Chapter 24: Ten Thousand Dragon Feast
So, let's go straight to the next step, constructing the element node.
How do we construct elemental nodes?
As a matter of fact, the elemental nodes are embedded in the location of every sound turn of the Ancient Dragon Language.
The key to laying out the nodes lies in the interplay of the Ancient Dragon Language, spiritual energy, and the elements within you!
While chanting the Ancient Dragon Language, use your spiritual energy to encase the elements, and then at the position of each sound turn, control the elements not to move, and this position is the position of the node.
If we use a little bit of image to say, the air in front of us is a piece of paper, the Ancient Dragon Language is a string of words written on the paper, the spiritual power is the pen, and the magic element is the ink.
What we have to do is, at each node of this string of words, use the ink in the pen to leave an imprint at the location of these nodes.
When all the imprints are complete, it will automatically absorb the free elements.
In this way, a magic will be completely formed!’
After a pause, Winters looked at the five little ones.
‘What I have said is straightforward enough, so what you all have to do next is to practice your respective magic according to what I have said.
Of course, what you're going to practice is the lowest level of magic in your respective elemental affinities, uh ......Let me think for a moment ......
Celine, your elemental affinity is light, so the magic you'll be practising is Light Arrow!’
Saying that, a rather awkward syllable came out from Winters' mouth.
Then, Winters looked at Ao again.
‘Your elemental affinities are fire and earth, so, ‘Fireball’ and ‘Earth Spike’ are your choice, of course, it's fine to practice both together.
Billy, you are ‘Fireball’.
Dinnet, your elemental affinity is nature, and your spit is of nature, favouring the natural spit of life, so, you practice ‘Vine’.
As for Vite ......’
Seeing that Winters paused for a moment, Veit smiled and said, ‘It's alright Winters, just watch from here!’
Upon hearing this, Winters, however, cried and laughed and said, ‘Veit, don't think about being lazy, since you're learning magic, naturally you can't skip the step of practice.
Theory isn't able to probe the mysteries of magic!
The reason why I hesitated is because I was thinking, inside your elemental affinity, besides the fire element, is there any water element, if there is, then it would be troublesome, you need to listen to the cultivation of water elemental magic first.’
Veit looked at Winters with quite a surprise.
‘I thought I couldn't release magic?’
‘Not being able to cast magic doesn't mean, you can't practice magic, it seems that you didn't seriously think about what I just said, the three elements of magic, spiritual power, the magic elements in your body, also known as magical power (collectively referred to as magical power from now on), and the outside world's free elements.
Of the three, you only have the last of the free elements, which you do not possess, and they will be absorbed by your body when they are near you.
However, the only thing that requires the use of free elements is the final step of releasing magic!
So, although your magic can't be released, you can carry it to the step of constructing an elemental node!’
Hearing this, Veit's eyes lit up, but then the anticipation in his eyes was replaced by doubt.
‘But if that's the case, then how should I judge that I've succeeded in my elemental node construction? Because whether it succeeds, or fails, I can't release magic!’
At those words, Winters let out a light laugh.
‘You can't release magic, but you can stop me from releasing it!
You need to construct the ‘Fireball’ magic node first, and then corresponding to the node you constructed yourself, use your spiritual power to influence the ‘Fireball’ node I constructed.
If my magic is affected, then it means that the position of the node you constructed is correct, and if I still use the fireball, then it means that your ‘fireball’ node, is wrong!
Want to challenge me?’
‘Fireball!’
The tongue-twisting incantation was spat out from Winters' mouth, but to Veit's ears, it was quite clear.
Because this Winters had deliberately slowed down the speed of the incantation.
Veit stared dead on at Winters' claws, where a ball of fire, was slowly gathering, while Veit struggled to use his pitiful mental power to try to shake the elemental nodes that Winters had built up.
In fact, he had already succeeded twice!
According to Winters, lower level magic normally had three to fifteen magic nodes, and lower level magic like the ones Winters chose for the five little ones basically had less than five nodes.
