Chapter 8: Instantaneous Technique

  "Ah." Du Wei nodded, coming back to himself: "Then find her a room and let her take it off herself." Du Wei smiled, looking at the long-legged girl: "I don't have any other intentions, I'm just interested in your leather armor."

  "You little devil! You dare touch me and I'll make you..." the girl cursed.

  Du Wei walked up to her with a straight face, stretched out one finger and poked her face hard: "Oh, I touched you. What are you going to do to me?"

  The others were all tied up with ropes, and the barbarian warrior was even locked up with a chain for binding livestock that two knights had found somewhere.

  And this long-legged girl was knocked unconscious by the guards of the Luo Lin family, and then directly thrown into Du Wei's room - since the young master seemed to be very interested in this girl, as a subordinate, having such an opportunity to please the master, why not?

  No longer concerned with the thoughts of his subordinates, Du Weiteng mustered up the energy to prepare for a solo thorough inspection of that magician!

  The magician, stripped of his grey robes, stood before Duvie in his undergarments, his hands and feet bound by ropes. At first he tried to threaten the young noble: "You dare treat a magician like this? Don't you fear offending the Magicians' Guild?"

  The reply was a slap in the face. This slap immediately shut the magician's mouth.

  Du Wei rubbed his somewhat painful hand, it seemed that this body of his was still a bit too weak.

  "If you answer my questions obediently, I'll consider letting you go." Du Wei sat in the chair, looking at the mage who was tied up like a rice dumpling: "The fireball spells you just cast, I didn't see you chant. Have you already mastered the 'Instant Release' technique?"

  This is what makes Du Wei most curious!

  A magician must go through an incantation when casting a spell! This is common sense that all the books Duwei has read have told him.

  Although, in this world, there are some individual top-notch, outstanding magicians who can master a technique that uses intention to drive incantations, without opening their mouths to chant, and can complete the incantation silently in their hearts - such a skill is the legendary "Instant Release". However, this top-notch skill requires extremely strong spiritual power support, as well as an extreme precise grasp and understanding of magical techniques!

  It's possible, but those who can do this are almost all famous great mages on the mainland. This kind of instantaneous skill is absolutely impossible for a small, low-level first-class mage to master.

  Of course, apart from relying on one's own abilities to complete "Instant Release", there are also other ways to complete it. The most widely recognized method is: Magic Scrolls.

  So-called magic scrolls are scrolls that have been pre-drawn with spells. When a magician needs to fight, they can instantly detonate the scroll by throwing it out and releasing the pre-stored magic.

  However, magic scrolls are also precious consumables. Moreover, the higher the level of magic, the more difficult it is to make into a scroll! Currently, the most widely used magic scrolls are only some low-level spells. Those who can turn intermediate spells into magic scrolls are already rare treasures! As for some individual high-level spells, they rarely hear that they can be made into scrolls.

  So, Du Wei became extremely interested in this little first-class magician! Because from the process of fighting just now, he didn't chant when casting spells! It seems to be the legendary "Instant Release"!

  Although he "instantly" released was just the lowest level of fireball technique.

  In this world, the level of a magician is strictly defined, with the most obvious being the strength and weakness of magic power, as well as the degree of mastery over magical techniques.

  The use of incantations is even more a standard for judging the merits of a magician!

  Casting magic requires incantations, which is a common sense. However, the same incantation can have different effects when cast by different magicians. Some high-level magicians have researched and developed different methods of using incantations, allowing them to quickly recite complex and tongue-twisting incantations in special ways, even omitting one or two syllables to gain an advantage over their opponents during battle!

  As for some research results of magic spells, they are often the magician's own biggest secret and absolutely refuse to pass them on to others easily. Otherwise, they would lose their own advantage.

  As for "Instant Release"... that's something that can drive any magician crazy or make them sacrifice everything to pursue!

  Du Wei isn't a fool, he wouldn't really think that this lowest level, only slightly higher than a magic apprentice, first-level magician would actually master the "Instant Release" technique. His inner speculation was: most likely this guy had grasped a method similar to Instant Release, or a substitute method close to "Instant Release".

  Otherwise, if the magician in front of him was really a strong person who could "burst out" instantly, he wouldn't have ended up being tied up like a rice dumpling either. So the result of the battle just now, the one who should have lost miserably was his own side.

  This guy must have some little secret! This is where Du Wei's interest lies!

  Faced with Du Wei's question, the magician's face looked somewhat unsightly, his eyes seemed to be dodging, and he tightly closed his mouth, refusing to speak.

