The miniaturization and simplification of the levitation ring …
This was one of Grim's main goals.
Since the research involved the essential difference between arcana and witchcraft, it was extremely slow and difficult to make progress.
In fact, both arcana and witchcraft originated from the primitive study of magic tattoos. They were both supernatural abilities that the ancient spellcasters developed by imitating the natural magic tattoos of monsters.
However, in the later period of development, the wizards still insisted on the chaotic, bloody, and taboo part of the ancient witchcraft, while the arcanists promoted a simplified and somewhat castrated version of the ancient witchcraft.
The simplified and castrated version was indeed easier to learn and understand, and it effectively expanded the number of arcanists. Unfortunately, the simplified and castrated version was exactly the mysterious part that was derived from the coupling of supernatural abilities and the rules of the world.
Without them, without the mysterious and unpredictable content, arcana was indeed much easier to learn. Even the less talented apprentices were able to smoothly advance to the next level with experience and skills. However, this also cut off the original connection between arcana and the rules of the illusory world, which made it much more difficult for arcanists to advance to the next level than it was for wizards.
The wizards, on the other hand, still stuck to the ancient tradition. The witchcraft they used was bloody and cruel, and it was also filled with chaotic and mysterious content. The same runes, the same witchcraft, in the hands of different wizards, could show completely different effects.
Also, with the improvement of their own skills and the improvement of their killing skills, the combat ability of a wizard was usually three to five times higher than that of an arcanist of the same level.
Therefore, some busybodies concluded that arcanists focused on knowledge and equipment, while wizards focused on skills and methods.
Arcanists respected knowledge, while Magi respected power!
The essential difference between the two spellcasters was reflected in the material. The arcanists' equipment was more delicate, while the wizards' equipment was simple, crude, and even bloody.
The levitation ring was not complicated in principle, and the basic knowledge was also very simple. It was to use a simple force field spell to form an anti-gravity barrier with a fixed direction and shape, and then push the material to float in the air in a gravity-free state.
However, the energy used in the levitation ring was arcane energy that had been purified and tamed many times. Compared to the magic energy used by Magi, the energy was less than 67%. This kind of arcane energy was easy to store, compress, and modify. It could even be directly injected into the spellcaster's body. The radiation damage to ordinary people was also minimized.
Due to the huge difference between arcane energy and witchcraft energy, if Grimm did not find a way to improve it and directly used a Wizard Circle to supply energy to the levitation ring, it would cause the energy system to become unstable, and the levitation ring would not be able to work stably. In the worst case scenario, the energy system would collapse, and a terrifying chain of explosions would occur.
After all, the arcana system and the witchcraft system were two civilizations that had developed independently. Although there were similarities or overlaps in many aspects, there were more areas where irreconcilable contradictions and conflicts manifested.
Therefore, when it came to looted arcane knowledge, most sorcerers could only extract the useful content and use it. As for the parts that were inherently contradictory, they could only abandon them like a pair of old shoes.
After all, it was extremely difficult to fuse two completely different casting systems together. It was not something that could be easily solved by one or two generations of Magi or one or two geniuses.
Therefore, looting arcana civilizations was more of a way for the higher-ups of the Magi to expand their knowledge and find a similar civilization that they could use as a reference.
When Grimm wanted to use the arcana knowledge he had looted on rune formations, witchcraft, and equipment, he faced a similar problem.
There were more than two to three hundred types of runes related to fire in the witchcraft system, but there were only seven origin runes. The rest were almost all variations or combinations of origin runes.
After a period of research and experimentation, Grimm found the corresponding arcana runes in the arcana system that corresponded to the seven origin runes of fire. Unfortunately, the rune formations that were carved with the arcana runes were either ineffective or would cause all sorts of strange phenomena.
This gave Grimm a headache and made him feel helpless.
Although the A.I. Chip was very powerful, it was powerless when it came to the higher realms of mysticism. It could no longer 'cheat' like before and guide Grimm to advance rapidly. After all, at his current level, the knowledge and experience brought about by the mortal world and past memories were completely useless.
In the domain of mysticism, every step forward required constant exploration and verification. Failure was a common occurrence.
