My Magic Age

I sat on the bench next to the test bench, waiting for the bottle of moonlight ink on the windowsill to slowly expire. The laboratory was filled with the volatile 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, and the college has no hard requirements for this, but Now it seems that most students are quite diligent. Just looking at the shadowy figures in the classroom, you know that there are still many hardworking people in the academy. Even if they become the envied magic apprentices, no one is willing to just do it. Relax, the road to magic is so long, and we still have a lot to go.

The moonstone inlaid on the ceiling becomes brighter and brighter, and the light gradually makes every corner of the laboratory room clearer. I was bored and started to clean up the stains left by the magic ink on the test bench. They had probably dried on it for a long time and were very difficult to remove.

At this time, Yerkes had no intention of studying his magic puppet. He dug out a wicker chair with one leg missing from somewhere, padded it with a few rune metal plates, and stabilized the wicker chair. , he lay lazily on the wicker chair, flipping through the fire magic scroll that he had just completed testing in his hand, and he looked at it with some obsession. Gradually, he became confused about the magic lines on it, and finally couldn't help but sit up and asked me: "Jijia, why can't you find even a single connection point in the magic lines on your magic scroll? What method is used to deal with the seam? The continuous connection method? Or the bevel connection method? It is really seamless!

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

Yerkes seemed to be used to this kind of surprise. While he was admiring the magic pattern array on the scroll, he praised loudly: "It takes a lot of memory to perfectly remember the entire magic pattern array in your mind." ! Aren’t you afraid that there will be slight errors in the drawn lines during the drawing process, which will lead to failure? Are you so sure that you will not make any mistakes from the beginning to the end?”

"I'm so sure!" I said with certainty in response to his doubts.

Yerkes sighed softly: "This is really a terrifying life! I guess your body's mental attributes should be much better than other children, no, it should even be better than ordinary magicians. I have never seen any inscription master who can Drawing the entire magic array in one stroke, even the most common fire element magic scroll, this magic scroll As a source of power, magic scrolls are used in a large number of magic artifacts and are an important means for inscription master apprentices to accumulate wealth. However, even among magicians who draw hundreds or thousands of fire element magic scrolls, I have never seen anyone who can skillfully draw them. Draw it with one stroke. It seems like this is your first time coming into contact with this magic pattern array!"

Hearing what Yerkes said, I nodded silently.

My mental power is better than other children. I have known this for a long time. Old Kuru has told me many times, and I also know that it is because of my talent of 'magic perception' that I am extremely sensitive to the magical elements in the surrounding environment. , which also indirectly stimulated the crazy growth of mental power in my body. Magical perception is the seventh sense in the body. Its sensitivity directly causes my five senses (including touch, taste, smell, hearing, and vision) and sixth sense to be much more intuitive than ordinary people.

Yerkes continued: "I can see that you haven't learned a lot of basic knowledge about inscriptions. Because an inscription master who has received systematic training will never use such incomplete and damaged magic parchment to make a magic scroll. This is the fifth of the inscription master's ten taboos, and the sixth is never to use expired ink to make magic scrolls. Among the inscription master's ten taboos, this is the sixth."

Yerkes squinted his eyes, as if he was lost in memories, and he said quietly: "On the first day of learning inscriptions, my teacher did not tell us how to make good inscriptions, but told us what things You can't do it, otherwise you will easily get injured. You must know that the number of inscription masters who die on the test bench every year has already accounted for the number of inscription masters. Eighty percent of the total number of deaths. My teacher is a very strict person. He will not tolerate any small flaws in the process of making inscriptions. However, his rigidity and dogma also make him a very famous inscription. Master. If he knows that someone can ignore the ten taboos of the inscription master, he doesn’t know how angry he will be!”

At this point, he suddenly burst into laughter. It was the first time I saw Yerkes smile so shyly.

After listening to what Yerkes said, I realized that what I had just done was illegal for those inscription masters who had received formal education. Only two swordsmen like me dared to ignore those obsolete old rules. Take risks and be reckless! Thinking of this, I am full of curiosity about the world of inscription masters, and I really want to know the story about inscription masters.

So while Scholar Yerkes was in a good mood, I asked him: "Scholar Yerkes, you just said that the scroll is a first-level high-level fire element magic scroll. I am very curious about the level of the magic scroll. Can you give me Tell me?"

Yerkes retracted his distracted eyes and thought for a moment before saying: "What are the levels of magic scrolls? According to the regulations of the Green Empire Magic Guild, 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 magic power on the magic scroll. Usually we call the magic energy released by a standard fireball spell one biruka. When the magic energy in the magic scroll reaches one biruka, we call it this The magic scroll is a first-level magic scroll. When the magic energy in the magic scroll exceeds ten birukas, we call such a magic scroll a second-level magic scroll. The magic scroll that exceeds fifty birukas is a third-level magic scroll. Those with more than 150 birukas are level 4 magic scrolls. The power of level 4 magic scrolls is already terrifying. It was recorded in a book that a famous general in the army once used a level 4 primary magic scroll. The scroll leveled a city."

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

"Level 4 Earth Magic 'The Earth Shakes and the Mountains Shake'!" Yerkes' fingers gently walked along the magic lines on the scroll, and the breath of the fire element rippled around his fingertips. fiery red glow.

I couldn't understand why a fourth-level magic with an energy of one hundred and fifty birukas could destroy a city, so I asked him: "Scholar Yerkes, the fireball spell has the energy of one biruka, so right?" Say one hundred and fifty fireballs can destroy a city?"

