Dark city

The first magic

The next day's class was still about the philosophy of magic, but the difference was that the instructor was Riley, the seventeenth-level great magician, who was 'one of the guys in this magic tower'.

Riley was tall and thin, wearing magic glasses with fine gold thread, and his whole body was meticulously groomed, and his wise and deep eyes seemed to be able to see through the world. When he stood on the podium, the classroom was still silent. The seventeenth-level great mage is not far from the legendary magister, maybe it will never be possible to advance to the ranks, or maybe it will be an overnight thing. Compared with the sixteenth-level great mage, the extra eighth-level magic spell slot is enough to make the outcome of the battle between the two irreversible. The relationship between three eighth-level magic and two eighth-level magic can be calculated by a ten-year-old child, and this is not counting the difference in spell slots between the seventh-level and below magic. Although the advantage of magic below level 7 is not large, it is still an advantage after all.

So when Riley reached the seventeenth level first, his demeanor became perfect in certain things, and he no longer cared about the survival of steppe gophers, let alone Kamchatka wild boars.

When standing in the center of the podium, Riley always feels good. At least at this time, in this enclosed space, he is supreme and in control. If it was possible that he could not remember a certain woman named Su Helen, it would be even more perfect.

Riley's voice was soft but not slight, ringing in everyone's ears at the same volume: "Everything has a foundation, just as the world is built on the origin, and the plane and the rules depend on each other. We, human beings and other races, live on the plane. We are weak, but we are not humble. There are no two souls in the world that are the same, and similarly, no two people are the same. What is the meaning of our existence, is to understand the world, to gradually become stronger, so as to gain more resources, which is equivalent to freedom. Our world is dominated by the strong, and our laws are the rules made by the strong. It is immeasurably far from the derivative rules of the plane, but it can determine the fate of the vast majority of us. As a weakling, you don't have to break the derivative rules, as long as you break the law, it's enough to destroy. ”

Most of the students who listened to the lecture nodded, and some of the older mages among them were more impressed. Compared to yesterday's class, where most of the students were almost forcibly infused with mental power, today's lecture finally had some interactive responses.

Seeing the good response, Riley smiled slightly, and said calmly: "Only a magus can feel the derivative rules, and if you don't reach the legendary realm, you can't understand the basic rules of the plane." For you and me, how many people can reach the realm of a magister? Even if they are geniuses, how many fall halfway? I can tell you about the composition of the world, the rules of the plane, but it means nothing to you. But! Anything can happen in the world of magic, but only if you have great power. And where does the power come from? It comes from the understanding of oneself and the use of the environment. In fact, everyone is complex, and wanting to fully understand yourself is likely to be a lifelong task. Therefore, if you want to improve your strength, you need to be down-to-earth and start from understanding yourself. Only from the bottom up can we master our destiny. ”

Riley waved his hand, and a magical image of a human body appeared in front of him. He pointed to the various parts of the image and began to explain the core content: "Strength is not complicated, but it is by no means as simple as a few more spell slots, although three eighth-level magic is definitely stronger than two, but other factors cannot be ignored. Generally speaking, a person's strength can be broken down into four parts: attributes, equipment, skills, and bloodline. In fact, there is a fifth part, wisdom! This is where the individual differences are greatest, and it is the part that only you can grasp, so I won't go into detail here. So let's start with the attributes, let's talk about what spiritual power is......"

Richard gained a lot from this class, and for the first time learned that spiritual power is the power of the soul, and magic is the source of power for magic to be launched. Martial artists mainly rely on the cultivation of physical strength, while priests borrow the power of faith. However, after each profession enters the legendary stage, they all begin to use the power of the rules more or less, and the size of the rules that can be used determines the level of strength.

