Fanatics of the Magic Academy

Chapter 130 [Super Magic Skills] - [Spell Slots]

After Silas figured out Rose's true identity, his face showed an expression that went from wild joy to ferocity.

"It was you! You're the cultist who escaped from the 'observation point'! Unbelievable!"

You actually became a second-circle mage in such a short time.

Is this disguise also a blessing bestowed upon you by the gods behind you?

Rose ignored him, her [Overload] power surging to its limit. Electricity surged and churned in her meridians, and [Lightning Convergence] restrained every wisp of violent arc of electricity, leaving golden afterimages in the air like ripples through the night, hurtling straight towards Silas. Its speed was even faster than the [Escape] spell that Silas had pre-placed on him.

Silas made a decision in an instant. He reached out from his pocket and grasped a crystal-clear stone with strange patterns covering its surface.

Rose knew that this was a [Magic Stone], a "spellcasting material" that could greatly enhance the power of spells for magicians who were qualified to wield magic.

These magic stones are extremely precious. Even when Silas was a third-circle mage, he didn't have many. Currently, Silas only has three of these magic stones.

Consuming a Magic Stone is undoubtedly a heavy price for Silas, but he believes it's all worth it. If he captures Rose, he'll have more than just one Magic Stone, he could have ten.

Silas's rational fluctuations, like an invisible hand, reached into the [Magic Stone] in his palm to intervene.

The crystal suddenly emitted a dazzling light, and at that moment, Rose was almost in front of him.

In Rose's palm, intense lightning was gathered, compressed, and condensed, transforming into a buzzing lightning spear. The spearhead pointed at Silas's brow.

He judged clearly that even if Silas activated the power of the magic stone, he wouldn't have enough time to cast a spell. Rosell would kill him with a single spear thrust before he could even chant.

This aligns with Rose's understanding of mages as an extraordinary group, because the biggest weakness of mages is the pre-casting animation. In fact, when Rose first became a second-circle mage, ordinary people in the gang could catch him during his pre-casting animation with a modified pistol.

Just as Rose pinned the [Thunder Spear] to the opponent's head, Rose felt his soul was violently impacted. His memories began to reverse, and his perception of time became disordered. The incident of being stroked on the head by the orphanage director in his previous life seemed to have just happened, while the decision to consume the high-concentration nutrient solution and fight against Silas seemed to have happened 20 years ago.

Not only that, Rose also felt tentacles, leg bones, and hand bones growing from her eyes, enveloped by muscles and tendons.

It began to spin like an airplane propeller, and the tongue seemed to have a life of its own, dancing wildly in the mouth. However, Rose's high level of control over his body, as a believer, told him that time was not out of order and his body was still normal.

Rose then realized that he had been attacked by Keaton's [Soul School] techniques.

In addition to the negative states mentioned above, Rose also felt that 37 different personalities with different memories and personalities had split in his brain. At the same time, various emotions such as anxiety, happiness, anger, depression, and lust tore at Rose's senses. It could even be said that the negative states imposed on Rose's soul had become so numerous that his left and right hemispheres were fighting each other. For example, he could now have both anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa at the same time.

In that instant, Silas used the power of the magic stone to cast three different second-circle [Soul School] spells on Rose in less than 0.3 seconds, a total of 97 times.

As a price, the magic stone in Silas's hand had completely lost its luster and turned into powder that drifted in the air.

Normally, a mage's spellcasting is limited by incantation and has a certain pre-cast delay, even with [Magic Stones].

Even with the blessing of magic, one shouldn't be able to control it and achieve such an exaggerated effect, draining a magic stone in 0.3 seconds and applying 97...

Second-level magic.

If Rose had attended university and received a full education in Lovelia's magic training program, he would know that Silas had just used a kind of [super magic technique].

They still suffered from not having gone to school, because this kind of "super magic technique" wasn't exactly a secret to magicians, but it wasn't magical knowledge that could be casually placed in a community library either.

【Super Magic Techniques】is a special skill for manipulating magic and casting spells that only third-circle mages can access.

