The Queen of Scrolls never admits defeat

Chapter 778 Three Thousand Mirror Ruins 45
These six beast cores were all spoils of war she obtained in the past two days after hunting Mirror Beasts alone.

According to the law of beast core skill extraction, the success rate of extracting these beast core skills and the completeness of the final skill will be the highest.

Moran originally planned to wait until he had hunted down his target, the Mirror Beast Phantom Leopard Cat, before naturally using the Mirror Explorers' methods in this world to extract the beast core skill.

However, after witnessing Bai Wei and Ren Miao extract the skill, she changed her mind.

At that moment, the skill marks of Glimmering Light Healing and Slow Water Arrow flashed between their brows, and a strong sense of déjà vu surged into Moran's heart!

It's so similar! It's so similar to the spell structure of the Valen mage's magic!
Although I don't remember the exact same spell structure, they were very similar.

This discovery made her eager to extract a skill and verify it herself.

Anyway, her mental strength isn't really only at the one-star level.

The other students in the class have limited mental strength and can only barely support extracting a one-star beast core skill at present. They also need a long time to nurture and integrate it before they can unleash its true power.

Therefore, when choosing their first skill, which may also be their only skill in the short term, they are extremely cautious, weighing the options repeatedly to ensure that it perfectly aligns with their own development direction.

But Moran had no such concerns at all!
Her mental strength was so great that even if she extracted a seemingly useless beast core skill, it would not be a big deal for her.

In fact, even her original target, the Phantom Leopard Cat's core skill, Weak Illusion, only interested her relatively. As for how much of a fundamental improvement it would bring to her own strength? Not really.

Just do it!

Moran's gaze swept over the six beast cores on the table. After a moment's thought, he reached out and picked up the crimson-red grasshopper beast core.

The reason for choosing it is simple: recalling the way the Red-Eyed Grasshopper spews out its hot, sticky liquid, the scalding liquid spitting skill contained in this beast core is roughly equivalent to a fireball spell without an explosive effect, but with continuous burning and sticking properties.

She can easily replicate similar effects using witch magic, mage magic, and dragon language magic.

If the essence of the Beast Core skill is indeed a spell structure as she expected... then with her understanding of fire magic, reverse-analyzing the model structure of a "weakened version of Fireball" would be a piece of cake.

You can absolutely recognize its core architecture and principles at a glance!
Using it to verify one's own conjecture is undoubtedly the most appropriate method.

Moran placed the blazing beast core in his palm and slowly closed his eyes.

Her vast and profound spiritual power was like a precise scalpel, or a powerful monarch, domineeringly and meticulously penetrating directly into the beast core, instantly enveloping the skill mark representing "scorching liquid spit"!
The fire elemental power within the beast core became as docile as a lamb upon encountering her mental power, and Moran quickly completed the perception of the skill imprint.

Having only sensed and memorized the appearance of the scorching liquid spray skill mark, before even proceeding to the step of peeling off the skill mark, Moran was certain of his thoughts.

The skill imprints within the beast core are indeed similar to spell structures!
Moran withdrew the spiritual power from the beast core, and the Crimson-Eyed Grasshopper Beast Core in his palm quickly dimmed, its fire elemental power rapidly dissipating and disappearing.

At the same time, a small ball of scorching magma appeared in her palm, exactly like the hot, sticky liquid spewed out by the Red-Eyed Grasshopper.

However, she did not extract the beast core skill into her mental sea, nor did she use a fire-attribute beast core as a casting material. She simply used the casting method of the mage Valen, rapidly drawing the skill imprint within the Red-Eyed Grasshopper beast core in her mental sea with her mental power, and then leveraging the fire elemental power in the environment to successfully cast the spell.

From any perspective, this skill mark is actually the spell structure of the scalding liquid spit skill.

However, the Mirror Explorer directly imprinted the skill imprint from the beast core into his mind using his mental power. When casting spells, most of his mental power was used to link the skill imprint with the elemental energy within the beast core.

After she finished casting the spell, the magical structure she had temporarily constructed with her mental power in her mental sea disappeared.

She has fully understood the knowledge and meaning represented by this spell structure, memorized it, and can immediately construct it when casting spells, drawing upon the energy in the air to cast spells.

The Mirror Seeker's spellcasting is like buying a picture book; when needed, you just need to use some paint and ink to copy it.

The spellcasting of the Venerable Varun was like that of a skilled painter who could even extract colors from the environment and paint on the spot when needed.

The mental energy required for casting spells is lower for the former than for the latter.

However, the former requires more additional materials than the latter when casting spells.

Furthermore, the portion of spiritual energy used to imprint and engrave beast core skills cannot be used again once it is occupied. Therefore, the number of beast core skills that a Mirror Explorer can possess is far less than the number of spells that a mage can learn.

However, hunting mirror beasts and imprinting their cores is much simpler than mages learning magical knowledge and memorizing spell structures.

"They're quite complementary!" Moran couldn't help but exclaim.

If Valen's magical beasts possessed beast cores capable of extracting magical structures, the development of Valen's magic would proceed much faster.

If the mages of the Three Thousand Mirror Ruins possessed Mage Valen's meditation techniques and magical knowledge, they wouldn't always risk damaging their mental strength to extract beast core skills, and their spellcasting wouldn't always rely on beast cores.

By using mental power to perceive the magical structure within the beast core, deducing and learning it in reverse, and then casting the spell using the method of Mage Valen, research costs are saved, the safety of learning spells is increased, and the cost of casting spells is reduced.

Once Moran understood this, he immediately changed his subsequent plans.

She decided against engraving skill imprints to occupy her mental energy. Instead, she would focus on studying the skill imprints within the beast core, understanding the corresponding spell structures, and casting spells in the way of the mage Valen.

This eliminates the limitations of extraction success rate and extraction degree, allowing the use of animal cores from any source.

The beast cores left by the original owner's parents as materials for spellcasting can all be put to use.

She can also use the skill imprints within these beast cores to update her spell structure reserves. The skills contained in a six-star beast core are theoretically comparable to those of a third-tier mage, so her mage magic can finally be improved.

From that day on, she focused her main energy on her nighttime research on animal cores.

She recorded the skill imprints she observed and memorized from within the beast core one by one in her magic notebook. Then, she reverse-engineered and studied the magical principles contained within them, and finally understood and mastered the corresponding magic.