Would scientific knowledge be of any help in casting magic?
Yes, but it depended on the type.
This was what Lin had learned after spending more than ten years in the maze world. Anything that affected the environment and involved the field of physics and chemistry had the relevant scientific knowledge, which was indescribably beneficial for learning and analyzing spell models. However, if one didn't know how to classify mental types and couldn't even provide a scientific explanation, there was no way to say whether scientific knowledge was helpful or not.
For Tornado, the standard spell model provided by the Association could be divided into several parts. It included summoning wind elements and spirits, changing the environment, and stirring the wind to make it spin.
Many apprentices ignored the second part, which was to change the environment. They just desperately summoned more wind, or stirred it with all their might, trying to make it spin. If they couldn't cast the spell, there would only be two reasons. One was that there wasn't enough wind, and the other was that the stirring method was wrong, so the wind didn't spin.
After finding the problem, the next step was to solve it. After expending a lot of effort, summoning more wind and making it spin, Tornado was completed.
If one had to evaluate Lin, it would be that idiom – twice the effort for half the result.
The group of geniuses who relied on their talent and large amounts of magic power to make a living certainly didn't care about such a waste. Anyway, they had mastered the spell first, and they could revise and improve it later when they had time and interest.
However, those who weren't so talented or didn't have enough magic cultivation resources would run to those geniuses when faced with a problem. Then they would be led to a dead end. Were those geniuses wrong? Of course not, it was just not suitable for those who weren't talented.
Perhaps if the person who asked wasn't a genius, they could get the correct answer. However, most ordinary magic apprentices who could cast the spell successfully didn't understand why they could cast it, and their words weren't as authoritative as those geniuses. Therefore, most magic apprentices and even Mages in the maze world who didn't have an inheritance were led astray.
If it weren't for the fact that those geniuses couldn't come up with a spell model that was more suitable for most Magic Apprentices, the standard spell model provided by the Association of Magic Apprentices, Tornado, which was a third-circle Magic Apprentice spell, was considered a bad model that needed to be modified a long time ago.
However, in the Labyrinth World without any concept of meteorology, it was understandable that the structure of the Tornado spell that changed the environment was not taken seriously. It was possible that the senior mage who discovered this structure was beneficial to the casting of Tornado was either a coincidence, or he had the relevant concept of weather but didn't leave the theory behind.
Now, through Lin's explanation and demonstration, a huge tornado that reached all the way to the clouds formed before everyone's eyes. On the other hand, the spellcaster looked relaxed, as if he was casting a first-circle spell. Even the two apprentices, who were almost loyal to the Lich, couldn't help but look impressed. Then, it turned into panic …
That's right, he was frightened. That was because the huge tornado had started to move, and the wind was getting stronger and stronger.
Compared to the two girls who planned to escape back to the magic tower, the teacher and the former demon king were much calmer. He stood where he was and calmly observed the tornado that had taken shape.
"Elder Sister, quickly, quickly leave this place. The tornado is coming. "The two girls took Fen's hand, one on the left and one on the right, intending to pull the unmoved Lich back. Then, they would ignore their teacher …
But the person wearing a tight black leather jacket and high heels, with the aura of a queen, said: "Don't worry, this small tornado can't do anything to me. But your teacher is really good, I have a whole new level of respect for him. "
The sudden praise, apart from being embarrassed, also attracted the attention of the other three. Fen's expression, apart from admiration, also carried a bit of playfulness. But the two girls were confused and frightened. They hid behind their elder sister and asked fearfully: "Teacher, aren't you going to avoid the tornado?"
"Hehe, remember what I just said? The formation of a tornado has a lot to do with the hot and cold air. Then, in the spell model, the structure of the spell that changes the environment, its range of effect can be seen as the attack range of the Tornado spell. "
"In other words …" Hallumi walked out from behind Fen and said the first half of the sentence. Kaya, who also walked out, finished the second half of the sentence: "… it is controllable."
Apprentice rank 3rd circle magic was famous for its uncontrollability. To be able to control it freely, one had to become an official Wizard and research a more refined and improved version of the spell, or be a talented enough Magic Apprentice to be able to achieve it.
However, his teacher had said that he could even control apprentice-level magic. Although it couldn't be controlled at will, but to be able to limit such a wide-range destructive spell to an area was already a remarkable achievement. At least one thing could be done, and that was to avoid being affected by the spell cast by oneself.
