Winters was having a great time talking, but Ike was already drowsy. Seeing that Ike had changed into the same state as when he was in the spell class, Winters felt that if he continued to teach according to the spell class textbook, Ike would fall asleep immediately.
"I still need to demonstrate some spells with more obvious effects!" Winters thought to himself, and he carefully thought about other spells that could be easily demonstrated.
So Winters pulled out a few hairs from Ike's arm. The pain made Ike jump and wake up a lot.
"Be sure to watch carefully." Winters warned Ike. He once again pressed his index finger with his thumb and entered the spell-casting state. The familiar and strange squeezing and tingling sensations appeared again.
The hair on Winters' hands changed. Just like when the arm is accidentally burned by flames, the hairs curl up at a speed visible to the naked eye, and in the end only a little bit of carbon black is left.
Ike finally saw the wonders of magic because he didn't see any open flames.
"Does this hair look like it's been burned by fire?" Winters showed Ike the charcoal black remaining in the hair.
"The magic that turns hair into charcoal is fire magic. This spell is called fire magic, and the spell that makes water vaporize just now is called vaporization."
"These two spells are the most basic of fire spells. Do you understand now why this type of magic is called fire magic?" Winters seemed to be inducing Ike to think proactively like a teacher.
"There is no flame, but there is an effect like a flame, right?" Ike replied while digesting, and he now understood a little bit.
"Yes, for example, I use the fire technique on the wick of a lamp. Although there is no open flame, the wick will be lit as if it comes into contact with a flame." Winters gave another example of daily application.
He mocked himself and said: "To be honest, I think fire-burning spells are the most practical place for doing small jobs like lighting lamps."
"There is also the vaporization technique. I have received ten years of spellcasting training, and I can only vaporize a little bit of water, so the actual combat ability of fire spells is really poor."
Winters thought about the current situation of fire spells and continued to laugh at himself: "If one day, people can carry fire with them, fire spells may be eliminated."
Ike's eyes were about to close again. But Winters didn't notice it at all. He said to himself: "I have imagined that if the ability to use fire spells is strong enough, I might be able to directly vaporize the blood in the enemy's body. But I don't know which alliance yet. A spell caster can have such ability..."
"You really fell asleep!" Winters found that Ike had closed his eyes, and he angrily yelled: "You want to see magic, I will demonstrate it to you, but you are still asleep."
"I've told you in such a profound and simple way, how can you still be sleepy? Why don't you go to the spellcasting class when you have insomnia, and make sure you fall asleep as soon as your butt touches the stool."
"Wait, this is magic? Don't you need to chant some long and complicated spells? Aren't the magicians in the story all very powerful after learning an ancient spell?" Ike seemed to suddenly think of something, He jerked his head up and looked at Winters.
"You're singing shit, who are you singing to?" Winters said angrily: "Everyone in the Alliance speaks Imperial language, and the accents of Seablue people and United Provinces people are also different, right?
The imperial nobles do not speak the imperial language, but speak the old language; the people of the ancient empire speak the ancient language; the Fremen (Fremen, meaning travelers) speak the Fremen language; Serica).
Different languages are spoken around the world, chanting? Singing in different languages, who sings the right one? Who sang it wrong? Do we have to invent a special language for singing? Do you think it is possible for the mages of the Silk Kingdom and the mages of the Empire to use the same chanting language despite being thousands of miles apart?"
"What about the staff? There is always a magician's staff, right?"
"If I have a staff, why should I practice this?" Winters raised his long sword and gestured: "How about I just practice the staff? All abilities of a spellcaster originate from themselves and will not be affected by external objects. . Don’t imagine that you can become a great magician by getting some secret treasure. It’s impossible. If you give an ordinary person a peerless sword, can he become as powerful a swordsman as you?”
"Okay, okay, don't be angry. Think about it, you have been taking spell caster courses for ten years, and I have never heard you explain what a spell caster is until today. How could I understand it all at once. Let me digest it slowly ." Ike comforted Winters with kind words. He was well aware of Winters' fiery temperament and knew that the donkey could only be smoothed.
Winters also felt that what he just said was a little too hasty. He felt a little ashamed but couldn't say it out loud, so he thought about it and continued to explain to Ike: "But the story sung by the mage may be groundless and there is a reason for it. Antoine Laurent The general believes that chanting may be a means of autosuggestion for magicians.”
"The general believes that the magician's chanting is just a ritual. 'Rituals are not important, but the sense of ritual is important.' When using a certain spell, you chant specific sentences and use the sense of ritual to generate self-suggestion." Winters still learned from Ike. For example: "Just like an archer believes that certain rituals can make arrows shoot more accurately, don't you have to lick your palm fiercely every time you draw a sword?"
"When I licked my palm, it wasn't self-suggestion. It was just a habit." Ike blushed: "Besides, when did I lick it violently..."
"If you say it's a habit, it's a habit. What you call a habit is another way of saying it is autosuggestion."
"In short, it is to connect the difficult behavior A with the simple behavior B, and then perform the simple behavior B to assist the difficult behavior A to be completed better."
