Sword of Dawn

He could only open his mouth in vain, and the low voice in the first row was hard to hear: "Be quiet...Everyone be quiet, class is on..."

No one listened to him, as expected: the sons of commoners were even more difficult to deal with.

Santis felt sweat dripping from his face, and he felt that he might have failed his first lesson, but a handkerchief was suddenly handed over from the side - he looked over unexpectedly and saw a woman with big eyes The child was holding up a handkerchief and looking at himself.

This girl is a little thin, but she is wearing a very clean and tidy cotton dress, and there is a small hairpin on her head, which shows that her family conditions should be good. She passed the handkerchief forward again, opened her mouth and said " Ahhh" sound.

"Thank you...thank you..." Santis didn't expect a child to be so sensible. He immediately thanked him and took the handkerchief, and laughed while wiping off his sweat. "You didn't shout like everyone else, so sensible..."

As soon as he finished speaking, a boy next to him suddenly shouted: "Because Pea is dumb!"

The girl with big eyes immediately glared at the boy, who quickly shrank his neck: "I'm sorry, Miss Pea..."

This girl is Pea, is she dumb?

Santis was stunned for a moment. He remembered that he had indeed seen the weird name "Pea" in the student roster before, but he didn't expect that there would be a mute among his students.

But in this dazed two seconds, out of the corner of Santis's eye, he suddenly saw a small hand poking over from under the podium, holding a slate for writing, on which was written A few crooked words: Put a spell, sir.

Then the slate was taken back so quickly that Santis didn't even see who handed it over.

He was taken aback for a moment, and finally came to his senses, then raised his right hand slightly - he only had a few precious opportunities to cast spells a day, and he used it in his first class.

A small ball of arcane energy flew out of his hand, flew into the middle of the classroom, and then exploded with a bang. The scattered magic sparks seemed to detonate a firework in the room.

All the children fell silent for a moment.

They looked at their new teacher in awe, as if they hadn't finally realized it until now, they were finally sure that it was a real mage.

Like Ms. Hetty, a magician.

The children looked at each other, and Santis finally knew what to do.

"Children," the young second-level arcanist smiled. He left behind the experience of tutoring minor nobles and businessmen, those meaningless and gorgeous opening remarks, and those "first time" Contact etiquette" and rules, said what he wanted to say most at the moment, "Let me tell you how to identify runes and the basic principles of their effectiveness."

These children may never be able to cast a single spell with their own hands for life.

Santis turned and wrote the title of the first lesson on the blackboard with a plaster marker.

No one in history has ever considered imparting the mysteries of magic to everyone without reservation.

The basic runes of earth, water, wind and fire were transferred from the pen tip to the blackboard, followed by derivative runes of various fields such as frost and lightning.

However, these children can memorize this knowledge with their minds and calculate it with paper and pen. Miss Jenny has proved the value of this "calculation", and the lord also believes in the value of this.

Santis turned and saw dozens of curious, focused eyes—they could.

"Let's have our first lesson."

Chapter 0200 Rune Academy

In front of Gao Wen, there was a set of design drawings of the new processing equipment he imagined.

If it was a few months ago, he would have thought that designing such a machine in such a backward social condition was wishful thinking and a radical development without respect for reality. However, what he experienced recently made him understand a truth: he You still need to further adjust your thinking and get rid of the experience left over from your previous life-to prevent making wrong judgments based on those experiences.

It is a processing machine tool with various magic devices. It uses the next-generation scorching ray substrate that can continuously excite heat energy beams as the cutting head, and a set of complex repulsion devices that can be accurately activated and quickly started and stopped. As a mobile mechanism, the puppet control core is used as the control center, and the operation is left blank for the time being - Gao Wen has not yet thought of how to integrate the simple rune trigger into the complex puppet core.

This is an out-and-out "drawing machine", which cannot be manufactured at this stage, but Gao Wen can be sure that there is no problem with its thinking. He drew this temporarily unrealizable system on the blueprint entirely because of the He was sorting out his actions and achievements of the previous months, and uncontrollably came up with some ideas in the process.

