The next two days will be calm.

Antonio regretted that although he gave "Sophia" many times, the other party not only did not take the opportunity to escape, but instead calmly accepted the life of being under house arrest in the military camp.

Mother Teresa of St. Jenny's Convent personally brought a small box, which contained her birth certificate, baptism certificate, and some other items from the Lavoisier family, as Sophia said.

Sofia himself and the pupil color, hair color and birthmark on the birth certificate can be matched. At this point, Antonio has basically believed in Sofia's identity.

Next, we need to obtain copies of the birth certificate and baptism certificate from the church that baptized Antoine Laurent's daughter, and compare them with the two. If the two sets of documents are consistent, she will be able to fully prove her identity.

Respected guarantors, birth documents, tokens, this is how this era can prove that "one person" is "one person".

In other words, no matter who it is, as long as she holds a complete set of documents and can match the description of the documents, she is Antoine Laurent's daughter in a legal sense.

Although there are many loopholes to exploit, this is the most rigorous method that people of this era can have.

Sofia agreed to Antonio's proposal to make the research in the notes the reward for the restoration of Antoine Laurent's reputation by the Republic of Veneta. This is the best of both worlds, and Sofia inadvertently protected the reputation of Antonio and Winters. Because Antonio had made up his mind to leave the contents of the notes in Veneta even if he violated his promise.

The Army Headquarters Gendarmerie Department has been busy these two days. Lieutenant Colonel Field has carefully confirmed that none of the spellcaster officers in the Vinetta Army have been on leave, missing or dead in recent days.

At the Second Gendarmerie Officer Meeting, Winters proposed a possibility: that man was indeed a spellcaster, but not from the Venetta Army. The man did not return to Venetta, but went to Venetta, who was a UNAF spellcaster.

However, the three men from the Gendarmerie Department have no means to prove this, so they can only send a public letter to the United Provincial Army. However, considering the tension between the two sides, it is estimated that this letter will only be a rock.

However, the salvage operation was a bit unexpected. Hailan Port is a natural deep-water harbor. The bottom of the pier is mainly coral reefs and stones, and the silt layer is not thick. Four sailors with good water properties have fished their guns and swords in one day.

But the problem is that there are no signs or heralds that can prove the identity of the assassin, either on the gun or on the sword, so it basically has no meaning.

The biggest gain was that several salvage sailors also took out Major Moritz's sword. The sword was also lost on the day Moritz drowned. Recently, he has been using a simple old sword to retrieve the expensive and gorgeous ceremonial sword. It is an unexpected surprise.

However, Winters's minds in the past few days are not on the assassination, but on Antoine Laurent's notes.

In the military academy, all spellcasters had heard their seniors tell a story mysteriously: Antoine Laurent, the father of the alliance spellcaster who was executed more than ten years ago, was conducting a study that could subvert the magic system, and he touched the essence of magic. After his death, his manuscripts were lost and his achievements also disappeared.

No one knows where the story came from, but it can be confirmed that the story has become more and more like a myth. Because Winters alone has experienced two iterations of the story in his three years at the Officers Academy.

The content of Antoine Laurent's research became larger and more mysterious as it was said. His manuscript became a magic weapon that could make the caster a legendary magician who ruined the world.

As a spellcaster, Winters certainly doesn't believe there is anything that can enhance a spellcaster's spell ability out of thin air. As he said to Ike: "Can a kid have a good sword and he can become a top swordsman?"

However, being influenced by this story for many years still made him have a mysterious imagination of Antoine Laurent's research manuscript: although it is not as magical as the story says, it must have recorded very important information.

But when he actually copied this note, his feeling was very complicated.

The things recorded in this note are very confusing, this book is a diary, inspiration collection, and experiments recorded.

Many content seems to be written wherever you think, some are scattered ideas, and some are the results of experiments. They are tilled, deleted, and modified. There are some corners and corners and some simple sketches with vulgar content, which seem to be drawn casually when the idea is in a deadlock.