The reason for this was the uncertainties of mysticism!
According to the data collected by the A.I. Chip, mysticism originated from the subtle changes in the force field caused by the combination of magic energy and various substances. Due to the differences in substances, environments, and materials, countless minute force fields would resonate, forming larger, newer, and more complex energy spaces.
In such a situation, the commonness was temporary, small, and partial, while the dynamic changes from time to time were the phenomena of mysticism in a broader sense!
Magic itself pursued this kind of uncertainty.
Using the minute changes in the local energy to pry open the power of the laws of the plane and guide the laws of the world in the direction that one wanted … This was the true essence of magic!
In this process, the only thing that a Magus could grasp was the guidance part.
Using incantations, hand gestures, casting materials, spell formations, and other methods to guide the energy in the beginning, how did the resonance and rendering of the energy move the laws of the plane? And how did the vibrations of the laws of the plane travel to the laws of the world?
Low-ranked Magi did not know about these things. Only high-ranked Magi who had come into contact with the laws of the plane could continue to research in this area.
Using fire spells as an example, when Grimm was at rank 1, he researched how to attract more fire elemental particles when he gathered fireballs, causing the fire elemental particles to resonate more. In other words, he researched how to make the fireballs more abundant, increase the radius of the explosion, and increase the power of the explosion.
At the second tier, Grimm focused more on the penetration and conductivity of fire energy.
As for Tier 3, Grimm's research focused on the conversion and fusion of Fire Energy and other Magic Energy.
At the end of the day, before rank 4, Grimm's research was only on the surface of fire spells, and he had not touched on the origin of fire energy.
Now, after becoming a rank 4 Fire Magus, he had unexpectedly grasped four low-ranked laws of fire. Grimm's research had begun to advance towards the origin of magic for the first time. In this field, there were no pioneers, no past experience, and no rules to follow. Everything had to be figured out bit by bit from nothing.
Every high-ranked Magus was a knowledgeable person, and they all had rich achievements in their own field of knowledge. However, their research was closely related to their own abilities. Once this knowledge and experience was spread, it would mean that everything about them would be revealed to the public.
This would indirectly bring great danger to him!
It was because of these considerations that high-ranked Magi's research was usually secretive and never made public. They would only teach or trade within a small circle, and would never contribute their theories to the public like the Arcanists.
In comparison, the situation within the three major Magus organisations was slightly better.
By using resources, materials, and magic crystals as rewards, they could exchange for some secondary and less sensitive research information and content from many Magi. These things could also be used as mission rewards to motivate low-ranked Magi who did not have the ability to conduct research in this field, but were in urgent need of related knowledge, to gather within the organisation and form a true force.
However, in the central continent, the Magus organisations and forces were too scattered, and almost all of them existed in the form of Magus families of various sizes. The related knowledge would only be circulated within a small circle within the family, which was why the Magus system in the central continent was much weaker than that of the three major Magi organisations.
Therefore, if Grimm wanted to conduct research on high-ranked Magus, he could only explore on his own, and also seek help from the three major Magus organisations.
Now that Grimm and the Northern Witches were on bad terms, it was impractical for him to obtain high-ranked Magus knowledge from them. Moreover, the Magus Association was an iron bucket, and if he could not find a suitable introducer or entry point, it would be extremely difficult to purchase knowledge from them.
Comparing all of them, the Silver Alliance was still the most suitable!
The Silver Alliance was indeed the largest Magus organisation with the strongest commercial atmosphere. As long as you had enough magic crystals, there was no spell or resource you could not buy.
However, the high-ranked knowledge that was useful to Grade 4 Magi was too expensive. Even with Grimm's current net worth, the astronomical amount of magic crystals still gave him a headache.
The reason why Grimm wanted to enter the outer realm was because of the abnormally popular resource trading market in the outer realm. There were tens of thousands of planes, and each was different. Each had its own unique system of planes and resources.
An item that was extremely rare in the Magus World might only be a mid-level resource in another world!
Therefore, if he could act as a middling broker in this huge market of tens of thousands of planes, buying high and selling low, and integrating and trading resources across planes, the huge profits he could bring was not something a 'small' family in a plane could imagine.
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