Chapter 100 The Human Pendulum, the Messenger Summoning Technique
Chapter 100 The Human Pendulum, the Messenger Summoning Technique
The next day, after Loon finished his meditation and stored the Grass and Wood Entanglement spell in a temporary spell slot, he knocked on the small bell in the room. The Knight Lulang, who was guarding outside, then rang the large bell three times to indicate that he was ready.
A moment later, the melodious chimes began to echo rhythmically.
Luo Ang paused for a moment in the room, and then followed the rhythm of the bell, performing the steps of the Big Dipper.
After two rounds of bell tolls, Luo Ang's rhythmic footsteps blended with the sound of the bells.
At this moment, Luo Ang began to channel his mental energy, connecting and transforming within the meditation space to construct a spell model.
After three more rounds of chimes, the temporary spell was ready—two more rounds later, Loon rang the small bell to tell Knight Lulang that the rhythm of the chimes could stop.
As soon as Loon stopped, the Crimson Wizard immediately rang the small bell.
A moment later, the bell outside rang again, but the rhythm was completely different from the previous one.
Meanwhile, the Crimson Wizard beside her was also learning new spells by following the rhythm of the bells.
After signing the contract, the Crimson Wizard used a new spell to exchange the levitation spell model with Loon.
—The new spell is called Messenger Summoning.
Its effect is just as its name suggests.
It is possible to temporarily summon a nearby animal to act as a messenger, carrying a message or a "token" from one place to another and delivering it to another person.
If this animal is summoned from the sea, it will be a water beast; if it is summoned from the land, it will be a bird or a beast.
The most interesting thing about this spell is that the 'token' it carries is based on weight.
In other words, if Loang casts a levitation spell on himself and then casts the 'Messenger Summoning Spell,' he can use himself as a 'token' and have an animal messenger carry him from one place to another.
For wizards, flying mounts are extremely difficult to find—firstly, birds have limited carrying capacity.
Even if a wizard can cast a levitation spell on himself, the stamina of an ordinary bird is still a major problem.
Moreover, birds are small in size and have small brains—they are not very bright.
Taming is difficult, subduing is difficult, and getting the bird to understand the shaman's commands to "take off" and "land" is even more difficult.
With the 'Messenger Summoning Technique', and in combination with the 'Linguistic Technique', Loon could use a temporarily summoned flying messenger as a flying mount until he found a suitable one.
However, this Animal Summoning spell is the most complex spell that Loon has ever seen, even more complex than the Boiling spell, with a total of twenty-eight spell nodes.
Moreover, this spell model is not only dynamic, like the Boiling spell, but also involves a more mysterious change within the spell nodes.
—There are four spell nodes, corresponding to the 'sending space' and 'sender's aura or mark', 'receiving space' and 'receiver's aura or mark' respectively.
That space is not a 'spatial coordinate system', but a map—for example, the terrain outline of the Iron Felt City.
After casting the spell to summon the animal messenger, Loon constructed the corresponding terrain or building shape and filled it into the spell node of 'message receiving space'. He then constructed the 'recipient's aura or wizard's mark' and filled it into the corresponding spell node.
When the messenger flies by, it will stop at the corresponding terrain and landform, and then deliver the message to the corresponding target by comparing the 'aura' or 'mark'.
Normally, an animal's brain capacity is insufficient to comprehend this information.
However, after being influenced by the "Messenger Summoning Technique," the summoned animal messengers will develop some spirituality during the delivery process, enabling them to understand the existence of the terrain, detect "auras or marks," and compare "auras and marks."
Furthermore, they actively avoided dangers during the delivery process.
If a wizard is lucky enough, he might recruit a messenger from location A to destination B, and then the wizard at destination B might recruit that same messenger to be his messenger, sending the message back from location B to location A...
After this cycle repeats several times, the messenger's spirituality will greatly increase, and the possibility of it becoming a raging beast or even a magical beast will also greatly increase.
But that's where the problem lies.
There is relatively little mutual trust among wizards, and the animal messengers summoned are not necessarily yours to keep. If the messenger is fierce or beautiful enough, wizard A might summon such a messenger to deliver the letter to wizard B, and wizard B might then detain the messenger upon receiving the letter, or the messenger might be shot down by a hunter on the way.
Or perhaps the messenger isn't strong enough or pretty enough, so the messenger B doesn't find him attractive enough and uses the same summoning spell to send him back to wizard A... Such a messenger, before he's had enough summoning attempts and before his spirituality has awakened, is likely to be hunted down by other birds of prey during the gap in his "waiting for summoning" period, in an unfamiliar environment...
In short, theoretically speaking, the Messenger Summoning spell is very beneficial for messengers to become magical beasts... but theoretically speaking, it is difficult for messengers summoned by the Messenger Summoning spell to survive until they become magical beasts.
Listening to the rhythm of the bell, as usual, Luo Ang slightly depleted his mental energy by using the Thunderclap Technique to record the spell structures he had seen in his bloodline. After playing with the puzzle for a while, Luo Ang took out his notebook and began to ponder other spells.
After overcoming the difficulties with the "Boiling Spell," Loen realized another problem.
Even at the wizarding apprentice stage, wizards should try to learn as many other spells as possible—they may not use them, but they must learn them!
The reason is also very simple.
Only after you have learned a spell can you truly know the effect of the spell after it is cast, and whether the spell is suitable as a temporary spell.
He made progress on the path of a wizard, gaining an extra temporary spell slot. However, because he couldn't find a suitable spell, the temporary spell slot had to be left vacant, wasting more than two months. Loon didn't want to experience such a lesson again.
"Currently, I have a total of ten level zero spells at my disposal."
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