Reincarnation with AI (Unemployment-Free)

Another year has passed, and the magic course is going well.

Under Lokishi's tutelage, Rudeus can now use all the higher-level spells of the system without chanting.

To be honest, compared to Rudeus's own magical plan, using high-level magic without chanting is as simple as picking your nose.

Because the most difficult part is always the beginning, while magic that can be released through chanting is very simple to begin.

Simply mimic the flow of magical energy in your body during chanting.

It's a bit like a martial arts world, where a super master uses their internal energy to guide you through your body, making you do as they say.

While learning these spells, Rudeus's mind was always filled with two sentences spoken by that "Sister" and "Dragon Bubble" from the children's program in his previous life.

"Please do as I do."

"I'll do it your way."

After asking the AI, Rudeus remembered that the person was called Sister Deer, and the dragon was called Jumping Dragon, not Dragon Bubble or Bubble Dragon.

The memories of my childhood in my previous life seem to have become a jumbled mess.

But that's not important. The fact that one can have random thoughts while casting magic is quite telling.

In other words, it also shows that Rudius has achieved a considerable degree of automation and doesn't need to think too much.

Here's a brief explanation: magic is divided into seven levels: beginner, intermediate, advanced, saint, king, emperor, and god.

The ranks of soldiers are also the same.

When magic reaches a higher level, many spells become area-of-effect attacks; for example, water magic can cause rain to fall over a large area.

While it's completely useless in close combat, it's very useful for warfare and resource gathering, and could even be considered a strategic skill.

In many situations, magicians seem to be indispensable.

Rudius felt that magicians were good at making money.

You can see this from Paul; in this village, the only jobs that force can do are dealing with monsters and seducing women.

Well, the woman was secondary, not part of the job, and there was no need for such a man-picking scheme in the village. This was purely Rudius's resentment towards Paul.

A virgin's resentment towards men who have been with countless women.

So what do you think Paul can do?

Otherwise, should we go to the fields to plow the land?

What's the use of cultivating five or ten more plots of land?

With that kind of stamina, Rudius would rather have his way with a few more women.

Rudeus didn't know if in this world, martial prowess could be used as a means to advance to the rank of noble, but it was more likely to serve as a guard, or "security guard."

Being a security guard is no substitute for being an adventurer...

From this perspective, while knowledge is not entirely equivalent to power in this world, it is still more equivalent to money.

In fact, Loki did earn some extra money by using magic at the request of the villagers.

It's like dealing with huge rocks that appear in the ground when turning over soil, or helping with rain during the dry season...

Ah, we've gone off on a tangent.

Before we knew it, the conversation had drifted into the topic of making money and achieving success.

The filthy thoughts of adults poisoned Rudius's young mind.

What I was actually going to talk about here was Rudeus's understanding of magic levels.

The original novel contains some descriptions of Saint-level and Emperor-level magic.

The Saint-level technique is [Thunderous Rain Cloud], which is mastered by Loki as a Water Saint-level mage, while the King-level technique is [Lightning], which follows [Thunderous Rain Cloud].

Other spells were never mentioned again. Even if they appeared, it was only known that they existed and that someone had used them, but no one had ever seen anyone use them, and the specific names of the spells were unknown.

It just appears as a background element for this thing, and I don't know if the original author was too lazy to make it up.

After a year of systematic study, Rudeus has been able to summarize a very clear framework for water magic.

From small water droplets the size of a fist, it grew into large water cannons, then into widespread rainfall, and finally into storms and thunder.

The evolutionary path of magic is the form that water takes in nature according to different energy states.

In terms of magic, it involves continuously increasing magic output and then compressing the output magic.

From beginner to saint level, all increase output; king level compresses output.

The process of casting magic can be summarized into two steps: the output and compression of magical power.

Changing the shape of magic can also be understood as a kind of compression, such as turning a water ball into a water block.

In the original work, the rock cannonballs that the original male protagonist used later in the story were considered to be Emperor-level magic.

The rock cannonball itself was only a mid-level spell, but after the original male protagonist infused and compressed a large amount of magic power into it, its power reached the Emperor level.

From this perspective, King-level and above magic is actually quite simple.

You can use the most basic magic and then shape it into stronger magic by controlling the output and compression of magic power.

Therefore, based on his own reasoning, Rudeus naturally felt that as long as it was compressed enough, magic would spontaneously undergo some kind of transformation.

