This part is not extraordinarily extra, it has something to do with the plot... Talking?

Let's call it an extraordinarily small event!

If you only like to read the story, you can skip this part. These are extras...

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The enchanting ring made by Burris:

Magic matters are very complicated, and it is relatively long to write. If Burris is asked to say all of them through dialogue in the text, there will be a kind of effect... the character becomes a vertical painting, standing there and talking... feel.

This part of the content has no effect on the main text. It is nothing if you don't write it. It will not become more fun if you write it. It will only appear cumbersome... So, the main text is omitted, and Lott participates in the dialogue.

So, I changed it to the introduction in the small side story ↓

This pair of rings has several functions. Among them, the function of positioning each other and projecting a map on a blank plane has been described in the text, so I won't repeat it here, and only elaborate on the other functions.

Shared protection: The function is enabled by default. For example, Burris casts a curse resistance spell for himself, and at the same time Lot has the same magic to start working. The state is turned on by default, but the user can actively turn it off, that is, refuse to use it.

This function is of little significance to Lot, because he is immune to magic and rarely uses protective spells.

But things cannot be generalized, and some protection techniques are related to physical attacks, so this function still has a little effect. (For example, Lot can not be injured by magical lightning, but if the magical lightning smashes the mountain and the rock rolls down, it may still hurt him. At this time, if Burris can activate the force field shield, it can protect the two of them. Even if the two of them are not together.)

Protective spells refer to... For example, certain spells can make oneself resistant to severe cold, make oneself immune to certain diseases, cover oneself in the barrier of force field, give oneself temporary magic immunity and so on. They are all aimed at themselves and are passive protection.

Shared assistance: the subject needs to be actively activated. For example, if Burris allows himself to move in suspension, Lot can also use this spell directly. Lot needs to determine whether it is necessary, and then use a spell to enable the sharing function. The spell is very short, and people who are not wizards can learn it well.

Supporting spells refer to: let yourself or others fly, levitate, walk underwater (ignoring pressure buoyancy, etc.), jump over canyons... In short, it is to provide assistance to people. It is not attacked or destroyed. Spells with other spells (cooperate with other spells: for example, fly up, throw a burst of fireball, conduct an air strike...)

When Burris does not help himself but a third person, Lot can also share the help effect, but he cannot transfer this effect to others. For example: Burris gave Count Herrolf the ability to fly temporarily. At this time, Lot can also start sharing and fly in the way he likes. But Lot can only give this ability to himself, he can't choose not to fly and let Augilia take off.

When the support spell ends, the spells on both parties will end. When the takeoff or floating aid spell ends, people will not fall directly. People will slowly fall when it ends. Don't worry about this. ("Ending a spell" is also part of the process of casting a spell, not that the spell is forcibly terminated. When the spell is forcibly terminated, for example, the caster dies, loses consciousness, or the spell is interfered by unknown forces and floats in the air. Only if the subject is in danger of falling.)

Functional Spell Extraction: Lot can cast magic that Burris has prepared against the outside world. For example, they went out together to explore and separated temporarily. Lot needed to use a light ball to illuminate a cave. At this time, as long as Burris can use it now, Lot can use it directly.

This function is more complicated than aid and protection, because Lot must be familiar with the general classification of magic and understand what spells Burris can now cast.

In addition, defense and protection are shared directly by the two, and the spells against the outside world can only be used by one of them. In other words, in the same period of time, if Burris has used a certain spell, Lot can no longer get it from him; and Lot can extract and cast a spell from Burris, Burris also The materials must be prepared before they can be used again...

For example, to cast an instant dog washing technique, you need to make the following preparations: a small amount of special mineral powder + the hair of the target dog + the caster needs to pronounce a spell. Burris brought these materials, was able to accurately recite this mantra, and was able to use the mantra to dispatch its elemental powers. Burris was writing in the study. Lot wanted to wash the dog under the tower. He used the "functional spell extraction" on the ring to successfully perform instant dog washing. At this time, the mineral powder and the dog's hair that Burris brought would be invalid, and even if he chanted the spell, he couldn't wash the dog instantly.

Or, Burris had washed the dog three days ago, and today he was carrying materials that had lost its efficacy, and he was not ready to cast the spell again. At this time, if Lott wanted to extract the dog washing technique, he would not succeed.

(The materials are divided into parts by default. If Burris brings enough materials to wash the dog 100 times, the material will only be consumed once when the spell is cast, and 100 parts will not be consumed by default, that is, At this time Lot can continue to wash the dog 99 times, or if he does not wash it, Burris can wash the dog again.)

