Chapter 939 – Seran’s Magic Web

“Then I’ll head back to study right away!” Mo Lan said immediately.

“Wait,” Matil called out to her, handing over a small, transparent crystal bottle sealed with a cork stopper. Inside was a half-bottle of clear liquid. “This is ‘Slumber Blossom Dew.’ If you run into problems during your studies and find it hard to fall asleep, you can take a small sip. It will help you sleep and enter your dreams more quickly. Come find me for more when you run out!”

“Thank you, Grandmother Clan Leader!”

Mo Lan accepted the crystal bottle and carefully placed it in her clothing pocket.

As a Sorceress, she had no shortage of methods to fall asleep, but as a nature Elf, she truly had no good way to fall asleep quickly right now.

The Seran world’s world rank was far too high, and the number of spellcasters exceeded any world she had previously encountered. On top of that, there was a highly sentient Tree of Life right beside her. Anything that might expose her identity as an otherworldly Explorer was best left unused.

This was exactly what she needed.

After returning to her own treehouse, Mo Lan eagerly began to carefully sort through and experiment with the newly unlocked heritage memories.

This portion of knowledge was still primarily theoretical, covering multiple areas including magical enlightenment, profession classification basics, and an introduction to the Magic Web.

Last night in her dream, the Tree Spirit Mother had already dissected the core points of these theories with perfect clarity, saving her a great deal of time she would have otherwise spent on independent research and comprehension, while also resolving many of the questions lingering in her mind.

The Seran world’s magic system was utterly different from any world she had experienced before.

Its most prominent and core characteristic was this: the process by which spellcasters learned and cast magic was not entirely independent and self-reliant. Instead, it relied on something called the Magic Web.

According to the heritage memories, the Magic Web was an invisible magical network blanketing the entire world, jointly established through deep cooperation between a high Elf Explorer of the Seran world named Mirya and the world consciousness.

Mirya had thus become the undisputed God of Magic.

The existence of the Magic Web was of extraordinary significance.

It functioned like a standardized magical assistance system laid across the entire world, dramatically lowering the threshold for intelligent beings in the Seran world to become spellcasters.

High magical talent and magical affinity were not required, because the Magic Web could serve as a medium, reducing the difficulty of a spellcaster’s communion with magical energy.

Strong psychic power was not required either, nor did one need to start from scratch understanding the profound and obscure knowledge of magic or constructing spell structures. After each person established a link with the Magic Web, they could obtain an independent area within it. As long as they had a magic scroll for reference, they could expend very little psychic power to record the corresponding spell model in the Magic Web. The process could even be spread across multiple sessions, greatly reducing the difficulty of learning.

Casting magic through the Magic Web was not only less difficult and less costly, with more stable results, but also reduced the risk of spellcasting backlash to a certain degree.

If independently constructing spell structures in one’s mental sea was like drawing freehand on a blank sheet of paper — where a single mistake in pigment concentration, brushwork technique, or color design meant starting over from scratch, with the possibility of even damaging the paper —

Then recording spell models in the Magic Web was like drawing geometric shapes on graph paper using a ruler, and with a pencil and eraser at that. You could erase and redo at any time, and if you couldn’t finish this session, you could pick up where you left off next time.

Because of this, any intelligent being in the Seran world who knew of the Magic Web’s existence and successfully linked to it could, at the very least, cast one or two zero-rank spells with its assistance.

It could be said that the Magic Web had rendered distinguished service in enabling the Seran world to become a Fifteenth Rank world.

Of course, the Magic Web was not without its flaws.

Over-reliance on the Magic Web could limit a spellcaster’s deep exploration and innovation regarding the fundamental nature of magic.

However, the Magic Web was far superior to the Dreamweaver World’s skill books — at least every spell within it hadn’t appeared out of thin air. Furthermore, the Magic Web had its own set of operational rules, and to make use of it, one had to abide by those rules.

In addition to needing to take up different extraordinary professions and undergo training according to each profession’s characteristics, selecting magic that matched the profession’s traits and rank for study, there were also certain limits on the number of spells one could learn.

Generally speaking, one’s personal reserves of magical energy had to be sufficient to sustain the casting cost of all spells at each rank. This was also known as the spell slot limitation.

Since linking to the Magic Web and recording spell models both required psychic power, all spellcasters in the Seran world placed great importance on training their psychic power — regardless of whether they were humans who could only cast spells through psychic power, or magical races that could innately command certain types of magical energy.

However, humans and magical races had somewhat different methods of training psychic power.

Humans relied on pure mental meditation, the basic principles of which were quite similar to those of human mages in Valen. So similar, in fact, that Mo Lan somewhat suspected the races that had migrated from Seran to Valen in the past had secretly shared this knowledge with the Valen humans who were being kept by Angels and Demons.

Magical races, on the other hand, mostly utilized their own bloodlines and magical talents to train their psychic power.

Nature Elves, for example, were born with the Natural Affinity talent. Their bodies and bloodlines had a high degree of compatibility with the forces of nature, allowing them to absorb the forces of nature and convert them for their own use. They generally entered a state of natural perception, borrowing the forces of nature to train their psychic power.

The claim by Valen’s mages that only humans possessed psychic power was indeed somewhat arrogant and ignorant. The average initial level of psychic power in humans was indeed generally higher than that of other races, and initial psychic power alone was sufficient for a preliminary link to the Magic Web.

Other races, however, often needed to first train their psychic power through their respective methods to build a foundation before they could establish a connection with the Magic Web.

For Elves who were just beginning to learn magic, the first step was usually to sit in quiet meditation, attempting to enter the state of communion with nature known as “natural perception.”

During this process, while the forces of nature cleansed the body, they also subtly tempered one’s psychic power.

The nourishing effect of the forces of nature on the body was especially significant, while its tempering effect on psychic power was relatively gentle and slow.

Magical talent, physical talent, and psychic power talent determined one’s choice of profession, which in turn determined the future growth trajectory of one’s magic, body, and psychic power.

Mo Lan carefully weighed her own situation.

Her magical talent was beyond question — she progressed at remarkable speed even when casting through her own understanding alone, let alone with the assistance of the Magic Web.

Her physical talent, under the continuous nourishment of the Tree of Life, far surpassed that of Elves her age, with enormous potential in the area of speed.

And her true body, after prolonged comprehensive nourishment from the Dietary Supplement Card, had reached a very high level in both strength and constitution.

She could meet the requirements for any profession that demanded physical talent as well.

As for psychic power, that went without saying.

It could be said that among all the extraordinary professions currently available in Seran, Mo Lan could choose any one she wished.

To her, Seran’s extraordinary professions were merely designed to complement the Magic Web in lowering the threshold for spellcasters and reducing the difficulty of learning magic.

All these extraordinary professions combined formed the complete magic system of the Seran world. Naturally, it was best to learn them all.