Chapter 70: The School of Pragmatism of Magic?

The tutor's words are thought-provoking, and in just one lesson, it contains the results of the thinking and exploration of countless mages in the ancient magic empire for tens of thousands of years. Twelve schools of magic, twelve philosophies of magic, each of which is all-encompassing, and since the system, it is enough for a mage to immerse himself in it, even if he exhausts his life, he will not be able to touch the marginal ultimate proposition.

However, this knowledge, these theoretical knowledge that overlooks the whole world and the entire magic system from a philosophical point of view, is still too profound for the apprentices who have not even touched the door of magic now.

Most of the apprentices are ignorant, and only a very small number of very talented apprentices will start their own immature thinking in this direction thoughtfully as if they had discovered a new world.

Carl is an adult who has already matured his mind and understands the words of his mentor better. He originally thought that learning magic was about chanting spells and throwing fireballs, but great means meditating every day and memorizing the rhythm of the spell model.

But it was completely unaware that the magic of each school was not only a spell-casting technique, but also a collection of a systematic outlook on life methodology, and each school of magic represented a self-proclaimed system of magic philosophy.

But if you think about it carefully, how can a power system that has been passed down for tens of thousands of years, an empire that has been glorious for tens of thousands of years, still stay in a state of ignorance that knows what it is and doesn't know why it is.

Magic represents the crystallization of human wisdom and knowledge in this world, in this world where the mind and spirit have power, magic itself is the result of the thinking and thinking of countless wise men and sages.

Reality is not fiction after all, how can it be possible that a species and a civilization only have powerful technology and no corresponding ideology and culture.

So, when Carl heard what his mentor said, he only had a feeling in his mind that it was indeed so, and that it should be so, that magic should be so suddenly enlightened.

The philosophical view of the Elemental School represents one of the most simple popular views, both in this world and in ancient times on Earth, where the world is made of elements. Whether it is the four elements, the five elements, or the five elements, they were once the mainstream of the world, and they have their own logical and self-consistent philosophical system derived from the concept of elements.

It was not difficult for Carl to understand the view of the Elemental School. Although it is unfamiliar that the astrological school divides the world into the real starry sky, the destiny starry sky, and the real starry sky, if you think about it carefully, this division method is actually close to the Buddhist Three Realms of Color and Space, or the traditional Chinese Three Talents of Heaven, Earth and Man, which divide the world into different levels and explain the entire universe from the perspective of matter, concept, and spirit.

As for the fact that everything is made up of stars, it is easier for Carl to understand, the similarity between the atomic model of matter and the model of galaxies, the similarity between the structure of the electron cloud and the structure of the nebula, and the surprisingly consistent convergence of these structures from macrocosm to microcosm, which is not difficult to understand when abstracted into a concept in magic.

The argument between the name and the truth of the school of spells is a bit of the Western idealistic "theory of ideas" or some theories of the Eastern "masters", and as for the power of language creation, it is not unfamiliar to Carl, who is familiar with the principles of computers.

Tokar's predecessor was born in a world of information explosion, and although he did not specialize in various philosophical theories, he had already been involved in novels, movies, games, and other works he saw in daily life, so it was not difficult to understand it at first.

However, although the memory of the earth allowed Carl to quickly understand the concepts of various schools of magic, he was an adult after all, and he was deeply educated by materialist philosophy since he was a child, and he himself had unconsciously developed a set of worldviews in line with materialism.

Although I can understand these idealistic magical philosophies, I can't believe them from the heart.

The philosophy of magic is the embodiment of the core concepts and ways of thinking of a school of magic, if you can't really believe in the worldview of this school from the heart, then it will be difficult to learn the magic of this school, let alone go too high on the road of this school.

"It's a pit, there are twelve schools of magic, why isn't there a school that conforms to the philosophical ideas of materialism!"

After listening to the whole lesson, Carl grasped the core meaning of magic faster than the still ignorant apprentices, but he also became depressed faster than them.

Especially in the next basic class of magic meditation, when a scantily clad ** beauty mage focused on explaining the basic meditation methods belonging to the "Bloodborne School" of the mainstream of the "Crimson Tower" on the podium, Carl was even more depressed.

"I think the instructor from the previous class has explained to you the differences between the twelve schools of magic in the Empire. ”

"Elementals, Stars, Spells, SΓ©ances, Alchemy, Summoning, Sacrifices, Illusions...... The twelve schools have their own characteristics, but none of them are what I want to talk about today. ”

"The reason is simple, because the 'Crimson Tower' belongs to the 'Bloodborne' school among the twelve magic schools, so I will only talk about the meditation basics of the 'Bloodborne' school. ”

"Although the Elementals and Stars are the largest mainstream schools in the Empire today, I would like to tell you that among the twelve magic schools, the oldest, the oldest, the oldest, and the one with the most mystic and magical inheritances is our 'Bloodborne' school. ”

"In the world of magic, there is a widely proclaimed truth, the older the stronger!"

"The history of the 'Bloodborne' school can be traced back to the time of ancient wizards when mankind was still in ignorance, when ancient wizards often extracted the blood of magical creatures and transplanted them into themselves, the first spells belonging to the 'Bloodborne' school were born. ”

"The 'blood source' school was born in the process of sorcerers studying bloodline, at first, it was only the transplantation, heredity, and mutation of bloodline power as the research direction, and it once declined in the era of change when magic replaced witchcraft, but since the great sage Arista systematically sorted out the fundamental model of bloodline inheritance, put forward the "Four Causes Theory" of material cause and form cause, dynamic cause and teleological cause, and extended the theory of bloodline research to the all-round research level of the whole world's spirit and matter. The 'Bloodborne' school officially became one of the foundations of the empire, and it radiated with unparalleled brilliance......"

"It is precisely because of the birth of our 'Bloodsource' school that the bloodline transplantation technology has truly matured, and there is now a warlock bloodline that is widely spread in the empire, and there are also the brilliant achievements that we are far superior to the ancient wizards......

"Our 'bloodborne' philosophy of magic is not as mysterious as other schools, and we will not use a fixed worldview framework to bind the free consciousness of the mage, we don't care about the origin of the universe, we don't care about the end of the universe, we don't care about what the essence of the universe is, we are more pragmatic, we care more about what the universe is composed of those materials and forms, and what we can do with these materials and forms, whether it is blood or magic, it is just a tool for us, a tool to achieve a certain goal!"

β€œ...... According to the great sage Arliste, the world is made up of things that are in harmony with their forms and materials. "Material" is the material of which things are composed, and "form" is the individual characteristics of each thing. It's like having a chicken with its wings fluffing around, and the "form" of this chicken is that it can spread its wings, coo, lay eggs, etc. When the chicken dies, the "form" no longer exists, and the only thing left is the material ...... of the chicken"