Chapter 3 The Importance of Spiritual Power
The slight shaking made Ethan a little uncomfortable. He had finally adapted to the shaking life on the boat, but because he had a good rest on the land for a few days, he was a little bit back to his original form.
"Anyway, I'll get used to it again in a few days."
It can be predicted that the days at sea will be very long in the future. Through this shuttle, Ethan understood that his golden finger had many restrictions.
"Let's sort out what you have in your hands first."
Looking at Kong Kong's left hand and his right hand carrying a large bag, Ethan confirmed a lot of things through this round trip.
"The package I touched with my left hand did not come back with me, while the package I held with my right hand and the things I carried with me came back with me."
From this we concluded that the shuttle magic circle can only bring back what he can "take away" with, but it cannot be brought back by a simple touch.
"What a pity, if you can bring back what you encounter, your life will be much better in the future."
Ethan is just seventeen years old. Because her family is not rich, her nutritional intake is not sufficient. Even if she works for many years, her strength is very limited. It is already the limit to be able to carry dozens of kilograms of things, and it is impossible to pick up too heavy things. Even if you consider that your explosive power can pick up some heavy objects of about 100 kilograms in an instant, it is far from meeting Ethan's needs.
"I was thinking about getting a boat."
The boat prepared by Ethan's father was just an ordinary small wooden boat, with a single mast and an old sail, with a length of less than ten meters in front and back. There was no wooden barrel for storing food and drinking water, and it could only be kept covered with a lid.
It was such a simple wooden boat. Ethan thought that driving this out to sea was to die. He started the wind at random, and the waves would capsize if they were bigger.
But after a few days, he was surprised to find that the sea area was peaceful and weird. Not only did he drive for a long time, he didn't see the sea water turning deep blue, but the climate fluctuations were also very small. When the waves were the strongest, they just shook a little more violently, which made him feel a little dizzy.
“There are still many things in this world that I don’t know.”
After sorting out the things brought back from Marvel World, Ethan put away the anchor, raised the sail, and then found a direction and set off.
He originally wanted to use the light ball pointer to find another direction to move forward. Without a clear destination, finding the next place where space-time energy exists is the most reliable way to replenish materials.
However, after he activated his mental power to summon the pointer, he found that this time there was no familiar arrow in the light ball, but instead a row of words appeared: Searching...
"It seems that space-time energy is not something you want..."
Putting the pointer away, Ethan could only think about what to do next.
"I hope to see the land... This world can't be really full of sea water, right? There is not even an island?"
Originally he did not believe this. At first, he only regarded it as the ignorant remarks of the "countrymen" but during the days of going to sea, although it was not enough to prove that there was really no land, some unusual places also made him fully realize that this place is really not the earth, and a lot of "common sense" may not be common here.
Fortunately, the water-making technique he learned from Ancient One solved the problem of drinking water.
"Considering that I don't know when I can recharge, I need to save some food in the next day... try to drink enough water."
Not wanting to die inexplicably on the sea, nor do I want to pin my hopes on the time and space energy that I may not find at any time, and I have no idea what world I will be teleported to, Ethan began to plan his next "behavior".
How much food to eat every day can maintain enough motivation. At the same time, the books that Gu Yi gave him were also sorted out by him, and then he began to read them in the order suggested by Gu Yi.
"Don't worry, you'll be fat in one go. Gu Yi said that my qualifications are average, which proves that I may have to learn a long way to learn this basic book, so I can put the rest aside..."
In this way, Ethan lived a regular and boring life.
He got up every morning to eat something so that he could maintain his strength for the whole day, and then controlled the boat to continue in a fixed direction - he had no idea how to divide the east, west, south and north, so he could only keep moving in one direction.
After choosing a good angle to fix the sail and rudder, start studying and practicing every day.
He uses the watermaking technique every day, and as he practices more and more times, he also uses this small spell better and better. From the beginning, he can only gather a wooden spoon of clear water at one time, but now he can gather half a bucket of clear water at one time.
