Chapter: 219
In the following days, Mark led a disciplined life between the library of Karma Taj and his own room.
During the day, Mark would return the books he borrowed from the library the previous day and then bring back new books to read in his room.
At night, Mark would start researching the Sling Ring in his possession and Wand Of Watoomb borrowed from the Ancient One, hoping to unravel their mysteries.
In this diligent and hardworking period, Mark's progress was very noticeable.
It should be noted that Karma Taj, as a Sorcerer organization that has existed for an unknown period of time, has an enormous number of magical books in its library.
Generally speaking, even for exceptionally talented sorcerers, it would be impossible to read and comprehend all the magical books within their lifetime.
Beings like the Ancient One have accumulated knowledge throughout their long lives, fully absorbing the contents of these books and becoming incredibly powerful entities.
However, with his already advanced brain and several enhancements targeting brain utilization, Mark managed to read all the books in the library and fully digest and absorb their contents in just one month, making them his own.
Among these books were also several from the Ancient One's private collection that were considered forbidden to ordinary sorcerers. Now, Mark could freely use any spell recorded in them at his fingertips.
Combined with his accumulated combat experience and the assistance of the nanobots within his body, the gap between him and the Ancient One had become almost negligible, as long as she didn't use the Eye of Agamotto.
Moreover, during this month, Mark didn't spend every single minute on reading. Aside from resting, he allocated fixed time each night to research the artifacts in his possession.
Upon finishing all the magical books, Mark also completed his exploration of the mysteries behind the artifacts.
Deciphering the secrets of artifact creation was not a simple task. For some reason, this knowledge had been lost in the long history of sorcerers, leaving no existing references for Mark to consult.
Because of this, the artifacts possessed by Karma Taj were all ancient relics, and their quantity was limited and highly valuable. This meant that there were even fewer artifacts available for Mark to study.
Currently, Mark only had two artifacts available for his research: the Sling Ring, which he used for interdimensional communication and spatial teleportation, and the Wand Of Watoomb borrowed from the Ancient One.
Although both were artifacts, they had a significant difference apart from their different functions.
The Wand Of Watoomb had consciousness. It would decide on its own whether the wielder had the qualifications to possess it. On the other hand, the Sling Ring had no consciousness and wouldn't choose its owner. As long as a sorcerer could control magic, they could use it.
Mark deciphered the reason behind it in just a few hours.
Previously, the Ancient One explained to Mark that the magical energy obtained from the Vishanti dimension was gentler because it had undergone refinement, activating its latent properties.
However, Mark discovered that refining magical energy was only the first step in using magic. To control magic skillfully and perform corresponding spells, one needed to infuse their own mental will into the magic.
The reason the Wand Of Watoomb possessed consciousness was that the sorcerer who created it infused it with their own magic. The mental will of the sorcerer became the consciousness possessed by the artifact.
On the other hand, the creation method of the Sling Ring was different. It wasn't infused with magic to open dimensional portals; it was simply inscribed with incantations for communication with the multiverse.
Therefore, the usage of the ring resembled the artifacts crafted by the dwarves. The spellcaster would infuse their own magic into it, and through the runes inscribed on the artifact, the spellcasting process would be completed.
If artifacts like the Wand Of Watoomb were created to lower the difficulty of using magic, then the ring lowered the threshold for spellcasting.
After solving this question, Mark felt confident and wanted to unravel the mystery of why artifacts could store magic without using Uru metal.
However, things didn't go as smoothly as Mark imagined. He spent a whole month on this issue before finally finding the answer.
To his surprise, this answer indirectly confirmed a guess he had made before.
Once all magical runes were scaled down to the level of quarks, all physical properties would assimilate. Even if they didn't originally possess the characteristics of a magical medium, they could still transmit magic and complete the entire spellcasting process.
The reason why Karma Taj's artifacts could achieve the effects that would normally require Uru metal on Earth was precisely because they utilized this characteristic of quark particles.
This demonstrated the wisdom of the ancient sorcerers, and only sorcerers were capable of such incredible feats.
Because the technology required to work on the level of quarks didn't exist on Earth, not even in theory.
Expanding this to the nine realms, apart from the sorcerers on Earth, only the dwarves of Nidavellir might possess the precision required for quark-level processing.
However, Mark still hadn't figured out the methods used by King Eitri. But he had managed to decipher the methods of artifact crafting by Earth's sorcerers.
What was the most important ability of a sorcerer?
Of course, it was the ability to influence the matter with their mind. When a sorcerer reached a high level of mastery, they not only possessed great power and could cast spells without relying on any artifacts, but more importantly, the precision of their magic control couldn't be measured by the standards of the physical world because the mind had no limits.
That's why, when sorcerers crafted artifacts, they could use precise magic control to inscribe runes on the quark level, and then infuse the required magic into them to complete the crafting of an artifact.
With the revelation of this secret, Mark felt that there were no longer any obstacles impeding his exploration in the world of magic. After combining the advantages of rune magic, dark runes, and the Vishanti mystic arts, Mark had already begun to explore a brand new magic system that was uniquely his own...
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