What was the essence of Arcane?
That was a question, and a very difficult one to answer.
For Azeroth as it was now, even after over ten thousand years of development, almost all progress in Arcane research still remained at the level of empiricism!
Without a doubt, empiricism was isolated, static, and one-sided! Precisely because of this, magic had actually developed quite slowly in Azeroth over nearly ten thousand years... Throughout its history, the Mages who had reached the ninth ring could be counted on one hand, and there might have been only a handful of tenth-ring legendary Mages...
In Netheril at its peak, eleventh-ring godlike Mages could be seen everywhere, while tenth-ring legends were "as common as dirt"...
Very few Mages paid attention to this nebulous question. Most concerned themselves with either using a particular spell more proficiently or increasing their mental power more quickly...
But something Archmage Modera had said during her lecture had suddenly reminded Karin of something.
Within the same system, different spells were interconnected! Moreover, the strength of a spell when cast was affected by certain objectively existing factors!
Now that was interesting.
Following that premise, could magic be broken down and analyzed through some method?
Then he would certainly need the "weapon" used by science in his previous life: mathematics!
Mathematics itself was not part of science. Only falsifiable knowledge was science, and mathematics could not be falsified... In fact, mathematics stood above science!
At the Sunfury Library, under the strange looks of others, Karin picked up over a dozen books describing "Fireball," "Flame Shock," and "Pyroblast" at once, then turned them to the pages describing the spells' power.
Since the power unleashed by these spells was interconnected, Karin sank into thought...
His own spell power as a Mage, with his equipment's enhancements,