As an energy storage star array, the power of the "streamer" and its derivative "failed streamer" directly depends on the size and quality of the array, the former is judged by its size, and the latter is determined by the medium and the astrologer's technology.

The 25-pound array of stars carved out of the rock was the limit of Jonah's control.

He focused, activated the star array, and began to accumulate energy. Vortices of energy, invisible to the naked eye, began to spin violently, tearing through space and sucking powerful interstellar free energy into the stones. The diamond-shaped granite glows a warm red glow, shining like a piece of red-hot charcoal in the night.

Sibi jumped to the side alertly, "Wow, big bomb! Dude, beware of blowing up vital organs." ”

Jonah wanted to open his mouth to fight back, but suddenly found that his energy receded like a tide, and the star array in his hand became a bottomless pit of greed, gulping and grabbing what little spiritual power he had left.

Unable to speak, unable to move a finger, or even to move his eyes to Sibby's gaze for help, he descended silently and desperately into the dark abyss like a dead log sunk into the swamp.

It's broken. A thought came to Jonah's mind. This is not a pure granite, in addition to feldspar and quartz, it must contain some kind of mineral that is more suitable for the conduction of star power, maybe crystal, maybe copper or silver, in short, the star array engraved on the surface of the stone activates the highly conductive material inside the stone, so that the quality of the star array is greatly improved, and in exchange for the equivalence, the mental power required by the astrologer is greatly increased. To what extent, Jonah is not clear, but far beyond his capabilities.

"Brother?" the little grasshopper said with concern when he noticed his strangeness.

The voice of the call seemed so far away to the ears. Jonah didn't feel scared at this time, only ashamed of what Teacher Koshawa had taught.

"Listen, young man, I don't have time to speak a second time. The old man shook his messy hair and beard and told the basics of astrology in an almost roaring voice, "You didn't listen attentively, and you died in the future because of the star array, that's not my responsibility, young man, do you hear clearly?"

Teacher Koshawar slammed the brass telescope beside him with his whip.

"Yes, teacher!" replied the six-year-old D. Jonah II, an apprentice astrologer of the first class, sitting upright on a small bench. It was eleven o'clock in the morning on the Red Clay Plain, on the top floor of the astrology tower, the sunlight was softened into a warm light veil by the translucent spherical dome, the telescope, the planetarium, the sextant and the semi-buried zodiac's zodiac chart exuded the smell of bronze and butter, and on the small wooden table in front of Jonah were two books, "Basic Textbook for the First Class Astrologer Apprentice: Geometry" and "Basic Textbook for the First Class Astrologer Apprentice: Heaven", but the first sentence of the teacher's mouth was not the content of the book.

When Jonah was four years old, he passed the astrology test and was selected by the seventh-level astrologer Mr. Koshawar to bring him back to the tower of astrology, and after two years of literacy and arithmetic education by the tutor in the small room at the bottom of the tower, Mr. Koshawar finally took him to the top of the tower, and in the middle of a pile of wonderful instruments, set up a small wooden table, chair and a small blackboard, and then took out a round badge and pinned it to the placket of little Jonah's clothes. Jonah looked down and saw a cruising pale blue star flower on the black badge like a mischievous tadpole, wandering around in the black pond.

Black represents the night sky. The star flower represents the stars. The swimming blue star flower represents the astrologer apprentice whose ability is growing, and each star flower represents a level of apprentice. Six-year-old Jonah didn't need a mentor to explain what the badge meant.

The revered members of the Five Guilds, transcendent and uncompelled by war and famine, are the coveted identities of the entire continent, even if they are only apprentices, and are the highest honor. But Jonah, who was introverted since childhood, didn't show any over-excitement and just sat upright and waited for his first astrology lesson.

"Listen, I don't have time to say it a second time. "Before you learn astrology, young man, I want you to understand what astrology is like in the world. Although they belong to the five guilds, there has always been an irreconcilable contradiction between the Astrology Society and the Anglican Church, and the fundamental reason is that the Anglican Church does not recognize the legitimacy of the astrological array spells, and the gang of gods are only willing to recognize the achievements of astrologers in heaven, surveying, and geometry, and the star array spells are considered blasphemous. ”

"Young man, I believe that the governess has told you the legend of the Creator and the seven main gods, and you should be careful that astrologers believe in the starry sky, because it can give you powers that the gods cannot give.

