Chapter 52 (1/2)

Chapter 52: Speculation

Seeing that the thread was about him, Roland clicked it curiously.

It was posted by one Alex, who introduced himself at the beginning.

“I studied math in college and graduated years ago. I’ve been working as a data scientist for eight years, and I’m a leader of my group. I can declare with confidence that I should be better at modeling than Roland is. Besides, I’ve noticed a tiny flaw in the model of Inferior Fireball that Roland uploaded to the forum earlier.

“If the spells in the game are purely about mathematical abilities, I should be stronger than Roland, but the problem is that I’ve only managed to pick up two spells. I cannot connect the nodes of Inferior Fireball, and my Hand of Magic can only be reshaped into tiny fists instead of long spears.

“THIS IS UNFAIR!!!”

The author of the thread thickened and capitalized his remark and expressed his confusion with three exclamation marks.

Then, the author proved the advantages as well as flaws of Inferior Fireball with a lot of data and the mathematical model of the spell.

He concluded his thread as followed:

“I’ve repet.i.tively checked my data. They can’t be wrong. Yet, I cannot use any derivative spell, and I’m learning magic much more slowly than Roland is. He mentioned that he was already LV4, but I’m just LV2. How many players on this forum are above LV4? And how many Mages have grasped more than two spells? It’s obvious that Roland has a special talent which has been accelerating his magic studies. I hope that Roland can show us this talent.

“@Roland, can you tell us how you got your special talent and how it works to the players who are still persisting in the path of Mages?”

Roland was greatly impressed after he read the thread.

He majored in application of intelligent programs in college. Math was his compulsory course, and he was better at it than most students. However, he definitely couldn’t compare to a math major. Therefore, the author of this thread should be better at extrapolation than he was.

The data in the post was complicated, but after an hour, he managed to understand it. Just as the author stated, the articles that Roland posted were flawed and would’ve been better with his data.

Although he hadn’t experimented yet, he agreed with the guy’s data and theory with his current understanding on magic.

But he did find it odd. Were there few Mages who had grasped more than two spells?

He scrolled down and checked the replies.

Most of the Mage players said that they were only capable of one spell after playing the game for more than a month.

By “capable,” they meant that they could use the spell freely and confidently, and the spells that they could only occasionally cast were not counted.

Most Mage players were still around LV2.

So, Roland’s level and the number of spells he knew suggested that he was among the best players.

“I thought that I couldn’t study more spells because I was too stupid, but now I’m finally relieved. It’s not because I’m stupid, but because magic is too hard. Roland is truly good.”

This reply received the most likes.

Roland thought for a moment and took a photo of his talents, before he posted it as a reply.

In fact, he had been planning to post his talent, Magic Power Control, and ask other players if they had similar talents, but he never had the chance.

Now that other players asked him, he seized the opportunity and posted his question about special talents online.