Drawing magic circles and depicting runes is a job with high technical content. As a unique product of this world, it is not just a simple "painting" as many people imagine—although it is simply drawn according to the original picture. It's really simple, but to become a rune master, you can't just learn to draw.
If it is simply to draw the magic circle according to the drawings, then ordinary people can do it, even if it is a commoner who can't feel the magic power at all, as long as you tell them how to draw and what to use, they can draw the magic circle. This is a simple "produce and copy" job.
But in addition to this kind of production and reproduction, rune masters also need to have the ability to create and adapt to changing circumstances: they need to help mages make magic props, or draw magic circles on various complex magic-guiding materials, and each magic prop or guide The properties of magic materials are different, and there are countless changes in combination. This is doomed that they cannot draw magic circles completely according to the drawings in books—they must change according to the different carrier materials and uses of magic circles. The arrangement of the runes on the magic circle, or fine-tuning the position and connection method of each rune.
In short, what runegraphers create is a "blueprint". Every time they draw, they are drawing the original mother copy and creating.
And this process requires the ability to perceive magic power and the ability to "tune" runes.
The former can determine whether each rune can function normally in the process of drawing the blueprint, and perceive whether there is interference between the runes that exceeds the threshold, while the latter is the ability to inject its own magic power into the runes for actual testing—although rune masters often do not The ability to drive the entire magic circle, but it is still possible to test a partial rune group.
To achieve these two points, at least one must become an official mage of the first level. It is absolutely impossible for mage apprentices to do this, because mage apprentices simply do not have the ability to sense and manipulate multiple runes at the same time, and their magic power cannot be accurate. Control, external output, if it is done...they will graduate.
And Jenny's information clearly stated that she was a sorcerer's apprentice.
This time Jenny heard Gao Wen's question clearly, but she didn't know how to answer it. After hesitating and weighing for a long time, she chose to lower her head, and said in a low voice, "It's luck, my lord."
"Luck?" Gao Wen raised his eyebrows in a disapproving tone.
"Yes, luck," Jenny still lowered her head, "my intuition is good, and I can always find the correct arrangement of runes. You should know that the arrangement of runes has certain rules. As long as you have enough experience , coupled with enough intuition, to be able to line up those…”
"If you were really lucky, you would have died in an accident before you accumulated enough experience," Gawain interrupted directly, "Although I am a knight, I also understand the basic principles of magic—for a magic circle , the position and connection method of each rune are quite strict, unless you have an insight into the laws of all the runes in the world and their combination, otherwise it is impossible for you to arrange each of them in place. The arrangement of runes is indeed There are rules to follow, but I have never heard of anyone who has analyzed the arrangement of all runes, and it is precisely because human beings cannot analyze every combination of runes that they need 'perception' and ' Tuning' these two abilities."
Gawain said, staring at the silver-haired girl in front of him: "Look up, and tell me the truth - how do you know where each rune should be placed, and how do you know where each rune should be when you have no way to perceive and tune? What effect does a rune have?"
Probably Gawain's tone was too serious, so that Jenny couldn't help but trembled, and she didn't dare to speak. Seeing this, Hetty remembered the role that Gawain told her before, one strict and one lenient, so she spoke in a soft tone. : "Don't be nervous, this is not a royal capital with strict rules, nor is it a dull and old-fashioned secret society. We welcome and encourage all behaviors that can contribute to the construction of the territory, even if such behaviors are deviant, it doesn't matter."
Jenny finally raised her head and looked in Gawain's direction, while the latter nodded slightly with a serious expression: "I can assure you that creative ideas are protected here, because I am the native of this land." law."
"Actually, it's not a creative idea," the silver-haired girl from the royal capital who became a fourth-level rune master as an apprentice finally let go. Book, "It's Logic and Computation."
Gao Wen put his hand on the book, but still asked, "Can I read it?"
"Of course, you are the lord."
Gao Wen opened this large book that looked quite old, and found that it was actually a handwritten note. The yellowed and curled pages were filled with runes, numbers, calculation formulas, and illustrations. It was worn and blurred. He flipped through it casually, and found that the handwriting in the whole notebook was still different: there were at least four different handwritings appearing on the page, and they appeared in order from front to back: Obviously, this notebook has changed at least four owners, and each owner has left his own records on it.
This book seems to confirm Gao Wen's vague guess before. He flipped the pages of the book almost with excitement and excitement, so that Jenny, who was sitting across from him, began to worry whether this precious note would be lost due to This rough flipping was damaged, and during this quick flipping, Gao Wen's eyes were suddenly attracted by an attached paper sandwiched in the second half of the notes.
