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Chapter 6 Runes and Sorcery
After receiving the gemstone, Luo Qiu spent a boring and agonizing day at her workstation.
His new partner, Smith, unsurprisingly became obsessed with the rental house incident, and with the team leader's authorization, he made calls to many relevant people, asking them for clues about the deceased.
Luo Qiu had no time to concern himself with this matter for the time being. Thinking about the matter of talent, when it finally came to five o'clock in the afternoon, he left the headquarters ahead of the team leader.
Luo Qiu's rented apartment is located more than ten kilometers southwest of the General Administration, which is not a short distance, and the rent is also quite expensive.
The reason I made this choice was because the apartment was built of brick and stone, easy to maintain, and had good sound insulation.
These advantages have proven useful in the present day.
Back in his apartment, he closed the door, drew the curtains, and under the incandescent light, it became his familiar little world.
There was a sofa and a coffee table in the living room, facing the window. There was a tray on the coffee table with cups and tea leaves on it. There were no jars for storing sugar or milk next to the tea leaves.
Sitting down here, Luo Qiu naturally calmed down.
He felt his pockets, took out a dagger, set it aside, and then picked up the broken gem in his hand.
Now that we have the materials, we need to test our talent.
At that moment, he stopped thinking about anything, took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and focused his attention on his palm.
The way to absorb talent is to extend mental energy to the target object, and then use mana to guide the extraordinary power contained within it into one's own body.
It's simple in theory.
However, Luo Qiu had virtually no clue about the part involving energy absorption.
Moreover, this was his first time using his supernatural abilities, and things were a mess.
He tried to guide his spiritual energy outwards, letting it drift slowly among the gems, but he overexerted himself as soon as he began. His spiritual energy scattered in all directions, like a dandelion seed blown away, impossible to gather back.
In crucial moments, talent comes into play.
Seemingly sensing the presence of something it needed, it miraculously guided its spiritual energy to condense into threads that enveloped the gem.
Then, a strange feeling spread.
It was a sensation somewhere between hot and cold, like an external tongue tasting some delicious liquid, eagerly curling it up.
Then, Luo Qiu felt a surge of energy, as if his mental energy was also being replenished.
Glug~ Glug~
The whole process lasted about three minutes.
As the last glimmer of red light faded from his innate vision, Luo Qiu slowly opened his eyes. The moonstone in his palm remained unchanged, except that one of the fragments seemed to have dimmed somewhat.
"it's over?"
He was a little unsure and subconsciously reached for the 'cell phone' in his pocket.
He discovered this morning that his phone had a wizard ability detection function. He had tested it before, so this was a good opportunity to compare what benefits this talent activation had brought him.
Unlock the screen, find the self-check function in the new user guide, and a soft white light shines from the screen, sweeping across him.
A few seconds later, the results appeared:
Search Target: 0002
[Mental Strength: 10.5 (Normal person 10, first-ring wizard 20)]
[Mana Points: 1/10]
[Talent Data: Unknown]
This time, using my talent consumed 9 mana and increased my mental strength by 0.3.
Also, only one moonstone fragment was obtained this time. There are four more, but I'll have to wait for my mana to recover.
According to the beginner's tutorial, it would take an average person three to four months to accumulate the necessary skills to go from awakening to becoming a first-ring wizard—that is, to increase their mental strength from 10 to 20—through conventional meditation.
It takes three to four months, or 100 days, to increase mental strength by an average of 0.1 per day.
This gem of his is equivalent to half a month of arduous practice for an ordinary person.
……
As it turns out, absorbing this talent is indeed remarkable. If he can find six such extraordinary gems, he can complete the apprentice-level mental power training. At that time, he can advance to Sequence 1 in a month at most.
This gave Luo Qiu a lot to think about.
However, his first glance was at the gem in his hand.
Moonstone has a hardness of 6.5, is brittle, and usually breaks into irregular fragments.
Luo Qiu had previously discovered that this gem did not appear to have shattered naturally after falling.
It split evenly around a central point, with a smooth crack. It looked as if something extremely sharp had struck it, causing it to shatter.
Based on this discovery, it's possible that two superhumans were attacking each other, and one of them used this gem as a defense, which then shattered.
After all, gemstones are extraordinary objects, and in Luo Qiu's view, anything extraordinary must have some use when it is intact.
Luo Qiu couldn't be sure why this gem fragment was left behind.
He tends to believe that once the gemstone shattered, it lost its original value and could not be repaired, which is why the superhumans did not reclaim it.
During his ten-year career as an agent, he had encountered many similar situations, such as a lump of metal twisted beyond recognition, or a wooden sign stained pink in the middle.
If that's the case, then his opportunity has arrived.
While extraordinary items like cell phones are hard to find, there must be plenty of broken extraordinary items like gemstones.
In addition, he had been struggling with how to cultivate himself, but now that his talent could help, things were much easier.
Firstly, meditation is used for cultivating spiritual power and is a fundamental method for wizards. However, because of his talent, he doesn't need to spend several hours on it every day.
He needs to speed up his mana cultivation. The 10 mana points he inherited from awakening are not enough to cover his talent's consumption. He needs to cultivate it to at least 100.
Regarding rune selection...
Please choose the appropriate runes based on your own situation.
【巫师学徒可铭记符文上限20，当前10，建议选择构型符文x2、元素符文x3、增益符文x5。】
[Recommended spells: Fireball, Mage's Hand.]
I tapped on the Rune Magic app on my phone, and the notification I'd only glanced at before popped up again.
When Luo Qiu woke up in the hotel, he had already learned about the function of runes, which can be summarized as follows:
Fire Element Rune + Orb Shape Rune = Fireball (0 Rings)
Fire Element Rune + Spherical Shape Rune + Temperature Boost Rune = Explosive Fireball (1 Ring)
The witchcraft of this world is not quite what he thought. It is said to have gone through many iterations, evolving from the original long chanting and probability-based casting to the efficient and concise method it is today.
Wizards only need to memorize the runes in normal times, and when they need to use them, they can quickly cast spells by connecting with the runes through mental power and filling them with mana.
Of course, the cost of doing this is that the runes you memorize are hard to forget. With a limited number of runes you can memorize, you must think carefully about which ones you should memorize and which ones you should give up.
Luo Qiu hadn't had any idea about this before.
But now, when it comes to the topic of talent and the scenarios he might encounter when facing those extraordinary cases, he immediately shifted his attention away from the fireball spell without even thinking.
Knowing that one's profession is somewhat dangerous, and without the support of talent, the ability to see the magic around one clearly is what constitutes good magic.
In addition, one also needs witchcraft to allow oneself to escape quickly.
Clarity and Swiftness are good options.
As for firepower? I'll leave that to my revolver for now.
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