"Don’t, never," Isaac imdiately refused, "Under no circumstances should you promote the existence of The Worm. The fewer people who know about The Worm, the better...the more people who know about The Worm, the more powerful it becos.
"You can start with ’the multitude of caster schools’ and ’inexplicable duels to the death.’ Amateur magic practitioners each have their school, and even within the sa school, the spells they master can differ.
"Because they lack foundational education, they have not truly inherited the traditional knowledge, relying instead on the experience of their predecessors... This type of inheritance cos with a considerable degree of loss.
"Not just the amateur magic practitioners and the Wizard of the High Tower—even the amateur magic practitioners amongst themselves can fight. They can also mingle together, hence producing ssy but potentially powerful effects... Do you have an idea?"
"...Very much so."
Husky replied with uncommon certainty halfway through.
She knew what she needed.
’Wizard Auto Chess’ was just a preliminary exercise.
What she really needed to create...was a card ga.
Amass a large amount of information to create a collectible card ga—freely mixing schools, defining Wizards, Spells, rituals, and other elents.
And due to the unexpected synergy between different decks... As long as players aim for victory, the ta will likely not end up like in the Yu-Gi-Oh! TV series, where players stick to ’pure the decks.’
Instead, it would form strange decks like ’Here’s the puppy, here’s the little fox, here’s the bunny, here’s Thunder Zeus’...
As everyone knows, the original big brother of the Wondrous Fuzzball deck is Gundam.
And this sort of jumbled faction thes, where tradition and reason are aningless, and everything is for the victory in the duel—perfectly matches the core elents of the Wizard Wars!
"I have an idea now... but it may take a while to accomplish. Moreover, I need to check a lot of materials. Not just knowledge about Wizards and Spells...but also information from our world. Or to put it this way, I need to do so scraping."
Turning to Annan, Husky asked directly, "Boss, could you grant permission for search engines and downloads?"
Wait a minute—
Thirteen Spices and Longjing Tea beca nervous all of a sudden.
Though most players vaguely knew that Annan was the administrator of that ’Frostwater Harbor Forum’, nobody had ever ntioned it in this world.
It was only during offline etings that soone would analyze it a bit.
It wasn’t clear whether Annan was from their world... but there were geography enthusiast players who had proposed the ’Mirror Earth theory’, so it was also possible that Annan could co from another mirror Earth.
Since Annan held the real authority in his hands, who knew what might happen if they accidentally exposed Annan’s not so reliable disguise and he beca furiously kicked out of this world...
"I can."
To the players’ surprise, Annan didn’t seem to care: "Once Ingrid’s issues are resolved, I will grant you the permissions. Since you can’t finish it in a short ti, don’t rush it... For now, work on your ’Wizard Auto Chess’.
"Once Winter turns back to a bountiful year, and you return to Winter, start working on it then. I will allocate a team for you—you can also create so positions and collect so taxes for the Winter Principality."
Annan fell into a mont of thought after saying this.
He turned back to ’Julius’ and said seriously, "Julius, or should I say, Mr. Oppenheir. I do sense your goodwill. But Ingrid’s exploitation of the evil deeds you’ve done should not be redeed by you, a victim.
"So we cannot simply accept this piece of information you’ve offered—I happen to also have sothing that you would definitely be concerned about."
Saying this, Annan glanced at Longjing Tea: "Tell Julius about what happened with the Quad Concealed Hand."
"...Quad Concealed Hand?"
Longjing Tea was taken aback.
Annan nodded: "Yes, the Quad Concealed Hand. It’s about the incident when he transitioned to a Destroyer."
"...Ah, I get it now."
Longjing Tea caught on.
Given the current situation of ’Julius Fang’, it was not hard to predict—The profession of the Destroyer was presumably preordained for one to beco the Tower Master.
Compared to the usual destructive Wizards, this profession did not bring quite as strong a ’desire for destruction’. Moreover, it did not result in a detonation upon death—this was precisely the capability required to beco the Tower Master of the Magma Forbidden Tower.
"The occupation of the Destroyer theoretically should only exist within Roaring Fang."
"Julius," with a sowhat puzzled yet still gentle voice, asked, "How did you co to acquire this profession?"
"At first, we ca across a book in the Underground City..."
