Chapter 174: Esrazer's Magic System
The wall of Jumu Town is relatively thick, and is made up of pieces of stone strangely condensed together. Yu Fei also knows something about this. The walls on the Eslaze continent are all built through magic as long as the conditions are met. For example, this town wall, Yu Fei can tell at a glance that it is made of stones piled together, with mud filling the gaps between the stones, and then using mud to stone to stick them together as a whole.
Although the wall built in this way is not as good as the defense of a real monolithic boulder, it is indeed much stronger than the fortifications built by ordinary means. However, the walls of most cities on the Eslaze continent are still built by ordinary means. The "conditions" mentioned above are the limiting factors of this kind of stone wall.
This condition is naturally a magician. Although the level of the spell of turning mud into stone is not very high, it is not something that an ordinary trainee magician or even a black iron magician can use. Even a bronze-level magician can only barely cast this spell, and he must be a magician specializing in earth. For mages specializing in other disciplines, the requirements for using this universal spell will be higher.
And it is not enough to just be able to cast it. The volume of a city wall or even a village wall is extremely large. If only one or a few bronze-level mages want to build a magic wall, although it is not impossible, it will take a long time. Only mages with higher strength can create a situation that changes the natural environment by themselves.
The most brilliant time for the skill of turning mud into stone was in the war with the orcs, when a legendary mage was surrounded by the ambushed orcs when the human army was surrounded. When the orcs closed the encirclement and prepared to wipe out the encircled human army, the legendary mage first surrounded the human army with a mass earth wall spell, and then used the great magic power to turn mud into stone to turn the loose earth wall into a stone wall.
The legendary mage's great means of building a city with earth gave the human army a defensive advantage, and the orcs' original plan of siege war turned into a siege war. After a fruitless attack and many orcs being killed by humans from a high position, the battle that the orcs could have won a great victory had to end hastily after the arrival of human reinforcements.
In this battle, the name of the legendary earth mage Garen was widely sung by people, and countless bards sang poems of praise in the human world and even in other races. And the spell of turning mud into stone was taken seriously by people at this time, and with the improvement of Garen and some other legendary mages, this spell became a universal spell.
Since then, mages of all schools can use these spells, but the strength requirements are higher. Bronze mages like Jenny who specialize in fire cannot use some universal spells improved by other schools. Only when they are strong enough can they use a lot more mana than their own specialized spells to cast them.
Yu Fei originally thought that the magic system on the Eslazer continent was the same as what he had read in the novels of other worlds. It was also divided into different departments according to physique, but after learning more about Eslazer, he realized that it was not the case.
Although the magic system of Eslazer is also divided into different departments, there is no distinction between magic physiques. Everyone who has the potential to become a magician can choose a department according to their own interests, and then through magic enlightenment, their physique will be transformed to be close to a certain element and become a magician of a certain department.
For example, Jenny is a magician who has chosen to specialize in the fire department. In addition to general spells, she can only use fire spells. Magicians who specialize in each department are the same as Jenny. In addition to general spells, they can only use spells of their own department.
However, there are some exceptions, that is, mages who choose to open two or even more departments in magic enlightenment. It was mentioned earlier that Jenny is a "specialist" in the fire department. Since there are specialties, there must be non-specialists. This kind of mage who has opened multiple systems - also called chaos mage - can use all the spells he has opened, and the flexibility of using spells is much better than that of specialized mages.
But this is not without cost. Chaos mages need to attract many more magic elements when practicing than specialized mages, which makes the speed of practice much slower than that of mages who only focus on absorbing one element; and the spells released by chaos mages are weaker than those of specialized mages. After all, one is specialized and the other is multi-system.
However, even so, because chaos mages can combine multiple systems of spells in battle, the power they exert is actually much stronger than that of specialized mages. In addition, Eslazer's mages have an environmental restriction factor. If a fire mage like Jenny is in a snowy place like the northern ice field, the power that can be exerted will be greatly limited, but chaos mages who can use multiple systems of spells do not have such environmental concerns.
