Lord of Arcane

Chapter 22. Tidying up the Dictionary
"How do you sell ink? How much?"

"A bottle of ink is 10 gold coins, a standard ink bottle." But it seemed that Xia Duo didn't have much money, the apprentice lowered his voice and said more, "If you are in a hurry, I can sell you a A bottle of my homemade ink is only 1 gp."

"..."

Xia Duo didn't expect that the person at the material application office would even carry private goods, but he really didn't have much money on hand. If he couldn't buy ink, it would be useless to buy parchment paper, so he could only choose to buy private goods. .

"Okay, 6 more pieces of parchment, brand new."

"Know!"

Xia Duo took out 22 silver coins from the inner pocket of the mage's robe and lined them up on the counter. In addition to leaving 5 silver coins for emergency, Xia Duo replaced all the money with learning tools.

A man has no confidence without money, and Xia Duo hopes that such days will end as soon as possible.

Standing in front of the counter, he checked the parchment and ink he bought, and confirmed that the parchment was brand new. Xia Duo put it away, but the ink was a bit that—

A small wooden bottle, the ink in it was so light that it could be seen, and Chardeau even wondered if it could leave marks on the parchment.

If the apprentice hadn't demonstrated it to Xia Duo on the spot, Xia Duo would never have bought this kind of inferior ink. It was too light and only left traces.

But for now, that's all I can afford.

……

Leaving the material application area, then, either go to the library to borrow books, sort out the dictionary, or go to Dean to copy.

On the elevator, Xia Duo chose to go to the dormitory floor without the slightest hesitation, because the library also costs money to borrow books, and now you can save a little bit.

"Dean, are you there?"

"Shado, you—" Dean opened the door with messy hair, with a grim expression on his face, with red blood in his eyes, "I thought you weren't coming today!"

"I want to borrow your half copy of "The Holy Proverbs of the Lord of Radiance", can I?"

"Okay, come in."

Dean returned to his room. Xado saw that on the desk in the room, there were some notebooks and a few scattered pieces of parchment. Dean seemed to be calculating something just now, but judging from his state just now , obviously it didn't go well.

"You can copy it from me, I'll read other books first." Dean said to Shado, putting away the things on the desk indiscriminately.

Xia Duo intentionally refused, but Dean had an expression of "I want to watch", which made people unable to refuse. Xia Duo guessed that Dean was worried that he would see the contents of the first half of the notebook.

……

Nishite common language, Xia Duo can already speak (basic communication), and now it is necessary to make up more words and the corresponding words of all words.

Xia Duo noticed it when he read "The Sacred Proverbs of the Lord of Radiance" with Dean before, and now after purposeful identification and analysis, Xia Duo found that——

The Nyse script is composed of 26 basic letters, and after deliberately selecting similarities and asking Dean once, Shado determined that the Nyse script is a phonetic script that is very similar to English on Earth.

Then the problem becomes much simpler.

As long as all the words are arranged in order, and then the phonetic symbols and meanings are added, a dictionary will be made?
"The Holy Proverbs of the Lord of Radiance" covers a lot of content. As long as the words that have appeared in it are sorted out, it is a simple but practical dictionary. In the future, if you encounter words you don't know, you can check them at any time. If you can't find them. , that is, the dictionary needs to be expanded.

Although Xia Duo really wanted to do it all in one step, he only had 6 pieces of parchment right now, so he might not be able to sort out all the words. He could only start with the first letter and sort out as much as he could.

……

Nishite characters are completely unfamiliar to Xia Duo, and the quill pen is not easy to use, but Xia Duo has overcome these difficulties one by one, and nothing can stop his thirst for knowledge.

In this way, time passed little by little as Dean's eyes changed from puzzlement and doubt to sudden realization and admiration.

Xia Duo did not use the Chinese language he was most familiar with, but used pinyin and phonetic symbols for the annotations of the words Nise. It looked like the magicians used to record secret personal secrets, which was quite mysterious.

At least Dean was stunned. He is not even a formal apprentice at present, so how can he get the knowledge of secret script.

Half of the "Sacred Proverbs of the Lord of Radiance" was turned over and over again by Shado. He has sorted out all the words in this half book that start with the first and second Nise letters, and also accompanied them with phonetic symbols, meaning.

Looking at it this way, it wouldn't take much time to compile a simple dictionary. Xia Duo was looking forward to the scene when he took the dictionary to the library to borrow it.

Just as he was about to hurry up to sort out other words, the light in Dean's dormitory suddenly dimmed, as if it had suddenly turned from day to night. Although the five fingers could still be vaguely seen, it was absolutely impossible to continue writing.

Xia Duo felt that the darkness of the night was much thicker than the inferior ink he bought.

"Dean, does the mage tower do this every day?"

"Well, the light in the Mage Tower also comes from the outside world. When the Lord of Glory returns to his kingdom of God, the interior of the Mage Tower will no longer provide lighting, but I heard that if you have the power of the energy pool like the Master Mage, there will be no day and night. restricted."

Having said that, Xia Duo understood that the Emotion Mage Tower uses solar energy, but the stored energy is not open to apprentices. If you want to gain more study time, you can only light candles at night.

No wonder the apprentices were handed out candles and matches.

However, since it was already "lights out" and Dean didn't mean to light a candle for him, Xia Duo could only leave because it was the first day, and Xia Duo didn't realize how tight the apprentice's time was.

……

In the 02163 dormitory, Xia Duo just opened the door from the inside, and seven or eight apprentices from the outside crowded in, shouting at the same time:

"Dean, it's your turn today, why haven't you lit a candle yet?"

Xia Duo didn't leave for a while. He wanted to see what was going on. Dean was a little embarrassed for a while. Fortunately, the light was very dark at this time, so he couldn't see it. Even if Xia Duo was still there, he took out a match from the inner pocket of the mage's robe. Lighted his own candle.

And the apprentices who had just come in passed one by one over Dean's candles, and then they all left with their own candles.

"That - Xia Duo, it's not worth it to use a match a day, so I made an appointment with a few people to share it with. Do you want to continue to transcribe?"

Although he said so, Dean was stuck in the doorway, and he didn't mean to let Shado go in again.

"No, I'm going back. I don't know what chores will be tomorrow."

Xia Duo also thought it was a little funny, but after thinking about it carefully, these apprentices struggling at the bottom may be the true portrayal of himself in the future. Thinking about it like this, he felt that his thoughts just now were really funny.

After returning to his dormitory in the dark, Xia Duo also began to gradually adapt to the life in the mage tower.

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