From a technical implementation standpoint, the Three-Dimensional Law is extremely complex.
But its principle is exceptionally simple.
Anyone who can think normally can understand it.
A person's 'self' is the self-dimension; everything they can interfere with, including their body, emitted sounds, language, left marks, thoughts, breathing, currency, others, and so on, are all medium-dimensions.
And everything they cannot interfere with is the external dimension.
To transform the external dimension, which cannot be interfered with, into a medium-dimension that can be interfered with, and to turn phenomena and substances that one's ability to interfere with is weak into existences that can be fully interfered with, as easily as waving one's arm.
This is the essence of the Three-Dimensional Law.
Under normal circumstances, this entire method merely helps one think about the world from a different perspective.
However, magic, a miraculous power that directly acts upon 'concepts,' makes the Three-Dimensional Law incredibly profound.
And the extremely inclusive theoretical foundation of the Three-Dimensional Law allows any being with high intelligence to practice it.
But...
The above is the situation where the Three-Dimensional Law is allowed to grow wildly.
"The Three-Dimensional Law you're talking about must be far more than what you've just told me, right?" Luna, being a very perceptive person, quickly detected a slight 'disharmony' in Roger's words.
"That's right, what I just told you is the second version of the Three-Dimensional Law that I've revised," Roger stated frankly, without any concealment.
"The initial version of the Three-Dimensional Law, which I developed with Headmaster Dumbledore, had broader adaptability, practically no cultivation threshold; anyone could practice it."
"But that version had a problem: its tendencies conflicted with my plans for the future."
Roger was never a philanthropist.
He helped those people in the Middle East because they had helped him first.
It was the same for Dumbledore, Harry, Hagrid, and others – friendship, transactions, which is why their status in Roger's eyes was different.
Roger forging this new path was not for a world where everyone becomes a dragon or for world peace; its essence was a tool for harvesting the wisdom of all beings.
"What I want is a cultivation system that is rational enough to allow for technological accumulation, not a scattered, unformed structure where everyone is just fumbling around."
The Three-Dimensional Law is extremely inclusive; any system Roger knew of – cultivation, Haki, chakra, magnetic force manipulation, technology, arcane arts, Spiral Power, Dou Qi, even Tennis no Oujisama – could be incorporated into it!
This seemed good, offering great potential for future development, but in its nascent stage, it was definitely not a good thing! Roger had already noticed this with Dumbledore; while both practiced the Three-Dimensional Law, Dumbledore's path was completely different from his own.
Dumbledore had provided Roger with a lot of help in magical theory, but Dumbledore's path offered little significant reference value for Roger.
If it were only Dumbledore, it would be fine, but if billions of people in the world each had their own ideas, it would be a huge loss for Roger!
At his current stage, Roger needed 'depth'; he was nowhere near needing to expand 'breadth.'
So Roger took action.
His achievement was the second version of the Three-Dimensional Law he had just explained to Luna.
Roger had cut down some content; people learning the second version of the Three-Dimensional Law could only move towards pulling magic from the subjective towards the objective.
They could no longer charge headlong down the path of subjective magic like Dumbledore.
"Mmm... I think I understand what you mean."
After Roger explained the detailed differences, Luna nodded, as if she understood but not entirely.
"But after you changed it like this, is it still magic?"
Luna blinked her ethereal eyes and gazed at Roger, saying, "It feels like if your method is truly implemented, what will ultimately be born won't be magic, but another form of Muggle technology."
She wasn't from a Muggle family, but her family was in the news industry, so Luna, unlike many wizards, didn't live her entire life solely within wizarding society, completely unaware of the nearby Muggle society.
Although Luna had only a partial understanding of many Muggle things, she had a slight grasp of what Muggle technology, the operational core of the entire current Muggle society, was.
In her impression, Muggle technology could be summarized in one sentence.
People discover a lever and a fulcrum, and with one unit of force, they achieve ten units of effect; they research the principles behind it and apply them to more things.
Discover phenomena, research principles, widespread application, repeat. That's all there is to it.
Magic, however, was a different path.
Making magic power feel one's will, and then making magic power modify the world.
Recording what kind of will causes what kind of change in magic power, and repeating the cycle.
Facing Luna's confusion, Roger smiled: "Your feeling is very accurate."
"What I pursue, its ultimate result, is to obtain 'truth'."