After a while, the tornado, which had exhausted its supply of magic power and authority, retracted into the sky and disappeared completely under everyone's gaze. The place that had been ravaged was a complete mess. There was no need to mention the uprooted trees. The trees and stones that had fallen from the sky were scattered all over the place.
The tornado lasted for more than 10 minutes. Lin only used the most basic amount of magic power and authority in exchange for such a result, which could only be said to be not bad.
Next, of course, was the time for the two girls to practice. They didn't rashly cast magic directly, but rather re-examined the spell model of the tornado. And they simulated it countless times in their minds. On the one hand, the previous practice almost squandered all the magic power and authority in their body, so they could only rest now and hope to recover some.
During this period of waiting, the two adults didn't waste time. Lin's novel perspective of analyzing magic was something that Fen had never thought of before, so she began to seriously consider a certain man as someone to discuss. The first topic of discussion was the topic that the two cute little girls kept asking about these days, which was the 3rd circle Apprentice rank magic.
Of course, Lin started with the topics that he could explain, and then used his own point of view to describe the magic after scientific analysis to Fen. Then, the two would discuss the topic and give their respective understanding of the topic, as well as the optimization ideas and logic.
It was also because of these discussions that Lin understood the difference between the magic world of a thousand years ago and the magic world of today.
In the era that Fen grew up in, the eight authorities were still eight authorities, but there were no corresponding gods, and the new gods that started with the God of Knowledge, Enki, didn't exist.
In that era, everyone could learn magic, and the animals in the wild would also awaken some instincts similar to magic beasts due to the rich magic power and authority in the air.
It sounded like a very beautiful era, but in fact, it wasn't. Without the eight new gods holding the authority of the eight authorities, using magic was like digging a hole in a surging river, and drawing the river water into one's own exclusive channel.
But while accepting and using magic, it wasn't surprising that the dam would collapse at any time. And once that happened, the caster would be eroded by magic power, and become stupid or disabled, which wasn't a big deal. It wasn't surprising that the caster would lose control and self-destruct.
And with the eight new gods, they could manage the eight authorities well. Using magic was like turning on the faucet at home, they could take as much authority as they needed. There was no risk of the dam collapsing, but there was one more person controlling the water. If they offended the other party, they would choke off the water at the source, and no matter how capable they were, they would die of thirst without water to drink. In terms of magic, there was no possibility of improvement, because the magic power and authority could no longer be accumulated and increased.
Of course, there were pros and cons to both methods.
It was because of this difference that in Fen's era, people who learned magic would pay more attention to the control and use of the magic power and authority. They didn't dare to squander it, for fear of making a mistake and failing to cast a spell, but if they self-destructed, they would lose their lives.
What was this feeling like? Back on Earth, it was said that the older generation of programmers were very frugal and cautious about the use of memory, because memory was super expensive in their era. So when writing programs, other than requiring results, the most important thing was to save resources.
After that, the programmers of Fen's era became cheaper due to the price of all kinds of computer hardware. For users, when they realized that they didn't have enough memory, it wasn't an expensive thing to expand the memory capacity, so the designers weren't as fussy about the use of memory as their predecessors. What mattered was efficiency. If the speed was not fast enough, the users would have to upgrade the hardware themselves.
Thinking of this, Lin could understand why Fen criticized the programming language and logic used in the Magic Tower and thought that it was worthless. It was exactly like the two generations of programmers on Earth, who had different requirements and priorities because of different eras.
Lin didn't have much prejudice against this kind of competition between the old and the new. In all honesty, Lin also believed that the Lich from a thousand years ago had the right attitude and thoughts towards the construction of spell models.
However, sometimes limited by time and knowledge, he thought that he had done his best, but in the eyes of the experts, he was still full of flaws. For example, the Magic Tower programs that Lin wrote himself and were despised by Fen.
I majored in astrophysics, and I even have a doctorate! I'm not a computer science major, I'm a programming major! It's already very impressive that I can write it, do you know that? Sister!
However, now that they were talking about magic, Fen wasn't the only one who wanted to hear Lin's opinion from a scientific point of view. For a man who had transmigrated to the maze world and spent fifteen years in a muddle-headed way, there was still a long way to go before he could change his standard of materialism into idealism.
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