Learning had to start from a young age.
When it came to nurturing talents and researching a certain specialized skill, the younger one was, the better.
Starting from a young age wasn't only because young people and children had good memories and were simple-minded and easy to put in hard work. More importantly, it was because this was a blank piece of paper.
Only an empty container would be easy to fill. A blank piece of paper would naturally mean that the person would believe anything you said. As long as there was no comparison, even if you reversed the sun and moon and said that the sun rose every morning, the person would believe it. If someone told the person the truth, the person would get angry … Cough, no matter how I phrased it, it sounded like malicious brainwashing and scamming. But that was pretty much how it worked.
The most basic social knowledge would become the cornerstone of all worldly wisdom. The most basic knowledge system would be the foundation upon which everything could be built. The saying of watching someone grow up from a young age wasn't just empty talk. It was simply an inference based on the current foundation.
Many things would be quite difficult to change once they were set in stone. Many people would win at the starting line just like that. Many people still hadn't realized that they had lost at the starting line.
Rorschach was probably the perfect example of someone who had lost at the starting line.
In Aishi, if one wanted to become a mage, one would have to come into contact with all sorts of arcane knowledge and foreign languages at the age of three or four. Just like how people on Earth used mathematics, humanities, and philosophy to construct their worldview, everyone knew how to perform calculations by heart. These mage seedlings would learn the conditions for elemental conversion, how wind and water countered each other, common constellations, and so on from a young age.
However, these unorthodox things formed the foundation of the next level of knowledge system. For example, if one had to take out the 99 by 9 calculation diagrams to study even the four operations, how could one learn calculus or even more advanced mathematical knowledge?
The most basic and commonly used knowledge would be recorded in one's mind at a young age, becoming instinctive and subconscious. When one learned more complicated things, this knowledge would become a tool. And these basic knowledge tools would be used to analyze, study, and research even more complicated problems.
This was also why researchers who didn't start their careers would work so hard. Things that we thought were natural were actually rules that needed to be calculated and understood. If we calculated once, they would have to calculate at least three times, and there was even the possibility that they would be wrong. The further one went, the more difficult it would be.
It was the same for languages and other humanities subjects. Even the stupidest student would be able to speak or write in their mother tongue. But to be able to use a foreign language to the same degree as their mother tongue … that was basically impossible.
After all, your mind was always thinking about your mother tongue. No matter how good you were at using a foreign language, you had to be able to think in a foreign language in your head.
Mages and scientists were quite similar in many ways. They were both research-type jobs that analyzed the natural laws of the world and researched the truth. Mages were also known as scholars and researchers … A mage apprentice who became a mage apprentice would lack the so-called common sense, which was basically the same as trying to become a scientist before graduating from elementary school. Unless the mage apprentice was ridiculously talented and astonishingly intelligent, it would be nothing more than a daydream.
Rorschach's situation was even worse.
Not only was he a blank slate in the world of magic, but he had also accepted a lot of materialistic worldviews since he was young. He didn't know anything about Draconic at all. Even though he had been desperately trying to make up for it in the past few years, he was still far behind.
Not only that, his natural talent ability, Honesty, fixed his mindset to that of materialism. This was incredibly, incredibly difficult to deal with.
When Rorschach told him that the mind was capable of changing the world, he believed it. At the very least, he believed it with his mouth. After all, everything that had happened had already happened. Rorschach's hands had already ignited a large fireball. However, his subconscious and "common sense", which was fixed by his natural talent ability, didn't believe it.
People could lie to themselves, but they couldn't lie to their own hearts.
That was why no matter how hard he tried, he was unable to cast magic like other mages. This problem originated from the root of his problem, his soul. Even if he tried to brainwash his memories, it would be useless. Unless he modified his own soul and started over again … that would be no different from suicide.
The result was that he would always feel regretful that he was just a little bit behind when it came to leveling up. Not to mention the mage job class, there were some things that he would never be able to learn even for job classes such as ranger or monk.
This was especially true for spells that required the New Gods to control, such as the monk's Qigong Bullet or the ranger's Homing Arrow. Rorschach didn't even need to think about these spells. It was impossible for him to control these spells. In fact, he even instinctively rejected the existence of these "unscientific" spells.
Rorschach himself was quite open-minded about this. He kept shouting "Why would a real man like me need to use these little flying tools?". However, all these flaws still existed, and some of them even directly affected him from leveling up.
For example, scholars who studied high-energy physics would always feel like they were missing a part of their foundational knowledge of mechanics, and would always feel like they were missing something. It was quite easy for them to make some laughable mistakes that would make others feel like they were just elementary school students.
It could be said that if nothing unexpected happened, Rorschach would probably only be able to become a warrior.
