Arcane splendor begins with the throne

Chapter 111 How to Use Divine Power
Outside the window, the last day of autumn had finished its golden death, twilight weaving its gray fabric over the crooked spires of the ancient ruin.

In the dark, gloomy tower, Brian let out a long breath, and the arcane fire that controlled him appeared in front of him. The soft blue and white fire light gently touched his cheeks, reflecting his tired face.

He stared at the flame for a long time, then put it away, took a sip of mead from the silver goblet on the table, then leaned back on the chair as if relieved, and looked around.

The floor of the room was carpeted with thick animal skins, flames blazed in copper braziers, and the walls were lined with rotting wooden bookshelves, covered with bird droppings and debris.

Brian put down the silver goblet in his hand, leaned forward, put his hands on the table, and gently kneaded his temples on both sides, so as to relieve the exhaustion of mental energy.

Since he left Princess Kearney's room last time, he has been in the abandoned tower left by the elves deep in the palace for a full half a month, and he never left half a step from the beginning to the end.

For half a month, it can be said that he was exhausted and spent in tension until the end of the research, he felt the long-standing tiredness pouring into his whole body.

He was like an outlier wizard who spent countless days and nights alone in the boring magic research.

The only purpose is to pursue the most essential power of law in this world.

Fortunately, the half month was not wasted, which made him involuntarily show a gratified smile.

Brian shook his dizzy head, got up from the chair, stretched his limbs that made a crackling sound, then stretched out his right hand and spread his palm.

——"One-ring spell: Secondary electric shock ball!"

Following his whispers, the surrounding air crackled, and an ozone-like smell quickly permeated.

At the same time, a deep purple electric shock ball with small lightning bursts on its surface emerged in his palm.

Brian looked solemnly at the crackling electric ball in his palm, and with a thought, divine energy that resembled divine power was injected into it.

Immediately, a strange spiritual light floated through the crackling electric shock ball.

The volume of this electric ball suddenly expanded, and the small lightning gathered around it exploded like firecrackers into groups of dazzling sparks, as if they would explode at any time.

Brian endured the pungent smell of the ozone layer and calmly controlled the extremely unstable electric ball in his palm, speeding towards the iron window of the tower.

Just when the violent electric shock ball was about to hit the wall, Brian whispered.

The dark purple electric ball seemed to be controlled by some kind of force. It suddenly stopped in mid-air, trembled, and burst like a punctured balloon in an instant with a rumbling sound.

Immediately, the purple light shone and the thunder rumbled, shaking the entire half-ruined tower in Dalian.

The aftermath of the violent electric shock hit the decaying wall of the tower, dust rained down, and stone chips flew everywhere.

A group of crows on the top of the tower flapped their wings and fled away screaming.

As the raised smoke dissipated, the whole room became silent again.

Brian blinked, recovering from the aftermath just now, then called up his system tray and began to check the properties.

God-like

Level: Weak (divinity value: 0/50)

Divine Energy: 5/6
Extraordinary Divine Ability: Divine-Like Spellcasting

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Looking at the 1 point of divine energy just consumed, Brian nodded in satisfaction.

The first-ring spell "Secondary Electroshock Ball" belongs to the attack spell of the school of conjuration. Its main function is to summon the air element in the air, compress it into an electric ball, and attack the enemy.

This simple one-ring spell, without the blessing of his "spell sharpening" feature, even an ordinary adult would not be able to kill it.

The reason why he was able to produce such a powerful effect just now, in addition to the two professional characteristics of the Battle Mage "Spell Sharpening" and "Sharpening Enhancement", played a key role in the divine energy blessed by him.

As a kind of god-like power grows up, it is powerful enough to be comparable to the power of the gods.

Being blessed into a ring of spells, the power displayed is even better than that of the wizard's super magic specialty "Spell Empowerment".

Because in the attack just now, even though the electric ball didn't hit the wall, it just exploded in the air, and the aftermath left an obvious gap and crack on the stone wall.

It can be seen from this that this spell already possesses the characteristic of "electric explosion".

And the price he paid was only to consume 1 point of divine energy.

In fact, before Brian studied how to use god-like power, he did not acquire the so-called "divine energy" and "extraordinary god-like ability".

To put it simply, this is how he successfully researched how to use the god-like power under the guidance of his magic pet, the little devil.

It can be seen from his divine power attribute panel that if you want to improve this powerful ability, you must obtain divinity points.

In addition to extracting the power of the world, the fastest way to obtain this kind of power is to kill creatures that also have divinity.

