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Chapter 17 Relics (Part 1)

In the room, Lynn was flipping through a book of sleeping spells.

Perhaps it was the stimulation of alcohol, but things that were originally somewhat obscure and difficult to understand suddenly became clear to him, giving him a lot of inspiration.

To construct a spell framework, you need to first anchor it.

Imagine the mental sea as a three-dimensional space. Anchoring is to use mental energy in a special form as nails to fix nodes in this space.

Then connect the nodes to construct the corresponding spell framework model.

These are the basic requirements for constructing a spell framework.

For beginners, anchoring is not easy.

Just like the meditation in Zen Buddhism, the principles are all there, but how many people can actually achieve it? Even for professional monks, it takes a long time to go from nothing to this point.

Knowing and being able to do are two different things.

However, Lynn wasn't completely without a foundation; meditation was a prerequisite, and being able to meditate allowed him to enter the spiritual sea.

Lynn practiced meditation, and for most people, he already had a certain foundation in it.

Lynn initially considered other methods, such as using some clever tricks to avoid the anchoring step.

But after thinking about it, he decided to transform his mental energy into nails in a special form to fix nodes in the space.

Essentially, it's to make the framework of magic more rigorous.

Lynn understood the principle that a small difference can lead to a huge error.

If a single part of a sophisticated machine malfunctions, the entire machine may fail.

I'm still an apprentice right now, so I should just follow the steps and learn from the experience of others. Creating new paths is not something I should be doing at this stage. I shouldn't ruin my future for the sake of short-term progress.

But how exactly should we anchor ourselves? The mental sea is a three-dimensional space.

At least that's how Lynn perceived it.

It's not a two-dimensional painting; how can you firmly fix mental energy into nails in a three-dimensional space?

Lynn tried various methods, but none of them could shake his mental sea in the slightest.

But when Lynn saw the Earth Ring slowly rotating in place in the center of his mental sea, a sudden flash of inspiration struck him. He realized that the Sleeping Spell was essentially a skill framework.

However, according to the teacher, once the Earth Ring Meditation Technique is mastered, a first-ring spell Earth Ring will be generated in the mind.

Surely this spell couldn't have appeared out of thin air! Then isn't this floating and rotating earth ring in my mind another kind of unformed skill framework?

The process of meditating on the Earth Ring involves condensing the prototype of each ring of the Earth Ring in one's mind, and then continuously compressing, compressing, and compressing it again.

This condensation process attracts fragments of the soul from the surrounding air, thus creating the Earth Ring.

Of course, this involves some technical principles, but Lynn, who had been meditating on this for several months, had already thoroughly understood these principles.

In other words, there are no technical difficulties in implementing it.

The book describes soul fragments as a form of energy that dissipates into the air after all things perish.

Essentially, it is a material manifestation of spiritual power.

So, anchoring is a technique that uses compressed mental energy to fix mental energy at the origin?

Although she hadn't tried it, Lynn felt it should be about right.

My previous insistence on fixing my mental energy into a nail shape was also influenced by empiricism.

If the rings of the Earth's rings can be condensed in the mental sea, then there's no need to condense your own anchor into a complicated shape; you only need to condense into the simplest circles.

Lynn then tried it out and quickly condensed the first anchor.

Within the sea of ​​consciousness, a ring of spiritual energy remained fixed in place.

Lynn looked left and right, and found it ugly no matter how he looked at it; the anchor looked rather unprofessional.

The main problem is that he has only learned the Earth Ring Meditation Method and only knows how to compress spiritual energy into this shape.

Alright, the basic issues have been resolved. We can work on the shape later.

They can already draw circles, triangles, positive directions, straight lines, and dots. How far are they from that?

dong dong dong.

The knocking startled Lynn from her meditation.

In the room, Lynn opened her eyes.

"Who?" Lynn frowned.

"It's me, Master," Lauren's voice came from outside the door.

Lynn sensed it and, through the spell controlled in his mind, confirmed that the person outside the door was indeed Lauren, not someone in disguise.

So Lynn went over and opened the door, then stood sideways behind it.

"Come in." As soon as she finished speaking, Lynn smelled a strange odor.

The smell came from the half-eaten thing Lauren was carrying.

"What is this?" Lynn asked.

