Episode 141 – Ipomq (1/2)
Episode 141 – IPOMQ
Previously:
Friday, the last day of Muni entrance exa exa ability, but rather, to test for a special talent that can only be revealed through the process of spell replicating Kiel is tasked to spell replicate several artifacts, including Clay Mines Unfortunately, an accident happens while testing his Clay Mines and an explosion occurs Exa with each other They give Kiel a final artifact, whose enchantment he doesn’t need to replicate but to just draw it out However, Kiel finds that the enchantment is too small and he can’t sense it clearly with his es to see a flash of light inside his head for a briefhim how the enchantment looks like After he successfully draws out the spell design of the enchantet excited and ask Kiel to be their disciple Kiel is confused and they explain how professors in Muni are required tohim the story of Alann Farhice and how he discovered a special ability
Anyone else would have dropped the matter at this point, but Alann Farhice didn’t do so Soht to him
Looking at those new and old enchant’ changed?”
Their ansere surprisingly similar – they felt it would be better “this way” They followed their own intuition when it caes have a strong intuition when it coic? – Alann pondered But if that was the case, then as it that reater talent than those workers needed years of experience to iht and wrong, what is better and worse – it wasn’t soranted by talent, but rather, experience!
Episode 141 – IPOMQ
Experienced es could estimate the quality of the spell by its mana density and weaved pattern, but they had to base this on its similarity to the officially accepted spell pattern Only if they had used the spell countless times would they be able to develop a sense of quality for their spells beyond the confines of the widely accepted spell pattern
Quality was not so they esti the spell!
These workers shouldn’t even be able to gauge the quality of the spell let alone develop this “intuition” for they had never used the enchantments they created! They didn’t even knohat these enchant realization – could it be that these workers have a special ability that allows them to sense the quality of the spells they had created, without needing to use them or accumulate experience? Some kind of inner meter of spell quality?
Alann’s conjecture turned out to be correct Those workers could pick up an enchantment they had never seen before, weave it a couple of times and intuitively feel which one of their attehest in quality, no hed seeing the excited exa about this discovery
If you asked him, this power didn’t seem all that useful It could help one evaluate oneself, and make fewer mistakes, but in the end, without hard work and talent, one’s ability as a e wouldn’t i able to tell that a picture was pretty wouldn’t give you the ability to paint a pretty picture
For goodness sake, he’d been constantly i too and didn’t need a special power to do it If he had such a useless power, he’d trade it for ic talent would be far more useful
Alas, the professors didn’t share his view In their opinion, getting hold of a talented ic research forwards by decades, perhaps even centuries
As currentit further was near ie was an i certainly played a large role in hindering further ic develope was an improvement or not would be invaluable
“Over all these years, how e to find?” Kiel couldn’t help but ask
“A lot of exa skills are tempted by the prospect of extra points so uely
Kiel almost choked on his own saliva Wasn’t he one of those examinees?!
“Oh Then you must have found quite a few…” Kiel’s eyebrow continued to uncontrollably twitch
“A couple, a couple” The grandhed aardly
So, basically, no one? Kiel stared at the the pity in Kiel’s gaze, the ed man couldn’t help but speak up in defense “The proble such a power!”
Kiel rubbed his chin He aln a truth contract and ask them if they can accurately sense the spell quality of cast spells But then he remembered that people with this ability didn’t even realize they had it, otherwise Alann Farhice wouldn’t be the first to discover it
These people were just like everyone else, following their own subtle intuition when it coic How could they possibly know that their ‘feeling’ was actually a special power? They probably didn’t even realize that they were subconsciously changing their own spellwork based on sensed spell quality
In the end, Kiel settled for asking: “How about giving the exa theher quality? Wouldn’t they be able to tell?”
Grandhed sadly “For some reason, their “intuition” only works if they had cast both spells the capability to perfectly copy a spell design? There would always be differences froe the result of the test The test wouldn’t be reliable
Since we are limited by time and the examinees are limited by the size of their mana pool, the prerequisite alone for us to be able to detect this power is hard to satisfy The examinee in question has to possess a very preciseis already very close to the original spell design The exaic talent, so that a clear improvement in spellould show in only couple of dozen replications”
No wonder they didn’t find anyone Kiel was speechless It was impressive that they even bothered to keep such an inefficient, useless exam for all these years
But wait… Kiel’s heart skipped a beat If they had low hopes of finding anyone, to begin with, ould they be so agitated earlier when they had found out he was a fraud? Even talking about expelling him? If he hadn’t shown his ‘exceptional’ ht have even kicked hi a piece of a puzzle Soht
But in the end, he decided to not question the exaain Also, he should probably get lost before they re him He wasn’t sure what field of study he wanted to pursue but the theory of ic wasn’t on top of his list
“I see” Kiel looked at the exa the time to explain this toher pipe at him dismissively
Kiel smiled politely and was about to turn around to leave when he abruptly remembered he still didn’t know the name of this ability
“Could you perhaps tell me the name of this ability?” Kiel inquired