Free Web NovelChapter 780: The First Strand of Magic
Yi Rui stepped aside; at this moment, Tan Han was sitting on the medical chair.
Even without me looking, I could feel the magic power fluctuations triggered by the Self-generating Magic Power construction ritual.
However, all these magic power fluctuations were magic power dissipated from the magic power source nodes of the construction ritual, rather than magic power that was "self-generated."
I had researched Self-generating Magic Power for a long time, even tracing back to the root, precisely because I wanted to figure out where this kind of magic power actually originated from.
A magic power source was merely a technique for utilizing magic power, magic power itself was something naturally born within a witch's body, and the Self-generating Magic Power talent... could also be constructed.
What did this explain?
This explained that Self-generating Magic Power was also not the "fountainhead" of magic power.
But as the saying goes, there are no misassigned names; regarding the name of this talent, Self-generating Magic Power, I believed the witch who named it must have gained insight into something more fundamental to describe it as "self-generated."
Although the magic power source was a technique born by relying on Self-generating Magic Power, the magic power source and Self-generating Magic Power shared many commonalities.
That was the natural birth of magic power.
Magic power, as a transcendent energy, nearly did not exist in the natural environment.
Self-generating Magic Power could give birth to magic power, and magic power sources could do the same.
A magic power source given to a reserve witch who lacked Self-generating Magic Power could similarly recover slowly after the magic power was exhausted.
Viewed from this perspective, a magic power source was simply a mobile, tradable, weakened version of Self-generating Magic Power!
It was just that Self-generating Magic Power stacked quality and the talent was unique, while magic power sources could be stacked infinitely until the upper limit of the quantity an individual could carry!
This was the most critical point that I felt was a mutual architecture that could ultimately achieve one another.
The Great Witch Project described the Self-generating Magic Power physical talent as existing before the magic power source; Self-generating Magic Power was the key to constructing a magic power source.
And now, the magic power source was the key to Witchification.
This meant that the magic power source could also achieve the Self-generating Magic Power physical talent in reverse.
This was a relationship of mutual architecture, inseparable from one another.
Now, looking back at Tan Han's current situation.
If I were to describe her situation, it was that her foundation was not yet firm enough and she was in a hurry to try.
But I didn't mean to blame Tan Han.
For any path leading to success, the foundation was just one of the important influencing factors, but it was by no means everything.
“It's fine... have you already started trying to find the architectural points while performing the construction ritual?”
I inquired.
“Mhm, but regarding existences like witch racial concepts and bloodline information, our understanding is a bit unclear. Not just Little Tan; we are also currently going around in circles somewhat unclearly.”
“I understand...”
I nodded, as there was no other way.
After all, many things could not be described with simple language.
The purpose of many specialized terms in experiments was to solve this kind of communication problem.
But if one didn't understand a thing, those specialized terms were merely the self-indulgence of the namer.
I had used consciousness communication spells to skip the language level and communicate directly at the understanding level.
Although there were some effects, they were not very obvious.
So now... there was only one way.
Since the deep-seated principles could not be understood, then being able to see through the appearance and behavior would be enough...
After I made this decision, I seemed to feel somewhat empathetic.
What did I feel?
I felt "Ritual Architecture."
A ritual was about doing something else through a special way—perhaps a certain special structure, perhaps a special rune arrangement, or a certain behavior, vocalization, resonance, and so on.
The concept of "ritual" was a pseudo-mysticism field that had not been classified under "Mysticism."
Perhaps a ritual was a type of transcendent technique that could not be inherited through language or script, yet rituals had been passed down through this systematic appearance.
This included "runes" themselves, which belonged to the category of rituals.
Thinking about it this way... could totems also be an existence similar to runes, but lacking a path of learning that could be passed down in the same way as runes?
“Next, I will demonstrate the architecture ritual for Self-generating Magic Power. This is a ritual similar to the construction ritual, and it is also a ritual that needs to be built together,” I spoke, my tone very calm, with no intention of feeling annoyed by repeating it over and over.
“I understand that you all might not be able to understand abstract concepts like witch racial concepts and bloodline information, but follow me. I will explain the ritual's key points, and you just remember them according to the standard architecture of a Mysticism ritual.”
“Eh? Has the intensity already reached the field of Mysticism this time?”
A sister asked in a small voice from the side.
“It's just to let you understand it through the way of a Mysticism ritual. I haven't had much contact with the field of Mysticism, but that's what it means.”
I explained to them very patiently.
Then, after responding to some of their questions and solving their confusion, I also began the formal demonstration.
