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Chapter 558 - 99 Similarity and Contagion Laws (First Update)_1

Chapter 558: Chapter 99 Similarity and Contagion Laws (First Update)_1

Idol wizards inevitably form connections with one another.

Just as prophet wizards can interfere with, obscure, or embellish each other’s prophecies, and as transformation wizards can hasten, interrupt, or invert each other’s transformations... idol wizards also influence each other.

But their influence is more metaphysical.

It is an influence based on the level of "destiny".

Powerful idol wizards affect weaker idol wizards within a certain range, making them increasingly similar to themselves in various ways, known as the "Law of Similarity" of the idol school.

This rule, when applied to idol spells, is also the most commonly used spell "Shadow Substitute", which is to "use a person with the same name to replace another as the ritual target".

And weaker idol wizards can also borrow the power of powerful idol wizards through this "similarity". This can also be understood as the essence of the "original ritual"... which is to make oneself similar to the believers of the deities, and thus steal the power of truth.

——Just like the priests of the blood elves.

The most powerful weapon of idol wizards is the "idol"... or rather "figurines", made in the image of a true god or a powerful idol wizard.

Yes, the "figurines" of idol wizards are like the "pre-transformation agents" of transformation wizards.

If they carry an effigy of Mr. Radiance, they can evolve their idol spells with similar effects and domains into the divine arts of Mr. Radiance.

For example, they can evolve "Healing Touch" into "Purifying Touch" or "Flash Technique" into "Dazzling Skin", as if they were devout clerics of Mr. Radiance.

And if they replace the idol they are holding with one of the "Pale Princess" through a simple ritual spell, they can turn "Healing Touch" into "Wraith’s Touch"; and if it is swapped for "Black Widow", it can become "Lethal Touch".

The Melvin family, where "Professor Wolf" comes from, is a wizard family exceedingly proficient in the "Law of Similarity".

They craft divine infants, "making them resemble gods". By doing this, they fulfill the advancement condition of "God among Men".

Beyond this, the idol school also has a core rule known as the "Law of Contagion".

It can also be understood as a division within the idol school.

Just as there are divisions within the Soul Snatching School between controlling the mind and controlling the soul.

The so-called "Law of Contagion" means the fates of idol wizards tend to converge. Weaker idol wizards are unconsciously drawn to powerful idol wizards.

But once a weaker idol wizard comes into contact with the magical traces of a powerful idol wizard, or even just becomes involved in related events, both sides’ fates will be disrupted as a result.

——The key point is, both sides.

That means, the weaker party can also affect the stronger one.

Even indirect contact can be considered as "contagion" occurring between the two.

For example, if there is an idol wizard who draws on "the power of worship", who helped a village resist floods, and thus gained their worship, having the villagers revere him as a deity — at this time, they’ll usually create a divine name for themselves. Such as "God of Drought and Flood", or "Lord Anshun", making the villagers believe he is a passing god.

Then this temple can continuously provide him with power.

But if at this moment, another idol wizard who harnesses "the power of fear" arrives and commits atrocities, stirring up floods and causing earthquakes, provoking immense fear in the people, then this power of fear would also be transferred to the previous idol wizard due to the "contagion" that has occurred between them, thereby weakening his power.

The mana pool of an idol wizard is like a fan chart.

Whether it’s "desire", "worship", or "fear", they all occupy a portion of the Order Mana. And idol spells of silver tier and above all require the use of specific powers to execute.

If the first idol wizard does not happen to have a spell that is triggered by "the power of fear", then this power of fear will be stuck in his mana pool, utterly unusable... If he depletes other forms of mana, then as the mana replenishes, the power of fear instead becomes increasingly pervasive.

——It’s like having a deck contaminated with a large number of useless cards.

Seti, the teacher of Naifertali, the "Bone Healer", is an idol wizard adept at the "Law of Contagion".

He can even perform healing or strengthening over vast distances through his students’ tokens at the Bone-nurturing Ground. If his student suffers a severe injury, then the token will also break apart — of course, Seti could also curse or even kill someone directly through something his student has touched, but he simply doesn’t need to do so.

From this point of view,

Now that Giralda has arrived at the coal-ash barren land, she’s following Naifertali in search of the legendary mercenary "The Unfallen Shield" Justus’s nightmare.

It is also the confrontation between the two major branches of the Idol Wizards, "Similitude" and "Contagion".

—Her coming here is actually dangerous.

Only Naifertali knows about this.

She hasn’t told Giralda this...

Powerful Idol Wizards can even make their own fates form a cycle, infecting subsequent others. This is the combined effect of similitude and contagion.

Just as the Bone Healer’s original intention changes, his students will also fall into the same fate as him.

—Years ago, Frederick Melvin and his friend "The Unfallen Shield" Justus came to the coal-ash barren land, Justus then died.

And now, both Giralda and Naifertali have come here.

This is also why Naifertali tried so hard to prevent Niusel from coming over.

The same location, the same number of people...

If Frederick at the time came here to investigate something,

Then their purposes become unified.

If even the genders become the same, then the possibility of the echo of fate from years ago, becomes too great.

...In other words, the fate of "one killing another" may reoccur here.

Once Giralda becomes aware of this, then she would meet the conditions of the "Contagion Law." Professor "Wolf" Frederick, though not adept at the Contagion Law, is not entirely ignorant of it either.

If he were to operate actively, he indeed might trap Giralda within the "Similitude Law." Repeating the fate of the past.

...Of course.

When Naifertali first met Giralda, she also used the idol school’s detection methods. But it slipped off Giralda.

Now she knows that Giralda is not an Idol Wizard.

That means there must be a powerful Idol Wizard protecting him.

But her teacher is already the strongest Idol Wizard.

—Could it be, the Reflection in the Mirror?

If Giralda represents the Reflection in the Mirror...

Does it imply that here, three gold-rank Idol Wizards’ fates are entwined together?

Naifertali is heavy with thoughts.

On the other hand,

An old man wearing a strange cloak and holding a mirror in his arms walks out from the subway of the coal-ash barren land.

He takes off his cloak.

In his somewhat aged pupils, there are mirror-like pure silver irises.

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