Wizard Bloodline.

Chapter 178 [Broken Silver], Ronan Damien's Space Mithril Transformation! Key

Under the interweaving of countless mysterious auras, layer upon layer of metal wrapped Ronan completely, wriggling like a living thing, and finally turned into a living metal armor covering the entire body, revealing only Ronan's hair and a pair of eyes.

The face is covered with a black mask, on which countless metals flow like water waves, giving people a mysterious and weird feeling.

After Ronan was completely wrapped in [Living Steel], a deep silver color spread out from his face and quickly spread. In an instant, his entire body turned into silver-gray, and a large number of complex and mysterious patterns appeared on the mask on his face. In addition to being mysterious and weird, the overall look also had a bit of noble temperament.

In three years, Ronan's height grew from 1.8 meters to 1.9 meters, which was already tall among the wizards. Now that he was "wearing" living steel, he became even more burly, like a two-meter-tall silver-white metal monster.

There was a flash, and a faint fluctuation of spatial energy appeared. Ronan had already appeared in the center of the mysterious garden.

"Shh-"

Amidst the blooming lavender and geranium flowers, a distorted, transparent human figure "arrived as promised".

Under the silver-white metal mask, countless white lines rapidly spread out from the azure eyes, and a flickering eye pattern between the eyebrows completely emerged from the forehead.

At this moment, in Ronan's eyes, the transparent human figure, which was moving at an incredibly fast speed and was difficult to be captured by the naked eye and mental power, had turned into a ball of silvery and shiny silk threads, looking like a fast-rolling ball of silver wool.

The "ball of yarn" rolled towards Ronan rapidly. Unlike before, this time, facing the attack of the distorted transparent humanoid, Ronan did not dodge. Instead, he stood where he was and slowly narrowed his eyes.

The twisted transparent figure rushed to Ronan at an extremely fast speed. When the other party entered the five-meter range of his body, the [Eye of Truth] between Ronan's eyebrows suddenly shone brightly, and the pure white eye pattern almost broke away from his forehead.

At the same time, in the space of consciousness, the third spiritual power crystal glowing with golden light trembled slightly, and the soul symbol embedded inside it also hummed continuously.

Mysterious silver-white light burst out from Ronan's eyes and strong spatial energy fluctuations emanated from his body, almost covering up the fluctuations of the metal spells in an instant.

"hiss--"

Ronan took a deep breath, and at the moment when the transparent distorted human figure was about to rush in front of him, he suddenly stretched out his right hand with his five fingers suddenly spread out.

In an instant, the silver metal attached to its body rolled like water, and countless silver-white metal tentacles quickly extended along its right arm and five fingers, instantly wrapping around the transparent and distorted human figure layer by layer.

The latter's forward momentum slowed down slightly, but its body was like the sharpest blade, constantly cutting through the metal tentacles that were blocking its progress.

A large number of metal tentacles broke off, but Ronan's expression remained unchanged. A gleam of light flashed in his eyes, and he shouted softly.

"【stagnate】!"

In the space of consciousness, the soul symbol contained in the third spiritual power crystal flashed again.

A trace of stagnant and mysterious aura emanated from Ronan, and a small area of ​​space around him suddenly froze, as if a large amount of invisible glue was suddenly poured into it. The air flow, light, and even time seemed to fall into an extremely slow flow.

Under the influence of this force, the movement of the transparent distorted human figure suddenly slowed down by dozens or even hundreds of times.

A terrifying force of struggle burst out from his body, and the solidified void made a "cracking" sound and shattered, as if this stagnant space would be completely broken through in the next second.

Ronan looked calm as he took a sudden step forward and instantly appeared in front of the transparent distorted human figure.

He stretched out his right hand, layers of metal crumbled, and the sound of bones colliding came from his right arm.

The originally long and strong right arm suddenly became extremely strong, with muscles colliding, veins bulging, and dark blue snake scale patterns appearing. The five fingers swelled rapidly, and the fingertips turned black. In the blink of an eye, it turned into an arm like a legendary monster, and suddenly inserted into the chest of the transparent and distorted human figure.

"Beng Beng Beng——"

Under the [Eye of Truth], the countless silver-white threads that formed the transparent twisted human figure broke one by one under Ronan's palm.

Ronan tore open the "ball of yarn" extremely "brutally", and his entire arm was almost completely immersed in the transparent twisted human body. Then he seemed to grasp something tightly, his expression moved, and then he quickly retracted his hand.

"Oh!"

As Ronan retracted his hand, the transparent twisted human figure wrapped in a large number of metal tentacles exploded, turning into countless silver-white air currents, splashing in all directions and leaving dark cuts in the void.