The sound of footsteps came from the corridor outside, Gawain raised his head, and the next second he saw the door was pushed open, and Rebecca ran in bluffing: "My lord ancestor, I heard Betty say that you are looking for me ?”

After Rebecca ran in bluffing, the long white-haired Jenny followed carefully into the room. Miss Runemaster had some helplessness on her face, obviously the almost uninterrupted excitement when she was with Rebecca. The accident and accident made her quite embarrassed. She glanced at the proud Viscountess, bowed her head and saluted Gao Wen: "My lord, do you have any instructions?"

Before Gao Wen could say anything, Rebecca had already noticed the blueprint on the table, and she immediately exclaimed happily: "Hey! Jenny, look! My ancestor drew a new blueprint~!"

"My lord, have you designed a new machine or weapon?" This time, even the respectful and well-behaved Jenny couldn't restrain her curiosity and came up to her. She looked at the concept machine on the table in surprise, which was disassembled beside the machine. The diagram of the parts is very clear, and she can vaguely guess what this thing is used for, "This is... some kind of device for cutting plates? No... not only for cutting, but also for shaping or carving? A ray as a carving knife?"

Jenny looked at the blueprints on the table with eagerness and curiosity—she had a strange sense of awe towards Gao Wen, not only because of his status and hero status, but also because the latter always had a feeling that was beyond the scope of ordinary people. He can always come up with some bold but feasible plans, but only when these plans are realized, those ordinary people can realize the profound meaning of each step of his vision.

This is true when governing territories, and it is also true in the field of magic—although rune logic was not invented by Gawain, Gawain has found the correct way to apply rune logic. Those general-purpose substrates and ideas for mass production are Even Jenny, the rune master, didn't think about it.

But this time, Jenny felt that the device designed by Gawain was...too far ahead.

"My lord, please forgive me. Many structures on this machine... I am afraid that there is no way to realize it at present. Among other things, we don't have any technicians for the core of the puppet. This is the deep technology of the northern Violet Kingdom. ..."

"I know that this machine is not a task for you," Gao Wen knew that the two girls in front of him had misunderstood, but he let them read the blueprint before he broke the silence, "I want to give you a special task." long-term tasks."

"A special long-term mission?" Rebecca's eyes widened, and then she became happy (she seemed to be always happy), "Ancestor, you want us to be the project leaders again?"

"This time it's not just a project," Gao Wen laughed, "I'm going to set up a new department."

"A new department?" Jenny asked cautiously, "Is it like...the Mechanical Research Institute?"

"Similar," Gao Wen nodded, "I am going to set up a department that specializes in the study of rune logic and uses rune logic to realize the simplification, optimization, and popularization of various magic circles. The recently established 'Magic Energy Technology Department'. I named it the 'Rune Research Institute', Jenny, as the person in charge of the Rune Research Institute—of course, there is currently a shortage of talents in the territory, and this so-called research institute is still It's just a framework, and you don't have any subordinates or assistants for the time being, and when you will be able to have people, it depends on when the rune logic textbooks you promote in your school can train the first batch of freshmen."

"I'm in charge?" Jenny pointed at herself in surprise, then quickly waved her hand and pointed to Rebecca next to her, "I think the viscount is more suitable than me! I... I just know how to calculate runes, but the viscount Miss not only has mastered rune calculation, but she also understands the knowledge of official mages, and also knows the principles and practical techniques of various magic equipment, no matter how you look at it, she is better than me..."

"Of course I know," Gao Wen interrupted with a smile. He naturally knew that what Jenny said was true—it wasn't that the rune teacher was modest, but that the silly roe deer was indeed a child genius in the professional field, and She is currently the only dual-threaded talent in the territory who can seamlessly switch between the magic field and the mechanical field, "So she has other jobs: I plan to let Rebecca be in charge of the magic technology department. This department is not only in charge of runes Logic, and the study of various fields of magic technology."

