Goblin Heavy Dependence

Chapter 109 Gravity Compression
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Year 713 of the Offaic Calendar, month of Windclaw, day 3.

I have to admit that my thoughts last night were a bit outrageous.

I hope that Ms. Mistra won't find out, but even if she does, please don't blame me.

You know, I have always been the most devout believer of the "Goddess of Magic", and I have never slandered or belittled the great role of the "Magic Net" on spellcasters. The brilliance of magic is more dazzling than the sun.

May Offa live forever.

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Year 713 of the Offaic Calendar, month of Windclaw, day 6.

The Green Grass Festival is coming soon, and Leah specially sent me some sweet flower cakes for me and other apprentices to share.

Very sweet indeed.

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Year 713 of the Offaic Calendar, month of Windclaw, day 18.

The recent experiments were not going very smoothly. Even Burgess was scolded by his instructor for a whole afternoon because of a common and harmless mistake.

He is the mentor's closest apprentice!
I was not affected by my mentor's anger, but I didn't feel lucky for it.

After all, only those who actually participate in the experiment have the opportunity to make mistakes.

I could only stand aside and do chores as a bystander, without even the right to make mistakes.

Next year will be the final entrance examination for Hawthorn Royal Academy.

Is it really possible at the current rate of progress?

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Year 713 of the Offaic Calendar, month of Windclaw, day 21.

God!

I just found out today while having dinner that Burgess was also one of the eliminated candidates in the last assessment.

How can it be! ?
Hasn't he already mastered third-level spells?

If even he can't pass, I...

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713 Offa, 5th of the month of Snowmelt.

After the experiment ended today, my landlord, the Calinshan man, came to the Mage Tower.

He said he hadn’t paid the rent for two months.

Burgess helped pad the gold coins.

I plan to take a leave and go back to take a look.

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713 Offa, 7th of the month of Snowmelt.

It turned out that Leah had been fired from the workshop a few months ago for misjudging the price of a magic item.

She said she was definitely not mistaken, and that the customer had bribed the veteran appraiser in the workshop in advance in order to raise the price with the appraisal certificate.

After being discovered, she was thrown out as a scapegoat.

Leia grew up in Neum, and even though she followed me all the way to Huancai City, she didn't suffer any hardship.

I knew she was afraid that I would worry, so she never said anything even though she was wronged.

I have to do something.

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713 Offa, 12th of the month of Snowmelt.

Through Burgess's channels, I got information about the jerk who caused Leah to lose her job.

Is a trainee teacher at Hawthorn Royal College.

I wanted to go and argue with the other party, but Leah stopped me at the door crying.

She begged me not to go, saying that the other party was a big shot and it would affect my entrance exam next year.

I agreed to her request and pretended to be very angry.

But in fact, I knew that even if Leah didn't stop me, I wouldn't be able to see the other person.

A wild wizard from the countryside, living a slave-like apprentice life in the wizard tower.

I couldn't even get through the front door of Hawthorn College, so who could I go to argue with?

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713 Offa, 9th day of the month of Blossom.

Almost a month has passed since I returned from the rental house that day.

Leah came to the Mage Tower several times, and it seemed like nothing happened.

The pretty little skirt she was originally wearing was replaced with a coarse linen shirt.

The jewelry and necklaces that she never took off before were nowhere to be found.

She smiled and said it was more comfortable to wear this way.

This cannot go on.

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713 Offa, 12th day of the month of Blossom.

There is still more than a year until the entrance examination, but I feel that my hope is becoming increasingly slim.

What I learned in the Mage Tower was not enough for me to be admitted to the Royal Academy.

If you want to pass the test, you have to find another way.

Find some other way.

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713 Offa, 20th day of the month of Blossom.

Today is a day off and it is my turn to clean the lab. Suddenly I remembered the experience two months ago.

I borrowed the talisman array in the laboratory and tried it again without using any spell materials.

It still worked.

what does this mean?
If I can figure out the underlying principle, will I be able to pass the assessment and become a member of the academy?
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713 Offa, 21th day of the month of Blossom.

There is only one day off per month, and the laboratory is not enough.

Anyway, they are all gravity magic. As the only first-level spell I have mastered, "Gravity Pressure" can perhaps replace the talisman array as my experimental subject.

