Ophelia turned a blind eye to everyone's gaze, but she let go of her worries in her heart, in a year, three magics, no matter what, such a standard is not high, even if her learning speed in elemental magic is not fast, there is no worry about being dismissed.

In fact, this is only the minimum standard, and there are very few apprentices in the past who have been dismissed for this reason, and the real reason for the decrease in the number of apprentices is the pressure of multiple course assessments.

Mage Black said eloquently: "The elements are all-encompassing, your physical eye, the mage's perception, the touch of spiritual power, all the phenomena that exist in the plane and outside the plane found through these methods are all elements. ”

"Fire. Mage Black spread out his palm, and a cluster of flames burned above his palm.

"Water. "The flame disappeared and was replaced by a ball of water.

"Ice. "The balloon solidifies and becomes a piece of ice.

"Earth, light, darkness ......" Mage Black displayed one by one, and everyone was fascinated and immersed in the magic of magic.

"And, the wind. With a wave of the mage's hand, everyone felt a faint wind swirling in their ears.

"These are elemental phenomena that you can see intuitively with the naked eye, and elemental magic is the magic that applies them. ”

Mage Black continued, "In the days of the ancient mages, the ancient mages turned phenomena into magic in a very crude way through day after day observation, which was inefficient, because even if they understood the magic from it, they did not understand the principles, which also led to the extremely difficult transmission of magic in those days. A type of magic is often immutable and unstable, and the mage may even use it to eat himself. ”

Everyone listened attentively to Mage Black's words, before they entered the path of mage, everyone's intuitive feeling of mage and magic magic came from elemental magic, and the great power of manipulating nature was their original source of worship.

The optical projection behind Mage Black lit up, and three runes that were very familiar to everyone appeared in the projection.

"Fireball technique, everyone should be familiar with it. ”

Everyone nodded, especially the apprentices from the desert island, who were able to reach the academy alive because of the power of fireballs.

"This is the first magic mastered by a mage, the mage plane was slaughtered by various magical beasts in ancient times, and when it was on the verge of extinction, it was because of the creation of fireball magic that it was able to barely reproduce. ”

Fire is the source of civilization, and this seems to be true in all worlds, as well as on earth, and it is the application of fire that allows a weak individual like man to escape from barbarism. Adam thought.

"The fireball technique was different then than it is now. You should know that as long as you are proficient in these three runes, then the fireball technique you use will be successful and stable, but in ancient times, mages used magic much more dangerously. ”

Mage Black paused, his hand clenched in the air, and then a staff with a simple shape, nearly a person tall, appeared in his hand, Mage Black took out a fire energy stone and placed it on the top of the staff, and then said to the apprentices,

"The first mages relied on power stones and magic wands to cast spells, and they used their spiritual power to stimulate the low-level energy stored in the power stones, and in this way they used magic to use magic. ”

Mage Black motioned for the apprentices to pay attention, then opened his mouth to utter a few simple syllables, and then waved his staff, and the power stone lit up, and a burning and unstable fireball appeared on the tip of the staff.

Adam noticed that although the syllables sounded simple and meaningless, the change in pitch resonated with the psychic power, which allowed him to extract energy from the ore.

The Elder Mage's spell casting does not seem to have anything to do with aether or magic.

Mage Black put away his staff and held up the unstable burning fireball with one hand: "This is probably the original fireball technique, because the age is too old to verify, and modern mages have no way to completely restore it." You can see its state, unstable, and it may break at any time. This magic may dissipate itself before it even has time to hit the enemy. ”

A target rose in front of Master Black, and with a wave of his hand, he threw the fireball spell at the target, which did not move, and then a value of 0.25 was displayed on it.

Mage Black spread his hands and said, "The power is very low, this kind of magic can't even kill an ordinary person now." ”

Adam looked at the target and guessed that it was probably an alchemical product similar to the principle of a crystal ball. This kind of data-based approach is undoubtedly advanced and intuitive, and the precise values can accurately show the data, which is out of the maybe, probably, this vague description.