Yerkes talked a lot, and I was confused by what he said, but in short, after summarizing his words, I got the general meaning: Magical energy is not simply superimposed like this, and the first-level magic and the second-level magic are not the same. It’s not that one plus one equals two. It's as simple as a fireball exploding, leaving at most a basin-sized hole on the playground. However, the second-level magic 'Earth Fission Flame', although its power is less than thirty bilukas, is It can easily burn a hundred-meter-square playground into rubble.

I was a little dumbstruck when I heard it, thinking that the fire-gathering scroll I had originally drawn was really nothing to a real magician.

The criterion for becoming an inscriptionist is not to make a fire element magic scroll. Even an inscriptionist's apprentice can easily make this kind of energy-based magic scroll. The questions for the inscriptionist qualification examination in the magic guild are very simple, with only two items: drawing a complete second-level magic array, and writing an improvement plan for any first-level magic scroll. There are countless inscription masters who are stuck at these two levels every year.

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

What pleased him most was that if I could make this kind of primary energy scroll, the cost for Yerkes scholars to use this kind of magic scroll would be greatly reduced. I need to provide him with enough magic scrolls, and of course in return, he will teach me how to become an inscriber. 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: Magic Puppet is a very expensive research project. The 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 the topic to magic scrolls, and he said to me: "Each level of magic scrolls is divided into three stages, namely primary, intermediate, and high-level magic scrolls."

He pointed to the fire element magic scroll in his hand and said to me: "A fire magic scroll like this can only be barely classified as a first-class low-priced magic scroll, but this magic scroll contains more fire element energy than ordinary similar ones." There are 20% more scrolls. This kind of energy-type scroll can be called a first-level intermediate magic scroll if it contains 10% more energy than the ordinary type. This kind of rarer scroll , the energy contained in the magic pattern exceeds 20%, and actually reaches the standard of a first-level high-level magic scroll."

"I have never understood how you did this. In my impression, ordinary magic apprentices are rarely able to make such scrolls beyond the normal level. Usually, they do not lower the level. Okay. Only those inscription masters would occasionally do this when making such low-level scrolls. I made a scroll that is beyond the first level." Yerkes rubbed the hair on his head in pain, thought for a while, and then said: "I think it may be because of the magic ink that is about to expire and the broken ones. The sparks produced by the magic parchment, otherwise this kind of thing is really difficult to understand!”

I really want to say: In fact, the real reason is that after the Ningshen flower juice in the ink evaporates, it increases the concentration of the moonlight ink. This kind of ink with an extremely unstable internal structure actually increases the energy a lot, so the drawn magic scroll The capacity of magical energy increases to the point where it becomes a scroll beyond the normal level.

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

Yerkes' words reminded me of the fire-gathering scrolls and frost scrolls that are super simple to make. These may be scrolls that are outside the scroll evaluation level of the Magic Guild. Unfortunately, these two methods of making magic scrolls obtained from the gray dwarf bandits belong to the category of general magic skills. The Green Empire Magic Guild 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 universal magic skills. In the Green Empire, there are many magic scholars studying topics related to universal magic. These universal magics that consume less mana are practical. Sexuality is very high, and some stubborn magicians believe that as long as they find 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 a new era of magic for mankind, but also closed the door to the field of universal magic. Human magic civilization and world universal magic have substantial difference. The ancient and noble elves have never recognized that the magic used by human magicians is orthodox magic. They are very paranoid that human magicians only use techniques evolved from magic.

Finally, when the Ningshen flower juice in the bottle of moonlight ink completely evaporated, the magic ink in the entire ink bottle became extremely unstable again. Yerkes was worried that I didn't know the power of this bottle of ink, and kept reminding 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 ink is also very amazing. Don't force it. Nothing is as important as your own life!"

I nodded cautiously and carefully took the unstable bottle of moonlight ink back to the experimental table. At this time, I had already got a brand new magic engraving pen in my hand. There was a broken piece of paper spread out on the experimental table. Yerkes was worried that I would fail, so he even prepared a few more blank magic parchments and stacked them on the left side of the test bench.

I calmed my breathing and calmed down to look at the magic parchment on the test bench. The familiar magic pattern clearly appeared in front of my eyes again. I dipped a little unstable ink. When I dipped it in the ink, it also It requires certain skills. You must take advantage of the peak of the magic ink's power fluctuation to reach its lowest point. Use this method to dip the ink into the ink to prevent it from exploding.

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

When I woke up again, Yerkes was still studying the magic scrolls. He had seen him standing up from the bench and moving his sore limbs, 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 someone like this. The lines are extremely complex magic lines. When an ordinary inscription master draws such a magic circle, he has to read it at least three to four times with reference to the magic book before he can accurately draw the magic circle. The joints of those lines That’s the fatal flaw of the magic pattern, but you don’t need to worry about it, haha!”

Yerkes smiled self-deprecatingly, then patted his chest and said to me: "Do you know what I did to avoid line marks?"

"..." I thought to myself: How do I know? I'm not God!

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

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

Yerkes spoke again: "Your ability to control moonlight ink can completely ignore the effect of Ningshen Flower juice. It's very good!"

"What's even more rare is that your right hand is so stable, 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 Laboratory 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 also stay here and learn the art of inscription. Although I am not an inscription master, with my understanding of inscriptions, I should be able to help you on your way to becoming an inscription master. !”