The Connection Between Elemental Magic Marks
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After saying goodbye to Professor Nicolas and leaving the spaceship, Lucien continued his search for the Norwegian Ridgeback's habitat.
High in the sky, where wind and snow are swirling.
Lucien sat on Norbert's broad back, looking down at his right hand, where a blue wavy pattern had appeared on the tip of his little finger.
This is Primary Elemental Water Rune, a loan that was triggered by chance these past few days. The task was very simple and I completed it easily.
Wave your wand to summon a pool of water, and control it to transform into various shapes.
Just like the Thunder Pattern, this Water Pattern pattern amplifies the power of water magic by 10%, while also increasing Lucien's affinity with the water element.
However, what Lucien was more concerned about was that after obtaining this Water Pattern, a faint connection had formed between it and the Advanced Elemental Thunder Rune on his thumb.
Following that connection, Lucien released another arc of electricity.
The water and the electric arc seemed to attract each other and intertwine. Beyond this appearance, Lucien found the coexistence of water and lightning elements even more intriguing.
It's not that different elements can't coexist. For example, a common topic in Alchemy is how to utilize the four basic elements: water, fire, earth, and wind. However, when different elements coexist, they inevitably consume each other, and this consumption rate is a problem that must be considered in alchemy.
At this moment, the two elemental masses of water and mine in front of Lucien were intertwined, but the consumption rate was slightly lower than normal.
Alchemy is a rigorous discipline with many fundamental standards regarding the rate of element consumption.
After trying it in different situations, Lucien confirmed that as long as he activated the elemental runes, the consumption rate of the corresponding elements would be lower than the normal standard.
It's like two children who used to argue and fight, but under adult supervision, they become more restrained.
The lightning and water elements right now are represented by these two children.
Furthermore, because the Thunder Pattern has reached an advanced level, Lucien has a higher level of control over the lightning element, thus consuming less lightning element than water element.
Lucien's first thought was that if he could collect the magic runes of the four basic elements—water, fire, earth, and wind—it should also bring corresponding benefits in Alchemy.
By reducing the consumption rate among these basic elements, many alchemical knowledge and techniques can be improved or even restructured.
At least that's true for Lucien himself, who possesses elemental runes.
"And there's also composite elemental magic..."
Lucien watched the water, crackling with electric arcs, drift through the air and the idea came to him.
In fact, as the complexity of magic increases, more elements need to be mobilized, and when those elements with increased activity meet, the element consumption rate will also increase.
This is why there are very few high-level composite elemental magics. Despite using more magic power and performing more complex operations, they do not yield corresponding benefits. Research on such "unprofitable" techniques is becoming increasingly rare.
However, the connection between the Thunder Pattern and Water Pattern gave Lucien a glimmer of hope in this direction.
If the level of elemental runes can be further increased, and one's affinity with the elements can be strengthened, reducing the consumption between elements to an acceptable or even negligible level, then composite elemental magic will be worth developing.
"There's Sickle study again..."
Lucien suddenly remembered the system evaluations from the previous times he took out elemental rune loans; collecting all the elemental runes would bring a "surprise".
There are five types of elemental runes: the four basic elements of water, fire, earth, and wind, plus one element of lightning.
Based on the existing connections between lightning and water elements, it might not be necessary to collect all the highest-level elemental runes. Even if they are all only high-level or even low-level, collecting all five runes first would still bring about some changes?