Ophelia turned a blind eye to the eyes of the crowd, and she let go of her worries. In a year, three magics, no matter how high this standard is, she is not considered high. Even if she is not learning fast in elemental magic, she has no worries about being cleared.

In fact, this is just the minimum standard, and few apprentices from previous years were cleared for this reason. The real reason for the reduction in the number of apprentices is the pressure of multiple course assessments.

Master Black talked freely: "Elements are all-encompassing. Your naked eyes, the perception of the mage, the touch of mental power, and all phenomena found in these ways that exist outside the plane are elements."

"Fire." Mage Black spread his palms, and a cluster of flames burned above his palms.

"Water." The flame disappeared and replaced by a ball of water.

"Ice." The water ball solidifies and turns into a piece of ice.

"Earth, light, darkness..." Mage Black showed it one by one, everyone was fascinated by the magic of magic.

"And, wind." The mage waved his hand, and everyone felt a faint wind spinning by his ears.

"These are elemental phenomena that you can see intuitively with your naked eyes. Elemental magic is the magic that applies them."

Mage Black continued: "In the age of ancient mages, ancient mages transformed phenomena into magic in an extremely rough way through observation day after day. This method was inefficient because even if they understood the magic from it, they did not understand the principles. This also led to the extremely difficult inheritance of magic in that era. A kind of magic is often unchanged and unstable. The mage's magic even faces back on its own."

Everyone listened attentively to the words of Master Black. Before entering the path of a mage, everyone's intuitive feeling of mage and magic came from elemental magic. The great power that controls nature was their original source of worship.

The optical projection behind Master Black lit up, and three runes that were very familiar to everyone appeared in the projection.

"Focus ball technique, everyone should be familiar with it."

Everyone nodded, especially the apprentices from the deserted island. The reason why they were able to arrive at the academy alive was because they relied on the power of fireball.

"This is the first magic mastered by the mage. In ancient times, humans were slaughtered by various monsters. When they were on the verge of extinction, it was precisely because of the creation of fireball techniques that they could barely reproduce and prosper."

Fire is the source of civilization, and this seems to be the case in any world, and the same is true on the earth. It is precisely because of the application of fire that a weak individual like humans can escape barbarism. Adam thought so.

"The fireball technique at that time was different from that now. You should know that as long as you master these three runes, the fireball technique you used will be successful and stable, but in ancient times, it was much more dangerous for mages to use magic."

Mage Black paused for a moment, holding his hand in the air, and then a staff of a simple shape that was nearly one person tall appeared in his hand. Mage Black took out a fire-type energy stone and placed it on the top of the staff, and then said to the apprentices,

"The initial mages used energy stones and magic wands to cast spells. They shocked their mental power through their voices and used their mental power to stimulate the low-level energy stored in the energy stones, and used magic in this way."

Master Black signaled the apprentices to pay attention, then opened his mouth and said a few simple syllables, then waved the staff, the energy stone lit up, and a fireball that was not burning and unstable appeared at the tip of the staff.

Adam noticed that although the syllables sounded simple and meaningless, they resonated with their mental power because of the changes in tone, which allowed them to extract energy from the ore.

The casting of the ancient wizard seems to have nothing to do with ether and magic.

Mage Black put away his staff and held up the unstable burning fireball with one hand: "This is probably the original fireball technique. Because it is too old, it is unverified, and modern mages cannot completely restore it. You can see that its state is unstable and may be broken at any time. This magic may even dissipate itself before it hits the enemy."

A target rose in front of Master Black. He waved his hand and threw the fireball on the target. The target did not move at all, and then a value was displayed on it - 0.25.

Mage Black spread his hands and said, "The power is very low. Now this kind of magic cannot even kill an ordinary person."

Adam looked at the target and guessed that it was probably an alchemy product similar to the principle of the crystal sphere. This kind of dataization method is undoubtedly advanced and intuitive. Accurate values ​​can accurately display the data, leaving the possibility, probably, this vague description.

Adam was still thinking about this and heard Master Black say, "The next thing is the improved fireball technique."

