Fanatics of the Magic Academy

Chapter 121 Rune Psychology: The Essence of Crushing the Supernatural

Rose returned home and, over the next few days, continued to immerse herself in the magical knowledge and theories of this world.

He has mastered the theoretical foundation of rune inscription, the basic principles of rune machine operation, and the technology of spell constancy.

Besides these dry books on magic and technology, Rose also learned about a very interesting study. Although it was a study from 1400 years ago, Rose still felt that it was groundbreaking and valuable.

This research is known as "Rune Psychology".

Magicians cast spells by mentally drawing runes in their minds, connecting them at different points, and finally releasing the magic.

The process of connecting runes requires constant practice from mages to gradually master, and learning a new spell requires relearning the connection process.

As is well known, if a magician learns the rune-related theories and basics of a spell, the time spent practicing and improving proficiency will be greatly reduced.

Just like when Rose was learning the [Cyclic Fireball], even though he had an incredible focus and recovery speed compared to ordinary mages, he still needed to spend a lot of time practicing repeatedly.

After Kenneth gave him a brief explanation of the basic principles of runes, Rose's practice time was significantly shortened.

1400 years ago, the mainstream understanding in the Magic Federation was that understanding the basic principles of runes would allow magicians to have a deeper understanding of runes, thereby reducing the cost of practice.

This book, "The Psychology of Runes," offers a completely new perspective on this phenomenon.

In other words, when a magician subconsciously resists a certain rune, a certain magical combination, or even the entire magical system, this resistance will manifest as a failed spell.

Conversely, when a magician has a high acceptance of a particular spell, it increases the success rate of casting and learning efficiency.

In other words, spellcasting is related to the subconscious. When a magician's subconscious believes that the spell can be activated, then he will be able to draw the runes more smoothly.

When learning the basics of a spell's runes, you are constantly reinforcing your subconscious identification with that spell, and this psychological identification can improve casting efficiency.

Furthermore, the book also includes some very interesting case studies.

For example, a certain magician could never learn fire magic. Upon in-depth research, it was discovered that he had experienced a fire when he was a child, and had an innate resistance to fire. Even if he was not consciously aware of it, he still resisted fire magic and runes in his subconscious.

The author then provided him with psychological counseling, helping him to completely forget that memory, and discovered that the other person was actually able to learn fire magic.

Rose fell silent upon seeing this. Was this really a method of psychological counseling? Directly making the other person forget that memory?

Perhaps it's a difference in customs, but we generally don't call hypnosis and soul transformation "psychological counseling."

Ignoring some of the more hellish and unbearable details in the book, it is still quite valuable overall.

In fact, this theory has become the mainstream theory in the Magic Federation.

As Rose observed, when she sent Tiana to school, she learned that magic courses in the Magic Federation were only offered in high school and were electives. Students relied entirely on their aspirations for becoming magicians and social discipline to build their magical foundation.

The formation of this system is very likely related to this theory: if a child is forced to learn magic from a young age, it is like pulling up seedlings to help them grow. When they grow up, they may develop a psychological resistance to the entire magic system. In the end, if they do not undergo personality cleansing and soul transformation, they may not be able to use any magic at all.

Conversely, designing magic courses as electives, and allowing people to unconsciously yearn for magic under social discipline, can actually improve the efficiency of magician training.

This may explain why the prevailing social norms and ideology in the Magic Federation are "magic supremacy".

It is still the extraordinary foundation that determines social trends and organizational forms.

Rose, however, fell into a deeper reflection. She had once read "The History of the Suppression of Believers," which contained the statement, "The very existence of believers is a desecration of the new era."

The existence of the Magic Federation is justified by the principle that "reason outweighs fanaticism" and "reason is supreme." If believers could also gain power, or even surpass magicians, it would be an insult to the Magic Federation's principle of "reason is supreme."

Now, with a deeper understanding of the world, he has a completely new understanding of the books he read before.

Could it be that the magicians' almost fanatical suppression of the other belief system also stems from this consideration?

The divine system offers the convenience of obtaining extraordinary power through sacrifice, and compared to the magician system, it is almost effortless. This nature of the extraordinary system is inherently a subversion of the magic system.