All the living steel on Ronan's body was pushed forward, but under the impact of these spatial energy flows, it became like brittle paper and was quickly shattered into pieces.

He didn't care, standing quietly like a reef in the fierce energy turbulence, allowing the occasional turbulence to flow through and leave cuts on his body.

The vitality ball in the body, like a blazing fireball, released a little vitality and quickly healed the wounds.

Throughout the whole process, the master-level proficiency of [Asceticism] on the character panel increased rapidly.
At this moment, Ronan's attention was completely attracted by what he was holding in his hand. His right arm had returned to normal, and between his five white and slender fingers, he was firmly grasping a silver ball of light that was almost condensed into substance.

Ronan stared at the ball of light in his hand, with strange lights flashing in his eyes.

really.

Just as he had concluded from countless deductions in the ascetic attic, the real exit of this mysterious garden was not in any corner of the garden.

The key to the entrance to the next secret space is hidden in the transparent twisted human body guarding the entire garden!

"The space teleportation array that is spread all over the garden and has no regular movement and landing points is simply a trick. What kind of space array maze is this? The maze has no exit at all. Every path is a dead end.
The real exit is right under our noses, but we ignore it every time."

This kind of "darkness under the lamp" puzzle is actually not difficult to solve. The real difficulty lies in how to defeat the transparent distorted human figure guarding the garden and get the "key" from its body.

It is not known whether this is a puppet product of spell alchemy or something else, but it possesses powerful characteristics of space and mirror, is extremely strong, fearless, and extremely lethal. Even a third-level wizard may not be able to suppress it in a head-on confrontation.

Even if the answer is revealed, it is not possible for an ordinary wizard to break it and take out the "key" from its body.

Ronan was able to “kill” him in one fell swoop mainly due to the special effects of the upgraded and optimized [Silverization] talisman.

He spent three full years in the attic of asceticism, relying on the accumulation of studying more than 3,000 runes, and barely made a preliminary analysis of the few space runes in his hand, and integrated the effects of "space teleportation" and "space stagnation" into the [Silverization] rune.

With the metal spell effect of the extraordinary domain - [Living Steel], as well as his own [Unsullied Body] and the strong physical strength of the ancient frost hydra bloodline,
In the moment of briefly "freezing" the transparent distorted human figure, the "key" in its body was forcibly taken out.

This "key" is also the core of the opponent's power, so it presents such a relaxed and carefree visual effect.

Ronan pinched the silver ball of light, raised his head and looked around.

If this is the "key", then what he needs to do next is to find the "door" to insert the key.

Suddenly, Ronan felt the ball of light in his hand struggling to break free.

He subconsciously tightened his five fingers, and ended up "bursting" the ball of light. Countless silver rays of light shot out from between his fingers.

Before Ronan could frown, he found that there was still something left in his hand the next second——

It was a rune as bright and shiny as a mirror, the most beautiful, complex and mysterious rune Ronan had ever seen.

This is the core.
Ronan blinked, a little surprised.

Then I saw the mysterious rune in my hand suddenly shatter, then reassemble and recover, then shatter again.
Repeat this process over and over again.

"Rune in gif format?!"

Ronan was "shocked"!
Compared with the runes he had seen before, the rune in his hand was indeed like a static picture compared with a dynamic picture.

It was obviously much more advanced, something he had never seen before.

However, before Ronan could be surprised for long, he found that the entire secret space under his feet and around him began to tremble, and the tranquility in the garden was broken.

Ronan took a few steps back and returned to the position where he came in, and then saw that the entire garden in front of him began to "collapse" rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Black cracks appeared in every corner of the secret garden, just like a beautiful mirror that was suddenly and ruthlessly broken by someone.

There were more and more black cracks, and then they began to "fall off" piece by piece.

A piece of "debris" fell off in front of Ronan, and dissipated along with invisible waves. Ronan's eyebrows twitched slightly, and he subconsciously stepped back, but his cheek was already brushed by the wave.

A stinging sensation came.

Ronan reached out his hand and gently wiped his left cheek, leaving traces of blood between his fingers.

His eyes flickered slightly, and he used the [Eye of Truth] again.

White lights intertwined, and Ronan squinted his eyes and looked up.

The secret garden that was crumbling at this moment suddenly presented a completely different picture in his eyes.

Countless arcs of light and countless lines are peeled off from a complete whole. This peeling process emits obscure fluctuations, which contain terrifying power.

The light that just "bruised" Ronan was only an extremely insignificant strand, and it made Ronan feel frightened even when he looked at it from afar.

