Chapter 407 (2/2)

Thinking about the plan for quite a while, Roland made up his mind.

Assuming that the Marquise did not agree to come, it was still a matter of time for him to investigate the situation of her territory. As an important passage on the way to the Southernmost Region, Fallen Dragon Ridge was included in his spring attack plan.

“I heard there’s a newly evolved witch in the castle?” Tilly suddenly switched the topic.

“Ah, you mean Mystery Moon. Yes, she did cohere her magic power,” Roland nodded and told Tilly about her evolvement process. “But using the ancient witches’ method to evolve is not very effective in increasing her magic power. To become someone like Anna, it still requires the thorough understanding of solid knowledge.”

“But the ancient way is still a method,” Tilly said with interest, “and there’s a point I find very interesting in what you said just now. What did you mean by ‘They’re not natural phenomena but only concrete forms of magic powers’?”

“That was my personal speculation.” He picked up his cup and had some tea. “Neither Anna’s Heart Fire nor her Blackfire is something you can find in nature, so it’s not hard to view them as concrete forms of magic powers, but what about the normal fires before the evolvement? So I assume the normal fires were also created by magic powers, and that it reflected what Anna perceived as ‘heat’. As her perception became more thorough and profound, the images of ‘heat” also changed. This explains exactly what Agatha has experienced. Many witches have similar abilities before their evolvement because they’ve observed the same natural phenomenon. After High Awakening, their abilities vary because their understandings of the phenomenon have huge differences.”

“Sounds quite reasonable,” Tilly replied without saying yes or no, “but according to your speculation, the witches of the same kind will evolve almost the same new abilities if they’ve same understandings of the phenomenon, right?”

“Yes, pretty much like that, but under the condition that they’ve got exactly the same understanding abilities.”

Roland did not tell her another idea of his, which was to what extent magic powers could evolve. “Since magic power forms the foundation of all kinds of abilities, it is elementary and universal. Provided that there is a witch who understands everything in the nature, will she be able to display all kinds of abilities?”

“Are you… coming from a world without magic power?” Tilly suddenly questioned.

“Poof…” The tea nearly gushed out of the prince’s mouth. He wiped his mouth and asked, “What, what did you say?”

“I’ve gone through all the books written by you during this month and always felt something was wrong.” Princess Tilly looked at him in the eye. “I finally see what the problem is after hearing what you said just now. You separate magic power from the nature… Neither Natural Science Theoretical Foundation nor Elementary Physics mentions anything about magic power and you said concrete expressions of magic power were not something existing in the nature, but… magic power itself is a part of the nature.”

Roland was stunned.

He suddenly realized that he completely forgot Tilly lived in a world where magic power naturally existed. So did the previous Prince Roland, but he just placed magic power in a position opposite to natural phenomena and seemed to get used to it.

Blame the excess memories coming all of a sudden for this careless mistake? It probably won’t work this time. It is acceptable to say that Prince Roland wrote these books based entirely on his memories, but how to explain that he firmly believes in them and subconsciously separate magic power from the nature? Is it possible for him to pledge that this is still the memory of the previous Prince Roland’s?

Roland swallowed hard.