"Everyone, please take a look."
Xu Yi flipped his hand and a small fireball appeared in his palm.
The seven archmages looked at the small fireball in his hand with puzzled expressions.
"Chairman Xu, is there anything special about this fireball spell?" A Kandla Empire archmage asked.
"No, there's nothing special about it. It's just an ordinary fireball spell." Xu Yi shook his head.
"Now, can the seven of you please summon a fireball spell each."
The seven archmages looked at each other and still raised their hands to summon a fireball.
For the eight archmages, including Xu Yi, the lowest level of fire magic like the fireball spell naturally didn't pose any difficulty. It could be said that each of them had mastered the fireball spell to the point of perfection.
However, when these eight Fireballs were placed together, they were clearly different from each other.
For example, the fireballs in the hands of the four Malor Empire archmages were about the size of a normal person's head. However, the fireballs in the hands of the three Kandla Empire archmages were clearly smaller, at most a bit bigger than a normal person's fist.
As for Xu Yi's fireball spell, it was in the middle. It wasn't as big as a person's head, nor was it as small as a fist.
Apart from the size, the fireballs summoned by each archmage were also different in their luster. Some were extremely bright, some were slightly dim, some were shockingly red, and some were dark red with a hint of purple.
"Everyone, it's just the simplest fireball spell, but everyone summons different ones. Do you still think that the current system of magic in Sines is correct?" Xu Yi pointed at the fireballs in everyone's hands and asked bluntly.
"That's nothing, right?" A Malor Empire archmage frowned slightly.
"Every mage's understanding of magic is different. It's normal for the spells they use to be different."
"But this will inevitably affect the effect of the spell, right?"
Xu Yi pointed at the fireball in the hands of the Malor Empire magus and said, "Look, the fireball in your hand is the brightest and the reddest color. You must be after explosive power, right?"
The Grand Magus nodded. "That's easy to see."
"Then do you know how you did it?" Xu Yi asked again.
"How do you do it?" The archmage looked at Xu Yi, seemingly feeling that Xu Yi's question was a bit unreasonable.
"I mobilized my Mana and summoned the Fire Elemental Magic, and then it naturally became like this.
As for why … that's my understanding of the Fireball Technique. What's wrong with that? "
"Of course not," Xu Yi said with unusual certainty.
"You only know how to gather magical elements to form a fireball according to your own understanding, but you don't know why it turned out like this. Don't you find it strange?"
The seven Grand Magi looked at each other.
What's so strange about that?
Which of the mages on the Sines didn't learn how to use magic like this?
"I'm not." Xu Yi shook his head.
"I have a habit. No matter what I learn, I like to thoroughly understand what's going on before I'm satisfied.
Take this Fireball Technique for example. Although I easily learned how to use Mana to gather magical elements to form a Fireball Technique, I wasn't satisfied with it.
Because I don't understand why it's like this. Why can the magical elements be affected by my Mana and then condense?
Why does the magical elements that originally didn't have any shape or special state in the surrounding space turn into a fireball after I condense them?
Why does this fireball look like this?
Why … "
Xu Yi said a string of whys in one breath, making the seven Grand Magi dumbstruck.
It was just a Fireball Technique. This Xu Yi actually thought of so many questions. It was really too surprising.
Of course, perhaps it was because he had such a serious attitude that he was able to become a Grand Magi in his early forties.
"In the beginning, I didn't have a way to understand these questions. But after establishing the Xinfei Merchant Guild, our guild gathered mages of different levels from different places. After many years of research, I finally understood a little bit of what this so-called magic is."
"What is it?" A Kandla Empire Grand Magi couldn't help but ask.
"Look carefully."
Xu Yi indicated for everyone to look at the Fireball Technique in his hand. Then, with a thought, the magic in his body circulated. The Fireball in his hand, which was originally about the size of a fist and a head, suddenly grew in size. In an instant, it became much bigger than the Fireball in the hands of the four Malor Empire Grand Magi.
The expressions of the other seven Grand Magi didn't change.
Although it was a bit difficult to increase the size of a spell that had already been formed, it wasn't much for a Grand Magi.
Just as this thought appeared in their minds, the Fireball in Xu Yi's hand suddenly shrunk, becoming very small in an instant. It was much smaller than a normal person's fist, and was only a bit bigger than the tip of a finger.
This time, the other seven Grand Magi couldn't help but reveal shocked expressions.
It wasn't difficult to make a normal Fireball Technique bigger, but to make it suddenly smaller wasn't so easy.