For example, the demons in the bottomless abyss, their strength largely comes from their innate divine power. Basically, the high-level demons in the bottomless abyss have more or less divinity in their bodies.

They can use this power to gradually accumulate, advance to a weak level like Bryan, and further weaker divine powers and so on.

Therefore, high-level demons like Balor, whose strength has reached the legendary level, want to further improve their own strength, they can only kill each other, seize divinity, and use it to strengthen their own strength.

The endless army of demons in the bottomless abyss is undoubtedly the best place to plunder the divinity value.

However, with Brian's current strength, he would not be so naive as to do so.

Because he knows very well that most of the powerful creatures with divinity have the strength of legendary level, so this kind of shortcut, unless he becomes stronger, he will never try it lightly.

The so-called divine energy is the manifestation of an external force that resembles divine power.

This is like a wizard needs a spell slot to cast a spell, and he needs to consume divine energy to use divine power.

Under the guidance of the little devil, Brian spent nearly half a month, and what he got was that he successfully activated his divine energy.

It is the same reason that a wizard has the ability to cast spells when he obtains a spell slot.

Only in this way can he use this powerful power with ease.

Since his god-like power is only the lowest "weak" level, and his strength is extremely low, the divine energy he gets is only 6 points.

The most important thing is that this kind of powerful power belongs to the most essential power of law. After he consumes it, it is very easy to recover it.

During half a month of research, Bryan not only successfully activated this power, but also learned how to restore divine energy.

Based on Asno's low-magic world, it takes about 1 days to recover 7 point of divine energy.

Of course, just getting divine energy doesn't mean he must have mastered how to use divine power.

This is the same as a wizard who has a spell slot but has not learned spells, resulting in a wizard who can only stare blankly.

At this time, the role of "extraordinary god-like ability" is manifested.

Because this ability is a way for him to show his god-like power.

Just like the only extraordinary god-like ability he has mastered: god-like spellcasting.

[Divinity-like spellcasting (divine ability): You have gradually touched the extraordinary realm of god-like power, and mastered how to integrate this power into spells.When you cast a spell, you can consume a certain amount of divine energy to make the spell produce different powers and effects according to your wishes. 】

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This is an ability that Brian automatically awakens after activating the divine energy.

According to his speculation, the reason why he automatically awakened was probably because he was a spell caster.

This ability, literally, seems to be mediocre, it doesn't even have a damage value, and it is impossible to see how much damage it has increased and what effect it will cause.

But it is this kind of unknown that can show the power of god-like power.

At first, it was difficult for Brian to understand this power, so he tried a simple spell just now.

After he got the results of the experiment, he immediately understood the true meaning of the phrase 'let the spell produce different powers and effects according to your wishes'.

The first-level spell "Secondary Electroshock Ball" itself is just a single-body spell that is not very powerful and does not even have additional effects.

And Brian used the ability of "divine-like spellcasting". When injecting divine energy, what he thought in his mind was to make this electric shock ball have the characteristic of "electric explosion", and then when the spell produced an effect, it would appear directly. Great explosion effect.

That's why after the electric shock ball exploded in mid-air, the aftermath could even cause cracks on the wall.

That is to say, the effect brought by the ability of "divine-like spellcasting" is that he can add other different effects to the spells he casts according to his own wishes.

For example, in addition to the "electric explosion" feature, an electric shock ball has other "paralysis" or "binding" effects, and you can even change the electric shock ball into other shapes according to your own wishes.

As for how he can use the ability of "divine-like spellcasting" to play his own spells, it will take Brian a lot of time to study it carefully.

Of course, as the divine energy is activated by him, it doesn't mean that he can only master "divine-like spellcasting".

In his god-like power, many of the most basic divine abilities have also been activated, but with his current strength, he is still unable to fully grasp them.

Take the two divine abilities that he can master the fastest now:
[Divinity-like shield (divine ability): Consume 2 points of divine energy to obtain a shield that can resist any damage. The strength of this shield will increase with the level of god-like power and personal strength. 】

Mastering this ability requires 20000 experience points, or 5 divinity points.

[Telepathy (divine ability): Divine power allows you to have a supernatural telepathic ability, which can significantly improve your intuition, premonition, sixth sense, and other sensing abilities. The range of influence will increase with the level of god-like power and personal strength. 】

Mastering this ability requires 5000 experience points, or 1 divinity points.

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These two are the abilities that Brian can access the fastest at present. As for other basic abilities, especially the divine ability with natural characteristics, either the level of divine power is too low, or it is due to his own strength limitations and huge experience consume.

