Under the questioning of Gawain and Hetty, Jenny finally stopped being silent, and the stories about this notebook and its owners were presented in full for the first time, and Gawain also knew more about that notebook. The matter of the wild mage.
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 down-and-out, eccentric and marginalized senior. The mage came from the Violet Kingdom in the north of the mainland. He was once a member of the largest human mage organization, the "Secret Society". Therefore, life was extremely depressing, and in the end, she left the secret society to heal her daughter and entered the territory of Ansu, and the notebook Jenny got was one of the manuscripts that the wild mage left in the early years, if it is correct , He sold it cheaply to a mage in the Kingdom of Ansu in order to raise travel expenses.
Perhaps it was only sold for three copper coins, or perhaps it was worth nothing, and was merely a gift of a large pile of books and notes.
And its second owner's situation is not that strong either. From the lines in the notes, it can be seen that the research that the mage is conducting is also "deviant", and the reason why he conducts such research is also the same. Personal strength is low and there is no hope of improvement.
A mage who was struggling with magic and runes hoped that logic and mathematics would help him explore the reality of this world, and the wild mage's research on the versatility and potential laws of runes lit him up. The guiding light allowed him to vaguely grasp the path to explore the mysteries of magic even without the help of powerful magic power and personal strength, but the second researcher did not go far on this road.
Maybe it was to raise the cost of doing research, or maybe it was to verify a piece of data obtained from the notes. This unknown mage died on an expedition, and the few properties he left were quickly divided up. Clean, this precious notebook fell into the hands of Jenny's tutor.
But Jenny's mentor did not become the owner of this notebook, because the "orthodox mentor" disdained this notebook abnormally. He didn't think that two low-level mages could write a lot of calculations on paper. Reveal what truth, and think that the second owner of the notebook lost his life in an adventure because he believed the nonsense on these waste papers. That poor guy who died in the ruins just proved the fallacy of the theory in the notebook.
So the mentor just threw the note away, threw it in the garbage dump outside the mage's 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. Their apprentices are usually divided into two types: real apprentices and non-human apprentices. On the other hand, it was only used as an apprentice in the mage's tower, but it was actually used as a slave and experimental material. Ravencrest falls into the latter category.
Because of poor magic talent and not a famous family, Ravencrest has never been valued in the mage tower. Although he has a very high talent in mathematics and logic, but because of his poor spellcasting ability and rune sensing ability, he Called an "imbecile" and a "freak" by everyone in the mage's tower, the archmage reluctantly taught Ravencrest some basic knowledge, and then forcibly spawned him with cheap potions and rituals with huge aftereffects. As a formal mage, he will be trained in the same way as a rune master, and he is going to be responsible for drawing magic circles and making props.
Ravencrest picked up the notes at that time and became the third owner of the notes.
And it was several years after that that Jenny met Ravencrest.
Unlike the vast majority of "talented people" who can enter the Mage Tower, Jenny's background is more humble, and she was not even selected into the tower as a "Mage Servant": this thin girl came from a country far away from the king. In the poor countryside, the family's ancestors have never dealt with extraordinary people for generations, let alone have "noble blood of a mage".
She was able to enter the Master Tower because her hometown suffered a famine, and her family was about to starve to death. At that time, her "mentor" happened to pass by her hometown village, and wanted to "be kind and use the food in his hand to exchange some with the local hungry people." thing".
Jenny clearly remembered that it was a windless but very cold night. Her parents gathered the children together and drew a lottery, and she was only fourteen years old.
The next morning, she was pushed into the "Master Magician"'s caravan and exchanged enough food for the family: two bags of wheat.
She still remembers that there were many things piled up in the caravan: unknown herbs, stuffed animals, stones, metal, bark, and several numb children who were about her own age...
The car was full of experimental materials.
The magician exchanged the food for experimental materials, and she was brought to the mage tower as an experimental material.
After that, she met Ravencrest in the mage's tower, a "apprentice" who was a mage's servant but had a higher status than her.
Ravencrest was responsible for "feeding" the experimental materials.
The children who were brought together from the countryside were quickly put to use by the magician. Almost every two or three days, a child would be taken out. Some of them could come back alive, some could not, and Even those who came back alive soon became mad and weak. Jenny had realized her fate, but she did not run away.
Because Ravencrest reminded her every day: Don't run, it will be more terrible than death.
In this way, it was finally Jenny's turn to be "used". She couldn't remember the specifics of the day, because she was almost completely immersed in fear and confusion at the time, but luck favored her: after being sent When she was on the experimental magic circle, she was suddenly detected to have a very weak magic affinity.
She turned out to be gifted with magic.
