Spirit bands (Chinese: 灵力手环) are accessory-type spirit items essential for spirit animals, assisting them in spell casting while in human form.
Principles
A spirit animal‘s ability to sense and manipulate spirit power is significantly disrupted in human form, making it difficult to use anything other than shape-shifting spells. To address this, since the Age of Desolation, spirit animals have been crafting spirit items embedded with spell marks to assist spell casting in human form. These items typically take the form of hand bands and therefore are known as spirit bands.
Traditional spirit bands
In the Age of Desolation, early spirit bands were often made from ropes or animal skins. Due to primitive spell marks, crude materials and craftsmanship, these bands typically could only cast one spell with poor power efficiency and durability.
By the middle of the Age of Desolation, most spirit bands evolved into metal or jade bracelets or beads, capable of casting multiple spells with significantly improved efficiency and durability. These designs became the standard for spirit animals across generations, changing only in decorative styles until the introduction of new smart spirit bands.
Smart spirit bands
In recent years, a new type of electronic spirit band has emerged. These bands integrate human technology to memorize and cast diverse spells while also functioning as smart bands that can wirelessly connect to smartphones. Due to their powerful functions and low price, they quickly replaced the traditional ones.
The key functions of smart spirit bands include enabling telepathic conversations in human form and sensing nearby spirit animals that also wear them.
The development of the smart spirit bands is largely credited to Zoey the Spirit Sable and other young spirit animal researchers. They conducted groundbreaking research on spirit power and spells, resolved technical challenges, and utilized human production lines for mass production, significantly lowering costs and making the bands widely accessible. Today, when spirit animals refer to spirit bands, they typically mean the smart spirit bands.
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