"Hey, I don't understand. I'll show you the magic and you'll understand." Winters slapped his thigh, feeling that a thousand words are not as good as an actual demonstration.
"Okay." Hearing that Winters was going to show real magic in front of him, Ike nodded.
The spell casters in the school are all mysterious, and the school strictly prohibits them from asking about the spell casters. This was the first time Ike and Winters discussed magic and spellcasters.
As for Winters, he and Ike have been studying in prep school for six years. This is the first time Winters has heard Ike express his envy for his status as a spellcaster. Expressing admiration for anything made Winters feel obligated to satisfy Ike's intellectual curiosity.
So Winters squeezed out a few drops of sweat from his armor and dropped them on the stone bench. He first focused on his long sword and practiced concentrating for a while, then Winters pressed his left index finger with his left thumb, trying to recall the feeling of using spells in the past.
It seemed to Ike that Winters was just staring at the drops of water motionless. But for Winters, he started to feel "weird" squeezing and tingling sensations.
These squeezing and tingling sensations did not come from anywhere inside or outside his body, nor from any part of his skin, any tissue, or any bone, but he actually felt the squeezing and tingling sensation. Tingling.
But Winters was already familiar with this. He struggled to endure and overcome the squeezing and stinging sensations, and a thin layer of sweat soon formed on his forehead. Finally, the few drops of water that dripped onto the stone bench disappeared.
"Okay!" Winters clapped his hands and let out a sigh of relief.
"That's it?" Ike asked confused.
"That's it." Winters replied matter-of-factly.
"Is this magic?" Ike asked doubtfully.
"This is magic." Winters answered Ike firmly.
"How could this be magic?" Ike felt really baffled.
"This is magic. You don't understand magic, and I show you what magic is, but you still don't believe it." Winters also felt particularly aggrieved.
"Isn't this (expletive) just evaporation of water? Isn't this (expletive) just a few drops of water evaporated by the wind?" Ike laughed angrily.
"Don't worry, just listen to me explain to you." Winters cleared his throat and began to explain in a cram-like manner: "The disappearance of the few drops of water in front of you is different from the volatilization of water by the wind. This water was created by my magic. It turns into water vapor and will disappear even if there is no wind."
"First of all, you have to understand that using magic is just an ability, no different from other abilities of a person. Just like some people can run very fast, and some people can jump very high." Winters said about his Intuitive feeling.
Ike frowned.
"Just like fish can swim without learning, birds can fly without learning. I can indeed use magic, but I don't know the principle. I just can use this ability." Winters thought about it. I think the explanation is still unclear.
He felt that it was better to start with Ike in order to make it easier for Ike to understand: "Just like you don't know why everyone practices swordsmanship and your level is higher, right? I think swordsmanship talent and spell talent are similar in nature."
"My swordsmanship comes from my diligent practice." Ike felt that he must correct Winters's wrong idea.
"If you have to say that you have no swordsmanship talent at all, and you become the strongest in the school just by studying hard, that would be unreasonable." Winters retorted to Ike: "There are others who practice as hard as you, or even better than you. Even if you work hard, you're still not as good as you. I don't deny the role of hard work, but I can't ignore the gap in talent, right?"
"Tell me who practices swordsmanship more diligently than me?" Ike felt very unconvinced.
"Bud." Winters tossed out a name without hesitation.
"Bard... Bard is indeed more diligent than me, but I think his poor swordsmanship is because he has been exposed to swordsmanship for too short a time... Hey, forget it, keep talking." This name made Ike lose his temper.
"I didn't say that your swordsmanship depends solely on talent. Neither talent nor hard work will make you a top swordsman." Winters made the verdict: "But you can't deny the role of talent just because of hard work. That's for those who work harder but still get better results." An insult from someone inferior to you.”
"I want to think about what I said... Magic is a natural ability. The caster can only use it, but he doesn't know the principle." Winters reorganized the thoughts that were disrupted by Ike.
"But the effects that magic abilities can achieve are many and complicated. The few drops of water just evaporated, but they were turned into water vapor by me. Pay attention to whether you feel the wind blowing." Winters said as he made a The gesture of pressing the middle finger with the thumb entered the spell-casting state and used the Wind Control Technique, creating a breeze between the two.
