You don't cast spells by the rules at all, do you?

"Faith" and "conviction" are essentially different, but they also have similarities, which provides an opportunity to substitute concepts. Substituting concepts is a common technique in philosophical thinking, and the two coincide with each other. Thus, under Carl Black's powerful mystical thinking, the "magic of belief" based on "faith" and "philosophy" was born.

In addition to "belief magic" and "philosophical magic", it also has a more understandable name, called "fraud magic."

But this name is not as elegant as the former, so it is generally called philosophy or belief.

Philosophy refers to sophistry, and belief refers to having a strong "I can" mentality, first deceiving yourself and then deceiving others.

That's what Sean is doing now.

His eyes were filled with sincerity as he looked straight into the girl's eyes.

It was the first time for Isa to look into the eyes of a man at such a close distance. The man was quite good-looking, which made her blush for a moment. She wondered what the hell this guy was doing. Why did he suddenly stare at someone like this while talking? It was very rude...

Sean said seriously, "I have a secret that I haven't told you all. I haven't even told Elvira."

Isa: “Huh?”

Even Miss Flame Crow didn't say anything, doesn't that mean that in Sean's heart, I am more important than Miss Flame Crow?

For some reason, her face turned even redder.

Sean continued: "Actually, I'm a genius."

Isa: "..."

Although she wanted to complain about his narcissism, she had to admit that in terms of talent, Sean was indeed the most outstanding person she had ever seen, even better than Miss Flame Crow.

just.

"This is not a secret, right?" Isa said.

Although not many people know Sean now, as long as they have met him, even if they deny it, they will know how terrifying this man's potential is.

It took less than half a month to go from level one to level two. It's like a student learning and mastering all the high school knowledge in just one month. It's incredible just to hear it.

But that's not what Sean was referring to.

"I mean my learning ability," he said.

The improvement of magic power depends on meditation, and meditation tests the wizard's "ability to discover" or "ability to innovate", which is closer to imagination and is different from "learning ability".

Sean said something shocking: "You may not believe this, but I can do any kind of magic just by looking at it."

Isa: "?"

"How can it be!"

Isa didn't believe it, "Don't fool me."

Last time at the book signing event, when Quill ordered the police to take action, she noticed a golden ring on Sean's hand, with tiny, dense characters all around it, which seemed to be able to refract bullets. At that time, she thought of the Black Fruit Rainforest incident. That group of low-level witch hunters should have been killed by Sean in this way.

Later, Sean came to the hospital again to help them out, and the magic he used was also made up of various characters.

It was really powerful, but other than that, she had never seen Sean use any other spells, let alone say he could learn magic at a glance. She knew he was just bragging as soon as she heard it.

"is it?"

"Then look at what this is?"

Sean threw a punch at the girl standing beside the bed without warning.

He wasn't kidding when he said he was going to beat up the girl.

The punch came unexpectedly and Isa almost didn't react, but she was a fourth-level wizard after all, and had rich experience in fighting. She instinctively turned her head to avoid it. Sean's fist almost brushed past her face, making her feel the gust of wind from the punch.

Isa thought it was just an ordinary punch and Sean was testing her reaction, but when she looked sideways, she found that Sean's punch was not ordinary at all and made her feel very familiar.

The fist passed over the girl's shoulder, and suddenly a scarlet light burst out. The surging magic power surged out from the fist and condensed into a huge bat with fierce eyes and bared fangs at the girl.

Isa: "??!"

"Vipail's Bat??"

Isn't this my own magic?

Viper is the name of this spell, and also Isha's surname - the girl's full name is Isha Viper, who comes from the ancient blood clan of the scholar era.

She had used this spell that night at Flores Hospital.

This is blood magic, one of the twelve major magical avenues. At the same time, this is also the unique magic system of their Viper family. How could Sean be able to do it?

Isa opened her eyes wide. She looked at the fist that was so close to her and had completely turned into a huge bloody fist. Her eyes were full of disbelief.

She was once a direct descendant of the family, and she knew clearly that the theory of bloodline was just a lie used to deceive people. In order to monopolize this avenue of magic, in fact, every wizard could practice blood magic.

However, being able to practice is one thing, and being able to learn is another.

Blood magic is just as difficult as puppetry, and is several times more difficult than ordinary spells like invisibility or fireball. As a remodeler with experience in blood magic, it took her more than a month to master it, but Sean learned it just by watching her perform it once...

Could it be that this man really possesses this incredible learning talent of "learning everything at a glance"?

Or was Sean a member of her tribe in his previous life... ?

At this moment, Isa was in a mess.

Her little brain was in a mess and she couldn't understand how Sean did it.

And what she couldn't understand was still to come.

"I also know puppetry," Sean said.

"Have you ever heard of the Ship of Theseus?"

“When the wood used to build a ship is replaced one by one until all the wood is no longer the original wood, is the ship still the original ship?”