It often requires a magician to invest a great deal of time and make significant sacrifices in other areas to learn and master it.

Generally speaking, mages who have mastered [Super Magic Skills] will have a significant advantage in production and combat.

The [Super Magic Technique] that Silas just used is a unique [Super Magic Technique] of the [Soul School].

[Spell slots].

The specific principle is to use the methods of the [Soul School] to solidify the runes required for chanting a certain spell at the mental level, just like a rune machine or spell fixation. Solidifying a [spell slot] requires not only an extremely high time cost to practice the spell that needs to be solidified, but also a special soul modification surgery. Furthermore, if the soul strength is insufficient, it will greatly reduce the speed at which the mage can chant other spells.

Its prerequisites include neurosynaptic science, rune cognition, the basic principles of rune machines, spell constancy, mental solidification, a certain standard of soul strength, and a second-ring level of intellect.

However, the effect that matches the high time cost and extremely strong soul required is that it allows mages to cast spells fixed in the spell slots without chanting.

For example, Silas had five spell slots when he was in the third ring, including one third-ring spell and four second-ring spells.

Currently, limited by his level of rationality, he can only cast three of the second-circle spells in his spell slots:

[Identifying Damage], [Soul Torn], [Personality Overwriting].

He had just used the power of the [Magic Stone] to cast 97 second-circle [Soul School] spells without any pre-cast animation, piling Rose's soul into a mountain of code.

Rose, whose soul had been severely damaged, lost control of her body.

The world spun around him, and he fell from mid-air. The lightning spear he had gathered in his palm disintegrated, turning into pure arcs of electricity that dissipated into the air.

Silas realized he had won.

Overjoyed, his expression turned almost manic: "Hahaha! I never expected this! I never expected this! The culprit who brought me to this state has actually been caught by my own hands! Thanks to you, my future can even be better than before."

He waited quietly for Rose's cognition to be destroyed, her personality to become chaotic, and her soul to collapse.

Indeed, he saw Rose momentarily lose her mind and become mentally unstable.

But then, to his horror, he discovered that Rose had shaken off all the abnormal states on the soul level in just two or three seconds.

He detected a very familiar magical fluctuation and exclaimed in astonishment, "[Soul Compensation]?!"

His gaze fell on Rose's chest. There, a magic circle plate inscribed with "[Spell Constancy]" was emitting a blue light, and the pre-sealed rationality fluctuations within the plate were activating the magic inscribed on it.

The inscription clearly reads: "Soul Compensation".

Your sanity has collapsed; it is currently at -10.

[Fanatical materialists are getting involved...]

[A fanatical materialist will forcibly lock your sanity at 0 points; -10 points of sanity will be converted into 10 points of faith.]

Your sanity has crumbled, while your faith grows ever more fanatical!

In those brief two or three seconds, Rose had used [Soul Compensation] to transform the 97 layers of negative soul effects that had instantly accumulated on him into damage to his soul and a breakdown of his sanity.

The mental derangement, emotional breakdown, and decline in transcendental level resulting from the rapid collapse of rationality are all exempted by the [Fanatical Materialist].

Only the negative effects of soul damage remain, and Rose's soul damage level has reached 10.8%!

If it were to increase by another 1.2% to reach 12%, it would cause permanent damage to Rose's soul that would be difficult to heal naturally.

Taking advantage of the moment Silas was stunned, the continuous stream of lightning within Rose's body converged and gathered in his palm, reforming into a lightning spear that was even more dazzling than before.

In an instant, almost without warning, he was thrown out by Rose. Silas reacted quickly, his runes lighting up to resist and escape. He tried his best but could only twist his body to avoid being hit in a vital spot by the lightning spear. The lightning spear hit his left waist and continued to escape in mid-air.

"boom!"

The lightning spear exploded in mid-air, radiating a dazzling light in the night sky. Although Silas had experienced a [Life Leap], the power of the explosion still shattered his left arm and half of his body. His remains were thrown high into the air by the shockwave, arcing through the air before slamming heavily onto the ground, raising a cloud of gravel and dust.

