Comprehensive network wizard, magic emperor.

Chapter 194: True and False, Fire Divination

Lin Bo glanced around, taking in the tables, chairs, walls, doors, window panes, the courtyard and grass outside the tower, the paths trampled by visitors among the grass and trees, the low wall, the horizon outside the wall, and the gray-purple night sky above the horizon, the sparse stars and the moon.

The objects in the field of vision, from near to far, gradually lost their colors. They were all covered by a thick veil of illusion, just like the furniture in an idle house was covered with dust sheets.

Everything before my eyes was a hazy grayish-white, and only the outlines of objects could distinguish them from each other.

Lin Bo raised his hand and lightly pressed the table, but the touch he felt was not like wood, but soft and tough gauze. When his perspective changed, his sense of touch was also affected. His brain deceived his senses, making his palm think that it was not touching wood.

The floor, the walls, the glass jars on the shelf, the flowers in the jars—everything felt as light and tough as silk, even Lin Bo's own flesh and blood. The wind blowing through the doors and windows brushed against his body like a piece of pale silk floating in the air, gently caressing his skin.

In his eyes, everything in the universe was assimilated, and everything was left with only a thin, empty shell.

The secret of Lv3 Mantra Illusion is not to make the illusion more realistic, but to regard the real world as an illusion, thereby making the effects of the illusionary objects become reality.

The mage whispered the rock's true name, projecting his magical power onto the ground before him, creating a triangular staircase from thin air. In his eyes, the illusion he had forged was also a hazy veil, no different from everything around him.

He tried to climb, following the ladder beam step by step.

If it was an unupgraded mantra illusion, the illusion would be ineffective the moment he stepped onto the ladder and his front and back feet left the ground.

But now, this illusory triangular ladder stood firmly in place. When Lin Bo stepped on the highest point, he could touch the ceiling of the first floor.

He looked down at this cosmic kingdom shrouded in a veil. Everything before his eyes was just a hazy gray-white outline. Even he himself found it difficult to distinguish between illusion and reality. There was no difference between truth and illusion.

With the upgrade complete, the veil of illusion disappears once more, the colors that once shrouded and obscured everything return to view, and the deceived senses return to normal.

Lin Bo blinked, looked at the stone triangular ladder under his feet, raised his hand to touch it, but no murmurs were heard, only an empty and dead silence, not the inaudible silence, which meant that it was still a false illusion.

I returned to the ground and tried to move the triangular ladder. Its heavy weight left marks on my skin.

Then, he pulled a steel bar from his ammunition pouch, formed it into a file, and scraped it across the ladder. A normal object would have been scraped off a layer of stone dust, but the phantom object had no substance, so the moment it was damaged, it collapsed like a deflated gas, dissipating without a trace.

Lin Bo nodded slightly. After several attempts, he became familiar with the nature of the illusory objects.

Before being destroyed, the properties and functions of the illusory object are no different from those of a real object, but it will immediately dissipate after being attacked, unless he continues to add magical power to maintain the illusion. However, the consumption each time is the same as re-casting the illusion.

Different illusions can withstand different types of damage. Liquids and gases are immune to damage, but they will dissipate when exposed to high temperatures or extreme cold.

Summoning creature illusions can cause real damage. Lin Bo created a group of phantom white wolves out of thin air. They could tear dried meat into pieces but could not digest and absorb it. After the illusion disappeared, the swallowed meat pieces fell to the spot.

Transmogrifying a living thing into an inanimate object can significantly alter its mass and size.

He transformed the large rocks that were dug out during the construction of the elevator shaft into paper. The original mountain of rocks became a stack of paper in his hand, which he could easily put into his pocket.

This was a highly effective storage method, but the illusion's duration was limited, and he could only maintain two Word Spirits at once, so it wasn't perfect. However, it could be used to develop new combat techniques, such as transforming large amounts of seawater into paper airplanes, which, when thrown, would create a massive wave after breaking.

Transforming a living creature into another living creature, such as transforming Titan into a baboon, in addition to the changes in size and weight, its movements also become more flexible, and it can perform various actions beyond its original mechanical structure. It no longer has a stiff and indifferent feeling. Except for the lack of rich facial expressions, it is a real flesh and blood animal.

