Chapter 673 Tradition and Modernity
It was evening. Due to the loss of 10,000 yen in living expenses, Kamijou Touma could only go to the convenience store to buy a few breads. On the way home, he met the discharge girl from Tokiwadai. It was obvious that she had not come out of the shadow of failure and vowed to defeat Touma.
Misaka Mikoto was very unhappy that Touma called her a discharge girl, but it seemed that the two sides had not introduced each other, and there was nothing she could do. It was really irritating. How could she be defeated by such a lifeless guy? ?
Unfortunately, Touma didn't want to spar anymore, so he ran away from the discharge girl's eyes. Go home before today is not a bad day.
Humming a little song and carrying a convenience bag from the supermarket, Touma was in a good mood. Today, he just broke a mobile phone. Unfortunately, this mood can only end here. A bloody nun fell at the door of his house.
There were no cameras around, and the girl was also the one he knew. The faint fragrance mixed with the smell of blood entered Touma's nose, all from the girl. This wound was indeed life-threatening.
"Hello?" Don't die here, Touma was excited, "Phone, phone..." He touched his whole body and remembered that his mobile phone was scrapped.
He wanted to pick her up, but he heard footsteps behind him. Turning around, a tall, thin, red-haired man in a cloak came from the far end of the corridor. He wore several earrings, seven or eight skull rings, and a barcode tattooed on his cheek under his left eye, like a hippie: "WHOAREYOU?" This is the second time today that someone asked you who you are in English.
But the answer was still in Japanese: "Oh, oh, seriously injured. The Mobile Church should be able to defend against Kamisaki's attack, but I don't know why it turned out like this."
Doesn't this guy know that barcodes are outdated? Now QR codes are the way to go. Touma's first thought when he saw this young man was so irrelevant, but he immediately thought that this guy would not be the magic society that hunted down nuns? It must be, damn, he was so rude to the girl, he could never forgive him.
"Did you attack her?"
"This was an accident, we are just responsible for recycling."
The word recycling hurt Touma, did he think Index was trash? "Ahhh, I haven't been this angry for a long time." Standing in front of the fallen girl, Touma was extremely angry: "Whether you are a magician or a psychic, tell me your name."
? "Stiyl Magnus, magic name 'Strong'. You don't know, we magicians can only use magic names when using magic. This tradition has always troubled me. Hey, why are you looking at me with such a fierce look? I'm just completing my mission, and you don't want the girl to fall into the hands of those evil people who can use magic. After being tortured with poison, even the kindest people can interrogate the contents of 103,000 magic books from her mouth. You don't want to see this result, right? So you handed her to me strangely"
It was obviously wrong, but he was still so confident. Touma was completely enraged, "Come on, I will definitely protect Index."
"Don't overestimate your own abilities. You don't understand what magic is at all-a gift of pain to giants." A scorching flame suddenly appeared above Stiyl's head, like a living snake circling. This is a surprising magical power.
But Stiyl looked at the boy, but he didn't see his surprise, he just saw the incomparable calmness in his eyes. Although this person is not from the magic world, he is so calm for some reason, "Have you seen magic?"
"No, but your flame is too childish. Compared with the volcano in Hawaii, it's just the flame of a candle. Hurry up and attack, I want to beat you up." Kamijou Touma does not advocate violence, but when the blood of the hot-blooded boy is boiling, he will also attack without mercy.
"Big talk-vampire cross!" The blades of the flames crossed into a cross and attacked Touma.
"It's not hot at all!" Touma gritted his teeth and raised his right hand to crush the flame.
The flame was eliminated? What kind of ability is this? Yes, yes, the mobile church was also destroyed by this ability. Stiyl's brain quickly calculated and found that his flame attack would be cracked by the opponent's right hand. Then let's see how powerful this right hand is. Victory is still his. "The original five elements, the great fire element, the flame that breeds life, turns into the power to cleanse evil, hunt the witch king——"
As the chanting was completed, a huge flame giant appeared in the corridor, as if it was magma wrapped in flames, "How about this?"
Touma's right hand can eliminate superpowers, but the superpowers of hunting the witch king seem to be pouring out endlessly, and Touma's right hand can't fully bear it. The surrounding oxygen is consumed, and the temperature of the air is constantly rising. Although the flames can't burn Touma to death, the lack of oxygen and high temperature can still kill him.
"With your strength, you will not be my opponent even if you are given another chance." Seeing that the flames have completely surrounded the enemy, Stiyl is relieved.
"So this is what magic is like, and it's not much different from superpowers." Touma's voice came from the flames, "Magician, have you never heard of acupuncture points?"
... Why can he still speak in the flames? This kind of thing is completely unscientific, no, it is not in line with the formula of magic or the teachings of the church. Stiyl forced himself to remain calm. He had never really understood acupuncture points and had only heard of them. Although Stiyl was as tall as a young man, he was actually only fourteen years old. He did not have much time to learn knowledge beyond magic formulas.
