The conjecture of "spiritual seal" has been confirmed.
The emergence of the Holy Light Rune Substrate allowed Cecil Territory researchers to experimentally observe the effect of the Soul Seal for the first time.
But this is undoubtedly not good news.
Magic belongs to the gods. Mortals can only "ask" for the gifts of gods through devout faith and obedience to dogma, thereby borrowing the power of divine magic. This has always been regarded as a natural truth. However, by analyzing the changes in druid magic, through the information provided by Kamel, and the living example of Wright as a "white knight", Gawain, Pittman and others jointly proposed the conjecture of "spiritual seal" and believed that The key to allowing mortals to master divine magic is to break this steel seal - and after seeing Amber's test, Gawain realized more deeply that it might not be that easy to break this steel seal.
Among the people Gawain knows, there is probably no one who is more disdainful to the God of Holy Light than this Elf Shame, but she still cannot break the influence of the steel seal on the soul, which means that the steel seal does not work on At the level of human thinking, it is an instinctive reaction that is difficult to control and difficult to detect.
As for what Wright mentioned just now, that Kamel is not affected by the soul seal, Gawain is not too surprised - Kamel is a senior researcher of the "Disobedience Project" thousands of years ago, and After spending a whole thousand years in a sealed life, his mental strength is probably only higher than that of Wright. Moreover, the project he researched back then was to steal the power of the gods. His soul seal may have been established as early as when he saw the giant deer. Morn's divine corpse had already disintegrated.
"Actually... this can be considered an unexpected gain," Gawain took the rune substrate in Wright's hand and couldn't help but sigh, "It has become an observation device for us to verify the soul seal. '..."
Then he put his fingers on the copper medium on the edge of the rune substrate and slowly injected magic into it: "Maybe... I can try it."
The pale golden lines on the rune base plate quickly brightened under the infusion of magic power. Almost in an instant, a pure and holy light condensed over the base plate.
"This..." Wright was stunned, "You...you actually broke the soul seal?!"
Amber also looked at Gawain passing the talisman as if he had seen a ghost. The Holy Light Technique released by Wen Jiban - the last time she showed this expression was when she watched the other party climb out of the coffin: "You can do it no matter what!"
Gowen just kept quiet. He looked at the ball of light floating in front of him and felt its stable and pure magic reaction, but he didn't feel much surprise in his heart.
Just as he expected - as a visitor from a foreign land and having nothing to do with the local gods, he was born without a spiritual seal.
A swift little figure flew to Gawain's side. Emily stretched out her hand towards the Holy Light, but hesitated and stopped halfway.
She raised her head and looked at Gawain, her big eyes full of expectation:"Can you give it to me?"
Although the little girl has a simple mind and a slightly different way of thinking from ordinary people, she obviously still knows that Gawain is the lord and cannot act randomly.
Gawain smiled slightly and put his hand on Emily's head: "Here you go."
The little girl happily took away the ball of holy light, while Amber He continued to look at Gawain with a ghostly look on his face: "I really can't tell... when did you break the steel seal of your soul?"
"The legendary hero who fought against the demonic tide seven hundred years ago, It's not surprising to have such a will." Wright said next to him, but although he explained this to Amber, he still had some doubts in his heart: the soul seal is a "lock" that cannot be detected by one's own will. Breaking it is not only It only requires a firm will, but also some unknown "awareness" and "thinking mutation", and the latter two factors actually have nothing to do with the strength of one's will.
How can ordinary people have sudden changes in their thinking under normal circumstances? He himself broke through the spiritual steel seal because of his long-term questioning and reflection on the God of Holy Light and the impact of the Emily incident. Kamel's breakthrough was due to his rebellious plan back then and the changes in his life form and thinking mode during the thousand-year sealing process. Change, then Gawain...
Did this legendary hero also disobey the gods back then?
Gawain noticed the confusion in Wright's eyes, but he did not intend to explain all this, but brought the topic back on track: "The soul seal prevents the user from using his own magic power to drive the Holy Light substrate, but If I'm not mistaken... this Holy Light Substrate is still usable, right?"
"As you said," Wright nodded, "The Soul Seal only affects the user's mobilization of himself. Magic power, but the holy light substrate is also a type of rune substrate. The rune substrate does not have to be driven by human magic power - it can be driven by the energy in the magic network, and the magic network... has no thoughts. "< /p>
The magic network has no thoughts, so it is naturally not affected by the so-called "spiritual seal". Using the automatically operating magic network to drive the holy light runes is tantamount to bypassing the "human" factor, and this This working method of casting spells based on magic nets and external equipment is the basis of Cecil's magic industry.
Cecil’s magic industry took advantage of the psychic seal’s loophole by some mistake.
But Gawain knew that things would not be that simple: "Using the magic network to power the Holy Light Rune Array... requires a very critical process."
Leiter was nervous. He opened his mouth, but before he spoke, Kamel's voice suddenly came from the direction of the church door: "It's the inversion array."
Gawain turned his head and saw that his whole body was filled with arcane radiance. Kamel was floating over here, and the arcane master said as he floated over: "I was going to report to you about the Holy Light Baseplate, but I didn't expect that you had already come to the church. I was already at the door just now. I heard you guys discussing the power supply issue of the Holy Light substrate."
