novellhall Chapter 58 If you don't court death, you won't die.
Chapter 58 If you don't court death, you won't die.
Chapter 58 If you don't court death, you won't die.
High-ranking officials are never the core of the bill; "limited" is.
Because the "Higher Magic Limited Dissemination and Learning Act" restricts not only magic but also almost all higher-level knowledge, the Senate communicated with various schools of thought in the early stages of its drafting. After selecting a few exemptions for higher-level knowledge, it adopted a crude, one-size-fits-all approach.
The vast knowledge base faded from the memories of most Nora people over time, like a forest stripped of its branches, leaving only stumps, empty and desolate.
But life always finds a way.
The Nora people responded.
The mainstream approach is to delve into the basics of legal standards, creating a system within a limited framework and pushing the existing system to its limits.
To this end, the Senate secretly provided support to the various colleges and offered covert guidance, using the sealed knowledge base as a reference.
As a clandestine experiment to give birth to entirely new high-level magic and to break free from shackles, it unfortunately failed.
The new high-level magic was also limited in number of uses, achieving the positive effect the Senate wanted only in broadening the applications of the Nora people.
It's not entirely new magic, but perhaps it should be called—a completely new school of thought?
A path that Nora, and indeed the history of magic, had never paved before.
Therefore, the Senate once again focused its attention on the College.
They need geniuses, truly exceptional talents, brilliant figures who can write their own chapter in the history of magic.
A miracle that requires only a flash of inspiration to raise a torch and lead the Nora people into the depths of the black fog, dispelling the darkness.
However, it has been sealed away for nearly a century.
The light that belongs to the Nora has yet arrived.
After a long silence, Nan'an said, "So, in reality, Nora does have high-level magic circulating, but according to your definition, they are all classified as low-level."
Chief Forest Spirit took a sip of herbal tea, a slight smile playing on his lips: "The geniuses who created new forms of magic also fear the Senate's repercussions, and therefore will not indiscriminately spread their knowledge. Based on this tacit understanding—all is well."
"Abuse of information," Nan'an repeated the word. "So, what is the specific limit on the number of times it can be spread?"
"Like the Nightmare of Gods, it has no pattern and is unpredictable."
The werewolf leader used his claws to peel an apple for Suiyue and handed it to her, while saying something.
"Taking the observation of new high-level magic as an example, it is a relatively optimistic figure that more than ten people have learned it, while in extreme cases only one person is allowed to learn it."
Suiyue rubbed the corner of her hand, seemingly intending to unleash a spark of wisdom.
"Is it possible that those new, high-level spells that can only be learned by one person are not actually original, but rather already being used by others in the world, only unknown to us in Nora? So when someone creates and learns them, and then runs out of uses, the misunderstanding of uniqueness arises?"
Nan'an looked at Suiyue in surprise—at the apple in her hand.
Can an apple given by the chief elder still boost alertness and improve brain function?
The only problem with Suiyue's guess is that it cannot be verified.
Nora is just one continent in this magical world. After the black mist descended, communication between the continents was cut off, and no one knows whether Nora is the only survivor.
"Now, it's my turn to ask Ms. Suiyue a question." The vampire chief, who had been silent until now, narrowed his eyes slightly. "What medium did you use when you summoned the Heroic Spirit?"
"Huh?" Suiyue looked confused. "What's a medium?"
The vampire chief, whose tone sounded somewhat questioning and aggressive, was startled by this absurd question, his Adam's apple bobbing as if he swallowed back the words that were about to come out.
Even the most silent troll chief was so shocked by these words that his eyes widened in disbelief.
"You don't know about media?"
Suiyue rubbed the corners of her hands much faster, trying to hide her embarrassment: "I think I vaguely remember it. Did they teach it at the Dawn Church?"
The ending of the interrogative sentence was like a great silence spell, turning all six chiefs into the troll chief with uneven eyes.
The Elf Chief clearly hadn't anticipated that he would be giving a basic introduction to summoning magic during the most intimate and secretive meeting of the Senate.
"Summoning is a very special school of magic," she said, carefully choosing her words to keep her tone calm. "Heroic spirit summoning differs from most other summoning schools. It requires providing an instrument that can resonate with a specific heroic spirit during the ritual in order to accurately locate and establish a connection."
"Take a communication array as an example. Only when the magical energy channels of the arrays are nearly perfectly aligned can the two ends connect and communicate. If you are not using any equipment," it's equivalent to sending an incorrect matching request into the void—there should be no response."
Nan'an understood; it was a disconnected number.
Suiyue was recalling the scene of executing the summons.
Corpses and blood were everywhere. She was just desperately shouting incoherently, hoping that something would respond to her.
The vampire chief was completely speechless, covering his lips with one hand and looking down at the table, seemingly lost in thought.
The half-dragon chief asked uncertainly, "I don't understand much about summoning. Is it possible that Senior Nan'an responded on his own initiative?"