“Now we are formally beginning. Currently, Tan Han has a total of eight thousand magic power sources in her body. She constructed a complete Self-generating Magic Power construction ritual through the micro-control resonance method herself, and has already solidified this ritual architecture in coordination with the Witchified Ritual Battle Dance...”
“The architecture ritual is what I will emphasize next. This is distinct from the construction ritual. Just from the names, you should be able to tell: one is creating, one is placing. Both are completed upon your soul-substance...”
Currently, because the life essence was different—I was a soul, and they were soul-substances—it was destined that there would be deviations between the architecture ritual and the form of my understanding and cognition.
But this didn't matter; I had long prepared for failure.
What was important was the method.
Next, I also began lecturing directly, explaining how to perform the ritual steps without attaching the principles of why it was done that way.
Hearing such a concise way of lecturing, Yi Rui and the others naturally remembered very quickly, but this way also made them a bit unadapted.
Before, when I explained every step, I would include a large segment of principles.
Although it was very long to listen to and induced sleepiness, they could record it to understand slowly.
Moreover, explaining one point clearly took a long time, and after moving to the next point, the overall connection would make people unable to keep up with the rhythm.
But now, although they followed the rhythm very smoothly and knew what they needed to do, they had completely lost the principle of understanding why they were doing it.
Although... this was indeed the teaching method of Mysticism—to describe the method, explain the logic, and recount the taboos... as for why it was done that way, it was not understood.
Even if there was an explanation, it was using another self-consistent way to assist memory, rather than the principles of Mysticism.
“We have reached this final step, which is also the ultimate critical moment. The construction ritual has also reached its final step. During this stage, it is necessary to pay attention to Tan Han's feedback at all times.”
The current experiment belonged to a cooperative experiment.
As the experimental subject, Tan Han controlled the construction ritual, while I controlled the architecture ritual.
Communication and feedback with the other party were for knowing the ritual coordination situation more precisely; this was for Yi Rui and the others.
As for me... I could directly control the rhythm.
Not only did I have the powerful Spirit Vision talent as a foundation, but I also had the massive theoretical knowledge of Self-generating Magic Power construction as a cushion.
But a demonstration still required an explanation.
This behavior was just like a mentor in a classroom stating precautions, then not following them themselves, and even warning students not to copy them but to follow the standards.
Because I had a higher-level "error-correction" and "bottom-line" ability, that was the capital for being willful.
As Tan Han talked with me, I corrected her expressions.
These things all needed to be recorded; after all, only correct expressions could provide precise feedback information.
“The final ritual is arranged with such a rune sequence, and then guided to be structured upon the witch racial concept. If you don't understand, consider it structured upon the soul-substance. If the ritual fails, the ritual itself will not collapse; it will simply have no effect.”
“Next, I will demonstrate the verification of whether the Self-generating Magic Power physical talent was successful or not. Self-generating Magic Power is a type of talent upon the life essence, which feeds back to the body to give birth to magic power. But essentially, for an existence structured upon the racial concept, once successful, it is nearly impossible to break using ordinary means.”
Therefore, under normal circumstances, even if a Transcendent Witch falls from transcendent and becomes a lesser witch, it is merely that their racial concept has shattered and their bloodline power has been depleted.
Because the starting point of a Transcendent Witch is transcendent.
Only after reaching the transcendent of True Time is one qualified to structure complete witch racial concepts and bloodline information.
Once one falls, it means the racial concept shatters along with it, but the Self-generating Magic Power structured upon it still exists.
Therefore, the verification method was very simple: filter the experimental subject's life essence through a special "filtering ritual" that I set up.
If the Self-generating Magic Power physical talent has not been born, this filtering ritual can operate very normally.
However, if deviations appear in the ritual architecture or it shatters directly, it indicates that the Self-generating Magic Power physical talent did not pass the screening and even shattered the filtering ritual.
This ritual was a very simple detection method, with nearly no damage to the life essence.
Therefore, there was no need to fear that this method would harm the life essence, nor would it destroy the newly structured Self-generating Magic Power.
“This testing ritual is very simple; that is, it is operated by these runes in this framework.”
As I spoke, runes condensed in my hand, which then formed a ritual formation.
This condensed formation would pass through the test subject's body.
“I will use myself to demonstrate once. This test is to let you clearly see the feedback situation of the test after it encounters Self-generating Magic Power.”
The interface of the ritual built from runes, as high as a person, shattered abruptly after passing through my body.
