Chapter 187: Idol Alyse (3)
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It is true that the power of magic is enormous, and it can easily reproduce the magnificent power of nature, which mortals simply cannot resist. But is magic really just a 'combat' technique like swordsmanship or martial arts?
For a long time, the young Michelle had doubts about this, thinking that why magic could not be used in other fields, why could it not benefit the lives of the people, but he was only an insignificant apprentice, and the doubts he took for granted would only be scoffed at by others with the attitude of 'what is there to ask about it'.
In fact, no one could answer his question, and no magician knew the real answer, only that 'it was against tradition'.
As the most sophisticated and mysterious profession on this continent, magicians are helpless to be self-serving. They will never admit that they go against traditional ideas, and they will completely reject new ideas.
Although Michelle always had a lot of respect for the mentor he originally followed, he couldn't deny that the former mentor was one of these stubborn magicians.
And worshipping under Alize's door was a major turning point in Michelle's life. Although the mentor Ariezel has unparalleled wisdom and talent, she is still just a playful little girl at heart, full of curiosity and desire to explore everything in the world, but because of this, many of Michelle's doubts have been answered from her.
However, this does not mean that Alize will give the teenager an answer directly, in fact, most questions Alizen will honestly say, 'I don't know~', which is by no means perfunctory, because she will then help Michelle to discuss these questions and pursue their real answers.
Take, for example, the question of 'why the world only thinks of magic as a combat technique?' when Michelle shuddered to Arizel to ask the question, Alize, who was unashamed and openly admitted on the spot that she did not know the answer.
But she didn't end there, but in order to find out, she and Michelle delved into many fields of knowledge, such as the principles of magic, the difficulty of the structure of magic, the current state of imperial politics, the influence of the wild environment, the history and humanities of each town, and the institutional philosophy of the Wizards' Guild, etc.
In other words, in order to find the answer to a simple question, Alezel will spend a lot of time and energy to explore the information records in all relevant fields, and analyze them objectively and three-dimensionally from multiple angles. And in the process, Michelle was pleasantly surprised to find that as long as you explore and think, then the answer is often in front of you.
First of all, the danger of mana consumption.
Magic requires a lot of mana and complex spells. Among them, the construction of the operation requires learning a lot of mathematical knowledge and exercising the calculation ability of the human brain. It's not that the magic will be successful if the corresponding magic power is expended, and at this point, the reason why many magic apprentices are unable to learn until they are seventy or eighty years old is because of this.
Magic is equivalent to human blood, and if you spend too much, your life will be in danger, so it is enough to make many ordinary people who don't know how to calculate have the illusion that magic is equivalent to a technology that 'risks your life', just like 'swordsmanship' and 'martial arts', it is a dangerous technology that needs to fight for your life, so what is there besides being used as 'combat'?
Secondly, the efficiency of the surgical construction.
Using magic in combat is the most efficient way to do it. If you are only pursuing the destruction and power caused by a single spell, then the structure of the spell often does not need to be too complicated. Form-Launch-Blast ...... This can be achieved with such simple procedures. This is how the fire magic that the Mentor once taught him.
But if you want to use the flame for your life, for example, cooking, then you have to adjust the heat and intensity of the flame very carefully, which in turn requires more complex spells to be built, consumes more mana, and makes spell casting inefficient, and in the end it is easier to use firewood and stoves.
Again, the needs of imperial society.
The state has recognized magic as a 'destructive skill' that has not changed for thousands of years. Therefore, in order to meet the needs of the military aspect, the magicians also carried out the 'combat specialization' of the warlock structure. And this is the 'tradition' that the Wizards' Guild believes in.
Instructor Eliza said: All advanced technologies and equipment are first and foremost for the country's military. In the case of mature development and surplus materials, it will be improved and popularized from the military to the civilian direction. But the magicians of the empire have too much self-esteem, and at the same time they do not lack wealth, so they lack the motivation and necessity of civilianization.
In addition, in recent years, there have been constant wars around the empire, internal affairs are disorderly, and people's livelihood is neglected, so there is no fundamental opportunity to civilize magic technology, and the conclusion is that it is impossible to talk about it.
Finally, the knowledge monopoly of the Wizards' Guild.
The members of the Sorcerer's Guild regard themselves as a special class of superior people, and they consider themselves to be superior to the human race, and more noble than the upper nobles.
Most of the magic apprentices they recruit have not seriously taught magic-related techniques, at best for the convenience of life and research, and there are even vile and shameless magicians who recruit young female apprentices and use them as props to indulge their desires.