Because that's how the transition from water to electricity works.

However, Rudeus had experimented with fire magic and found that no matter how much it was compressed, it just felt like hotter fire.

Rudeus wasn't sure if he hadn't compressed the force enough, because at this point, Loki was only a Water Saint-level mage, so she couldn't offer any advice or suggestions.

Why does water magic eventually turn into lightning?

Why did water magic turn into electric electricity?

Of course I know there will be lightning when it rains, but this is water magic!

Rudeus doesn't know how Loki learned it, but the original male protagonist learned it based on Loki's demonstration.

This illustrates that the original male protagonist did not learn lightning out of thin air.

It was simply imitation.

The path is consistent with first learning to chant spells and then simulating the flow of magic without chanting.

Once the hardware meets the requirements, it can be released.

For modern people who fully understand what lightning is, there is no mental effort involved.

But the problem is...

Rudeus doesn't have that information right now; he doesn't know what the incantation for [Lightning] is.

Rudius has been pondering this a lot lately...

Even if everyone knows that storms are accompanied by thunder and lightning...

However, without Loki's demonstration, the original male protagonist would not have known that King-level magic would evolve in this direction, and would not have been able to become a Water King-level magician.

Even though he was already able to use rock cannons with Emperor-level power at that time, objectively he possessed the strength to become a Water King-level mage.

So, how exactly is this transformation from nothing to something accomplished?

Can Rudeus skip over the process of the original male protagonist going from not knowing to knowing?

If one were to ascend from the Saint level to the King level entirely without chanting, and undergo a transformation from water to electricity, what would be the key to this?

Besides compression, there should be another variable.

Rudius thought it was just imagination.

When it comes to magic, isn't it all about imagination?

Your belief is your magic!

However, the world without jobs is not the kind of idealistic magical world where you can clearly perceive the scientific path that exists within magic.

This place follows the same physical laws as the original Earth.

As for what the differences are, Rudius has not yet discovered them.

So how do we imagine it?

What do you imagine?

Clearly, imagination is not just wild speculation. Rather, it requires appropriate imagination that aligns with natural phenomena, based on the conditions for magical output and compression. Only then will the magical output of a mage change in accordance with natural laws.

This kind of imagination can actually be called reasoning, a kind of reasoning based on natural science or modern physics.

The fact that haurollen cumulonimbus clouds can transform into lightning is entirely in line with the laws of nature; this idea represents a change in perspective.

Rudius, based on the existing intelligence, completed the reverse deduction of the idea.

In other words, water magic does not necessarily have to be manifested in the form of water.

What about pushing forward?

What if I didn't know this information?

How can I use incantationless magic to advance from Saint-level to King-level?

How to achieve the transition from water to electricity?

It is imagination, the power of imagination, imagining oneself as a raging storm in nature, as thunder in the sky.

Imagination guides the direction of magic.

As for the original male protagonist's process of becoming a Water King-level mage, it was because he saw Luo Qixi unleash lightning that he automatically changed his mindset.

He no longer needed to imagine what King-level magic would look like, and he found his direction.

Oh! So that's what King-level magic is like!

It's about compressing magic to form lightning!

I know how to compress magic, I understand what lightning is, and I've already learned how to chant. Now I lack nothing!

Original male lead: [Lightning]!!!

He easily completed the advancement and became a Water King-level mage.

A remarkable achievement!

Ultimately, Rudius felt he still hadn't grasped the essence of this transformation...

Because there is no imagination involved, it is simply a release after understanding.

Perhaps the world's first mage to comprehend lightning was the result of his continuous verification after observing the process of nature.

In the desperate phase of the battle against the Dragon God, the original protagonist's final fire magic attack spontaneously conjured up images of mushroom clouds and nuclear explosions.

That was the most violent and intimidating energy explosion that modern people could imagine.

Although it did not trigger a nuclear explosion, its great power was only due to the large total amount of magic power; it did not change the fact that the magic it cast was still fire magic.

However, judging from the animation, the fireball clearly changed color multiple times.

Why does the fire change color?

That's right, it's a flame test.

Different metal ions will produce different flame colors.

Although the original male protagonist's imagination did not trigger a nuclear explosion, the fire magic did cause a minor nuclear reaction in his imagination, which caused the generated metallic elements to change the color of the fireball.

