Chapter 133: The Complete Uncovering of Mysteries and Taboos

In mysticism, there is a kind of research called "forbidden knowledge".

Accompanying the forbidden knowledge is another thing: distortion value.

Whenever someone learns the forbidden knowledge, his "distortion value" will increase. The higher the distortion value, the more likely it is that some strange phenomena will occur on him.

In the lighter cases, a sticky dirty water polluted by spells will suddenly appear under his feet, or his eyes will suddenly darken and he can't see clearly, or he will become very hungry and want to eat everything he sees, but he can't eat enough.

In the more serious cases, various hallucinations will occur. Sometimes, this hallucination will be a densely packed spider crawling out of the void, and they will attack the hallucination generator.

It should be noted that even if these hallucinations can only be seen by the person concerned, if you let those "illusion spiders" bite you, you will really die, so if you see a mysterious messenger fighting with the air, don't be surprised, they are just protecting themselves.

In addition to hallucinations, some people may suddenly feel a burst of heat, then spontaneously combust out of thin air, and then curses will appear on their bodies and keep losing blood.

In fact, those that only affect oneself are relatively good. Some distortion phenomena will turn the distorted person into a pollution source, and all lives touched will also be polluted...

However, in addition to the bad phenomena, sometimes some neutral phenomena will occur, such as an impressive distortion: "Death Gaze", which usually only appears in those whose distortion value is hopelessly high.

People with Death Gaze will have a very narrow visual range and cannot see things too far away, but all creatures seen by people with Death Gaze will gradually wither and die.

Just as its name suggests, Death Gaze will kill anyone who looks at it, but it will not hurt the owner itself, and sometimes it can be used as a means of attack.

There are many strange phenomena brought about by taboo knowledge, and they are hard to guard against the harassment of the mysterious messenger, and they may happen at any time.

And most of these phenomena cannot be eliminated by milk, and can only be resisted.

It is worth mentioning that some of these phenomena are simply caused by the confusion of one's own consciousness and thoughts due to the study of taboo knowledge.

Others, it was because these studies touched certain beings in the outer domain.

They noticed the researchers of the taboo and tried to send their minions over, or exert influence from the void.

When the researchers of mysticism touched the taboo, the taboo would find him.

However.

From the official start of the research to now, Levi felt that his distortion value had accumulated to a considerable extent, and his vision had been dimmed to the point where he could not see clearly several times.

But he had never seen a more serious phenomenon.

Especially those phenomena that were obviously directly interfered by the existence of the outer domain.

They seemed to be isolated by something and could not penetrate their power here.

All the influences exerted by the existence of the outer domain disappeared, and only those distortions from the researchers themselves were still in effect.

They could not interfere here.

"Doesn't that mean that I can study the taboo knowledge at will?"

Thank the God of Creation.

Although most of the distortion effects are not a big threat to Levi, it is still annoying to harass him from time to time.

Especially there are effects that can affect others.

Although something called "demon-removing soap" can remove the distortion on the body, it can only remove temporary distortions that are not permanent. The real deep-rooted permanent distortion will still take effect.

The impact caused by permanent distortion basically has a shadow of some existence.

Before this, Levi was a little worried.

Now it's good, the creator of this world has withstood everything for him.

Obviously, those things in the outer domain are far less worthy than the creator gods of Arda, and they can't affect here.

Evaluation: Not as good as Sauron.

The sun rises and the moon sets, and several days have passed in a blink of an eye.

On this day, Levi walked out of the tower, embracing the warm light of the sun, and felt that the distortion value was removed a lot.

During this period of time, he unlocked all the chapters and chapters of mysticism-except for witchcraft, which is the research leading to the void of the outer domain.

To open witchcraft, you need something called "Witchcraft Book", which is usually only carried by cultists.

Obviously, there are no cultists in Middle-earth.     At least not yet.

But it's not a big deal. Some of the things revealed by the witchcraft are not necessary. It's good to be a serious mystic.

Now, all the research is ready.

Then the most important thing is to start the first step of the arrangement, which is also the arrangement throughout the entire mysticism research career-the magic altar.

This device can inject magic elements into ordinary objects, or integrate multiple things containing different elements into one, so that they can be aggregated into some extraordinary items.

This is "refining chemistry".

The magic altar is not like a synthesis table. It is a multi-block structure that requires a certain building area. Since the first floor of the tower has been planned, Levi directly opened up the second floor of the tower, which is dedicated to magic injection and various magic crafts.

In this way, the magic elements stored in ordinary wooden staffs were consumed, and the materials needed to build the magic altar were also prepared.

Snap!

As the 25 points of various elements stored in the ordinary wooden staff at the end of a golden staff were consumed, a square rune matrix slowly rose, and the arcane stones at the four corners incredibly turned into cylinders, guarding the rune matrix.

This is the core of the magic-infused altar, which can play the role of calculation and execution, and also has a certain element storage capacity, which is equivalent to a simple magic version of a computer.

After the core of the magic-infused altar was completed, Levi put down a pile of pedestals around it.

In this way, the prototype of the altar was built.

But it’s not over yet. Magic research is always accompanied by risks. When using the magic-infused altar to make some more advanced magic items, it is possible to make mistakes, and the way to reduce the probability of errors is to place a large number of magical objects around.

So, the rotten meat dropped by the orcs a long time ago came in handy.

These rotten meat can be refined into magic grease in a crucible, and the magic grease can be made into grease candles, which is a relatively low-cost and relatively beautiful magic-containing ornament.

Levi took the time to go back to the roadside fort and took out several groups of rotten meat from the box he had put there a long time ago.

Little Pink came over curiously and sniffed it.

Little Pink walked away in disgust.

Although Little Pink disliked it, Levi didn't dislike it.

"Let us thank Oak, they have made an indelible contribution to the development of mysticism."

After a while, a full 169 oil candles were placed at the bottom of the magic-infused altar to provide stability.

After the fully equipped magic-infused altar was built, Levi opened the magic manual again, built other necessary facilities one by one, and placed them on the second floor of the tower.

After doing this, it was time to solve another problem: elemental fragments.

This is something that is indispensable for the development of mysticism. It usually needs to be mined, but there is no such mine in Middle-earth, and Hell does not generate it.

There are no elemental fragments in mysticism, just like there is no wood in my world, and it is impossible to play.

But fortunately, the magic manual reveals another way to obtain elemental fragments: throw quartz fragments into a crucible with basic elements, and you can refine elemental fragments with corresponding attributes.

In this way, the problem of this major basic resource is solved.

With all the conditions in place, Levi couldn't wait to start fiddling with bottles and jars, and then used the element distiller to separate the required elements from various materials, and made a quartz staff as soon as possible.

This staff has a magic element storage capacity that is three times stronger than the wooden staff, with 75 points. Replacing it with this is like changing a weapon from a wooden sword to an iron sword, which is a big upgrade.

75 points is a threshold. A more powerful staff than it is the Silver Tree Staff, which can store 100 points of magic. A lower level than it is the Grand Wood Staff, which has a storage capacity of 50 points.

It's just that this world has neither silver trees nor grand oak trees.

But... trees that contain magic elements like silver trees seem to exist on this continent.

Levi's thoughts drifted from the tower to the Golden Forest on the east side of the Misty Mountains, which is the territory where Lady Galadriel lives: Lothlórien.

There, the ground is full of maolong trees with silver-white trunks and golden leaves.

That tree is not native to Middle-earth, but originated from the holy land where the powerful people of the West live.

——Valinor.