Iron Power And Sorcerer

Iron Power And Sorcerer Chapter 51

2021-01-23

Chapter 51 The Nature of Magic

The next two days, calm and tranquil.

To Antonio's great regret is that although he gave "Sofia" many opportunities, the other party not only did not take the opportunity to escape, but calmly accepted the life of being under house arrest in the military camp.

Mother Teresa of St. Jeanne's Ladies monastery personally delivered a small box containing, as Sophia said, her birth certificate, baptismal certificate, and some other items of the Lavoisier family.

Sophia herself and the eye color, hair color and birthmark on the birth certificate can be matched. At this point, Antonio has basically believed in Sophia's identity.

Next, it is necessary to obtain copies of the birth certificate and baptism certificate from the church where Antoine Laurent's daughter was baptized through the church, and compare the two. If the two sets of documents match, she will be able to prove her identity thoroughly.

Respected guarantors, birth documents, tokens, this is how this age can prove that "one person" is "one person".

In other words, no matter who she is, as long as she has a full set of documents and can match the description of the documents, she is Antoine Laurent's daughter in a legal sense.

Although there are many loopholes to be exploited, this is already the most rigorous method people can have in this era.

Sophia agreed to Antonio's proposal to use the research in the notes as a reward for the rehabilitating of Antoine Laurent by the Republic of Veneta. It's the best of both worlds, as Sofia unwittingly protects Antonio's and Winters' reputations. Because Antonio has made up his mind to keep the contents of this notebook in Veneta even if he breaks his promise.

The Military Police Department of the Army Headquarters has been very busy these two days. Lieutenant Colonel Field has carefully confirmed that none of the sorcerer officers in the Veneta Army have been on leave, disappeared or died in recent days.

At the 2nd Gendarmerie General Officers' Meeting, Winters raised a probability: that person was indeed a sorcerer, but not from the Veneta Army. The man did not return to Veneta, but went to Veneta, he was a sorcerer of the Union Provincial Army.

However, the three members of the Military Police Department have no means to confirm this, and they can only send an official letter to the Union Provincial Army. However, considering the relationship between the two parties now with swords drawn and bows bent, it is estimated that this letter will only be throw a stone and see it sink without trace in the sea.

However, the salvage operation is somewhat unexpected harvest. Hailan Port is a natural deep-water port. The bottom of the wharf is mainly coral reefs and stones, and the silt layer is not thick. Four well-watered sailors fished out their guns and swords in one day.

But the problem is that neither the gun nor the sword has a logo or coat of arms to prove the identity of the assassin, so it basically means nothing.

The biggest gain was actually that several salvage sailors also salvaged Major Moritz's saber by the way. Moritz lost his saber on the day he drowned. Recently, he has been using a simple old sword. It is a pleasant surprise to be able to retrieve the original expensive ornate sword of honor.

But the past few days Winters' mind was not on the assassination, but on Antoine Laurent's notes.

In the military academy, all the sorcerers have heard their Senior mysterious and secretive tell such a story: the father of the alliance sorcerer who was executed more than ten years ago - the last of Antoine Laurent's life In the stage of conducting a research that can subvert the magic system, he has touched the essence of magic. After his death, his manuscripts were lost, along with his work.

No one knows where this story came from, but it is certain that the story is becoming more and more like Myths and Legends. Because Winters lived through two iterations of the story in his three years at the Officer Academy alone.

Antoine Laurent's research content is getting bigger and bigger and more and more mysterious. His manuscripts have been passed down by word of mouth among sorcerers and become a legend that can make sorcerer become the legendary destroying heaven extinguishing earth. Great magician's Divine Item.

As a sorcerer, Winters certainly doesn't believe that anything can elevate a sorcerer's spell abilities out of thin air. As he said to Ike: "Give a child a good sword and he can become a Peak swordsman?"

But being nurtured by this kind of story for many years still makes him feel good about Antoine - Laurent's research manuscript has a mysterious imagination: although it is not as magical as the story says, it must have recorded very important information.

But when he actually finished transcribing the notebook, his feelings were very mixed.

This notebook is a mess, it's something between a diary, an inspiration book, and a test record.

A lot of content seems to be written where and when I think, some are scattered ideas, some are the results of experiments. Googling, deleting, deleting, modifying, there are some corners and corners, and there are also some crude sketches, which seem to be drawn casually when the thinking is deadlocked.

