(This chapter was originally chapter forty-two, but because chapter thirty-nine: Announcement was inserted, it became forty-three.) Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info inserted thirty-nine chapters, because I feel that some things have not been explained well. ）

“...... Arcane refining generally requires three steps, storage, plasticization, and transformation. The meaning of storage materials is to prepare the corresponding arcane materials. Shaping refers to the use of perception to extract the magical substances within these materials, and then further shape them with the arithmetic of the arcane. Avatar is the effect of activating arcane art. Antoine explained, "Each step, the state and nature of the magic is different. We name them in order, calling them primitive, plastic, and excited. The forbidden magic field has an effect on all three states of magic, so the formation of arcane is a difficult thing to do within its envelope. But resisting the magic only works on the magic of the excited state, which gives some room for manipulation. I say that, you understand, right?"

"It seems to be a lot clearer. Levi nodded, surprised.

The other party was a Grand Arcanist, so naturally he would not doubt the correctness of these words. So here's the problem. None of the books he had been reading all night during this time recorded these contents. Judging from the nature of these words, the things it involves are fundamentally the most basic, and they are not fundamentally different from the ninety-nine multiplication table and the periodic law of the elements. Even this is a secret, the hands of the wizards are too long!

However, let's put this aside for now.

"That is to say, this ability of theirs may really be inherited from a giant god animal. Levi was surprised, "My guess is right?"

"It is very likely that the water kings and the burners have a similar phenomenon. Antoine suddenly sighed, "There is still too little information." According to records, this is the case only once every three to four thousand years. The last time it happened was in the middle of the ancient empire, when there was no historical record, resulting in a serious lack of relevant information. So far, what we have learned from them has been limited to the characteristics of a few mutant creatures. As for the longer ones, then I won't mention them. ”

"The Ancient Empire?" Levi was surprised, "Looking at the information, isn't it a very great period, and some people even say that it has only been a few hundred years since we regained its height. ”

The old man shook his head helplessly, "You don't know some of the characteristics of the people of that era, their level of civilization is very high. It's just that they are more advocating reality and exploration, believing that living in the present is the most important thing, and recording the past is a boring thing, so they are very resistant. ”

"In this case, we're starting from scratch. Levi was frustrated, "Are you kidding?"

"Yes, it's starting from scratch. Antoine quipped, "Don't be discouraged. You know, 'the beginning of nothing, but also the beginning of all honor'. If you have done an amazing job in this natural disaster, and it will be passed on to future generations, you may be able to make a name for yourself through the ages......"

"Come on, I like gold more than that. Levi shook his head, "It's a pity that before I get the gold, I have to do all the hard work and tiring work......

As he was saying this, several mana airbags on the top of the airship suddenly dried up, and the entire airship was slowly descending.

Levi noticed the change and hurriedly looked down. Sure enough, he saw a "familiar" hillock - he had seen the illustrations of it in the atlas.

I have to say that Roland World has really reached a very high level in terms of painting skills, and its sketching skills are not far behind the earth. The illustration he was looking at was a scaled-down top-down view, with every detail depicted in great detail. Levi recognized the place at a glance through it.

The airship finally landed above the top of the hill. When it stands still, it is about twenty or thirty meters above the ground.

On the keel side of the boat, a gap of one or two square meters soon appeared, and a rope was thrown from it and slid to the ground. When it passed through the reticle on the outside of the airship, it caused the reticle to ripple in circles.

Finally the rope fell on the top of the hill, and the people who were guarding it immediately took it, and the people on the airship hurried to pull him up.

When the airship lifted off again, Levi knew the tracking had begun.

This person who came up had a tracking rune attached to him. It's a special kind of arcane art, and its only function is to connect several "people" with it inscribed on it. Through the tracking runes on a person's body, they can know the approximate location of another "person" with the same rune engraved with their own.

Unfortunately, tracking runes have a distance limit. With a range of more than ten kilometers, it loses its effectiveness.

For this reason, the personnel of this hunting team adopted the method of relay to each other -- leaving one person every 10 kilometers to ensure that the target is not lost. By accepting these humanoid markings, the airship can quickly find the direction behind it.

After that, Levi and his party landed three times on the way. It was only at the fourth time that it joined up with the large force that had gone to follow. At this time, there were about twenty people left in this tracking team, and they could track another one or two hundred miles.

Pulling all the people below onto the airship, the research has finally reached the final stage.

"Old man, you can hold me up. If I accidentally fall, I'll settle the account with you. "Still on the deck, Levi said goodbye to the babbling at his feet. It's been more than a month since it was born, and this little thing isn't as clingy as it used to be, but it still likes to follow Levi. Then, he turned to look at Antoine to the side, "Don't say I don't have the means to deal with you, I can't spare you." ”

"Hehe, look at what you said, you look down on me too much. Antoine stroked his long beard, "Don't worry, I'll protect you." ”

After a while.

The old man took one of Levi's arms and lifted him straight into the air.

The moment he took off, like the airship below, he was shrouded in a layer of light, and even the mana airbag on the surface of the light mask was the same. But soon the mask disappeared. However, Levi, who was inside it, knew through the refraction of the light around him that it did not really disappear, but only became transparent.

"Arcane is amazing......"

He sighed inwardly. Although he didn't like the swaggering appearance of wizards, he still admired their creation.

The target of the two of them was a huge behemoth not far away.

Looking at it, some words came to Levi's mind. They are mainly related to two concepts, the first is threshold, and the second is divergent evolution.

When time and space change, animals become huge overnight, and they are bound to face a completely different living environment from the past. Because everything it is familiar with is infinitely smaller than them. At this time, their foraging, courtship and many other behaviors must also be seriously affected.

Especially the former, which is directly related to their survival.

Where will they go with the fact that their former feeding grounds and the food they depend on for their livelihood are gone? This is an important topic for the study of giant creatures.

Levi is understanding this change through the above two concepts.

First, there is the issue of thresholds.

The threshold refers to the minimum intensity of the stimulus that must be required to release an action. Stimuli below the threshold do not result in behavioral release. The higher the threshold, the more difficult it is to release the behavior, and vice versa. The threshold is not constant, it is affected by a combination of the animal's physiological condition and external stimuli.

When animals are starved for a long time, the threshold of foraging and foraging behaviors is lowered. This leads directly to a consequence, in layman's terms, "I am so hungry that I eat everything".

In this regard, Li Wei believes that this is the first step in their "divergent evolution".