“Once again, I state that the Blood Consumption spell is currently fatally flawed.”
“The reason why I am announcing this one spell is to correct and resolve these problems, relying on my mind alone is no longer possible.”
Ryuji told the scholars, “The dragon language is the root of the spell’s conception, dragon blood is the spell’s soil that cannot be bypassed, and following that there is the effect, direction, and precision of the spell’s casting, all of which are extremely complex and difficult challenges.”
“It would be ignorant hubris and arrogance to attempt to restore the Dragon Language spell by one or a few people.”
“We must be clear that this will be a long and vast undertaking. The exploration, experimentation and knowledge of spells will continue throughout generations of Yao people.”
“In the time we live in, it is only a starting point.”
“I have made contact with Prophet Shippo of Salt City, Mayor Chapman of Saniro, Lord Phyllus and the Furnace Clan of Dwarf Fortress, Apostle Lord Zelkuku of Udar City, and Prophet Yakutsu of Crystal City……. We will pool all of the Yao’s current technology, knowledge, and wisdom, and come together to forge the key to enter thethe key to the door of the spell.”
The Dragonborn Prophet stated, “We are apprentices standing at the gate when it comes to spells. Let us begin our attempts with imitation, with the dragon language and experience in spells left behind by the dragons.”
The scholars were excited and quickly prepared.
Lu Yao, who was overlooking all of this, was somewhat emotional.
The sensitive and self-absorbed teenager who used to be sensitive and self-absorbed because of his looks was nowhere to be seen, and standing here was a scholar-prophet who had been facing the wall for decades to specialise in the Dragon Language.
Knowledge had made him confident and composed, and he had benefited greatly from deep ploughing into a field, Long Ji used all his passion in parsing the Dragon Language and related applications.
Soon, led by Apostle Fellows, scholars, engineers, craftsmen from all sides along with healers, pharmacists, and transcendentalists all gathered in Yao City’s temple’s side halls.
This was a battle that the Yao Race had never seen before, uniting the world’s most intelligent and creative groups today.
Hundreds of cutting-edge elites from various industries were divided into several squads.
The Dragon Language Squad was responsible for further parsing and cross-referencing the Dragon Language in order to further clarify and refine the basis of the spells.
The magic potion squad used the [Blood Mixing Agent] as the core material to feel out and try to reduce blood loss and safeguard the caster’s safety as much as possible.
The construction squad built an embankment for spell experimentation outside the city, surrounded by a white stone wall, with houses to live in, warehouses to store supplies, and a small lake dug out.
This place was called the [White Fortress], and it was strictly forbidden for non-related people to approach, with armour-bearers guarding the outside.
The casting squad, on the other hand, was busy casting moulds and forging, and the apostles found props or devices that could assist the casters, thus reducing all the dangers in casting spells.
……
The development of blood-consuming spells was in full swing.
Longi’s initial blood dilemma was quickly solved.
The magic potion squad used [Blood Mixing Agent], animal fats, and omnipotent stones, and boiled down a viscous artificial dragon’s blood according to a series of processing methods, and this light red plasma was a perfect substitute for human blood for spell consumption, with very little wastage.
The key to this lay in the omnipotence stone, which greatly increased the strength of the blood.
However, casting spells outside the body was very difficult.
The caster would need to cut his fingers or body to allow the blood to fuse with the magical plasma as a lead in order to invoke the extracorporeal plasma.
This process, while it would greatly reduce the loss of blood from the body, would in turn cause the casting of the spell to require more dragon language support to invoke the blood beyond the finger.
There was also the infection and risk that the caster would need to take medication such as [Heart Saving Pills] to avoid rotting wounds and blood poisoning.
The spell casting process became more complicated as a result.
The solution of one problem was replaced with a new trouble.
Then, a new difficulty bubbled up in the spell experiment.
The spells could not be calibrated.
Standard dragon language spells were fuelled by the blood of the dragon, using the dragon’s unique bones as guides and balancers. Typically, any bone of a dragon can be used as a rudder for spell casting.