In legends and epics, the main characters of warriors would often be born in small villages or orphans. This was because sword-wielding was a purely masculine job class that didn't require much education.
However, in this new era where technology was constantly changing, everyone knew that pure masculine warriors who relied on their physical bodies to survive weren't very popular. From one type of cannon fodder to another type of cannon fodder, every "world update" would always target the poor. In the modern era, all job classes would receive "strong physical bodies" and "close combat abilities." This made it so that poor warriors didn't even have the right to be cannon fodder.
Low-level warriors would be crushed by ordinary magic armors. Mid-level warriors would be crushed by functional magic armors. High-level warriors would be beaten up by mages wearing high-quality magic armors. Sword Saints would be focused on by battleships. In this era where magical engineering and tools were emphasized, pure warriors who relied on their physical bodies would have no future.
However, judging from the swordsmanship that Rorschach's family had taught him since he was young, Rorschach seemed to have realized that there was no other way.
Every profession had a strong foundation? Would it be the same no matter what job class reached the top? Heh heh, reality wasn't a game. There was no such thing as balance to speak of.
Or, looking at it from another angle, it would be truly unbalanced if a muscular job class that only needed to train their physical bodies and swordsmanship to level up could really be on the same level as a job class that required money, energy, and wisdom. Not to mention, the job classes that had been passed down for generations had already become a tree of knowledge.
That was why even Sword Saints, who stood at the very top of the muscular job class, would also train in some random things. Some of them had inhuman genes in their bloodlines, while others were mages to begin with.
The birth and development of magic armors also caused many job classes that took the path of close combat to switch from physical training to magic armors. It seemed that having a body of steel would be more reliable than having a physical body.
For Rorschach, it seemed that the only path he could choose was the path of Mount Hua. His previous rank 3 magic swordsman had always been an incomplete version. However, an accident two years ago had given Rorschach a chance.
"Since there's no path, I'll just create my own path. The job system of this world isn't suitable for me. I'll just use the basic knowledge of the technological world as a foundation to create my own job system."
And so, with the help of the divine domain created by Titan, Rorschach, who had always been preparing to advance to Legend, advanced to a job class that was most suitable for him.
This was a special mage job class that relied on sages and tools. As a mage, not only did this job class not have any offensive magic, it didn't even have any special features that increased one's ability to cast spells.
Forge sages used all the materials at hand to forge war machines on the battlefield according to the current situation.
Previously, the magic armor production line and science had given Rorschach enough knowledge to accumulate. With the assembly lines and automated production of technology, Rorschach could easily create war machines on the battlefield as long as he had enough resources and territory. He could even achieve mass production.
War machines included, but weren't limited to, magic armors. Catapults, tanks, metal colossi, war puppets, and other large-scale machines were easier to create due to their simple structures. However, high-level magic armors had many intricate parts that were far too complex and difficult to create. Not only that, but the failure rate was also extremely high. It wasn't worth it at all.
For example, Titan's job domain could allow war machines to be created at an unimaginable speed. However, the war machines would quickly wither away after leaving the domain. They couldn't be sold as goods. Furthermore, they burned a lot of money, more than ten times more than ordinary mages … Although there were many weaknesses, Rorschach was already very satisfied with this job class, because it was indeed very powerful.
However, modern magic armors were the kings of war, and Rorschach's job class was directly related to magic armors. It would be too much of a waste to give up on this king of war system.
Over the past few years, Rorschach had thought of many methods in order to be able to instantly create magic armors on the battlefield.
For example, he could create modules after parts were processed and assembled. This meant that the most complex and important core parts of a magic armor would be prepared in a conventional way. Then, when it was time to use them, he would use them as the core to create the magic armor. After the battle, he would recycle the modules and use them again and again.
The technology was good, but reality was cruel. Rorschach had always been stuck on a critical part: the power core.
Everyone knew that the engine was the most important part of any machine. A magic armor's energy limit would always be the most important factor that limited a magic armor's combat strength. Creating a high-performance magic armor's power system would be quite simple. He would only need to miniaturize it so that he could carry it around with him. However, it would be quite difficult to dismantle it and leave after a battle.
There wasn't much to say about the technology, as it had already been optimized to the point where it would be impossible to optimize it again in a short period of time. The key was still the materials. In order to create a high-performance, miniaturized magic armor's power source, he would need high-performance materials. And, this wasteland just so happened to have the best energy source material — natural lightning strike stones.
And so, it was quite normal for Roxia to start digging … But judging from the large amount of trash and ores in his warehouse, as well as the fact that he had given up on buying ores from the market, it would take more than a bit of luck to find such a high-quality natural thunderbolt stone.
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