Sacrifice is also a means of obtaining corresponding items through some kind of exchange, but it is very different from alchemy. First, sacrifice only accepts life in exchange; second, there is no fixed conversion formula for sacrifice, it all depends on whether it pleases some unknown existence; third, sacrifice cannot lock in the demand, and can only pray for a certain range.
"Star Ring...damn guy."
When she repeated the name, Xue Ni's tone was already cold.
"Don't be impulsive, Xue Ni."
"Don't worry, I know very well what those guys are like. Since the prince will be released at this time, either he has no use value, or... it is a trap." Xue Ni sneered, "But they are too Have you underestimated Evarang? It was defeated by us when it was in its heyday, and now there is only a bunch of scraps left that are still trying to make trouble in our base camp? It’s time to give these guys some color."
After Lu Ning heard what Xue Ni said, she gave up her plan to continue persuading her. Xue Ni is different from other students, at least in terms of overall consideration, she is definitely better. Since she said so, Lu Ning took it as if she was really sure.
"Xue Ni, I won't stop you from taking any revenge, but remember, your enemy is the Star Ring Sect, do you understand?"
"Of course, what do you mean by this? Didn't we confirm that the Star Ring Sect was behind this sacrifice?"
"Yes, confirmed. Therefore, if you are not sure of the other party's identity, do not try to provoke the other party."
Xue Ni suddenly raised her head and stared at Lu Ning for a long time.
"……I see."
She didn't say anything, but it could be seen from the changes in her eyes that she understood the hidden meaning of Lu Ning's words.
"I want to take this Dark Crystal away, and I don't think you need to produce evidence to question this matter." Lu Ning pointed to the large crystal on the table. Xue Ni nodded casually and didn't ask what Lu Ning wanted to do with this.
When the two left the laboratory and walked towards the main road entering the school, they happened to see the guards stopping a person.
"What do you mean? You don't know me? Hey! I'm going to give a lecture at your place in three days. If I come here early, you won't recognize me? Who has lost his mind to make such rigid rules?"
Lu Ning didn't even need to look at this familiar tone to know who was coming. She should be thankful that Soygo at least hadn't started taunting him here yet, otherwise he might have been knocked unconscious and dragged away.
"Mr. Soygo." Lu Ning hurriedly walked over. As soon as Soygo saw her, he immediately raised his arms and pushed several guards aside, and took two steps back. When the guards saw that he was not going inside, they stopped blocking him and made way for Lu Ning to come out.
"Hurry up and follow me, Lilian." Soygo still didn't care about other people's status. He just waved his hand and turned around to leave. Lu Ning had no choice but to look back and think of Xue Ni who waved, and then chased Soygo. .
"Mr. Soygo! Why are you here suddenly?"
"Looking for you."
"how do you know……"
"I have a friend whose brain is not very good but he can guess where people are quite accurately. It's just that it takes a little effort for him to speak people's words. That's not a problem. I'm here to show you what kind of person I am today. genius!"
"Are you done?" Lu Ning's eyes lit up.
"No!"
"...You can call me when you're done. I won't be stingy with words of praise, really." Even though Lu Ning had figured out this guy's temper, she still felt that talking to him was very tiring.
"Humph, you stinky girl." Soygo turned his head and glared at her, "Do you think all the problems will be solved if you take out such a small bead and come up with a bunch of fantastic theories?"
"Of course not. I have proposed those things and practiced them myself. I know very well how difficult some of the key points are."
"So, am I not a genius for being able to present in such a short time what you have imagined in your head?" Soygo said proudly.
"Then... what's the result?"
"What?" Soygo put on a surprised expression, "What result do you want?"
"Mr. Soygo, can we finish the business and start joking?"
"Hey, girl, this is your problem. What is your topic? How can I produce results?"
Refining things into nothingness.
If Soygo really succeeds, there will indeed be nothing left to gain.
"Did you really achieve the goal of refining 'nothing'?"
"Tsk, don't underestimate me." Soygo took her to a place where laboratories were rented, and immediately rented a high-end laboratory. After entering, he immediately blocked the internal and external passages, and then skillfully picked out the A few conventional raw materials were used to activate all the stacks of the refining formation, and for a while the room was filled with light.
