Chapter 80—Knowledge is Wealth (Part II)

Victor raised his arm, his fingertips brushing over the words written on the paper, and the black handwriting in ink immediately shimmered a pale blue, dazzling in the dimly lit basement.

"Look here...... first"

At this moment, Victor is a senior teacher, explaining several examples and the process of argumentation on paper to the mage apprentices present in simple and easy-to-understand language.

Listening to Victor's analysis, Wilder suddenly trembled, quickly picked up a quill pen and wrote on the papyrus, checked it, and completely immersed himself in the world of arcane.

In addition to Wilder, the other two mage apprentices who had studied this issue were also in a trance, and the remaining mage apprentices could not fully comprehend these contents due to their knowledge capacity, but they could vaguely feel that there was a magical arcane world hidden behind what Victor said.

After Victor finished explaining, Wilder and the others were still in silence reminiscing about the wonderful taste of the doubt being solved.

Half an hourglass of time later, Wilder gained from this knowledge quickly. Suddenly awakened, he calmed down his surging thoughts, and said to Victor very respectfully: "Lord Victor, I have always been skeptical about your identity before, and now I apologize to you for my suspicions!" ”

As he spoke, Wilder leaned down deeply and saluted.

"Well, I accept your apology!"

Victor said in a solemn tone: "In this environment, it is normal to maintain the necessary suspicion! I don't care about these superficial things......"

It was only at this time that the two apprentices who had fallen into a trance came to their senses one after another, and their emotions were also very excited, and they all paid the highest respect to Victor.

"Lord Victor, I'm Elena, a mage's apprentice, can I ask you another question?"

A female mage apprentice asked in a sweet voice, "I can answer any questions you ask!" As long as I know ......"

"Victor-sama, please!"

All the mage apprentices said in unison, their tones filled with a strong desire to learn. Hope.

Looking at the respectful attitude of everyone towards him, Victor regained the feeling of teaching before, and he nodded slightly.

"Great!"

Elena gave a low cheer before asking, "Lord Winnie Murphy has come to the conclusion that matter is composed of invisible particles 'atoms' through experiments with gas mixtures, and on this basis, he has made a subversive prediction of the 'new elemental system'......"

“…… This completely breaks the long-standing monopoly of the four-element system in arcane research, and allows us to reach a new level of exploration and discovery of the 'new elemental system'! ”

With that, the female mage apprentice took a deep breath, her eyes shining.

"Mr. Victor, I've been thinking about this ever since I came into contact with the 'New Elemental System'...... Heat, what is it? ”

Without waiting for Victor to answer, Elena continued: "I have collected a lot of relevant literature for this question......"

"The legendary mage Lord Bosser believed that moving atoms are the most primordial and indivisible elements of the world that make up all things, and that heat and cold are caused by special "hot atoms" and "cold atoms...... Therefore, heat is some kind of special material entity. ”

"His Excellency Valentine, the Grand Arcanist, concludes from phenomena such as frictional heat generation that heat is an expanded, constrained, motion acting on smaller particles of an object."

"Lord Ronmond, a ninth-level arcanist, in his book Reflections on the Causes of Heat and Cold, makes it clear that the full root of heat lies in motion."

"His Excellency Rawatus, the legendary mage, has also included 'heat' and 'light' in the 'New Elemental System'."

“……”

Elena asked in an eager tone, "Lord Victor, can you tell me...... What exactly is heat? Is it substance? Is it an element? Or sports? ”

Victor did not answer Elena's question directly, but fell into deep thought.

"What a headache! How do I explain that? Tell them directly that 'heat is a form of exercise'? Tell them that 'macroscopic thermal phenomena turn out to be manifestations of the irregular motion of a large number of molecules inside an object'? Tell them it's all about following the 'law of conservation of energy'? ”

Smacking his lips, Victor, who was convinced, spoke after silence: "I need to let you know before answering this question...... If you want to fully understand what I'm going to talk about, you need to know the most basic arcane laws beforehand! ”

"How, though, did you get this arcane law? How is it derived? If you want to master it thoroughly, it will take a lot of time and experimentation...... Therefore, in the limited time I have, I can only tell you the content and conclusions of the arcane laws first, and as for the more fundamental things, you need to explore them carefully in your future arcane research......"

Hearing this, Wilder, Elena, and the others all showed understanding smiles.

After organizing the language, Victor proposed the "law of conservation of energy" for the first time in this world: "This most basic arcane law is what I call the 'law of conservation of energy'. The specific content is that energy is neither created nor disappeared out of thin air, it only transforms from one form to another, or from one object to another, while the total amount of energy remains the same. ”

After a pause, Victor went on to explain, "What is energy? Energy is a measure of the transformation of the motion of matter...... Everything in the world is in constant motion, and among all the attributes of matter, motion is the most basic attribute, and other attributes are the concrete manifestations of motion. ”

"Different forms of energy can be converted into each other through physical effects or chemical reactions...... Corresponding to the various forms of motion of matter, energy comes in various different forms. ”

"Heat is a molecular motion that can also be seen as an energy...... So, the law of conservation of energy can also be expressed as follows: heat can be transferred from one object to another, and it can also be converted to and from mechanical energy or other energy, but the total value of energy remains the same during the conversion process. ”

“……”

In the process of explaining, Victor cited several zero-ring tricks such as "Improving Resistance", "Dancing Light Technique", and "Freezing Ray" as evidence, and analyzed the "nature of heat" for several mage apprentices.

"The law of conservation of energy? What an unimaginable achievement! ”

"Mr. Victor, I ...... I've never looked at things from this perspective! ”

"Truth is above!"

“……”

Victor's profound knowledge had completely dispelled the skepticism of several mage apprentices, and all the questions they raised were thoroughly answered by the black-robed mage.

Facing the respectful gaze, Victor, who had solved everyone's problems one by one, cleared his throat again: "Everyone! Now it's my turn to ask questions......"

As a representative, Wilder said solemnly: "Lord Victor, just ask! As long as we know it, we will definitely give you a satisfactory answer...... If we don't know, we will try to gather information for you as much as possible. ”