Taking the fireball spell as an example, its essence is to make the fire element burst out instantly in a specific area. It can also be regarded as a field spell, but this spell is not long-lasting, only for a moment.
From a practical point of view, it is naturally easiest and most convenient to choose a spherical burst space.
If a mage is bored, he can also specially design a tetrahedron area to explode, but in this case, the difficulty of casting this spell will increase, and at the same time, this spell may not be called fireball, but should be called [Fire Tetrahedron]
Technique】~
Looking at the essence through phenomena, the number of spells is endless, but the principles are indeed limited, just like countless lenses with different shapes and functions can be designed based on the principle of light refraction.
If a spellcaster cannot see through this and only indulges in various magical appearances, then he may just be a "spellcaster" throughout his life, not an arcanist.
This is also the reason why Xia Duo believes that people who have received modern education in his hometown are very suitable to be mage, because even the most basic elementary school and kindergarten education and the cultivation of scientific literacy are infiltrated into it.
"Ask the reason for everything." This sentence alone has served him well throughout his life.
Since time travel, it only took Shado thirteen years (main plane 3, projection plane 10) to become a senior arcanist in Netheril, and he is only one step away from the top great arcanist.
far away.
But he is not complacent at all. In addition to self-cultivation such as constant introspection and the desire for higher achievements in the future, more importantly -
He knows that the little achievements he has achieved now are actually due to the education in his hometown.
If a senior arcanist from Netheril was allowed to receive a round of modern education from his hometown, his achievements would definitely be as good as his own.
It was precisely because of the foundation of the entire world that Xia Duo dared to talk about creating a magical civilization.
Now, in the design of the magic version of CNC machine tool spells, he is still inspired by the civilization of his hometown.
To "carve" a large-scale sculpture at once, the essence is to retain the shape of the large-scale sculpture in the material and discard all other parts.
In other words, it is necessary to allow a specific processing field (here, reverse petrification - from stone to water) to have a sculpture form that can spread outward.
It is similar to a four-dimensional laser that directly cuts out a three-dimensional sculpture.
The realization process is not complicated. Chateau first uses a miniature code sculpture that has been polished for a long time and cannot be changed as a casting prop to project a convergent field in the form of a code sculpture.
Afterwards, it is reversed and turned into an open field where the sculptural form spreads outward.
The size of the space in the middle is adjustable and is scaled proportionally.
Of course, you can also directly design an open field where the sculptural form spreads outward, but this is much more complicated than projection. Even if it can be designed, the difficulty of casting the spell will probably be so high that Shado cannot cast it.
This is actually very similar to the process of writing programs before Xia Duo time travel. When a certain function needs to be used, it is usually called from the function library instead of stupidly writing it yourself. (Some special functions also need to be written by yourself.
Add it to the library so that you or others can call it later)
The miniature codex sculpture that Shado made before can be used as a callable function library in the spell-casting program.
If you don't use this method, and you don't have super high sculpting experience and skills, you have the only way to "write your own functions" and resort to difficult spellcasting.
Now that all the ideas have been thoroughly understood, all that is left is spell design, spell testing, spell practice, and the final engineering practice.
…
In the next few days, Xia Duo maintained a working state of half repairing the magic network and half researching spells. This state lasted until the birth of a new spell named [Large Stone Shaping Technique].
This spell was not born from some random accident, nor was it obtained from others. It was created bit by bit by Xia Duo using theory to guide practice.
Its birth is like a mathematical problem. After painstaking calculations, the only solution was finally obtained. Chateau was full of confidence in it.
Of course, even so, testing is still indispensable. A theory is a theory. No matter how consistent and correct it is, it cannot be regarded as the final answer without testing.
After all, Xia Duo only created this new spell and has not yet fully performed it even once!
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Arcane Garden.
Xia Duo sent away Pegasus Abel, who had been approaching the curious microscopic person, and found an open space without planting by the river. He first used the [Square Force Field] to press out a deep pit, and then used the [Slow Release Matrix Furnace] to burn the walls of the pit.
Into glazed quality.
In this way, a square well with excellent waterproof performance is completed.
Xia Duo made a similar pond when he first made paper in the main plane, but compared to that time, the pond he made this time was much larger and deeper.
It is almost made according to the proportions of the finished sculpture of the Codex, covering an area of 6*6 square meters and a depth of 10 meters.
It took him a lot of time just to fill the pool with water, and then it was time to transform the stone. With such a large pool of water, if he didn't want the transformed stone to have an obvious layered structure, he could only do it all at once.
All converted.
In order to transform so much water at once, the instantaneous power of the spell must be very high. After calculation, Shado finally decided to use the 8-level [Petrified Magic] to complete such a transformation.
There were no accidents during the casting process. In fact, Xia Duo completed the casting with the mentality of formally making a code sculpture.
Don't think of it simply as a spell test.
With the basic stone material completed, it is time for the [Large Stone Shaping Technique] to work. Whether it is a mule or a horse depends on this.
Of course, Xia Duo's confidence is very sufficient.
Suspending the miniature code sculpture as a spell-casting prop above the pool, Shado then began to cast the spell according to the elements required in the spell design.
That is to say, this spell was completely created by Xia Duo bit by bit. He knew the basics. If it were someone else's new spell, he would not dare to try it in a place where there is no spell to calm the field!
As the magic source point woven with the strings of the magic web is finally formed, the energy in the specific circuit begins to flow.
At this time, the reverse petrification field has not yet been formed, but it can already be projected from the source point of the spell. During this process, Xia Duo made final fine-tuning to fit the size and orientation of the stone to the greatest extent.
Immediately afterwards, a reverse petrification field was formed, and in just an instant, the surface of the square well changed from blue-black stone to transparent water.
In a strong light environment like the Arcane Garden, Xia Duo easily saw the code sculpture standing vertically in the square well through the water!