This gave Rosell the feeling that the medieval church was suppressing doctrines that were detrimental to its rule in order to consolidate its power.

That's a bit absurd.

The mages' extermination and extreme suppression of believers may not be as simple as historical hatred. Rather, it is an almost instinctive process by which a supernatural system, in order to become stronger, expand, and maintain its own stability, devours and crushes another supernatural system.

This is a contradiction determined by the extraordinary system; it is irreconcilable and there is no possibility of reconciliation.

This makes sense; Rose guesses that the existence of the so-called "observation point" may also be part of the process of crushing the believer system.

It is very likely that sending believers to the stake every year was also part of this system.

Otherwise, it would be impossible to explain why the Arcane Council has been allocating funds to the "Observation Point" for thousands of years.

Of course, this is just Rose's guess and subjective conjecture. There is too little information, and there are very few books about believers in the community library. Perhaps this knowledge is rarely circulated among the people.

Larger libraries, such as the library of a magic academy, may have relevant records.

Rose left the Dream Library, sat down at the workbench, and began to prepare [Silent Thunder].

He planned to allocate more for sale at the next gathering, and he had already come up with an excuse: he would say it was stock.

Because he planned to buy Finn's several unused alchemy machines outright at the next gathering.

With the new machine, Rose can not only prepare more advanced nutrient solutions to improve learning speed, but more importantly, he can prepare a completely new nutrient solution.

This nutrient solution falls between the first two; it doesn't utilize [Deep Ancient Dragon Meditation] to boost stats or accelerate learning speed.

It's not about using [Shallow Ancient Dragon Meditation] to quickly regenerate mana.

Instead, it's a very peculiar nutrient solution, which involves an advanced technique of Ancient Dragon Electricity—[Overload].

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This technique requires a thorough understanding of the internal and external circulation of Gu Long current.

By utilizing a special external circulation method, the digestive properties of the Ancient Dragon Current are stimulated through overdraft, allowing Ancient Dragon believers to digest and transform energy even without entering the "Ancient Dragon Meditation" state.

In this way, as long as you consume the special nutrient solution, you can enter a period of "unparalleled" state for a short time. As long as the nutrient solution is not completely consumed, your mana is almost unlimited.

The cost is a period of stagnation; the longer the overload period, the longer the stagnation period.

Among the followers of Gu Long, there is a peculiar prayer called "Lightning Convergence".

The basic faith requirement for this prayer is 45 points, but its power is described as almost limitless; as long as the body can support it, its power is limitless.

This prayer is almost entirely modified by concentration; the higher the concentration, the greater its power.

Of course, this prayer is somewhat similar to a "circular fireball," and it takes time and a pre-cast animation to concentrate.

Of course, the pre-cast animation mentioned by the Ancient Dragon believers is not the same as the pre-cast animation of a magician. Ancient Dragon believers' divine spells and prayers are generally powerful, with bricks flying everywhere, extremely fast start-up, and the ability to unleash any move they dream of. For them, even a moment of hesitation counts as a pre-cast animation.

If combined with the [Overload] technique and this special nutrient solution, the near-unlimited infusion of focus in a short period of time would be incredibly powerful, giving Rose the ability to almost contend with a high-ranking second-circle mage.

Actually, Rose hadn't planned to develop the [Overload] technique and the special nutrient solution that goes with it so early, but the [Spell Persistence] left behind by Morrison that she had observed earlier really taught Rose a lesson.

Over time, he almost forgot the harsh treatment he would suffer if he were exposed as a believer in the Magic Federation, and that his magical knowledge was quite shallow compared to other mages. He had concealed this abnormality due to various coincidences and the imagination and habitual thinking of these slum mages, but that did not mean that Rose could continue like this.

Therefore, Rose plans to develop a trump card first, so that at least if the time really comes, she won't be powerless to fight back.

Furthermore, some techniques commonly used by magicians, such as reverse interference and obfuscation against [perception-type] magic,

[Trigger-based] Escape magic, second-circle magic user techniques, and methods for building magic pools should all be put on the agenda.

I need to integrate into this world quickly.

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