After all, it also requires spellcasting materials, constructing spell models, and the steps for connecting to the magic network are no different.

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713 Offa, 28th day of the month of Blossom.

First, I tried changing the casting materials of "gravity solid pressure", replacing the original iron filings with laundry detergent and small gravel respectively, and then tried it without using the casting materials.

All valid.

But except for iron filings, the spellcasting effects of all other materials are very unstable.

That makes sense. After all, the function of "spell materials" is to maintain the stability of magic power operating in the spell model.

Then I went a step further and thought about not using any material assistance, even omitting the spell model, and directly guiding the magic power itself through the magic network.

The experiment failed.

Without a spell model as a terminal, no matter how much magic power is filtered out from the magic net, it is just simple magic particles without any additional effects.

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The 713th day of the Xia Dynasty month, 15th year of the Offa calendar.

I began to think about the relationship between spell materials, spell models, magic webs, and spellcasters.

What is the principle of magic?
Is it just referring to the experience left by predecessors in the magic books, following the rules to prepare the spell materials accurate to the gram, using magic to outline complicated and complex models without any understanding of the reasons, and calling on magic from the invisible and intangible magic network, that's all?

If spell materials can be replaced and spell models can be omitted, what about the magic web?
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The 713th day of the Xia Dynasty month, 27th year of the Offa calendar.

I tried to think about the nature of gravitational magic.

It increases or decreases the pressure effect on objects by adjusting the density of the earth element in the air;

Or adjust the flow rate of the ether to weaken or strengthen the gravitational constraints of the material world;
Or both?
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Year 713 of the Offaic calendar, month of the Sun, day 10.

It worked!
No spellcasting materials are required, no spell models need to be simulated, and there is no need to contact the magic network.

I omitted all unnecessary steps in "Gravity Solidification" and only kept the simplest part that touched the essence, and simply used mental power to stir the magic particles in the air.

Still works!

If this is the case, what is the meaning of the magic network's existence?

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Year 713 of the Offaic calendar, month of the Sun, day 21.

strangeness.

Although the spell was successful, the laboratory did not detect any changes in the density of the earth element or the turbulence of the ether.

So what is the so-called "gravity" or "gravitation"?
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Year 713 of the Offaic calendar, month of Blight, day 13.

Today, I took advantage of a break from work to tell my instructor about my doubts. He showed a strange expression on his face that I had never seen in the past year since I entered the Mage Tower.

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Year 713 of the Offaic calendar, month of Blight, day 15.

I was fired.

Burgess helped me pack my luggage and stuffed a few gold coins into the bag. I didn't find them until I got back to the rental house.

He was a good man, I will remember him.

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714 Arcana, 2nd day of the month of Deep Winter.

Leah now works two jobs every day. She goes out before dawn and comes back late at night. It's very hard.

I wanted to do some work within my ability to supplement the family income.

But she told me to concentrate on my studies and not to be distracted.

I will definitely treat her well.

I swear!
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Winterclaw, 714th of the year 13 of the Offaic calendar.

Even without the professional equipment in the Mage Tower, the most basic experiments can still be carried out.

I didn't give up.

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Winterclaw, 714th of the year 30 of the Offaic calendar.

The feather pen floating under the action of gravity suddenly reminded me of the fallen leaves floating on the water.

It has nothing to do with ether, nor is it the element of earth.

The magic power only plays a catalytic role in it.

Is it something that exists in the air, invisible and flowing?

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714 Arcana, 25th of Duskpaw.

To make a quill and ink bottle float to the same height, other things remaining the same, the latter requires more concentration and magic.

Is it the weight difference?
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Offa 714, Melt, 21st.

"Gravity" itself does not exist because of magic.

The so-called gravity magic is nothing more than using magic particles as catalysts to change the magnitude of the gravitational force exerted on objects.

It is like an invisible river; all the caster can do is temporarily change or slow down its flow.

I seem to have discovered a pattern.

But every time I want to use what I have summarized and concluded, like the legendary wizards mentioned by the bards, I can create magic and separate tributaries from the river.

Just like the several warlocks seen in Huancai City, when they avoided the "magic network" and simply controlled the magic power itself.

