The next day, Xia Lin and Harper went out together to find the magic materials store near the Royal Academy of Magic on the edge of the East End, bought all the basic materials needed to conduct experiments, and returned to the laboratory, eager to start magic research.

No matter what world you are in, if you want to conduct research in a certain field, you must first determine your own research route.

When determining the research route, it is necessary to consider the extent to which the frontier field in this direction has been studied, and then at which point it is most likely to make a breakthrough and what kind of research results will be obtained.

Naturally, there will be no journals and academic exchanges in this world to guide the study of magic, and the mages are all staying at home one by one to study runes and magic through various inheritances or their own explorations, so it is difficult for Xia Lin to know where the mages in this world have gone in their research on magic.

However, through his memories when he was studying at the academy, Xia Lin found the most critical and missing point in the most basic place of magic research, that is, the study of the nature and quantitative instruments of mental power and magic power.

Without quantitative, there is no data, and without data, there is no way to analyze and find out the essential laws of magic through data.

The only thing that can be called a measuring instrument in this world is the magic crystal ball of unknown principle that Xia Lin came into contact with in the mage talent test, which can test the mental power talent of children and screen out those who can become mages.

And the reason why magic has been developed in this world for such a long time, but still stays in this stage of almost obscurantist empiricism, Xia Lin thinks that it is because the mages of this world have not yet realized the importance of quantitative analysis.

In the Academy of Magic, the study of spells can be divided into five stages:

One is to spend two to three months in a meditation class to master the meditation method of using and exercising mental power, until you can successfully put your mental power out of the surroundings, and then you can pass this threshold.

The second is to learn a variety of runes in the rune class, and compare the rune stones used in teaching, and initially try to use spiritual power to build nodes to build runes. This phase usually takes two to three months.

The third is to learn to use these rune connections in the spell system class to build the most basic zero ring spells. This stage is about half a year.

The fourth is to generate autologous magic in long-term meditation, and then further upgrade through these basic knowledge to master the construction of a spell model for the elective and compulsory one-ring spells in the spell classes of each department carried out in the second year, which is the most difficult, about a year.

The fifth is to repeatedly carry out high-intensity and intense spell casting in the spell training class carried out in the third year, until the success rate of spell casting reaches more than ninety percent, and then conduct battle practice.

Mages who can not be dumb in relatively fierce battles can pass the mage certification of the First Ring of the Mage Guild and get the First Ring Mage badge to successfully complete their studies.

Such a mage training system can be described as extremely practical and crude, and the strength of the mage is completely expressed by the battle in the practical training class, rather than quantifying their own spiritual power and magic power.

Such mages are very capable of adapting to battles on the battlefield, but if they do not accumulate for a long time, there is basically no possibility of breaking through to the second or even third ring, because they rely entirely on rote memorization to cast spells.

The first-ring spell model only has about a hundred nodes that can be memorized by rote in a short period of time, and when it comes to the second-ring spells and three-ring spells that almost double the mental power node, it will have to rely purely on one's sensitivity to space and runes and conduct a long trial and error to successfully build a spell model.

This is also the reason why the number of three-ring mages is quite rare even in the empire, and they can be called high-ring.

Xia Lin felt that his research route should be to quantify, standardize, and essence magic, so as to reduce the difficulty of building a high-ring spell model and help him easily break through to a higher level.

First of all, he had to quantify the nature of magic by researching and developing instruments to measure spiritual power and magical power, and then use the spatial coordinate system to try to mathematically model the spell model to see if there was some kind of mathematical connection between the spiritual power nodes, summarize this possible law, and then make a possible attempt to construct new runes.

Next, we will study the role of various known and unknown runes in the spell model, and finally study the connection between runes to see if we can build a new spell model from the runes yourself.

In Xia Lin's opinion, the possibility of being able to construct new runes was quite small, but his research had to at least reach the point where he could construct new spells from the original runes, and he felt that his research had achieved certain results.

After a brief workshop with Harper, explaining the rest of his research and getting him used to his own way of studying magic, Charin designed a simple meditation experiment and was ready to start his research in earnest.

Harper didn't really understand the connotation of the word "magic experiment" that Xia Lin had to mention from time to time, and Xia Lin was not in a hurry to give him popular science, but bound a thin booklet with parchment and tied to a thin wooden board with a rope to facilitate writing.

I drew a table with a dipping pen and showed Harper how to fill out the experiment form and record the data as an experiment assistant for the day.

For example, today is June 12, 1391 in the imperial calendar, and you can record 1391/6/12.

Then there is the name of the experiment, and today is an experiment to explore the nature of magic - mental power and magic power.

The purpose of the experiment was to explore the various properties of mental and magical power, to improve our understanding of magic, and to help us design instruments to quantify mental and magical power.

The following experimental materials are filled in according to the things we will use, I will remind you to record the group experiment, and I will report the data and experimental phenomena to you, and you will fill in the corresponding form one by one.

The conclusion of the experiment is now summarized by me for the time being, you first see how I did it, and then you will be responsible for part of the experiment independently. ”

Xia Lin pointed at the form, and seeing that Harper quickly understood the general meaning, he began the experiment with confidence.

In his previous life, many people took science and magic against each other, but as a science student, Xia Lin knew that as long as real magic was not a pure idealism, and I thought about what kind of magic would be, then the two would never be opposites.

Science is a kind of ideology, a methodology for exploring the nature and operation of things through qualitative and quantitative analysis, while magic is a supernatural phenomenon, but the supernatural does not mean that it has no internal laws.

In addition to the two powers of spirit power and magic power, which seem to be unique to this world, the three-level structure of spiritual power nodes, runes, spell models, and magic is very clear, and it also has the universality of nature promotion.

Although Xia Lin had never learned the C language, he felt that he could completely analogy the spiritual power node to a machine code through his own sense of casting spells.

Runes are programming languages built from machine code, while spell models are runnable programs designed by programming languages. The logic of this is very clear and fully consistent with the characteristics of the object of scientific research.

In Xia Lin's opinion, using science to study magic, rather than making students memorize the location of the spiritual power nodes of the runes and then try and make mistakes to cast spells like the Royal Academy of Magic in the Imperial Capital, is the correct way to study magic.