Chapter 198 Symbolism
Alka came to Xiadaiti with a puzzled look and a frown on his face .
Looking at the person on Xia Daiti's shoulder.
At this time, Er was holding Xiadaiti's hair and looking at Alka next to him. She turned her head and stared at him.
She tilted her head to look at him and smiled, instead of moving away in disgust like she did when Jason approached her.
"Why don't you dislike Alka?" Jason couldn't help but ask.
Julia, who was standing next to him, looked at him and said, "Maybe Alka is her creator."
This was not the reason she actually wanted to talk about. After all, if the doll was similar to Xia Daiti, then there must be other reasons.
Alka stretched out his hand, and Er seemed to understand what he meant and jumped directly into his hand.
She was very cooperative and also fully demonstrated her more spiritual behavior.
"Don't use magic, just stand there and relax while I check you." Alka said to the weapon in his hand.
Er nodded: "Okay."
A hand of precision appeared on Alka's right hand, and then a pair of glasses appeared in his hand. There was an extra lens in front of the lens of the right eye, which seemed to be able to magnify.
Put the glasses on your eyes, overlapping all the extra lenses in front of the right eye lens.
He began to control her hair delicately with his precise hands. The magic light curtain kept scanning her hair back and forth.
He wanted to see whether there was really hair inside, and at the same time wanted to see if the hair had any strange effect.
More than 20 minutes passed like this, and Alka's head was sweating before he finally lifted up his glasses.
Let out a breath.
Put the two in your hand on the deck.
"How is it? Are the results of the examination revealed?" Xia Daiti asked curiously from the side.
Alka's eyes were filled with confusion at this moment.
"Why? It's really the hair that caused the change, but why? It's just hair, just a few strands of hair, not even the material."
Repeating this, Alka sat down on the edge of the garden, propping up his head and thinking in confusion.
"There's nothing scientific about this, and there's nothing logical about this."
Listening to Alka's strange words, Lucilia, who was sitting next to him, replied, "That's not true. There are many stories and records that mention pulling out the enemy's hair to curse them. Maybe the hair has a strange symbol, or even connects to the soul of the person."
After hearing Lucilia's words, Alka turned around and looked at her. It seemed that this was indeed a possibility.
Although it is unscientific, it is very magical and very consistent with the occult.
After all, in magic and the occult, hair generally has strange functions, and has strange references and intentions.
It is indeed as Lucelia said, some curses can be cast using hair, and most of these curses have a certain relationship with the soul.
Otherwise it is difficult to explain why just a few strands of hair can cause such a big change in Er, and why he is clearly leaning towards Xia Daiti's transformation.
"Anyway, this is a good thing, isn't it?" Xia Daiti said with a smile as he looked at Er sitting on his lap.
Alka nodded. This was indeed an unexpected discovery, but as to whether it was a good thing...it was still unclear.
"How about making one with my hair?"
Jason asked expectantly from the side.
Before Alka could refuse, Lucilia stood up with her hands on her hips and said, "No, my puppet army must be all female. They must be puppet girls. That's how they're cool. No males."
After all, this is a puppet army that Lucilia promoted with treasures, and there is no distinction between male and female puppets, and there is no difference in strength.
The all-female puppet knight group is indeed more interesting to watch.
When Alka heard this, he shrugged at Jason, indicating that it was not up to him to decide.
After all, he is just a basic maker.
When Alka made the dolls, he did not intentionally make them look male or female.
Whether the appearance is more feminine depends more on other factors, including the materials and Lucelia's inspiration.
And Lucelia's thoughts.
After all, even the appearance of a normal doll is more similar to Lucilia, not to mention the gender, which is definitely female.
"Okay," Jason said, shrugged.
He didn't really want to do it, he just suggested it because he thought it was interesting.
"How about making one with my hair?" Julia said with a smile.
Lucilia nodded: "No problem."
However, Alka said, "Don't worry. The materials are being consumed faster than I thought. We may have to wait until we reach the Infinite Ocean to make the next puppet."
"And I'm not sure it's a good thing. I have to observe Er carefully before I can draw a conclusion."
Although the changes in 2 are really gratifying, whether they bring benefits or harms can only be verified by time and more careful observation.
After all, Alka knew very little about this aspect and had no idea whether such a symbol was a good thing or a bad thing.
Thinking about it, Alka turned to Lucilia and said, "Let Er follow Xia Daiti for the time being and see what the specific effect will be. What do you think?"
Lucilia had no objection to this and nodded: "No problem."
Then Alka looked at Shadaiti and waited for her answer.
Xia Daiti turned her head to look at Er who had jumped onto her shoulder again and nodded with a smile. She was of course very happy about it.
