Volume I, Chapter 31: The Future of Magic

The flash of inspiration in the theory class did not change the harsh reality that Mick was at the bottom of the class. As a real layman, he lacked too much in terms of war command.

In addition to Elizabeth, a genius girl, who is talented in war theory, several other classmates also have their own unique skills.

Growing up in the military, Daniel the Eavesdropper is a skilled horseman, mastering almost all mounts, riding everything from a small horse to a thunder lizard, and even performing acrobatics on the mount.

Mick struggled for a week and would fall off his horse from time to time, and he was like the difference between a crawling baby and an athlete compared to Daniel.

Bruno, a little peanut with super high intelligence, excels in strategic deduction, and he can almost be invincible in simulated warfare on the magic sand table.

Only when Elizabeth was in a big way, Little Peanut occasionally felt weak, and would deliberately release water to make her win a game with difficulty.

As for Mick, before the magic virtual army in his hand was gone, he never let Little Peanut's battle loss rate exceed 10%.

White Bear Baier is naturally the absolute king of the tactical arrangement class, as a combat hero, he has not only personally led troops to the battlefield, but also is the top figure among them. He has a wealth of experience in tactical command, as well as a masterful method of warfare forged by blood and fire.

He was able to command a 30 per cent win rate over the Capture the Flag, with others not exceeding 10 per cent, with Mick being the most pitiful with a win rate of less than 3 per cent, well below average.

Mick is as thick as a wall, and in general, he is not ashamed of his poor results. But the problem is that all the instructors in the practical classes are insidious mad dog Anderson.

The price of the last place is to tremble under the endless tricks of this old pervert.

In order to stop facing Elizabeth's contemptuous eyes when his underwear suddenly catches fire (Mick has always felt that Elizabeth is laughing at his small capital), not to spit cockroaches while eating, not to be suddenly bitten by a pack of mad dogs when running a 5,000-meter cross-country, and not to meet a mammoth speeding when he comes home from school......

In short, in order to no longer live in the shadow of Anderson every day, Mick decided to study hard and improve every day.

Nearly two weeks into the school year, the only thing Mick could talk about was the magic class.

Prior to this, although Mick had been taught by Master Thomas for a month, Master Thomas's focus was on magic alchemy, and that kind of short-term cramming education method could hardly make Mick's magical foundation form a particularly complete system, let alone a unique magical worldview.

This shortcoming was compensated for in Professor Clemens's "Fundamentals of Magic" class. Lady Clemens is a member of the Storm Council (a magical organization led by the Empire's only Archmage, Storm Archmage Lawrenz), an eighth-level three-line mage who is not only superior in his own right, but also has a reputation for theory.

On the first day of the course, Professor Clemens explained the system of magical powers that Michael had been relatively ignorant: "Magic is actually one of many powers, and like other powers, magic is divided into several levels according to its strength and weakness.

Among them, the first to third levels are low-level magicians, the fourth to sixth levels are intermediate magicians, and the seventh to ninth levels are high-level magicians, and the ninth-level magicians are also known as the great magicians.

After reaching level ten and constructing one's own domain, one enters the threshold of the holy rank and becomes a magister, while reaching level fifteen advances to a legend and becomes a great mage, beyond level twenty, the strength reaches the level of a demigod, and beyond level thirty, it is infinitely close to the lower limit of a god.

Although the brilliance of magic shines on the continent, so far, among all the magicians known in history, only Mr. Kadir has reached the twenty-first level of time traveler, with the strength of a demigod, and the other top magicians can only hover at the legendary level at most, such as the very familiar Storm Walker Master Lorentz.

In addition to dividing strength and weakness, the rank is also directly related to the mage's mana bit.

For example, in general, a first-level mage has only ten first-level mana slots and two second-level mana slots, and can only learn ten different first-level spells and two different second-level spells.

When a mage is promoted to level 2, the original mana slot will be doubled, and then two additional level 3 mana slots will be obtained, which means that a mage at level 2 can learn twenty first-level magic, four second-level magic, two third-level magic, and so on.

Due to the scarcity of magic bits, magicians have to make trade-offs when choosing to learn magic, which also has the division of various magic professions, for example, combat magicians who specialize in combat magic, magic alchemists who specialize in gold magic, and so on.

Therefore, students, if you want to explore the mysteries of magic while fighting, you must work hard to improve your magic level in order to obtain more magic bits.

Alright, that's all for today's lesson, end of class!"

For Mick, a strange person like Mick, who takes divine power as the core and casts magic through power conversion, he doesn't have to worry about the magic bit like an ordinary magician, as long as he has enough divine power and a rich enough magic array, he can cast any magic he wants, which is one of his major advantages.

But there are limitations to this approach. So far, Mick's Power Source One has used a universal magic array to cast magic, which can simulate most common first-level magic reactions, so as to cast various first-level magic that Mick commonly uses.

However, as the level of magic increases, the complexity of the required magic array will increase exponentially, and the most intuitive manifestation is that Power Source No. 1 can only cast four specific second-level magic, as well as the third-level magic of paralyzing lightning.

If he wanted to cast other spells, he would have to crack the magic circle of that magic and then add the newly cracked magic circle to Power Source One.

Although this method is very simple compared to the scarce magic bits, cracking the magic array itself is a very complex system engineering, with Mick's current ability, cracking the most ordinary third-level magic array is already the limit, and he can't do anything about the slightly more complex third-level magic array, and even many fourth- and fifth-level magic arrays he can't even read at all.

What's more, there is a limit to everything, and Power Source No. 1 also has a carrying limit, and it is impossible for him to add magic arrays to it indefinitely.

This problem is gradually becoming the focus of Mick's trouble, and if it is not resolved, it means that Mick's magical potential will become extremely scarce.

After thinking about it, Mick finally turned his attention to Enlucia, and in the current situation, it seems that only the idea of living transformation can solve the two major problems related to Mick's future in one fell swoop.

Thinking of this, Enlucia's delicate body and wonderful taste flashed in his mind, and Mick's heart suddenly became hot, and he immediately packed up his books and hurried back to the gold coins and dreams.