Comprehensive network wizard, magic emperor.

Chapter 65 Reading Notes, Merchants Online

The sky brightened and the lighthouse lens stopped rotating.

The phantom parrot had disappeared at some point, its beautiful singing had stopped in the middle of the night, and the gentle and cold whispers of the early morning waves had also become a little tired.

Lin Bo rubbed his forehead, looked up from the book, leaned back in his chair, closed his eyes and sighed.

Studying the mad dwarf's library was not smooth, as he expected, there was a lot of magic-related knowledge in it, but the readability was generally very poor.

Just as martial arts secrets are often written in code, meridian acupoints are replaced with incomprehensible professional terms, the main purpose is to maintain confidentiality.

The more conservative and closed the circle is, the more thresholds it will set.

The same phenomenon exists in magic books, and the more classical the magic book is, the more obscure it is.

Classical mages organized their theories and flashes of inspiration and wove them into epic poems, fables, and myths.

If outsiders want to peek into the secrets of magic, they can only endure the headache and extract useful magical knowledge bit by bit from between the lines.

Whether these bits of knowledge are actually misleading information is difficult to determine. Moreover, even if they are true, they are not necessarily universally applicable. After all, the wizards who compiled the books vary in skill. Rural wizards boast freely, but their writings are often useless.

In comparison, the various knowledge materials in the field of natural philosophy that Lin Bo purchased on the Duolian Duoyi platform are much more readable, but they sometimes lack logical chains. For example, in some mathematical proofs, the process is often not given, and they are just glossed over with a sentence "obviously known".

However, he could understand the wizard's stinginess and concealment of knowledge. After all, the knowledge in the field of magic could never be as open and free as the knowledge of natural philosophy.

Various profound mathematical principles can be openly displayed to the world, and no matter how hard they try, they cannot reach the top. However, this situation does not apply to the field of extraordinary knowledge.

Magical knowledge possesses a "power" that can be easily acquired. For example, a short but powerful spell or a simple but effective formula can be mastered by even an untrained wizard. Therefore, to prevent outsiders or enemies from stealing their knowledge, wizards will closely guard the secrets of their knowledge.

Moreover, uncontrolled power often brings disasters. Some magical knowledge involves demons, monsters, and foreign gods from various realms. Once they take the opportunity to launch a conspiracy, it will not only destroy the careless ghosts who rashly touch the taboos, but also the surrounding creatures and regions will suffer.

Even the carriers of magical knowledge themselves are powerful. The extraordinary language is difficult to understand, and its pronunciation and glyphs will automatically disappear from the mind. As the caster learns, these runes may also cause permanent changes to their hosts, for good or bad, no one can know.

For various reasons, there are always many barriers to learning extraordinary knowledge.

Lin Bo read it for an entire night, savoring it carefully at the beginning and then flipping through it casually, skipping over the poems, fables and myths that did not speak human language, and only reading those that he could understand.

Just like that, he spent one night going through more than ninety classics roughly. He did not read them in depth, but took notes, marking the parts he thought were useful and the pages of which books they were on, for easy later sorting.

Although it was a rough read, Lin Bo still managed to sort out some useful information.

The mad dwarf's collection mainly covers the fields of mechanical design and assembly, alchemy, alchemical alchemy, enchantment, a small amount of ritual studies, and a little bit of magical linguistics.

There is nothing much to say about the mechanical design and assembly. It is not as advanced as the information Lin Bo found in the product list of the Duolian Duoyi platform.

Alchemy involves the transformation of material properties, especially the transformation of ordinary materials into magical materials. The activated metal neurons in the alchemical beast's prosthetic limbs are the products of alchemy.

Alchemy and pharmacy is also an important branch of this field, and its academic focus has shifted from material transformation to the exploration of the origin of life.

In the Crazy Dwarf's Alchemical Circus dungeon, most of the reward drops are alchemical potions. Lin Bo ran it three times yesterday and got six bottles of gray alchemical preparations and two bottles of white alchemical preparations.

Mad Dwarf's Great Strength Alchemical Concoction (White)
Type: Alchemical Product
Weight: 0.1 kg
Item Effect: After taking it, conduct a physical test. If you pass, you will gain a temporary increase in strength. If you fail, you will fall into a negative state, including exhaustion, weakness, and poisoning.

Description: One of the qualified products produced by the circus's backstage alchemy laboratory, it allows the user to gamble between power and cost, which is also an aspect of the alchemical exchange law.

Lin Bo still had no intention of using this product, but fortunately Agilent finally agreed to accept it.

