Don't disturb the sorcerer's scientific research

Chapter 208 Jia Xiu's Super Low-End Cobbled-Together Holy Light Divine Art
"Did you understand?"

In the small, dark room, Justina asked Jashu, who had been silent for a long time, a question with curiosity.

She really wanted to know if Jia Xiu could research or even replicate the divine magic bestowed by the Holy Light.

No one in the Vatican had ever done this before.

Everyone just uses whatever the gods give them.

They only study how to better receive divine gifts and how to use those gifts more skillfully.

It seems I've never really thought about figuring out the principles behind grace.

This isn't even within the taboo of blasphemy.

I just... never thought about it at all.

This is why priests are the biggest outliers in the spellcasting profession.

Because whether it's a mage, druid, warlock, or sorcerer, they all need to study spells from a theoretical perspective.

As for mages, needless to say, their strength comes entirely from research.

Druids are meant to "feel and understand" nature. Long ago, their way of feeling nature was rather mystical, but as times have changed, it has become more scientific. Otherwise, Mia's paper wouldn't have caused such a stir.

Even sorcerers need to learn; much of the mysterious knowledge and powerful energy they receive from their sect leader needs to be studied and integrated.

Even warlocks don't usually learn additional spells, but they still need to learn and master the magical power they inherit from their bloodline.

Only the priest.

They truly "neither learn nor practice," relying entirely on dedication.

The way Jia Xiu taught her spells that he couldn't use himself, let her learn them first, and then bestowed them upon her through a divine process, is definitely not something that could be done in an ordinary "pastor and god" relationship.

Watching Jia Xiu deep in thought as he studied the Holy Light Divine Art he had saved.

Justina felt conflicted.

She began to wonder what the underlying principles of the Holy Light's power were.

This curiosity about the truth is something I've never felt before.

Perhaps it was influenced by Jia Xiu.

She also came to believe that the process of pursuing truth, transforming results, and putting them into application was more meaningful than dedicating herself to deities.

What exactly is the nature of deities?

Although she had become a demigod, she suddenly realized that she had never really thought this through.

If it is as the scriptures say, that God loves the world, then why do believers need to make offerings first?
Love is irrational.

Contracts should be based on reason, specifying what the second party needs to do first and what the first party needs to do.

Following this line of thought, one side provides faith, and the other provides divine gifts.

This is all about interests!

Where does this divine love come from...?

No!

Justina startled herself; this was truly going to be incredibly blasphemous.

Thus, another side of complex emotions arose.

She didn't really want Jia Xiuzhen to be able to figure it out.

If Jia Xiu proves that the divine spells bestowed by the Holy Light are essentially the same as normal spells, they do not need to be bestowed and can be cast through learning.

Doesn't that, from a certain perspective, show that holy light is nothing special, unique, absolutely holy, or unrepeatable...?

These are all statements from classical texts.

If the research is truly thorough, the charge of blasphemy will be so complex it's like a game of Jenga.

What's even more terrifying is that it would also show that the Holy Light and these lower-level gods are not fundamentally different.

The entire pantheon is not particularly sacred; it's just a super-large corporation.

The Holy Light is the ultimate leader, and the other gods, lesser gods, and demigods are the lower-level administrators...

In the past, although they were all gods, there was a hierarchy, and some divine authority could be replaced, while others represented eternity.

If this point is also broken...

Justina was somewhat resistant to such drastic changes.

This is the instinct of most people—the instinct to not want to face the disruption of their accustomed worldview.

Therefore, she was caught in a dilemma: she wanted Jia Xiu to come up with something, but she didn't want to see him actually come up with anything.

The longer Jia Xiu remained silent, the more uncomfortable he became.

Her thoughts were wandering uncontrollably, and she desperately wanted to stop them from drifting in such "dangerous" directions, but the more she tried to stop, the more "dangerous" her ideas became.

It made her feel terrible.

"Um……"

After remaining silent for a long time, Jia Xiu finally made a commotion.

"how is it going?"

Justina pressed for details, but then regretted it.

She didn't want to hear either outcome.

It would have been better if there had been no result at all.

