Chapter 323: [Mage Armor] and Second-Rank Rune Manufacturing Technology

Immunity to various toxins increased by 0.1%.

Body organs' ability to digest, metabolize, and discharge various toxins increased by 0.1%.

Gao De stared at this 0.1% that was almost nothing, and there was a huge joy in his heart that was completely unequal to this value.

Because this is just the beginning.

【Adaptive】 is never achieved overnight, but a process of rapid adaptation.

The point is the breakthrough of zero.

After breaking through zero, following the inherent route and method, the adaptation degree will naturally increase rapidly.

Rapidly adapt to any environment.

It's just because it talks about adaptation to the external natural environment, so Gao De didn't think at first that 【Adaptive】 could also be triggered after drinking potions.

However, calming down and thinking carefully, the logic is not difficult to understand.

If you are in an environment full of poisonous gas, those deadly poisonous gases will inevitably be inhaled into the body continuously along with breathing, launching a severe challenge to body functions.

And taking potions, drug poison enters the inside of the body along with the medicinal liquid. From the perspective of body function response, this is essentially no different from being in a toxic environment.

In this way, 【Adaptive】 is naturally activated and starts to adapt.

And the domineering part of 【Adaptive】 is that although only the drug poison of Alfalfa Paste entered the body, the changes it made to the body were an all-around improvement in immunity to all toxins and the ability to metabolize and digest various toxins.

Incomparably comprehensive.

Gao De rubbed his chin and fell into thought.

Not to mention how much effect increased toxin resistance can play in combat and daily life.

Just the point that it can allow him to drink various potions without any scruples, without worrying about the sequelae brought by drug poison deposition, is worth Gao De thinking of ways to brush a wave of toxin resistance progress.

Can't it evolve a Poison Body for me after brushing the adaptation degree high enough? Another crooked thought popped up in Gao De's mind.

Immediately, he hurriedly shook his head.

Business is important.

After drinking Alfalfa Paste, 【Adaptive】 will naturally exert its effect until the drug poison of Alfalfa Paste is completely metabolized, and it will continue to push the body to adapt and evolve, no longer needing him to do anything.

At the current moment, it is better to focus on cultivation.

This third-rank cultivation room costs 10 gold every two hours. He just walked away for a while, and converted, it had already cost several Copper Stone coins.

Sin!

Thinking this way, Gao De sat cross-legged honestly.

Under the concentration blessing of 【Mage Body】, he instantly entered the meditation state and operated "Qingmu Changsheng Jing."

With the operation of the cultivation method, he started to take in the rich magic power that was everywhere in the cultivation room.

It was also at this time that the effect of Alfalfa Paste was finally reflected.

Its medicinal power formed a magic power vortex in Gao De's body, which had a strong suction force.

Under the suction force of the magic power vortex, Gao De only pulled slightly, and the rich and pure magic power from the outside world was like a surging tide, continuously pouring into his body, and then plunged into the magic power vortex, making the vortex increasingly strong, and the light became more and more dazzling.

And under the tireless high-speed rotation of the magic power vortex, these magic powers taken from the outside world were refined at an astonishing speed.

As if they were ore thrown into a burning furnace, the impurities were quickly removed, turned into wisps of pure self-magic power, and integrated into Gao De's magic power veins...

Gao De tried this and found that his cultivation efficiency was indeed improved by nearly ten times compared to before.

This cultivation speed like a galloping horse made him feel comfortable all over, immersed in it, and incomparably enjoyed it.

And the powerful mental strength far beyond his own magic user rank made Gao De's cultivation time far better than magic users of the same rank.

Unknowingly, nearly two hours of time passed quietly.

The magic power vortex that was originally crazily growing seemed to have exhausted its energy and gradually stopped.

But at the bottom of the vortex, a drop of crystal-clear magic power had already appeared.

Gao De opened his eyes joyfully, stood up, felt his state, couldn't help but clench his fists, his expression excited.

The effect of Alfalfa Paste was indeed extraordinary. After drinking one bottle, this cultivation allowed his 25th drop of liquid magic power to directly condense into shape.

Of course, this was not purely relying on this cultivation to condense a drop of liquid magic power, but the condensation of this 25th drop of liquid magic power was already only a small half of the progress.

Alfalfa Paste just happened to act as the key help for that last kick.

However, Gao De roughly estimated that in the early-first-circle stage, every three such cultivations, he could condense a new 1 drop of liquid magic power.

Three times, which is three bottles of Alfalfa Paste, 30 Cornflower Coins.

Even adding the cost of the cultivation room, it is 60 Cornflower Coins.

This money is definitely worth spending.

Magic power is the foundation of a magic user, the support of everything, and the foundation of a magic user.

