He had nearly forgotten—the Endless Continent was a magical world!
Scientific and technological concepts from Earth were certainly worth promoting, but magic could not be abandoned either.
As long as they were used well, both could improve productivity.
One had to understand that no form of power possessed inherent superiority, inferiority, rightness, or wrongness.
The key was how flexibly one used every force capable of advancing productivity.
Water-element rune materials of every grade could produce water "out of thin air" as long as they were paired with the corresponding Magic Array.
By using a Magic Array to operate the power of elemental runes, one could condense suitable elemental magic power and ultimately transform it into the material form of the element.
This involved the concepts of conversion between magic power, magic, and matter.
Elemental magic power was a form of free energy. Guided by a caster's mental power and supplemented by the pull of their own magic power, elemental magic power could be assembled into a specific spell model. That was the principle of magic, and also the most common way elemental magic power was converted into matter.
The renowned Grand Magic Mentor scholar Arnorn Kether had once published a paper on this subject.
It revealed the relationship between [Mental Power], [Elemental Magic Power], and [Matter].
Its conclusion was that, under certain conditions, the three could catalyze one another, thereby achieving a cyclical conversion process.
[Mental Power] alone was divided into numerous categories, such as [Individual Mental Power], [Collective Mental Power], [Material Mental Power], [Soul-Body Mental Power], [Subconscious Sea], and so on.
[Elemental Magic Power] also had many branch concepts.
As for [Matter], it represented the very meaning of existence within the Prime Material Plane.
The three were all foundations of this world and sources of power in certain respects,