"When I first started learning, I could only gather a larger water droplet... Logically speaking, my mental power could not improve so quickly, so this effect is because there is plenty of water here."
With Ethan's proficiency in watermaking, he not only had enough water to drink, but also could take a shower every now and then, making this boring and monotonous sailing life a little less uncomfortable.
As for the introduction to the basics of mental power, the beginning was mental exercise and meditation methods - it was very mysterious. Anyway, Ethan had not understood what he was talking about for a long time, and even couldn't understand the first article for three consecutive days, which led to serious doubts about his IQ.
It was not until three days later that he accidentally mobilized his mental power while reading and finally discovered the "correct way to open" of this introductory article, otherwise he would still live in self-doubt.
"Is this considered a test that Gu Yi left for himself?"
Ethan, who found the correct way to open it, had more things to do every day. After practicing watermaking, meditated to restore his mental power, and then read the weird introductory article with his mental power to improve his mental power strength.
As his mental power gradually increased, he gradually came into contact with some of the hidden information in this book.
According to the book, no matter how many mages of any sect, their mental power is the core of spell casting. The strength of mental power is directly related to the strength of the mage's magic, the degree of control over magic, etc.
Even a mage with strong mental power can use its powerful mental power to cause fatal damage to the enemy even if it does not use magic power - but very few mages directly use mental power to attack the enemy, and there is a brief introduction to this point in the book.
Because mental power is too important, it almost directly contacts the person's "original origin": existences such as souls. Using mental power to attack the enemy is also equivalent to revealing one's "original origin" in front of the enemy. It is very easy for some enemies to take advantage of the situation and cause great damage.
Therefore, when a mage casts attack magic, he will try to choose to control other energy to perform it - that is, the so-called magic power.
Magic is just a general term, not just a certain kind of energy. According to the information obtained by Ethan from the book, it is understood that water elements can be regarded as magic; fire elements can also be regarded as magic; arcane energy is of course also magic; even extreme energy such as holy light and evil energy are also a kind of magic in the eyes of mages;
Therefore, the magic power covers a wide range. Which one can and which one can be used at will vary depending on your personal qualifications and practice situation.
For example, Gu Yi used a lot of magic power. According to the plot of the movie Ethan saw in his previous life, Gu Yi also extracted a large amount of negative energy from some dark planes to maintain his existence and cast spells. This is a typical mage-as long as it is energy, it can be used as magic.
But the premise of all this is that you have strong enough mental power, otherwise even if you can find infinite masterless energy, you will not be qualified to use powerful magic power.
In Ethan's view, the theory emphasized in this book is that magic is a tool, and mental power is the hands of using tools. Hitting people directly with both hands may hurt your hands, so life-loving mages reject this way of self-harm, and using tools to attack the enemy can minimize this risk.
As for the brewing, birth, extraction, storage and other knowledge of magic, although Ethan knew that there were these things, this large-scale introductory book did not give him details. It seemed that he was not qualified to know these things now.
"I'm despised by this book?"
He put away the big book at will, and Ethan no longer thought about the messy knowledge. He only had to understand these things. According to the theory in the book, he could not even perfectly control the least magic power, because his mental power was barely stronger than ordinary people and he did not have the qualifications to become a mage at all.
So if you want to become stronger, what you need to do now is to exercise your mental power honestly and wait until your mental power is stronger before considering the issue of magic.
"Huh? That's a storm?"
It has been dozens of days before and after going to sea. This is the first time Ethan has seen the endless sea in the distance.
The endless black clouds and heavy rain like city walls fully demonstrated the power of nature to Ethan, the "rookie".
"Not good, you have to turn around quickly."
Seeing this situation, the fool continued to move forward. He didn't have to enter the storm range, just by getting closer, waves several meters high could overturn their ship.
Just as Ethan was about to turn the boat and leave quickly, he seemed to hear someone shouting for help.
"Audit hallucination?"
Ethan stood up and picked up a pair of telescopes that Gu Yi gave him from his hand. With the help of the telescope, Ethan quickly found the target.
"The wreckage of the board? Is it a ship that was killed in a storm?"
Chapter completed!