Chapter 1257

For any hostile attack, there must be a target, even if it is an imaginary target.

Just like shooting a target with a pistol, whether to shoot the head, or to aim at the torso requires an exact attackable target, and a target that can be attacked.

It's the same with soul attacks.

Its target must be the soul.

So the question arises, how to defend against it.

In general, there are three types of soul attacks:

One is the Fortune Curse, which targets the target's overall soul.

The second is the curse, which does not have an immediate killing effect, but can continue to cause damage to the target's soul.

The third is distortion, such as the charm of Meiwa or the control of pure-blooded elves, or the Imperius Curse, which will not cause serious damage to the soul, but can affect the target's consciousness through the soul. The last time Cadmus showed Solim was capable of this.

The three ways of dealing with it are completely different.

The simplest is the Twisted Class, which can be exempted to a certain extent as long as you have a strong will. Imperius training is all about training the mind of a wizard.

But this Fang 500 style is completely ineffective in the face of the other two ways of damage - no matter how firm your mind is in the face of the Curse of Death, you still have to die.

When faced with magic that directly harms the soul, there are usually two ways to defend against it:

One is to change the goal.

In this regard, the Ministry of Magic has already taken action. When performing extremely dangerous missions, the Aurors usually wear the so-called Imperception vest – a piece of protective equipment that is stuffed with live critters such as frogs, squirrels, and snakes in the mezzanine to defend against the Curse.

It really works.

When the dazzling green light of the Requisition Charm hit the vest, the first target was the critters, and the wizard himself was spared.

This is a way to achieve defense by changing the target of the enchantment.

However, this method also has limitations, and once it encounters curse-type damage, it often does not work.

So another kind of ...... was born It's not so much a defensive method as an evasive technique.

Cursed soul injuries are not immediate, but slow torture, like a piece of paper that has been lit up, it takes time to spread, so it gives wizards room to operate.

A piece of paper has been set on fire, what do you do if you want to avoid the whole sheet of paper from turning to ashes?

Extinguish the flames?

This is a good idea, but removing a curse on a soul is not a matter of blowing a breath, and by the time the wizard figures out how the curse works and the weaknesses of its structure, the piece of paper on the soul is almost burned.

Therefore, it is necessary to make a decision immediately.

Horcruxes, a way of actively splitting souls, were born.

By dividing up a portion of the cursed soul, the rest is preserved. When it comes to the choice of life and a part of the soul, no one can choose wrong.

It took Solim a week just to read the books on the subject—and after leaving out the two-day break and time to deal with personal problems, he spent almost all of his time on it.

He did find ways to defend his soul, but he couldn't accept the methods described in the book.

In line with the Ministry of Magic's Anti-Calling Vest, the Selwyn family collection records a similar method, only more cruel and evil.

The Ministry of Magic uses critters, and this method uses souls directly.

Extract and preserve the soul of a living person, and then seal it into a talisman through alchemy, and then use magic marks to actively lure it to attack the amulet when encountering magic against the wearer's soul, so as to protect the wearer.

The idea is fine, and the effect has been proven, but the means are too evil.

Solim also visited the castle (CDDF) once to ask the family's librarian, Thoth, the living library, and received a somewhat sensational message.

About the Dementors. (If you read a violent novel, go to Feilu Novel Network!)

Soul amulets are a bloody and evil industry chain, because they are consumables, so soul amulets need to be continuously produced, but the work of collecting complete souls is too cumbersome - it requires the cooperation of magic, curses and alchemy, in order to improve efficiency and success rate, the pure-blood family has gathered magical biology experts, dark magic masters, curse masters, and alchemists to cultivate a kind of monster that can ingest souls - dementors.

It is able to ingest the soul in its entirety and store it in the body. As long as it is removed by the wizard at the right time, a complete soul can be obtained.

It's a lot simpler than a tedious soul extraction ritual.

Every time a soul amulet is made, an innocent person dies. Solim felt that he could not accept this form of protection.

It's not that he's hypocritical, it's not that he's kind, it's that he can't fall into the abyss of dark magic so easily - he needs to keep his balance.

Maintaining balance requires a bottom line, and if he really feels indifferent to such a truly evil thing, Solim is truly depraved.

He could not accept such consequences.

Of course, he was not averse to using an evil and filthy soul as a consumable amulet, but he did not have that craft. If Solim wanted to make a soul talisman that didn't violate the bottom line, he would have to do it himself. But he obviously doesn't have the ability.

Judging from Solim's current level, he can only rely on external objects more to protect his soul than his own strength.

He doesn't know any of the soul bait spells, soul cutting spells, and diversion spells that can act as a defense for the soul. []

It's not that he doesn't want to learn, it's that he doesn't meet the prerequisites for learning at all.

These advanced soul-acting spells almost always rely on the solid soul of the archwizard to be cast. If the spell was cast rashly at Solim's current level, the only result would be another wound to the soul.

At the moment, it seems that the only way for Solim to ensure that his soul is not wounded again is to stay on the island of Neasto. In this way, all external harm can be eliminated.

He did intend to do so.

During this time of improving his level, Solim is ready to find himself a teacher in the castle. After grinding his tongue for a long time, the tireless Levits finally agreed to make the family librarian, Thoth, Solim's teacher.

Thoth. Selwin and Solim's great-grandfather, Levites, were men of generation, and nearly a century as a wizard gave the librarian enough knowledge to teach Solim.

In the morning, Toth had to do some sorting and transcribing work, and only in the afternoon and evening could he leave it to Solim.

In terms of time, this arrangement is quite extravagant.