There are two branches of astrology, the first is academic, observation, measurement, calculation, and drawing, and the second is practice, which reproduces the results of observation, measurement, calculation, and mapping in the form of star arrays, and introduces the power of the stars to the world.

The Anglican Church acknowledges the existence of the laws of celestial motion, but considers the stars to be the children of Luta, one of the seven main gods and the god of fertility, and the Holy Spirit on high, so it is considered a grave blasphemy for astrologers to borrow the power of the stars. This is complete bullshit, the energy of the starline is real, as real as the sun, the water, the earth, the trees, there are no gods here, only the vast starry sky, human beings should be full of awe and try to understand, not explain it with supernatural powers, and deceive themselves!"

"You're too young to understand, but it's okay, one day you'll understand, and the day you do, come and thank me.

Now listen, I, the seventh-level astrologer Koshava, am a pragmatist who advocates the application of what I have learned, and my study of the balanced star array has led me to become a seventh-level astrologer at a young age, but the attempt to fly into the sky is regarded by the Anglican Church as a great disrespect to the creator, and the two cardinals of the Anglican Church have joined forces to put pressure on the Astrology Association, which is at a critical juncture in the struggle between the academic and practical factions, and I am used as a victim of the untimely and banished to the Western Continent, which lacks academic scope, even if it is not long before I and my old buddy Henry create a floating machine that is unprecedented in the whole continent"Lame Henry" can't change the will of the people in power in the association, my whole life is tied to this place where birds don't lay eggs on the red soil plains, and in a blink of an eye, I will be so old that I can't go anywhere. ”

"As for you, young man, I want you to inherit my mantle and become the master of the star array, the true astrologer with the energy of the stars. The power of the starry sky is too vast to speculate, but only what is held in the hand is real. Before the course begins, be sure to remember the following passage: "

"Mental power is the foundation of the survival of the practical astrologer, and it is also the core of all spell-casting professions.

There are strong and weak levels of human mental power, which cannot be accurately measured, but it can be roughly estimated through many methods, and the measurement method will be told to you later.

You can think of psychic power as a pond, and when you manipulate the star array, you have to pump some water from the pond in exchange, and the more complex, advanced, and huge the star array, the more water will be pumped away. Meditation and sleep will restore the amount of water, and the size of the pond will expand with mental exercise.

Note: If you don't try your best to manipulate the star array beyond your own level, and you want to pump 20,000 liters of water from the pond with a capacity of 10,000 liters, then it is not only the water of spiritual power that will be drained, but the star array will drain your soul energy, your blood, and your life. This deadly phenomenon is called star array regurgitation. ”

"Be curious, but don't let curiosity kill you!There are countless astrologers who have died from the backlash of the Array, even our first astrology teacher, Lord Gilberto Gilberone, who has unfortunately died from the backlash of the Temporal Array, along with the tower of astrology that holds all the ancient secrets of astrology.

The astrologer apprentices who had lost their guide could only discover the mysteries of astrology from the few words left behind by their mentors, and slowly developed to this day, and all the information on the space-time star array, which is said to represent the highest achievement of the star array, disappeared into the turbulence of time and space with the astrological tower called "Ann Lisia". - If you grow up and have the opportunity to visit the Southern Continent in the future, you might as well go to the ruins of the Arian Astrology Tower on the northwest border of the Tocharian Empire. ”

"So, do you understand what I'm trying to say?" said Mr. Koshavoy, who tapped his telescope with his whip, making a clanging sound.

"Don't overdo it. Jonah replied cautiously.

"Good. Don't touch the star array beyond your strength, that's what I'm going to talk about in the first lesson. Now, get downstairs and set the table, young man. Teacher Koshavoy dropped his whip in amusement and walked to the roof of the dome on his own.

Jonah Jr. closed the two textbooks. He actually didn't understand what the teacher said, but at least he understood that astrology was a dangerous industry, and even the supreme first mentor played with fire**. ――The more I thought about it, the more terrifying I felt.

"Brother, what's wrong with you?" a distant call rang in my ears. Jonah said sorry to his teacher, and fell into a dull darkness without a trace of light.