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For magic cards of this category, it was as important as [Spirit Honey Juice] for magical spirit cards.
That was because the essence of this type of magic card was the application of Real Projection!
"Once the [Red Spider Lily] is evenly applied onto the empty magic card, the magic card will obtain the foundation for Magical Transformation ability…"
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It took Dark around forty minutes to finally bring his crafting experiment to the later stage, where the [Trinity Armour crafting magic circle] would have to be used.
He carefully inspected the semi-finished product on the table. Only after confirming that his first attempt was up to standard did he begin to draw the [Trinity Armour crafting magic circle] on the semi-finished product.
The [Trinity Armour crafting magic circle] was a three-dimensional crafting magic circle. It was much more difficult to inscribe than a flat sigil.But Dark had practised plenty of times for this.
Injecting magic energy into his magic energy pen, he spent a full ten minutes drawing and finally completed the [Trinity Armour crafting magic circle]!
During these ten minutes, never once did he stagnate. His output of magic energy was always smooth and stable, surpassing the limit ordinary humans could achieve.
The final product was a nearly perfect sphere!
In his current knowledge, this was the only crafting magic circle that took the form of a sphere.
But the successful inscription of the [Trinity Armour crafting magic circle] was merely a threshold to the Trinity Armour crafting technique.
The following "spiritual smelting" was where the real challenge began.
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The basis of "spiritual smelting" was to pour spiritual power into the [Trinity Armour crafting magic circle] and transform this already extremely complicated crafting magic circle into a [Spiritual Furnace]!
In order to do this, above all, one had to have an understanding of spiritual power.
What was spiritual power?
As the term would suggest, it was the power of the mind—which was very obvious.
So far, Dark had actually come into contact with spiritual power quite a few times.
The basis of Spiritual Magister Red's Spiritual Bond Summoning, also known as the "bond" between a magister and a magical spirit, was a form of spiritual power.
Another form was the ultimate move he unleashed using White's [Phantom Magic Beast: Stag]—[Spiritual Light]!
That was the first time he distinctly touched upon spiritual power, and it was also after that did he gain a basic understanding of what spiritual power was.
It was precisely because of this basic understanding that he was gradually able to determine that the [Seven Deadly Sins] was also a manifestation of spiritual power!
Pride, Envy, Wrath, Sloth, Greed, Gluttony, Lust!
Every deadly sin represented a form of spiritual power.
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Therefore, in a situation where he couldn't use [Spiritual Light] and had yet to master Spiritual Bond, the only spiritual power he could use was the [deadly sin] that he inherently possessed.
And as for how to control and use the [deadly sin]?
He had in fact already long figured out the way.
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"It's time to ascertain the possibility!"
Dark composed himself and took the Bottle of Thoughts he had prepared in advance from the corner of the table.
There was only 0.5 point of [Lust] stored inside the Bottle of Thoughts.
The extremely thin layer of halo was almost invisible, as though it was merely a reflection of the light.
He picked up the magic brain dropper and inserted its tip past the layer of film across the mouth of the Bottle of Thoughts, slowly rotating it inside. Once a wisp of light was sucked into the tip, he gently took it out.
This bit of [Lust] probably didn't even amount to 0.1 point.
But for this current experiment, it was already a rather extravagant spend.
Dark even felt a little reluctant to use it.
He observed the luminous sphere of the [Trinity Armour crafting magic circle] with great concentration and dripped the wisp of [Lust] into it.
"——"
The moment they came into contact, the previously imperceptible wisp of [Lust] flowed across the surface of the luminous sphere as if it had been diluted and quickly spread over the entire crafting magic circle!
This phenomenon was exactly the same as the "spiritual irrigation" Dark heard from Headmistress Arte.
Even though he had expected this, Dark couldn't help but feel amazed all the same.
"Such a meagre amount of [Lust] was enough to transform the [Trinity Armour crafting magic circle] into a [Spiritual Furnace]!"
"Then, the next step is to cast in the handmade item and inject magic energy to start the smelting process."
Without hesitating, Dark immediately threw the entire wooden outfit into the [Spiritual Furnace] and pointed his magic energy pen onto the crafting magic circle, gradually injecting his magic energy.
As magic energy flowed into the furnace, it emitted a flourishing white light.
Like a bottomless magic energy extractor, the [Spiritual Furnace] greedily devoured Dark's magic energy.
Spiritual smelting required an enormous supply of magic energy.
It was to the extent that ordinary magisters needed to drink several bottles of [Magic Energy Restoring Potion] in order to sustain the process until the end.
Feeling the rapid decrease of magic energy in his body, Dark couldn't help feeling greatly shocked.
Only a "sage" like Alvette could invent this kind of crafting method that consumed magic energy in such an unquenchable way.
"Gatomon!"
Dark softly called out.
Gatomon, who had been on standby since way earlier, poured him a bottle of Magic Energy Restoring Potion.
After drinking the [Magic Energy Restoring Potion], Dark's magic energy recovery rate, which was very high in the first place, instantly improved further, supporting him to last throughout the entire "spiritual smelting" process!
Once he finished pouring in the magic energy and pressed down with his magic energy pen, the spherical crafting magic circle quickly shrank and turned into an extremely thick light curtain covering the surface of the card.
The moment the light curtain fully sank into the card would be the moment the whole armor crafting process was truly completed.
Dark glanced up at the clock on the wall. "It's already eleven?"
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Probably sensing that the experiment had come to an end, the magical spirits instinctively gathered over to him.
Meowth, who held the wooden bighead carp in its mouth, was especially interested.
They presumably knew that the outcome of this experiment would have a close impact on all of them.
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After waiting for about three minutes, the light curtain eventually became thinner and finally sank into the card.
And then, an image of a wooden outfit gradually appeared on the surface of the card.
"Seems like… it's a success?"
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