Chapter 291: The Path of the Formal Knight
Ace thought for a while, activated the Insight Spell , stared into Daina’s eyes, and said casually, “You can combine the two directions of elements and Alchemy. Use the mindset of Alchemy to quickly shape replicas of Magic Items and infuse the power of elements into them.
“The ritual we use to create clones is called the Projection Ritual. I believe that with Mana Crystal Shaping developed to its current level, we should deconstruct the materials and structures of various Wonders and weapons to replicate and modify them accordingly. I call this direction Projection Magic. Perhaps one day, we might be able to replicate anything we want via Projection Magic.”
Daina nodded incessantly, inspired. Under her convinced and trusting gaze, Ace felt this emotional power resonating with his soul—no, with his True Spirit —transmitted through the Covenant line between him and Daina.
This condensed power of trust and longing seemed to greatly increase the vitality activity of the Phylactery. The direction Ace spoke of was a very ideal state, probably extremely difficult to achieve at present. He had just said it casually and didn’t expect Daina to invent true Projection Magic immediately.
He merely painted a beautiful direction for Daina to strive towards. It would be very good if she could complete even a small part of it.
Ace was more interested in the lively vitality reaction of the Phylactery caused by Daina. After cooperative experiments with Daina , Ace could confirm that Daina’s strong emotion towards him acted like a catalyst for the vitality power of the Phylactery.
Afterward, Ace took out a severed finger of Heracles of the Fearless. Observing it with a microscope, he found that even after more than ten years, the cells of the severed finger still possessed strong activity.
“The magnification of the microscope is still insufficient. I can observe regular Mana reactions within the Life Forbidden Zone inside the cells, but I cannot observe the specific situation within.”
After researching for a few days, Ace said helplessly.
To do a good job, one must first sharpen one’s tools.
After Ace advanced to a 2-Ring Wizard, his strength improved greatly. He could manufacture a more exquisite microscope. This time, he used a natural transparent crystal mineral containing Mana collected from the Salia Jungle as the raw material.
After two weeks of polishing and debugging, Ace created a microscope with higher magnification. Under this microscope, more microscopic things could indeed be observed, but this didn’t mean Ace’s research went smoothly.
Under the high-power microscope, the Life Forbidden Zone was dim, and Ace couldn’t peer clearly into its secrets.
“I can consider borrowing the fluorescence staining method from my previous life. I can use magic to apply a fluorescent color to the Life Forbidden Zone!”
Ace’s idea was to create fluorescent materials and use them to stain the Life Forbidden Zone, thereby enabling observation with a high-power optical microscope.
He experimented with several different biological fluorescent materials, all sourced from Monsters or magical plants. After nearly a hundred failures over three months, he finally found a plant named Moonflower Grass.
Through the extraction of the Moonflower Grass fruit, Ace successfully created a potion capable of fluorescent staining the Life Forbidden Zone: Moonflower Fluorescent Agent.
In this way, Ace successfully observed the secret of Heracles of the Fearless’s regeneration. It was a group of tiny, Double Helix Structure Runes carrying an intense Mana reaction.
However, Ace still couldn’t analyze the specific form and meaning expression of this Rune structure. It seemed his mental strength wasn’t powerful enough to effectively observe this Rune structure; he could only see a blurry double helix.
“Perhaps the Runes within are Level 2 Runes or even higher-level Runes. As a Level 1 Life, I cannot observe the existence of Level 2 Runes and above. This is the limitation of the Life level; it restricts the scope and depth of our research.”
Finally, Ace stopped the research and made a bold decision.
He fashioned the Phylactery into a pendant and had Daina carry it close to her body to absorb her emotional power at close range. Since he couldn’t research regeneration, he planned to use Daina to catalyze the vitality power in his mutated Phylactery first.
This was destined to be a long-term project. After planting the seed, one needed to wait patiently for it to sprout and mature.
A few days later, Ace met with the Advanced Knight Squires Ancestar and Arno in the evening.
As soon as he saw the two, Ace felt that vigorous vitality power and strong will—compassion and courage.
Ancestar didn’t look much older. The vitality power all over his body maintained his physical functions at their peak state. Years of practicing the creed of compassion made Ancestar’s will and body perfectly harmonious.
There were not many Knight Squires in the territory, less than fifty. They formed a virtue practice organization, the Virtue Knight Association, and did volunteer work every day. Ancestar and Arno had just finished a day of volunteer work.
Arno looked much more mature. The brave boy of the past had grown into a relatively reliable young man, but he was still dense regarding emotions. The layer of paper between him and Ollie had not yet been pierced.
Ace observed the two with the Perception Spell, assessing their physical and mental conditions, and spoke:
“Your physical strength has reached its limit, right? My perception tells me your physical strength is infinitely close to a Hero.”
Ancestar and Arno bowed respectfully to Ace. Ancestar said:
“Respected Lord Ace , thanks to you, based on the Beneficial State Astral Projection Hypothesis, we improved the Knight Meditation Method and invented the Virtue Meditation Method.
“By visualizing and communicating with the intangible virtue creed, we greatly improved our will, which in turn improved our physical constitution.
“But this improvement also has a limit. Our physical strength seemed to reach a limit half a year ago and can no longer be enhanced.”
Arno chuckled simply beside him. He wasn’t good at research or expression. Even the Virtue Meditation Method was taught to him after Ancestar and Ollie discussed and researched it.
However, Arno seemed very suitable for this method. He easily learned the Courage Meditation Method and discovered in practice that his own courage, others’ courage, and even the enemy’s courage could provide him with power.
“Your bodies have reached the limit of strength, and your wills cannot increase further. You must either naturally advance to Formal Knight through your own epiphany and certain opportunities, or borrow external objects!
“Unlike Wizards , your foundation lies in the body, in the heart, in the faint Virtue Rune Group fused with the will in the heart! I once used a certain Life Source to raise my physical strength to the Hero level.
“Although this source is used up, through my research on it, I believe it is essentially high-quality, high-concentration vitality power. As long as we create such an environment and let you absorb high-quality, high-concentration vitality power, it is possible to achieve a leap in Life level!”
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