Under Gawain's and Hetty's questioning, Jenny finally stopped being silent, and for the first time, the story of the notebook and its owners was presented to the public, and Gawain learned more about the wild mage.

The first owner of the note was indeed the wild mage, but he still did not leave his name in this note, Jenny only knew that it was a down-and-out, strange and ostracized senior, the wild mage came from the Violet Kingdom in the north of the continent, and was once a member of the largest human mage organization "Secret Law Society", but as Gawain knew, he was lowly and ostracized, and his research was deviant in the eyes of orthodox mages, so his life was extremely depressed, and he finally left the secret law society to heal his daughter, entered the territory of Ansu, and the notebook that Jenny obtained was one of the manuscripts that the wild mage had left out in his early years—if it was correct, he sold it to a mage in the Ansu kingdom to raise money for the journey.

Maybe only three copper plates were sold, or maybe they were worthless, just as a giveaway for a whole bunch of books and notes.

And its second master's situation is also not much stronger, as can be seen from the words of the notes, that the mage is also conducting "deviant" research, and the reason why he conducts such research is also low personal strength and hopeless promotion.

A mage who struggled with magic and runes hoped that logic and mathematics would help him explore the truth of the world, and the research of the wild mage in the universality and potential laws of runes gave him a guiding lamp, allowing him to vaguely grasp the path to explore the mysteries of magic even without the help of powerful magic and without personal strength, but this second researcher did not go far on this path.

Perhaps to raise money for his research, or to verify some of the data he had obtained from his notes, the nameless mage died on an expedition, and the few possessions he left behind were quickly divided, leaving the precious notebook in the hands of Jenny's mentor.

However, Jenny's mentor did not become the owner of the notebook, because the "orthodox mentor" was unusually disdainful of the notebook, he did not think that two low-ranking mages could reveal any truth by writing a lot of calculations on paper, and believed that the second owner of the notebook had lost his life in an adventure because he believed the nonsense on the waste paper—the poor creature who died in the ruins proved the fallacy of the theory in the notebook.

So the mentor threw the notes away and threw them in the garbage heap outside the mage's tower - and was picked up by his "apprentice" Ravenkeys.

And this so-called "apprentice" is actually the slave of the great magician.

This phenomenon is common among orthodox magicians, who are usually divided into two types of apprentices: true apprentices, who are those with high magical talents, or those who are of noble birth and pure blood, and those who are only apprentices in the mage tower, but are actually used as slaves and experimental materials. Ravenkes falls into the latter category.

Because of his poor magical talent, and he is not a famous family, Raven Keyes has never been valued in the mage tower, although he has a very high talent in mathematics and logic, but because of his poor spell casting level and rune sensing ability, he is called "imbecile" and "freak" by everyone in the mage tower, the great mage reluctantly taught Raven Keith some introductory knowledge, and then forcibly spawned it into a formal mage with cheap potions and rituals with huge sequelae, and then cultivated it in the same way as a runemaster, I plan to let him take on the job of drawing magic circles and making props.

It was at that time that Ravenketh picked up the notes and became the third owner of them.

It was a few years after that that Jenny became acquainted with Raven Keys.

Unlike the vast majority of the "gifted" who were able to enter the Mage Tower, Jenny came from an even more humble background, and she was not even selected to enter the Tower as a "mage slave": this emaciated girl came from a poor country far from the king, and her family had never dealt with the transcendent in her ancestors, let alone possessed the "noble blood of a mage".

She was able to enter the Wizard's Tower because her family was dying of starvation due to a famine in her hometown, and her "mentor" happened to pass by her hometown village and wanted to "show kindness and exchange the food in her hand for something from the local hungry."

Jenny remembers vividly that it was a windless but cold night, and her parents gathered the children together and drew lots for her, who was only fourteen years old.

The next morning, she was wheeled into the "magician's" caravan and exchanged for enough food for her family: two sacks of wheat.

She remembered that there were many things piled up in the caravan: herbs she didn't know, taxidermy animals, stones, metal, tree bark, a few numb children about her own age......

The car was piled up with experimental materials.

The magician had exchanged food for materials for experiments, and she had been brought to the Mage's Tower as experimental materials.

Later, she met Ravenketh in the Mage Tower, an "apprentice" who was a mage slave but had a higher status than her.

Ravenkes was responsible for "feeding" the experimental materials.

The children who had been brought together from the country were soon put to good use by the magician, and almost every two or three days a child was taken out, some of them came back alive and some of them didn't, and even those who came back alive soon became insane and weak, and Jenny was aware of her fate, but she did not run away.

Because Ravenkeith reminds her every day: don't run, it's more terrible than death.

In this way, when it was finally Jenny's turn to be "put to use", she could no longer remember the details of that day, because she was almost completely immersed in fear and chaos, but luck favored her: when she was sent to the experimental circle, she was suddenly detected with a very faint magical affinity.

She turned out to be gifted with magic.

