"It's amazing!!" When Hao Shuai's soul returned to his body, he recalled everything he had just seen and couldn't help but exclaimed.
This method of using your soul to travel around the world is really great. In fact, with Hao Shuai's ability to leave his body, he should have been able to do it a long time ago. However, because he did not have the guidance of his master, he only discovered the wonders of the soul today.
at.
After all, Uncle Jiu, who taught Hao Shuai Taoism, could not even leave his body.
"Drink tea!" Gu Yi made another pot of tea and poured a cup for Hao Shuai.
"Thank you, Master, for your guidance." Hao Shuai offered tea instead of wine and toasted Gu Yi.
Gu Yi smiled and waved his hand: "No need to thank me. Joining Kama Taj is just the beginning. If you have anything you don't understand, you can always ask me."
Afterwards, Hao Shuai lived in Kama Taj and lived a life isolated from the outside world.
Of course, this isolation from the world is relative. Hao Shuai will still go to Wakanda to collect vibranium every seven days and hand over public rations every two or three nights.
At the beginning, Hao Shuai did not rush to ask for guidance from Gu Yi. Instead, he stayed in the library and learned from the most basic theoretical knowledge. He held books such as "The Classic of Solomon", "Quotes from Proverbs" and "Guidelines for the Use of Magic" every day.
》 and other books that are suitable for novice mages to understand.
After nearly half a month of reading and discussing with Gu Yi from time to time, Hao Shuai finally understood the profession of magician.
If you want to understand what a magician is, you must first understand what "magic" is. The so-called "magic" is the energy that exists in the air and in all creatures and spirits in the world. It is the origin of elements and the component of the soul.
The so-called "magic" is to obtain magic power from the air, from living organisms, from the gods you believe in or any spiritual life form, and release it through various media to achieve attack, treatment, defense or other effects in a supernatural way.
This process is magic.
As can be seen from the above definition, when performing magic, there are three sources of magic power. One is the magic power in the air, which is also the most convenient.
But because the rules of the world are different, not every world will have magic. Like the earth in the Age of Dharma, if you want to extract magic from the air and perform magic, you can't even think about it.
Another source is the magic power stored in the body of the caster. Every magician will improve his mental power through meditation, thereby communicating with the magic power in the air, introducing it into the body and storing it, so that it can be used when casting a spell.
However, special attention should be paid to not overusing the magic power to squeeze the body, otherwise it will cause great burden and damage to the body.
Since ancient times, there have been many cases in the magic world where people died or even had their souls dissipated due to excessive extraction of mana from their bodies.
The last source is faith and contract. To put it simply, you can obtain a stable source of magic power by believing in gods, demons, or signing contracts with other spiritual beings.
Although the magic obtained in this way contains no impurities and is the purest and most powerful, you must understand that there is no free lunch in the world. If you want to gain anything, you have to pay, and often you pay more than you gain.
Just like the black magic recorded in the "Book of Darkness", it is very powerful, but the cost is also very strong. It will slowly corrode and corrupt the soul of the user, and finally kill the user and use his body to let the projection of the devil come to the world.
Regardless of the above three methods of magic cultivation, just like cultivating immortals, magic cultivation also requires talent.
Take meditation as an example. Some people are born with strong souls and strong spiritual power. It may only take one night to feel the existence of magic and introduce it into their bodies. Some people may not be able to feel the magic throughout their lives.
Become a magician.
To paraphrase the world of Harry Potter, this is the difference between wizards and Muggles.
And there are differences between mages who can also feel magic. Take Karma Taj, for example. According to the intensity of the wizard's mental power and mastery of magic, the level of the wizard is roughly divided into three levels.
Even though it is only divided into three levels, as the holy land of magicians in the world, there are dozens of magicians practicing here now, but only a dozen can be regarded as junior magicians, and there are even more intermediate magicians.
There are only two or three. As for the senior mage, as far as Hao Shuai knows, sorry, there are none at the moment.
Of course, the Ancient One, the Sorcerer Supreme, does not fall into this category, nor does the next Sorcerer Supreme, Dr. Strange, who is a loser.
This shows how difficult it is to cultivate spiritual power.
It is because of the difficulty in cultivating mental power that most mages accumulate magic power slowly. Therefore, over countless years, Kamathaj has summed up and invented a set of secret techniques suitable for those mages whose magic progress is slow.
The principle of the secret technique is to use magic power to convert physical strength to increase one's physical fitness. This increase increases all aspects of the body, such as strength, speed, defense, toughness, etc., are greatly enhanced.
This secret technique is simple and easy to learn. Even a mage can learn it. As long as you are diligent, you will soon have strong combat effectiveness. In addition, through the use of spells, the magic model can be embodied, and it can be transformed into various magic weapons according to your own needs.
The secret technique, these two combined, are simply perfect for close combat.
This is also the reason why the magician of Kama Taj in the movie is a melee magician.
On the other hand, the new generation of Sorcerer Supreme, Dr. Strange, in Avengers 3 and 4, can remotely cast a variety of magical and cool magic such as clones.
If Thanos, his opponent, didn't have a few Infinity Stones in hand, Doctor Strange alone would probably be enough for Thanos to drink a pot.
As for why Ancient One, who is also the Supreme Mage, also likes to use secret techniques for close combat?
According to rumors, the ancient people were the Celts hundreds of years ago. The Celts were one of the three major barbarian tribes in Europe along with the Germans and Slavs.
The racial nature of "recklessness" has been deeply ingrained in Gu Yi's bloodline, so much so that whenever Gu Yi fights, he will always unnaturally engage in close combat with the enemy.
Magic is very sensitive to air flows and patterns, and to a certain extent also responds to colors and special substances. Therefore, it is necessary to guide magic through regular air flows or patterns.
So spells, spells and magic circles appeared. At the same time, because special substances also attract magic, the placement and brewing of items are also indispensable in the study of magic.
At the same time, in order to use magic anytime and anywhere quickly, magicians store magic power in some weapons or weapons to enhance their power.
This practice is called "enchantment", and common magic wands and magic wands are representatives of it.