Because of the reasons mentioned above, the status of chaos mages was higher than that of specialized mages in the past. If it weren't for the slow training speed, which resulted in only two or three chaos mages who chose to activate two sets of magical abilities being able to reach the legendary level, I'm afraid all magicians would choose to become chaos mages.
However, after the emergence of universal spells, the status of chaos mages has been greatly reduced. Universal spells are not a new system created by a brilliant master. Almost all of the spells are actually a certain system of masters who have improved a certain spell of the system to make it universal.
For example, the second-level universal spell Light is actually a spell that can be used by mages of all systems after a master who specializes in fire has improved the Fireworks in the fire system. Mages who are not specialized in fire can only use it at the Black Iron level, while mages who are specialized in fire can use it at the apprentice level. And Mud to Stone is a fourth-level universal spell that can only be released by a non-earth silver mage.
The emergence of universal spells allows specialized mages to combine some limited spells of other systems to cooperate in battle, and the weakening of strength in extreme environments has also been reduced a lot, which has caused the status of chaos mages to be reduced to the same level as specialized mages. In addition, chaos mages are difficult to upgrade. Today, most mages in Eslaze are specialized mages, and few people choose to become chaos mages.
In addition to these, Yu Fei also learned that each mage's spellcasting is limited, and this limit is the spell slot. The limit of spell slots does not mean that a mage can only use a few spells a day, but that the mage can use several spells a day if the magic power allows.
For example, a silver fire mage can memorize four spells every day and fill them into his spell slots. Then on this day, he can use these four spells an unlimited number of times as long as his magic power is enough. The number of spell slots is the same as the level of the magician. Mages of several levels have several spell slots of their own system.
However, chaos mages have spell slots for each system according to the several systems they choose. In other words, a chaos mage who chooses to practice two systems will have five spell slots for each of the two systems he chooses at the gold level.
In addition, it should be noted that after the emergence of universal spells, magicians found that the modified universal spells did not occupy the spell slots of the specialized magicians. Universal spells must be at least level 2 to be used. Mages at the levels of Black Iron, Bronze, and Silver all have an additional universal spell slot; Mages at the levels of Gold, Cloud, and Sky have two; and those at the levels of Legend, Epic, and Myth have three.
This universal spell slot can only store universal spells, but it is also an additional combat power, and chaos mages do not have additional universal spell slots. Therefore, the emergence of universal spells is also called the gospel of specialized mages.
This is what Yu Fei learned about the magic system of the Eslaze continent, and he was not very clear about the details. But even these took him a long time to sort out. When he came to his senses again, he was less than one kilometer away from the town gate of Giant Wood Town. At this time, adventurers who were either traveling alone or in groups appeared around Yu Fei and his companions. Some of them came out of Giant Wood Town and hurried to the Magic Mountain Range; others, like Yu Fei and his group, returned to Giant Wood Town from the Magic Mountain Range to rest.
The town wall of this Giant Wood Town was actually built by magic, which was a big deal. It seems that the owner of this territory, Viscount Samuel, is not a simple person. You know, on the mainland, the status of a silver wizard is equivalent to the lowest level of knights among the nobles, and a gold wizard is equivalent to a baron. This Viscount Samuel can drive the self-proclaimed noble wizards and the lowest bronze-level wizards to build a town for him. It seems that he should not be just a viscount.
After asking Danifer, Yu Fei confirmed his guess. Behind Viscount Samuel is the royal family of the Kingdom of Severn. With the support of the royal family, it is not difficult to understand that some magicians build buildings.
Think about it, the only county in the Kingdom of Severn close to the Magic Mountain Range is Yorkshire, and Giant Wood Town is the outpost battle to the Magic Mountain Range. How could the royal family of the kingdom not control it in their own hands. In order to prevent the monsters from the Monster Mountain Range from attacking Giant Wood Town, it was natural to build the defenses of Giant Wood Town extremely solid.
After thinking this through, Yu Fei shook his head and walked towards the nearby town gate with Danifer and the other five people.