Does Antoine Laurent's notes contain important information?

certainly.

But for the Venetta Republic, the most useful thing recorded in this note is probably the sketch of the "Fire-burning spell potential test instrument".

Although the drawing is very simple, Winters understood what it was. The entire instrument is essentially a delicate balance. Two glass spheres are placed at both ends of the balance, and there is a glass tube connected to each other.

The drawing is very simple, and there seems to be some kind of liquid in the glass ball in the sketch.

Winters speculated that the two glass spheres and the glass tube connecting the two spheres should be a closed whole, and the liquid in the glass sphere should be some extremely volatile liquid.

As a spellcaster, Winters quickly figured out the principle of this test instrument. In short, this test instrument can detect the weakest spell abilities.

The spell abilities of untrained casters are as weak as the little Mars struck by the Scarlet, and this clever instrument can detect the existence of the little Mars.

First, adjust the balance to achieve balance. If the subject has the ability of a fire-burning spell, even the weakest ability, as long as he can slightly vaporize the liquid in the glass sphere, the balance of the balance will be destroyed.

Even Winters couldn't help but applaud the whimsical idea of ​​this design. You should know that the most difficult thing is not to train a spellcaster, and the most difficult thing is how to find someone with spell talent from the vast crowd.

Like normal people, the caster has two eyes and one nose. Before the test, even the caster himself did not realize that he had a spell talent. Their spell ability is so low that even if they use magic power unconsciously, the effect is so weak that no one or others can detect it.

In this way, people with magic potential are buried in the crowd. A sudden headache or a chill in their lives is actually a phantom limb pain caused by unconscious use of magic. But even they themselves will not notice these signs and are quickly forgotten.

Through this test device, even weak spell abilities can be detected.

The screening of magic potentials has always been a strictly kept secret in the United Republic. By exclusively mastering this technology, spellcasters in all republics must be sent to the United Republic for training, regardless of gender.

Obtaining this drawing means that the Republic of Veneta can get rid of the Union Republic and independently screen casters. It can even kick the Union and independently cultivate its own casters. After all, the content of the caster training is not a secret. Veneta has hundreds of spellcaster officers, all of whom have received complete training courses in the military academy.

As for the rest of this note...they subvert Winters' perception of magic.

But what is the level of spell ability before reading Winters, and what is the level of spell ability after reading it.

However, the content made Winters suffer from insomnia for two nights.

In this casual note, Antoine Laurent wrote:

"In ancient times, people believed that the whole world was composed of four elements: fire, air, earth, and water. People in Selica believed that the world was composed of metal, plants, fire, earth, and water. Naturalists divided all things in the world into plants, animals and inanimate objects. But I think the world in their eyes was not beautiful, too chaotic, and too disordered. So I went further and divided everything that existed in the entire universe into two categories: matter and energy.

All tangible things are matter, water, gas, and stones are matter.

Everything invisible is energy, such as light and heat."

On this basis, Antoine Laurent proposed a hypothesis: conservation of matter.

That is, magic will not create matter out of thin air, nor will it annihilate matter out of thin air.

The vaporization technique does not make water annihilate, but turns water into gas.

"Watermaking" does not create water out of thin air, but condenses the water vapor in the air into liquid.

Antoine Laurent recorded his design experiment: In an extremely dry room, the caster can only "create" a few drops of water when he uses watermaking with all his strength. In a humid outdoor environment, the caster can quickly "create" a glass of water when he uses watermaking with all his strength.

In addition, he also conducted another experiment, metal powder combustion experiment, and finally confirmed that the reason why the metal powder becomes heavy after combustion is that the substances in the air enter the metal and heat the metal powder in a closed system. Although the metal powder becomes heavy, the quality of the entire system does not change.

Antoine Laurent wrote on the first page of the notes: "What is magic? Is magic a trick? Is it an apple? Is it a rabbit?

If magic can create matter, will magicians all over the world constantly create water and can flood all the land one day?

