Konstantin's eyes widened, he looked at Schiller, then at Bruce, then at Schiller, and said, "This is how you teach? No wonder you've been torturing each other for four years, if my teacher had told me to memorize these things in three hours, I'd ······

Before he finished speaking, Bruce had already stepped forward, flipped through the three books with a calm face, nodded and said, "Now I have some problems with my memory system, and the upload and download speed has been affected, so you may need to read them twice before you can enter them, and it is enough to read them once on a regular basis."

"Go ahead." Schiller pointed to the table and chair next to the bookstore window with his cane, then looked at Konstantin and said, "Take me to your warehouse, I've been interested in the ritual part of the occult world lately."

Constantine craned his neck to look at Bruce, and when he saw that he was really sitting at the table and began to read seriously, he shook his head, sighed, and led Schiller into the warehouse.

Two hours later, when it was completely dark, Schiller came out of the study upstairs, Konstantin followed him dejectedly, Schiller walked down the stairs, he chased after him and spread his hands and said, "... How can there be so many whys? The wizarding world is a ritual of word of mouth, and I will do what others do, and I know why?"

"Besides, I'm already one of the most knowledgeable mages in the wizarding world, and I know the habits of almost every demon and angel, even archmages like Andrew have called me to consult on the weaknesses of some of the more obscure gods."

"And then you don't even know where the same symbols appear in the four rituals come from." Schiller noted.

Konstantin sighed deeply, and he walked down the stairs with the handrail and said, "You can understand it as an inherent noun in occult semiotics, just like a noun in English, we just use it, we don't have to understand it."

"Isn't it better to understand it so that you can use it better?"

"It's not." Konstantin denied it, he walked up to Schiller, looked him in the eye and said, "The power of magic is borrowed, and if someone is willing to lend your power, a three-year-old child can perform magic."

"Have you ever thought that this could be a trap for the gods?" Schiller put one hand on the table in front of the bookshelf and said, "The gods and demons exist in a completely different form from humans, and the power that they lend to humans can fit perfectly into the human body, and it is certain that this cannot be their original power, it must have been processed in some way."

"It stands to reason that they can get their host accustomed to them without going through this treatment, do you think the demons and gods would be so kind as to do the work for the mage?"

Konstantin looked at him a little stunned, and after a moment he frowned and said, "You mean, it could be a conspiracy?"

"Why do you think all the gods and demons have lent themselves the power they have lent to humans to transform their bodies into completely adapted to human beings?"

Konstantin's brow furrowed deeper and deeper, as a former magician, he had much more experience of magic than Schiller, and he had to admit that most of the power lent to humans by gods and demons could be easily manipulated by humans.

Constantine, who has read a lot of magic classics, knows that in ancient times, there were many examples of magicians who could not control their power and exploded their bodies, but in modern times, it is rare to hear of this kind of accident, and magicians are not in good health, mostly because they have to pay a price, not because they can't control their power.

What's more, many of the milder forces flow through the human body without even the slightest damage, which is actually quite strange, because the human body is not created to hold energy at all.

After thinking for a moment, Konstantin said with a serious face: "I can only tell you that the situation you said does exist, and the compatibility between the power of demons and gods and the human body has indeed evolved, in ancient times, only the most gifted magicians could control the power of rage, and in recent years, magicians have become younger and younger, and there are even many people who preach that 'children are born with spiritual beings'."

"I mentioned it in the two books I just read about magical rituals." Schiller with his fingertips

Tapping lightly on the table, he said, "Ancient magic rituals were very complex, most of them consisted of patterns, materials, energy, chanting, and sacrificial dances, and in modern times, only one of them can be performed perfectly."

Konstantin nodded, he looked away, looked up at the ceiling, and said as if in memory, "That's right, I tend to use magic circles, or patterns, to cast magic, and some female mages are more inclined to chant, such as Zatana, who uses a kind of chant."

"Do you think that's really a good thing?" Schiller also frowned and looked at Konstantin and asked, "Is it really a gift from the gods that the threshold is getting lower and lower, the power is getting stronger and stronger, the number of magicians is increasing, and the overall debt is getting bigger and bigger?"

Konstantin was silent, and Schiller continued, "They have evolved their energies more and more to apply to humans, and they have made the means of casting spells easier and simpler, and it is impossible for the convenience of humans." Five

"Just like credit cards, is it for the benefit of the people that banks relax the approval threshold and increase the loan limit? No, they just want people to get into the habit of spending ahead of time and then borrowing more because they have the ability to force people to pay back."

