Arcane Age

Accompanied by the butler Eric, Didela and Anthony walked down the Blue Tower.

"Anthony, I would like to take a look at the latest groundbreaking research papers by the magic masters of the Tower of Thousand Dharmas. I wonder if you can provide me with a few of them?" Didera asked the speaker of the Abisfa Council, the Thousand Dharma Tower. The tower manager made a slightly unexpected request.

Since the master certification of a magic master requires enough groundbreaking research results and spell models to obtain better feedback and a more open road ahead, the period before and after being promoted to a magic master is a period in a magician's life. At the most creative time, those magicians who can only use rote spells as learners and porters can only stop outside the threshold of magic masters.

"There are two legendary magicians in the Tower of Thousand Magics, but they never like to manage this city of magicians." Anthony showed a kind smile: "I think those magicians will be very happy to get your attention and evaluation, madam. !I don’t know which school of research paper you need?”

"Everything!" Didera thought for a while: "It doesn't need to be too closely related to magic, but more to do with the study of the mysteries of the world we live in, the summary of laws, and the exploration of basic energy and force."

"Okay, madam, please follow me. The Abisfa Council preserves the pioneering research directions and innovations of all magic masters in the past thirty years!"

Just as Didera and Anthony were searching the library of the Abisfa Council to select the most suitable papers to be published in the "Arcane" journal, in the omnic tower, Christine's Master's Certificate challenge also The most critical moment has been reached.

In the core layer at the top of the Omnic Tower, the core source of power of the entire Construct School is stored, the original fire from another universe.

This primitive fire looks like a simple bronze square, with mysterious and exquisite patterns engraved on it.

It was suspended in the air and spinning continuously, not emitting any light.

That's right, the original fire has fallen into dormancy, its own energy has decayed to the lowest level, and almost all functions have been deactivated.

A hundred years ago, when the original fire was in the hands of Didera, the construction queen who had just been promoted to the "Seventh Method", the construction school at that time was so powerful that countless powerful construction machines carefully constructed by construction mages were destroyed. The original fire gave intelligence and became intelligent mechanical life.

However, when the original fire fell into a dormant state, most of these powerful construction machines could only retain a minimum amount of energy and could no longer operate at full power.

However, even in the dormant state, the primitive fire still has the most basic function, which is to help the magic masters of the Construct School to verify their ideas and innovations and complete the advancement of the master certificate.

After entering the core magical secret room where the original fire was stored, Kristen took out the magic weapon that contained the "Sylvie's Spell List" and the "Elemental Steam Engine" when Xi Wei was promoted to the Master of the Construction School. The light cyan fire is close to the primitive fire with its unique construction mechanism.

This light cyan fire quickly flew towards the original fire like a moth to a flame, and finally merged into it and became one.

The dim bronze surface of the original fire shone with a light cyan stream of light. This stream of light lit up almost all the mysterious patterns. Christine showed a happy smile during the lighting process.

Obviously Xi Wei's idea was recognized by the original fire. The more mysterious patterns the streamer can light up, the more feedback he will get from the original fire.

In the end, the light cyan pattern lit up 80% of the mysterious patterns on the surface of the original fire. This was already the best result since Lady Didera.

The streamer was dim, and the light cyan fire was separated from the original fire again, but this time the surface of the light cyan fire was shining with crystal clear and dazzling light, which contained feedback to Xi Wei, the master of constructing magic.

After completing this task, Christine began her own challenge to become a magic master.

To be precise, her master's certificate research direction was not a long-term accumulation that she had prepared in advance, but was inspired by her communication with the mysterious Zero in the Smurf Plane.

Almost everyone around Xi Wei had their own guesses about Zero, an extremely low-key and mysterious existence.

Although Zero is said to be a magic pet summoned from the depths of the star world by Xi Wei during the magic pet summoning ceremony, but after Xi Wei improved the magic pet summoning spell, almost all the magicians in Violet used arcane points to redeem it. The Demon Pet Summoning Ceremony summons your own Demon Pet.

However, their familiars only have relatively primitive intelligence, which is not much stronger than the spirituality of the animals themselves. They are fundamentally different from Zero, the professor of the Violet School of Protection.

Moreover, the relationship between Zero and Xi Wei is so close, they are simply Xi Wei's shadow, even closer than Natalia and Xi Wei.

Therefore, Christine has always had a basic respect and appreciation for Zero, and this appreciation reached its greatest extent in the process of studying elemental steam engines in the Elemental Ocean Underground Laboratory.

"Almost all the intelligent machines of the Construction School come from the activation and gift of primitive fire. Without the primitive fire, a large part of the high-end combat power and spells of the Construction School cannot be used. However, in 'Xi Wei's Spell List' On the Internet, I saw another possibility, is it possible to develop artificial intelligence without relying on primitive fire?" In her leisure time after a long busy day, Kristen was lying on the small bed with the black-haired girl who was still concentrating on her meticulous research. Chatted.

Zero's movements stopped. Her existence was the crystallization of the highest wisdom of mankind in the past, and it could be called a perfect artificial intelligence!

"Of course it's possible, but if you want to reach this level, there's still too much exploration to do!" Zero responded indifferently.

"I'm wondering if I can make some progress in this area!" Kristen turned over on the bed and stretched out her arms lazily: "In this way, my Master's Certificate challenge will have a unique Groundbreaking, enough feedback!”

In the following time, Christine and Zero had a lot of exchanges about artificial intelligence. What surprised the silver-haired beauty was that although Zero didn't talk much, every sentence he said was thought-provoking and he could always solve Christine's problem. of confusion.

As time goes by, Kristen's thinking becomes clearer and clearer, and the relationship between her and Zero becomes closer.

