Chapter 685: 219. Break through the blockade!

“So that’s how it is…

“This is the constraint of the ‘Promotion Fortress’ on magic, huh…

“It’s truly hard to believe; I actually only realized the existence of these ‘constraints’ now…”

Noland Lee muttered to himself.

Excited, ecstatic, and in awe, various emotions surged in his chest. Suddenly catching a glimpse of the truth behind the workings of magic, Noland found himself unable to suppress his trembling.

He now knew how to identify whether a spell was constrained by the ‘Promotion Fortress’!

There were two specific criteria!

First, check whether the spell’s ‘Tier’ was clearly marked on the Magic Panel.

‘Death Two Finger’, a high-level spell.

‘Fear Spell’, a common spell.

‘Breath of the Dead’, a common spell.

‘Lightning Strike Technique’, ‘Lightning Spear Technique’, common spells.

‘Elemental Energy Summoning Technique’, a common spell.

But!

‘Elemental Reactor Summoning’, ‘Tier’ unknown!

This was a spell that Noland had never seen in any magic books, so the System couldn’t provide its specific ‘Tier’!

This criterion for determining whether a spell was constrained by the ‘Promotion Fortress’ might be a tad bit unreliable.

After all, just because Noland hadn’t seen it in the magic books he had read, it didn’t mean that the spell had never been recorded in any magic books.

However, Noland could slap his chest and guarantee that the second criterion was absolutely effective, and its accuracy rate was 100%.

It was to look at the Energy Points consumed by a spell!

A 100-level ‘Death Two Finger’ consumes ‘2’ points of Death Energy and 2 Energy Points, launching a half-meter thick Death Ray with a magical power of ‘1436’ points.

A Level 1 ‘Death Two Finger’ also consumes ‘2’ points of Death Energy and 2 Energy Points, but only launches a thin Death Ray with a mere ’18’ points of magical power!

This didn’t conform to the most basic Law of Conservation of Energy!

The magical power of a 100-level ‘Death Two Finger’ was almost 80 times that of Level 1, yet their Energy Point consumption was exactly the same.

It wasn’t just ‘Death Two Finger’ with this issue, as all spells with clearly indicated ‘Tiers’ by the System shared this characteristic.

Their magical power and Energy Point consumption were completely unrelated.

Even the newly acquired ‘Lightning Spear Technique’ and ‘Lightning Strike Technique’ were the same in this regard. Their upgrade effect was to enhance magical power without increasing the consumption of thunder and lightning energy.

Removing spells that couldn’t be upgraded to increase their power, among all the spells Noland had acquired, there was only one spell without this issue.

That was the ‘Tier’ unknown ‘Elemental Reactor Summoning’.

When using this spell, the more elemental energy and Energy Points Noland invested, the more powerful the Elemental Energy Reactor he summoned!

Only this spell had a clear connection between energy input and spell output.

Other spells had no connection between their energy input and spell output.

Noland had a premonition:

If the ‘Elemental Reactor Summoning’ is included in the ‘Promotion Fortress’, it will be determined as a Saint Tier spell.

Its casting permissions would be elevated, so only those who have stepped into the Saint Tier realm, that is, Eighth Ring wizards or above, would be able to cast it.

At the same time, its casting consumption would be greatly reduced, decreasing from the original tens of millions and even billions to just a few points of elemental energy.

If Noland’s conjecture is proved correct, then the process of incorporating a spell into the ‘Promotion Fortress’ is exchanging increased casting permissions and reduced magical power for a significant decrease in energy consumption.

So, how can one spell be incorporated into the ‘Promotion Fortress’?

In other words, how can one prevent a spell from being incorporated into the ‘Promotion Fortress’?

Noland narrowed his eyes and pondered carefully.

He roughly had some ideas.

For example, record a spell that has yet to be included in the ‘Promotion Fortress’ in the form of a magic book, and write out its blueprint in the Material World. Once this step is completed, the spell can be included in the ‘Promotion Fortress’.

This was Noland’s guess. He could try using the blueprint of the ‘Elemental Reactor Summoning’, but he didn’t intend to do so because he couldn’t afford a loss.

Including a spell in the ‘Promotion Fortress’ would indeed reduce its consumption, and this conjecture was very likely to come true; but it also meant that other Elemental Faction wizards with a Saint Tier attainment might obtain the permissions to cast this spell through sudden inspiration.

Noland didn’t want a second person who could summon Elemental Reactors to appear in this world…

Well, Mabel could be barely qualified, provided that she signed a more comprehensive soul contract with Noland.

Would there be someone else who, based on the cold fusion reactor technology in Synthetic Humans, could develop the ‘Elemental Energy Reactor Summoning Technique’?

As wizards with strong initiative, as long as they were willing to invest in manpower, financial resources, and mental efforts, they would eventually develop the ‘Elemental Energy Reactor Summoning Technique’.

The spells developed by these people would inevitably be included in the ‘Promotion Fortress’.

Because:

When wizards in this world develop spells, they must rely on pens and paper in the Material World to write draft blueprints for the spells. At the moment when a spell is successfully developed and a draft exists on a piece of paper, the ‘Promotion Fortress’ incorporates the spell and makes it a part of this world’s magic rules.