Exploring Technology in a Wizard World
Chapter 1541 - 1539: Who Are Spells Spoken For?
Feeling that the persuasion was sufficient, Abel did not let the fireball continue to expand. He clenched his hand abruptly and extinguished the fireball.
Looking at Richard, Abel spoke softly: "The two demonstrations just now, I think, are almost able to prove my theory. Next, let’s discuss the Ultimate Spell seriously."
"What exactly is the Ultimate Spell?" Richard asked solemnly.
"The Ultimate Spell, as I imagine it, is the true spell among spells; it is one level higher than the true spell, and the iron law that governs the world. Mastering the Ultimate Spell means mastering the world and being able to uncover all the secrets of the world..."
"Are you saying that the world exists based on spells?" Richard looked at Abel and helped him articulate the conclusion he wanted to express.
"Isn’t that so?" Abel countered, "At least in my theory, our world is built on spells. I don’t mind if you say I’m crazy or call me a madman, because many have done so. But in any case, until I find strong counterevidence, I will hold onto this view. In fact, no counterevidence exists to this day. I do have one piece of evidence that others find inexplicable. Do you want to hear it?"
"Go ahead."
"It’s still about spells," Abel blinked and said, "You’ve researched spells and naturally understood from then that spells have effects. The demonstration I just gave you can also show that true spells can work directly without relying on energy. Have you ever wondered why spells work?
When you get down to it, spells are just sounds, and these sounds don’t even have to be loud; they don’t need to be heard by others, just uttered.
So why do they work once uttered? Why does the world change in a fixed way, like a loyal soldier obeying a command, every time they are spoken?
Whom are our spells cast for, really?
How do our spells actually impact the world?
How do our spells bestow us with extraordinary power?
The most rational explanation is that the world is constructed from spells, and thus, when we speak a spell, we mobilize the fundamental rules of the world and thereby gain extraordinary power outside those rules, releasing magic.
After pausing, Abel looked at Richard and continued: "Oh, there’s one more thing I almost forgot to mention—earlier, I conducted extensive investigations into spells, trying to figure out the origin of spells. In the end, I discovered a reality that’s hard for people to accept, which is, spells have no origin.
Indeed, spells have no origin; it seems that when the first generation wizard mastered extraordinary power and could use magic, spells already existed in the world. It’s even possible, before there were extraordinary powers, magic, or wizards, when the world was just created, spells already existed—they are the language of the creator, the secret words of the Creator God, eternally connected with the world, the most vital part of the world. Hence, mastering it means mastering everything!"
Spells cast for whom to hear? Spells have no origin? Spells are the language of the creator, Creator God? Master spells, master everything?
After listening, Richard remained silent for a long time, then fell into deep thought.
It must be said, Abel is the first person he has encountered, in the true sense, to be of the same kind, because they stand on the same height, pursue similar goals, and without needing to do anything special, just a simple exchange can gain many insights from the other, giving him more conjectures about the truth of the world.
Since arriving in this world from the start, he has suspected the reality of this world.
After all, transmigration is such a matter without foundation, nor scientific principle.
Thus, he views everything coldly, analyzes everything madly, persistently explores everything.
In his eyes, until the truth is clarified, the world he is in is half-real, half-fantasy; the fantasy part is meaningless, and only the real part is meaningful.
When the meaningless fantasy part and the meaningful real part overlap as one, the sum of meaning becomes zero, and the meaningful turns meaningless—because this is not addition but multiplication.
All he has wanted to do is clarify whether the world is real or not, determine if the world has meaning.
If, at the end, he finds the world is real, naturally, there’s nothing more to say. If, at the end, he finds the world is a fantasy, and everything is meaningless, then he has to seek out meaning from within the meaningless.
After all, isn’t the existence of life just for meaning?
And today, Abel’s discourse on spells very much tells him that perhaps the world is, indeed, a fantasy, meaningless.
This is not good news, yet it is better than never figuring out the truth of the world.
Through Abel’s words, he involuntarily conjures many associations.
On Earth, there’s a very famous theory called box theory.
In box theory, the entire world is placed in a box, through extensive calculations and meticulous control.
For example, the conditions for life to arise on Earth are extremely stringent.
First, it requires a single constant star system.
Second, the size of this star must be moderate. If too large, the stellar evolution proceeds too quickly and collapses into a white dwarf star within billions of years; if too small, it cannot provide enough energy.
Third, the planet must orbit the star stably. There must be almost no exceptions in the process, such as sudden orbital shifts or impacts by large external comets.
Fourth, the size of the planet must also be moderate. If too large, gravity grows stronger, the atmosphere becomes compressed into a liquid, unable to provide breathing for living organisms; if too small, it cannot retain the atmosphere with gravity.
Fifth, the planet’s orbit must be moderate. Being too close to the star would scorch the planet’s surface; being too far would turn it into a frost world.
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Adding all these conditions together, the probability of life arising on Earth is infinitely close to zero, leading one to suspect that Earth has indeed been deliberately designed, so everything fits so perfectly.
Similarly, the probability of life arising in other worlds is also very low.
According to the principle of entropy increase, the world tends toward disorder and chaos, so desolation is the cosmic norm, and life, such a highly ordered collection, is extremely abnormal.
If box theory is true, then all life and even the whole world are specially created for a certain purpose, just like a computer game.
As is commonly known, computer games are manufactured and run based on programming code.
Then, could this world be manufactured and run based on programming code too?
There are many programming codes for computer games, like C language, Java, Python, which define the game’s parameters, operating logic, and execution statements for various situations.
And this world’s programming code might be more unified, consisting of only one kind, which is spells.
Spells are the programming code for this world, setting the rules and parameters.
Magic spells are the pre-defined functions in the programming code, namely, small programs one after another.
Thus, using spells activates these functions, affects other programming codes, changes the established rules and parameters, thereby causing extraordinary changes in the world.
Abel asked, for whom are the spells cast?
The answer is, spells are cast for other spells to hear.