Throne of Vientiane Civilization

Zhou Xu didn't expect that his insignificant system would jump out at this time.

Now faced with this extraction problem, he really didn't know how to deal with it.

The main reason is that he doesn't know what will happen to this silver steel sword after extracting the sample.

If this sword was damaged and unable to recover, he would feel a little bit regretful.

After all, this is an out-of-print weapon that currently only has twenty, and I don’t know if it can be successfully reproduced in the future.

In addition, the most important thing is that this accident may cause some internal conflicts. This is the point that Zhou Xu is most troubled by.

But now that the system has jumped out, this may be a breakthrough. He really doesn't want to give up this opportunity.

After struggling for a while, Zhou Xu gritted his teeth.

"extract!"

[System prompt: Confirm extraction! 】

[System prompt: Extraction in progress, please wait...]

Almost at the same time that Zhou Xu gave this affirmative answer, he clearly saw that the light that originally circulated on the characters on the sword turned into a faint energy and poured into his body.

[System prompt: Sample extraction completed! 】

At that moment, his feelings were almost the same as when he absorbed the mantra.

A series of characters squeezed into his head, forming a mantra light group in a place similar to the 'sea of ​​consciousness' in his body.

At the same time, the silver steel sword whose power had been extracted looked a bit dim to the naked eye.

"Ah, s--"

Holding the dimmed silver steel sword, Zhou Xu gasped.

Although he had been mentally prepared before confirming the extraction, it was undeniable that he still had some luck in his heart.

Thinking, ‘What if nothing happens? ’

But reality taught him that one should not take any chances in life.

If he just returned this silver steel sword to Hilke, the other person's face would probably not look good.

[It’s useless to continue staring at this sword now. Let’s study the sample of the elf mantra first. Maybe we can find something and solve this problem. 】

Sheathing the sword, Zhou Xuxian carefully placed the silver steel sword on the desk in front of him, and then he concentrated on sensing the sample of the elf mantra that he had absorbed.

It was said earlier that the mantras absorbed by him basically formed large and small light groups, floating in his sea of ​​consciousness.

Among them, those with a good relationship will get closer, and those with a bad relationship will stay further away.

But the relationship between the sample of the elf mantra that he absorbed at this time and his other mantras is not as simple as good or bad.

The overall performance is clearly distinguishable!

Zhou Xu clearly realized that it was in two different worlds from other mantras.

Zhou Xu exhaled a long breath, maintained a meditative state, and tried to perceive the sample.

It turns out he can do it.

When his perception touched the sample light group, those unfamiliar characters suddenly appeared in front of his eyes again.

However, unlike other mantras absorbed by him, each of the mantras in the sample light group in front of him maintains a fixed combination. There are three such combinations.

Under this premise, what is even more amazing is that these three combinations are connected together by tiny energy threads.

It seems that these three combinations are connected in series to form a specific stable structure.

At first glance, it looks like a complete individual.

This discovery led Zhou Xu to try to understand it more deeply.

He was the first to perceive those three combinations.

While perceiving, characters appeared in his mind one by one. Zhou Xu originally thought that he should not recognize the ancient elven characters.

But reality is different.

Just like when he obtained the mantra before, with the emergence of those characters, the meanings and even the pronunciations of these three combinations came to his mind one after another.

[Is the system working? 】

The thought flashed through Zhou Xu's mind and he focused all his energy on the combination in front of him without any further entanglement.

"Tough, sharp, slow to absorb natural energy."

This is what these three combinations mean.

[Toughness and sharpness should be the strengthening blessings of silver steel swords. 】

【Slowly absorb natural energy? Listen to this meaning, the reason why the power of the mantra on the silver steel sword can be maintained for so many years without being exhausted is because while the sword is consuming power, it is also absorbing the power to maintain the operation of the mantra? 】

[Hey guys, a perpetual motion machine? ! 】

At this moment, Zhou Xu discovered that the level of the mantra combination on this silver steel sword was probably several levels higher than what he had mastered.

This does not refer to the strength of the mantra, but to that composition and structure.

After all, he couldn't figure out how these three mantra phrases were connected together and formed a stable link.

Taking himself as an example, he can activate three mantras one after another, but there is no way to create a link between these three mantras and form a chain trigger and cycle. He must do it step by step, step by step, and he also needs to personally operate.

This made Zhou Xu couldn't help but get more involved and began to study this 'new technology' in front of him.

The more he studied, the more he discovered that his previous mantra combinations were too basic.

He previously compared the mantra to a program that would produce a fixed effect after being triggered in a specific way.

This idea is completely established up to now.

But he didn't expect that his 'program' would be so rudimentary, which shocked him a little.

But at the same time, it also stimulated his thirst for knowledge and made him devote himself almost wholeheartedly to this research.

During this process, he tried to see if he could separate these mantra combinations and use them for his own use.

Turns out, he can't!

Just like the combination of mantras he gave Ye Jinghong and the others, they couldn't split them up and use them at will.

This method is like I made a program software to lend to you. As long as you start the program, you can trigger the corresponding effect.

But you can't dismantle this program or adapt it yourself, because you don't have this authority. The authority is in my hands, and you only have the lowest level of use rights.

The one in front of me is the same.

This is just a daughter body separated from the mother body.

Zhou Xu can't even be considered as truly possessing this mantra. His current situation is a bit like Ye Jinghong and the others who were given the mantra by him. They can only trigger the program and then use this fixed combination effect.

As for whether he can 'crack' this 'program' and make it truly his own?

It can only be said that this possibility cannot be ruled out. Anyway, he can't do it now. He has to continue to research and try. At least he now has a sample that can be used as a reference for research.

From this point of view, it can be regarded as a breakthrough gain!