Chapter 726 - The Contents of the Manual (1/2)
Teleporting back to Delpon, Roland was a bit gloomy.
Although Jabezo was indeed a terrible person, the conflicting emotions shown by that old woman made him feel a little pity for her.
Seeing how upset he was, Andonara inquired what had happened.
Roland told her the story.
After listening to it, Andonara also sighed and said, “That woman is quite pitiful. On one side is her beloved husband, on the other side are the philosophy and beliefs that she has practiced all her life. She could neither hate nor love.”
“Enough about these irksome things, that Demigod Mage gave me a manual of magical insights before he died.” Roland took the manual out of his Backpack, then frowned. “Teleporting back in a rush, I forgot to go collect some pink flowers from the meadow. Wait.”
Roland then teleported again to the Croatian Plains and gathered many flowers.
He divided them into three portions, one for Andonara and one for Vivian.
The other portion was reserved for himself to make potions for unlocking the manual.
Suddenly, a dozen round fruit bats flew in and transformed into a woman.
Christina looked at him with a bitter gaze.
Having no choice, Roland took three flowers and gave them to her.
Then the vampire girl left happily.
Things like magic locks were typically hard to handle for those who didn’t know about them.
First, boil the pink flowers to make a juice, then infuse thunder magic into it, and finally soak the manual.
After about half a minute, a strange magic power dissipated, and the book, which was originally covered with blue patterns, turned into an ordinary manual.
Roland went back to his lab and opened it slowly.
After he read a dozen pages, he closed the manual.
“Awesome.”
In this manual, what was written was not any magic insights, but the study of the Divine Spark.
This was what Jabezo spent fifty years writing down after he broke free from the sealed land.
The ancient script used was over three hundred years old and was probably lost by now; fortunately, Roland knew Character Proficiency.
The first few pages were exposition and conjecture on the nature of the Divine Spark.
This was followed by the study of creating a virtual Divine Spark.
In Jabezo’s train of thought, to create a virtual Divine Spark, a great amount of magic power was required.
But after being knocked down from the Demigod state by Mystra, his magic power capacity dropped quite alarmingly, and with the seal’s power remaining, this experiment progressed slowly. The only way to do this was to break it down into steps and experiment slowly.
The first step was to use a large amount of magic power to build a “shell” of the Divine Spark.
Because it would be a virtual Divine Spark, such a shell was not hard to make.
With magic power as the base, supplemented by one’s own will as the substrate, imagine an emotion, a characteristic as a primer for the virtual Divine Spark.
The manual said that it was best to choose a non-main god’s Divine Spark, meaning that it was best not to have any ideas of life, light, death, and other main gods’ Divine Spark.
Even if it was a virtual Divine Spark—a fake
-once it was made, it would attract the attention of the gods.
Because they were so powerful, it was easy for them to feel the fluctuations of a Divine Spark similar to their own.
Jabezo also said in the manual that it was best to virtualize those evil gods in the Astral Plane.
For example, hunger, tyranny, greed, and such negative Divine Sparks. Although this might shift one’s alignment, at least one wouldn’t be targeted.
The evil gods in the Astral Plane were now at an extreme disadvantage, with the lawful gods overwhelming them. Moreover, the environment of the main plane was relatively peaceful now, with very little warfare, and the place in the Astral Plane they were in was too far away from the main plane, so it was quite difficult to get negative power.
However, if it was a virtual Divine Spark, it could directly attract the negative energy of the main plane.
On this plane, it was still very easy to find misery. Even if it couldn’t be found, for the time being, one could still create it.
Roland was itching to try it.
Jabezo tried to create a virtual Divine Spark step by step at the Master level, but he probably didn’t succeed, or else he wouldn’t have been taken out so easily by Roland.
If Jabezo could do it, Roland reckoned that he could too.
Besides, extremely high magic capacity was a requirement that Roland could easily meet.
So he teleported to the desert where no one lived and spent a day building a pretty huge underground lab.
Then he took out a few blue magic bricks.
According to the book, he first turned the square bricks into a large amount of pure magic, then absorbed them and built a blue energy ball with a radius of about three meters, then closed his eyes and channeled his spirit into it.
He imported the feeling of food.
Kung pao chicken, boiled cabbage, pork meatballs, sautéed vermicelli with minced pork, dry-fried bean curd, soup dumplings, and all kinds of noodles and meats.
Roland had always been an ordinary person and ate ordinary, home-cooked food.
But even that level of culinary quantity was enough to keep him thinking back for two or three hours.
The thing to end it all was naturally soft drinks.
Once he had fully channeled his spirit into it, he felt a bit dazed.
He sat down, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and then looked at the ball of energy that had turned from blue to a rainbow-colored halo in front of him, and smiled quite happily.
After all, up to this step, it was already considered half-successful.
He wouldn’t have imported some evil god’s Divine Spark. There was a ton of fun, positive things to do in this world, so there was no reason to be a bad guy. Only if he were sick in the head.
In this world, there was no god of food anyway.
It was probably because the vast majority of people had little concept of gourmet food.
After nearly half an hour of rest, feeling that his magic power had almost regenerated, Roland stood up again and began to use his mental energy, compressing the ball of energy in front of him.