Comprehensive network wizard, magic emperor.

Chapter 274 Career Advancement, Skill Upgrade, Genetic Incantations
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Class: True Name Mage Lv12 (4, 838, 605/38, 710, 030)

Professional Features (New)

Echoes of Your True Name: Your true name echoes in your ears, never to be forgotten under any circumstances.

"Copper Moon." Lin Bo suddenly felt someone calling him. The voice did not come from in front of or behind him, but from all directions, resounding both inside and outside his heart.

It's as if the soft call he uttered last year when he had just reached Lv2 True Name Mage and had his own unique True Name has only now received an echo.

"Copper Moon".

This time, Lin Bo heard it clearly: the call came from the true name rune in his mind itself.

It is calling upon the monk, just as the monk often calls upon his true name.

The Dharma Master is the true name, and the true name is everything that constitutes the Dharma Master's existence. Now, Lin Bo's unique true name is calling out to himself, as if an invisible deity is softly chanting, constantly repeating every moment of Lin Bo's life, confirming his existence.

Even though he concealed his true name and covered the "Copper Moon" rune, Lin Bo could still hear the soft whisper. The murmur of his true name pierced through the magic's concealment and fell into the mage's ears, ensuring that he would never forget his name, his identity, or anything about himself.

The Lv12 True Name Mage's class characteristics are very pure, and Lin Bo doesn't need to practice too much; he can quickly become familiar with them.

He immediately realized that this characteristic was extremely important for the Transfiguration Technique. Not forgetting his true name meant that he would not lose his reason when he transformed into birds and beasts.

Lin Bo had always paid the least attention to the Mantra Transfiguration Technique, using it only occasionally and practicing it infrequently, resulting in a slow accumulation of proficiency due to the risk of losing his way. Now, however, he no longer had that concern.

Over the past month, Lin Bo has focused on his path to ascension, leaving him with very little free time, resulting in many of his skills remaining stagnant.

The increase in proficiency from running around the map is not significant, because there are too few combat scenarios that can exhaust his spell power. Apart from soloing the Necromancer faction in [Giant's Field], only some high-intensity battles in [Great Archives] can put him under some strain.

However, even so, after using up all three challenge opportunities this month, three professional skills have accumulated enough proficiency to upgrade.

With a thought, Lin Bo switched the network panel to the skill interface.

Mantra Control - Solidification: Lv1 (1006.2/1000) Basic Mantra Control, by speaking the mantra, control all things to condense and cool down

Quiet as the earth, hidden deep within is immortality. —Proverbs

"upgrade."

Mantra Control - Solidification: Lv2 (6.2/3000) Basic Mantra, used to control and solidify all things by reciting mantras.

Grains of soil gather to form mountains; accumulated peaks form ridges. — Proverbs

The monk sat silently, the power of his incantation flowing from his brain like quicksand, gathering in his eyes and filling them.

Lin Bo looked around and saw the things around him with a completely new perspective. The objects whose true names he had learned were faintly glowing. He grabbed a handful of iron balls and scattered them on the table. The rolling steel balls were connected by invisible veins.

Lin Bo had already noticed this kind of pattern when his Life Control Technique was upgraded to Lv2. It integrates scattered individuals, encompassing a thousand people, ten thousand grains of sand, and a million raindrops into a whole.

By manipulating this growth and branching of the veins, one can divide a whole thing into two, four, and so on, constantly splitting it apart.

Now, Lin Bo witnessed these veins shorten and disappear, allowing the fragmented things to merge. He chanted the true name of steel, and the scattered iron pellets on the table rolled together, merging like water droplets.

This is the effect of Lv2 Solidification Technique, an inverted mirror image of Lv2 Life Technique, the two acting in opposite directions. This also confirms the mechanism of "Wood overcomes Earth".

Once the surging magical power subsided, he moved on to upgrading the next skill.

Mantra Control - Absolute: Lv1 (1005/1000) Basic Mantra Control, by speaking the mantra, control the shape and quality of all things to remain constant

Death and rebirth are inevitable; the nature of gold remains constant. —Proverbs

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Mantra Manipulation - Absolute: Lv2 (5/3000) Basic Mantra Mantra, through reciting mantras, manipulating all things to restore their original form.

As the years pass, true nature remains. — Proverbs

The subsided magical power surged and stirred again, drilling into the eyeball and gathering in the lens, polishing it into a mirror that could record images. The mirror did not reflect the current appearance of things, but rather their past forms.

