Chapter 6 Arcane Fire
Brian opened his eyes, and his world was still the eternal night and silent ancient city of Orens.
Fortunately, after nearly two months of studying day and night, he has become accustomed to living under candlelight and reading magic books.
Besides, he also has elf blood, and the dim environment does not have as serious an impact on him as imagined.
He checked his situation and saw that the spell slots and spiritual energy values of the two professions, War Mage and Psion, had all been restored during eight hours of meditation. He ended the state, stood up and walked towards the table. Walk aside.
Meditation is the easiest way for spellcasters to perceive magic and exercise their mental power.
It looks no different from sitting quietly, and it doesn’t even require any specific posture.
The main thing is to let go of the body and mind, gradually forget about the perception of the body, and then extend one's will to the energy of the outside world to quietly feel it.
After eight consecutive hours in a day, all the spell slots and spiritual energy values he consumed will return to saturation.
This is why the first thing wizard apprentices need to do when they become wizards is to learn to meditate.
Restoration Magic is just one of them.
The main reason is to let your own mental power actively perceive the magic network.
When you successfully connect your mental power to the magic network during a long period of meditation, it means that you have obtained the most basic spell-casting authority.
If the Magic Network is compared to electrical equipment in the real world, then when spellcasters successfully come into contact with the Magic Network, it can be compared to a machine that is successfully powered on and is qualified to operate.
As for the speed of the machine's operation, it naturally depends on the strength of its own personal strength - that is, whether the so-called caster's level is strong or not.
Obviously, machines with low power cannot withstand the impact of strong voltage, and weak power cannot drive huge machines and equipment.
The magic network is similar to playing a mediating role, allowing the appropriate magical energy (electricity) to match the appropriate people (machine), so as not to explode and die.
Of course, the magic network also has another function, which is to limit the ability of the caster and prevent some beings so powerful that even the gods are afraid of from destroying the balance of the world.
In layman's terms, it is something that helps casters with insufficient talent to cast spells more easily and restricts casters with extraordinary talent from threatening the realm of the gods.
No matter how practitioners of the arcane arts evaluate the pros and cons of Magic Weave, it is a very important thing for every spellcaster.
Without the existence of the Magic Network, the number of spellcasters in the entire world would be reduced by at least 90%.
As a time traveler, Brian is deeply aware of this, and is also a victim of it.
The small world he came to was a world where the magic network could not be sensed.
Because of this, there are only a handful of spellcasters in the small world he left.
Although with his efforts, the threat of ancient evil beings to destroy the world was temporarily solved, the magic network sensed the existence of the small world and began to move towards a normal trajectory.
But even he himself couldn't calculate how long it would take to return to being able to freely perform magic like in the main material world.
This is one of the reasons why he tried his best to go to the main world.
As a spell caster, without the assistance of the magic network, you are helpless in anything you do, and there is no point in saving the world.
Of course, this does not mean that you cannot cast spells without a magic net.
In fact, many powerful spell casters who want to go further will spontaneously study the techniques of casting spells out of the magic network.
After all, if you want to become a powerful being who explores the mysteries of the multiverse, you cannot avoid coming into contact with many areas of dead magic or crazy magic caused by the distortion and deformation of the magic network.
Even outside the world of Toril, those endless worlds that are not covered by the magic network.
At this time, the advantages of spellcasters with off-net spellcasting skills will be fully demonstrated.
This kind of off-grid spellcasting skill is naturally indispensable for a time traveler like him who was once a legendary spellcaster.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to thrive in a place where even the magic net couldn't sense it, let alone come here.
Thinking of this, Brian sat on the chair, closed his eyes slightly, concentrated his mind, got rid of distracting thoughts in his heart, and concentrated on feeling the blue-white flame about 1 inch in diameter in his body.
When he saw that the completion degree of the blue and white flame was 100%, he looked happy and immediately called up the attributes of the flame:
Arcane Fire: lv3
Arcane Energy: (27/27)
Lv1 Characteristics:
Arcane Recall: After use, 50% of arcane energy is restored, three days/once.
Arcane Preparation: You can prepare a spell that you master in advance every day. This spell does not require any spells or actions.
Arcane Hand: Spellcasters who are proficient in this arcane spell can change spells that are originally close-range contact to act on targets within 30 feet, as a long-range contact attack.
Lv2 characteristics:
Arcane Countermeasures: Counter or reflect the enemy's spells based on your own intelligence judgment and mastery of arcane knowledge.
Arcane Burst: This ability allows you to consume additional arcane energy when releasing a spell, causing the spell to have a spell burst effect, knocking enemies within range away, and adding additional spell damage.
Lv3 Features:
Arcane Beam: Consume arcane energy to release a beam of arcane energy in long-distance contact, causing damage to the enemy. The damage increases according to the arcane energy consumed.
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Seeing the arcane fire restored to its original state, Brian let out a sigh of relief and arrived in this world. His heart that had been hanging around finally settled down safely. .
Arcane Fire is the key to his off-grid casting.
It is precisely because of this blue and white flame hidden deep in his soul that came here with him that he has the ability to still release spells in a small world without a magic network.
