Chapter 1480: Birds and Return (Twenty-Five)

Constantine opened his eyes wide. He looked at Schiller first, then at Bruce, and then at Schiller again, and said, "Is this your teaching method? No wonder you tortured each other for four years. If my teacher asked me to memorize these things within three hours, I would definitely..."

Before he finished speaking, Bruce had already walked forward, flipped through the three books calmly, nodded and said, "Now my memory system has some problems, and the upload and download speeds have been affected, so I may need to read them twice before I can record them. It is enough to read them once in normal times."

"Go." Schiller pointed to the tables and chairs next to the bookstore window with his cane, then looked at Constantine and said, "Take me to your warehouse. I am very interested in the ritual part of the occult world recently."

Constantine stretched his neck to look at Bruce and found that he really sat at the table and began to read seriously. He shook his head, sighed, and led Schiller into the warehouse.

Two hours later, it was completely dark. Schiller came out of the study upstairs. Constantine followed him dejectedly. Schiller walked down the stairs. He followed him and spread his hands and said, "... Why are there so many whys? The magic world is all about rituals passed down by word of mouth. I just do what others do. How can I know why?"

"Besides, I am already a very knowledgeable magician in the magic world. I know the habits of almost every demon and angel. Even a great wizard like Andrew has called me to consult about the weaknesses of some unconventional gods."

"And you don't even know the source of the same symbols that appear in the four rituals." Schiller pointed out.

Constantine sighed deeply. He walked down the stairs holding the handrail and said, "You can understand it as a proper noun in mysterious semiotics, just like a noun in English. We just use it without understanding it."

"Isn't it better to use it if you understand it?"

"No." Constantine denied. He walked in front of Schiller, looked into his eyes and said, "The power of magic is borrowed. As long as someone is willing to lend you power, a three-year-old child can also perform magic."

"Have you ever thought that this might be a trap set by God?" Schiller put one hand on the table in front of the bookshelf and said, "The forms of existence of gods and demons are completely different from those of humans. Let them lend their power to humans, but they can perfectly fit the human body. It is certain that This can't be their original power, it must have been processed in some way. "

"Logically, they can let their hosts adapt to them without this kind of processing. Do you think the demons and gods are so kind to do the work for the magicians?"

Constantine looked at him in a daze. After a while, he frowned and said, "You mean, this may be a conspiracy?"

"All gods and demons have transformed the power they lend to humans to fully adapt to the human body. Why do you think this is?"

Constantine's brows furrowed deeper and deeper. As a former magician, he had much more experience with magic than Schiller, and he had to admit that most of the power lent to humans by gods and demons could be easily controlled by humans.

Constantine, who had read many magic books, knew that in ancient times, there were many examples of magicians who could not control their power and exploded and died, but in modern times, such accidents have rarely been heard of. Magicians are in poor health mostly because they have to pay a price, not because they cannot control their power.

What's more, many milder forces will not cause even minor damage when flowing through the human body, which is actually very strange, because the human body is not designed to contain energy.

After thinking for a while, Constantine said seriously: "I can only tell you that the situation you said does exist, and the adaptability of the power of demons and gods to the human body has indeed evolved. In ancient times, only the most talented magicians could control the violent power. In recent years, the age of magicians has become younger and younger, and many people even advocate that "children are born spiritual perceivers."

"I mentioned it in the two books on magic rituals I just read." Schiller tapped the table with his fingertips and said: "The magic rituals in ancient times were very complicated, most of which were composed of patterns, materials, energy, chanting and sacrificial dances, while the magic rituals since modern times can be perfectly performed with just one of them. "

Constantine nodded, he looked away, raised his eyes to the ceiling, and said as if recalling: "Yes, I tend to use magic circles, that is, patterns to cast magic, while some female magicians prefer to chant, such as Zatanna, the irony magic she uses is a kind of chanting. "

"Do you think this is really a good thing?" Schiller also frowned at Constantine and asked: "The threshold is getting lower and lower, the power is getting stronger, the number of magicians is increasing, and the total debt is getting larger. Is this really a gift from God? "

Constantine was silent, and Schiller continued: "They have evolved energy to be more and more suitable for humans, and made the means of casting simpler and simpler. It is definitely not for the convenience of humans. "

"Just like credit cards, banks relax the approval threshold and increase the loan amount. Is it for the benefit of the people? No, they just hope that people can develop the habit of over-consumption and then borrow more debts, because they have the ability to force people to pay back the money."

