Chapter Twenty-Six: The So-Called Magic
"Look,"
Master Victor looks like I knew it.
"Everyone in this world knows that spiritual power is very important and is the most important attribute of a spellcaster, but few people can figure it out."
"In fact, in this world, the more basic things are, the more simple and direct they are, there is no need to think about them too complicated, what is mental power, your brain is spiritual power, what you usually remember in your brain, you are using mental power, and you usually calculate how many coins you have, you are also using mental power, and spiritual power is not so ethereal."
"As alchemists, not mages, there is no need to make this thing too complicated."
"In fact, while we are learning alchemy, we are also exercising our spiritual power, and we are tempering it every day, and the purpose of science is to make everything simpler, not more complicated."
"Everyone has their own interpretation of psychic power, and it is important that how you understand psychic power is tied to your understanding of the nature of magic.
So, if you ask me, I'll tell you, yes, an alchemy apprentice doesn't need to specialize in mental strength. In the long process of learning in the future, you will find a reasonable understanding of yourself. ”
"Then you will also find out what is the difference between a mage and an alchemist......"
Victor's meaningful words flowed slowly through Arthur's heart.
Although it does not directly explain what spiritual power is, it has already made it clear that the attitude that an alchemist should maintain.
Obviously, in the eyes of Master Victor, he did not approve of his disciples attaching so much importance to the exercise of spiritual power.
So, what exactly is the difference between an alchemy apprentice and a mage?
Arthur's mind sank into the "Victor's Book of Apprentices" in his hand, just as he sank into his own sea of consciousness and looked for the secret book of the opening in his own sea of consciousness, and opened it in his imagination to find the answer in the book.
Boom, sure enough, it's like entering your own thinking space, and Victor's Book of Apprentices is also a space that is very similar to the sea of consciousness.
In the sea of consciousness, the memories of the combination of words, language and images trickled through like a stream and entered his mind.
It took a long time for Arthur to wake up from it.
Unexpectedly, it turned out to be like this.
It turns out that the principle of the magician's spell casting is like this.
He had just browsed through the Book of Apprentices, about mages casting spells.
It is described in the Book of Apprentices.
There is an omnipresent magic net in this world, which rules this world and constricts all the free magical elements of this world to the magic web.
The mages need to establish an effective spell model when casting spells, they must first fully define and explain their spell configurations, and then submit them to the magic net, and then after the magic net passes, they can call the magic power of the magic net, build magic according to their own spell model, and finally release it.
In other words, the magic elements of this world are not directly controlled by the mage, and the magic net is also needed as a medium between the mage and the elemental magic.
That's why mages need to be connected to the web in order to cast spells.
The magic net is layered, each layer is different, like an artificial selector, and the higher the spiritual power of the mages, the stronger the analytical power, in order to go deeper into the deep magic web, so that the more magic they can call, the more complex the construction of the spell model, and the greater the power of that kind of magic cast.
In the end, the power can even be overturned, omnipotent, high-level and even legendary-level mages are comparable to the gods, of course, the complexity of the spell model of that level is not something that ordinary spiritual power mages can bear.
Arthur had heard of the web before, but he had never seen one so clearly describe the principles of a mage's casting.
In this way, the magic web was established by the goddess of magic, and the mages are controlled by the magic web, and therefore certainly by the gods, which is not good news for the mages who are walking on the arcane path.
But alchemists are different.
Alchemy generally does not deal directly with the magic web.
They deal with magic tools, and the driving force of magic tools is the natural crystals of the magic elements, magic crystals, magic cores, all such similar objects that contain magic in themselves. They are just using magic runes and various magical materials to re-release the magic that was originally bound to these objects.
In this way, the constraints of the magic net are relatively small.
Mages are bound by the gods, and alchemists are limited only by your level of knowledge and level, Arthur couldn't help but think of a famous quote that no one had ever said to him.
In this way, the future of alchemy is indeed more ambitious than that of mages on the path to understanding the true arcane. Because they have direct contact with the lowest level of the wizarding world, they are not limited by the magic web, and they have a deeper understanding of this world than the mage.
It's just that Arthur retorted powerlessly in his heart, although other mages have taken the wrong path, but they are handsome like that!
Rubbing fireballs with bare hands, and with a wave of the staff, you can attract wind, rain, thunder and lightning, no matter how you look at it, you are more handsome than an alchemist who needs to carry a lot of pots and pans!
You know, appearance is also competitiveness!
Maybe it's because of this that ordinary people think that mages are better than other spellcasters?
Why can't an alchemy apprentice be as handsome as a mage apprentice? It's not fair.
Of course this is a joke.
The Book of Victor's Apprentices is indeed very useful, and this combination of words and images makes Arthur's learning astonishingly efficient, far more efficient than the parchment and expensive paper that are common in this world.
Of course, while learning magic knowledge, Arthur did not forget to race against time to make up his knowledge of other sciences, such as linguistics and other basic knowledge, continental geography, religion, history, energetics, speciesology, materials science (magic), etc., the more Arthur felt that the entire alchemy system was broad and profound, and it seemed that it was not inferior to the modern scientific system of the entire earth.
In particular, there are several professional basic subjects of alchemy: astral projection, plane geometry, energy geometry, and basic runic literature, which are even more different from the disciplines outside the earth science system, and they read like heavenly books.
Fortunately, Arthur had also practiced after all, gritted his teeth and took out the spirit of gnawing books in the college entrance examination that year, and studied hard day and night.
Unconsciously, more than half a month passed, and Arthur finally had some ideas.
On this day, he took out a magic staff, which he had summoned from the warehouse in his capacity as a disciple of Master Victor.
The staff is small, only half a foot long, the thickness of a little finger, it looks like a fountain pen in Arthur's memory, and the material of the staff is like the lowest level of oak branches, which is basically the most basic material used to make the staff in the magic material. The tip of the staff is just a lowest-grade ordinary magic crystal.
The surface is gray and inconspicuous.
If he took out this staff, it would definitely not be suitable for him to be a disciple of Master Victor Arthur now.
But Arthur didn't take the staff for himself.
He took the staff in his hand and posed, feeling stupid.
Then the color is correct, and the mind is poured into the staff in the hand.
Illumination!