Silas couldn't fathom how Rose managed to avoid being affected after using [Soul Compensation] to exempt himself from the negative effects of the 97th layer of the soul level.

In Silas's understanding, a mage who uses [Soul Compensation] will experience several days of mental confusion and cognitive bias.

This is because [Soul Compensation] can cause a person to lose a large amount of sanity in a very short period of time, and this rapid decline in sanity can cause mental derangement.

Unlike those mages who were killed, whose sanity plummeted daily due to mental damage, these mages...

However, the "soul compensation" drops by the second. The sanity that normally takes more than half a month to fall back down in a few seconds can cause several days of cognitive confusion.

Even if Rose, as a believer, loses his sanity and it doesn't affect the methods used by the faith, how do you avoid the mental breakdown that would be counted on a daily basis due to a significant drop in sanity in a short period of time?

If everyone could bypass all the Soul School's tactics by lowering their sanity, then the Soul School would be useless.

Using [Soul Compensation] in combat is tantamount to suicide.

The mental breakdown caused by a sharp drop in sanity in a short period of time, which needs to be counted on a daily basis, is enough to allow your opponent to kill you countless times.

However, reality did not give him time to think. At the same time that Jinping and he landed, Rose had already arrived in front of him in a golden afterimage with lightning, and kicked out with dazzling lightning straight at Silas's face.

In that instant, Silas's high level of rationality kicked in, and he made a decision in a flash, going all in.

He pulled out the remaining two [magic stones] from his pocket, holding one in his right hand and the other in his mouth.

This was all he had left, his only possessions and stock, and his only hope of turning his life around even if he were thrown into the slums. But he still made a decision without hesitation and gambled everything on it in an instant.

In an instant, the magic stone in his mouth was drained, and he instantly cast the last second-circle spell in his spell slot:

Second-level high-level psychic magic: [Ultimate Psychic Entanglement].

This magic belongs to the same type as Rose's [Perception Enhancement], and does not belong to any school of thought; it simply develops the power inherent in reason itself.

Its effect is similar to "transforming into a cloud shape," allowing one to surround themselves with the purest psychic power and control it at will.

manipulate.

In that instant, Silas used the magic stone in his left hand and [Super Magic Technique]

[Spell Slot] In an instant, he stacked 23 layers of [Ultimate Psychic Entanglement] on himself.

A powerful, almost tangible psychic force swirled around Silas, blocking Rosse's kick in front of Silas's face. Even with Rosse's best efforts, he couldn't advance an inch.

Silas wielded this powerful, almost tangible psychic force and blasted it towards Rose. Rose neither dodged nor evaded; the lightning around him began to boil and surge under the effect of [Lightning Convergence].

Rose's fist was crackling with dazzling lightning, clashing with the psychic power.

"boom!"

Centered on the point of impact between the two, a storm and shockwave suddenly swept outwards. An abandoned warehouse within a radius of 170 meters shattered in the blast wave, and a deep crater appeared in the ground.

While fighting against Rose, Silas's body quickly retreated, raising the magic stone in his right hand high in mid-air.

The surge of rationality violently interfered with the magical structure inside the stone, causing the magic stone to burst forth with dazzling light once again.

He diverted a small portion of his mental energy to guide the magic power within the magic stone into his body. Through a special method, he allowed the magic power to circulate in his meridians, stimulating all the potential of his [Life Leap] resulting from his advancement to the third ring.

Rose immediately sensed that Silas's level of rationality was rapidly increasing.

It climbs from the high point of the Second Ring Road to its peak, approaching the boundary of the Third Ring Road.

This is the method Finn once introduced to Rose, a young third-circle mage who was killed and demoted to second-circle, to save himself. He could, through some means, overdraw the potential of his body that had undergone a "life leap," and to a certain extent, ignore his mental state and forcibly develop his brain, allowing his rationality to return to the third-circle level.