This also shows how terrifying that fireball was.

What exactly does that terrifying total amount of magic power mean?

So what results can be achieved based on the above theories?

Rudius made an assumption.

That is, when casting a spell, you must imagine the effect of the spell, and imagine the result obtained through reasoning.

When casting a spell, variables such as the size and speed of the spell are set.

However, after Rudeus mastered the art of casting without chanting, he could actively manipulate magic even without following the feeling of casting a spell.

This is a variable that never existed when chanting magic.

Ordinary magicians can only manipulate magic through incantations!

Rudeus felt that mastering spells without chanting might be equivalent to transforming himself from a user of magic into a developer of magic!

How did the earliest magic come about?

How did the earliest magicians use magic?

Is it possible that imagination itself is a variable, an unknown variable that one is unaware of when magic is cast?

Are these variables ignored due to preconceived notions?

Is it true that when you learn magic, you don't need to have your own ideas at all, and you just need to chant the spell according to the textbook?

The book mentioned fire magic, so I naturally used fire magic, thus skipping the initial imagining stage.

It is also mentioned in the history of magic taught by Loki that magic was created by the high elves, and that human magic is a technology that was obtained by imitating and formalizing it.

What I learned from textbooks was naturally this kind of "formed" magic.

Chanting should be the process of "formifying" magic.

However, chanting is not always necessary. It was mentioned later in the original work that Loki successfully shortened the chanting.

It greatly increased the speed at which magicians could cast spells.

That means...

Nothing is necessary, nothing is indispensable, nothing is unbreakable!

I should have known this in my past life, but when it comes to actually using it, I always think of it very late.

It's probably another curse of grand principles; we know them, but we don't really understand them.

Since Rudeus has established this, the key to imagining magic as a formless spell is to "form" magical power.

So...

Is fire a form?

of course.

Could fire magic be broken down into simpler forms?

Or should fire magic be broken down into a single element?

Breaking it down, in the understanding of this world, what are formless things?

Fire magic takes the form of flames, and flames manifest themselves primarily as light and heat.

Of these, the heat is mainly released.

So, what if we only release light?

Rudeus imagined that the magic cast by the pulling magic had undergone a strange transformation.

The magic generally flows through the body along the path of fire magic, but it is not entirely the same. Some parts do not have magic passing through them, while other parts have more magic passing through them.

Rudius did not interfere, but simply focused on imagining a bright future.

From his perception of his body, Rudeus understood that he was not releasing fire magic, but a completely new kind of magic.

Magic that isn't in textbooks.

In Rudius's hand appeared a ball of light that illuminated a much greater area than the fireball, but had no temperature whatsoever.

Looking at the ball of light in his hand, Rudeus understood why old Rude in the original story said that magic is omnipotent.

This might just be the most ordinary lighting technique in other fantasy worlds.

But for Rudeus at this moment, it was a transformation from a magic user to a magic developer.

……

Afterwards, through Rudeus's continuous experimentation, he completed the development of various spells from scratch.

If there's any change, the most crucial one is the difference in magic output.

In the past, the creation of water using magic actually involved using water spheres or water cannons, but the power was not set during the casting of the magic.

The size of that water sphere is fixed.

Therefore, whether you want to make the water sphere bigger or smaller, you need to add magic power, because that is different from the original magic's setting. Since you are changing the setting, you need to add magic power.

Rudeus, through imagination, used incantationless magic to transform his own magic into water.

Rudeus referred to this type of magic collectively as...

The magic of water.

This magic works intuitively; the more magic power you output, the more water you generate.

Without providing magic, water won't be generated...

The same principle applies to other types of magic.

The foundation of hybrid magic has evolved from a mix of magic to true hybrid magic.

Similar to the steam magic of the past, it is actually a combination of [water ball] and [fire ball] magic.

Now, it is "water magic" and "fire magic".

Rudeus has more freedom to control magic, and can more easily control how much water or fire to release.

There's no need to add more magic to shrink the water sphere's volume. After all, the process of water turning into steam involves a volume increase of over a thousand times, which is extremely dangerous. If you're not careful, you could burn yourself.

This greatly reduces the mana consumption Rudeus consumes when casting spells.

This further enhances the efficiency of the already terrifying total amount of magic power.

This also makes steam magic even easier to use.