I Created Scientific Magic - Chapter 71

Chapter 71: Chapter 64 “Magic Basic Principles and Elemental Magic Analysis” (Two-in-One)_2

Could it be that these squares are indeed like the rumors say, that even if one were to put all of Yiyeta Harbor’s wealth into them, it would still not fill them up?

Kevin scoffed at the idea; such rumors were absolutely absurd!

“Do you know how many copper coins it would take to fill the last square of these seven rows and columns?” Philip asked, somewhat helplessly. “It’s two hundred eighty-one trillion!”

“Two hundred eighty-one trillion copper coins, that is quite a lot…” Kevin was somewhat surprised, but after a pause, suddenly realized that the unit Philip mentioned seemed to be…trillion?

“Wait, are you sure you’re not mistaken?” Kevin was completely befuddled.

It was the first time he had ever heard of the unit trillion.

“Of course not! I’ve already verified it myself…” Philip said irritably. He had also been surprised when he first heard it from the apprentices, and it took him nine whole sheets of draft paper to calculate because the numbers were just too long.

Kevin silently started to calculate in his head; although it was just simple multiplication, the further he went, the larger the amounts became, to the point that mental arithmetic alone became unsustainable. In the end, he could only make a rough estimate.

Based on the pattern from the previous few columns, roughly every three to four squares, the amount would increase by about tenfold.

With a total of seventy-nine squares, that was…at least one hundred trillion times!

Kevin took a deep breath of cold air, such growth was truly terrifying!

Forget Yiyeta Harbor, even if you emptied the entire continent, it would be impossible to amass that much money!

Thankfully, he had chosen a time when there weren’t many people around to sneak out and try, otherwise, he feared he would embarrass himself in front of the students.

Feeling secretly relieved, Kevin then noticed that, aside from the rows of squares, there were also some strange characters carved onto the table in front of him.

Sn=a1{q^(n-1)}/(q-1)

“What are these runes? Some kind of magic symbols?” Kevin asked, puzzled.

“This seems like…a geometric series summation formula? I think that’s what it’s called?” Philip said uncertainly, “Professor Lynn said that once the last number is calculated, he could calculate the total amount of copper coins in these squares in ten seconds.”

“Such a vast amount of data, can one really calculate it within ten seconds?” Kevin furrowed his brow.

“Master Helarahum seems to have deciphered the meaning of this arcane math formula already!” Philip exclaimed, “In just an afternoon, truly befitting of the great Wizard.”

“Then did the Master tell you what all these arcane symbols mean?” Kevin asked eagerly. After dealing with exponential calculations, he found that this so-called arcane math seemed quite interesting.

“He did not…” Philip shook his head regretfully, “Master Helarahum just sent me to add a little reward to this game. Whoever first solves the meaning of this formula will receive a reward of twenty Magic Gold Coins!”

As he spoke, Philip took out the gold coins and used magic to fix them on the table.

…

At this very moment, the new professor of arcane math at the academy, Lynn, was relaxing comfortably on a couch in his room, enjoying a dinner brought by a fairy, while reviewing “Magic Basic Principles” and “Elemental Magic Analysis” borrowed from the academy’s library.

Although his professorial life at Yiyeta Academy was very cozy, without a hint of crisis, Lynn was not the type to grow lax because of it.

Everything in Wizard Land was unfamiliar to him and if any trouble arose, the only thing he could rely on was his own strength.

Moreover, as a professor, he also had to cram some basic knowledge of magic.

However, these two magic principle books, authored by a legendary wizard, were quite challenging for Lynn to digest as they were filled with an abundance of terms like “Selu”, “Enzexi”, “Koze”, which were completely incomprehensible to him. He had to painstakingly verify each term bit by bit based on their description in the book.

After spending over three hours on the analysis, and combining it with his own limited understanding of magic power since crossing over, Lynn managed to grasp somewhat the first half of the books.

First, his previous speculation was not wrong; wizards indeed released magic by manipulating, influencing, and mimicking elements.

However, the abilities of an official wizard are quite limited, not every element is controllable, and the precision is not high enough; at least, they cannot smash molecules or atoms, and can only perform simple arrangements and combinations.

“Hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus…” Lynn thought silently about the four elements he had controlled before and couldn’t help but speculate a few possibilities.

First, the difficulty of controlling elements might be related to their position in the periodic table; for example, official wizards might only be able to manage elements from the first three columns of the periodic table but not from the fourth to the seventh column.

Second, it could be determined by the number of electric charges in the element’s nucleus.

The third was to differentiate based on metal and non-metal elements.

On this matter, Lynn had conducted an experiment, attempting to dismantle a steel sword in his hand using the zero-circle magic, “Initial Material Decompilation Skill.”

As expected, he failed!

No matter how hard Lynn tried, the sword remained entirely unaffected.

This suggested that, relying on the abilities of a Wizard Apprentice or even an official wizard, it was impossible to directly affect metal elements.