After a lot of talking, the old mage finally talked about what he cared about - the legendary mage Finn was a pioneer in the systematic study of the nature of magic, and Oshiel stood on the shoulders of his predecessors to continue his exploration, and naturally had reverence for the great forerunner. In addition to his endless experiments, O'Shir's only hobby www.biquge.info was collecting all of Finn's or other contemporaries related to magical research.

Roy learned this from Catherine's mouth, and he was ready to target.

"It's Finn's handwritten note, which I stumbled upon while visiting an auction house. Roy took out an old notebook and put it on the table and pushed it to the other party, without this thing, she probably wouldn't even be able to enter the door today: "There are several important conjectures of Finn, but no one of them, or the latest version of the magic textbook, can perfectly explain a problem: why does carving a magic text on a whole piece of magic matter not produce any magic effect, but using a small amount of magic dust to outline a magic text on an anti-magic substance can easily form a magic flow and produce an effect?"

"Good question. Oshier took the small notebook in the girl's hand with both hands, and after flipping through a few pages, he quickly confirmed that it was genuine, and his eyes shone with joy: "You have doubts about the content of the textbook, which means that you have begun to really think about the nature of the magic script. In the face of a practical subject, it is not enough to think with our brains, we also need to learn and practice. I've been bothered by this question for a long time, but not long ago, I was finally able to conduct a large-scale experiment to figure it out. ”

"Large-scale experiments. Roy's eyes widened, staring at the other man.

"If nothing else, the results of this experiment will be announced in a few months and compiled into the first chapter of the Empire's new magic textbook, but here, I don't mind introducing you in advance. O'Hill said with a little pride that it was hard not to be proud of his indifferent fame and fortune to make a breakthrough discovery in the field he had devoted his life to: "Let me ask you first, what is the essence of the spell?"

"Through sonic vibrations, it resonates with the flow of mana in the body to assist in spells or enhance their effects. ”

"Yes, it's the pronunciation that works on spells, and humans invented language and writing long before they could use magic. So we can see that spells are meaningless strings written in different languages around the world, but spells that are similar to spells are pronounced close to each other. Oshier nodded, carefully closed the small notebook in his hand, and put it on the table next to him: "So what does the magic text do? Many colleagues I know say that you are very smart, and you can understand a little." ”

The other party deliberately mentioned the spell first, and Roy quickly understood what the other party meant after a little thought: "The spell works on the pronunciation, so the pronunciation of the spell is similar no matter what civilization it is." Approximately, no matter what culture it is, the magic script with the same effect is written in the same way, so the magic script works in its own shape,"

It was easy to deduce this conclusion, so it was assumed that it was the shape of the demonic script, or more precisely, the magic stored in the demonic object. But this theory doesn't explain the question you're asking: why doesn't it work to write magic on the surface of anti-magic matter? ”

"That's what bothered me, that your experiment overturned the old idea? ”

"Design a comparative experiment. Oshiel spat out a word that was rarely heard: "The magic text written on the surface of the anti-magic matter will fail, but if you use different strengths of magic matter to write the magic text on the surface of the anti-magic matter at different levels of magic suppression, will it completely fail?" My team and I used dozens or hundreds of materials to pair each other and conduct a huge number of tests. ”

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Everything in the world can be divided into two categories, demonic substances and demonic substances. Those that contain magic power that are denser than air are called demonic substances, and vice versa are demonic substances, and most of the substances have extremely low degrees of demonic or demonic suppression, such as steel and granite, one belongs to weak demonic substances and the other belongs to weak demonic substances, but in the eyes of the public, both have nothing to do with magic, and only strong demonic or demonic substances such as magic crystals and anti-magical substances have practical uses in the use of magic.

"Ah, this ......" Roy suddenly remembered something, and opened his mouth in shock.

"Do you feel like you've seen a similar train of thought somewhere?" O'Hir smiled slyly and winked at the girl, "It's not your delusion, Finn had this idea hundreds of years ago, but it's a pity that he can't afford to carry out this experiment." It is only today that I have been able to put it into practice with the support of the empire's vast financial, material and human resources. Magical or anti-magical substances, which were more expensive than gold, became expendable in the experiment, and countless magicians and even archmagicians who could have been clerics or lords worked in this experiment day after day, and finally, a simple conjecture was confirmed. ”

"It's amazing, if it doesn't involve confidentiality, it can ...... Tell me more about it. This time it was a sincere admiration, not a compliment with an almost meaning.

"Tell me more, you're going to spend the night with me today...... Then I'm afraid my mage tower will be demolished tomorrow by your fanatical suitors. Oshier made a joke and continued: "Let's show you the results directly, after a lot of experiments, we have summed up three rules, well, go directly to the last page, there is no need to read the previous ones." ”

Roy took the large pile of thick, bound paper, and turned to the last page with anticipation, finding the scribbled word "result."