It can be seen from this that the god-like power is worthy of being a powerful power that can stand shoulder to shoulder with the gods' power.

Because the divine power mastered by the gods can even freely change the rules, space, size, reality, and immunity to various injuries when it reaches a certain strength.

This is why the gods or those like gods only focus on improving the power of gods and gods, and gradually despise their own power.

The reason is actually very simple.

The starting point and the gap between the two abilities are too great. The power of the gods can make them directly immune to various damage and instant death effects. If you pursue attack ability, you can master the ability to change space, change reality, and change size.

In other words, what professionals master is the power of professions, but what gods and godlike masters are the power of laws and origin.

Even the power of law mastered by weak gods is a dimensionality reduction blow to most professionals.

Therefore, when he obtained this kind of divine power comparable to that of the gods, he believed that as long as he persisted in his research, he could also use it with ease.

Brian returned to the chair, and with a thought, he patted the hidden pocket in his coat again.

Work in a while.

Following the flash of a magic spell, a small black thing with scorched smoke floating out of his arms, lay down on the table listlessly, and as its belly slowly rose and fell, it kept making noises. Moaning in pain.

This little guy is naturally his magic pet.

Since the last time he was treating Princess Kearni, he felt that the little devil was trying to trick him, so he sent it directly to the specially prepared VIP pet pocket to enjoy the pleasant electric shock therapy.

"Okay, don't pretend, this little damage can't hurt you."

Brian sternly shouted at the little devil lying on the table panting, then changed the topic and said, "Last time you asked me to teach you the conditions for casting spells, and I agreed to you."

"Really?"

The 'weak' little devil opened his energetic eyes, patted his little wings that were blackened by the spell, kicked his calf, jumped up from the table, flew in front of Brian, and stretched his neck to confirm: : "Brian, are you serious?"

After speaking, he immediately looked at him carefully with those cunning little eyes.

Then he opened his small mouth enough to stuff a walnut in surprise: "I didn't expect you to master the method of using divine power so quickly. I thought it would take you at least two months."

Brian leaned back in the chair, put his legs on the table, raised his eyelids, and glanced angrily at the little devil jumping around in front of him.

He has long known that this little guy who is particularly afraid of death has a very perverted "regeneration" characteristic, and only holy and strong acid damage, as well as blessed weapons can block his self-recovery ability.

Therefore, the electric shock damage specially adjusted by him, apart from pain, could not bring him fatal damage at all.

As it is now, the two of them only chatted for a few words, and the little devil's skin, which was burnt by the electric shock, was gradually transforming into a matte dark red at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Of course it is true." Brian said, "This is a reward for you honestly explaining to me how to use quasi-divine power."

In fact, he was quite surprised that the little devil asked to learn spells and wanted to become a wizard.

Originally, he directly refused, but he also considered that he needed to squeeze as much benefit as possible from him.

If they are not given any sweetness, it is impossible for them to cooperate well.

"Tch, Ben...I just need your reward." The little devil flapped his wings and swung around in front of Brian before flying over his head, curling his lips in disdain.

"Since you don't need it, forget it." Brian said indifferently, then leaned back on the chair, closed his eyes lightly, and pretended to be ready to rest.

"Of course I don't want your reward, but learning spells is an exchange between us, so you can't renege on your debt." The little devil screamed confidently with his hands on his hips.

"Then tell me one thing." Brian didn't bother to argue with him, sat up straight from the chair, and said meaningfully:

"If I'm not mistaken, the strength of your Batezu devils is improved through strict promotion and demotion. This also means that the devils in the entire Bator Hell are all under the jurisdiction of the Lord of the Nine Hells. In my opinion, the Batezu devil who improves his strength in other ways is simply an anomaly."

He is quite familiar with the strict class system of the devils.

From low to high in strength, they can be divided into: low-level devils, low-level devils, high-level devils, and the Grand Duke of Bayer.

When the souls of evil mortals descend to the Nine Hells, they assume the form of a humble lemur.

It is the original form of the Lord of Hell Bayer, whose strength can be described as rubbish to the point that even an ordinary mortal can't do it, otherwise he would not be jokingly called by the players: the most inspirational devil.

And the Duke of Devils or the high-level devil has the authority to directly promote the inferior devil to the low-level devil.

The Grand Duke of the Devil can promote the lower devil to the upper devil.

As for the Devil Grand Duke, only Asmodeus, the Lord of the Nine Hells, can raise the upper devil to this form, and that's how Bayer came from back then.

