my age of magic

Chapter 267 67. Those things in the laboratory (3)

I sat on the bench next to the test bench, waiting for the bottle of moonlight ink on the windowsill to slowly expire, and the laboratory was filled with the volatilized fragrance of Ningshen flower juice.

It was getting late, and the last ray of sunlight was finally blocked by the Drum Tower beside the city wall, as if the surroundings suddenly became very dark.Through the glass window, I could see the lights gradually lighting up in the teaching building in the distance. I sighed silently. I rarely stay in the college for evening self-study these days. The college has no strict requirements for this, but Now it seems that most of the students are still quite hardworking. Just looking at the shadowy figures in the classrooms, one can know that there are still many hardworking and hardworking people in the academy. Slack, the road to magic is so long, and we still have a long way to go.

The moonstone inlaid on the ceiling became brighter and brighter, and the light made every corner of the laboratory room gradually clear.Bored, I started to clean up the stains left by the magic ink on the test bench. It must have dried on it for a long time, and it was very difficult to wipe off.

At this time, Yerkes had no intention of studying his magic puppet, so he dug out a wicker chair with one leg missing from somewhere, and used a few pieces of rune metal plates to cushion the wicker chair firmly. , lying lazily on the wicker chair, flipping through the fire magic scroll that had just been tested in his hands. He looked at the magic pattern lines on it obsessively. Gradually he became a little confused, and finally I couldn't help but sat up and asked me: "Jijia, why can't you find even a joint of the magic pattern on your magic scroll? What method did you use to deal with the joint marks? Continuous connection method? Sudden connection method? Or the method of sweeping the ends of the slope? It’s really a seamless connection!”

I was a little speechless, hesitated for a while and finally told the truth: "Scholar Yerkes, the magic pattern circle on this fire energy magic scroll has not been processed with seams, it was actually drawn with one stroke!"

Yerkes seems to be used to this kind of surprise. While admiring the magic pattern circle on the scroll, he clicked his tongue and praised loudly: "It takes a strong memory to perfectly memorize the whole magic pattern circle in my mind. Are you not afraid that in the process of drawing, where there is a slight error in the drawn line, which will lead to failure? Are you so sure that you have not made a single mistake from the beginning to the end?"

"I have such confidence!" To his question, I said with certainty.

Yerkes sighed softly: "This is really a formidable young man! I guess your mental power attributes should be much better than other children, no, it should even be better than ordinary magicians. I haven't seen any inscriber who can Draw the entire magic circle in one stroke, even the most common fire element magic scroll, this kind of magic scroll is used as a power source and applied to a large number of magic artifacts, and it is an important means for inscriber apprentices to accumulate wealth. But even if it is a magician who draws hundreds of magic scrolls of the fire element, I have never seen anyone who can draw them skillfully. It seems that this is the first time you have come into contact with this magic circle!"

Hearing what Yerkes said, I nodded silently.

My mental power is superior to other children. I have known this for a long time. The old Kuru has told me many times, and I also know that it is because of the talent of 'magic perception' that makes me extremely sensitive to the magic elements in the surrounding environment , This also indirectly stimulated the crazy growth of mental power in my body.Magic perception belongs to the seventh sense in the body, and its sharpness directly leads to the sharpness of my five senses (including touch, taste, smell, hearing, and vision) and the sixth sense much more than ordinary people.

Yerkes continued: "I can see that you haven't learned a lot of basic knowledge about inscriptions. Because a systematically trained inscription master would never use such incomplete and damaged magic parchment to make magic scrolls. Among the top ten taboos of inscription masters, this is the fifth, and there is also the sixth rule of never using expired ink to make magic scrolls, among the top ten taboos of inscription masters, this is the sixth."

Yerkes squinted his eyes, as if lost in memory, he said quietly: "On the first day of learning inscriptions, my teacher didn't tell us how to make inscriptions well, but told us, what are the things You can’t do it, otherwise it’s easy to hurt yourself. You must know that the inscribers who die on the test bench every year have accounted for 80.00% of the total number of inscriber deaths. My teacher is a very strict person, and he will not tolerate inscription production. Any small flaws in the process, but his old-fashioned and dogmatic, also made him a very famous inscriber. If he knows that someone can ignore the ten taboos of an inscriber in this way, he doesn't know how angry he will be!"

Speaking of this, he suddenly opened his mouth and laughed. It was the first time I saw Yerkes smiling so shyly.

Hearing what Yerkes said, I realized that what I just did was against the rules for formally educated inscribers. Only a knife like me dares to ignore those old rules. Be adventurous!Thinking of this, I am full of curiosity about the world of the inscriber, and I really want to know the story about the inscriber.

