Chapter 175: Is there another way of understanding?
"The main reasons why magicians are inferior to extraordinary beings lie in four aspects."
"Four? That's a bit too much. You might as well just say it's worthless!" Alice said angrily. She was slapped in the face because of her conclusion just now. She is now in a cynical state. Even the lamb's casual bleat will be dismissed.
She scolded him severely for "disturbing the order of the classroom", so it was not that outrageous to slander the magician as "good for nothing".
At least Saint Xalia and Ringer ignored her. Only the little sheep who refused to admit defeat was quarreling with her. The two of them were bashing and scolding, and soon attracted a lot of Mr. Rabbits to come and watch, even the people on the temporary stage.
The plant orchestra stopped playing and came closer with great interest to watch one person and one sheep performing some kind of more advanced performance art.
"Essentially speaking, the magic system and the potion system are of the same origin. The former inherits many elements of the latter and has modified them to a considerable extent. Because of this, the Archmage Merlin distinguishes the two types of magic.
Called modern magic and ancient magic, it is a kind of inheritance from ancient times to the present."
"The most intuitive point is that the magic system has not completely abandoned potions. As the key to stimulating human spirituality and opening the mysterious door, its existence is indispensable. At the same time, it also retains the original fourteen paths and nine sequences.
You can clearly see the traces left by the potion system in the magic system."
Alice, who was squirting with the lamb, took a moment to interject: "Doesn't that sound completely the same?"
"The difference is huge."
Saint Xalia replied: "The biggest difference is that in the past, the power of the potion would be completely dissipated, integrated into the body and spirit of the user, transforming their soul into another state that transcended mortals, and gave them
Corresponding abilities. In other words, extraordinary people do not need to learn. They only need to take potions to complete the transformation, and then they can naturally master extraordinary abilities; but at the same time, the magic energy contained in the potions is too huge, and the transformation process is very difficult.
, only those with the strongest will can sustain it. At the same time, the transformation of the soul by the magic potion also leads to the erosion of the law, which in turn makes the person's character gradually become extreme and eventually lose control. The acting method proposed by Saint Toumi can slow down
This process cannot violate the final outcome. Therefore, for extraordinary people, no matter how powerful they are, or even revered as gods by the world, they cannot escape the end of losing control and madness."
"The Archmage Merlin innovatively improved the scope of action of the potion, so that its effect no longer affects the human soul, body and spirit, but blends with the inspired spirituality. After a special reaction,
A brand new realm has been opened up at the junction of spirit and body, which Archmage Merlin calls the 'spiritual sea', also called the etheric sea."
The spiritual sea, the etheric sea... is indeed a name full of mystical elements. Those fifteen or sixteen-year-old girls who are keen on this should be more likely to accept this statement, but the first thing Ringer thought of was a scientifically proven
Falsified hypothesis: Ether is the medium through which light propagates.
He shook his head to get rid of these nonsense thoughts, and then asked: "What is the use of this ether sea?"
"It has only one function, and that is to store the extraordinary abilities you possess, that is, the magic learned by magicians, which will appear in the form of stars in the etheric sea." Saint Xalia explained softly: "These stars are usually
In a dark state, when the magician needs to use magic, he will light up the corresponding stars with his spirituality; when he does not need to use it, he will keep them silent and isolated by the ether sea to ensure that they will not affect the magician.
mind and body."
Isolate the influence between magicians and magic?
Ringer's expression moved slightly, and he had figured out the key point: "Does this mean that magicians will not face the threat of erosion like extraordinary people?"
"Yes." Saint Xia Liya was not surprised that Ringer could see the characteristics of the magic system so quickly, because he was originally a very smart person, or in other words, very keen: "The Archmage Merlin has the biggest role in constructing the magic system.
The pioneering point is to solve the madness and loss of control that humans inevitably encounter when they come into contact with mysterious powers. He has done something that even Saint Tumi has never done. This alone is enough to make many extraordinary people excited, and even hesitate to do so.
Abandon your current achievements and embrace magic."
Compared with the foreseeable madness and constant erosion at the end of the road, the magic that obviously has no side effects is more attractive.
"But then a war still broke out." Lin Ge said: "From extraordinary people to magicians, the peaceful change of the two systems did not come true smoothly."
