The faces of the seven magisters all sank.
What was magic?
These kinds of questions were usually only asked by magisters who had never come into contact with magic, or those who didn't understand magic at all. However, Xu Yi had used this question to ask the seven magisters who could be said to be at the top of the magic world. It was no different from humiliating them.
They originally thought that Xu Yi had summoned them with the intention of stopping the war and discussing the specific measures with the magisters who represented all the magisters of the two empires. They didn't expect that Xu Yi would actually say such a thing, which immediately made them unhappy.
If it weren't for their misgivings about the current situation on the battlefield, the seven magisters would probably have left without another word.
"Chairman Xu, what do you mean by this?" A magister from the Malor Empire said coldly with a sullen face.
"Don't think that your New Flyer can be so rampant just because you have some small tricks up your sleeve."
"Small tricks?" Xu Yi laughed.
"Everyone, if you still have such thoughts, then I can only express my disappointment."
"Alright, Chairman Xu, if you have something to say, just say it. There's no need to beat around the bush." Another magister from the Malor Empire waved his hand impatiently.
"I admit that with the current situation, even if all of us magisters attacked together, we still wouldn't be able to do anything to your New Flyer. However, you don't have to humiliate us like this. It's meaningless."
The magisters from the Malor Empire all had ugly expressions on their faces. On the other hand, the three magisters from the Kandla Empire only had gloomy expressions at first, but now they all seemed to be deep in thought. They didn't join in on Xu Yi's reprimand.
"Do you think this is humiliating?" Xu Yi shrugged.
"I don't think so. I'm actually asking you this question very seriously.
Your understanding of magic is related to the true gap between your magic research and our New Flyer's. If you don't understand this point, then I'm afraid you'll never understand why we don't even need to mobilize magisters to easily defeat all of your magisters. "
All of the Grand Magi fell silent.
Regardless of whether they were willing to admit it or not, the truth was that New Flyer didn't even need to use mages to defeat these archmages in countless battles. In fact, several archmages had even fallen.
Such a thing had never happened even during the most intense period of the racial war three thousand years ago.
There was no doubt that New Flyer possessed abilities that even archmages like them couldn't understand, so much so that they were helpless against it.
Therefore, no matter how arrogant Xu Yi's words were, they had no ability to refute.
Strength was the foundation of everything.
With New Flyer's current strength, Xu Yi naturally had the qualifications to say these words.
After a moment of silence, a grand mage from the Kandla Empire sighed, "Alright.
Chairman Xu, although I don't understand your goal, since you're serious about discussing this, then I'll give my own opinion.
Speaking of what magic is … I don't care what other magisters think. In my opinion, so-called magic is nothing more than magisters using magic to control the magical elements into various forms. What do you think? "
The other six grand mages nodded in unison.
Magic had existed in Sines for over ten thousand years. Even a relatively young race like humans had grasped it for over three thousand years.
After so many years of evolution, the basic concepts of magic had long since formed a unified concept that no one doubted.
Although every magister had a different understanding of magic, including their own unique opinions, no magisters would deny such a basic concept. It had already become an axiom in Sines.
Now that this grand mage from the Kandla Empire had given the most standard and impeccable answer, everyone wanted to see what other opinions Xu Yi would have.
"Mm, I admit that this view of magic isn't wrong …"
Xu Yi's first words greatly disappointed the other grand mages.
"However, this view is too shallow and too general. It has no practical meaning at all.
The so-called magisters use magic to control the magical elements. How does the magisters generate their magic?
What changes will occur during the process of generating magic?
How does the so-called using magic to control the magical elements work?
What is the speed and quantity of the magical elements that can be controlled?
As for the various forms that can be formed, what about the specific data of these forms?
For example, the most basic form, volume, density, vibration frequency, resonance strength, and so on. What are the various data?
If you don't know these … "
If it was said that everyone could barely understand the first half of Xu Yi's words, then everyone was confused by the second half of his words and was completely confused.
What density, vibration frequency, resonance strength … What kind of nonsense was this?
"Wait, Chairman Xu, what are you talking about?" A grand mage from the Malor Empire couldn't help but interrupt Xu Yi.
