In less than a month, the triennial "Pillow Sword Meeting" will be held in Salyushi. Universities such as Tide, Parksley and Sherfdeed in the city of Salyuch, as well as Techedali in Maine and Einz in Fuzz send students to participate in the competition, and the number of places for each institution is determined by the results of the previous edition. One hundred and twenty-eight contestants competed for the final sword medal after round of duels. At that time, the Royal Guard, the Royal Knights, the Court Mages, and even the Orthodox Church will send people to look for contestants, and those who perform well at the meeting will not even need to graduate from the academy to serve in the above-mentioned institutions.

Therefore, every aspiring student is looking forward to going to the "Pillow Sword Club", and the lecturers of the college are qualified to recommend to the dean, such as the recommendation made by the core professor of "Eagle Falcon", and the dean of Tide College will naturally give priority.

However, Alvin only entered the middle level in the Academy of Magic, and it stands to reason that he will not be recommended to participate at this stage, but the "Eagle Falcon" professor favors Alwin, so he has been making up for Alwyn every day recently, but as long as Alwin comes to the academy, he has to go to the "Eagle Falcon" to make up for classes after class.

Taking advantage of the obscure stone lanterns of the Demon Court, Alvin walked through the various classrooms on the first floor and walked straight to the tutor's office on the second floor. The Eagle Falcon's office is in the innermost room. Before Alvin could knock on the door, he heard a voice calling him inside, a magician of the level of "Eagle Falcon", who had noticed from the time Alvin walked up the stairs, that an elderly senior magician had a sensitive and vigilant perception of everything around him.

Alvin pushed the door open and entered, and saw a pair of gold-wire disc glasses on the hooked nose of the "Eagle Falcon", and with his natural curly hair, there was a posture of a judge reviewing the case file, and like a huge eagle staring at a book, ready to eat the book at any time. In fact, the eyesight of the "Eagle Falcon" is excellent, but it begins to grow old when it gets older. Alvin glanced at the lit candles in the room, sighed, and took the copy of The Laws of Time and Space from his sheepskin satchel.

The Eagle put down the tome in his hand and glanced up at Alwin.

"Today, I'll review the basic laws of magic. The falcon took the disc off his eyes and rubbed the vertical and horizontal furrows between his eyebrows.

"Yes, Professor Fetimor. Alvin sat down at a small desk next to the bookcase.

"What is magic, and what is the nature of magic?" Professor Fetimor looked at Alwyn quietly.

"The essence of magic is the appropriation and alteration of the original matter in the world," Elwin replied skillfully, thinking to himself that this is a principle that everyone who has studied magic knows about it, and this is also a question?

Fetimo then asked, "Then you explain what it means to occupy and change?"

Alvin thought for a moment and replied, "To put it simply, such as instantaneous magic, it is the occupation of matter in a certain space around it, and the greater the possession, the greater the spell damage, and the greater the difficulty of casting, so the general instantaneous magic damage is limited, because the various elements of the space in which it is located are limited. ”

Fetimor nodded and motioned for Alwyn to continue.

"But for example, casting magic is essentially by changing the matter in the space to form magic, and casting magic needs to be driven by chanting or magic scrolls, so casting magic takes time, but magic damage is high. As the Mage's mana increases, the cast time can be shortened. Alvin replied fluently.

"What about martial arts, tell me about the difference between martial arts and magic?"

"Uh... The difference between martial arts and magic is that you can deal damage at close range by shortening the distance between you and your opponent. "Alvin doesn't know much about martial arts, so he can't answer why.

"It's too superficial, think about it again, think about the part about martial arts. Fetimus glared at Elwin.

In Alvin's impression, all martial arts students are doing kung fu by shortening the distance between them and their opponents, so what is the biggest difference between martial arts and magic?

"Let me remind you, do you remember the swiftness technique that blessed yourself with martial arts?"

Alwyn remembered the battle, otherwise he wouldn't have to live such a miserable make-up life now. Alwin thought about it carefully, and the method of using the Swiftness Technique was very simple, which was to use his body to sense and capture the matter in the surrounding space that was beneficial to his body, so as to change the speed of his body's movement in space. Thinking about it this way, the use of martial arts is somewhat similar to magic, at least in terms of using the body to perceive the surrounding space and matter. So what's the difference?

