Chapter 751: 《Principles》

Above it, the light emitted by each star point converged into a large star. Under the influence of some specific rules, the large star continuously inhaled and exhaled light, within which characters appeared rapidly one by one, spreading backward.

Occasionally, the text would also roll back, or be deleted, or revised, eventually forming articles that were logically rigorous, stylistically precise, and concise.

All of this appeared within Xia Duo's consciousness. With the ability of Memory Retrospection, he could retrieve all the data he needed at once and then process it in batches.

Simple information retrieval and text organization were no more difficult than drinking water for him now.

"If only I had such an ability back on Earth, how great that would be!" Xia Duo sighed.

Afterward, he took a dozen bottles of ordinary ink and a large stack of loose, blank Parchment from his Personal Space, placing them neatly on his desk.

——【Transcription】! The power of Magic stirred the ink in the bottles, turning it into a visible glow that shone onto the blank Parchment.

Thus, a page with neat, print-like handwriting appeared.

The Spell continued; Xia Duo removed the first page, and immediately the glow shone onto the second page, where text completely different from the previous page appeared instantly.

Just like this, Xia Duo continuously removed the printed pages, occasionally replenishing the 【Transcription】, and before long, a thick stack of manuscripts appeared in his hands.

After binding them slightly, Xia Duo picked up a pen and wrote on the cover himself—

"Principles—Some Thoughts on the Netheril Arcane Magic System"

……

Back when Xia Duo had just entered the Tower of Time, he had wanted to find books on Magic Theory countless times, but the results were never very ideal.

Due to the unique nature of Magic, almost any theory could be written as a "Spell," and Magic Books existed mostly in the form of "Spellbooks."

Of course, in a sense, these "Spellbooks" could also be called "travelogues" or "biographies"; there were very few specialized, highly concise Spellbooks.

Even books that focused more on theory, such as "Arcane Geometry," were written in the form of questions and answers between teacher and student.

This was already considered relatively direct; most of the dialogue and Q&A revolved around 【Arcane Geometry】, but irrelevant information still existed.

To say nothing else, at least the colloquial nature of dialogue carried a lot of personal emotion, not to mention that in teacher-student Q&A, students needed to express respect to their teachers, so honorifics were indispensable.

By reading this set of "Arcane Geometry," Xia Duo could even infer the personalities of Iolum and his many students, including Saville and Buluode.

Of course, since "Arcane Geometry" was compiled by Saville, it naturally carried Saville's sensory bias, and even his thinking tendencies.

As a professional treatise, it was undoubtedly lacking.

……

The so-called "Netheril Arcane Magic System" was actually a concept abstracted from individual, concrete Spells.

These Spells might have commonalities or a common foundation, but there was no such book specifically expounding on the Netheril Magic System.

Of course, it was possible that one already existed, but Xia Duo hadn't discovered it.

But this did not prevent him from writing one himself! This idea was born when he first started learning Magic, and it had taken root and sprouted, continuing until now.

If one counted the time in the Projection Plane, it had been about seven or eight years.

It wasn't until he became an Arcanist that Xia Duo included this matter in his considerations and finally had the time to do it.

Originally, he planned to finish this book before the Communication Magic Tool went on sale, and then send it to Seventon—whether to gain fame, claim credit, collect Faith, or simply to facilitate product sales, that was the plan.

In the plan, the organization process would take a lot of time, but what he didn't expect was that the Memory Retrospection ability brought by his Bloodline Awakening allowed him to almost transform into a human supercomputer; the organization process, which was originally the most time-consuming, was instead completed in a very short time.

Of course, this was a good thing, as it allowed him more time to either continue perfecting it or to start pre-heating, leaving plenty of room for maneuver.

Looking at the "Principles" book that had truly appeared before his eyes, Xia Duo felt quite emotional, and he seemed to find it hard to believe.

He had really completed such a book in a very short time.

Although he wasn't sure if others could do the same, Xia Duo knew that he was different now!

If—in the past, he might have lacked some confidence when calling himself a genius because he carried the memories of another world.

Then now, to say nothing else, based solely on the ability of Memory Retrospection, he was already worthy of the name of a genius.

Opening the "Principles" book, although it had already been fully rehearsed in his consciousness and his memory was very deep, Xia Duo still flipped through it with great interest.

Although the name was grand, calling it "Principles," it actually didn't involve many contents related to principles; it was more of a sorting and integration of the current Netheril Magic System.

It had become a concrete, intuitive Magic introductory textbook with practical guiding significance.

The entire book was divided into three volumes—

The first volume introduced what Magic was, the classification of Magic, and how to perform Spellcasting; the second volume was Arcane Geometry; the third volume was some thoughts, summaries, and conjectures Xia Duo had had since he started learning Magic.

Among them, the first and second volumes, even after Xia Duo's sorting and integration, written in extremely concise and refined language, still occupied more than half of the entire book.

Although the third volume used the fewest words, it was the part he put the most effort into; after all, the first two volumes had ready-made materials for reference, and all he did was integrate them.

But the third volume required his own thinking, making it both showcase Xia Duo's characteristics and avoid sparking disputes, while simultaneously being able to provoke widespread discussion.

What Xia Duo cared about most was that through various practices regarding Magic over the past seven or eight years, he had summarized the equivalent change principle of the Magic Net String.

The redundant structural multi-level coexisting Magic Array used by the Tower of Time to implement the upgrade program utilized the principles in this regard.

It was just that, in the past, there was only practice, and no one had completely summarized this theory; perhaps they had, but they chose to keep it hidden.

This theory was also the guiding theory for the 【Ascension Trial】; theoretically, as long as a Mage mastered this theory and one 0 Ring Spell, they could smoothly become an Archmage.

Of course, wanting to master this theory was extremely difficult before being able to come into contact with the deeper layers of the Magic Net; even Xia Duo had not completely mastered this theory.

But according to existing theories, he could indeed gradually deduce Spells of at least the 8th Ring, which was the minimum requirement for an Archmage.

(End of this chapter)