"Hey! You can deceive this... silly girl from a landlord's family, but you can't deceive me! Such a thing can't be called a gift at all!"
However, Jabir just glared at Amy, and the terrifying face frightened Amy so much that she retracted her head and did not dare to scream again.
"The things have been given to you. I have no time to care about you anymore. Just be wise and leave here quickly. I advise you not to try to steal it when I am not paying attention, otherwise I will make you understand the horror of Tepui's ancient magic!"
Jaber left these words and walked along a stone staircase in the treasure house to a platform about four stories high.
"It smells like Semitic magic out there. Let me see what it's about."
He muttered to himself, clapped his hands, and said the same sentence as before: "Open." Then the stone wall in front of him slowly lifted up as before, revealing observation towers facing the sea. .
Ella saw a long cylindrical object on the observation deck, supported by a bracket, with one mouth facing the sea and the other mouth closed. A small cylinder stands upward at the end of the cylinder, at an angle of ninety degrees. Jabir put his eyes on the small cylinder and kept fiddling with the position of the entire long cylinder.
Ella, who was still disdainful of Tepui civilization not long ago, couldn't help shouting out again:
"Is this...the Eye of Hermes?"
"Eye of Hermes? Yes, its inventor seems to have called it this name."
Jabir turned his attention to Ella again.
"About four years ago, a very interesting manuscript appeared among the books that the lord of this island gave me. It mentioned the principle of this wonderful prop, through which distant objects can be magnified dozens of times. It seems that people in that country called it the Devil's Eye and rejected it, so the author had to let the only manuscript escape to other countries. I remember that the author's name was... his name was..."
"Bedford, right? That's my alias."
Ella spoke up for Jabir.
"However, I just put forward the relevant theory, but I have never been able to grind the lens to the curvature I want. And the transparency of the lens has never been enough. How did you complete it?"
As soon as he heard that Ella was the owner of the manuscript, Jabir's attitude instantly changed 180 degrees:
"Oh, it seems that you lack a craftsman with superb alchemical skills - but I am just a craftsman. The person who first discovered this principle is the truly great wise man! Through it, I have a deeper understanding of the stars. Great. Wise man, would you like to try out the great instrument you have created?"
After hearing what Jabir said, Ella climbed up the steps excitedly and looked left and right at the instruments on the observation deck.
"Why do you have to block the end and pull the eyepiece vertically upward? What's the principle?"
"In your manuscript, you want to use the refraction of light to make the eyes of Hermes. I changed it slightly and used the reflection of light, which makes it easier to achieve greater magnification."
"Use reflection instead of refraction? Genius idea!"
"No, you are the real genius who came up with the principles of refraction and reflection of light."
The two held each other's hands tightly, their faces full of regret for meeting each other, which shocked Amy.
"But the conditions here are so simple. Even if the Tepui people's alchemy is advanced, it will be difficult to make suitable lenses, right?"
"No, you don't need any tools, just 'words'. Our Tepui magic is to use words to drive the world of ideas and change its projection in the real world. As long as we can fully understand the 'ideas' - just bring the props In other words, it is the process of making it - as long as we can fully and correctly understand it, we can use 'words' to prepare it from raw materials into the props we want - this is how the entire cave mechanism is made!"
As if to show off, Jabir turned over an iron ore in front of Ella. He said "manage iron", and the iron ore turned into iron ingots. Then he added "sword generation", and the iron ingot turned into a sword and fell to the ground with a clang.
Ella's eyes shone: "It's completely different from the secret contract magic of the Seven Hills Empire! Can you tell me more about it in detail?"
Amy cried and shouted from below: "Your Majesty... Your Majesty... can you let this new... friend next to you... put me down from this snake first? It's shaking here. It feels like it will fall off at any time..."
Amy's words brushed past Jabir's ears, making him suddenly realize something. I saw him slap himself in the face and said: "That's right! For such a genius, it is too rude to only give you a crowbar. Let's do this, I will give you another gift!"
As he spoke, he snapped his fingers, and the giant snake suddenly jumped out and threw Amy to the ground. The snake crawled onto the crowbar that Ella had thrown down, circled around the crowbar, and suddenly disappeared.
Amy carefully picked up the crowbar and saw a snake carving on the crowbar. The snake gave the crowbar a circle and finally took its tail in its mouth, forming the image of an ouroboros symbolizing alchemy.
Ella saw this and asked in surprise: "What's going on?"
"This snake is a product of alchemy. I just changed it from a physical object back to a projection describing its 'idea'."
Jabir spoke enthusiastically: "Alchemy and Tepui's magic are closely related. In order to maximize the magic of Tepui system, Tepui's magicians have been studying two problems throughout their lives. ——The transformation of matter, and the movement of matter!”
"Are these two questions related to magic?"
"Oh, that's a huge connection. As you can see, I can turn water into ice and iron into swords. But I can't turn water into swords and I can't turn iron into ice. Why? Because I haven’t yet grasped the transformation path between water and iron! I haven’t yet understood the ultimate concept that allows all things to transform into each other!”
Jaber became more and more excited as he spoke:
"Alchemy is the study of the transformation of substances. We believe that perfect alchemy can transform any substance into any other substance! As long as I can find the principle of this transformation, I can master the ultimate magic ! Oh - by the way, I have compiled my research on alchemy over the past two thousand years into a book, you may be interested in reading it."
Jabir looked around and found a thick book and stuffed it into Ella's hand. The weight of the book made Ella feel slightly embarrassed: "No... I don't know much about alchemy. Although I have read many related books, I can't understand most of them."
"Oh! Yes, the secrets of alchemy are not easy to be interpreted by laymen. It doesn't matter, we have another research direction - that is the movement of matter!"
But when he mentioned this, Jabir, who was in high spirits just now, suddenly became very disappointed:
"Tepui's magic has never succeeded in controlling the movement of matter - God, why is this? Are all the concepts we have about movement wrong? Genius girl, I wonder if you have ever done this before? I haven’t thought about why objects move?”
