"Cataclysm OL" official forum, today was exceptionally lively.

As for the reason, it was not because the development team had updated any new content, but because someone had managed to play the existing game content in a spectacular new way.

Yiye Zhiqu: "...The above is my experience in casting and the entire process of learning magic, hoping it can serve as a starter for others exploring the mysteries of magic, providing some references."

It took about half an hour, Yiye Zhiqu had updated the post with the problems he had encountered over the past two and a half weeks as well as the experiences he had drawn. Initially, he had planned to write casually, but the more he wrote, the clearer his thoughts became, unwittingly writing about a thousand or two thousand words.

Even in the process of organizing knowledge points, he developed a new understanding of the magic system in "Cataclysm OL".

After reflecting for a moment, he eventually included his immature idea at the bottom of the post, as an academic discussion.

"...The NPCs in the game mentioned that the core of magic is the subjective consciousness imagining objective things, but I think this statement is not quite accurate."

"If it were merely imagination, with my imagination, it would not have taken two and a half weeks to materialize fire. There must be other thresholds that are beyond words but can be perceived."

"After repeated reflection, I envisioned a possibility..."

Different people have variances in their perception of the same object, just as people living on the coast and inland have a hard time imagining the same wind and rain.

Not to mention magic is not the objective thing itself, but an extension of the objective thing, which almost guarantees that people's imaginations about it are wildly different and fanciful.

Then why can some people perform spells while others cannot?

Is it merely because of insufficient spiritual power or intelligence attributes?

Yiye Zhiqu wasn't sure if he should make such an in-depth interpretation, but the clues he could grasp all pointed in the same direction.

"...An individual's spiritual power is minute, insufficient to make the entire world respond to his wishes."

"Therefore, 'my thoughts' is not accurate. "

"A more accurate version would be 'the thoughts of many' and 'at my command.'"

This was the best solution he could think of.

Assuming that on the planet set in "Cataclysm OL", there exists a kind of energy capable of responding to subjective consciousness, and the intelligent beings living on this planet gradually became aware of its existence through the long evolutionary process, they would definitely start to consciously maximize this force.

Initially, people expressed their different opinions, each exerting their effort in divergent directions, resulting in just a few raindrops after a great deal of effort.

Latterly, people realized that they couldn't scurry around like headless flies; they needed to find a direction and exert collectively, so under the leadership of a chieftain or priest, they prayed for rain together, hoping for the rain they all had seen on a specific day in a specific month.

As expected, they succeeded.

Even if they didn't manage to summon the downpour they had seen that day, the result was definitely much better than at the beginning... after all, that was a collective cry from the natives, which caused some resonance or sympathy at least in the process.

People were not satisfied with just that.

The nature of gregarious animals quickly came into play—

Whether it was a pack of wolves or a flock of sheep, they began to seek their lead wolf or lead sheep.

Without any surprises, people almost naturally began to envision a priest or deity with boundless mana, imagining him or them as their spokesperson on earth to delegate the power of praying for rain...

Thus, the concept of Extraordinary Power was born.

And this concept must have been born alongside organized human activities such as religion, culture, and so on.

The beings living on this planet constructed various systems of Extraordinary Power, and stipulated the methods of its usage... this included what would be known as elemental magic!

When these rules were completely formed, ingrained in people's minds, and eventually left a deep imprint on their spirits, these rules would further elevate to become the underlying codes constructing the civilizations on the entire planet.

By that time, even without the need for religious power to maintain these rules, as long as the civilizations that passed down these rules still existed, these underlying codes would continue to exist.

To utilize this system of power.

One must first understand it.

That is, understand "the thoughts of many"!

After pressing the final Enter key, Yiye Zhiqu leaned back in his gaming chair and looked at the comment section of the post, chuckling and shaking his head in self-mockery.

"I must be obsessed."

The players' feedback was mixed.

Some found it impressive, some thought he thought too much.

There were even others who, like him, thought he was obsessed and tagged Professor Yang to treat him.

Knowledge Explosion: "Wait, so you're saying, if I knew the mass-energy equation, I could potentially create an atomic bomb by hand?!"

Yiye Zhiqu: "Theoretically, it's possible. But first, you would need to popularize a whole set of physical concepts in the game world, or at least persuade enough people to agree with your idea. Secondly, you have to be certain that you truly understand the concept of an atom, or you are likely to only produce something that looks like, but isn't quite, an atomic bomb... perhaps something like the Ping-Pong ball you saw in a physics book."

Village Elder: "Damn, that sounds rather troublesome, I've actually never seen what an 'atom' looks like."

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