Mage Adam

Ophelia turned a blind eye to the gazes cast by everyone, but she let go of her worries. In one year, three spells, no matter how you say this standard is not high, even if she has studied elemental magic The speed is not fast, and there is no worry of being cleared.

In fact, this is only the minimum standard. The previous apprentices were rarely dismissed for this reason. The real reason for the decrease in the number of apprentices is the pressure of multiple course assessments.

Master Black talked eloquently: "Elements are all-encompassing. Your naked eyes, the perception of mages, and the touch of spiritual power, all the phenomena that exist in the plane and outside the plane discovered through these methods are all elements."

"Fire." Mage Black spread out his palm, and a cluster of flames blazed above his palm.

"Water." The flame disappeared, replaced by a ball of water.

"Ice." The water polo solidified and turned into a piece of ice.

"Earth, light, darkness..." Master Black showed them one by one, and everyone was fascinated by the magic, immersed in the wonder of magic.

"And, wind." With a wave of the mage's hand, everyone felt a faint wind swirling past their ears.

"These are elemental phenomena that you can intuitively see with the naked eye, and elemental magic is the magic that applies them."

Master Black went on to say: "In the age of the ancient mages, the ancient mages transformed phenomena into magic in a very rough way through day-to-day observation. I don’t understand the principle, which also led to the extremely difficult inheritance of magic in that era. A kind of magic is often immutable and unstable, and the magic of the mage even has the danger of backlashing himself.”

Everyone listened intently to Mage Black's words. Before they entered the path of mages, everyone's intuitive experience of mages and magic came from elemental magic. The great power to manipulate nature was their original source of worship.

The optical projection behind Master Black lit up, and three familiar runes appeared in the projection.

"Fireball, everyone should be familiar with it."

Everyone nodded, especially the apprentices from the deserted island. The reason they were able to reach the academy alive was because of the power of the fireball technique.

"This is the first magic mastered by a mage. In the ancient times of the mage's plane, human beings were slaughtered by various monsters. When they were on the verge of extinction, it was because of the creation of fireball that they barely survived."

Fire is the source of civilization, which seems to be the case no matter which world it is in, and the same is true for the earth. It is precisely because of the application of fire that the weak individual of human beings can escape from barbarism. Adam thought so.

"The fireball technique at that time was different from what it is now. You should know that as long as you master these three runes proficiently, the fireball technique you use will be successful and stable. But in ancient times, it was dangerous for mages to use magic. There are many."

Mage Black paused for a while, clasped his hands in the air, and then a staff with a simple shape and nearly a person's height appeared in his hand. Mage Black took out a fire energy stone and placed it on the top of the staff, and then said to the apprentice they said,

"The original mages relied on power stones and magic wands to cast spells. They vibrated their spiritual power through sound, and used their spiritual power to stimulate the low-level energy stored in the power stones, and used magic in this way."

Master Black signaled the apprentices to pay attention, and then opened his mouth to say a few simple syllables, then waved the staff, the power stone lit up, and a fireball that burned unstable appeared on the tip of the staff.

Adam noticed that although the syllables sounded simple and meaningless, because of the change in pitch, they resonated with the spiritual force, and thus they were able to extract energy from the ore.

The Elder Mage's spellcasting seems to have nothing to do with aether and magic.

Mage Black put away his staff, and held up the unstable burning fireball with one hand: "This is probably the original fireball technique,

Because the age is too old to be verified, modern mages have no way to completely restore it. You can see its state, it is unstable, and it may be broken at any time. This magic may even dissipate before it hits an enemy. "

A target was raised in front of Mage Black, and he threw the fireball onto the target with a wave of his hand. The target did not move at all, and then a value was displayed on it - 0.25.

Master Black spread his hands and said, "The power is very low. This kind of magic can't even kill an ordinary person."

Adam looked at the target and guessed that it was probably a product of alchemy similar to the principle of a crystal ball. This data-based approach is undoubtedly advanced and intuitive. Precise numerical values ​​can accurately display the data, which is out of the possibility, probably, of this vague description.

Adam was still thinking about this, when he heard Mage Black say, "The next step is the improved fireball technique."

