The wind is cool but refreshing, the sky is high and the clouds are wide, this is the scene of the golden moon in Alinge.
"So, I like October in Alinge the most......" Tang Pu, a member of the Panel, stood by the floor-to-ceiling window with his black tea cup, looking at the scenery outside.
He sighed, turned around, pushed the gold-rimmed eyes on the bridge of his nose, and said to his student Kangden: "You only knocked on the door and came in on your own, do you have something urgent?"
Tang Pu is easy-going, friendly to friends, students and subordinates, and does not pay much attention to etiquette, so he does not blame Kang Deng too much for his rash barging.
While speaking, he closed the task report on the desk, which was the rule of the Affairs Committee, and people who should not see it, even his own students, could not see it.
Because the "cause and effect" of the "demon worship incident" was clearly investigated by her, this report was not taken seriously in the mission area.
However, Tang Pu himself attaches great importance to this "demon worship incident", because it is similar to a series of events in recent years in Rentat, Cooks, and a series of events such as summoning ancient devils and believing in devils and dukes in the coastal corridors of the four countries of the Strait and the Northland, but they are fundamentally different.
So, after finishing the business at hand, he pulled out the report, ready to conduct a detailed analysis and comparison, to see if the demon king really began to develop the power of faith, or had other purposes, and most importantly, he wanted to find out whether this incident was independent or complementary to a series of events that occurred within the rule of the Magic Council, so as to find the "dead bird" behind the scenes.
Unfortunately, from this report, only the fact that a great knight increased his strength by worshiping demons can be revealed.
"However, some of the details here are too coincidental, but the person concerned is completely dead, and after so long, it is basically impossible to continue the investigation. Or catch the 'Death Storm' Ninel and let him truthfully explain what he likes about accepting Viscount Andre as a student?" Tang Pu's right hand covered the report, and his index finger tapped lightly.
Condon opposite him was a young, thin and tall man with sunken cheeks, his skin was "burned" into a dark red as if he had been exposed to too much sunlight, his right eye was fashionably wearing a monocle, and his voice was as urgent as rain hitting leaves: "I'm sorry, teacher, after I knocked, the door opened a gap by itself, I thought you let me in......"
Tang Pu knew the student's impatient but honest personality very well, and said doubtfully: "The door opened by itself, I didn't close it?"
"I don't know, uh, I ran into Africe in the hallway, and it looked like it was very satisfied......" Condon suddenly remembered something.
Tang Pu bared his teeth distressedly: "...... Regardless of it, what's the matter?"
He had made a bet with Africe some time ago, believing that he was unlikely to be deceived by Avereth's illusion as he was close to the Nine Rings, especially in the Alinge Magic Tower, so if Averes could take anything from his office without the help of others, he would have to open the treasure house and let it pick many, many gems, now it seemed...... But this is good, and he can relax his vigilance.
"Teacher, Your Excellency Evans submitted a paper called 'Determinism, Self-Awareness, and the Roots of Magic', building a model of the nature of magic, although there are still many unresolved questions, such as why magic patterns can help communicate the 'real world' and what exactly it hides, but it also opens a new door for us to study the nature of magic and extraordinary powers...... Someone stumbled upon this paper in the Arcane Library today, and it immediately caused a sensation......"
Camden seemed a little excited, coupled with his impatient personality, a series of words were like a storm blowing, and Tang Pu could hardly react: "Stop, stop, give me the paper first!"
For a high-level arcanist, reading a paper is much easier than listening to such an exciting description.
After taking the paper lent by Condon, Tang Pu glanced at the date, and said with surprise and relief: "Submitted three days ago? No wonder it is not published in "Arcane" or "Magic"......"
Generally speaking, as long as the papers of the Great Arcanist have a certain value, the journal will not reject them, and they will rush to ask for them, but Lucian basically only publishes in "Arcane", "Nature" and "Elements", and occasionally writes manuscripts for the "Ordinary Arcanist Monthly", so such an important paper, "Arcane" will definitely not let go, and because it tells the essence of magic, the "Magic" journal will obviously not let others publish it.
He continued to look at it, frowning slightly at the front part, the determinism looked like it was stormy!
However, as Lucian discussed, his brows were completely relaxed, and he pushed his gold-rimmed glasses from time to time, and whispered: "The observer effect is not completely ridiculous...... The statement that the material foundation is not 'solid' is very novel, but if this is the case, why is everything so normal without magic and extraordinary power, is it still to blame the mysterious stage of transition from the micro level to the macro level...... Hey, Lucian also thinks about this...... Weak observers and strong observers......"