Even the process of two secular countries attacking, embezzling, and integrating each other takes at least hundreds of years to complete, let alone the two power systems in the mysterious world? In a sense, the devil
The battle between medicine and magic systems is even more intense than the battle between orthodoxy and heresy in the religious world.
"Not everyone can accept the choice of giving up their power and starting from scratch, especially the Transcendents above Sequence 4. In the mysterious world, they already have the qualifications to call themselves demigods, and they will not allow themselves to fall to the realm of mortals.
I also don’t want to see this emerging system grow and impact my own status; at the same time, although the magic system can avoid erosion and prevent loss of control, it also has disadvantages that make people hesitate and tangle, which is what I mentioned before.
Four ways in which magicians are inferior to extraordinary beings."
"The first is that the power of the potion no longer acts on the spirit and the body, but merges with the spirit and opens up into the etheric sea. The etheric sea is located at the junction of the spirit and the body. Although it is part of the human body, it is also connected with them.
Isolated from each other and do not affect each other. This means that without the use of magic, the body and soul of the magician are very weak and can even be killed by mortal weapons. There have indeed been cases in history of people pretending to be mortals.
Instances of magicians being poisoned and assassinated by enemies are unimaginable for extraordinary beings whose bodies and souls are extremely powerful."
"That's really frustrating." Alice popped up again at some point and shared her feelings in a serious manner: "It's like a max-level queen being beaten to death by a novice from Novice Village with a flat A. But Master
It’s normal to have crispy skin. You can’t have rough skin and thick flesh compared to our melee profession, right?”
The lamb that was fighting with her just now ran back behind Saint Sharia in a gray shape, bleating and seeking comfort from its owner. Judging from its performance, it failed to win against this shameless golden-haired maid.
The humiliating defeat in the war of words is very sad.
Are you no different from ordinary people when you don't use magic? Ringer recalled Miss Fialli from Linwell City. When they first met, he really couldn't tell that she was an evil magician.
Saint Xalia picked up the crying lamb with some difficulty, gently stroked its soft hair, and continued: "The second is that in order to avoid the impact of erosion on magicians, basically every magic
They all have a limited time of use. When the time is up, they will return to the etheric sea, absorb spirituality and wait for the moment to be re-ignited. Extraordinary people have no such restrictions, because their extraordinary abilities are obtained along with the strengthening of their bodies and souls.
, as long as it does not reach the endurance limit of the spirit and body, and is not afraid of the deterioration of the corrosion phenomenon, then it can be used indefinitely."
"Oh, active skills have a cooldown time, but passive skills don't. This makes sense." Alice commented, shaking her head.
"The third is that after extraordinary people take the potion and survive the backlash, they will automatically master all the extraordinary abilities included in the potion; while the Archmage Merlin will master every extraordinary ability in the nine sequence levels of the fourteen paths.
All are modified into magic models, and the corresponding potion formulas are developed. After the magician takes the potion corresponding to the magic, he only gets the model of the magic, and must complete the analysis by himself to fully master it; and every time he learns a magic, he must prepare it once
Potions require a lot of resources, and few magicians can afford this kind of consumption."
"Oh, it means that not only is it expensive to learn skills, but it is also difficult to master the skills. It is an aristocratic profession."
"The fourth is that magicians analyze magic models, which is a complex and rigorous process. Therefore, magicians must have rigorous thinking, meticulous logic and extensive knowledge in order to go further on this road. The more knowledge,
The more knowledgeable, the clearer the thinking, the more active the thinking, the stronger the spirituality, and have better adaptability in a magic system dominated by spirituality rather than based on spirit and flesh. In other words
, magic has very strict requirements on individual quality. Most of the magicians with outstanding achievements are also outstanding scientists, engineers, artists, etc. It is said that the Great Master Merlin himself is a great scholar comparable to Saint Tumi."<
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"Oh, it means that the master's intelligence requirements are very high, and upgrading does not depend on killing monsters, but purely on accumulating experience through sub-professions."
"...Based on these four reasons, the attraction of the magic system to extraordinary people is not as great as imagined."
After Saint Xalia finished speaking, she and Linger fell silent together.
After a while, the two of them turned their heads at the same time and looked at Alice, who had been talking nonsense next to her.
A certain golden retriever maid scratched her cheek, not knowing why: "What?"