"Similarly, the cells in my body are metabolizing, dying and being reborn every moment, including right now - we are chatting, my words are coherent and orderly, without any pauses, but can you be sure that from the first word to the last word of this sentence, it is the same me who said it?"

“Am I the same person in this second as I am in the next second?”

"Or is there a possibility that maybe the me you see now is not the real me from the beginning to the end?"

Isa: “???”

Sean's series of soul-searching questions completely confused the girl.

She was already shocked by Sean's use of the Viper Bat, and after being confused like this, her brain was almost burned out. She only remembered one key word - "puppetry", which meant... Sean, who was lying on the bed and talking to her, and then stood up and punched her, was not a real person, but just a puppet? ?

"If you don't understand, don't think about it."

"You can fight back."

"Practice is the only criterion for testing truth."

Sean looked at the girl and said word by word: "Kill me."

Of course Isa wouldn't do anything. Even if it was a puppet, it would be a pity to be destroyed.

But if she doesn't move, Sean will move.

And every move is a killing move.

Just as she didn't want to beat Sean, but Sean wanted to beat her.

Sean, who was not good at close combat, now put his fists together. Two huge blood bats opened their bloody mouths and bit the girl's head hard, one on the left and one on the right.

Isa seemed to finally feel the threat and instinctively punched back again.

The same moves, but the difference in rank is too big.

Sean has been taking "poison" these days to test his body's resilience. He has not yet officially taken high-strength potions. He has activated some of the power of forbidden meditation and temporarily increased his magic power to the third level before he can barely release the Viper Bat.

But Isa is at level four.

The magic power difference between a rank three who has just reached the threshold and a senior rank four is as high as 89 Laks, which is equal to one hundred novice wizards when rounded off. The result of a head-on confrontation can be imagined.

The giant bats in Sean's hands seemed to be made of paper and shattered at the touch. His entire body also exploded, bursting into countless light dust and floating in the air.

But actually...

Sean doesn't know any blood magic at all.

This path of magic only appeared once in his book - when the twelve paths were listed and introduced, Sean only knew that there was such a system, but he didn't know a single word about its specific operating principles, and he didn't even know the spells.

But he knows the magic of elegant deception.

When he first punched the girl, it wasn't really the Viper Bat.

He simply relied on his memory of that night and used magic to create the shape of a bat.

"Shaping" is the most basic magical ability, which every wizard has, and it is used in almost every spell.

For example, the "ball" in fireball.

Just like Isa had tried to use magic to condense characters and piece together formulas, this operation was really simple.

However, his Viper Bat and Isha's Spell of Truth are just like each other in form.

But because of Sean's deliberate "sneak attack", Issa didn't notice it.

There is a saying that "once suspicion arises, the guilt is established", and the same is true in mysticism.

The reason why people doubt something is because their subconscious mind has already assumed that this situation is possible.

This is a kind of belief.

He didn't know how to cast Viper's Bat originally, but from the moment the girl suspected that he could, he actually knew it. As the girl gradually accepted the "fact", he also mastered the spell completely, so Isa felt threatened.

The same is true for puppetry.

This is not puppetry in the true sense, but a philosophical technique based on the Ship of Theseus used to save lives and escape. From the perspective of "instantaneous" and not requiring advance preparation, his puppetry is even more advanced than the puppetry practiced by Zajik and others.

If you think I'm real, then I'm real.

If you think I'm fake, then I'm fake.

"How's it going, little Issa?"

Isa in the ward was still looking confused, but a brand new Sean had already pushed open the door and walked in.

He admired the girl's shocked expression with great satisfaction and said, "Now tell me, which one do you want to learn?"

……

Chapter 62 Why is it him again? (Please read on~)

"Oh no, oh no, Miss Flame Crow!"

"Something happened!"

Alola Town residential area.

At this time, Elviri was practicing calligraphy in the small garden.

The desk is next to a pond, with fish playing in the water, and surrounded by trees, flowers and plants, creating an elegant and peaceful atmosphere. This was designed by a foreign designer specially hired by Elvira. My sister used to do this. Whenever she was in a bad mood or felt impetuous, she would go to the small garden and do something quietly.

However, this tranquility was broken by Isa who came running towards them.

She hurried into the small garden, which made Elviri frown.

"What are you so flustered about?"

Not ladylike at all.

Isa was exhausted from running all the way here. She answered breathlessly, "Xiao, Sean..."

Sean?

Elviri didn't care about the guy at all and asked casually, "What's wrong with him?"

Isa bent over, with her hands on her knees, and said breathlessly: "He, he stole me..."

Ok?

"Steal you?!"

Elviri put down her pen with a snap, stood up and asked, "What did I steal from you?"

"Steal my spells, Viperbat!"

"?"

Magic.

Elviri sat down calmly again.

She thought Sean had stolen Issa.