Super Righteous Player
Chapter 972 - 30: Injecting Soul into the Characters Created by the Pen

Chapter 972: Chapter 30: Injecting Soul into the Characters Created by the Pen

After chasing away the little wizards, Isaac took Thirteen Delicacies and Husky upstairs.

On one hand, Annan was curious about how Isaac would allocate skills to the players. On the other hand, he also planned to expand his own capabilities. After all, Annan still had plenty of spare spell slots.

The main combat strategy of the Disabling School still involved using Spells of Disabling to disrupt the enemy.

The power of frost was unlike fire, where merely touching it meant death, or contact meant injury. It was just like the legendary Fire Escape: Merciful Fireball that never hit anyone. This was precisely because its theoretical damage was too high; if it actually hit someone, the plot obviously couldn’t continue...

The advantage of the Disabling School was that it was "immediately effective."

Whether it was triggered by a glance or was an area effect that worked instantaneously. There were few ray or projectile spells... and this also made it difficult for Disability Wizards to distance themselves from opponents.

—So they simply didn’t create distance.

This was like the Hand of Winter never using "magic staffs" as weapons, but instead almost everyone had a melee weapon; those with more advanced equipment even carried a gun.

Taking advantage of the enemy being controlled and frozen in place, they would rush in with either a hammer or an axe, or, if nothing else, just shoot them in the face. It was more efficient and saved more mana than casting an ice blade or ice arrow from a distance.

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For Annan, the strong control of a Frostspeaker combined with the close combat output of a Victorious Knight essentially satisfied his spell needs.

Now, Annan was searching for ways to advance to the golden-tier profession... he did indeed need to fill up his spells a bit.

Although Annan had never been here before, because he had frequently spied on Dennisiowa’s "study-abroad life", he felt strangely familiar with the surrounding architectural layout.

It was like the familiarity one feels when traveling to a place after playing lots of Ubisoft games.

It wasn’t enough to create the urge to scale walls, but he couldn’t help exclaiming, "I’ve seen this corner before."

Isaac led Annan and the others to the ninth floor of the Heath Tower of Black.

This wasn’t a particularly high floor, but it wasn’t easily accessible to students either. The specific reason was that some Soul Snatching Spells were stored here.

"Though I don’t have a good impression of wizards from the Soul Snatching School, I must admit that the problem would undoubtedly be bigger if Soul Snatching Spells fell into the hands of other wizards,"

Isaac said as he walked ahead. "Only wizards from the Soul Snatching School have the proper mindset to use Soul Snatching Spells. Once this mindset is lost, one’s personality quickly erodes and deteriorates due to the swelling sense of controlling others at will."

As he spoke, he took a thin book from a corner.

Annan looked at the book title with some surprise.

He thought he would see names like "Overview of Soul Snatching Spells" or "On Consciousness Control."

Instead, he saw the cover of the book, which was colored like a dreamy fairy tale illustration—on a grassy hillside sat a gentle-smiling princess in white, with amber eyes. As the mountain breeze blew, her hair fluttered up.

Across from her, a blue-haired little boy seemed to be spreading open a book to tell her a story.

The book was titled "Little Princess."

It even had a dreamy, blurry filter that made just the cover look like an incredibly healing story.

"This looks like a fairy tale,"

Annan commented, arms crossed, standing aside.

Isaac’s lips curled up, "Then you guessed right.

"It really is a fairy tale book."

"...How so?"

"This book was created even before my time. It tells of a pure and kind princess in the Kingdom of Dennisiowa who found a boy with amnesia and raised him. Although the boy had lost his memory, he was clever and came up with many ingenious ideas to help her and her father and help the kingdom through tough times... and of course, he married the princess who became the queen in the end."

"That definitely has the flavor of a fairy tale."

Annan retorted, "But why would the King of Dennisiowa allow his daughter to raise a boy picked up from nowhere, of unknown origin? And what does this have to do with the Soul Snatching Spell?"

"It’s highly related."

Isaac’s expression became slightly serious, "I just said that this book was created a little earlier than me... because it was written by a wizard I know.

"He was also the Pope of the generation of tragic playwrights and the author of many bestsellers. People praised his characters as if they had souls... I also know that when he wrote, he really did infuse souls into his characters."

Isaac seriously added, "It’s a real ’infusion of souls’."

"...How is that possible?"

Annan suddenly realized what he meant, his brow furrowing, "Artificial souls?"

"Much more complicated than that. If it were just artificial souls, then only the original book would have a soul, not the story itself.

"—Rather than calling him a writer, it’s better to say he was a puppet master. When his story needed a kind-hearted heroine, he didn’t consider how to portray her kindness... but would capture a ’kind-hearted girl’, extract her soul, and forcibly inject it into the story."

Isaac took a deep breath, "Every speaking character in his stories was a living soul. Just like a comedy played by undead flesh puppets... he loved writing warm and bright stories, yet no one knew what was hidden in these stories.

"These souls are not within any book but forever live within this eternally beginning story. Thus, they cannot be rescued, nor can they rest... The profession this person held was called ’Weaver’. It’s also precisely the ancestral profession of the Spirit Monks of Bernadino.

"He hid some of the spells he invented within his works. Because his ’stories’ are alive, you can actually cast ’Compathy Perception’ on it as if it were a passed-out person."

As he spoke, he handed the fairy tale book to Shisanxiang, "I know, it’s very difficult for you to suddenly deceive yourself ’this book is a living person’. But once you successfully cast the spell, you can not only learn the core spells of the Heart Control and Control Spirit Body schools from this book but also obtain a set of three forbidden spells no longer taught or passed down."

"Could it be..."

Shisanxiang gasped.

"Yes," Isaac whispered, "It’s the series of spells he used when extracting spirits—I’m going to teach them to you.

"Consciousness Extraction, Personality Disintegration, Memory Fabrication. Among them, ’Memory Fabrication’ is still used today in treating psychological issues—it’s the Ritual Spell that modifies someone’s memory.

"Consciousness Extraction can be used in combat. As long as you can touch the opponent’s body with your hand—regardless of whether they are armored, as long as it’s not armor that blocks attacks on the spirit body, you can directly ’knock out’ the consciousness of the body.

"Since the target is consciousness and not the soul, it’s irrelevant against defenses of the soul itself. After being knocked out, the opponent will temporarily lose responsiveness for a while. The opponent can still receive all perception from the outside world, can normally generate memories or undergo conditioned reflexes, but it’s as if they suddenly became absent-minded.

"This spell itself has an element of surprise, and it’s one of the few spells in the Soul Snatching School that requires ’contact’ to use. But its greatest significance is in combination with ’Personality Disintegration’."

Isaac’s expression was very serious, "If you use Personality Disintegration on the ’knocked out’ conscience... it will directly tear apart the opponent’s personality, forcibly creating a second personality in them. This is a Guided Spell, and if you continue casting, you can create even more personalities... If you keep going, you can completely shatter the opponent’s personality.

"In doing so, it is equivalent to erasing the opponent’s consciousness—which is their desires—while preserving their soul and body. They will still know everything, and their body can instinctively respond, but they will no longer have the thoughts to control their body."

Annan, who had been watching from the side, was startled.

He seemed to have heard something similar somewhere before...