Sin City
Chapter 20
In fact, in Richard's eyes, the world around him had already become a world of numbers, after the initial confusion, Richard had now begun to learn how to utilize these numbers. For example, with his talent, Richard was able to accurately see the total amount of magic power that a level one ordinary mage possessed, so he defined this magic power as 10, and with this as a reference, it was a reference, his current magic power was the same as that. But now he still did not know the meaning of this endless movement of his. This was the beginning of the magic system.
Fireball's magic power requirement was 15, while the level three's magic power requirement was generally around 20. Richard now understood that the minimal use of magic power required, the high power of damage, and the simple casting method that Fireball was used to stand out among the many low-level magic. However, in the process of casting magic, it was inevitable that a small amount of magic power would be lost or wasted, so it was best that a magician did not exhaust all magic power at once, either, it will cause serious damage to the body. So Richard instinctively realized that Fireball's magic standard actually had a lot of room for improvement. After several nights of sleepless research, Richard now did some upgrades, the consumption of mana or magic power could be reduced if the entire casting process was perfect and the three-second casting time was not reduced at all. Reducing the consumption of mana would also reduce the fireball's damage power, when the mana consumption was reduced, the initial damage power of 15 would be reduced to 10, if the Fireball magic recalculated like this was clearly better. Moreover, compared to the other level one magic power that only had a damage power of 5, Fireball still had a tremendous advantage.
Curiosity is the devil, Richard starts trying to throw Fireball on the second night, and succeeds in the first try. The fireball was clearly a circle smaller than the usual Fireball, and had a brighter red color, slowly darting towards the steel puppet twenty-five meters away, Richard was so nervous that his heart stopped beating!
The fireball exploded, the flames spreading out forming a ring, even Richard felt hot air blowing towards him. Under the attack, the steel puppets that were directly hit by Fireball changed their overall shape, there were even still some flames attached. This steel puppet was made with reference to the defensive power of the half-body plate armor, and it also had the function of detecting magic power, it could be imagined if the steel puppet was a soldier with half-body armor, and it had the function of detecting magic power, then the Fireball must have killed him.
It worked!!
This was the first magic that little Richard had unleashed in his life, great excitement instantly drowned him, he wanted to jump and cheer, but his legs suddenly weakened, his body leaned against the wall and slowly fell down. His body felt empty in an instant, as if every part of the body no longer obeyed his own orders, so even a single finger could not he lift.
The gift of a successful casting today, little Richard spent the rest of the night on the cold floor. At the same time after completing the first magic in his life, Richard also first felt the magic power completely depleted in his body. Richard who had exhausted all of his magic power was not even able to meditate, so he could only calmly wait for his magic power to recover passively.
During lying down for three hours and six minutes, mana or magic power will automatically recover by as much as 1, and the ability of 'Accuracy' will give an accurate answer again according to the mana recovery rate, and the ability of 'Accuracy' will give an accurate answer again according to the mana recovery rate, then Richard could stand up and start meditating.
For more than three hours waiting for the recovery of magic and power, Richard was bored and started to think carefully about the magic knowledge he had learned. He discovered that higher spiritual power can indeed reduce the magic power consumed by a magic spell, this is because the higher the spiritual power, the more nuanced the magic power manipulation, is, it can enhance magic in many ways. That magic skill required the use of a certain amount of spiritual power, for example, in Fireball magic, Richard felt there was still a lot of room for improvement in his casting process, at least.There were 16 places, 4 of which could save mana, one of which could save a lot of money, 3 Can add damage power, and so on. After considering it, Richard chose to think of the part that could save mana consumption first, next would be a long and tedious calculation, only now did Richard realize the importance of mathematics. After more than half an hour of calculations, Richard finally managed to find the repair point now the mana consumption of Fireball had been reduced to 7, but the damage power was not reduced.
It meant that he could still stand or run after using Fireball, instead of being paralyzed like now. The ability of 'Accurate' also brings benefits, that is, Richard can accurately understand the various conditions, and if he can find sufficient reference standards, he can also count on spiritual power.
At this moment of excitement filled the little Richard, he was already impatient to recover the magic power and try the Fireball magic he had enhanced, he said, the joy of exploration and discovery was as great as Richard who had first seen the sunshine in the darkness. It was also the first time Richard realized that this magical world was so magical, complicated, and inexhaustible.
Magic power slowly accumulated, and finally reached number 1. Richard struggled to walk into the meditation room, drank a bottle of magic power recovery potion, then began to meditate. A few hours later, just as the magic power was about to fill up, Richard immediately rushed out of the meditation room impatiently, and fired Fireball at the broken steel doll again.
As Fireball formed between his hands, the magic power in Richard's body descended rapidly, it was sucked in the blink of an eye. The fireball shook, as it was between life and extinguishment, but it finally slipped out of Richard's hand and shot towards the steel puppet. Experiments succeed again, the upgrade method discovered by Richard turned out to work, but due to the excessive excitement during the casting process, resulting in a slight mistake, Richard unintentionally slightly increased the consumption of magic power, and the, so when Fireball fired, Richard collapsed again. Fortunately, the magic recovery potion he drank had a long-term effect, so the increase in magic power recovery could last for a day, so Richard only needed to sit on the ground for an hour.
