Chapter 93: war of magic
Does scientific knowledge help in performing magic?
Yes, but it depends on the type.
This is the experience that Lin has gained after spending more than ten years in the Lost World. Anyone who affects the environment and involves the field of physical chemistry has relevant scientific knowledge, which is of indescribable benefit to learning and analyzing spell models. But the mental type and those who don't know how to classify can't even come up with scientific explanations. Of course, it's impossible to talk about whether scientific knowledge is helpful.
As for the tornado technique, the three-ring apprentice-level standard spell model provided by the association can be split into several parts. Contains elementals and sprites that summon wind, alter the environment, and stir the movement of the wind, causing it to spin.
Many apprentices neglected the second item of changing the environment, and just desperately summoned more wind, or tried to stir it with all their strength, trying to generate rotation. But if it cannot be used, there will only be two judgments, one is that there is not enough wind, and the other is that the method of stirring is wrong, so the wind does not rotate.
After finding the problem, the next step is of course to solve the problem. After a great deal of effort, more wind is summoned and rotated, and the tornado is completed.
To give Lin an evaluation, it is the idiom ─ ─ get twice the result with half the effort.
Of course, the group of geniuses who rely on talent and massive mana power to make a living don't care about such wasteful actions. Anyway, master the magic first, and then revise and improve when you have time and interest.
But those who are not that talented, or who don't have enough magic training resources, go to those geniuses for advice after facing problems. Then it was taken into a dead end. Are those geniuses doing it wrong? Of course not, it's just not suitable for people with poor talent.
Maybe if the person who asks is not so genius, he can get the correct answer. But most of the ordinary magic apprentices who can successfully cast it don't know why they can cast it, and what they say is not as authoritative as those geniuses, so most of the magic apprentices in the lost world have no inheritance, even magicians , was led crookedly.
If it weren't for those geniuses, they would not be able to sum up a spell model that is more versatile and suitable for most magic apprentices. Tornado, a three-ring apprentice-level magic, is a standard spell model provided by the association. A bad model that needs to be revised.
However, in the lost world without any concept of meteorology, it is understandable that the structure of the tornado technique that changes the environment is not taken seriously. It is estimated that the senior magician who discovered this group of structures is beneficial to the use of tornadoes is not a coincidence, or he has related meteorological concepts, but he has not left behind the theory of the formation of spell models.
Now, through Lin's explanation and practice, a huge tornado that reached the clouds in the sky was formed in front of everyone's eyes. But the person who casts the spell is relaxed and freehand, with no burden at all, it looks like casting a ring of magic. Even the two apprentices who almost took refuge in the Lich couldn't help showing admiration. Then it turned into panic...
Yes, just scared. Because that huge tornado started to move, and the wind got stronger and stronger.
Compared with the two girls who planned to escape back to the magic tower, the teacher and the former devil king were much calmer. Stand where you are and calmly observe the forming tornado.
"My lord, hurry up, get out of here quickly. The tornado is coming." The two girls took Fern's hand from left to right, intending to pull the unmoved lich back. And ignore their teachers...
However, the person wearing a tight black leather jacket, high heels, and wearing a queen style said: "Don't worry, I won't be able to resist this small wind. But your teacher is really good, I admire him."
With the sudden compliment, besides being embarrassed, this person also received the attention of three other people. Apart from admiration, Fern's expression also showed some amusement. But the two girls were confused and terrified. They hid behind the elder sister and asked in fear: "Teacher, don't you avoid the tornado?"
"Hehe, remember what I just said, the formation of a tornado has a lot to do with hot and cold air. Then in the spell model, the set of spell structures related to changing the environment, if its scope of action is not, it can be regarded as a tornado The attack range of the technique."
"That is to say,──" Hallomi came out from behind Fern, and said the first part of the sentence, and Kaya, who also came out, answered the second part: "──This is controllable."
Apprentice-level three-ring magic is notoriously uncontrollable. In order to be able to control freely, one has to wait until one becomes an official magician and researches a more sophisticated and improved version of magic by oneself, or one is a talented magic apprentice.
But my teacher said that even apprentice-level magic can be controlled. Although it is not manipulated at will, it is a remarkable achievement to be able to confine this wide-ranging destructive magic to a single area. At least one thing can be done, which is to avoid being affected by the magic he casts.
