There are always coincidences in the world that make life more interesting. No, after reading all the "hell scenes" drawn in that book, Austen was extremely surprised to find that this was not the scene of the world he experienced when he had nightmares two days ago?
The dusky sky, the scorched earth filled with smoke, the river flowing with magma... However, there are many kinds of devils living on the scorched earth in the picture, in addition to the three-headed dogs of hell and dwarf-like monsters seen in dreams, there are also many kinds of devils of different forms, but the most conspicuous of them is undoubtedly the alchemy with fiery red wings spread out, and the huge size is amazing! It is the center of each picture, sometimes holding a flaming sword to fight with other devils, sometimes sitting majestically on a throne made of black iron, sometimes meditating on the battlefield...
In fact, Hell is divided into nine layers, and the scene of each layer is different, some are like the cold abyss, and some are silent and dark, but the alchemist likes to live in the first layer of Scorched Hell filled with boiling magma, so the scenes of Scorched Hell are all drawn in the book. The Three-Headed Dog of Hell is an indigenous person born in this layer of hell, and Austen's Nightmare chose to scorch the hell because of this.
With this immersive experience, Austen quickly memorized all the scenes illustrated in the book, so he closed the book and returned it to Lillian, and couldn't wait to run to the bedroom that Lillian had prepared for him.
The bedroom wasn't hard to find, and Austin used her memory to find the location of the kitchen first, then counted room by room, and easily found her room for tonight.
The bedroom was spacious, with a double bed one and a half meters wide, a set of wood-colored tables and chairs under the windowsill, and what shocked Austen the most was that he saw a stack of books on the desk, as well as a pile of unused parchment, a bottle of ink with a lid closed, and a quill pen as white as snow.
Of course, this is what Lillian prepared for him, books are used to enlighten literacy, paper and pen and ink are for Austen to practice writing in the future, she is a person who is afraid of trouble, and she will not delay preparing in advance.
However, these valuable books, paper and ink attracted his attention for a moment, and he had more important things to do tonight!
Soon, Austin was lying on the bed and sinking his body into a soft wool blanket. After recalling the movements and spells that matched the visualization technique in his mind, he began to awaken the bloodline of a special mage for the first time in his life.
I don't know if it was because that set of movements really worked wonders, or if Austen was very talented, the movements were repeated for seven cycles, he got rid of the distracting thoughts in his heart, and his spirit began to drift freely and unrestrainedly, and in a trance, he felt that he had crossed an invisible barrier, and then his spirit was awe-inspiring, like a cold spring pouring down, and he immediately got out of the previous trance, but found himself in a strange and familiar place.
In the chaotic void space, Austin remembered that this should be the sea of his spiritual power, the most mysterious place in the human body that Master Jersey had said.
The last time I came here was a coincidence, but why did I come in again this time? And how do I get out? Can I practice that visualization technique here? A series of questions came to Austin's mind.
The reason why he was able to come in again naturally was because of that visualization, which was originally born from meditation, and second, because the door of the sea of spiritual power was already open to him, and as long as his spirit was floating nearby, he would naturally be attracted to it.
Forget it, whatever, it's all in his own mind, where is the visualization different? Austin, who studied how to get out of this place to no avail, had no choice but to choose to make his first visualization attempt in the sea of his spiritual power.
He first visualized the vast scorched earth of hell, because the scene was monochromatic and uncomplicated. But he failed, and after thinking about it for most of the day, the sea of void spiritual power did not change in any way, and what he thought in his heart did not appear at all, and it was still in the color of primitive chaos.
What went wrong? Usually in my mind, the appearance of those beautiful hostesses is very simple. Austin stopped trying and fell into deep thought.
Visualize... Meditation... Mental power... He suddenly remembered part of what Lilian had said: after the mage opened his spiritual sea, what he thought and thought was no longer illusory, but really sketched with the brush of spiritual power!
