Chapter 1480: Flying Birds and Return (Twenty-Five)

Constantine opened his eyes wide. He glanced at Schiller first, then at Bruce, then at Schiller, and said: "Is this your teaching method? No wonder you have tortured each other for four years. If I My teacher asked me to memorize these things within three hours, then I must..."

Before he finished speaking, Bruce had already stepped forward, flipped through the three books with a calm face, nodded and said: "There are some problems with my memory system now, and the upload and download speeds have been affected, so maybe You need to read them twice to enter them, just read them once in normal times.”

"Go." Schiller pointed with his cane at the tables and chairs next to the bookstore window, then looked at Constantine and said, "Take me to your warehouse to have a look. I have recently been interested in the ritual part of the occult world. "

Constantine stretched his neck and glanced at Bruce, and found that he was really sitting at the table and starting to read seriously. He shook his head, sighed, and led Schiller into the warehouse.

Two hours later, it was completely dark. Schiller walked out of the study upstairs. Constantine followed him dejectedly. Schiller walked down the stairs. He chased after him and spread his hands and said: "...How can there be so many reasons? In the magic world, rituals are passed down by word of mouth. I just do what others do. How can I know why?"

"Besides, I am already a very knowledgeable magician in the magic world. I know the habits of almost every demon and angel. Even great wizards like Andrew once called me to consult on the weaknesses of some partial gods."

"And then you don't even know the origin of the same symbols that appear in all four rituals," Schiller points out.

Constantine sighed deeply. He walked down the stairs holding on to the handrail and said: "You can understand it as an inherent noun in mysterious semiotics, just like a noun in English. We just use it without understanding it. it."

"Don't you understand it so you can use it better?"

"No." Constantine denied. He walked up to Schiller, looked into his eyes and said, "The power of magic is borrowed. As long as someone is willing to lend you power, a three-year-old child can also perform magic."

"Have you ever thought that this might be a trap from the gods?" Schiller put one hand on the table in front of the bookshelf and said: "The forms of existence of gods and demons are completely different from humans, but the power they lend to humans can perfectly It fits the human body. It is certain that this cannot be their original power and must have been processed in some way.”

"Logically speaking, they can let their hosts adapt to them without such treatment. Do you think demons and gods are so kind to do the work for magicians?"

Constantine looked at him in a daze. After a while, he frowned and said, "You mean, this might be a conspiracy?"

"All gods and demons invariably transformed the power they lent to humans to completely adapt to human bodies. Why do you think this is?"

Constantine's brows furrowed deeper and deeper. As a former magician, he had much more experience with magic than Schiller, and it had to be admitted that most of the powers lent by gods and demons to humans could be very powerful. Easily manipulated by humans.

Constantine, who has read many magic books, knows that in ancient times there were many examples of magicians who could not control their power and exploded to death. However, in modern times, such accidents are rarely heard of. Magicians are in poor health. Most of it is because of the price to pay, not because of the inability to control the power.

What's more, many relatively mild forces will not cause even minor damage when flowing through the human body. This is actually very strange, because the human body is not designed to contain energy at all.

After thinking for a while, Constantine said seriously: "I can only tell you that the situation you mentioned does exist, and the compatibility between the power of demons and gods and the human body has indeed been purified. In ancient times, only Only the most talented magicians can control the violent power. In recent years, the age of magicians has become younger and younger, and many people even advocate that "children are born spiritual beings."

"It was mentioned in the two books about magic rituals I just read." Schiller tapped the table with his fingertips and said: "Magic rituals in ancient times were very complex. Most of them consisted of patterns, materials, and energy. "

Constantine nodded, he looked away, looked up at the ceiling, and said as if recalling: "Yes, I tend to use magic circles, that is, patterns to cast magic, and some female mages prefer Tends to chant, such as Zatanna, the irony magic she uses is a kind of chant."

"Do you think this is really a good thing?" Schiller also frowned at Constantine and asked: "The threshold is getting lower and lower, the power is getting stronger, the number of magicians is increasing, and the overall debt is The amount is getting bigger and bigger. Is this really a gift from God?”

Constantine was silent, and Schiller continued: "They have evolved energy to make it more and more suitable for humans, and made spellcasting methods simpler and simpler. It is definitely not for the convenience of humans."

"Just like credit cards, are banks relaxing approval thresholds and increasing loan limits to benefit the people? No, they just hope that people will develop the habit of excessive consumption and then borrow more debt, because they have the ability to force people to repay money."