Adam was still thinking about this when he heard Master Black say, "Next, it's the improved Fireball Technique. ”

This time, without any spell casting, an orange fireball appeared out of thin air, and hovered steadily in front of Mage Black.

"I only mobilized the spiritual power of the apprentice stage, and this fireball is no different from what you use, pay attention. ”

With a bang, the fireball exploded as it hit the rake, this time showing a value of 1.

"Supported by knowledge, the lowest power of modern magic constructed by runes is one, and the same low-level magic is four times more powerful than ancient magic. ”

"That's the power of knowledge. Master Black concluded.

Most people didn't know the meaning of the word 'knowledge' that had been on the lips of mages before, and they didn't understand it now, but this did not affect their longing for knowledge from now on, it turned out that mages are not a mysterious and weird profession, as long as they have 'knowledge', they can do the same thing.

"The essence of fireball is burning, and the source of power is temperature. It is an exothermic reaction produced by the action of combustibles with incendiary agents. In fireball, as well as most fire-based magic, the combustible is aether, and the incendiary is mana, and the aether is triggered by mana to release magic. ”

Adam felt that Mage Black did not fully explain the principles of fireball, at least he did not introduce the mysterious and great substance of aether, according to the earth, combustion is an exothermic reaction of combustibles and oxidizers, and in the mage world, aether obviously replaces these two conditions.

So, that is, it is not so much that the power of the mage comes from knowledge, but from the ether?

Adam listened to Master Blake's narration and recorded them in a way that he could understand, and it was clear that there was no essential difference in the basic physical quantities in this dimensional form of world, and the biggest reason for the extraordinary power of such worlds was the mysterious ether.

"No, we have to add spiritual power, that is, in addition to the four basic forces that do not know how to exist, there is also the fifth basic force, spiritual power, and the sixth basic force, ether. The six vigorously jointly built the world of high magic. ”

Mage Black didn't show any other magic or teach anything else, he continued to introduce it based on fireballs, and he kept mentioning it, which convinced Adam of the importance of it.

"So, is it possible to say that everything in this world was created and integrated by the aether, and that the mages are only exploring the aether through knowledge?"

Adam knew that his current shallow knowledge of the world was not enough to study the question of reaching the essence of the world, and he did not even know whether the question itself was of practical significance, but he was now completely sure of one thing.

That is, the value of the broken knowledge obtained from the 'virus' has been reduced again, due to the existence of the ether, the magic science and earth science unique to this world have gone to different paths from the beginning, and whether those knowledge can be established in this world is uncertain, maybe only a little bit of reference meaning?

At the end of the lesson, Mage Black released three sets of runes composed of three runes, which were the water curtain of the water system, the defensive magic, the wind blade, the magic that William had used to use magic items on the ship, and the earth thorn, and the attack magic.

"The elemental knowledge in the first year of the free stage will not teach you advanced content, your task in this year is to learn the three elemental magic, you can also choose to go to the library to pay to learn the rest of the low-level elemental magic rune group, however, three is the minimum requirement. ”

"In the rest of the lesson, you can consult me about the problems you encountered when constructing runes, of course, don't delay me with stupid questions, I bet you won't want to bear the consequences. ”

Master Black left the classroom with that, this time the apprentices were even more enthusiastic, unlike the morning meditation, the intuitive sight of the power of magic made them even more excited, especially when there was a chance to master this power.

This simple magic seemed to Adam to be no problem, and he found something in common among the rune groups, including the fireball technique, all of which had a rune that was similar or even identical, and that was the one that channeled the magic.

"Sure enough, the aether is the source of magic. ”

Over the course of the next week, the apprentices went through all the free courses, and each instructor had their own requirements, and all the results that could not be achieved were dismissals, although it was not difficult, but it was still a huge test for some of the unintelligent apprentices.

Naturally, there was no difficulty for Adam, but he found the meaning of the first year of study, which was similar to the preparatory school on Earth, which was used to select good seedlings from among the mentally qualified apprentices who were suitable for the mage's practice, and then return the defective products.

Because of the pressure, the apprentices are nervous, the learning atmosphere is unprecedentedly high, and with everyone learning, Adam is once again an outlier, and the apprentices think that he has given up on himself.