"Lillian, now I have figured out the first step, which is the method of 'returning to zero', but I am stuck on the second step. The difficulty of turning one into zero is still a little worse than the difficulty of generating one from zero. , I can’t let Zero evolve naturally.”
"How do you accomplish zeroing?"
"It requires an extremely precise control ratio." Soygo began to adjust the magic flow. He was not like Lu Ning who adjusted based on existing formulas. Instead, he was very casual, waving the Midas touch like a conductor, refining changes. The magic flow on the formation was constantly changing. Just one glance at Lu Ning knew that this could not be a technique that he could understand in the short time in the scene.
"First of all, I need the ability to produce 100% pure substances. A little impurity will destroy this refining. Secondly, I need to accurately carry out the one-to-one refining of two opposite substances, such as the yin and yang you showed me. In this way , when matter is generated, they will spontaneously annihilate each other. But this is not enough, because the disappearance of matter will release energy, and the existence of energy is still not 'nothing'."
Soygo's explanation and refining were almost synchronized. Lu Ning had already seen the appearance of bright white spots the size of rice grains on the refining transformation array. This was the specific manifestation of the energy released when the generated material was being annihilated. This energy The positions are all on the magic flow nodes, and they start to move with Soygo's movements, like a starry sky. Lu Ning paid attention to how Soygo handled them - even though they were so small, the energy released by these things could interfere with the stability of the refining formation, enough to cause experimental accidents.
"This is how to use stacked formations!"
As Soygo shouted loudly, the refining formations on all the alchemy tables in front of him lit up together. A total of twenty-four refining formations were interlocked, and the magic flow circulated on all the refining formations, forming a The huge twenty-four-level stacked formation illuminated Soygo's expression of excitement and arrogance.
Lu Ning was also shocked. The twenty-four-layer stacked formation was completely devoid of any opportunism. It relied purely on knowledge, proficiency and powerful mental arithmetic. Soygo allowed her to truly see the gap between the two sides. In all aspects of alchemy - he Worthy of being a great mage.
"Lillian, the stacked array can maximize energy separation, but it also has a greater use. Tell me what it is?"
"The zoom effect."
Just like her previous attempts to visually reduce the distance between yin and yang, using stacked formations can break down "distance" into layers, allowing long distances to be realized within short distances. By now, she has understood what Soygo is going to do. The countless light spots floating on the refining formation are gradually getting closer, but the closer to the center of the gathering, the slower the speed becomes - in fact, the distance to be spanned is increasing.
However, Soygo's ongoing compression of the stacked array continued. More and more light points were generated, but the gathering speed also began to become slower and slower. With such a crazy compression of the distance, Lu Ning suddenly realized what was coming next. What might be seen.
In the central area where the light spots gathered, a tiny black spot appeared.
Lu Ning stood opposite Soygo's alchemy platform, so he could clearly see the highlights appearing at the edge of the area and the black in the center through the radiant refining array.
"Energy is released in the form of light, but we must make this energy disappear." Soygo smiled proudly, "Lillian, I think you are the first to see this magnificent sight besides me. people."
In this world.
Lu Ning looked at the black spot in the center. If he had to use something familiar to describe it, it would be a black hole. It's just that the black hole on the technological side uses gravitational capture to constrain light. It also distorts space-time caused by strong gravity, and forms a horizon for the observer. Soygo created a miniature "black hole" through distance. It does not have that strong gravity, but it is similar to a black hole in many characteristics.
"Look at the central area. The distance there has approached infinity. The light energy falling there can no longer escape, so nothing can be seen. And after all the light falls into that area, it wanders around the outside world. The substances we refined are gone, and in the last step, we have to compress this area to zero."
"How can we do it?"
"Hahaha, compress it to zero, in other words, make it no longer exist. Lilian, the material refining we carry out does not include this space." Soygo raised his finger and murmured a curse in his mouth. The golden magic shield protected Lu Ning's whole body, and at the same time, a similar magic shield was generated around him.
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"Goodbye!" Soygo raised the Midas Touch and stabbed the dark space that had collected all the light points like a sword.
