Vol 2 Chapter 54

Act 54: The Road to Transcendence (Part 1)

"Mage Brigade?"

Brando almost moaned. He couldn't help touching his forehead, wondering if he was dreaming. The young man who claimed to be Tumen and the special space that introduced him, as well as these bizarre information, made his mind mess.

He had never heard of the profession of Travelling Mage in 'The Sword of Amber'.

He first thought about whether this was a profession he hadn't learned before, after all, in a world that was so large and complex and set up in a self-improving world every day, he couldn't be omnipotent. But Brando felt a little awkward, and his intuition told him that the conjecture was not true.

Brando was calm on the surface, but kept thinking: What the **** is going on? What is Travelling Mage? Where is this?

Tumen folded his hands in his sleeves, and the whole man floated in the dark void. He saw Brando's confusion and smiled and replied: "It seems you are still confused. In fact, this is just a refraction magic, it keeps me The information below can be projected into your thoughts through this, so you don't have to be nervous, this is just your own inner world, everything here is constructed according to your inner thoughts— "

Brando knew he was trying to speak subconsciously.

"You mean, this is a magical effect that affects the soul? But why did my unyielding will not respond?" He calmed down a little, but immediately asked: "how should I leave here." Because he remembered suddenly I'm still in danger, but I can't waste time here.

"Why hurry, because this is the world in your mind, and everything that happens here is as fast as your mind-the Barstow man has a saying: 'A man can make a long time in a short moment. "Long dreams." Because people's thoughts are as fast as light, you can produce many thoughts in an instant, and before these thoughts end, one second has not passed. "

Tumen laughed: "Even if you die next second, here you can live a quarter of an hour."

Brando carefully chewed out the meaning of the elemental emperor's words, and he was more willing to believe this explanation, but instinctively could not help but take care of the dangers outside. He took a breath and asked, "I understand, but let's finish this message sooner, Tumen, what do you want to say to me? What is the Master Mage?"

Forcing himself to calm down, Brando began to figure out the meaning of this 'dream'. Since Tumen said that this is a projection of a message, it means that he has something to leave for himself. What can I say? Brando didn't think there was any connection between him and the other party.

Brando himself is an Eruin southerner of pure blood. He has neither the blood of the Miner nor the Barstow. If he wants to inherit it, Tumen will not find him alone.

What's more, there must be some medium for storing spells, which means that this information was originally deposited on something close to him through a triggered spell. Brando lowered his head and couldn't help thinking about it, trying to find out the doubts about those things on his body-the ordinary items to be excluded first, his clothes and some things like matches and cotton wool. small item. Eliminate items made by him and Tamar, such as the Cursed Crossbow, the Statue of the Holy Man (White Deer), and the mana potion over there. Finally, there are naturally generated items, such as the fruit of the golden devil tree, and some magical materials.

Now he could be called suspicious, except for the trivial objects from the battlefield and the ring after the wind.

But those trivial pseudo-magic items are completely missing. The ring after the wind has been identified as rotten in the game-it is a follow-up plot, Brando has asked the bitch-the usury merchant He did know the ring in the oil painting. According to him: the oil painting was given by a businessman to the knight that Brando ’s grandfather had served, and the knight then gave the oil painting to Brando ’s grandfather. . Later, the oil painting stayed in Brando's old house.

As for the story before that, it's a long story. Xunzi said that a total of thirteen imitation rings were made. Although they are not genuine, each one is valuable after hundreds of years. The businessman wanted to please the local lord, but what happened later, he couldn't say clearly.

Although Brando was still skeptical of what the sister-in-law said, at least it showed that even if it had anything to do with St. Osor the Wind Sage, it had nothing to do with Tumen.

The next object of suspicion was the mysterious stone from the corpse of Borg Nesson. Brando had always suspected that the background of this little aristocracy was not so simple. As an aristocrat, how could it be so coincident for Antitina to learn the design and production of magical devices, this is not unusual in Eruin.

And Brando believed that he could perceive it, and so could everyone else, and that Viscount Tester must have understood it.

