I Studied Mainly Textbooks! Chapter 32

It seemed like an abridged, all in one version. Left behind for the easy perusal of the successor.

Swipe-
Abel turned over the pages and started looking for an entry about 'Sorole'.

'Let's see…..'

He flipped through page by page. Eventually, his hands stopped flipping… and his eyes popped out as though he had seen a ghost.

What! The legendary ego artifacts? The ancients really did possess artifacts that possessed consciousness?

What if…

He could learn this magic? And what if…
He could bestow an ego into Casio?

He would get a speaking Casio. One with real artificial intelligence!

Wouldn't it be great if he could just say 'Calculate!' and Casio would reply with 'Yes!' and bam! Instant results! If he could, he wouldn't even have to press a b.u.t.ton. It would be revolutionary.

Gulp-
Abel looked at the page that contained the principles of ego artifacts with trembling hands.

When he gained a rough understanding of the principles, his already enlarged eyes widened even further as though he had been struck on the back of his head with a hammer.

"This, this is about complex numbers!"

Amazing! The ancients already had knowledge about imaginary numbers? Ones that squared into negative numbers?

Complex numbers were a combination of imaginary and real numbers. It was a step up from the real number line.

The founding of imaginary numbers expanded the one dimensional concept of numbers into two dimensions.

'This looks very complicated……'

The book contained complicated calculations of complex numbers, and especially focused on multiplications. It was no wonder that ego magic was the end-all magic of artifacts. From what he knew about magic, he simply had to acknowledge this.

The spells he had learned until now were just the tip of an iceberg.

"However, what if I use the Euler-De Moivre formula?"

If he used the Euler's ident.i.ty formula, as well as the De Moivre formula, which was already stored within his calculator, he should be able to calculate it quickly.

He would subst.i.tute complex numbers for Cartesian coordinates, otherwise known as the complex plane, and represent it as a polar coordinate. Once he did so, he would be able to simplify those calculations into relatively simpler exponents and trigonometry.

'Huh, how was I able to arrive at the conclusion so quickly…?'

(T/N: Took me ages to translate though.)

He wouldn't be able to think of this solution if it was him in the past.

Algebra, and especially complex a.n.a.lysis, was one of Abel's weak points. He graduated without knowing half the related jargon in the textbook.

However, now that his brain potential had blown up, thoughts were popping up everywhere in his mind like making popcorn.

'It looks like this is going to take awhile.'

Since he had Casio, calculation wasn't a problem, and in regards to magical insights, he should be able to solve it gradually using the room of spirit and time. Now that his brain was working very well, he would be able to do so quickly

However, the problem was the quant.i.ty of mana he was able to use. Mana was a constraint within the room of spirit and time.

Think! About a solution to the lack of mana! He was confident that he would be able to find a solution with his enhanced brain. He also thought that a solution existed somewhere in the books

'By the time the new semester begins, I should be able to cast ego magic.'

He was lacking a little in the mana department. Thus. he believed it would require around a month to be able to use it. In the meantime, though, he felt that it would be better to focus on other magic spells.

During his awakening, the scene he saw in his mind had a gateway to the demon realm. Didn't that mean that the ancients had a magic spell to open dimensional gates? If he looked into these ancient scriptures, he should also be able to solve the issue about dimensional travel.

After that, Abel looked for information about Sorole, but didn't find any in that particular book.

March was the start of the spring semester. Flowers hadn't yet blossomed, but there were freshmen as well as the returning 3rd and 4th years that replaced the lack of flowers.

"Ha~I like Spring. Do you know why, Loki?"
Ian spoke with a bright grin on his face.

"Why?"

"Because there are a lot of pretty people. But, in Autumn, they barely care about what they wear at all! We need to sear the sights into our memories right now, enough to last the whole year."

Loki sighed and shook his head.

During their walk to the dorms, Ian had scanned the female students like an attentive meerkat. His face was completely lost.

Clack.
When they opened the dorm room, they saw that Abel had already arrived and was unpacking his stuff.

"It's been a while, Abel! Oh yeah, did you hear about it?"
Ian greeted Abel and asked.

"What news?"

"I heard that the holy maiden was chosen at the Gaia Church! It's the hottest topic nowadays! The holy maiden has declared that all occult religion followers are to be imprisoned. The people are saying it's oppressive or whatnot. There seems to be lots of believers of that occult religion."

"Really?"

It seemed that Sylvia had relayed the information well.

'Well, since the holy maiden was chosen… what happens to Sylvia now?'
Since Sylvia told him that there were around a thousand holy maiden candidates, he simply brushed off the 1/1000 probability.

"I want to see the new holy maiden at least once. The holy maidens until now were all really pretty! They seem to choose the prospective candidates based on appearance."
Ian spoke with s.h.i.+ny eyes.

"Wipe your drool before saying that. I have stuff to do in my room, so see you in the evening. Don't disturb me!"

Slurp.
"Oh, no. This is because looking at you reminded me of pork belly. You haven't forgotten our deal, right?"
Ian slurped up the drool on the corners of his mouth and spoke.

Due to the bet they had before winter, he had weaseled a meat party out of Abel.

"Haha, of course. I have it here."
Abel laughed while looking at Ian and Loki gulping, again. These people were simply unable to resist Korean food.

"Wow, I look as handsome as ever!"

Swoosh-
Leaving behind his friends, Abel entered his secret room. Finally! It was time to research ego magic. He had just barely enough mana to get started.

Tap tap tap tap tap.
Abel pressed the b.u.t.tons on his calculator and thus began a long string of calculations yet again.