Sin City

Chapter 19

Therefore, not only did no one dare to doubt Phil, but they all listened very carefully. To be able to hear the illumination of a magician magister, one of the ten magicians might not have such luck, although the contents of the illumination seemed to be meager.

On the fourth day, after Theodore stood on the podium with a blank face, the first thing he did was to draw a circle like Master Phil, then draw a line in the middle, which distinguished only the position of the line. Red represents the unknowable, and it accounts for most of the circle, while blue is a thin strip.

"The world is very mysterious, we cannot know everything, only God can know it..."

Then Richard learned that Theodore was not a witch, but a powerful priest whose level was roughly equivalent to that of a level 16 or 17 mage. The dark blue tower was the world of magicians, the appearance of a priest himself was already quite strange, moreover Theodore not only embraced one belief, he believed in three gods at the same time, he believed in three gods at the same time, and those three beliefs did not interfere with each other, thus allowing him to obtain three different magic systems, so his combat power far exceeded that of ordinary magicians of the same level. But after thinking about it seriously, and synthesizing the information he had read, Richard felt that the only way to have three different beliefs at the same time was to betray.

Betraying gods? Three gods at once? Richard knew from this that Theodore was not at all that simple.

On the fifth day, Tislifa also drew a circle and divided it by a vertical line, when the part that was divided was almost all blue, Richard instantly knew that this person was a witch and an agnostic.

Such a quick and accurate assessment seems not to be so useful.

On the sixth day, Master Foggia pointed to a group of irregular numbers and said, "When you can see the beauty in these numbers, then you have made it half way on the path of mathematics."

On the seventh day, Guru Comnu invites students to see numbers from complex and beautiful three-dimensional patterns, simply abstracting the aesthetic sense into numbers, as a symbol of the introduction of plane space geometry.

Then Richard falls into an unsolved cycle to see the beauty in numbers, and to see numbers in beautiful patterns.

A month passed quietly, little Richard studied all kinds of theoretical knowledge, most of which seemed unrelated to magic, at least unrelated to casting magic directly, and many were contradictory. Among the big, chaotic, complex and special information, Ailen is the boss who dominates everything, this keyword often appears repeatedly, leaving a deep impression in Richard's heart. And teachers who teach, from Vicky to Tislifa, like to close classes with "the world is so simple". This sentence almost became the symbol of the various classes of the dark blue tower.

The world was indeed so simple, but Richard was completely confused.

However, Richard was not unable to profit as well, in a very unintentional state, his magic had taken a huge step.

He's got Fireball.

More precisely Richard studied Fireball magic, and managed to master Fireball at level one.

Fireball is a legendary level three magic, in level three magic, its existence is as unique as Ailen from the dark blue tower, there are many legends and proverbs about Fireball, there are, the most commonly encountered is that a witch who can only use Fireball is not a good witch. But if it understands this proverb from any point of view, it actually recognizes the specificity and uniqueness of Fireball.

The origin of this phrase's appearance was because Fireball was too important for low-level mages, due to the existence of Fireball, low-level mages below level six had a place in the war, and, no longer a character that can be completely ignored. Any magician who had just been promoted to level five would be able to learn level three magic, and the magicians would basically choose Fireball as the first spell to learn. Casting the Fireball was only three seconds long, with a base distance of 30 meters, and a damage area of 10 meters in diameter. The damage that a lucky warrior sustained was probably only a slight minor injury, an ordinary warrior was severely injured, and an unlucky warrior would die, making him underestimate all magic of the same level. The soldiers referred to here are warriors of the same level, namely five or below magicians, who make Fireball magic as a group-killing weapon against low-level warriors, who make Fireball magic, and at this stage the warrior can only use the sword to attack the magician, it is time consuming and dangerous, so it often does not end well.

Because Fireball was so powerful that within a period of time, there was an extreme phenomenon in which almost all low-level magicians studied Fireball, which led to the emergence of this proverb. The culmination of Fireball's research exhibit is a magic note from a level eight mage entitled, "Possibly killing a mage magister with five Fireballs."

This magic record was originally unknown, but after someone changed its title to "Five fireballs to kill the magician magister!" The note went viral.

What made the magician masters angry was that, despite the ulterior motives of this title, the premise of this magic book was clear, logical, and the calculations were accurate, which meant that, the entire conclusion was correct, even though this conclusion was almost of no use in real life, since which magician would be in a carefully calculated enclosed space and let five Fireball mages attack him? Moreover, the spiritual power and magic control of a magic magister was extremely powerful and good, so low-level magic effects like Fireball were almost impossible to appear, after all, only in the most extreme of times plus a series of coincidences would the effect of the explosion of five Fireballs. Low level magicians and most people would obviously not care about this, they were only fixated on five Fireballs to kill the magician magister.

