Chapter 115 Fire Tornado and Galloping Horse

So, what is the truth behind the fire dragon burning the city?

This question has always troubled Winters.

If according to the citizens of Guitu, the fire dragon burning the city was the work of a mysterious wizard;

According to religious people, it is a punishment for morally corrupt sinners.

In any case, people firmly believe in one thing: the fire dragon burning the city is definitely not a natural phenomenon.

On the one hand, Winters did not think that this incident had anything to do with magic, and that the spellcasters that night tried to reverse the wind out of good intentions; but on the other hand, he did not think that an ordinary fire would summon a fire tornado.

The man in front of him, wrapped in a robe and sitting on a stool shivering, claimed to have understood the truth about the fire dragon burning the city.

Winters was desperate for answers.

Axel was also curious.

Christian opened the drawer and began to rummage through it.

Winters and Axel looked at each other. The unsolved mystery was about to be revealed, and they were suddenly a little nervous.

Christian just turned out a pipe. Then he carefully filled the tobacco, lit it with magic, and took a beautiful puff.

Winters and Axel watched with wide eyes as the instructor completed the entire smoking process.

But Christian's expression was very intoxicated, as if he really just wanted to smoke.

"Teacher..." Winters couldn't help it anymore and was about to ask.

"Pfft." Christian puffed out a puff of cigarette smoke in Winters' face.

The acrid smoke was accidentally inhaled into Winters' trachea, choking him and causing him to cough and burst into tears. The small living room of Christian's house was suddenly filled with smoke.

Winters felt as if he had been teased, and he asked slightly dissatisfied: "What are you going to do..."

"Shh." Christian put his index finger to his lips to signal Winters to be quiet. He pointed to the top of his head and whispered one word: "Look."

Winters and Ike heard this and looked into the smoke.

Christian gently shook his finger, one circle, two circles, three circles... something wonderful happened:

Starting from a point in the center, the smoke that dispersed randomly began to spin in mid-air as if it suddenly had a soul. Follow the rhythm of Christian's fingers, one circle, two circles, three circles...

The smoke is like a whirlwind, spinning to form a ring-like structure. Instead, there is no smoke in the center, like the eye of a calm hurricane.

The ring of smoke spun faster and faster, until it finally exceeded the limit that Christian could control and suddenly collapsed.

Winters was stunned, but Axel was confused.

Ike pointed to the top of his head and asked confusedly: "Is this... magic?"

"Yes, it's magic." Christian took a puff of his pipe happily.

"Oh, it's quite interesting." Ike said with a silly smile: "So this is magic, doesn't it seem like nothing?"

"Be respectful!" Winters grabbed Ike's arm and swallowed involuntarily: "This is simply... unprecedented... this is magic I have never seen before. It's amazing, really amazing sharp."

A layman looks at the excitement, an expert looks at the door.

Obviously, Christian used kinetic magic. Changing the kinetic energy of an object is not difficult for a spellcaster.

Almost all kinetic spells do nothing more than speed something up, speed it up, and speed it up again.

Although it is simple and efficient, it is also brainless, crude and has no depth at all. So much so that some spellcasters who specialize in fire spells sourly refer to kinetic energy spells as "maul spells."

This means that kinetic energy spells are just like sticks. No matter how big a stick is, it is still a stick. There is no technical content at all.

Being able to precisely control the invisible smoke with just one arm and one finger is an amazing skill in itself. Winters had only seen the same level of spell skills in one person, and that person was named Moritz Van Nasu.

What's even more incredible is - rotation?

Spin?

There is no rotation effect among the existing kinetic energy spells. Kinetic energy spells are all straight forward.

Accelerating an object in one direction is enough to test your magic skills. As for rotation... it is not a blind, disorderly and random movement, but a controlled rotation. Winters has no idea how to achieve this effect.

Spin... fire tornado?

"Is this the spell that summons the fire tornado?" Winters asked excitedly: "Is this spell the cause of the fire dragon burning the city?"

Axel was also stunned, and followed Winters to look at the teacher.

"No." Christian blew out smoke. Strangely, he no longer shivered when he smoked: "This is the result of my research in the past few months. The fire dragon burning the city has nothing to do with this spell."

"Then what happened when the fire dragon burned the city?" Ike finally couldn't bear the teacher's confusing way of describing it and asked straight to the point.