Longjing Tea was recounting.
At that ti, the one who recomnded the obscure profession of becoming a "Destroyer" was Naifertali.
But she didn’t know at that ti that this profession was actually a secret profession within the Roaring Fang family.
To advance to a Destroyer, one must master designated spells like "tal Detonation," "Clay Detonation," and "High Heat Plasma."
But those were not all of the requirents.
Only after gathering the required sequence of spells did Four-Alike-Mahjong discover there was another layer of encryption—so they went to Nata County, in search of the only known Destroyer.
That is, the creator of "Ritual: Unified War."
—Eck Shattered.
They forged a friendship, and there was no need to keep this ritual a secret.
It would be more accurate to say that he was trying to stop Four-Alike-Mahjong—hoping they would not suffer for this.
With Eck Shattered’s explanation, the players realized... To beco a Destroyer, they needed to treat a portion of "Destructive Blood," neutralize it to make it harmless, and then inject it into their bodies—if they could successfully purify the nightmare before this neutralized "Destructive Blood" burnt through their hearts, they could beco "Destroyers."
Besides the specific sequence of spells, the purification process for Destructive Blood was another encryption added by the Roaring Fang family to this transcendent profession. The latter was the real secret.
After researching with Naifertali for a while, Four-Alike-Mahjong still hadn’t acquired the technique to make the Destructive Blood inert... but he thought of another thod.
That was to reinfuse his own Destructive Blood.
This inspiration ca from "umbilical cord blood"—he wondered, why did the Destructive Blood need to be "neutralized"?
Because a Destroyer mage with a stopped heart, not yet completely dead, could actually be instantly revived by powerful healing thods.
As long as their hearts could be restarted before the Destroyer mages exploded, the activity of the Destructive Blood in their bodies would be suppressed instantly and would gradually convert back into Roaring Hot Blood.
That is to say, while the heart was still beating, the Destructive Blood should directly convert back into Roaring Hot Blood.
So, why could Destructive Blood, when diluted and neutralized, burn through the heart and be lethal?
Four-Alike-Mahjong had a conjecture.
—It was because the blood used in the ritual belonged to "soone else." It was the Destructive Blood collected by the Roaring Fang family from the Nefer Tower, from Destroyer mages who had died accidentally.
If it was one’s own Destructive Blood—perhaps without neutralization, it wouldn’t be fatal!
So, relying on his identity as a player, Four-Alike-Mahjong decided to use himself as an experint.
After all, his death wasn’t real, and he wouldn’t go mad from excessive erosion. He still had one resurrection right... Four-Alike-Mahjong directly committed suicide after talking to Annan.
After his own heart stopped, he had his sister draw out the Destructive Blood from his body imdiately. After Four-Alike-Mahjong was resurrected, they reinfused his own Destructive Blood and entered the nightmare.
—And his ritual was successful!
"That ans, actually, the advancent ritual may not necessarily require ’processed Destructive Blood.’ What’s important is not that complex treatnt, but the Destructive Blood itself... In this case, the advancer only needs to find a way to stop their heartbeat and feign death, then revive their heartbeat before true death, enter the nightmare at that ti, and directly advance to a Destroyer."
Longjing Tea was recounting the new knowledge they had discovered.
After listening, "Julius Fang" also fell silent for a while.
He analyzed it by himself and was amazed to find—this logic was very likely correct!
If this was correct, then the entire "Roaring Fang" family could transform into Destroyers from this generation onwards...
And it wasn’t just the Roaring Fang family!
The reason this ritual was kept secret was that it required a large amount of "Destructive Blood." And this material had always been collected from "siblings’ corpses." They didn’t publicize this advancent ritual precisely to protect Destroyer mages.
But if there was this optimized version of the job change ritual, even other mages from Nefer Tower could beco Destroyers!
This might an that the mages of Nefer Tower would no longer be considered "hazardous."
They wouldn’t need to worry about the destructive urges deep in their hearts, fear living in urban areas where they might accidentally bomb ordinary people, nor would they have to choose death early due to fears of a "bad end"...
...Perhaps, the older generation of Destroyer mages would beco extinct.
They too would beco normal people and integrate into the lives of regular people!
And the suffering and misfortune they have endured until now... would also co to an end.
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