Chapter 380 The Great Sage of Harmonious Mud
The second week after the release of Corin Tower's paper, a closed-door meeting of the Council of Sages was held in a solemn atmosphere at the top of the Great Sage's Tower.
Thirteen high-backed chairs made of white oak, symbolizing Xuebang’s undisputed authority and purity in the field of knowledge, surround a round table carved with a pattern of stars.
The sages who can sit here and discuss matters are all scholars who have reached the pinnacle of attainments in their respective fields. Whether it is academics or fame, they are the undisputed strongest, and their strength is at the Amethyst level. As the leader of the sages, the Great Sage is even a demigod!
And—
This demigod broke through from the Grandmaster level not through the grace of Saint Sith, but by exploring the virtual realm!
The original virtual realm was opened by him personally fifty years ago!
At this moment, these undisputed strong men are sitting around a wide round table, looking down at the issues on the table like gods.
"Everyone."
The great sage Adosuik who was sitting on the main seat was the first to speak, and the sound of the ancient well echoed in the hall, like a dull ancient bell.
"You must have read this report submitted by Corinta. Regarding the research on Void Realm No. 440 and the "guidance" mode mentioned in it, please share your views."
The first person to speak was the sage of the Protection School. An old man with a skinny face and a perpetually tense expression stood up.
His pupils shone with wisdom, but the voice from his throat was hoarse and dull, like armor and shields that were waiting for him.
"I think Prince Colin's behavior is extremely reckless and sets a dangerous precedent!"
He glanced at the sages behind the round table, then slowly continued, "Every time we interfere in the virtual realm, we are declaring our existence to an unknown world. Everyone, please Don't forget the ancient warning - when we stare at the virtual world, the virtual world is also staring at us. "
"I agree with the views of the sages of protection!"
At the same time that the sages of the protection school sat down, a tall and thin middle-aged man stood up and tapped the table with his skinny fingers.
Different from the defense scholar who spoke softly, the sage from the summoning school spoke more intensely and specifically.
"What I'm worried about is not the physical counterattack, but the deeper "spiritual pollution" from another world! Such a drastic change in the course of a civilization will inevitably attract the attention of some kind of "inhibitory force" in the void, and may even cause us to suffer its backlash! The loss of Professor Keynes is a lesson for others! We cannot invite unknown disasters to the entire school just because of a seemingly successful "miracle"! "
As soon as he finished speaking, the sage from the Elemental School stood up and immediately retorted.
"Worries are unnecessary! Regardless of the existence of "inhibitory force" in the void, it is just our conjecture, not a conclusion! Xuebang's research in the past half century has proven countless times that there is an upper limit to the exchange of matter and energy that can be carried out through virtual realm channels! The worst-case scenario is that the person on the other end throws a bomb at us that cannot explode at all. ”
That is an old man with a fiery personality. His fiery temper may be related to his expertise in fire magic and his experience in serving in the frontline mage group.
Although the Elemental School does not mean to be radical, and there are times when they are conservative, they have a natural affinity for the empire. As for his last point, of course there are traces to follow.
The virtual channel also has boundaries for the transmission of matter, and all material exchanges are based on common cognition.
In other words, they can guide the natives to make wands and learn the magic of Osland, but they cannot throw the wands to the other side, or steal things they do not understand from the other side.
Once a virtual creature threw a "big iron lump" at them. It was later confirmed by the Artillery Engineering School of the Imperial Royal Naval Academy that the thing should be a bomb from the design, but they didn't know why the warhead was replaced, and the launch principle was also confusing.
After refuting the idea of summoning the sage, the elemental sage paused and continued in an exciting tone.
“Everyone, I think Prince Colin has created an unparalleled research model! Instead of playing a timid thief like in the past, just to steal a little bit of pitiful information from the pockets of stupid aliens, why not just raise them in captivity and guide their development according to our wishes! I think so Understand, isn’t this the process of establishing common cognition? "
"Besides, we have already proved that a civilization established by a group of spiritualists will bring far more benefits than a civilization established by a group of materialists! Both in an academic sense and in a practical sense!"
