Saint Laurent Prison Warden

Chapter 78: The Battle of Witchcraft and Magic (First Update)
As we all know, witchcraft comes from the mystery of the unknown, and magic comes from the ingenuity of wisdom - witchcraft comes from the unknown, and magic comes from the known.

These are two completely opposite paths that seem like destined rivals.

However, the two professions of magician and wizard can coexist harmoniously in the Silver City.

The reason is very simple.

No matter how wise one wizard is or how much he knows, it cannot affect the ignorance of another wizard.

No matter how thoroughly the wizard studies the rules of this world and no matter how many achievements he has made, as long as the wizards do not try to understand and learn, they will not be affected.

Therefore, the Silver City-State is very large and can accommodate both wizards and mages. Both sides have created a very brilliant magical civilization based on their own systems.

The two seemingly similar but completely different magic systems intertwined and collided in the Silver City-State, forming the prosperous and brilliant scene of the Silver City-State.

But it is precisely because the magical civilizations created by wizards and wizards are brilliant enough that they are dissatisfied with each other and conflicts break out.

In the Silver City, some very funny scenes often happen.

For example, a huge ball of lightning appeared in the sky, and an old wizard with white hair knelt down before the lightning, shouting:
"Ah, the Eye of God's Thunder hanging high in the sky!

You descended upon the earth in the form of light, peeking into the world. You are the messenger of the sky, the heart of the storm, and accompanied by thunder, you travel around and discern evil.

Your trajectory is unpredictable and your light is mysterious and boundless!
I praise you, Eye of Thunder, under your light, all the stars are dim!"

The old wizard was shouting in ecstasy, but another young wizard was calmly introducing it to his students: "You see, this is called ball lightning.

We also call it rolling thunder or hurricane thunder.

The most mainstream research theory now holds that ball lightning may be caused by the collision of lightning elements and ice elements in the atmosphere.

During the process of lightning generation, the ice elements in the clouds collide with each other and by chance, the electric elements of energy are transferred from one lightning element to another, forming a local lightning and electricity distribution field.

The lightning distribution field repels the ice element, causing the ice element to be distributed in a spherical shape, thus affecting the shape of the lightning.

Some mages have reproduced ball lightning by mixing ice and lightning elements, and have developed the level 4 magic [Ice Thunder Ball].

What those wizards say over there is just nonsense, don't believe them.

What the Eye of Thunder, it's so funny."

"How dare you disrespect the Eye of Divine Thunder! You will definitely be punished by the Divine Thunder. Just wait, as long as the Divine Thunder sets its sights on you, it will strike to death you, you bastard wizard." The wizard was furious.

The mage then became furious:
"I've already said that's not the Eye of Thunder, that's ball lightning! Come on, come to my lab now, I'll make you as many ball lightnings as you want.

That is just an elemental reaction that can be reproduced by us mortals, you foolish wizards, bah!"

"What did you say?"

"I said you are stupid!"

"Ahhh! I'll kill you! Just wait, I'm going to find the documents left behind by the ancient wizard, the Lightning King Somla.

The documents clearly state that the eye in the sky is the eye of the ancient god of thunder. If you gaze upon it, you will receive the blessing of the god of thunder.

When I comprehend the magic of the Eye of Thunder, I will strike you to death, a wizard who is not familiar with the ancient magic!"

"You are the only one who has the literature! You don't even dare to look at the experiments, and you treat a pile of ancient scraps of paper as the truth every day. You are a decadent and decadent wizard."

So, the two of them started arguing with each other.

"You have no fear."

"You have no brains."

"You you you! You beast!"

"You idiot!"

This is called dispute.

"I beat you to death!"

"Come on! Who is afraid of whom?"

Bang bang bang!
This is called a two-person conflict.

"Someone come quickly, the XX mage has been beaten."

"XX wizard is in a disadvantageous position, brothers, attack together!"

This is called a group fight.

When the police arrived, everyone behaved themselves. Since neither side could bring themselves to fight, they started a verbal battle.

"You wizards don't believe it, right? I'll go back to the lab and replicate it for you to see."

"What does the ball lightning you emerged have to do with the Eye of Divine Thunder I mentioned? They are just similar in appearance.

If they look similar, they must be the same thing. Your mother and your sister look quite similar too."

"Let me show you our experimental data. I guarantee that what we have produced is ball lightning."

"Humph, I won't watch it."

"You guys, why don't you learn it!"

"I won't learn any crooked ways. Look at our XX wizard, he has already figured out the magic of the Eye of Thunder, it's in his magic book. You can deceive me, but can that magic book deceive me?"

