High School of Demon Hunting

Chapter 365: Chapter 34 A Brief History of Dimensionism_1

”Order is a stable, sustainable state, neat and organized. And this is exactly consistent with the state of the ’dimension line’. Therefore, we can approximately understand ’order’ as a special ’dimension line’.”

”At this point, I need to interject... When you understand the related concepts, you need to pay attention to one thing: dimension lines that make up time do not have a ’single’ direction; they are diverse and crisscross.”

”Let’s return to the previous topic.”

”Wizards, or humans, are creatures who worship order.”

”From ethics and morals, to legal texts, from language use, to daily behavior, we like to regulate the activities of the entire group with rules... This is the result of ’efficient choice’, and at the same time, it means order.”

”This worship of order is deeply rooted... those who pursue justice will establish a just procedure; those who pursue equality will establish a fair procedure...”

Many students couldn’t help but sit upright.

Everyone could smell some familiar elements from the professor’s words.

”That’s right! Even this university... including our colleges, including the classroom you are sitting in now, this world is full of order everywhere... and order belongs to the dimension!”

”Dimensionism believes that this preference of wizards is actually the hidden manifestation of the dimensionality of the entire universe...”

The class was entering the second half.

On the platform, the professor’s voice also sounded a bit hoarse.

Dense concepts and symbols were listed on the big blackboard in front of the classroom, making one dizzy to look at.

Zheng Qing was tilting his head, gritting his teeth and taking notes, feeling that his fingers were completely stiff. His lips were stained with a bit of ink, but he had no time to wipe it.

Compared with other courses, Philosophy of Magic does not have a fixed textbook. Although Carl Strauss’s ”Philosophy of Magic” was listed on the reading list for admission, the items and contents of the book are very complicated and have basically nothing to do with the content taught by the professor in class.

According to Professor Yao’s words in the first lecture, all the exam points, key points, focus points, and difficult points of the Philosophy of Magic will be reflected in his daily teaching and writing on the board.

So the students frantically took notes in his classroom, which has become a trend.

But Zheng Qing never thought that taking notes would cause your arm to cramp and your fingers to become stiff.

Professor Yao’s voice still sounded unhurried, like a pendulum on a mechanical clock, ticking, ticking, ticking, full of rhythm.

The students below the hall clenched their teeth, stared, and desperately took notes.

Because everyone could hear the importance of this part of the content from the professor’s tone:

”...Dimensionism was born more than a hundred years ago.”

”The sign of its birth is Great Wizard Leibniz’s report ’A Brief Description of the Linear Conditions of the Universe’ at the World Wizard Conference in 1895, and Great Wizard Pascal’s ’Probability Analysis of Curse Erosion’ published in 1896...”

”...In the next more than twenty years, a large number of high-coefficient papers based on linear description and probability analysis were born in the dimension field, gradually forming a general framework... This framework built the traditional classical dimension theory.”

”Here’s a little anecdote: because too many influential papers were born during this period, the Great Wizard Council had to redesign the Merlin Medal, expanding the originally only first-class medal into two classes and four levels, to reward the achievements of more and more outstanding wizards.”

”...In 1925, Great Wizard Albert successively published a series of works including ’The Four-Dimensional Attribute of Magic’, ’The New Measurement Method for Time Duration’, and ’Ascend Dimension’, establishing the theoretical foundation of modern dimension theory; on this basis, Albert led his team to construct the world’s first Forbidden Curse ’Genesis’.”

There was a faint commotion in the classroom.

Zheng Qing drew an emphasis mark under ’Genesis’ with a wavy line in his notes. He knew very well what the whispers around him were discussing.

This is the name of the world’s first Forbidden Curse! The young cost student murmured in his heart, his pen tip full of longing, constantly repeating and reinforcing that mark.

The professor at the podium had to slightly raise his voice, on the one hand to suppress the light disturbance from the students in the hall, on the other hand to emphasize the important content that followed:

”The birth of ’Genesis’ is a peak in the development of modern Dimensionism, and it is also a symbolic event that Dimensionism officially became the mainstream thought in modern philosophy of magic!”