Richard spent this hour with constant calculations. When he stood up, it was morning.
Today's class is magic math, for the first time, Richard listens very seriously, and even actually sees beauty in countless boring numbers. Richard was not a pervert like Foggia, and not a paranoid one either, but because he was already aware of the role of mathematics, he was living in a world full of numbers.
Today was the end of the month when Richard returned to his area. The witch student who had once taken her around in the dark blue tower was already waiting for her at the door. Seeing Richard's arrival, he greeted him, smiled sweetly and handed a pale silver metal badge to Richard, and said that this contained Richard's income and expenses this month, Richard said, which can be examined in the laboratory alchemy bench, its use is enough with magic stimulation to see the content in it.
The girl's appearance was very sweet, and her attitude was also unique, just standing still there quietly could already naturally reveal a gentle temperament. Richard accepted the plan, took a quick glance, thanked him, and walked to the door area alone.
Seeing the two thick doors with metallic luster slowly closing in front of her, the girl stomped her feet furiously, to the point of wanting to blow up the two doors, he said, but he knew that doors made of anti-magic metal that were also protected by magic circles, let alone level two acid arrows, even level six magic would not work. Two iron doors alone are expensive, let alone the area behind the two doors, even there is only an empty space that opens in it, the price of dark blue tower land is also as expensive.
"This guy why the hell? I've met twice, but not my name?" the girl muttered to herself angrily. He just remembered that according to the data, Richard seemed to be only ten years old, this age was too old to start a magic career, but too young to be able to be called a man. So he could only shake his head helplessly and leave angrily, but how else? If Richard really was a man, the others would have been faster, then it might have been his turn.
In the dark blue tower, competition was everywhere.
Richard went straight to the lab, inserted a metal badge into the alchemy bench, then a clear magic image appeared, which recorded Richard's income and expenditure this month. The alchemy table was powered by magic crystals, while the use of the badge required 5 points of magic power. Richard now wanted to utilize all of his magic power to practice magic, he did not want to waste it just for this badge.
Looking at the first line of the bill, Richard was dumbfounded. The line was inscribed, updating 1 magic doll, 1600 gold coins.
The magic puppet was the iron figure that Richard used to practice Fireball and other magic, as he passed through the magic testing grounds, Richard had already seen the puppet replaced with a new one, but that kind of thing costs 1600 gold coins? Richard did not have a deep understanding of money, but he knew that his mother who had lived in Rutheran Village for ten years only had savings of a dozen gold coins. Huge monster feathers cost only one or two gold coins in the city, but to hunt them requires a life bet from an adult hunter. Perhaps the richest village chief would have a fortune of hundreds of gold coins, most of it from salaries and gifts collected after the war.
He just fired two Fireballs and blew up 1600 gold coins just like that?
He began to recall all the details about the Steel Doll, then realized that the doll did not seem to have any other outstanding features except a defense that was almost identical to the standard half-body plate protector. Little Richard did not yet know the concept, and precision was the fundamental reason why steel dolls were expensive. Ordinary magic puppets and military standard half-body protectors were in the energy level error of that defensive power one to two, whereas dark blue steel puppets were only within one-tenth of the energy level. The order of magnitude of the error difference can make the cost difference by 30 times. Energy levels are a concept in magic, which roughly refers to the energy carried by one standard level one magic shot.
Cold sweat continued to flow out of Richard's forehead, and a large amount of money seemed to be falling on him until it was difficult to breathe. Rutheran Village was also the territory of the Sacred Alliance, so its currency was the same as that of the dark blue tower. 1600 gold coins were a debt that could never be repaid for the current little Richard. Richard did not like to owe, this character inherited from Elaine, a priestess of the Moon Goddess was unwilling to owe anything to others, the immense psychological pressure made Richard's eye aura darken. He calmed himself down and looked down slowly, as he had expected, the price of consumable items was extremely high, for example, the unit price of the magic recovery potion bottle was close to 500 gold coins. Seeing this, Richard was reminded of the magic potion bottle in the pharmaceutical room of the warehouse area, his feelings were completely different now. The potion had a label with its performance and usage, most were additional herbs to enhance the perception, affinity, and recovery of magic, mainly used by magicians to speed up the practice process.
More than a month before arriving at the dark blue tower, Richard only had an early understanding of the world beyond the mountains. While he was still in Esjan, he was surprised by the high price of the items there. But compared to the dark blue tower, the items in the Esjan were very cheap, for example a bottle of magic recovery that only cost 10 gold coins in the Esjan, and 500 gold coins in the dark blue tower, the difference can be 50 times.
However, what Richard did not know was that the magic recovery potion sold in Esjan's market only lasted for three hours with a recovery effect 0.5 times faster, he said, while the magic recovery potion he drank lasted for 24 hours with an effect twice as fast. Similarly, as well as a 16-fold increase in comprehensive performance is the reason why prices increased 50-fold.
From level promotion, to medicine making, all professions will be more difficult to advance, and the cost is also more expensive every progress. Therefore, pyramid-shaped structures are common structures in almost all fields, and the concept Richard has just learned interprets this truth from different points of view, with diminishing margins.