So I took advantage of Yerkes Scholar's mood and asked him: "Scholar Yerkes, you just said that the scroll is a first-level high-level fire elemental magic scroll. I'm curious about the level of the magic scroll. Can you give me Do you want to talk?"

Yerkes withdrew his slack eyes, thought for a moment before saying: "The level of the magic scroll? According to the regulations of the Grimm Empire Magic Association, ordinary magic scrolls are divided into five levels. The levels from one to five are based on It is determined by the equivalent of the mana on the magic scroll. Usually we call the magic energy released by a standard fireball technique a Viluka. When the magic energy in the magic scroll reaches a Viluka, we call it like this The magic scroll is a first-level magic scroll. When the magic energy in the magic scroll exceeds ten viruka, we call such a magic scroll a second-level magic scroll, and it is stipulated that a magic scroll exceeding fifty viruka is a third-level magic scroll More than 150 virukas are fourth-level magic scrolls, and the power of fourth-level magic scrolls is already terrifying. It was once recorded in the book that a famous general in the army once used a fourth-level elementary magic scroll to flatten a city."

"What kind of magic is so terrifying?" I asked in surprise.

"Level [-] earth magic 'Earth Shakes Mountains'!" Yerkes' fingers gently walked along the magic pattern on the scroll, and the breath of fire element rippling around his fingertips fiery red halo.

I couldn't understand why a fourth-level magic with an energy of 150 viruka could destroy a city, so I asked him: "Scholar Yerkes, the fireball technique has the energy of a viruka, so does it mean that 150 magic can destroy a city?" Can a fireball technique destroy a city?"

Yerkes said a lot, and it sounded cloudy to me, but all in all, after summarizing what he said, I got the following general idea: Magical energy is not simply superimposed in this way, and there is no difference between first-level magic and second-level magic. It's not as simple as one plus one equals two, just like a fireball that explodes, leaving at most a washbasin-sized pit on the playground, but the second-level magic 'Earth Fissure Flame', although its power is less than three Ten virukas, but it can easily burn down the [-]-meter-square playground into ruins.

I was a little dumbfounded when I heard it, thinking that the scroll of gathering fire that I drew back then was really nothing to a real magician.

The standard for judging an inscription master's entry is not to make a fire elemental magic scroll. Even an apprentice of an inscription master can easily make this kind of energy magic scroll.The questions for the inscriber qualification examination in the magic guild are very single, there are only two items: a complete drawing of the second-level magic pattern circle, and writing an improvement plan for any first-level magic scroll.I don't know how many inscribers are stuck in these two checkpoints every year.

Yerkes was not too surprised that I was able to make a magic scroll of fire element. Among many magic circles, this kind of scroll is relatively easy to make.

What pleased him the most was that if I could make this primary energy scroll, the cost for Yerkes scholars to use this magic scroll would be greatly reduced.I need to provide him with enough magic scrolls. Of course, in return, he will guide me how to become a scribe.This is also his promise.And I promise to make at least five fire element magic scrolls of this quality for him every day.

Yerkes told me: The magic puppet is a very expensive research project. El City War College has invested a lot of manpower and material resources in this project. This research has come to an end. Yerkes is very confident about it. .

Then we brought up the topic of magic scrolls, and he said to me: "The magic scrolls of each level are divided into three stages, namely elementary, intermediate, and high-level magic scrolls."

Pointing to the fire magic scroll in his hand, he said to me: "This kind of fire magic scroll can only barely be classified as a low-priced magic scroll of the first level, but the fire element energy contained in this magic scroll is higher than that of ordinary similar magic scrolls." Scrolls are 20.00% more. This type of energy-type scroll, as long as the energy contained in it is 20.00% more than the ordinary type, it can be called a first-level intermediate magic scroll. This type of scroll is even rarer. The energy contained in it exceeds [-]%, which has reached the standard of a first-level high-level magic scroll."

"I have always wondered how you did this. In my impression, ordinary magic apprentices are rarely able to make scrolls that exceed the normal grade. Usually, they don't downgrade, even if Alright. Only when the inscription masters are making such low-level scrolls, they will occasionally make scrolls that exceed one level." Yerkes ruffles the messy hair on his head in pain, and ponders for a while, Then he said: "I think maybe it's because of the sparks generated by the magic ink that is about to expire and the broken magic parchment, otherwise this kind of thing is really hard to understand!"