  Du Wei curled his lip, he didn't expect the other party to be willing to cooperate and reveal the secret immediately.

  Here is the kitchen behind this tavern, anyway now there are only two of them here, Du Wei has plenty of time to accompany each other.

  He began carefully examining the spoils of war taken from the magician's body.

  A magician's robe, Du Wei took a look and threw it into the furnace beside him. The magician's robe turned into a flame and was burned as firewood. However, the silver leaf badge, Du Wei played with it for a while and also threw it into the furnace. This badge is the certification mark of a genuine magician issued by the Magic Association... Moreover, from Du Wei's point of view as a person from another world, it also has a special property: anti-theft and anti-loss!

  This badge, after being certified by the Magic Association, can only be worn by a magician who owns it and cannot leave the magician's body for more than a certain distance. Otherwise, it will automatically melt away. Moreover, this kind of badge will also emit a thread of magic power fluctuations imprinted on it, which is an anti-counterfeiting mark! This makes it very difficult for ordinary people to manufacture such a badge to impersonate a magician's identity.

  So this badge is of no use to Du Wei. It's just that the expression on the face of the mage who threw the badge into the furnace and tied it into a rice dumpling was somewhat painful to look at.

  "Look, I don't have any malicious intentions." Du Wei smiled slightly, a hint of a devilish grin spreading across his pale young face: "I'm just a youth who's very interested in magic. If you're willing to answer a few questions for me, I can let you go."

  The magician still didn't speak.

  Du Wei could only continue checking the spoils of war.

  A small pouch, also found under the magician's robe, emptied this pouch, and it was several pieces of gemstones with uneven colors. These are treasures for ordinary people, but for magicians, they are just tools for storing magic power. Du Wei took a look and smiled without hesitation, putting them into his own pocket.

  There were also two pieces of parchment with a few lines of low-level magic spells written on them. Du Wei took one look and his eyes lit up immediately!

  Although he had read many books about magical knowledge... but due to the strict regulations of the field of magic, any real magical spells could not be recorded in books! Books only have some theoretical knowledge about magic, and there won't even be a single sentence of the lowest-level real spell!

  Even the lowest level of Fireball Spell won't work!!

  That is to say, anyone can read books to understand magic, but it's impossible to become a magician just by reading books.

  For example, Du Wei has now had a lot of theoretical and common sense understanding of the field of magic, but he doesn't know a single spell.

  All of these guaranteed the ancient tradition of inheritance in the field of magicians: the inheritance of magicians can only be passed on by old magicians personally teaching their apprentices! Absolutely cannot be publicly disseminated!

  "It's a bit like the gun control in 'that' world." Du Wei thought to himself: In "that" world, everyone can learn about the characteristics, models and principles of various weapons through the internet or books, but it is impossible for an individual to manually manufacture a real gun.

  "What's this?"

  After finishing the inventory of the spoils of war, what was left in front of him were a few small transparent bottles with sealed mouths, inside which were some powders of different colors.

  Du Wei didn't dare to open these bottles blindly, because the things that the magician carried with him were likely to be dangerous! It's possible that one of the bottles contained a hazardous substance that could turn people into stone!

  "It seems my guess was correct." Du Wei sat up straight, smiling at his captive: "Your true strength is not strong, you are a low-level first-class magician. This is beyond doubt. The instant technique you revealed during the battle just now should be some kind of substitute trick... right? Now I give you two choices, either you honestly tell me, satisfy my curiosity, and I will let you go. Or... you will have to suffer a bit."

  The magician also tried to play tricks: "You are a noble! Don't you think that treating a magician like this, your behavior is unbecoming?"

  Du Wei didn't say anything.

  Nobility? So what?

  In fact, Du Wei had always been somewhat resentful of his inexplicable arrival in this world. In this completely unfamiliar world, he felt that his life had no goals at all! When he lost everything from the original world, lost ideals, lost friendship, family love, and lost everything in his original life...

  He had arrived in a completely strange world, and it was a kind of brutal "cut off"! In the previous few years, Du Wei felt that his life was muddled and he hadn't found even a thread of purpose in life.

  Now, for him, in this strange world, the only thing that can arouse his interest is the "magic" field of this world.

  As for other things... Du Weicai doesn't care!

  And in order to satisfy his own curiosity about magic, he instigated his subordinates to attack these strangers in the tavern. Is such behavior moral? Du Wei doesn't care!

  He, Du Wei Rolin or whoever he was in his past life... has never been a good person.

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