Celestial Mage

Chapter 35 Foreign objects are always auxiliary, imagination is fundamental

House of Selendis.

Second floor bathroom.

Serrandis lay on his stomach in the bathtub, closed his eyes comfortably, and uttered sleepy words.

"My dearest apprentice, you must remember that imagination is always the basis of all spells. Concrete and geometry are all to assist imagination, not imagination itself."

Beside the bathtub, Rosen's mentality has changed a lot.

Yesterday, he was full of thoughts, and the sheep in his heart desperately wanted to escape from the sheepfold.

Now, as long as he thinks that the woman lying in front of him may be a brutal murderer, he feels cold in his heart.

Not to mention Qi Nian, being able to keep calm is already the limit.

But his pursuit of spells remained unchanged. Hearing Serandis's words at this time, his thoughts were involuntarily led to him.

After thinking about it carefully, he said, "Teacher, what you mean is that the hand of a mage does not necessarily have to be imagined as a hand."

"correct."

Serrandis nodded approvingly, and turned over in the bathtub again, the snow-white mountains loomed among the rose petals.

"As a basic trick, the mage's hand is easy to master because it borrows the image of the hand, which is deep in the soul."

"But when you think about it, do you really need to imagine a whole arm if you want to move an object from one place to another?"

As soon as these words came out, Rosen felt a flash of light suddenly in his mind, splitting the preconceived notions in his mind into pieces.

'To move an object, what is needed is not the hand, the essence is that there is an external force to do work on the object! '

'More essentially, it is because of the transfer of energy! '

'Ah~~ The evil teacher really hurts people!That guy Cyrus was half-talking and got me stuck in the mud. '

At this moment, an idea even came to Rosen's mind, even if Serendis was really a murderous maniac, as long as she didn't harm him, she would still be his most respected spell instructor.

Feeling that the towel stopped rubbing, Serendis turned his head and looked at Rosen lazily. He saw him standing there in a daze with blank eyes, so he didn't speak, and waited patiently.

After a long time, she felt the towel moving again, and she asked, "My dear apprentice, tell me what you think, and let me see if I have gone astray."

The last sentence reminded Rosen and made him dispel the idea of ​​hiding it.

Of course, he will not directly say the geophysics statement.

After carefully organizing his words, he began to talk about his thoughts.

"Teacher, I just thought that there are countless ways to move an object, far more than just using hands, strong winds, water currents, or even just moving an object into mid-air, it will move."

"I guess, there must be a commonality among them. And this commonality is the most direct and effective way of imagining the Mage's hand."

Hearing this, Serendis's face lost all laziness, and his eyes were fixed on Rosen's face.

After watching it for a long time, she suddenly sighed softly: "I never expected that I would hear the most outstanding words of wisdom in the world from a 15-year-old magician apprentice."

'Wow~'

She stood up from the bathtub, regardless of Rosen's resistance, and directly embraced him in her arms.

"My dearest apprentice, don't struggle, let the mentor feel your existence. After all, as you continue to grow, such opportunities will become less and less."

There was no desire in her tone at all, only exclamation.

Rosen no longer struggled: "Mentor, I have to remind you that not everyone likes this kind of rough expression of emotion."

"Hee hee~ As long as you are still my apprentice, then you have to endure this."

Serrandis let go of Rosen and lay back in the tub again.

"The 'commonality' you mentioned just now is the goal that all mages have been pursuing for nearly a hundred years."

"Unfortunately, no convincing statement has been found so far, and we can only get as close to this goal as possible."

Rosen was slightly taken aback, and couldn't help thinking to himself: "This kind of commonality is the transfer of energy. Is it so difficult to find?"

But after thinking about it, I don't think it's weird anymore.

Even on Earth, it took thousands of years to evolve modern science since human beings had civilization.

But in this different world with magic, the subjective and objective are extremely unclear, and idealism and materialism are mixed together.

Especially the observer effect is ridiculously strong.

A mage with mana, as long as he concentrates on observing the target, will definitely cause great interference to the target.

The difficulty of extracting the basic laws of the material world from the chaos is not less than that of the earth.

"Teacher, where is the progress so far?"

Serrandis smiled slightly: "Didn't you see it?"

Rosen was startled, and then thought of it: "You mean, exact geometry?"

"It's really smart."

Serrandis couldn't help but admire: "From ancient times to the present, mages have been pursuing the most efficient way to use mana."

"This process is also a process of gradually eliminating daily experience and entering the world of purely logical thinking."

"Thus, moving an object also changes into the trajectory of imagining the object's movement."

While speaking, a rose petal floated up from the pool, drawing a standard circle in the air.

"Do you understand, my dearest apprentice?"

