Chapter 257: 'Utilitarian' and 'Ideal'
When the world's first and currently the only 'small hydroelectric generator' in Assatom was placed in the stream and confirmed to be operational, the members of the team did not let out the same cheers as when the 'hand-cranked generator' was first developed.
The old scholar Raditz couldn't help but let out a cold snort when he saw his students and the other group members looking like this.
And the old mage Potter, who was crouching on the side and observing the operation of the hydroelectric generator with Raditz, also sighed.
"If there's anything you want to say, just say it......" At this point, he paused, and then Potter added softly, "Don't worry, just say it, we won't blame you." ”
"Teacher, why are we still studying this thing?"
As soon as Potter's words fell, one of his mage apprentices couldn't help it.
The mage apprentice glanced at the small hydroelectric generator, "Obviously the maid master has already created the lost 'magic energy furnace', why do we have to work so thanklessly to develop this thing?"
"You-"
Several of the group members clenched their fists and glared at the mage apprentice, trying to make a move, but were stopped by Potter.
After stopping the Raditz students, Potter turned to look at his apprentice.
"Yanu, I like it very well that you can have this 'shameless questioning' mentality. ”
Yanu was not happy at the praise of the 'guru', because he knew that if the guru spoke like that, then there would be a turning point after that.
It was indeed as Yanu thought, Potter changed his words, "But it's not just something you've researched, Yanu, it's all the results of our research, it's not something that doesn't make sense, I need you to apologize to them first, then to me, and finally, to yourself, because it's not just our research, it's yours, and you're disrespecting your own research at the same time!" So, Yanu, apologize, and when you're done, I'll tell you what this little hydroelectric generator is all about. You're twenty years old, and you should be able to understand these things. ”
Anu was stunned for a moment, his mouth open and closed, but after seeing Potter's grim expression, although he was still a little reluctant, he still whispered 'sorry' to the others.
After Yanu 'apologized' to everyone, including herself, Raditz, who had been squatting on the ground without saying a word just now, suddenly said: "The maid master has been giving us research and development funds, even after she made the 'magic energy furnace', our research funds have not been canceled, and even more, this is the best evidence!"
Before the others could understand what Raditz was saying, Potter smiled bitterly and sighed, "Raditz, you don't have to be so angry with them, it's not necessarily a bad thing for young people to be a little impatient." ”
"But it's not necessarily a good thing!" Raditz said coldly.
Yanu clenched his fists because he felt that this 'old fellow' was referring to him, and it made him feel like he had lost face in front of the others.
He didn't think about the 'research funding', and although the research funding would be announced every month, he hadn't paid attention to these issues because he was just an apprentice, and it wasn't his turn to worry about the research funding.
"Alas......"
Potter shook his head and sighed, and instead of answering Raditz's words, he began to explain to the members of the research team: "Once an arcane master from the Arcane Empire said something like this, 'Magic is the art from the top down', and the maid master is not wrong to make the magic energy furnace, and with her generosity, we have a good chance of obtaining the technology to make the magic energy furnace, but so what? We know how to make a magic furnace, but if we want to make a magic furnace, we still have the technology, and when we have mastered the technology, we can invent more things, and those are just the attachments that the magic furnace has brought us
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"And then, what after that?"
Potter stretched out his finger and pointed at his apprentice, "Yanu, you are all gifted and qualified, and it is because you are gifted and qualified that you can become my apprentice. Do you see, the prerequisite for becoming a mage is to have 'talent'!"
"If you want to study magic techniques like the Magic Furnace, you have to be a powerful mage, but what 'this' can give us is different. Potter pointed to the small hydroelectric generator, "With enough knowledge, even an ordinary person can make this kind of hydroelectric generator, do you understand what that means?"
No one answered the old mage, and even Yanu became sluggish, because they really couldn't figure out what it meant.
However, vaguely, they felt that a stirring mood was blocked by the defense line they used to form of 'ignorance' and 'cowering', and they kept wandering.
They swallowed, and they already had a guess in their minds, but they didn't dare to say it, for fear that the answer would not be what they had imagined......
"It's a new path. ”
The lack of an answer from anyone made the old mage a little sad and a little happy that these children were not brave enough, and that they had already thought carefully and understood that they should not act rashly when faced with things they did not know.
However, they seem to have gone too far, much to the annoyance of Potter.
"There is no distinction between this path and magic - Raditz and I once asked the maid about this question, and the maid gave me and Raditz an answer, 'Whether it is mechanical or magical, in the final analysis, it is still the tools in our hands, whether the tools are good or not, it only depends on what the tools are used for, if you use a hammer to see wood and a saw to plow the field, isn't that putting the cart before the horse?'"
The old mage paused, and then said, "Although I don't agree with the idea that 'magic is a tool', it is true from the current situation. Whether it's 'mechanical' or 'magical', it doesn't make much difference in essence as long as it's used appropriately or not......"
Potter looked a little depressed, because the beliefs he had held on to and carried out for the first half of his life had been overturned all at once, and he was an old man, and it was too difficult to change his mind, to change the mind that he had been holding on to for decades.
He can't use 'magic' as a tool, 'magic' has been with him for decades, during which he has not married a wife or children, he has been running around for 'magic', becoming a mage advisor to the nobles, joining other mage organizations to work, but until now, he has not become a 'transcendent'.
The head maid didn't give him much hope, and he had only come to work in Wende City for a good salary.
He didn't see much hope in 'magic', though, but he found another way.
After being denied half a lifetime of hard work by the chief maid, Potter could not have no complaints in his heart, and no one could have no complaints.
However, after he went back and thought about these questions for a while, he let go and put all his energy on the 'other way'.
He worked hard for half his life, but he didn't leave his name on the 'history of magic', and he always felt that it would be too cowardly and unwilling to die like this.
He had forgotten what he had chosen to study magic for at first, but now he was sure that he was here to 'make a name for himself'!
"It's a different path, a path that can also shine brightly......
Looking at the hydroelectric generator, a faint smile appeared on the old mage's face, and he whispered: "No matter what it is for, whether it is for fame and fortune, or for ideals, after all, aren't we also creating a future for mankind?"