bookandnovel Chapter 144 I Want to Get on the Second Ring
Chapter 144 I Want to Get on the Second Ring
Chapter 144 I Want to Go to the Second Ring Road
The Book of Sand floated before Gebu's eyes, explaining to him in vibrant words what the Arcane Heritage Illusion School meant.
"Illusion Specialization: The casting range and duration of your illusion-creating magic are doubled, and the damage dealt is increased by 20%. The time and cost of copying illusion spell scrolls are halved."
"Your secondary phantom can create two sensory effects simultaneously: such as sound and image, smell and taste."
"Gained [Specialized Spell]: Mirror Image."
"Create a shadow within a 30-meter radius." The shadow has no physical form and cannot interact with objects in the material plane, but you can take over its senses, use it to speak, move, and even cast spells.
"The shadow's shape, voice, movements, the folds in its clothes, the hoarseness in its voice, and its habitual little gestures—from any angle, it is an impeccable doppelganger."
"Normal attacks will pass right through the shadow without affecting it, while magical attacks will cause the shadow to dissipate completely."
"The shadow can last for a maximum of 10 minutes and can be dispelled by the caster. After the shadow disappears, meditation is required before it can be used again."
"Mirror Image" does not consume ring slots. As the wizard's level increases, the shadow gains greater power.
This ability is so useful! I definitely made the right choice!
Gob's mind immediately conjured up a hundred ways to use the mirror image: one of them was to have the goblin wizard negotiate with the dangerous individuals in his place. This would greatly reduce the risk of the goblin wizard showing his face in public.
With this, and combined with the secondary phantom and the silent phantom with doubled range/time, Geb can completely direct and star in a spectacular show.
As the ring-up process came to an end, the power of the runes gently lifted the goblin's back and placed him on the ground. Once on the ground, Geb couldn't wait to summon his shadow.
"Umbram Evoca!"
Geb's body cast a long shadow on the ground—a flat black shadow one second, and in the blink of an eye, some strange optical illusion made Geb feel that the shadow seemed to become three-dimensional. The next moment, the shadow really stood up, the blackness slowly faded, revealing the goblin's appearance.
Gebu looked the shadow up and down, and the shadow looked Gebu up and down in return.
"I'm pretty cool, aren't I?" Geb said.
"I'm pretty cool, aren't I?" Shadow said.
"Are you copying me?"
"Are you copying me?"
"I am an animal," Geb said, pointing to himself.
"You're a beast," the shadow said, pointing at Geb.
You bastard—you're so true to me!! Even my shadow doesn't suffer a loss!
Mirror Image Clone: GET!
As part of the Ascension spells, Geb can choose two second-circle spells and one ritual spell.
Gebu searched through the ritual spells of the second ring, and the following three were particularly eye-catching:
Divination, Animal Messengers, Summoning Mounts
Divination
Basic divination, an introductory spell of the prophetic school.
Consuming 50 grams of gold (5 gold coins) and using symbols (tortoise shell, dominoes, etc.) to perform a divination for one of your actions today, the result can predict good or bad fortune, but will not provide specific information.
Once you learn this, you're on a one-way street to becoming a charlatan.
The downsides are: it's too expensive, and the results are too vague, not knowing exactly what constitutes good or bad fortune.
Animal Messengers
Consuming 10 grams of gold (1 gold coin) and some food, you can use magic to designate a small animal you can see (bat, crow, squirrel, etc.) and command it to go to a location the caster has been to deliver a message of no more than ten words to someone you have met.
This spell lasts for a maximum of 24 hours. If the animal cannot reach the designated location within 24 hours, the spell's effect will disappear, the animal will forget the message it was given, and will return to the initial location.
This is a practical message-delivery spell. A bird can fly at least a hundred kilometers in 24 hours, a distance that would probably take a person a week to travel.
Geb doesn't need animal messengers right now because not many people need to communicate remotely, but he'll definitely need them in the future.
Toxin Protection Techniques
Consuming 10 grams of gold, this ritual grants a creature resistance to natural toxins for one hour. If the creature is already poisoned, it can neutralize one of the toxins in its body.
This magic is only effective against toxins present in nature; some magical poisons can ignore the effects of this spell.
Toxin protection, scorpion venom—does this even need explanation?
A life-saving spell has arrived!
Gebu immediately chose the [Toxin Protection] spell to address the immediate crisis. This was much faster than creating an antidote, and besides, the scorpion's venom acted very quickly; once hit, it was fatal, leaving no time for an antidote. The only thing he could do was take preventative measures.
As for the other two level 2 spells, since Illusion specialization was chosen, the enhanced Illusion spells will definitely be prioritized:
Invisibility
The caster touches a creature (which can be themselves) to make it invisible. The invisible person's equipment and items worn on their body become invisible as well. This state can last for up to 1 hour (2 hours for illusion wizards). During this time, casting spells, attacking, or being damaged will reveal the invisible person.
Here it comes! The power of the 2nd Ring spell has indeed increased by a level. Finally, I can peek at women—I can secretly help old ladies cross the street. Gebu's style is: do good deeds anonymously.
【Phantom Power】
Within a 10-meter radius (20 meters for illusion wizards), a designated creature is implanted in its mind with an illusion that only it can perceive. This illusion is entirely based on the individual's subconscious and directly attacks its most vulnerable wounds. If the attacked creature's mental strength is not strong enough to recognize that it is an illusion, then it will suffer damage from the illusion.
For example, you can make a person standing on flat ground believe that he is falling from the third floor. If he cannot see through the illusion, he will actually fall as if he were falling from the third floor and break his leg.
This spell's damage is enough to kill an untrained adult or leave a brown bear half-dead. Illusionists can inflict additional damage on those with more vulnerable mental states.
To win hearts and minds, that's the key! This spell's effect isn't as direct as the Evocation spell, but its advantage is that it doesn't require aiming and can ignore the monster's physical defense—beasts don't have high mental strength, so this type of spell has a high chance of working on them.
With the enhancement of the Illusionary Legacy, the power of Phantoms is indeed no less powerful than Evocation spells of the same level!
After choosing the spells, Geb used the remaining meditation time to quickly practice these newly acquired abilities. Finally, before the meditation time ended, he mastered the three spells and the ability to create mirror images.
Mirror image clone, achieved!
Invisibility, got it!
Phantom power, acquired!
With a significant improvement, Gebu felt full of confidence, puffed out his little chest, and perked up his ears, looking very imposing.
"Let's go! Let's take on the manticore!"