Goode was in charge of maintaining order at the outskirts of Phantom Island, so Angor left with him.
"Mister Padt, as Lady Flora said, the master did not teach you spells for your own good," Goode spoke in a low voice.
Angor did not say anything. He only gave Goode a puzzled look and waited for his next words.
"Mister Padt, you know about the 'path of truth', right?"
Angor nodded. The so-called path of truth referred to finding one's own path on the path of wizardry. According to Sunders' words, "A wizard who is not trapped by his predecessors and works tirelessly for decades, even if his future is uncertain, is still a unique sight to behold. Such wizards are also known as true wizards. "
But Angor still did not understand. Didn't every wizard find their own path? If it was possible to become a wizard by copying the methods of their predecessors, there would not be so few wizards in the world.
"The master wants you to embark on the path of truth as soon as possible, so he won't teach you spells now." Goode paused and continued, "Only when you know what you want to learn, and why you want to learn it. At that time, the adults would give you some advice on the path you chose, and not take the initiative to lead you down a predetermined path. That's the master's intention. "
Goode's words cheered Angor up a little. The path of wizardry, spells, or anything else might not be suitable for you. Only you knew what you wanted. Sunders did not teach Angor spells because he did not want to guide him.
However, Angor only asked Sunders to teach him spells because he wanted to save some merit points. Going to Cloud Library would cost him money no matter what kind of spells he learned. Angor was poor as hell right now.
"Even if you want to guide me on the path of truth, you can just let me take a look at your study. It'll save me a lot of money. " Angor complained in his mind. He knew that Sunders' study had a lot of books, but they were nothing compared to Cloud Library.
Before leaving Phantom Island, Goode glanced at the surrounding apprentices and whispered in Angor's ear, "Mister Padt, the Sorcerer's Garden will be completed in a week. Come here as soon as possible. Maybe you can find something."
After Good finished speaking, he hurriedly returned to the Phantom Servants.
When he stepped onto the sky bridge again, he saw the same three people again. This time, they didn't try to stop him.
They returned to the Falling Clouds Bus Stop without a hitch.
He was still thinking about the path of truth when he took the skybus away.
He used to think that Sunders' description of the path of truth was too vague. Now that Goode pointed it out, he was enlightened. The path of truth might be a path full of personal imprints. On this path, there would be personal thoughts, personal experiences, and personal knowledge. It would not change because of anyone. It would be firm and independent, and one would walk alone.
Angor suddenly remembered something from when he was a child.
In Padt Manor, there was a woman called Auntie Rayleigh who loved to take advantage of small things. Everyone hated her because she always stole something from the kitchen, including Angor's milk. Angor hated her as well. Later, when he talked to Master Jon about Aunt Rayleigh, Jon said to him with a smile, "In the world you see, she is abominable, ugly, and annoying. But in the eyes of her adopted children, she's gentle, beautiful, and trustworthy. "
As the saying went, there were a thousand Hamlets for a thousand readers. Hatred in other people's eyes always came from other people's point of view. Just like a beautiful woman, everyone could reach a consensus that she was a beautiful woman. However, some people felt that she was beautiful because of her face; some people felt that she was beautiful because of her breasts, waist, and legs; and some people felt that she was beautiful because of her soul and personality.
There was no good or bad in this kind of comparison. Whether you looked at her face or her heart, the final conclusion would be "she was beautiful".
The path of truth was the same. Someone might be able to achieve his goal by following other people's things, but if he followed them blindly, he would lose his own judgment.
From the very beginning, he had to make a firm judgment and think about his own future. Maybe this was the true meaning of the path of truth.
However, Angor still had some doubts. If the path of truth was really as easy as he thought, why were there so few wizards who actually took this step? Could there be other key points?
Angor got off the skybus. He did not return to apprentice town immediately. Instead, he went to the central area of Tree Spirit Garden.
After becoming an apprentice, he or she had to go to the registration office. Only after that could he or she go to the questing hall to accept quests.
After that, Angor went to the resource distribution hall. When he came out of the hall, he was holding a package in his hand. There were two things inside. One was a robe with simple runes drawn on it. It looked like the "bedsheets" worn by Sailum and Teuton, except Angor's was a black one. The other was a communication device that looked like a crystal ball.
…
On his way back, Angor planned to go to Cloud Library and look for some books about spells. But after thinking about it, he decided against it.
