The days of being a spiritual mentor in Meiman

Constantine's eyes widened. He glanced at Schiller first, then at Bruce, then at Schiller again, and said, This is how you teach? No wonder you tortured each other for four years. If I My teacher asked me to memorize these things within three hours, then I must...

Before he finished speaking, Bruce had already stepped forward, flipped through the three books with a calm face, nodded and said: Now I have some problems with the memory system, and the upload and download speeds have been affected, so maybe You need to read them twice to enter them, and it is enough to read them once in normal times.”

Go. Schiller pointed to the tables and chairs by the window of the bookstore with his cane, then looked at Constantine and said, Take me to your warehouse, I'm very interested in the ritual part of the occult world recently.

Constantine stretched his neck and glanced at Bruce, and found that he was really sitting at the table and began to read seriously. He shook his head, sighed, and led Schiller into the warehouse.

Two hours later, when it was completely dark, Schiller came out from the upstairs study room, and Constantine followed behind him dejectedly. Schiller went down the stairs, and he stretched out his hands after chasing and said: ...How can there be so many reasons? The magic world is a ritual passed down by word of mouth. I will do what others do. How do I know why?

Besides, I already belong to a very knowledgeable and talented magician in the magic world. I know almost every demon and angel's habits. Even an archmage like Andrew once called me to consult the weaknesses of some partial gods.

Then you don't even know the origin of the same symbols that appear in the four rituals, Schiller pointed out.

Constantine sighed deeply, he walked down the stairs holding the handrail and said: You can understand it as an inherent noun in mystical semiotics, just like nouns in English, we just use it without understanding it.

Isn't it better to use it if you understand it?

No. Constantine denied. He walked up to Schiller, looked into his eyes and said, The power of magic is borrowed. As long as someone is willing to borrow your power, a three-year-old child can also perform magic.

Have you ever thought that this might be a trap of the gods? Schiller put one hand on the table in front of the bookshelf and said, Gods and demons exist in a completely different form from humans, and the power they lend to humans can be perfected. Fitting the human body, what is certain is that this cannot be their original strength, it must have undergone some kind of processing.

It stands to reason that they can let their hosts adapt to them without this kind of treatment. Do you think demons and gods have such good intentions to do the work for magicians?

Constantine looked at him in a daze, and after a while he frowned and said, You mean, this might be a conspiracy?

All the gods and demons unanimously lend their power to humans to transform them into human bodies. Why do you think this is?

Constantine's frown became deeper and deeper. As a former magician, he had much more experience with magic than Schiller, and he had to admit that most of the powers lent to humans by gods and demons can be very powerful. Easily manipulated by humans.

Constantine, who has read many magic books, knows that in ancient times, there were many cases of magicians who could not control the power and exploded to death, but in modern times, it is rare to hear of such accidents. Most of it is because of the price to pay, not because of uncontrollable power.

What's more, when many relatively mild forces flow through the human body, even slight damage will not occur. This is actually very strange, because the human body is not born to hold energy at all.

After thinking for a while, Constantine said with a serious face: I can only tell you that the situation you mentioned does exist, and the adaptability of the power of demons and gods to the human body is indeed purified. In ancient times, only Only the most talented mages can control the violent power, and in recent years, mages are getting younger and younger, and many people are even advocating that 'children are born with spiritual awareness'.

It was mentioned in the two books about magic rituals I just read. Schiller tapped the table with his fingertips and said, The magic rituals in ancient times were very complicated, most of which consisted of patterns, materials, energy, It is composed of chanting and sacrificial dance, and the magic rituals in modern times can be perfectly performed as long as there is one of them.

Constantine nodded, he looked away, looked up at the ceiling, and said as if recalling: Yes, I tend to use magic circles, that is, patterns to cast magic, and some female mages prefer For chanting, like Zatanna, the irony magic she uses is a kind of chanting.

Do you think this is really a good thing? Schiller also frowned and looked at Constantine, asking: The threshold is getting lower and lower, the power is getting stronger, the number of magicians is increasing, and the overall debt The amount is getting bigger and bigger, is this really a gift from the gods?

Constantine was silent, and Schiller went on to say: They have evolved energy that is more and more applicable to humans, and made the methods of casting spells easier and simpler. It is definitely not for the convenience of humans.

Like a credit card, do banks relax the approval threshold and increase the loan limit for the benefit of the people? No, they just hope that people will develop the habit of spending ahead of time and then take on more debt, because they have the ability to force people to repay. money.

