Chapter 29: The Three Elements of Spellcasting

During the week, Xia Duo had completed his magic initiation class and put together a simple dictionary of the color language, which he could read on his own.

Once a day, Shado didn't waste a single question, once for Dean in exchange for him to read the words of Nay for Shado after dinner, and the other four times for 40 gold coins in exchange for Eldridge.

But the 40 gold coins only passed through Xia Duo's hand for a moment, and soon left him—

Two new blank notes (30 gold) and two vials of ink (6 gold) were purchased from Edrich.

A transcription of the Biography of Archmage Darth Riel (4 gold coins), purchased from Dean.

Now Xia Duo has to carry these things on his body every day:

4 notebooks, 34 pieces of parchment, wooden wine glasses, 1 bottle of ink, quill.

It's not light, but these are Xia Duo's core assets, and he prefers to carry them with him every day. Xia Duo didn't think about putting a lock on the door of the dormitory, but when he asked Audrey, he learned that the most common lock cost 20 gold coins.

And this lock can even be opened with a straw stem, of course, there are more advanced ones, but the price is also more advanced.

Xia Duo temporarily dismissed the idea of buying a lock, and perhaps it was not too late to wait until the day when his belongings exceeded the load on his body.

……

A week has passed, and the magic initiation class is over, and it will not be repeated, and if you want to make up or listen again, you will have to pay an additional price.

For this course, Xia Duo accepted more than the other seven or eight apprentices, after all, he was an adult, with his own logic, cognitive system, summary of knowledge, and systematic skills.

In this respect, an adult earthling is significantly better than a color-resistant person who is called an adult, but is actually only fifteen or sixteen years old.

In the new week, Xia Duo chose the course "Overview of Magic of the 0 Rings", and the teaching was still a formal apprentice, so far, Xia Duo did not know how many official mages there were in the mage tower, but he chose this course according to the recommendation of the previous apprentice Ganar.

After the enlightenment class, Xia Duo has a more intuitive understanding of the magic of color resistance, which is different from the game materials before the time travel, and the real Feron is also more realistic.

Any spellcaster's spell caster must pass through the web, the difference is that some spellcasters only need to know the spell effect in order for the web to respond autonomously, while others have to manipulate the web to create the spell effect on their own.

The bard Mu Yan that Xia Duo had met before was a typical example of the former, while the mage or arcanist was the latter.

The method of manipulating the magic net is the knowledge in the elements of the mage's spellcasting, and the other two elements are concentration and magic web.

As long as these three elements are satisfied, even a goblin in the wilderness can become a mage.

As for the level of the spell, it is related to the difficulty of controlling the magic web.

The higher the difficulty, the higher the level of natural spells, and color-resistant people are so simple! Even if a certain one-ring spell can destroy the world once it is cast, it is only one ring.

However, this is not usually the case, and many mages are accustomed to hiding the spells they find or create, and the truly common spells have formed a conventional standard in the nearly 1,000 years since the founding of the Etheric Nation.

Even if a mage claims that he has lowered the casting standard of the 3-ring spell [Fireball] to the point that apprentices can cast it, or even really finds a few apprentices to demonstrate, as long as the vast majority of apprentices can't do it, then [Fireball] can only be called a 3-ring spell.

The reason why Xia Duo chose this "Overview of 0 Ring Spells" is not only recommended by Garner, who taught magic enlightenment classes before, but also because this course is the most basic.

Rather than learning a specific spell directly, Shador wanted to accept more of the overall perception of magic from the Chromaether, so he bought the "Biography of Archmage Darth Riel" from Dean, not just to learn words.

This seems to be a process of assimilation, but from another point of view, isn't it the best expression of following the local customs, and Xia Duo still has a faint idea in his heart, that is, to spread civilization.

It seems that Nessera has been established for nearly a thousand years, but how much culture and history can a country developed from a few small fishing villages have? I don't know how much influence from the elves has been received for hundreds of years, if you can be influenced by the elves, then why can't you be influenced by Xia Duo?

It is inevitable that a person will be lonely in another world, so isn't it also a pleasure to create a group of clansmen by yourself?

It's just that before he can really gain a foothold, this kind of thought can only be hidden deep in Xia Duo's brain.

……

A new day.

The course "Overview of 0 Ring Spells" was taught by Colin, a regular apprentice, but when it came time to start the class, Xia Duo realized that it had been open for a week.

In other words, the vast majority of the apprentices who joined the Mage Tower a week ago had taken this course, and Xia Duo had already lagged behind these people by seven classes because he had chosen the initiation class.

And the seven or eight new apprentices who took the initiation class with Xia Duo were also a little confused.

But Colin won't start from the beginning for the sake of these people, but will continue to listen to last week's progress.

Xia Duo was a little annoyed in his heart, but he was helpless, the biggest trouble at the moment was that the front didn't listen, and the back probably couldn't keep up, it was a vicious circle, one step behind, one step behind.

"The first phase of the spell overview has been mentioned, newcomers can find someone else to borrow notes, of course, you can also come to me, 20 gold coins at a time."

Colin's words made several new apprentices very dissatisfied, but Xia Duo was quite happy, in addition to being able to make up for kryptonite, there was also the meaning of Colin's words that what he was going to talk about today actually had nothing to do with last week's incident.

In this case, Xia Duo only missed the spell overview part, but the new content was not missed.

Sure enough, Colin went on to introduce this week's lesson, "This week I will teach [Reading Magic], as well as 0 ring spell identification, everyone pay attention to note-taking, if you miss it, the old rule is 20 gold coins once." ”

[Reading Magic]?!

Xia Duo was overjoyed, this 0 ring magic can be said to be the starting point and cornerstone of the entire mage path, without [Reading Magic], even the spell scroll cannot be read and understood, let alone the more complex spell book.

Or more precisely, the key to distinguishing a mage (a quasi-mage is counted) from an ordinary person is this [reading magic].

There are quite a few ordinary people in Savile Town who can cast 0 ring magic, but they can't [read magic], so they are not considered mages, not even apprentices.

Strictly speaking, new apprentices such as Xia Duo are not really apprentices.

The watershed is on this 0 ring's [Reading Magic].

And [Reading Magic] is also the beginning of understanding magic and deconstructing the magic web, otherwise you will be like a bard, knowing what it is and not knowing why it is.

Obviously, Xia Duo, who likes to get to the bottom of it, will not let go of this magic, and he has long been on his must-learn list.

And now Colin was willing to teach [Reading Magic] for free, which made Xia Duo immediately prick up his ears, and he was one hundred and twenty points energetic and focused on listening to the lecture.