Don't disturb the sorcerer's scientific research

Chapter 207 Jia Xiu's Holy Light Divine Art Investigation
Jassi decided to also put Justina in the small dark room for a more detailed analysis of the divine magic bestowed by the Holy Light.

The "Dark Room" spell, in principle, is a multi-target spell.

In other words, it's possible to bring people along and lock them in a small, dark room.

However, Jia Xiu had not tried it yet, and had never needed to test other people's spells before.

It's true.

Justina's "High Beam" spell activates too quickly; Jashu can't understand it just by looking at it directly.

The "Black Room" now includes a time-stop function.

You can pause and study it slowly.

What is a "little dark room"?

Justina was puzzled by Jassiu's suggestion.

This doesn't sound like Jia Xiu's usual naming style. His spells are usually a long string of names that seem clear and easy to understand, but in reality, they give you a headache after hearing them a few times.

For example, "rapid lengthening of human toenails and nails based on primary healing techniques".

Its naming style is quite unique among spellcasters.

In response, Jia Xiu explained, "One of my sect leader's spells is roughly an experimental space where various spell effects can be tested. The testing process can be paused at a certain point, which is very convenient."

Although there are many complaints about the fact that pausing, fast forwarding, and rewinding can only be adjusted manually, overall it is still a very convenient spell.

"You mean, it can stop a spell from being cast?"

"To be precise, it's uncertain, but in terms of the effect, it has indeed come to a stop."

"Slowness Technique?"

"Not like."

"Illusion?"

"Probably not."

"what is that?"

Justina asked in great surprise.

She had never heard of a spell that could directly pause another spell. From what Jia Xiu said, it was possible to choose where to pause, which was really absurd.

"Good question, I don't know either."

Jia Xiu answered very sincerely.

To be honest, he also felt that the sect leader's spell was completely illogical.

The spells given at the beginning were relatively normal, such as the teleportation anchor points which had many limitations.

As the level increases, the spells become increasingly outrageous.

It's like they've stopped pretending and are just saying, "I'm completely cheating, and I can have as high of a spec as I want."

The time-stop function in this small dark room was something Jia Xiu had no knowledge of in his magical knowledge about how to achieve.

Judging from Justina's reaction, she probably had no idea about it either.

It's as if they come from a different magic system.

Jia Xiu's intuition told him that perhaps the most important value of spells as level rewards was not the function of the spells, but the spells themselves.

The ultimate goal is to research, decipher, and master these spells, transforming them from spells only usable by the sect leader into spells that can be widely applied.

Taking the dark room as an example, even if the time-stopping part is not fully understood, the spell experimentation part alone can reduce the current experimentation cost to a fraction, allowing more spellcasters to access spells that cannot be experimented with due to their danger.

It might even develop to the point where everyone can afford to conduct large-scale experiments, bringing about a magical prosperity far more exaggerated than it is now.

The Mithril Lab, designed to prevent accidents, is not something that ordinary spellcasters can afford.

From this perspective, the sect leader is more like a teacher who doesn't know how to teach; he just lays out the material that needs to be taught and then expects the students to figure it out themselves.

Once the research is nearly complete, use the results to upgrade your experience, and then set a new goal.

A sect leader who encourages learning!
"You don't know either?"

Justina's expression was very strange.

"I really don't know."

"And what about safety? Protecting you is a mission given to me by the Great Holy Light!"

"You don't need to suddenly get all fired up while you're talking."

Jassi felt that the "Great Holy Light" was like a trigger for Justina.

The mere mention of it triggers a "devout believer" state, making them appear willing to sacrifice themselves for their faith.

"I've used the dark room several times already, and there's no problem with its security. Besides, the sect leader wouldn't give me anything that's not safe. At most, he'd create something that would cause my social death."

Jia Xiu now has a fairly clear understanding of the sect leader's style of doing things.

It is very reliable when there are problems.

When there are no problems, the sect leader will deliberately create some.

A sect leader who encourages learning while also being a troublesome friend!

“Alright,” Justina was getting used to the strange thing Jashu pulled out of her hand more and more quickly. “Use that little dark room to lock me up. Hopefully you can figure something out.”

After saying that, he shrugged and looked like he was ready to give up.