At this moment, Ronan looked down at the "broken" rune in his hand again, and a look of deep emotion appeared in his eyes.

"This is the power of space collapse!"

Only when a piece of space collapses can such a terrifying force be produced.

He was deeply aware of the extraordinary nature of the mysterious rune in his hand, but the next second a bold idea emerged from the bottom of his heart.

The thought made his heart beat violently and his blood almost rushed.

It is a great feeling of excitement when one suddenly sees the light after searching in the darkness for a long time.

During the three entire years that Ronan spent in the Magic Circle's training attic, he was doing one thing - trying to integrate the mysteries of space into metal magic!

In the absence of corresponding space magic inheritance, this is almost impossible to do.

However, because of the space energy seed left to him by the Dawn-level silver staff, under the natural "watering", his several soul seals all underwent a miraculous transformation, which laid the foundation for the transformation towards space, making everything possible.

In three years, Ronan has made considerable progress in the spatial transformation of the soul seal.

The modified [Silverization] talisman has the effects of "short-distance directional teleportation" and "temporary spatial stagnation". The power of the metal spells released on this basis is much stronger than before.

This is actually also thanks to the fact that the grade of the rune [Shibir's Mithril Transformation] is not high. It is just a second-level rare metal rune. If it is higher than the second level, Ronan may not be able to do it.

So far, Ronan is still working on optimizing the [Silverization] talisman. He is trying to add the talisman effect of "Space Separation Power" into it.

It was the second-level silver comb he had obtained from the rattan table in the mysterious garden, and the magic rune at the core of it. The principle of the "space splitting force" was actually to condense the space energy into a "knife", and then use this "knife" to cause damage.

The force of space division is much stronger than the physical force, such as the cutting force produced by metal spells. This is one of the reasons why space spells are superior to general elemental spells.

This step is very important for Ronan. In fact, after being promoted to a second-level wizard, Ronan has already felt the lack of lethality in metal spells.

When he was a first-level wizard, metal spells could still be his main combat spells, but after the second level, metal spells could only provide auxiliary combat functions for Ronan most of the time.

The main reason is that its power is not strong enough, which may also be related to the fact that the metal magic inheritance obtained by the silver magic ring is not strong enough.

Ronan's transformation of his own metal magic system was to make up for this shortcoming. If the metal magic could be integrated into the mysteries of the space system, the situation would definitely be different.

After three years, a Silver Talisman that had been changed "beyond all recognition" could be considered as proof that his idea was feasible.

According to Ronan's idea, once the "space-splitting power" of the silver comb magic tool is successfully integrated into the [Silverization] talisman, the spatial transformation of the metal magic will be initially completed and will meet his expectations.

However, now, Ronan has discovered a more powerful and more suitable transformation idea for the [Silverization] talisman at this stage.

————"If...if I abandon the 'power of space splitting' and instead integrate the mystery of 'space collapse' into the [Silverization] talisman."

The mystery of "space collapse" is more advanced and more powerful than "space separation"!

The most crucial point is that the current [Silverization] talisman already has the effect of 'spatial stagnation' derived from the Dawn-level silver staff.

After the "stagnation" effect is activated, the area covered by the power will temporarily become a whole. At this time, the "collapse" effect can be used to break it up, and the power will be further upgraded. The whole process is undoubtedly much smoother than he originally imagined!
"Stagnation..Broken"

At this moment, many thoughts emerged in Ronan's mind, and countless inspirations burst out like sparks.

His eyes kept moving back and forth between the broken rune in his hand and the scene of the crumbling garden before him.

Countless tiny lights flickered in my eyes, and something in my mind sprouted rapidly like a seed.
I don’t know how much time has passed.

Ronan, who had been silent all this time, suddenly raised his hand and made a swinging motion.

Under the robe, a brilliant silver light bloomed.

Ronan threw the silver metal out like a living creature that was wriggling all the time. After flashing and disappearing several times, it suddenly condensed into a huge disk at a certain location.

The metal flowing on the surface of the disc solidified, and a trace of stagnant breath emanated from it. The space where the metal disc was located suddenly presented a light like mirror refraction.

Then, at the moment when the stagnant breath reached its peak, everything shattered quietly.
"collapse!"

"Shuashuashua——"

The broken mirrored metal disc turned into countless crescent-shaped fragments, shooting out in all directions. Each fragment dragged out a strange and terrifying spell wave, leaving countless shocking black broken marks in the void in an instant.

"call--"

Ronan exhaled, his eyes burning.

Countless scattered metal fragments transformed into liquid living things and rushed towards him.

