Chapter 3: The Truth of the Magician (Part 2)
"Thank you, teacher." Salin was full of joy and took the purse and returned to his room. He put the purse and the Imperial Bank's receipts in his box. The purse still had expired loan notes, documents, and his family badge. Salin stuffed the money into the box, and felt it was inappropriate, so he took it out again, not knowing where to put it.
After struggling for a while, Salin felt a little ridiculous. With a teacher here, what thief dared to enter this house?
Thinking about Jason's fingers when he was in the City Guard Bureau, he released one magic after another when he moved his fingers, and he didn't even recite the spell. Salin's heart became excited again. If he could do this, who would dare to bully him?
Magic is the only truth in this world. People with magical abilities have surpassed the law.
Thinking of this, Salin couldn't sit still, so he put the money on the bed and came to the room where the magic books were placed.
Looking at the rows of bookshelf in the room, Salin was a little impatient to read them one by one. He walked backwards and came to the shelf where level 0 magic books were placed.
Level 0 magic is not the largest number of magic, but is less than level 1 magic. Even so, there are four books on "The General Outline of Level 0 Magic", each of which is so thick that it is terrible.
Salin took down one, sat down on the spot, and began to read it against the bookshelf.
Reading, lighting, burning, detecting magic, detecting poisons, invisible shield...
After watching one by one, Salin was a little dazzled. He found that he really didn't know how to choose to study without the support of the theoretical system. He leaned on the bookshelf and posted it for a while. Salin felt that he was a little out of control. Even if he was eager to improve his strength, he should not be too ambitious. The teacher asked him to study in order and skip the previous foundation himself, which would definitely leave hidden dangers.
Thinking of this, Salin put the "Level 0 Magic General" back on the bookshelf, returned to the front, and looked at the basics of magic step by step.
Magic is divided into six categories according to its attributes, but in fact, when learning magic, it is generally classified according to the purpose of magic. Attack system, protection system, therapy system, alchemy system, potion system, etc. There are also summoning systems outside the six systems. This is a truly unpopular magic. Its origin has a relatively short time, less than 10,000 years, and it declined 5,000 years ago.
Release a magic is divided into three stages - preparation stage, completion stage, and release stage.
The preparation stage refers to chanting spells, gesture assistance, element collection, and magic resonance. Everything needs the magician's mental power to control it. After training, the magician can shorten the time for preparing magic, recite spells silently, and omit gestures.
The completion stage refers to the fact that the magic has been formed and can be released at any time. This stage can be extended. The magician can achieve the effect of intensive strikes by retaining the prepared magic and preparing the second magic at the same time. For example, after the magician prepares a fireball technique, it can not release it, and prepares the second fireball technique at the same time. When the second fireball technique is ready, release two fireballs at the same time.
This technique is called secondary casting, which is a common method for magicians to improve their strike ability.
Similarly, secondary casting also requires the magician to have strong mental power, otherwise it will be uncontrollable. If elemental disorders occur, the magician itself will suffer serious damage.
The release stage is not as simple as releasing the prepared magic. This stage includes locking the target, final element cutting, and time control.
All three parts need to be completed by mental power. Locking the target is the most basic ability. If there is no tracking ability, there is no difference between a magician and an archer. The final cutting of the element is the key to the consumption of magic. Without this ability, the consumption of a magician will always be the maximum value. If the control is not good, the first-level magician may release two first-level magic and consume the magic strings, rather than the ordinary twelve ones.
Time control refers to continuing to control the released magic and allowing the magic to be fully released at the most suitable time. This skill is also called second-level casting. Advanced mages will master second-level casting skillfully to control the rhythm of battle. Similarly, second-level casting is also used in the creation of magic scrolls and alchemy.
Only by fully mastering these abilities can one be considered a qualified magician.
Salin also learned that the values in the basic properties of a magic are not fixed.
The casting time, casting distance, and energy unit are all variable. The casting time of magic is not calculated in seconds, but in frame units, and 1 frame is equivalent to one sixty-tenth of a second.
Instant spell casting is not the speed of 0 frames, but 2 frames. As the saying goes, magic instant actually means that the three stages of preparation, completion, and release are consumed in a total of 2 frames, which is two-tenths of seconds. No matter how powerful a magician is, he cannot continue to compress this time.
What causes the 0-frame illusion is a second casting. That is, the magician does not release it after completing one magic, and retains the completed magic. The first completed magic will be released at the same time as the second magic release. In fact, the release stage after the completion stage of the magic is carried out simultaneously with the second magic release stage, which requires extremely high spiritual power to the magician.
