Chapter 5 Antoine Laurent

Chapter 5 Antoine Laurent

It's better to demonstrate once than to say more.

"Come here." Winters waved.

"What do you want to do?"

"Come here."

Ike leaned over.

Then Winters pulled out several strands of his hair, and he cried in pain.

Ike kicked the caster on the ground hard.

"You can't pull mine out anyway, I don't grow hair." Winters sneered: "Look carefully."

He entered the casting state again, as if being burned by fire, his hair curled up at a speed visible to the naked eye, and only a small black ball was left.

Ike's pupils dilated, staring at those strands of hair, because he didn't see any open fire.

"That's what it is." Winters showed the remaining charcoal to Ike: "Magic, replacing flames, works."

"Is this...fire magic?"

"Not quite the same, there is no open flame without fuel." Winters said self-deprecatingly: "Fire spells are the most practical for lighting lamps. They are not as powerful as a burning log. If one day, people can carry fire with them, fire spells can be thrown into the garbage dump."

"Magic...doesn't it require spells? Long, complicated spells? The magicians in the story all became very powerful after learning an ancient spell. "

"Sing? Sing to whom?" Winters sighed: "The Alliance speaks the Imperial language, but the accents of the Sea Blue people and the people of the Federation are different. The Imperial nobles speak the Old Language; the Ancient Empire speaks the Ancient Language; the Fremen speak the Saracen language; the Silk Country speaks the Silk Country language.

People's languages ​​vary greatly. Whose language is right? Whose language is wrong? Could it be that the magic of the court wizard and the magic of the Saracen sage are two different language systems? Or, can the Silk Country wizards and the Imperial Court Wizards chant in the same language? "

[Note: Fremen means traveler; Silk Country is Celica Serica］

"The staff? Magicians always have staffs, right?"

"Why would I practice this when I have a staff?" Winters raised his sword and gestured: "I might as well practice the staff. The ability of a spellcaster comes from himself and is not affected by external objects. If you give an ordinary person a good sword, can he become a swordsman as good as you?"

Ike fell silent and couldn't say a word for a long time.

The process of disenchantment is always painful.

From a distance, it looks like a horse, but when you get closer, you find that it is a donkey wearing a horse cloth. Anyone would be disappointed.

"But the description of [chanting] may have a basis. General Antoine Laurent believes that for magicians, chanting may be a means of self-suggestion. 'The ritual is not important, what is important is the sense of ritual.' So he invented the spellcasting gesture to replace the chanting."

"This is the gesture for using fire spells." Winters raised his left hand and pressed his thumb on his index finger.

"This is the gesture for using acceleration spells." He pressed his thumb on his middle finger again.

"This is the gesture for using sound spells." He finally pressed his thumb on his ring finger.

Winters continued to explain: "You can change it to other gestures, such as gritting teeth, licking lips, touching noses, any gesture is fine, as long as you connect an action with a type of spell."

"Magic, do you still need to use gestures?"

"Of course you can do it without gestures, but if you suddenly switch the type of spell, the caster will be like a heavy carriage that can't turn and will hit the wall directly.

It's like asking you to fight a round of swords first, and then suddenly play the next chess game. Then fight a round of swords again, and then come back to play the next chess game. The caster's cognition will be confused."

Ike digested it for a while, and suddenly laughed and said: "I didn't understand anything."

"You didn't understand it."

"But I at least understand one thing: General Antoine Laurent created many things, discovered a lot of knowledge, and is a great "Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier is the father of the Alliance magic system. Although he doesn't know magic, he is the greatest magician." Winters also put away his frivolous attitude: "He represents the spirit of mankind to explore the laws of all things." "It's a pity that he died too early..." "Headache." Winters didn't want to talk about it. After all, the Federation has not yet rehabilitated Antoine-Laurent: "It is said that the general was studying knowledge that can redefine magic, but after his death, the manuscripts were lost." "So turning water into water vapor is considered a talent for magic? I'll try it, maybe I also have a talent for magic?" Ike quickly changed the subject. He also dipped some water on his hand and dripped it on the stone bench, and then imitated Winters to exert force on the water droplets.

"It's very difficult to vaporize water." Seeing Ike trying to vaporize water, Winters reminded his friend: "The ability of an untrained spellcaster is very weak, almost the same as that of an ordinary person. It is impossible to vaporize water.

Let me give you an analogy. If the essence of magic is fire, then an untrained spellcaster is not even a flame, but only a spark struck by a 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 little Mars, you have to use the equipment invented by General Antoine Laurent. Besides, didn't you test it before? "

"When did I test it before?" Ike was shocked.

"Didn't you test it when you entered kindergarten?" Winters was also surprised: "Didn't everyone have to test it when Luyou entered school? I was tested when Luyou entered school."

"I was only nine years old when Luyou entered school. I really don't remember whether I was tested at that time. How did I test it?" Ike thought about it carefully and did not remember the test.

"I can't remember it either. It seems that there are several glass instruments in a room." Winters scratched his hair. It was all ten years ago, and he couldn't remember it either.

"It seems that a woman tested me. I did whatever she asked me to do, and I left after the test. Later, the teacher said that I was a caster, so I had an extra caster course."

Ike shook his head and said regretfully: "I really have no impression at all. It may be that I was not tested, or it may be that I was tested but I forgot. "

But he said cheerfully: "It doesn't matter, I will try to see if I can make the water vaporize now. Haha, what if I am a genius who has been missed? It's not against the rules to try."

After that, he dipped a little more salt water and dripped it on the stone bench. Then he held his hands around the water droplets to prevent them from being blown by the wind, and stared at them intently. Winters sat aside without comment, waiting for the result with interest.

Human lighter, W.M! Although General Antoine Laurent's theory is still full of fallacies due to the limitations of the times, he has embarked on the right path. Now, the direction of progress has been pointed out by General Antoine Laurent, and the next step is to see whether future generations can inherit his legacy. Aspire to forge ahead!

Salute to the supremely respectable, the magician who can't do magic, the father of modern chemistry, the proponent of the theory of conservation of matter, the creator of the metric system, Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier!

However, the appearance of the general's full name in an online article may cause unpredictable troubles, so this is likely to be the only time the full name of General "Antoine Laurent" appears in this book. The "Antoine-Laurent" in this book refers to the sage named "Antoine-Laurent" in another universe.