This piece of paper was pasted between the pages of the notebook, it seemed to be an additional comment or summary, and the words on it made Gawain choke his breath:
The ratio of the energy level of all secondary runes to the energy level of higher-level runes is always one to three, and if the secondary runes are connected consecutively, they will enter into one every three, and they will be regarded as a complete higher-level rune;
The maximum number of connections between any rune and runes of the same level and position but different attributes shall not exceed eight, and the maximum number of connections with runes of the same level and position of the same attribute shall not exceed four;
Any rune forms a "knot" from the start character to the end character. The number of connection fields that can be filled in each "knot" rune must be an even number. Every two connection fields are counted as a "pair". Let the number of "pairs" in this field be is x, then the energy level produced by each "knot" rune is (x+1) squared;
In a magic interference area, two adjacent rune knots with exactly the same structure are set as a "interference knot", and the total interference value generated in the area increases sharply with the increase of the number of interference knots. The interference value of a single interference junction is a constant t=1.35, and the number of interference junctions is n, then the actual total interference value is m=t*n3. (Remarks: Try to avoid adjacent rune knots with exactly the same structure can greatly reduce the generation of interference knots).
The copper is regarded as the "zero" level of the guiding material, and the one weaker than the copper is regarded as negative, and the one superior to or equal to the copper is regarded as positive. The number of knots is set to n, the number of rune attributes is set to z, and the interference value generated by the interference knot is a constant t, then the theoretical interference value that the rune group within the range of the magic-guiding material can withstand as a whole is m=(n +z*n)*t, for negative magic materials, this interference value is divided by the constant e=1.66...
In any case, it should be ensured that the actual interference value m is less than or equal to the theoretical interference value m...
In the composite magic circle, the calculation formula for the "self-interference" generated inside the rune knot is...
In the composite magic circle, the best way to arrange each rune should follow...
There are more records to follow.
A large number of formulas, laws, and logic almost filled this appendix, and many of them can be seen on the pages after the appendix. Gao Wen could almost judge at a glance that this was already a summary and derivation with practical value.
It's just that they still don't seem to be the final results, and they still have some limitations of this era: many summaries are purely empirical products, and there is still a lack of clear formulas, and many formulas are too messy, and they have not been simplified and combined into More general formulas, and all these things have not been organized according to a system, but are piled up here loosely and independently, without any structure.
But they are already shocking things.
"You concluded these?" Gawain almost opened his eyes and exclaimed.
"No, no..." Jenny replied with some panic, "Not all, only part of this notebook was written by me, and the other part is... the legacy of the predecessors."
Speaking of the words "the legacy of the predecessors", her face was clearly gloomy and sad.
"Hmm... That's right, there are at least four kinds of handwriting on it," Gao Wen glanced down at the notebook, then flipped through it and suddenly found that the characters at the beginning of it were vaguely familiar. After carefully identifying them, he turned his head to look at the notebook. To Heidi, "Do you have that notebook with you? The Wild Mage's one."
In Gao Wen's eyes, Master Wild's notes are simply a treasure, but the most precious thing about them is the knowledge recorded in them, not the notebook itself, so he copied a copy of the notes and kept the copied copy himself, but kept the copy. The original was given to Hetty who was keen on magic research as a gift.
Hetty nodded: "Take it, these two days I just happened to be studying the discussion about the general rune group in it..."
As she spoke, she took out the old notebook from her pocket. Gawain unfolded it on the table and compared it with the notebook from Jenny's hand—as expected, the first quarter of the latter His handwriting is exactly the same as that of the wild mage!
This thick and old notebook is also one of the relics of the wild mage? And his relic is still circulating in the circle of mages, and has been studied and continued by at least three latecomers
"You are..." Jenny also saw the notebook Hetty took out, she subconsciously said, "Do you know its owner?"
"I've seen it before," Gao Wen said casually, and pointed to Jenny's notebook that recorded the rune calculation formula, "Since you have this in your hand, it proves that you have seen him too?"
"Unfortunately, when I got this notebook, it had changed hands three times," Jenny shook her head. "Have you seen him? Where is he now? Is he also in this camp?"
The expression on the rune teacher's face was full of admiration and excitement, but Gao Wen had to let her down: "He is dead, and the notebook in my hand is his only relic. Of course, now you have to add the notebook you have in hand." .”
Jenny opened her mouth, but finally it turned into a sigh: "Is that so..."
"You said that this notebook has been changed hands three times, so what about its previous owners?" Gao Wen didn't give Jenny too much time to immerse himself in emotion, he followed up and asked, "Those who pushed forward the research on the notebook , are they still in the royal capital or the secret society? Can you contact them?"
"They... died too," Jenny's tone suddenly became very low. "Its second owner died in an expedition, and its third owner, the one before me, was with me. Mr. Ravencrest, who learned runes, died in a mission arranged by his mentor—the constant e=1.66 is his legacy."