The mage arrives

After Jialina got the crystal ball, she decided to invite Gordon to study together.After all, she knew that with her own ability, it would be difficult to discover the mystery of such a mysterious Nesser-era magic item.In the series of battles just now, Gordon showed extraordinary wisdom and arcane attainments.With such a helper, it should be easier to study this crystal ball.

However, on the way for Akinham to invite Gordon, Jialina, who was suffering from curiosity and thirst for knowledge, couldn't wait, so she decided to do her own research first.

After detecting the crystal ball with various props and confirming that there was no danger, Jialina tentatively injected a trace of arcane energy into it, wanting to study its internal structure.Who knew that at that moment, she heard a voice.

"Inheritance error, illegal detection, defense mechanism activated..."

Then, there was the scene witnessed by Gordon and Archinham.

"I see." Gordon nodded, walked over, and picked up the crystal ball that had fallen to the corner of the tent.

The Akinhams and his wife saw the mage's black eyes suddenly turn into gilt amber, they were both surprised and looked at each other, but they didn't say anything, but waited for Gordon to finish all this.Gordon shook the crystal ball in his hand: "First of all, let's talk about the essence of this thing. It looks like a crystal ball, but it is different from the kind that mines a large piece from the ground. Crystal, then polished into a spherical shape, and then processed through various alchemical processes to produce a different crystal ball. This is not a stone, but a biological specimen. To be more specific. It is a crystallized mind flayer brain .”

Hearing the term mind flayer, both Akinham and Galina couldn't help but tremble in their hearts.For adventurers, that is below the legendary level.Toughest, most feared foe - not even one.

This humanoid creature with a head like an octopus possesses powerful psychic powers and can manipulate and deter enemies.Of course, the most terrifying thing is that they will pry open the enemy's head and suck the brain together with the spinal fluid.

Powerful strength, cruel means of killing enemies, coupled with superb intelligence and strict social structure.Make mind flayers a terrifyingly powerful race in the Underworld.Even dark elves often become slaves to mind flayers.

The Mastermind is the nucleus of a mind flayer pack, commanding and controlling other mind flayers.And other mind flayers use the main brain to establish a spiritual network, so that the entire group can quickly communicate and share information without hindrance.This network of minds.Further enhanced the strength of the mind flayer group.in concept.This is somewhat similar to the Internet on Earth.

It is precisely for this reason that the mind flayers were targeted by Nesser's great arcanists.

After all, no matter how powerful a monster like a mind flayer is, it cannot compare with the magic empire that not only dominates the material world, but even conquers many alien planes.

Nesser's great arcanists captured the mind flayer, dissected it in a living state, took out the brain, and carried out more than ten alchemy processes including crystallization, and finally made a crystal ball.

so.A large crystal ball (server) with the mind flayer mastermind as the core, plus dozens of small crystal balls (personal terminals) made by the mind flayer brains of the same ethnic group.A local area network is formed.

Nether's mages can use this system to send messages to each other, chat in real time, store and share knowledge information, which is extremely convenient.

Soon, this system was popularized throughout the empire, so that the number of mind flayers dropped sharply, and they had to artificially raise mind flayer larvae—a purple tadpole-like creature—to meet the strong market demand.

The crystal ball in Gordon's hand is actually the service terminal of this large library.He believed that there were many similar mind flayer crystal balls in Vesula Mountain, and in the core area of ​​the floating city, there was a "central computer room" where the Mastermind crystal ball was placed.

Back then, the Elemental Emperor could use such a network to control the situation of the entire Floating Void City, collect information, and handle political affairs.

"So that's how it is..." After listening to Gordon's explanation, the female mage suddenly realized, "It seems that my understanding of Nesser's era is far from enough."

"Who today dares to say that they fully understand that distant and great era?" Gordon laughed, "Ms. Bocarios, you detected the crystal ball just now and found that there is very little energy left in it, and it can't cause anything. However, in fact, there is still a huge amount of energy stored in this crystal ball, but its nature is very special, it is the "spiritual energy" of the mind flayer, according to the detection arcane Naturally, there is no way to discover the ordinary method of energy."

The mind spells unique to the mind flayer race are completely incomparable with the mind spells that are one of the eight major arcane schools today.Psychic spells—also known as psionic powers, are abilities that are used by directly stimulating the source of life energy. Similar to the might of warriors, they are a kind of spell-like ability, rather than arcane spells cast by the caster using magic net energy. .

