"I really can’t imagine it."
Annan couldn’t help but comnt, "Solomonik would really like his new identity."
"I can’t imagine it either."
Naifertali shrugged her shoulders.
She sat at the table, facing Annan sideways, flipping through one of the newspapers and sighed in a low voice, "I used to dream that if only I were Selicia. But I never thought that Selicia would just be a non-existent illusion..."
"This is how the Curse Binding of substitution works."
Annan pointed to himself and laughed, "Isn’t ’Giralda’ the sa?"
"It’s still not quite the sa..."
Naifertali’s expression was complex.
How should I put it.
Perhaps it’s because the actual person inside ’Giralda’ is cuter than that image, and the real Selicia is not as lovable as her... There’s a strange sense of disillusionnt.
"However, the technology to create ’substitutes’ should co from the lvin family."
Naifertali explained, "What the teacher excels at is contaminative laws. That is the spell of intervening with others using ’items associated with a person’.
"This ans that after the teacher got Frederick’s body, he probably also obtained the knowledge and skills that belonged to him."
"Do you research Curse Binding and spells of substitution?"
Annan asked Naifertali with interest, "I am not very familiar with this."
Though three kinds of substitution Curse Bindings are directly related to him...
The "Ultimate Work ’David’" is a typical one.
Its essence is a taboo-type Curse Binding, to prevent Annan from using, divulging, or spreading "Taboo Ritual: Overlap of Life and Death" in any way. As a reward given by the man in the mirror, Annan can use the power of this Curse Binding to transform into "Giralda David Buonarro."
It is a shell that was made in advance and cursed into existence.
Defu’s exchange of bodies with the chocolate essentially underwent the influence of this type of Curse Binding; and the cursed object "Elven Skin Gloves" that Annan often uses is the sa—if one wears the Elven Skin Gloves for too long, their own skin will be replaced by it; then, the skin that "belongs to Elves" will spread from both arms upwards, until it covers the entire body with Elf skin.
That definitely wouldn’t be the user’s own transformation into an Elf.
It would be a renaissance in another sense for an ancient Elf through this thod. Of course, the controller would still be the person wearing the gloves. But his/her whole person would be replaced by the unremovable skin suit.
The sa goes for "Selicia."
Professor Wolf must first use so material to mold this shell... Of course, as a girl, Selicia probably couldn’t be molded out of marble like Giralda.
As for how detailed this shell is, what material it’s made from, whether there’s a "reference prototype," how strong it is, what occupation it has... only Professor Wolf and Selicia know these things.
If Annan considers "Giralda" more useful than his own body, he can also learn the spells of the idol and the School of Prophets. This way, he could use these spells smoothly while in the form of "Giralda."
Annan didn’t do this because he only used "Giralda" as an alter ego.
After all, "Giralda" couldn’t advance in rank. Although it was indeed powerful while Annan was at the bronze rank, as Annan leveled up, it gradually beca not so strong.
Annan didn’t know how "Selicia" managed to advance to Gold rank.
Maybe she was originally at the Gold rank? Or perhaps the treasure ship "Silver" could force an advancent... It might also be because of Professor Wolf’s special craftsmanship.
For example, when Annan advanced to the Gold Rank, "Giralda" also beca unable to use Elental Power.
This change of identity was very thorough. Only "knowledge" and "skills" were transferable.
Even Annan’s walking and speaking habits would be replaced. The perpetually cheerful smile on "Giralda’s" face was proof of that.
"—What I can confirm is that ’Selicia’ must really exist,"
Naifertali said slowly, "Because if Solomonik’s original body advanced to the Gold Rank, it would be irrelevant to Selicia. Therefore, it must be ’Selicia’ who advanced to Gold... and to enable a substitute to advance, one must create the substitute from a living person."
This was roughly how the Substitute Magic of Curse Binding worked.
One’s body was exchanged for another "already existing" body that has been cursed by a wizard of the School of Idols. This thod of vitalizing and cursing a shell was also a spell from the School of Idols.
Beyond "human" instances like Giralda and Selicia, and cats such as Chocolate...
Golems constructed purely of stone, as well as scarecrows and iron n that held no life whatsoever, were also viable options.
"The essence of Substitute Curse Binding is a kind of law of similarity magic,"
Naifertali explained, "For example, one might create a figure of a person from clay, ash, and cloth, decorate it to make it ’resemble’ soone, and then injure it with a ceremonial knife. Then their enemy can suffer the sa pain.
"Another example is using wax, gemstones, or obsidian to create a fearful image. Hide it in soone’s bedroom, and they can be killed by this terrifying image in their dreams—It could also be used to invade others’ nightmares, artificially increasing the difficulty of those nightmares.
"These are all similarity law spells that the lvin family is skilled at."
Things that are similar possess a certain connection.
Therefore, by deepening this connection alone, one can make "sothing not so similar" into a "substitute" closely linked to a person, which then can replace and change the existence of that person.
"Substitute magic can be traced back to before the second generation. When used alone, it could turn soone into a frog, a snake, or an apple. It was typically used as a highly difficult attack spell to prevent resurrection. During the second generation, when resurrection abilities were quite common, it was a standard counter spell."
Naifertali spoke slowly, "And the curse binding substitution—or what we call ’beneficial transformation’—is the oldest application, dating back to the third generation.
"At that ti, the elves had a miraculous energy source that made their civilization extrely prosperous. The dragons, wishing to beco elves themselves to enjoy it, developed this spell... creating a complex substitute in advance and fixing it as a curse binding that could be triggered instantly, thus greatly reducing the difficulty of casting each ti they transford.
"Later, the spell spread, and so people from Aesirland wished to use this spell to beco Austerians. This led to incidents of elves and centaurs being attacked... Eventually, even the Austerians themselves received the spell. So elves wanted to beco higher-status elves and replace soone else’s life—so, afterwards, the spell was legislated against.
"Long after the elves went extinct, during the Wizard War, the lvin family recovered this spell through elven relics. Although they didn’t strictly keep it secret, to use this spell, one had to delve deeply into the laws of similarity... Since the similarly proficient New God ’Mirror Face’ had ascended, no one beside the lvin family could use this kind of spell."
"...I see,"
Annan suddenly understood.
The "elven skin gloves" were not ant for so elf to resurrect through this thod... it was for so Aesirlander, or an elf, who wanted to use this cursed object to change their identity!
For so reason, the creator of the cursed object hadn’t managed to use it in ti.
And so, it has been passed down.
As for the ability to cast double spells, it seems to be just a side effect...
And no wonder, the relics of the elves could allow Chocolate and Defu to swap bodies. Because this was originally a spell popular in the elven era!
...But according to Annan’s understanding of elven relics.
To gain knowledge from elven relics, one needed to have a certain purity of elven bloodline or a direct elven profession.
That being the case.
The lvin family appeared to have a deep connection with the elves.
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