After Anna returned to her room, she threw a cluster of green flames into a large barrel filled with water, and soon the water was steaming.
She stripped off her clothes and stepped into the barrel.
When the witches wanted to wash their bodies, they would come to Anna to help them boil water – after all, it was very troublesome to bring hot water from the kitchen. When His Highness knew about this, he was quite surprised and seemed to find it difficult to accept the practice of repeatedly using the bathwater.
Thinking of this, Anna felt a little funny, it was difficult for the commoners to wash their bodies even once a month, so it was common for them to use the water several times.
He didn't even realize how much the life of the witches he accepted had improved. Anna shook her head, His Highness Roland Wimbledon seemed to be knowledgeable, but in some areas he could be called … clumsy. From the stories she had read in the books, shouldn't the prince participate in all kinds of banquets and social gatherings from an early age, wandering among the flowers? He could be ignorant, timid, but at least he was good at communication.
However, this feeling unexpectedly made her feel at ease.
His Highness's head was filled with a lot of amazing knowledge, such as the use of steam-operated iron machines, such as calculating how to make a stone float on the water. And today's lesson – the world was actually made up of countless tiny balls, they were so small that they needed to be magnified thousands of times before they could be seen with the naked eye. Because of this, they were everywhere, whether solid, gas or liquid, whether it was people, flowers or stones, when decomposed, they basically all looked the same.
Incredible, Anna thought, how did His Highness know all this?
After wiping her body, she dried the water droplets with a fire. She put on her clothes and sat back at the desk.
In the center of the table was the textbook written by Roland.
Taking advantage of the time when the Book of Illusion was still active, Anna borrowed this textbook from Scroll, wanting to read it for a while before going to bed.
The book started with common phenomena in life, like peeling an onion step by step, and some parts were also accompanied with vivid and interesting pictures. The novel knowledge that she had never heard before made her addicted, Anna found it difficult to stop after turning the first page.
However, the content at the beginning was still relatively easy to understand, and the latter parts were getting more and more difficult to understand. For example, in the section on temperature, it was written that cold and heat were both manifestations of the ball's activity. The higher the energy obtained, the more active the ball would be, and the hotter it would appear on a macroscopic level. If what His Royal Highness said was right, then when his green flame was enlarged, it would also become a jumping ball?
As time passed, the candle gradually burned to the bottom. The flame flickered twice and went out. At this moment, the Book of Illusions had reached its time limit. The pages and the words gradually became transparent, and then disappeared without a trace. Darkness immediately engulfed the room until a green flame bloomed from Anna's fingertip, dispelling the darkness that had entered the room.
Looking at the empty table, she felt a little lost.
Raising his right hand, the jade-green magical fire stood motionlessly at his fingertips like a cluster of fluorescent light.
She suddenly wanted to give it a try. If everything was made of small balls, could it also become as small as a small ball? Anna closed her eyes and imagined its appearance from the accumulation of countless particles.
The flames began to change.
From the shape of a water droplet, it changed into a thin line, becoming thinner and longer, until it was finally like a hair.
Anna felt that this change was far from enough. She thought, for a small ball, a hair is still too big. It can also become thinner.
Although she thought so, it seemed that it was difficult for the green flame to change again. The light of the flame became dim, and the slender green light trembled.
Maybe it can't be piled up, but connected … His Royal Highness said that there was a fixed chain between the balls, maybe I should reshape its shape.
The flame particles in Anna's mind shook twice, and then dispersed with a bang. They were no longer closely connected, but scattered like stars in the sky. The slender green flame also disappeared, but in her consciousness, the flame still existed, but it no longer had its original appearance – in the deep and boundless darkness, after most of the stars fell, the remaining small part was slowly reassembling. They lined up one by one, and eventually formed a thin line composed of stars.
Temperature is the degree of activity, she thought.
As soon as she thought of this, the line swayed, as if someone had pinched its corner and gently shook it. After this shake, the swaying of the thin line could no longer stop, and a ripple spread out along with it.
Her world seemed to be filled with ripples, there was no longer a clear outline between things, and they were jumping with joy along with this ripple. The same was true for magic, she even felt that when she stretched out her finger, the first ripple was the magic itself.
She opened her eyes, and everything was calm again. The green flame had disappeared, and when her eyes adapted to the darkness of the room, the desk, the wardrobe, the candlestick … all the furnishings in the room appeared from the shadows. The light blue moonlight shone through the window on the floor, reflecting a small piece of gray. Everything looked the same as usual, there was no change.
But in her eyes, the world had become completely different. A black filament appeared in the air – Anna knew that it was not really "seen", but from her own perception.
She took out an iron ingot from under the table and placed it in front of her.
The black filament wrapped around the iron ingot according to her will, and then quickly closed. Like a hot knife cutting butter, the filament was easily inserted into the iron ingot. Under Anna's will, the high temperature produced by this filament was several times higher than the green flame, but it was limited to a very narrow range. The iron ingot quickly broke into two pieces. She picked up one half and saw that the cut was smooth, and when she touched it, she could still feel a slight residual heat.
Then she stood up the iron ingot, let the black filament stand at the top, and then split it into a flat filament, perpendicular to each other.
This was the mathematical knowledge taught by His Highness in the class. With a point as the center, with a taut line around the center, an accurate circle could be drawn. The area of the circle was equal to the length of the line multiplied by itself, and then multiplied by a fixed constant.
Anna controlled the horizontal end of the filament to bend downward at a right angle, and then it went through the iron ingot to the table. Then she let it gently rotate around the center of the black line – compared to before, where she could only adjust the shape or temperature of the green flame, the black flame composed of particles could not only change into any shape, but the temperature of each part could also be controlled separately.
After a rotation, a standard cylinder was cut into shape.
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