Back when he was on the cloud whale, he recorded a lot of books in Sunders' library. He wanted to see if there was anything worth studying.
When he reached home, Angor asked Toby to play on his own while he went to the balcony alone.
It seemed Tree Spirit cared about Apprentice Town Eight a lot lately. The sun was shining brightly today. Before leaving, Angor placed his tablet on the balcony to recharge. It was fully charged now.
He returned to his soundproof room with the tablet and began to read the recorded books one by one.
The hologram tablet contained a variety of books. It took Angor half a day to sort them all out before he began to read them.
To learn a spell, he first had to know what it was.
A spell was a way to express itself by using mana as the core, mana as the energy source, and knowledge as the structure. It could be used to pry and interfere with the material world.
In other words, mana source, mana, and knowledge were the three components of a spell.
For example, the level-0 cantrip, Cleanse, was a spell that combined wind and water to clean away dirt.
The principle of its release was to break through a certain combination and arrangement of the water and wind elements, simulate it into a kind of formula structure, and finally use magic to express it. That was how it became the most basic cantrip.
Basically, Cleanse used mana to form a cantrip model with a "formula structure" as the core, which could then be used to pry the material world. However, the Cleansing spell was only a level-0 spell, so there weren't many steps required to cast it. After becoming an official wizard, however, some advanced spells would require external assistance, such as body modification, body changes, casting materials, and so on.
Cleanse was a "formula structure" created by someone long ago. People did not need to know the exact arrangement of wind and water elements. They could simply use the cantrip model to cast it.
Angor looked at the cantrip model on the tablet, which looked like a magatama standing on a flat surface, and had an idea.
He released mana from his mana source, and the cantrip model of Cleanse appeared in his mind. Under Angor's control, his mana slowly turned into the cantrip model.
In the next second, he felt a strange sensation in his mind. Following his will, he released the sensation from his fingers.
A moist wind blew across the soundproof room, cleaning away all the dirt on the floor and dust on the walls.
"… So this is Cleanse? It doesn't feel right. " Angor's attention was focused on the Cleanse spell, so he did not realize that he succeeded on his first try. That was incredible. That was the benefit of magic power refined by the Oddity. Not only was the mana extremely pure, but it was also much more flexible and controllable, which allowed him to cast the cantrip model accurately.
Angor kept reading.
The cantrip models for similar low-level cantrips had already become routines. Many apprentices only memorized the models without studying them. They only knew how to do it, but did not know how to do it. Although they could still cast the cantrip in the end, they were just following the path of their predecessors.
Angor's heart skipped a beat.
He did not want to follow the footsteps of his predecessors and only copy the cantrip models. He decided to start from scratch and figure out how to create Cleanse.
He found the specific principle of the [Cleanse] spell and read it carefully.
A day later, Angor began to calculate the combinations of wind and water elements. It only took him half a day to fill up a 20-page booklet full of formulas. Due to the huge amount of calculations, he did not manage to figure out a single combination.
"No wonder people always use the cantrip models summarized in the book. It would take too much time to figure it out myself, and I might not get the best combination, "Angor thought to himself. He did not give up though. He wanted to learn more about spells from the root.
It took him another day to figure out a way to combine the two items.
Then, according to the corresponding formula, he constructed a new cantrip model.
The final result of the model was: "A magatama being cut by several planes."
It was completely different from the "magatama standing on a flat surface" model recorded in the book.
This time, Angor slowly released his mana according to the Cleanse cantrip model he created.
After a long while, there seemed to be a gentle breeze blowing against his face, causing his collar to sway slightly.
Angor took out a piece of paper and wrote: "The Cleanse spell derived from this combination does not achieve a balance between wind and water elements. Water element is almost impossible to sense, and wind element is barely there. It cannot be called a Cleanse spell, and it is not even a Breeze spell. "
Angor put away the paper and prepared to figure out another combination.
This time, he chose to use the hologram tablet's calculation function to achieve his goal quickly.
When he first worked on Cleanse, he only used a pen and paper to figure out the principle of Cleanse so that he could "know why" it worked. Of course, Angor did not want to figure out the combinations one by one. With the hologram tablet, there was no need to waste time.
Angor set the two elements to A and B, then entered the formulas, variables, and data.
Next, the system began to calculate automatically.
In just ten minutes, Angor came up with more than 30 combinations.
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