Industrial Revolution of the Mage Lords

Chapter 185: Re-imagined "Soul-sucking Technique"

After nightfall, Harvey would browse through the literature recorded in the Magic Encyclopedia on the Magic Network Forum as usual, and then proceed with his daily meditation guidance.

The information collected by the Federation in the Magic Encyclopedia has basically been uploaded. Chief Burning Lord has asked Harvey several times, both openly and secretly, about when this forum section can be officially launched.

Harvey, however, felt that there was no need to rush. He should first use his identity as an administrator to filter all the valuable knowledge content, and then secretly make a backup copy, and then announce it to the public at the next forum exchange meeting.

"The information uploaded by the Federation isn't overly secretive. They've even compiled and shared the research documents and improved spells of all the high-level spellcasters and chiefs who have earned the title of Legend."

Although the precious original spells of the big names in the spellcasting world were not included in the publicly shared list, Harvey, who himself lacked theoretical knowledge of high-level general spells, still felt that he benefited a lot from them.

"Hmm? Dawson's Soul Drain, a modified Nine-Ring technique, and a fusion of pure arcane magic and death energy... Hiss, the Federation is even sharing the current Chief's signature trick?"

However, Harvey also immediately discovered that the matrix analysis and model construction knowledge of this spell is one of the highest reading permissions in the magic encyclopedia. Members need to pay a full 2,000 points or share improved spells of the same level to successfully unlock it.

According to the previous agreement with the Federation, if someone can really afford the exorbitant price of 2,000 points, the forum and the Federation will split the profits 50-50. The points obtained by the Federation will enter the public points pool of forum members marked as having a Federation background for their internal circulation.

This is equivalent to the Federation directly opening a virtual currency bank account on the Magic Network Forum, and Harvey does not need to pay interest on the savings.

Of course, he also contacted the Frost Giant and the Heart of the Forest separately. These two obviously-identified members of the Cave Dwarf and the High Elf, and after reaching a consensus, he also opened a shared account for them, so that when they jointly traded and sold their rare magical materials on the forum, they could act in unison on pricing, and try their best to ensure that they were not exploited by human spellcasters.

Harvey is now becoming more and more adept at mediating between forum spellcasters of different races and factional backgrounds.

This was Harvey's first time coming into contact with high-level fusion magic, so he was naturally extremely curious and couldn't help but use his administrator privileges to secretly get some for free.

Although Harvey's current magical knowledge and spellcasting level are not enough to learn the Nine Rings Spell, both in terms of theoretical analysis and model construction, it is always beneficial to broaden his horizons.

"Soul Draining Technique was originally a high-level, general-purpose seventh-ring technique. It falls into the category of forbidden curse techniques, barely passing muster..."

The basis of its spell model construction is actually of the same type as the third-ring spell "Mirror Curse" that Harvey had learned before. Both are curse attacks on the soul level, but the power and effect are very different.

Although the "Mirror Curse" has a certain immunity to primary defensive spells, it will be strictly restrained by the church's divine spells, and a spell must be cast in advance to summon a mirror clone before launching an attack. It is a low-level spell with obvious flaws and disadvantages.

"Soul Drain" is a high-level spell, requiring no prolonged casting or the indirect release of a clone. Furthermore, after refinements by the legendary Chief Soren Dawson, its attack method has become unique, easily catching the enemy off guard. It's a clinging, long-range curse attack! Furthermore, it blends pure arcane energy with the original death energy, evading divine detection and defense.
"Dawson's Soul-Stealing Technique" - using one's own magic power to condense a curse seed that combines the energy of death and arcane energy. It can be attached to any attack weapon or enchanted item at will, and can even be silently planted and parasitized in living organisms. Once guided by the caster, the powerful curse energy will instantly erupt, forming a large-scale coverage attack.

The current legendary chief, Mr. Soren Dawson, was a high-level spellcaster stationed at the demon battlefield in the Evil Moon Mountains. He relied on this mysterious and powerful curse spell to single-handedly destroy an entire small demon garrison fortress, and then escaped safely from the siege of three high-level demon priests and returned, finally becoming famous and earning the title of legend.

"Silently and invisibly killing, the high-level spells of a legendary spellcaster are truly terrifying!"

Harvey sighed silently, and understood why the Federation did not mind sharing this spell publicly, because the core of the "Dawson Soul Sucking Spell" was that the caster could use his own tremendous magical energy to condense the curse seed. Without a genius and powerful caster like Soren Dawson, even if an ordinary combat mage learned this spell, the attack power they could display would at best be to create a suicide truck that could kill a few enemies at most.

Harvey knew the difference in power between a "nuclear bomb" and a "grenade".

As a mid-level spellcaster, the magical energy stored in his magic pattern is probably not enough to condense even a curse seed with the same power as a grenade. The best he can do is to make a large firecracker, directly blow up the carrier attached to the seed, and perform a fireworks show in front of the enemy.

"Wait! Magical power can be used to condense curse seeds through this spell model..." Harvey looked at the spell model displayed on the crystal-like magic brain and suddenly widened his eyes. "Then can mental power also be constructed using the same model to condense mental power seeds?"

When it comes to the immense spiritual power within the Spirit Anchor, Harvey asks himself if he has ever encountered a spellcaster more powerful than himself. This can be seen simply from the form in which each spellcaster's Spirit Anchor manifests.

Harvey accidentally saw in the forum that Mr. "Heart of the Forest", whose real identity is a high-level nature spellcaster, mentioned in a private conversation that his spiritual anchor is a giant jungle bear.

As one of the leaders of the Federation and a legendary spellcaster, Mr. "Scorching Lord", his spiritual anchor is even more powerful and terrifying - it is actually an active volcano that may violently erupt at any time!

But no forum member, in private conversations or public sharing, has ever mentioned that anyone's spiritual anchor has a concrete form that can construct an entire huge planet like Harvey.

"If I use the technique model and matrix structure provided by Dawson's Soul Draining Technique to try to condense an energy seed infused with my own immense spiritual power, I wonder what level of attack power it will produce once it explodes."

Harvey knew about the common low-level spells "Mind Storm" and "Mind Shock". After being released, they would form a small-scale mental shock, causing the target to fall into a short-term state of dizziness, tremors and mental confusion, but the damage could be offset by many defensive spells of the same level, and even directly exempted or countered.

But he didn't dare to try it easily in his own pioneering territory. If he used the improved and mutated spiritual seed of "Dawson's Soul-sucking Technique" to detonate the attack technique, if the power was too great and the coverage range could not be controlled, it would very likely affect ordinary civilians and shock them into a group of fools.

The best place for experiments is naturally the mysterious beach on the Spirit Anchor Planet, which is unique to the Magic Web Space Plane.

(End of this chapter)