He had now begun to suspect that the Viscount Lord's motive was not simple.

Now it seems that this stone piece is the most questionable. But then he shook his head and thought of another thing. Before entering this world, he touched another thing that was unknown--the scroll of elemental apocalypse. Brando recalled the situation at the time, and he clearly remembered that the elemental revelation scroll had the crystal forest's ink mud and the unique numbers of the fairies.

In other words, the scroll itself is fine.

But he has come to his senses, and he finally realizes what is his chance to trigger this spell: open the element pool.

But what does this have to do with it?

He immediately thought of destiny cards, yes, he had always thought of these mysterious cards as skills rather than items, so he didn't think of them for a moment. But looking back now, Brando finds that these cards are really more and more suspicious.

First of all, these cards have never appeared in Sword of Amber.

Maybe the single magical item Brando hasn't heard in the game is not doubtful. But if a series of magic items have never appeared in the vision of a **** player, this will inevitably cause a lot of doubt. You can imagine: if a person has not heard the name of a certain magician's professional equipment in the game, if we assume that the world is huge-so it is not so incredible. But if he hasn't even heard of the huge concept of "magic professional equipment", it seems a bit inexplicable.

Perhaps you would say that he must be a newcomer.

But Brando is not new.

And these cards aren't indispensable and trivial. The great freedom they contain can even allow a warrior to manipulate magic freely. It can be said that they themselves constitute a complete professional system.

Such a set of magic items, Brando could not have heard the wind.

What's more, these things don't appear in a distant country. For example, 'they' only appear in Brandar's deadly counterpart, Madara, so Brando may have less chance to understand. On the contrary, where these cards appear, at least for now, it seems to be Brando's most familiar area.

Tomb of Gijonde, Golden Devil's Valley, Rittenberg, Braggs.

These areas are areas where Brando has explored countless times, and every corner and detail is well known. Even Brando can clearly describe the rumors and behaviors of all the famous players in the region in the first three years of the game. He loves the world so much that he empathizes with all of Eruin.

But the problem now is that he really hasn't heard of these cards, and he even doubts how he let them go so easily-of course, he didn't realize that he was in the middle of seeing these cards once. Under the condition that even survival cannot be guaranteed, ordinary people in this environment will rejoice if they get a little help-rather than doubt. So this is actually human nature.

But once the reaction came, this suspicion deepened.

He couldn't help but touch his own chest, subconsciously remembered the concept that he had flashed in his mind before, 'They themselves constitute a complete professional system'; Brando was startled in his mind, and raised his head subconsciously, he He looked up inconceivably, and asked blurtly, "What is the Master Mage you said ...?"

Tumen smiled: "You're right, there is an inseparable connection between Destiny Cards and Travelling Mage."

Brando was silent immediately because he knew that Tumen in this young age would tell him everything.

"First of all, I have to clarify a misunderstanding. In fact, these destiny cards were not created by me. You can see that their age is much longer than the history we know." Tumen spread his hands, holding one in his heart. A destiny card—it's just the back, with the complicated holy print drawn on it: "You see this mark, which is the original sample of the holy print. I simplified them based on some fur knowledge I knew, and made the door Knowledge is compiled and passed on to humans, elves, and Min'ers. "

"Wait--" Tumen raised his hand, preventing Brando from asking: "I know what you want to ask, obviously as the offspring of Barstow and Miner, all the deadly enemies of longing for light, why I want to help humans and elves? "

He smiled: "Actually, it ’s very simple. As a travelling mage, I see things differently from the average person. Of course, this is only my own point of view, but it has something to do with my own deck-I was too Young, blindly want to pursue the rules and principles of this world, so my deck is called 'All things return to one'. Adhering to this card, except for the most essential things in the world, there is not much difference in my eyes. Now. "

After Brando listened to these words and sat back again, he thought for a moment, and asked his doubts: "To be honest," he asked, "I didn't understand what you meant, could I speak more plainly? . "

He has no intention of going back at all in this meeting, but he just feels that this profession in the doorway of the picture may bring a huge change to his future. He didn't know why he had this idea, maybe it was an illusion, or it was an intuition and instinct that had already smelled an unusual breath.