Christine's exploration of artificial intelligence will finally be implemented. The first artificial intelligence construction machine she plans to build will be an automatic spell-casting cleaning machine.

"Cleaning" is a second-level spell that can clean away all dirt on the surface of the body and clothes and restore them to their most perfect state.

It can be said that the "cleaning technique" is a great invention of magicians to improve life. A cleaning technique is more comfortable than taking a hot bath.

However, for those non-magic professions, whether they are nobles who need to use strong perfume to cover their body odor, or travelers who like to take risks everywhere, or warriors who are often sweaty, although they very much need the effect of cleansing, But it is impossible to waste precious mental energy on using the "Cleaning Technique" spell scroll.

No one would copy this kind of scroll. A second-level spell scroll is worth dozens of gold, which is a very expensive luxury item for ordinary adventurers.

Whether it is a spell scroll or a magical object, it requires human use and activation to complete the spell-casting process. However, the "automatic spell-casting cleaning machine" envisioned by Christine has the initiative entirely in the hands of the machine. It will complete its own judgment, The process of building a spell model and casting it.

Without the activation and gift of the original fire, Kristen discovered that for machines, even the simplest logical judgment and perception are so difficult. If Zero hadn't given her too much inspiration and help, this exploration would have been far away. I'm afraid it would have taken a long time and countless failures to create a spark of victory.

However, now, Christine directly eliminated most of the wrong paths and started her own research and exploration along a correct guiding ideology.

"Automatic Spellcasting Cleaning Machine" only requires a fixed spell model, which is "Cleaning", so it is not difficult to inscribe this spell model. What is difficult is how to find a substitute for mental power to activate the spell model. In this regard, Her Excellency Didera, the "Queen of Constructs", had very valuable pioneering achievements back then, and Kristen only needs to use them.

Casting a spell requires not only a spell model, but also magic power.

This was originally a huge problem, but Xi Wei and Zero gave her a perfect gift.

A simplified version of the etheric core built on the battle mech, the miniature elemental furnace perfectly provides the magic power needed to cast spells...

So next to the original fire, Kristen took the first step towards "artificial intelligence" and began the development of "automatic spell-casting cleaning machinery."

In the large library of the Abisfa Parliament, Didera consulted almost all the research papers of magic masters in the past thirty years.

What made her a little disappointed and irritated was that almost all of these papers were closely focused on the magic itself. They talked about the improvement and innovation of magic very thoroughly and skillfully, but they almost only scratched the surface of the world itself, the laws and mysteries, and never went into depth. Explore.

Although these research papers look very good at first glance, and any one of them that is made public will make most magicians happy, but compared with Siweina's seven arcane papers, they are of completely two levels of value.

Finally, after reading a total of 752 papers, Didera found five research papers that met the requirements from the sparks of wisdom gathered by the young elite mages from the entire Tower of Thousand Laws.

When Didera walked out of the big library with these five papers, Anthony had a somewhat surprised expression on his face: "The borrowing rate of these five research papers is almost the lowest in the entire library!"

Didera said calmly: "Sometimes, magicians care too much about magic itself, but they forget that the essence of magic is not the use of spells, nor the subtle improvement of spell-casting skills, but the impact on the world and the The exploration and study of power itself!”

Anthony nodded: "Madam, I should be able to find a few more papers like this! In fact, fifteen years ago, I myself had a paper exploring the history of the Oriente world through geological analysis. Unfortunately, the response was Not big!”

"Oh? I'm very interested in this!" Didela finally smiled: "Speaker Anthony, I am very much looking forward to your paper!"

At the same time, at the Royal Academy of Magic in Paali, almost the same thing was happening.

His Excellency Victor Hugo, the "Lord of Change" of the fifth method who has been living in seclusion for many years, went deep into the library, communicated with professors from various universities, and screened their research results, hoping to select a few that would be sufficient. A valuable treatise on magic.

In fact, Xi Wei's seven papers were like templates. They greatly touched the two great legendary magicians, Fifth Fa and Seventh Fa, and at the same time, they also set a higher standard for them.

When they used this standard to strictly select magic papers that could match the honor of the first issue of "Arcana", they found that it was really very difficult.

In the end, Victor Hugo mobilized almost the entire French Royal Academy of Magic and only selected four valuable papers, and these papers were re-created and organized by their publishers.

Didera gained slightly more in the Tower of Thousand Laws. Speaker Anthony’s historical exploration paper was very interesting. Didera also found the original authors of the remaining six papers and asked them to re-edit and create them according to a unified template and process. .

Whether it is the French Royal Academy of Magic or the magicians of the Tower of Thousand Magics, they are ecstatic about this. This is the request of the great legendary magician, and it is a rare opportunity to come into contact with the legendary magician!

They were in high spirits and forgot about food and sleep. They wrote down almost all their ideas and arguments on the topic of the paper in the shortest possible time according to the paper template. Most of them became more mature than the original paper as the times changed and time passed.

In the Tower of Change, Victor put together Xi Wei's seven papers and four papers from the Royal Academy of Magic. He stood up irritably. Although this was the crystallization of the wisdom of the entire Magic Academy, it was different from Xi Wei's papers. There is still a clear gap.

Of course, this does not mean that the entire Royal Academy of Magic is inferior to Xi Wei alone. Victor finally realized through comparison that the magicians have been obsessed with magic itself for many years and have explored too little of this world.

And "Arcane" is simply like a stream of fresh air, born at the right time, and it will inevitably break the limitations of the old magic system and create a glorious era for magicians!

In order to personally bring about the arrival of this era and to add an important weight to the journal "Arcane", Victor Hugo, the "Fifth Method", sat down. In addition to the preface of the journal "Arcana", he also wanted to Submit your own article and publish a magical paper - "The Origin of Species - An Exploration of the Essence of the School of Change"!