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Chapter 5 Three and Five

Seeing Ike struggling on the side, Winters refused to comment.

Given the Army's desire for spellcasters, it is unlikely that potential military academy students will be missed.

But it is very immoral to deny other people's dreams at will, even if it is the truth.

Ike worked hard to "use magic", his face gradually got closer and closer to the stone bench, his expression gradually became ferocious, and his eyes were almost pressed against the water droplets.

Considering today's temperature, regardless of whether Ike has magical abilities or not, the water on the slab will sooner or later be vaporized.

"Do you have any special feeling?" Winters asked.

“Yes, the eyes are very dry.”

“I just like your sense of humor.”

"Water cannot be used to test potential users, otherwise there will be no need for special equipment to screen casters." Winters explained why water testing is not possible: "General Antoine Laurent once mentioned that the magic required to vaporize a drop of water is more than the magic that can speed up an arrow like a hundred-pound hard bow."

"But the general just mentioned it casually and did not make detailed arguments," Winters added: "But I can feel that water is the most difficult liquid to evaporate in training. Do you now understand why acceleration spells are recognized as the most lethal? "

"There is no use for gasifying this little water, but accelerating an arrow can kill people?" Axel replied tentatively.

"Yes, the difficulty of casting and the power of spells are not linked to the embarrassing situation of fire-burning spells, Winters couldn't help but shake his head: "Magic does not exist for killing, humans are just picking out the most suitable magic for killing."

"What's there to say about this? Isn't it even more wronged to practice swordsmanship for ten years and be shot to death on the battlefield?" Ike accepted it easily, and he learned from it: "The Lord did not create steel and gunpowder for killing, right? Wasn't he being used for killing?"

"Um."

The water droplets on the stone bench had completely disappeared, and Ike didn't feel like using magic, he was a little depressed: "I really don't have the talent for magic."

"Not necessarily, I can't measure it with water anyway."

Winters comforted Ike: "If you want to test, I will take you to Teacher Christian tomorrow, and he should have a solution."

“Which Christian teacher?

[Christian] means believers, and there are too many people in the mainland courtyard who call this name.

"The director of the Spellcaster Teaching and Research Department should be the most powerful Spellcaster in the Land Academy. Don't worry, he is very kind, and it will be fine to ask him for help."

"Forget it, just try it casually, and I don't think I'm really a spellcaster." Winters volunteered to help Ike find someone to test, but Ike became timid.

It is another matter for the two of them to take a few drops of water to test it. It is another matter for them to go to the director of the teaching and research department and use special instruments.

"You'd better tell me what it feels like to use magic." Ike was very curious.

"I can't describe it in words accurately." Winters couldn't describe it properly no matter how he organized the language: "I'll give an example, can you describe colors to a naturally blind person?"

This question stopped Eke. He was stunned for a while and came up with various ways to describe it. Finally, he admitted: "No, how should people who never know what color are to understand colors?"

"The same feeling of using magic is the same. How can we describe the feeling of using magic to people who have never experienced magic?" Winters said the truth, and he hurriedly added: "I'm just making an example, not saying that you are a disabled person."

"I can certainly understand what you mean." Ike said with a gentle smile: "It depends on the standard of normal people. If the caster is a normal person, then we are indeed disabled."

"You are a normal person, and the caster is an alternative." Winters quickly stopped the topic: "I'll try my best to describe the feeling of using magic, but it's not very accurate, and it's limited to my feelings."

"OK."

"Sometimes there will be a very strong squeezing feeling, like the whole space is pressing towards me; sometimes there will be a very strong stinging feeling, like being stabbed by a knife; sometimes it is very cold, sometimes it is very hot." Winters frowned and recalled the feeling of using magic.

He continued: "The point is that these feelings don't come from any part of my body, like someone else is being beaten but I'm in pain, do you know phantom pain?"

"The soldier after the amputation felt that his limbs had been cut and he felt pain?"

"Yes, it's like phantom pain." Winters nodded: "But for me, it's not because of a part of the body that was cut off, but because of a part of the body that I've never had before.

The body part that produces pain has no flesh and blood, but it has a solid feeling. It is not accurate to say that the limbs are, but I don’t know how to accurately describe it. As I said just now, it is impossible to describe the color to the blind.”

"I understand what you said a little."

"So the Alliance Spellcasters call the magical talent an invisible 'third hand' and the 'fifth limb' outside the four limbs. The two numbers three and five have important symbolic significance for the Alliance Spellcasters, so the Alliance Spellcasters Association is also called the Three and Five Association."

Winters drew a symbol on the stone bench with his hand dipped in water. He first drew a regular pentagon, then connected one of the pentagons to the other two vertices, dividing the pentagon into three triangles.

"This is the symbolic symbol of the Alliance Spellcaster. Look at its shape, a regular pentagon is divided into three triangles, which can represent both the third hand, the fifth limb, and the three triangles can also represent the three major magic types." Winters explained the meaning of this symbol to Ike while drawing.

"So this is the symbol of the caster? I said why do you wear this badge every day? I always thought it was the symbol of the Hailan Hometown Association!"

"Don't you know this is the sign of the caster?"

"You haven't said it."

"You haven't asked."

This chicken/egg cycle continues and will not end.

Winters quickly remembered something again: "Didn't we take a tactical class on counter-magic?"

"It was only when I listened to the description of the anti-magic teacher class that I felt that the caster could kill me with a hooked finger." Ike said with a smile: "The magic he said in class is different from what you said to me."

"I think what the anti-magic class should be about Richard IV's royal thug during the sovereign war, the court wizard." Winters understood what happened: "There are very few court wizards and are extremely mysterious. No one knows their training content and magic method."

Winters recalled the content about the court wizards learned in the literature class: "Fryman scholars record that the emperor of the ancient Silk Kingdom summoned meteorite rain and destroyed hundreds of thousands of rebels. Spellcasters like me who could only light a candle cannot understand how to achieve this super spell."

"Summoning the Meteorite Rain? If the palace mage is really so powerful, can the madman Richard still not be able to defeat Guitu City?"
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