The price of white-quality giant alchemy preparation is 12 disaster coins per bottle. The side effects greatly reduce its practicality. Otherwise, this extraordinary potion that enhances combat effectiveness should generally be sold for more than 30 disaster coins.

Agilent stated that if there are other alchemical preparations with enhanced properties, they will also be priced differently based on quality and practicality.

Relatively speaking, potions that enhance intelligence, perception, and charisma are more expensive than those that enhance strength, agility, and constitution. The circus dwarfs rely on various homemade alchemical preparations to assist in performing animal modification surgeries; without these extraordinary potions to keep them alive, no animal could leave the operating table alive.

Another core component of the brass mechanical prosthesis is the plasma engine, which involves enchantment and ritual.

Enchanting is the theoretical study of infusing objects with magical powers.

It is commonly used in enchantments on weapons and protective gear, making swords sharp and wrapped in flames, lightning, and frost, making armor strong and able to enter and exit water and fire without being hurt, and making boots light and agile so that they can walk on water and pass through swamps and thorn bushes as if walking on flat ground.

There are also enchantments on other things to create magical tools, like the multi-purpose toolbox that [Trash Pickup] gave to Lin Bo.

Enchantments often require the aid of rituals, a series of techniques used to channel the caster's inner strength and the energies of nature. They stabilize spells, enhance their effectiveness, and maintain their magical power. Therefore, ritual learning is a must-learn for mages.

There are many ways to enchant. In addition to the legendary divine enchantment, the most common one is gem enchantment, which is a common method used by skilled dwarf craftsmen. By sacrificing gems during the forging process, they guide the hidden elemental power in them to attach to the weapon.

There are also spell enchantments, 4th-level enchanted weapons, 6th-level enchanted items, and 8th-level magic permanence, which can all be used to create magic items.

The mad dwarf uses rune enchantment, which is to engrave powerful supernatural symbols on the surface of objects in an orderly manner to form a series of spells, and then guide them through rituals to stimulate miracles.

The symbols engraved on the surface of the plasma engine are the enchanted words, and those regular geometric lines are part of the ritual.

What Lin Bo was most interested in were these extraordinary runes. For a True Name Mage, magical language was core knowledge and a secret that must not be missed.

He currently knows a lot of magical words for things in nature, but what he knows is limited to pronunciation and semantics, and he does not know the shapes of the characters.

A magic word is different from a real name.

The meaning, pronunciation, and shape of a true name are all one; knowing one aspect reveals the other, and the third. Therefore, when he learns the true name of an object, the corresponding rune will appear in his mind, and therefore he cannot reveal the pronunciation of his own name.

The pronunciation, meaning, and glyphs of magic language are separate. Only after knowing the meaning of the magic runes can the pronunciation and glyphs be remembered, otherwise they will be forgotten spontaneously.

Lin Bo learned the meaning and pronunciation of the characters from the universe, but he did not know the characters' shapes. If he knew the characters' shapes, he could also try to enchant the runes.

Unfortunately, there is very little content on magical linguistics in the mad dwarf's collection of books, only a thin page written on the leather of some creature.

There are three enchantment runes in total, and twenty-nine magic words, each with a transliterated mortal language notation under it.

This behavior is like using Chinese to mark English words, and the pronunciation will definitely not be standard.

But it is also a helpless solution. After all, the learning threshold of extraordinary runes is too high. Most people, even most spellcasters, have no way of knowing the exact pronunciation of magic words. They can only imitate them through the pinyin passed down from some ancient books.

Apart from the pinyin, these three enchantment words have no annotations, which neither explain their function nor clarify their semantics, making them obscure and difficult to understand.

Lin Bo observed these runes carefully and found that he could understand them. To be precise, after seeing certain extraordinary characters, he would close his eyes and recall them, and he would not forget them in a short time. Moreover, as he continued to recall the characters, he could match them with a known magic word.

These magic runes that he could remember and the real name runes that Lin Bo knew had intuitive similarities in their structural composition and stroke shape.

Lin Bo thus left a conjecture in his reading notes: The shape, pronunciation, and meaning of Magical Language all derive from the True Name Rune → Is Magical Language an extension of the True Name Rune? Unsure, need to learn more → Contact the trading platform as soon as possible.

He waited all night but failed to add the Aoqiguiliyuan trader as a friend.

【Network Tips: Received a friend message】

Lin Bo opened the chat interface, then sat up straight, thinking: It's finally here.

[Ochi Magnificent Garden - Merchant Tosurus]: Nice to meet you (laughing)

(End of this chapter)