Many functional spells are related to manipulation elements, such as light balls, sprinkling water, freezing, the light within the area becomes darker or brighter, flames burn or disappear, items or areas are wetter or drier... (not to **** up a lake Or soak up all the water in a person’s body! It doesn’t exist! It’s just a change in small things!)

These spells are difficult to cause fatal damage, unless of course it is deliberately used to harm others, such as secretly arson. The flame of this spell is a real flame and can be extinguished in the normal way, or another caster can easily extinguish it with a fire extinguishing spell. This is one of the differences between functional spells, element manipulation spells, and high-level arcane spells such as divergence, curse, and kill.

The ring currently does not have the function of high-level arcane sharing. Every spell in the high-level arcane is a comprehensive discipline, which is very troublesome.

For example, when Burris found and opened the door of the Marsh of the Dead, the knowledge involved and used covered many aspects, and it was not just a certain necromancy or a certain alien summoning technique. For another example, the spear he nailed to Yrill was also a comprehensive research result involving space magic and necromancy, aliens, and possibly elemental manipulation...

High-level arcane arts are troublesome to learn, prepare, and perform. What's more troublesome is the adaptation and influence on the caster’s physique during the learning process. Therefore, this kind of thing may have different effects for everyone and it is difficult to achieve. shared.

Generally speaking, the mage does not need to engage in high-level arcane sharing, the other party may not be able to use it flexibly, and it may consume their own important strategic preparations.

And, the sharing and extraction functions of the ring are limited to the arcane abilities of both wearing parties, excluding divine magic, natural monster power, special abilities of special races, warlock bloodline abilities, etc.

Sharing is two-way. If Lot also learns a lot of spells in the future, Burris can share with him when needed. But for now... Lot doesn't know how to cast spells...

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About the life span of the character:

Because I always write fantasy, and several previous articles have stretched the life of the protagonist to roughly the same level, after the end of this article, more than one reader has questions about life: Although Lot has no power, he lives The attributes are true gods, and even if Burris is now twenty years old, he will still be bald in the future...ah no, no matter how old he is.

On this issue, I think this way:

(Some are long...and some are irrelevant to this article, please read selectively...... Thank you for those who are willing to listen to my nagging...)

Burris is an 84-year-old man. His first 84 years gave him a wealth of knowledge and experience, which allowed him to mature his mind and broaden his horizons from a small white pagoda to the Confederation of Ten Nations... Maybe In the future, there will be entire continents, including west of the Western Mountains, even going out to sea, even other continents, other worlds... For the mages, the yearning for unknown knowledge is the necessary motivation for life.

Most people in their eighties no longer have ambitions. This is determined by hardware conditions. The body and influence the mind will constrain a person's ability and mind.

In the third dimension, there are many elderly people who are in good health, who are not blind or deaf, and they cannot learn electronic products. Are they really stupid? Are they dazzled and can't see things clearly, or are they so weak that they can't look at their smartphones for a while? No, at least quite a few of them are not for these reasons. Of course, there are also elderly people who are seriously ill. That is another matter. There are also some fairly healthy elderly people who, obviously they are still healthy, are afraid of new things.

A healthy eighty-year-old man is actually much smarter than a six-year-old child. But for certain things, six-year-old children can learn well and are willing to learn, while the elderly are not interested or even repellent before they learn.

This is not because the old man is really "old, not good", but because his weak body has affected his will.

Deep in their souls they knew: their future is very short and short, there is no possibility, no motivation. Old people do not "feel" abandoned by the times, but objectively, they are abandoned by time. In other words, each of us is left behind by time, but the younger people have not noticed it yet.

In a person's entire life, "this moment" is the junction of "first half" and "second half". People like to look at the side with more time.

An 18-year-old person has only eighteen years in the first half of his life, and I don’t know how many years are left in the second half of his life. Therefore, when he looks at the longer side, he will have all kinds of curiosity, all kinds of motivation, all kinds of ambitions. .

And for example, for an 80-year-old man, his first half is 80 years, and the second half... If you say that you will live a hundred years old, there are only 20 years left. If you live to one hundred and two, that's only 40 years. .

The 80-year-old does not have such high expectations for "forty years". He still clearly remembered himself at the age of 40, and also remembered how short the time was from the middle-aged man of 40 to today. So this eighty-year-old man, with too little time ahead of him, he will tend to look at the longer side-his past.

So people think that old people like nostalgia and talk about the past... they have no future. How do smart phones develop? Can an unmanned supermarket work? What new technologies have been developed by Shigou? How can VR be integrated with life? There will be a major technological innovation in too many young people. Can the bank be completely unmanned? How does the road develop... They don't want this, no need to think about it, they can't see it anymore.

So, at this time, suppose an old man living on the hurdle at the age of eighty-four is back to twenty years old.

and! It is not that the soul travels back to the past more than sixty years ago, nor does it directly become a new person, but that he becomes twenty years old at this moment, while preserving his existing knowledge and memory.