The tiny black spot was pierced by the Midas touch, but in Lu Ning's eyes, the Midas touch stayed at the edge of the black spot and did not really penetrate.
There was a cracking sound in her ears, and then there was a strong wind. Lu Ning saw Soygo instantly let go of the hand holding the golden staff, and the purple magic light flowed between his fingers. In an instant, she understood that the last trick - banishment of advanced dark magic, was the best way to completely erase something.
The moment the black central area disappeared, Lu Ning suddenly felt a strong pulling force. The magic shield on his body suddenly deformed and tore apart after three to five seconds, turning into patches of light in the air. Soygo stretched out his hand to hold it. Looking into the air, with a satisfied smile: "When the infinite distance that originally existed here disappears, the normal space will supplement it. We have also completed the final compression process, but the problem is here. There is no way from here. A world is born again."
"Did you use banishment?" Lu Ning looked at the lab that was in a mess because of the last pull.
"I know exactly what I want to leave behind. I just exiled that space. The light inside is not a magic object. What I predicted was either a success and the light would disappear due to the self-compensation of the space, or a failure and the light would be absorbed again. Released, but now it seems that neither situation is the case." Soygo raised his hand and used magic to return the item to its place, frowning and telling the results of his experiment, "I think there must be something wrong inside."
"We can't observe within the field of view, so we naturally don't know what's going on inside. But... it's still okay to guess." Lu Ning walked to the place where the black spot was generated before, squinted his eyes and observed carefully, "Don't you think it's strange? ?Mr. Soygo, the distance you have compressed here has exceeded the entire continent, but it has not caused much impact on the outside world."
"Um?"
"I mean, maybe you didn't think that much about the current compression of distance, or you missed something when you were exiled." Lu Ning thought for a moment about what to say, "To put it simply, maybe In the first few tens of meters, your space compression is based on our current world, but when the core distance ratio becomes large enough, you start to compress not only the world we know today. You have no actual knowledge of the distance, so you have not noticed...part of the energy has escaped through the 'direction' beyond this world."
"What the hell theory is this?" It was Soygo's turn to be confused. Lu Ning was helpless. Although magic research had become popular in the magic world here, how could she explain to him the dimensional problem that no one had discovered yet?
Lu Ning had ideas but had difficulty conveying them because she didn't have the skills yet. Soygo has skills but still doesn't quite understand them. The two looked at each other and froze for a moment. Unexpectedly, night had already fallen outside.
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At this time, in an old house in the Sapphire District, several people in black robes were busy moving boxes.
"The library will be closed and opened tomorrow." A person who seemed to be in charge said, "But tomorrow happens to be Heinz's shift. We can definitely use his plan to complete the sacrifice tonight."
"But... the sacrifices may not be enough." Another person replied, "The owner's family here, plus the homeless people we temporarily captured, there are only eighteen people in total."
"As long as a passage can be opened, the gods will collect the subsequent sacrifices in person, so we don't have to worry." The person in charge said through gritted teeth, "No matter what, we have to show Evarang how powerful we are!"
"We are doing this privately, and Heinz will probably be unhappy."
"Him? Huh, he is just using us, and the Preluder actually listens to him. Who would recognize him as the leader of this kind of guy? Huh? Hey, which one of you started the fire?"
"No... is there a fire? Hey! You guys go check on some people!"
Several lower-status black robes immediately opened the door to the back room and cursed loudly: "You people who are looking at people, also pay attention to your surroundings -"
puff.
The speaker was hit by an arrow in his eye socket. The arrow, which was completely condensed with ice, pierced his head and instantly froze his brain, leaving him no time to scream. While others saw their companions being attacked, they also saw the sacrificial site that had been prepared behind them burning. A man stood in front of the flames, with his back to them, raising his head as if looking at something.
"It's an enemy attack!"
The person who shouted these words was hit by a second arrow, and even the magic shield he opened had no effect. The ice arrow penetrated his head without any hindrance, like hot iron passing through butter.
However, the remaining people finally found the location of the attacker based on these two attacks. It was on a barn not far away. A man holding a longbow was watching here. The distance between the two sides was about two hundred. rice.
——The range limit of normal magic.
