Chapter 89: Academic Conference (1)
Unlike the Combat Magic Academic Conference, the Alchemy and Magic Engineering Conference was slightly smaller in scale.
It was quite ironic to think that most of the scientific technologies that have advanced this world were alchemy and magic engineering, yet the conference on combat magic received the most attention.
But, considering that this world had always been in confrontation with the forces of evil, known as the Dark Mages, it was inevitable.
Furthermore, combat magic was much more difficult and challenging compared to alchemy or magic engineering.
To simplify the complexity of magic, it could be compared to a combination of Chinese characters and mathematics. Adding mathematics to already complex Chinese characters was a horrific task beyond imagination.
For example, there was a magic spell that required interpreting and drawing the formula (4+5×7). The mage must inscribe the magical word (四加五倍七) onto the array of mana, then integrate and connect it with mana lines by inscribing attributes in the correct order of interpretation equations. This completed a kind of equation.
Moreover, that was not all.
Depending on the amount of mana injected, the power had to be adjusted and calculations of trajectory, coordinates, range, and so on had to be made on the spot in order to manifest it.
What are you talking about?
To put it simply and quickly, magic sucked.
It was really fucked up.