Chapter 926 The first clues

No wonder Pete was shocked.

No matter who comes here, they will be confused when encountering this situation!
There is a well-known fact on the continent of Prentis.

Dwarves – they don’t play well with magic!
Almost all dwarves are born warriors. Their physique, their character, and their talents are simply born to control anger!
Not only that, dwarves are born with a certain degree of magic resistance.

In other words, dwarves have a constitution that is resistant to arcane magic.

The effectiveness of most magic will be discounted when used on dwarves.

This is why some hot-tempered dwarves disparagingly refer to spellcasters as “juggers.”

If ordinary [Arcane Missiles] magic hits an adult human, even if they are not knocked unconscious on the spot, they will almost certainly be knocked to the ground.

If it were the dwarves, they would at most shake their bodies to absorb the impact of the missiles.

This is the case with dwarves, not to mention gray dwarves.

These guys are even more extreme, they can even be said to be “magically insulated”.

They are born unable to use any magic, and correspondingly, the effects of most magic on them are extremely poor and minimal.

But Pete saw the hallmark symptoms of magic addiction in an ordinary gray dwarf?
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What is addiction?

Magic addiction refers to a symptom that only occurs in powerful spellcasters.

Because they are so close to the arcane, their every move in daily life maintains a connection with the magic network, unconsciously mobilizing arcane energy.

This caused them to gradually become extremely dependent on the arcane energy flowing in the magic network.

The specific performance is:
Once they stop casting spells for a long time or go to an area where the magic network is not active enough, they will show obvious discomfort.

Mild addiction may manifest as unbearable headaches, mental fatigue, and weakness in the limbs.

Moderate magic addiction: The above symptoms are escalated, with occasional hysteria, confusion, and a craving for things containing active arcane energy, such as mana crystals.

The situation of severe addiction is even more difficult.

These people will develop a fanatical pursuit of the magic network. They will try to use more powerful and effective magic at all costs to experience the feeling of abundant arcane energy gathering towards them.

The bad thing is that for severe addicts, it is almost impossible to get rid of the symptoms.

They will get lost in the endless pursuit of powerful magic, completely lose their minds, develop severe craving reactions, and eventually become “thirsty demons” obsessed with chasing abundant arcane energy.

Two powerful human mages showed symptoms of severe magic addiction.

In the end, they all became pitiful thirsty demons.

Since then, the magical hermitage in the City of Stars has issued a warning to all spellcasters.

Use magic moderately. Don’t blindly pursue more powerful magic, and don’t pray endlessly to the Goddess of Magic for better magic.

Cast spells within your ability, and don’t attempt to use high-level magic before you are sure you are capable of doing so.

all in all.

The symptom of magic addiction almost only appears in spellcasters, and those who are particularly powerful.

But at this moment, Pete found a gray dwarf with magic addiction in a small settlement in the Deep Region that was almost completely destitute? !

See the other person’s reaction.

This isn’t even a symptom of mild magic addiction.

Ken’s subconscious desire for mana crystals fully meets the criteria of moderate magic addiction!

If the symptoms get more serious, this guy might become a severe magic addict!
No matter how Pete thought about it, it seemed outrageous!

If Archmage Alcandas had symptoms of magic addiction, Pete would not be surprised. Most of the top sixth-level legendary mages would have mild magic addiction, which was a very common phenomenon. As long as it was properly controlled, it would hardly affect normal life and would not make the symptoms worse.

But… how could a gray dwarf like Ken be addicted to magic? !

“Where exactly did you get the stuff you smoked?”

Pete was facing a formidable enemy, but he pretended to be nonchalant on his face, as if he had a sudden inspiration, and asked casually while tossing the magic crystal in his hand.

Ken’s eyes followed the mana crystal up and down, and he answered subconsciously, “The merchants from the Limoen settlement have a lot of them, and they sell them very cheaply. With just a handful of dried mystery mushrooms, I can buy enough for a month.”

Pete frowned. “Did they explain what it is?”

Ken licked his upper lip with his tongue, staring greedily at the mana crystal in Pete’s hand: “Give me what you have in your hand, and I will tell you everything I know, how about it?”

“Oh… sure!”

Pete smiled.

This gray dwarf is quite shrewd.

Even though he has shown symptoms of moderate magic addiction, he still knows how to bargain by relying on the information he knows.

“As long as you provide me with information that satisfies me, it will be yours.”

Ken immediately shared everything he knew:

“In the Limoen settlement, merchants have been selling this stuff for decades. Now, people are smoking it almost everywhere in Limoen.”

“The merchants call it ‘Gospel’. I heard that the cheap guys came up with this name. I don’t know how those guys made it up.”

“Gospel is cheap, and it’s really fun to smoke. It’s said that the stuff smoked by the big clans in Limoen is not as good as this one!”

Pete hesitated and asked tentatively:

“Do you realize that the gospel can be seriously dependent?”

“If you smoke for a long time, you will develop some kind of dependence, and the feeling of dependence that you can’t stop will make you miserable.”

Ken grinned and laughed:
“Dependence? How can there be any dependence?”

“Everyone smokes every day, and I haven’t seen anyone become addicted. We all think the gospel is very good. After smoking one a day, we feel energetic in everything we do!”

Pete was speechless for a moment.

Ken is right.

Even though the dependence effect of the addiction symptoms is terrible, we still have to give the addiction time to develop!

If you smoke it every day like Ken, and rely on it to satisfy your addiction every day, then you really won’t feel any dependence!

Because the supply has never been interrupted!

Reluctantly, he threw the mana crystal in his hand to Ken.

The latter took it with both hands as if it were a treasure, held it in his hands, brought it to his nose, took a deep sniff, and then let out a satisfied moan.

“Ah-cool!”

“What is this? It feels so good just by smelling it!”

“Don’t worry about what it is. You don’t need to know this. Your condition was to give you this thing. Now I have done it. We are even.”

Pete shook his head slightly.

While investigating those believers of evil gods, he seemed to have found some clues!
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(End of this chapter)