Chapter 461 Disobedience

The conjecture of "Mind Stamp" was confirmed.

The appearance of the Holy Light rune board allowed the researchers in Cecil to observe the effect of the Mind Seal through experiments for the first time.

But this is undoubtedly not good news.

Divine magic belongs to the gods, and mortals can only "pray" for the gifts of the gods through devout belief and obedience to the dogma, so as to borrow the power of magic. This has always been taken for granted. Based on the information provided by Carmel, and the living example of Wright as a "white knight", Gawain, Pittman and others jointly proposed the conjecture of "spirit seal", and believed that the key to allowing mortals to master magic It is to break this steel seal - and after seeing Amber's test, Gawain realized more deeply that it may not be so easy to break this steel seal.

Among the people Gawain knew, I am afraid that no one is more disdainful of the God of Light than this elf's shame, but she still can't break the influence of the mental seal, which means that the steel seal does not act on the level of human thinking, but An instinctive reaction that is difficult to control and imperceptible.

As for what Wright mentioned just now, Carmel is not affected by the mental seal, Gawain is not too surprised - Carmel was a senior researcher of the "disobedience plan" thousands of years ago, and spent a whole thousand years. Compared with Wright, the strength of his mind is probably only higher than that of Wright, and the project he studied back then was to steal the power of gods, and his mind seal was probably as early as when he saw the corpse of Julu Amoen. has collapsed.

"Actually... this is also an unexpected gain," Gawain took the rune board in Wright's hand and couldn't help sighing, "It has become our 'observation device' to verify the mental seal..."

Then he put his finger on the 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 substrate quickly brightened during the magic infusion, and almost in an instant, a pure and holy brilliance condensed above the substrate.

"This..." Wright was stunned, "You... you actually broke the mental seal?!"

Amber also watched Gawain's holy light technique released through the rune board like a ghost - the last time she showed this expression was when she watched the other person climb out of the coffin: "You can do it!"

However, Gawain just quietly looked at the ball of light floating in front of him, feeling its stable and pure magic reaction, but he didn't have many surprises in his heart.

Just as he expected——as a foreign visitor, who can be said to have nothing to do with the local gods,

Born without a mental seal.

A swift little figure flew to Gawain's side, Emily reached out to the Holy Light Mission, but hesitated and stopped halfway through.

She raised her head and looked at Gao Wen, her big eyes full of anticipation: "Can you give me something to eat?"

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 a lord, so she can't just mess around.

Gawain smiled slightly, and put his hand on Emily's head: "Here it is for you."

The little girl happily hugged the ball of holy light, while Amber continued to look up and down with a ghostly look on Gao Wen: "I really can't tell... When did you break the mental seal?"

"It's not surprising that the legendary hero who fought against the magic tide seven hundred years ago has such a will." Wright said next to him, but although he explained to Amber in this way, he still had some doubts in his heart: the mental seal is a kind of impossibility. Breaking the "lock" detected by one's own will requires not only a firm will, but also "awareness" and "thinking mutation" with unknown principles, and the latter two elements have nothing to do with the strength of one's will. .

How can ordinary people have sudden changes in thinking under normal circumstances? He broke through the mental seal because of his long-term doubts and reflections on the God of Light, as well as the impact of the Emily incident. Carmel was because of the disobedience plan of the year, as well as the change of life forms and thinking patterns during the Millennium Seal. Change, then Gawain...

Did this legendary hero ever disobey the gods?

Gawain noticed the doubts in Wright's eyes, but he didn't plan to explain all this, but brought the topic back to the right track: "The Mind Seal prevents the user from driving the Holy Light substrate with their own magic, but if I'm not mistaken... ...is this Holy Light substrate still usable?"

"As you said," Laid nodded, "The Mind Stamp only affects the user's ability to mobilize his own magic power, but the Holy Light Board is also a type of rune board, and the rune board is not necessarily driven by human magic— It can be powered by the energy in the Leyline, which...is mindless."

The magic net has no thoughts, so it is naturally not affected by the so-called "spirit seal". Using the automatic magic net to drive the holy light rune is equivalent to bypassing the "human" factor. The way equipment to cast spells works is the basis of Cecil's magic industry.

Cecil's magic industry, under the circumstance of misunderstanding, took advantage of the mental seal.

But Gawain knew that things would not be so simple: "Using the magic net to power the Holy Light rune array... A very critical process is needed in the middle."

Wright opened his mouth, but before he could speak, Carmel's voice suddenly came from the direction of the church door: "It's an inversion."

Gawain turned his head and saw that Kamel, who was full of arcane radiance, was drifting towards this direction. The arcane master floated over and said, "I was going to report to you about the Holy Light substrate, but I didn't expect you to come to the church. I heard you talking about the power supply of the Holy Light substrate just now outside the door. "

"Just happened to come here," Gao Wen nodded and continued the topic, "Inversion matrix is ​​a very sensitive thing, I believe that if you hadn't encountered a bottleneck in this, you would have given me the results of Shengguang Substrate. Look - after all, the real thing is produced."

