Chapter 124: Chapter 123 Improvements in Casting Methods
In the blink of an eye, many days had passed, and Richard’s preliminary research on Free Energy Elements had been completed.
At the desk, Richard was swiftly writing on the Papyrus Scroll with a Quill, summarizing his findings.
“Through continuous testing in the past few days, I can basically confirm that my previous hypothesis was correct. The Free Energy Elements are, in theory, the Superheavy Nuclear Stability Island Elements that are either undiscovered or non-existent on Earth.
The current energy flow framework within the world’s Wizard Magic System is as follows:
Special radiation energy from special stars is transmitted to the current planet through Star Body Projection. Some common chemical elements on this planet, after absorbing the energy from the Star Body Projection, undergo a type of unknown nuclear fusion and become Free Energy Elements.
Thereafter, Wizards or Wizard Apprentices, through out-of-body meditation, absorb these Energy Elements into their bodies, melting them into Mana, and storing them in the Magic Origin.
When it is time to cast spells in battle, Mana will flow out from the Magic Origin, moving within the body along some natural channels—be it blood vessels, nerves, or meridians—ultimately reaching a certain activated state and being released.
Upon release, Mana will undergo automatic transformation, first into different Free Energy Elements. Then, reactions will occur between these different Free Energy Elements, displaying Spell Effects and unleashing power.
After a successful Spell Casting, the Free Energy Elements will revert back to common chemical elements. Once they have absorbed enough energy from the Star Body Projection, they will once again become Free Energy Elements, completing a cycle.
The simple process of the entire framework is as follows:
Energy from special stars → Free Energy Elements → Mana → Free Energy Elements → Spell Effects.”
From this process, it can be seen that Free Energy Elements can exhibit Spell Effects on their own. However, for the sake of storage safety, they must first be melted into Mana. Then, at the time of Casting, they are transformed back into Free Energy Elements through some form of Reverse Melting. The two conversions in between will surely be accompanied by a significant Energy loss. Moreover, during the Casting process, the step where Mana is reversely melted into Free Energy Elements will to a certain extent slow down the speed of Spell release.”
Writing this, Richard paused with the Quill in hand and pursed his lips before writing another line.
“Then, is it possible to improve this clearly flawed method of Casting?”
After writing this, Richard set down the Quill and began to ponder seriously.
Yes, the current world’s popular Casting method has its flaws and room for improvement.
Perhaps this notion seems laughable, but isn’t the purpose of studying the Magic System to analyze, improve, and master it, and to eventually clarify the most fundamental scientific principles?
Researching something, imitating it, improving on it, and then doing it better than before is a characteristic, or rather, the craftiness of modern Earth science.
Science is not rigid; true science is not a collection of theorems but a way of understanding the world and the entire open system developed from it.
Science is developmental; from the beginning with Steam Thermodynamics, to Electromagnetism, to Computer Science, and then to Quantum Science, all have been continuously discovered and integrated into the system, becoming a part of it. Even if a kind of inexplicable supernatural phenomenon really appeared on modern Earth, science would quickly establish a supernatural discipline to research, analyze, and incorporate it.
From a scientific perspective, the current world’s prevalent method of Casting definitely has imperfections that can be improved upon. Of course, this improvement has no small difficulty, but isn’t this precisely the purpose of science’s existence—to solve problems encountered?
So, how should the Casting method be improved, and what problems need to be solved?
Richard’s eyes flickered, and he picked up the Quill to write on the Papyrus Scroll.
“Scratch Scratch Scratch…”
“An obvious place for improvement in the Casting method is to reduce procedural steps, removing the processes of Melting and Reverse Melting, and using the Free Energy Elements directly for releasing spells. This method could accelerate the speed of Casting and reduce Energy loss.
Of course, problems also arise, mainly two: the first is a safety issue, and the second is the increase in Casting complexity.
For the first safety issue, we must acknowledge that if Free Energy Elements are stored in the Magic Origin within the body for a long time without Melting, it will be extremely unstable. Because reactions might occur between the Free Energy Elements, and if we really proceed , it would be akin to mixing many different chemical reagents in a beaker. There is a high possibility that the beaker would be blown to powder.”
So, how can this be resolved?
Richard halted the Quill in thought.
The solution to this problem is actually quite straightforward; the most thorough method would be to simply separate and store all the Free Energy Elements from one another.
After all, the Magic Origin does not have to be singular!
Yes, there does not have to be just one Magic Origin. Provided there is enough energy and time, it is possible to open up dozens or even hundreds of Magic Origins.
Through a period of research, the currently identified types of Free Energy Elements are approximately several dozen. However, the most commonly used Energy Elements for Shape-shifting Magic consist of only nine: Water Element, Wind Element, Fire Element, Earth Element, Wood Element, Thunder Element, Dark Energy Element, Light Energy Element, and Pure Energy Element.
Perhaps opening a Magic Origin for each element seems exaggerated, but opening a smaller.
Magic Origin for each of the nine elements crucial to Shape-shifting Magic should still be achievable.
However, the most convenient method is not to create new Magic Origins but to reform the existing ones.
All that’s needed is to partition off several independent spaces within the original Magic Origin, to specially store different Free Energy Elements.
“Scratch Scratch Scratch,” Richard narrowed his eyes as he quickly transcribed the solution onto the Scroll, before writing yet another line: “Then how to solve the second problem?”
“The second problem is the increase in complexity of Casting.” Richard continued writing with the Quill, “Casting spells using Mana only requires controlling the flow of Mana to a specific activated state for release. Afterward, the Mana will, in the activated state, automatically transform into specific Free Energy Elements for reaction.
But if we choose to use only Free Energy Elements for Casting, a single Free Energy Element remains fairly straightforward. However, when the spell model becomes complex and requires multiple different Free Energy Elements in the body’s various channels, running separately, the difficulty will become immense, demanding high mental computational power. Just as some people are naturally or through training capable of multitasking, but what about dividing one’s attention three ways, four ways, or ten ways?
As described in the ‘Monroe Chapter,’ the computational ability of the brain is a key standard for whether one can advance to higher Wizard Levels.
This is because higher-order spells are definitively more complex and will require the use of more streams of Mana running within the body. It’s imperative to tightly control the running Mana without error, ensuring that multiple streams of Mana arrive at the activated state simultaneously and are released together, to guarantee the success of the spell, or else it would result in spell failure and backlash.”
“Scratch Scratch Scratch…”