Wizard From Afar

The cold walls, the air is filled with parchment and wood chips and decay, the dark wooden shelves are filled with books, and the apprentices in dark robes are quietly in the bookcases. The front shuttle stopped, but apart from turning the pages of the book, only the slight breathing sounded in his ears.

Silent and orderly, like a church, this is Loren's evaluation from the bottom of his heart.

As apprentices continue to pass by, even Loren can detect the suspicious look in his eyes. This Academy is not big, so most of the apprentices know each other. Of course, his appearance will be more abrupt. He can even hear those deliberately low voice conversations behind him, as well as pointing to himself. fingers.

If you have time, Loren doesn’t mind pretending to be a new apprentice who is confused and ignorant, and satisfies the vanity of those apprentices with one or two small questions, and then mixes into their circle. It will make yourself much more convenient in this Academy in the future.

But unfortunately, what he lacks most now is time, so for these people Loren is also disinclined to pay attention to.

Three full days after the day when Ain's notes were obtained, Loren has spent his time continuing to build and practice incantation. He feels that his spiritual palace still has a lot of room for development, plus At present, the threat coefficient of the magic that he is trying to himself is infinitely close to zero, so in the end Loren began to try to reverse this incantion.

Incantation and magic are the regularization of void power, which is like turning symbols into words and illusions into reality. So if you can disassemble its structure step by step in the order of incantion, and reverse the principle of its formation, you can strengthen your understanding of the void, and it will be much faster than pure learning.

But the speed of progress is still difficult to satisfy him. The little wizard still specializes in alchemy. He is not good at mysticism or spell studies, and it is difficult for Loren to be very helpful. So he thought of coming to the library to try one's luck, by the way, looking for a "pretentious genius".

Although the other party is not very easy to get along with, but considering that he wants others, as long as he satisfies his vanity as much as possible, communication does not seem to be particularly difficult.

"What is it?"

The young wizard lay in a chair lazily, apparently already knowing who is behind him, so he deliberately used this kind of "desire to refuse and welcome "The tone.

For a moment, Loren suddenly wanted to roll his eyes like Ain. But he restrained this irrational impulse: "Nothing, just some questions about mysticism, nothing at the worst."

"However, since Isaac you are so busy now..." Loren also deliberately I squeeze it out: "Then I should probably go to Ain."

"Ain?!" Isaac, who was still enjoying his pleasure just now, jumped up immediately: "What are you going to find Ain for, I It’s the smartest one of our three apprentices!"

"And learn mysticism from Ain Rand? You might as well try to see if you can teach rabbits to talk. The latter seems to be feasible. Isaac, flustered and exasperated, looked at Loren’s ridiculous expression, and immediately became discouraged: "Well, just ask if you want to ask."

"It's roughly like this, I recently Trying to analyze its structure through reverse incantion, and then..."

"To decipher its principles and patterns!" Isaac rushed to Loren to finish speaking, and the young wizard's eyes lit up. "Not bad, how did I didn't expect such a good way to learn mysticism? It's probably because I'm too smart, I don't need it simply?"

"And this method is for those who have brain The issues potatoes are also useless. It’s too profound for them.” Pointing to the apprentices who gathered in a cluster of discuss spiritedly in the distance, Isaac continued excitedly: “But it’s still a very interesting way. Is there a problem? You must have a problem, right?"

"This speed is still too slow. I need more books on the void, more detailed, on how to use the power of the void." Loren opened the mouth and said: "Of course...it's only about academics."

"Well...so you need a good librarian to help you find these documents, and then there is a The person who answers your questions." Isaac was very serious and nodded, and then immediately stood up: "But now that I am here, then you don’t need any of them!"

"Swiftly Let’s get started, Loren Junior Brother, we have a whole afternoon to solve your little troubles!"

Looking at the bookshelves that have ran to the far away, the smiling Loren couldn’t bear it. I remembered what some people had said... what the martyrs hope most is generosity; and Isaac · Grantham What a pretentious person desires most is to be needed by others, otherwise he will not find a sense of existence.

As long as he throws the bait down, he himself will rush up to solve all the process and troubles for himself, and then wait for himself to show an expression of incredible surprise like a puppy with his tail wagging. .

At this moment, Isaac has completely lost his lazy appearance. He walked to the predetermined bookcase like an accurate hound, took the one he needed, and then turned to the next one. A map with a route floating in front of him, telling him the exact location of each book is the same.

The whole process only took less than a quarter of an hour, and Isaac returned to the original point and left a thick file in front of Loren: "Although you haven’t started to read it yet, I can tell you. So far, there is no wizard that has used a similar method to yours to learn mysticism."

"But in the literature of spell studies, indeed in the past, some wizards have used similar Means to analyze incantation, but overwhelming majority are only applicable to low-level spells." Before Loren could speak, Isaac had already picked up the dossier and turned it to that page for him: "I think the meaning of some reference to you is ."

"Wait...Have you read all the books in this library?" Loren asked tentatively.

"I think your rhetoric is not accurate at all." Isaac's reserved snorted: "In my way, all the knowledge in this room, I can know exactly what it is. In which bookcase, which page of the book. If not, it must have been taken or lost by someone!"

"Sorry..." Loren laughed "apologetically", he suddenly Realize that this might be a great opportunity, but you can't act too abruptly. You have to take the time of the other party's attention and take the initiative to tell yourself.

The advantage of having a genius around is that it only takes a few words to make the apprentices rack their brains as simple as one plus one equals two, and Isaac’s super The strong memory also saves Loren the time to turn the book. Even in the field of spell studies that the other party is not good at, Isaac's understanding is better than that of Ain.

This is why the little wizard keeps saying that he is a pretentious bastard, but at the same time has to admit that the innate talent of the other party is indeed better than himself. According to Loren's understanding, the guy in front of him who speaks faster than he flips through the book, I'm afraid it's not that he doesn't understand who is so worldly, he may have deliberately pretended to be like this.

But what's the problem? Is Ain Rand really so naive, without any secrets? So this kind of thing simply doesn't matter, as long as the other party can really help him, Loren doesn't care if the other party is really the same.

Especially because he himself is not a cohesive guy.

"In short, although this method of inverting the incantion structure is good, it has obvious flaws. A simple low-level incantion is of little help to you, just a waste of this wonderful attention." Isaac first A somewhat difficult expression appeared once: "Perhaps this is one of the reasons why those incompetent sorcerers can only be tricks in their lives."

"So...Do you know a certain high-level incantion? ?" Loren asked "inadvertently".