I really want to say: In fact, the real reason is that after the Ningshen flower juice in the ink volatilized, the concentration of the moonlight ink was increased. This kind of ink with an extremely unstable internal structure has a lot of energy, so the drawn magic scroll The capacity of magical energy will increase, so that it becomes a scroll beyond the normal grade.

Just when I was hesitating to talk about it, Yerkes said again: "Of course, I personally think that the magic scroll hierarchy system customized by the Magic Guild is not perfect, and there are some special magic scrolls that are not included. Therefore, many magic scrolls that are less than one Bikaru equivalent cannot be included in the level range."

Yerkes' words reminded me of the ultra-simple-to-make fire-gathering scrolls and frost scrolls, which may be scrolls that are not rated by the magic guild scrolls.It's a pity that these two methods of making magic scrolls obtained from the gray dwarf bandits belong to the category of general magic skills. The Grimm Empire Magic Association holds two views on general scrolls.

The first point of view, which is also the mainstream point of view, is that human magicians have lost the key to unlock general magic skills. In the Grimm Empire, many magic scholars research topics related to general magic. The nature of magic is very high, and some stubborn magicians believe that only by looking for the root cause, they will be able to unlock the secret that human magicians cannot use universal magic.

The second point of view is that when the genius magician created the magic pool, he opened up a new era of magic for mankind, but also closed the door to the field of universal magic. substantive difference.The ancient and noble elves have always refused to admit that human magicians use orthodox magic. They are very paranoid that human magicians only use magic that evolved from magic.

Finally, when the Ningshen flower juice in the bottle of moonlight ink was completely evaporated, the magic ink in the whole ink bottle became extremely unstable again. Yerkes worried that I would not know the power of this bottle of ink, so he kept telling me Said: "You must be careful when using this bottle of ink. Didn't you just see that the power of the explosion of the remaining little ink is also amazing. Don't force it. Nothing is as important as your own life!"

I nodded cautiously, and carefully took the bottle of unstable moonlight ink back to the experimental table. At this time, I had a brand new magic engraving pen in my hand again, and there was a piece of incomplete corner on the experimental table. My son's blank magic parchment, Yerkes was worried that I would fail, so he prepared a few more sheets and stacked them on the left hand side of the test bench.

I calmed down my breathing and looked at the magic parchment on the test bench. The familiar magic pattern circle clearly appeared in front of my eyes again. If you need certain skills, you must take advantage of the peak of the magic ink's magic power fluctuations to reach the lowest point, and use this method to dip the ink in order to prevent it from exploding.

A new magic scroll with wet ink was successfully drawn by me, which gave me a hearty feeling. I picked up the second magic parchment... the third... the fourth ... Five, after making five fire elemental magic scrolls in a row, I felt that the magic pool was a little empty, so I stopped writing and entered the meditation state directly in the laboratory.

When I woke up again, Yerkes was still studying those magic scrolls. He had seen his tingling limbs when he stood up from the bench, so he said to me: "Your magic talent is very good, like A magic apprentice like you is born to be an inscription master. Your memory is very good, especially for such extremely complicated magic pattern lines. If an ordinary inscription master draws such a magic pattern circle, he must at least refer to the magic book to read it again. It takes three to four times to accurately draw the magic pattern circle, and the joints of those lines are the fatal flaws of the magic pattern. But you don't need to worry about this, haha!"

Yerkes laughed at himself, then patted himself on the chest and said to me, "Do you know what I did to avoid lines from joining?"

"..." I thought to myself: How do I know, I am not a god!

Yerkes said with some excitement: "Keep practicing on the straw paper, and practice each magic pattern thousands of times, so that you can leave a deep impression on your mind! But I don't have your precise control , My hands are not steady enough, even ordinary magic ink with Ningshen flower juice added, it is difficult for me to successfully draw a magic scroll!"

He originally wanted to touch the expired bottle of magic ink, but hesitated, stopped his hand in mid-air and finally took it back, probably because he was worried about an explosion!But he has seen my process of making the fire element magic scroll, so he should have completely believed my words.

Yerkes said again: "Your ability to control the moonlight ink can completely ignore the effect of Ningshen flower juice, which is very good!"

"What's even more rare is that your right hand is so steady, and the lines of the entire magic pattern are so smooth. This is really a masterpiece!"

He pondered for a moment before finally making a decision, and said to me: "Stay and help me, be my assistant! The Inscription Lab needs a talented young magic apprentice like you. Maybe you can study magic puppets with me, or If you are not interested in this, you can stay here to learn inscription skills. Although I am not an inscription master, but based on my understanding of inscriptions, I should be able to help you on your way to become an inscription master !"

(End of this chapter)