Tumen nodded: "Of course, I will tell you in detail."

He also said: "When referring to the Travelling Mage, you have to start with the destiny card. The Travelling Mage is the only group in the world who can touch the true meaning of the destiny card-this true meaning is the power of the world. Every one A destiny card is a world manifestation from a certain angle. It is neither a simple rule projection nor a superficial reproduction of reality. Many, many such cards constitute a small world. "

"It's like my deck,‘ All Things Are One. 'This deck describes the essence of the world through the harmony of six elements, so it's also my card meaning: the power of rules. ”

"And the other travel mage I know, I know his deck is called" Infinite Power ", which is a set of cards composed of a large number of red and black destiny cards. His card is designed to pursue supreme power. The red deck can be seen as fire or power. The black deck can be seen as dark, but it can also represent death and destruction. "

"Of course, we all failed."

Tumen smiled: "So the meaning of the card is actually given by the deck. The beauty of the destiny card is that he can articulate your thoughts with the world from multiple angles. Even your deck represents You have another self in your heart. "

"As for why there are these cards and where they come from, we don't really know. The earliest travelling mage should have been born in the dark ages and spread among the Matatanians. I even doubt the profession itself. It was born out of this society. "

"It is rumored that the Matatanias are a traveling nation. Their tribe always migrates from one place to another. Their understanding of the world is somewhat different from ours. We think that the world is a vast and infinite, including an infinite The concept of things and knowledge, but in the world view of the Matatanias, the world is a very small, narrow concept. They have a larger concept similar to our 'world', called 'uhs'. The word It is the root of the word infinite in Elven and Cruz. In the Matatanias' worldview, uhs contains countless small worlds, and they always travel in one world. "

"I suspect that they have misunderstood the relationship between the Guardian Land and the entire world, and thus formed this concept. Of course, humans in the past had limited knowledge of this world." Tumen smiled suddenly and said, "I accidentally said With so many insignificant things, it seems that it is really difficult for me to get rid of this old fault. "

Brando thought about it and asked, "I have heard of Matatanians, and now I know they are the earliest mages, but what does this have to do with me?"

Tumen shook his head: "You continue to listen. The Matatanias divide the day into six stages, and the day of the journey mage is strictly divided into six stages."

The dark-haired young man with a sloping shoulder glanced at Brando and continued: "The first stage, from the dawn of the dawn to the morning. At 6 to 10 o'clock, the Matatanians call this period of each day For: The sun grows, and the Travelling Mage calls it the 'growth stage'. At this stage, the Travelling Mage can tap their land cards to gain the mana necessary for a day-"

"Wait!" Brando yelled, "Tap the land?"

"Exactly, tapping the land card is the most basic ability of every travelling mage. It is also the source of their power."

"Wait, can you elaborate."

"It's simple, as long as you have a basic land card, and your own elemental pool and mana pool. You can tap them at this time of day, and the land card will have the power of the 'territory' to which you belong and your The pool of elements connects and injects the power of generating elements in the 'Territory' throughout the day. "

"Wait, isn't it written on the land cards, does it generate a little element a week?" Brando couldn't help asking.

"That element is free of elements and mana pools, and its role is to 'loan' cards to newcomers who are on the way to the Mage's Road to understand and access the power of this world power. When you become formal You do n’t need it, ”Tumen replied.

Brando considered for a while, then nodded: "I see, you go on."

"During the growth phase, the travelling mage can also benefit from the ability to" pay "on all other cards. I remember you have a gray land / water card called Highland Falcon, which states that when Highland Falcon exists On the field, the lord can earn a little reputation every day. And this reputation is paid during the growth stage. "

"Meanwhile, the travelling mage can use everything that involves green (life, nature), white (light, shelter, nurture) and red (fire, vitality, vitality), blue (water, nourish, irrigate) and existence during the growth stage. A mix of these elements. "

Brando frowned, and he had never noticed it before. But Charles actually told him a similar problem, he mentioned a special case, that is, a white magic card with no need.

