Chapter 107 Medea's Small Classroom

"Now, let's start the class."

Holding a teaching stick in his hand, Medea coughed lightly.

Amon, sitting on a chair, holding an ordinary notebook, pushed his monocle curiously. "Teacher Medea, what is the difference between magic and science?"

Amon, He has now begun to learn to change.

Perhaps it was because the mystery was destined to awaken, and his future was already determined.

Maybe it was because he knew that Adam was both his brother and his father...

The realities about my fathers.

Of course, it is also possible that He found new fun and began to explore other directions starting from divine life.

"Science, magic, where did you hear that?"

Amon raised the notebook in his hand, and the image of Boshizun's eyes appeared on the cover of the notebook.

"Taken from a participant in the Stigmata War..."

"I see. Let me first tell you what real magic is."

"Magic is divided into two kinds: one is rational science, and the other is blind metaphysics."

"Metaphysics?" Amon muttered to himself curiously, "Is mysticism also metaphysics?"

"Not really." Medea shook her head.

"Mysticism and mystery are two different concepts."

“We need to know a premise.

In the extraordinary world, because of the initial split, the original exists in every person's body. Any life and everything in the world are affected by this power.

The materialization of Extraordinary concepts, the use of Extraordinary properties to make potions, and the use of Extraordinary properties to become sealed objects are not truly... [mysterious]. "

Medea held the chalk between his fingers and wrote strings of numbers and symbols on the blackboard.

"In the First Era, ancient races such as demon wolves, giants, elves, dragons, and vampires advanced by devouring the corpses of their enemies, using the extraordinary characteristics extracted from their corpses. During this period, no stone tablets were desecrated. Everything was... a natural evolutionary order."

"You can think about what will happen when the Ancient God gets rid of its unnecessary extraordinary characteristics, gains wisdom and rationality, builds that tall and magnificent palace, and creates the most basic slavery system."

"What happened?" Amon asked, resting his chin on his hand.

"Slavery. The Ancient God will discover extraordinary characteristics. No... maybe that's not the name."

“Hmm… maybe they can build a kingdom?

Similar to the way humans are doing now, starting to rule the world?"

Hearing Amon's answer, Medea nodded.

"Yes, establish a kingdom, when reason exists and wildness is restrained, order will emerge.

Slavery, feudalism, social Darwinism?

In short, after the initial order was born, we began to gradually observe the extraordinary characteristics and record the potion formulas for promotion, giving birth to the most basic mysticism, and... the extraordinary sequence!"

"Perhaps due to the changes, the sequence may be different from the one created by the desecration of the slate, but the essence is the same: the control, research, application, and thinking of extraordinary power."

By observing, recording, summarizing, and thinking about the manifestations of extraordinary characteristics in nature, we get the answers, and finally overturn the answers again and again.

And this use of "occultism" is a science.

"This is the difference between occultism and mystery," Medea said calmly.

“True mystery, so-called metaphysics, and even the fabricated laws of nature are essentially a kind of superstition—they do not doubt the statements of truth.

So to some extent, believing in scientific hypotheses and pseudo-science products without any verification or thinking, and rigidly drawing inevitable conclusions, is also a kind of superstitious metaphysics of authority. "

“Well, let me give you an example. Have you ever heard of an idiom before the First Era?
——If you get a haircut in the first month of the year, your uncle will die.”

"Does it mean that getting a haircut in the first month of the year will lead to your uncle's death?" Amon held a pen and wrote down these words in his notebook.

“No, here, I’m using Adam as an example.

One day, Adam was dissatisfied with his hair being too long, so he decided to cut it to broaden his horizons. Then the next day, the police from the Kingdom of Loen came to his house, ready to arrest him.

Adam said, "Although it is said that getting a haircut in the first month of the lunar year will kill your uncle, I have already asked my uncle, he is in good health, can eat three bowls of rice in one meal, and can still jump around. Why did you arrest me?"

The police replied [Attempted murder].