"Oh, you want to know that?" Christian said calmly: "It's very simple. The reason why the fire dragon burned the city is very simple. I'll show it to you and you'll understand."

Christian put down his pipe and rummaged through the cabinets to find a thin-walled glass cylinder and a small candlestick.

Winters noticed that as soon as Instructor Christian took his hand off the pipe, his body began to tremble involuntarily. Winters was suspicious, but said nothing.

Christian placed the short-burnt candlestick on the table and covered it with a glass cylinder.

Only a short section of the candle was burned out, and the candlestick was only ten centimeters high. The glass cylinder is half a meter high and runs from top to bottom, covering the outside of the candlestick like a lampshade.

Christian lit the candle with a snap of his fingers and asked Winters: "Do you know windbending?"

"Yes." Of course Winters can use this most basic kinetic energy spell.

"Follow my movements and blow the air in." Christie sniffed wantonly and said listlessly: "Slowly apply force, don't blow out the candle."

Just as Winters was wondering how to supply air, Christian reached out and "opened" the glass cylinder.

Only then did Winters and Ike discover that the glass cylinder on the table was actually composed of two identical semi-cylinders, as if a very sharp sword had split the complete glass cylinder into two pieces vertically. .

Christian staggered the two halves of the cylinder, exposing two symmetrical gaps in the originally tightly fitted glass cylinder.

"Wind control, do it with me." Christian motioned to Winters with a spellcasting gesture.

Winters cooperated with the instructor and activated the wind control technique at the same time, each sending wind towards a gap. Winters tried his best to control the magic output, increasing the power bit by bit.

When the magic-driven wind gradually increased, a wonderful scene happened.

The candle began to burn violently, and the originally steady candle flame began to rotate and extend upward. Winters recalled Andre's description of "a serpent of fire rising toward the sky."

In the glass cylinder in front of him, a miniature flame snake rose into the air, and the flame tongue at the top even jumped out of the glass cylinder that was half a meter high.

Christian waved his hand lazily: "Okay, stop."

However, when Winters and Christian stopped casting spells, the fire snake did not disappear. There is still a thin red line visible to the naked eye in the glass cylinder until the candle is burned out at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Fire... fire dragon burning the city?" Axel was surprised and stuttered: "But is this too small?"

"Yes, this is the 'Fire Dragon', which is the same thing as the fire dragon that burned down the Victory Arsenal." Teacher Christian yawned, then picked up his pipe and started smoking.

"You mean... it's a natural phenomenon for the fire dragon to burn the city?" Winters raised his eyebrows.

"Yes, and no." Christian blew out a smoke ring: "If I have to say it, it is a man-made natural phenomenon. Alas, I will show you a picture and you will understand."

Before he finished speaking, Christian began to rummage through the boxes again, and finally pulled out a roll of dusty brown paper from the top of the bookshelf.

He spread the parchment on the desk. Winters and Axel came to the table and took a closer look, and immediately recognized what the parchment was.

It's a map, a map of Guitu City. To be precise, it is the map of the old Kuito Castle before the fire. The Victory Arsenal also occupies more than half of the port area, and the city is still a chaotic and unplanned onion structure.

"If the wind is directed at the fire source at a specific angle, a fire tornado will be formed. It is actually a whirlwind plus flames." Christian explained, wrapped in a floor-length robe and pointing to the map with his pipe. His eyes were blank, but his speech was extremely clear: "The buildings at the fire scene acted as wind ducts that day. The wind driven by our magic and the sea breeze from the sea intertwined and converged at the fire scene, and a fire tornado was formed."

Winters recalled the situation that day, and Axel suddenly realized.

But before Christian could finish speaking, he continued to murmur: "The fire tornado is a positive feedback system. The fire tornado will suck in air from the surroundings. The more air that comes into contact with the fire source, the more the fire will burn. The more the fire will burn. The stronger it is, the bigger the fire tornado will be. Finally, it will burn... and burn until everything that can be burned is burned."

"Isn't it just a coincidence that the fire dragon burned the city? It was a mistake that caused the fire tornado to appear. But the higher-ups regard you as a scapegoat... Why don't you write a letter to defend yourself?" Axel slapped his thigh indignantly. .

"Self-defense? What can I say to defend myself?" Christian's expression was very strange: "The fire dragon burning the city was caused by the spellcaster's reversal of the wind direction. Why should I defend myself?"