My Self-generating Magic Power physical talent, powerful to the point of being nearly at the peak, directly shattered this filtering ritual.
“My Self-generating Magic Power talent is relatively overbearing, so the commotion of this ritual shattering will be relatively large. If such a talent has just been born, this detection ritual will only show ritual deviations and a certain degree of instability. Therefore, when constructing this ritual, the precision needs to be guaranteed.”
“Or simply link this ritual to the information detection display of the Seed of Great Knowledge; presenting it with graphic information would be more intuitive.”
Everyone listening to my explanation nodded, each of them listening very seriously.
“Then let's test using Tan Han as an example.”
As I finished speaking, everyone's gaze turned toward the currently reclining Tan Han.
“That... is there anything I need to cooperate with?”
Tan Han spoke.
“Maintain a calm mind and body, breathe evenly, and do not make any small movements—for example, do not perform spellcasting, meditation, or even resonance with the magic power sources in your body.”
“Alright, I'm ready.”
Tan Han took a deep breath and exhaled, then spoke.
“Fine, let's begin.”
As I constructed the ritual once more, my movements were very slow to let more people see clearly, slowly passing through Tan Han's body.
“That... was there some abnormality just now?”
“It did move. Tan Han... has it?!”
“This... could it be an accident?”
Following this sudden burst of discussion, I did not tell them to be quiet, because as the constructor of this ritual, I naturally knew whether the ritual had moved abnormally.
I pulled up the information monitoring map of the Great Tree of Knowledge, then interfaced with the filtering ritual and scanned through Tan Han's body again.
This time, the information detection data abnormality of the ritual was even more intuitive!
“It's true! There really is an abnormality!”
“Is it real? On the first demonstration, it succeeded? Is this possible?!”
As this intuitive abnormality was presented before everyone, it instantly triggered discussion among everyone.
“Is this... a success?”
I also muttered to myself in some disbelief.
A physical talent like Self-generating Magic Power was structured upon the life essence.
Regardless of whether it was my Spirit Vision or any other means, if I wanted to observe it, it would require the other party to unconditionally open their soul for me to observe.
Otherwise, I could only verify it through other means, or else I wouldn't have gone through so much trouble to set up a filtering ritual for detection.
Precisely because of this difficulty, I said the success rate was very low.
At the moment when all the evidence proved success, I was exceptionally calm.
If I wanted to detect whether it was truly successful, there was another more intuitive way, and that was to observe whether there was a way for magic power to be born within Tan Han's body through means other than the magic power sources!
Therefore, I directly expanded my Mental Realm Domain, using the method I had mastered not long ago—affinity perception, "magic power affinity perception" resonating with Heart Sense.
Accompanying the activation of the annotation technique of the power of knowledge, the depletion effect directly suppressed the energy fluctuations within the laboratory environment.
Subsequently, the temporary sealing spells prepared to seal the eight thousand magic power sources in Tan Han's body.
“Tan Han, cooperate a bit. Let me see if you are that lucky person who succeeded on the first try!”
“How should I cooperate?”
At this moment, Tan Han also trusted me unconditionally and was also very excited as she asked.
“Relinquish your guard; do not have any resistance.”
After all, the magic power sources I wanted to seal were still within Tan Han's body.
I now needed to eliminate all interference factors and create an ideal observation environment.
The most obvious characteristic of Self-generating Magic Power was the birth of magic power without a magic power source.
I recalled my own first time, when I caught that first strand of magic power fluctuation and witnessed the birth of the Self-generating Magic Power within my body!
At this moment, everyone in the laboratory was quiet.
Even the several witch mentors beside me, Belica and the others, quietly stood to the side to witness this moment worth commemorating.
Everyone seemed to hear their own breathing become heavy, and their heartbeats began to accelerate.
And within the low-energy environment with no magic power and no transcendent energy interference, I felt for that fluctuation that uniquely belonged to magic power.
Until...
I reached out my hand and lightly brushed across the empty space in front of Tan Han, then lightly pinched my thumb and index finger together.
Invisible magic power condensed into a thread nearly invisible to the naked eye in an instant, flashed by, and then completely collapsed.
This was a magic power fluctuation that couldn't even form a single strand of magic power, even weaker than my own first wisp of magic power.
But no matter how weak it was, its existence proved one thing!
Tan Han had succeeded...
“Tan Han succeeded.”
My tone was very calm, as if I were announcing an insignificant matter.
But as my voice sounded, after a second of silence, the laboratory instantly erupted into thunderous cheers and applause!
They had succeeded!!
