Otherworld Bone Dragon Operation Guide

Chapter 65 Spatial Resonance and Spell Penetration

After struggling to climb to the top of the bridge, Su Ming could no longer stand up straight. The wind force was at least level 11, and it hadn't even reached its peak yet!
The violet opened its senses, stretched out its arms, and stood facing the wind.

To Su Ming's astonishment, the girl stood still without holding onto anything.

"It really is a world of magic," Su Ming murmured.

"I practiced for a long time to get to this level," Zi Jin said. "Why don't you try feeling the wind too?"

【Wind and wind element are not the same thing, are they?】

Su Ming now has a much better understanding of magic in this other world. The magical elements in this world are not physical entities; when the spell ends, the magical elements dissipate, leaving nothing behind.

They are closer to pure energy than matter.

"They are different, but sometimes they can be the same!" Violet replied.

The girl's hair was disheveled. She closed her eyes and focused more intently on her senses. Magic began to gradually fill the space around her.

"The wings of the wind are dancing!" 』

Invisible magical blades floated in the sky, tearing only the wind apart, tearing only the wind apart!
How magnificent! Su Ming looked up at the sky, his heart filled with awe. The scattered clouds drifted by at a visible speed, and the wind was so fierce that it left trails of light. The surging ocean and the shivering islands were merely the backdrop to the mighty power of nature.

Su Ming suddenly wondered, is space itself moving?
He probably knew the answer: the existence of space cannot be understood according to the knowledge of classical physics. It is unaffected by any external things, continuous, unbounded, and without a center.

A concept that is recognized is its existence.

At one moment, the howling wind disappeared, and everything around him fell silent. He saw the violet in front of him turn around in astonishment; everything was moving so slowly.

The next moment, Su Ming fell to the ground and lost consciousness.

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When Su Ming opened his eyes, he was already back in his room.

He looked at himself; his wet clothes had been stripped off, and he was only covered with a blanket.

The door opened, and the white skeleton walked in carrying a set of dry clothes. It reached out to help Su Ming change, but Su Ming stopped it from doing so.

Su Ming got up and changed his clothes. Remembering that Zi Jin had omniscient vision in the Bone Fortress, he activated a spell to conceal his vision.

"[Purple Violet, how long have I been unconscious?]" he asked, looking up to use his psychic vision to find her, discovering she was taking a shower in the next room. They were very close, separated only by a thin wall.

"Not long after, I brought you back, arranged for Russell to take care of you, and then I came to take a shower," the girl replied.

"Um, why don't you use a shielding spell when you take a shower?" Su Ming asked curiously.

[...] Zi Jin raised her hand to wrap herself in a bath towel, and a few seconds later, she appeared in Su Ming's room.

"I used it!" she said angrily.

"Calm down, I only have psionic vision, all I see are black and white silhouettes." Su Ming reached out and picked up a blanket from the bed, draping it over Zi Jin. "You're making my eyes see better this way."

The girl grabbed the blanket, wrapped it around her shoulders, and glared at Su Ming.

Su Xiang recalled how Zi Jin glared at him when she was sick, and couldn't help but want to tease her. However, considering the price he would have to pay in the "training" ahead, he decided to be more discreet.

"You're the one who told me to tell you when I discovered the problem, I've already been very honest," he said helplessly.

"So I should thank you?" Zi Jin was still angry, but after thinking about it, Su Ming seemed to be right. She suppressed her emotions, held up her hand, and showed a few fingers. "How many is this?"

Su Ming looked around and saw that it was shrouded in a fog, but he could still see it.

Su Ming made a three-finger gesture. Zi Jin strengthened the spell again, this time Su Ming couldn't see it.

“Spell penetration,” the scholar said. “We rarely use this concept because most of the time it’s a contest between magical power.” She glanced at Su Ming. “But your spell penetration has clearly exceeded what you should be at your level.”

"Is it because of spatial elements, and is it related to the resonance I just experienced?" Su Ming guessed.

"This is the only way."

"Then why did I faint? Is elemental resonance like that?" Su Ming asked, puzzled.

"I hit him!" the girl said matter-of-factly.

"Ah, why?"

“You just stopped the storm around you. If I hadn’t knocked you out, you would have paid a much higher price.” Violet glanced at him sideways. “You were incredibly reckless. I should have hit you harder!”

"Well, I don't know what I did at the time!" Su Ming scratched his head. He actually went to fight against the hurricane. Violet really saved his life!
“You must have sensed something about spatial elements and lost control of your wandering thoughts. It’s alright, this can continue, but don’t rush things,” Violet told him. “Especially, don’t be reckless. The release of power must be done with caution. There are countless mages who have been torn apart by the backlash because they overestimated their abilities.”

Zijin originally intended to teach Su Ming this knowledge after some time. However, this kind of thing usually only happened to those at the Archmage level or above, and she never expected him to come into contact with it so early; it was completely unexpected.

"understood."

"Next time you try something similar, I have to be by your side. You lack too much common sense; who knows where you'll go wrong this time?" Zi Jin was also a little scared.

"……it is good."

After tidying themselves up, the two sat down at the long table in the workspace and began to eat dinner.

As promised, Violet caught two seagulls, and Su Ming had White Skull stew them. After just one bite, they both spat them out!
It tastes fishy and foul, and it gets stuck in my teeth!

"Pah!" Su Ming rinsed his mouth with water. "This stuff tastes awful!"

“…I should have asked Charles for a cookbook for seafarers,” Violet said regretfully.

He found a piece of pumpkin, chopped it up, and cooked a big bowl of noodles before starting dinner with the girl again.

"You need to use Little Trouble to destroy the two gates?" Violet asked while eating. "Why not use the Summon All Things to decompose them?"

“The outer alloy layer is fine,” Su Ming replied. “The inner layer is made of polymer material.”

Of course, there are no corresponding materials in the other world, but Su Ming doesn't need to actually transfer it there. Casting a summoning spell that failed during the reorganization phase will suffice. However, the "model import" process of disintegrating the polymer chains consumes some unusual amounts of magic power; he discovered this problem when working with the weather balloon last time.

If that door is removed, while the magic consumption won't completely drain him, it will definitely affect subsequent plans.

After all, the towed sonar and its accessories, which are used as targets, are anything but fuel-efficient.

"Hey, let me tell you a joke." The scholar was very satisfied with the pumpkin noodle soup, and her good mood was evident. "A mage made the sturdiest door in history and installed it on the vault. Then the thieves dug a hole through the vault wall."

Su Ming slapped his forehead hard. He really lacked practical experience in theft!
"I was so naive to think that if I could develop Miao Xin's abilities, I could just destroy her directly."

As his knowledge increased, Su Ming discovered from the mark of the dead that Miao Xin was not a ghost as he had initially thought, but a high-ranking vengeful spirit.

It was fortunate that his magic power increased quickly enough, and that Miao Xin was on the verge of collapse when they met, otherwise they would never have been able to form a contract.

“I can’t help you with that,” said Violet. “Using souls as materials to construct vengeful spirits is considered a very despicable thing, even within the necromancer community. I haven’t done any related research, and I don’t have any in-depth information on hand.”

“But Miao Xin’s behavior is nothing like that of a vengeful spirit. She doesn’t have that coldness and destructiveness,” Su Ming said. He had been observing her for some time. “Moreover, she is very independent. I always feel that her abilities are not limited to this, but I don’t know how to use her to do more.”

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