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Instead of talking about his scars, Amir talks to Kiki about the Grand Mage Examination.

The last part of the great magician's assessment is the use of forbidden spells.Only when a powerful magic of the forbidden level is successfully cast at the specified time and place, the senior magician participating in the assessment can be considered to have completed all the trials designated by the Magic Association, and then obtain the qualification and title of great magician.

However, since forbidden spells have always been highly confidential and taboo magic, ordinary magicians have no chance to touch them before they are promoted to great magicians. Therefore, the actual process of the assessment is actually based on the magic attributes of the magician, and the Magic Association provides five preparations. Choose the forbidden spell, and then the magician who participated in the assessment will choose one of them.

After the selection is completed, the examiner of the Magic Association will give the parchment with the forbidden spell to the reference magician for a short study and experiment. Once the magician fails to cast the forbidden spell within the specified time, the parchment with the forbidden spell The paper will be taken back by the association, and the assessment will of course be declared a failure.

Amir failed to pass the test in one go, and he was not prepared to pass in one go. He spent all his time reciting the long mantra, so although he failed the test, he managed to bring back a nearly A complete curse.

"You should already know that the so-called spell is actually a combination of the original sound of magic. In terms of actual effect, it is more like a mathematical formula familiar to ordinary people." Amir said, "The difficulty of magic is usually determined by the length of the spell. Divided, the magic below the elementary level is like the simplest 1+1=2, there is almost no content to dispute, but most of the higher-level magic has no standard calculation process, and many magic that should be simple are also due to spells. Too complex to be classified as high magic."

Amir paused, then continued: "Like the wind control technique I taught you today, for a long time it was regarded as an advanced magic that was difficult to control because of the excessive length of the spell, until a magician suddenly I whimsically streamlined it, and found that only the basic soundtrack of Fireball is needed to cast it."

"The spell, can it be changed?" Keech asked in surprise.

"Don't you realize that spells and magic are different?" Amir raised his eyebrows and asked back, then sighed again, and said to himself, "That's right, how can you understand if you haven't even memorized the original sound of magic?" What's the difference between spells and magic?"

——Can you just say that I am ignorant?

Kiki suddenly became depressed, but he had to admit that what Amir said was true. He really didn't know enough about magic, and his knowledge of spells was limited to the word itself.

Amir didn't force Keech to analyze that night, showed him the parchment, and put him back in his room.

Early the next morning, Keech got up and ate as he did in Tina's Master's Tower. When he went downstairs, he found two strangers, an old man and a young man, wearing Orion's clothes and hunting clothes hanging around their waists. used weapons.

Amir didn't introduce the identities of the two to Kiki, but after watching them for a while, Kiki understood that the two were here to deliver food and daily necessities to Amir.

The older one seemed to know Amir very well, talking and laughing without restraint at all.The younger one looked a little nervous, standing awkwardly beside the old man, looking around cautiously, seeing Kiki coming down the stairs in his apprentice robe, he immediately showed envious eyes.

Amir did not leave the two of them in the mage tower, and chatted with the old man for a while, then took out a bag of coins and put them in the old man's hand, and sent the two of them out of the mage tower.

Turning around, seeing Kiki still staring at the direction the two left in a daze, Amir raised his hand and snapped his fingers in front of Kiki, and said casually, "Like that kid? I can call him back to accompany you."

"Huh?" Kiki was stunned for a moment, then quickly shook his head, "I'm just wondering why they came here."

"Of course I asked them to come." Amir smiled slightly.

"When?" Keech was surprised.Amir didn't leave the Mage Tower yesterday, how did those two people get notified?Did Amir give them a megaphone?

"There is an animal in this world called carrier pigeon, you ignorant little fool!" Amir shook his head helplessly, "Okay, let's have breakfast, they brought fresh food, we can have a change."

— Carrier pigeons?

