opened his mouth, but before he could speak, Kamel's voice suddenly came from the direction of the church door. "It's the Inversion Array."
Gwen turned his head and saw Kamel, who was full of arcane brilliance, floating over. The arcane master said as he floated over, "I was just about to report to you about the Holy Light Substrate, but I didn't expect you to come to the church already. I've just heard you discussing the power supply of the Holy Light Substrate outside the door. "
"What a coincidence." Gwen nodded and continued the conversation. "The Inversion Array is a very sensitive thing. I believe that if it weren't for the bottleneck, you would have shown me the results of the Holy Light Substrate. After all, the real thing has been produced."
"There was once a priest who tried to improve the divine spell and use magic to power the Holy Light Array directly. As a result, he was burned to ashes by the divine punishment. We have to treat this with caution," Kamel said in a serious tone. "We don't know what the nature of God is, but the phenomenon of 'divine punishment' does exist."
At this point, he paused for a moment and looked at Wright. "Fortunately, Wright broke the seal and awakened the ability of a white knight. By detecting the energy flow when he cast the spell and deducing the spell model he sensed, we were able to reconstruct a new Holy Light spell formation. We completely removed the structure that established the connection with the God of Holy Light in the spell formation and blocked the judgment process of 'Divine Punishment.' Follow-up experiments have proven that this method is effective. However, if we use the inversion formation to supply energy to the Holy Light substrate … it is highly likely that we will be able to reestablish this dangerous connection."
The pure magic energy flowing in the Magic Net was a convenient and useful universal energy source, but because it was too universal, it could not power the divine rune system. The divine rune system could only accept two types of energy. One was the corresponding divine magic power (such as the energy of the Holy Light stored in the Holy Light Crystal), and the other was the magic power that had been adjusted by the human mind (the magic power of priests and other clerics, or the magic power of other transcendents). The pure magic energy in the Magic Net had not been processed by the 'human' factor, so it was obviously not suitable for use.
Therefore, if they wanted to use the Magic Net to power the divine rune system, they had to use the 'Inversion Array' technology developed by Pitman. The Inversion Array could replace the role of the 'praying man' and process the pure magic energy.
The Inversion Array was a mature technology that had been widely used in alchemy factories, but it was also a dangerous technology: it was stealing the authority of the gods.
When the Inversion Array first appeared, Gwen ordered that the technology was only allowed to be used in the field of Druil's magic. This was because the god of Druil, Amoun the Giant Deer, had been confirmed to be dead, and his divine body was suppressed in the Realm of Shadows. Even if the Inversion Array stole the divine power of nature, there was no danger of divine punishment. But using the Inversion Array to power other divine spells was a different story.
The other gods were still alive. Not only were they alive, but they could also call their believers back (respond to prayers).
Although Gwen knew that all the gods had died once, there were signs that the gods who had been massacred by the Zenith people in ancient times had been resurrected. At the very least, there was something sitting on the throne of the God of Holy Light now. To be honest, Gwen really did not want to attract the attention of any of the gods on the throne at this stage.
Amber also realized the danger of the Inversion Array. She was in a dilemma with Gwen. After a long while, she said without much confidence, "Just a little bit … What if the God of Holy Light doesn't find out?"
Gwen immediately glared at her. "You have an occupational disease. What do you mean by 'a little bit'? Do you think this is like you picking people's wallets in the pub?"
Amber shrunk her neck and said, "I'm just saying. Can't I just say it?"
"The Inversion Array retains a large number of runic structures that mimic divine spells, and this structure cannot be removed. It is likely to attract the attention of the 'gods'. But on the other hand, in the entire process, the Weave that provides energy, the Inversion Array that converts energy, and the runic substrate that releases divine spells, these three units do not have any 'mind' involved. All humans do is pull the runic trigger, so theoretically, this process can still bypass the 'divine punishment'," Kamel said. "The only thing we can't be sure of is —"
Gwen did not wait for Kamel to finish and said, "We can't be sure whether the 'divine punishment' will still happen if the whole process is completely automatic and does not involve the Mind Steel Seal. We also can't be sure whether the 'pulling the trigger' will also introduce the 'mind factor' into the spellcasting process. We can't be sure whether this will indirectly lead to the 'divine punishment', right?"
"Everything is as you said." Kamel's body flashed slightly. "Although humans only pull the runic trigger to connect to the system, but the simple act of pulling the trigger … is also the result of the mind."
Gwen frowned and could not help but whisper to himself. "Is it related to the observer effect … the observer effect of the macroscopic world?"
Kamel did not hear him clearly. "What did you say?"
"No, it's nothing." Gawain waved his hand. "I think 'pulling the trigger' shouldn't be part of the spellcasting process because the spellcasting process is a closed loop structure in the Magic Net-Rune Substrate system. When a person is controlling it from the outside, their mental strength doesn't resonate with any magic power. The participation of mental strength is an important indicator of the spellcasting process. Of course, this is just my personal opinion. As for the specifics … we have to design an experiment to verify it. "
Kamel nodded. "It is not difficult to design such an experiment. The difficult part is how to ensure the safety of the experiment. We may attract the attention of the gods, and the cost is too great. We have to solve the hidden dangers."
Gwen looked into Kamel's eyes, or rather, into the two orbs of arcane light that were supposed to be his eyes. "What do you think?"
Kamel was silent for a moment before he said slowly but firmly, "I apply to restart part of the laboratories in the Defiant Citadel."
Gwen did not answer him directly. Instead, he asked a question. "Is there anything else that can be used?"
"The laboratories in the outer fortress area are all destroyed, and the defense system is all offline. But the ones in the Defiant Citadel … can still be used!"
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