"The existence of people outside the human body has made the threshold for borrowing power very low, luring more and more young people and even young mages into the industry, just to lend more debts and then collect more interest."

"And what's even more fatal is that if the whole process is very simple, then no one will get to the bottom of it, and that's what the wizarding world is like now, isn't it?"

"Ancient mages are still studying what the structure of each rune that can hold energy is, and how to improve the runes and cipherwords to form more efficient patterns to control power." Bruce's voice came from the left, and he was still looking down at the book, but quietly joined the conversation between Schiller and Konstantin.

Both looked at him, and Bruce continued, "I see in these books the traces of the ancient wizards' step-by-step efforts to control the power of the rage."

"At that time, many mages spent their entire lives refining a single rune, and an entire school mastered only one pattern, and then used the inheritance of generations to study its mysteries."

"There are even many mages who have observed the origin of the origin power of the universe through the door of magic, and countless speculations about the origin of the world and the origin of magical energy have been passed down by word of mouth among various schools, and today, these texts have become a side knowledge that has been shelved."

Bruce looked up at Konstantin and said, "Since the beginning of human beings, we have never stopped studying the origin of the world, and the question of how the universe exists runs through all the learning processes of all disciplines in the scientific community, and it is the end and end of the scientific path of mankind."

"But the wizarding world has given up on research entirely." Schiller lowered, lowered his eyes, sighed softly, and said, "Just like you said, if you say a few words to a demon in a dream, you can have a powerful power far beyond ordinary people, and from now on you can break away from the mediocre ordinary society and embark on a journey to the mysterious and magnificent magical world, who would not be tempted?"

"And a few people, in the process of squandering their power and imagining themselves to be magical geniuses, have they wondered if there are some gods behind all this so easily?"

Konstantin was silent for a long time, and the room was silent, and Bruce turned his attention to the book again, and after a while, Konstantin's young voice sounded.

"You know what? This argument of yours has been denounced as heresy among the younger generation of mages, and the prevailing trend in the occult world is that only humans who are talented and lucky enough can control magic."

Schiller shook his head and said, "John, I think you know that any society that denies the meaning of effort is unhealthy, and that the aims of innate and pedigree must be more sinister than you think."

"Every young mage is pretending to be a genius right now." Konstantin pursed his lips and said, "I know that many of them can't even draw a complete magic array, but they just pay more and master more power, and then go and tell others that they are extremely talented, and I feel sorry for them."

"I've always been very opposed to the use of demons

The law solves everything, but you can also see that a mage with noble blood and special talent like Zatana is the object of the circle, and I am just a lost dog who has been chased by creditors from all walks of life."

"But you're actually much stronger than Zatana." Schiller raised his eyes to Constantine's gaze and said, "That's why I want you not to use magic, it's a complete drag on people like us."

After saying that, he turned his head to look at Bruce, who was still immersed in the world of books, and Konstantin followed his gaze, and after a while, he showed a wry smile and said, "Are you planning to establish a new school and revolutionize the wizarding world?" All I can tell you is that no one has tried to do this, but it's very difficult."

Konstantin swallowed his saliva and began to explain to Schiller: "You may think that magicians are getting stronger and stronger the older they are, but on the contrary, the younger and stronger a magician is, the more capital he has, the more price he can pay, and naturally he can exchange more power, and the more powerful the magician, the more he has the right to speak, so the wizarding world has always been young and middle-aged."

"Most magicians don't live to old age, and those who survive are not stronger than others, but they find ways to live longer than others by paying a part of the price or using their powers very carefully."

"Because they are old enough and close enough to death, they have to be more careful about what they pay, or risk dying as a result, so the vast majority of older mages hide in their mage towers and rarely go out to socialize."

"This creates a problem, young mages have power but no brains, older mages have brains but no strength, and there are a lot of fools who don't have either, and it is difficult for the geniuses who have both to shake the entire wizarding world in very small numbers."

"Do they have Batman, then?" Schiller looked at Konstantin and asked.

Konstantin opened his mouth, and as soon as he landed his gaze on Bruce, Bruce looked up at him and said, "I'm done."

Konstantin was dumbfounded, and then he heard Bruce say.

"And according to the article "A Centennial Survey of the Creation and Evolution of the 623 Phase Runes of the Ritual Pattern by Prisita Fraobon and His Disciples," at 3 p.m. on June 16, 1992, the two magic circles you drew were completely wrong—a mess."