Sometimes, no result is a "good result".

"It's a little difficult."

Jia Xiu scratched his head and said.

Judging from his distressed expression, it's easy to see that Holy Light is indeed quite capable.

"With my current abilities, there are very few parts that I can even figure out what it is, let alone understand it."

Hearing Jassiu say that, Justina breathed a sigh of relief, but was also a little disappointed.

The original plan was to mock Jia Xiu if his research on the Holy Light Divine Art failed.

However, after a series of contradictory and dangerous clashes of ideas, Justina couldn't think of anything to mock her anymore.

On the contrary, I feel that I am somewhat in the same boat as Jia Xiu.

They are both stumped by the problem, but Jia Xiu's problem is more practical, while hers is more distant and bigger.

Out of sympathy, Justina was about to say a few words of comfort to Jasius.

At this moment, Jia Xiu spoke up.

"However, it's not entirely hopeless."

"Huh? What? What? Is there any way?" Justina was so taken aback by the sudden turn of events that she stammered.

Jia Xiu said, "I plan to use the new anchor point function in the dark room."

His line of thinking was as follows.

From his perspective now, the blurriness of this "high beam" spell is far greater than that of the fire arrow.

The difficulty levels are clearly not on the same level.

The good news is that the few places where you can see what's there are actually quite coherent, and they can basically be connected into a continuous stretch.

Therefore, he planned to set up anchor points in various locations, pause the spell at different stages, and then compare and check the differences in these visible codes.

By comparing them like this, we should be able to find some patterns. If all goes well, we might be able to figure out a small part of the functions. Even a small part is still a breakthrough. Understanding a little bit is better than nothing. Many major breakthroughs are achieved by accident among countless small breakthroughs.

He immediately started operating it.

Despite it being a new feature, Jia Xiu found it very easy to use.

Setting breakpoints in the code, he's good at that. Justina watched Jasshu's actions, not understanding them at all, but they seemed very impressive.

Oh no, could he really figure this out?
Jaxiu mainly set the anchor points at the points where magic was supplied to the eyes, the divine spell was activated, the activation was complete, the light shone on Hannah, and several evenly spaced time points afterward.

Then, for each paused state, all visible coded portions are recorded, and those in the same position are grouped together for comparison.

This work lasted for several hours.

Well, that's very characteristic of a programmer's job.

The scenario of fingers flying across the keyboard, line after line of code, solving one problem after another, is practically nonexistent.

It's actually a very demanding job.

Even Justina got sleepy watching it.

If she hadn't been so eager to know what Jia Xiu could possibly come up with, she would probably have already fallen asleep.

There was no other way; I joined the army because I couldn't do this kind of work, and eventually I managed to become a knight.

In her view, aside from the risk of death, everything else about fighting was much easier than this. At least in this kind of fighting, you could at least try your best, but with this thing, even if you try your best, it's useless.

After Jia Xiu sorted out all the visible codes, putting them all together was enough to trigger trypophobia.

He muttered to himself.

"Hmm...it seems like something's missing, but what is it?"

Justina looked around, but there was no one else there. Was this person asking her a question?
Jia Xiu paced back and forth in the small, dark room, and finally squatted down on the ground, beginning to "confront" the code.

Justina was drawn to the way he squatted down. How did he manage to squat like that? And why was he so steady?
Since she had nothing better to do, Justina tried squatting down in the same position.

Two seconds later.

The dignified demigod collapsed onto his backside.

The face is slightly red.

As he got up, he kept a watchful eye on Jia Xiu's direction and prayed silently.

Don't look back, don't look back...

If this were seen, her already meager reputation would be further diminished.

Just then, Jia Xiu suddenly let out a strange cry.

"Oh ho! I know, I know what's missing, Justina, this divine spell is... why are you blushing?"

"Uh, cough, it's nothing, I'm just a little hot. You asked about this divine spell?"

"What I want to ask is about the process of this divine spell to determine whether someone is a demon in disguise. It shouldn't be that you can immediately tell which one is a demon just by looking at them, right? You have to stare at them for a while before you know the final result. And it's not that you can see through the demon's true form right away. You get some kind of hint that the target is a demon."

