Ethan has mentioned it more than once in the books he currently has. Magicians must be cautious when absorbing energy for the first time and transforming it into magic that they can drive, especially when it comes to the choice of energy, and never make decisions casually.

For example, elemental energy, generally speaking, a mage who is just starting out must choose a certain element, and this energy will not only bring the mage a better control over the element, but also affect the mage himself.

Spiritual power is assimilated in reverse, and the attributes with some of these energies are quite light, such as extreme energy such as evil energy, which will even affect the mage's personality and thinking, and after a long time, it will even completely become another person.

This is why for mages, all energy can be used as magic, but most mages are very taboo about some extreme powers.

Ethan initially set his goal on water element energy, except that the first magic he learned was water creation (however, water creation did not use the magic of the water element, it was simply the application of spiritual power, strictly speaking, it was not water attribute magic), the most important reason was that the Sea of Calm was a world full of water, and water magic could be greatly strengthened in this environment.

At the same time, the ice variant of the water attribute is also extremely versatile - and it is handsome enough to use!

Of course, for a real magician, it's not like in the game, after choosing a certain elemental energy as your own magic, you can't use other magic other than that element, but relatively speaking, the speed of magic and the consumption of energy will vary according to the conflict between the nature of your magic and your own magic.

Relatively speaking, a pure elemental mage who uses water elemental energy as the basis for magic will be more or less effective in using fire-attribute magic.

Of course, there are many mages like Issandra who are proficient in the three elements, but either they have completely mastered the elemental energy and contain more than one elemental energy in their own magic, or they use another energy as the basis of their own magic, and this energy is extremely malleable and can be transformed at will - such as arcane energy.

"If I'm not mistaken, you originally wanted to absorb the energy of the water elemental and start your path as a mage from the mastery of elemental attributes. ”

In fact, in the world of magicians, there are far less miscellaneous classifications, there is no difference between what elementals, arcane masters, and even the blue stripe system of the magic net system, and the real great magicians will not let themselves have shortcomings in magic knowledge at all, they know almost all the relevant knowledge, and they can 'freely switch between the casting method and the attributes of their own magic power'.

But on the path of pursuing this goal, the influence of magical attributes on the mage will determine how long he walks on this path, and even determine where a mage ends.

"Yes. ”

Ethan had been staying here for two days, and during these two days, Merlin did not teach, but tested Ethan's abilities in an all-round way, and only now did he begin to prepare to teach.

"Actually, there is nothing wrong with your choice, and if I were in your situation, I would probably have made such a decision. Merlin pondered his words: "But if I have a path that suits you well, but is more difficult to walk, but which will be immensely great, then would you be interested?"

Ethan was a little confused, because Merlin was saying it too generally.

"Huge achievement, how huge?"

Merlin thought about it, maybe he was choosing a reference that Ethan could understand clearly, and finally thought about it and compared it with himself.

"I don't know how strong it will be in the end, it's up to you and nothing else...... But if you can firmly follow this path, then your final achievements will not be lower than that of me now. ”

Ethan's heartbeat was uncontrollably faster, but fortunately, he was also a person who had seen the 'big world', and after a moment of effort, he had regained his composure, and he did not lose his temper in front of Merlin.

"Able to observe the endless planes, and be able to break the barriers of the planes, and even have the strength to completely destroy a plane?"

The first point Ethan is sure that Merlin can do it;The second point is also very likely! As for destroying a plane, this is hard to say, but the most conservative estimate is that it should not be difficult for Merlin to destroy a planet - the ancient one who protects the earth from being invaded by the multiverse, if she lets go of her hands and feet, the earth is estimated to be not enough for her to toss.

This is not to say that these two mages can shatter the world with a single punch or a forbidden spell, but that these two mages have countless means of hole cards. For example, the Ancient One, if she is willing to plunge into the darkness and release Dormammu......

This is the horror of mages, no one knows what they can do or even do, and this unknown is also one of the reasons why people are afraid and fearful.

Ethan also wanted to be such a mage, so he was interested in the path that Merlin proposed.

"You should know that mages are a group of people based on powerful spiritual power, manipulating energy and then achieving their own goals, whether it is fireball magic or higher magic, this is essentially the case. ”

Ethan nodded, waiting for the rest of the story.