"Master, this is a good thing." Lauren came in and closed the door.

Tell Lynn about what you just experienced.

"You mean, you encountered some monsters in the mine, and then that lizard ate almost all of them, leaving only half a corpse?"

Lynn looked at the half-corpse that Lauren was holding in her hand.

He found it a bit strange; the monster's head was incredibly smooth, as if it were covered with a layer of metal.

Besides, the monster's body was pink and segmented, with a pale gold ring in the middle of each segment. The monster was only half a body; the lower half of its body had been forcibly torn in two by some external force.

"Why does it have a metallic outer shell? It looks like it was artificially made," Lynn wondered to himself.

Lynn felt a very strange feeling about this monster; there was an indescribable eeriness about it.

"No one else saw you come up, right?"

"Lynn asked."

"No, I avoided other people," Lauren said.

He knew he wasn't human now, and that recklessly exposing himself to humans would only cause panic, plus he didn't have the lizard monster's ability to become invisible.

Lynn nodded upon hearing this, then focused his attention on the monster in Lauren's hand.

Perhaps it's because I've been looking at too many of my teacher's lab notes lately.

Looking at the monster's mangled limbs, Lynn couldn't help but feel a strong urge to try it himself.

The monster's rear end was bitten open, revealing tender white flesh.

No colored liquid flowed from the wound; the only liquid flowing from the monster's body was a clear, viscous liquid, which was perhaps its blood.

Lynn took a small amount and tested it, finding that the liquid was not corrosive.

He tapped the monster's head again; the tapping sensation was similar to that of metal.

At the very top of its head, upon examination, Lynn discovered a chrysanthemum-shaped mouthpart that could open.

It contains many silvery-white, high-hardness sharp teeth.

Lynn then discovered an astonishing fact: these silvery-white teeth were harder than iron!

Lynn looked at the button in his hand that had been easily pierced by sharp teeth, a hint of fear flashing in his eyes.

Lauren, who was squatting next to Lynn, looked at Lynn with admiration as he examined her very professionally.

At this moment, it felt that the monster corpse it had brought back had fulfilled its greatest value!

To swallow something whole, like that big lizard, is the greatest waste.

"Master, I saw it crawl out of the ground and eat half a person in one gulp," Lauren said, pointing to the monster's teeth.

"You mean it moves very fast in the soil?"

"Lynn asked."

Lauren nodded hurriedly.

Lynn rubbed his chin with his fingers, not knowing why.

It could be the effect of some kind of magic, or it could be its skin or some other reason, just like that giant lizard that can turn invisible.

Lynn then continued to study the monster's corpse for a while out of curiosity.

But as Lynn continued to examine and explore, the more he looked at it, the stranger it seemed.

This worm-like monster really gave him the impression of being artificially created, somewhat like alchemy, but he had never seen alchemy before and couldn't be sure.

He recalled the alchemical records mentioned in his notes and tried to compare the knowledge in his mind with the real-world examples.

It is said that some wizards study alchemy to modify monsters or magical artifacts. Some even create alchemical golems specifically to protect their wizard towers and prevent petty thieves from interfering with their experiments. It is also said that some wizards establish laboratories near rare mineral deposits to directly extract materials and transform raw ore into a continuous stream of alchemical golems.

I heard there's an iron mine near the town.

Did a wizard conduct some kind of experiment here?

But this is just an iron mine. Building a laboratory in an iron mine seems rather shabby, especially for a wizard.

Of course, these are all just Lynn's guesses.

It's also possible that these monsters originally lived in the mine, and the workers accidentally unearthed their nests and released them.

But this doesn't explain the artificial traces on these monsters. Could it be that these monsters were sealed here and were accidentally released by the workers?

Lynn's eyes kept flickering.

Do you remember where that mine is?

"Lynn asked."

Lauren nodded.

"I remember."

"Take me over there, let's find that lizard brother first," Lynn added. It might be dangerous for just him and Lauren, but if the lizard was willing to come along, their safety would be greatly improved. Although he didn't know what level of monster the lizard was, he was certain that its combat power was definitely higher than his and Lauren's combined.

Lauren hesitated upon hearing this, wanting to speak but then stopping herself.

That lizard looks like it's female.

(End of this chapter)