Chapter 307: [Spell Permanency]

A golden ocean, sparkling.

This is a magnificent picture scroll that has never existed on the snowfield, and it is also a scene that the Enduring Zhenbing tribesmen, and even all northern realm people, have never seen, or even dreamed of.

The permafrost tundra seems to have an equal sign between it and desolation and coldness.

The word "harvest" is too strange for this place.

But now, such a scene appeared vividly before their eyes.

So much so that, at first, everyone's reaction was to doubt whether they hadn't woken up yet and were living in a dream.

Everyone widened their eyes, opened their mouths, only felt their mouths dry, and even breathing became difficult.

The black crowd seemed to be frozen.

Under the gaze of everyone, Su Naifa stepped forward gently, stood side by side with Gao De, stood by his side, and then waved her hand gently.

The Iceborn mages who formed the human wall immediately understood.

The intangible Ghost Hands floated out, sweeping across the very front of the wheat field, plucking handful after handful of the heavy Northwest Barley No. 1, and then, under the gaze of everyone, scattering them toward the crowd of spectators.

Those golden wheat grains shone with alluring luster in the sun, and at this moment, they were not much different from gold in the mundane world.

As soon as they were scattered into the crowd, it immediately caused a commotion in the crowd.

Everyone raised their hands high, scrambling to catch those precious wheat grains.

They tremblingly stuffed the wheat grains in their hands into their mouths, many people didn't even peel the wheat husks, seemingly not caring about the prickly taste at all.

The full wheat fragrance filled their mouths instantly, accompanied by a faint warm current, flowing through their whole body.

"It's real... it's really barley... such fragrant barley..." Someone muttered to themselves, their voice full of disbelief and joy.

"Our northern realm can also grow barley..."

"Is this... true?" More people were repeating this question.

At the right time, Su Naifa spoke again.

Her cold voice, although not loud, clearly penetrated the whole field and reached everyone's ears.

"This is Northwest Barley No. 1, the food brought to the northern realm, to Enduring Zhenbing, and to everyone by King Gao De."

"Someone is coming from the top of the high mountain."

"He will let the children of the Iceborn no longer suffer from hunger."

"With his help, Enduring Zhenbing will surely glory and revive!"

"All Enduring Zhenbing tribesmen, all Iceborn bloodlines, for this day, we have waited too long. From your ancestors, from your grandfather's grandfather, they have been waiting for the arrival of today, waiting for the arrival of the King. They didn't wait, but you waited."

"The King has descended."

"Believe in him, welcome him, follow him."

"We are willing to faithfully follow the King with our own lives!"

Everyone at this moment seemed to forget to breathe. After Su Naifa's voice fell, it was completely quiet for a full ten seconds.

Tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of people, silent at the same time, even breathing was weak to the point of being imperceptible; what kind of scene is that? Many people might not be able to imagine such a scene.

Such a huge crowd, without any external coercive force, could maintain such a long silence so consciously.

Everyone was staring at Gao De on the ice platform.

The eyes were full of conviction and reverence for the leader.

That fiery and sincere gaze made Gao De feel a burst of prickling, and even gave birth to the thought of turning around and fleeing.

But he endured it, gritted his teeth, stood still, and sighed in his heart: Su Naifa usually looks like a typical "ruthless person with few words," but when she speaks, this incitement ability is comparable to a god-stick.

Finally, after ten seconds of silence.

A Enduring Zhenbing tribesman in the front row knelt down, knelt on both knees.

"King! Gao De!" He shouted in the most devout tone.

Like dominoes, with the appearance of the first person to kneel, at this moment, other Enduring Zhenbing tribesmen, like a head-on blow, also followed and knelt down in unison.

Everyone was shouting with red eyes.

The miracle appeared before them like this. Whether they believed in the prophecy left by War Mother E Rui Ti Ya in the past or not, by this time, they all knelt down devoutly and shouted.

Some people even shed tears of excitement.

Because they cried because they saw hope, cried because they thought of the relatives who starved to death in the past, and cried because they were moved.

At this moment, Gao De was synonymous with holiness and solemnity.

Looking at this scene, a sense of achievement and satisfaction that could not be described in words filled Gao De's heart.

This feeling of people completely believing in you is very hard to understand for those who haven't experienced it personally.

This is the power of faith and spirit.

He suddenly reacted at this time:

This Festival of Harvest is not only to enhance the recognition of the tribe by the Enduring Zhenbing tribesmen, but also to increase his sense of identity with the Enduring Zhenbing tribe.

Gao De took advantage of the high emotions of the crowd and said loudly:

"This is just a beginning. Let us celebrate this glorious beginning!"

