In addition to building houses, of course there was also the research and development of new brick-making techniques. Chateau also kept Leiden paying close attention to him and notifying him immediately of any news. He himself returned to the small camp and devoted himself wholeheartedly to magic research.
In the previous projection plane, Xia Duo projected into an elf again. Although he did not focus on magic research because of the search for a mithril refining method, and the training as a swordsinger was delayed, it still took a year.
During this year, Xia Duo completed the study of "Advanced Arcane Geometry" by combining more than ten 4-level spell books, and gained an extremely deep understanding of the principles of magic.
He has mastered all of the [Short-distance Teleportation], [Dimensional Anchor], [Detection], and [Detection and Detection] contained in the more than ten spell books. This time when he returned to the Tower of Time, Shado borrowed them from the library.
Wrote more than ten books.
Among them is a book called "A Brief Analysis of the Structure and Usage of Fireball Technique". Xia Duo has been coveting it for a long time. However, the third level [Fireball Technique] is indeed very powerful for ordinary people, but for mages, it is not a powerful one.
A relatively clever spell.
Pure destruction is very simple. The most direct method is to guide negative energy impact, which is much more damaging than [Fireball]. However, negative energy is okay when playing games, but it is not necessary to come into contact with it in person in the real world.
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Xia Duo doesn't have much interest in pure energy manipulation. Otherwise, he would have devoted himself to it as early as the apprenticeship stage when he was deducing a quick method like the Evocation Mage.
At that time, he lacked the power to protect himself, but he was still not tempted by pure power.
In Xia Duo's eyes, the role of magic lies more in creation. If you just throw out a ball of energy and just use the properties of the energy itself, then no matter what form the energy takes, it is actually no different from primitive people.
The most powerful attack is never such a fancy thing, adapting measures to local conditions is what a qualified mage should do.
The choice of [Fireball] this time is actually just to fulfill a dream I had in the past - what kind of mage is a mage if he can't even do fireball?
Of course, Xia Duo does not have such a superficial understanding now, but he does not laugh at or avoid himself in the past. People's cognition is always updated and iterated. Only by facing the past can we have a better future.
future.
In addition to the third-level [Fireball], Shado also chose a number of low-level spells this time, mainly to enrich his case library, not only spell cases, but also element cases.
This is actually a process from specialization to broad knowledge.
In the past, Xia Duo upgraded too quickly. Although he seemed to be steadily on the path to advance as an arcanist, he still lacked a lot of foundation, or common sense. This may be the so-called "genius disease".
If you want to go further in the future, you can make plans now.
Xia Duo has the mature consciousness of an adult, so naturally he will not be too paranoid. He must be close to being able to advance, and his foundation must be as deep as possible before he can upgrade to the next step.
Magic is different from the cultivation novels I read before time travel. In those cultivation novels, there are often sayings such as "building a foundation without regrets" and "taking a pill without regrets", but here——
Power is approximately equal to knowledge. Any mage can go back on his word at any time as long as he wants.
It's just that human lifespan is limited, so we still have to consider the issue of maximum benefit. Just like on earth, some people are willing to take tutoring for one, two or even three years and then continue the college entrance examination, but some people are not willing.
After basically confirming that becoming an Arcanist was no longer a problem, Shado had to start making longer-term plans.
Just like it is impossible to go to college and then remediate the basics of high school, it is not worthwhile in terms of time efficiency. College should do college things, and try to complete what can be completed in high school.
Of course, if you really have some regrets, they won’t be irreparable in the future. As for knowledge, in theory, it’s not too late to learn something before you die.
Maybe you will have an "epiphany" and "ascend" immediately!
Of course there is such a chance, but for systematic magic, it is almost non-existent, just like on earth, Xia Duo has never heard of anyone who suddenly became a famous scientist in his later years.
Knowledge needs to be accumulated, and it is difficult to "enlighten" it all at once.
Especially magic, a knowledge that is full of rationality and is almost natural science.
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Next, Xia Duo's main research is the "Deep Magic Network". However, the essence of the Magic Network is actually pure theory, and the Nese magic system has not yet been perfected to the extent of pure theoretical derivation.
It is still necessary to use the practice of magic to verify, deduce, improve, and summarize the theory.
During this process, Xia Duo prepared to contact the fifth level of the magic network first, become a high-level mage, and master real long-distance teleportation. This was also his plan before entering the projection plane.
Of course, concentration training will not stop during this process.
Concentration training is included under the theory of "Soulology". The purpose of concentration training is not only to improve the concentration of the caster (to make the will more concentrated), but also to enable the caster to perceive the soul.
The most critical step in becoming an advanced arcanist is to seize the essence of the magic web and generate arcane fire.
What is ultimately combined with the arcane fire is the extension of the soul, or will; and if you want to seize the essence of the magic network, you also need strong will support.
If the soul cannot be sensed and the will cannot be clear, then even if the arcane fire is successfully born, it will ultimately have nowhere to place it, let alone connect it to the magic network to exist stably.
At present, Xia Duo's progress in this area is relatively slow. She has communicated with Niya before. She had been exposed to the magic network before she became an adult. When she reached adulthood at the age of sixteen, she began to undergo advanced concentration training. This is better than Jue
Most mages start much earlier.
What Sha Duo is currently undergoing is advanced concentration training and basic concentration training, just to allow ordinary people to come into contact with the magic network and become mage apprentices. In fact, many people complete this step automatically before they reach adulthood.
There are many people in Savile Town who can cast magic as soon as they reach adulthood, but of course they are limited to "magic tricks" with very few elements.
It's a pity that magic doesn't favor talent, it prefers wisdom.
These people have a good start, but in the end they are forgotten by everyone. Playing several magic tricks a day will not improve their lives in any way.
Although Xia Duo's current concentration training is relatively slow, he is still making unswerving progress.
Although there is no specific numerical value that tells him how much his will is now and what percentage of his soul perception progress is, he can clearly see that he is making progress through the completion of concentration training.
Moreover, you can also roughly estimate your overall progress.
If nothing unexpected happens, there will be achievements in the main plane within a year.
(What enters the projection plane is only the projection of the body, which cannot play a real role in exercise. It is similar to the reason why it cannot be upgraded, but it is no problem to acquire knowledge and you can go in to gain experience.)