Constantine opened his eyes wide. He glanced at Schiller first, then at Bruce, then at Schiller, and said: "Is this your teaching method? No wonder you have tortured each other for four years. If I My teacher asked me to memorize these things within three hours, then I will definitely..."
Before he finished speaking, Bruce had already stepped forward, flipped through the three books with a calm face, nodded and said, "There are some problems with my memory system now, and the upload and download speeds have been affected, so maybe You need to read them twice before you can enter them. Just read them once in normal times."
"Go ahead." Schiller pointed to the tables and chairs next to the bookstore window with his cane, then looked at Constantine and said, "Take me to your warehouse to have a look. I have recently been interested in the ritual part of the occult world. "
Constantine stretched his neck and glanced at Bruce, and found that he was really sitting at the table and starting to read seriously. He shook his head, sighed, and led Schiller into the warehouse.
Two hours later, it was completely dark. Schiller walked out of the study upstairs. Constantine followed him dejectedly. Schiller walked down the stairs. He chased after him and spread his hands and said: "...How can there be so many reasons? In the magic world, rituals are passed down by word of mouth. I just do what others do. How can I know why?"
"Besides, I am already a very knowledgeable magician in the magic world. I understand the habits of almost every demon and angel. Even great wizards like Andrew once called me to consult on the weaknesses of some partial gods."
"And then you don't even know the origin of the same symbol that appears in the four rituals," Schiller pointed out.
Constantine sighed deeply and walked down the stairs holding on to the handrail and said: "You can understand it as an inherent noun in mysterious semiotics, just like a noun in English. We just use it without understanding it. .”
"Don't you understand it so you can use it better?"
"No." Constantine denied. He walked up to Schiller, looked into his eyes and said, "The power of magic is borrowed. As long as someone is willing to lend you power, a three-year-old child can also perform magic."
"Have you ever thought that this might be a trap from the gods?" Schiller put one hand on the table in front of the bookshelf and said: "The forms of existence of gods and demons are completely different from humans, so they can lend their power to humans perfectly. It fits the human body. What is certain is that this cannot be their original power and must have been processed in some way."
"Logically speaking, they can let their hosts adapt to them without such treatment. Do you think demons and gods are so kind to do the work for magicians?"
Constantine looked at him in a daze. After a while, he frowned and said, "You mean, this might be a conspiracy?"
"All gods and demons invariably transformed the power they lent to humans to completely adapt to human bodies. Why do you think this is?"
Constantine's brows furrowed deeper and deeper. As a former magician, he had much more experience with magic than Schiller, and it had to be admitted that most of the powers lent by gods and demons to humans could be very powerful. Easily manipulated by humans.
Constantine, who has read many magic books, knows that in ancient times there were many examples of magicians who could not control their power and exploded to death. However, in modern times, such accidents are rarely heard of. Magicians are in poor health. Most of it is because of the price to pay, not because of the inability to control the power.
What's more, many relatively mild forces will not cause even minor damage when flowing through the human body. This is actually very strange, because the human body is not designed to contain energy at all.
After thinking for a while, Constantine said with a serious face: "I can only tell you that the situation you mentioned does exist, and the adaptability of the power of demons and gods to the human body has indeed evolved. In ancient times, only Only the most talented magicians can control the violent power. In recent years, the age of magicians has become younger and younger, and many people even advocate that "children are born spiritual beings."
"It was mentioned in the two books on magical rituals I just read." Schiller said with his fingertips
Knocking on the table lightly, he said: "The magic rituals in ancient times were very complex. Most of them consisted of patterns, materials, energy, chants and sacrificial dances. However, in modern times, magic rituals can be performed perfectly if only one of these is included."
Constantine nodded, he looked away, looked up at the ceiling, and said as if recalling: "Yes, I tend to use magic circles, that is, patterns to cast magic, and some female mages prefer For singing, like Zatanna, the irony magic she uses is a kind of singing."
"Do you think this is really a good thing?" Schiller also frowned at Constantine and asked: "The threshold is getting lower and lower, the power is getting stronger, the number of magicians is increasing, and the overall debt is The amount is getting bigger and bigger, is this really a gift from God?"
Constantine was silent, and Schiller continued: "They have evolved energy to make it more and more suitable for humans, and made spellcasting methods simpler and simpler. It is definitely not for the convenience of humans." Five
"Just like credit cards, are banks relaxing approval thresholds and increasing loan limits to benefit the people? No, they just hope that people will develop the habit of excessive consumption and then borrow more debt, because they have the ability to force people to repay money."
