my magic industry

Chapter 21 Magic Research
The next day, Xia Lin and Harper went out together and found a magic material store near the Royal Academy of Magic on the edge of the East District. After buying all the basic materials needed for the experiment, they returned to the laboratory and couldn't wait to start magic research.

No matter which world you are in, if you want to conduct research in a certain field, you must first determine your own research route.

When determining the research route, it is necessary to consider the extent to which the frontier field of this direction has been researched, and then at which point is the most likely to make a breakthrough and what kind of research results will be obtained.

Naturally, there will not be various periodicals and academic exchanges in this world to guide the study of magic. The mages all stay at home and conduct research on runes and magic through various inheritance or self-exploration methods. Therefore, Xia Lin It is difficult to know how far the mages of this world have gone in their research on magic.

However, Xia Lin found the most critical and missing point in magic research at the most basic level through the memory of studying in the academy, that is, the research on the nature and quantitative instruments of spiritual power and magic power.

Without quantification, there will be no data, and without data, there will be no way to analyze, and use data to find out the essential laws of magic.

In this world, the only thing that can be called a measuring instrument is the magic crystal ball of unknown principle that Xia Lin came into contact with in the mage talent test, which can test the spiritual talent of children and screen out those who can become mages.

And the reason why magic has been developed in this world for such a long time, but still stays at this almost ignorant stage of empiricism theory, Xia Lin thinks that in the final analysis, it is because the mages in this world have not yet realized the importance of quantitative analysis.

In the Academy of Magic, the learning of spells can be divided into five stages:

One is to spend two to three months in the meditation class to master the meditation method of using and exercising spiritual power. It is not considered to have passed this threshold until you can successfully release the spiritual power to the surroundings.

The second is to learn all kinds of runes in the rune class, and compare the rune stones used for teaching, and initially try to use spiritual power to build nodes to build runes.This stage usually takes two to three months.

The third is to learn to use these rune connections in the spell system class to build the most basic zero-ring spells.This stage is about half a year.

The fourth is to generate self-magic power during long-term meditation, and then further upgrade these basic knowledge to master the elective and compulsory first-level spells in the second year of spell classes in various departments. This step is the most difficult, and it will take about a year. time.

The fifth is to repeatedly cast high-intensity and intense spells in the spell training class held in the third year, until the success rate of spell casting reaches more than [-]%, and then practice battles.

Only those mages who can survive relatively fierce battles without being misfired can pass the first-ring mage certification of the mage guild and obtain the first-ring mage badge to complete their studies satisfactorily.

Such a mage training system can be described as extremely practical and rough. The strength of a mage is completely demonstrated by the battles in the training class, rather than quantifying one's own spiritual power and magic power.

Such mages are very able to adapt to battles on the battlefield, but without long-term accumulation, there is basically no possibility of breaking through to the second or even third ring, because they rely entirely on rote memorization to cast spells.

The first-ring spell model only has a hundred or so nodes and can be memorized in a short period of time. When the mental power node is almost doubled, the second-ring spells and third-ring spells have to rely purely on personal sensitivity to space and runes Talent to carry out a long trial and error to successfully build a spell model.

This is also the reason why the number of three-ring mages is quite rare even in the empire, and they can be called high rings.

Xia Lin felt that his research route should be to quantify, standardize, and essentialize magic, so as to reduce the difficulty of building high-level spell models and help him easily break through to a higher level.

First of all, he will quantify the essence of magic by researching and developing instruments to measure spiritual power and magic power, and then use the space coordinate system to try to mathematically model the spell model to see if there is some kind of mathematical connection between the spiritual power nodes. Summarize the possible laws, and then make a possible attempt to construct a new rune.

Next, we will study the role of various known or unknown runes in the spell model, and finally study the connection between runes and runes to see if we can build a new spell model through runes.

In Xia Lin's view, the possibility of him being able to construct new runes is quite small, but his research must at least allow him to construct new spells through the original runes before he feels that his research has achieved certain results .

He briefly held a seminar with Harper, explained the next research work, and let him adapt to his way of researching magic. Xia Lin designed a simple meditation experiment and was ready to start the formal research.

For the "magic experiment" that Xia Lin would mention from time to time, Harper actually didn't understand the connotation of this word very well, and Xia Lin was not in a hurry to give him science, but bound a thin booklet with parchment paper, Tie to thin wooden board with string for easy writing.

A form was drawn on it with a dip pen, and Harper was shown how to fill in the experimental form corresponding to the experiment conducted that day and record the data as an experimental assistant.

“这一行时间，就是记录当天的日期，比如今天是帝国历1391年6月12日，你就记下1391/6/12。

Then there is the name of the experiment. What is going on today is an experiment to explore the essence of magic—the nature of spiritual power and magic power.

The purpose of the experiment is to explore the various properties of spiritual power and magic power, thereby enhancing our understanding of magic, and helping us design instruments to quantify spiritual power and magic power.

Fill in the following experimental materials according to the things I will use later, I will remind you to record the group experiments, and I will report the data and experimental phenomena to you, and fill them in the corresponding form one by one.

The conclusion of the experiment is now temporarily summarized by me. You can see how I did it first, and you will be responsible for part of the experiment independently in the future. "

Xia Lin pointed on the form and saw that Harper quickly understood the general meaning, so he started the experiment with confidence.

Many people in the previous life took science and magic for granted, but Xia Lin, a science student, knows that as long as real magic is not a purely idealistic thing, as long as I am thinking about what magic will be, then the two It will definitely not be an antagonistic relationship.

Science is a concept of thought, a methodology that explores the nature and operation laws of things through qualitative and quantitative analysis, while magic is a supernatural phenomenon, but supernatural does not mean that it has no internal laws .

In addition to spiritual power and magic power, which seem to be unique to this world, the three-level structure of spiritual power nodes, runes, spell models, and magic is very clear, and it is also universal in nature.

Although Xia Lin has never learned C language, he feels that the mental power nodes can be compared to machine codes through his feeling of casting spells.

A rune is a programming language constructed through machine code, and a spell model is an executable program designed by the programming language.The logic of this is very clear, fully in line with the characteristics of the object of scientific research.

In Xia Lin's view, it is the right way to use science to study magic, instead of asking students to memorize the positions of the spiritual power nodes of the runes by rote like the Imperial Academy of Magic, and then try and make mistakes over and over again to cast spells. The way of studying magic.

(End of this chapter)