Chapter 119: Mage Armor (Part 2)

Jess sat obediently to one side and watched Marin get up and straighten his collar.

Finally, this moment has come. Finally, he can come into contact with one of the top protection school magics in the human world.

"This spell is a draconic incantation and it's very long. Listen to it once. Don't expect to remember it all at once. Just find the right feeling of chanting and remember the rhythm between it and the gestures a little bit to form a preliminary impression."

As Marin spoke, he took out a dusty ancient book, flipped it open and skillfully found one of the pages. Holding this thick book, he walked to the center of the room.

"Lockpotori, Arcanoya..."

As Marin chanted, Jess could already feel the arcane energy spreading in the air, rotating rhythmically like a swarm of flying insects. Gradually, ethereal arcane starlight condensed on his body.

Jess had certainly never seen such a large-scale casting before and couldn't help but be a bit stunned. Just when Jess thought this spell was about to be completed, Marin continued to chant.

"Zlodatu, Uniberso Arun, Inguruku, Yizukutu..."

So long?

Jess gradually felt that he should be like those mages in movies and games, carrying a spell memory book with him at all times and taking it out to look at when he needed to cast a spell. Especially for a spell like Mage Armor, he couldn't expect to cast such a long spell by memory. After all, if he suddenly recited it wrong one day, it might bring disaster upon himself, literally bringing fire upon himself.

At this point, Marin's chanting was almost like singing. His voice became rougher and rougher. Jess could feel that arcane energy had participated in making sounds.

The surrounding arcane energy turned the entire room into a very light lavender color. And the arcane energy on Marin's body had all scattered. Some even flew out of the window and through the cracks of the door.

Jess knew that this was the process of arcane energy looking for elements and reshaping. Under the urging of Marin's incantation, these arcane energies scattered like a group of hunters, hunting everywhere for the elemental power that Marin wanted.

"Iremenatalak, Yitakshi, Bediyinkatu, Nazazuyinsa!"

There's still so much!

However, this time it finally ended. After Marin finished reciting the last incantation, he suddenly grabbed with his hand. All the arcane energy instantly concentrated from all directions. Jess saw that the rainbow-like radiance suddenly tightened and gathered on Marin at once. The colorful light and the mirror-like layer of arcane energy covered his mage robe, cheeks, and hair that fluttered due to the magic wind.

Jess grabbed the table and steadied himself with his feet to avoid being blown onto Marin by this gust of wind.

"Mage Armor." Marin took a deep breath and looked at Jess and said, "It's done. I haven't cast this spell for a very long time. I even thought that I might fail this time." Jess could only describe this casting as spectacular. During the process of Marin guiding arcane energy, the entire room turned into an ethereal ballroom.

Thinking about it, in the game, this is an instant buff spell. Just press a shortcut key and it's done. It's really simple and crude.

"Do you want to try it?" Marin asked.

"Can I?"

Jess took the magic tome and walked to the place where Marin had stood before. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw that Marin had already taken out his wand and was ready to extinguish any out-of-control elements that might appear at any time.

"With the help of Arcane Intellect, it should be possible to try." Marin pointed to the line of incantation on the book and said.

This is a draconic incantation plus a phonetic notation in common language. Jess could see that there were several slight differences between the phonetic notation in common language and the incantation Marin had just recited.

Perhaps it's because Marin recited the real draconic pronunciation, while this phonetic notation is just for helping memory, just like what Gargan did when he recorded the Life Drain incantation before.

That is to say, following this phonetic notation, it definitely won't achieve the effect of Marin.

Fortunately, Jess listened to Marin's chanting just now under the boost of Arcane Intellect. And he was very focused. With the hints of these phonetic notations and imitating Marin's tone, he felt confident that he could completely reproduce the incantation of Mage Armor.

Including gestures...

"I'm ready." Jess said.

Marin nodded and said, "I'm ready too."

Jess glanced at Marin, swallowed, and began to chant.

"Lockpotori, Arcanoya... Molodatu."

As he spoke, he imitated Marin and waved his hand in the air, guiding the free-floating arcane energy to come to him and accept his command.

At the beginning, it was very smooth. Out of the corner of his eye, Jess saw some arcane starlight begin to gather in the air.

But as these energies gradually gathered, Jess felt that it was a bit strenuous for his spirit to pull them. These arcane energies were like a school of fish running around in a lake in disorder. And Jess was holding seven or eight fishing rods in his hand and had to hold on to these extremely powerful fish that wanted to escape.

Marin was also attracted away by the free arcane energy awakened by him. He didn't notice that some of the arcane energy that was still shimmering with a faint colorful light on his body also gradually detached as Jess chanted, just like dissipating pixels.

Jess coughed. Marin's eyes almost instantly turned back to Jess.

"At this stage, don't interrupt halfway, Jess. Continue."

Jess nodded and looked out the window and said, "Uniberso Arun, Inguruku, Yizukutu..."

When he recited here, his fatigue began to increase rapidly. Was it because his energy had reached its limit? Was it because his casting was not standard or the incantation was not standard?

Perhaps it was because he wasn't focused enough... No, Jess knew that he couldn't be distracted anymore. He must focus on completing the casting!

The arcane energy had already flown away and rotated under Jess's guidance. Everything was so smooth, unexpectedly smooth. Even Marin stood up.

He seemed to notice that Jess had already shown signs of fatigue. Several times he wanted to open his mouth as if to stop Jess from continuing to cast the spell. But every time he wanted to speak, he finally closed his mouth slowly and just watched those arcane stars turn the entire room into a magic corridor again.

Just one more sentence...

Jess told himself, just one more sentence.

"Iremenatalak!"

He took a breath and forced himself to chant: "Yitakshi, Bediyinkatu, Nazazuyinsa!"

Jess imitated Marin and clenched his fist hard. His field of vision seemed to narrow a lot. So that all he could see except his clenched fist was that everything around the center had already darkened.

A crazy elemental whirlwind wrapped around him. Dazzling colors struggled to illuminate the darkness in his field of vision from all directions. However, this darkness still quickly swallowed up his last bit of field of vision and even his last bit of consciousness...

Jess felt a strong ringing in his ears fill the last bit of his senses. His legs gave way and he knew nothing.