170: Chapter 0170 Love Through Paper Notes

Li Size looked at the letter, the corners of his mouth involuntarily curling upward as his fingertips picked up the palm-sized Sorcery Recording—

In the recording, Felin stood beside a cluster of roses at Lanwei Academy. Her ear-length pink hair had a natural curl, shimmering with a peach-like luster under the sunlight.

The tight-fitting suit made of black demonized leather outlined her slender yet curvy waist, while the faint gold-thread embroidery on her shoulders and neck flickered with her movements.

A white handmade lace shawl with pearl tassels brushed against her forearms in the breeze, complementing the deep-sea pearl necklace around her neck.

The sapphire butterfly hair clip atop her head reflected a brilliant light, happening to land right beside her golden eyes—

Those eyes seemed filled with stardust, curving into crescents when she smiled.

The dimples at the corners of her mouth held the unique charm and liveliness of a noble girl, and even the tiny diamonds on her earrings sparkled along with her, as if all the spring light in the garden was focused on her.

Smiling at the letter, Li Size turned to Violet and said:

“Help me prepare a Sorcery Recording; I want to send it to Felin.”

Felin's letter made Li Size feel happy in spite of himself.

Through more than a dozen exchanges of letters, the interaction between the two had become increasingly sincere and familiar.

Felin deeply admired Li Size's Genius ideas in the field of Mechanical Alchemy and was won over by his endless stream of works, having already acknowledged Li Size as her older brother.

The intimate tone in their correspondence made Li Size feel as if he and Felin were like the 'paper note lovers' from his high school days on Planet Blue.

Besides recounting these trivial matters, Felin's letter this time also sent Li Size a book of advanced sorcery knowledge—

《The Essence of Alchemy Runes》.

According to what Felin said in the letter:

This was common knowledge, much like the textbooks at Lanwei Higher Academy.

However, Li Size knew that such books were very difficult for wild wizards outside the academies to obtain.

This basic knowledge was also where the difference between wild wizards and academy wizards lay, or what could be called their foundation.

Li Size was delighted by the find and directly spent 500 energy points for a Pay-to-Win Analysis scan.

The knowledge in the book transformed into torrents of information that entered Li Size's brain.

This knowledge resolved doubts he had held for a long time, giving him a feeling of sudden enlightenment.

What is sorcery?

What are Alchemy Runes?

What exactly is the difference between the two?

Li Size had long felt a faint similarity between the sorcery he learned and Alchemy Runes.

But there were significant differences when it came down to specific alchemy production:

Sorcery solidified on sorcery items has a limited number of uses and needs to be recharged after they are exhausted.

Alchemy Runes, however, can be continuously activated.

This gap let Li Size know that there was an essential difference between sorcery and Alchemy Runes.

But as for what exactly was different, he had never been able to figure it out.

This book told him the tip of the iceberg of the answer:

Whether it is sorcery, Alchemy Runes, or even a Sorcery Array, they are all means by which mysterious power acts.

And one of the foundations for mysterious power to take effect is the rune.

Runes are the common point between sorcery, Alchemy Runes, and Sorcery Arrays.

That is, they are all composed of combinations of runes.

It is only because the structure, form, and medium of the combination are different that the manifestation of the mysterious power differs, appearing as sorcery, Alchemy Runes, or Sorcery Arrays.

The book mentioned that at the dawn of human Grandmist, these things did not actually exist.

There were only mysterious runes.

People obtained knowledge of runes in places filled with mysterious power.

Then they tried to imitate this mysterious power; at the very beginning, what existed were actually Sorcery Arrays that followed the patterns blindly.

Later, after many years of development, humans discovered that Sorcery Arrays were inconvenient to carry and move.

Thus, they further integrated some runes into objects, forming the earliest sorcery items.

Finally, because of various drawbacks, people continuously tried to apply these runes to themselves, which led to more and more sorceries.

Gradually, the Wizard World civilization where sorcery now flourishes was formed.

The book concluded at the end:

Regardless, the essence of sorcery, Alchemy Runes, and Sorcery Arrays is runes.

It's just that the model structure of sorcery runes is the simplest and easiest to learn, and it can be applied to oneself.

While the rune matrix structure used by Alchemy Runes is more complex.

It adds complex rune structures compatible with energy particle storage, driving, transformation, and bursting on the basis of the sorcery rune model to form Alchemy Runes.

As for Sorcery Arrays, they are even more complex multi-layered nested spatial vector matrix rune structures; those who can master Sorcery Arrays are essentially one in ten thousand!

At the end of the book, there was a hypothesis:

Theoretically, every Alchemy Rune corresponds to a sorcery.

This hypothesis left Li Size deep in thought:

Among the Alchemy Runes he learned was the Grease Rune, and the Zero-Ring Sorcery also had 'Grease Spell'; Alchemy Runes had 'Sharpness', and sorcery also had 'Sharpness Spell'.

All sorts of cases indicated that this speculation might be the truth.

Through this knowledge, Li Size gained a deeper understanding of the academy; although he was confident that he could continuously advance by relying on the Pay-to-Win System without entering an academy.

But outside the academy, there was no way to obtain this systematic theoretical knowledge so easily.

For some wild wizards, no matter how high their Rank was, what use was it? Lacking foundation, they were just bumpkins.

For a wizard, this knowledge that explored the essence of the world was the most important!

After Li Size finished analyzing the book, he impatiently began writing a reply to Felin:

dear sister Felin:

Reading this letter is like meeting in person~

When I received your sixteenth letter and recording, your brother was in the Laboratory debugging the last rune module of the “winds kiss” automated machine tool—

The light from the magic lamp fell on your recording; the pink of the rose bushes and the peach color of your hair tips blended together, almost making your brother draw the rune wrong (laughs).

First, let me tell you something urgent:

Your brother heard through secret channels that our Duchy's public communication network has been tampered with by the officials; there might be a little tail hiding there to eavesdrop!

You must never mention this to anyone. From now on, if we have important matters, try to use letters or the encrypted transmission talisman I gave you—

After all, my sister's little secrets can't be overheard by others; your brother would be heartbroken~

Speaking of the “winds kiss” machine tool, your brother has already submitted the design drawings to the Intellectual Property Protection Division of the Ministry of Education!

The process of applying for invention intellectual property rights was smoother than expected. Once I get the certificate, your brother plans to authorize a cooperative development with the Military Department—

Did you know?

Your brother doesn't want to build so many machine tools himself anymore; every time I see mountains of black demonic iron, your brother's arms feel like they're going to fall off (pouting face).

The Military Department has enough manpower and resources; your brother only needs to provide technical support to let more people use our automated machine tools. Isn't that great?

By the way, your brother has been conceptualizing new witchcraft firearms lately!

This design is to prepare for the next generation of firearm production lines—

I plan to change the muskets into sorcery machine guns.

Just by pulling a lever, it can fire sorcery bullets with a 'whoosh whoosh whoosh', forming a sky-covering barrage.

I plan to name it:

Gatling Heavy Machine Gun!

When the design drawings come out, I'll show them to you first, okay?