For general skills, Lv3 is already the theoretical upper limit. Individual practitioners who are not players of the network may need to study hard for a lifetime to reach such a level. As for the higher level 4, it only exists in imagination.

Reaching Lv3 in a profession's skills is also a crucial qualitative leap, and a formidable hurdle. While higher levels exist, they are like a rugged path hidden in the mountains, accessible only to a select few. The ability of fragmented knowledge scrolls to transform the impossible into the possible is a key factor in how players on the cross-platform surpass their predecessors.

Lin Bo now has two fragments in his hands, "Traces of the Winding Blood Snake" and "Evidence of the Existence of Dragons". The former can probably be used to upgrade the Mantra Transfiguration Spell, while the latter may be able to improve any type of Mantra Spell.

He had already planned to give up "The Winding Traces of the Blood Snake" and was going to focus on the fragments related to the field of truth. Whether "Evidence of the Existence of Dragons in the World" could break through the barriers of truth illusion was a key attempt.

Lin Bo stared at the upgrade requirements for the Mantra Illusion on the panel. It would take time to accumulate 8000 proficiency. He already had the knowledge fragments, but he still needed some unlocked professional features. This proved that with his current Lv8 True Name Mage professional level, he was not yet qualified to master the Level 4 Mantra Illusion.

Without key professional characteristics, the chance of failure in forcibly comprehending the knowledge fragments will be very high.

The loss of comprehension of the knowledge fragments is irreversible. Once the amount of disaster coins required for comprehension is too high, then even if you have this item in your hands, you can only sell it at a very low price, or even no one will be interested in it even if you lose money.

"It's still unknown when the class's features will be unlocked. To verify whether the True Mystery Fragments can improve your basic proficiency in Power Word, you either need to wait until Flow Control reaches Lv3, or learn a related general skill to quickly level up."

A common practice among current players in the cross-platform game is to study a large number of fragments of similar domains to continuously increase their basic proficiency, thereby greatly improving their training speed.

After a moment's deliberation, Lin Bo approached [Toxulus] at the Aoqi Magnificent Garden and ordered some prophecy-related skill books from him. This guy happened to be awake today and could offer advice to customers.

Prophecy is an important school of mysticism in the multiverse. There are many related skills, which can be generally divided into two types: one is real and effective, and the other is a deception that fools people.

Effective predictions are inseparable from reliable information sources and a logically rigorous reasoning process.

The source of information can be the divine power and evil demons in the multiverse, the spirits and monsters born in nature, the magnificent magic network and the great source, or it can come from camera systems and big data monitoring, etc.

The prophetic techniques that evolved from this include praying to divine power, worshiping demons, offering sacrifices to spirits, questioning ghosts, communicating with magic, human-machine induction, etc.

Lin Bo made his choice based on his own situation. For a player like him who lives in a world with a micro-demon background, most of the real and effective prophecies cannot be used, and he is not a magic network spellcaster, which basically blocks all the possible paths.

This is why prophetic knowledge cannot be used as a universal magical discipline for players on the multiverse. It does not have the universality of the multiverse.

[Toxulus]: It is indeed difficult to deal with a non-magic background. I suggest not to learn prophecy. It is a waste of disaster coins and energy.
[Lighthouse Guest]: I want a copy of "The Secret Ritual of Fire Divination"

[Tuo]: Have you thought about it? Once the product is used, it cannot be returned.
[Lighthouse Guest]: It’s just a little money, it’s a try

The "Secret Ritual of Fire Divination" that Lin Bo bought with 85 disaster coins is a fake prophecy technique with no practical use. It is said that it can determine good and bad luck, predict disasters, find objects and locate them, etc. If this ritual can anchor an information source, it may be really useful, but in the context of micro-demons, its effectiveness cannot be guaranteed.

The mage's plan is to use the false prophecy technique and his ability to listen to everything to deduce the true divination results, so that he can also gain skill proficiency.

The sea-blue trade channel opened, and a charred snail shell fell out of it.

Lin Bo gently stroked the charred snail shell, and the next moment, it turned into tiny streams of bright light, flowing towards his eyebrows. A string of information emerged in his mind, which were all the rituals of fire divination.

Fire Divination Ritual: Lv1 (0/10) Communicates with the existence of the unknown and generates some thoughts that may be true.

He looked at the humorous skill descriptions on the panel and suddenly couldn't help laughing.

(End of this chapter)