Stray Chapter 58: Illusions
Soft Voice.
Like other spell scrolls purchased by Xia Ran, they all come from magic in a very classic game "The Elder Scrolls 5". Although it is the most basic entry-level spell, it is classified in the illusion department.
Xia Ran is more impressed by this, because this game exists in the real dimension. Although it is an old game many years ago, from the current point of view, there are many shortcomings.
But after all, it is a precious memory of his past, and it was indeed very popular back then. Once it was released, it was accompanied by "Paladin, Paladin, let his blood and soul scatter! What is suffering? What is hardship? Throw it into the sea!" Songs of the Dragonborn are all the rage.
Until now, Xia Ran still remembers how much energy he had put into that game, but because he really has no talent in the game, he has always used the most powerful and boring genre.
It can be said that illusion and stealth are almost compulsory, so he naturally remembers the significance of whispering to the entry of illusion.
However, that is the setting of the game after all. In reality, it is not clear whether it can still be based on the experience of the strategy. Even if the power of the law of white space ensures the versatility of related spell abilities, it will not even copy the game mechanics.
Although it is the most basic entry-level magic, it is still magic. It belongs to an extraordinary skill and is no longer an ordinary skill at the mortal level. Therefore, this time Xia Ran's learning took more time than before.
It was already early morning when the skill scroll that recorded the whispering technique suddenly shattered, scattered into a blur of light particles, and disappeared.
Xia Ran sat in front of the desk for a while, then shook her head, and the next moment she suddenly felt a burst of dizziness in her brain, but this feeling came quickly and went away. quick.
It was only then that he realized that he had been studying intently for more than three hours. During this period, his attention was highly concentrated, and he was always firmly tense, and he did not relax for even a second.
"It's really profound..." He muttered, raising his fingers to rub between his brows, and it took a while to feel that the bulging feeling caused by receiving a lot of information in a short period of time eased.
Because of the impression left by the game, of course he knew that the so-called illusion system was not a simple trick, nor was it a trick such as performing magic, but a magic that could affect the sensory thinking and spiritual mind of the target object.
The specific application seems to be to control or harm the target, or to improve the target's morale, to calm or unite the target by means of coercive orders, demoralization, and silence or paralysis.
Illusions can also grant the target substantial abilities like invisibility, night vision, translucency, etc., etc.
Or to put it more simply, it's like the whispering technique he has just learned and mastered-
Its effect is to cancel the sound of the caster's own actions.
Of course, it can also be changed to another reasonable and well-founded statement. It does not eliminate the voice of the caster, but affects the mental thinking of everyone around him, including the caster himself, making them inaudible. sound.
So, in theory, this should be a principle mechanism that acts directly from the spiritual level and interferes with others? Moreover, the requirements for the use of the skill scrolls he purchased all require spiritual attributes first, followed by intelligence attributes and perception attributes.
The requirements of the former generally reach more than 10 points, and different spells have different deviations, but the requirements of the latter two only require a standard value of no less than 5 points.
This can also prove that illusion magic is a spiritual ability in a broad sense.
However, according to what Xia Ran has just learned, it is more accurate to explain that illusion can change the world around the caster and interfere with certain physical laws. This department is sometimes confused with the change department. The main reason is that both types interfere the original law of things.
However, the illusion system is not bound to the laws of nature like the change system. The power of the change system comes from nature, and its effects also exist from the perspective of the objective world. But the illusion system is only effective on the caster and the target, can change the visibility of the target, generate or erase light, generate or erase sound...
Wait blah blah.
"By manipulating light, it affects everything that light hits, because "light" itself is the purest magical energy, and an existence equivalent to the soul... So with the development of this kind of knowledge, illusion can not only affect the subject of magic It also becomes possible to directly affect the mind of the affected person by distorting the receiving end of the soul..."
Muttering to herself about the magic theory she just learned, Xia Ran felt as if she had understood something, but she seemed to be completely incomprehensible.
But this is also normal. He just started learning illusion magic, so he doesn't have to force too much. After all, it's like a baby has just started to grow, obviously it should be just learning to "crawl".
There is still some gap between "standing", and it is impossible to pursue "running" or even "flying" too far.
