56 Episode 55 Lets make a new magic! (1/2)

--Books are not for reading. It is something to look for.

These are the words of the father of a man whose life Arx relived.

He said that people must always search for books.

First, one searches for the book itself that one should read.

First, one searches for the book itself to read, and then one searches for the necessary information in the list of words.

Finally, one must search for situations in real life in which that information can be used.

That is why books are not to be read, but to be searched.

These are the words of a man who lives in a world blessed with reading materials.

If you listen to him calmly, you may feel that he is saying something absurd, but you can understand what he is trying to say.

Anyway, under the influence of his father, the man began to read a lot.

As an Arx who has greatly benefited from this, I am very grateful.

(It really depends on you, doesn't it?)

The information he has gained has been useful for many things.

It is not limited to magic.

It's not just magic. It's everyday life and quick thinking.

It's probably because of his own abilities that he can absorb them so efficiently.

The ability to accurately remember what you have read or seen.

It is a power similar to what is called instantaneous memory.

It is because of this ability that I can accurately and vividly memorize the books that the man read, even if I only read them in passing.

And this power is properly exercised even when he is not reliving it.

In fact, I should say that I am making good use of it.

At ......, there is a chronicle in front of me.

This is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of books in this world.

Dozens of thick books contain many volumes of [ancient arts language].

It would be extremely difficult for an ordinary person to memorize all of them, and even if one could, it would be impossible to memorize them word for word.

The main use of such a thing would be to create magic.

The technology to create spells and cause various phenomena by using the [ancient arts language] that constitutes the book.

It is not only for enriching people's lives.

Naturally, it can also be used to attack others.

There are three main types of magic.

Offensive magic” which directly attacks the opponent.

Defensive magic is related to defense.

Lastly, spells that have auxiliary properties are called ”aid spells”.

In the garden of the Arbent mansion, Arx holds up a book.

It is a book of words and phrases taken from the annals and their meanings.

The only reason for bringing it out to the garden of the Arbent mansion is to create new magic.

Naturally, a lot of magic will be needed in order to rise in the future.

Powerful spells, but also spells that are appropriate to the situation.

In some cases, we must assume that we will be fighting against other people.

However, chanting time is a bottleneck in the use of magic.

As is the case with mage against mage, if you are fighting a non-mage opponent, the longer your spell is, the more time it takes for the opponent to see you, and the more likely they are to defeat you while you are still chanting.

To avoid this.

To avoid this, you should focus on melee combat in the early stages of the battle, and take advantage of their gaps to chant.

Alternatively, you can deploy a vanguard and chant while the vanguard is fighting.

You need to do these things.

The latter is impractical because you cannot always have a vanguard ready.

Therefore, the choice in that case is automatically the former.

It's the sword after all: ......

...... reminds me of the swordsmanship that man learned.

In the man's country, it was common to use imitation swords made of bamboo, but the man mainly used serious swords or special practice swords as part of his spiritual training.

This is the art of drawing and striking a sword from its scabbard while seated.

They mainly practiced prescribed kata over and over again, sometimes cutting stationary objects.

Although it was not a way to cultivate many skills for fighting against others, the man was not completely devoid of skills, as he was taught footwork and other techniques by an older swordsman who had dabbled in several schools.

I've been practicing what I've learned there for four years now, and I've already mastered some of the moves, and I'm almost at the point where I can reproduce some of the techniques that I've read about.

Anyway, now for the magic.

Close combat techniques.

Vanguard positioning.

Other measures would be to revise the form of magic and the spells themselves.

Create spells that last longer.

Create spells with shorter chanting times.

Either of these.

By sustained magic, I don't mean one-shot spells such as [Flamrune] that end with a single blow, but spells that, once used, can maintain their effects for a long time, such as defensive magic.

The magic used by my uncle Crabbe and Noah's [Jacqueline's Freezing Sword] can be said to fall into this category.

While these spells are powerful, they require a huge amount of magic power.

Therefore, it is difficult to say whether you can afford them.

If you want to use a spell more than once, the amount of magic power you can use at one time is limited because you have little magic power.

If it is a powerful spell, the majority of the magic power will be taken away just by using it once.

This is also unrealistic because we have not yet found a way to increase or replace the magic power.

If we want to be practical, we have to shorten the spell.

Of course, the shorter the spell, the better.

However, if you make it extremely short, you will run into the dilemma of not being able to achieve the desired effect.

What kind of phenomena does the magic spell use?

What phenomenon does it utilize?

What form does it take?

What effect will it have?

If you don't specify them properly, the spell will not be sophisticated.

If you use too few words, you will not be able to specify them, and even if you succeed, the spell will be monotonous. Of course, the more monotonous the spell, the weaker it will be, because you cannot add more effects to it.

However, we still want to make spells short and powerful.

So this time, I decided to use words that are usually considered to be too difficult to deal with, instead of words that are useful for increasing the power of magic.

[flame] [fire] [thunder] [lightning] [ice and snow] [avalanche].

These are words that are powerful in themselves and are usually difficult to mix into a spell.

If these words are poorly incorporated into a spell.

Or they can get out of control.

Or they will cancel each other out, making the spell weaker.

However, this does not mean that they cannot be used in spells.

If you can find words that can be controlled and come up with combinations, theoretically they can be used in spells.

Look down at the book where you wrote down the ...... words and phrases.

[[Explode]] ......

I muttered to myself about a word I had just found in my research.

It is a word related to explosions and blasts, and is found in the sixth book, ”The Demon King at the End of the Century.

It says, ”A flame explodes. It pours down like rain and roars. The fires run and run, raging and reaching far beyond the horizon. The voices of sorrow never cease. The voice of sorrow will never cease. It will consume everything and reduce everything to dust. One demon lord, Ganzardi. The only thing that will remain after you have conquered is a field of sorrow.

...... This depicts the manifestation of Ganzardi, one of the demon kings who are said to destroy the human world.

When the demon king Ganzardi appeared, he blew away the civilization that people had built with fire and shock, turning it into a wilderness.

Even from this description alone, we can see that a considerable number of powerful words are used.

Roaring,” ”raging fire,” ”burning out,” ”dust,” and ”never-ending.

These are all words that are not easy to handle.