But it's always a little bit short.

Whether it's the frequency of particle fluctuations or the stability of energy flow...

The reasons are varied.

But just before I am about to succeed, all my efforts are wasted.

It was as if there was an invisible hand stopping me from taking that crucial last step.

Is it the impact of the difference in air humidity, or is it the aftermath of the continuous transmission of the earth veins?
Or, is it the dice thrown by the gods in the sea of ether?

Is it "Him"?

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Year 714 of the Offaic calendar, month of Summertide, 6th.

Leah said that I seemed like a different person during this period of time. I no longer talked about those nouns and theorems that I didn't understand, and I didn't often mention the Royal Academy of Magic that I once dreamed of.

Only I know the reason.

Just like an ant crawling out of a cramped nest for the first time, the vast material world, just revealing its most marginal and fascinating corner, is enough to shock my body and mind.

In comparison, the dreams and wishes of the past are like the nonsense of a child, childish and meaningless.

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Year 714 of the Offaic calendar, month of Blight, day 7.

I still took the assessment, just to put an end to my hard work over the past two years.

The results were as expected.

My work was repeatedly refuted by several examiners, and one of them even called it garbage.

I didn't refute.

The future will prove who is right and who is wrong.

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Year 714 of the Offaic calendar, day 1 of the month of Falling Leaves.

Leah is pregnant.

We plan to return to Neum to rest for a while and then make plans.

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Offa year 714, month of last year, day 30.

Gravity objectively exists on every object.

Magic is the way to pry it open.

But as long as the "Virgin Mary" or "Lady" who is not concerned with the worldly affairs still sits high above the kingdom of God.

The outer planes, the astral plane...nothing can escape His gaze.

It's ok.

If the world is His sandbox, I would like to be the flea that jumps out of the box.

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Xia Nan glanced to the end of the page.

There was a look of unsatisfied expression on his face.

A diary.

A wild wizard from three hundred years ago.

Although I don’t know the name of the owner of the diary, or why it ended up in the goblin’s lair.

But the wonderful feeling of getting a glimpse of another life through words makes him immersed in it.

He even ignored the dirty, pungent stench in the air and the sticky, muddy soil under his feet.

He just stood in the cave filled with the goblin corpses and read the whole book page by page.

Recalling the "Colorful Ring City" and "Gravity Magic" mentioned in it.

Come to think of it, I haven't seen a serious spellcaster since I traveled through time.

Oh, maybe the sun priest of Kalanfor is one.

Watching the wild wizard in the diary gradually get rid of his ignorance and become firm and calm because of his accidental realization of the existence of "gravity".

As a bystander, I felt like I was experiencing the same thing.

It's a pity that even though he comes from a technologically advanced modern society and has worked hard in the workplace for many years, all he knows about "gravity" is the apple that fell on his head and the surging tides at the seaside.

But it is quite interesting to see the other party re-explain it from a magical perspective using the fantasy world.

Just treating it as a small episode during the "thrilling" mission, Xia Nan closed the thin book and planned to put it back into the book box and take it back to Hegu Town.

The fingertips pinching the pages of the book paused.

That was the back cover at the end of the diary, thicker than the others.

As if he had thought of something, a light flashed in Xia Nan's dark eyes.

He pinched the back cover of the diary between his index finger and thumb and rubbed it gently.

Sarah——

Stuck between the thin book layers, half a yellowed page with densely written characters floated down.

Catch it quickly.

His eyes subconsciously swept over the recorded text.

"really!"

This piece of paper hidden in the interlayer of the back cover clearly records the detailed method used by the wild wizard in the diary to trigger "gravity" simply by relying on mental power without the help of magic nets and spell models.

“I didn’t expect there would be an unexpected harvest!”

Xia Nan happily folded the papers and kept them carefully close to her body.

I thought I would study it slowly in the hotel after I get back.

Accompanied by the crisp metallic sound of chain mail buckles colliding, the footsteps gradually disappeared deep in the corridor at the exit of the nest.

On the dome of the stone wall, crystal liquid flows silently, gathers at the tip of the stalactite, and condenses into a drop of water.

Shaky.

Finally, under the influence of invisible gravity, it drips quietly.

(End of this chapter)