"Okay, that's decided then."
In this way, Er's fate is temporarily left to Xia Daiti to take care of, and Xia Daiti will observe Er at any time and record it.
Alka also observes and records daily life and often studies her.
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It was another night, and since Alka was not on duty, he went to bed early.
After falling into the dream.
Looking at the center of the entire dream world, there is a transparent crystal floating in the middle.
At this time, inside the crystal, you can see tiny dots of starlight flying around like fireflies.
Every starlight is a bit of dream energy, which comes from Alka's hunting in this dream during the few months in the outside world.
In addition to these dream energies, there are still some practical spoils left around that have not been consumed by Alka and turned into energy.
Since the dreamland here is desolate and monsters are scarce, most of the spoils are interesting materials.
These materials are between virtual and real, and this property can be used to create strange equipment in reality.
But apart from these materials, nothing else can be brought into reality without expending a great deal of dream energy.
If you want to have enough dream energy, you have to accumulate it day by day.
You can't squander money at will and avoid waste.
But Alka fell into a dream tonight because he had something to do.
First, routine observation.
A huge mirror appeared in front of him, and the image in the mirror was the dream death god being observed.
Every time Alka came in, he would first take a look at what the God of Death in the dream was doing and do some peeping activities.
If he is sleeping, then just ignore it. If he is in action, then he has to observe carefully, and think and record while observing.
So that Lucilia can compile it into a book and include it in the illustrated book.
This kind of observation will continue until the Dream Death discovers the mirror fragments attached to his body, or the mirror fragments on his body fall off for some reason.
At this time, the Grim Reaper in the dream was resting in the shape of a ball. After taking a look at it, Alka shrunk the mirror and made it float beside him.
Once there is any movement, the mirror will remind you.
He then floated out of his dream bubble, fell downwards, and entered Lucelia's dream.
Reach out and touch Lucilia to wake her up.
As she got used to it, Lucelia no longer had intermittent confusion, but was immediately clear-headed.
Seeing Lucilia waving her hand and preparing to change the dream, Alka immediately said, "Don't be in a hurry to change it. Draw a small territory for me in your dream and put the books you have read into it clearly according to categories."
"Reading? Do you want to look up some information?"
Lucelia looked at Alka puzzledly and asked, if there was anything she didn't understand or needed to look up information, she could just ask her directly.
If she had seen it, she would naturally be able to recall it.
Alka shook his head: "I don't know what I need to see, but the changes in Er today let me know that the materials for the spell and the knowledge of mysticism and magic are not enough."
But the problem is that most of the relevant books at home are not in-depth enough, and the slightly more advanced knowledge mostly comes from the packaged information obtained from the wise men before.
Naturally, the books they obtained from their home sea were not of much benefit, so they could only think about whether they could find more useful books here in Lucelia.
But if you ask him what specific book or knowledge it is, he definitely won't be able to tell you.
After all, he was just trying to learn in this direction.
Lucilia nodded, probably knowing what Alka was thinking.
With a wave of his hand, a huge library appeared in the air.
This library occupied 1/5 of the entire dream sky and floated in the center, causing them to be shrouded in the largest shadow.
"Is it such a big library?" Alka was shocked when he looked at the huge library above his head.
How many books are there in such a big library?
"How many books have you read?" he couldn't help but ask.
Hearing Alka's words, Lucia smiled disdainfully.
"These are just the books related to the ones you just mentioned. I haven't extracted more books."
?
Alka looked down at Lucelia.
"So how old were you when you were alive? How long did you live?"
Hearing this, Lucilia clenched her fist and punched Alka's body, hitting him lightly several times.
"Don't ask, don't ask, go read your book."
After saying that, he teleported Alka directly into the library.
Seeing the scene around him change, Alka shrugged and didn't care. Instead, he focused all his attention on the scene in the library.
The entire library is in a circular shape, with round wooden tables in the center. These wooden tables seem to be tied to the entire library, like branches growing out of the ground and forming tables and chairs.
The bookshelves are in a circular shape, neatly stacked around the room, with a total of 6 rows. There are also movable slides around the books that are like ladders for taking books.
This was much better than what Alka had imagined, which was filled with bookcases and bookshelves.
But this number is astonishing enough.
"Turtle, are these all?"
If all of these are true, how long will it take me to watch?
Alka walked over and looked at it carefully.
Then I saw that these books were classified into different categories.
It can be roughly divided into the categories of ancient epics and myths, various historical miscellanies and historical research, the study of magic and mystery, the study of spells and treasures, and the study of geological environment and materials.
These are all books related to the supernatural world and do not include larger categories of universal books that do not include the supernatural.