There were only two ways to make a spell that had already been formed suddenly smaller.
The first was to compress the magical elements contained within the spell to a high degree, and thus shrink the appearance of the spell.
This was very difficult for normal mages, but it wasn't much of a problem for Grand Magi.
However, this kind of highly compressed spell would become very unstable due to the high amount of magical elements contained within it. It was very easy for it to go out of control.
Moreover, the appearance of the spell would definitely undergo an obvious change because of this.
However, they could clearly see that apart from the fact that the Fireball in Xu Yi's hand had shrunk quite a bit, it was still the same color as before. It looked like it had only shrunk in an ordinary way, and nothing else had changed.
This meant that although the Fireball in Xu Yi's hand had shrunk, the density of the magical elements hadn't increased by a large amount. It was as if the outer layers of the Fireball had been shaved off.
To do this, it was only possible to disperse the condensed magical elements outside the Fireball under extremely precise control. At the same time, one had to ensure that the magical elements in the center didn't dissipate as well.
This was undoubtedly an extremely difficult method. Even Grand Magi wouldn't be able to do it easily if they hadn't practiced for a long time.
"This Xu Yi can't be that bored, can he?" The other seven Grand Magi looked at Xu Yi with faces full of doubt.
Very quickly, Xu Yi's following actions caused their doubt to turn into shock.
The small fireball in Xu Yi's hand that was only a bit bigger than a thumb remained there for around five seconds before it suddenly began to grow at a speed visible to the naked eye. Bit by bit, it slowly became bigger, just like a balloon being blown up.
When the Fireball was already three times the size of a normal person's head, everyone suddenly felt the magical undulations released by Xu Yi change. The enormous Fireball suddenly disappeared and was replaced by an enormous ball of water.
The seven Grand Magi looked at the enormous ball of water in shock, almost not daring to believe their eyes.
In theory, changing the Fireball into a ball of water could be done by first dispelling the Fireball and then instantly summoning a new ball of water.
But the seven of them had been staring at Xu Yi the entire time, so they didn't notice this process at all. The fireball had turned into a ball of water and it was like the Fire Elemental Magic inside had turned into Water Elemental Magic.
How had he done it?
Without waiting for them to ask, the magical undulations released by Xu Yi changed again and the ball of water disappeared in an instant, turning into a tornado that spun at high speed above Xu Yi's palm.
The seven Grand Magi stared blankly as the tornado turned into an enormous spherical rock.
In the following period of time, the magic in Xu Yi's palm switched back and forth between four different types of elemental magic. Its shape was also constantly changing, sometimes becoming round, sometimes becoming square …
The seven Grand Magi were dazzled. After a while, one of the Malor Empire's Grand Magi suddenly raised his hand.
"Stop!
Chairman Xu, what are you doing? "
The other six Grand Magi also looked at Xu Yi with questioning eyes.
They believed that Xu Yi wouldn't be so bored as to specially practice this kind of magic to show them. After all, no matter what, Xu Yi was an Archmage. How could he play such a childish trick?
Xu Yi smiled and put down his hand. The magic also disappeared.
"I just want to tell you that the so-called magic is indeed a method of using magic to make the magical elements manifest in various forms.
However, magic doesn't actually have any form of differentiation. The ancient method of differentiation between the four types of elemental magic is even more meaningless.
Because the magical elements themselves don't have any attributes, magic also doesn't have any attributes. The reason why they manifest different forms is only because the magical elements, as energy particles, are affected by different frequencies of resonance and manifest different forms. "
The other seven Grand Magi stared blankly at Xu Yi.
This guy was starting to talk about things they didn't understand at all.
Xu Yi didn't care about their reactions and continued, "So in summary, the so called magicians just happen to have this kind of mental energy, so they can use the vibrations of their mental energy to influence the elemental magic particles to form magic.
In fact, as long as you find a suitable method, even if you're not a mage, you can still influence the magical elements and control them to form magic.
Magic arrays are a very obvious example. "
Speaking of magic arrays, the seven Grand Magi recovered.
"Chairman Xu, don't the various magic machines of New Flyer and these military magic machines all rely on magic arrays?"
"That's right." Xu Yi smiled and nodded.
"But our New Flyer's research on magic arrays is different from other mages. For us, magic arrays are used to control the magical elements and form magic effects.
In theory, it's similar to the magic arrays that most mages research, but in reality, our Chamber of Commerce's research on magic arrays is more detailed, more thorough, and more … scientific. "