Chapter 2785: Element Fluctuation

In Xia Duo's view, a Water Spirit is more like a state, a process of the appearance and disappearance of water elements, somewhat similar to the feeling of particle generation, annihilation, and transformation in vacuum fluctuations.

Although perceived from the perspective of water elements, Element Fluctuation does not only involve water elements, but also the generation, annihilation, and transformation processes of other elements.

Perhaps this can also explain why Wizards who can perceive Water Spirits are also able to cast other elemental spells.

From that perspective, Xia Duo is not perceiving specific elements, but rather perceiving elemental changes within the Main Plane, or more accurately, within a certain area.

Although the Main Plane has the existence of the Magic Net, and free elements are guided back to the Magic Net as soon as they appear, this is merely a trend; if it is in an area where elemental manifestations are concentrated, such as a body of water, the Magic Net will naturally leak water elements, or even form a channel to the Elemental Plane.

In fact, one cannot find an environment in the entire Main Plane without elemental manifestations; whether it is air, soil, or a water source, as long as the scope is narrowed down enough, there will always be a situation where elemental manifestations are concentrated.

In other words, the phenomenon of Element Fluctuation throughout the Main Plane should be ubiquitous; even if a certain area appears to have no free elements, in reality, within an extremely small range, elements are constantly being generated and then constantly disappearing.

As for what influence the Magic Net has on this naturally occurring phenomenon of Element Fluctuation, Xia Duo has no way of knowing for now, but it is certain that it will at least not have no influence at all.

Furthermore, it can be inferred from the training process of Wizards that the spellcasting of Wizards should be dependent on the Magic Net, and it is not the case that Wizards cannot cast spells even in a Magic Net Dead Zone.

But at the same time, spellcasting based on Element Fluctuation also leads to the vast majority of Wizards' spells being elemental spells, just as the Bloodline Magic of Calimshan also developed from elemental bloodlines.

With just these hundred or so people of the Kewu Tribe?

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Moreover, I suspect that the current Arcane Magic System is not yet sufficiently rational and modernized, and it is completely unable to be compatible with and inclusive of other magic systems until it becomes the orthodoxy.

Having learned about the trend of magic popularization in the Territory, Angtuo no longer held much hope for those ancient inheritances; with no one learning them, it might completely disappear by his generation.

If one could experience the prosperous period of the Langasi, perhaps one could have a more in-depth and thorough understanding of the Wizard system.

From this point of view, the Kewu Tribe, or the entire Yang Shan Wen Ping Yuan, must have had at least one prosperous period in the past history, otherwise how could this phonetic notation method have appeared?

Rather, it has a set of fairly complete reading methods, using a method similar to the ancient Qieyun of Xia Shao's hometown to annotate every syllable of the incantation; if one were just passing down the incantation itself, it would be very difficult to resist the language changes brought about by time.

Yet Wizards used an "earthy method" that looks very unreliable to achieve the observation of Element Fluctuation, which is truly incredible.

In the previous Arcane Magic System, Element Fluctuation had no manifestation at all and was very difficult to observe; in the past, Xia Shao regarded the Magic Net body as macroscopic and individual Magic Net Strings as microscopic.

Elemental bloodlines originate from the Li Jie, and Elven Magic was also brought by outsiders; by comparison, although Netheril Magic is also a relatively mature Arcane Magic, it is inherited from the ancient kingdoms of the Main Plane and can be considered a local magic to a certain extent.

Perhaps this is the true origin of the local magic system of the Main Plane.

Although Xia Shao has the Saint Form Avatar spell, it is very troublesome even for him to cast it himself, let alone others; after all, the systems are incompatible.

For the time being, he has not found a Netheril Magic System spell that can benchmark the Saint Form; the Arcane Energy Form is somewhat similar, but it lacks the explosive power of the Saint Form, and it is even more of a spellcasting buff, which is truly a bit of a chicken rib.

The Kewu Tribe people, who were still worrying about survival on the Yang Shan Wen Ping Yuan in the past, did not contract the conservative bad habits of Netherese Mages regarding knowledge; if possible, they even hoped that every clansman could learn the methods of Wizards.

There might be a possibility of further progress in the future, but it is not possible now, and this spell currently only Xia Shao has; he cannot spare the time to improve it in the short term, so he can only wait until later.

"Angtuo, can you teach me that incantation?"

As for now, he can only start from those existing things that count as heritage.

Elven Magic is also Arcane Magic, but its control over the Magic Net is too passive and too dependent on the individual talent of the Spellcaster; as for the prospects, Xia Shao does not think highly of it.

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He very much hopes to be able to teach these inheritances to others; if this person is also the Lord, then that would be even better, because the Lord being interested means the inheritance is useful, and the inheritance being useful and learned by the Lord means that more people in the Territory will be able to learn it, and this is also not letting down the teacher's inheritance.

Xia Shao has this kind of thinking now; after all, it is impossible for him to abandon the Netheril Magic System that has been developed for a long time, even if it is eventually proven that the Wizard system has more potential, at least it has not been proven otherwise now; he does not lack the determination to start over, but at least that day has not arrived yet.

Any magic, only by being sufficiently basic, sufficiently simple, and having a sufficiently low threshold, can it have enough participants to develop together; otherwise, even if it is temporarily exquisite and powerful, it will sooner or later be surpassed.

But this actually happened, and it was something Xia Shao experienced personally.

"Of course you can."

That is obviously impossible.

It is just a pity that their inheritance is still too crude, with extremely high requirements for talent, making it impossible to popularize.

Given the current environment of the Main Plane, it is basically unlikely that there will be soil for the Wizard system to develop normally again; the Wizard system is destined to only become the nourishment for the development of other magic systems.

The elemental spells of Wizards will slowly develop, and they will eventually be able to be perfected to form a relatively comprehensive magic system.

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It is just a pity that Xia Shao's past explorations of Projection Planes were mostly as an Elf or a Netherese, and he had never transformed into a Langasi.

At Angtuo's home, Xia Shao constantly traced his memories, repeatedly experiencing the wonders of Element Fluctuation in the state of Element Perception; with this experience, even if the Wizard's exploration of Order Force does not help at all, it was still a trip worth taking.

What's more, Elven Magic is not necessarily stronger than Netheril Magic now; the only thing that is strong is probably the Saint Form, and as for the Mythallar, Netheril Magic is also naturally applied.

Just like that, one side willing to learn and the other willing to teach, the speed of progress was of course very fast, and the incantation reading method taught by Angtuo was not just the simple pronunciation that Xia Shao thought at the beginning.

But Element Fluctuation is even more microscopic than Magic Net Strings, even microscopic to the point of existing only in the Nothingness Between, and under normal circumstances, it is impossible to observe at all.