The last three categories are the focus of Alka's research.
Arriving at the area where these three categories were stored, Alka discovered that many of the books above were emitting a faint golden light.
It was as if he was being reminded emphatically that these books should be read first.
It should be the special annotation made by Lucelia. After all, Lucelia has done research with Alka, and she probably knows what kind of knowledge Alka needs.
First, Alka took a few research books related to mystery and magic, took them to the table and chair next to him and started reading.
The three books are actually written in three different languages.
I am really impressed.
Fortunately, Alka has not been doing nothing in the past few years since he entered the extraordinary world.
The boring activities at sea made Alka learn various languages and characters with Lucelia from time to time.
After all, if they really want to work in this industry, they must have a lot of language and writing, and they will deal with these things frequently.
Otherwise, when you are looking for treasure, you may not even be able to see the information, so how can you find treasure?
Maybe the information about the treasure is hidden in those messages, but our own people don’t know it, which would be too frustrating.
In addition to herself, Xia Daiti and the others also had to study from time to time in Lucelia's small classroom.
If I had this drive to study in my previous life... Forget it, I don’t want to think about it anymore.
Calming down, Alka began to read quietly.
As if to facilitate Alka's reading, Lucilia made the entire dream world very quiet. It was an open-air library with a starry sky outside, but the inside of the library was unusually bright.
The first book Alka read was a book on symbolism used in ancient rituals and in constructing spells from materials.
Symbolism is most widely used, especially in the worship of gods.
The strange materials contain deeper symbols, corresponding to some phenomena and elements of nature, natural laws, and even rules controlled by gods.
In the past, it would definitely be superstition, and even Alka didn't care much about it.
He was more concerned about the magical fluidity of the materials and how to refine the materials and inscribe spells to achieve the effects he wanted.
I have never thought about the symbolism of materials. Every material that Alka uses for refining and carving has its essential meaning.
There is nothing useless, but there is something symbolic.
For example, on a summer night when the moon is brightest, pick the first blue flower in the garden where the moonlight shines directly.
It symbolizes the bright moon and perfection.
What the hell does that mean?
Seeing this, Alka was still confused, it was too abstract.
But after all, I kept a learning attitude, so I kept calm and continued reading.
Finally, there is a more logical explanation below.
This kind of flower is not limited to a certain type of flower, but any flower that meets the conditions can be called full moon blue light.
The actual function represented by its symbolic meaning is related to the attributes of the moon at night.
Adding this material to any moon-related ritual can greatly increase its success and effectiveness.
Adding it to other crafting materials or spell carvings may result in nighttime enhancement or moonlight enhancement.
Of course, some rituals must be followed.
After a cursory glance at the book, Alka had a general understanding.
Symbolic objects and materials are difficult to obtain and need to be collected deliberately.
And the effect achieved is also very vague. If you want to achieve the effect you want, you must have enough experience.
This is similar to an empirical science.
But it is indeed interesting. Alka saw several symbolic images related to hair in it.
Being plucked, stimulated and used in different situations symbolizes different images.
Gradually became addicted to studying.
…
Almost every night since then, Alka would sink into Lucelia's dream bubble in his dreams and study in the library.
During the day, he would shift his focus to other things, such as a more detailed observation and study of Er.
Alka made an even more interesting discovery.
Besides the symbolic meaning of her hair, there are other reasons why Er is different from other doll girls.
That is, the hair is actually part of the flesh and blood. It is counted as the flesh and blood material of the puppet, and is activated when the scarlet flag is enlightened and activated.
Coupled with the infusion of a large amount of magic power, its strength was forced into the second helix, which also further activated its hair.
The intersection of various factors has led to such an effect.
Such an effect is not impossible to replicate; it is an action that can definitely be replicated.
And it is not necessary to use hair, perhaps blood or flesh can be used to achieve the same result.
Alka was happy because he figured out why this happened, which gave him more experience and ideas for subsequent productions.
And Alka's observation of Er also made him happier.
Because of her emotions and the stimulation of her soul, she is more like a human being in her daily actions and communications, rather than a stiff puppet.
The most significant change comes from the fact that because of her appearance, Zero and One have become noticeably smoother and more agile under her leadership.
No longer as stiff as before.
She was bringing her good side to the other doll girls, and because of the treasure's conductivity between them, the change was so rapid that it was almost visible to the naked eye.
The specific reason is strongly related to the treasure, but Alka has not yet fully studied the more detailed reasons.
Although these puppet girls were created by him, Alka knew less and less about them.
Instead, you have to rely on studying your own creations to acquire more interesting techniques and knowledge.