"Okay, I'll start it then."

As Jia Xiu activated the small dark room, he instantly brought Justina into that familiar black space.

The first time someone other than Jia Xiu entered, nothing unusual happened.

Around the body of the demigod, there was a ring of light sources that provided vision, and then nothing else.

"Um, and then what?"

Justina looked around curiously, trying to figure out what kind of place this was.

Was I under an illusion, or was I teleported to a hidden location, a separate space, or even another dimension?

Unfortunately, Justina's abilities didn't allow her to truly understand it.

But it helped her to realize something else.

Jia Xiu's sect leader is much more powerful than expected, far more powerful than anticipated. At least, the gap between her and Jia Xiu is much larger than imagined.

Normally speaking, her strength is already higher than that of most sect leaders of evil sorcerers.

Ordinary sorcerers would want a demigod as their leader.
Chun Chun is overthinking it.

But the strange spell used by Sect Master Jia Xiu didn't make her feel any sense of difference.

It's not a feeling of powerlessness, but a sense of helplessness.

It's that feeling of helplessness where the gap is so big that it doesn't matter anymore.

She had only ever experienced something similar before in the Great Holy Light.

Could it be that Jia Xiu's sect leader is actually connected to the Holy Light...?

Impossible, there's no such possibility.

Holy Light must be the greatest.

Justina is working hard to keep the edifice of her faith from collapsing.

While she was lost in thought, Jia Xiu had already activated the time-stop function and selected Hannah as his target.

"Then you open your eyes and look at that target."

"Who is that?"

"It's not important. You don't know him. He's someone who made indelible contributions to the development of magic. Without him, there would be no Jia Xiu today."

"Oh."

Justina couldn't see how that target was really someone important to him, Jasmine.

Who would be so kind as to target someone like this?

Hey, wait.

Could Jia Xiu have a target here just like her?
Voodoo spells! Could this be the spells of those witches who specialize in voodoo?
"Okay, I'm starting it now."

"Okay...wait a minute!"

Jia Xiu interrupted him halfway through his sentence.

"what happened?"

"Wait a minute, it seems like this little dark room has a new function. Let me take a look."

"Can spells add new functions?"

Justina also curiously came over.

A semi-transparent sheet of paper appeared before Jia Xiu. "Time Stop Black Room Version 1.10a Update Announcement."

"..."

When Jia Xiu saw the question, he almost couldn't hold back.

This is all too familiar to game programmers.

What is a version update announcement?

Justina asked curiously.

"This spell will continuously add new functions. Every time a few are added, they will be implemented together and then announced so that users can know immediately."

“Good habit. I think that when each association updates its rules, it should be announced so that all association members know the details.”

It was easy to tell from Justina's tone that she had previously suffered a loss with an association over a matter concerning revisions to the rules.

I feel the Adventurers' Guild has a higher probability of being involved.

Jia Xiu looked at the details of the announcement.

"·Added a spell speed-up function, currently supporting 2x, 4x, 8x and 16x speed;
"·A timeline feature has been added, allowing users to select time points more precisely on the timeline;"
"·A new time point input function has been added, which supports the function of directly inputting time points for positioning, with a maximum accuracy of microseconds;
"·A new spell save and replay function has been added, which supports saving spells used in the black room. When you need to study them again, you can directly replay them without having to recast them.
"·A new anchor point function has been added, which allows you to add anchor points during playback and pause playback at the anchor point position;
"· Fixed known bugs. Actually, there were no bugs, but the update announcement felt incomplete without this sentence."

The specific content was even more difficult to grasp than the question itself.

"What does this mean?"

Justina asked again.

"Isn't this written in Common Language?"

"I recognize the words, but I don't understand what they're used for when put together."

"It's okay, you don't need to understand it. It's enough that I can understand it."

"Tch! Who cares!"

Jashu remained unmoved by the Radiant Knight's dissatisfaction, mainly because explaining it would be too troublesome.

Carefully review the new features in the update.

Believe it or not, it solved many of the original usage features at once.

This is a good leader who understands how to listen to user experience.

The positioning accuracy can even reach microseconds, which is amazing. Even if the sect leader can do it, he can't feel it.