"Therefore, spiritual power is the foundation of mages, and the improvement of spiritual power means that more energy can be controlled, which is equivalent to being able to cast more powerful magic and achieve higher goals. ”

Ethan is not qualified for mental power, so he has been working hard to cultivate and improve his spiritual power, and since the moment the space-time pointer appeared, he has more or less exercised his spiritual power, and he has practiced for more than seven years before he has his current level - the last point is still one point away from being able to get started and become a mage.

"Actually, the power of the spirit is not only able to allow the mage to use more energy, but also has more benefits. ”

As the foundation of the mages, the importance of spiritual power is naturally unquestionable, and the degree of research and prudence of the mages on spiritual power is beyond Ethan's previous imagination.

On the other hand, the 'secrets' of spiritual power have also been studied a lot by mages, and Merlin, as a top magician, has reached a considerable level of understanding of spiritual power.

"In addition to the control of energy, the strength of your mental power also determines the primacy between you and magic. ”

"What does that mean?"

Merlin explained in detail, and Ethan understood. The relationship between a mage and magical energy is not a simple master-slave relationship.

To put it simply, when a magician improves his mental power, he must also be able to figure out his 'limit' and avoid absorbing too much magical energy and being invaded by the energy in turn.

For example, Ethan had read in the book before, the energy absorbed by the sorcerer's spirit was in turn 'polluted' as the mildest symptom, and the most serious was the personality affected.

For example, some fire attribute mages began to become irritable after cultivating to a certain level, and that was because they ingested fire elemental energy beyond their control.

"For example, if the spiritual power is one, then these spiritual powers can perfectly control ten units of mana, so once it exceeds this value, there will be danger. "Of course, this is not absolute, the amount of spiritual power can be the same, but the quality is different, so Merlin said this just for easy understanding.

When Ethan heard this, he seemed to understand what Merlin meant: "You mean, let me continue to focus on cultivating spiritual power, instead of absorbing energy early to transform it into magical power?"

Merlin smiled and directly shook his head to deny Ethan's speculation: "Actually, the path I suggest you take requires you not to take in external energy to transform it into magic. ”

Ethan was stunned, completely unable to guess what kind of path Merlin had designed for himself.

"You should know that in addition to absorbing external energy, mages themselves can also give birth to magical power. ”

Shaking his head, Ethan hadn't touched on this yet, but according to the introduction in the books he read, after the mages ingested and transformed energy into magic power, and then consumed their own stored magic power, in addition to absorbing the same attribute energy from the outside world again, they could indeed recover the consumption by themselves.

From this, it can be seen that mages themselves are capable of generating magical powers.

"The magic generated by the mages themselves is different from the energy absorbed by the outside world, and has stronger plasticity, and can even be said to be the purest kind of magical energy, and its plasticity is the strongest. ”

Merlin sighed helplessly when he said this: "It's a pity that when many mages notice this, their own spiritual power has been more or less polluted by external energy, and the magic attribute bred in this case will inevitably approach the energy attribute he absorbed before." The exact amount depends on the degree to which the mage's spirit is polluted. ”

It is for this reason that the mages refer to the invasion of their own spiritual power by external energy as 'pollution'. Mages have many different ways of coping with this situation. But no matter how they deal with it, it will make them waste more time and energy before they reach the finish line.

When Ethan heard this, he took a good professional lesson, remembering his previous decision, with his own spiritual power, it was almost inevitable that he would be polluted by water attribute energy, not to mention that he wanted to learn to absorb other attribute energy in the future, just after his mental power was polluted, there was a risk that his control over space-time energy would decline - no, it should definitely decline.

Ethan, who suddenly realized that he had avoided a difficulty, gradually understood the path Merlin wanted to take on his own.

"The path you arranged for me is to continue to focus on cultivating spiritual power, and then completely rely on your own spiritual power to nurture magical energy?"

Merlin smiled and nodded, Ethan guessed correctly this time, he did suggest that Ethan take this path.

It's just that this path is countless times more difficult than the ordinary mage's path, especially in the early days, and the inability to use almost any magic will make Ethan not much stronger than ordinary people. So, he felt that Ethan might need a while to think carefully before deciding whether he wanted to go down this path.

Unexpectedly, Ethan made a decision far faster than he imagined, and gave him the answer on the spot.

"Don't think about it, I'll take this path. ”