"Extraordinary beings have made the threshold for borrowing power very low, luring more and more young people, even young mages, into the profession, just to lend more debt and then collect more interest."

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"And the more fatal thing is that if the whole process is very simple, then no one will get to the bottom of it. This is the case in the magic world now, isn't it?"

"The mages in ancient times were still studying the structure of each rune that can hold energy, and how to improve the runes and secret words to form more efficient patterns to control power." Bruce's voice came from the left. He was still reading with his head down, but quietly joined in the conversation between Schiller and Constantine.

Both of them looked at him, and Bruce continued: "I saw in these books the historical traces of the ancient wizards gradually controlling the power of rage step by step."

"At that time, many mages spent their whole lives just to optimize one rune, and an entire school only mastered one pattern, and then used generations of inheritance to study its secrets."

"There are even many mages who observe the origin of the original power of the universe through the door of magic. Countless speculations about the origin of the world and magical energy are passed down orally among various schools. But today, these classics have become side stories that have been shelved in the cabinet. Knowledge."

Bruce looked up at Constantine and said: "Since humans can make fire, we have never stopped studying the origin of the world. The subject of 'how does the universe exist' runs through all learning processes in all categories of the scientific world. It is The starting point and end point of human science."

"But the magic world has completely given up on research." Schiller closed his mouth, lowered his eyes, and sighed softly: "As you said, talking to the devil in a dream can give you power far beyond that of ordinary people. Who wouldn’t be tempted by the power to escape from the mediocre society of ordinary people and embark on a journey into the mysterious and magnificent magical world?”

"And there are a few people who, in the process of squandering their power wantonly and imagining that they are magic geniuses, have thought about whether the gods are deliberately pushing behind all this so easily?"

Constantine was silent for a long time, and the room returned to silence. Bruce turned his attention to the books again. After a while, Constantine's voice, which was too young to be his, sounded.

"Do you know? Your argument is denounced as heresy among the younger generation of mages. The current trend in the entire occult world is that only humans who are talented enough and lucky enough can have the possibility to control magic."

Schiller shook his head and said, "John, I want you to know that any society that denies the significance of effort is unhealthy. The purpose of talent-only and blood-only theories must be more sinister than you imagine."

"Now every young mage is pretending to be a genius." Constantine pursed his lips and said: "I know that many of them can't even draw a complete magic circle. They just pay more and master more. I feel sad for them when they tell others that they are talented.”

"I have always been very opposed to the trend of using magic to solve everything, but you have also seen that mages with noble blood and special talents like Zatanna are the ones sought after in the circle, and I am just a man who is extremely pursued by creditors from all walks of life. Just a miserable, bereaved dog."

"But you are actually much stronger than Zatanna." Schiller raised his eyes and met Constantine's eyes and said, "This is why I hope you don't use magic. For people like us, magic is a complete drag. ”

After saying that, he turned his head and glanced at Bruce, who was still immersed in the world of books, and Constantine also followed his gaze. After a while, he showed a wry smile and said: "You are planning to establish a new school of thought. , and revolutionize the magic world? I can only tell you that no one has tried to do this, but it is very difficult.”

Constantine swallowed and began to explain to Schiller: "Perhaps you think that magicians get stronger as they get older, but on the contrary, the younger and stronger a magician is, the more capital he has and can The more you pay, the more power you can gain. The more powerful the magician, the more powerful he is. Therefore, young adults have always had the final say in the magic world. "

"Most magicians do not live to old age, and those who survive are not stronger than others. It is just that they find ways to pay off part of the price or use their power very carefully, so that they can live longer than others. "

"Because they are old enough and close enough to death, they have to choose the price they pay more carefully, otherwise they are very likely to die. Therefore, the vast majority of elderly mages hide in their mage towers and rarely go out to socialize. ”

"This will create a problem. Young mages have strength but no brains, and older mages have brains but no strength. There are also a lot of idiots who have neither, and there are only a handful of geniuses who have both. It’s hard to shake up the entire magical world with a very small number.”

"So do they have Batman?" Schiller asked, looking at Constantine.

Constantine opened his mouth. As soon as he laid his eyes on Bruce, Bruce looked up at him and said, "I've finished carrying it."

Constantine was stunned, and then he heard Bruce say.

“And according to the article ‘A Hundred-Year Investigation into the Origin and Evolution of 623 Compatibility Runes in Ritual Diagrams by Priscita Fraobon and Her Disciples’, the two magic circles you drew at 3pm on June 16, 1992 were completely wrong - it was a complete mess.”