It must not be, the essence of magic should be summarized into a beautiful and poetic saying: it can and can only change the energy state of matter.

But I don’t have sufficient evidence to confirm this yet.”

The rest of this note is to verify this speculation. Antoine Laurent overthrew the magic system he established and rebuilt the three major magic categories.

In the "Analysis of the essence of sound magic", Antoine Laurent confirmed that the essence of sound is a kind of vibration. The so-called "sound" means that the vibration of the sound source spreads into the surrounding medium.

The essence of sound magic is the ability to change the vibration energy of matter. Sound magic is therefore changed to vibration magic by Antoine Laurent. He also proposed a new spell concept "resonance technique".

In thinking about acceleration magic, the father of the Alliance Spellcaster believes that accelerating objects are just manifestations of acceleration magic. He believes that the state of motion of matter is essentially an energy, and he calls this energy kinetic energy. Accelerating magic is summarized by Antoine Laurent as the ability to change the kinetic energy of an object.

As for the fire-burning spells, there is no subversive content. However, the father of the spellcaster still had new thoughts. He believed that flames are the energy stored in the matter. Light and heat are both forms of energy release. Fire-burning spells realize the transmission of energy instead of flames.

Later, Antoine Laurent felt that a mathematical system should be established for magic, but the content of the notes came to an abrupt end, and it seemed that some emergencies interrupted his research.

Winters read in confusion and copied the notes.

The content recorded in this note should be precisely classified as magic philosophy and magic principles. Most of the content is Antoine Laurent's conjecture and exploration of the essence of magic.

Practical content, such as: how to improve the spell caster's spell level and what training methods are more effective, there is no mention of it.

However, this may not be blamed on Antoine Laurent, because the father of the alliance caster himself is not a spellcaster and has no spell ability. The research direction is all focused on theoretical research, and there is almost no practical research.

Among the whole notes, the most practical one is probably the sketch of the spell talent test instrument drawn by Antoine Laurent.

"The essence of magic is to change the energy state of an object."

After reading the full notes, Winters remembered this sentence. He didn't know whether this sentence was right or wrong, but even if it was right, his magical level would not improve by knowing the "essence" of magic.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! Winters burst into tears: "General Antoine Laurent did not lie, 'The power of the spell caster comes from knowledge and diligence', and there is no shortcut to go. Even if you know the essence of magic, what if you still have to practice flying arrow art honestly at night?"

However, Antoine Laurent's analysis of sound-like spells has benefited Winters a lot. Before that, he originally believed that sound-like spells only act on sounds.

Antoine Laurent named the essence of sound is vibration, and sound magic should be called vibration magic and opened a new door for Winters.

He also tried to practice the "resonance technique" recorded in the notes several times. Antoine Laurent himself was not a spellcaster, and "resonance technique" was just a spell idea he recorded, just like the spell that Winters had imagined to vaporize blood, which had not been actually verified.

The so-called resonance technique was inspired by Antoine Laurent from an accident in his military career. When he passed a small bridge during a march, the uniform steps of the war horses made the entire bridge begin to tremble violently, and finally the bridge collapsed, killing and injured many people.

After observation and thinking, Antoine Laurent concluded that the bridge itself is vibrating slowly, and the pace of the war horse overlaps with the inherent vibration period of the bridge, just like swinging on the bridge, which eventually leads to the collapse of the bridge.

Therefore he proposed a hypothesis that if the caster's spell ability is strong enough to enhance the inherent vibration of large buildings such as bridges, these buildings can be destroyed. However, it is unimaginable to achieve this effect, so this is just an idea of ​​Antoine Laurent staying on paper.

Winters certainly did not have the magical ability to destroy the bridge house, but he used another way to subtly verify the feasibility of the spell.

He bought some thinner glassware for experiments and asked Elizabeth to knock on the glassware with a spoon, while he tried to use "sound"-like spells to strengthen the sound when the glassware was knocked.
Chapter completed!