Of course, the price is also cruel. In the future, Silas's rationality will hardly improve, and his lifespan will be shortened to the level of the second ring.

Silas raised the magic stone in his hand and said to Rose with a maniacal expression, "Be proud, you cultist! You, who believe in evil gods, have achieved in a short year what we took decades to reach, but that is ultimately a relic of the last era. This new era of 'rationality above all else' cannot tolerate heretics like you!"

As long as people like you exist, you are an insult to the new era. From now on, I will risk everything I have to escape.

All your future will be strangled here!

A rational order cannot be tainted by foolish beliefs!

Silas's statement about risking everything, including his future, was not an exaggeration, because in less than a minute, he used the three magic stones that were the only ones that could allow him to turn the tide and return to the Magic Federation.

One is used to launch 97 soul-side strikes, one is used to launch 23 [Ultimate Psychic Entanglement] attacks to avoid certain death, and one is used to unleash the full potential of one's own body to forcibly reach the third tier.

In just one minute, Silas risked everything with extreme courage.

At this moment, he only needs about 15 seconds to leapfrog his realm to level 3, and the whole process is almost impossible to be interrupted, because he is currently controlling the 23rd level of [Extreme Psychic Entanglement]. In his judgment, Rose is currently at the high level of the second ring and cannot break through his psychic entanglement within 15 seconds to interrupt his leapfrog process.

The outcome is decided!

In Rose's eyes, Silas's half-dead body floated in mid-air, one hand raised high, radiating a dazzling light. His usually gentle and reasonable face was now replaced by extreme madness.

Rose stepped back, having already assessed the situation.

First, there was the psychic power that Silas had wrapped around his body. Although it was very strong, it had a limitation: it couldn't stray too far from his body. Rossai retreated to get out of Silas's psychic range and prevent him from interfering with Rossai's actions with his psychic power.

He could also sense that Silas would rapidly climb to the third ring level in about 10 seconds, at which point Rose would be powerless to reverse the situation.

Then, the next action is very simple. As long as you tear apart the psychic energy on the surface of Silas and kill the opponent within these 10 seconds, you will win.

Conversely, if he fails to kill Silas within this timeframe, he will face a severe consequence.

A fanatical smile crept onto Rose's face, and the 110,000-mark nutrient solution in his stomach was being consumed at an unprecedented rate.

Within his body, the [Overload] technique was pushed to its limit.

At this moment, [Lightning Convergence] was pushed into its second form.

Instead of wrapping the gathered lightning around its body to enhance its normal attacks, it used to.

Instead, he released all the restrained, compressed lightning that had become so violent it threatened to tear his body apart.

This is the second form of the previously mentioned [Lightning Convergence], which has unlimited power. It doesn't pursue normal strength, but only the burst of power in that one moment.

Golden light emanated from Rose's body, as if a sun had been ignited in his chest.

He extended his right hand.

Within the palm of his hand, all the lightning bolts were converging, collapsing, and coalescing towards that single point.

Rose's focus was being consumed at an alarming rate, while the continuous stream of focus generated by the [Overload] was being poured into the lightning spear in his hand.

Within about 10 seconds, all the nutrient solution that Rose had accumulated over the past six months was transformed into concentration and poured into the lightning spear in her hand.

This gun is worth around 8 marks.

That was no longer a thunder spear; it had transcended the category of a "spear".

Although this [Thunder Spear] is not even a fraction as powerful as the lightning spear that the sixth-tier ancient dragon pulled out of the void that Rosse saw in his previous life.

However, there is indeed a tiny, one-in-ten-thousandth to one-thousandth of a trace of it.

Even a mere glimpse is enough.

Then, it slipped from my grasp at a speed beyond my comprehension.

Silas only saw a golden light.

Then, he couldn't see anything anymore.

In an instant, the lightning spear tore apart the psychic energy surrounding him, piercing his chest and nailing it into his body with overwhelming force.

Golden arcs of electricity exploded at the wound, burning his flesh, bones, and internal organs to ashes. Then, a blindingly powerful light engulfed Silas.

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