"Professor, in terms of making the body feel the elemental matter in the surrounding space, in fact, magic and martial arts have something in common. Alvin mused.

"Indeed, what's the difference?" asked Fetimus as he stared at Alwin, the candle flame reflected in his pupils glowing.

Alwin thought about the use of the Swiftness Technique again, and in addition to the substances that his body felt that were beneficial to the movement of the body, there was also the fact that there were fewer constraints on moving in the space.

"Oh, in addition to absorbing the substances that are beneficial to the body around you, martial arts will also remove the hindrance materials in the space. That's when Alvin reacted.

"It's okay, it's okay, although it's a little dull, but I still figured it out after all. Fetimor sighed.

Alvin knotted.

"So what is the important thing for you to talk about a mage and a martial artist?" asked Fetimor.

"Uh... Minimize the absorption benefits of martial arts, and you can also increase the obstruction matter in the space... Alwyn's throat was dry as he stared at him.

"What do you mean by hindering matter? tell me about it," asked Professor Fetimor.

"Uh... Gravity, and negative states like sluggishness, paralysis, these?" Alwyn looked up at the other with uncertain eyes.

"Then you're a mid-level magician who likes to use instantaneous magic all day long, can you do this with high-level magic like the gravity field circle? your instantaneous magic doesn't even have a basic negative state, right?"

After being humiliated like a cannon by the "Eagle Falcon", Alvin lost his voice, and no matter how thick-skinned he usually was, he couldn't speak.

Fetimor saw that Alvin was silent, thinking that he couldn't blow too much, after all, he was the student he had chosen, but every time he smelled the perfume of the female concubine from this kid, he couldn't get angry.

"When you encounter a martial arts player who is stronger than yourself, don't think about changing the material elements of space to defeat the opponent. I'm afraid that before you can use magic, your life will be gone. "Fetimor doesn't have a good airway.

That's not what I volunteered to go to the Pillow Sword Club, Alvin sneered, now that he has nothing to do, he has to come to make up for it, and he has to be ridiculed by all kinds of sarcasm.

"So I'm not learning the first chapter of the rift now. Alvin pointed to the "Laws of Time and Space" and said with a smile.

Instantaneous magic consumes matter in space, creating a material-free route in space, and since there is no matter on the route, time flows still, so that the instantaneous displacement from one end of the route to the other does not consume time. This is the essence of the Rift Sky.

"Hmph, if you still don't make progress in material changes, you'll always have to stay in the first chapter. Fetimor glared at Alwyn again.

Alvin didn't dare to speak.

"I really don't know if you young people have time to spend more time on the study of magic. Life is fleeting, and you know that there is an end to shipwreckage, understand?"

Alvin looked ashamed and nodded yes.

"Professor, what if you use martial arts to absorb all the elemental matter in the space?" Alvin thought that it was not only magicians who would use the empty matter route in the space.

"Then what can you do, when you see a martial artist with an axe appear in your face in an instant, or an axe bursting through the air and appearing on your head, I guess then you will remember what I said. Fetimo said coldly.

Alvin shuddered at the thought of that image.

"Let you usually put more thought into it, as a magician, you are not sensitive to the changes in the matter around you, and naturally you can't react to someone cutting off your head. Fetimo's tone was a little sneering.

"But at this stage, you can be more relaxed," Fetimor explained, "As mentioned earlier, most of the martial arts are mainly based on abandoning the material obstacles in the space, or absorbing the material in the space to speed up the strength and body. In terms of quantity, the absorption of elemental substances by martial arts is much less than that required by magicians. At least that's what the martial arts masters I've seen. ”

However, it had been less than a month since he arrived at the Pillow Sword Club, and with his current stage, even if he practiced hard every day, his magic power could not catch up with the high-level magicians, plus the opponents and high-level martial artists, he couldn't help but have a headache.

"Don't worry too much, just do your best, don't lose too ugly. After all, I didn't give you much time to prepare, but everyone has been preparing for three years. Fetimo said lightly.

"Anyway, it's embarrassing, so you scolded me all night?" said Alwin.

"Did I let you go to Fireworks, Willow Lane?" Fetimor glared at Alwyn again.