"Have you felt this wind? This wind is also realized through magic." Winters persisted for a while before he couldn't hold it anymore and stopped casting spells.
"I just felt a small wind blowing on my face. Is this magic?" Ike did feel the wind blowing on him just now.
"This is just the effect of magic. If I use magic on you, you won't feel 'magic'. All you can feel is the effect of magic."
"Just like when I used the Wind Control Technique just now, did you feel the magic? No, all you felt was the wind. You couldn't even tell whether it was natural wind or wind generated by magic."
"Magic cannot be seen with the naked eye. People can only observe the effects of magic. Because the effects that magic can achieve are many and very messy, it is necessary to summarize and transform perceptual knowledge into rational knowledge."
"What is perceptual knowledge? What is rational knowledge?" Ike heard these two new terms for the first time.
"To put it simply, in the beginning, spell casters only knew how to use magic, which is perceptual cognition. Some great people were not satisfied with just using magic, and tried to summarize and find out the inner laws of magic, which is rational cognition." Winters said He was tired, so he changed from sitting on the stone floor to sitting on a stone bench.
Winters felt that it was better to give an example from something Ike was familiar with: "Just like swordsmanship, the first person to use a sword must only know how to swing and chop randomly. After using the sword a lot, he discovered several useful routines, including The so-called experience is perceptual cognition.
If we continue to develop, if a swordsman master sums up a theoretical system of swordsmanship, people with no experience can learn swordsmanship, and invent more powerful sword moves based on the theoretical system of swordsmanship, which is rational understanding. Let me take the few drops of water just now as an example. "
"First of all, think about it. If you put water in an iron pot and put it on the stove to boil, the water will eventually be dried out and disappear, right?" Winters first elaborated on the basis of the reasoning.
Ike nodded. Water will be burned dry by fire. This is common sense in life.
"Where did the water go?" Winters asked seductively.
"It turns into water vapor," Ike replied without thinking. It is common sense that white water vapor will appear when water is boiled.
"The process of boiling water is that water is burned by fire and then turns into water vapor, right?" Winters continued to ask
"Isn't this nonsense?" Ike was a little angry at Winters' nonsense.
"Here comes the key point. Listen carefully. General Antoine Laurent believes that this process is due to the action of fire, and water turns into vapor." Winters explained the magic history of the alliance seriously.
"At the same time, the general believed that using magic to turn water into vapor, although no open flame appeared, it achieved the same result as boiling water. Essentially, magic worked instead of flame. You didn't see an open flame appear just now, did you?" Winters asked Ike.
"I did not see any flames." Ike was sure that he did not see any open flames.
"So this type of ability that 'magic takes the place of fire' was summarized by General Antoine Laurent as fire magic. The above is the general's reasoning process for summarizing fire magic."
"Similarly, the 'ability to accelerate objects' is summarized as acceleration magic."
"Ability related to sound is summarized as sound magic. These are the three major categories of spells summarized by the general." Winters said a lot in one breath.
"Ah?" Ike was completely confused.
"If you think about the wind just now, you used magic to speed up the wind, so it is acceleration magic. This spell is called wind control. If it is an iron nail that is accelerated, it is flying arrow magic." Winters Quickly help Ike review the previous knowledge points.
"Before General Antoine Laurent summarized these three categories of magic, the Alliance had no idea what magic was."
"And it's different from the general situation where perceptual knowledge comes first and then rational knowledge. Magic is monopolized by the emperor and the great nobles, and the general himself is not a magician. He started from scratch and relied on his experience to face the imperial court directly on the battlefield several times. The mage's experience summarized three major categories of magic and gained rational understanding.
It is equivalent to a person who has never touched a sword for a day and has only been cut by others with a sword, but he has summarized a set of swordsmanship theories, and it is a truly effective swordsmanship theory.
It was the general who first constructed a magic theoretical system, and then invented detection equipment based on the magic theoretical system, so that the alliance could screen out people with magical talents from the crowd. " Winters said with admiration as he recalled the deeds of General Antoine Laurent.
Then Winters added: "If someone has not received long-term training, the ability of a person who only has magical talent will be very weak, so weak that he and others cannot detect it. If there is no Antoine Laurent, General, there can be no magicians in the alliance."