"There was once a priest who tried to improve divine techniques and used magic to directly drive the Holy Light Array, but was burnt to ashes by divine punishment. We have to be cautious about the failure of our predecessors," Carmel said in a serious tone. " We don't know what the nature of the gods is, but the phenomenon of 'God Punishment' does exist."

Having said this, he paused and looked at Wright: "Fortunately, Wright broke the steel seal and awakened the white knight's ability. By detecting the flow of energy when he casts spells and calculating the spell model he senses, we reconstructed a new The Holy Light Magic Array completely removes the structure connecting with the God of Light in the Magic Array, blocking the judgment process of 'God Punishment'. Subsequent experiments have proved that this treatment is effective, but if we pass the inverse Changing the formation to supply energy to the Holy Light substrate...it is very likely to re-establish this dangerous connection."

Although the pure magic energy flowing in the magic net is a convenient and easy-to-use general energy source, because it is too "universal", it cannot supply energy to 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 adjusted by human spiritual power (The magic power of priests and other clerics, or the magic power of other extraordinary people), and the pure magic power in the magic net has not been processed by the "human" factor, which is obviously not suitable.

Therefore, if you want to use the magic net to charge the magical runes, you must use the "inversion matrix" technology developed by Pittman: the inversion matrix can replace the role of the "prayer" and process the pure magic energy. .

Inversion is a mature technology, and it has been widely used in alchemy factories, but it is also a dangerous technology: it is stealing the authority of God.

After the appearance of the reverse array, Gawain gave an order, and at this stage, this technology is only allowed to be used in the field of Druid spells-because the Druid's god "Julu Ammon" has been confirmed dead, Moreover, its divine corpse was suppressed in the shadow world. Even if the inversion array was stealing natural divine power, there was no danger of causing divine punishment, but using the inversion array to power other divine arts was not necessarily the case.

The other gods are still alive, and not only are they alive, they can call back the believers (respond to prayers)...

Although Gawain knew that all the gods died once, there are various signs that the gods who were slaughtered by Zentraedi in ancient times have been resurrected. At least the god of the Holy Light has something sitting on it now. Yes, from the heart, Gawain really doesn't want to attract the attention of any god on the throne at this stage...

Amber also realized the danger of the inverter array, she tangled with Gawain, and after a long tangle, she said with no confidence: "Just steal a little... What if the God of Light can't find it?"

Gawain glared at the guy immediately: "You have an occupational disease, aren't you - what is stealing a little bit, do you think it's you digging for someone's wallet in the tavern?"

Amber shrank his neck: "I'll just say that, can't I just say it..."

"There are a large number of rune structures that simulate divine magic in the reverse matrix, and this structure cannot be removed. It is likely to attract the attention of 'gods', but on the other hand, in this whole process, The magic net that provides energy, the inversion array that converts energy, and the rune substrate that releases magic are all three units without any 'mind' participation. What people do is just pull the trigger of the rune, so theoretically this process is still It is possible to bypass the judgment of 'God Punishment'," Carmel said of his own considerations, "The only thing we can't be sure of now is..."

Gawain didn't wait for Carmel to finish, and then said: "We can't be sure if the 'God Punishment' will still occur under the premise that the entire casting process is completely automatic and does not involve the Mind Seal, nor can we be sure that the 'pull the trigger' Does the action also introduce the human 'mind factor' into the spellcasting process, and it's impossible to determine whether this will indirectly lead to 'God Punishment', right?"

"Everything is as you said," the light on Carmel flickered slightly, "although people just pulled the trigger of the rune to connect the system, the simple act of pulling the trigger... is also the result of thinking. "

Gawain frowned, and couldn't help but whisper to himself, "Could it have something to do with the observer effect... the observer effect of the macroscopic world?"

Carmel didn't understand: "What did you say?"

"No, it's nothing," Gawain waved his hand, "I think 'pulling the trigger' should not belong to the casting process, because the casting process is a closed-loop structure in the system composed of the magic net and the rune substrate, and the process is controlled by humans outside. Among them, its spiritual power does not resonate with any magic power - and whether spiritual power is involved is an important sign of the casting process. Of course, this is just my personal opinion, how... We must design an experimental plan to verify it. "

Carmel nodded: "It is not difficult to formulate such an experimental plan. The difficulty is how to ensure the safety of the experimental process - we may attract the attention of the gods. This cost is too high, and we must solve its hidden dangers."

Gawain looked at Carmel's eyes - or at the two arcane radiance that should have been his eyes: "What do you think?"

Carmel was silent for a moment, then said slowly and firmly: "I apply for reopening some of the laboratories in the Rebellion 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 the protection systems are all offline, but the ones in the disobedience fortress... can still be used!"