”After ’Genesis’, the theoretical development of Dimensionism fell into stagnation for a time. The wizards at the time even believed that ’Classical Dimension Theory’ and ’Modern Dimension Theory’ had encompassed the whole truth of the world, and there would be no new discoveries...”

”...until fifty years ago, Great Wizard Yu Rui’s ’On the Spell Tension of Non-dimensional’ and Great Wizard Chen Wen Yuan’s ’Real Dimensions and Void Dimensions’ opened a wider door, expanding wizards’ horizons beyond the universe, and enabling them to touch an even broader infinite world... These two papers symbolize the birth of ’Postmodern Dimension Theory’.”

On the podium, the professor’s voice abruptly stopped.

The students all looked up curiously at him.

Seeing the professor looking troubled and rubbing his chin, he hesitated for a moment before knocking on the blackboard and reopening the discussion, ”Let’s add some concepts here...to clarify three terms: non-dimensional, real-dimension, and void-dimension. This is the window to understanding Postmodern Dimension Theory. You need to understand these first to grasp what I will discuss next.”

”These three terms are very simple.”

”Non-dimensional, is a collection of concepts outside of dimensions. Great Wizard Yu Rui, using complex Magic skills and long-term argumentation, inferred that in addition to dimensions, there exist some non-dimensional ’concepts’ in this world, which cannot be represented by our magic, yet they truly exist in some rigorous argument.”

”Real-dimension and Void-dimension are two subsets within the range of dimensions.”

”What is Real-dimension? It is a tangible and visible dimension. For example, a person’s height, weight, fat or thin, these outer shapes; or birth, aging, sickness, death, these moments in time... Generally speaking, dimensions that can be accurately measured are real dimensions.”

”So, Void-dimension is a relative concept: dimensions that cannot be measured, but we have reason to believe they exist—like soul, like faith, like love.”

”If dimension and non-dimension are the opposing sides of Yin and Yang, then Void-dimension is the blurred line between dimension and non-dimension—it can transform into ’Real-dimension’, and also has the chance to transform into ’Non-dimension’.”

”The crown of contemporary Philosophy of Magic lies in the exploration of Void-dimension and some discussions on Non-dimension.”

”...of course, we can now confirm the existence of non-dimensional ’concepts’ through the ’Lorentz-Chen Impossible experiment’... We have also proved that spiritual entities belong to a category of Void-dimension creatures, and that the primal blood of demons carries some attributes of Non-dimension.”

”If any of you, my students present today, can stand on the shoulders of your predecessors and expand on the theory of Postmodern Dimension—say, if you can prove the existence of non-dimensional beings—then I can assure you, your future will not be limited to being a Great Wizard.”

”...Our Headmaster once said, the only things truly immortal in the world are knowledge and ignorance... as a certain great wizard from ancient Greece said: The only thing I know is that I know nothing.”

”The more you know, the more you will revere the truth.”

”I need to emphasize one last time that you must use the mainstream philosophical thoughts to help ponder and to refute these mainstream philosophies. Do not be confused by today’s lecture on Dimension Theory, assuming the world has only one way of interpretation. In the Great Thousand World, there are thousands of great truths, all of which can verify the truth. You just need to keep striving.”

”Now, does anyone have any questions?”

Zheng Qing immediately raised his hand high, and Old Yao nodded in acknowledgement.

”What is the light point?” Zheng Qing felt his throat tighten a bit as he cleared his throat and asked again, ”I mean, where did the very first light point, the one before the formation of the dimension line, come from?”

”Interesting question.” A satisfied smile spread across the professor’s face, ”If you couldn’t ask such a question, there is a very high chance I would have deducted points from you. Now, all I can tell you is that the light point is the origin of everything.”

”But where did the origin come from?” Zheng Qing looked at the professor on the podium, feeling his explanation was as good as not saying anything at all.

”God said, let there be light!” Old Yao waved his hand, smiling brightly, ”That ends this lecture, everyone remember Wednesday’s spell class, none of you can be absent! Especially Xin, you need to adjust your energy!”

”Awooh~~” Tuan Tuan quickly responded.

Zheng Qing pointed to the last word in his notes: God.

Looking around, his heart was filled with confusion.