Due to her magical talents, combined with her previous honest behavior, Jenny was saved and became one of the magician's apprentices, and a "slave apprentice" of the same status as Ravenkes, and she was given her last name: the magician gave her the surname "Perrault" very casually. In the lingua franca of mankind, the word means "wheat" - because at that time she was bought back by a magician with two bags of wheat.

Freedom from the threat of death is a blessing for Jenny, but in reality her situation is still not in the light: she has just gone from a "thing" to a "slave", and in many cases, the two are not much different.

But Jenny didn't have much to think about it at the time, she was very lucky to be alive, and being able to read and learn magic as a mage's apprentice (albeit a slave's apprentice) was a good thing she had never thought of, and she began to learn those things hungrily, reading books, reading, recognizing runes, mneizing spells, and soon she discovered that Ravenketh had similar hobbies and ways of thinking as herself......

They became friends and became friends, and Ravenketh excitedly showed Jenny his treasured notebook and told him about the uncanny things in the notebook, rooted in mathematics and logic, and the two "apprentices" with low magical strength and no formal mage education at all absorbed the knowledge in the notebook and built their own worldview on it.

They are completely unaware of how deviant this approach to the truth, which relies on formulas and calculations, in the eyes of orthodox teachers who believe in the pursuit of truth through personal strength.

On the other side, Jenny's "mentor", the powerful magician, soon discovered that Jenny's magical talent was actually low and pitiful, this sick seedling who crawled out of the experimental materials had only a little ability to sense magic, with her mental talent, I am afraid that she could only master a few apprentice-level spells in her life, and she would not be able to enter the ranks of official mages.

So he quickly stopped investing in Jenny, and desperate to recoup the cost, he gave Jenny a bottle of potion and a circle blueprint, told Jenny to drink the potion, forcibly catalyzed into a first-level mage, and then began the practice of a runemaster.

Ravenkes, who had already drunk potions, privately stopped Jenny and gave a bold suggestion: why not believe the knowledge in the notes, believe in the formulas that are deduced and summarized from the knowledge of the notes, and try to control those runes without the help of spells, but only mathematics and logic?

Jenny followed Ravenkeys' advice and completed the reconfiguration of the circle as an apprentice.

It was probably the first "calculated" circle in this world.

But instead of rewarding her for this, her "mentor" became furious, and soon found out that it was Ravenketh who was "making a small move", and then he found out about the existence of the notebook - an act of almost "betrayal" that made him even more angry, and he thought that it was a great insult to him that a research notebook full of gibberish from a crappy mage of low power could bewitch his servants in his mage tower.

The Grand Magician was furious and prepared to destroy the notes and punish his two "apprentices" severely, but it was then that Ravenketh bravely stood up for the first time and took the initiative to face the wrath of his "mentor".

He took the punishment alone, and kept the notebook and Jenny at the cost of one eye, a quarter of his soul, and two tendons, and he tried to convince the tyrannical archmage that there was value in keeping the notes and letting the stupid apprentice study them—that there might be a little bit of investment in them, and that he and Jenny could be the test subjects to make circles and runes in the way they were written, so that if they succeeded, all the results would go to the archmage, and if they failed, the mage will only lose two experimental materials.

Jenny's mentor accepted this argument and asked the two bold apprentices to carry on this kind of research, but he never gave up on the constant ridicule and attack - he thought that the rune research made by those who had no way to control the high-level runes must be ridiculous, just as the serfs guessed the king's menu were as stupid as they did not have the ability to perceive and control the runes, but guessed the power of those runes out of thin air with a few calculations, isn't it ridiculous?

But anyway, Ravenkeith and Jenny were finally able to continue to study the contents of the note, and they soon discovered that there was an obvious "fault" in the properties of different magic guide materials such as magic conduction, this fault seems to divide all the guide materials into two intervals: "positive" and "negative", and a mysterious constant affects the actual performance of the guide materials in these two intervals in the magic array, and it turns out that various guide materials only affect the "output power" of the magic array. The anti-interference stability of the magic array itself mainly depends on the arrangement logic of the runes, and the relationship between the magic array and the magic guide material is only affected by its positive and negative polarity and a constant......

They began to derive this constant and gradually approached the final result, but on the eve of success, their mentor suddenly gave them a task.

Go to a runaway mana well and reset the rune array there.

This completely outweighs their runemaster skills, and things like resetting the rune array of the mana well aren't the runemaster's specialty: it's the job of a full-fledged mage.

But the Guru's command was absolute, and along with it came a saying:

"Didn't you say that all the runes could fit in your formula? Then go for it. ”

Ravenketh accepted the order, knowing full well that the archmage had lost patience, because the latter was not a person who could tolerate his servants acting freely, so he had no choice at all, and going to the mana well to adjust the runes would also allow him to verify a most critical issue.

Towards the end of Jenny's recollections, her tone was calm, not as calm as if she was talking about herself: "Before he left, Mr. Ravenkes told me that he would adjust the runes according to the first conjecture, and that if he came back alive, E would be equal to 1.29, and if he didn't come back, E would be equal to 1.66 - he didn't come back." ”

Gawain looked down at the notebook, which was written in fresh, clean handwriting on the constant E.