Kiki was stunned for a moment, seeing that Amir didn't mean to explain in detail, he pouted immediately and decided to ask Hill later.

The breakfast was indeed fresh, but the taste was not much better than yesterday's dry food.Amir is a powerful magician, but not an excellent cook, and his handling of food is limited to the degree of being able to cook, bake, and fry it.

But Keech himself is also a guy who has never even been in the kitchen. Although he is very dissatisfied, he dare not complain. If he angers Amir and forces him to do it himself, then he may not even be able to eat cooked food. arrive.

After eating breakfast wholeheartedly, Amir led Kiki back upstairs and opened another room on the second floor.

Looking at the empty room, Kiki finally understood the real reason why Amir asked him to live next door temporarily - a room without a bed is indeed uninhabitable.

Amir took the stack of wood brought by the old and the young into the room, and after a simple combination, a simple wooden bed appeared in front of Kiki.Amir brought the mattress from the basement and the quilt from the next door. After a while, the plank bed became comfortable.But a bed is not enough to fill a room, and it is still deserted and empty compared with the next door.

"You can change your decision now and go back to the room you had last night," Amir said.

"I don't like other people's rooms," Keech replied stubbornly.

Amir was slightly taken aback, and quickly raised the corner of his mouth, "You are sensitive."

"Who is that room for? Tina?" Kiki asked casually.

"No, an old friend." Amir replied lightly, and then changed the subject, "The stomach and the bed are settled, now let's get to the point and start studying the great magic."

Kiki heard the evasion in Amir's tone, but he was neither good at nor like to ask questions, so he kept his mouth shut and followed Amir to the laboratory on the top floor.

Spell analysis sounds wise and mysterious, but it is tedious and tedious in practice. It is nothing more than splitting a whole spell into countless pieces, then finding the correct order, and regluing these pieces together Together, in this process, some useless fragments may be deleted, and some original sounds may be added for connection. In short, it is to keep trying, trying, and trying again.

The initial splitting work was carried out by Amir himself. After the splitting, he summed up all the original magic sounds involved in the spell, and asked Keech to conduct a preliminary test on these original magic sounds to find out which ones are related to " "Thunderstorm" is an obviously irrelevant magic original sound, and then compares the original location of the original sound, and conducts a key investigation on it.

At this time, Kiki realized that the so-called original sound of magic is actually the same thing as the elemental symbols that Avella taught him.It's just that the former is read out with the mouth, while the latter is written on paper, but the corresponding elements are magic elements after all.In addition, the elemental symbols focus on attracting, while the original magic sound is for controlling.

From this perspective, a spell is actually more like a tool. Only when an ordinary magician has mastered this tool can he perfectly cast the magic he wants to complete.

In the first few days, Kiki’s energy was almost entirely spent on the one-to-one correspondence between the original sound and the elements, some of which were magical elements that were difficult to see in the air, so that Amir had to go to the laboratory to find them for him. even create.

Amir's mastery of the original magic sound is almost precise. Even if Kiki makes a slight mistake in pronunciation, Amir will immediately point out and criticize.After a few days, Kiki not only memorized the original sound of wind magic, but even the common language of the empire was a lot standard.

But sometimes there will be oolong incidents that make both of them feel helpless.For example, there is a part of a spell that Kiki read over and over several times, but Amir was not satisfied. Kiki himself also felt that this spell could not get a response from the elements at all.After a lot of twists and turns, Keech angrily split the spell again, completely disrupting the original magic sounds and then reconnecting them. This immediately exposed the problem: one of the original sounds could not be inserted at all.Taking out a comparison in the original spell, the two finally "guessed" the truth——

This incantation is located at a turning point between the preceding and the following. It is just when one step has just ended and the next step is about to begin. The so-called original sound is simply the "nasal" or "accent" of a caster, which was misunderstood by the person who recorded the incantation. recorded.

With such an experience, both Kiki and Amir lost their initial worship and admiration for this so-called forbidden curse, and began to calm down and re-analyze.

