Chapter 265: Revival Spell

Through the shattered metal doors and the raging flames everywhere, Naimi Xisi and Mo Reyno stepped into the fortress gate.

A cold, dark blizzard swirled above their heads; although the place was clearly empty, Naimi Xisi could sense the presence of some creature.

It was everywhere.

"Could this be…?" Naimi Xisi's expression showed doubt, because his conjecture was too wild; even by Juan Ce Long's standards, the being he imagined would be exceedingly rare in the Multiverse.

The blizzard seemed to possess sentience; angered by the intruders' provocation, the swirling icy storm suddenly accelerated, raging madly over everything around.

Countless sharp ice spikes, as clear as black gems, materialized in the void, like soldiers obeying the blizzard's command, targeting Naimi Xisi.

"Swoosh swoosh swoosh!"

Under the blizzard's impetus, the ice spikes rained down like a dense hail of arrows from all directions toward Naimi Xisi within the storm. They glimmered with a cold light, emitting a sharp whistling sound, as if to pierce him.

Naimi Xisi lowered his gaze and closed his eyes; his magical power surged forth like a tide, forming a massive oval ice‑blue shield.

Six-ring Abjuration Spell — 【Instant Cold‑Protection Sphere】!

Endless ice spikes, like countless feathers, slammed into the sphere at blistering speed; the spikes struck the shield repeatedly, producing crisp sounds and spraying countless ice shards, yet they could not breach the shield's protection.

The black blizzard seemed further enraged by the scene; a faint roar echoed in the sky, and wave after wave of ice spikes formed in the air, continuously launching attacks, vowing to eradicate the audacious intruder.

Naimi Xisi laughed; just as he had thought, if it were a normal Monster, it would be impossible not to see that the Cold‑Protection Sphere offers absolute defense against ice‑type attacks, making such futile effort impossible.

Moreover, up to now the blizzard had launched nearly twenty rounds of attacks, each as powerful as the Seven-ring Spell 【Blizzard】.

Besides himself, he could hardly imagine any other Spellcaster possessing enough Eight-circle Spell Slots to waste.

Even one with the supernatural ability to cast 【Blizzard】 at will would not knowingly perform such a futile task.

This alone shows that the source of the attack is the black blizzard's own spontaneous surge.

"【Revival Spell】? " Naimi Xisi squinted and whispered, his heart roiling like storm‑tossed waves.

The Revival Effect is a highly specialized magical phenomenon.

Its operational principle is very similar to the traditional Japanese concept of 【Tsukumogami】.

Although called a god, a Tsukumogami is actually a spirit or goblin formed from an old object that has existed for centuries.

Chairs, brooms, wooden beds, iron pots, and other lifeless things suddenly gain life, becoming the legendary spirits.

The Revival Effect works the same way.

Powerful Mages skilled in this art are eager to 【revive】 various lifeless entities.

Weapons, armor, everyday items, books, even Magic Items, once 【revived】 by a Mage, gain life and awaken sentience.

Unfortunately, spells that employ the Revival Effect are extremely rare; in the mortal world it is hard to find any trace of them, and even Juan Ce Long's memory inheritance records only a brief note of their existence.

Many Mages have attempted to study the Revival Effect, hoping to revive their own Spellbooks or Magic Items so that the equipment could fight on its own.

But most of them failed.

It should be clear that the sentience in revived Magic Items and Artifacts is not the same thing. When a Magic Item—or even an Artifact—gains sentience, it merely acquires a thinking spirit.

But that spirit is not an independent being.

An Artifact with sentience cannot, by its own will, dictate its movement or actions; this shows that the sentience in an Artifact is merely a subordinate attribute.

But revived life is different.

Once a Magic Item is revived, it truly becomes a "person" capable of independent action and possessing its own personality.

It can go anywhere based on its own thoughts, can activate the Magic Item's abilities at will, and even actively draw power from the Magic Net to replenish its uses.

This is the difference between the Revival Effect and Artifact sentience.

With such potent results, the Revival Effect naturally belongs to the most arcane and difficult-to-grasp aspects of magic; although its power may not match the crown jewels of 【Time Stop】 or 【Complete Metamorphosis】, its difficulty far exceeds those two.

Even so, beyond it lies even more obscure knowledge that may exist only in legend—the 【Revival Spell】.

Probably only the most brilliant and wildly imaginative Mages could conceive such a terrifying idea.

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The ultimate goal of reviving a Magic Item or a Spellbook is not simply to let them use magical abilities themselves?

Yet every spell in the world ultimately rests on a fundamental element.

That element is the incantation.

If a Mage revives a short incantation, granting it life, what would happen?

It's simple: the magical power formed by the incantation gains life in reality.

These living incantations often take forms closely tied to their original power, and surprisingly, most 【Revival Spell】 are eager to kill and cause calamities.

In Juan Ce Long's memory inheritance, there are only scant records of this phenomenon.

It is said that in many world‑scale disaster wars, elemental shifts affecting the Crystal Barrier system often create 【Revival Spell】 with sentience.

Once these incantations come to life, they refuse to vanish from the world, greedily siphoning Magic Net power to grant themselves endless energy and life, and persistently killing every visible creature.

The revived form of the Fourth Circle Evocation Spell 【Ice Cone】—the 【Revival Spell】 called 【Frozen Cold Mist】—lurks in foggy regions, hunting with its frosty mist.

The revived forms of the Second Ring Shaping Energy System Spell 【Flash Dust】 and the Third-circle Spell 【Fireball Technique】—the entity known as 【Flash Flame Cluster】—drifts extremely slowly across the ground, and at the first sight of life transforms into a dazzling fireball that explodes and devours the enemy. It then reverts to its original form, repeating the cycle.

There are also 【Revival Spell】 of various spells and even Divine Spells such as revived 【Defile God's Word】 and 【Holy Words】, each possessing its own unique form and abilities.

All 【Revival Spell】 share one trait: they can use the abilities of their original incantations without limit.

For example, 【Flash Flame Cluster】 can repeatedly become a Fireball Technique explosion fused with 【Flash Dust】, then revert to its original shape.

A revived 【Defile God's Word】 resembles a slime monster; any creature that touches any part of its body suffers the effect of 【Defile God's Word】, its evil force infiltrating the mind, corrupting flesh, and corroding the body.

(End of Chapter)