This sentence has aroused the recognition of many sages.
The "flying boat" they worked hard to figure out from behind the virtual world was finally confirmed to come from the materialists.
However, the reality is that this seemingly amazing magic device is actually of little use.
They need to consume a lot of magic crystals to make it fly, but in fact its function is just a large mule.
The imperial sailing ship is faster and cheaper than it, and it can only be used in the swampy northern wasteland.
On the contrary, they learned more from the civilization of the spiritualists.
There are hundreds of schools in the country today, and many of their theories have been perfected through exchanges with the virtual world, and among them, the Yuanfa School is the leader.
With the debate between the two groups of sages, the council seemed to be divided into two camps: radical and conservative.
At this moment, the sages of the school of enchantment raised a new issue.
"Compared with the debate about the virtual realm itself, I am actually more interested in the "Magical Science Laboratory" signed in the paper. There is also the "science" mentioned by His Highness Colin. I think this is a very novel point of view, and this point of view has inspired many of my magicians, although they are not engaged in virtual realm research. 》
After a pause, he looked at everyone, his eyes shining with wisdom, and continued to explain his findings after in-depth understanding.
"I read some of the lecture notes in His Highness Colin's class. Although what he teaches has nothing to do with magic, the positivist spirit and so-called mortal wisdom he imparts to the students can be used to assist and even optimize our magic research."
“For example, using his mathematical tool, that is, calculus, to calculate the optimal structure of enchanted runes can easily reduce the unnecessary loss of magic power in the circulation process. Another example is his theory on force fields, which has also been a great inspiration for my personal study of the nature of mental power. Perhaps our mental power can actually be explained as a special "force field". "
"Force field? I think it's better to call it a playground."
A voice full of contempt sounded, coming from the sage of the legal school.
His hair is combed neatly, like a judge, and his arrogant expression only aggravates the stereotype of his appearance on others.
"This guy invented some new words, just to be mysterious and sensational, so as to enjoy the popularity of everyone. Otherwise, why would he give lectures to preparatory students instead of teaching to those who really understand magic? What do a group of apprentices know!" The play has moved to our northern wilderness. The precious and limited life of the magician should be used to pursue the mystery of the soul and the source of power. It is not worth wasting time on these trivial tricks! "
He has also studied the calculus that Colin created, but at present, the only effect of that thing is to give him a headache.
The heated debate lasted the whole morning.
Rarely has a mentor caused so much controversy that the top management of XueBang held a whole morning meeting about it.
In the end, everyone's eyes were focused on the great sage Adosuike, waiting to see his final decision.
The Great Sage was silent for a long time, and finally spoke slowly. Every word he spoke was like a solemn tower of the Great Sage,
It was solemn and unquestionable.
..——·Prince Colin’s research in the 440th Void Realm, the results are groundbreaking, there is no doubt about this. The Council should recognize the academic status of the "Magical Science Laboratory" and the achievements of Corinta, and affirm its achievements."
The faces of the radical sages suddenly showed joy, while most of the conservative sages had unhappy expressions.
However, the joy on their faces did not last long, and soon solidified due to the great sage's next words.
-However, until now, no mage tower has replicated the results of Corin Tower, which is also a recognized fact.
Furthermore, Corin Tower themselves have not proven that their active intervention strategy can bring greater success. The prosperity behind the virtual realm does not mean that we can get more from the virtual realm - what do you think? "
Seeing Adosuik looking at himself, the elemental sage felt his scalp numb, his face tensed, and he nodded slightly.
"This is the truth. The Mage Tower under the Demon of the Elemental School has not yet successfully reproduced the experiment, but it should not take too long before we can make new progress."