Jia Xiu asked the questions very quickly.

Excitement and elation were palpable.

"Uh, yes, it takes a few seconds. If it's a demon, you'll hear a bell-like sound. But you can only look at a hundred people at a time. After you hear the bell, you can identify them one by one."

Justina answered.

If it weren't for the need to keep an eye on things for a while, she wouldn't have spent eight days in the holy city without blinking. Everyone gathered in the square, and she could scan tens of thousands of people to get through the inspection in half a day.

"That's right, that's right. But I didn't expect it to be able to see hundreds of people at once, but that's not important..."

As Jia Xiu muttered to himself, he began adding new anchor points.

Justina was a little worried that he might be obsessed with his research. If he really couldn't figure it out, he could just give up, right?

What Jia Xiuzheng is doing now is to activate the divine spell and interrupt it at a later time after it shines on the target, Hannah.

The observation period in the past was not long enough.

He made a naive mistake, assuming that this divine art could instantly see through the demons' disguises.

Part of the reason can be attributed to the literary works I read since childhood, where seeing through a disguise was always straightforward; I never expected that the divine magic of Holy Light would be so inefficient.

After completing the anchor points, Jia Xiu immediately began to examine the newly obtained sets of codes.

He hadn't been looking for long when he jumped up.

"That's it!"

"What exactly?"

Justina was confused.

"Forehead……"

Jia Xiu tried hard to organize his thoughts.

"That's right, um... Although there are still many parts I don't understand overall, I've roughly figured out how it works. It doesn't directly see through the demons, but rather adds a new layer of disguise on top of the demons' original disguise."

Jia Xiu pointed to a spot in the paused spell and said.

Actually, it's just a blank stare; even if you pointed it out, Justina wouldn't understand.

"A new disguise?"

"Yes, I'll call it the new disguise for now, because it doesn't actually have the effect of transformation. I don't know why it doesn't have the effect of transformation, and I don't know exactly what kind of disguise it is. But we can leave these things aside for now."

The details about what exactly happened were completely vague, and Jia Xiu couldn't see them at all.

Fortunately, the fact that this part is not visible does not affect the understanding of the general logic of the spell.

"In short, this spell, which we'll call the new disguise, was superimposed on the demon race's disguise. The most important aspect is that this disguise is completely different from the magic system used by the demon race. Well, it's not that it's completely different; the fundamental logic is the same, but the resulting system is different. Do you understand?"

Justina didn't understand, but she nodded.

"Then, both of these effects are disguises of transformation, but when spells from different systems are combined, what happens is not effect overriding, transformation confusion, etc., but rather a wrong signal is fed back."

"A signal? The one used to signal a change of formation during battle?"

Justina understands it this way because that's exactly what the signal means in Common Language so far.

Used for rapidly transmitting military intelligence during marches and battles.

"Um... that's roughly the idea. Anyway, I don't know how this signal is generated, but the superposition of two different systems of magic does produce it. Then this signal is fed back and, after some unknown process, becomes the bell sound you hear."

Jia Xiu breathed a long sigh of relief after he finished speaking.

It's truly amazing that I can figure out the general logic even when there are many parts that I don't understand.

"Forehead……"

Justina went through it in her mind very hard.

"Then why do you need to make your eyes glow?"

She was still bothered by the pain in her eyes.

"do not know."

Jia Xiuli answered confidently.

"Maybe it'll work, or maybe it's just for looking cool."

Justina's lips twitched.

"Now that you've figured out the logic behind this divine spell, what's next?"

"what?"

Jasmine looked at Justina as if she were an idiot.

"What do you mean, 'then what'? Haven't you figured it out yet? We now know that a different system can still work on the demons' transformation spells and generate a signal. So as long as we have a way to capture this signal, we'll have a plan to see through the demons' disguise."

"But, even though they're from different systems, the spells that affect demons are still shapeshifting magic. Where is it...?"

As Justina spoke, she realized what she had just said.

They already possessed this transformation spell.

"The tentacle monster's spell that turns demons into vampires! That's a shapeshifting spell, and the system is completely different..."

(End of this chapter)