In other words, the mentor completely treats the apprentice as a slave. Michelle was lucky, although his previous mentor was stubborn and strict, and would ask him to do whatever he wanted, but at the very least, he did pass on his knowledge of magic to Michelle. But what about the other apprentices? How many of them actually received the true transmission of their mentor?
In summary, ignorance, laziness, greed, and selfishness have allowed magic to be used only as weapons, creating a stagnant status quo in magical technology.
Michelle believes that it was under the guidance of the great teacher Ariezer that he was able to get a glimpse of the truth of the world. Aliezel didn't give him a direct answer to his question, but she taught him the more important value of being a magician, which was a realistic and inquiring mind.
If the previous mentor only gave himself the power called 'magic', then what Aliezel gave himself was the wings called 'Demon Dao'. With these wings, the boy felt that he could fly freely towards the wider world. Although, he doesn't feel that his mediocre self can surpass the angelic mentor with wings.
Michelle's dream is to use the technology of the Devil's Way for the benefit of the whole world, rather than being confined to a small framework. Alize showed him this hope, but as Alizer said, cutting-edge technology is always put into military use first, and [Luna Armor] is the best proof of this theory.
Michelle, who is in logistics in [Celia], does not mean that he does not have the strength to fight. In fact, Alize once said: "If you are serious about fighting with magic, Brother Michelle may be stronger than me~", although the mentor's words may be nothing more than compliments and jokes, but it is an indisputable fact that he is more familiar with the characteristics of [Luna Armor] than anyone else, and is more proficient than anyone else in how to use it to perform combat.
Now, in order to protect the mentor who is more important than his own life, and to protect the crystal that allows the battle to be completed smoothly, Michelle has become an indomitable warrior.
"[Saber] load!"
Although Michelle doesn't know any swordsmanship, he can still do it with a simple 'slashing opponent' attack - without even waving his hand.
Saber's cards turned into dozens of blades as thin as blades, and they all floated into the air, flying in different directions.
"[Lancer] load!"
Although Michelle is not trained to shoot, he can do it with a simple 'bullet through the opponent' attack - without even pulling the trigger.
[Lancer]'s cards turned into dozens of sets of funnel-like needle-like muzzles, and they all swam around, fixed in different spatial positions.
"[Archer], [Caster], [Assassin], [Shielder] are loaded simultaneously!!"
In an instant, with Michelle's body and the floating core crystal as the center, a small fortress with an area of tens of square meters was piled up. You can see that the surface of the fortress is covered by a dense group of spears and heavy firearms composed of [Archer] and [Caster], which towers towards the sky like hedgehog hair.
The Assassin, used as an optical deflection coating for invisibility, turned into thin ice-like wafers that along with blasting traps, spread across the entire airspace above the fortress.
The last [Shilder] is the latest type of [Rank Card] that has only been developed in recent days, mainly used for defense, and at the moment forms the walls of the 'Fortress'. However, the [Luna Armor] originally had an excellent defense system, so the effect of [Shielder] is not just an 'ordinary' defense skill, its real effect is-
The 'Gargoyles of Steel' poured cannon fire on Michelle's location, only to see the Magnetic Track Cannon, the Grimm Cannon, the Energy Beam, the Splinter Missile, in short, all the weapons that Hilda had assembled were bombarded indiscriminately in the direction of the boy. However, at the moment when those attacks hit the outer wall of the 'Fortress', countless strange brilliance flowed through the city walls and shot towards all the [Rank Cards] that were ready to be launched at this time.
That's right, [Shielder] is a device that absorbs energy to counterattack, and the 'wall' forged by it will instantly transform and feedback all the magic power that comes from the bombardment, and simultaneously fill all the deployed armaments, and immediately launch a counterattack. Otherwise, no matter how good Michelle is at controlling the consumption of mana, his own total mana will not be enough to drive the armament of five rank cards at the same time.
At this moment, Michel did his best to calculate and divert the magic power in the most even way, the barrage of [Lancer] was intertwined on all sides, the sharp blades of [Saber] were staggered and horizontal, the cannon fire of [Caster] covered the sky, and the magic bullet of [Archer] was refracted by [Assassin]'s polarized light to the point, and at the same time it exploded the sky and burned all the clouds......
In the blink of an eye, no matter how mobile the steel gargoyles were, their figures were reduced to ashes in the red flames of purgatory.
"Mr. Charlie...... Now, I'm avenging you myself, aren't I?"
The young man in the center of the fortress looked at the devastation he had caused from afar, and muttered to himself in a melancholy tone.