Rosen nodded slowly, and at the same time his thoughts moved, another petal floated up, drawing a standard equilateral triangle in the air.

Serrandis encouraged: "Can it be more complicated?"

Rosen thought for a while, and replaced the equilateral triangle with a parabolic curve.

"From a straight line to a curve is a huge step forward, but can it be more complicated?"

Rosen immediately replaced the parabolic curve with a trigonometric sinusoidal shock wave.

Serendis' eyes lit up: "Aha~ Is it a water wave? It's more interesting now."

Rosen nodded, his thoughts moved slightly, and the amplitude and phase of the sine wave also changed continuously, as if it was a wave of water flowing forward.

Serrandis watched and became interested, trying to imitate water waves with petals.

But soon, she discovered that she could indeed imitate water waves, but it was far less stable than Rosen's water waves, and the curve transition was far less natural and precise than his.

She stopped and tilted her head to look at Rosen, a trace of doubt flashed in her eyes.

"You discovered a mathematical tool for describing water waves, right?"

Only by describing geometry with numbers can the imagination be truly regulated.

It is because of this that Selendis can draw a perfect circle, and it is precisely because there is no mathematical method to describe water waves that she cannot do the same thing as Rosen.

Rosen didn't hide it, because it wasn't difficult.

This world may not have appeared yet, but based on the current mathematical foundation, the sinusoidal curve described by trigonometric functions is already on the horizon, and it is only a matter of time before people discover it.

"Mentor, when I was reading "Principles of Precise Geometry", I accidentally discovered that if you expand the triangular numbers in the cross, it will become a water wave, and by modifying some of the parameters, you can modify the intensity and phase of the water wave at will.

"Well, the word phase is my own idea, which means the time when the crest appears."

Serandis didn't speak, she fell into silence, her eyes were blank, apparently thinking about Rosen's words.

After a while, she 'woke up' and looked at Rosen with a hint of shock in her eyes.

"Rosen, I don't know what words to use to describe you, please forgive my frivolity in the past."

"Oh, no, this is an important achievement and has very broad application prospects. I must write a treatise on magic immediately!"

She didn't care about taking a bath anymore, and floated out of the bathtub.

The newly purchased bath towel quickly flew to her side, and quickly wiped off the water stains on her body. At the same time, she stretched her arms and put on the newly purchased bathrobe. Fasten your belt, and the quill and woodgrain paper are already on the table.

After she was seated, the quill jumped up as if it had come to life, writing rapidly on the paper.

At the same time, another towel flew over to rub her thick fiery red hair that was still dripping.

The whole process is smooth and smooth, and at the peak time, there are more than 10 operations at the same time.

Not to mention, in every line of operation, the use of the mage's hand has reached the point of being natural.

It was as if she was the ruler of this world.

Seeing such a level, the little complacency that rose in Rosen's heart disappeared immediately.

He was secretly vigilant: "Lawson, oh, Luosen~ Do you want to cock your tail for a small achievement?"You are not far off! '

After writing for a while, she turned around and said, "Rosen, are you going to be the first author of the paper?"

Rosen shook his head without hesitation.

"No, no, mentor, my only contribution is to provide some inspiration, but my superficial knowledge of spells and narrow experience are not enough to write a formal treatise on spells. So, don't mention my name."

He already knew that mathematics was just a tool to assist spellcasting. What was really valuable was how to apply mathematics to spells.

As for this, he is still in a state of ignorance.

Serrandis thought about it carefully, then nodded in agreement: "Indeed, you are too young and too weak to bear this reputation."

After writing a few more sentences, she pointed to the bathtub: "Clean them up, and then leave here, don't make any noise that might affect my thoughts."

"Teacher, do you want to deliver food?"

"want!"

"Yes, teacher."

Rosen was silently doing the aftermath. When everything was cleaned up, he was about to go downstairs when another voice came from behind him.

"My dear apprentice, the study plan for the evening remains unchanged, so don't forget it."

"Yes, teacher."

He was very happy and left the room on the second floor briskly.

When closing the door, a thought crossed my mind.

"Could such a powerful mentor really be a perverted murderer?"

"Based on the information I have observed now, it is absolutely impossible."

"But in order to protect themselves, the murderer is usually very good at disguising. It is common for people to be the same as others, but to be behind others."

"Also, the mentor is acting crazy. At present, it looks like a double personality, but maybe there is a third personality hidden?"

"However, rabbits don't eat grass by the side of the nest, so I should be safe, keep watching."

Back in his little room, he began to seriously experiment with his new knowledge.

In the following time, the master and the apprentice, one writing hard on the second floor, and the other learning spells on the first floor, without interfering with each other.

(End of this chapter)