Ke-style law enforcement officers

Chapter 364 Magic
The evening self-study sessions that lasted for more than six months, almost a year, were not in vain.

Before encountering the original versions of those evil tomes, Milo's understanding of magic, spells, or enchantments was still based on the various settings found in the movies and TV shows of his own world.

For example, the kind of magic that requires you to hold up chopsticks and shout "I'm eating a melon!" to unleash.

However, with a deeper understanding of the numerous fragments and translations of the evil tomes, coupled with the Scarlet Witch's explanations, Milo gradually came to understand the concept of magic in this world.

According to the Scarlet Witch, evil tomes are actually the magical origins accumulated and recorded by many civilizations throughout the ancient times.

The magic described in the scriptures can be simply divided into three different levels.

The first of these was the summoning of the ancient Outer Gods.

To the Outer Gods, humans, like other lower races, are as insignificant as grains of sand or insects.

The so-called magic casting does not require high-end magical artifacts or personal abilities. The simplest way is to correctly read the name of a deity according to the records in the scriptures, and then make a sufficient sacrifice to please the deity.

For example, if the deity to be summoned controls the laws of death or killing, then the summoner must create a sufficiently large-scale death event as a sacrifice to gain the deity's attention and further attempt to borrow the deity's power.

Simply put, when gods look at humans, it's like humans looking at ants on the ground. Often, the first thing humans notice is the largest ant in the colony, or the one with the most unusual appearance.

Of course, no matter how unusual the ant looks, we humans will only glance at it a couple of times and then ignore it, because they are, after all, just insignificant ants.

However, if the ant colony is arranged in an orderly fashion on the ground to form the shape of your name, you will definitely spend more time studying and teasing the ant colony to figure out what's going on.

The same principle applies to deities.

The true essence of magic is simply a way to attract the attention of those in power.

Rather than calling it magic, it's more accurate to understand it as a form of communication.

Of course, just like ant colonies that attract human attention, humans often don't end up well when they try to gain the attention of the gods.

Human beings' frail bodies and ignorant souls are simply unable to withstand the power of the laws contained within the gods, just as a human's gentle teasing can bring about the annihilation of an ant colony.

Often, when a human successfully uses forbidden magic to summon and establish contact with a deity, death is the most merciful end they can receive.

The collapse of Sanity, mental disorder, and a series of other factors such as the laws of nature can utterly destroy the human soul.

Throughout history, very few people have ever been able to truly glimpse the knowledge of the gods and then emerge unscathed.

Such people are extremely terrifying and powerful beings throughout the long years.

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The spells that are second only to the first type of magic in terms of destructive power are those aimed at the Great Old Ones who are beings below the level of gods.

Both involve summoning, and both are ways to gain their attention.

Similarly, after paying a huge price, they gamble on that extremely low, almost impossible chance of the Great Old Ones having any empathy for humanity, attempting to extract knowledge or power beyond their comprehension from the minds of the Great Old Ones.

The Great Old Ones are not as deadly as the gods, but they are just as dangerous to humanity.

This is what is called magic, which ranks in the first two orders of the evil canons.

In reality, for weak humans, both of these are undoubtedly paths to self-destruction; the only difference is whether they die at the hands of gods or ancient rulers.

Despite countless precedents demonstrating the horror of this path, humanity's desire to explore the realm of knowledge is almost insatiable, and countless people have followed this path one after another, with the thirst for knowledge becoming a factor of self-destruction.

But it is precisely because of the existence of these people that those ancient and evil scriptures have been able to continue to this day after being translated into countless Chinese characters.

The ancient texts are like a door left by the gods for mankind. They give mankind the opportunity to transcend the mundane, but they do not guarantee whether the other side of the door is an abyss or heaven.

In this process of inheritance, countless sects and organizations that worshipped different ancient rulers and gods were born, and many mutated races and clans also emerged.

In the previous Glaky incident, Sansa's ritual of summoning Glaky by hanging a corpse under the canal drawbridge was actually a second-order summoning spell.

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The third sequence, originating from evil texts, consists of spells with the lowest degree of self-harm. These are collectively known as magic or incantations. They do not require large-scale sacrifices, nor do they require facing gods or Great Old Ones; they are simple spells that humans can perform using only their own power.

These are the kinds of spells that are closest to the traditional concept of Milo.

Mental control, soul dismemberment, or resurrection, which humanity has always pursued, are all recorded in many low- to mid-level texts. Their power is far less than that of the Old Gods and the Great Old Ones, but in a practical sense, these are actually the most suitable spells to be used in human society.

To give a simple example, the spell of the Exiled Shadow recorded in the Fenich Manuscript Fragments belongs to the third sequence.

It does not require communication with God, nor does it attract the attention of the Old Ones; it is simply a form of persecution by humans.

Of course, some third-order spells or conjurations may attract some lesser servant races. Although they are lesser, they are still deadly enough for weak humans.

Moreover, even though it is ranked third, this knowledge is still beyond human comprehension. Those with weak spiritual vision who delve too deeply into it will eventually go mad and perish (see Ethan Field).

The Scarlet Witch encouraged Milo to increase his vision through evil tomes.

However, she also warned Milo not to delve too deeply into the first two sequences of magic, as gaining the attention of the Outer Gods or the Great Old Ones was not a good thing. In some ways, it was not much different from being targeted by hounds, and even more deadly.

Regarding evil tomes, the Scarlet Witch specifically mentioned two of the most famous magic books in the field of occultism.

These are the Book of Ibon and the Necronomicon.

These two classic works are now scheduled as compulsory courses 1 and 2 in the Milo Project.

Milo doesn't know much about the former.

Milo had heard of the latter; he remembered that the Golden Rule Church's library had a space reserved for this book.

It is said that the Fenich manuscript is one of the many translations of the Necronomicon.

These are the concepts of magic that Milo currently holds in his mind within the rules of this world.

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Of course, in addition to this, Milo also gained a lot of knowledge from many other scattered and fragmented books, including the Canamagos Testament, which made Finn more than ten centimeters taller.

Now, Milo is about to cast a different spell belonging to the third sequence.

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He led Rick to the street in front of the main gate of Jodingham College: "I have a bold idea."

Rick hesitated, "I hope it's not the kind of idea that could kill me."

If he had Milo's sense of danger, his heart rate would have doubled by now.

"Is such that."

Milo said, “In the elective course I studied recently, there was a method described in a theory that all living beings leave traces of their activities in space. With proper manipulation, these residual traces can be extracted and utilized, provided that there is a carrier and that the events that the living being previously experienced in space are replicated.”

"Trajectory?" Rick asked, somewhat puzzled.

What Milo is saying now touches on some areas that are outside his area of ​​knowledge.

“I think of it as a magnetic field,” Milo said casually.

“Magnetic field?” Rick was even more puzzled, pondering this unfamiliar term. “That’s an interesting way of putting it.”

“You know a lot of ghost stories, right? For example, people see deceased relatives in their homes, or the shadows of people from other times in certain old buildings,” Milo said. “That’s a general idea. It’s because the living trigger traces left by others in the past.”

Although Rick was already half-zombie, his mind was still sharp. With Milo's easy-to-understand explanation, he quickly grasped Milo's meaning and asked, "Has Marty been to this place before?"

Milo nodded:
"Hmm—to verify if the elective content is genuine, I think I might have to beat you up."

"what?"

(End of this chapter)