He was completely immersed in this paper, even if the paper had no experiments or phenomena to prove it, and the "observer effect" was rejected by the mainstream of parliament, but it was logically consistent and seemed to be true.
Condon was not surprised by the teacher's reaction, picked up the quill pen on the table, and recorded some of the teacher's questions and opinions on the scratch paper.
「…… The energy that replenishes mental power comes from the 'real world'? The excess material replenishment in magic comes from the 'real world'? Hey......" Tang Pu seemed to think of something in his question, quickly turned around, and pulled out this issue of "Elements" from the bookshelf, and then he held his golden-rimmed eyes, and said in a rather vibrating tone, "Isn't this a problem that can be solved by the 'negative energy vacuum sea'?"
"Yes, the arcanists who saw this paper at that time couldn't help but think of the 'negative energy vacuum sea', which just solved the most fundamental problems in Lord Evans' paper on the nature of magic!" Condon's ears were very sharp, and when he heard the teacher's self-talk, he said excitedly, "They are one after another, one is dedicated to the source of magical energy, and the other gives conjectures about the nature of magic, forming a complete magic system!"
The magic system and the spell system he said are not the same thing.
"This is probably the first theoretically supported model of the essence of regular magic since the existence of magic, no, it should be a model of all extraordinary powers." The soup recipe was also stained with a hint of excitement.
In the history of magic, the earliest magicians have already raised questions about the essence of magic and put forward their own ideas, such as the four elemental systems of earth, fire, and feng shui - ancient magicians constructed a conjecture about the bottom of the world, believing that there is an energy plane purely composed of the same element, and named it the fire element country, the water element ocean, etc., such as the root system - they believe that there is a root of magic, it is a part of the reality of the world......
These magical paintings still influence generations of magicians to this day, and terms such as fire element are a proof, but ancient magicians did not explore the world enough, and the magic paintings are all imaginations out of thin air, without any theoretical basis, belonging to the fantasy level, not the model in the definition of arcane.
In the heyday of the ancient magic empire, magicians paid more attention to normal research and application, and no one thought about the ethereal nature of magic anymore.
Since the establishment of the Magic Council, the nature of magic has been studied, but due to the lack of other theories, the progress of this research has been very slow, so the rigorous Douglas and others did not hastily propose their own model of the nature of magic, so as not to influence other arcanists with strong fantasy ideas.
Only today has Tang Pu truly seen a model that describes magic from its essence and roots, and it builds on the cutting-edge achievements of the current microscopic field!
Whether this model is correct or not, it is historically significant enough...... Tang Pu suddenly felt a little dazed, and he witnessed history again, which seemed to have happened often in the past ten years.
Condon said excitedly: "So some people have already called the results described in these two papers the 'Evans-Tel Aviv model', the first model of the essence of magic!"
After the two discussed for a while, Kangden took his leave, saying that he would go back and study it carefully.
Watching him fold the scratch paper and carefully put it into the storage bag, the soup recipe was a little funny, and then watched him walk to the door.
Suddenly, Tang Pu woke up and said loudly: "Stop!"
But at this time, Kangden had already stepped into the corridor!
He turned around suddenly, and a layer of white mist rose around him, and after the white mist subsided, it turned into a small crystal dragon with beautiful scales.
It dragged out a big ice cream from under its belly, stretched out its tongue, licked and ate it with great satisfaction, and said in a childish and proud voice: "Soup recipe, you lost!"
When he was thinking about the problem, he diverted his attention by finding that the door was not closed and "Averes" passing by, and took the paper to indulge himself...... Thinking back on this, Tang Pu had to admit that Averis had made a new breakthrough in his understanding of illusion, but he was the one who suffered!
After watching Averis leave with an ugly face, Tang Pu couldn't help but continue to study the content of Lucian's paper: "...... Weak observer...... Strong observer ......"
He was suddenly stunned, thinking of the recent investigation, and said with a faint fear: "The power of accumulating faith appears to be a convergence of special electromagnetic waves on the surface, but in fact it is the aggregation of weak observers and the evolution of strong observers?"
"This ......"
What will those strong people who are good at "playing" with the power of faith think of this paper?
(End of this chapter)