Lord of Arcane

Chapter 26 Ask questions and receive notes
Xia Duo is very clear, it is true that formal apprentices have the opportunity to ask questions, but everyone can only ask questions once a day. Generally, there are not too many people when formal masters teach, and questions will not occupy too much teaching time. If limited, one person can ask for a day.

Shado hurriedly said what Dean wanted to know, Garner was silent for a while, and said: "The apprentice you mentioned should be lacking in mathematical foundation, to solve this problem only need to use arcane magic Some basic knowledge in geometry, if you ask him to go to the library to borrow the book "The Principles of Geometry in Level 0 Spells", it must be able to solve his problem."

Shado wrote down Garnar's instructions, and the other apprentices also wrote down the book silently. Although they didn't have the right to ask questions, they still had no problem listening.

After answering Xado's question, Garnar's teaching assignment for today is also over. His magic initiation class will take a total of a week. It is not a good job to teach a new apprentice initiation class, and formal mages are usually reluctant to do it.

Because the Enlightenment class has the lowest rating in the Mage Tower, the reward is naturally the lowest, but it is a tasteless reward for a formal Mage, but it is a lot for an apprentice.

Garner also had to compete to become the instructor of this year's new apprentice.

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After the disbandment, Xia Duo went directly to the restaurant next to him to get two loaves of bread and returned to the dormitory floor. He was about to "turn off the lights" in more than three hours. He needed to hurry up and go to Dean's place to continue sorting out the Nise dictionary.

And even if the half of the "Sacred Proverbs of the Lord of Radiance" is finished, there are still more new words and new words waiting for him, but then he needs to go to the library to borrow books.

In the 02163 dormitory, Dean has returned, and he doesn't want to delve into anything more today. Instead, he sits outside the dormitory door while nibbling on bread, absently looking at his notes, waiting for Xia Duo to arrive.

Thinking that Shado might bring him the key to the final level of the official apprenticeship, Dean became a little impatient. He has joined the Mage Tower for two years. If he can't become a full-fledged apprentice within the third year, his family will Will not support him anymore.

If it weren't for the luck to get in touch with a formal apprentice who has not yet started enlightenment, he could exchange a low price for the opportunity to ask questions, and Dean might have been desperate.

The vast majority of the entire mage tower are ordinary apprentices like him. Everyone asks Master Idea Master questions, but the opportunities are very limited. After meeting the needs of the formal apprentices themselves, how much can they be divided?
Even if there were, it wasn't something Dean could afford.

When Xia Duo came near the 02163 dormitory, he saw Dean sitting at the door in a daze. Even when he approached, Dean didn't notice.

"Dean, why don't you go in?"

"Shado!" Dean was instantly overjoyed when he heard the accented Nise common language, "Shado, you're back! I helped you transcribe the first half of "The Sacred Proverbs of the Lord of Radiance" this afternoon. ."

Xia Duo was stunned when he heard the words, "Didn't you go to class?"

"I'm out of touch." Dean's tone was a little desolate, "Master Mage never cares whether we understand or not, and there is no formal apprentice, so there is no questioning session, the course I'm taking now has been repeated for the third time. The round is over, and it won't matter much if it is missing for a day or two."

Xia Duo is silent, the treatment of this ordinary apprentice is really sad.

The Mage Tower allows them to listen to lectures and borrow books, but does not allow them to ask questions. This simply forces them to teach themselves to become geniuses. In fact, the official apprentices in the Mage Tower come here.

Except for Shado.

"I asked you that question today, but I'm taking an enlightenment class, not a formal teacher's class."

"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter!" Dean's eyes lit up, looking at Xia Duo expectantly. He didn't care what kind of apprentice or mage, as long as he could answer him, he wouldn't mind even a beggar.

Shado repeated Garnar's answer, focusing on the book "The Principles of Geometry in Level 0 Spells".

After listening to Shado's remarks and the evaluation of the official apprentice, Dean was a little lost. He had the book in his hand several times, but because it was not a direct spellcasting technique, he put it back.

Now that I think about it, I really regret it.

"Xia Duo, wait a minute!"

Dean rushed into the room and came out with a notebook, "Here, I copied the first half of the "Sacred Proverbs of the Lord of Radiance" that I scraped earlier, this notebook is given to you, you can organize the contents first. Words, tomorrow I will explain the specific pronunciation and meaning to you."

He couldn't wait to rush to the library, but thinking that maybe reading books alone wouldn't solve his problem, Dean simply gave the notebook to Shado.

Shado looked at the note that Dean put into his hand. It was the one he copied yesterday, but the first half of the content had been scraped by Dean and re-transcribed to "Proverbs".

Such a standard notebook, if it is brand new, will be sold for 15 gold coins at the material claim office.

And if magic knowledge is recorded in it, it can be called a spell book, and the price increases almost geometrically, depending on the value of the knowledge in it.

However, even if the paper inside has been scraped and written many times, and filled with "Proverbs" of little value, this notebook is worth at least several gold coins.

The expensiveness of knowledge was also reflected in the expensiveness of paper. At present, Xia Duo had never seen real paper—papers made of cheap materials were all animal skins, usually the skins of little lambs.

Of course, there are also calfskin, monitor lizard skins and other suitable skins for paper, and even dragon skins, but the price is unimaginable. Chateau has been in Savile for half a year and has never heard of any slaughter by the Nise people. In the dragon deeds, I only heard that there is a dragon skin magic book in the elf kingdom. It is said that it records the magic that can destroy the sky and destroy the earth.

The path of the mage requires not only talent, but also money.

Some seemingly inconspicuous but indispensable basic consumables are worth a lot, such as 10 gold coins for a bottle of ink, 100 gold coins for a 15-page blank note, and the cost of borrowing a library is usually the book itself. One percent (at least 1 gold).

If you only rely on the salary of 1 silver coin per day in the Mage Tower, how can you maintain it? You must find a way to make money, whether it is from the family behind you or from other apprentices.

Although the notebook that Dean sent was full of words, Shado was still very happy, because a man with only 6 pieces of parchment couldn't be hurt.

He plans to tidy up the text inside, and then scrape it off as his first notebook, so that he doesn't need to buy parchment paper alone, which is not cost-effective, and can save money to buy original blank notebooks in the future.

But after being so happy, Xia Duo also forgot his original plan. When he returned to his dormitory, he remembered that he was going to re-agreed with Dean about the deal.

(End of this chapter)