Existence outside the human race lowers the threshold for borrowing power, and lures more and more young people, even young mages, into the profession, just to put more debts and collect more interest.

And the more deadly point is that if the whole process is very simple, no one will go to the bottom of it. This is how the magic world is now, isn't it?

Mages in ancient times are still studying the structure of each rune that can hold energy, and how to improve runes and secret words to form more efficient patterns to control power. Bruce's voice came from the left, and he still While looking down at the book, he just calmly joined the topic of Schiller and Constantine.

Both looked at him, and Bruce went on to say: From these books, I saw the historical traces of the ancient wizards gradually controlling the violent power step by step.

At that time, many mages spent their entire lives just to optimize one rune, and an entire school only mastered one pattern, and then used generations of inheritance to study its mysteries.

There are even many mages who use the door of magic to observe the origin of the original power of the universe. Countless speculations about the origin of the world and magical energy have been passed down by word of mouth among various schools. Today, these classics have become side doors that have been shelved Knowledge.

Bruce looked up at Constantine and said: Since humans can make fire, we have never stopped studying the origin of the world. The subject of 'how the universe exists' runs through all the learning processes of all disciplines in the scientific community. It is human beings. The beginning and end of the scientific road.

But the magic world has completely given up on research. Schiller closed his mouth, lowered his eyes, sighed softly and said, As you said, speaking a few words with a demon in a dream can make you far more powerful than ordinary people. Power, from now on, leave the mediocre society of ordinary people, and embark on a journey into the mysterious and magnificent magic world, who would not be tempted?

And how many people, in the process of squandering their power recklessly and imagining themselves as magical geniuses, have thought about whether there are those gods who deliberately push behind all this so easily?

Constantine remained silent for a long time, and the room returned to silence. Bruce turned his attention to the books again. After a while, Constantine's voice sounded too young for him.

Do you know? Your argument has been dismissed as heresy among the younger generation of mages. The current trend in the entire occult world is that only humans who are talented and lucky enough have the possibility of mastering magic.

Schiller shook his head and said, John, I think you know that any society that denies the meaning of hard work is unhealthy. The purpose of innateism and bloodlinesism must be more sinister than you think.

Now every young mage is pretending to be a genius. Constantine pursed his lips and said, I know that many of them can't even draw a complete magic circle, they just pay more price and master more magic circles. I feel so sad for them that I have great strength and then go and tell people that I'm talented.

I've always been very opposed to the trend of using magic to solve everything, but as you can see, mages with noble blood and special talents like Zatanna are the ones who are sought after in the circle, and I am just a person who has been chased by all kinds of creditors. It's just a miserable dog.

But you are actually much stronger than Zatana. Schiller raised his eyes to meet Constantine's gaze and said, This is why I hope you don't use magic. For people like us, magic is a drag .”

After finishing speaking, he turned his head and glanced at Bruce, who was still immersed in the world of books, and Constantine followed his gaze. After a while, he showed a wry smile and said, You are planning to establish a new school , and revolutionize the wizarding world? All I can tell you is that it’s not like nobody’s tried to do it, but it’s very difficult.”

Constantine swallowed, and began to explain to Schiller: Maybe you think that magicians get stronger as they get older, but on the contrary, the younger and stronger a magician is, the more capital he has, and he can The more you pay, the more power you can get in exchange, and the stronger the magician, the more power you have to speak, so the magic world has always been decided by the young and middle-aged.

Most magicians can't live to old age, and those who survive are not stronger than others. It's just that they find a way to spend part of the price or use their power very carefully to live longer than others.

Because they are old enough and close enough to death, they have to choose the price they pay more carefully, otherwise they are likely to die, so most of the old mages hide in their mage towers and rarely go out to socialize .”

This will create a problem, the young mage has strength but no brains, the old mage has brains but no strength, and a lot of idiots who have neither, and the few geniuses who have both It is difficult to shake the entire magic world with a very small number.

So do they have Batman? Schiller asked, looking at Constantine.

Constantine opened his mouth, and as soon as he set his eyes on Bruce, Bruce looked up at him and said, I'm done reciting.

Constantine was dumbfounded, and then he heard Bruce say.

And according to the article 'Century-year Investigation on the Generation and Evolution of the 623 Compatible Runes of Ritual Patterns by Prisita Fraobang and His Disciples', at 3 o'clock in the afternoon on June 16, 1992, the one you drew The two magic circles are completely wrong—it's a complete mess.