Nine Hundred and Seventy Second Ability and Magician

———"Magical Forbidden Book Catalogue".

This is a world set in modern times.

Calculated in terms of age, it would be around the 21st century.

For a person like Silvia who lives in the school battle city and is used to all kinds of technology brought by the falling star engineering, there may be nothing surprising in this world.

But, in fact, this world is not ordinary, and it also has mystery.

In this world, there are mainly three camps.

One: Since a long time ago, it has influenced the world in various forms, and has a magic camp with mystery and miracles.

Two: Since modern times, the sense of existence has begun to increase sharply. Generally, the existence of magic is not known, but there are scientific camps of individuals who can use superpowers.

Three: Ordinary people who are strongly influenced by both the science camp and the magic camp, but do not particularly feel the abnormality of both sides.

Each of the three camps has its own position.

Except for the general public who are basically only affected by both sides, the open and secret struggle between the science camp and the magic camp can be regarded as the theme of this world.

The magic camp that was gradually replaced by science.

The scientific camp encroaching on the mysterious realm.

The two sides can be regarded as the power of water and fire, each occupying half of the world's rights, and are engaged in terrible battles in places unknown to the general public.

Of course, these are battles that take place below the surface.

As for the general public, they don't know the existence of so-called magic at all. On the contrary, superpowers have a sense of existence, which is known to the world.

It's just that people with superpowers can't be seen everywhere.

These ability users are almost all concentrated in one place.

———"Academy City".

Occupying one-third of Tokyo, it is located in the west of Tokyo and occupies part of Saitama and Kanagawa prefectures. It is a huge city with a population of 2.3 million.

As the name suggests, this is a student-oriented city.

In the city, 80% of the population are students, and the remaining 20% ​​are basically teachers and researchers. They are completely isolated from the outside world. They have the most cutting-edge technology that has been ahead of the world for more than 20 to 30 years. It deserves its name. Representatives of the Science Camp.

Here, all students receive superpower development and are fully managed by an organization called the "Overall Council".

In order to prevent the leakage of technology and superpowers, Academy City has extremely strict restrictions on the entry and exit of the population, so it is actually a country, China, which enjoys independence and has cooperative organizations all over the world.

Therefore, basically, people with abilities can only be seen in Academy City, and superpowers are rarely seen in the outside world. For ordinary people, they only exist on TV.

At this moment, Fang Li and Silvia are located in Academy City.

"Ding ding ding ding..."

The sound of the arrival of the tram and the faint sound of the radio echoed in the air.

"Ba ba ba ba..."

The horns of the vehicles mingled together.

Beside the road, wind turbines like large windmills are slowly turning.

Robots that looked like white mechanical cylinders moved back and forth, some were cleaning up the garbage on the ground, while others were passing by following a fixed route as if they were on patrol.

Facing such a future-like scene, the students in school uniforms looked on as normal, talking and laughing as they walked by.

Fang Li and Silvia walked on such a road.

And, looking at those cleaning robots and guard robots, I am amazed.

"That's like a pseudomorph, right?"

Sylvia said like this.

"It's really a luxury to have pseudomorphs on the road."

In the school battle city, the mimics who also have self-discipline will be responsible for various chores.

But,

That is usually a scene that can only be seen in the six university campuses.

If it is on the street, it is still very rare to see pseudomorphs.

Therefore, seeing this scene, Silvia was amazed.

And after simply knowing the situation of this world from Fang Li's mouth, Silvia quickly understood it in her own way.

"To put it simply, ability users are witches and magicians like me, who are born with certain abilities, and magicians are Taoist priests like Jielong, who can use other methods to use various abilities. ability?"

This understanding is basically correct.

Fang Li corrected only the details.

"To be precise, people with abilities are not born with abilities. They must go through the superpower development courses in Academy City to develop abilities. Those who are born with superpowers are called rough stones. Others must go through Developed curriculum to gain competency."

The fundamental purpose of Academy City is to develop superpowers for students.

These developed abilities vary from person to person and are divided into various types, but they are also divided into Lv (levels) based on their value, strength, and applicability.

Lv.0 is incapable, that is, an ability that cannot be measured or has an extremely weak effect.

Lv.1 is low ability, able to barely bend a spoon, basically useless for daily life.

Lv.2 is a different ability, slightly more useful than Lv.1.

Lv.3 is a strong ability, which can be used in daily life and brings convenience.

Lv.4 is a great ability, which can reflect the value of the tactical level in the army.

Lv.5 is a superpower, which has the power to fight against an army alone. There are only seven people in the world, and they have rankings according to their respective values ​​and effects.

In Academy City, most of the students are capable between Lv.0 and Lv.2, and even about 60% of the students are incapable.

Therefore, just like Silvia said, capable people are quite rare like witches and magicians. They are people who are born with a certain talent, and they can be regarded as born with a certain ability.

And in Academy City, no matter what kind of abilities they have, they are all taking courses to develop their abilities.

Specifically, with the help of drugs, hypnosis and various instruments, students' brains are developed, so that people's brains can derive their own personal reality, interfere with and influence the existing reality, and finally form superpowers .

Therefore, ability users are like witches and magicians, both of whom can only use a specific ability.

Magicians, on the other hand, use rituals and spells, like Taoist priests, to use various kinds of magic by consuming magic power.

"It was so."

Walking on the road, Silvia sighed, being so straightforward.

"In short, regardless of magicians, ability users are basically experimental products, right?"

Saying so, Silvia's face showed an extremely obvious unhappiness.