Chapter 402: The power of faith
one year later.
Under the guidance of Our Lady, with Phoenix's assistance, and more importantly, with Ryan's own efforts, the Web finally took shape.
Three-dimensional network, the calculation speed has increased twenty-seven times!
Although the process is painful, the harvest is very joyful.
Now he is equivalent to turning on twenty-seven times the bullet time all the time. The whole world seems to be slowing down twenty-seven times in his eyes. Everything is so slow and clear.
For him now, the previous world was like a game that often stuck, and now is the first time in his life to play the game called life smoothly.
Now it's only the third-order dimensional web that is so powerful, what about the fourth-order dimensional web, the fifth-order dimensional web... or even the ninth-order dimensional web?
According to Phoenix's calculations, as long as he reaches the fifth-order dimensional web, his computing power is fast enough to allow the sage mode to stay in place!
The sage mode is a mode developed by him based on prophecy. After using the sage mode, it is equivalent to a degraded version of prophecy fighting all the time.
After turning on the sage mode, you can easily predict all the attacks and thoughts of the enemy during the battle, which is equivalent to playing the game with the position hanger and the map hanger.
Since the sage mode does not increase physical fitness and cannot strengthen the attack and defense and other defects, now he hardly uses the sage mode much.
because-
The enemies he is facing now are either overlord-level monsters or third-order corpses, all of which are pure beings crushed by some hard power.
Even if you use the sage mode to open the position hanging and map hanging, there is only one ending of death under the crushing of absolute power.
After all, the enemy is attacking in a large area, how to dodge if the speed is not enough?
The enemy rushed over and slashed you with a knife. What's the use of predicting it but the enemy's speed is too fast to dodge?
The sage mode is an extremely powerful, but also very limited trick. It can be used in some specific situations, but it is a tasteless thing in most cases.
Now that he has the Witchcraft Web, as long as he can raise the Web level to Tier 5, the calculation speed can be increased by 3125 times, which is enough to make the sage mode a permanent passive.
Ryan felt excited when he thought that the wonderful Sage mode could become a resident passive in the future.
And as the dimensional net continues to improve, after he has the seventh-order dimensional net, the eighth-order dimensional net, or even the ninth-order dimensional net, maybe he can make prophecy directly permanent?
Is it equivalent to using prophecy all the time?
If he can really do it, not to mention how much the combat power has improved, relying on the functions of prophecy to seek good luck and avoid evil, find lost things, explore roads, etc., his road to the realm of the devil will become unimpeded!
However, in order to make the prediction technique a permanent gain, according to Phoenix, the dimensional web must reach at least the seventh order.
"A seventh-order dimensional web?"
"I'm only in the third-order dimensional network now. It will take at least two years to reach the fourth-order, and it will take ten years at the current speed for the fifth-order."
"Tier seven? It takes at least a hundred years to finish."
After Lane reached the third level of the web, the Virgin stopped teaching, and she said, "I have already led you to the sorcery of the web, and the next level you can reach depends on your own efforts and talents."
"Now the time is pressing, we have other things to do, and the study of the web will be put aside first."
Before Ryan asked "what else to do", the Virgin raised a finger in front of Ryan and asked, "Can you feel it?"
Ryan nodded and said, "Soul power?"
At the fingertips of the Virgin, a small strand of soul power burned like a flame.
Soul power is a special power from the soul that he has mastered through the imprint of the old god. According to the Wraith-Eating Wizard Balsa, soul power is a soul power that many demon gods cannot master.
It is normal for the Virgin to use soul power, but she suddenly showed him soul power, meaning that she intends to teach him the advanced use of soul power?
Thinking of this, he immediately came to the spirit.
Facing Ryan, who was engrossed in it, the Virgin said, "Soul power is the power from the soul, so do you know what a soul is?"
Ryan frowned, and various sayings about the soul emerged in his mind.
He seems to know a lot about the soul, but in fact he doesn't know anything, he knows nothing about the soul!
After thinking about it carefully, he honestly shook his head and said, "My understanding of the soul is no different from that of ordinary people."
Our Lady asked: "Where do you think the soul comes from? What kind of thing has a soul? Where does the soul go after death?"
Lane originally just wanted to honestly say "I don't know", but seeing the Virgin looking forward to his answer, he could only tell what he knew, "Everything in the world has a soul, and after a person dies, the soul will go to the Netherworld. , will be reincarnated as a new life in the secluded world, should it be like this?"
After hearing Ryan's answer, the Virgin showed such an expression as she expected. She said softly, "People are always accustomed to myths about things they don't understand. In fact, the soul is not such a great thing."
Ryan asked, "How?"
The Virgin replied: "The soul is the embodiment of the will, and it is an acquired thing like consciousness. When the creature has consciousness, the soul is born from it."
"And the strength of the soul is proportional to the will, the stronger the will, the stronger the soul, and the weaker the will, the weaker the soul."
"Although the soul is very illusory, it is impossible for a ninth-level wizard to create a soul out of thin air, but it is very difficult to create a consciousness out of thin air, but it is not difficult to create a life with consciousness. A healthy adult male and female It's easy to do, right?"
"So is the soul."
"Creating a creature with a soul is not equivalent to creating a soul indirectly?"
Hearing the virgin's tirade, Ryan was completely dumbfounded.
Is the soul the embodiment of the will?
Is the soul bound to consciousness? Is it formed the day after tomorrow? Is the strength proportional to the firmness of the will?
Does that mean there is no reincarnation? After death, the soul will not go to the secluded world? Dead without consciousness without soul?
Is it really easy to create a soul in every sense?
These contents completely subverted Ryan's cognition of the soul!
Looking at Ryan, who was confused and couldn't turn his head for a while, the Virgin asked, "Do you know the power of faith?"
Ryan nodded quickly, "Faith becomes a god. According to legend, some gods need the power of faith to survive and become stronger. Without the power of faith, they will not only become weaker, but even disappear directly."
The Virgin said, "What if I told you that the power of faith is another name for soul power?"
"What!?" Ryan suddenly widened his eyes, "Soul power? The power of faith? Soul is the embodiment of will? ... Wait, I seem to have figured it out!"
The Virgin smiled: "What do you understand?"
"I..." Ryan opened his mouth, stammering and speechless.
He just vaguely felt something, but he didn't know how to say it when he asked him to express that feeling in words.
The Virgin explained: "The strength of the soul is related to the will. If the will is not strong enough, the strength of the soul will not increase, and the amount of soul power will not increase, so can you absorb the soul power of other people?"
Ryan frowned and thought, he felt he understood a little more, but still not quite.
The Virgin continued to explain: "Absorbing other people's soul power is similar to blood transfusion. Everyone's thoughts and wills are different, and the nature of soul power is also different for different souls. Other people's soul power cannot be absorbed at will."
"For example, a certain person likes war very much, his soul power is 'war', and the power of faith of those war fanatics who are full of war is very suitable for him. The amount and purity of the power will be higher.”
"For example, if a person has made a great wish to save all beings, then only the power of faith of those who also want to save all beings is suitable for him. The higher the degree of belief, the purer the power of faith will be, the more useful it will be."
The Virgin has made it very easy to understand. If Ryan doesn't understand, he is a fool.