"You don't have to be so embarrassed if you like to lick your palms, right? Why do I always wear the same pair of shoes every time I take an exam?"
"It's just those old shoes with worn-out soles!" Ike suddenly realized, "I told you that you wouldn't throw them away no matter how hard you die..."
Winters inadvertently exposed his secret, but he was very thick-skinned, so he ignored Ike and continued to popularize magic knowledge: "It is precisely because chanting is only self-suggestion that General Antoine Laurent invented the spell-casting gesture to replace chanting. .”
"The general summarizes magic into three categories. These three categories represent three different spell-casting abilities. The same type of spells are very similar to each other, and the differences between different types of spells are as big as wrestling and sword fighting."
"Wrestling is a part of sword fighting. Marshal Ned's swordsmanship atlas has a lot of space about wrestling." Ike immediately stood up to refute Winters.
"Wrestling is part of the (expletive) sword fight, don't interrupt," Winters said angrily.
"This is the gesture used when using fire spells." Winters raised his left hand and pressed his index finger with his thumb.
"This is the gesture used when using acceleration spells." He pressed his middle finger with his thumb again.
"This is the gesture used when using sound-based spells." He finally pressed his ring finger with his thumb.
"This is your wrestling time." Then he raised his middle finger.
Winters continued to explain: "Actually, you can change it to other actions. Pulling your hair, rubbing your eyes, touching your nose, any action will do. As long as you link an action with a type of spell."
"This set of gestures invented by the general is relatively simple, just move your fingers. Therefore, Alliance spellcasters generally use this set of gestures."
"Of course you can cast spells without gestures, but if you suddenly switch from using one type of spell to another, your brain will be confused."
"It's like asking you to compete with swords for one round, and then suddenly move on to the next chess move. Then compete with swords for another round, and then come back to continue with the next chess move. The caster's magical perception will be confused."
"Especially when using compound spells produced by combining two types of spells, it is almost difficult to switch spells smoothly without cooperating with gestures. If the spell-casting gestures are bound well, switching back and forth will not be so dizzy."
"So we spellcasters in the alliance don't chant, we only use spellcasting gestures."
Another long talk made Ike feel dizzy. He digested the content for a while, and then said seriously: "Although I didn't understand much, I at least heard one thing: General Antoine Laurent created many things and discovered a lot of knowledge. A very great person.”
"Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier is the father of the Alliance's magic system. Although he does not know magic, I would like to call him the greatest spellcaster." Winters also put away his frivolous attitude , Su Rong said: "I think he represents our human spirit of having the courage to explore the laws of all things."
"It's a pity that General Antoine Laurent passed away too early. He left at the age of fifty-one." Ike also sighed: "Do you know how the general died? I was just attending the Army Infant School at the time. I don’t understand anything, I just remember that one morning the teacher said that General Antoine Laurent passed away and asked us to observe silence.”
"Head ailment." Winters replied concisely and concisely: "It is said that the general finally redefined magic in the seminar. Unfortunately, he died young and his manuscripts were lost."
"So it turns out that being able to turn water into vapor counts as a talent for magic? I'll give it a try. Maybe I also have a talent for magic?" Ike quickly changed the subject. He also dipped some water in his hand, dripped it on the stone bench, and then Follow Winters' example and apply force to the water droplets out of thin air.
"It is very difficult to vaporize water." Seeing Ike trying to vaporize water, Winters quickly reminded his friend: "The ability of an untrained spellcaster is very weak, almost no different from ordinary people. It is impossible to vaporize water.
Let me give an analogy, if the essence of magic is fire, then an untrained spellcaster will not even be a flame, but can only be regarded as sparks produced by flint. It takes a long period of training to gradually turn into a flame and finally into a flame.
If you want to test the small Mars, you have to use the equipment invented by General Antoine Laurent. Besides, haven’t you taken the test? "
"When did I take the test?" Ike was shocked.
"Didn't you take the test when you entered kindergarten?" Winters was also surprised: "Don't everyone have to take the test when Luyou entered school? I was the one who took the test when Luyou entered school."
"I was only nine years old when Lu You entered school. I really don't remember whether I took the test at that time. How did I take the test?" Ike thought about it carefully and found that he really had no memory of the test.
"I can't remember either. It seemed like there were several glass instruments in a room." Winters scratched his hair. It was all ten years ago and he couldn't remember either.
"It seemed like a woman gave me a test, and I did whatever she asked me to do. After the test, I left. Later, the teacher said that I was a spell caster, so I got an additional spell caster course."
Ike shook his head and said regretfully: "I really have no impression at all. Maybe it was not tested on me, or maybe it was tested on me but I forgot."
But he said cheerfully: "It doesn't matter, I will try now to see if I can make the water vaporize. Haha, what if I am a peerless genius who has been missed? It is not against the rules to try."
After saying that, he dipped it in a little salt water again and dripped it on the stone bench. Then he put his hands around the water droplets to prevent them from being blown by the wind, and stared at the water droplets attentively. Winters sat aside without comment, waiting for the results with interest.