To put it simply, with the arcane fire, he has undoubtedly become a spell caster who can cast spells without touching the magic network, which is also the blue stripe mage jokingly called by players. At this time, in addition to having the spell slots of his main profession, War Mage, he also had an additional set of blue bars for releasing spells.
Arcane Fire.
It was originally a crimson flame developed by the Archmage, another advanced profession of the wizard.
In order to obtain this kind of flame, the Archmage must permanently consume the energy equivalent to a nine-level spell, which means permanently reducing himself by one nine-level spell slot.
Before Brian was reborn into this world, his profession was a legendary archmage, and he naturally mastered the archmage's arcane fire ability.
This improved version of blue and white arcane fire is the product of his successful research on off-grid casting techniques.
He is still deeply impressed by the production process of Arcane Fire.
In the long history of the world of Toril, the continent of Faerûn, in DR1385, the Year of the Blue Flame, an unprecedented catastrophe occurred: the Arcane Catastrophe.
This is the third time in history that the goddess of magic, Mystra, has fallen. The result is as you can imagine, the magic network is torn apart again, causing the most essential magic power to form a wave of blue flames, and then spread throughout the entire world. The continent of Faerûn is raging like a plague.
Although with the third resurrection of the goddess of magic, the magic network was finally repaired reluctantly.
However, the raging mysterious blue flame has never been cleaned up, and even a magical forbidden area burning with blue flame has been formed in some great rift valleys.
Dead Demon Zones have appeared all over the world and have not been restored to this day.
The main material for Brian's improved arcane fire was the mysterious blue flame that represented the essential energy of the magic network that he obtained by chance.
Subsequently, he pulled out the white silk threads 'Strings of the Magic Web' that represented each ring number on the surface of the Magic Web, and blended them into the arcane fire.
Finally, let this arcane fire connect with your own spirit and turn it into a miniature magic network of your own, which is now the arcane fire that emits blue and white flames.
As his own level increases, the arcane fire level can also be raised to a maximum of level 10, allowing him to master the release of nine-ring and legendary spells without the magic network and only relying on arcane fire. ability.
The most important thing is that after Brian successfully made the arcane fire, in order to let the arcane fire replace his spell book, he also developed a set of secrets recorded in the spell book and all the magic he mastered. Ways to blend in.
After his rebirth, he does not need to relearn the spells he once mastered. He only needs to activate the spell models stored in the arcane fire to release them.
In this way, he can have a lot of time to study the psychic powers of the psion and the arcane knowledge that he has not yet dabbled in.
So, when Brian saw his arcane fire finally awakening from silence, he was very excited.
The main reason why he has fallen to this point is that at the moment he came to this world, his own arcane fire conflicted with the magic network of the goddess of magic Mystra (acclimatized?), so that suddenly extinguished, causing him to suddenly lose the ability to cast spells.
And he happened to be teleported to the Underdark by an Aasimo wizard whose teleportation spells were not very reliable, and finally ended up in this situation.
Now, the spells of the War Mage profession have been linked to the magic network and obtained spell slots. His arcane fire has also awakened after more than two months of silence, which means that his strength has basically recovered. .
However, Brian still felt a little regretful.
In the small world where he was reborn, the quasi-divine power given to him by the consciousness of the world after he nodded and agreed to save the world, however, as he left the original world, it suddenly fell silent in his body. No matter how he mobilized it, it had no effect. A hint of awakening.
Divinity-like power is a divine power comparable to the gods.
If he had not lost this ability at this time, not only could he escape from the secret room, he could even use this power to forcibly lift the curse of the 'Poisonous Heart Spider' in his body.
It was this change that made him realize why the will of the world gave him the divine power without hesitation after he casually agreed.
Obviously, if he intends to fully master the divine power, the prerequisite is that he must save the small world that is still threatened by ancient evil creatures.
In fact, even if there is no such condition, Brian will still try his best to save it.
Because it is a new small world, in addition to its rich resources and population, after considering his future plans, he has planned to make it his rear base for future expeditions to other worlds.
His purpose in coming to the main material world is to quickly improve his strength and find a way to save the world.
Of course, the prerequisite for all this is to escape from the Underdark.
At this time, there was a faint echo from the hollow where the heel hit the rock.
Brian's expression changed, and he immediately realized that the person coming was most likely the person the drow wizard Jolana mentioned to him yesterday, who was going to teach him how to deal with the drow girl Santila.
Thinking of this, his expression turned cold and he closed the book directly.
I learned from Jonara that her daughter was not only a good friend of Santila, but also a drow wizard whose magical talent was second only to her.
In other words, this drow wizard named Santila almost meets all the conditions for the cause of the involution of the drow race. It is no wonder that people are so laborious to deal with her.
“It is indeed a plastic sisterhood.” Brian complained casually.
He is fully aware of his current situation, but this does not mean that he is really at the mercy of others.
Brian admitted that Jonara, a fourth-level drow wizard, made it difficult for him to resist, but her daughter was different.
He can't beat the old one, but he is still very confident against the younger one.
Based on his understanding of the drow elves, he did not believe that this mother and daughter, with a 'kind father and a filial son', could really be a loving family.
(End of this chapter)