As everyone knows, even in an age where everyone uses computers, only professional programmers understand programming languages.
Ancient Runes were similar in this regard. In the wizarding world, only a handful of wizards can comprehend the principles of Ancient Runes. Other wizards found it impossible to master the complexities of Ancient Runes, let alone cast spells using them.
However, even for talented wizards who had mastered Ancient Runes, casting spells with them was a cumbersome task. No matter how skilled a programmer was, he cannot send an email on a computer without any applications in a short period of time – he must spend time writing the corresponding program.
Thus, wizards who understood Ancient Runes further combined and packaged them into spells – akin to a programmer editing and packaging a program. Ordinary people can use programs with just a mouse click, and ordinary wizards can cast spells by merely reciting them as required.
Ordinary spells, like packaged programs, cannot be further edited or combined. But those who can learn Ancient Runes can become the "programmers" among wizards, understanding the principles of spells and creating magical objects or new magic.
Through his research, Ye Ting discovered the essence of magic to a certain extent.
Assuming the original physical laws of the universe were materialistic and logical, the laws of magic are idealistic and anti-logical.
The difference between the two lay in: magic had a "purpose," while physical laws did not.
Having a "purpose" distinguished between "subjective" and "objective."
Take a spell like "Lumos" for example. From a physical standpoint, it's just a combination of sound waves or ink molecules. Its difference from spells like "Apparition" or "Sectumsempra" lay only in their arrangement. But in subjective disciplines like literature, these words differed not just in spelling but in subjective meanings assigned by humans. The same applies to magic. The meanings of these spells were subjective, assigned by the rules of magic. When the "rules" themselves were subjective and purposeful, it proved that either these rules were made by humans rather than naturally formed, or the system in which these rules exist – the world itself – was not materialistic but idealistic.
The control variables of physical laws did not always work in magic.
After saying so much, That mainly explained Ye Ting's understanding of magic in "Harry Potter" and his plans for the future.
That was, through studying magic, mastering its principles, and thus grasping the true laws.
This was Ye Ting's plan for his path to becoming a powerful individual.
He possessed the talent for unlimited progress and strength, abilities in time and space, and a strong learning capacity.
Originally, he could have focused solely on physical training.
Due to his unlimited potential for growth, if he had concentrated on it, he could have become a warrior or a master of physical skills like Saitama from "One-Punch Man" or the protagonists from "Dragon Ball."
He could also have continuously explored his temporal-spatial talents, specializing in them and taking the route of psychic abilities, ultimately becoming someone who mastered the laws of time and space.
But driven by his own interests and curiosity, Ye Ting chose the path of a mage – the most difficult path.
Unlike warriors who engage in thoughtless, flesh-hitting, exhilarating battles, mages' battles were all about calculation. Their strength stemmed entirely from knowledge.
Unlike psychics who manipulated elements, altered matter, and controlled spirits through their talents, using their abilities as if extensions of themselves, if psychics manipulated reality through mice, joysticks, and touchscreens, mages did so through code and keyboards, transforming the world in the most complex ways.
Yet, mages were the most powerful because they were researchers – only mages can understand the truth of the world and explored the texture of its rules.
Mages were also creators – while warriors, psychics, and mages can all cause destruction, only mages can truly create. They studied rules and used them to transform the world.
In his previous life, whether reading novels, comics, or playing games, Ye Ting's favorite characters were always mages, and he dismissed warriors, clerics, and others with disdain. The former were brainless barbarians who could only cause destruction and not create value; the latter were blind believers who relied on the gifts of others to wield power.
In this life, he finally had the chance to become a true mage and already possessed the talent to become the strongest among them.
What hinders a mage's progress was never magic power but intelligence.
Human learning and memory had limits, and these limits were the greatest shackles restraining a mage's progress.
The more knowledge one acquired, the more time one needed to review, and the slower one's learning progress became.
Because of this, mages had to specialize, just like in university, where ordinary people can only choose one major – those who chose minors and double majors were all academic stars.
Even in the magic-thriving DND world, those top-tier mages strived for further advancement by either pledging allegiance to the god of magic and becoming his chosen ones, finding ways to ignite their own divine flames and raise their thrones, or altering their bloodlines to become creatures with higher intelligence like liches, ,Illithids and brain demons.
Hadn't you seen in the DND realm, Ioulaum, the greatest human arcanist in the world of Toril and the founder of the Netheril Empire of Magic, who ultimately transformed himself into an Elder Brain Lich (a boss of Illithid + lich).
But Ye Ting was different. His learning ability and his talent for unlimited progress allowed him to delve into a wide range of subjects without being constrained by learning and memory.
Ultimately, he believed he can fully grasp the world's rules through his research on various magics.
By then, he will surpass everything with just his intelligence.
P.S.: The image depicts a Illithid.
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