Chapter 64 2. Magic Proof
“Welcome aboard the passenger cruise ship of the Nali Exploration Company. This is the Captain’s office of the Jack-type ‘Lauren.’ I extend the highest welcome to all passengers boarding the cruise.”
“This journey will last approximately thirty-five days. If you have any questions, please contact the cabin service staff immediately. The final destination of this route is Saint Nali. Please ensure that your documentation and materials for entering Saint Nali are prepared in advance.”
“The Captain’s office has emergency decision-making authority in times of danger. In case of unexpected events such as storms, tsunamis, or pirates, please always follow the commands of the Captain’s office to avoid accidents. Thank you very much for your cooperation. We will depart shortly. Please enjoy this maritime journey.”
Passengers’ cabins are independent, generally consisting of a small lounge, washroom, and accompanying rooms. For example, Fisher and Renee’s cabin has two rooms.
“So, since you can go directly back to the Western Continent, why are you mooching off my ticket?”
Having left the crisis-ridden Southern Continent, Fisher’s tense nerves could finally take a short rest. At this moment, he was leaning against the window, enjoying coffee served by the cabin staff, while a beautiful woman in a black dress, Renee, sat across from him.
“Isn’t a 1500-euro ticket worth it to spend some nice time with a beautiful girl?”
Renee’s black gauze skirt swayed slightly. She looked out the window, where a row of larks were busy cleaning their feathers. The crew member, responsible for cleaning, looked helplessly at the numerous birds above, confirming that they had no other actions and could only reluctantly clean elsewhere.
“By the way, many young women in Saint Nali like to wear socks of this shape lately. Do you want to see?”
Renee pointed at her lips with her finger, then stood up and lifted her long skirt slightly, revealing a pair of black translucent lace stockings. She seemed to innocently want to share her recent fashion discovery, if one ignored the mischievous glint in her eyes.
Fisher didn’t even look up; he just unrolled a piece of paper, dipped a quill in some ink, seemingly deep in thought.
“Hey, Fisher, I told you to come and take a look.”
“Don’t make noise.”
Renee floated up in speechlessness, cupping her face with both hands in mid-air, looking at the title of what he was writing. However, her playful teasing gradually faded, turning into deep seriousness. In a place Fisher couldn’t see, her eyes, deep as the starry sky, revealed a glimmer of surprise.
This child.
How did a trip to the Southern Continent teach him so much?
The title on the paper read:
“The Theory and Proof of the Source of Magic Souls—Fisher Benavides.”
Fisher’s fingers tapped on the table, pulling out a cigarette from his pocket to light it.
Many theories about the nature and source of souls had already been written in Gall’s soul theory, yet the anthropology field was still in constant debate about it. Fisher had been thinking these days about how to prove it. After thinking for a long time, he realized that there was no simpler proof than creating a magic that could touch the soul.
However, the standard magic “resonance” evokes a response from the world, with most effects resulting in phenomena in the real world. There are two ways to create magic that can touch the soul.
The first is quite direct: changing the orientation of the “ring head” in the design of the magic rune to the soul. The ring head is the core of a magic rune, and different ring heads determine the nature of the magic. For example, the ring head for “gravity” was designed by the master of magical theory, Myers, during the early days of the technological revolution, thus, gravity-type magic is strictly speaking, emerging magic.
The second method is to use other types of magic, such as healing magic. This type of magic that simultaneously repairs the magical circuit and the body must partly touch the soul. It is just a matter of emphasizing the part that touches the soul.
With this train of thought, Fisher took out another piece of paper and wrote the design of the healing magic’s ring head with a quill. This magic has very ancient origins, traceable back to the early church days when everyone just wrapped themselves in a piece of cloth and ran around naked.
No, that’s not right; my thinking is wrong.
Fisher suddenly realized that since all magic power comes from the soul, and to inscribe a rune, one must mobilize the power of the soul, there must be a common way to mobilize soul runes in every rune. Otherwise, it would be ridiculous that just writing a letter would mobilize the soul. Therefore, there’s no need to search for magic that affects the soul; one only needs to find the common part present in all types of magic.
Regardless of how many rings magic has, their structures are the same.
First is the “ring head” that determines the nature of the magic, deciding which aspect of the world’s resonance the magic will trigger; next is the “main ring,” which will determine the specific effect of the magic, that is, how the world’s resonance is pried open; then there’s the “sub-ring,” which determines the degree and details of the magic. A well-carved sub-ring will make magic very agile; the distinction between a master and a beginner lies here; finally, there’s the “ring tail,” which determines the object of effect in reality.
Usually, the ring tail is the most casual since the release of magic can be determined by human throwing and control, for example, when Fisher has used the Dance of the Bees, he just needs to fling it at the enemy.
So why is the “ring tail” still indispensable? Academia mainly believes it’s for the completeness of magic, but now Fisher suddenly feels that the ring tail serves more than just structural integrity; a repeated part of the ring tail also appears at the ends of other sections.
Fisher thought of something and recalled the structure of dragon race magic, realizing that their tooth-like magic structure has three or four strokes at the beginning, just like the human ring tail.
No wonder when inscribing dragon race magic, the runes light up at the beginning because they placed the structure that mobilizes the soul at the front, while humans are accustomed to placing this structure at the end of each section.
Fisher’s eyes brightened as he drew that part on paper, then casually inscribed a magic with a common rune part, attempting to use this method to create a ring head specifically for the soul. However, after finishing, his magic pattern lit up but produced no effect.
This made Fisher furrow his brow, indicating that he carved the ring head incorrectly; the magic power was mobilized but couldn’t pry open the world’s resonance, which was a waste of effort.
This isn’t right?
Fisher’s train of thought hit a deadlock for a moment. After thinking for a long time and finding no answers, he crumpled up the poorly drawn magic rune paper. Renee was floating in mid-air, holding a Nali newspaper, her pleasant fragrance filling the room.
At that moment, Fisher suddenly thought of something. He hurriedly unfolded the paper and suddenly realized that his designed ring head resembled something very much, featuring arcs like parentheses on the top and bottom, with a simple dot in the middle.
This thing looked a bit like a peculiar eye, but the top and bottom parts of the eye were so strange, resembling the upper and lower lips of a mouth.
He was somewhat shocked as he carved a complex circular pattern in place of the ring head, enclosing that dot within it. Thus, the pattern completely transformed into the pictorial structure of that giant eye he saw in the Southern Continent.
And at the moment of inscribing it, his entire magical circuit lit up, along with the rune of the magic on the paper instantly emitting a deep glow.
*Note: Renee is the hardest female lead to pursue.
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