"Ahhh, you guys are going to piss me off to death! Just wait, I'm going to ask XX Legend to come over and scold you to wake you up."

"You are the only one who is legendary? Go to Xitian Academy and invite the great wizard XXX!"

This is called the witchcraft dispute.

The worst thing is that these two roads have equally powerful military terminals.

The fighting power of demigod-level wizards and demigod-level mages is comparable, and neither can be sure of winning.

Therefore, no matter how hard the battle between witchcraft and sorcery is fought, even if it goes to the Senate of Nine-Ring Magicians, there is no way to determine the winner and the outcome.

At the beginning, both the wizard and the mage believed that their own path was the right path. They wanted to convert each other, but neither could convince the other.

So both wizards and mages began to compete for newborn babies. Both sides wanted to guide as many newborn babies as possible to their own path, so as to weaken the other side's future growth space.

Faced with problems that currently cannot be solved, wizards and mages tacitly leave the possibility of solution to time.

However, their simultaneous actions did not calm the battle between witchcraft and magic, but instead made it more and more intense. Neither side wanted to lose the present, so who would be willing to lose the future? Naturally, their brains were blown away.

Over a long period of time, the dispute over witchcraft and magic gradually changed from a simple dispute over ideas/career choices to a party dispute/path issue.

The competition between the two sides completely covers political power, economic interests, social interests, cultural interests, military interests and so on, and it can be said that it involves all aspects.

In the early years, because the top military forces on both sides were able to remain calm and restrained, the battle between witchcraft and magic not only did not harm the overall interests of the Silver City-State, but instead made the Silver City-State develop faster and distribute more fairly.

But over the past decade or so, the development of the Silver City-State has reached a bottleneck. Without growth, this kind of competition has become an internal friction that harms others and does not benefit oneself, and has become seriously distorted.

Richard rubbed his eyebrows while walking in the forest.

“The new witchcraft I learned may be the best way to resolve the witchcraft dispute in the Silver City.

Although wizards verbally refuse to acknowledge the research results of mages, from my observation, wizards are afraid of mages.

The power of wizards comes from unknown mysteries, and their magic is bestowed by the rules of the world.

To them, those mysterious and unknown natural phenomena are manifestations of gods and are objects of their worship.

But the wizard put the gods they worshipped on the experimental table, dissected and analyzed them one by one, unraveling the gods, removing the skin and bones, taking off the noble and mysterious cloak of those natural phenomena, and analyzing the world rules contained beneath the images.

For wizards, this is tantamount to trampling on their beliefs.

Under the attack of various evidences of materialism, idealism was defeated step by step.

If wizards want to pursue idealism, they must ignore the facts and insist on being stubborn.

However, it is not easy to be stubborn.

Idealism: success or failure depends on the mind.

As long as wizards begin to waver in their hearts, they will easily lose the gifts from the rules of the world and be forced to embark on the path of a wizard.

For a long time, the wizard community has been able to survive the continuous attacks of wizards for two main reasons.

First, because there are still many natural phenomena in this world that wizards cannot understand.

For example, meteor showers, moonlight waterfalls, etc.

These powerful and mysterious natural phenomena have so far been beyond the comprehension of wizards.

Second, the mages are not united.

Because when mages study the rules of the world, there is no absolute referee who can jump out and tell them who is definitely right and who is definitely wrong, so no mage dares to say that his or her research theory is definitely the truth.

However, time is not on the wizard's side.

The wizards can still hold on only because the magicians are not strong enough.

Sooner or later, when the research progress of mages is sufficient to cover all the truths in this world, wizards will have no way out. The profession of wizards will no longer have any meaning of existence. "

Richard looked at the palm of his hand, and a light blue eye was looking at him indifferently.

“Wizards don’t dare to learn the research results of mages. For wizards, once they learn those research results, they will be rejected by the rules of the world and they will no longer be able to obtain witchcraft.

Therefore, they dare not try other paths and can only follow the exploration of their predecessors.

But I am different. I have the Eye of Truth, I can possess both witchcraft and magic, and I have the opportunity and capital to trial and error.

For me, there was another way.”

Richard sat under a big tree next to the forest, picked up a dead tree, and used ignition magic to ignite it. He watched the dead tree slowly burn, and his eyes narrowed slightly.

“Witchcraft and magic are opposites. This is just the mainstream view of spellcasters in this world.

The premise of the opposition between witchcraft and spells is the opposition between the unknown and the known.

When someone thoroughly studies a natural phenomenon, the cause of the outbreak will change from unknown to known, so witchcraft and magic cannot coexist.

But is this really the case? "

There was a gleam in Richard's eyes.

(End of this chapter)