"Then let's wait until progress is made." Adosuik threw out a sentence lightly, blocking the second half of the sentence in the throat of the elemental sage.
Facts speak louder than words.
The Great Sage’s meaning is already clear. He needs to see more results before he can decide whether Xuebang has a positive or negative attitude towards the “radical intervention strategy”.
The conservative sages present here breathed a sigh of relief. At least this shows that the great sages were not blinded by Corinta's temporary success and relaxed their vigilance towards the virtual realm.
On the surface, it seems that others adopting radical research strategies will not hinder their own research, but in fact it is impossible.
This is not only an academic issue, but also a political issue.
If Xuebang supports the results of Corinta, a large number of tutors and professors engaged in virtual realm research will adopt more radical strategies in order to encourage the development of the civilization behind the virtual realm, or even encourage it, and then ignore the output of the virtual realm itself.
Because as long as you get results, you can get more virtual resources, so it seems acceptable to sacrifice one or two worthless resources for this.
· If things go on like this, virtual resources will become even tighter, and limited resources will be concentrated in the hands of radical scholars.
So sometimes, they have to curb this situation. This is not only for Xuebang as a whole, but also for themselves.
Of course, this is only the conservative view. Radicals, including the elemental sages, of course also have their own views.
Corinta's research strategy will indeed weaken the output of the Void Realm in the short term, but in the long run it will allow them to obtain more. For example, the Elemental School. Although they are one of the three major factions, their influence in the school is far less profound than that in the empire. Therefore, the Void Realm resources they control are not particularly high-quality resources in the first place, and most of them are left over from other magicians.
Similar situations include the school of enchantment, the school of stars, etc.
In this case, why not take a gamble with the garbage in hand?
Like the conservative sages, they also stood in a position that was in line with the collective interests of the school, and then put forward views that were beneficial to their own faction.
Even if their views are completely opposite.
In addition to the radicals and conservatives, there are also sages who hold a neutral position. For example, the sages of the Holy Power School have no reaction.
They are not close to the empire, but they are close relatives to the Holy See of the empire, and they are not very interested in the virtual realm.
In contrast, they are more interested in the soul, and His Highness Colin's research does not seem to involve this.
The meeting is coming to an end.
At this moment, footsteps suddenly came from outside the conference room.
A scholar wearing a mage's robe hurriedly walked to the side of the great sage Adosuik, leaned close to the latter and whispered in a low voice.
Adosik frowned slightly after listening patiently to the scholar's report.
The sages sitting in front of the round table did not talk, but waited patiently.
After about two minutes, Adozuk waved his hand to signal the scholars next to him to step back, and then looked at the sages sitting at the table.
Looking at the great sage's serious expression, the elemental sage suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart.
Just now, a serious accident occurred in the virtual realm No. 178. In the process of reproducing the Corinta experiment, the mentor Merk in charge of the virtual realm turned the world behind the virtual realm into a desolate wasteland. "
The elemental sage was startled for a moment, and said almost subconsciously.
"But this does not explain one by one"
"This does not mean that the experimental strategy of active intervention is useless. I know what you want to say."
The great sage looked at him calmly, waiting for the excitement to subside before slowly continuing to speak.
"But this is still enough to show that the research strategy of active intervention is risky, and we should control the risks."
This is an impeccable reason.
The conservative sages were happy, but this time the radical sages were nervous.
After a pause, the respected great sage Adozuk glanced around the round table and announced the final decision of the council in an unquestionable tone.
“Before Corinta achieves sufficient results, we should issue a risk warning and freeze this research strategy within a limited scope—such as within Corinta.” Ta adopts a radical research strategy for the virtual realm. "
"This is to protect our limited virtual realm resources."
While the sages were listening to the wisdom of the great sage, the "Magical Science" laboratory was as lively as ever.
Nearly a hundred young apprentices are busy working on their own projects.
