In the following month, Constantine was once again in the same hectic phase as he had been when he first entered the school semester.

Julils at least had the leisure to go for a walk by the lake, but he was busy parsing incantations in his study, Rommel had nothing to do but walk around, and by the way, he was busy parsing incantations in the library, Heine was huddled under the covers and happily flipping through the tome, he squatted in the toilet to parse incantations, Euler...... Well, that madman doesn't mention it.

He knew all the twenty-seven incantations by heart, but it was an extremely cumbersome and difficult task to reduce them all to four syllables, and each incantation was the result of the wisdom of the mages of the ages, and it was not easy to change them into other syllables.

He had to turn to his roommates for help, but Euler's answer was ......

"You don't need to change it at all, you just have to cut it. Euler said lightly.

"Magic spells are nothing more than a standard ritual, a set of popular procedures, which look at the whole and allow each user to cast a certain spell through it. However, each individual's situation is different, and the strength of mental strength and directivity will have an impact. ”

"If you're mentally strong enough and sensitive enough to a certain type of magic, you can ignore the scales in many spells. ”

"It's like a mathematical function. Euler took out a piece of paper and quickly drew a series of complex numeric symbols on it, "I can use Taylor's formula to expand this function into an approximate expression composed of countless simple functions, but in most operations, I only need to expand to one or two to suffice, and there is no need to write all the following equations." ”

Seeing the long list of formulas, Constantine was a little big, "You mean, when I cast a spell, I just need to recite the part of the spell that is most important to me?"

"Theoretically, in fact, most of the magic spells we see are derived from ancient Elvish languages, which are equivalent to the most primitive versions of functions. ”

"The mages of the Middle Ages had great difficulty in converting the ancient elven language into a spell suitable for human chanting, and the human magic was incompatible with the ancient elven language system, so they had to invent a large number of syllables and words to simulate, causing the vibration of spiritual power, and approximately achieving the same spell casting effect, in the process, they established the modern magic language system, which is where the spell comes from." ”

"The advantage of this system is that it ensures that every mage can cast spells with the help of this standardized program, but the disadvantage is that the mental power is different between mages, and for mages with strong mental power, many redundant syllables will greatly reduce the efficiency of spellcasting. ”

Euler's words woke up Constantine.

After repeated testing, Constantine found that it was true that many of the syllables in the spell could be completely ignored by himself, and although the effect of the spell was slightly different from the description in the book, the casting speed was greatly increased.

It was then that he understood the meaning of Joey's words.

Many mages are accustomed to the early training in spells, and unconsciously form a conditioned reflex to recite all the spells, but fundamentally ignore the true meaning of the spell to the mage.

He couldn't help but think about it, the magic language of humans was derived from the ancient elven language and the dragon script, so where did the spells of those races come from in the early Middle Ages?

Then, after weeks of hard work, he finally succeeded in reducing the spells in the parchment to less than four syllables, even though he was still some way from being able to use them.

But his training didn't end there.

In the room on the fifth floor of the Mage Tower, Joey placed a chessboard on the table, on which were placed black and white chess pieces symbolizing different professions such as emperor, queen, knight, mage, swordsman, priest, etc., which was the most popular Paladin war chess in the Icadia continent, named after Paladin, one of the six epic heroes.

Constantine looked at this chessboard, which looked like an ordinary one, and was a little curious, "Master, are you going to let me play chess with you next? This doesn't seem to have anything to do with magical practice?"

Constantine touched the white piece facing him with his hand and found that the piece was not moving.

"Little one, none of the pieces on this board are manipulated by hand. Joey pressed his finger on the top of the black [Swordsman] head, "This chessboard was specially designed for magicians by the former sages of the World Tree Council, and you can only use the chess pieces on it through mental power." ”

Joey clicked on the [Swordsman] chess piece, and the black chess piece, which symbolizes the sword wielder, automatically moved forward one square.

Constantine tried to inject a wisp of spiritual power into the [Mage] chess piece, and the [Mage] followed the rules of the war game, and under his order, jumped forward a square, and went straight to the [Swordsman] who committed the attack.

"That's it?" Constantine glanced at the chessboard, the rules of Paladin were not complicated, he had also played a few games with Heine during the year of the Royal Academy, and he was already very familiar with this game.

It's just that the difference between controlling by hand and controlling with mental power doesn't seem to be much.

"Huh. Joey stroked his beard and chuckled, "I forgot to tell you that there is a second important rule on this chessboard, for every piece lost, it takes twice as much mental power to move the next piece as the previous one." ”

"What?"

Joey didn't answer, but waved his hand slightly, and the chariot burst out of the phalanx of black chess pieces, squeezing the mage off the chessboard.

Constantine hurriedly dispatched his troops, and he injected spiritual power into his white chess pieces. At this time, he realized that if he wanted to send these white chess pieces, as Joey said, it would take about twice as much mental power as when he moved the first chess piece.

He suddenly understood the intention of the board designer, this game not only tests the chess skills of the mage, but also the strength of the mental power. Otherwise, before you can take a few steps, your mental power will be exhausted, and no matter how rich your skills and experience are, it will be meaningless.

Obviously, it is impossible for him to outperform a magus in terms of mental power, so he must gain enough advantage on the chessboard to consume Joey's mental power in turn.

With this in mind, he began to carefully formulate countermeasures.

Joey was not in a hurry, and waited patiently for the little guy to take the next step, so he moved the next piece without hurrying.

As the minutes passed, the two sides went back and forth in the war chess, and the number of chess pieces out of the game became more and more.

When the third white piece fell off the board, Constantine frowned.

When the fourth white chess piece was eaten, a bead of sweat had already appeared on the boy's forehead.

When the sixth piece fell to the outside of the board, Constantine felt that his mind began to fall into chaos, his eyes were in a trance, his hair was completely wet with sweat, and his face became extremely pale.

The light chess pieces in front of him, in his consciousness, were as heavy as white peaks, and no matter how he gave orders, the white chess pieces did not move.

The black side also lost four pieces, but Joey looked much more relaxed than the boy, and his face did not show any tiredness, but still looked bright.

Joey picked up a chess piece unhurriedly, and the [Priest] wearing the black priest's robe moved silently, eating a [Swordsman] on Constantine's side, and then, a black chess piece that should have died --- [Chariot] returned to its original position.

This is the special feature of the Priest's chess piece, every time it captures an opponent's piece, it can selectively resurrect one of its own pieces except for the king.

On this chessboard, one more chess piece consumes completely different mental power.

Constantine fought hard, glanced around the battle situation, and a wry smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, "I lost." ”

If you look at the chessboard at this time from the perspective of ordinary people, you will find that although white has a slight advantage, it is far from the point where the general trend has gone.

But Constantine knew that he had already lost, and his mental strength was no longer enough to support him to move any of his pawns.

On the invisible battlefield of spiritual power, he has been completely defeated.