Chapter 858: Witchcraft
Because his body is a book, liliang, agility, perception, all three physiques only have 1 point, how to be able to cast spells, can only find a way to trigger a certain enchantment and formation. It all takes time, and with the help of large runes or enchantments, it is almost useless on the ever-changing battlefield.
Now that I know that this guy is able to learn witchcraft, how not to be shocked! With the intelligence and understanding cultivated by the book demon's thousand-year-old reading, this is naturally a matter of course.
"That's a real ...... Well, a great event! Akon stammered a little, and he found that his position as a sorcerer on the team had been shaken. Since the book demon joined, the importance of his wise man's layout has also been replaced by the book demon, and now the book demon can still learn witchcraft to fight, and a sense of crisis has risen in Akon's heart for no reason.
The bookdemon smiled and glanced at Akon, as if he could read the guy's intentions. However, he did not decipher how a person as intelligent as Akon could not know that he was the only person to learn the witchcraft of 'Voodoo'. It's just that he's avoiding it, because he seems to be threatening Akon's position on the team.
Zhang Fan also glanced at Akon, and then nodded slightly to the book demon. The two of them used to be in the text space of the book demon, reading together for thousands of years, and they have long been in the same mind. And Zhang Fan also knows his loyal teammate Akon very well, he knows that what the book demon and Akon think is to encourage the book demon to do what he should do.
The royal sacrifices that have received a lot of benefits are indeed true to the letter. What's more, it's an excellent student who meets a book demon. However, in order to use witchcraft and sorcery, it is not enough to know the runes and priestly rituals. Many spells and spell casting methods require corresponding constitutions and skills to match.
It's like dragon magic, if you don't have the dragon's vocal organs, how can you cast spells normally? And the ontology of the book demon is a book, and even if it can be transformed into a human being, it is only an anthropomorphism, not a real human body. Because there is still an essential difference between item monsters and creature monsters. If the book demon wants to transform into a human, I am afraid it is much more difficult than the transformation of the tiger demon.
At least the current book demon is not yet able to transform into a real human. Therefore, the range of human witchcraft that the book demon can learn is actually very narrow. If you need a human physique to be able to use spells, of course, the book demon will be passed. So he was proficient in runes and enchantments, and learned two powerful sorcery from the high priest.
One is naturally the living dead technique that the book demon has coveted for a long time, and this magic book demon has already discovered the clues when he was in Cape Verde. The painted ornaments on the bodies of those natives are clearly a kind of simple and primitive talismans. The reason why the shamans and priests of the indigenous tribes were able to turn the indigenous warriors into the living dead after their death was because of the fact that these ornaments played a large role. This Living Dead technique does not need to study the caster's physique, it only needs to draw a talisman array in normal times.
And according to the bookdemon analysis, those ornaments are also useful for the dead, which has a bit to do with the necromancy of the European dark wizards summoning the dead. Once the spell is successfully cast, it will be able to impose its will on the person being cast. Because the Holy See carried out a bloody witch extermination operation in the Middle Ages, the Vatican has a large number of relevant records that the Vatican-born book demon has long been exposed to this kind of magic in the 'confidential archives', so he is no stranger to the witchcraft of 'voodoo'.
The bookdemon also analyzed that the pigments used to paint these ornaments must contain special substances. These substances can be identified by the human sense of smell and taste, but the book demon does not have these organs, so naturally there is no way to identify and distinguish these materials. So learning from a 'voodoo' wizard was the only way for him to master these skills.
This living dead is the signature witchcraft of 'voodoo'! And it is this creepy technique that has caused 'voodoo' to be widely criticized in reality. Of course, this is due to the fear of death and resurrection of human beings, and the book demon does not have such a sense of life, so naturally it will not be disturbed by such emotions.
Another spell, also related to runes, is also one of the most iconic horror witchcraft of Voodoo, that is, the world-famous 'Voodoo Doll'. This sorcery only requires the mastery of some hair, nails, and even commonly used clothing of the caster, and then it can be cursed by making a 'voodoo doll'. This is a bit like the blessing in Taoism in the Chinese region, mastering the name and birth date of the person being cast, and writing it on a small wooden figure with cinnabar, you can curse and control this person.
However, the 'Voodoo Doll' is not always as popular thinks, and it is necessarily bad for the caster. There are always two sides to everything. The 'Voodoo Doll' can also be used to bless the caster. It is only because of the name of this witchcraft and the over-amplified negative elements that it makes this witchcraft feared and off-putting.
These two very characteristic witchcraft do not require any physical fitness of the caster, what is required is a deep understanding of witchcraft and proficiency in runes and rune combinations. These two points are naturally very easy for the book demon to do. With his intellect and attitude towards knowledge, it was easy to master and develop these two kinds of witchcraft.