"Is there any quick fix?" Alwyn asked gesturely, his opportunistic nature revealed.

"Quickly become a fart, all day long, can the practice of magic be fast?" Fei Timo blood pressure was full, and he wanted to hang the student in front of him and smoke it from the bottom of his heart.

"What about the laws of space, will there be any methods in it?" Alvin didn't give up.

"Hmph, that's up to you to figure it out yourself. Fetimor surprisingly didn't refute his students, but he didn't necessarily understand the book "The Law of Space" as a great magician who still had to go up as a great magician, and he didn't necessarily understand it better than Alwin.

The "Law of Space" is difficult and obscure, and Rao is a strange-minded man like Alvin who has not achieved anything in the second chapter.

In fact, what Fetimus didn't tell Alwyn was that in the first chapter of this book, many magicians didn't necessarily understand it in a few years, and it was rare for Elwyn to be able to comprehend the Void Splitting Skill in a few months.

"The speed of time in space is not constant ... Alwin glanced at the Law of Time and Space in his hand, looked up and asked, "Professor, what do you think of this sentence?"

"Is this the gist of the second chapter you summarized?" Fétimor squinted at Alwin, who could see the candle flame dancing through the snaking of his eyes.

Fetimor thought for a while and couldn't help frowning, he looked carefully at the gentleman in front of him, and sighed in his heart. This kind of thing is indeed obtained by cultivating over time, but for the study of material time and space, some people are blessed with unique qualifications, such as themselves, who are counted in the Yafei Empire, and have studied this "Law of Time and Space" for a period of time, but they have not studied a reason.

However, the prodigal student in front of him, who had been wandering around the Fengyue place all day long, had already been able to comprehend the essence of the second chapter in only a few months. If the first chapter is just this child's outstanding talent, then the essence of the second chapter can be studied not only is talent, but also have a clear understanding of the basic theory of magic, and more importantly, the relationship between magic and time and space must be clarified.

"Most magicians only have an infinite thirst for magic, and their understanding of the higher levels of material space-time is too superficial. This sentence was always in his heart, and it was when he was a student in the court of Tidemo, he heard a gifted classmate say it, and for some reason, he remembered it for a lifetime. However, it is a shame to think that even though he has devoted himself to research, he has not made any breakthroughs in the understanding of time and space. Now the young man in front of him made him feel comforted.

"You bastard usually looks very sloppy and casual.,I didn't expect it.。。。 I didn't expect it... Fetimor picked up one cheek and sneered unabashedly, and there was an unknown bitterness in the laughter.

Alwyn looked at the professor in front of him with some puzzlement, he had expected Fetimor to make a few remarks based on what he said, but Fetimo's grotesque tone made him wonder.

"As for the Law of Time and Space, I told you when I gave it to you, and I will not point you to any confusion about the book, because about this book, I... It's not necessarily more thorough than you've studied," Fetimor said solemnly, recovering his emotions.

When Alwyn saw him say this, he had no choice but to give up.

"But now that you can comprehend the second chapter, it seems that you have also put a lot of thought into the usual magic lessons," this is probably the first time that Fetimor has praised him in one night.

"However, this is not enough. You just think too much and practice too little. Fetimo closed the case.

Being hit by the professor to the point of his own fault, Alwin was a little embarrassed. For those who didn't know what to call the tutors, Alvin never took their evaluations to heart. However, as a professor like Fetimo, Alwyn was still humbly taught.

"The Sword Club is less than a month away, what are you going to do?" asked Fetimor with a sudden turn of thought.

"Anyway, it's embarrassing, what can I prepare. Alwyn's implication was "You pushed me out anyway, and it's a shame to be a shame and a loss of face." ”

"Nonsense, equipment or something, are you ready?" Fetimor glanced at Alwyn questioningly.

"No, I don't even know what to prepare," Alvin said with a calm expression.

"You... Don't you even know how to prepare for the staff, the ring, what have been on your mind all day?" Fetimus roared, his blood pressure running back to his feet.

"I usually only use instantaneous magic, and I don't need a staff. Alvin whispered.

"Hmph, you're really out of your mouth. How can I be blind and take a fancy to a student like you. Fetimor then scolded.

