Chapter 109 E=One. Sixty-Six
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Under the questioning of Gawain and Hetty, Jenny finally stopped being silent. For the first time, the story about this notebook and its several owners was completed and presented to the public, and Gawain also knew more about the person. Wild Mage thing.
The first owner of the notebook was indeed the wild mage, but he still did not leave his name in this notebook. Jenny only knew that he was a desolate, eccentric and outcast senior, the wild mage. The mage comes from the Violet Kingdom in the northern part of the mainland. He used to be a member of the largest human mage organization, the "Secret Law Society", but as Gao Wen knows, his strength is low and he is excluded from others. Therefore, life was extremely poor, and finally left the secret magic meeting to heal his daughter and entered the territory of Ansu, and the notebook that Jenny got was one of the manuscripts that the wild mage left in the early years - if not If it was wrong, he sold it cheaply to a mage in Anzu Kingdom in order to raise money for the journey.
Maybe only three coins were sold, maybe worthless, just as a giveaway for a pile of books and notes.
And its second owner's situation was not too strong either. It can be seen from the words in the notes that the mage is also conducting "deviant" research, and the reason why he conducts such research is also the same Personal strength is low and there is no hope for improvement.
A mage who has a difficult time in magic and runes, hopes that logic and mathematics will help him explore the truth of this world, and the wild mage's research on the universality and potential laws of runes lights him up. The guiding light made him vaguely grasp the way to explore the mysteries of magic even without the help of powerful magic power and without personal strength, but this second researcher did not go very far on this road.
Perhaps to raise the cost of doing research, or to verify a certain piece of data obtained from the notebook, the unknown mage died on an expedition, and the few possessions he left behind were quickly divided up Clean, this precious notebook fell into the hands of Jenny's mentor.
But Jenny's tutor did not become the owner of this notebook, because the "orthodox tutor" was extremely disdainful of this notebook. He did not think that two low-level wizards could write a lot of equations on paper. What truth is revealed, and it is believed that the second owner of the notebook lost his life in an adventure because of believing the nonsense on the waste paper - the poor bastard who died in the ruins just proved the theory in the notebook. error.
So the mentor just threw the notes away into the trash outside the mage tower - and was picked up by his "apprentice" Ravencrest.
And this so-called "apprentice" is actually the slave of the great magician.
This phenomenon is very common among orthodox magicians, and their apprentices are usually divided into two types: real apprentices and non-human apprentices. The former is a person with a higher magical talent.
Either the noble bloodline is pure, and the latter just hangs the name of an apprentice in the mage tower, but is actually used as a slave and experimental material. Ravencrest falls into the latter category.
Because of his poor magic talent and not a prestigious family, Ravencase was never valued in the Mage Tower. Although he has a very high talent in mathematics and logic, due to his poor spellcasting level and rune sensing ability, he Called "Idiot" and "Freak" by everyone in the Mage Tower, the Great Mage reluctantly taught Ravenkeys some basic knowledge, and then used cheap potions and rituals with huge sequelae to forcibly induce him to become The official mage, and then trained it in the same way as the rune master, and planned to let him be responsible for the work of drawing magic circles and making props.
It was at that time that Ravencasse picked up the note and became the third owner of the note.
And it took a few years after that before Jenny got acquainted with Ravencasse.
Unlike most of the "talented" who can enter the Mage Tower, Jenny's background is more humble and lowly, and she was not even selected to enter the tower as a "Mage Servant": this thin girl came from a long distance from the king. In the poor countryside, the ancestors in the family have never dealt with the extraordinary, let alone have "the noble blood of the mage".
She was able to enter the Master's Tower because her hometown suffered a famine, and her family was about to starve to death. At that time, her "teacher" happened to pass by her hometown village, and she wanted to "show kindness and exchange the food in her hand with the local hungry people." thing".
Jenny clearly remembered that it was a windless but cold night when her parents gathered the children and drew a lottery for her, who was only fourteen years old.
The next morning, she was pushed into the "Master Magician" caravan, and was given enough food to survive for the family: two bags of wheat.
She still remembered that there were a lot of things piled up in the caravan at that time: unknown herbs, taxidermy animals, stones, metals, tree bark, a few numb-looking children about her own age...
The car is full of experimental materials.
The magician exchanged food for materials for experiments, and she was brought to the wizard's tower as experimental materials.
After that, she met Ravencrest in the mage tower, an "apprentice" who was a servant of the mage but had a higher status than her.
Ravencasse was responsible for "feeding" the experimental materials.
The children who were brought together from the countryside were quickly used by the magician. Almost every two or three days, a child was taken out. Some of them could come back alive, some could not, and Even those who came back alive soon became mad and weak, and Jenny realized her fate, but she did not run away.
Because Ravencasse reminded her every day: don't run, it will be more terrible than death.
And just like that, when it was finally Jenny's turn to be "used", she couldn't remember exactly what happened that day, because she was almost completely immersed in fear and chaos, but luck favored her: after being sent When she entered the experimental array, she was suddenly detected with a very weak affinity for magic.
She was actually gifted with magic.