Some people are fighting over the theoretical model of "Thermobaric Explosive Bomb", while others are carefully assembling the increasingly complex "Reflection Observer" under the leadership of Jamie, or tinkering with other weird things.
It is different from the solemn atmosphere of the Council of Sages.
The entire laboratory is filled with a positive academic atmosphere, which is completely different from other laboratories in the same mage tower.
At this moment, in a corner of the laboratory, Ilana, sitting at an oak table, was explaining her latest discovery to instructor Colin.
Her inspiration came from the basic mechanics taught by instructor Colin in a science class not long ago.
“In the mechanical framework you taught us, the core of our concern is “force”. An object moves because a force acts on it. This expression is very intuitive and can be expressed by a very concise formula "F=ma". "
"However, when I want to use it to analyze complex systems - such as a double pendulum, or beads sliding on a curved track, the force analysis becomes extremely complicated."
Ilana raised her head, looked at Luo Yan with an inquiring and expectant look, and carefully expressed her conjecture.
"In this case, can we change the angle? Instead of starting from "force", we start from "energy" to describe the entire system? "
Hearing this question, Luo Yan's eyes flashed with surprise, and then turned into a heartfelt smile of relief, and said with approval.
"Of course, this is a great idea. When I talked about the concept of energy conservation in class before, I was wondering who among you would be the first to connect the two core concepts of "force" and "energy" - so far, you are the first to see this shortcut.
For a person who has received nine years of compulsory education, it is not difficult to realize this.
However, for a person living in the pre-industrial revolution era, it is not easy to understand this with limited knowledge and vision.
With the instructor's positive encouragement, Ilana's cheeks turned slightly red, and she buried her head and continued to look at the manuscript of Mr. James Valli spread out on the table.
She took a deep breath, calmed down and continued.
"You mentioned before that we can use the "path optimization equation" to verify the conjecture raised by Mr. James. That is, when an object moves from one point to another, it will choose a path that minimizes a certain "action". "
"I initially couldn't understand what this "action quantity" was and how to describe it in mathematical language. But in your class, I was inspired by the law of conservation of energy you talked about. "
She picked up the quill and quickly wrote a line of scrawled calculations on the manuscript paper, her bright eyes shining with confidence.
“In order for the idea of “least effort” to be quantified and calculated, we need a mathematical tool to define the “total cost” of a path. I define it as S, which is equal to the kinetic energy T of the system at any instant, minus its potential energy V. "
"Then, the "total cost" S of a system from time t1 to t2 is the accumulation of its "cost" at every moment during this period - that is, points! "
"In this way, the "minimum action principle" becomes an extremely concise description - the actual movement path of the system is the path that minimizes the S value! "
"And the method to solve this "function of functions" is the calculus of variations you taught me! 》
【S=∫t1t2(T-V)dt】
Luo Yan looked at the formula on the manuscript paper, and then looked at the girl next to him with twinkling eyes, and was shocked in his heart.
Ox.
Although this formula is simple, one step further is the Euler-Lagrange equation!
Although he had discovered that this girl was a genius before, he did not expect that this guy was actually such a genius.
".—This is an extremely genius idea, Ilana." Luo Yan admired sincerely, "I encourage you to continue exploring along this path. My intuition tells me that you are not far from the end."
"Mainly your inspiration." Ilana smiled sheepishly and buried her head and said, "I can't imagine so much with my own strength."
To be honest, she had always suspected that her respected mentor already knew the answer. It's just that he deliberately didn't say it,
but gave himself the opportunity to discover the truth with his own hands.
As for why he did this, she didn't know.
Luo Yan smiled faintly and said nothing.
Ophelia, holding a copy of "Advanced Mathematics" in her arms, waited silently. She wanted to interrupt but didn't know where to start. She originally came to ask His Highness Colin about calculus, but after waiting for a long time, she didn't get a chance to speak.
The atmosphere of pure academic exchange made her feel like an outsider.
