Chapter 39 When the water is full, it overflows
After sending off Master Patrick with a smile, Li Xuan has been thinking about a few questions about communicating with Patrick.
Patrick bluntly talked about his bottleneck in water magic, as well as the "prayer technique" that he had not mastered, and after thinking for a while, Li Xuan finally talked to him about many of his own suggestions, which made Patrick very happy.
Li Xuan felt that the reason why Patrick was stuck in the intermediate water magic specialization and couldn't step into the advanced water magic specialization was actually very simple, he didn't have a deeper level of contact with the water element. Pisford used to be in the water magic mastery, and there didn't seem to be a bottleneck, and every time he was promoted, he crossed over smoothly, and it felt like it was a matter of course.
Findron, the former elemental capital, is a magical city-state with very dense magic elements, no matter what magic you want to learn, as long as you drill into the magic academy, you can quickly master it, but Findrun's magic academy only teaches elementary magic masters, and intermediate magic masters, and high-level magic masters, are not a big problem for many elemental mages, and Findrunn has many magic element altars, which can correspond to feel the magic elements. For example, the Water Element Altar, after mastering the primary water system mastery, staying in the Water Element Altar for a period of time, will slowly feel more water elements, and the degree of perception will become deeper and deeper, and to the extent that you can command the water elements like an arm, it means that a new high-level water system magic is born.
Li Xuan's first advice to Patrick was to stay in places with many water elements, such as at sea, by rivers, or in lakes.
Then swim more and dive more. Although Patrick was stunned for a moment when he heard these suggestions, but at the same time, he also made Patrick feel that these suggestions that Li Xuan had said were very reasonable, and before this, many mages who had communicated with him had made similar suggestions, but they were not as easy to understand as Li Xuan.
And the casting of the "Prayer Technique", Patrick was still thinking about what Li Xuan said.
"Every high-level magic has its own special spell casting obstacles and spell casting difficulty factors, and the casting of 'prayer' requires a very important prerequisite, which is to empty yourself of many superfluous thoughts, which will distract you when casting 'prayer', and once distracted, it is easy to fail in casting. Li Xuan's words, Patrick only understood a little, but what Li Xuan did later made Patrick completely understand why he had never mastered the "prayer technique"
Li Xuan said to him, "You come with me, and I'll make a small demonstration to tell you." Then he led Patrick to the kitchen of the manor, where he took two glasses of the same size, and a jug of water with water and placed them on the table, and although Patrick did not know what he was going to do, he looked at him earnestly.
Then Li Xuan said to him, "Master Patrick, as you can see, this is a water cup, now, let's pour some water into the water cup, like this, pour a little bit of water. Li Xuan said, picked up the kettle and poured some water into the water cup, and the water was poured to a quarter of the way and stopped.
"A lot of what we learn, a lot of things that we face, a lot of complicated thoughts and thoughts of all kinds are like these waters, and the cup is like our head. Li Xuan said slowly.
Then, Li Xuan picked up another cup of the same size, filled it with water, and then said to Patrick: "Then this cup of water is like the concentration and difficulty factor required to cast the 'prayer technique'. ”
Patrick didn't speak, just listened quietly to what Li Xuan said.
"The process of our 'prayer' spell, then, is like pouring this water into our heads. Li Xuan slowly poured the cup filled with water into the cup with less water.
Li Xuan poured the water very slowly, and asked Patrick while pouring the water, "Master Patrick, what do you see?"
Not knowing what he was trying to say, Patrick said, "I saw water poured from one cup to another. ”
Li Xuan smiled and said to him, "Master Patrick, you are right, water is poured from one cup to another, this is like the process of casting a spell, we are slowly chanting spells and mobilizing magic power. Li Xuan said slowly, the action of pouring water in his hand did not stop, and he still slowly poured water into the water cup.
"But it doesn't seem to have anything to do with spellcasting, Master Li Xuan. Patrick opened his mouth and looked at Li Xuan suspiciously.
Li Xuan smiled and didn't speak, and continued to pour water into the water cup, and the water quickly filled up little by little, and finally overflowed the cup, and the water that was full flowed everywhere from the cup.
"The water is full, Master Li Xuan. Patrick opened his mouth to remind Li Xuan.
But Li Xuan didn't pay attention to Patrick's reminder, but still slowly continued to pour, allowing the full water to flow so that the table was full of water stains.
"The water is full, Master Li Xuan. Patrick reminded again.
Li Xuan slowly drained all the water in the cup before he said to Patrick, "You're right, Master Patrick, the water is full, and the spell has failed." ”
When Patrick heard Li Xuan say "failed to cast a spell", it was like a heavy hammer hitting his heart, Patrick instantly understood a lot of things, and he seemed to suddenly understand why he had been unable to cast a spell "Prayer Technique" all along.
"So now, swap the two cups, this empty space with water poured out is that we have emptied our heads, this cup full of water is still the casting focus and difficulty of the 'Prayer Technique', let's try again. Li Xuan said, slowly pouring the cup full of water into the empty cup, this time Li Xuan poured quickly, the water was quickly poured into the empty cup, and the empty cup was quickly full, but this time, the water cup did not overflow excess water.
"Look, Master Patrick, we drained the excess water in our heads, and then the spell was successful. Li Xuan pointed to the two cups and said.
After listening to Li Xuan's words, Patrick felt a sudden enlightenment in his heart, and the fog that had blocked his eyes from hindering his casting spell was swept away, as Li Xuan said, he had too much water in his head, as long as he poured out the water in his head, the magic of "prayer" would definitely be able to cast his spell.
For Patrick, this demonstration of Li Xuanyan's teaching was worth far more than 300,000 gold coins.
Patrick slowly looked at Li Xuan, slowly bent down, and bowed. With a serious and serious expression, he said to Li Xuan, "I understand, Master Li Xuan, thank you." ”