"Enjoy this day to the fullest!"

The huge fire basin standing by the ice platform ignited a vibrant fire.

With a bang, the flame heart reached high into the air.

The fire basin was completely ignited, and it also ignited the atmosphere of the scene.

The last time it was so lively was at the Ancient Frost Mouth, at the ancient Iceborn ritual magic held by Su Naifa.

And this time, there was no ritual, just a simple celebration! The celebration lasted until the end of the morning, but the aftertaste was still lingering. In Phoenix, the atmosphere of joy and excitement was everywhere. City Hall, Gao De's office.

The warm sun at noon spilled down from the window, covering the woman's silver hair with a golden edge.

Her eyes were flashing with faint blue light, brighter than the purest blue sapphire, and her well-proportioned figure leaned against the door.

"You gave me a surprise." Gao De raised his head, his gaze swept across the other party's face and figure, and he felt his heart jump slightly.

Su Naifa's speech at the Festival of Harvest celebration was not discussed with him beforehand.

"Many tribesmen haven't really recognized you yet," Su Naifa said. "Their understanding of you comes from prophecy."

"Alright." Gao De certainly couldn't blame Su Naifa for this.

"I heard that the King is preparing to leave the northern realm?" Su Naifa asked softly again.

Gao De nodded. "Yes, leave temporarily."

Then, he introduced Yujia Te Xila's "Astral Teleportation" ability and his own considerations to Su Naifa in detail. Clearly, the reasons he gave made Su Naifa unable to raise any objections.

"Can Astral Teleportation only take one person?" Su Naifa frowned slightly and asked.

"At least for now." Gao De affirmed.

"Then can you change to someone else? For example, change to me," Su Naifa said, her blue eyes showing not too much emotion, looking at Gao De calmly. "With my strength, it's safer, and I can bring back more things."

She had always been a straightforward woman, not liking to disguise, and even less liking to beat around the bush.

Gao De spread his hands and said helplessly, "Yujia Te Xila is my contract holy object, so it can turn the Astral Teleportation ability into a brand and bestow it upon me."

"If it were you, you could go, but to return, you would have to walk back yourself."

"The outside world is so big, and Yujia Te Xila's Astral Teleportation ability is completely random. If you are unlucky, you might even be teleported to the Zhongting Continent or the Terra Continent."

"If you really run into that, it's not just a question of how much time it takes to come back, but a question of whether you can come back at all."

The northern realm is located at the northernmost corner of the Nora Continent. If one were teleported to other continents, wanting to come back would be almost equal to crossing the entire plane.

"The Enduring Zhenbing Tribe cannot do without a War Mother."

【In the error-free version!】

Su Naifa lowered her head and was silent for a while, then raised her head and looked directly at Gao De, her expression was incredibly serious. "The Enduring Zhenbing Tribe also cannot do without their King."

"Don't worry, I have the Astral Teleportation ability bestowed by Yujia Te Xila. Even if I encounter danger, as long as I have ten seconds, I can start Astral Teleportation and return to Jianwan."

"Ten seconds..."

"There can't be no risk at all. There is no such cheap thing in the world. Compared to the benefits that can be obtained, this little risk is not worth mentioning." Gao De affirmed.

This is a truth that is absolutely true, and Su Naifa did not refute it.

"My King, you are too young. Why not wait another year or two?" She said softly.

You are not much older than me, how can you speak to me in this tone... Gao De complained in his heart. After all, Su Naifa's actual age was not yet twenty. Calculated by psychological age, he was even older—before traveling, he was already 22.

However, Gao De also knew that the meaning of Su Naifa's words was actually that his strength was too weak, so she was really worried.

"Don't worry, I'm not weak among the first circle, and I will bring 【North Wind】." Gao De said calmly.

Gao De was so persistent, Su Naifa naturally couldn't block his will.

"Alright," Su Naifa deliberated on her language and reminded softly, "My King, even with 【North Wind】, it's best not to easily confront high-circle mages."

"My situation is an exception, and I only did it with the blessing of 【Blizzard】 and 【Breath of the Wilderness】." She was referring to her killing Lei Sen across circles.

"The suppression of low-circle mages by high-circle mages is comprehensive."

"In addition to the differences in basic abilities such as mana and mental power, the new specialties that can be awakened, and the high-circle spells that can be mastered, every time a mage rank increases by one circle, there will be a transformation in the essence of life."

"This transformation in life level is also a kind of suppression."

Su Naifa was rarely "wordy," and what she said was also something Gao De was very interested in, so he listened very carefully: "What exactly is the transformation?"

"First-circle mages obtain the ability of 'Precise Perception', which will allow them to perceive their own state intuitively and accurately."

