Does scientific knowledge help in practicing magic?
Yes, but it depends on the type.
This is Lin's experience after spending more than ten years in the world of Lost World. Everything that affects the environment and involves the field of physics and chemistry has relevant scientific knowledge, which is of indescribable benefit for learning and analyzing spell models.
.But for those who don’t know how to classify mental types and can’t even provide a scientific explanation, of course there’s no way to say whether scientific knowledge is helpful.
In the tornado technique, the three-ring apprentice-level standard spell model provided by the association can be split into several parts. It includes summoning wind elements and spirits, changing the environment, and stirring the movement of the wind to make it rotate.
Many apprentices ignore the second item of changing the environment, and just try their best to summon more wind, or try their best to stir it up, trying to create rotation. If they can't do it, there will only be two judgments. One is
There is not enough wind, and the second reason is that the stirring method is wrong, so the wind does not rotate.
After finding the problem, the next step is to solve it. After spending a lot of effort, more wind is summoned and rotated, and the tornado technique is completed.
To evaluate Lin Lai, it is the idiom - half the result with twice the effort.
The group of geniuses who rely on their talent and massive mana power certainly don't care about such a waste. Anyway, master magic first, and then you can modify and improve it when you have time and interest.
But those who are not so talented, or do not have enough magic training resources, run to ask those geniuses for advice after facing problems. Then they are led into a dead end. Is what those geniuses do wrong? Of course not
, it’s just not suitable for people with poor talent.
Maybe if the person you ask is not a genius, you can get the correct answer. But most ordinary magic apprentices who can successfully cast it can't figure out why they can cast it, and what they say is not as authoritative as those geniuses, so they are confused.
The vast majority of magic apprentices and even magicians in the world who have no inheritance have been led astray.
If it weren't for those geniuses, they wouldn't be able to come up with a spell model that is more versatile and suitable for most magic apprentices. Tornado, a three-ring apprentice-level magic, is a standard spell model provided by the association. It has long been regarded as the best in everyone's evaluation.
A bad model that needs to be fixed.
However, in a world without any concept of meteorology, it is understandable that the structure of the tornado spell that changes the environment is not taken seriously. It is estimated that the senior magician who discovered this structure is beneficial to the use of the tornado spell was not a coincidence.
Yes, that is, he had relevant meteorological concepts, but he did not leave behind the theory of spell model construction.
Now, through Lin's explanation and actual implementation, a huge tornado that reached the clouds in the sky was formed in front of everyone's eyes. The person who cast the spell was relaxed and carefree, with no burden at all, and it looked like he was casting a ring of magic.
Even the two apprentices who almost surrendered to the Lich couldn't help but show admiration. Then they turned into horror...
Yes, I was scared. Because the huge tornado started to move, and the wind became more and more fierce.
Compared to the two girls who planned to escape back to the magic tower, the teacher and the former devil were much calmer. They stood there and calmly observed the forming tornado.
"Sister, hurry up and get out of here. The tornado is coming." The two girls held Fen's hands on the left and right, intending to pull the unmoved Lich back. Then they ignored their teacher.
…
However, the person wearing a tight black leather jacket and high heels, who looked like a queen, said: "Don't worry, this little wind can't stand me. But our teacher is really good, I admire him with admiration."
Not only was this person embarrassed by the sudden compliment, he also received the attention of three other people. Fen's expression was not only filled with appreciation, but also a bit playful. However, the two girls were confused and frightened. They hid behind their sister.
Behind the adult, he asked in fear: "Teacher, aren't you avoiding the tornado?"
"Haha, remember what I just said, the formation of a tornado is closely related to hot and cold air. So in the spell model, the set of spell structures related to changing the environment, its scope of action can be regarded as a tornado
The attack range of the technique."
"That is to say,──" Halumi walked out from behind Fen and said the first half of the sentence. Kaya, who also came out, answered the second half: "──This is controllable."
Apprentice-level three-ring magic is notoriously uncontrollable. In order to be able to control it freely, you have to wait until you become an official magician and study more sophisticated and improved magic on your own, or you are a talented enough magic apprentice.
It's possible.
However, my teacher said that even apprentice-level magic can be controlled. Although it is not possible to control it at will, it is a great achievement to be able to limit such wide-ranging destructive magic to a single area. At least it can be done.
