Lu Mingfei is transforming into the final boss.

Chapter 90 Demystified

Magic wasn't as wonderful, mysterious, and fantastical as Su Xiaoqiang had imagined. It wasn't something that could be achieved simply by learning a few incantations or understanding a few things, allowing one to recreate supernatural phenomena with a wave of the hand.

On the contrary, so-called magic is more like a complex and systematic scientific discipline, not much different from studying science. It involves human subjective consciousness, the input of magic, environmental elements, the order of rituals, and the location of the venue.

If you replace the temperature, concentration, air pressure, contact surface, and light from a chemical experiment with these factors, it seems possible to achieve a seamless connection. However, these factors are replaced with more fantastical and surreal things like celestial phenomena and feng shui.

They seem to share the same underlying logic in essence.

Of course, Su Xiaoqiang cannot prove that magic is scientific based on brain tests and personal subjective intentions. Truly scientific things require rigorous measurement and observation, as well as repeated and repeatable verification.

"Ugh—this is practically no different from going to cram school."

Su Xiaoqiang flipped through a handwritten copy in her hand. The handwriting was neat and the pages were new; one could tell at a glance who the author was.

For example, a black-haired girl sitting on a sofa with a cup of red tea.

"Demystified?"

Lu Mingfei smiled and looked at Su Xiaoqiang.

The book she gave Su Xiaoqiang was an academic overview and detailed explanation of occultism that she wrote herself. Although it was a book about occultism, it was essentially a textbook that made occultism less mysterious.

Knowledge is very important for magic, and since the concept of magic did not exist before Lu Mingfei's return, the concept of mystery also did not exist.

"A little."

Su Xiaoqiang turned another page. If she didn't treat this book as a textbook, but rather as a popular setting guide, it would be quite interesting. After all, many of the terms and concepts in it were new, the kind she had never seen before, which felt very trendy. She could even find some currently popular things in it, such as horoscopes and tarot cards.

The crucial point is that she is learning and absorbing knowledge, and she can't just skim through it like reading a novel without remembering the content. She needs to understand and deconstruct the concepts within, which is what Lu Mingfei requires. She can't just read it and then know nothing about it.

"That's what magic is all about. Like the old mysticism, it requires familiarity with symbols, memorization of astrology, and mastery of formulas, so that you can use magic to manipulate phenomena, skipping certain parts of the process to get the result directly."

If even phenomena cannot be accurately manipulated, but remain in a mysterious and unknowable state, then such things will eventually end up in the dustbin of history.

"I know that—there are potions and various other subjects in Harry Potter too."

However, it was very different from what she had imagined.

Lu Mingfei and Ling saw Su Xiaoqiang off, watching the black sedan gradually drive away.

"How are you feeling?" Lu Mingfei asked Ling.

"I don't know anything about magic, so I can't comment. What do you think of her qualifications?"

The qualifications for magic.

"If we're talking about qualifications, then it's definitely not enough."

Lu Mingfei's definition of magical aptitude is the same as in the Fate world, namely, the proficiency and ability to use magic itself. For example, Waver Velvet's method of increasing his magical power by growing his hair long cannot change the fact that his magical level is very poor.

The people in this world don't even have magic loops, so by her standards they are obviously completely unqualified.

"Hmm—but her theoretical talent is another matter. Although I never thought she could achieve anything."

Mediocrity is the defining characteristic of most people, isn't it?

Magical skill requires accumulation and cannot be achieved overnight. Even the aristocratic faction of the Mage's Association, which she didn't particularly like, had reached that level through years of family research. Oh, of course, she didn't mean that...

She thought magicians were just normal people.

"You have a second choice, don't you?"

The two walked back to the living room, where the twilight light gradually spilled into the warm space.

Ling poured Lu Mingfei a cup of tea.

However, it's more like milk tea than tea.

"Not counting the second candidate."

The second candidate is Chu Zihang, whose dragon blood concentration is much higher than that of Su Xiaoqiang.

Everyone in this world has dragon blood, it's just a matter of proportion.

The saying "poverty doesn't last three generations" sometimes means that you can become rich after three generations, or that your family line will end after three generations.

The advantages of mixed-race individuals are very obvious: they run faster, are stronger, react faster, and are more mentally agile. Apart from the fact that the higher the concentration of their blood type, the stranger their psychology becomes and the more likely they are to be paranoid, there seem to be no other problems.

As the weakened hybrids married and had children with ordinary people, the dragon bloodline was passed down, generation after generation, eventually weaving into an impenetrable net in the long river of history.

Human genes are a mountain of code, intertwined and inseparable, to the point that even seemingly possible optimizations are impossible with current technology, and dragon blood is no exception.

Lu Mingfei's bloodline is S-grade according to the standards of this world, stuck just short of the critical bloodline limit. This has nothing to do with her, but is a matter of her parents. She is special among hybrids.

This is reflected in her physical strength, which is as weak as that of an ordinary person.

Without using incantations, she couldn't even lift Zero physically.

"Experiments need controls. I also want to know how big the difference is between non-mixed-race and mixed-race magicians. This is important."

There is no mystery in this world, which is a very, very important point. There is also no inner sea of ​​stars. Therefore, the fact that all of humanity has some dragon elements cannot allow all of humanity to ascend to the realm of fantasy species.

"His bloodline is at the B-grade and A-grade levels. Compared to his father's S-grade, it's a significant downgrade."

Zero knows a lot of things, most of which were told to them by their boss beforehand. These things cannot be recorded in any electronic documents or paper documents; they can only be remembered in their minds. However, she now knows that her boss and Lu Mingfei are, in a sense, the same person, only their personalities are different.

Their relationship might be similar to that of Kagome Higurashi and Kikyo in Inuyasha?

Lu Mingfei had been showing her this anime for the past few days, and even installed a TV and DVD player in an empty room on the third floor for it.

These are all just her guesses; she doesn't actually know for sure.

"As long as I can express my bloodline and be considered a hybrid in the Secret Society's definition, that's enough. I don't really care about anything else."

However, he is not an ordinary person either; there are still variables compared to ordinary mixed-race individuals.

Like tagged prey, its scent was so strong that it could be detected from kilometers away.

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Why use a description like "smelling like a dog"? She actually thought Lu Mingfei was more like a proud cat.

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