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Chapter 4 Antoine Laurent

No matter how much you say, it is better to demonstrate it once.

"Come here." Winters waved.

"What are you going to do?"

"Come here."

Ike leaned over.

Then several of his forehead hair were torn off by Winters, causing tears to flow from his pain.

Ike kicked the caster on the ground hard.

"I can't pull mine, and I don't have hair." Winters sneered: "Look carefully."

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

Ike's pupils dilated, staring at the hairs because he didn't see any open flames.

"That's it." Winters showed Ike the remaining carbon black: "Magic, replaces flames, plays a role."

"Is this...fire magic?"

"It's not the same. Without fuel, there will be no open fire." Winters said self-deprecatingly: "Fire-burning spells, lights are the most practical. They are not as powerful as a firewood. If one day people can carry fire with them, fire-burning spells can be thrown into the garbage dump."

"Doesn't magic... need spells? Long and complex spells? The magicians in the story have learned an ancient spell and become particularly powerful."

"Sing? Who to chant?" Winters sighed: "The Alliance speaks imperial language, but the accents of the Aquarius and the Unionists are also different. The imperial nobles speak the old language; the ancient imperial people speak the old language; the Flemans speak the Saracen language; the Silk people speak the silk people speak the Mandarin language.

People have very different languages. Who uses the right language? Who uses the wrong language? Could it be that the magic of the court wizard and the magic of the Saracen Sage, or two language systems? Or, can the wizards of Silk Kingdom sing in the same language as the imperial court wizards?"

[Note: Fremen, meaning traveler; Silk Country, namely Serica]

"That staff? The magician's staff is there?"

"With a staff, I still practice this?" Winters raised his sword and gestured: "I might as well practice a staff. The caster's ability comes from himself and is not affected by external objects. If you give an ordinary person a good sword, he can become a swordsman as powerful as you?"

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

The process of disenchanting is always painful.

From a distance, it was a horse, but when I got closer, I found it was a donkey dressed in a horse. Anyone would be disappointed.

"But the description of [chanting] may also be based. General Antoine Laurent believes that for magicians, chanting may be a means of self-suggestion. 'Rituals are not important, what is important is the sense of ritual'. So he invented the casting gesture instead of chanting."

"This is a gesture when using fire-burning spells." Winters raised his left hand and pressed his index finger with his thumb.

"This is a gesture when using acceleration spells." He pressed his middle finger with his thumb.

"This is a gesture when using sound-like spells." He finally pressed his ring finger with his thumb.

Winters continued to explain: "It's okay to change to other actions, grit your teeth, lick your lips, touch your nose, and any movement is fine. Just link one action with a type of spell."

"Magic, do you need to use gestures?"

"Of course it's OK without gestures, but if you suddenly switch the spell type, the caster will easily turn like a bulky carriage and crash into the wall.

It's like asking you to compete in the first round of swords, then suddenly go to the next step. Then go to compete in the first round of swords, and then come back to continue the next step. The caster's cognition will be confused."

Ike digested for a while, then suddenly smiled and said, "I don't understand anything."

"It's right if you don't understand."

"But I understand at least one thing: General Antoine Laurent created many things and discovered a lot of knowledge, and was a great man."

"Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier is the father of the Alliance's magic system. Although he can't magic, he is the greatest magician." Winters also put away his frivolous attitude: "He represents the spirit of human beings who dare to explore the laws of all things."

"It's a pity that he died too early..."

"He's a headache." Winters was unwilling to mention this matter. After all, the United Provinces have not rehabilitated Antoine Laurent so far: "It is said that the general was finally studying knowledge that could redefine magic, but after his death, the manuscripts were also lost."

"So even if you can turn water into water vapor, even if you have magical talent? I'll try it. Maybe I have magical talent as well?" Ike quickly changed the subject. He also dipped some water with his hand and dripped it on the stone bench, and then imitated Winters's appearance and tried hard on the water droplet out of thin air.

"The water is very difficult to vaporize." Seeing Ike want to vaporize water, Winters reminded his friend: "The ability of an untrained spellcaster is very weak, almost no different from that of ordinary people. It is impossible to vaporize water.

Let me give an example. If the essence of magic is fire, then untrained casters are not even flames, and can only be considered Mars made by flints. They must undergo long-term training to gradually turn into flames and finally turn into flames.

If you want to test Little Mars, you have to use the equipment invented by General Antoine Laurent. Besides, have you tested it?"

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

"Have you not tested it when you entered the school in your childhood?" Winters was also surprised: "Don't everyone have to test it when Lu Youth is enrolled? I did it when Lu Youth is enrolled."

"I was only nine years old when Lu You entered school. I really don't remember whether I had tested it at that time. How did I test it?" Ike thought about it carefully and there was no memory of the test.

"I can't remember it either. It seems that there are several glass instruments in the same room." Winters scratched his hair, which was something that happened ten years ago, and he couldn't remember it anymore.

"It seems like a woman gave me a test. I would do whatever she asked me to do. After the test, I left. Later, the teacher said that I was a spellcaster, so I had an extra spellcaster course."

Ike shook his head and said regretfully: "I really have no impression at all. Maybe I haven't tested it for me, or maybe I have tested it for me but I forgot it."

But he said happily: "It doesn't matter. I'll try now if I can vaporize the water now. Haha, what if I am a peerless genius who has been missed? Try it and don't violate discipline."
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