It was said that opening the spell book was actually a matter of deciphering the magic item, but Sha Duo had no previous experience in this area, so after he started talking, he looked at Niya.
The specific operation still depends on her, but Xia Duo is not a big help or can't help. He is no stranger to the principles of cracking magic items, which is probably like the cracking software on earth.
If the essence of software is the specific route of electron flow, then magic is the specific route of energy flow.
The essence of spellcasting is to work on the magic network. Energy runs in the magic network. No matter what magic item it is, it will eventually come down to the combination of the magic network strings.
Similar to the fact that software does not have encryption at the machine language level, magic does not have encryption at the level of individual elements. In theory, any magic item or spell is open source.
This is also why mages don't like to cast spells in front of mages of the same level, because it can easily reveal their secrets.
Encryption when casting spells has a certain effect, but it is of little significance. Casting spells is a brain-consuming task, but encryption makes the spell casting process fragmented and unsystematic, which is not conducive to self-memorization and mastery.
Encryption is often used in the creation of magic items.
Without a thorough understanding of the principles of magic, a mage wouldn't even be able to tell whether it was encrypted or not.
In fact, if one does not consider the specific spells required to understand the magic item's design, nor does one consider the time cost, any encrypted magic item can be copied perfectly one-to-one.
This is like the copying of software. In fact, it is a perfect copy of information such as "01010" from the bottom layer. However, the copying of magic items not only involves information copying, but also production.
But if you want to know the source code of the software, unless it is not encrypted, you can only crack it through decompilation and other methods.
Magic items are similar.
The spell book that Xia Duo obtained was an encrypted spell book, but he also speculated that the encryption should only be the "shell", and the content inside should not be encrypted.
After all, who in their right mind would write in riddles?
But similarly, this encryption should also have some destruction features, otherwise the encryption would be meaningless, and the contents inside would not be visible after forced demolition.
In addition, this encryption should also be divided into different permission levels, otherwise it would be very troublesome to decrypt it every time you use it!
Therefore, if Xia Duo wants to open this spell book, he must at least complete the step of seizing the authority. Otherwise, he can only slowly unlock it.
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"I'll check first to see if there are any damage spells triggered."
Niya did not take action immediately. After all, it was a spell book written by a strange mage. She was not sure whether the Feld mage would include damaging spells in the spell book.
Of course, not just damaging spells, but any triggering spells need to be avoided.
Before the inspection, Niya first blessed herself with a full range of protective spells. A burst of magical light flashed. In Shado's magical vision, Niya had turned into a sparkling ball of light.
Xia Duo also cast spells for protection.
"Tower spirit, transformation spell laboratory protection mode, type 2 test mode."
Just as Niya finished speaking, Xia Duo discovered that the magic network environment in the laboratory had been slightly adjusted, and became - a little indescribable. Anyway, he did not find anything abnormal.
Immediately afterwards, Niya controlled the arcana and tried to connect the open magic network string of this spell book. This is a necessary step to use magic items. If there is no arcana, the only way is to connect the magic items to itself.
However, generally only relatively advanced magic items have such settings. Ordinary magic items will automatically generate a link as long as the user comes into contact with them for a long time. This time ranges from a few minutes to dozens of hours.
From this perspective, the magic items that a mage can use at the same time are limited, and it is unlikely that a person will have ten rings on his hand.
Niya's link attempt was not successful, but it was not considered a failure. At least it did not trigger any triggering spells. The spell book with a light yellow cover was still lying safely in the lead box.
"It doesn't look like there is a trigger spell set on the link. I'm going to pick it up and take a look to see if there is a trigger spell set on the touch."
Niya's eyes were shining, and her tone was a little nervous and a little excited, but when Xia Duo saw her like this, she was a little worried about her state:
"Wait a minute, I will try to use the [Identification Technique] first. See if there are any tamed alien slaves in Giles Tower, and let the slaves try to touch them."
"This spell book is at least connected to the fifth level of the magic network. We can't tell how many more there are behind it. The identification spell shouldn't work, right?" Niya was a little confused.
"It won't take much to try, but you, you don't look like a calm spell caster in your current state."
When Xia Duo said this, Niya was shocked at first, but quickly reacted, "Sorry, this is my first time to conduct this kind of cracking experiment. I will go find the slave now."
After saying that, Nia left the laboratory.
Xia Duo also mentioned slaves casually. Unexpectedly, there were actually slaves in Giles Tower. Xia Duo was somewhat repelled by the use of slaves, whether it was due to civilized moral concepts or practical interests.
But in Netheril, slaves are a very real problem. Except for aliens, even Nese people may become slaves.
In addition, even if slaves are not needed, as long as they are willing to pay, there will be a lot of people willing to participate in magic experiments.
Even on Earth, there are various medical experiment volunteers. However, compared to the slaves in Netheril who have no choice, the Earth has long formed a complete volunteer recruitment process, which can guarantee the safety to a certain extent. Volunteer safety.
As long as there is no evil intention, Xia Duo does not object to using it for experiments. As for the danger, that is actually something that volunteers need to consider, or something that some review committee that has not yet formed needs to consider.
If Netheril wants to develop, it will definitely form a relatively complete recruitment process for experimental volunteers. After all, to say the least, experimenters who actively participate will at least bring higher experimental efficiency than those who are forced to participate.
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Just when Niya left to contact the slave, Xia Duo was about to try using the [Identification Technique]. Although he knew that the probability of direct identification was very slim, as he and Niya said, it would not be troublesome to try. .
And regardless of whether all the information in the spell book is identified or not, at least there will be no gain at all.