The microsecond scale is still too extreme for humans.

It's made to be the same as the clock cycle of a digital circuit.

But then I thought about it again.

Since they're all new features, could it be that while he and Justina were arguing, the sect leader was busy adding features?

Thinking about it that way, it's actually quite pitiful.

Truly ready to start working at any time...

"Alright, I understand the research, let's begin."

Jia Xiu tried out the new features a few times. The interaction design was very smooth and easy to understand. There were no particularly user-unfriendly interaction designs.

Good character.

It's quite common for aesthetically pleasing designs to result in features that are extremely difficult to use.

The most abstract point is that often, for the sake of aesthetics, usability is compromised, and the final product is not even that aesthetically pleasing.

Justina prepared herself mentally, mainly because her eyes hadn't fully recovered and she was still a bit uncomfortable, so she wasn't really keen on starting.

With a sigh, he shone his high beams at Hannah.

To make it easier for Jia Xiu to understand, she deliberately held her eyes open for a few more seconds without blinking.

"Excellent, beautiful, outstanding! You've saved this experiment."

Jasmine uses praise to provide Justina with emotional value.

My hands never stopped working; I started the spell replay and began locating the process of the spell taking effect.

Justina was also very curious, so she dragged her Arcane Eye along to watch Jashu's actions.

I don't understand it, but I want to watch it.

He was seen dragging a rune axis back and forth, the light from the holy magic in mid-air flickering.

After watching for a few seconds, Justina realized that this was either a continuous loop, or a loop of the divine spell at different rates and with different start and end points.

Justina was increasingly shocked as she looked at it.

This is terrifying.

It's much more effective than simply stopping and scaring people.

Does the Holy Light possess such an ability? To take a spell that has already been used, turn it upside down, and manipulate it like a toy.

"Is your sect leader the God of Time?"

Justina exclaimed.

"what?"

Jia Xiu turned around.

"What God of Time? Hmm? Maybe what you're saying is actually possible."

Jia Xiu also felt that the title "God of Time" sounded somewhat fitting for the sect leader's abilities.

Moreover, the title of Time sounds like that of a very powerful righteous god; if it were even slightly weak, it would be unworthy of such a title.

"How could it be the god of time?"

"Isn't he the god of time you mentioned?"

Jia Xiu couldn't figure out what the Glorious Knight was up to.

"No, no, what I mean is, so far, at least as far as I know, there has been a god of time. Everyone knows that time must represent an incredibly powerful divinity, but so far, there has been no god who has been deified because of time. As for why, I don't know. Perhaps, perhaps it's because time is too powerful, and this world does not allow a god to control time."

Justina spoke rapidly as she introduced the topic.

I've never heard of Jia Xiu before.

He doesn't know much about pantheons.

I've never been interested in these things. In the Holy Light pantheon, where the Radiant Knights belong, I've only ever heard of the Holy Light and the Radiant Knights.

He simply felt instinctively that there should be a god who governs time, just as there are gods who govern the elements, destiny, life, nature, and death...

But after hearing what Justina said...

indeed.

That makes sense.

The God of Time is too overpowered.

If He dislikes a particular god, since gods also have a time of birth, He can simply go back to the point in time before that god became a god and kill him easily.

"Um, then I don't think the sect leader is some kind of god of time."

"But it's already like this!"

Justina pointed to the timeline.

"This is just controlling the process of a magic spell, not controlling the entirety of time. Besides, if there really is a God of Time who can control time, why hasn't there been a unified faith, a unified divine authority, a one-man state that is both omniscient and omnipotent, turning polytheism into monotheism?"

"But, but..."

Justina thought about it and couldn't figure out why the God of Time wouldn't be invincible.

The only explanation I can think of is that time doesn't care about any faith.

But if you don't care about faith anymore, why bother signing a contract with a sorcerer and causing trouble all the time?

Think more.

You're just overthinking it.

There is no god of time.

The Holy Light is still the greatest.

Thinking of this, Justina breathed a sigh of relief.

Jia Xiu ignored her process of strengthening her faith and was single-mindedly focused on figuring out how the spell actually worked.

In the first few milliseconds, each point went through several times.

How do I even begin...?

(End of this chapter)