At night, Prince William's palace and restaurant.
There were only a few candles placed on the long dining table, and the candlelight flickered, making the whole house look very dim.
The eldest prince, William, sat quietly at the end of the dining table, as if waiting for someone.
Suddenly there was a "squeak", the door of the restaurant opened, and a figure walked in. Because the light was dim, I couldn't see the other person's face clearly, but just from the outline, I could guess that it was a handsome young man.
"Your Highness the Prince..." The figure walked in and quickly greeted him, his voice extremely respectful.
However, William raised his hand to restrain the other party's politeness and said softly: "Sit down, I'm waiting for you." According to etiquette, the other party should have sat at the other end of the dining table, but William was leaning against him. Position one move.
The figure was stunned for a moment, then sat down next to William in fear.
William clapped his hands, and a maid immediately walked into the restaurant and brought the prepared food to the table. It was very simple, just white bread, pork chops, half-cold roasted hare, mushroom soup and malt wine.
The two of them started eating, the process was a bit silent, and the atmosphere was a bit depressing.
William didn't say a word, just focused on eating, as if it required 100% of his energy. No matter how the food tastes, chew it carefully before swallowing it.
The figure on one side was a little nervous. Although he was eating with the standard etiquette of aristocrats, he was eating at an extremely slow speed. He cut a piece of pork steak into pieces the size of diced meat and sent them to his mouth piece by piece. In the depressing atmosphere Drops of sweat came out from his face.
Suddenly, William seemed to have thought of something, and gently put the knife and fork in his hand on the dining table, making a soft "pop" sound, and turned to look at the figure next to him.
The figure quickly swallowed all the food in his mouth with a "gulp" sound, put down the knife at a very fast speed, and met William's gaze.
"His Royal Highness Prince… "
"Yeah." William said, "You should be familiar with my brother, right?"
"His Royal Highness the Prince's younger brother—His Royal Highness Richard? Of course you are familiar with him." The figure said cautiously.
"Then what do you think my brother is like?"
"Um, um..." The figure hesitated, pondered for a long time, and said, "As far as I know, His Highness Richard is very smart, but also very weird. He always studies things related to wizards, or does some experiments. In short...it seems to be completely different from you, His Highness."
"Indeed." William nodded in agreement, his eyes twinkling, "Richard... Well, my younger brother is indeed very smart and weird. In fact, he has been like this since he was a child.
You should know that he is two years younger than me. But you must not know that he was able to speak fluently and communicate with other people at the same time as me—when I was three years old and he was one year old. "
The figure showed a surprised expression.
"Of course, I don't actually know this. After all, who can remember when I was a child? My father told me this. My father also told me that my younger brother had many strange behaviors when he was a child, such as never crying. Of course, he never smiled. He didn't look like a child at all, as if there was another person's soul hidden in that small body.
He was quick to read and learn, and when he was six years old, the palace teachers could no longer teach him. The place he went to most after that was the library. According to the curator, he seems to be able to read much faster than ordinary people. Others are really reading, while he is turning the pages. The most important thing is that after he turned it over, he could still remember it very firmly. I remember when I was ten and he was eight, my father gave us a test, and then... do you know what the result was? "
William looked at the figure, who shook his head in confusion.
William's eyes flashed with color: "The result is that I didn't even have a chance to think. Basically, my father's question had not been finished yet, and his answer had already been spoken. Finally, his father asked him, how to be a good king? Afterwards, I thought, if he had given his father a satisfactory answer, maybe his father would have made him crown prince directly. But what do you think he answered?"
The figure shook his head again.
"He said..." William smiled complicatedly, "He said that he was too lazy to answer this question. He said that being a king is a very troublesome thing, and he has more important things to do, and he is too lazy to become a king."
"..." The figure didn't know what to say.
William shook his head and said as if talking to himself: "Do you know how I felt at that time? Surprised, well, and scared. Because I suddenly discovered that this brother is actually much better than me. One thing If he wants to do something, he will definitely do it better than me, but he is unwilling to do it, as if he has already seen the result.