"What do you mean by these things?"
Xu Yi's gaze swept across the crowd and sighed. He shook his head and said, "As expected, none of you have read the 'Xinfei Magic Industry Weekly' published by our Chamber of Commerce."
The grand mages looked at each other, their expressions somewhat awkward.
Actually, ever since the rise of New Flyer, these grand mages had more or less paid attention to it.
However, New Flyer was mainly famous for all kinds of magic machines. In the eyes of these grand mages who stood at the peak of the magic world, the so-called magic machines were nothing more than magic tools. Even if the design was ingenious, it wasn't elegant, so they naturally wouldn't pay attention to it.
As for the 'Xinfei Magic Industry Weekly', which was mainly related to magic machines, they naturally wouldn't pay attention to it either.
"If you've read the 'Xinfei Magic Industry Weekly', then you'll have some idea of what I'm talking about.
What I just said isn't anything strange, but a set of basic theoretical concepts that our Chamber of Commerce has come up with over the years of continuous research on magic.
I call it … The Basics of Magic Science. "
"The Basics of Magic Science?" The seven grand mages all frowned.
Of course they knew about magic, but what was science?
They had never heard of this term that had popped out of Xu Yi's mouth before. It probably hadn't even appeared in the common Sines language.
Seeing the expressions on their faces, Xu Yi felt a little helpless.
That's right, even if they searched through all the languages in the Sines, there was no such term as' science '. Therefore, Xu Yi had directly transliterated it, which was equivalent to creating a completely new term.
He could only continue to briefly explain the meaning of the term 'science' to the crowd.
After listening, the crowd was even more baffled.
"Chairman Xu, according to what you've said, science is to break down knowledge into smaller categories, and then thoroughly research each category before finally combining them to completely grasp the knowledge.
Then magic has been studied by countless mages in the Sines for tens of thousands of years. Could it be that it's still not detailed enough, still not thorough enough? "
"From what you've just said, it is indeed detailed and thorough enough. But from my perspective, it's far from enough.
For example, what I'm most surprised about is that despite the long history of magic research in the Sines, there hasn't been a single mage that has truly done in-depth research on magic elements.
You have to know that magic elements are the foundation of all magic. "
The seven grand mages looked at each other, still not understanding what Xu Yi meant.
Xu Yi couldn't help but sigh. He knew that it was impossible for him to rely on words alone to make these seven grand mages understand the meaning of the so-called scientific point of view in such a short period of time.
The reason why the mages in the Sines hadn't understood many problems despite studying magic for tens of thousands of years was because the mages in the Sines had always treated magic as a job. Therefore, the direction of their research was only how to better use magic elements to create more powerful magic, and how to better use magic.
If it was compared to the classification on Earth, the magic research in the Sines was completely biased towards applied magic. Moreover, it was the more biased type of applied magic that focused on the lethality of magic. Naturally, there wasn't much research into the true theoretical field of magic.
Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce's magic machines were considered a part of the field of applied magic, because Xu Yi had transmigrated from earth and was a high level mechanical engineer that was deeply influenced by science, naturally he had a scientific attitude towards magic and magic machines from the beginning.
In the twenty years since New Flyer had been established, Xu Yi's request for the Magic Research Institute of New Flying Chamber of Commerce had always been for them to research and understand how to better use magic, and even more so, why it was like this.
To put it simply, one had to know the reason as well as the reason why.
It was precisely because of this request that the researchers of the Magic Research Institute of New Flying Chamber of Commerce would gradually develop a complete scientific view of magic as long as they spent more time in the Academy of Magic. From there, they would have a deeper and more precise understanding of magic, and thus be able to greatly increase their level of magic.
As their leader and guide, Xu Yi naturally had the deepest understanding of magic, and his level of magic increased the fastest.
Otherwise, according to the traditional views of the Sines, Xu Yi definitely wouldn't have been able to become an archmage in his early forties.
However, these things were simply explained to the seven grand mages, who had long since carved the traditional views of magic into their bones. They definitely wouldn't understand.
Therefore, Xu Yi thought for a moment and decided to do a small experiment.