A faint jealousy surged into her heart, and she finally couldn't help but speak, muttering in a low voice.
"Holy Saint Sith, this is obviously the Mage Tower - does what you are talking about have anything to do with "magic power"? "
"Of course it does matter."
Luo Yan turned his head, looked at the princess's confused eyes, smiled and explained patiently.
"Magic power can also be understood as a "force", or an "action quantity" - it's just that we don't understand its essence enough. ”
Ilana’s eyes widened slightly, and there was a hint of excitement in her heart. What His Highness Colin said was exactly what she was thinking about just now!
Sure enough, she is now more and more sure of her guess!
His Royal Highness Colin knows it!
Hearing this unfounded explanation, Ophia spoke a little unconvinced.
However, because it was His Highness Colin whom she admired who said these words, she couldn't help but believe it in her heart.
Just at this moment, a burst of rapid footsteps came from far away, and Assistant Professor Corgi ran into the laboratory like a gust of wind.
Ignoring the other apprentices around him, he quickly rushed to Luo Yan and said breathlessly.
"Teacher! Professor Hector is looking for you in a hurry and asks you to go to his office immediately!"
Luo Yan raised his eyebrows in surprise. Seeing that Corky's anxious look didn't look like he was joking, he asked, "Is he in a hurry?"
Corky nodded repeatedly, his face full of seriousness.
"Yes! The professor's tone was very anxious! I asked him what it was about, but he refused to tell me!"
Luo Yan nodded and was about to leave after Corgi.
However, at this moment, he suddenly noticed the "Advanced Mathematics" in Ophea's hand and the expression on her face looking at him pitifully.
His heart moved slightly, he looked at Ilana aside with a smile, and gave instructions.
"Ilana, I have something to deal with. During the time I am away, the task of guiding Miss Ophia will be given to you."
"You are her senior sister, I believe this little thing is not difficult for you."
After saying that, he looked at Ophia again.
"You will study hard, right?
This sudden order was like a bolt of lightning, causing both Ilana and Ophia to freeze on the spot with different expressions.
Ilana's eyes were filled with flattered fear, and she was a little at a loss for a moment.
She felt extremely honored to have such trust from her mentor, but also felt unprecedented pressure to be a "teacher" to a duke's daughter.
This—.
Is this going too far?
Ophelia also felt at a loss.
But she was not thinking about the issue of Yue Yue, but she did not expect that His Highness would actually let his competitor guide her.
It is true that Ilana’s strength is obvious to all the apprentices in the entire laboratory, but is there no one else here who knows calculus?
He clearly knows what he thinks!
That's not all—
He must also understand Ilana's thoughts!
Ophelia's face turned red, she hurriedly glanced at Ilana next to her, and finally nodded her head reluctantly.
"Yes————Your Highness, if it is your order."
Before leaving the Holy City, she silently made an oath in her heart. No matter what hardships and efforts she put in, she would make His Highness Colin face up to his charm.
If this is Saint Sith's test for himself, then let the storm come more violently!
By the way, this sentence is excerpted from Chapter 2 of "The Wanderings of Baron Corsia" - The Baron Who Lived.
Looking at Miss Ophia who was blushing again and again for some reason, Ilana also nodded cautiously and whispered.
"I will work hard——Tutor, and the princess."
"Just call me Ophia!"
"It's——Miss Ophia.""
Looking at the two people who had "a harmonious relationship (bie) good relationship (niu)", Luo Yan nodded with satisfaction, with a smile of approval on his face.
Very good.
Although the plan to "make Miss Castellion retreat before the difficulties" is a step further, the "plan to trap Miss Castellion in the Tower of the Great Sage" is a big step towards success.
"Corgi, let's go, don't keep Professor Hector waiting." Luo Yan, who had settled a trouble, turned around and said to Corgi with a smile.
"Ah - yes, mentor." The stunned Corgi came back to his senses and hurriedly walked forward to lead the way.