Chapter 140 Experiments
The dust settles.
The scattered garbage was about to fall directly to the ground along with the broken wooden bracket, but was swept aside by the tentacles that suddenly stretched out from the shadow. In just a blink of an eye, the piled wooden rack, which was almost two-story high, turned into piles on the ground together with the things placed on it.
The tentacles not only blocked the fallen objects, but also cleared a road that could barely be walked in the alley under the operation of Liqi. The road was not injured, and the road had been opened up, but the boy who had been desperately trying to escape before could not continue to escape.
These tentacles made of shadows were helping him while also holding him firmly. Even if he wanted to struggle, the tied joints could not be able to escape from these vague "ropes". On the contrary, the more he struggled, the more these shadows would trap him tighter.
"You're really the right time, but when did you come here, I'll tell me a little bit." Curt first glanced at the boy trapped by tentacles, then at Liqi who was operating the spell, "And your spell is really fun..."
Even though he had not learned much about spells, Curt knew that the shadow tentacles used by Liqi to bind the teenager were a spell that was hated by most sorcerers, and the basic function of this spell was often not used to protect the people below in collapsed fallen objects.
Of course, Liqi's method of using this spell is not a mistake. After all, she has successfully achieved her goal, and as for the number of methods, she can ignore it.
In order to prevent the young man who was finally captured from doing anything extreme, not only his limbs, but also his mouth was forced to be stretched out by a small shadow. He didn't even want to commit suicide, so he could only watch Cott and Liqi talking nonstop not far away in front of him. His face also showed a complicated expression of three points of anger and seven points of fear.
"Slaying two birds with one stone, simple and effective."
In one sentence, eight words clearly explain Liqi's principle of choosing spells - spells are just a tool, and there is no distinction between good and evil. What is used only depends on the choice of the user. She will not think that any spell is bad, as long as it is indeed effective in the current situation.
"I saw that I came out of my house when you started chasing this guy. I was very interested in the dagger he held in his hand, and it seemed that some interesting spells were attached to it."
After saying that, Liqi glanced at the boy who was still twisting his body in the tentacle group, and said with kind advice: "Okay, you can't escape anyway. Just be honest. I don't want to use violent means for the time being, so you'd better not force me to deal with you seriously."
After saying that, she snapped her fingers, and a small tentacle near the outer periphery of the tentacles slowly reached in front of the boy's eyes. The blue-white light flashed on the tip of the tentacles - undoubtedly. That was what Liqi called "violent means". The crackling current seemed very dangerous.
No matter who it is, after being hit hard by the electric current, it is basically hard to forget that feeling. The hot burning sensation and severe pain are even the strongest people will sweat coldly all over. Excessive electric shock will also cause some things in his body to flow out while robbing people of consciousness.
Shocked by Liqi's obvious threat, the boy shrank for a moment. In contrast, the struggle that had already seemed powerless had become lighter. Taking advantage of his cringe, a slightly slender tentacle took out the dagger that had been grabbed by him from the boy's clothes.
It was a twisted snake-shaped dagger, with a silver-shiny blade that looked quite sharp. The hilt carved from the wood depicted spiral patterns. The blade depicted ancient text in rough brushwork, because the magic power stored in it was not well-made enough floated out of the blade.
"It's really interesting. This should be the dagger used by some pagans when performing rituals. It is usually used to peel off the skins sacrificed to those pagan gods." Looking at the dagger rolled up by tentacles, Liqi analyzed the spell structure attached to it with interest. "And the spells on it... Although I have never seen such a structure, it seems to make the holder of this dagger look like a person who has been hurt by it."
There are many magic effects. Summoning dark clouds that can bring heavy rain during drought, controlling the falling rocks at the moment of the rock collapse... In the eyes of ordinary people, this is almost a miraculous existence. The sorcerers are the ones who exercise these "miracles".
But these are not illusory miracles, but are indeed feasible human behaviors. With the power of human beings, they can do these things to a certain extent. Using their own knowledge and technology to drive magic power, and through special means, they can achieve powerless behaviors for ordinary people. This is the ability of a magician.
