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Chapter 110: Talisman
Fortunately, Bai Luo found a solution right away.
He casually grabbed a piece of paper and a pen from Nick's desk and quickly wrote, "What did I just say?"
Nick looked at the note Bai Luo handed him, furrowing his brow as he thought for a moment. With suspicion, he gazed at Bai Luo and said, "Are you... feeling mentally affected because you couldn't find your sister earlier?"
Bai Luo glared at him, snatched the paper back, and wrote furiously for a while, briefly explaining his situation. However, he didn't mention that it was due to the System's punishment; he only indicated that he had been schemed against by aliens.
"Is it the Asgardians?" Nick exclaimed with righteous indignation, then let out a long sigh of relief. "At this critical moment, how can you be thinking about marrying Ms. Lorna Dane?"
Hearing this, Bai Luo nearly spat out a mouthful of blood.
But now that Bai Luo understood the situation, he decided it was best to remain silent. He simply used his pen to write emphatically, warning Nick not to believe anything.
Nick looked at Bai Luo like this and couldn't help but smirk. Honestly, he felt something was off. After thinking for a moment, he said, "Let's communicate through social media from now on."
Meanwhile, in Bai Luo's mind, Shan Village Sadako spoke with great authority: "Is it that guy named Loki? Did he secretly mess with you? He must be living too comfortably."
At this moment, Sadako's tone returned to normal. However, Bai Luo understood why she had suddenly sounded so ominous earlier.
After some thought, Bai Luo chose to remain silent; let Loki handle this on his own.
As a leader and elder, Nick Fury was quite commendable. He expressed understanding of Bai Luo's current state and showed ample concern, indicating that if Bai Luo needed anything, he could just ask. But...
Nick looked at Bai Luo seriously and said, "You should talk less during this time. Maybe see a doctor? A dentist might have some solutions."
Bai Luo forced a smile as he looked at Nick's serious face—his expression twisted in an effort to maintain seriousness despite wanting to laugh at the absurdity of it all. He thought to himself that when the Cosmic Cube goes missing, Nick better not come looking for him.
But Nick was right about one thing.
During this time, Bai Luo should indeed talk less.
No, it's better not to speak.
Anyway, the matters concerning Bai Luo had basically come to a pause during this time. He didn't have anything that required his direct involvement, so it was just right for him to find a place to diligently study his Talisman.
Over this period, Bai Luo's understanding and usage of Talismans had been increasing day by day. He had transformed from a novice into someone quite proficient, although he still didn't have a vast repertoire of Talismans at his disposal.
However, knowing the theory is not as good as understanding the principles behind it. The Talisman guide that Bai Luo exchanged for twenty thousand points was worth every bit. While there were few ready-made Talismans available, there was an abundance of knowledge regarding the principles and foundational construction of Talismans. This knowledge was essential for constructing Talismans. Bai Luo's next plan was to compare the basic structures in his Talisman guide with the Iron Body Talisman, Swift Movement Talisman, and the third-tier Power Talisman he had on hand, attempting to replicate them.
The first thing he needed to address was that the materials required for these advanced Talismans, as well as the Talisman Pen and ink, were quite unique. These items would need to be exchanged in the System Mall, but fortunately, they weren't very expensive there.
It was at this moment that the System began to assert its presence.
Currently, the Talismans Bai Luo had mastered were merely one category among the most basic types. There were countless tools available just for carrying Talismans, and their functions extended beyond that. However, Bai Luo discovered that information about non-paper symbols in the System was rather scarce. As his understanding of Talismans deepened, he realized that what he initially thought was the highest-tier Talisman labeled as level five in the System wasn't actually the strongest.
The System's classification of Talismans seemed somewhat vague and scattered.
Of course, in a certain sense, categorizing Talismans by their levels, effects, and abilities is unrealistic. It’s akin to how Bai Luo used to view online content about cultivation levels or realms—where protagonists advance step by step along their paths. From a rational perspective, this is inherently unreasonable because concepts of ability and power are themselves ambiguous. You can delineate realms based on absolute differences but cannot make precise distinctions; thus, any fine categorization is bound to be inaccurate.
In this regard, Marvel actually does quite well. Just looking at Marvel's movies, characters fluctuate in strength like the weather—sometimes powerful enough to obliterate foes and other times utterly useless. This inconsistency has its rationale and is often a necessary choice that sacrifices detail for overarching plot development.
The path of Talismans is broad and profound, filled with infinite possibilities.
What Bai Luo needed wasn't endless points to exchange for Talismans in the System but rather a genuine mastery of this path of Talismancy. Only then could he truly become a Talismancer and perhaps even completely free himself from this mysterious System.
Of course, that's all talk for later.
Right now, what troubled Bai Luo most was that after half a month had passed, whenever he opened his mouth, it was still nothing but nonsense.
A month passed... two months... half a year...
As a transmigrator, Bai Luo had managed to maintain an unusually long period of silence.
For Bai Luo, this was quite a headache; the punishment from the System was simply absurd.
However, it wasn't entirely a bad thing for him. It allowed him to dedicate a significant amount of time to studying Talismans.
He thoroughly researched the Swift Movement Talisman and the third-tier Power Talisman, and now he could draw these two Talismans at will without needing to exchange them through the System.
As for the Iron Body Talisman, Bai Luo encountered some resistance. This Talisman was extremely complex, and certain key aspects were not covered in his basic guide.
Although Bai Luo could now draw the Swift Movement Talisman and the Power Talisman, he had not yet reached the standard for drawing these two Talismans in mid-air. Simply relying on the Talisman Pen was insufficient; he needed to possess "magical power" himself to maintain and draw such Talismans.
Six months after the Ragnarok Incident had settled down, Bai Luo unexpectedly received a phone call from New York Charles School.
The professor was evidently much more polite than before; this time, he didn't invade Bai Luo's mind directly but instead called him properly.
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