I didn't think about it too much. Xia Ran was very self-aware, but just took out the next skill scroll... Just when I was about to calm down, I found that it might have been too much energy before, and it's hard to focus now. Concentrate for a long time.
He had to continue to practice meditation first, while tempering his spiritual essence, while recovering his mental state. He planned to cycle like this, and then learn another illusion magic when it was close to the morning... and then wait until tomorrow night to continue. If it comes down like this, three You can learn everything in a day.
Even through the acquisition of skill scrolls, it is the same as locking the future with karma crystals. Once mastered, the relevant abilities will directly reach the level of proficiency, but the process of getting started is time-consuming.
After all, it is already the threshold of magic, and it involves more and more profound theoretical knowledge, which is very mysterious.
Even if it is a low-level introductory magic, it takes more than three hours to learn one. Xia Ran thinks that she should hurry up. The remaining four skill scrolls add up to twelve hours at least. calculate.
And he can't spend half a day in one go, and his mental state doesn't allow it, so he can only separate it, and it's arranged like this.
Different from whispering, the remaining four illusion spells are more advanced, not only affecting the subject's senses, but also the type of mind, which can make people violent or calm, enhance or eliminate the target Fighting morale...
Depending on the magic, the effect is different.
Courage can make the most timid cowards stand up and join the fight; Fear can break the courage of a strong warrior; Wrath can stimulate the irritability in the depths of the enemy's heart, reduce their endurance sharply, and even make the enemy They quarreled with each other.
Peace spell can greatly reduce the aggression of the target, so that it can think more calmly and rationally, and will not be easily blinded by negative emotions such as anger, hatred, and violence.
It can be said that although these four illusion spells are basic, if they are used well, they can cope with most situations and enemies.
——As long as his mental power is stronger than the target he wants to affect, or he doesn't encounter non-biological enemies that have no mental thinking like robots.
Considering the rules and regulation of white space, perhaps in the world of different dimensions that he can currently enter, he can really walk sideways.
It is worth mentioning that they are all illusions and magics that affect thinking and emotions. Compared with the other three, the learning requirements of calming art are the highest. It seems to cause strong emotions. It is much easier to withdraw from the emotions.
But he thought about it for a while, and it was indeed the truth——
It's easy to provoke someone into madness, even without the use of magic, a mysterious power that begins to be otherworldly. .
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When she walked out of the house the next day, Xia Ran stretched hard, feeling pretty good.
It seems that after a night of repeated consumption, recovery and tempering, the spiritual power has finally grown. Although the spiritual attribute itself has not increased, the growth factor has increased—
Because the white space did not digitize the value of this aspect, he could not see his health bar, nor his blue bar, but he knew that the upper limit of mental power had increased a bit compared to before.
Well, it shouldn't be a blue bar, right? The real blue bars should be special energy such as "spiritual power" and "magic power" that have been further refined and transformed.
But that's it for now. The most important thing is that Xia Ran feels that she has found the right exercise method. Perhaps improving mental strength will exercise physical fitness. It is not the best to maintain a full state, but to constantly consume, recover, and cycle.
Muscles are also in constant use. Through repeated muscle strength exercises, muscle volume increases and muscle strength increases. And if you don't make much effort all the time, you will definitely not improve for no reason.
In order to verify this truth, Xia Ran intends to maintain the release of the soft voice technique as much as possible today - practicing illusion and tempering mental power can be carried out simultaneously in a sense, without wasting time.
It didn't take long for Xia Ran to find out... using extraordinary spells is really a wonderful feeling.
Whether it's walking or running, or its own breathing, I can't hear it at all, and it was eliminated by the soft sound technique...
Even though in theory the so-called sound cancellation is an artificial illusion, the effect is the same. However, through experiments, he also discovered the limitations of this illusion magic, or his own limitations.
That is, the range of action seems to be only forty or fifty meters at present.
If the sound he made can't be heard at a distance of 40 or 50 meters, then it is just perfect. Those within the range of the soft voice technique ignore the sound, and those outside the range cannot hear the sound.
But if the sound is louder, it will cause an embarrassing contradiction. People close by don't hear the sound, but people far away hear it...
—Of course, perhaps in some cases, this feature is useful, for example, pretending to be a ghost or something.