After grasping the key, Austin immediately distracted from all distractions, concentrated his spirit, and imagined that his spiritual power extended from his body to the surrounding nothingness, and turned into a silver slender quill pen. Soon he felt that something was starting to be different in the void, although he couldn't see the change, but there was a slight fluctuation in the small area of the void under the stroke of his spiritual power in his perception.
In the end, he chose a point in the void, no longer hesitated, and pressed down his spiritual power pen, and fiercely sketched a straight line glowing with silver light.
At this moment, there seemed to be a thunderclap in the ocean of spiritual power, like lightning cutting through the dark clouds, the storm swept away the haze, and the endless void that was originally still chaotic began to change because of this silver color.
On a clear night, what does the starry wilderness look like? At this moment, Austin 'saw' that the sea of his spiritual power exploded with a cloud of silver light around him, and countless points of light dragged a long tail flame towards the endless void, and finally hung on it, lighting up the nothingness of the sea of spiritual power with a cold light. Vaguely, he also saw that behind these stars, there seemed to be layers of silk threads hooked and overlapped, extremely complicated, making him dizzy.
But these visions lasted only a short time, and when he recovered from his vertigo and looked intently, he could only see a few simple lines connecting a few stars, and the complex lines and nets had disappeared.
Austin raised his eyes and sensed the sea of spiritual power that had been lit up by the starlight.
If Mage Jersey or Lillian told him more about the Sea of Spiritual Power, he would know that he had inadvertently activated this spiritual space, tore through the barrier separating the Demon Net and the Sea of Spiritual Power, and successfully hooked up the Demon Net. The outermost sparse and simple network he could see now was the first layer of the magic web.
Usually after the mage apprentice opens his sea of spiritual power for the first time, he will accumulate for one to two months, slowly refining his spiritual power in the sea of spiritual power of nothingness, and when the accumulation reaches a certain level, he will have the power to break the barrier and connect the magic net, but Austin relies on the strong spiritual power after experiencing the nightmare baptism, directly skips the accumulation, and connects to the magic net in one fell swoop.
After a brief stroll through the refreshed Sea of Spiritual Power, Austin didn't forget what was going on and was ready to start visualizing the hell scene again.
This time his attempt went well, the mental power brush stroke is really like a paintbrush in his hand, as he paints, each stroke leaves a deep or shallow trace in the space, and it is very simple to erase, as long as you think about it gently, it will be restored to the original.
So he began to paint the scene of hell according to the scenes he remembered: he first painted a large patch of dark red, and then slightly retouched it to become a scorched earth wilderness that stretched far away, and he changed it to a dim color, splashing clouds hanging in the air, and the smoke that filled the scorched earth prison...
In the end, he vividly reproduced a scene of hell in his memory in the space of the sea of spiritual power, but it seemed that something was missing? After a short period of contemplation, Austin suddenly remembered that he had not yet drawn a demon refining! Each of the illustrations in the book was centered on demon refining.
For the sake of simplicity and effort, he directly drew a demon refining demon with wings flying and hovering on the empty scorched earth, with neither a towering castle nor a battlefield to serve as a background. But even so, when he drew it, the vision was immediately born, and the demon refining he drew actually moved!
It seemed to have just woken up from its slumber, stretched its body widely, and then looked around with a different color, and finally slowly turned its head to focus on the only living thing in this space, Austin.
At the moment when the eyes of one person and one demon met, Austin felt that his heartbeat suddenly increased by several beats, and a huge palpitation accompanied by a sudden acceleration of blood spread to all parts of his body. Austin couldn't help but think of the first time she fell into a nightmare and saw that three-headed hellhound as tall as a hill, it felt so similar to what she is now!
However, this time Austin was not too panicked and frightened, after all, he 'created' it, although he would also be shocked by the powerful power it carried, but this alone could not frighten him. Moreover, he was prepared, wasn't the mantra that he had been learning for half an hour and already ripe to deal with this situation?
He even had some eagerness to try, but Lillian's words he remembered very well: under the interference of evil thoughts, the longer he resisted, the greater the chance of awakening to become a special mage!