old dream

Chapter 141 The Fourth Lineage
After copying the complete map of the "mass solution", Colin walked out of the room he had just booked with a suitcase. This suitcase was the last relic of the wizard El in this world.

The hotel owner had a long-term cooperation with Ke Lin, and there were almost no guests here. It was impossible for the hotel to survive if it only relied on normal income.Therefore, the boss often colludes with gangs and provides convenient places for some of their activities.

Seeing Colin coming out of his room, the boss glanced at it and continued to sort out the books in his hand, not caring about things he shouldn't be looking at.There was no one in the small front hall of the old hotel. There was an uncoordinatedly large fireplace in the middle of the wall. It had just entered October, but a raging fire was already lit here.

Colin took out the smoked clothes from the suitcase and threw them into the fireplace one by one. In the end, he threw the empty suitcase in as well. The fire was almost extinguished by the suitcase.Colin took the tongs aside and fiddled with the ashes, waiting for the luggage to completely burn.

During this period, the hotel owner has been flipping through the account book with a few pages written, and even turned it over again after turning it over.

There is no chemical fiber in this era, and cotton and linen clothes will only leave ashes after burning.Colin fiddled with the ashes and checked to make sure that all traces had disappeared, then wiped the traces of soot on his face with a towel next to the fireplace, and walked back to the counter.

"I've used the fireplace and added an Ori." The boss said, on the surface, he was talking about the fireplace, but in fact he wanted a hush money.Colin knew the rules here, so before the boss spoke, he had already pressed an Ori with a denomination of two under the cup on the counter.

"Have you seen any new faces recently?"

"Some people from the north," said the proprietor, "but only for the night."

The "north side" mentioned by immigrants refers to the old city of Stade.If you will spend the night in this kind of place, it is estimated that those visitors don't know anything about the Sincilian community.Colin nodded, recalling that Ji Lian's friend named Elena also needed to borrow, he couldn't help but wonder how many people have entered South Stadt, either openly or secretly,
While guessing whether it was the person from the new bootlegging organization or someone sent by the authorities.Colin tapped the two Ori on the counter with his fingertips and said:
"If anyone from the north comes here to deal with things, or asks anything, remember to notify me."

The boss nodded, and simply put the money into the drawer.They don't violate principles for the sake of money or a regular customer.Here the boss agreed to Colin because they didn't keep secrets for the Anhe people.

Every month, Ke Lin spends a lot of money to maintain his intelligence network, and believes that they will play their due role sooner or later.

It was already eleven o'clock after leaving the hotel, and while waiting for the carriage back to the old city under the gas street lamp, Colin was still thinking about the materialization.

Only now did he begin to understand what intelligence meant among wizards.

Why every wizard regards keeping secrets as extremely important, and consciously erases the traces of using witchcraft.

In addition to the factors of the authorities and religious groups, the reason lies largely in the restraint between the two types of techniques, "returning to zero" and "knotting things".

If we talk about the weakness of time, users of celestial magic can never reveal which star they are connected to.Then these two seemingly simple skills mean that most wizards cannot reveal their specialties.

"Return to Zero" can avoid most of the damage caused by Ling Su.

"Material Knot" can turn witchcraft into physical attacks.

But the spirit body can ignore the influence of the physical plane.If you want to deal with them, you must use Ling Su.

After sorting it out a bit, Colin discovered that the relationship between the three is like rock-paper-scissors, interdependent and interlocking, giving birth to the current ecology of the wizarding society.

Assuming that the types of spells that can be developed by a wizard lineage are limited, and the talent of a single wizard is also limited, then in order to optimize the ratio, resources must be invested in a certain specialty.

Therefore, wizards with huge differences in ability direction are not so much human beings as they are different species.

Therefore, it is possible to use the main food of a wizard lineage as a basis to divide three different ecological niches.

First, the lineage whose main food is the exploration of spiritual bodies and virtual worlds.

The main enemies they face are spirits, so they specialize in imaging, pure psychic sorcery and frequency manipulation.

And this happens to be restrained by people who specialize in materialization spells, because their best witchcraft will be simply nullified by zeroing, while materialization will not, so they are overwhelmingly hunted.

The nutrients provided by the first lineage directly gave birth to the second lineage.That is to say, people who specialize in materialization spells, but are not good at imaging, frequency manipulation and spiritual element attacks.

And this kind of people happens to be restrained by spirit bodies that can migrate in frequency.

As a result, there emerged a third lineage whose main food was the wizards of the second lineage, that is, people who command spirits to attack users of materialization spells.

But these third lineages, which use spirit bodies as their main combat power, will be restrained by the first lineage.

This means that no matter who reveals their specialization direction, they will be easily targeted.

Of course, "restraint" and "expertise" are only relative terms. As long as one possesses absolute talent or strength, one can break this restraint relationship.

Maybe some people's shortcomings are stronger than others' strengths?
But this kind of restraint relationship is enough to make the entire wizarding world move towards concealment and mutual defense.After all, it is obviously easier to stay hidden while looking for food than to gain absolute strength.

Perhaps, the relationship between most predators and prey will eventually become this silent form.

Colin recalled some of the limbs of the Shuttle Demon that had been materialized, and thought to himself which lineage of wizards he would belong to if he had mastered the technique of materialization steadily.

Miscellaneous but not refined, it does not belong to any category.

Therefore, there may still be a "fourth lineage" among wizards, or, all lineages are predators to them.

Or, all lineages are their food.

Arecio once used the "Blooming of the New Green", and that ceremony seems to have involved the mirror image of the "Great Master", showing signs of materialization.

Colin didn't realize the value of materialization at the time, and he didn't try to find Aresio's hidden position.Because he felt that the train tragedy would most likely attract the attention of the authorities and religious orders.However, judging from the final result, this may just be redundant prudence.

The solidified objects formed by the limbs of the Shuttle Demon, and the black grass blades that spread everywhere on the train are both produced by knotting, but there seems to be a subtle difference between the two.

The former is almost the same as ordinary matter except that it disappears.

The latter is still in an indescribable, turbulent and indeterminate state.Recalling those shocking and messy lines, Colin is still a little creepy now.

But rather than the appearance, the more critical difference between them is: the black blade of grass is already half material and half spiritual element.Thus, the balance among the three lineages was broken.

But in the notes left by Arecio, Colin has seen the reason why he chose "the bloom of fresh green".There is not a single word in it that mentions the semi-spiritual and semi-material properties, it only says "Consider to make enemies with other lampkeepers, and plan to use material spells."

The new green bloom may be just a simple knot spell, but under the distortion of Aresio's intention, it has another characteristic that is completely different from the original version.

So the four lineages of wizards do exist, but because this whole silent dark ocean is still maintained.

They should be a few very rare occasional flashes.

　An additional explanation about zeroing is provided. Normal reading does not require such a detailed understanding, so I put it here.

　　Whether a psychic interacts with other psychic or with matter, it is limited by frequency boundaries.Therefore, if the spirit body wants to affect the reality, it needs to use the "frequency overlapping area" as a springboard.The essence of returning to zero is to shrink to the coordinates, so the overlapping area will be infinitely reduced, and then the influence of the spirit element will tend to be invalid.But, if both the interacting parties belong to the matter, then they can directly interact at the matter level without the frequency limit.This is the accurate understanding that material knot attacks cannot be dodged by returning to zero.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)