If the foundation is consolidated and improved, then it is the improvement of overall strength.

For others, the effect of Alfalfa Paste is strong, but at most five bottles are drunk in half a year, and then you have to slow down, otherwise the drug poison deposition will have endless sequelae.

But he is different.

Gao De focused his mind.

【Drug poison has started to deposit in your body, you have started to adapt to the drug poison, your immunity to various toxins has increased by 0.2% 0.3% 1.6%, your body organs' ability to digest, metabolize, and discharge various toxins has increased by 0.1% 0.2% 2.4%】

At the beginning, the adaptive progress is always improving very fast.

Even if Alfalfa Paste is a harmless potion, just containing some trace drug poison that can be metabolized, two hours passed, and it still pushed his adaptive progress forward by a large margin.

And the progress has stagnated now, it should be because the stimulation that this limited amount of drug poison can bring to the body is only so much.

Limited by mental strength, there is an upper limit to the time a magic user can cultivate every day, so drinking Alfalfa Paste again today is useless.

"Pour another bottle of Alfalfa Paste tomorrow and stimulate it again." Gao De secretly said, trying to hold back his inner impulse to take poison.

—If it reaches the final critical evolution moment, maybe you can take such a risk.

It is only at the beginning now, a little trace of drug poison can push the adaptive progress to improve rapidly, so there is no need to fight so hard.

Not to mention that his body's resistance to toxins is still low now. Taking poison directly is no different from fitness and taking drugs. The final result can only be a sharp head.

After the body's toxin resistance and the ability to metabolize toxins are high enough, as long as you find a channel where you can buy Alfalfa Paste in large quantities, you can quickly advance your cultivation progress by krypton gold and taking drugs in a way that others dare not think of, Gao De calculated in his heart.

A broad road has already been placed in front of him.

Carrying large and small bags of "stationery," Gao De returned to the inn.

He took out the special rune pen given by Master He Xi.

And took out one from the ten stacks of Lacquer Jade Paper that were as thin as a cicada's wing and the size of a fingernail, and spread it flat on the desktop.

After pouring the magic ink into the rune pen, Gao De silently activated the third-rank Mandra Eye.

Although his practice in rune studies during this period of time has been abandoned, the acquisition of the third-rank Mandra Eye and 【Mage Body】 can bring great gains to his rune manufacturing technology.

Rune manufacturing is an extremely delicate craft, requiring the rune master to accurately draw 5 or more runes on the Lacquer Jade Paper the size of a fingernail.

These runes not only have different patterns and shapes, but also contain their own unique rules and attributes. In the process of combination, if there is a slight mistake, it will fail.

This requires the rune master to have sufficient concentration, like an abyss, to be able to be single-minded in the long and boring drawing process, without being disturbed by any distracting thoughts;

It also requires the rune master to be proficient enough in rune drawing, and the ability to control the pen technique to be strong enough. Light, heavy, slow, fast, lifting, pressing, turning, and folding must all be grasped just right;

Finally, it requires the rune master to have observation skills different from ordinary people, able to capture small changes in pen strokes and changes in magic power flow between runes.

The third-rank Mandra Eye improves his observation skills.

【Mage Body】 improves his concentration.

After activating the Mandra Eye, the field of vision changes, and this Lacquer Jade Paper seems to be placed under a magnifying glass. All subtle places are clearly visible, and when drawing runes, the wisps of magic power veins will also be clearly displayed in front of his eyes as charts.

Mage Body allows him to be more focused on rune manufacturing.

But that's all.

To improve rune manufacturing technology, observation and concentration are just one element. Proficiency in rune drawing and the ability to control pen technique are the most fundamental, and there is no shortcut to take.

Rune drawing is not graffiti painting. Every line carries a specific magic power flow direction and rule. The drawer must know the shape, trend, and curvature of the rune by heart.

And the control of pen technique is more like a profound sword technique. When it should be light and delicate, letting magic power integrate delicately like a trickling stream; when it should be heavy, giving the rune a majestic and surging power, all need to be grasped accurately, without a hair's breadth of difference.

These two are not like magic power cultivation, which can be helped by heavenly materials and earthly treasures, but can only be improved by long-term accumulation and persistent practice.

While thinking, Gao De took a deep breath, gave himself a long-lost 【Divine Guidance+】, and entered the youthful version of the flow state.

All movements in the outside world were blurred, and only this Lacquer Jade Paper the size of a fingernail remained in his eyes.

Gao De slowly raised his wrist, the special rune pen in his hand hovered above the Lacquer Jade Paper, and paused slightly for a moment.

At this moment, he only felt that his whole body was filled with satisfaction and faint excitement.