"Then entered the second stage of the day: from the morning to the moment of the scorching sun, from 10 o'clock to 2 pm. Not only Matatanians call this period of each day: all things flourish The wizards and witches also described these four hours of the day, called 'ebb tide'-because this moment is the moment when the power of the sun is the strongest, and the time when the power of the moon is the weakest. Consumption, so this stage is the most active and offensive stage of the element, so the journeyman calls this stage the 'healing stage'. "

"At this stage, it is the only stage where the Travelling Master can use any card without restriction. At the same time, he will also be able to draw three cards from the library into his hand."

"Wait," Brando snapped. "What does this mean?"

"This is the rule of the mage traveler. At the beginning of each day, a mage traveler can always only have a fixed number of cards. He may have a number of cards that exceed this limit on this day, but every day a ' 'Reset phase', he must discard these excess cards. We call this fixed number of destiny cards a hand. "

"On the other hand, the stronger the Mage Traveler's power is, the more hands he can master. And like you, as a newborn Mage Traveler, you can only hold five cards."

"Is my hand assigned?" Brando asked.

"No, your hand will be drawn by you in the designated split group. Like me, my card means that the power of the six elements is one, so the rule divides my card into six equal parts, so I There are six scoreboard groups, "Tumen replied.

Brando frowned: "But the uncertainty has increased a lot. Then I only have a few powerful cards, and if I lose those useless cards, wouldn't I be able to keep myself free? Is card strength at one level? "

"It is true in theory, but this is not the ultimate goal pursued by the travelling mage." Tumen shook his head.

"final goal?"

"You know that after the three-level power system, some people can enlighten the elements and make themselves extremely powerful. But you may not know that after the enlightened elements, the next stage of power is the perfect body, from black iron to gold The final step is to pursue the power of existence that only exists in the legend. "

"You know, fire is an element, and its highest manifestation is the element of fire, because the element of fire is the origin of all the flames in this world. But in fact, there has been such a rumor that on the element of fire, it still exists. With a more advanced element, we call it 'material'. "

"Elements like 'material', 'time', 'space' or even 'logical', 'power' which represent the most fundamental meaning of the deep world, we all call it the power of existence."

Brando stared at Tumen, speechless for a while. He certainly knows perfect body, because he has already gone through this stage in the past game-one hundred and thirty levels, silver body. He also heard about the power of existence, but it is rumored that after the average player has risen to the 160th level of the gold body, the experience will no longer be inadequate, and no one knows that he should break through that last level and reach the one that is almost one step away-- The power of being.

But none of them thought that there was such a way.

"You mean," he could not help but asked, "Mage Brigade can finally reach the power of existence?"

Tumen nodded, pointing to the card saying: "When you perfect your 'world', and when this 'rule' can be self-consistent, the door to the force of existence opens. Of course, before that, you still There is a long way to go, "Tumen seemed to find Brando's heart, and continued:" Start with building your most basic deck. "

"What shall I do?" Brando asked subconsciously.

"Actually, you have revealed your own destiny deck since you came into contact with the first destiny card. But I'm a little strange. Your deck is different from any I have ever seen, it seems It is through the deck to represent a huge professional system. I don't understand why you would be interested in the professional system, and the idea of ​​"full-professional hegemony"-what does this mean? "Tumen thought for a moment, wondering Asked inquisitively.

When Brando heard it, he couldn't help sweating. When he first came into contact with Destiny cards, he was still Sophie's soul. As a professional player, of course he was instinctively thinking of taking up a powerful career, and ordinary players, who did n’t have a full-time professional dream, did not expect He was subtly captured by the destiny card.

He just reacted now, what does it mean that the Cavaliers Road opens ...

I go! Brando shouted in his heart, if the card is a manifestation of a worldview, is this really a full-time hegemony?