Chapter 26 26: Extraordinary characteristics! Fear is coming!

Time flies.

When a person's life is fulfilling enough, he will feel that time passes quickly. This is the case for Ian. He feels that he is quite different from a few days ago.

[Rune Mastery (Level 1): 3/100]

As the saying goes, miracles happen when the liver explodes.

When Ian temporarily stopped improving and training other skills and concentrated on learning runes, the complementarity of his talent and the system panel produced a chaotic killing effect.

Of course.

Being able to upgrade a slow-learning skill to the first level so quickly is also related to the skill [Language Proficiency] that is improved at the same time as the study of runes.

【Language Proficiency (Level 5): 4/1600】

When this skill, which Ian had high hopes for, reached the fifth level, its extraordinary characteristics naturally emerged.

[Language Mastery Extraordinary Characteristics - Literary and Language Proficiency: You will more easily learn words and languages that you have never been exposed to. 】

A very simple expression.

But the effect of extraordinary characteristics is definitely not weak.

As an extraordinary characteristic born from an ordinary skill, although it did not give Ian the incredible communication ability he wanted, it also gave Ian a brand new talent.

As a result, his speed at learning runes became much faster. At the same time, this extraordinary characteristic also gave him the unique ability to learn the languages of animals and magical animals.

Spare time.

Ian tried to learn the language of the sparrows outside the house. This is really a feeling that must be possessed in order to understand. The attempt of listening and distinguishing quickly allowed him to summarize the sparrows and their expressions. The various tones and subtle syllable changes of joy, anger, sorrow, and joy, this is definitely a talent that Ian did not possess before acquiring extraordinary characteristics.

"Perhaps by training it to level ten and awakening the legendary characteristics, you really have a chance to gain the ability to communicate with all things." Ian has unlimited expectations for the legendary characteristics that he has never been exposed to.

However.

He knows it too.

The top priority is to complete the homework left by the witch.

After all.

There are only two days before he will enter the trance-like world again. God knows if the completion of the homework does not satisfy the witch, whether the witch will impose some medieval punishment on him.

“Fortunately, my speed of learning runes is now accelerated. The next time I return to the trance, I should be able to complete the interpretation of runes and the study of magic.”

Ian secretly planned in his mind.

【Rune Mastery】Get started successfully.

It has given Ian the most basic ability to interpret simple runes - the reason why it is only a simple interpretation is entirely because the structure of the magic text composed of runes is completely different from that of most languages.

It is completely different from the vocabulary link in English and the combination of Chinese characters. After all, it is not only a language, but also a medium for communication magic.

Just being able to recognize and spell all the runes does not mean that you can analyze the magic contained in the runes. The reason why it is extremely difficult to learn is probably inseparable from this characteristic.

Even if the same runic characters are spelled in the same order, the different links between each character may represent completely different meanings.

If you do not fully understand the link between each character, and rashly interpret the magic text to release magic according to what you think is the correct way, then a wizard will most likely end up becoming a member of the trance. .

Hmm.

It may also be a lifelong disability, missing arms or legs or something.

No matter what.

Ian didn't want to experience that feeling either... Because of this, he was extremely careful when interpreting the "after-school homework" left by Teacher Mara.

This naturally resulted in slow progress.

Today.

He could only decipher most of the words on the fragments of the dress.

【Fear is coming】

It is said that ancient wizards were best at weaving curses with runes. Through the magic text information that Ian has now deciphered, the magic recorded on the dress fragments is obviously a curse magic.

Its principle even involves some means of mental implantation. The general effect should be to implant an illusion into the target that makes the target fall into fear?

Maybe other hallucinations can be implanted... What makes Ian find it interesting is that this magic is not unknown. It once participated in the creation of the famous magical creature Boggart in the wizarding world. It is a magical creature that can freely shapeshift and take on the form of a person's most feared thing.

Through Ian's inquiries in the unknown bookstore in the village, the birth of Boggart originated from biological alchemy, and the rune used in it is this [Fear Curse].

This is very interesting trivia.

It also made Ian realize that with the improvement of laws in the wizarding world, it seems that the development involving biological alchemy has stagnated, which is roughly the same as the biological gene editing research in the Muggle world.

"After all, ethics and morality are involved."

Ian is not interested in bioalchemy. He is mainly interested in the decline of bioalchemy, such as [Fear Curse] that disappeared with it. ] I feel sorry for magic like that.

Of course.

With the guidance of Teacher Mara, a witch from ancient times, Ian may be able to reappear many lost magics, but he doesn't know whether such an "archaeological excavation" can get any incentive bonus.

Hmm.

Reputation is secondary.

Money is what Ian needs most.

“I don’t know if the little money left is enough to buy potion books for Teacher Mara.” Of course Ian will worry about money, but he has not forgotten what Teacher Mara mentioned before.

Whether it's for himself or something else, Ian must be careful about buying books.

However.

In the wizarding world.

Knowledge is incredibly expensive.

Snape does still have some gold Galleons left behind, but it is definitely not enough to buy all the potions-related books. Maybe buying some second-hand textbooks first is a compromise?

"Although the books are second-hand, the knowledge is the same."

I thought of this.

Ian put the money bag in his pocket.

Holding the three magic books that were no longer of any use to me, I quickly walked along the cobblestone street and once again went to the nameless bookstore behind the Literary Residence Quill Shop.

The simple facade remains the same.

In the bookstore with sunshades to block the sun, there is still not a single customer buying books. Ian stepped inside and looked around, but could not find the old man in the bookstore.

“What are you looking for?”

Suddenly.

A childish and curious voice suddenly sounded.

Ian was shocked.

He quickly followed the sound and looked over.

See.

Behind the registration and payment counter.

A girl with a three-dimensional and delicate face was sitting there, with a book on her knees. Under her platinum blond hair, a pair of eyes of completely different colors were looking at Ian.

“I’ve seen you.”

This was not Ian's voice.

But the girl spoke first with a surprised tone.

The sunshades were half-draped.

The sunlight shone little by little on the girl's hair, making the already dazzling platinum gold shine even more. What's even more eye-catching than the gold hair on her head are the girl's eyes.

One side is blue and the other side is white.

The unique heterochromatic pupils seem to be unforgettable once they have seen them. At this time, the white side seems to be slowly rotating. I don’t know if it is a refraction illusion caused by the sunlight.

(End of this chapter)