At the end of the course, the personable Riley summed it up: "Don't be greedy for unrealistic things, but be down-to-earth and climb the ladder on the path of strength, that's what you need to do." Among other things, the promotion of power will bring longer lives, which will give you more possibilities to pursue greater power. So see yourself clearly, understand the environment, allocate resources, and maximize your personal strength. And the more the path of the strong comes to the back, the more significant it is to take a step forward. The actual gap between a seventeenth-level mage and a sixteenth-level mage is not as small as one might think. ”

Richard had just memorized two diametrically opposed ways of thinking, and before he had time to think about it, Master Phil proposed several new ways of thinking on the third day of class. For example, the master drew a circle in the air, divided in half with a line in the middle, then red on the left and blue on the right.

"The mysteries of the world are endless. And can we know the whole mystery? This is a fundamental point of divergence. Some people think that they can, and many magicians can fall into this category. Others think it is impossible, and they tend to think that only the gods can do this, so believers and clergy mostly fall into this category. ”

One of Master Phil's lines is split from the middle of the circle, half on the left and half on the left. Of course, this does not mean that there are more people, and what Phil means is that he does not comment on which of the two ways is more correct, but only makes an introduction from a neutral point of view.

After describing the contradictions between the infinite divisibility of the world and the indivisibility of the world, Master Phil went on to tell more than a dozen other points of view. Like Richard, most people don't quite understand it. And their biggest question is, what is the use of these things? And it can't help increase your own magic.

But no one will really say what they doubt. Phil is an eighteenth-level mage, and he doesn't look much different from a seventeenth-level archmage. Seriously, the difference between the Magister and the Seventeenth-level Mage is just one Rank 9 magic spell slot.

A ninth-level spell, nothing more than that........

So not only did no one dare to question Phil, but they all listened very carefully with their ears pricked up. Not one of the ten mages would be so lucky to be able to listen to a magister, although the content of the lecture seems to be somewhat ...... Unrealistic.

On the fourth day, after the blank Theodore stood on the podium, the first thing he did was to draw a circle like Master Phil, and then draw a line in the middle, the only difference was the position of the line. Representing the unknowable, red accounts for almost the vast majority, and blue becomes a thin strip.

"The world is so delicate that we cannot know everything, only God can know everything......"

Later, Richard learned that Theodore was not a mage, but a very powerful Master of Divine Arts, roughly equivalent to a level 16 or 17 mage. Deep Blue is the world of the sorcerer, and the presence of the sorcerer is very strange, even more strange is that Theodore does not have only one faith, he believes in three gods at the same time, and the three beliefs do not interfere with each other. This allows him to issue three different systems of sorcery, far more powerful than the average sorcerer of his level. But when Richard thought about it, and combined what he had read, it seemed that the only way to have three different beliefs at the same time was to cheat.

Able to deceive God, and three? From this, Richard knew that Theodore was anything but simple.

On the fifth day, when Tithrifa drew a circle and divided it by a vertical line, and the division was almost all blue, Richard immediately knew that he was a mage, and that he was an agnostic.

On the fifth day, when Tithrifa drew a circle and divided it by a vertical line, and the division was almost all blue, Richard immediately knew that he was a mage, and that he was an agnostic.

With such a quick and accurate judgment, it seems that ...... It didn't help either.

On the sixth day, Master Foggia pointed to a pile of irregular numbers and said, "When you can see the beauty in these numbers, you are halfway along the path of mathematics."

On the seventh day, Master Komu asked the students to see the numbers in the intricate and beautiful three-dimensional patterns, which in short, abstracted the beauty into numbers as a sign of the introduction to the geometry of plane space.

Then Richard fell into an unsolvable cycle of seeing beauty in numbers, and then seeing numbers in beautiful patterns.

……

A month passed quietly, and little Richard was almost always learning all kinds of ethereal theoretical knowledge, most of which seemed to have nothing to do with magic, at least not directly with the casting of magic, and many of the contents were contradictory. In the massive, chaotic and complex information, the key words of special, Su Helen, boss, and dominating everything appear repeatedly, which carved a deep imprint in Richard's heart. And the teachers who taught the class, from Popovich to Tishrifa, liked to end the day with 'the world is so simple', which has almost become the hallmark of the dark blue schools.

The world is so simple, but Richard is completely messy.

However, Richard was not without gains, and by very chance, his magic took a substantial step.

He learned to rub fireballs.