Are the notes of Antoine Laurent containing important information?
Of course.

But for the Republic of Veneta, the most useful thing recorded in this notebook is probably only the sketch of the "fire-like spell potential test device".

It's a crude drawing, but Winters figured out what it was. The entire instrument is essentially a delicate balance. Two glass spheres are placed at two ends of the balance respectively, and a glass tube communicates with each other.

The drawing is rudimentary, and the glass sphere in the sketch appears to have some sort of liquid in it.

Winters speculated that the two glass spheres and the glass tube connecting the two spheres should be a closed whole, and the liquid in the glass sphere should be some kind of very volatile liquid.

As a sorcerer, Winters quickly figured out how the test apparatus works. In short, this test instrument can detect the weakest spell ability.

The spell ability of an untrained sorcerer is as weak as a small fire star shot by a scythe, and this ingenious instrument can detect the presence of a small fire star.

First, adjust the balance to balance the balance. If the subject has the ability to burn fire, even if it is the weakest ability, as long as the liquid in the glass sphere can be slightly vaporized, the balance of the balance will be balanced. will be destroyed.

Even Winters couldn't help but applaud the whimsy of the design. You know, the hardest part is not to train a sorcerer, but the hardest part is how to find someone with spell innate talent from the crowd.

Like normal people, the sorcerer also has two eyes and a nose. Even the sorcerer himself doesn't realize he has spell innate talent until it's tested. Their spell abilities are so low that even if they use magical powers unconsciously, the effects are so weak that neither others nor themselves notice them.

In this way, people with spell potential are buried in the crowd. A sudden headache in their life, or an unprovoked shiver, is actually a phantom limb pain caused by the unconscious use of magic. But these signs are not even noticed by them and are quickly forgotten.

And with this test setup, even a weak spell ability can be detected.

The screening of potential magicians has always been a strictly guarded secret in the United Provinces. Through exclusive mastery of this technology, the sorcerers of the Republics, regardless of gender, are sent to the United Provinces for training.

Obtaining this blueprint means that the Republic of Veneta can get rid of the Federal Republic and conduct sorcerer screening independently. You can even kick off the union and train your own sorcerer independently. After all, the training content of the sorcerer is not a secret. Veneta has hundreds of sorcerer officers, all of whom have received a complete training course in the military academy.

As for the rest of this notebook...that subverts Winters' understanding of magic.

But what level of spell ability did Winters read before reading, and what level of spell ability was after reading it.

However, the content of it kept Winters awake for two nights in a row.

In this handwritten note, Antoine Laurent wrote:

"The people of Ancient Era believed that the entire world consisted of fire, air, earth, and water. It is composed of four elements. People in Celica believe that the world is composed of metals, plants, fire, earth, and water. Naturalists divide all things in the world into plants, animals, and inanimate objects. But I think the world in their eyes is not Beauty is too chaotic and disordered. So I went a step further and divided everything that exists in the entire universe into two categories: matter and energy.

Everything that has form is matter, water, gas, stone It is matter.

All intangible things are energy, such as light and heat.”

On this basis, Antoine-Laurent put forward a hypothesis: the conservation of matter.

That is, magic does not create matter out of thin air, nor does it annihilate matter out of thin air.

Instead of annihilating water, vaporization turns water into gas.

"Water creation" also does not create water out of thin air, but condenses the water vapor in the air into a liquid.

Antoine Laurent documents an experiment he devised: in an extremely dry room, the sorcerer "creates" only a few drops of water at full strength using hydrogenesis. In a humid outdoor environment, the sorcerer can quickly "create" a glass of water with full use of water creation.

apart from this, he also conducted another experiment, the metal powder combustion experiment, and finally confirmed that the metal powder became heavier after burning because the substances in the air entered the metal, and in a closed When the metal powder is heated in the system, although the metal powder becomes heavier, the quality of the whole system does not change.

Antoine Laurent wrote on the first page of his notebook: "What is magic? Is magic a trick? Conjure an apple? Conjure a rabbit?
If magic can create Matter, will the magician of the whole world constantly create water, will it be possible to submerge all land in one day?

Certainly not, the essence of magic should be summed up in a sentence rich in beauty and poetry: can and It can only change the energy state of matter.

But I don't have enough evidence to prove it yet."

The rest of this notebook is to test this speculation, An Tovan Laurent overthrew the magic system he had established and rebuilt the three spell classifications.

