Mystic Overlord: Reading Gives Strength-Chapter 1088 - 1082: Conveying Information

"First of all, Ronald, the essence of the world cannot be inferred from mere phenomena, but must be recognized from a deeper place—this approach will bring conclusions that are contrary to common sense, which you should understand, right?"

Before formally beginning the lecture, the great mage Majie'er first asked Ronald a question.

Ronald naturally knew this, so he immediately replied:

"There is a great difference between the microcosm and the macrocosm, and some things are even contrary to the common sense of life, which I am aware of."

Majie'er nodded slightly, showing an approving look.

After confirming that Ronald's ideas about understanding the world were correct, he continued to speak:

"In our world, apart from the material that constitutes you and me, what is most worthy of attention are these spells. So if one wants to comprehend everything, one inevitably has to start from this aspect. When I was young, I initiated a research phase on magic essence, where the truth I sought was the essence of spell existence."

"I also know this, and I was greatly shocked," Ronald replied, his gaze inevitably falling on the scroll documenting the research on magic essence. "So did you get the final result of your research from that period?"

"It was a very tortuous, time-consuming research that spanned years." Speaking of this, Majie'er's tone became quite emotional, "It wasn't until I became a great mage, with the help of other great mages from Lachimont, that I finally discovered what constitutes the foundation of magic power..."

Regarding such important knowledge, Majie'er's explanation was much more detailed than before.

From the initial project of experimenting with the magic essence, until he finally became a great mage and discovered the truth with the help of his colleagues.

The elderly great mage relayed the entire process completely to Ronald.

Only then did he speak in a tone of utmost emotion:

"Knowledge, language, thought, belief, and ideas—these are what constitute magic power, things we know exist but cannot touch."

"This is the final conclusion of my research."

"..."

Before the conversation, the great mage had mentioned that his theory might not be correct.

But such humility;

in contrast to the complete and rigorous logical deduction that followed, and results verified through experiments.

How could Ronald not believe?

Faced with this sudden reality, Ronald was momentarily rendered speechless.

On the other hand, the great mage knew just how significant his words were, so he allowed ample time for Ronald to ponder.

After a long time, Ronald finally organized his thoughts:

"Your theory regarding information, I can roughly understand, but there's one very crucial point—how do they influence the real world and turn into spells?"

"Good question!" The great mage gave Ronald an approving glance.

"During my research, I once discovered a large number of completely useless magic essence entities, which must aggregate to transform from quantitative change to qualitative change, thus forming the spells we both know."

"The principle of information is actually the same."

"For example, my talking to you now is a process of conveying information, and the final result is that my language information affects your thinking, which is a specific manifestation of information affecting reality."

"As for spells—if a vast amount of information gathers together and is arranged in a special structure, they will appear in the form of a magic essence, and the spells you and I use can then emerge from it."

In his previous long contemplation, Ronald had already clarified the logical train of thought in his mind, so when Majie'er presented this content, he didn't stop thinking but immediately accepted it and asked the next question:

"According to your theory, are the original texts we master essentially an infinite aggregation of information into a physical phenomenon?"

Regarding Ronald's question, Majie'er didn't answer directly but instead took a real example:

"So when an original text is destroyed, the large outburst of information can connect the passage between us and the 'infinite negative number field'."

Ronald understood what he meant.

This phenomenon actually serves as concrete evidence proving the correctness of the theory.

But after answering this question, the aged great mage immediately shook his head with some regret:

"However, it's quite unfortunate."

"The existing methods, or rather using results that appear after information interferes with reality, like the original texts as tools, make it difficult to conduct further micro-level research on the information itself."

"As a caster who relies on spells for activity, my research can only end here."

Ronald, being from Earth, knew well how distant theory and reality can be.

But even so.

When facing Majie'er's discovery, which was so astounding, he couldn't help but ask:

"Haven't you made any progress in practical applications with these things?"

What Majie'er answered next greatly surprised Ronald.

The aged great mage didn't directly shake his head but actually shared some of his achievements!

"Regarding practical applications, I have made some progress in the final years."

"Some of the results I shared with others, and then I received the school of thought mark that is currently being promoted... By the way, in your era, the school of thought mark should already be quite common, right?"

Ronald replied without hesitation:

"In the outside world, apart from the holders of original texts, almost all casters now rely on the school of thought mark to cast spells instead of learning from the original texts slowly as before."

Majie'er nodded and then continued to explain his research:

"The cause of this research lies in my thinking about why language is the key to activating spells."

"Moreover, since language is the key to activating spells—why can't simply imitating the exact same sound achieve the same effect?"

"Consider the actual situation: one must witness the contents of the original text or learn through alternative pedagogy to activate these spells with its incantations."

"Between the two, at least on the level of language or incantations, there is completely no difference."

At this point, Majie'er paused for a few seconds before continuing:

"Therefore, interaction of information is the essence of the world."

"The original text is the crystal formed after an enormous amount of information and endless human will are condensed. So as long as a corresponding connector is made, it can similarly substitute for the presence of the original text's knowledge in the human brain and become the key to these information-triggering spells."

At this point, Majie'er couldn't help but glance at Ronald:

"And according to what you said, these original texts are the knowledge books created by people in your world."

"This somewhat corroborates my assumptions and conclusions."