Because of her magical talent 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 sorcerer had very casually named her "Perot." In the lingua franca of mankind, this word means "wheat" because she was bought by a magician with two sacks of wheat.
Being out of the threat of death is already a great fortune for Jenny, who is the experimental material, but in fact her situation is still not clear: she just changed from a "thing" to a "thing" "slaves", and in many cases, there is not much difference between the two.
But at that time, Jenny didn't have much time to think about these things. She was extremely grateful to be able to survive, and she never thought about being able to read, read, and learn magic as a mage apprentice (even though she was a slave apprentice) Good thing, she began to learn that knowledge eagerly, reading, literacy, identifying runes, and memorizing spells almost day and night, and soon, she discovered that Ravencrest had similar hobbies and ways of thinking to her own...
They became good friends, forgetting the years, Ravencrest excitedly showed Jenny the notebook he treasured, and told about the incredible things in the notebook that were rooted in mathematics and logic. , and "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 kind of research method that relies on formulas and calculations to approach the truth is in the eyes of orthodox mages who believe in pursuing truth with 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 child who crawled out of the experimental materials had and only had a little bit of magical power With her spiritual talent, I am afraid that she can only master a few apprentice-level spells and tricks in her lifetime, and miss the ranks of formal mages.
So he quickly stopped investing in Jenny, and desperately wanted to recover the cost. He gave Jenny a bottle of potion and a blueprint of the magic circle, and asked Jenny to drink the potion and forcibly catalyze it into a magic circle. Level mage, and then start the practice of the rune master.
Ravencrest, who had already drank the potion, stopped Jenny in private, and gave a bold suggestion: why not believe in the knowledge in the notes, believe in the formulas deduced and summarized based on the knowledge in the notes, and try not to use spells , and only rely on mathematics and logic to control those runes
Jenny followed Ravencrest's advice and completed the reconstruction of the circle as an apprentice.
That is probably the first "calculated" magic circle in this world.
But her "mentor" didn't reward her for this, instead, he was furious, and quickly found out that Ravencrest was "playing tricks", and then he found out the existence of the notebook, which was almost " Betrayal" made him even more enraged. He thought it was a shame that a research notebook full of nonsense from a poor mage of low strength could bewitch his servant in his mage tower. A great insult.
The great magician was furious and was about to destroy the notes and severely punish his two "apprentices", but at this time Ravencrest bravely stood up for the first time and took the initiative to face the anger of his "mentor".
He took his punishment alone, and kept the note and Jenny at the cost of an eye, a quarter of his soul, and two tendons, and he tried to convince the tyrannical archmage, keep the note and make the stupid It is valuable for the apprentices to study the notes. Maybe there will be something worth investing in in the notes. He and Jenny can become such test subjects to make magic circles and runes according to the methods recorded in the notes, so that If it succeeds, all the results will belong to the great magician. If it fails, the magician will only lose two experimental materials.
Jenny's mentor accepted this statement and asked the two bold apprentices to continue this research, but he never gave up on ridiculing and attacking those who he thought could not control high-level runes at all. The study of runes must be absurd and ridiculous, just like serfs guessing the king's menu, without the ability to perceive and control runes, but relying on a few calculations to guess the power of those runes out of thin air, isn't it ridiculous
But no matter what, Ravencrest and Jenny were finally able to continue to study the contents of the note, and they quickly discovered that there was an obvious "fault" problem in the properties of different magic-guiding materials, such as the transmission of magic power. The fault seems to divide all the guiding materials into two intervals of "positive and negative", and a mysterious constant affects the actual performance of the guiding materials in these two intervals in the magic circle. It turns out that various guiding materials only affect the magic The "output power" of the array, and the anti-interference stability of the magic array itself mainly depends on the logic of the arrangement of the runes, and the relationship with the magic material is only affected by its positive and negative polarity and a constant...
They began to deduce this constant and gradually approached the final result. However, on the eve of success, their mentor suddenly gave them a task.
Go to an out-of-control mana well and reset the rune array there.
This is completely beyond their runecaster skills, and resetting the rune array of a mana well is not a runecaster'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 runes can fit in your formula? Then go ahead and do it."
Ravencrest accepted this order, he knew very well that the great magician had lost his patience, because the latter was not a person who could tolerate his servants acting freely, so he had no choice at all, and going to the magic well happened to be Let him verify one of the most critical issues.
Jenny's memories were coming to an end, and her tone was very calm, so calm that she didn't seem to be talking about herself: "Mr. Ravencrest told me before leaving that he would adjust those runes according to the first guess, If he came back alive, e equals 1.29, if he doesn't come back, e equals 1.66 he didn't come back."
Gao Wen lowered his head and looked at the notebook. The record on the constant e was in brand new and delicate handwriting, which was written by Jenny. 8)