My brother is just so weird—a weird guy, a weird prince. Especially after his father took the exam, he became even more eccentric. He began to do various experiments, research various things related to wizards, and create all kinds of scary things. For example, acid can easily corrode sharp iron swords, and rocks can make loud explosions when thrown into water.
No one knows what he wants to do or what his purpose is. In the end, his father was actually a little afraid of him, otherwise there wouldn't have been that misunderstanding three years ago. "
At the end of the sentence, William sighed softly, looked at the figure and said: "I asked you to come, actually there is no other meaning. I want to be a good brother and protect his safety. No matter what he does, as long as it is not too excessive. Follow his wishes. At the same time, I also want to be a good king and protect this country."
"So!" William looked seriously.
The figure was shocked, and the next moment he heard William say, "...You have to do one thing for me, that is..."
The figure's expression changed rapidly. After a long time, his eyes were fixed, and he responded loudly: "Yes!"
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Night, Richard's Palace.
In the bedroom, Richard was flipping through "The Chapter of Monroe" with his eyes flashing and occasionally showing a thoughtful expression.
Although he successfully cast the first spell yesterday, he is not even a first-level apprentice now. There are three levels of wizard apprentices: first-level apprentice, second-level apprentice, and third-level apprentice. Only when you reach the third level of apprenticeship and then successfully advance can you be considered a wizard.
Now, I am just a rookie who has just entered the wizarding world. It is just the beginning. I still need to explore and choose the rest of the way. In addition, it is obviously impossible to try to analyze the entire world with just the help of a wizard's book. I need to get more things related to wizards, and I even need to get in touch with the real wizards and magical creatures in this world.
"The road is vast and long, and I will search up and down. The task is heavy and the road is long." Richard said to himself.
The road is long, but Richard does not feel that he cannot complete the task of scientifically analyzing spells. After all, no matter how magical the spell is, it must comply with the common sense of chemistry and physics. You can't let flames freeze people or ice cubes scorch people.
Even if it does not conform to the common sense of chemistry and physics, it must conform to logic and mathematics. The effects of spells cannot be random, and two of the same spells are less powerful than one.
If this is really the case, then Aristotle, the leader of logic and the god of warping, really wants to use leverage to fly the planet. And Archimedes, a great mathematician and circle-drawing madman, also wanted to seize the Roman soldier's dagger and stab him.
All unknown things may seem mysterious, just like things that are too far beyond one world are often regarded as magic, but they always follow some laws, and these laws are science.
Science is not something static, but a way of thinking and a worldview.
What Richard really wants to do is to figure out the science of this spell, figure out the reason why he came to this world, and figure out everything.
Travel through time and space, conquer the world, just listen to this sentence. Only when it actually happens, you will realize how unreasonable it is.
If you are like an ostrich, like what is described in many novels, ignore it and live your life pretending that everything is normal. It is obviously a choice to convince yourself to be assimilated by the world and live according to the way of this world, or to work hard to become the strongest within the framework of the world.
But Richard didn't want this.
In Richard's opinion, this was no different from the artificially raised bugs in the box. Being mediocre is a bug. Working hard and becoming stronger or even the strongest is still a bug, still in the box.
What Richard wanted was to figure out what was going on with this box, why he was in this box, and then get out.
The reason why I became a wizard was not because I wanted to have the power to destroy the world, but because I wanted to understand what this latent science was that did not exist on the modern earth at all. Understand its core principles, master and utilize them, and then understand the principles of the current world.
The strongest wizard is still a wizard, still a worm in the box. Figure out all the principles and step out of the box, and you will be God. This is a qualitative difference.
After all, living in a box, you never know if something will hit the box at the next moment and directly destroy the entire world.
"The road is very long..." Richard said to himself, "So we can't waste time, we have to walk quickly..."
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