"Summon the dust and earth, pray to the spirits of sand and stone, to nourish the withered earth's crust, to stain the dried-up riverbed, soft and sticky here; floating and sinking, sinking within it!"
Vera recited the mantra simply, and as she chanted softly, a deep blue mana rapidly spread from her palms, and a wave of mana covered the rocks blocking the mine entrance in front of her.
Then Mana shot out, like a dancing firefly, her tiny lights quickly attaching to the rocks, triggering her memories of the original texts she had memorized.
By communicating with the World Tree and borrowing mana from the Mana Network, a model of the spell is drawn, using one's own magic as a catalyst... and the magic is released!
"【Shangtia fossils as clay art】!"
With the final words announcing the name of the magic uttered, and under the watchful eyes of Inra and Vera, the miracle of magic was activated, and the collapsed, downward-sloping mine shaft in front of them was quickly cleared.
The rocks and soil that had been firmly blocking the mine shaft quickly turned into wet mud and a little sand, which sank down the tunnel, revealing the black mine shaft.
The mine shaft wasn't very big, just big enough for Yinla and Vera to duck and enter. However, the moment the passage opened up, a stench of dust that had been sealed away for a long time rushed up from inside.
"Ugh~"
Vera, who was right next to her, immediately started gagging... However, given her lich body, she couldn't vomit anything at all, but the smell was still really unpleasant.
Yinla's expression wasn't good either... He looked at the mine, which reeked of a sour and foul stench of corpses, and at the dark and disgusting mine, wondering whether he should go down to take a look.
Do we really need to explore inwards?
Vera didn't seem too happy about it either.
"..."
"Why don't you release a [Matter Devourer]?"
Yinla made this suggestion, while Vera rolled her eyes and said, "I didn't memorize it. If you knew it, why didn't you cast it yourself? You know I have low magic reserves, yet you still want me to cast a legendary spell, right?"
Oh, I see. I didn't learn that... And that's definitely the point.
Yinla nodded in agreement with Vera's suggestion, deciding that he would use magic himself...
"Third Wing Pillar - Lich - Wing Shatter!"
As Yinla spoke, a pair of fleshy wings, bluish-white like corpses, appeared behind him, then instantly shattered into countless illusory wing fragments that surrounded Yinla.
Because he needed to cast a spell that the Archon couldn't cast, the [Wings] that Imra had just gotten from Vera were shattered... It's not that any legendary spell required shattered wings to be cast.
In fact, the most basic Wingspan can also release spells of this level, it's just that Wing Shatter has a very strong spell power amplification. The real reason why Yinla did this is because of the special nature of Wing Shatter.
As mentioned before, if it's the [wingspan], then the mana consumption generated by Yinla's ability will be traced back by the World Tree... When Yinla uses the Crimson Dragon's wings to travel, the mana in Satan's body will also be extracted.
So, when Yinla angrily mutated and released the world-destroying crimson nova, Comet of Disaster, Mana inside Satanye was completely unable to withstand such consumption... but she showed no reaction whatsoever.
Because the World Tree did not trace her back to.
This is quite counterintuitive, but from a theoretical perspective, it can be considered as utilizing the World Tree's mechanics... or rather, exploiting a bug in the Archon profession.
Sword Comes
Generally speaking, whether knights unleash their abilities or mages cast spells, they first use their own mana before they can exchange it for mana from the World Tree to cast the spells.
However, the Governor is different. The Governor took the Mana from the World Tree first, and only then did the World Tree trace back to the source and ask for that part of the Mana... The Governor essentially forced the Registrant to sign an IOU.
Normally, monsters are killed and their mana stolen by the governors, who then use the monsters' mana, impersonating the monsters' names, to unleash their powers... But the World Tree cannot find the person who owes mana on the IOU.
The World Tree could only swallow its pride... What? You mean the mana of the monsters used by the governors? But those are the governors' mana, not the mana of the monsters that owed them debts. How could the World Tree just steal them?
However, the owners of the mana that Yinla is currently using are mostly still alive, so [Wingspan] will extract mana from them. [Wing Shatter], however, is a different story.
It's like borrowing money, signing an IOU, and having the World Tree tear it up before the IOU is even seen by the name; or to put it in a way that many people can't understand but is more vivid... it's like the Phoenix destroyer blowing up its own hiding place.
Thinking about it this way, the World Tree is actually a bit pitiful.
Furthermore, Inra no longer needs to use large-scale incantations as triggers for constructing magic; he only needs to simply say his name and tell the World Tree what magic he wants to use.
"Matter devourer".
Yinla recited the words simply, omitting the lengthy incantation. In Vera's envious gaze, the wing fragments in the air, composed of the [Third Wing Pillar - Lich - Wing Shatter], immediately refracted countless beams of light, forming a pitch-black sphere at the very center of the beams.
The pitch-black sphere, four or five meters in diameter, hovered in the air, awaiting the command of the caster, Yinla. It was pure, unadulterated black, as if no light reflected off it.
Go!
Yinla breathed softly, and then the [Matter Devourer], having received the command, plunged into the original location of the mine and quickly advanced along the entrance, thus rapidly widening the entrance.
The stones and soil on the mine road disappeared directly where the matter devourer passed, as if it had eaten them. It felt like a rather dangerous spell... although it couldn't devour any living thing.
Otherwise, the matter devourer would have gone from a useful spell to a powerful one.
"Speaking of which, how many words are there in the original text of Matter Devourer?"
As Vera said this, she and Ira simply followed the expanded mine shaft of the [Matter Devourer]. She asked curiously, "It should be less to memorize than legendary plant spells, right? 300,000 words?"
How could it be that short...?
"It is indeed less than the usual 900,000+ words of plant-type legendary spells, but it is still a legendary spell, right? Matter Devourer has 617,074 words. I remember the book was placed on the middle stack of bookshelves on the fourth floor."
As Yinla spoke, he sighed and reminisced about the days and nights he spent memorizing spells.
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