Chapter 12 Fireballs, Fireballs
To be exact, Richard learned the fireball technique, and he learned the fireball technique at the first level.
The Fireball Technique is a legendary third-level magic, and among the first third-level magic, its status is like that of the dark blue Su Helen, which is unique and existential. There are many legends and sayings about fireballs, the most common of which is that a mage who can only rub fireballs is not a good mage. But no matter how you understand this proverb, it actually acknowledges the special and unique fireball technique.
The background of this sentence is that the fireball technique is simply too important for low-level magicians, and it is precisely because of the fireball technique that those low-level magicians below level six have a place in the war, and they are no longer a role that can be completely ignored. And when every mage has just been promoted to level 5 and can study level 3 magic, he will basically choose the fireball technique as the first spell to study. The fireball technique is not a long three-second cast, the basic range of 30 meters, the killing range of 10 meters in diameter, and the damage power of lucky warriors with minor injuries, ordinary warriors with serious injuries and unlucky warriors with fatal damage within the damage range, all make it proud of all magic in its class. The warrior here refers to the warrior who is at the same level as the magician at level 5 or below, which makes the magician with fireball skills have a group killing weapon against the low-level warrior, and at this stage, the warrior can only choose to stab the magician with a sword, which is time-consuming and dangerous, and often does not end well.
It is precisely because of the power of fireball art that there was an extreme phenomenon of low-level magicians learning fireball art at a certain time, which induced the creation of this proverb. The pinnacle of the research and development of fireball art is the magic note published by an eighth-level magician: "On the possibility of five fireballs bombarding a magister." ”
It's a history-changing note, with all the ingredients that have been widely circulated, including sensational headlines, scrutinized logic, and surprising conclusions. In fact, the original title of this note was 'A Preliminary Study of the Overlapping Effect of Fireball Spells in Enclosed Spaces', and the conclusion was that when twelve fireball spells were cast at the same time, even the eighteenth-level Magus could hardly resist their superimposed damage, and under the most extreme conditions, for example, the eighteenth-level Magus was unlucky enough to produce a critical hit effect on each fireball, which happened to be in a specially shaped enclosed space, when standing at the focus of the reflected energy, theoretically only five fireballs were enough.
This magical note was obscure at first, but it went viral when a do-good changed the title to "Five Fireballs Kill the Magister!".
To the infuriation of the Magisters, apart from the ulterior motives, the premise of this magical note is clear, logically rigorous, and calculated, that is, its conclusions are correct, although they have little practical significance. What magus would stay in a carefully calculated enclosed space and let five fireball mages bombard? Moreover, the magister's own strong mental power and control of magic power would make it almost impossible for the crit and extreme effects of low-level spells such as fireballs to occur. The most extreme conditions combined with a series of coincidences will result in the Five Fireball effect. But who cares about low-level mages and many more who don't know much about magic, they only have the words of five fireballs in their eyes to kill the Magister.
This makes people angry, but there is nothing they can do. It would be foolish for a magus to debate the logic of the five fireballs with a low-level mage.
The monolithic nature of the study of magic is indeed detrimental to the flourishing of magic itself. Therefore, at that time, led by a certain archmage, led dozens of mages and hundreds of apprentices, spent nearly three years doing a lot of investigation and research, and finally came up with a report, the conclusion is that after over-studying the fireball, there will be a certain percentage of magicians who will encounter additional difficulties in the future promotion, and those who are strict will even affect the magic height that the mages can finally reach!
As soon as this article came out, it immediately caused an uproar among the fireball mages. Countless doubts have been pointed at the statistics in the report.
The problem is that although these statistics are full of errors and illogical, other than that, low-level fireball mages simply can't find any other numbers to refer to, let alone have enough resources to collect the original numbers themselves. So both supporters and opponents have to cite the statistics in the report to support their assertions. The more they are cited, the more these statistics become true. If reality is contrary to these numbers, then reality must be wrong.
No matter how indignant the fireball mages were, they could only accept reality in the end. And in addition to being angry, they are also really afraid that it will affect their own promotion. The Archmagister himself was not very powerful, but he represented the consensus of the high-level mages, and this class actually determined the future of the fireball mages. So the situation of the Fireball Sea finally slowly changed. This is actually a good thing for the development of magical civilization itself.
However, the whole process eventually proved another thing, that is, the number of mages does not matter, the level determines one qiē.
However, the reason why fireball is fireball is that no matter how objectively or radically people treat it, it is always a special one. Even if the level 20 Great Magus goes to the battlefield and faces thousands of ordinary soldiers, I'm afraid the first reaction is to throw a fireball out. After years of repeated research, all the super magic techniques, including magic enhancement, magic extreme effect, magic speed, magic instantaneous, magic silent, spell upgrade, precision control, spell delay, ...... All of them have special research on fireball magic, which is not only the first three levels of magic, but also the first five levels of magic can not compare to fireball magic.
When the turmoil surrounding the fireball technique gradually subsided, the low-level mage who caused the controversy back then was called the 'Five Fireball Mage' by the latecomers, and his real name was gradually forgotten.
Thanks to the rich collection of books in the dark blue, Richard also learned about the complex history behind the fireball technique when he learned the spell.
For a whole month, the only courses directly related to magic were magic taxonomy, introduction to low-level magic, and meditation, which lasted only three days. The introduction to low-level magic is also a magister, and the content of the lectures is more about the theory of elemental balance, and the casting of spells, gestures, and various low-level magic is completely brushed aside, and the students are just allowed to learn on their own in the magic books that are distributed. After nearly a month of study, Richard has found that the magicians taught by Deep Blue have a common characteristic, that is, they talk a lot about theory, the more purely theoretical things they talk about, and they are completely dismissive of the actual magic casting skills, they don't bother to explain at all, and most of them require students to practice and comprehend on their own.
If you change places, the mages who teach in this way will definitely be considered liars, or at least imbecile mages who only know how to talk. But in Deep Blue, theory is placed in a very high position, and doing a good job of theoretical research is a shortcut to please Su Helen. Moreover, in addition to the old mages who taught history, the teachers were at least fourteenth-level great magicians, which was already high enough to block a qiē doubt.
Richard learned the fireball technique from the magic book that came to his hand. In fact, the casting and control of fireball magic is not complicated, and the main reason why it is classified as a level 3 magic is the high demand for basic mana.
In addition to the necessary meditation, Richard was constantly practicing magic after class. It took him fifteen days to master all six level 0 general magic, and then he continued to become proficient. While being proficient in level 0 magic, Richard also read through all the contents of level 1 to level 3 magic in order to have a systematic understanding of low-level magic so that he could choose his first level 1 magic. The talent for intelligence was at work all the time, and Richard found that his understanding of low-level magic was quick and thorough, and he basically had a basic understanding after reading it a few times. It was during this process that Richard unexpectedly discovered that the Fireball Technique, which was a Level 3 magic, was extremely simple, even simpler than some Level 1 magic.
Actually, there is a reason for this. After nearly a thousand years of tempering and countless people's research, the fireball technique has been close to perfection. The simplicity of the spell is precisely because it works.
Richard was still a teenager and very curious. And when he used what he had just learned to calculate that the magic power he already possessed was just the minimum standard for casting fireballs, his heart's beating accelerated irrepressibly.