Comprehensive network wizard, magic emperor

There is nothing much to say about the mechanical design and assembly. It is not as advanced as the information Lin Bo found in the product list of the Duolian Duoyi platform.

Alchemy involves the transformation of material properties, especially the transformation of ordinary materials into magical materials. The activated metal neurons in the alchemical beast's prosthetic limbs are the products of alchemy.

Alchemy and pharmacy is also an important branch of this field, and its academic focus has shifted from material transformation to the exploration of the origin of life.

In the Crazy Dwarf's Alchemical Circus dungeon, most of the reward drops are alchemical potions. Lin Bo ran it three times yesterday and got six bottles of gray alchemical preparations and two bottles of white alchemical preparations.

Mad Dwarf's Great Strength Alchemical Concoction (White)

Type: Alchemical Product

Weight: 0.1 kg

Item Effect: After taking it, conduct a physical test. If you pass, you will gain a temporary increase in strength. If you fail, you will fall into a negative state, including exhaustion, weakness, and poisoning.

Description: One of the qualified products produced by the circus's backstage alchemy laboratory, it allows the user to gamble between power and cost, which is also an aspect of the alchemical exchange law.

Lin Bo still had no intention of using this product, but fortunately Agilent finally agreed to accept it.

The price of white-quality giant alchemy preparation is 12 disaster coins per bottle. The side effects greatly reduce its practicality. Otherwise, this extraordinary potion that enhances combat effectiveness should generally be sold for more than 30 disaster coins.

Agilent stated that if there are other alchemical preparations with enhanced properties, they will also be priced differently based on quality and practicality.

Relatively speaking, potions that increase intelligence, perception, and charm attributes will be more expensive than potions that increase strength, agility, and physique.

The crazy dwarfs in the circus rely on various self-produced alchemical preparations to assist in completing the transformation operations on animals. Without these extraordinary potions, no animal can leave the operating table alive.

Another core component of the brass mechanical prosthesis is the plasma engine, which involves enchantment and ritual.

Enchanting is the theoretical study of infusing objects with magical powers.

It is commonly used in enchantments on weapons and protective gear, making swords sharp and wrapped in flames, lightning, and frost, making armor strong and able to enter and exit water and fire without being hurt, and making boots light and agile so that they can walk on water and pass through swamps and thorn bushes as if walking on flat ground.

There are also enchantments on other things to create magical tools, like the multi-purpose toolbox that [Trash Pickup] gave to Lin Bo.

Enchantments often require the aid of rituals, a series of techniques used to channel the caster's inner strength and the energies of nature. They stabilize spells, enhance their effectiveness, and maintain their magical power. Therefore, ritual learning is a must-learn for mages.

There are many ways to enchant. In addition to the legendary divine enchantment, the most common one is gem enchantment, which is a common method used by skilled dwarf craftsmen. By sacrificing gems during the forging process, they guide the hidden elemental power in them to attach to the weapon.

There are also spell enchantments, 4th-level enchanted weapons, 6th-level enchanted items, and 8th-level magic permanence, which can all be used to create magic items.

The mad dwarf uses rune enchantment, which is to engrave powerful supernatural symbols on the surface of objects in an orderly manner to form a series of spells, and then guide them through rituals to stimulate miracles.

The symbols engraved on the surface of the plasma engine are the enchanted words, and those regular geometric lines are part of the ritual.

What Lin Bo was most interested in were these extraordinary runes. For a True Name Mage, magical language was core knowledge and a secret that must not be missed.

He currently knows a lot of magical words for things in nature, but what he knows is limited to pronunciation and semantics, and he does not know the shapes of the characters.

A magic word is different from a real name.

The meaning, pronunciation, and shape of a true name are all one; knowing one aspect reveals the other, and the third. Therefore, when he learns the true name of an object, the corresponding rune will appear in his mind, and therefore he cannot reveal the pronunciation of his own name.

The pronunciation, meaning, and glyphs of magic language are separate. Only after knowing the meaning of the magic runes can the pronunciation and glyphs be remembered, otherwise they will be forgotten spontaneously.

Lin Bo learned the meaning and pronunciation of the characters from the universe, but he did not know the characters' shapes. If he knew the characters' shapes, he could also try to enchant the runes.

Unfortunately, there is very little content on magical linguistics in the mad dwarf's collection of books, only a thin page written on the leather of some creature.

There are three enchantment runes in total, and twenty-nine magic words, each with a transliterated mortal language notation under it.

This behavior is like using Chinese to mark English words, and the pronunciation will definitely not be standard.

But it is also a helpless solution. After all, the learning threshold of extraordinary runes is too high. Most people, even most spellcasters, have no way of knowing the exact pronunciation of magic words. They can only imitate them through the pinyin passed down from some ancient books.