Such a cruel promotion system will be accompanied by a painful form transformation process.

During the process of ascension, the devil will transfer its memory from one form to the next.

Low-level promotions are mostly based on needs. For example, a pit fiend promoted a lemure to an imp to increase the number of invisible agents under his command.

Promotions to high positions are generally based on merit. For example, a bone devil with outstanding military exploits will be promoted to horned devil by his loyal devil archduke as a reward.

In the strict system of the Nine Hells, a devil is rarely promoted to two ranks at a time.

Relegation usually comes as punishment for failure or defiance.

The Archduke Devil and the High Devil can downgrade the Lower Devil to a Lesser Devil and make the Lower Devil lose almost everything, even its memory.

The Grand Duke of Devils can downgrade a high-ranking devil to a low-ranking devil, but the demoted high-ranking devil will retain its memory, and if the downgrade is too unreasonable, the demoted devil will even plot revenge.

Therefore, all devils living in this system must strictly follow this requirement when their strength is promoted or degraded.

And the former Devil Grand Duke Bayer obviously broke away from this system. In order to grow up, besides absorbing souls, he even planned to take up other professions, such as being a devil wizard.

This is like a senior cadre of a company who suddenly quits and wants to start from scratch in another industry.

Maybe, before it develops, it will be beaten back to its original shape.

"It's fine if you don't want to say it, and I'm not interested in knowing." Although the little devil tried his best to maintain a nonchalant appearance, he had anticipated this situation a long time ago, so he said indifferently:
"If I have time, I will teach you magic, just because you are too stupid to understand the true meaning of magic."

The little devil snorted arrogantly, turned into a silk-spinning spider, and disappeared into the crack in the ceiling.

Brian didn't bother to talk to him, thought about it, got up and walked towards the window.

He stood by the window on the top floor of the tower, condescendingly looking around the bustling market in Golden Feather City.

In the fading light, the distant sky was dotted with the last hint of pink by the sunset, and most of the merchants were busy packing up their eye-catching tents and rolling up the carpets for displaying ceramics, handicrafts, and various exotic goods. .

Why are there so many people in Golden Feather City recently?Brian frowned thoughtfully.

Obviously, after staying in this dilapidated elf tower for more than half a month, he didn't know anything about what happened outside.

As night fell quickly and the crowd gradually dispersed, Brian heard a rhythmic knock on the door.

"Come in," Brian said without thinking.

In order to keep his research from being disturbed, when he stepped into the room, he had already set protection magic on the walls, doors and windows of the room in advance. If he wanted to enter, he could only pass through the special code he set.

It didn't take long.

A little guy carrying a plate came in obediently, put the dinner on the table, and was about to run away.

"Wait a minute." Brian called to stop the kid.

He still has a little impression of this little guy.

This person is the brat who awakened the Warlock's blood that he met in the 'Steel Hammer' tavern.

It seems that it has something to do with the training of Wizard Morele. This little guy has changed from his usual beating appearance and has become well-behaved.

It is said that, due to his age, Wizard Morele did not teach him spells at all, but kept him learning rules and etiquette, as well as literacy.

"What happened recently, the city has become so lively." Brian asked directly.

"It's...it's like this. In order to celebrate Her Royal Highness's recovery, King West will hold a martial arts tournament for her... It seems to be so."

The bear kid didn't dare to look up into Brian's eyes, he stared at his toes, grabbed the hem of his clothes, and said uncertainly.

"I see, you go down." Brian waved his hand, motioning the little guy to leave.

Brian walked out the window again, looked at the palace that was gradually shrouded in darkness, and began to think about Princess Korni.

He just stood in front of the window, when the dark blue sky was dotted with stars, a crow that surprised him flew over.

Brian was stunned, and immediately reached out to take the letter delivery crow into his hand, then took off the letter tied to his leg, and let it fly again.

Do your best.

- Duke Sweet, message
Brian looked at the simple words on the letter and the silver griffin logo left behind. While looking at the night scene outside the window, he thought about what the other party wanted to express.

"Hey, are you having a headache about the princess again?"

Suddenly, the little devil that turned into a spider on the ceiling spit out a spider thread and hung down in front of Brian. While swinging like a pendulum clock, he said with a smile:
"Dear master, do you need my help? I told you a long time ago, let her become yours."

"Go away!"

Brian burned the letter in his hand, and said impatiently to the little spider hanging in front of his eyes.

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(End of this chapter)