Chapter 134: Envoy Summons
Jia Na, who had gently exhaled and whose consciousness had returned to her Main Material World body, opened her eyes, looking slightly weary.
“Is this what it feels like to comprehend Law—”
Rubbing her temples, which felt swollen, Jia Na felt a continuous wave of dizziness in her mind.
“The objective manifestation of Law is composed of tens of thousands of Mysticism characters. Observing the entire process requires not only intense concentration but also the need to sort the disordered characters in sync with the displayed patterns of the Purification Law—comprehending Law is truly a vast and arduous undertaking—”
【Today's Task: Comprehend Purification Law (Completed);
Task Reward: 100 Talent Experience, 500 Skill Experience, Comprehension +0.1】
After adding the Talent Experience to her Plant Affinity talent, Jia Na looked at the random reward for this time.
“The reward this time is actually Comprehension, which is not bad.”
Through her observation, Jia Na concluded that an increase in the Comprehension attribute would greatly enhance her learning ability in the field of Mysticism or with various idealistic knowledge.
Just like Metamorphosis, or Law Comprehension, they are all linked to the Comprehension talent.
“Tick-tock—”
Looking at the time on the wall, due to the nearly one-to-one time flow ratio between the Main Material World and the Heavenly Holy World, Jia Na, who was mentally exhausted, had to interrupt her Spiritual Body form and return to her main body after only fifteen minutes.
“Fortunately, the Spiritual Body Shuttle talent can be performed simultaneously with meditation—although it's only shallow meditation, it's still pretty good.”
Jia Na believed that as long as she put in the effort, iron would surely be ground into a needle.
As she became more adept at multitasking, Jia Na believed that one day, sooner or later, she would be able to enter a state of deep meditation while simultaneously using her Wizard Talents.
“Caw—Caw—”
Hearing the Raven's habitual cry outside, Jia Na, who had checked the time again, closed her eyes and re-entered a state of meditation.
After a full night of deep meditation rest on Saturday, the fatigue Jia Na felt from comprehending the Purification Law was swept away.
After having a simple breakfast in the cafeteria and packing a few honey pancakes, Jia Na returned to her dormitory and continued studying the remaining five Witchcraft spells.
Jia Na discovered that besides Plant-based Witchcraft, her progress in learning mind-control Witchcraft was also very fast.
Perhaps because her mind was clearer in the morning, it didn't take long for Jia Na to successfully complete the study of Mind Enchantment and soul Shriek.
“Compared to Plant-based Witchcraft, my talent for learning mind-control Witchcraft seems to be a bit higher—”
Especially Mind Enchantment, combined with Jia Na's own extremely high Charm, which is close to Extraordinary Charm, it can achieve an enchantment effect far exceeding Siren's Chant even at the beginner level.
On this point, the Celestial Sparrow, who served as a practice target for the Witchcraft, had the most say.
“But Siren's Chant has the advantage of being a group attack. Even if Mind Enchantment's mind-control ability is strong, it only excels at single-target effects—you could say they each have their advantages.”
Besides Mind Enchantment, Jia Na's learning of the soul-control Witchcraft, soul Shriek, was also very fast.
Furthermore, this Witchcraft is different from Soul Lash, which is also a soul Witchcraft; it belongs to the category of group attack Witchcraft like Siren's Chant. This can be considered as compensating for Jia Na's lack of group attack methods while in her spiritual body state.
In the time that followed, Jia Na successively completed the study of two general Witchcraft spells: Sleep Spell and Forgetfulness Spell.
Although the names of these two Witchcraft spells sound relatively simple, the construction of their Witchcraft symbols was not easy at all.
It took Jia Na almost twice the time it took for Mind Enchantment and soul Shriek to barely complete the full interpretation of the magic scrolls.
“As expected, compared to self-study, I still prefer to listen to Professor Margaret's live teaching—.”
Self-studying Witchcraft from magic scrolls requires Jia Na to first figure out the entire casting principle and model structure of the Witchcraft herself.
The time spent on this alone accounted for almost four-fifths of the entire Witchcraft learning time.
Whereas learning in class is completely about Formal Wizards directly breaking down and spoon-feeding the difficult points and key points into the Wizard Apprentice's mind, with no need for extra effort to ponder and understand.
Therefore, Witchcraft spells like Reading Magic and Wizard's Hand could be cast effortlessly and quickly by Jia Na when learning in class, completely unlike the current struggle.
“Now, only Envoy Summons is left.”
And the last Witchcraft is precisely the one among these seven that requires the most credits to exchange, and it is also the most difficult to learn.
At the same time, just like Contract Summoning and Elf Summoning, casting this Witchcraft requires additional ritual materials. Although the items are not as numerous as the other two Witchcraft spells, it is still a cost.
“Although using Afu as an envoy is not impossible—it's a bit bullying.”
Although the Celestial Sparrow is extremely loyal to Jia Na, in the end, the contract signed between them is merely an equal contract, and Jia Na cannot casually order the other party around as a laborer.
Moreover, to become an “envoy,” the requirement for travel speed is extremely high.
Given the Celestial Sparrow's flying speed, it can deliver messages over short distances, but if the distance is great, the time cost might have to be measured in “months.”
On the remaining sea beast hide from the last purchase, after completing the magic circle inscription, Jia Na took out a lit spiritual candle and placed it in the center of the magic circle.
“Travelers wandering among billions of planes, friendly creatures in the Spirit World that can be commanded, I summon you in the name of Jia Na-Luo Lan—”
Whoosh!
The moment Jia Na completed the summoning incantation in Mithris Language, a spiritual wind suddenly surged within the dormitory, causing Jia Na's smooth black hair to scatter.
As the flame on the spiritual candle suddenly swelled, Jia Na, who was maintaining the ritual, could clearly feel a sense of being watched from all around.
There was greed, friendliness, scrutiny, madness.
Sensing the varied emotions from different gazes, Jia Na, as the ritual summoner, remained calm and composed, not revealing even a sliver of her true emotions.
“Thump-thump-thump—”
As a rhythmic knocking sound echoed in her ears, the sense of being watched that had surrounded Jia Na also abruptly ceased.
She saw a dark shadow slowly emerge from the void within the rapidly expanding pale white Flame. As the candle wax quickly dripped, Jia Na, standing before the ritual, finally saw the true appearance of the envoy she had summoned.
A tall black top hat, a slightly worn black tailcoat, and a single-lens monocle with a gold rim. If not for the constantly twitching wooden poles for legs, Jia Na would have thought she had summoned a human noble.
“A—scarecrow?”
Beneath the wide brim of the hat was a somewhat stiff, round scarecrow head. Under the black tailcoat, the two “arms” were spread out in a cross shape, just like a common scarecrow in a field.
Just from the appearance of the envoy Jia Na had just summoned, it didn't look like it would be very fast at delivering messages...