"So, the fire tornado is just a coincidence and cannot be repeated?" Winters suddenly felt a little regretful.

He had always thought that if he could unlock the secret of the fire dragon burning the city, there might be a "Fire Tornado" in the caster's spell book.

However, according to Christian, it was just a coincidence that the fire dragon burned the city, and the fire tornado technique seemed hopeless.

"Reappearance?" Teacher Christian sniffed again and said an astonishing statement calmly: "Of course."

With that said, Christian found another candle and lit it.

He held the spell-casting gesture without even looking at the candle. The flame of the candle actually rotated and rose again, like the miniature fire tornado in the glass cylinder just now.

"Well, this is it," Christian said lightly.

Winters was stunned.

"After understanding the fire dragon burning the city, I found that the movement of rotation is very interesting." Christian yawned again and asked Winters: "Student Montagne, what kind of acceleration do you think there are in acceleration magic?"

[Note: Christian has not come into contact with "Antoine Laurent's Notes" so far, so he still uses the old name and calls "kinetic energy spells" "acceleration spells"]

"Well, isn't it just one kind?"

"No, it used to be one kind, but now there are two kinds." Christian replied: "One is the acceleration you have learned, linear motion, which I call linear acceleration [linear kinetic energy]. The other is What I just demonstrated to you, the rotational motion, I call angular acceleration [angular kinetic energy]. Do you know what that means, Cadet Montagne?"

Christian's story shattered Winters' understanding of magic and completely overturned the alliance's existing kinetic energy spell system. But his tone was like saying "It's so hot today."

Axel was completely stunned. He couldn't understand what the two people in front of him were saying.

Winters was still digesting the teacher's words, and his brain almost stopped: "Uh... I don't know."

Christian knocked the ashes of his cigarette and continued his shocking speech: "This means that Antoine Laurent is wrong, your training methods are also wrong, and the training of all alliance casters is wrong. Angular acceleration and Linear acceleration is two abilities, but when you train, you treat it as one ability, just like training your hands and feet as one limb. Student Montagne, what do you think is the essence of deflection?"

"Exerting an acceleration perpendicular to the direction of motion of an object." Winters recited the contents of the book reflexively.

"That's wrong, Student Montagne, that's wrong." Christian patted Winters on the shoulder and said in a class-like tone: "The essence of deflection is to use angular acceleration to rotate an object. You use linear acceleration to release Deflection is like using common language to simulate the pronunciation of ancient languages. It is unclear and has an accent. Or to change the metaphor... it's like using your feet to hold a spoon to drink soup. Student Montagne, so you What do you think the Fire Tornado Technique is?"

The deadly series of questions completely stopped Winters' thinking. He seemed to be back in class again, being called up to answer questions one after another.

Christian asked himself and answered: "Fire tornado is actually a compound spell of deflection and wind control. Do you understand? Go back and practice, and you will be able to do it."

The living room fell into a deathly silence.

After a long time, Winters spoke.

"Teacher, do you know what you just said?" Winters even trembled when he came back to his senses.

"What?" This time it was Christian's turn to be confused.

"You deconstructed kinetic energy spells! Deconstruction, real deconstruction, complete deconstruction, found the rules and principles in the chaos. This is an achievement that even Antoine Laurent was unable to achieve! Magic Warfare Bureau ...The Alliance should award you a one-ton medal!" Winters was extremely excited and was already a little incoherent.

"Oh," Christian replied nonchalantly.

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On the way back to the dormitory, Ike said to Winters in confusion: "I still don't understand why you are so excited. It seems like it's nothing? It can make things spin...is this awesome?"

"It's very powerful, and it's of great significance." Having left Christian's home, Winters' excitement has not subsided: "You know what? Maybe the imperial court mages would have used the fire tornado spell a long time ago, but they will always just' Just know how to use it, they will never understand the mysteries. The ability of spellcasters in our alliance comes from reason, and we are eager to understand the laws of all things. The more we understand about the laws of how this world works, the more things we can do There are many, so our potential is endless. From Antoine Laurent to Christian, one day the magicians of the old era will be far behind us.

Winters actually came to see Christian today for another purpose. Everything today was an unexpected gain.

Winters originally wanted to ask something more relevant. He wanted to ask the former director of the Spellcaster Teaching and Research Department: on the night when the fire dragon burned the city, dozens of spellcasters used spells together to cause some unexpected changes, such as... …Amplification, expansion.