Alvin thought to himself that I didn't force you, but he didn't dare to say it.

"Then I can cast spells with my hands on weekdays, so I really don't need them. Alvin explained.

"Ignorance can give you confidence, doesn't it?" the professor glared at Alwyn with eagle eyes, looking like he was going to eat people.

Fortunately, Alvin was not surprised, and kept his head down and did not speak.

The professor and the student were frozen there, no one spoke, Erwin flipped through the "Laws of Time and Space" without a match, and Fetimor flipped through the book in his hand loudly, the pages rattled, and he glared at Alwyn from time to time, but Alwyn kept his head down wittily, not giving him a chance to look at each other.

The two of them were in a stalemate for almost an hour, and Alvin was a little sleepy, looking at the various formulas and symbols in the book, and his head was upside down, ready to lie on the desk and fall asleep at any time. Seeing this, Fetimor waved his fingers, and an instantaneous and paralyzing lightning spell struck Alwin's waist, and the strength was so strong that it would not hurt him or keep him from falling asleep comfortably.

Alvin caught it, and he fell out of his chair and screamed in pain. While rubbing the flesh on his waist with his hands, he looked at Fetimor viciously.

Fetimor was very relieved to see him like this.

"Come here, and I'll tell you about the use of staffs, rings, and necklaces. Fetimor sighed and beckoned Alwyn to step forward.

Alvin stroked his waist angrily, and he couldn't have a seizure again.

"As you said, in fact, magicians can cast spells with their hands, and the changes in the surrounding matter can be felt by their hands, which is the most clear and direct way, and most of the instantaneous magic can be released directly with the hands," Fetimo explained.

"But when it comes to the magic of material transformation, you usually use a staff, come on, you come and try it. Fetimor pointed to a staff on the table that was three fingers thick and elbows long.

Alwyn picked up the staff and took a closer look, the top of the staff was inlaid with a ruby, which should be a high-grade reddish brown stone judging by its fineness. Alwyn picked up his staff and unleashed a mid-level pyrotechnic. The first part of the staff was in flames, and a fireball had already gathered, and Alvin was secretly surprised and canceled the spell.

"You also saw that high-grade reddish brown stone, high perception of fire attributes, casting fire magic is much faster, right?" Fertimor explained, "Each staff has different attributes, and so does its attribute perception. But the purpose of using the staff is the same, to speed up the transformation of the surrounding matter. ”

Alwyn nodded, and then asked, "I see that some students in the Demon Court use staff with long rods, is there a difference?"

"The staff with a long rod will increase the casting distance and casting range of the spell, which is suitable for large-scale combat and is not suitable for close combat, while the short rod has a stronger attribute perception and the casting speed is faster than that of the long club, which one to choose depends on the needs of the battle," Fei Timo explained carefully.

Alvin felt that he was a bit of a "layman" in excess.

"Then if my magic grows high enough in the future, can I also use a wand?" Alvin asked suddenly.

"Unless you have full confidence, you can cast spells with your hands faster than your opponents can use their staffs. Fetimo glanced at his student, "I have to remind you that when it comes to life and death, any help is good. ”

Alvin nodded, and wrote it down. He would not have imagined that the professor's words would save him countless times in the years to come.

Alvin wanted to ask Fetimor what kind of staff he used, but he didn't dare to ask for fear of provoking a wave of anger.

"You try these rings again. Fetimus raised his two hands and waved, and a copper jewelry box flew down from the top of the bookcase.

Alvin dusted the box with his sleeve, although it was dirty, he could see that the jewelry box was very delicately made, and when he opened it, he saw that a few silver rings and a few necklaces were mixed together, and they were also full of dust, which seemed to have been useless for many years.

Alvin saw that the rings were almost the same, so he chose one at random, blew off the dust on it, and found that the silver ring was densely engraved with spell runes, and after wearing it, he tried some spell casting magic and didn't feel any different from the original. He glanced at Fetimus inquiringly.

Fetimor lifted his finger again, and with a spell, a magical doll glowing blue appeared in front of Elwin's eyes.

"You try your hand at the instantaneous magic you like to use. Fetimo instructed.