But Akon still doubts how these two book demons, who have learned witchcraft, can help everyone fight. Is it the practice of finding a group of dead bodies before every battle? Or do you want to steal the enemy's hair and make a 'voodoo doll'? It's really kind of ridiculous. It's like a joke that the rat poison seller says that his medicine works, but it has to be smeared on the mouse's mouth.
Of course, from these two main witchcrafts, there are also some auxiliary witchcrafts such as 'plague magic', 'divination' and so on. The plague technique is an infectious disease performed by the strong priest on the merchant ship of Hawkins, and if the effect of this spell spreads, I am afraid that over time, it will be very terrifying, even surpassing the art of the living dead. The plague spell creates panic in a certain area, and when combined with the living dead, it has a multiplier effect. The emergence of a large number of living dead people attacking the local population, and then spreading the plague disease, is as terrifying as the zombies in Resident Evil, if not more so.
Divination is a basic practice of religion that is practiced by almost all practitioners. Except for Buddhism, because in Buddhist teachings fortune-telling and divination are called evil fates. In other words, Buddhists are not allowed to show this kind of magic to their followers, and Buddhists are not allowed to participate in the profession of divination.
(PS Buddhism's five evil orders: 1. Deceive the appearance of the anomaly, and deceive the peculiar appearance of the secular people in order to benefit the people.) 2. Talking about one's own function and one's own merits, in order to benefit the nourishing. 3. Divination of auspicious and evil, learning divination and saying that people are auspicious and evil, in order to benefit the nourishing. Fourth, the loud voice, the loud words and the prestige, in order to benefit the people. 5. Say that the profit is to move the hearts of the people, and to Peterly, then it is said here, and to benefit from it, then it is said to the other, so as to benefit the one. )
Although the book demon is very strong in learning, it is not possible to master the witchcraft of 'voodoo' overnight. And when the 'voodoo' high priest was traveling around Africa when he was young, he did hear that at the junction of the Songhai Empire and the ancient kingdom of Benin, there was a huge dragon clan similar to the image of 'Ying Long' that appeared in the illustration of the book demon's body. Originally, Akon decided to let the book demon learn witchcraft here, and Zhang Fan and himself led the team to find this ancient dragon.
But the book demon asked everyone to wait for him to go with him, because this dragon was solemnly mentioned even by the six-tusked white elephant king, so its ability must be extraordinary. It's better to let yourself go to the Songhai Empire to collect more information, know yourself and the enemy, and then go to it. Zhang Fan Aken discussed it and felt that the dragon clan had a long life anyway, and he was not in a hurry to do so in this month, so he agreed with the book demon's opinion. Leaving Xuanyuan Star and Dark Sakura to protect the book demon in the ancient city of Benin, Zhang Fan and Green Wing still traveled around. Akon and Yoda return to Harcourt Harbor to continue their purchase of gems and make at least a little money back for the 50 scenes. In the future, I will meet that dragon, and maybe I will need it.
Hawkins really returned here with a full load, and even deceived and abducted 200 black slaves, enough for 500 slaves, and stuffed the holds of several merchant ships into airtight. Such a living environment can easily cause physical problems for black slaves. But Hawkins won't care, as long as he doesn't die and can survive to the Caribbean.
It is for this reason that Zhang Fan stayed away from the port. He didn't want to see such a scene and be indifferent. Akon doesn't care, and goes to the gem mines with the goblins, and then oversees the bill for Drake's acquisition of gold. By the time everything was finished, it had been more than twenty days. The study of the book demon in the ancient city of Benin is in a critical period, and Zhang Fan's team naturally cannot follow the Hawkins fleet to the Caribbean.
So Drake temporarily resigned as the captain of the 'Ark of China', and recruited an experienced navigator for Zhang Fan's team in the port, as well as a group of black sailors. The veteran navigator used to be an experienced privateer captain, and according to Drake's private disclosure, the guy seemed to hate Hawkins. This reassured Akon.
After doing this, Drake made an agreement with Akon that he would leave messages when he passed through various ports in the Caribbean, so that Zhang Fan's team could track him. In fact, there is no need for this, there is a book demon, and it is clear where the Hawkins fleet and Drake will go back in the future. As long as it arrives at the right time in history.
Drake originally wanted to leave his cronies first mate to navigate Zhang Fan's ship, but Akon resolutely refused. That's because they were going to Cape Verde to pick up the merchant ship of the captured Hawkins fleet. If there are people in the Hawkins fleet, it is naturally difficult to do anything. After taking the ship, he sailed to a port in the Caribbean to refit it, and then he could swagger back to the Hawkins fleet without being discovered.