After seeing Christian, Winters couldn't help but guess that maybe it was the overload of spells that night that caused his sanity to be abnormal, because it was probably Christian who actually guided the spells that night.

But Winters held back and didn't ask.

Because he realized that if Venetta wanted to establish his own military school, maybe... maybe now was the best time to "invite" Teacher Christian to Venetta.

But if you want to bring Christian to Veneta, you can't let the United Provinces realize the value of Christian Huygens.

And if Christian can unearth the answer to Winters' question, it may be of greater significance to the Alliance's spellcasters than the discovery of angular kinetic energy...

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When Winters and Axel returned to the dormitory, two federal provincial officers in school officer uniforms and a group of unfamiliar soldiers were guarding the door.

Not officer cadets, but soldiers, real soldiers, unfamiliar faces.

"You! Come here!" Seeing Winters and Axel, one of the mustachioed colonels shouted sternly: "Are you two Veneta guys?"

"I am, he's not," Winters replied. The name 'Veneta guy' made him very uncomfortable.

Upon hearing the answer, Colonel Mustache pointed at Winters and shouted, "That's him! Catch him!"

Five or six wolf-like soldiers rushed over and restrained Winters.

"Why arrest me!" Winters was furious, but he did not resist and could not resist. The soldiers tied him up.

Axel didn't know what was going on, so he suppressed his anger and asked, "Sir! We just took a walk in the school for a while, so we won't arrest anyone, right?!"

"Shut up!" Mustache came up and gave Ike a big slap in the face: "You took people away without permission, and I haven't even settled the account with you yet! Go to the Military Justice Department! I'll take care of you when I'm done here. !”

Ike stood at attention.

Mustache slapped Ike again: "Get out!"

Axel from Orange took a deep look at Colonel Mustache, saluted, and without saying a word turned around and walked in the direction of the Military Justice Department, looking back at Winters from time to time.

Another school official rode a horse to the door of the dormitory. Following him from a distance, he asked loudly: "Have you found it?"

"Found it!" Mustache replied quickly: "All together, found them all."

The riding sergeant glanced at Winters, who responded with an angry look.

The riding officer sneered and waved his hand: "Take it away!"

Mustache escorted Winters outside the gate of the Army Officers Academy. There were several carriages parked outside the gate. It was a special carriage that transported prisoners. The carriage was dark, huge, reinforced with steel bars, and had no windows around it.

Mustache pointed to a carriage, and the soldiers pushed Winters inside.

There was a chaotic sound in the carriage.

"who?"

"what happened?"

"Who's coming?"

"It's Winters!" Andre's irritable voice rang out: "It's Winters Montagne!"

A small window with iron bars was opened on the top of the carriage, letting in a little light. In the dim light, Winters saw that there were other people in the carriage—other Veneta contemporaries.

The classmates groped around and hurriedly untied the rope from Winters. Winters calmly asked Andre: "What's going on?"

Andre replied irritably: "I, his mother, don't know either... what a country bumpkin from the United Provinces, his mother."

After the car door was closed, there were several more metal collision sounds. It was obvious that multiple structural reinforcements were used.

Not long after Winters got on the carriage, the carriage began to move.

Without windows, Warrant Officers Veneta had no way of knowing where they were going.

I shouted, but no one listened.

Insults, no one responds.

The carriage drove until nightfall and then stopped.

Winters listened carefully to the sounds outside, seemingly changing horses.

The bearded face appeared in the iron window on the roof of the carriage. He was supervising the soldiers putting water bags and bread into the carriage.

"I need to pee!" Andre shouted angrily.

"Use a bucket." Mustache replied.

"I want to shit!" Andre became even more angry.

"Use a bucket, too."

"I am grass. Mud. Horse!!!!"

"Thank you on my mother's behalf."

"Where are you taking us?" Winters asked sternly. He didn't look angry anymore, or maybe too angry to see his anger.

"Where are you going?" A strange smile appeared on Mustache's face: "You are going to Plato, the country of galloping horses."

The Book of Galloping Horses is, of course, set in the land of galloping horses.

Christian's knowledge is still limited by the times. The formation of large fire tornadoes is not only related to the fire field, but also to atmospheric conditions, but he has made considerable progress.

I drew a schematic diagram of his fire tornado experimental equipment. Book friends who haven't noticed can look up and take a look.

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