Super Righteous Player
Chapter 990 - 48: Do you repair the computer without turning off the power?

Chapter 990: Chapter 48: Do you repair the computer without turning off the power?

Isaac looked at Husky, who clearly didn’t want to learn, and instantly turned his head to glare at Mike.

That glare left him dazed and confused.

"Don’t lose focus—listen up, in this room, there are two hundred and fifty-six different curse materials placed. They are positioned in different corners and sealed in storage jars that are open at the bottom.

"This base Ritual Spell serves the most fundamental purpose. It is to connect different curse materials and modify their logical position without moving them. In other words, in the cognitive perception of this ritual setting, it’s where they are located.

"By altering the logic of this base Ritual Spell, the lids beneath the different ritual materials can be opened. Subsequently, the Ritual Plates beneath them will have their ritual position modified.

"The whole effect is intended for another large ritual. It’s to build the large-scale Ritual Spell ’Onaiyilos,’ which covers half of the Wizard’s Tower. You simply cannot have the curse materials in the correct location—because that place might be a wall or even a person.

"So it’s better to block out its own position perception and artificially add location attributes to the materials through this base Ritual Spell."

Isaac subconsciously explained his rationale to his two "students": "Previously, this ritual did not account for the problem of dreams within dreams, so it used the expense-free ’Elf’s Eye’ instead of ’Initial Influence: Nature’s Hymn’ as the medium for entering dreams; what should I do now if I need to increase its depth of entering dreams?"

"...What should I do?"

Husky echoed blankly.

"...I should adjust it to require the insertion of scorching ashes to activate ’Moth’s Blood,’ thereby replacing the influence with ’High-Level Influence: The Moth’s Fable,’ to deepen the dreaming, correct?"

"Yes." "Mm."

The two replied in unison.

"But the moth and ashes will produce the useless ’ash’ influence. It will cause the dream to become scorching hot, how should I reduce this effect?"

Both remained silent, just standing to the side and watching.

In a trance, they felt as if they were back in school...

"The answer is to do nothing."

And it seemed Isaac was also used to silent students, continuing on his own: "Because if you look at this part... Hugo had defaulted to using shark blood here, as a ritual lubricant and to prevent dryness. It can significantly reduce the intense fear when pulling out of nightmares and the damage to the soul.

"But this isn’t really good either, Hugo’s approach is too conservative. Because if the nightmare is close to the concepts of ’ocean,’ ’water,’ or ’darkness,’ this ritual would intensify the nightmare. And there aren’t a few nightmares related to these three concepts.

"Previously when Annan was in this nightmare, he was injected with sea beast blood. This itself also has the concepts of the sea and water—blood is a type of water, and this enhanced the concept in the nightmare... If this nightmare hadn’t been purified, it would have already become distorted at that time.

"The consequence of distortion is that events related to the concept of ’darkness’ would be symmetrically intensified. Right?"

"Yes."*2

They answered simultaneously once more.

Mike listened and felt a bit of a headache, but he was still seriously studying. Meanwhile, Husky had already started recording the screen, planning to record Isaac’s proficient operation of the base plate.

Just like when you don’t understand something in class, for now, just take a picture of the blackboard.

Whether he’d watch it later was uncertain—most likely, he wouldn’t, and he’d forget about it after class.

But taking a little footage at this time expresses one’s determination to learn to a full extent, diffusing the guilt from the headache and unwillingness to listen, making it much less intense.

—I may not be listening now, but I’ve recorded it, yeah.

Later on, I’ll listen to it slowly on my own.

Of course, when this "later" would be, or when one might be surprised to find "hey, I actually recorded this video," or bemusedly discover "when did I record this" or "what is this"... that was uncertain.

Husky has always been good at using this self-deceptive trick.

On the other hand, Mike stood by, pensive.

He seemed to understand the logic behind this thing.

It felt... indeed, not difficult.

With the study efficiency of preparing for finals and having highlighted the key points in the book, Mike felt that in at most a week, he’d probably have a general grasp of this...

"Okay, connection established."

As they were lost in their wild guesses, Isaac sighed with relief.

He stuffed those few circuit boards back in place but did not close the door.

Instead, he pressed a button and leaned close to the microphone, "Hello, hello, can you hear me? If you can, tap your left index finger twice on something."

At this moment, Thirteen Fragrance noticed something else—

...Wait, the ritual hadn’t been interrupted just now?

Was this person repairing the computer (??) without powering it down, damn it?

Thirteen Fragrance suddenly felt a chill run down his spine and his scalp tingle.

He knew that if the ritual went awry, it wouldn’t be just about a blue screen or a burnt graphics card... it would be an instant explosion.

If a ritual of this scale exploded, the Spirit-Bearing Monk might truly fulfill his previously unaccomplished wish...

Of course, the most fatal consequence was that Annan would surely die here.

...Was this what they called courage born from mastery?

Thirteen Fragrance’s face was a mix of conflict, planning to tell Annan after he got out.

This time, indeed, nothing had happened, because swapping the two materials’ positions had resolved it. But it would be better to change this habit still... What if next time, while flipping the switch, his hand slipped to the one next door?

As they looked up, they were also stunned for a moment.

Why did the scene look different from before?

Wasn’t Annan just exploring Bernardino’s father’s haunted house?

How come after two minutes of not watching, the screen switched to a hospital?

And this outfit...

They saw "Bernardino" bound to an iron chair. This chair was affixed directly to the ground, and his legs were trapped by the chair’s legs, preventing him from struggling or escaping.

The young "Bernardino" was bowing his head, eyes closed.

But his ring finger, confined to the armrest of his left hand, silently tapped the armrest twice.

—Finally, contact was made.

The three of them couldn’t help but sigh in unison.

That’s when Thirteen Fragrance suddenly noticed beside Annan were white chalk and a complex ritual plate being drawn.

Thirteen Fragrance felt that ritual looked very familiar.

He paused, then suddenly turned his head to glance at the "fairy tale book" he had been reading halfway through and had casually placed aside.

He flipped back two pages continuously and looked up at the screen, comparing it to the illustration.

"Is this... the Ritual Spell: ’Memory Fabrication’?" he tentatively asked Isaac, pulling him over, "The same as this one."

"It is ’Memory Fabrication.’"

Isaac gave it a glance and confirmed it assertively.

Then he pressed the button again and leaned toward the microphone to say, "You must have just undergone a ’Memory Fabrication’ spell...

"...Remember not to give yourself away."

Annan heard Isaac’s somewhat muffled voice in his ear.

Silently, he curled his ring finger and tapped the armrest twice.

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