Above the mage!

Chapter 15 Spell Model
Gao De returned with three spell recipes and arrived at the medicine garden just in time for dinner.

He suppressed his impatience and went to the restaurant, where he swallowed with difficulty the classic two-piece set that was already unpalatable and he was tired of: rye bread and pea soup, and then came to his workshop.

The evening is the apprentices' practice time, they can do as they please and no one will disturb them.

Gao De took out three spell recipes from his arms. After a brief thought, he first opened the spell recipe for [Acid Splash].

What catches your eye is a spell model composed of a number line graph with nine nodes on it. At first glance, the entire spell model structure looks like a three-dimensional constellation map, and there is also an official introduction to the spell below.

The yellow paper that Yom gave me before contained an introduction to the effects of spells, and I copied this from it.

The right page is a partial enlarged image of the spell model and a detailed text explanation.

Turning to the next page, there is another enlarged picture of a part and the corresponding text explanation.

The spell model of the trick itself is not complicated, and there is no need to take the corresponding potion, so the content of the potion formula is also removed, making the entire spell book only five pages in total.

It only took a few minutes for Gaode to go through it simply.

Of course, this is not enough.

The first step in building a spell model is to memorize the spell model.

A normal mage apprentice would spend a day or two on this first step.

Gaode's memory itself is extremely outstanding, and the memory of his predecessor was also not bad. It seems that 1+1 is greater than 2, resulting in his memory going directly from outstanding to superb.

In just less than half an hour, he had memorized the acid-spattering spell model in his mind.

Afterwards, Gaode put away the acid splash spell formula, closed his eyes slightly, and quickly entered a meditative state.

These five days of practice allowed Gao De to become more and more proficient in entering a meditative state.

His mind was immersed in the world of magical stars.

Deep in the dark consciousness, countless stars are wandering, beautiful and gorgeous.

In order to construct a spell model, you need to use your own spiritual thoughts to pull and link these stars, let them stay in specific positions, and then connect them into a spell model through the connection of spiritual power.

Once the spell model is constructed, the mage can let the magic power pass through the model, transform it into the corresponding spell, and release it.

However, these stars are always moving in an irregular manner. It is not an easy task to pull them and link them together at a fixed distance and position.

The spell model of [Acid Splash] requires a total of 9 stars, which is not a lot, but not a few either.

In fact, 9% of the time, the magic model of a trick will not exceed 9 stars.

Gaode began to try to construct the spell model with his mental power according to the spell model diagram and specific route recorded in the [Acid Splash] spell recipe.

He locked onto a star at random, and his mental power approached silently like a hunting snake.

As the distance got closer, Gaode's mental power suddenly swept forward, locking the star that was originally wandering irregularly firmly in place.

It went very smoothly and there were no accidents.

With his current mental strength, he would not make any mistakes in controlling a star.

But the star will not just sit there and move once it is locked. It will continue to struggle and resist. In other words, before the spell model is constructed, Gaode needs to use his mental strength to constantly check and balance the star.

If any star is not controlled well and deviates during the process of building the spell model, all efforts will be in vain and everything will have to start all over again.

As the saying goes, the beginning is always the hardest, but for building a spell model, it is just the opposite. The easiest part is the first star.

Because next, Gaode will have to firmly suppress the first star while diverting his mental power and attention to lock onto and control the second star.

Until the last step, it will be to suppress eight stars at the same time and control the ninth star, the difficulty can be imagined. This is just a trick, the spell models of the higher 1st and 2nd level spells will be constructed by hundreds of stars, it is scary to think about it.

No wonder the two most important indicators of a mage are mana and mental strength: without mana, you can't cast spells; if your mental strength is not strong enough, you can't build a spell model at all; without a spell model, even if you have a lot of mana, you still can't cast a spell. Both are indispensable.

However, this is not the problem that Gaode needs to consider at the moment. What he needs to do now is to control the second star.

He tried to separate a part of his mental power, just like before, and control another star that was wandering near the first star.

However, for the second planet, it is not enough to just keep it still; it also needs to be moved to a specific position relative to the first planet.

Gao De took a deep breath, and the mental power wrapped around the first star extended outward, turning into a straight star track, connecting directly to the second star until the two stars were connected together.

Then, according to the spell recipe, Gaode controlled the second star and began to move with the location of the first star as the starting point.

"One step forward, one and a third step right, one and a quarter step up"

There are only two elements for any object to move: direction and distance.

There are only three directions in which stars move: "front and back", "left and right", and "up and down".

Distance, on the other hand, is expressed directly in numbers without any units.

Because the distance between each star in a spell model is fixed in equal proportion.

For example, the distance between the second star and the first star in a certain direction is two feet, and the distance between the third star and the second star in a certain direction is four feet. If you change it to four feet and eight feet, it will not affect the construction of the spell model.

Therefore, the "one" in "forward one" is actually a proportion. The actual distances set by each person to construct the spell model are different, but the proportions are the same, thus ensuring the uniformity of the spell model.

The star track formed by mental power connecting the two stars is also constantly extending and lengthening as the second star moves.

Finally, the second star arrived where it should be.

Gao De continued his momentum and captured the third star near the position of the second star. He also used his mental power to form a star track connecting the second star and the third star. He then controlled the third star to start moving with the current position of the second star as the starting point.

There is nothing else in the magical star sea except stars, so there is no reference object, let alone a ruler.

However, the position between each node in the spell model must be absolutely fixed and precise.

From this point of view, just grasping the distance moved by each star is already an extremely difficult task.

But the fact is the opposite. In the process of constructing a spell model, the simplest thing is actually to control the distance that the star moves.

Because the magic star sea is located deep in everyone's consciousness, and in their respective consciousness spaces, everyone will have a precise intuition about real attributes such as distance, size, direction, mass, etc., comparable to that of a machine.

The real difficulty in building a spell model lies in controlling the movement of the stars and keeping them stable.

This is because the planets are constantly struggling whether they are moving or stationary, which brings huge resistance, and the direction of the resistance is constantly changing randomly.

"One half forward, two thirds to the right, and one half down"

Similarly, this second star track continues to extend and lengthen as the third planet moves.

Gaode's mind was highly concentrated on controlling the third star.

This third planet is also moving at a steady speed.

However, at this moment, the star track between the second star and the first star suddenly began to shake inexplicably, and the shaking frequency became faster and faster.

Then, before Gaode could react, the star track broke in the violent vibration. Without the restraint of the star track, the second star flew across the magical star sea like a wild horse.

Just like a domino effect, the departure of the second planet also caused the collapse of the second star track, and the third planet naturally got out of control.

First build of the acid splash spell model, ended in failure!
(End of this chapter)