At this moment, inside the third spiritual power crystal in his consciousness space, a brand new soul symbol is shining brightly.

"It's done!"

"After integrating the three spatial properties of 'teleportation', 'stagnation' and 'collapse', the lethality of the spell of [Silverization] Living Steel is much stronger than before. The means of changing spells during battle are also much richer.
Far exceeded my initial expectations.

This move can be called——【Broken Silver】!"

Ronan hesitated for a moment, "It is obviously not appropriate to call the current [Silverization] Talisman the [Silverization] Talisman.

It would be more appropriate to describe it as [the silverization of space].

Full name——【Ronan Damien's Space Mithril Transformation】!
A new rune name naturally popped up in Ronan's mind, and a great sense of accomplishment that he had never experienced before rose in his heart.

For the first time in his life, he felt the joy of "creation".

In this vast wizard land, a new rune was born from his hands.

This was the first sigil "created" by him. Although he did it by standing on the shoulders of many predecessors and it was just a simple "moving and piecing together", it still meant a lot to Ronan.

It’s a pity that no one shares this achievement and joy.

After a brief moment of joy, Ronan's mood gradually calmed down, and he continued to think as he watched the mysterious runes in his hands constantly breaking and reassembling.

"This rune is too profound and abstruse. I can only comprehend the basics of it now. There is still room for improvement and improvement."

Moreover, Ronan discovered something.

The combination of "Space Stagnation" + "Space Collapse" is actually not limited to the use of metal spells.

His other two soul seals might also be able to add these two characteristics.

Especially the [Tundra Frozen Soil] sigil.

"The more powerful and stable the space structure is, the stronger the space-shattering force it will generate after it is broken."

“It’s like the stronger the mirror is, the sharper the edges of the fragments will be when it is broken.”

The first thing Ronan thought of when he saw the principle of this spell was his own ice field.

How can the "mirror" formed by two types of second-order metals after being silvered be compared with the "mirror" formed by a field?
"If after constructing the icy domain, the entire domain is turned into a 'mirror' and shattered..."

Ronan's eyes moved slightly, "How terrifying would the space-shattering power generated by this be?!"

He couldn't imagine it.

But one day he would see it with his own eyes.

Ronan is ready to start optimizing the [Tundra Frozen Soil] sigil.

I opened the character panel and, as expected, my strength progress had regressed a bit.

The solidified soul sigil is not unchangeable, and the result after the change is like Ronan's current state - the soul power declines and the mental strength weakens.

Because this behavior will consume a lot of soul power and cause a temporary "weakness" of the soul.

This was not the first time that this had happened to Ronan. He had been repeatedly "erasing" the solidified [Silverization] rune in the Ring of Magic's attic. Every time he made a modification, he would go through such a "weakening period" and it would take some time for him to recover slowly.

It’s just that Ronan’s soul power is not enough to be a third-level wizard, and now it is even further away.

However, compared with the future power, this little "aftereffect" is really insignificant.

Carefully putting away the mysterious rune in his hand, Ronan looked up at the scene in front of him again.

The once beautiful and peaceful little garden had completely disappeared, leaving only a dark void before our eyes.

The secret space behind the garden that Ronan had imagined did not appear.

Maybe it's a corridor, maybe it's the garden owner's living room.
After the garden secret realm was shattered, no other space was generated. This was a completely independent secret space, and it was on the verge of collapse.

The reason why it has not completely disappeared until now is that there is a mysterious spatial force supporting this crumbling spatial "shell".

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A ball of silvery-white light.

Filled with extremely rich spatial energy.

It was just like the silver light that enveloped the mysterious broken rune before.

Quietly suspended in the center of the void, it becomes the only source of light that dispels all the darkness around it.

Ronan's eyes flickered slightly, and he slowly walked towards the ball of light.

When he got closer to the ball of light, he saw clearly what was hidden inside the ball of light and his eyes were slightly stunned.

"key?!"

Ronan blinked, stretched out his hand, and grabbed the entire ball of light.

He thought that the transparent twisted human figure contained the "key" to get out of the garden maze, but he was wrong, it was just a rune.

He thought there was no next level to the garden maze.

The result seems to be wrong again.

After the secret garden completely collapsed, a real "key" appeared before him.

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A silver key that looks not much different from the brass keys that come with ordinary door locks.

It is palm-sized and made of a very strange material, like silver, but more transparent than silver, and contains indescribably rich spatial energy particles.

"This is a key made of some kind of space-attribute material!"

Ronan looked shocked.

Space energy property material!
Based on this point alone, the "key"-shaped object in his hand is already an extremely precious treasure.

(End of this chapter)