What an amazing thing is this?

His "second half" suddenly extended. And it is a healthy, quality life that is prolonged, not how many years to live with an aging body.

He suddenly had an infinite future.

Why don’t you say that it’s decades, but that it’s an "infinite" future, because at this moment, people around the age of twenty before the computer screen can’t see what will happen in their future, maybe in the near future. A strong AI will appear next year, maybe an important person will appear in your life next Monday, maybe next year you won the lottery, maybe you will be introduced to your dream company after graduating from college... There are a lot of possible good things. .

The possibility of bad things...Of course there are many. However, since the future is so long, people will have expectations for it, and risk being severely tortured by fate, stepping into the wind and rain called the future, bumping and running in it, even if they pursue a little happiness.

In modern times, rejuvenation may bring about the troubles of "how to conceal this miracle and how to obtain legal status". In the feudal society of the fantasy world (...), this trouble can be solved anyway. As a result, the benefits remain the same, and the worry level has dropped a lot.

This means ordinary people. What about the experienced and knowledgeable old mage?

Mage, this kind of common profession in fantasy stories, usually they love learning, hardworking and dedicated, and ambitious. In the face of a prolonged future, the old wizard's wasted will will rekindle. Originally, people had to "conquer the old" and the wizard had to give up their ambitions in front of the "old". Now, there is no need to give up!

In other words, for such a mage...what else can he do in the future, who knows?

Burris was eighty-four years old and spent decades becoming the most prestigious mage in the Confederacy of Ten Nations. Now that he is given to him for so many years, wouldn’t he be going to heaven (Hey

Then, there is Lot. In fact, Lott’s temperament is younger than Burris. He struggled with this point before. Later, I felt that although he was a lot of age, he was different from humans or old elves in the most important way: he did not have the "first half" or the second half. "The difference.

Even if he is imprisoned by himself, he still has some memory loss. Even if he can't see the future, all of this is natural and unending to him. Even if there is no hope and no good things in his future, there is at least a yellow book. Look (...), at least one day he met a Nianxiang, a little mage who wanted to bring him out.

He will feel uncomfortable if he is not free, and once he is free, he can immediately explore the world in front of him like a young man.

He can be abandoned by the world, but he won't feel abandoned by time.

An eighteen-year-old man lying at home like a salted fish, and an eighteen-year-old cat lying at home, still feels different. This person may be simply lazy, or he may be in a bad mood recently, he may be out of school, he may be sick and it is not convenient to go out, he may be locked in the house, or it may be a combination of many factors... …In any case, his youthful mind is still there, but he is currently trapped in a small room. The eighteen-year-old cat is different. It lies here, just spending his old age in peace.

Therefore, even if a creature like Lott is actually older than a human elder, his mentality and perspective are completely different. Including the black pine, he is also older than Burris’s actual age, but he is in a period where the "future" is longer than the "past". He has time and is not afraid of wasting time. He also loves to waste time, just like many young humans. People are the same. They don't have the ticking clocks in their hearts, nor the thinner and thinner hourglasses in their hearts. They don't need to think about it all the time, just enjoy the moment.

As for Burris, he had heard the ticking of the clock and felt that the hourglass seemed to be leaking faster and faster. He grew up non-stop throughout his life, and had long been accustomed to a life that had clear goals and had to be built.

Now that he has time again, he can move on with the accumulated knowledge.

It's like running a long distance to the last kilometer, the physical energy has been consumed almost, I thought it was over...Suddenly, the physical energy of this person became the state after warming up and before the start, but the road he ran down He didn't return to the starting point... so he could continue to run without turning his head or worrying about lack of physical strength. The road ahead opens up to him, and there will be many scenery waiting for him.

Therefore, if the life is not long, Burris and Lott will solve this problem by themselves.

They are not ordinary people, and the future is still very long. They will encounter many thrilling things. They may experience some crises from life to love. At the same time, they will be more accomplished, and they will create more things and stabilize some things. It may also open up a future that my brain cannot imagine.

I don't need to force them to flatten their lifespan, they will solve it by themselves.

Then answer a simple and crude question: old? What are you afraid of getting old? Why does the lich remain unchanged?

The answer is that this world is not Faerun, there are not as many witches as dogs, and the magic system is different from those. Becoming an undead creature will have many shortcomings, resulting in a lot of things that can’t be done. It belongs to a low-quality life. Even for the average person, it is not a good thing.

Liches exist, but they generally have their own reasons, and every family has hard-to-read scriptures. Liches or other undead creatures are not a good choice for humans to seek immortality, but rather the helpless action of a small group of people.