This time, there was no casting action, an orange fireball appeared out of thin air and steadily suspended in front of Mage Black.

"I have only mobilized the mental power of the apprenticeship stage. This fireball is no different from what you used. Pay attention."

With a bang, the fireball hit the rake and exploded. This time the value displayed is 1.

"Modern magic supported by knowledge and constructed by runes has the lowest power of one. The same low-level magic is four times more powerful than ancient magic."

"This is the power of knowledge." Mage Black concluded.

Most people did not know what the meaning of the word "knowledge" has always been spoken by mages. They don't understand it now, but this does not affect their longing for knowledge from now on. It turns out that mages are not a mysterious and weird profession. As long as they have "knowledge", they can do the same thing.

"The essence of fireball is combustion, and the source of power is temperature. It is an exothermic reaction caused by the action of combustible substances and combustible agents. In fireballs and most fire-type magic, combustible substances are ether, and combustible agents are magic, and magic is used to releasing magic by magic."

Adam felt that Mage Black did not fully explain the principle of Fireball. At least he did not introduce the mysterious and great substance of Ether. According to the earth, combustion is an exothermic reaction of combustible substances and oxidants. In the world of the mage, Ether obviously replaces these two conditions.

So, it means that the power of a mage comes from knowledge rather than from the ether?

While listening to Master Black's narration, Adam recorded them in a way that he could understand. It is obvious that in this plane-formed world, there is no essential difference in basic physical quantities. The biggest reason why this kind of world has extraordinary power is the mysterious ether.

"No, mental power must be added. That is to say, in addition to the four basic forces that do not know the form of existence, there are also the fifth basic force mental power and the sixth basic force ether. The six major forces jointly build the high demon world."

Mage Black did not show other magic or teach other knowledge. He was still introducing it based on fireball techniques. The ether was constantly mentioned by him, which made Adam determine the importance of the ether.

"So, can it be said that everything in this world is created and integrated by the ether? The mages are just exploring the ether through knowledge?"

Adam knew that his shallow understanding of the world was not enough to study this problem of reaching the essence of the world, and he didn't even know whether the problem itself had practical significance, but he could now completely confirm something.

That is, the value of the broken knowledge obtained from the "virus" has been reduced again. Due to the existence of ether, the magic science unique to this world and the earth science have gone on different paths from the beginning. It is uncertain whether those knowledge can be established in this world. Perhaps there is only a little reference significance?

At the end of the course, Mage Black released three runes composed of three runes, namely the water curtain, defense magic, wind-type wind blade, the magic that William once used magic items on the ship to inspire magic, the earth-type earth-type thorn, and attack magic.

"The element knowledge in the first year's free stage will not teach you advanced content. Your task during this year is to learn three elemental magic. You can also choose to go to the library to pay to learn the rune sets of other low-level elemental magic, but three are the minimum requirements."

"In the next course, you can consult me ​​with the problems you encountered when constructing runes. Of course, don't waste my time with stupid questions. I bet you won't want to bear that consequence."

After saying that, Mage Black left the classroom. This time, the apprentices' enthusiasm was even higher. Unlike the morning meditation, they were more excited by intuitively seeing the power of magic, especially when they had the opportunity to master this power.

This simple magic seemed to Adam to be unharmed. He discovered something in common among the rune group. Including Fireball Technique, one of them was similar or even the same, that was the one that guided the magic power.

"Sure enough, ether is the origin of magic."

In the next week, the apprentices listened to all the free courses. Each tutor had their requirements. The result that could not be achieved was to be cleared. Although it was not difficult, it was still a huge test for some apprentices who were not smart.

It was naturally not difficult for Adam. He discovered the significance of the first year of learning. This method is similar to the preparatory classes on earth. It is used to select good seedlings that are sufficiently adapted to the mage's practice from apprentices with qualified mental power, and then return the defective products.

Due to the pressure, the apprentices became nervous and the learning atmosphere was unprecedentedly high. With everyone learning, Adam became an alien again, and the apprentices all thought he had given up on himself.
Chapter completed!