In the section "The Essence of Sound Magic", Antoine Laurent confirmed that the essence of sound is a vibration. The so-called "sound" is the vibration of the sound source diffused into the surrounding medium.

The essence of sound magic is the ability to alter the vibrational energy of matter. Sound magic, so it was renamed vibration magic by Antoine Laurent. He also therefore proposed a new spell concept "resonance technique".

In thinking about the acceleration magic, the father of the alliance sorcerer thinks that the acceleration object is only the appearance of the acceleration magic. He believed that the state of motion of matter is also essentially a kind of energy, which he called kinetic energy. Acceleration magic is classified by Antoine Laurent as the ability to change the kinetic energy of an object.

As for fire spells, there is nothing subversive. However, the father of the sorcerer has new thinking. He believes that fire is the release of internal stored energy from matter. Both light and heat are forms of energy release. The fire type spell is to replace the flame to achieve the transfer of energy.

Going forward, Antoine Laurent felt that a mathematical system should be established for magic, but the content of the notes came to an abrupt end, and it seemed that some sudden occurance interrupted his research.

Winters read and transcribed the note in confusion.

The content recorded in this notebook should be accurately classified as the philosophy of magic and the principles of magic. Most of the content is Antoine Laurent's conjecture and exploration of the nature of magic.

Practical content, such as: how to improve the spell level of the sorcerer, what training method is more effective, there is no mention of it.

But this may not blame Antoine Laurent, because the father of the alliance sorcerer himself is not a sorcerer and has no spell ability. The research directions are all placed on theoretical research, and there is almost no research in the practical direction.

In the whole notebook, the most practical thing is probably only the sketch of the spell innate talent test instrument that Antoine Laurent drew easily.

"The essence of magic is to change the energy state of an object."

Winters remembered this sentence after reading the entire notebook. He doesn't know if this sentence is right or wrong, but even if it is, his spell level will not be advanced by leaps and bounds because he knows the "essence" of magic.

Winters burst into tears: "General Antoine Laurent really didn't lie, 'sorcerer's power comes from knowledge and diligence', there is no shortcut, even if you know the essence of magic Shouldn't I still practice flying arrows at night obediently and honestly?"

But Antoine Laurent's analysis of the spells of sound has benefited Winters a lot. The class spell only acts on sounds.

Antoine Laurent named the essence of sound as vibration, which opened a new door for Winters after sound magic should be called vibration magic.

He also tried to practice the "resonance technique" recorded in his notes several times. Antoine Laurent himself is not a sorcerer, "resonance technique" is just a spell idea he recorded, just like the spell of vaporizing blood that Winters imagined, but it has not been actually verified.

The so-called resonance technique was inspired by Antoine Laurent from an accident in his military career. When marching across a small bridge, the uniform pace of the horses made the whole bridge tremble violently, and finally the bridge collapsed, killing and injuring many people.

Antoine Laurent came to the conclusion after observation and thinking: the bridge itself is vibrating slowly, the pace of the war horse and the natural vibration period of the bridge overlap, just like holding the bridge on a swing, and finally cause the bridge to collapse.

So he hypothesized that if the sorcerer's spell was strong enough to enhance the natural vibrations of large structures like bridges, they could destroy them. However, to achieve this effect requires the magical ability to be unimaginable, so this is just an idea of Antoine Laurent staying on paper.

Winters certainly doesn't have the magical ability to destroy bridge houses, but he subtly demonstrates the spell's viability in another way.

He bought some thinner glassware for experimentation and let Elizabeth tap the glassware with a spoon, while he tried to use the "sound" spell to enhance the sound of the glassware when it was struck.

After dozens of failed attempts, the glassware was shattered with a crisp sound that was magnified dozens of times by magic. This means that Antoine Laurent's statement is not wrong, the essence of sound magic is to change the vibration state of an object, and this type of spell should be renamed vibration spell.

Thanks to the book friend Yanyunsan for the recommendation ticket, the book friend 20181013204343295 for the recommendation ticket, and the friends who voted for me before, bow. In a way, this is a low-magic world, and magic has strict rules: it can and only change the energy state of an object. But think about it, in a world that follows the rules of physics, human beings can change the energy state of objects by their own will, which is actually a kind of high magic. And as long as it follows the principle of "can and only change the state of energy", magic omnipotent. As long as this principle is followed, everyone can create their own magic.

(end of this chapter)