Alvin nodded, and as soon as he raised his hand, several small fireballs flew towards the magic puppet, the kind of magic he was already familiar with. What surprised him happened, after the small fireball hit the doll, the doll was burned, and after a while, the whole doll was ignited.

"Oh, this ring can enhance the negative state of magic. Alwin's eyes widened. He secretly thought that this was very practical, and he had the idea of taking it for himself.

Later, I tried a few more rings, which opened the eyes of Elwin, a student who didn't know how to learn, because some of these rings could enhance magic tracking, some could increase magic damage, and some could even bless spell shields when casting spells.

"You try wearing a necklace. Fetimor commanded.

Alvin picked up a square carved necklace with a silver background and put it on, and under the hollowed-out rune carving was a transparent rough stone, because it was surrounded by carvings, and the material could not be seen.

Fetimor saw that Alwyn had put on his necklace, and a flash of lightning spell struck Elwin as he had just done just now.

The primordial nature of the necklace suddenly glowed, the hollowed-out runes flowed rapidly, and the circular lines connected inside and outside spun at great speed, and when the lightning flew around Alvin, a magical fantasy had been generated, and he caught it hard.

Alvin was dumbfounded as he looked at the necklace in his hand, but the necklace had returned to its original state, and the rough stone had faded again.

"The runes in the necklace burned the spell of illusion, and it was activated by this primordial stone?" Alvin wondered, "Then what kind of material is this primordial stone, and you can actually feel the magic attack?"

"The Nightfall Stone," Fetimor explained, "this magic gem has resonance, and as soon as a damage spell is approached, it triggers its own stored mana, and the magic-powered illusion runes activate. ”

"Won't it trigger when I cast my own spell?" Alwyn asked, surprised.

"Otherwise, if you wear it, the Sunset Stone will absorb the magic power nearby and regenerate, once he absorbs your magic power, it is equivalent to merging with you, and your magic will naturally not trigger the resonance of the original stone. Fetimor sighed, "It's better to go to the library to read more classics, it's really okay if you don't learn anything." ”

Alwin secretly cursed in his heart that this old man really had to teach himself a lesson when he had the opportunity.

"Does that mean this necklace can be used over and over again, just give it some magic at first?" Alvin asked, blinking.

"The rune drive has a cooldown, about a quarter of an hour at a time. Fetimor naturally knew what Alvin was thinking, and said coldly, "I have already said that driving once will consume your own mana, and the loss of mana in battle is very large, with your current mana, I am afraid that you will not be able to drive it a few times." ”

Alwyn let out a frustrated "um" when he heard this, he thought that as long as it was triggered by a magic attack skill, he didn't expect that the runes had a cooldown, and each time it was triggered, it consumed his own mana.

"Professor, I think these pieces of jewelry are pretty good, why are you hiding them and not using them, so much dust has accumulated?" Alvin took out the remaining necklaces and looked at them carefully.

"It's all children's stuff, where do I still need it? Fei Timo couldn't help but feel funny when he heard this, looking at the students in front of him, all kinds of nonsense had the support of youth, thinking that he was already a bad old man over half a hundred years old, and then looking at these jewelry that had been used, he couldn't help but sigh that time flies.

"Then the professor, I won't be polite to you, I guess even if I go to the equipment store in the East District to buy it, it's not as good as you. Alvin laughed cheekily, "Anyway, you pushed me to the Pillow Sword Club, and I can't embarrass you, can I?"

"Hmph, I'm afraid it's a shame for you to take these with you. The professor scoffed.

Alvin shook his head, expressing his usual frustration at the professor's usual taunts.

"You can pick the ring and necklace yourself, you don't have to take the staff from me, you have to use this kind of thing yourself. "Fetimus is very generous.

The ring is easy to say, Alwin's favorite is the negative state enhancement of spells and spell tracking, the words of the necklace listened to Fetimo's explanation, and felt that each one was useful, and he was embarrassed to take them all, so after thinking about it, he still picked the one that could trigger the illusion.

"As for the staff, you go to Haven Street in the eastern part of the inner city, and there is a "Lu Zheng" equipment store at the end of the east, where you should be able to buy the staff you have in hand" Fetimor glanced at Alwin, and put the remaining ring necklace into the copper jewelry box.

Alvin nodded, thinking that sooner or later he would bring all the jewelry in this box.