Chapter 79: Spellcasting Techniques: Extended Casting
collapse!
"no."
collapse!
"Or not."
collapse!
"Come again."
At the bottom of the corridor, Mo Lan tried little by little, his fingers dancing quickly in front of him. The originally obedient spell model became wild and unruly at this moment.
The spell model collapsed again and again, and soon Mo Lan's magic power was exhausted.
Sitting cross-legged on the ground, mechanically using the vortex of mental power to refine magic power, Mo Lan also began to recall dozens of previous experiments.
The stone wall technique consumes very little magic power. Mo Lan conducted nearly fifty experiments before using up all his magic power.
The experiment conducted by Mo Lan was also very simple, drawing a spell model and inputting magic power.
Originally, the is very fast. Basically, as long as the spell model is formed, it means that the spell is completed, and inputting magic power only takes a moment.
But in the experiment, Mo Lan deliberately suppressed the speed of this step in an attempt to prolong the time.
Because of this extension, the spell model that had already been formed collapsed directly.
If it were someone else, they might have given up by now.
But Mo Lan always felt something was wrong.
"Based on the structure of the spell model, it can exist independently, but why did it collapse as soon as I extended the time?
No, no, there must be something wrong."
Mo Lan might not be very familiar with the second-level spells yet, but he really put a lot of thought into the first-level spell model.
Mo Lan did not aim too high to study the second-level spells , because he understood that the second-level spells were more complicated than the first-level spells, and the model structure of the second-level spells had many overlaps with the first-level spell structure.
As long as you have a thorough understanding of the first-level spell model, then studying the second-level spell model will be twice as effective with half the effort. However, if you cannot fully understand the first-level spell, then studying the second-level spell is just nonsense.
A tall building rises from the ground, but if the foundation is full of loopholes, how can it be called a tall building?
Therefore, Mo Lan is very sensitive to incomprehensible things happening in the first-level spell model. Once something appears that is beyond his calculations, his attention will be instantly focused.
The spell model that shouldn't collapse now is like this. The same is true for the problem of how to distinguish between living and non-living things when studying Stoneskin. Mo Lan has been studying it and has never given up.
This time, Mo Lan didn't even bother to build a corridor. He built a small step for himself on the spot, sat down and continued his research.
"Why did the spell model collapse?"
When the magic power in his body was exhausted, Mo Lan would refine the magic power. Once the magic power was full, he would continue to do experiments.
Time and time again, with Mo Lan's high mental focus , he finally found some clues.
“This… seems to be because I wasn’t inputting magic power steadily enough. The spell model shakes with every fluctuation.
The magnitude of each change is not large, but as time goes by, it accumulates and then the spell nodes and magic lines are displaced, directly causing the spell model to collapse?"
"If that's the case, then we just need to stabilize the magic input or fix the spell model."
Mo Lan thought about it, and compressed it again when outputting mental power from his fingertips, compressing the magic power evenly into a line.
Every bit of magic power input into the spell model is uniformly linear and output evenly, no more and no less. This is not a problem at all for Mo Lan, who has extremely precise control.
One second, two seconds, three seconds...
As expected, Mo Lan was delighted, but at that moment the magic line fluctuated, the spell model reached the critical point and collapsed!
"Phew, at least the solution is feasible."
Mo Lan smiled and repeated the experiment again.
This time he remained calm throughout the whole process and output his magic power evenly. However, when the spell model lasted for twenty seconds, Mo Lan suddenly found that more and more magic power was needed to maintain the spell model.
In addition to the consumption of input magic power, the consumption of maintaining the spell model is also increasing. At the same time, the magic power in Mo Lan's body is rapidly consumed like water released from a floodgate.
One minute!
This is Mo Lan's limit. In one minute, the magic power in his body will be exhausted. Three-fifths of the consumed magic power is used to maintain the existence of the huge spell model, and only two-fifths of the magic power is actually input into the spell model.
At this moment, Mo Lan felt tired in his head.
"Using my fingers to output and then using my mental power to bind and fix it takes too much mental energy and is too tiring. It would be great if there was something that could help me complete this step directly."
Although Mo Lan was tired, he still looked at the huge spell model in front of him with satisfaction.
The originally small stone wall spell model had expanded several times and was now as big as a human head, floating in front of Mo Lan.
As Mo Lan cut off the output of magic power and input the final parameters, the spell model turned into a yellow light and sank into the collapsed corridor in front of him.
Silently, the soil in front of him spread up, down, left and right.
One meter, two meters, three meters, four meters, five meters!
A five-meter-long corridor appeared in an instant. The slanted ground and vertical walls around it became smooth and hard. Mo Lan stabbed it fiercely with his dagger, leaving only a shallow scratch.
Mo Lan stroked the scratch lightly and couldn't help laughing.
“Hahahaha. Hahaha.”
The laughter echoed in the long corridor for a long time.
After his excited mood subsided, Mo Lan began to go deeper.
It continued to flow diagonally deeper into the ground. When the hardness of ordinary spells could not support the pressure of the surrounding soil, Mo Lan began to use the techniques he had just researched to cast spells.
At first it went down five meters at a time, and then as the pressure grew, it gradually became shorter.
Five meters, four meters, three meters, two meters, one meter.
When Mo Lan's magic power was no longer enough to keep the tunnel from going down one meter, he stopped.
It was pitch black here, and Mo Lan could no longer see the light at the end of the corridor.
Soon Mo Lan had difficulty breathing and used the Wind Gale Technique.
The wind elements in the environment were converted into air to supply Mo Lan with breathing.
After replenishing oxygen again, Mo Lan began to open up a horizontal platform on the spot.
Expand one meter at a time, expand forward, left, right, and upward.
Little by little, an underground space was opened up at a depth of who knows how many meters underground.
A square pillar is left at regular intervals as support.
Both the pillars and walls here have undergone Mo Lan's highest level of compression.
Each time, the magic power of the whole body is output, but it is only compressed into a length of half a meter.
This is Mo Lan's limit, the highest level of compression density that can be achieved so far.
I took some time to go up and carry down a few boxes of brown bread and a few buckets of water, and then started the retreat mode downstairs.
When his magic power is exhausted, he will meditate to refine his magic power and research spells at the same time.
Once recovered, continue compressing and open up underground space.
When you are hungry, eat black bread; when you are thirsty, drink water.
In the dark underground, a 4×4×3 underground space took shape. Mo Lan smiled, then fell to the ground and fell asleep.
During his sleep, his mental strength recovered quickly, and when it recovered to its peak, Mo Lan suddenly woke up.
"Ding, level +1!"
"Ding, Intelligence +1!"
"Ding, free attribute point +1!"
