Chapter 746: Jump, Rod!
The idea of a time leap spell has made Rod's research shine!
That's right, since time spells can't be applied directly to targets, and Valoran's Time in a Bottle can't make Rhodes walk between the past, present, and future, so why doesn't Rhodes just make some interesting changes to his time?
(Say anything +1s pull out and shoot!) )
Time jump, this is indeed a very feasible solution!
With the Sands of Time in his possession, Rhodes can easily complete the first step of the time leap - temporarily disappear from time.
As long as he completely wraps himself in the sands of time, Rhodes can completely strip himself from time without any problems.
But how to get back...... That's the problem.
As long as the sands of time is completely wrapped, it will have a time blocking effect, and the person who is wrapped in it will be "bypassed" by the time stream, and its own time will fall into a standstill, and Rod does not dare to guarantee that if he wraps himself up, he will not be able to get rid of it without the help of external forces.
What's even more troublesome is that it can't be experimented.
Rhodes is the only manipulator of the Sands of Time, and no one can replace Rhodes in this experiment - Rhodes doesn't know anything like doppelgangers, and the mirror image he makes is also a kind of thing without intelligence, so it can't help him complete this spell experiment at all!
But the idea of the [Time Leap] spell gave Rhodes a solution he had never thought of before.
After the sand of time covers the target, the time of the target itself and the time when the outside world is shielded do not interfere with each other - if you wrap yourself in the sand of time, what can you do to control your time?
In other words, if Rhodes' choice is to use the Sands of Time as a "barrier to bypass Valoran's law of time", does it mean that Rhodes can have endless time?
This time, Rhodes finally saw a glimmer of hope!
Lisandro had really put too much pressure on Rhodes before, and although the conventional time warp could speed up the spell casting, it was not enough for Rhodes to face Lisandro, so during that time, Rhodes had been trying to find a way to stop the regular flow of time, hoping that in this way, all the means that Lisandro could defend and resist would be destroyed.
It's frighteningly difficult – it means it's almost impossible to modify the time flow of the goal or the entire world.
But now, when Rod has changed his perspective, he needs to think about how to make stagnant time move again!
The question flips and the answer emerges.
Time activation!
Under what circumstances does time activation occur?
According to Dalaran's compulsory course, "Advanced Arcane", the question for this answer is clear.
When the arcane energy is gathered to a certain extent, space will be unstable, matter will be crystallized, and time will ...... is activated.
Arcane is a very pure energy, this energy is not only pure, but also active, when the base of arcane energy is large enough, it will cause the existence affected by itself to become "active", space is unstable because it is active, time is active and produces the phenomenon of life, and matter is active and the internal structure is destroyed, resulting in crystallization.
The basic principle of the famous spell [Time Warp] is to use a huge amount of arcane energy to forcibly activate time, and then cause the caster to cast the spell for ten seconds, and the "normal" time for others only has the effect of one second.
It's just that the time warp itself is terrifyingly expensive, and the caster needs to expend a lot of arcane energy to naturally create an area of time gradient between "their own time" and "normal time".
Because of this limitation, the time warp spell was too expensive for Rhodes and not effective enough.
Now, as long as the Sand of Time is introduced as a new factor, the Sand of Time can have the effect of time blocking, and Rhodes does not need to create a time gradient change time at all, only needs to activate its own time, so that the consumption will be one or even several orders of magnitude smaller!
So, how can you activate your time?
This other mage may need to be practiced, but for Rhodes, who is good at arcane turmoil and arcane destruction, not to mention the time to activate himself, even if he forcibly activates his own arcane arts!
In this case, the spell experiment can be carried out completely.
So, with the help of Anne and Jinx, Rhodes wrapped himself in the sands of time after entering a state of arcane turmoil.
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What does it feel like to stop time?
It's a very subtle feeling.
Wrapped in the sands of time, Rhodes doesn't really have any sense of the outside world - but he knows that only he can move now.
As previously scheduled, after Rhodes wrapped himself up, Anne and Jinx would start counting — and if they reached three, they would release Rhodes.
After completely enveloping himself, Rhodes did not lose consciousness - the guess was right, the vast arcane energy did activate time, allowing him to move and think under the sands of time.
Then, under the effect of the arcane turmoil, Rhodes silently counted three hundred himself, and until he finished counting, no one came to relieve him of his state of being wrapped in the sands of time.
This means that at this time, Rhodes is still conscious, but time in the outside world is stopped, and time warp cannot achieve the effect of time flow rate of one to hundred.
Realizing this, Rhodes began to move.
The sands of time shielded Rod's feelings, he couldn't see, hear, or feel, so he could only rely on the impressions in his memory and take two steps back - this should be against the wall.
Then Rhodes tried to cast a spell - a very simple and basic light spell that would have no bad consequences if it failed.
There was still darkness in Rod's vision, and the spell feedback told Rhodes that his spell should have succeeded.
In other words, the light spell does not occur inside the sands of time, but outside the sands of time, and when you cast the spell in this state, the spell will take shape on the outside.
Then, Rod tried to take the initiative to lift the sands of time.
Throughout the process, Rhodes was clear about his every move - but from the angle of Anne and Jinx, Rhodes appeared on the wall the moment he wrapped himself, and released a light spell, as if Rod had cast a spell in an instant after flashing.
There is no doubt that the spell succeeded!
Looking at Anne, who was confused, Rod laughed.