Apart from the pinyin, these three enchantment words have no annotations, which neither explain their function nor clarify their semantics, making them obscure and difficult to understand.

Lin Bo observed these runes carefully and found that he could understand them. To be precise, after seeing certain extraordinary characters, he would close his eyes and recall them, and he would not forget them in a short time. Moreover, as he continued to recall the characters, he could match them with a known magic word.

These magic runes that he could remember and the real name runes that Lin Bo knew had intuitive similarities in their structural composition and stroke shape.

Lin Bo thus left a conjecture in his reading notes: The shape, pronunciation, and meaning of Magical Language all derive from the True Name Rune → Is Magical Language an extension of the True Name Rune? Unsure, need to learn more → Contact the trading platform as soon as possible.

He waited all night but failed to add the Aoqiguiliyuan trader as a friend.

【Network Tips: Received a friend message】

Lin Bo opened the chat interface, then sat up straight, thinking: It's finally here.

[Ochi Magnificent Garden - Merchant Tosurus]: Nice to meet you (laughing)

Chapter 66: Unpopular Occupations, General Knowledge

[Ochi Magnificent Garden - Merchant Toxulus]: Sorry for the long wait? Forgive me for being old and increasingly sleepy lately, but since we've added each other as friends, you can always contact me in the future.

[Lighthouse Guest]: Nice to meet you. I didn’t have to wait too long. Please send me the product list.

[Toxulus]: Of course, of course, Ochi Magnificent Garden is a platform dedicated to uniting the Mage player community and building an efficient and friendly academic atmosphere. We welcome anyone who is interested in studying the arcane magic to join this big group.

Lin Bo accepted the file from the other party and ignored the series of advertising slogans from Toxulus. He concentrated on studying the product list and searching for content that could be used by him.

Lin Bo took a rough look and found that the types of goods sold at Aoqi Guiliyuan were somewhat different from those on the Duolian Duoyi platform. The academic materials and equipment props sold at Guiliyuan were more inclined towards magic. The same magic weapon would be sold at a slightly higher price on Duolian Duoyi.

The magical knowledge and materials he urgently needed were the main products of the Rosewood Garden. If all the products in the product list were printed out and placed in a library, the scale of this library might be comparable to that of a small city.

Lin Bo used the document's quick search function to find entries related to True Name Mage.

Search results for keywords such as "True Word Control Technique" and "True Word Illusion Technique" are very few. There is no professional academic material at all, only myths, gossip, and biographical stories. Some products are even specifically marked "The content lacks research, please determine the authenticity yourself."

He guessed that the True Name Mage profession was probably extremely unpopular on the Internet, and even in the miscellaneous books that specifically introduced the profession, it was rarely recorded.

As for the most core and critical magical linguistics, it does exist, and there is a lot of information, so much that it makes him a little confused. The classification catalog alone is very long, and if you look closely, it is basically the languages ​​of various extraordinary races.

There are countless races that master magic in the multiverse, and the Rosewood Garden does not discriminate between meat and vegetables. All languages ​​are included in the list, and related research on these alien languages ​​is also included.

Such a vast amount of linguistic research materials is suspected to be a watered-down paper, and the cheapest one costs at least double-digit RMB.

Lin Bo is a little skeptical about the quality of the products of Aoqi Guiliyuan. It is said that true transmission can be conveyed in one sentence, while false transmission requires thousands of books. Could it be that most of the knowledge products on this platform are parallel imports?

So he asked the trader Dosulus questions.

[Lighthouse Guest]: Why is there so much academic material on magical linguistics? And most of the products are somewhat unclear.

[Thorus]: Are you pursuing such a fundamental mystery? Your courage and determination are commendable! Indeed, the study of extraordinary symbols is an eternal subject for mages of all realms. No other power is closer to the supreme source of the multiverse than magic runes.

[Tathagata]: Even gods would envy mortals who master the secrets of runes. Therefore, it is said that the great powers of the multiverse broke up the magic runes and integrated the fragments into the language of creatures in all realms. Only the wise can discover these extraordinary mysteries hidden in the dust of history.

[Lighthouse Guest]: Is this true? Did the gods deliberately seal the secrets of the runes?

[Dosulus]: Well, this is a literary device, an exaggeration. Anyway, those religious lunatics will not admit it.

After the trader's patient explanation, Lin Bo finally understood that those seemingly meaningless language studies were just to extract the essence.

Every race that possesses extraordinary powers, if they accidentally discover magic runes in the process of exploring miracles, will more or less incorporate them into the text or totems they use, and even retain the roughly correct pronunciation and interpretation.

