Chapter 132

The six basic rules written by the old man in the notebook are the research results he obtained by spending his life's energy.

However, everything stops at the last question below.

"Where is the problem?"

Simply put, the six basic rules of runes were "falsified," falsified by the old man himself.

A magic array calculated to be constructible and operable according to the rules and formulas he derived failed in reality.

Why did it fail? Where is the correct direction? This is the problem that He Xi Aoliken has been thinking about and trying to solve all these years.

He can perceive that he seems to be just a thin film away from success.

But just like an immature little virgin, he has always been wandering at the entrance, unable to find the way in.

The old man can feel that he has been circling in a dead end all these years.

But knowing is one thing, and jumping out of one's own thinking dilemma is another.

Whenever this time comes, the old man hopes immensely that there can be a "fellow traveler."

In this way, perhaps he can find a new direction based on another person's different thinking.

Unfortunately, this is just a luxury.

Let alone a fellow traveler, even someone who agrees with him standing behind him has never existed... it's not that it has never existed, the old man thought of memories from a long time ago, and his eye sockets were unconsciously a bit moist again.

He hurriedly shook his head to dispel these memories and continued to focus on the draft paper in front of him.

This is just a very ordinary draft paper, but for He Xi Aoliken, an old man who is over three hundred years old, it is worth a thousand gold.

Because, for the first time, the old man saw the shadow of a "fellow traveler" on this draft paper.

On the draft paper, Gao De used decent handwriting to accurately and clearly calculate the example he wrote in the notebook according to his six basic rules of runes.

Looking down along Gao De's train of thought, a luster gradually appeared on He Xi's old face.

No one has ever accepted his research results, and no one has ever been able to understand his six basic rules of runes.

But today, there is.

Especially when he saw that Gao De also used special but concise strange symbols to simplify his rune formula and obtained the theoretically correct answer, a gratified smile appeared on the old man's face.

In the past years, He Xi had never seen any magic user who could accept his "heretical" ideas:

Not relying on personal great power, but merely relying on a few theorems and calculations to derive a magic array on paper.

He Xi, who had just had the thought of "perhaps there is a successor," soon couldn't care about these.

Because, he saw something more shocking.

"Why did it fail?"

"The formula is possibly missing an interference constant C."

"q=E*n*C."

Interference constant... In He Xi's knowledge system, "constant" is an extremely unfamiliar coined word.

But the moment he saw the formula and the term interference constant, he understood the meaning of the so-called constant.

The thin film that had troubled the old man for a long time was pierced at this moment.

Yes, he had long discovered that any magic array whose formula derivation was successful but actually failed had a common feature, that is, the gap between the theoretical robustness value and the actual robustness value was always within a range.

And whenever it exceeded this range, it was as if it had "broken," the formula calculation was successful, and reality would also inevitably be successful.

But how much this range is and where it comes from, the old man has never been able to figure out.

Now, after being enlightened by Gao De, the old man suddenly understood.

Magic arrays can be repeated; different people constructing the same magic array that has been verified to be unfeasible will inevitably fail, completely unaffected by the person's own rune master level.

That means there must be a common factor affecting the success rate.

This factor should be the "interference constant" named by Gao De.

Who could have imagined that a new student who had never been exposed to Runology could so easily solve the problem that had troubled He Xi, the chief rune mentor of Sairui Academy, for many years.

The old man's tangled thoughts were finally sorted out at this time.

Although He Xi Aoliken knew that knowing the flaws in the formula did not mean that all problems were solved.

Deriving the specific value of this interference constant still requires a lot of time, energy, and methods.

But most importantly, the most difficult thinking link has been opened, and the rest is just "hard work."

The perfection of the rune formula is just a matter of time.

Because he understood what the perfection of the rune formula represented, He Xi Aoliken stood there in a daze, speechless for a long time.

Can it really be done?

At the moment closest to success, this old man who only focused on his own affairs for the first time developed a "timid" psychology.

He was very afraid that in the end, he would find that the so-called rune formula was just his fantasy and was actually bullshit. He Xi Aoliken closed his eyes and took a deep breath on the spot.

Finally, he opened his eyes again, picked up the "draft paper" left by Gao De, and walked into the inner small room again.

