Chapter 2786: Self-Destruction

After spending several hours learning the incantations for Wizard enlightenment, practicing and correcting them constantly, Xia Duo's entire brain was buzzing.

Fortunately, this incantation itself did not have a very high learning threshold; even if one were tone-deaf, as long as one practiced with patience, one could always achieve something.

Furthermore, Xia Duo was not tone-deaf, and under Angtuo's guidance, he quickly learned this twenty-six-syllable incantation.

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Because they had stayed at Angtuo's house for quite a while, by the time Xia Duo learned the incantation, he, Angtuo, Angtuo's family, and the two security officers who had brought him over had all perfectly missed lunch.

Xia Duo felt a bit apologetic, so he invited them to the Lord's Villa to the west to dine.

After the meal, Xia Duo had the two security officers take Angtuo's family back first, while he kept Angtuo behind, preparing for one final enlightenment.

Inside the villa's dining room.

Xia Duo held a water basin, closed his eyes, and projected his Perception into the basin; however, this time he did not have Angtuo chant the incantation, but chanted it himself.

The first few syllables were normal, but when he chanted to the sixth syllable, he suddenly experienced a strong sense of spatial oscillation he had never felt before.

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But when casting spells, different incantations are needed for assistance. Those incantations have roughly the same function as the enlightenment incantation; after all, Wizard spellcasting involves these key elements, but they have different focuses.

In reality, on the Langas Plain, such Wizards do not currently exist, at least not to the knowledge of the Grey Eagle Tribe.

However, Xia Duo did not feel it was a pity, because this meant he could conduct research alone without having to trouble Angtuo anymore.

Although Xia Duo's bloodline ability also includes the control of elements like water and wind, his type of control is more of a preliminary control of elements and does not involve the birth and death of elements.

That kind of powerful Wizard is almost synonymous with the will of the elements; with a single thought, they could destroy the world or reshape heaven and earth, but such powerful Wizards now only exist in legends and ancient texts.

Perhaps it would even bury an entire civilization along with it.

Between different systems, the differences might be worlds apart, and it is difficult to generalize.

However, being able to cast spells itself is already a huge step forward; ordinary people might not be able to get started even after training for a lifetime.

Xia Duo also believes they do not exist, otherwise they would have long since unified the Langas Plain, because according to the Grey Hawk Wizard's description, such powerful Wizards are not weaker than Arcanists or high-level Mages.

But after that instant, the state of Perception and chanting incantations that exceeded his own endurance could not be maintained simultaneously; it is unknown whether the incantation was chanted incorrectly or if his Perception dropped, but in any case, this enlightenment ended here.

But on the side of the magic world, the Wizard system of this world might very well have been brought to decline by themselves.

Floating City, Level 3 Laboratory.

It is somewhat similar to the difference between a chemical reaction and a nuclear reaction.

And the so-called Element Vein can be viewed as a certain trend of Element Fluctuation; for example, if water elements will be more abundant in a certain area in the next moment, then casting water-element-related spells in the next moment might be easier and more powerful.

The Wizard heritage of the Grey Eagle Tribe is more traditional; according to the Grey Hawk Wizard, the incantation Angtuo taught Xia Duo is only used for enlightenment in the Grey Eagle Tribe, and its main function is to strengthen Perception and enhance Element Resonance.

Although the situation of the Grey Eagle Tribe was not very good back then, it was more because their own strength aroused the vigilance, precaution, and even targeting of stronger tribes; their own strength was still acceptable.

According to the Grey Hawk Wizard, powerful Wizards can even artificially shape the generation of Element Veins, which in Xia Duo's view is artificially controlling Element Fluctuation.

Of course, in reality, there is no such weapon; perhaps the development on Earth has not yet reached the level of developing such weapons, which is why Earthlings have not played themselves to death.

At the same time, it was the Element Perception gained from the previous two rituals; the effect of chanting the incantation himself was stronger, comparable to the state of the first time without the aid of Incense, and in an instant, his Perception covered almost the entire Main Plane.

As long as the number of spellcasts is high enough, one will eventually encounter errors, and the most critical thing is that this kind of error is almost uncontrollable.

Instead of directly imbuing a weapon with quantum characteristics, that would be too terrifying; even if there is only a one-in-a-billion chance of triggering a weapon malfunction, that is unacceptable.

Afterwards, he asked Angtuo about some precautions for spellcasting, so he could slowly experiment once he returned to the Floating City.

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At least on the Langas Plain, they can still rank above the middle tier.

This incantation was slightly different from the one Angtuo taught, with the order of individual syllables adjusted; this was learned from the Grey Eagle Tribe Wizard. The Kewu Tribe was simply too small, and when they joined the Great Xia Territory, they were already on the verge of extinction, and only joined the Territory after being saved by Xia Duo's people.

As Xia Duo chanted the incantation to assist Wizards in grasping Element Veins, his perception of Element Fluctuation also underwent some subtle changes, which gave him some vague premonitions about the trends of Element Fluctuation.

So I tried to cast a spell, using the Wizard's way, and the result was unsurprisingly a failure. The reason was that my grasp of Element Fluctuation was still too superficial, only producing a light rain instead of the water ball I wanted.

But such a high failure rate also made Xia Duo have some guesses about the decline of the Wizard system; perhaps it is similar to the quantum world on Earth, where Wizard spellcasting only has high or low probabilities, without 100% certainty.

Xia Duo lit a stick of Incense with a solemn face, then picked up the water basin he had prepared in advance, and after finishing the preparations, he chanted the incantation once again.

Xia Duo now stands from the perspective of Arcane Magic and can of course look down upon everything in the Wizard system, but there is no need for that; it is better to be inclusive.

Similar to quantum fluctuations on Earth, it is almost at the level of being able to extract zero-point energy at will.

The foundation of this world is elements; being able to control elements is equivalent to manipulating the four fundamental forces on Earth, and there is almost no upper limit to the power.

In cases where the spell power is relatively small, errors might not be a big deal, just like Xia Duo wanting to summon a water ball but producing a light rain; but if the spell power is large, once an error occurs, it might not just be harming oneself.

And on Earth, when humans use quantum-related technologies, they mostly only utilize their inherent characteristics and express them as some specific macroscopic indicators.

It was as if the surrounding space had turned into a body of water, wrapping him tightly within it, yet he did not feel suffocated, because the body of water would expand and contract with his breathing.

This level is clearly unable to pose a threat to those powerful Wizards; of course, Arcane Magic is based on the Magic Net, and indirectly controlling elements through the Magic Net is not necessarily something Wizards can threaten.

Like what Xia Duo is chanting now, it exists specifically for finding Element Veins, allowing Wizards to grasp Element Veins at the fastest speed and most precise angle, thereby increasing the success rate of spellcasting.