![]() ![]() ![]() “Not alone, but with enough magicians, you can provide a reasonable amount of protection. Since their enemies might be beyond their mental reach, magicians also erect wards around themselves and their warriors to stop or lessen long-range attacks, such as a pebble sent flying toward their head from a mile away.” “Surely one man can’t defend an entire army,” said Eragon. The magicians on both sides open their minds and attempt to sense if anyone is using or is about to use magic. These limitations mean that when armies confront one another, their magicians are scattered throughout the bulk of their forces, close to the edge but not so close as to be in danger. ![]() And the warriors must be shielded, at least in part, from magical attacks, else they would be slain within minutes. Therefore, they need warriors to protect them. Magicians are vulnerable to physical attack when they are embroiled in their mental struggles. “Again, why didn’t Brom teach me this?” “Because he did not expect you to face an army for months or years to come it is not a tool given to untested Riders.” “If it’s so easy to kill people, though, what’s the point of us or Galbatorix raising an army?” “To be succinct,tactics. With the right spell, you could obliterate an army.” “I should have thought of that in Farthen Dûr,” said Eragon, disgusted with himself.Not just Farthen Dûr either, but also when the Kull chased us from the Hadarac Desert. “What does it take to kill a man, Eragon? A sword through the chest? A broken neck? The loss of blood? All it takes is for a single artery in the brain to be pinched off, or for certain nerves to be severed. Once, withthrysta, I stopped a man’s heart.” “There are more efficient methods,” revealed Oromis. “I’ve hunted with a pebble-moving and aiming it with magic-as well as using the wordjierda to break Urgals’ legs and necks. Abandoning the subject, Oromis asked, “How would you kill with magic?” “I’ve done it many ways,” said Eragon. He explained that since these forces consumed strength faster than any other type of spell, it was safer to find them already in existence in nature and then shape them with gramarye, instead of trying to create them from nothing. Much of Oromis’s lectures concerned the proper way in which to control various forms of energy, such as light, heat, electricity, and even gravity. Study of the ancient language devoured the afternoon, whereupon they took up the practice of magic. ![]()
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