This excitement was very wonderful and hard to describe. If he had to give an example, it would be equivalent to the kind of restless excitement when seeing a math problem that was said to be the final extremely difficult one in his past life.

When he first came into contact with rune studies, Gao De keenly sensed the long-lost excitement he had when he first came into contact with mathematics.

At that time, he firmly knew that he liked runes from the bottom of his heart.

It has nothing to do with the powerful power that runes can bestow, or those secular and utilitarian reasons, just out of a most pure and intuitive feeling—he felt that runes were "beautiful."

And after going to the northern realm to plant trees and stopping writing for more than half a year, this interest did not decrease, was not worn away, but became stronger and stronger.

The next moment, Gao De lightly dropped his pen.

The slender nib of the pen landed on the lacquer-jade paper, and the magic ink bloomed outward.

Although it was the first time he dropped his pen after a long time, everything was unexpectedly smooth.

The pen strokes were smooth, like flowing clouds and flowing water.

The magic power was smooth, like a trickling stream.

The whole process was done in one go, hearty and dripping.

When Gao De finished writing, looking at the seven composite runes combined by basic runes on the Lacquer Jade Paper.

Rune manufacturing quantity level: 130, 90, 45, 32, 14, 10, 7, 5

"7" represents that his rune manufacturing technology has reached the second rank.

For other rune constructors, second-rank rune manufacturing technology does not mean that they can manufacture second-rank rune constructs.

The necessity of rune modulation makes only second-circle magic users able to try to draw second-rank magic arrays and manufacture second-rank rune constructs.

However, the six basic rules of rune studies proposed by He Xi can allow calculation to replace the rune modulation process.

Calculation has no magic user rank limit; it only has requirements for individual calculation ability.

And Gao De is the only person in the world who has mastered the six basic rules of rune studies, which is theoretically the only rune master who can cross-rank manufacture rune constructs.

"Still carrying a bit of luck, need to be more familiar with it. Only when the success rate reaches more than 99% can I start to try." Gao De did not expand because of this success and was very sober.

One success does not represent anything. He still needs to improve the "good product rate." That is truly mastering the second-rank rune manufacturing technology.

Spitting out a turbid breath, Gao De took a new piece of Lacquer Jade Paper and dropped his pen again.

Sure enough, only halfway through, the Lacquer Jade Paper emitted faint blue smoke.

Gao De stopped his pen helplessly.

Failed.

In the following days, Gao De's itinerary became incomparably regular.

Every day, he went to the cultivation room to rent a cultivation room for cultivation, and stayed in the inn to practice drawing runes and building spell models, waiting quietly for the arrival of the Sea Sentinels' re-examination day.

On the fourth day, the 10th of Frost Gold Month, after drinking four more bottles of Alfalfa Paste, he condensed another drop of liquid magic power, and the magic power reached 26 drops.

It's just that up to this point, the Alfalfa Paste was completely consumed.

While the cultivation progress fell off a cliff, the progress of 【Adaptive】 also stagnated: immunity to various toxins increased by 6.1%, body organs' ability to digest, metabolize, and discharge various toxins increased by 7.2%.

Gao De also tried to buy a bottle of first-rank magic potion to assist in cultivation.

It's just that magic potion, as one of the few general potions that can be drunk for a long time, has too low drug poison content, not even enough to trigger 【Adaptive】.

Really no technology at all... Gao De was helpless, not knowing whether to praise the magic potion or complain.

Considering the high price and meager gains, he could only helplessly choose to give up drinking magic potion.

In addition, it is the "7" manufacturing good product rate. After many days of practice, it has also increased from less than 30% at the beginning to nearly 50%, and the progress is visible to the naked eye.

Of course, this remarkable effect is also closely related to Gao De's gradual proficiency in mastering how to cleverly combine the Mandra Eye into rune manufacturing.

In terms of spells, because Mei Liya gave him a bottom line in advance, the content of the re-examination is related to combat, so he made a surprise attack on combat-related spells.

Or perhaps it was a bit of luck in the dark, the spell models of 【Mage Armor】 and 【Light Feather Step】 were actually built one after another with only one day apart.

With 11 points of first-circle origin in hand, Gao De added points heroically.

Focus his mind on the Wind Spirit Moon Shadow.

【Mage Armor+】 (Abjuration, 1st circle):

You touch a willing creature that is not wearing armor, making it surrounded by a protective magic force field until the spell ends (duration 8 hours), and the target's physical defense is greatly improved.

Extra: While Mage Armor is in effect, the force field will act like real armor, causing the attacker to suffer corresponding physical recoil when the recipient is subjected to direct-contact physical attacks.

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