Such skills are called advanced control, which is a very dangerous behavior.
Salin looked at it little by little and realized that he was so ignorant that he thought magic was just a powerful attack method. He did not expect that the basic knowledge of magic was so complicated. If he didn't study hard, he might be extremely difficult for his future progress.
Without these basic knowledge, not only is the magician's own abilities limited to a very small range, but the abilities of others are also unable to judge.
For example, the numerical value of casting time is minimized and maximized, the numerical conversion between casting distance and attack power, the relationship between energy units and elemental cutting, etc. Advanced magicians can instantly make calculations and determine what effect the magic they release will have, rather than leaving it to fate.
Control! The power of magic lies in control!
Salin read patiently and began to learn mathematical knowledge, learning how to calculate these magic formulas. This mathematical knowledge is also the key to drawing magic circles.
Three months passed in a blink of an eye. In addition to eating and convenience, Salin almost no longer took a step out of the room. The further he learned, the more he felt depressed. His intelligence and mental power were so perfect, but the elemental affinity was not good. Even if his elemental affinity was only the standard of ordinary people, he was enough to become an excellent magician.
But I am a useless person in terms of elemental affinity, which makes it difficult to form magic strings. Without magic strings, all this is a castle in the air and talk about it on paper.
A year has passed, and Salin is still the standard for a level 1 apprentice and the ability of a level 2 apprentice. He has now learned 5 level 0 magic, reading techniques, detection of poisons, acid sputtering, flame burning and elemental integration. He has basically mastered the meditation laws. Through meditation, he can quickly recover lost magic elements.
The reason for this effect is that the magic elements deposited in Salin's body are too rare. Even if it is natural recovery, it only takes 10 minutes to do nothing.
What can 3 level 0 magic do? Nothing can be done. If you use it for combat, it would be better to give Salin a knife to afford it. After at least a year of recuperation, Salin has become much healthier. Although she still looks so thin, her strength has actually increased.
The food sent by the red-haired swordsman last time was gone, and Salin had to go to the city again. Now he no longer had the ridiculous ideas he had from half a year ago, such exquisite clothes, popular hairstyles, and decent carriages. For the magician, all this is so stupid and ridiculous. Only knowledge is the only support for the magician.
Putting on the ridiculous robe and changing into the black boots that Jason bought for him, Salin and Jason greeted him and left the ancestral house. Jason gave him two bags of gold coins, a total of 100, and a list of items. The magician's experiment required a large amount of low-level materials. Jason's laboratory was almost always in operation, and he consumed almost all his basic materials in a year.
Ceylon City is a port city where you can order a lot of things that are not available locally. It only takes one week to get the goods. This is also the reason why Jason chose to stay here. This is a relatively remote city that can buy essentials.
When I came to Ceylon City again, this dilapidated city was completely different in Salin's eyes. The soldiers guarding the city stood up straight when they saw Salin appearing on the main road.
The soldiers at the city gate belong to the City Lord's Mansion, and it has nothing to do with the City Guard Bureau. However, everyone has not forgotten the lessons from half a year ago. The magician started killing, and the City Lord seemed to have nothing happened. The terrible magician lived outside the city, and the boy from the Metathrin family became a student of the magician.
The two soldiers' eyes were strange, envious, jealous, and fear mixed together, and they squeezed out a flattering smile.
"Mr. Mettlin, it's so early!"
Salin nodded, not knowing how to answer. The soldiers in the City Lord's Mansion said that it was much better than those in the City Guard Department. In the past, he never made things difficult for him to enter the city. At that time, he was like a ball of air, and it was smellless air. As long as he didn't come forward to ask for a fight, no one could see him.
Master Metatrim? If it were half a year ago, Salin might be proud. After the matter of the City Guard Bureau, Salin matured a lot. He understood that these people were afraid of the teacher, and they were afraid that the level 5 magicians would blow their heads off.
Salin walked along the main road to the pier in the sun. There was a long street at the pier, full of shops. The only equipment shop in Ceylon City was here. Salin raised his leg and almost hit a boy.
The boy opposite was about the same age as Salin. He seemed to be scared by Salin. When he fell down, he came back. Although Salin was just a magic apprentice, his mental power was comparable to a real magician. He had a keen sense of perception. He found that the boy's hand was touching his wallet.
This hand was very secretly stretched out, and Salin was happy. Is it because he was not good for the years and actually encountered a thief when he went out?
Chapter completed!