Chapter 689 - 316: You Can Go Without Living, But You Absolutely Must Have Purpose
Arcane and Magic...
A cultivation profession created postnatally by magicians?
Since the textbooks and professors mention this, could it be that mage is a born profession?
Appearing out of thin air?
No creation at all?
But how is this possible...
After attending the basic class at the Arcane Academy, Lu Wenwu habitually explored the secrets of magic in the library.
He has been at the Magick Wizard Academy for three months, but many things still trouble him.
Arcane is one of them.
In his understanding and cognition, it is the magic that the arcanists perform on the Gods Continent that aligns with his perception of magic.
Meditating to condense the spirit, breathing to refine magic power, relying on spiritual power to construct arcane nodes, then filling it with magic power to form an arcane model, and finally releasing it.
Plus, arcane scrolls that are exactly like the classic magic scrolls!
Techniques like double casting and silent chanting feel incredibly familiar - indeed classics.
Even combinations like Qi-determined Fireball exist!
In contrast, mages are just casting one after another "spells" like lasers to perform all sorts of surreal and absurd powers.
Lu Wenwu is puzzled by this.
Clearly, other cultivation professions are quite normal; why is mage so unique?
It’s even completely untraceable!
Even Isidro’s teaching of Dragon Language Magic is the same.
Very mystical, very powerful, but they can’t analyze, can’t comprehend, unable to understand its composition principles.
The giant dragons attribute all this to the mysterious inheritance of bloodline, the supreme power left in the bloodline by the God of Giant Dragons, their ancestor, which is something ordinary dragonfolk cannot fathom.
𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮
Mages, on the other hand, credit all this to heavenly favor, believing mages are the children of concentrated spirit and beauty born from the heavens; each mage is bestowed by natural fortune, it’s nature favoring them.
Lu Wenwu remains unconvinced about this.
Horse shit!
Never heard of any world where the child of fortune is calculated by army count!
All those casting gestures, recited spells, it’s all crap!
In the library, Lu Wenwu focused his willpower, intensely staring at the book in front of him, engraving a strong mental suggestion in his mind.
"Fly up!"
Then, without any casting medium or spell, magic spell guidance, the thick hardcover book, akin to an encyclopedia, wobbled and floated to Lu Wenwu, completing a page turn.
As expected, my hypothesis should be correct.
Lu Wenwu thought inwardly, feeling thoughtful.
Everything else is nonsense, the key to casting spells for mages lies in whether the willpower is strong and firm, he has verified this many times.
Whether casting gestures or spells, essentially they serve as anchors for strengthening the wizard’s willpower, to meet the "spellcasting" criteria.
The magic staff is not a necessity for casting, merely better guiding magic.
This is the principle of wandless spellcasting and silent spellcasting.
When the will is in place, magic spells become redundant.
Otherwise, how could the first mage on earth have a magic staff born alongside him?
The reason Lu Wenwu can quickly grasp all magic is that, as a spirit chef with high ideals, a champion in body refining who has condensed the true meaning of martial arts, his willpower has reached an extremely absurd level.
This way, the most important factor has been achieved, naturally grasping any magic is effortless, unforgettable, mastered in a single attempt.
The arcane side is different; he hasn’t trained the micro-manipulation of spiritual power.
Compared to those truly gifted in arcane, he appears slightly clumsy.
Lu Wenwu believes his thought process should be correct.
In his experiments, and through learning with Isidro, he has completely mastered wandless spellcasting and silent spellcasting, two extremely profound techniques that not even the magic masters might know.
However, his theory can’t explain one issue.
If the essence of magic lies in willpower, why can using a magic staff release those small laser-like magic spells, and after successful wandless spellcasting, the magic takes immediate effect?
Even those damaging spells cannot be performed through wandless spellcasting?
Must have those small laser-like aggregates?
Lu Wenwu rubbed his temple and closed another book.
The main task is progressing, but not completely progressing.
He has a vague hunch that the buried past of magic is hidden within the secret of mage’s spellcasting.
In the evening, after a whole afternoon’s reading, Lu Wenwu routinely went to the kitchen, instructing the arcane servants on cooking.
And occasionally feeding Mao Mao and Snow... sometimes even Old Man Wood.
In these three months, he has given the school’s cafeteria a new look, at least that’s true for the Magic Academy.
Those English-American cuisines that have been locally passed down for who knows how many years are still there but have been significantly squeezed by the gourmet cuisine Lu Wenwu introduced, and improved considerably.
Don’t look down on Lu Wenwu usually having a façade of only knowing how to make egg pancakes. In reality, as a spirit chef, his skills in cooking other dishes are also top-notch.
Except compared to the increasingly absurd egg pancake, these things are still within the realm of normal understanding.
In continuously refining the academy’s menu and serving as the cooking teacher to the arcane servants, Lu Wenwu even felt that his egg pancake cooking skills, which have plateaued for a long time, have ascended once again.