Chapter 27 Compound Rune
Although Mark agreed to guide Thor, he would not waste all his beautiful morning time on this first-level rookie. The learning tasks of the second-level apprentices were also very heavy, especially since they would be tested in a month.
It would be more accurate to say that it was not so much that Mark taught Thor, but that Thor studied on his own first, and then asked Mark for help when he encountered difficulties or something he didn't understand.
Unfortunately, even with Mark's explanation, Thor only had a vague understanding of many things and could not figure out the logical relationship at all.
Before leaving at noon, Saul made another request to Mark.
"Do you want to borrow the puppet doll for testing mental power?" Mark didn't hesitate. He went straight to the cabinet in the laboratory, opened the door, and randomly took out a puppet doll from it.
The moment Mark opened the cabinet door, Saul couldn't help but take two steps back.
Seeing Thor's vigilant look, Mark found it funny again, "You're scared, but you still want to borrow it?"
"I'm just afraid, so I need to borrow it." Thor was careful not to make eye contact with the puppet.
Thor reached out to take it, and Mark casually placed the puppet in his palm.
"Friendly price, 5 magic crystals for 10 days."
"Then I'll borrow it for two days."
Mark's face turned black, "I won't lend it to you in two days!"
Thor simply said: "I only have three magic crystals in my hand."
The magic crystals he has now were also exchanged with Keli using his credits.
You can give benefits to your friends, but you can never give benefits to your enemies.
In the end, Mark took away Thor's three magic crystals and warned Thor that he could study them, but if they were damaged, he would have to pay 2 credits as compensation.
Thor wrapped the puppet with layers of cloth strips and carefully put the doll into the pocket of his apprentice robe.
"Take me away, take me away..."
Thor paused, "Senior, did you hear that?"
"Hmm?" Mark had already sat back at the table, immersed in his research.
"No, nothing..."
Thor pinched the pocket of his robe with one hand, as if he was afraid that something would escape from it.
He picked up the book and walked out of the laboratory.
On the way back to Sita, someone stopped Thor.
Thor looked familiar with her and knew that she was a first-level rookie in the same class as him, but he had forgotten her name.
"Thor," the little girl looked a little shy, "I have something to tell you."
She pinched her clothes, and her index finger kept turning the knot on it.
"Can you finish it within five sentences?" The girl came out suddenly and Thor almost rushed over to her.
The other party was stunned, looking a little aggrieved.
"Sorry, I'm in a hurry."
"But I..." The girl's eyes suddenly turned red.
Thor simply walked around him, muttering loudly, "It's over, it's over, it's too late, it's too late."
The girl stood there in a daze and didn't catch up.
It doesn't seem to be a big deal.
But Thor still couldn't get out of the passage.
At the end of the passage, another person jumped out.
"Hey, Thor!"
Saul knew this person, his name was Doze.
The new guy who used to run after Kelly and later hung out with Duke.
This time, he was not followed by the indecisive Rocky.
Ever since he discovered that Thor had a low talent for magic, Doze hasn't taken the initiative to look for him for a long time.
"Sorry, I'm in a hurry." Thor turned around and tried to avoid Doze again.
But Duoze raised his hand and blocked the passage directly.
"I'll finish my five sentences."
Thor could only stop.
"Senior Luo Kai has led a group of freshmen to form a mutual aid group. There, everyone can learn from each other and discuss with each other. Today at 2 o'clock in the afternoon is the second meeting of the mutual aid group. Do you want to come?"
"Want money?"
"Well, ordinary students are to be admitted..."
"I have no money." Thor said, nodded politely, then pushed Doze's hand away and walked out.
Doze quickly turned around and shouted to Thor, "Kelly has already agreed to attend today."
Thor stopped, looked back at Doze's smug expression, and said sincerely, "I really have no money."
He left in a hurry, and fortunately no one stopped him.
After a quick lunch, Thor came to the morgue on the second floor of the East Tower.
This place has become his study room, and the dormitory is only used for evening study and rest.
The outermost corpse room had been reorganized by Thor. In addition to the teleportation platform and two long tables, a cabinet was added, which contained some necessary experimental supplies exchanged by Thor.
These instruments and materials used up all of Sol's remaining credits.
If the wizard tower hadn't provided food and accommodation, Thor would have been left with nothing.
In addition to the things Thor bought, the cabinet also contained some alienated materials he took from corpses.
An accident made Thor discover that if he did not put the materials he took down into the empty box on the long table, these materials would not be taken away the next day, but would remain in their original place.
After studying "Green's Knowledge of Witchcraft Transformation" and "Guide to Corpse Refining", Thor already knew how to use some basic materials.
So every time he worked, if he could get more than two materials, he would leave one behind.
Will it be considered stealing?
Saul doesn't think so.
The book on corpse research that Mentor Kaz gave him was not just used to test the residual properties on the corpses.
The second half of the book is all about how to preserve materials, some simple applications, and a little discussion about the soul.
Since the tutor asked me to study this book, he must have wanted me to learn the following knowledge.
However, even if Thor bought special containers for perishable materials, it would be difficult to prevent the natural decay of the corpse.
Fortunately, the book "Corpse" also mentioned a level 0 witchcraft - organ preservation.
In order to learn this witchcraft, Thor must first master the complex dark attribute compound rune.
This is also the reason why he has been studying hard day and night these days.
However, the difficulty of this dark attribute compound rune was beyond Thor's imagination. Even though he had a high mental talent, he still couldn't quickly understand the principle behind it.
That's why he spent magic crystals to ask senior Mark for advice. Unfortunately, although senior Mark gave him some ideas for solving the problem, he still didn't find the correct answer.
Thor carefully used a pen to draw the basic shape of the composite rune on a piece of white paper.
"Through the coordinate axis, I can basically determine that the figure I drew is consistent with the original rune. But why can't I activate this rune when I use my mental power to draw it?"
This compound rune is already one of the simplest compound runes.
It looks like two basic runes overlapped to form a new pattern.
It's just that one of the runes is reduced in scale.
"Senior Mark said that a compound rune is not just the overlap of two basic runes, but also their proportional relationship should be taken into consideration. But I also distributed the magic power in proportion, but it seems that something is still wrong?"
"Senior Mark also said to pay attention to the angle. What is the angle of observation?"
Thor held the paper in front of him, at eye level.
Suddenly an idea struck him.
“Is it the perspective?”
Sol immediately put the paper down, took a ruler to find the center point to draw a perspective drawing, and tried to explore the distance between the two pictures by calculating the proportional relationship.
"wrong!"
After working for a long time, he still couldn't activate the rune.
"I calculated it more than ten times and it should be correct. It's not a perspective drawing."
Thor angrily crumpled up the compound rune that he had drawn into a mess and threw it into the trash can.
He stared at the waste paper in the trash can.
"What is wrong with my understanding?"
The runes in the trash can were crumpled up, with some parts concave, some convex, some vertical, and some flat.
It seemed as if countless small runes were dancing and jumping before Thor's eyes.
"Wait!" Thor's eyes suddenly lit up, and he slapped his forehead with his hand. "I have already thought that the two runes may not overlap, but exist in a spatial distance. Why didn't I think that the planes where the two runes are located are not necessarily parallel?"
Thor took out a new blank paper and drew a three-dimensional coordinate axis on it.
(End of this chapter)
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