It made people angry as well as helpless, it would be foolish for a magician to debate the logic of the five Fireballs with a low-level mage.

The singularity of magic research is indeed detrimental to the prosperity of magic itself. Therefore, at that time, a great magician led dozens of magicians as well as hundreds of magician disciples, and spent nearly three years to conduct many investigations and researches, which in turn resulted in a report, which, which concluded that Fireball magic being studied excessively would make some witches face additional difficulties in future promotions, the worse case is that it will affect the height limit of the magic level that can be reached by magicians!

As soon as this article came out, the Fireball witches were excited, many doubts had been harmonized with the statistics in the report.

The problem was that even though these stats were full of errors and illogical, moreover, low-level Fireball magicians were unable to find any other data to reference, either, moreover, it has enough resources to collect its own data. Therefore, both supporters and opponents must still cite the statistics in the report to support their statements. The more citations made, the more these statistics are considered to be true, if reality contradicts this data, then that reality must be false.

No matter how angry the Fireball magicians were, they could only accept the reality in the end. And other than being angry, they were really afraid that the side effects would affect their promotion later, a magician master himself was not too powerfully influential, but he represented the consensus of a high-level magician, he said, and this fact determined the future of Fireball magicians, so the situation about Fireball finally slowly changed. For the exhibition of the magic civilization itself, this was actually a good thing.

But the whole process finally proves something else, which is that the number of witches is not important, the level determines everything.

The reason why Fireball magic remains is Fireball magic, it is because no matter how people treat it objectively or radically, it is always special. Even if a level 20 Great Magister entered the battlefield in the face of tens of millions of ordinary warriors, it was likely that his first reaction would be to throw a Fireball. After many years of repeated research, all magic techniques, including magic enhancement, maximum effect of magic, magic, instant magic, silence magic, spell enhancement, precision control, spell delay ... all of this had special research on Fireball, this was not only magic from level three, but also no level five magic that Fireball magic could compare to.

As the chaos regarding Fireball magic gradually subsided, the low-level magician that caused this controversy was then called the 'Five Fireball Witch' by the next generation, the, and his real name was gradually forgotten by the people.

Thanks to the rich treasures of science within the dark blue tower, while studying Fireball, Richard also understood the complicated history behind this spell.

Among the various classes for an entire month, the only ones directly related to magic were the taxonomic lessons of magic, the introduction of low-level magic, and meditation. In total there were only three days, the low-level magic teacher was also a magician master, the contents of the teaching were more about the element balance theory, completely ignoring the movements and casting of various low-level magic, the, just let the students learn on their own. After nearly a month of study, Richard had discovered that the magicians taught in the deep blue tower had similar characteristics, that is, they talked a lot about theory, the more pure a theory, the more, then the more they talked about it, completely ignoring the things related to the release of magic, even too lazy to explain, mostly just demanding the disciples to practice and understand on their own.

If this parable were any other place, the magicians who taught in this way would definitely be considered as impostors, or at least be considered as low-level magicians who only knew theories. But in the dark blue tower, the theory is instead placed at a very high position, and theoretical research is a shortcut to please Ailen, so besides the old witch who teaches history, the, his class contained at least a level fourteen mage, and this level was already high enough to block all doubts.

Richard learned Fireball from the magic book he received. In fact Fireball's casting and manipulation were not complicated, the main reason Fireball was listed as a third-level magic was due to its high requirements in basic magic mastery.

Every day in the time after class ended, other than the necessary meditation, Richard constantly practiced magic, he spent fifteen days mastering all six level 0 general magic, then continued to cleanse it. In addition to being proficient in level 0 magic, Richard also read all the contents of level one to level three magic in order to have a systematic understanding of low level magic, so that he can choose the first magic he wants to learn. His wisdom talent played an important role all the time, Richard noticed that his understanding of low-level magic was very fast and thorough, he would have a basic understanding by reading it several times. It was during this process that Richard unexpectedly realized that Fireball magic, which was now a level three magic, turned out to be very simple, even simpler than some level one magic.

Actually, there's a reason for this. After nearly a thousand years of practice and research from countless people, Fireball magic had come close to perfection. The simplicity of the spellcasting method is precisely because it is effective.

Richard was still a teenager so his curiosity was very high, when he used his newly learned knowledge to calculate that the magic power he had just reached the minimum standard to cast Fireball, he said, his heart beat continued to beat without being held back.