The wizard players on the network analyzed the countless alien languages ​​in the multiverse, picked out those powerful extraordinary runes bit by bit, and compiled them into a pure magical language.

This is a project that is so huge and lengthy that it is beyond the comprehension and imagination of ordinary people.

It is like God divided the unified language into thousands of parts to prevent humans from building the Tower of Babel, creating barriers among humans. But there is a group of people who traced back the original unified language from thousands of languages ​​and reunited the separated ethnic groups.

The work done by the linguists of the Zongwang Network is even more complicated and difficult than this.

[Dosulus]: Can such an achievement be called great?

[Lighthouse Guest]: Of course

Lin Bo was convinced. It is not easy to be a scholar studying language.

[Toxulus]: Then, you should also have a pious heart towards this hard-earned knowledge.

[Lighthouse Guest]: Although I am pious, can the price be cheaper?

When the shopping guide starts to explain the structure and background of the store to the customers, the ill intention of driving up the prices of the goods begins to take effect.

Lin Bo flipped through the price list and found that these extraordinary runes were truly worth a fortune.

The cheapest "Gudorei language" costs from 10 to 100 disaster coins per character. The higher-level "Animist language" starts at 500 disaster coins per character. The higher-level "Dragon language" is only open to internal users, and those who want to buy it need to join the Rosewood Garden.

From this perspective, the twenty-nine runes in the crazy dwarf's inventory are the most valuable treasures in the dungeon.

[Toxulus]: Don't say that. Every rune that contains power must be recorded on special paper, otherwise it will be damaged and dissipated. The products of Ochi Magnificent Garden are made of tanned dragon skin paper, which can ensure that the runes will not dissipate or be lost for thousands of years. It is absolutely worth the money.

[Lighthouse Guest]: To be honest, I am short of money. Are there any alternatives with better cost-effectiveness?

[Toxulus]: Yes, yes, the answer is in those alien language research materials. A complete dictionary of an alien language only costs a couple of digits of disaster coins, and there are perhaps dozens or even hundreds of magic runes hidden in it.

[Tathagata]: As long as you have enough wisdom and patience, you can dig out this treasure, and maybe even find runes that have not been discovered by previous people.

This approach seems to save money, but the time and energy required to make it work is difficult to estimate.

Lin Bo glanced at his disaster currency balance: 601

Then he closed his eyes, took a deep breath, exhaled slowly, and leaned back in his chair, as if he had lost all his strength and means.

[Lighthouse Guest]: Excuse me, are there any recommended resources for new mages? I want something cheap and affordable.

[Toxulus]: (baring teeth) (baring teeth) Of course, new spellcasters have a lot of lessons to learn.

There are a large number of spellcasters in the network, and there are also many different professions with spellcasting abilities.

The Ochi Magnificent Garden is mainly aimed at professions such as mages, warlocks, sorcerers, artificers, bards, and druids, and does not have much dealings with groups such as priests, psykers, monks, paladins, barbarians, and rangers.

Player groups that believe in gods and those that pursue exciting battles have their own circles and platforms, forming a flourishing player community on the Internet.

[Toxurus] asked Lin Bo about his profession. Different spellcasting professions have their own specialized areas of knowledge.

Lin Bo just vaguely said that he was a mage.

[Toscurus]: There are many kinds of mages. Those who cast spells with the help of magic nets are one kind, those who directly sense and control magical energy are another kind, and those who control cursed fire are another kind. There are even more kinds of mages that can be broken down into smaller categories. Which one are you?

[Lighthouse Guest]: Directly sense and control magical power

[Tuoluo]: Let’s start with the four types of knowledge that any spellcaster cannot do without: alchemy, enchantment, ritual, and summoning.

Following the shopping guide's recommendation, Lin Bo bought a lot of basic courses in alchemy, enchantment, and ritual studies. This knowledge is universal to all professions.

The trading platform has some restrictions on this kind of knowledge-based goods. Low-level knowledge does not matter, but high-level knowledge and some content involving players' personal intellectual property rights are protected by the platform. When other players purchase them, they need to sign a contract to ensure that they will not be leaked.

What Lin Bo bought from Aoqi Rose Garden were all unprotected common knowledge, which he could even sell for money, but the players on the Internet were always wary of such retail traders, and this business was not as easy as imagined.

As for impersonating a big platform to cheat people, once the clues are discovered, you have to be careful of retaliation from the platform.

In addition to the materials for newcomers to make up for the lessons, [Toxurus] also recommended some subjects that are more closely related to combat, and many techniques that can make spell casting faster, more accurate, and more powerful.

Lin Bo chose "Hand Seals", a very ancient subject. After mastering it, a wizard can use hand seals to replace part of the spells and cast spells silently. It is suitable for situations covered by silence or for sneak attacks.