Chapter 2817 Mr. Average

After escorting Master Rawls and his party out of danger safely, Joann teleported back to the Research Institute of the Agricultural College of "Green Field Village" to guide Conti to complete the thesis on St. Fire disease and ergot fungus.

After finishing these tasks, it was already the end of July. Joan finished her work at this stage, bid farewell to Ms. Valentina, and returned to Collasberg University to continue advancing a new project that had just begun.

In fact, as early as half a year ago, Joan came up with an idea when he saw the super magic scroll of "Material Free for Spellcasting" from the Arcane Library of Kolasborg University. The law of transfiguration spells.

Up to this point, Joan has already completed the conclusion, which seems reasonable at first glance.

Combined with "Spellcasting Free Materials" to cast deformation magic, the simulated creatures have relatively mediocre attributes and abilities, which are equivalent to the statistical average of all adult individuals of this species.

For example, when Joan casts a spell to become a male tauren, his height is the average of all adult male tauren, about 8 feet 6 inches, and his weight is about 700 pounds, which is also the average of male tauren.

The three physical attributes are strength 19, agility 10, and constitution 15, which belong to the average level among adult male tauren.

If Joan does not use "casting spells without materials", but uses a pinch of tauren hair as an anchor material to cast deformation magic, then the transformed tauren will no longer be "Mr. Average", but will have various attributes and abilities. All are exactly the same as the original owner of the hair, which reflects the essence of the word "anchor".

According to this group of controlled experiments, it is easy to draw a principle for guiding actual combat.

If you can collect high-quality anchor materials, which are collected from outstanding individuals in the population, then you should give priority to using anchor materials to cooperate with transformation magic, and the creatures transformed will be better.

Conversely, if the anchor materials of a certain creature are not easy to obtain, or it is difficult to obtain high-quality anchor materials, for example, you want to become a beholder, but you only buy a few "eyes of insight" and other subspecies after a lot of effort Beholder's dry eye stems, so it is more cost-effective to use anchor material to deform than directly use "casting material free".

Next, there is another question. How did Joan know that the creature transformed with "Spellcasting Material" must be the "Mr. Average" in its population?

From the most rigorous point of view, he should first count all the attributes and abilities of all individuals in the population, record them, calculate the average value, and then compare it with the deformation results. Come to the conclusion of "Mr. Average".

Of course, it is neither possible nor necessary to do so in reality. The next best thing is to capture a large number of this species in different habitats for sampling surveys, and then calculate the average value, which can basically conform to the theoretical average value of species. value.

This work is achievable, but it requires a lot of manpower, material resources and energy. A self-employed scientific researcher like Qiao An obviously can't handle it, so he can only turn to the strength of his predecessors and the organization.

It's actually very simple, just open a book of "Vares Monster Illustrated Handbook", find a monster at random, and check the corresponding attributes and abilities, that is the statistical average.

How did you get it?

Of course, it is the wisdom crystallization of countless scientific research workers from countless scientific research institutions all over the world, after countless years of investigation and statistics, and the joint efforts!

Therefore, every authoritative term reference book is worthy of respect, and it embodies the painstaking efforts of countless silently dedicated scientific research workers from all walks of life.

When people talk about "civilization", it often seems too grand and inappropriate. When it comes to the daily life of ordinary people, how to fully display a civilization?

The answer is... Civilization is in the encyclopedia!

It is not cutting-edge technology that can really reflect the thickness of civilization, but the popularity of general reading materials.

Joan even thinks that the easiest way to measure the civilization level of a species is to see if the species has compiled at least one set of encyclopedias, and the level of dictionaries reflects the level of civilization of the species.

It is well-known common sense that the species examples written in dictionaries are the average values ​​calculated from a large number of samples.

But is that the end?

Think about it carefully, is there something wrong?

Joan heard from the old man Franklin that "Vares Monster Illustrated Book" is a series of dictionaries edited and published by the "Arcane Society". This work, and countless researchers and amateurs provide the latest data for free. This part of the unpaid labor is so huge that it is difficult to quantify.

For example, Joan himself made specimens of rare creatures found on the adventure more than once and sent them to the editorial board of "Wares Monster Illustrated Handbook". When a new edition of this series of books is released, such newly discovered species will appear Reflected in the updated chapter.

Not to mention, in-depth research on the species already in the series often overturns the old conclusions, and the latest research results will also be reflected in the errata list of the new edition of the series.

All in all, in order to obtain a set of trustworthy and authoritative dictionaries, there are countless people who have put in immeasurable sweat and painstaking efforts behind them. In the end, all these are condensed on the seemingly simple and unpretentious statistical data that readers can get at their fingertips, imperceptibly promoting The progress of the entire social civilization.

Human society has put in so much labor to obtain these statistical results, and I dare not say that they are absolutely credible. Why can you directly get the statistical average of any species by combining a transformation magic with "casting material free"?

This conclusion shocked and annoyed Joan.

If it is really that simple, then you don’t need to spend time and laborious sampling surveys to get the average value of a certain species in the future. If you want to do large-scale statistics, you can directly cast a spell to create the "Mr. Average" of this species, and the required data will be clear at a glance up?

If you admit that this approach is feasible, it is tantamount to admitting that countless scientific researchers in the past have spent a lot of time and energy on compiling the "Vares Monster Illustrated Book" is worthless, and it is purely a foolish effort!

Of course, Joan was unwilling to accept this inference. It would be tantamount to insulting the work of himself and his colleagues, and a large part of it was useless detours.

It's like there is a box of convenient and safe matches in front of you, but you just turn a blind eye to them, burying your head in the air, sweating profusely, "drilling wood to make fire"... Thinking about it this way, doesn't it make you look stupid? As for mental explosion?

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