One thing is to prevent yourself from being affected by the magic you cast.
After a while, the tornado that had exhausted its supply of mana and power shrank back into the sky and disappeared completely under the attention of everyone. The place where it had been ravaged was a mess. Needless to say, the uprooted trees,
Trees and rocks smashed down from all over the world were scattered everywhere.
This tornado lasted for about ten minutes. Lin only used the most basic amount of mana and power, and in exchange for such results, it can only be said that it is not bad.
Next, of course, was the practice time for the two girls. They did not cast magic directly rashly, but re-examined the tornado spell model. They simulated it countless times in their minds. On the one hand, it was also the previous practice that almost caused the body to burn
The mana power can be squandered completely, so now I can only rest and hope to recover to some extent.
The two adults did not waste this waiting time. Lin analyzed magic from a novel angle that Fen had never thought of, so she began to seriously consider a certain man as someone who could be discussed. The first things to discuss were these.
Every day I am always pestered by two cute little girls asking about the three-ring apprentice-level magic.
Of course, Lin will start by talking about the items he can explain, and then use his own point of view to explain to Fen the magic after scientific analysis. Then, the two will make statements about their respective understandings of the discussion topic, as well as optimization.
Thoughts and logic.
It was precisely because of these discussions that Lin understood the difference between the magical world a thousand years ago and now.
In the era when Fen grew up, the eight powers were still eight powers, but there were no corresponding gods. New gods starting with Enki, the god of knowledge, did not yet exist.
In that era, everyone could learn magic; animals in the wild would also awaken some instincts similar to those of Warcraft due to the rich magical power in the air.
It sounds like a very beautiful era, but it is not. Without the eight new priests who have the authority to control the eight powers, using magic is like cutting through the guards in a rolling river and guiding the river water into your own exclusive channel.
But while accepting and using it, it is not unexpected when the dam breaks. And once it happens, it is not a big deal for the caster to be eroded by magic power, become stupid or become a cripple. It is not a big deal if he loses control and self-destructs.
People are surprised.
With the eight new gods, eight powers can be managed. Using magic is like turning on the faucet at home. You can take as much power as you need. There is no risk of the embankment breaking, but you can use more water.
A controller. If he offends the other party and chokes off the water from the source, no matter how capable he is, he will have no water to drink and will have to die of thirst. In terms of magic, it is impossible to make any progress, because mana and power can no longer
Cumulative increase.
Both methods, of course, have advantages and disadvantages.
It is precisely because of this difference that in Fen's era, people who studied magic would pay more attention to controlling and using magic power. They did not dare to squander it arbitrarily, for fear that a mistake would cause the spell to fail, and a heroic self-destruction would cost even a small life.
Gone.
What does this feel like? When I was on Earth, I heard that the older generation of programmers were very economical and cautious about using memory, because memory was very expensive in their time. So when writing programs, in addition to requiring results,
The first priority is to save resources.
Later, that is, programmers in their own era, because the prices of computer hardware in all aspects became cheaper. For users, when they found that the memory was insufficient, it was not an expensive matter to expand the memory capacity, causing designers to
The use of memory is not as fussy as that of its predecessors. What matters is performance. If the speed is not fast enough, users are asked to upgrade the hardware themselves.
Thinking of this, Lin can understand why Fen, after learning the logic of the programming language used in the Magic Tower, criticized what he wrote until it was useless. Isn't it just like the two generations of programmers on the earth who differed because of different eras?
There are different requirements and emphasis.
Lin doesn't have much prejudice against this dispute between the old and the new. Even honestly speaking, Lin believes that the attitude and ideas of the Lich Master from thousands of years ago when it comes to constructing spell models are the most correct approach.
But sometimes it's limited by time, and sometimes it's limited by knowledge. I think I've done the best, but in the eyes of experts, it's still full of flaws. It's like Lin wrote it himself, but Fen disliked it and used it in the sour magic tower.
program.
I am majoring in astrophysics, and I also have a doctorate! I am not majoring in information science, but majoring in programming! Being able to write it is already amazing, do you know? Sister!
But now that the topic of magic has been discussed, Fen is not the only one who hopes to get Lin's insights from a scientific perspective. For a man who traveled to the mysterious world and spent fifteen years in confusion, he must be regarded as a man.
There is still a long way to go before standard materialism can be transformed into idealism.