This time, there was no casting action, an orange fireball appeared out of thin air, and hovered steadily in front of Mage Black.

"I only mobilized the mental power of the apprentice stage, this fireball is no different from the one you used, pay attention."

With a bang, the fireball hit the rake and exploded, this time displaying a value of 1.

"Backed by knowledge, the minimum power of modern magic constructed from runes is one. The power of the same low-level magic is four times that of ancient magic."

"This is the power of knowledge." Master Black concluded.

Most people didn't know the meaning of the word "knowledge" that mages have been talking about before, and they don't understand it now, but this doesn't affect their longing for knowledge from now on. It turns out that mages are not mysterious and weird profession, as long as they have 'knowledge', they can do the same thing.

"The essence of fireball is combustion, and the source of power is temperature. It is an exothermic reaction produced by the action of combustibles and burning agents. In fireball and most fire magic, the combustible is ether, and the burning agent is magic power. The ether is drawn by the magic power to release the magic."

Adam felt that Mage Black did not fully explain the principle of fireball, at least he did not introduce such a mysterious and great substance as ether. According to the statement on the earth, combustion is an exothermic reaction between combustibles and oxidants. In the mage world , ether obviously replaces both conditions.

So, instead of saying that the power of a mage comes from knowledge, it is better to say that it comes from ether?

While listening to Master Black's narration, Adam recorded them in a way he could understand. Obviously, in this kind of world in the form of a plane, there is no essential difference in the basic physical quantities. The cause of the power is the mysterious ether.

"No, spiritual power is also added. That is to say, in addition to the four basic forces that do not yet know the form of existence, there is also the fifth basic force spiritual force and the sixth basic force ether. The six great forces jointly build a high-level Demon world."

Master Black did not show other magic and teach other knowledge. He was still introducing based on the fireball technique. He kept mentioning ether, which made Adam confirm the importance of ether.

"So, can it be said that everything in this world is created and unified by the ether? The mages are only exploring the ether through knowledge?"

Adam knew that his current shallow understanding of the world was not enough to study the problem of reaching the essence of the world. He didn't even know whether the problem itself had any practical significance, but he could be sure of one thing now.

That is, the value of the broken knowledge obtained from the 'virus' has decreased again. Due to the existence of ether, the world's unique magical science and earth science have gone on different paths from the beginning. Can those knowledge be used in this world? The establishment is not sure, maybe there is only a little bit of reference?

At the end of the course, Master Black released three sets of runes consisting of three runes, namely the water curtain of the water system, defensive magic, the wind blade of the wind system, the magic that William on the ship used to activate with magic items, earth Department of ground thorns, attack magic.

"The elemental knowledge in the free stage of the first year will not teach you advanced content. Your task in this year is to learn three kinds of elemental magic. You can also choose to go to the library to pay to learn the runes of other low-level elemental magic. group, however, three is the minimum requirement."

"In the next lessons, you can consult me ​​with the problems you encounter when constructing runes. Of course, don't waste my time with stupid questions. I bet you won't want to bear that kind of consequences."

Master Black left the classroom after speaking. This time, the enthusiasm of the apprentices was even higher. Unlike the meditation in the morning, seeing the power of magic intuitively made them more excited, especially when they had the opportunity to master this power.

This kind of simple magic is not difficult for Adam. He found the commonality among the runes, including the fireball technique. Among them, there is a rune that is similar or even the same, that is, the one that guides the magic power. .

"Sure enough, ether is the source of magic."

In the next week, the apprentices listened to all the free courses. Every instructor has their own requirements. If they fail to meet the results, they will all be dismissed. Although it is not difficult, it is still difficult for some apprentices who are not smart. It's a huge test.

Naturally, it was not difficult for Adam, but he found the meaning of studying in the first year. This method is similar to the preparatory classes on Earth. It is used to select good seedlings who are suitable for mage practice from among the apprentices with qualified spiritual power , and then return the defective product.

Because of the pressure, the apprentices became tense, and the learning atmosphere was unprecedentedly high. With everyone studying, Adam became an outlier again, and the apprentices thought he had given up on himself.