Although Jialina blessed herself with some spells to protect against elemental energy when she was studying the crystal ball, she didn't have any protection against the spiritual energy stimulated in the crystal ball.

"Then before I fell into a coma, what did the sentence said by the crystal ball-inheritance error, illegal detection, what do you mean? Could it be that only Nesser can use it?"

"Probably so. The arcanists in Nesser's time and the current mages used two different spellcasting systems. At that time, there was no magic net."

"It seems that unless you are a descendant of Nesser, you can't use this crystal ball at all. It's a pity." Jialina looked disappointed, "The mind blast released by the crystal ball just now has a great impact on me. I'm afraid I won't be able to use spells normally. If you are interested in this crystal ball, you can take it and study it yourself."

"It's better to be respectful than to be obedient. Ma'am, please rest well."

Gordon bid farewell to the two and left the tent.

The defense mechanism of this crystal ball is an incomprehensible thing for mages who need to rely on the magic net to cast spells in this era.But for Gordon, there is no problem.

He also doesn't need a magic net to cast spells, and has a lot in common with Nesser Arcanist.

Returning to his camp, he saw that the childish quarrel between the women seemed to be over at last.Sigrid and Aenea both hugged their knees and sat around the magic lantern without saying a word, the atmosphere seemed to be completely frozen.

Seeing Gordon coming back, the female knight got up first and walked in front of him: "My lord, I lost my composure just now. Although it's a bit of an excuse to say that, but I don't know why just now, like I was possessed, and said Some things were said that should never have been said."

Seeing Sigrid saluting to him in a serious manner, Gordon waved his hand and said, "It's nothing, don't take it to heart. You just got a little bit of jealousy, and Ania is also a victim."

"Master..." Ania also flew to his side with a cool breath, "It turns out that the anger, acidity, and desire to let Miss Sigrid disappear from your side and replace it by herself just now are 'Jealous'! I finally understand the emotion that the princesses in the novel feel when they see their beloved prince with other women."

This can be regarded as a precious life experience... right...

"However, I don't want to feel this kind of negative emotion again." Ania said softly, and the topic suddenly changed, "Then master, please throw away that album. Because of the defects of the models, all The style of the paintings has dropped to a new level. From now on, I will be the model, and I will definitely inspire you to design clothes!"…

"Little one, what are you talking about!" Ania's words aroused Sigrid again.

"Master Earl regards me as the first choice of models, are you accusing him of having a problem with picking women's taste? You want to replace me, eat more food and grow up before talking about it. Oh, yes, you'd better pay attention Exercise, otherwise, if you stay in the nest all day and read third-rate love novels like before, the two lumps of flesh on your chest will not grow up, but you will become a little fat man, then...hehe."

"Oh." Gordon sighed.It seems that the power of jealousy in their bodies that affects their character and behavior will take some time to completely disappear.

So Gordon once again stayed away from the battlefield where this man should not join, and used the spell scroll written in advance to recruit a wooden house, and then got into it.

When the two girls are tired from arguing, they will naturally come in to rest, so let them do it now.

Gordon lay on the bed, took the crystal ball in his hand, and slowly studied it.

With the help of the eye of truth and warning, he quickly discovered the doorway, and then gathered the remaining mana in the mana pool, concentrated it on the tip of his right index finger, and then slowly penetrated into the crystal ball.

"Identity confirmation, welcome to the Hundred Thousand Holy Scrolls Interactive Information System..."

Hearing the voice from the crystal ball, Gordon knew he had succeeded.

The complex and magnificent light of the crystal ball, like the stars in the night, began to change gradually, simplifying the complexity, and merging together to form rows of Nesser characters.

Gordon glanced at it and found that it was probably a dos-like operating system.He controlled the magic power of his fingertips, followed the text prompts in the sphere, and kept changing, and soon extracted the bibliographic information of the entire library.But no matter how tempting the magic books listed above are, they are of no use to Gordon.Those empty bookshelves are the cruel reality.

But soon, with further digging, surprises follow.

Gordon found something valuable in another "arcane information cloud" in the crystal ball, or in the understanding of earthlings, a folder.

That is the information preserved by many Neisser arcanists who exchanged spell experience through the crystal ball network. (.)