Mage Joan

After escorting Master Rawls and his entourage to a safe escape, Qiao An sent back to the Institute of Agricultural College of "Land of Green Fields" to help Conti complete the paper on torch disease and ergot.

After finishing all these things, it was the end of July. Qiao Ann finished his work at this stage, said farewell to Ms. Valentina, returned to Colasburg University, and continued to advance a new project that had just begun.

In fact, as early as half a year ago, Qiao An had an idea when he saw the "casting free material" supermagic scroll from the Austrian Law Library of Colasburg University, and tried to use "casting free material" to replace the anchored spellcasting materials. The law of transformation spells.

Up to this point, Qiao Ann has completed it, and the conclusions reached at first glance seem reasonable.

With "casting spells free of material" to cast transformation magic, the simulated creatures have relatively mediocre attributes and abilities, which is equivalent to the statistical average of all adult individuals of the species.

For example, when Qiao An cast a spell to become a male tauren, his height is the average of all adult male tauren, about eight feet six inches, weighing about 700 pounds, which is also the average of male tauren.

The three physical attributes, strength 19, agility 10, and physique 15, belong to an ordinary grade among adult male tauren.

If Qiao An doesn’t use “casting spells without material”, but uses a bunch of tauren hair as anchor material and casts transformation magic, then the tauren that turns out is no longer "Mr. Average", but various attributes and abilities. They are exactly the same as the original owner of the hair, which reflects the essence of the word "anchored".

Based on this set of controlled experiments, it is easy to come up with a principle to guide actual combat.

If you can collect high-quality anchoring materials, collected from outstanding individuals in the population, then you should give priority to using anchoring materials to match the transformation magic, and the creatures that are transformed are also better.

Conversely, if the anchoring material of a certain creature is not easy to obtain, or it is difficult to obtain high-quality anchoring material, for example, if you want to become a beholder, you only buy a few subspecies such as the "eye of insight" after a lot of effort. For the air-dried eye stalks of the beholder, it is more cost-effective to use anchor material to deform than directly use "casting free material".

Then there is another question. How does Qiao Ann know that the creature that is transformed with "Spellcasting Free Material" must be the "Mr. Average" in its population?

From the most rigorous point of view, he should first count all the attributes and abilities of all individuals in the population, record them, find the average value, and then compare it with the deformation results. The comparison results are within the error range. Come to the conclusion of "Mr. Average".

Of course, it is neither possible nor necessary to do so in reality. The next best thing is to capture a large number of this species in different habitats for sample surveys, and then the calculated average value can basically meet the theoretical average species average. value.

This work is achievable, but it takes a lot of manpower, material resources, and energy. Qiao An, a self-employed scientific researcher who works alone, obviously can't handle it, and can only rely on the strength of his predecessors and organizations.

In fact, it's very simple. Just open a book of "Valez Monster Illustrated Book", find a monster at random, check the corresponding attributes and abilities, and that is the statistical average.

How did it come from?

Of course, it is the wisdom of countless scientific research workers from countless scientific research institutions around the world who have worked together for countless years of surveys and statistics!

Therefore, every authoritative reference book is worthy of respect, and it has condensed the efforts of countless silently dedicated scientific researchers from all walks of life.

When people talk about "civilization", they often seem big and unreasonable. When it comes to ordinary people's daily life, how to fully show a civilization?

The answer is...civilization is in the encyclopedia!

What really reflects the thickness of civilization is not cutting-edge technology, but the popularity of general education books.

Qiao An even thinks that the easiest way to measure the level of civilization of a species is to see whether the species has compiled at least one set of encyclopedias. The level of the dictionary reflects the level of civilization of the species.

For the species example written in the dictionary, the data is the average value calculated by a large number of samples, which is well-known common sense.

But is this over?

Think about it carefully, is there something wrong?

Qiao An heard from the old man Franklin that the "Vares Monster Illustrated Book" is a series of dictionaries edited and published by the "Ofa Society". It is revised every year according to the changes of species. A large-scale professional team is behind it. There are countless scientific researchers and amateurs who provide the latest data free of charge. This part of the unpaid work is even too large to quantify.

For example, Qiao An himself has made specimens of rare creatures discovered during his adventures more than once and sent them to the editorial board of "Valez Monster Illustrated Book". When the new edition of this series is released, such newly discovered species will be released. Reflected in the updated chapter.

Needless to say, in-depth research on the existing species in the series will often overturn the old conclusions, and the latest research results will also be reflected in the errata list of the new edition of the series.

All in all, in order to get a set of trustworthy and authoritative dictionaries, countless people have put in immeasurable sweat and hard work. In the end, all this is condensed in a line of seemingly unpretentious statistical data that readers can easily reach, and it is invisibly promoted. The progress of the entire social civilization.

The human society has paid so much labor to obtain these statistical results, and I dare not say that it is absolutely credible. Why can a transformation magic be matched with "casting free material" to directly get the statistical average of any species?

This conclusion made Qiao Ann both shocked and annoyed.

If it’s really that simple, you won’t need time-consuming and laborious sample surveys to get the average value of a certain species in the future. What about large sample statistics? Directly cast a method to change the "Mr. Average" of the species, and the required data will not be clear at a glance. Up?

If you admit that this approach is feasible, it is tantamount to acknowledging that the massive amount of time and energy spent by countless scientific researchers in the past to compile the "Valez Monster Illustrated Book" is worthless, and it is pure effort!

Of course, Qiao An is reluctant to accept this inference, which is tantamount to insulting the work of himself and his colleagues, and a large part of it is doing useless work on detours.

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