Lin Bo looked at the clump of iron balls gathered on the table and saw that their past forms were like layers of shadows piled up.

Every moment of the steel's life unfolded before his eyes, becoming a long, trailing shadow for Lin Bo to admire. The mage saw this ball of iron, once ore powder, once melted into molten iron, cast into steel beams, then reshaped into iron balls, and finally coalescing from those balls into a ball. Time had changed it.

Lv2 Absolute Control Technique, yet he refused this change.

Thus, the iron ball split into iron pellets again, became fragments of steel beams, became flowing, cold molten iron again, and became powdery crystals existing in the ore, returning to its most original state.

Lin Bo looked at the pile of iron filings on the table, gently touched them, fused them into one, then heated them to melt, cooled them to solidify, restored them to hard steel, rolled them into balls, and put them back into his ammunition pouch.

He exhaled softly, blowing away the dust.

Next is the last skill.

真言幻术：Lv3（8009.8/8000）（知识残卷1/1）（职业特性：真名藏匿）基础真言术，口诵真名，制造出的幻象物体能够产生真实效应

Material things are but illusions, reality is but a dream. — Proverbs

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Mantra Illusion: Lv4 (9.8/20000) Advanced Mantra, unlocks the "Change" trait. By reciting the true name, it completely alters the appearance of things, and will not revert to its original form until it is completely destroyed.

Form may change, but spirit will shift; reality and illusion are one. — Proverbs

Lv4 True Word Illusion is an enhancement of the profession's trait of Concealing True Name. The spell power changes at will, like mercury, obscuring the true names of all things, leaving a gap that can be filled with a new true name, completely deforming the obscured things.

Lin Bo had already experienced this beforehand when he was studying the incomplete knowledge scroll, so he was familiar with it without needing to practice.

After the upgrade was completed, he focused his mind and once again devoted himself to the path of ascension, silently refining the gene incantation, revising it word by word repeatedly.

The teammates had mostly said goodbye and left, returning to their original worlds to handle their daily lives in addition to exploring the map.

The halfling [Frost Stew Pot] set up the stove and began preparing a meal. She always cherished the time she spent with the lighthouse keeper, seeking his knowledge and taking care of his diet.

Sometimes, the Tifflin mage [Strange Lily] would stay behind, browse through the Great Archives for materials that interested her, and then chat with Linbo and the halflings, discussing their professional knowledge.

She is a spellcaster of the Conjuration School, with some knowledge of power speech, but she uses mortal language most often.

While commands to the magic network do not require magical language, spellcasters still need to master grammar to make their spells concise and powerful. Excellent spells can fully mobilize the caster's reason and emotions, conveying a clear and definite belief, thereby stabilizing the spell's effect.

Every scholar who is well-versed in spells basically has their own unique rhetorical system. The same spell can be triggered with different incantations; miracles are never fixed.

[Strange Lily] would discuss the grammar of spells with Lin Bo. Unlike the obscure magical language system, the powerless mortal language has a natural advantage in grammar. It is docile and obedient, can be arranged and combined at will, and will not bring mental burden to the practitioner.

Lin Bo benefited greatly from exchanging knowledge with this Tiflin.

When he was compiling the genetic incantations, he would also use mortal language as a draft, which could be stored in a computer for easy access, and then translated into ancient Druid language in his mind.

This process is somewhat cumbersome, but it is absolutely necessary. After all, his biological brain's memory is not yet good enough to memorize tens of thousands of magical words at once.

To this day, Lin Bo has almost completely converted all the instructions in the genetic code into incantations.

The most difficult step has been taken, and now we can start practical experiments, beginning with building the simplest single-celled organisms. He wants to retrace the evolutionary history of the biosphere in nature.

Lin Bo took out the sealed box from his pocket, carefully took out the last bit of the Philosopher's Stone, and gently rubbed it between his fingertips.

He turned and told the halflings to eat on their own and not to wait.

"Brother Master, I'll save some food for you." [Frosty Stew Pot] sat upright on the small stool, holding a kitchen knife.

Lin Bo smiled and nodded, but said, "I probably won't have time to eat before dawn."

He took a slow, deep breath, closed his eyes, and recited his true name.

"(True Word) Blood of the World".

"(True Word) Computer".

He began to carve ancient Dorei runes on the philosopher's stone, which was as fine as sand. With each character he carved, he simultaneously chanted an incantation. This single-celled organism gene incantation totaled 36,477 characters.

(End of this chapter)