Because of her talent in magic and her honesty before, Jenny saved her life and became one of the magician's apprentices, and she was a "servant apprentice" with the same status as Ravencrest, and she also Got her own surname: The magician gave her the surname "Perot" very casually. In the common language of mankind, the word means "wheat" - because she was bought by the magician with two bags of wheat at the time.
Being free from the threat of death is already a great luck for Jenny, who is the experimental material, but in fact her situation is still not in the light: she has just changed from a "thing" to a " Slaves", and in many cases, the two are not much different.
But at that time, Jenny didn't have much time to think about these things. She was very fortunate to have survived, and being able to read, read, and learn magic as a mage apprentice (even though she was a servant apprentice) was something she never thought about. Good thing, she began to learn that knowledge hungry and thirsty, reading, reading, recognizing runes, and memorizing spells almost day and night, and soon, she found that Ravencase had similar hobbies and thinking styles as herself...
They became good friends, and at the end of the year, Ravencase excitedly showed Jenny the notebook he had kept, and told about the incredible things in the notebook, rooted in mathematics and logic, two spells of low power , and the "apprentices" who have not received formal mage education at all absorb the knowledge in the notes and build their own worldview based on it.
They are completely unaware of how deviant this method of research, which relies on formulas and calculations to approach the truth, is in the eyes of orthodox mages who believe in the pursuit of truth by personal strength.
On the other side, Jenny's "mentor", the powerful magician, soon discovered that Jenny's magical talent was actually low and pitiful. This sick seedling crawled out of the experimental materials had and only a little sense of magic. With her spiritual talent, I am afraid that she can only master a few apprentice-level magic tricks in her life, and she will not be able to become a full-fledged mage.
So he quickly stopped investing in Jenny, and desperately wanted to recover the cost. He gave Jenny a bottle of potion and a drawing of a magic circle, and asked Jenny to drink the potion and forcibly catalyze it into one. Level Mage, and then start the practice of Rune Mage.
Ravenkes, who had already drank the potion, stopped Jenny in private, and gave a bold suggestion: why don't you believe in the knowledge in the notebook, believe in the formulas deduced and summed up based on the knowledge of the notebook, and try not to use spells , and control those runes with just math and logic?
Jenny followed Ravencrest's advice and completed the reconstruction of the circle as an apprentice.
That is probably the first "calculated" array in the world.
But her "mentor" didn't reward her for it, instead, he was furious, and quickly found out that it was Ravenkase who was "doing little tricks", and then, he found out the existence of the notebook - this The near "betrayal" made him even more infuriated, and he thought that a research notebook full of nonsense from a poor wizard with low power could confuse his servants in his wizard tower, which was for him It's a huge insult.
The great magician was in a rage, ready to destroy the notes and punish his two "apprentices" severely, but at this time, Ravencase bravely stood up for the first time and took the initiative to face the anger of his "mentor".
He took the punishment alone and kept the notebook and Jenny at the cost of one eye, a quarter of his soul and two tendons, he tried to convince the tyrannical archmagic, keep the note and let the stupid It is valuable for the apprentice to study the notes - there may be something worth investing in in the notes, and he and Jenny can become such test objects to make magic circles and runes according to the methods recorded in the notes. , so that if it succeeds, then all the results belong to the great magician. If it fails, the magician will only lose two experimental materials.
Jenny's mentor accepted this statement and let two daring apprentices carry out this kind of research, but he never gave up the taunts and blows all the time - he thought that those who could not control the high-level runes at all The rune research made must be absurd. It is as stupid as the serf guessing the king's menu. He has no ability to comprehend and control the runes, but guess the power of those runes out of thin air with a few calculations. Isn't this ridiculous?
But anyway, Ravenkeys and Jenny can finally continue to study the contents of the note, and they soon discovered that there is an obvious "fault" in the properties of different magic materials such as magic transmission. This The fault seems to divide all the magic materials into "positive" and "negative" intervals, and a mysterious constant affects the actual performance of the magic materials in these two intervals in the magic array. It turns out that the various magic materials only affect It depends on the "output power" of the magic circle, and the anti-interference stability of the magic circle itself mainly depends on the arrangement logic of the runes, and the relationship with the magic material is only affected by its positive and negative polarities and a constant...
They started to derive this constant and got closer to the final result, but on the eve of their success, their mentor suddenly gave them a task.
Go to a runaway mana well and reset the rune array there.
It's completely beyond their runemaster skills, and things like resetting a mana well's rune array aren't a runemaster's specialty: it's the job of a full-fledged mage.
But the instructor's order is absolute, and there is another sentence along with the order:
"Didn't you say that all the runes can fit in your style? Go ahead."
Ravencase accepted this order, he knew very well that the great magician had lost patience, because the latter was not a person who could tolerate his servants to act freely, so he had no choice at all, and went to the magic well to adjust the runes , just so that he can verify one of the most critical issues.
Jenny's recollection is coming to an end, and her tone is calm, not like she is talking about herself: "Mr. Ravencase told me before he left that he would adjust the runes according to the first guess, If he comes back alive, e is 1.29, if he doesn't come back, e is 1.66 - he didn't come back."
Gao Wen lowered his head and looked at the notebook. The record about the constant e on it was in brand-new and delicate handwriting, which was written by Jenny.