The Mighty Dragons Are Dead

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Whether Ach can be considered an adult is a difficult question to answer.

However, since her promotion to Archmage, her body has already been reshaped through elementalization with the help of the Magic Web, maintaining the independence of her body and spirit while becoming a part of the Magic Web.

"The Magic Web is a very peculiar existence. Ach can't sense its limits, but it envelopes every corner of the world. You can open a portal anywhere and release magic through the Magic Web, and you can cast powerful Water Magic even on land."

Ach elaborated on the Magic Web in detail.

Although she had said that the Dragon Knight's Magic Web was like a mini version of the true Magic Web, the gap between them was as vast as the difference between heaven and earth.

Of course.

Even with Ach's vivid description of the Magic Web, Liszt's understanding of it remained very vague. After all, the Magic Web is an extremely abstract existence; it's difficult to truly comprehend it without experiencing it firsthand. It's more like a set of rules than a tangible object.

"So the magic power you draw upon now belongs to the Magic Web. Do you think it could reach the level of Dragon's Intent?" Liszt asked.

Although initially distracted and stirred by desire at the sight of Ach's fair little feet, his thirst for knowledge and reverence for power quickly cleared the frivolous thoughts from his mind, and he eagerly discussed the Magic Web with Ach, together chasing after the truth.

"It might be different from the Dragon's Intent you've described, brother. But Ach would need to compare Bilio's Dragon's Intent with the magic power of the Magic Web to analyze it."

"That won't be hard; Bilio has as much Dragon's Intent as you'd want." Given the current relationship between Liszt and Bilio, Bilio would not refuse to share his Dragon's Intent. "However, you know I've been cultivating the Eye of Magic. Now, if you release some Magic Web magic power for me to check, I can see what's so magical about it."

Ach nodded.

She then cast the basic Water Magic - Water Arrow Technique.

A water arrow formed in her hand, not shooting out but quietly hovering.

His pupils swirling like a vortex of stars, Liszt had already employed the Eye of Magic, closely observing the water arrow. Blue and white Water-Attribute Magic Power continuously sustained its existence, which was very solid. Unfortunately, without entering Dragon Rider Mode, he could not observe the motion of the magic particles.

But he could feel that the Magic Web's magic power was distinctly different from ordinary free-floating magic power, dissipating more slowly and being more solid.

"Ach, my initial feeling is that the Magic Web's magic power hasn't reached the extreme properties of Dragon's Intent. It's more like the normal magic power released by dragons... or to make a more vivid comparison, it should be able to reach my current level of Dragon Dou Qi. I didn't expect the Magic Web's magic power to be so formidable."

Dou Qi is a special type of magic power refined by humans themselves.

Primary Dou Qi, Intermediate Dou Qi, Advanced Dou Qi – this is a complete progression of levels. Essentially, Complete Advanced Level Dou Qi is the ultimate form of Dou Qi.

And Dragon Dou Qi, strictly speaking, no longer falls under the category of Dou Qi, as it is continuously merged and purified with the help of dragon magic power to reach a higher level of magic form.

"Just as you said, the Dragon Knight is like a mini Magic Web." Liszt's imagination began to take flight. "Does that mean, then, that the Dragon Dou Qi released by a Dragon Knight essentially shares a great deal of similarity with the magic power of the Magic Web? So are Dragon Dou Qi and Magic Web magic power of the same caliber in terms of magical properties?"

To use the term 'level' might be inaccurate.

Describing it as 'energy level' makes it clearer.

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"Brother makes a lot of sense," Ach nodded in agreement. She greatly admired Li Si Te (Liszt) because he had imparted so much wondrous knowledge to her, such as the movement of celestial bodies, the Big Bang, gravitational waves, wormholes, the three laws of thermodynamics, as well as cellular structures and the four major tissues of the human body, and so on.

In her eyes, the breadth of Liszt's knowledge far surpassed any other magician.

Indeed, that was the case, as the knowledge Liszt brought with him was the culmination of thousands of years of summaries and explorations by Earth's scientists. Whereas the humans of this world were still indulging in Dou Qi and magic, spending their days either cultivating or at war, relying on elves for farming and dragons for mining minerals.

They had no incentive to develop technology.

The theory of the triangle of material, magic power, and spirit was too encompassing, causing humans not to focus on material technology but to follow the path of magic power expansion—after all, if cultivating alone made them stronger and enabled them to plunder everything, who would want to bother inventing and creating.

Even Liszt, a transmigrator who had basked in the light of modern civilization, was still attracted to magic power and found himself unable to extricate himself from the desire to become stronger.

There was no interest in driving the development of the industrial revolution.

With the easy path of picking up elves and riding dragons to possess everything, why choose to promote the industrial revolution—rather than spend hundreds of years pushing the industry forward and barely creating something like the atomic bomb that could grow mushrooms, it was better to ride more dragons.

In summary, Liszt could indeed claim the title of a learned man in this world.

After careful comparison between the dragon's magic power and the magic web's magic power with Ach, they concluded that these two types of magic power were essentially on the same level and belonged to the same energy level of magical properties.

"Dragon's Intent is the ultimate nature of magic power, the dragon's ordinary magic power and the magic web's magic power are advanced in nature, other stray magic powers are low in nature..."

The discussion went on until late at night.

Ach summarized, "Other forms of magic power, such as Dou Qi, Blood Magic, Druid Magic, as well as the magic passed down from ancient warriors and ancient magicians, are all branches of low nature magic power; in essence, they are still low nature magic power, while Dragon Dou Qi belongs to a branch of advanced nature magic power."

Liszt quickly noted in his thick leather-bound notebook, "A Knight's Dou Qi is a cultivation system based on low nature magic power, which transforms into advanced nature magic power when they reach the level of a Dragon Knight; magicians are the same, all kinds of magic are evolutions of low nature magic power, and it is only Archmages that transform into advanced nature magic power."

From what is known so far, only Dragon Knights and Archmages are involved with advanced nature magic power; other ancient warriors and ancient magicians are still revolving around low nature magic power.

Therefore, during the era of the Moon Empire when the magic web was powerful, magicians ruled the world.

Currently, with the shrinking magic web and the Dragon Knights who have their own mini magic web radiating light and heat, the Knights have begun to rule the world. Compared with the magicians' worship of knowledge, the Knights were a bit more savage in their cultivation, resulting in the prosperity and civilization of the Moon Empire being almost entirely lost after a few thousand years.

"We should classify and define the properties of each level of magic power for easier publishing in the future," Liszt said in the end. "Low nature magic power will be called Low-energy Magic Power, advanced nature magic power will be called High-energy Magic Power, and ultimate nature magic power, which is Dragon's Intent, will be called Super-energy Magic Power."

They will be briefly called Low Magic, High Magic, and Superior Magic.

Earth Knights, Sky Knights, Domain Knights, Magicians, Grand Magicians, Cloaked Bear-wearers, Vampires, these are all Low Magic professions.

Dragon Knights and Archmages belong to High Magic professions.

Moving further up, unless Liszt also cultivates Dragon's Intent, he can't advance to a Superior Magic profession. As for how Ach will upgrade the magic web's magic power to a higher energy level and reach the Superior Magic profession remains unknown.