Rebecca blinked her eyes and listened for a long time, then suddenly lowered her head and counted with her fingers, and looked up at Jenny in surprise: "Jenny! This way I will have a higher position than you!"

Jenny looked at Rebecca with strange eyes: "You... are already of higher status than me..."

Gao Wen also looked at his little granddaughter with strange eyes: "Did you forget that you are still a Viscount?"

Rebecca froze for a moment, and then exclaimed after two seconds: "... I really forgot... No, it's not that I forgot, I just didn't pay attention!"

Gao Wen sighed deeply, thinking that the child's head was not caught by the door when he was a child, but at least by the city gate—then he quickly put the question aside, and continued: "Of course, regarding the new The organizational structure is only one aspect, and there is a shortage of talents now, even if these departments are established, you still have to do research together. On the other hand, I have to give you a research project."

The two immediately shut their mouths and listened carefully to Gao Wen's arrangement.

"I want you to start from the first level and sort out all the conventional magic that can be converted into magic circles. In short, it is to store and archive all the current traditional magic circles, and at the same time use rune logic To carry out the corresponding simplification and optimization, and design the corresponding rune base plan. After the "generalization" of each type of magic circle, it will be included in the archives, and those that cannot be optimized at this stage, or even the basic principles The magic circles that are unknown and in the state of "technical black box" should also be sorted out separately, and the reasons and status quo of their inability to be optimized and unanalyzed should be recorded for future research."

Jenny and Rebecca's eyes widened, but the former was marveling at the "huge scale" of Gao Wen's plan, while the latter had already simulated a lot of prospects and developments in his mind.

A few seconds later, Rebecca couldn't help but bala: "My lord ancestor, are you going to build a general-purpose archive, so that subsequent researchers can call it at any time, and order it at any time in the factory? Ah, that's right... The most basic ones in this archive can also be opened to schools, so that children who have just learned mathematical logic and runes can be used as teaching materials... I heard that Mr. Santis has already started courses in this area? Oh, and , In this way, we may be able to summarize the changing laws of spells from level [-] to level [-], and maybe even reverse reason the magic that has a "technical black box"..."

So isn't this fufu-looking little granddaughter really time-traveled? !How many skill points did she spend on "inspiration" and "frontier vision" to reach this level of thinking?

Gawain looked at Rebecca almost in shock, and then immediately lowered his head and coughed dryly to cover up his gaffe: "Ahem, these are fields that can be applied, Rebecca, Jenny, you have to remember, to establish a foundation, Building a framework is the greatest part of any business. Although at the beginning you were only sorting out those second-level, first-level, and even apprentice-level magic circles, as long as these things are used properly, they will explode enough to push the entire territory forward. .”

Then he added: "What I entrusted to you is a long-term and arduous task. Don't think that it can be completed overnight. You should think about it slowly after you go back. At the same time, don't leave behind the research on the repulsion array of the new generation of magic engines. , and the compilation of those 'textbooks'. The strength of one or two people is limited after all, and only by letting more talents grow up can you complete this task faster."

"Yes, we understand." Jenny lowered her head. She didn't question the question "What should a third-level mage and a fourth-level rune master do when they analyze those high-level magic circles in the future?" There are so many spells in the world, even if the magic circles below the third level are summed up, it will be a very time-consuming task, and you will never come into contact with advanced magic circles in a short time. On the other hand, she knows the essence of rune logic— ——That is the art of calculation based on pure mathematical logic. In this temple of mathematics, one's spellcasting ability is only an auxiliary factor. Even the Viscountess, who can only magnify fireballs, can still calculate middle-level and even high-level spells. The optimization plan of the magic circle!

"Then, I will entrust you with this important task." Gawain leaned back on his chair and looked at the two girls in front of him with expectations and approval. "I look forward to your results."

