Dragon, choose cultural victory to make money

Chapter 9: New Uses for Magic

Drogo's Toy Shop is busy every day now.

Thanks to the strategy of "Fire Boy King" of not charging for manuscripts and reprinting comics at will, now only a few of the most serious newspapers are without comics.

It also spawned a large number of fan works and incidentally inspired the long-form serialized comics market.

As a group of painters who couldn't make a living were madly competing with each other, there was a trend of innovation in art techniques, and the prototype of storyboards had already appeared.

However, the artist who drew "Pyro Boy King" put up a sign at the door of the store, which read his representative work "Pyro Boy King".

As the popularity spreads, the age range of yo-yo players is becoming more and more diverse.

At first, only children came with their parents, but later there were more teenagers and even people in their twenties.

There are also some parents who claim to buy the balls for their children, but who themselves have a blast playing with them. These people usually come into the store and deliberately say loudly, "Our child wants a certain ball."

It is understandable. After all, the social atmosphere here still believes that toys are only for children to play with, and adults have too many concerns and are not allowed to have simple happiness.

"Baby is awesome! You learned to walk so quickly. What reward do you want from daddy?"

"Oh, Yo-Yo, you like the Speed ​​Demon, so do you want the red one or the blue one?"

"I want both. Okay, I'll make an exception this time..."

Drogo watched a father pushing a baby in a stroller perform a silky little show.

No, man, that's a bit too much drama.

The speed demon is so big, can your child under two years old catch it?
Drogo turned over. He had obviously not done anything recently, but he still felt mentally exhausted.

That's how the boss is. Employees just need to devote themselves to their work, obey orders and work hard to run the business, but the boss has a lot of things to consider.

For example, what to eat tonight.

It cannot be said that there is no delicious food in this world. I have lived a life of eating raw meat and drinking blood for so many years, so I can digest anything.

But just, I just feel like, something is missing.

what--

I really want Chinese food.

I want to eat salty sweet and sour pork, candied milk tofu, braised pork elbow, or even a whole bowl of spicy hot pot...

I can’t think about it anymore. Tears will start to flow out of my mouth if I think about it again.

Think of magic, and use learning to fight hunger.

Earth, water, fire and wind, the four basic elements, the primary configuration of the elements, the arrangement rules of the elements...

and many more!

Hunger made the dragon awake, and Drogo suddenly discovered that the essence of magic seemed to be a four-digit language.

Different types of magic use instruction sets of different architectures, and the many schools of thought derived from various types of magic correspond to a variety of high-level languages ​​with their own characteristics.

That’s why these schools like to claim that they are the best in the world. They are not magicians, they are just helping programmers!

Although Drogo was a planner in his previous life who was routinely scolded by players, he actually majored in engineering in college.

I'm not an expert on computers, but I have learned programming and microcontrollers.

In his eyes, magic suddenly lost its mystery and became familiar.

And due to the dragon race's almost hyperthymesia-like memory, he can read the quaternary string directly.

After reading the original inscriptions, or instruction sets, used by several major pantheons, two questions arose.

First of all, why does magic have so few effects nowadays? Logically, there should be a lot of room for magic to be used. It can't be that the natives of the alien world lack imagination.

Secondly, why is there no such thing as the Internet or the Magic Web?

The reason why magic in this world is difficult to learn is that the spell models constructed by each person are not interoperable.

When an apprentice learns new magic, he cannot ask his mentor to directly copy the constructed spell model, but can only build one from scratch by himself.

The spell model you have constructed can be used directly when casting spells.

This means that the magic programmers in this world have to reinvent the wheel several times every time they learn a new magic.

It's still the kind of thing where there is no editor to help, and every inscription has to be hand-crafted.

How inefficient this is!
It's just like...

Drogo had a thought that frightened the dragon.

Something is restricting the development of magic in this world! "Dear children and adults, the business hours of Drogo's Toy Store have ended. You are welcome to come back tomorrow."

Elsa's voice interrupted Drogo's wandering thoughts.

Forget it, don’t think about this for now.

Drogo plans to try out some magic tricks according to his own ideas, but he needs Elsa's help.

Although he can understand the primordial inscriptions, it does not mean that he can directly use the primordial runes to construct spell models.

Programming in machine language is completely different from programming in a high-level language.

The latter is cooking in a modern kitchen.

The former also involves cooking, but it starts with drilling wood to make fire and forging a pot with iron ore.

So he needed the advanced inscriptions of the school that Aisha studied.

As for making a set of high-level inscriptions by yourself, it is basically a math problem. Mathematics is something that you can't do if you don't know it, and you can't force it.

After closing the shop, Elsa slumped in her chair like a deflated ball.

Selling things is a very tiring job, and selling things to a bunch of children is a desperate job.

"Can you show me the inscriptions of your school?" Drogo came closer.

"What?" Elsa struggled to change from a lying position to a sitting position.

"I want to try magic."

"Ah?" The unemployment alarm in Elsa's brain started to ring loudly. No way, he wouldn't realize that this little illusion is not worth twenty-five silver coins a month.

"I'll give you a raise based on the tuition at the School of Magic."

The unemployment alert is off and the excellent employee system is on!

It turned out that Drogo had a really good talent for magic. He basically mastered the inscriptions of the School of Illusion in just a few hours, and even had dinner in between.

The steak we had was ok, but not as good as the beef brisket stewed with potatoes.

It was said to be the largest city in the mainland, but how come there is not even any bay leaves, aniseed, cinnamon, or similar seasonings?

Drogo made a rough draft, preparing to build his first spell model.

"Do you think this is okay?"

There is no editor to tell you where the error is, so you can only check it manually.

"Theoretically, it's possible, but it can't be released."

"Can't release it?"

"Yeah, humans can't channel magic like that, and dragons probably can't either. I've never heard of it anyway."

Drogo understood that magic was not a purely data system, but also had a hardware part, that is, the caster, so the effect of the spell was so limited.

"Then is there a way to make the spell model run without considering the caster, so that the effect does not occur in reality, similar to a virtual ideal environment."

Drogo didn't know whether Elsa could understand what this virtual meant.

"Of course there is," Aisha answered without even thinking, "It's called illusion mimicry. You can use illusion to release the effect of a spell model, but it's only for viewing and has no actual effect, so not many people use it."

“It’s enough to be able to see it!”

Drogo felt as if he had grasped the key to a new era.

Elsa quickly completed the mimicry of the model on the draft.

A line of text appeared in the air.

"Hello World."

"What is this?" Aisha asked curiously.

“This is the future.”

This was the first time Drogo felt so excited since his time traveling through time.

"But why 'Hello, World.'"

"Because this sentence is the most ceremonial."

(End of this chapter)