"I happened to come over," Gao.Wen nodded and continued the topic, "The inverter array is a very sensitive thing. I believe that if you hadn't encountered a bottleneck in it, you would have shown me the results of the Holy Light Substrate - after all, the actual product They have all been produced."
"There were priests who tried to improve the magic and use magic to directly drive the Holy Light Array, but were burned to ashes by divine punishment - the experience of previous failures, we have to. Treat it with caution," Kamel said in a serious tone, "We don't know what the nature of gods is, but the phenomenon of 'divine punishment' does exist."
At this point, he paused and looked. Xiang Wright: "Fortunately, Wright broke the steel seal and awakened the White Knight's ability. By detecting the energy flow when he cast spells and deducing the spell model he sensed, we reconstructed a new holy light array. In the array The structure that established the connection with the God of Holy Light was completely eliminated, blocking the judgment process of 'God's Punishment'. Subsequent experiments proved that this processing is effective, but if we supply energy to the Holy Light substrate through the inverter array... ...It is very possible to re-establish this dangerous connection."
Although the pure magical energy flowing in the magic network is a convenient and easy-to-use universal energy source, it cannot be used because it is too "universal". Provide energy for the magical rune system. The divine rune system can only accept two types of energy, one is the corresponding divine magic power (such as the holy light energy stored in the holy light crystal), and the other is the magic power modulated by human spiritual power. (The magic power of priests and other clergy, or the magic power of other extraordinary beings), and the pure magic energy in the magic network has not been processed by the "human" factor, so it is obviously not suitable for use.
Therefore, if you want to use the Magic Network to charge magical runes, you must use the "reverse array" technology developed by Pittman: the inverse array can replace the role of the "Prayer" , processing pure magic energy.
The inversion array is a mature technology that has been widely used in alchemy factories, but it is also a dangerous technology: it steals the authority of God.
After the inversion array appeared, Gawain issued an order. At this stage, this technology is only allowed to be used in the field of Druid magic - because the Druid god "The Giant Deer Amorn" "It has been confirmed that he is dead, and his divine corpse is suppressed in the Shadow Realm. Even if the inverse array is stealing natural divine power, there is no danger of divine punishment, but using the inverse array to power other divine spells is not necessarily the case. .
The other gods are still alive. Not only are they alive, they can also call their believers back (response to prayers)...
Although Gawain knows that all gods have died once, But there are various signs that the gods who were massacred by the Zentraedi people in ancient times have been resurrected. At least there is something sitting on the throne of the God of Holy Light. From the heart, Gawain is really I don’t want to attract the attention of any god on the throne at this stage...
Amber also realized the danger of the reverse array. She followed Gawain to get entangled, and after struggling for a long time, she had no confidence to speak. He said: "Just a little bitSteal a little... What if the God of Holy Light doesn't find it? "
Gawain immediately glared at this guy: "You have an occupational disease, right? What does stealing mean? Do you think it's you taking out someone's wallet in a tavern? "
Amber shrank her neck: "That's all I'm saying, can't you just say it..."
"The inversion array retains a large number of runes that simulate divine magic. structure, and this structure cannot be removed, it is likely to attract the attention of the 'gods', but on the other hand, in this whole process, the magic network that provides energy, the inverse array that converts energy, and the release In the rune substrate of divine magic, none of the three units have any 'mental' involvement. All people do is pull the rune trigger, so in theory this process can still bypass the 'divine punishment' judgment," Kamai Er said his own considerations, "The only thing we can't be sure about now is..."
Gawain spoke before Kamel finished speaking: "We can't be sure that the entire spell casting process is completely automatic, On the premise that the soul seal is not involved, it is impossible to determine whether the 'divine punishment' will still occur. It is also impossible to determine whether the action of 'pulling the trigger' also introduces human 'mental factors' into the spell-casting process. It is impossible to determine whether this will indirectly lead to 'divine punishment'. Punishment, right? "
"Everything is just as you said," Kamel's light flickered slightly, "Although the person just pulled the rune trigger to connect to this system, such a simple action as pulling the trigger ...is also the result of thinking.
Gawain frowned and couldn't help but whisper to himself: "Could it be related to the observer effect...the observer effect in the macroscopic world?" "
Kamel didn't hear clearly: "What did you say? "
"No, it's nothing," Gawain waved his hand, "I think 'pulling the trigger' should not be part of the spell casting process, because the spell casting process is a closed loop in the system composed of the magic network and the rune substrate. Structure, in the process of external manipulation, a person's mental power does not resonate with any magic power - and whether mental power is involved is an important sign of the spell-casting process. Of course, this is just my personal opinion, specifically... We must design an experimental protocol to verify it. "
Kamail nodded: "It is not difficult to formulate such an experimental plan. The difficult thing is how to ensure the safety of the experimental process - we may attract the attention of the gods. The price is too high. We Its hidden dangers must be addressed. "
Gawain looked at Kamel's eyes - or rather at the two groups of arcane radiance that were supposed to be his eyes: "What do you think? "
Kamael was silent for a moment and said slowly but firmly: "I applied to restart some laboratories in the Disobedience Fortress. "
Gawain did not answer him directly, but asked a question: "Is there anything else that can be used? "
"The laboratories in the outer fortress area have been completely destroyed, and all protection systems are offline, but the ones in the Disobedience Fortress... can still be used! ”