Adam remained silent and was taken away for trial. However, the origin of the saying that shaving your head in the first month of the lunar year will kill your uncle is just a custom, a fun thing that everyone agrees on. "

"This is ridiculous." Amon commented scathingly.

There was no reason, just for fun, so Adam was arrested and charged with attempted murder.

"This is one of them," Medea continued, giving examples.

"One day, Adam was walking on the road and brushed shoulders with someone. He angrily said, 'I curse your whole family to die in the future.'

The next day, Adam was taken away by the Roone police. Adam was puzzled and asked the reason.

The police informed Adam that he intended to kill someone. Although Adam did not do it now, he was ready to kill.

“One day, Adam did nothing.

But the next day, he was taken away by the Loen police and became the murderer of a murder case. The reason was that when the police burned incense and used tortoise shells for divination, they got the answer that Adam was the murderer. "

"Of course, Adam here is just an ordinary person, living in an ordinary world. He has no extraordinary powers, and the ability of a fortune teller does not exist."

Holding a piece of chalk, Medea wrote down the definition of mystery and metaphysics.

"Metaphysics is a kind of irrationality that relies entirely on your own thoughts and feelings.

You think there are pigs flying in the sky, so flying pigs were born. As for the reason, there is no reason, just whatever you want.

You think this way, and then this result appears, and you should firmly believe it. "

"So, what is science?" Curious student Amon asked.

He blinked, very curious.

"Most of the common birds you see fly on their wings, right?"

"Yes." Amon nodded.

Most of the ordinary birds he had seen flew by relying on their wings. Occasionally there were exceptions, but that was due to the mystical power generated by the extraordinary characteristics in their bodies.

"So, when you discovered this, you had a question: why do these birds fly with their wings? Can't they fly in other ways?"

"You think about this question and feel the need to understand the truth of this issue."

"Then you take the bird's wings off, dissect it, tear it into pieces bit by bit, dissect it again and again, and study it again and again, and then you find the different organs inside it and know why."

"Because... never mind, this example is enough." Medea drew this series of processes.

"Then you came to the conclusion that birds fly with their wings because..."

“This process is science.”

Observe, record, summarize, think, and get answers to questions.

All of this combined together is the charm of science.

"Occultism, through the combination of Beyonder properties and auxiliary materials, creating potions, trying to understand the properties of Beyonder properties, is also science."

After Amon summarized, he expressed his own views.

"Yes, this is science too." Medea tapped the blackboard with his fingers.

For any matter, when you delve into its principles, even in the world of Cthulhu, the world of blindly eating fish, if you summarize what methods are more likely to attract responses from Cthulhu and other old evil gods, that is also science!
Perhaps in Cthulhu's eyes, this is just the arrangement of ants that attracts his attention, but compared to blind superstition and a single thing, this process, conclusion, and overthrow and reconstruction of the truth all reflect the charm of science.

“Summarize the natural changes in the world, think about the principles behind them, analyze the causes and consequences of a process, and discuss with others what the answer to the problem is.

It is not only reflected in mysticism, but can be seen in all aspects of life.

From thinking about the sun, moon, and stars, exploring the history of the past and present, and why the universe was born. From the daily life of food, clothing, shelter, and transportation, to the ordinary and common plants and trees. "

"I understand." Amon touched his chin and said to himself, "Mysticism is the observation of natural phenomena such as the spiritual world, extraordinary characteristics, extraordinary concepts, and the astral world, and then making conclusions."

"Yes, okay, now that the basics have been explained, let's start the class."

Taking out the blackboard to wipe it all off, Medea glanced at Adam who was sitting next to Amon and was carelessly "dozing off", and gave him a headshot with the chalk between his fingers.

"Don't be distracted in class!"

"Hahahaha." Amon held his stomach and patted the shoulder of his "brother" beside him.

This is so interesting!
"Chapter 1: The history of extraordinary characteristics and prospects for future development!"

"Section 1, blasphemy against slate history."

(End of this chapter)