In order to prevent this fellow from becoming a Madman, he chugged the chemical pool to avoid more profound theories and simply explained from a basic perspective.
"In short, for the particles that constitute the 118 elents, we call them 'basic particles'."
"Basic particles!!" Miranda feverishly noted down every unfamiliar word, like a parched sponge.
anwhile, he who had chugged the chemical pool carefully chose his words as he continued.
"Actually, basic particles can still be divided further, but for now, that remains the realm of philosophy. For the mont, you just need to have this concept in your mind—that our world is not only made up of the six fundantal magic elents but is composed of 'atoms', and that these atoms can be further divided into even smaller basic particles..."
Rather than referring to knowledge, it would be more accurate to say this is a perspective on understanding the world. It's like how NPCs in the ga world understand matter through objective natural phenona such as wind, water, fire, earth, light, and darkness, whereas real-life people understand it from another perspective.
At this point, he took out a piece of rusty scrap iron and a chunk of charcoal from his experintal tools and presented them before Miranda.
"If you were to use the theory of magic elents, how would you explain these two objects?"
Miranda stared at the objects in his hands for a mont and quickly answered.
"Iron, like copper, is a combination of earth and fire elents. During the spellcasting process, it requires the use of a spell to guide the elents' combination. If you want it to rust, you also need to apply wind elent. Charcoal is a bit more complicated, as it can be understood as both a natural spell and a combination of earth and water elents, with the final integration of fire elent... Of course, we generally don't produce these complex and not very useful things through spells."
Air magic and wind magic are different terms for the sa thing. Mages born in the School favored using the classical term "air" to discuss academic matters, but when it ca to the concept of the elents, they were still accustod to referring to it as wind elent.
It's worth ntioning that the six-elent theory is not immutable. Initially, it was the five great elents: wind, thunder, water, fire, earth.
With the passage of ti and changes in people's cognition, wind and thunder rged into air, and the five fundantal elents beca the four elents: air, water, fire, earth. Added to life and death (Netherworld), these made up the earliest version of the six fundantal elents.
As for the "modern" six fundantal elents of wind, water, fire, earth, light, and darkness, these concepts erged from the early second era after the "light" attribute was sanctified. Life and death were often discussed separately, not as one of the six fundantal elents.
"That's the problem. You study objective issues with subjective impressions, which is like marking the boat to find a sunk sword... Of course, I'm not saying there is anything wrong with that, just that our thods are completely different."
He who had chugged the chemical pool continued.
"We do not define matter by phenona, but rather study the matter itself. For example, iron is the iron elent, and this piece of rusty iron in front of you is a product of the combination of iron and oxygen elents."
"Oxygen elent... is it a kind of wind elent?" Miranda recalled what the skeleton soldier had previously said and astutely asked.
"You can understand it that way. The separate oxygen elents that can be encountered under natural conditions mostly exist in the form of gas," he who had chugged the chemical pool continued, "and it's the kind of gas with combustion-supporting properties that I ntioned... although its functions are far more than just supporting combustion; it can also accelerate the oxidation of tals."
Therefore, understanding rusty iron as a combination of earth, fire, and wind elents is not wrong at all. Being unable to grasp this alternative perspective may be one of the reasons why most players struggle to use magic.
Most people can't even imagine this process, let alone consider issues from this "tricky" perspective.
However, as soon as the ghost explained, he who had chugged the chemical pool imdiately understood what elental magic spells were all about.
This spells system was utterly different from the Netherworld Language.
Its existence serves the cognition of the Spellcasters, centering on the Spellcasters themselves. And yet this cognition is not just an individual Spellcaster's understanding but the consensus of the majority of "conscious entities" in the ga world.
Iron cos from earth, is slted by fire, and rusted by wind... This is the consensus among NPCs in the ga world, or rather, the people of this era!
That is the concept of "everyone's thoughts" that Yiye Zhiqu had guessed.
But now is not the ti to discuss this.
Looking at the ghost whose face was filled with astonishnt, he who had chugged the chemical pool took out his experintal equipnt and began his demonstration.
There was no need to demonstrate that oxygen and water would cause iron to rust; what he wanted to show was the filling of a container with powders made from grinding rusty iron and charcoal, mixing and heating them to reduce the rusty iron back to pure iron.
Not just that—
He also collected the carbon monoxide gas produced during this process using a glass flask and delivery tube, and lit it with flint right before Miranda's eyes.
He was very careful with this process, fearing it might explode.
Luckily, his experint did not explode. Even though he failed several tis due to imprecise operations, he ultimately succeeded in igniting it.
So gas can really burn!!!
Different from he who had chugged the chemical pool, who was satisfied with the success, Miranda was as excited as if she had witnessed the descent of Saint Sis!
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