Gao De nodded slightly.

This ability seems to have no much help to combat power, but in essence, being able to accurately perceive one's own state is also better able to exert one's combat power in another sense.

Its improvement to combat power is implicit, but it does exist.

Su Naifa continued: "Second-circle mages obtain the ability of 'Elemental Flesh', where the mana in the body radiates to the body, and one can choose an element to strengthen the flesh, that is, elementalization, thereby obtaining resistance to the corresponding element."

The ability of "Elemental Flesh" is quite intuitive for the improvement of combat power.

Translated into common language, it is adding magic resistance, but limited to a certain element.

"Third-circle mages don't change much, just on the basis of the second circle, they can choose two more elements for elemental flesh, possessing magic resistance to three elements in total."

Get, magic resistance * 3.

"As for the fourth circle, that is the watershed."

"In the mage world, only after the mage rank enters the fourth circle can they be truly regarded as entering the ranks of high-circle mages."

"A very important reason is that after becoming a fourth-circle mage, the brain will be highly developed. At this time, the mage will break through the human limit and no longer need to rest."

"No longer need to rest?" If "Elemental Flesh" was still within Gao De's cognition, this no need to rest was completely beyond his cognition and couldn't be understood.

Sleep is the key element to maintain normal human physiological functions.

"It is said so, but the essence is actually that in the case of high brain development, most physiological activities no longer need to mobilize the entire brain."

"In this case, the brain is like two people working together. One person is awake and doing things, while the other is sleeping and resting, rotating like this."

"And when facing some high-intensity tasks, they will work together."

"This ability results in the phenomenon that fourth-circle mages can always stay awake." Su Naifa explained.

"So that's it..." Gao De tapped the table with his fingers, but his heart was inappropriately associated with other places—if there were mages in the previous life, what was 996, 007 was the top.

In this case, it is actually equivalent to extending life in disguise.

Before the fourth-circle mage, a person needs at least 6-9 hours of rest every day. After advancing to the fourth-circle mage, this saved rest time is equivalent to extended life, which is no problem at all.

"What about fifth-circle mages?" Since Su Naifa said so much, Gao De's interest was also hooked, and he asked again.

Although there are no fifth-circle mages in the Enduring Zhenbing Tribe, they must have appeared before. Logically speaking, they must know some relevant situations.

"Fifth-circle mages... the soul is so powerful that they can connect to the Soul Realm and obtain the blessing of Soul Realm ability. Some mages will also call the Soul Realm a domain." Regarding fifth-circle mages, Su Naifa didn't introduce them in too much detail, but revealed another piece of information.

"Fifth circle is actually a watershed for Iceborn mages."

"Before the fifth circle, the strength of our Iceborn mages and outside mages is actually not much different, and even Iceborn mages are stronger, because the spells we can awaken are mostly combat spells, while outside mages often learn many functional spells, which makes them more comprehensive than us, but their combat power will also be slightly inferior to us."

Fish and bear's paw are generally not available at the same time.

This is very reasonable.

"But when it reaches the fifth circle, this situation is reversed."

"Why?" Gao De heard this for the first time and was incredibly surprised.

"Because of 【Spell Permanency】." Su Naifa said.

"【Spell Permanency】 is also a functional spell created by outside mages themselves, but its functionality is too powerful for the bonus to mages, so that relying on this one spell alone can reverse the original strength."

"This is a functional spell that can make certain spells permanent."

"This means that once a mage masters 【Spell Permanency】, they can make those spells helpful for combat and daily life permanent according to their needs, thereby saving them a lot of mana and casting time."

"It is especially important for those spells that need to maintain characteristic effects for a long time, such as defensive spells or environmental control, healing, and auxiliary spells."

"The most basic ones are permanent 【Tongue of Tongues】, 【Detect Magic】, 【Darkvision】. In terms of combat, it is permanent 【Resistance】, 【Magic Fang】, etc."

"Mages who master 【Spell Permanency】 will only die in upright combat and will no longer suffer from any assassination, poison, etc."

"Because of the incomparable importance, this spell is also regarded as a treasure among secret transmissions, and its preciousness far exceeds ordinary ones."

"But even in the outside world, not all fifth-circle mages can come into contact with and learn this spell. In the northern realm, that goes without saying."

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"Any magic user organization that possesses the spell formula for 【Spell Permanency】 keeps its confidentiality so tight that it is unimaginable; they would never easily pass it on. It can be said to be one of the most expensive pieces of knowledge."

"Therefore, even in the outside world, not every Fifth Circle magic user can access or learn this spell, and in the Northern Realm, that goes without saying."

(End of chapter)