Due to being too busy, the two of them even forgot about the upcoming New Year. It wasn't until the old and the young of Orion's family came to the Mage Tower to congratulate them on the New Year that they remembered that the New Year had passed without knowing it.

Amir took a small bag of silver coins to the old and young of the Orion family as a New Year's gift. After they left, he went to the cellar to take out a bottle of wine, and with the freshly delivered barbecue, he and Kiki Celebrate this "belated" New Year.

After Kiki took a sip of the wine, he was immediately fascinated by the taste, but Amir refused to let him drink more, and he only drank a glass before storing the wine and replacing it with non-intoxicating grape juice.

"What about having sex after drinking?" Amir explained solemnly.

——What can two men mess with, you just can't bear your wine!

Keech complained in his heart, but he didn't dare to go to the cellar to taste it.

Two days ago, the two were arguing over a spell. Keech believed that the wrong original sound had been written there again, but Amir insisted that it was just a correct quotation of an intermediate spell.

In anger, Kiki directly cast the so-called intermediate spell and turned it into a wind blade to intimidate Amir. Unexpectedly, the wind blade was taken away by Amir just after it was formed, and no matter how he summoned it, he could not Bring the elemental back to his command.

"Don't think how powerful you are." Amir warned sharply, "Competing for magic power, you are still far behind!"

It wasn't until that day that Kitsch realized that the element's obedience was conditional.When no one is controlling them, they can obey any order that can control them, but when two orders appear at the same time or the orders conflict, they will only obey the one with the stronger control.

Under Amir's explanation, Kiki further understands that the control of elements can also be strengthened through years of practice.His advantage lies in his ability to control any element without distinction, while Amir's advantage lies in his specialization in wind elements. If he had cast Fire Wall instead of Wind Blade, then Amir might not be able to complete the element so strongly. Snatched.

However, after the violent magic competition ended, the peaceful routine experiment proved that Keech's judgment on that spell was actually very correct.

After more than a month, Kiki finally completed the spell analysis of "Thunderstorm" with Amir, and shortened the length of the spell by half, so that a long spell that originally took an hour just to recite now only needs The spell casting can be completed in less than half an hour.

Standing on a high hill, looking at the dark clouds and lightning storm that had just been summoned by him, Amir raised the corner of his mouth in satisfaction.

"Is this a success?" Keech, who was standing behind him, couldn't help asking.

"Not completely. After all, there is no defensive magic circle here, so I dare not try my best." Amir replied, "But the spell must be fine. As long as you increase the injection of spiritual power, you can completely achieve the effect of the forbidden spell." To an extent—speaking of which, you can cast this spell, right?"

"Well, probably." Keech nodded.

"You have also reached the level of a great magician." Amir said half-jokingly, "and you are a great magician who can cast silent spells."

Kiki curled his lips, but didn't take Amir's pleasant compliment to heart.After this analysis of forbidden spells, he not only thoroughly mastered the original magic sound of wind elements, but also learned a lot of common sense about magic, such as the chaotic relationship between magic and spells, and how magic elements can become real magic. What should be done when destroying other people's spellcasting... All of this made him realize that although he has a higher starting point than ordinary magicians and has an extra kind of wonderful power, if he really uses magic to fight, he is also a magician. At the level of an intermediate magician, he can at most be on a tie with Tina who has just advanced.

Moreover, compared to whether he can become a great magician, Kiki wants to know when they can return to the Magic Association.

It's already February of the new year, if he doesn't go back, he will miss the agreed time with Hill.

So, after the test of the forbidden spell was completed, Keech began to urge Amir to prepare for the return trip.

Amir didn't seem to intend to stay in the mage's tower for a long time, so he readily agreed to Kiki's request.But just as they packed their bags and were about to set off on the road, a mysterious uninvited guest suddenly appeared at the door of the mage tower.