Chapter 42: The Origin of Magic
Zero raised his face and looked at Josevi standing in front of him seriously, a light breeze slowly blew through, slightly lifting the corners of Josevi's skirt, and the tips of Zero's hair also swayed gently with the breeze.
The two of them were in a large, flat open space outside the wooden house, and in the middle of them was a large wooden stake that could be used as a small table, on which was placed a delicate tea set. This wooden house is built on a small stone mountain, it is not accurate to say that it is a mountain, it is reasonable to say that it is a boulder, this boulder is thirty or forty meters high, standing in the middle of a small lake, surrounded by a lake more than ten meters wide, there is a stone staircase carved by hand for people to go down from the open space in front of the house, under the stone staircase is a simple wooden bridge across the lake to connect the stone mountain and the shore, and the small lake is surrounded by a lush Saling forest.
After two days of observation, this large boulder did not look like it was standing here, but more like someone had moved it from another place and pestled into the middle of this small lake. The top of the boulder also seems to have been flattened by hand, and a wooden house was built on top of it for living. Because of this, Zero felt more and more mysterious that this woman named José was even more mysterious.
"She's certainly not a normal person. "That's what Zero has been saying about Josévi for a while. In his opinion, a beautiful woman who looked young lived alone in the depths of such an isolated forest, and was not afraid of the fierce and powerful monsters in the forest. This woman is either a peerless powerhouse, or ...... She's a monster herself...... He sometimes even suspected that Josevi only looked young, and his actual age might be the same as the old man Quinn of the Cretan family, an old monster who had lived for hundreds of years......
Zero opened her big silver-gray eyes and looked intently at Josevi, who was wearing a long skirt and a straight waist, and Josevi also looked down at him with a breezy face.
It was the tenth day since Zero woke up, and the wounds on his body had completely healed, and at his request, Josevi was going to officially start teaching him magic today, and his heart was full of anticipation.
"Since you really want to learn magic, then I will teach you seriously and will be strict with you, are you ready?" José asked Xiang Zero.
"Hmm!" Zero nodded firmly.
Josevi nodded, then looked into Zero's eyes and asked, "Let me ask you first, what exactly does magic seem to you?"
"Magic is...... Communicate and resonate with the free magical elements in nature with telekinesis, and then recite spells to build a formation to make the magical elements arrange and combine in an orderly manner, and finally achieve the means of using the magical elements freely. Zero carefully explained the magical concepts she remembered to Josevi.
Josevi smiled and said, "Well, that's pretty standard, but you're just talking about the basics of elemental magic. Then let me ask you, what do you think is the origin of magic?"
"The origin of magic?" Zero looked puzzled, "Isn't the origin of magic...... Magical elementals?"
Josevi shook her head lightly and said, "I just told you that what you answered was just the concept of elemental magic. Think about it, what are the prerequisites for using magic?"
Zero lowered his head and rolled his eyes, and a flash of light suddenly flashed in his mind, he raised his head to look at Josevi and said, "Mindfulness!"
When Josevi heard Zero's answer, the corners of her mouth curled up in a charming arc, and she nodded and said, "Yes, it's telekinesis." ”
"Mental power, commonly known as spiritual power, is concentrated in the sea of thoughts inside the brain, just like a warrior stores the cultivated fighting qi in the sea of qi in the lower abdomen. A warrior cultivates his fighting spirit and uses his fighting spirit to fight with different martial arts, while a mage cultivates his mental power and uses his mental power to fight with different magical techniques. As I said before, what you're answering is only the concept of elemental magic, but because elemental mages make up the majority of magicians, many people who don't know much about magic think that elemental magic can represent the vast and profound concept of magic. It is important to know that in this world, there are many magic casts that do not require magical elements. In other words, the true source of magic is not the element of magic, but the power of mind.
A warrior with a strong enough fighting spirit can easily suppress a warrior whose cultivation is far inferior to him even if he doesn't use his martial arts. And this is also reflected in the magician's mental power cultivation - if a person's mental power cultivation is strong to the peak, even if he does not invoke the magic element, he can suppress the opponent with absolutely powerful spiritual power. The strong are always strong, this is the eternal truth. ”
Listening to Josevi's explanation, Zero began to become excited, and he couldn't wait to ask Josevi, "You mean, even a person like me, who doesn't resonate with any magical element, can become a powerful magician as long as he insists on practicing telekinesis?"
José looked into Zero's eyes and nodded firmly, "Yes." ”
"Great!" Zero stomped his foot with a fist in excitement.