"Instead of squandering immense power while not even knowing where that power comes from."
Roger articulated the biggest flaw in the magic of contemporary wizards.
"For almost all wizards, there's really no need to dwell on this issue."
"As long as magic power is useful, why bother tracing its origin?"
"It's like a Muggle's daily meals; as long as you can buy it with money, it's delicious, and it won't kill you, that's enough."
"Few people feel the need to research what exactly the additives in food are, nor do they insist on going to the origin of every vegetable and every pound of rice to see how farmers grow them."
Roger shifted his gaze away from Luna, looking up at the moon, its cold light refracting in the high sky.
"But, for anyone pursuing Eternal Life, this is a major issue that cannot be ignored."
"If there is the 'unknown,' then how can it be called Eternal Life?"
What Roger pursued was never an eternal lifespan.
What he wanted was immortality in the absolute sense, an absolute Eternal Life where no being or thing in any world could kill him.
How could he possibly engage in things he understood the 'how' but not the 'why' of, just for temporary power! After Roger finished speaking, Luna nodded; this time, she truly understood Roger's intentions completely.
So…
"But I don't want to pursue Eternal Life," Luna also shifted her gaze away from Roger, looking up at the bright moon in the sky with him.
"I just want to do interesting things, meet interesting people, and live an interesting life."
"Reunite with family, laugh with friends and loved ones."
As she spoke, Luna raised her hand, pointing her index finger at the bright moon in the sky: "Roger, your path is like that moon."
"It's beautiful, allowing people to place all sorts of dreams and thoughts onto it. But it's also high, even cold, making it untouchable. Just thinking about it makes it feel impossibly far away."
"The most crucial point is that once you truly set foot on it, you'll discover there are no moon rabbits, nor aliens; there's only the void and terrifying deep space of the universe, and a pale landscape."
"In such an environment, ordinary people wouldn't even be able to live, let alone survive; they'd likely die instantly. Only those who wield extraordinary power can establish themselves there."
The name Luna, in Italian, means moon.
From a very young age, she had been filled with curiosity and fantasy about the moon.
That's why, when Roger mentioned in Diagon Alley that he had been to the moon, she had pestered him with questions.
Seeing her so interested, Roger had even taught her the ritual of Conceptual Creation·Dream Shadow.
Luna had also used the Dream Shadow body to visit the moon, but she was met with endless disappointment.
Just like the words she had spoken from the heart, on the pale lunar surface, Luna gazed at the deep, dark, and mysterious cosmic void on the far side of the moon and felt... fear! The starry sky seemed to have its dreamlike veil torn away, revealing its true face to her.
This was somewhat difficult for the young Luna to bear.
It was like telling a child that there was no Santa Claus in the world, nor Ultraman or the Monkey King.
Luna's spirit had suffered quite a shock.
"So, are you planning to refuse?"
Roger detected a hint of melancholy in Luna's tone.
"...No," Luna shook her head.
"I just prefer more romantic things, but that doesn't mean I'll refuse to acknowledge the truth."
"The Quibbler exists to let people see another possibility hidden beneath the cacophony of voices, not 'to oppose for the sake of opposing'."
Parents are a child's first teachers, and Luna's parents had a profound influence on her growth and spiritual development.
Luna's father was the editor-in-chief of the magazine "The Quibbler." Being immersed in it from a young age, her personality was as imaginative as the magazine, while also attempting to pursue a certain kind of 'truth.'
"I want to learn the Three-Dimensional Law."
"But I don't want to completely follow the path you've laid out,"
Luna withdrew her gaze from the moon and looked back at Roger, asking with a calm expression.
With her intelligence, she could naturally sense the magnificent things that could blossom when the Three-Dimensional Law was combined with magic.
But she felt that Roger's path lacked magic, lacked 'beauty'; she wanted to use the Three-Dimensional Law as a foundation and forge her own way.
Her mother was still waiting for her at the 'finish line,' and Luna had no intention of pursuing a long life.
The materialistic path led to a higher end, but that was irrelevant to Luna.
Just as Roger had said earlier, his problems were meaningless to short-lived beings; they were considerations for immortal beings like Roger.
It was like a terminal illness with a lifespan of 10 billion years; to a Muggle, it was no different from not existing.
"Roger, if this is my answer, will you still be willing to teach me?"
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