After a while, the tornado, which had exhausted its supply of mana and power, retracted into the sky and disappeared completely under the eyes of everyone. But the place that has been ravaged is a mess. Not to mention the uprooted trees, but the trees and stones that were thrown down from the sky were scattered everywhere.
The tornado lasted for about ten minutes. Lin only used the most basic amount of mana and power, and in exchange for such a result, it can only be said that it is not bad.
Next, of course, was practice time for the two girls. They did not directly cast magic rashly, but re-examined the spell model of the tornado. And simulate it countless times in my heart. On the one hand, it is also the previous practice, which almost squandered the mana power in the body, so now I can only rest, hoping to recover somewhat.
During this waiting time, the two adults did not waste it. Lin's novel perspective on magic was something Fern had never thought of, so she began to seriously consider a certain man as an object of discussion. The first thing to discuss was the one that was always asked after being pestered by two cute little girls these days, which was Sanhuan's apprentice-level magic.
Of course, Lin first started talking about the items he could explain, and then used his own point of view to state to Fern the magic after scientific analysis. Immediately afterwards, the two will make their own statements on the subject of the discussion, as well as their optimized ideas and logic.
It was precisely because of these discussions that Lin understood the difference between the magical world thousands of years ago and the current one.
In the era when Fin grew up, the eight powers were still the eight powers, but there were no corresponding gods, and the new gods starting with Enki, the **** of knowledge, did not exist yet.
In that era, everyone could learn magic; animals in the wild would also awaken some instincts similar to monsters due to the strong mana power in the air.
It sounds like a very good time, but it is not. Without the authority of the eight new priests to hold the eight powers, using magic is like cutting through the defenses in a rolling river, and leading the river water into its own exclusive channel.
But while accepting and using it, it is not surprising when there is a bankrupt. And once something happened, it would be a trivial matter for the caster to suffer from the erosion of magic power, become stupid or become a disabled person. It's not surprising that he lost control and blew himself up.
And with eight new gods, manage the eight powers well. Using magic is like turning on the switch of the faucet at home. You can take as much power as you need. There is no risk of embankment collapse, but there is one more controller for water use. If you offend the other party and choke off the water from the source, no matter how capable you are, you will die of thirst if you have no water to drink. As far as magic is concerned, it is impossible to advance an inch, because mana power can no longer be accumulated and increased.
Both methods, of course, have advantages and disadvantages.
It is precisely because of this difference that in Fern's time, people who learned magic would pay more attention to controlling and mobilizing mana powers. He didn't dare to squander at will, for fear that if he made a mistake, it would be fine if he failed to cast a spell, and if he made a heroic self-destruct, he would lose his life.
What does this feel like? When I was on earth~www.readwn.com~ I heard that the older generation of programmers was very economical and cautious about using memory, because memory was very expensive in their era. Therefore, when writing programs, in addition to requiring results, the first priority is to save resources.
Afterwards, the programmers of their own time became cheaper because of the price of computer hardware in various aspects. For users, it is not an expensive thing to expand the memory capacity when they realize that the memory is not enough, which causes designers to not care about the use of memory like their predecessors. The fight is performance, if the speed is not fast enough, users are asked to upgrade the hardware themselves.
Thinking of this, Lin can also understand why Fen criticizes what he wrote to be useless after learning the logic of the programming language used by the magic tower. Isn't it just like the two generations of programmers on the earth, who have different requirements and emphases because of different times.
For this kind of dispute between the old and the new, Lin does not have much prejudice. Even speaking from the bottom of his heart, Lin also believed that the attitude and thinking of this Lich-sama thousands of years ago to constructing spell models was the most correct approach.
It's just that sometimes limited by time, sometimes limited by knowledge, I think I have done my best, but in the eyes of experts, it is still full of flaws. It's as if Lin wrote it himself, and was disgusted by Fen to the stinky magic tower program.
I'm an astrophysics major, and I have a PhD! Not an IT department, but a program design major! Being able to write it is already very remarkable, do you know it! big sister!
But now that the conversation was on the topic of magic, Fern wasn't the only one who wanted Lin's scientific insights. For a man who has traveled to the Lost World and spent fifteen years in a daze, there is still a long way to go to change the materialism he regards as his standard into idealism.