Xiao Chen took out a space bag from his arms. This was the only space treasure in the school so far, and it was left by the killed temple priest.
Although it wasn't as cool as a space ring or bracelet, it was better than an enchanted suitcase. And it finally made Xiao Chen feel like the wizard in the story had all his treasures ready to be summoned and sent away at will.
The space bag keeps a magical space of about one cubic meter constant in a volume the size of a purse. Unlike the legendary space ring that can be operated with just a thought, things in the space bag need to be taken out by hand.
The strange thing about it is that the length, width and height of the things put inside are all reduced to about one-fifth of the original, and the weight is less than one-hundredth. But after putting your hand in, it still feels like a 20-centimeter-long bag, and you can reach the bottom of the bag with one hand.
Xiao Chen felt that this was because the rules of the space bag only applied to inanimate objects, so his hands were immune to the shrinking effect.
He rummaged around for a while and pulled out a mug with a handle, as well as a pen and paper. These things suddenly grew larger in the short time they passed through the bag.
This is a very strange experience. People who don't master it well often lose control of it and let it fall.
He placed the mug on the coffee table and put a pen and paper in front of Javier. "Your Highness Javier, try to imagine what this mug looks like when viewed from six angles: front, back, left, right, up, and down. You cannot move the mug, so you can only rely on your imagination. Then draw them."
Javier obediently began to observe the cup, and then began to draw. It was obvious that he had learned to draw before, and even though it was his first time using a ballpoint pen, the pattern he drew was good. But after he had drawn for a while, Ye Zi began to laugh secretly.
Javier drew the cup correctly except for the side he could see. There were various errors in other directions. For example, in the upper view, the round hole in the middle of the handle can still be seen. Or when viewed from the handle side, the handle is still curved.
After he finished drawing, Xiao Chen said, "Check for yourself to see if it's correct."
Javier picked up the cup and spun it around, his face quickly turning red.
"I'm sorry. But I just can't figure out what it should look like looking in these directions." Javier whispered.
Xiao Chen took the cup and comforted him, "It's okay. This is not your problem. It involves a talent we call spatial imagination. Because the magic model itself is a three-dimensional figure. If you can't understand it from the drawing, you naturally can't use your mental power to outline the model in your mind."
Hearing that he lacked talent, Javier's face turned pale. "But, but I want to become a great magician, so that I can destroy the imperialists for my father. I, I can't be a magician?"
Xiao Chen said: "Don't worry, it's just that you lack the ability to imagine space. I happen to have a set of toys here that can help you practice this."
Xiao Chen took out a bag of snowflake toys from his space bag. These toys were not made of plastic, but of wood, and were smaller than the originals. These snowflakes were made by carpenters in Floro Town, specifically for making spell models. There were not only flat eight-slot snowflakes, but also two staggered, cross-shaped connecting pieces, or corner pieces bent at specific angles, which could build more accurate models than traditional snowflake building blocks.
However, this kind of building blocks is only used for demonstrations to the mages in the capital. It can only express static structures and cannot show the dynamic changes in the operation of the model. But in any case, it is much easier to understand than the structure drawn on paper.
Xiao Chen and his team used 3Ds Max software on their laptops to study the models. Just like Li Jia, every time he comprehended a new spell, he would go back to the base to build the model and make an animation so that he could popularize it in school.
Javier had obviously never seen this kind of toy before. He still had the mentality of a child and picked up a few building blocks and started playing with them.
Xiao Chen demonstrated by building a cube and spinning it in his hand.
"You try to build them into various shapes every day, then turn them around in your hands and think about the shapes at each angle, and you will gradually improve."
"You can play with Sister Ye Zi when you have time. Once you become familiar with this, your spatial imagination will naturally improve."
Ye Zi rolled his eyes at Xiao Chen, but still patted Javier's head, "Don't worry, I'm an expert at this."
"Okay." Javier quickly made a strange shape with his hands. The child was unstable, but his emotions had long since recovered. He asked, "What about the fire-starting technique? If I have to practice for many days to learn it, my mother and teacher will definitely be disappointed. Mr. Xiao Chen, do you have a faster way?"
"That's not difficult." Xiao Chen took out dozens of snowflake blocks. With a thought, they floated up, arranged in the air, and finally plugged together to form two ignition models, one in the starting state and the other in the ending state. Under the control of Xiao Chen's mental power, the two models rotated in the air together. "Look carefully! Now you need to imagine how the model slowly changes from the left side to the right side."
Javier stared at the model in a trance.
"I have never understood why the magicians here don't develop these auxiliary means to learn magic." Li Jia said.
"I believe there must be. However, it may not be used to teach children. Judging from the degree to which the mages here are picky in selecting successors, children who cannot understand graphics on their own are probably not worth educating at all, right?" Xiao Chen maintained the rotation of the two models while talking to Li Jia at the same time. This was a manifestation of the ability to distract himself.
"I originally thought that magic was something that only a very small number of people could master. But the more I came into contact with it, the more I discovered that those few barriers weren't that difficult," Li Jia added.
"Then why are there so few magicians?" Ye Zi asked, "I have heard magic apprentices secretly complaining several times that magic is too difficult to learn. These people should be considered qualified, right?"
"Have you ever thought about what kind of course it would be if magic were a subject?" Xiao Chen said with a smile, "If we look at magic from a mathematical perspective, the structure of the model is solid geometry, right? But the components that make up the structure are magic words, which are also Chinese. For example, this ignition model is basically a sphere with three ridges, and there are two magic words involved. In other words, for a magic apprentice to learn this magic, he must be able to use his mental power to write out two variant forms of the magic words 'fire' and 'flash', and combine some lines to piece them together into a sphere, and finally make these components move until the end. I think it's difficult to do this without a junior high school education."
Ye Zi nodded in agreement.
"More powerful magic is much more complicated. So how can there be so many magicians in this world full of illiteracy?" Xiao Chen asked in return.
"But our school is different..." Ye Zi just opened his mouth, but was interrupted by Xiao Chen's gesture to silence him. He signaled Javier in front of him with his eyes.
Sure enough, Javier came out of that state and woke up.
"Thank you! Sir Xiao Chen. I think... I think I did it." He stretched out his hand, and bright sparks appeared on his fingers.