Just like the fireball, there were only four elemental nodes.
Veit managed to interfere with Winters' magic release twice, which meant that Veit had already found the location of two elemental nodes.
Of course, it wasn't something that could be succeeded once or twice!
In fact, it was already evening.
Veit and the others had been immersed in the practice of constructing elemental nodes, apart from practising for fifteen minutes every other magic hour (Veit was rather thankful that the way time was measured in this world was more or less the same as the one among the bloodline genetics).
And until now, Celine and the others, none of the little dragons were able to release magic.
The construction of elemental nodes was quite rigorous, and the slightest mistake would lead to a failure in releasing magic.
This day, managed to make Celine and the others, detach themselves from the complacency of being able to easily use the dragon's spit, and this, was what Winters wanted to see.
Humility made dragons improve, and this was just as universal when it came to the study of magic.
At the very least, Billy's attention was no longer focused on the matter of, well, shoving magical targets into his mouth, but instead, he had been hard at work constructing his elemental nodes.
Sizzling heat, steeply burst out, a fireball in Winters' hand, like the size of a grain of rice, in Vet's lost gaze, completely formed!
Seeing this, Winters softly said, ‘’Veit, you've already done very well, intervening in the forming of magic is far more difficult than casting magic yourself.
This is because if you just release the magic yourself, you only need to find the location of the elemental nodes in your own spell.
But when you intervene in someone else's magic, you have to find the location of the elemental nodes in their spell and intervene precisely with your spiritual power.
To be honest, I thought that you would need at least three sessions before you could successfully intervene once!
Veit, you've surprised me!’
Hearing this, the loss in Veit's heart was instantly swept away.
‘Really?’
‘Of course, besides, haven't you realised? The basis of Dragon Language Magic is the construction of elemental nodes, however, the nodes that are constructed are contained within the spell.
That is to say, if you can manage to hear the incantation while immediately looking for the location of the node, then magic will no longer be a threat to you!
After all, ...... did you use the power of the elements in interrupting the process of casting spells?’
Veit was first stunned, then his face revealed ecstasy!
If he was really able to do what Winters said, then, not only fire elemental magic, but any other arbitrary elemental magic, in front of him, would be useless!
But ......
‘This should be something that every dragon, can do, after all, just like you said, in interrupting the casting of the spell, I only used my spiritual power!’
Hearing Veit's words, Celine and the others couldn't help but stop their spell practice and all looked over.
Winters of course noticed this, and she nodded with a smile.
‘It's true that every dragon is able to do it, but not every dragon is willing to do it!
Veit, the interruption of magic is actually not as simple as you think it is, for example, right now, you're interfering with my use of Fireball by interfering with the first node!’
Saying that, Winters started chanting an incantation under his breath, and Veit rushed to use his spiritual power to interfere with the construction of the first node.
However, this time, Veit was unsuccessful, even with his interference, the first node was still steadily constructed.
Looking at the fireball on Winters' claws, Veit froze, then hurriedly asked, ’Why is this?’
‘Because of the difference in strength!
My spiritual power is far stronger than yours, so your spiritual power couldn't shake mine at all, and the elemental node was still constructed.
Therefore, in the case where your spiritual power is no match for your opponent's, it is very difficult to interfere with the construction of the opponent's elemental nodes.
On top of that, there were all sorts of situations.
Fireball was just a lower level magic, the number of nodes was only four, so if you interfered with one node, you would be able to affect the overall structure of the magic.
However, if the number of nodes was high enough, if you interfered with just one node, it basically wouldn't have too much of an impact on the construction of the magic, and at most, the power would be weakened a little bit.
So, if the magic has more elemental nodes, you would need to affect at least one third of the elemental nodes at the same time in order to affect the casting of the magic.
Also ......’
Saying that, Winters turned to look at Celine at the side.
‘Celine, let's say that you and Ao are fighting with magic.
Then, when Ao starts chanting a spell, do you choose to interfere with the magic, or do you respond with a more powerful magic?’