"Extraordinary beings have made the threshold for borrowing power very low, luring more and more young people and even young mages into the profession, just to lend more debts and collect more interest."
"And the more fatal thing is that if the whole process is very simple, then no one will get to the bottom of it. This is the case in the magic world now, isn't it?"
"The mages in ancient times are still studying the structure of each rune that can hold energy, and how to improve the runes and secret words to form more efficient patterns to control power." Bruce's voice came from the left, and he still While lowering his head to read, he just quietly joined in the conversation between Schiller and Constantine.
Both of them looked at him, and Bruce continued: "I saw in these books the historical traces of the ancient wizards gradually controlling the power of rage step by step."
"At that time, many mages spent their whole lives just to optimize one rune, and an entire school only mastered one pattern, and then used generations of inheritance to study its secrets."
"There are even many mages who use the door of magic to observe the origin of the original power of the universe. Countless speculations about the origin of the world and magical energy are passed down orally among various schools. But today, these classics have become side stories that have been shelved in the cabinet. Knowledge."
Bruce looked up at Constantine and said, "Ever since humans can make fire, we have never stopped studying the origin of the world. "How does the universe exist?" This topic runs through all learning processes in all categories of the scientific world. It is a human The path and end of science.”
"But the magic world has completely given up on research." Schiller closed his mouth, lowered his eyes, and sighed softly and said: "As you said, talking to the devil in a dream can give you power far beyond that of ordinary people. With the power, you can escape from the mediocre society of ordinary people and embark on a journey into the mysterious and magnificent magical world. Who wouldn't be tempted?"
"And in the process of squandering power and imagining that they are magic geniuses, how many people have thought about whether the gods are deliberately pushing behind all this so easily?"
Constantine was silent for a long time, and the room returned to silence. Bruce once again turned his attention to the books. After a while, Constantine's young voice sounded out.
"Do you know? Your argument is denounced as heresy among the younger generation of mages. The current trend in the entire occult world is that only humans who are talented enough and lucky enough can have the possibility to control magic."
Schiller shook his head and said, "John, I want you to know that any society that denies the significance of effort is unhealthy. The purpose of talent-only and blood-only theories must be more sinister than you think."
"Every young mage is pretending to be a genius now." Constantine pursed his lips and said, "I know that many of them can't even draw a complete magic circle. They just pay more and master more. I feel pathetic for them when they tell others that they are extremely talented."
"I have always been very opposed to the use of magic.
There is a trend that magic can solve everything, but you have also seen that mages with noble blood and special talents like Zatanna are the ones who are sought after in the circle, while I am just a bereaved dog chased by creditors from all walks of life. "
"But you are actually much stronger than Zatanna." Schiller raised his eyes and met Constantine's eyes and said, "This is why I hope you don't use magic. For people like us, magic is a complete drag. .”
After saying that, he turned his head and glanced at Bruce, who was still immersed in the world of books, and Constantine also followed his gaze. After a while, he showed a wry smile and said: "You are planning to establish a new school of thought. And then revolutionize the magical world? I can only tell you that no one has tried to do this, but it is very difficult."
Constantine swallowed and began to explain to Schiller: "Perhaps you think that magicians get stronger as they get older, but on the contrary, the younger and stronger a magician is, the more capital he has and can The more you pay, the more power you will naturally get. The more powerful the magician, the more say he has. Therefore, in the magic world, young adults have always had the final say."
"Most magicians don't live to old age, and those who survive are not stronger than others. It's just that they find ways to pay off part of the price or use their power very carefully, so they can live longer than others. "
"Because they are old enough and close enough to death, they have to choose the price they pay more carefully, otherwise they are very likely to die. Therefore, the vast majority of elderly mages hide in their wizard towers and rarely go out to socialize. .”
"This will create a problem. Young mages have strength but no brains, and older mages have brains but no strength. There are also a lot of idiots who have neither, and the few geniuses who have both are also mixed in. It is difficult to shake the entire magical world with a very small number."
"So do they have Batman?" Schiller asked, looking at Constantine.
Constantine opened his mouth. As soon as he laid his eyes on Bruce, Bruce looked up at him and said, "I've finished carrying it."
Constantine was stunned and then he heard Bruce say.
"And according to the article "A Centenary Survey on the Origin and Evolution of 623 Symmetrical Runes in Ritual Patterns by Priscita Fraaubon and her Disciples," at 3:00 pm on June 16, 1992, the drawing you drew The two magic circles are drawn completely wrong—it’s a complete mess.”