But spells are not omnipotent - rather, their limits are quite obvious. The upper limit of the user's magic capacity, the control of the manipulation power and the complexity of the spell itself, will affect the difficulty of casting a spell. In fact, summoning rain clouds in arid areas not only requires consideration of the level of the spell, but also whether the local natural environment allows the casting of spells.
The ability of spells may be very common, but what will happen if the abuse of spells is used as a teaching material in the past history. Using human power to fight against the entire nature is often disastrous. Using the wrong spell because of a seemingly "reasonable" choice will eventually lead to a thousand times worse than the worst situation you can imagine.
Similarly, no matter how powerful a person is, the capacity of magic power in his body is ultimately limited - it is necessary to successfully realize high-intensity spells. Energy will neither be generated out of thin air nor disappear out of thin air. The energy conversion of magic power is just to change its form and convert it into other forms.
Based on this principle, the larger the scale of the spell, the more magic power it requires. When it exceeds a certain limit, the spell has exceeded the level that human power can control. It is not that magic power is insufficient, but that its scale has exceeded the control of human power and it is difficult to rely on human power for tuning.
Spells can do many things that "should not be able to do", but they have not yet reached the level of omnipotence. Researchers have not yet discovered where the real limit lies, but only know how to find the possibility of getting closer to the limit or even surpassing the boundaries through continuous research and improvement.
Yes, there are limits to the spells that humans can drive. How to nimblely mobilize magic power to drive spells in this limit? The knowledge learned by the spell is to do this. If the rain clouds cannot be summoned, then create a scoop of clear water; if there is no way to control the falling rock, then protect the people under the falling rock. The direct method does not work, then change to an alternative method that can achieve similar effects.
Spells do give humans an opportunity to act inconsistencies and also prompt the differentiation of some people, but it does not just provide a convenient tool for humans. Spells and spell-related knowledge tell humans more about a possibility.
"Can the holder of this dagger look like someone he has hurt?"
Curt repeated the original words that Liqi said, and then asked the black girl with some confusion: "What do you mean is that this dagger can 'change the user's body' rather than just 'simulating a similar illusion'? This should be a very advanced spell..."
Maybe it seems less than some phenomena that sound like human power cannot reach, but it is already quite difficult to directly change a person's appearance and turn him into another person. Even if you use spells to change the structure instead of creating a specious image, this is not a task that can be easily accomplished.
"Don't you believe my inference?" Liqi played with the dagger playfully, gently stroked the smooth surface of the snake-shaped dagger with her fingertips. "Would you like to try it? Take this dagger and stab me. I guess you will not be able to become me soon."
It’s not that Curt doesn’t believe Liqi’s interpretation of this spell, but that Liqi’s interpretation results are somewhat different from what he always knows.
In Curt's impression, the spells that change the system belong to the more difficult category in most magic schools, and are regarded as the flower of the high mountain among spells, just like summoning spells. For most magicians, both are complex spell subjects that can only be viewed from a distance but are difficult to reach.
Curt shook his hand and did not take the snake-shaped dagger handed over by Liqi: "No, let's forget about this - I neither want to stab you with this dangerous thing, nor have I am interested in becoming you. I believe your judgment, I am just curious why this little devil was holding a knife with a spell change."
Changing a person's structure - even if it is only changed for a while - requires a lot of magic power. Moreover, this spell is very unstable because it is a composer structure that is forced to change, so it is extremely easy to cause abnormal sequelae due to some small abnormalities.
It is really hard to understand why to have an under-ripe attacker possessing a priest dagger with expensive spells. Even if the other two can be abandoned as consumables, the additional spell alone is more expensive than the two of them combined.
"Ha, what's so strange about this."
Liqi chuckled softly, and it seemed that she could see what he was thinking from Curt's eyes: "This dagger should be a trial product, this little ghost... Of course, there may be some of his companions who are experimental products. They used these daggers just to test the effects of these trial products."
Her eyes tilted to the boy tied up by tentacles, with a hint of sarcasm on the corner of her mouth. (To be continued, please search for Piaotianwen, the novel is better and faster!
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