"Don't get too happy...... "José said as she looked at Zero's excited expression, Although the Nian Magician has a stronger mental power than ordinary people, but because the physique does not resonate with any element, compared to other elemental magicians can easily call the magic elements that are suitable for their own physique, if the Nian Magician wants to call the elemental magic, he must use stronger mental power than ordinary people to forcibly control the elements, maybe the ordinary Elemental Magician casts an ordinary level 5 magic, and if the Nian Magician also wants to cast it, the difficulty coefficient is several times greater. Because telekinesis don't resonate with the elements, they can't easily rearrange the elements by chanting words like other normal elemental mages. If a telekinesis wants to achieve the same effect, he can only use the most primitive telekinesis control method to manipulate the magical elements and arrange them according to the magician's wishes. At this point, there are only a handful of telepathic magicians in the world who can do it.
The practice of magic is inherently difficult for ordinary people, it is not like vindictiveness, as long as you endure hardships and stand hard work, you can endure physical fatigue and achieve success. Everyone can be a warrior, but not everyone can be a magician. Mental power and fighting spirit are born with everyone. Dou Qi is free in the limbs and hundreds of bones of the body, as long as you feel it with your heart, you can concentrate them into the sea of qi one by one to condense, and through cultivation, fighting and other means, you will continue to grow and expand the Dou Qi in your body, and your own strength will also become stronger. It can be said that as long as you endure hardships, you will definitely become a powerful warrior one day. But telekinesis is different from Dou Qi in this regard, it attaches great importance to personal talent, even if telekinesis is born in the human body like Dou Qi, but many people are born with innate telekinesis, unable to concentrate on spiritual cultivation, and Nianhai cannot expand to accommodate more majestic telekinesis to support the consumption of casting magic.
After getting along with each other for the past few days, I also understand your talent in telekinesis, but innate talent does not determine your acquired achievements. Talent is just your passport to the magic hall, and if you want to make a name for yourself in this vast continent and become an outstanding and powerful magician, you have to learn something, you have to endure hardships, and there are still many ways to go. ”
After standing up straight and listening to Josevie's words, he looked at her seriously and said, "As long as you are willing to teach me, I will definitely do my best to learn magic, and I must become a magician!"
Josevi looked at Zero's serious demeanor with interest and said, "I hope what you do in the future can be worthy of your attitude today." ”
With that, Josevi pointed to the tea set placed on the stake between the two and said, "Pour a glass of water." ”
Zero Wenyan stretched out his hand to set the upside-down teacup, picked up the teapot and poured a glass of water, then put down the teapot and stood in place looking at Josevi.
"Look, the most basic telekinesis operation. ”
José Eve stretched out the slender white index finger of her right hand, and Zero followed her fingers to the glass of water that was quietly placed on the stake.
The water in the cup suddenly rippled, the water turned upward, and a drop of water floated above the cup with the bottom of the cup, and the water in the cup seemed to be fighting the gravitational pull of the earth, and flowed through the slender water column to the water droplets that gradually became ellipsoidal above, and the water droplets also became larger.
Suddenly, the water droplets bloomed like flower bones, that is, a crystal clear "water splash" composed of water, and the flower stem at the bottom of the cup slowly bloomed in front of Zero's eyes, full of magic and beauty. Zero looked at the "splash" growing and blooming in the cup with a surprised face, and felt a wave of admiration for Josevi in her heart.
Zero can also control the flow of water, but he can only make the water flow chaotically and churning, with his current ability, he will never be able to control the flow of water with such precision as Josevi to bloom in such a realistic form as a flower, this woman named Josevi is really powerful.
I saw her put down her fingers, and the "splash" blooming in the cup instantly lost the support of her mind and scattered into the bottom of the cup. José Breeze then waved her arm, and Zero heard a violent sound of water. The lake around the boulder at your feet suddenly splashed dozens of meters high. Zero opened her mouth and looked at the scene in front of her in surprise, only to see Josevi stretch out her other hand, her arms raised, and the messy water splash suddenly formed a cylindrical water curtain, surrounding the boulder, through which Zero could only see a vague forest scene.
As José lowered her arm, the water curtain fell back to the bottom of the lake, and the water vapor left in mid-air refracted the sunlight under the clear sky to form a dazzling small rainbow.
"You might think I'm a water magician, right?" asked Josevi as she looked at the look of surprise on Zero's face.
Zero nodded in confusion, Josevi smiled slightly, and said to him: "I tell you the truth, I am the same as you, and I don't resonate with any magical elements, I am a mental magician. ”
"What?!" Zero exclaimed, looking at José with an incredulous face.
"Telekinesis is the origin of magic, and as long as telekinesis is strong enough, you can be above any magic. But one thing you have to remember is that we can only control our own minds, not the magical elements of nature, which are free and light, and forcibly harnessing them is just casting magic, not really understanding the nature of the elements. Nature cannot be controlled by anyone, communicate the elements with mental power, and never have the idea of controlling it, you must learn to take advantage of the situation, and let the elements in nature help you, rather than obey you. Now, is it better to control a single magical element, or to manipulate everything in between...... Welcome to the world of magic. ”
José Willow spread her fingers towards Zero, and above her palm, colorful elemental particles fluttered and flowed happily.