Volume 2: Funeral Song of Crows Chapter 6 Experimental Summary
Looking at the more than 40 large and small statues placed around, William made a preliminary conclusion after two days and one night of experimentation:
First of all, it must be the Holy Statue of Cain that has been blessed by the Eighth Order to serve as the medium for extending his power.
Of the more than 40 different icons collected so far, only the large icon in Cain Church, the silver icon on Nezemarpe, and a small number of icons that were cracked due to apparitions, can meet this requirement, while other folk sculptures cannot do so.
Even though he tried to cast an image with the same material afterwards, he still couldn't use it as a medium.
According to Nezemar, the way these holy statues are blessed has always been an internal secret of the sealed temples in various places of the Eighth Order. Even she, as a relic recycler, has no right to know the specific method.
Considering the huge number of blessed statues across the continent, William estimated that the key reason should not be the material, but some special craftsmanship.
Secondly, those cracked holy statues could not serve as a medium for him to extend his power. Or, in other words, they seemed to have become "inactive" and could only be reactivated using the spell of [Repair of Holy Relics].
On the other hand, if William destroyed the statue after repairing it, it would not affect the statue's role as a medium unless he destroyed it to the point of complete damage.
In this case, the so-called divine manifestation some time ago becomes somewhat intriguing.
Rather than being a manifestation of divine power, it is more like some kind of protection or self-destruction mechanism.
Besides, it didn't matter if the statue looked like William himself, as long as it had distinguishable features. Whether it was the Kane Horn, Judgment II, or the Sharp-Angled Holy Emblem, as long as it was recognizable, it didn't matter if it looked like the previous one that had almost nothing to do with William.
The last part is about the specific activation steps and functions.
In order to activate the holy image as a medium, William must touch it personally. Only after feeling the "blessing" of the Eighth Holy Spirit can he establish a connection with the holy image.
Once the connection is established, he can try to change the appearance of the statue according to his own will, but this change can only be made once and the characteristics of the Holy Spirit Kane must be retained.
William once tried to turn an icon into a miniature version of the Kane Horn, which still did not affect its use.
Next is the functions that you can achieve through this medium.
This can be summarized into two points: first, he can sense what is happening around him in real time through that medium; second, he can cast spells remotely through the connection with the holy icon.
The specific amount of power it can carry is determined by the material and volume of the statue. The better the material's affinity to magic and the larger the volume of the medium, the more power it can carry.
The impact of material is greater than that of volume.
For example, the holy image necklace mixed with source silver in Nezemar's hand, which can be held in the palm of his hand, can bear William's master-level spells. However, the stone holy image in Cain Church will start to shake violently and crack after bearing only the expert-level spells.
Of course, this is all on the premise of not damaging the holy images.
If it is forced to be overloaded, it may be possible to use spells of a higher level than its carrying capacity.
For example, the necklace of Nezemar was directly blown into pieces after William forcibly used a legendary spell, but the spell was indeed released completely.
Afterwards, William promised that after he mastered the blessing technique in the future, he would replace her with a statue made of pure silver. The poor girl fainted with excitement after hearing this.
Another issue is distance.
Distance will not affect the sensing function of the medium. During this period, William tried to teleport back to the Mountains of Sorrow and was still able to achieve real-time monitoring of the area around the statue of Thorn City without delay.
If it weren't for the fact that the microscopic world of this world probably doesn't follow Planck's rules, William really wanted to sigh "quantum entanglement".
Of course he knows nothing about quantum mechanics.
But if you are casting a spell, too far a distance will cause the magic power to decay.
This was expected. Once the magic power left the etheric realm and entered the real world, it would quickly evaporate and escape back to the astral realm without being restrained by a spell or a barrier. However, due to the invisible connection, the magic power could easily dissipate halfway during transmission.
Just because of the distance from the Mountains of Sorrow to the City of Thorns, the amount of magic power William needed to use a spell basically increased by more than ten times.
He didn't know whether it was possible to reduce the loss of magic power by placing holy statues in the middle as base stations. Anyway, he didn't have enough holy statues to use for experiments.
There was a sudden knock on the door.
Just by hearing the respectful knock on the door, William knew who was coming.
"Come in."
He stood up and said.
The door opened, and Nezemar, dressed in a linen ascetic robe, walked in. She lowered her head and asked:
"Lord Kai...Lord Kane, what do you want to talk to me about?"
"You're finally willing to change that awkward name."
William said with relief when he heard the other party address him in a normal way.
Ever since that day when he discovered that the holy image in Cain Church could be used as a medium for long-distance spellcasting, Nezemar, who was familiar with the affairs of the Eighth Order, naturally became his assistant in conducting various experiments.
During this period, I also took this opportunity to intentionally or unintentionally explain to the other party the nature of faith in the Holy Spirit, the disasters that may be brought about by personified faith, and why I am not the Eighth Holy Spirit .
Of course, William did not expect the other party to completely accept his current statement. After all, even now he had to admit that the Eighth Holy Spirit was definitely related to him, even if it was a relationship forced by later generations.
But at the very least, he hoped that this fanatical believer would be careful about his words and actions in future actions and not do anything too conspicuous.
Unexpectedly, the other party seemed to have accepted what he said, and both his address and attitude were much more normal than before.
"Since that is your will , there must be a reason for it."
Nezemar replied.
Now she has really figured it out. It is actually a very simple logic - since the Holy Spirit came to the world and said that He is not the Holy Spirit, then He is not.
The Holy Spirit is always right, and if she feels there is a contradiction, it is because of her own shallowness as a mortal.
"My will? Ah, whatever..."
William still felt something strange after hearing the other party's remarks, but he did not go into details. Instead, he talked about the purpose of notifying the other party to come over.
"You said before that the Sealing Temple is responsible for all the work of blessing the holy statues. Can you tell me where the nearest Sealing Temple is?"
