Chapter 105: Three Thoughts
Mao Kai flipped the slides: "We have conducted a series of experiments in the future, and there are many new discoveries. In the following experiment, we tried to observe how mental and magical forces interact......"
Mao Kai went on to introduce several experiments and their findings:
They used the same amount of spiritual power to push the magic crystal and the corresponding residue respectively, recorded their respective speeds, and found that the magic power in the magic crystal had a bonus effect on the spiritual power. Crystals with larger masses move faster.
They found that under the action of a specific catalyst, different attribute magic crystals can be converted into each other, especially spiritual magic crystals can be converted into various types of magic crystals, which further strengthens the speculation that magic itself has no attributes.
They also found that the distribution of mana in space was not uniform, and the magic crystals would further crystallize in places where the mana was dense, and the so-called magic crystal ore was the location where the concentration of mana was very high.
Finally, they also discovered that the reason why the magic circle took effect was that the material used to draw the magic circle contained the substance mana.
Mao Kai's report was very informative, and the audience below recorded while listening, but there were still many people who seemed to understand it.
It took him nearly two hours to finish all the experiments and conclusions briefly, and he finally concluded: "I hope that everyone will pay close attention to cultivation and gradually join us in our work, and after a deep understanding of the nature of magic, whether it is our magic cultivation or the scientific reconstruction of the old world, it will be greatly promoted." For magic, we can get rid of the superstitious content of the mystical and mysterious, improve the level of magic design and the efficiency of spell casting, standardize and scientificize them, and for science, we can combine magic as a substance to create a new situation......"
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After class, Luo Ling found Mao Kai in the office.
Luo Ling looked at his handouts and said, "Xiao Mao, your eloquence has grown a lot recently." The experiments just now were well organized and easy to understand. ”
"Teacher Luo, don't scold me. I'm also in your absence, driving ducks to the shelves and forcing them out. I was barely able to explain one thing clearly, but it was so boring that I knew that they didn't like to listen to me. Mao Kai scratched his head and said, "What I'm good at is doing research, and I still have to come to class." ”
"If I say anything, I may soon have to leave here for the royal capital. So, you still have to hold on to this position. ”
"Huh, why are you leaving?"
"Time is running out, research is like this, and the situation in the outside world is not like this. Luo Ling sighed slightly, "By the way, when I was listening to your report just now, I found that magic has no attributes, which is actually a very interesting thing."
"What do you think, Mr. Luo?"
"Three less mature ideas come to mind. ”
"You say, I'm listening. ”
Luo Ling snapped his fingers and said, "First, since magic power is attributeless, the attributes they obtain when they crystallize depend on the surrounding elements, right?"
"It should be like this, the magic crystal mine you found is surrounded by copper ore, so the magic crystal does contain a lot of copper. ”
"In other words, if we divide the area in the Magic Crystal Mine and put in different types of compounds, we can produce different Magic Crystals in the same mine, right?"
"This ...... It's a really valuable idea. We haven't thought in those directions yet, but based on my analysis and inference, it should be very feasible. The difficulty lies in slowly figuring out the catalysts for different magic crystals. However, there are many records of the experience of magicians and alchemists using magic crystals in a lot of spell literature, and we should be able to find a lot of ready-made methods from them, and we can slowly try and improve the remaining inaccurate records. ”
"Well, that's your business. The second point that comes to mind is that the traditional magic teaching in this world mentions the issue of magical affinity. That is, everyone is good at different types of magic. ”
"Well, there is indeed this phenomenon, for example, you are good at ice magic in elemental magic, and I am good at transformation magic. ”
"I'm not good at ice, it's just that it's cold when casting spells, so I don't vomit blood easily. Luo Ling smiled, "But if the magic power is attributeless, and the spiritual power only deals with the magic power, not the elements themselves, why are we biased in casting spells?"
"This ...... It's really weird. ”
"I have the assumption that every magician doesn't have elements that he or she is not good at, but rather that there are magical structures that he is not good at. However, in all kinds of magic, there are always some similar structures that are constantly being used, and some people are easy to understand this structure, and some people are easy to understand that structure, which gives people the illusion that the magician has an affinity bias.
After the mage has mastered these structures, it is easy and quick to master this series of magic. This gap will widen, causing mages to work on unfamiliar categories, and eventually learning magic from other departments becomes an uneconomical option. ”
"If you're right, then many cultivation methods based on magic affinity are wrong, such as water mages mostly soak in water, and fire mages stay in hot places...... They should perhaps spend more time building blocks and exercising their spatial imagination skills. However, this inference needs to be slowly verified. ”
Luo nodded, picked up the last finger and said, "I also have an idea about magic runes, since magic power is attributeless, then the reason why magic runes take effect is their structure." However, I don't think there's a natural logic to the effect of a character that resembles a seal script and a certain magical element. It's more like someone has made a provision for this. For example, if we agree that one represents the chicken, the second represents the duck, the third represents the roast, and the fourth represents the food, we can use one to four to indicate what to eat for dinner.
Therefore, runes are just a tool for manipulating magic, and they are not unique and irreplaceable. When we study the properties of magic and elemental bonding, it is not impossible to directly mobilize magic. ”
"That's right, from the perspective of the entire system, any runes and magic arrays consume energy. If you can directly mobilize the elements, I estimate that both the efficiency and power of magic may be higher.
Mr. Luo, when you listen to my report casually, it's like thinking of so many good ideas. In this school, I'll obey you. Mao Kai praised with admiration.
"Stop! Young people should learn well, and learn less from those old guys!" Luo Ling scolded with a smile, "I'll leave all my ideas to you, you can refer to them slowly." I'm really happy to see you guys produce so much today, you don't know how hard it is for us to hold on to the scene with a little bit of strength outside.
Now I believe that we have people like you, and we will not lose to those magic towers in the future. ”