Nan An denied it: "When I came to my senses, I was already next to her. The whole process was passive."
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The silence was broken by Nan'an.
"Summoning, could it be the only faction unaffected by the sealing of knowledge?"
The troll chief finally spoke his first words: "It is special."
Knowing his colleague's penchant for concise speech, Chief Mori picked up the conversation, his fingertips slowly tracing the rim of his teacup.
"Among the existing schools of magic, the distinction between low-level and high-level summoning spells is almost entirely based on the scale of mana consumption."
"Ordinary summoning is closer to empiricism. The caster constantly adjusts the requirements and magical fluctuations, much like a painter repeatedly painting and revising, to 'draw' the outline of a summon that meets the conditions during the summoning ritual."
"Template summoning goes a step further. Summoners have found a sequence of summons with a clear hierarchical relationship. By constantly adapting, they can unlock higher-level permissions and gradually climb the ladder."
She paused and looked at Nan'an.
"Summoning heroic spirits requires providing corresponding relics or tokens as anchors to achieve communication and connection."
"Regardless of the method, the summoner, as the spellcaster, is more like a vessel in the process," providing the summoned creature with the necessary magical power to sustain its existence.
Nan'an thought of the bookworm; he had explained the summoning in the same way.
The essence of summoning is "communication" and "contract".
It does not create new knowledge; it merely opens the door to what is already known.
Whether tangible or intangible, whether real or imagined based on artistic creation, the moment it leaves a trace in the world, it will be imprinted deep within the summoning ritual.
In other words, summoning is limited to "world cognition" and the summoner's "individual cognition".
The summoner executes the summon, simply finding it and establishing a connection with it.
It's like taking a book that's already been written off the shelf.
The author, content, and word count of a book will not change based on the number of times it is read—unless it is a god or demon.
For summoners, the real challenges lie in "communication," "searching," and "contracting," not in the limitations of mana.
Therefore, compared to mainstream magic schools, summoning is more convenient and is seen as a shortcut by many.
However, perhaps it is the sum of all these reasons that led to the suffocating "number limit" of high-level magic, which did not apply to the summoning faction.
Logically, with all factions nerfed to the point of being useless, the remaining classes should be the meta-definition, and everyone should flock to them.
Summoning is not a normal class.
Over hundreds of years, it has become synonymous with danger.
After the arrival of the black mist, the conventional summoning faction faces the following challenges.
The goods did not match the description:
Summon a dragon, and mud worms appear; pray to a water elemental, and slimes materialize; desire a mighty warrior, and you'll be met with charming boys and girls.
The ceremony seemed to possess a malicious humor, always twisting expectations into an absurd joke at the last moment.
The main idea is that the more you want something, the less likely it is to give it to you.
Being taken advantage of for free:
Summoners pay mana, but the summoning ritual is read but not replied to; no mana or summoned creatures are provided, and there is not even a customer service feedback mechanism.
If you get something for free, you get something for free; there's nothing you can do about it.
Assaulting the client:
The summoning ritual cannot restrain the summoned creature; battle begins the moment it lands.
The most exciting episode yet.
The higher the rank and the more abundant the magic power of a summoner, the more diverse and powerful the training partners they can summon.
The magic you paid wasn't wasted; it all turned into summons that came back to you.
distortion:
Summoning a special creation, distorted and mysteriously altered by the black mist, possessing divine and demonic power.
Compared to the previous three, the probability is very low, making it the top prize in the summoning pool. Once the hidden version is drawn, it often means that a city-destroying disaster is quietly approaching.
However, a build that automatically deducts health upon use will turn even a Nora who wants to take revenge on society into fertilizer due to its extremely unstable effects when trying to open blind boxes.
Summoning can be considered a forbidden art; the Senate's role is merely to draw a final conclusion.
Those in Nora who were willing to risk their lives have already paid the price, leaving behind a trail of stories and accidents caused by their "disbelief in evil."
The entire history of the Black Mist Calendar's summoning is written in a single line of large characters.
"If you don't court death, you won't die."
Such a case of a chosen one succeeding in a summoning pool filled with chaotic negative states is the first of its kind in hundreds of years, as seen with Suiyue.
Nan'an thought it was like the Nora people had all drawn a lottery, and finally, Suiyue successfully drew the guaranteed prize.
This is also why the chiefs are unwilling to reproduce the Heroic Spirit Summoning.
Knowing full well the chaotic state of the summoning ritual, they had no intention of disrupting the current fragile stability of the code.
In case, during the replication process, the "number of attempts" that Suiyue had been holding might be accidentally taken away.
It's certainly good to understand the principles and obtain useful information.
I don't understand it, and it doesn't matter. As long as the code is still running, I'll pretend everything is normal.
After all, they were already used to this kind of strategy when faced with the chaotic world after the arrival of the black fog.