The fatigue on the old man's face had completely dissipated at this time.

After Gao De left the Jia Wen Building belonging to the Rune Department, he first returned to Building 30 in the First District, filled his water bag with "Water of No Leakage," and then set off for the cultivation building.

He didn't realize at all what kind of inspiration the formula and that sentence he left on the draft paper brought to his mentor.

And what kind of shock it would bring to the entire Runology system.

Now Gao De only realized that if he didn't seize the time to cultivate while the effect of "Water of No Leakage" was still there, he would definitely feel very distressed.

In the cultivation building, after swiping his identity badge at the reception desk, Gao De spent 1 gold coin to rent a first-rank cultivation room for four hours.

In fact, for most magic users, the time available for practicing guidance methods in a day is limited by energy and mental power, and is generally within two hours.

Therefore, the rental fee for the cultivation room is charged by two hours.

But after drinking the "Water of No Leakage," the daily cultivation time can be extended by half an hour.

So Gao De chose to add time.

But there is no need to worry about waste.

Because according to the rules of the cultivation building, if the rented cultivation room time cannot be used up at once, the remaining time will not be cleared, but will be recorded and kept, and can be used next time.

"Room 11, Fourth Floor."

After paying the money, the receptionist lady handed back Gao De's identity badge with both hands and told him the room number.

Gao De thanked her, climbed to the fourth floor all the way, and entered the Room 11 cultivation room he rented.

Still using the identity badge to activate the mana node array in the cultivation room.

Then Gao De saw the mana concentration displayed on the mana detector rise from "3" at the beginning to "48," tending to be stable.

Knowing that the time had come, Gao De did not hesitate, immediately sat cross-legged, quickly entered a meditative state, and began to run the apprentice guidance method to guide mana into his body.

Compared with the basic cultivation room, the gain of the first-rank cultivation room with a mana concentration as high as "48" for magic user apprentice cultivation is too great.

Gao De could perceive that the stardust representing mana around him had already gathered into clusters of star clusters.

Every time he guided mana into his body, he was moving clusters of "star clusters," not individual "stardust."

The efficiency is simply unimaginable.

Nearly two hours later, Gao De, who had finished the cultivation process, opened his eyes, with a slight fatigue in his eyes.

This means that his cultivation time for today has reached the upper limit, and continuing would be a waste of time.

But today Gao De did not end his cultivation there.

He untied the water bag tied to his waist and opened the stopper.

A trace of peculiar and ethereal fragrance had already drifted out.

After putting the water bag to his mouth and gulping down a few more large mouthfuls, Gao De felt his body and mind refreshed, and the fatigue brought by cultivation was even more dissipated.

Gao De, who had already witnessed the magic of the Water of No Leakage, did not waste time sighing, but entered the cultivation state again.

Another half hour later.

Gao De completely ended today's cultivation.

Cultivating once in a first-rank cultivation room is equivalent to four times of 'bare cultivation.' This kind of blessing efficiency is already worth 80% of drinking a basic mana potion, Gao De calculated secretly in his heart.

Of course, the effect of the first-rank cultivation room on assisting cultivation is still different from drinking mana potions directly.

After all, the former only increases the mana concentration in the environment, and one still has to rely on oneself to guide mana into the body.

While the latter, after drinking, can directly generate mana in the body, omitting the step of "guiding into the body."

But to say that the first-rank cultivation room is not as good as the basic mana potion? Not necessarily.

The former only costs 10 silver coins to assist one cultivation, while the latter requires 2 gold coins.

A four-fold cost difference, but the efficiency is only 20% different.

In terms of cost-effectiveness, the first-rank cultivation room is a complete victory.

"After drinking the Water of No Leakage, I can practice the guidance method for an extra half hour for nothing. Adding this half hour, one cultivation progress is actually worth nearly six times of 'bare cultivation'," Gao De muttered.

If he could use the combination of 'Water of No Leakage' + 'First-rank cultivation room' every day, his cultivation speed would exceed drinking basic mana potions.

It's just a pity that 'Water of No Leakage' is a one-time thing.

"After going back, drink all the remaining Water of No Leakage and see how many days its effect can last," Gao De secretly made a decision.

Waste is non-existent.

(End of chapter)