Chapter 45: Made Recently…

The term Magic Arms… Zheng Yichen only called them that for short. In the human world, Magic Arms uniformly referred to magic weapons. Zheng Yichen did not intend to directly explain to Petty about the possible misunderstanding.

Permanent Magic Arms made directly with magic… it would be trouble if others knew, so if there was a misunderstanding, let it be.

“Connor, where did this book come from?” Thinking carefully, Petty said she had never seen anything like this before.

“Oh, made it recently. It’s quite useful.” Zheng Yichen gave a simple explanation about the origin of this book, which was more appropriately named the Magic Weapon Summoning Book. How to put it… there was no doubt about its potential.

The more people who signed a contract with it, the faster it accumulated mana. The more mana it contained, the stronger the book became. This was a virtuous cycle, as long as it was not destroyed in the early stages and had a favorable development environment.

After finishing it, besides adding new Magic Arms to it, Zheng Yichen, with Loris’s help, carried out further modifications and improvements. The improved functions were not useful now, but they would come in handy after the Magic Weapon Summoning Book developed further. For now… just make do with it.

There were so many preset pages; there would be plenty of time to slowly add all kinds of weapons in the future.

“Made… recently?” Petty’s eyebrows rose involuntarily. “You made it?”

“Mhm. In any case, sign a contract with this book first. The Magic Arms inside aren’t many, but more can be added later.” Considering that some people did not have a Summoning Mark like summoners, this book also had a Summoning Magic engraved in it. As long as the book was projected, activating the rune patterns engraved on it would achieve the summoning effect.

“Is this okay?” Feeling awed though not fully understanding, Petty followed the instructions on the first two pages of the book and infused her mana into it. A contract message immediately fed back into her mind. This was a modified Equal Contract related to summoning Magic Arms. By agreeing and signing it, she could imprint her Summoning Mark into the book.

What she had to provide was 1% of her mana daily to the Magic Weapon Summoning Book, and each time she summoned a Magic Arm, an additional portion of mana as the cost of summoning.

Otherwise, this contract had no traps. Consuming an extra 1% of mana daily was no big deal. After carefully reading the contract, she chose to agree. Then she felt the barrier preventing her Summoning Mark from imprinting into the summoning book disappear.

On the other side, as soon as her Summoning Mark imprinted into the summoning book, Zheng Yichen immediately sensed it. His consciousness linked with the summoning book instantly, temporarily allowing him to control its operation. This was also a preset procedure during its creation. At this moment, he did not need to do anything; just wait for the Summoning Mark to imprint into the summoning book.

Of course, he could also interfere additionally to make this process fail. Loris had unique methods for designing contracts. That Equal Contract had no binding power on Zheng Yichen when it took effect because the main binding object of the contract was the book, not Zheng Yichen!

Overall, his identity was the highest Administrator, mainly responsible for adding new Magic Arms, ‘reviewing’ contractors, and removing the name of any contractor who violated the rules from the contractor list. At the same time, he could use all the power in this book anytime.

Only after successfully signing the contract with this book did Petty fully understand why Zheng Yichen wanted her to practice Martial Arts earlier. After trying to summon an ordinary sword-shaped Magic Arm, she found this weapon was about as strong as those used by some senior students at the Academy… or even sharper in terms of cutting performance.

She could make such comparisons purely because she had been learning Martial Arts with Kaysa and had seen the weapons she used.

These weapons did not have real names. A sword was a sword, a blade was a blade. The illustrations described basic-type weapons, suitable for summoners to practice with initially. The more advanced ones had simple prefix names, differing from the basics in that those weapons had their own attribute effects.

Like weapons with attributes such as burning or Frost. These weapons belonged to the advanced category. And after that, the highest-level weapons she could see had very distinctive names: Frostmourne, Azure Wrath, Meteor Shower Blade, Magic-piercing Red Rose… etc.

The illustrations of this level of weapons were partially greyed out, meaning her current ability was insufficient to summon them at full power. If the illustration was completely grey, it meant it could not be summoned at all. Only fully lit ones could summon the complete Magic Arm.

“Those Warriors would really like this book, wouldn’t they?” After flipping through the Magic Weapon Summoning Book, Petty couldn’t help but remark, returning the book to Zheng Yichen. The contract was signed, and the Summoning Mark was imprinted into the summoning book. Although constrained by the contract, she could not summon the book’s true form, she could summon its Projection.

So, whether the book was in hand or not did not matter much. Even if someone wanted to sign a contract with the Magic Weapon Summoning Book through her in the future, using a Projection would be enough.

The biggest advantage of a Projection was that no matter how much the Projection was destroyed, the impact on the original would not reach a catastrophic level.

The drawback was that the closer the Projection was to the real thing, the greater the mana cost, making it unaffordable for ordinary people.

“Work hard. The effects of this book are far more powerful than you imagine. You’ll understand after Reaching the Tier.” Zheng Yichen said somewhat enigmatically. After the Magic Weapon Summoning Book was finished, subsequent testing was unavoidable.

The testers were those Ghost Maids. Though they were very skilled at housework, each of them was formidable in combat. After all, they were Wraiths cultivated by Loris. Apart from the six cute and silly Ghostly Little Maids, over twenty were Mages, and nearly fifty were the Warrior type.

Even if someone could break the Barrier near the Castle and force their way in, they would have to face over seventy Wraiths who had long since Reached the Tier…

With so many Ranked Practitioners testing, naturally, many characteristics of the summoning book were thoroughly explored in a short time. Moreover, some rather subtle characteristics were discovered. The magic Zheng Yichen released, based on his Talent, all had a certain degree of ‘mutation,’ including the somewhat mediocre mana-gathering.

The mana-gathering, tinged with a ‘stealing’ characteristic, when used with the tier-reaching trait similar to a Summoner borrowing a summoned creature’s abilities, could forcefully gather external mana temporarily within the body for use.

The stronger the mana contained in the Magic Arm, the greater the gathering intensity. After all, the mana gathering was completely integrated into the Magic Arm. The Magic Arm acted like a water pump. A weak pump had weak extraction effect; a strong one was naturally stronger.

This effect seemed somewhat deviated from a Summoner’s development path, leaning closer to a Warrior. After all, only Warriors could mobilize large amounts of mana within their bodies while consuming the least Spiritual Power. If Petty wanted to develop in this direction in the future, she could. If she wanted to continue on the standard Summoner path, it was also fine. The Magic Weapon Summoning Book’s mark did not occupy much space in a Summoner’s Mind Sea.

“By the way, if someone is interested in the Magic Arms you summon and threatens you, you can negotiate with them.”

“Huh?” Petty was stunned. “This is your thing, Connor. Wouldn’t that be bad?”

“It’s fine. The more people use the Magic Weapon Summoning Book, the stronger it gets.” Zheng Yichen waved his hand. He had deep insights on this point. Under extensive testing by over seventy Ranked Practitioner Ghost Maids, the mana accumulated for the Magic Arms had already improved the quality of the Basic Magic Weapons several times. Though this was based on the originally low quality of Basic Magic Weapons. Once the quality increased, future improvements would slow down.

The Low-level Magic Weapons made later improved about twofold, while the Intermediate Magic Weapons only improved by nearly one-fifth. The higher the level, the slower the improvement rate, as the quality was high enough.

“As the first person to sign a contract with the Magic Weapon Summoning Book, you have additional privileges.”