"Extraterrestrial beings have made the threshold for borrowing power very low, luring more and more young people and even young wizards to join the industry, just to lend more debts and collect more interest."

"And the more fatal point is that if the whole process is very simple, no one will go to the bottom of it. Isn't it the case in the magic world now?"

"The wizards in ancient times are still studying what kind of structure each rune that can hold energy is, and how to improve runes and secret words to form more efficient patterns to control power." Bruce's voice came from the left. He was still reading with his head down, but he joined Schiller and Constantine's topic calmly.

Both of them looked at him, and Bruce continued, "I saw in these books the historical traces of the ancient wizards who gradually controlled the violent power step by step."

"At that time, many wizards spent their entire lives just to optimize a rune, and an entire school only mastered one pattern, and then used generations of inheritance to study its mysteries."

"There are even many wizards who observe the origin of the original power of the universe through the door of magic. Countless speculations about the origin of the world and magical energy have been passed down orally in various schools, and today, these books have become side knowledge that has been shelved."

Bruce looked up at Constantine and said, "Since humans learned to make fire, we have never stopped studying the origin of the world. The topic of "how the universe exists" runs through all learning processes in all categories of the scientific community. It is the starting point and end point of the scientific path of mankind."

"But the magic community has completely given up research. "Schiller took it, lowered his eyes, sighed softly and said: "Just like you said, talking to the devil in a dream can give you a powerful force far beyond ordinary people, and from then on you can leave the mediocre society of ordinary people and embark on a journey of mysterious and magnificent magic world. Who would not be tempted?"

"How many people have thought about whether the gods deliberately pushed all this so easily behind the scenes while squandering their power and imagining themselves as magic geniuses?"

Constantine was silent for a long time, and the room returned to silence. Bruce turned his attention to the book again. After a while, Constantine's young voice sounded.

"Do you know? Your argument is denounced as heresy among the younger generation of wizards. Now the trend of the entire mystical world is that only humans who are talented enough and lucky enough can control magic. "

Schiller shook his head and said: "John, I think you know that any society that denies the meaning of hard work is unhealthy. The purpose of talent and bloodline theory must be more sinister than you think. "

"Now every young wizard is pretending to be a genius." Constantine pursed his lips and said, "I know that many of them can't even draw a complete magic circle. They just pay more and master stronger power, and then tell others that they are gifted. I feel sad for them."

"I have always been very opposed to the trend of using magic to solve everything, but you can see that wizards with noble blood and special talents like Zatanna are the objects of pursuit in the circle, and I am just a stray dog ​​chased by various creditors. "

"But you are actually much stronger than Zatanna." Schiller raised his eyes to meet Constantine's eyes and said, "This is also the reason why I hope you don't use magic. For people like us, magic is a complete burden."

After speaking, he turned his head and glanced at Bruce who was still immersed in the world of books, and Constantine also followed his gaze. After a while, he smiled bitterly and said, "Are you planning to establish a new school and then reform the magic world? I can only tell you that it's not that no one has tried to do this, but it's very difficult. "

Constantine swallowed his saliva and began to explain to Schiller: "You may think that magicians are stronger as they get older, but on the contrary, the younger and stronger a magician is, the more capital he has, the more price he can pay, and naturally he can get more power. The more powerful the magician is, the more say he has, so the magic world has always been dominated by young and middle-aged people. "

"Most magicians don't live to old age, and those who survive are not stronger than others, but they find ways to shirk part of the price or use their power very carefully, so they can live longer than others. "

"Because they are old enough and close to death, they have to choose the price they pay more carefully, otherwise they are likely to die, so most of the elderly magicians hide in their own magic towers and rarely go out to socialize. "

"This will cause a problem. Young wizards have power but no brains, old wizards have brains but no power, and there are a lot of idiots who have neither. And the few geniuses who have both are unlikely to shake up the entire magic world with such a small number. "

"Do they have Batman?" Schiller looked at Constantine and asked.

Constantine opened his mouth, and just as he set his eyes on Bruce, Bruce looked up at him and said, "I've memorized it."

Constantine was stunned, and then he heard Bruce say.

"And according to the article "A Hundred-Year Investigation into the Generation and Evolution of 623 Compatibility Runes in Ritual Patterns by Priscita Fraobon and Her Disciples", the two magic circles you drew at 3 pm on June 16, 1992 were completely wrong - it was a complete mess."