【Result:

1. Engraving the magic text on the surface of the demon substance, the magic text will not have a magic reaction under any circumstances.

2. The magic text carved on the surface of the weak magic suppression material can detect the weak magic text effect by using sensitive magic equipment.

3. The results of scribbling the magic text are more complicated, but they can be divided into three situations: when the magic text is scribbled with the demon suppression material or the magic text is scribbled on the surface of the strong shun magic material with the weak shun magic material, the magic text does not have any magic reaction; when the magic text is scribbled on the surface of the weak shun magic material with the strong shun magic material, the weaker the degree of the demon inscription of the carrier, the stronger the magic text effect; when the magic text is scribbled on the surface of the magic suppression material with the strong shun magic material, the weaker the degree of demon suppression of the carrier, the stronger the magic text effect. 】

[Conclusion: The magic text has the effect of a stream of mana that runs along its shape, not the shape itself.]

The student was dumbfounded and didn't see how this conclusion came to be reached. Roy frowned, she knew every word of the two paragraphs, but the connection between the two paragraphs was incomprehensible.

"It's not that we draw conclusions, but that our experiments disprove all theories except this conjecture. The original researchers believed that the shape of the script worked, but after realizing that not everything could be used to write the script, they added to it, believing that the script worked because of the magic power that existed in it. This view has been used for hundreds of years to explain many of the phenomena of the Demonic Text, but as they have been studied further, modern Magicians have discovered that this theory cannot explain why the Demonic Script fails when it is close to a strong demonic suppressor. Oshier stroked Finn's notes on the table lovingly, and continued to introduce with smugness: "Have you ever been in contact with strong demonic substances, they are commonly known as anti-magic materials, although the name is very domineering, we know that anti-magic substances are not really anti-magic, it never destroys magic, but only disturbs the flow of magic around it." ”

"That's true...... Therefore, if the magic text works on a flow of magic that runs according to its shape, then it will indeed weaken its effect when it is close to the demonic suppression substance!" The girl suddenly realized: "This conclusion can explain the first and third results...... And what about the second one. ”

"Because the air itself also contains magical power, when the magic text is engraved on the surface of the demon suppression material, a natural air magic text is formed, as long as the magic suppression substance can not completely suppress the flow of magic in the air, the air magic text will also have a weak effect, but it is really weak, so weak that it can only be detected, and it cannot play any practical role. ”

"Ah, yes, I forgot that air itself contains magic. Roy said excitedly: "Then, all doubts can be explained, the magic text works by relying on the flow of magic that runs along it, if the magic power in the magic text cannot flow, the magic text will be invalid!"

"The history of human use of magic is only more than a thousand years, and the study of the nature of magic is still extremely superficial, I dare not say that this explanation is the truth, but if there is no counterexample at this stage to overturn it, and it can explain all the current magic phenomena, then it is right at the moment, this is science. Oshier stroked his beard a few times, and said slowly: "It cost a lot of money to complete this experiment, and some people will surely say that the people in the remote areas of the empire can't even eat meat, but we have spent a lot of effort to only add a supplementary explanation to the original theory, which is simply a waste of resources." ”

Although it only supplements the original theory for the time being, the massive experimental data can be used for reference by later generations. Now that we know the law of the variation of the magic power of scribbling various magic characters on different substrates, later users of magic scripts can design cheap but powerful magic script engraving schemes by comparing this chart, so as to make magic creations as cost-effective as possible. Roy snorted disdainfully: "The so-called rat eyes are probably such people." If I were a teacher, I would never have any contact with such a person who is at the bottom of the body and mind, and arguing with such a short-sighted person would be a waste of my time. If you have to refute it, the teacher can ask the person who said this, should he give him all the imperial scientific research funds to eat, drink and enjoy himself, so that it is meaningful?"

"Ha, it's really a-for-tat answer, which suits my appetite. The next time I meet such a person, I'll answer like this, but then again, this experiment has His Majesty the Emperor and Foster, eh...... Your father's support, and no one really dares to question it too much. This made me feel for the first time that who rules the country is not unrelated to us scholars. Oshier laughed heartily, "'Seemingly useless' has since been the greatest defect of theoretical progress—its usefulness can only be realized when it comes to its usefulness, when people have often forgotten the existence of those who have proposed and improved theories." ”

Although O'Sheer couldn't help but complain in the end, Roy knew that this experiment alone was already qualified to be named in future magic textbooks like a legend of Finn's level, which was no longer a glorious achievement that could be summed up by "false fame" - and her dream did not stop there.

"Teacher, I think of something...... But it's just a baseless guess, can you stop laughing at me when I say it?" After receiving the other party's affirmation, Roy said with some uncertainty: "Since the magic text works because of the flow of magic in it, then, will the spell casting gesture have anything to do with the magic text?"

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