The weaker bones of the human body have a natural disadvantage in this regard, making it difficult to balance the spell when casting and necessitating close limb-to-limb contact. Casting a spell from across the room can result in a state similar to spell bifurcation or spell anchoring.
Especially with out-of-body casting, the problem of spells collapsing, disorganising and losing their direction is particularly serious.
The cloud caused by the successive failures lingered over White Castle, and many of the researchers were devastated, with expressions of frustration and depression surfacing on one’s brain.
The onlooker Lu Yao was also scratching his head.
To pioneer a brand new technological system that had never existed before, even if there was an imitable object, the entire process was arduous step by step.
Touching spells might still be a little too fast for the Yao Clan.
The Fire Vapour Furnace had only been invented not long ago.
Transcendent technology also needed corresponding basic support.
Lu Yao could see that the project of spell casting simulation could be called the top of the pyramid built from the many intellectual and technological achievements of the Yao Race’s civilisation.
That series of pre-experiments and projects contains the knowledge and experience of various fields such as magic medicine and medicine, engineering, smelting and casting, language and logic, dragon language vocabulary and spell casting, and Transcendental Biology …….
If these thick foundations of the ground are not strong enough, it is difficult to build a superstructure of spells.
The White Castle crowd was locked in place by the skeletal problem.
If the human body was used to imitate the dragons, it was true that the impact could be reduced, but it had to be taken to cast the spells by touch, which would cause tremendous pressure and damage to the human bones and blood.
That would be the same as going back to the old way before, having to cast spells in a way that was nearly life-consuming.
However, if the spell continued to be cast outside the body, the lack of the keel that acted as a balancer would also breed more problems of infection and poisoning.
Faced with this major problem, Fellows, Long Ji, Dwarf Hammer Endless and the others discussed and decided to send out a bounty for help to the entire Yao world.
Regardless of the race or person, as long as they can solve this problem, they will be rewarded generously: including not limited to a house in any of the cities of Yao City, Salt City, Saniro, Crystal City, and Udar City; a tenured position as a scholar in the White Castle; a full set of fine equipment; and a large sum of money.
With the heavy rewards, the brave men went ahead and gave numerous ideas and suggestions.
Most, of course, are worthless to try.
Until one day, a handsome young man came outside the White Castle.
He posed a question, “Why must someone come and cast a spell?”
Faced with this query, the scholar who received him laughed a little, “Young man, spells are tools, and without a person to use them they are meaningless to a person.”
“Doesn’t the spell being researched originate from the dragons?”
“Not bad. Do you have any suggestions?”
“Dragons.”
“…… If you have nothing else, step aside, next.”
The young man said, “Just use the dragon ah.”
The scholar gradually lost his patience and waved his hand somewhat impatiently, “I don’t have the energy to waste time with you, next, next.”
“I mean it.”
The young man insisted, “It’s supposed to be a dragon spell, wouldn’t you be able to cast it with a dragon?”
The Scholar listened with a flare.
His bruised smile maintained the last of his scholarly qualities, “You’re saying, let’s go get a dragon and cast a spell with it right?”
“Right.”
“Then since we have a dragon, it comes with Dragon Grammar, what more spells do we need to study?”
The young man suddenly realised something and said, “No, no, no, you’ve misunderstood. What I mean is that it is possible to build a dragon out of it.”
The scholar was so shocked that he couldn’t speak for a moment.
What a young man, words really dare to speak.
“If one can mimic the appearance of the Northern Dragon King, create a dragon, cast a complete dragon bone, inject special blood into it, and then control it to cast spells, wouldn’t that be enough?”
“Why does it have to be a human body? I don’t quite understand.”
The smile on the scholar’s face gradually froze.
He looked at the young man, “What is your name?”
“My name is Shang Xun, and I’m an archaeologist by profession.”
The young man showed his teeth and smiled.
The other party immediately thought, “Are you Mr Uluru’s disciple?”
“No.”
Shang Xun waved his hand, “I’m just an ordinary archaeologist, but Mr Uluru is indeed the goal I’m chasing.”