"The so-called acupuncture points, also known as joints, meetings, qi points, and qi palaces, are 720 electrical and magnetic points throughout the body. By controlling the acupuncture points, one can control one's own body. It is one of the greatest human miracles in the world discovered by the Yellow Emperor in ancient China. By stimulating the combination of acupuncture points in the body, the body can exert unexpected power. Do you know this technology?"
I don't know, Stiyl doesn't know.
"This technology has been passed down for thousands of years and is called the Fist of the North Star." Touma's voice kept coming out from the dancing flames, making the magician nervous.
Fist of the North Star? ? What is that?
Before Stiyl came to his senses, he saw the flames restless, and a fist suddenly flew out of the flames, and there was no way to avoid it. A solid punch hit the magician's cheek, causing him to fly straight back and hit the wall at the end of the corridor, and he fainted.
The flames dissipated, and the white school uniform was burned. Kamijou Touma's exposed upper body muscles were comparable to those of a fitness coach. He was completely different from the thin Touma before. "Remember, this is the Fist of the North Star. It is neither magic nor superpowers. It just stimulates the acupuncture points to increase the activity of flesh cells to the extreme. Feel the anger in my fist!" Even his original pretty face turned into a hard man with his hair standing up.
Acupuncture points are generally located in the gaps or depressions of bones, and a few are located at the intersection of nerves and blood vessels. Stimulating acupuncture points will directly affect the operation of body functions, changes in blood, bones, muscles, nerves, and even metabolism. This series of changes is not based on superpowers, but adjustments made by the body itself to external stimuli. It's like the same car, which can only drive 60 mph at ordinary times, but after being adjusted by a senior technician, it can easily drive 100 mph, but the car is still the same car.
Of course, if an ordinary person stimulates the acupuncture points in the same way, he will be stronger at most, not as exaggerated as Touma. Touma grew up eating all kinds of nutritious magical foods, and also went through hardships. His body density is already superhuman, and combined with the Fist of the North Star, he can have such a shocking effect of being invulnerable to water and fire.
Touma, who easily defeated the enemy, immediately thought of the wounded who needed to be treated, and hurriedly took the girl home and picked up the landline. But when he called the hospital, he hesitated. Because he was not sure whether the magician had any special place, and the academy city had strict population control, the hospital might not accept a suspicious outsider.
At this time, due to excessive blood loss, the automatic secretary in Index's body was activated. The automatic secretary is a powerful magic to protect Index, or more precisely, to protect 103,000 magic books. The essence of this magic is to construct a simulated personality in Index's body, and it can use all the books in the brain. Because this magic is realized through Index's body, Touma's right hand cannot eliminate it by touching Index's body.
"Use magic to heal."
"? What should I do?"
"Magic is not for people like you who are gifted. Magic is a technique that allows people without talent to obtain the power of people with talent. The prerequisite for using it must be non-talented."
Damn, Touma understood this sentence. It means that people with superpowers can't do it. If it were in Hawaii, it would be easy. Who should I find now? Teacher, yes, find a teacher. In school, every student uses drugs. Although many students are still level zero, their bodies have already met the conditions for developing superpowers. But teachers in the city are ordinary people. They are just involved in developing superpowers, but they are just ordinary people.
Go find Teacher Xiaomeng. She is a good friend of my cousin and will definitely help me. Touma made up his mind to carry the wounded and set off immediately.
The magic in this world is simply the same as Chinese medicine. Chinese medicine boils various unrelated medicinal materials into a bowl of water and drinks it to cure diseases. Without modern scientific instruments for detection, everyone doesn't understand why these things can be mixed to cure diseases.
The same is true for magic. The formula of magic or the magic circle or the chanting or the way objects are placed and the relationship with time. It seems to be unrelated, but using a specific method at a specific time can produce unexpected effects. The principle is that the current scientific level cannot explain the existence.
Because Chinese medicine and magic do have effects, they should also be science, a kind of science that is not understood. Every world has similar mysterious science, such as alchemy in the world of Fullmetal Alchemist, detonating talismans and sealing scrolls in the world of Naruto, etc.
The magic in this world is a sophisticated technology that can only work after following strict formulas.
And the science and magic in this world are actually very similar. The scientific superpowers in this world are not obtained through organ modification or genetic evolution, but because of the AIM diffusion field. Hypnosis, drugs, physical stimulation, and various means are used to enhance the AIM diffusion field of the human body, so that superpowers can be obtained according to their own characteristics. Of course, there can only be one superpower, and the brain can't handle more.
This model is a typical scientific discovery model, just like the discovery of Minovsky particles in the Gundam world that changed the war model. The discovery of the AIM diffusion field also represents the great changes in this world and the rise of Academy City.
But not everyone has the AIM diffusion field. Those who have the field are called gifted people and cannot use magic. Just like the rise of modern medicine has conflicted with traditional Chinese medicine, the rise of superpowers has also conflicted with traditional magic. So when Duran, who was far away in Hawaii, wrote "Ancient and Modern Magic, On the Scientific Amount in Traditional Magic", both the magic world and the scientific world will be shocked.