Chapter 0201 Colds

After Rebecca and Jenny left, Gawain stood up from behind the desk, walked around to the large French window, and looked thoughtfully at the new building being built across the square.

That is the headquarters of the "Public Security Bureau". Some of the former militiamen who have undergone training and ideological education will become the first batch of professional "patrol officers" or "security officers" on the territory to replace the current status quo of letting soldiers from combat corps serve as patrol members.

What Gao Wen was thinking about was not the implementation of this new system, what he was concerned about was the construction process of that building.

Wherever the new facilities are built, the honeycomb magic net will be laid. Therefore, before the construction of the Public Security Bureau building starts, the honeycomb units and output terminals of the magic net have already been buried in the foundation around it, and these magical powers will also become the foundation of the construction site. Important assistance: Before starting work, the craftsmen will draw simple weight-reducing magic circles, heating runes, elemental blessing runes, etc. The sent building materials will be processed in these areas that depict the simple magic circle, some are heated and solidified, some are blessed with elements to prolong their service life, and most of them are lightened to facilitate transportation and installation.

Inferior weight-reducing magic circles drawn with cheap materials can also provide a weight-reducing effect of up to one hour, during which heavy building materials will be transported to suitable locations, such as house beams and roofs, and the labor-intellectual Craftsmen have gained experience in this process, and they know how to install these lightened materials to ensure that they will not impact the building structure when the weight suddenly recovers, but will be more firmly bonded to other building materials ——The production and construction activities throughout the territory have greatly accelerated the integration of new applied magic and traditional craftsmanship. Craftsmen in the field of construction can be said to be one of the first groups to accept and get used to using magic in their work.

And the participation of these simple spells has increased the efficiency of building construction in Cecil's territory to an incredible level - even beyond Gawain and Hetty's initial expectations. They were all surprised, but the latter was surprised Since the popularization of magic to the common people will cause such a change, the former is rethinking whether his judgment of the world is accurate...

Is the Ansu Kingdom in the "Middle Ages", or the whole world, really "backward"?

Gao Wen frowned. He thought of the task he had given to Rebecca and Jenny, as well as what he had seen and heard in the past few months.

The communication ring of the Mithril Treasury, Hetty's levitation and weight loss techniques, the human brain array of the Eternal Sleepers, the biochemical transformation of the Death of All Things...

If we simply judge from the perspective of "whether a certain purpose can be achieved", or from the perspective of "whether a certain technical means exists", the world is not backward at all-it is incredibly advanced.

There are long-distance and low-latency remote communication technologies (magic communication or Mithril treasure house communication props), and there are advanced facilities such as magic information towers at the country-to-country level. The flying city of the "Temple of Stars", and that city can cover the entire Silver Empire with long-distance communication signals, it can be said to be the most powerful information base station that Gawain has ever heard of;

The manifestation of scorching rays is similar to a high-energy laser, or a plasma jet with extremely high temperature and binding force;

The technology of the Eternal Sleeper has created a neural thinking network. The human brain array computer is simply a black technology in Gao Wen's view, but what else has this technology achieved at the same time?Enables fully immersive virtual reality - it can even affect the real world;

The biochemical technology of the Death Society has realized organ transplantation and even DNA fusion between different species many years ago (if the creatures in this world also use DNA as a carrier of genetic data);

The holy water of the Holy Light Church can achieve almost [-]% sterilization and disinfection effect, and their healing magic can even instantly regenerate human limbs;

Magicians can create energy shields, focused energy rays, damaging sound waves, and even small-scale artificial weather...

In Gawain's sight, a beam that has lost more than half of its weight is being transported to the roof by the workers with a sling, and it is easily installed in place—what is that in essence?It's anti-gravity technology!

The Temple of Stars relies on some kind of powerful anti-gravity device to float above the Silver Empire for thousands or even tens of thousands of years-if it is used properly, how many space carriers is it equivalent to?

So is a world with remote instant messaging, energy weapons, energy shields, anti-gravity technology, flight technology, and high-end biochemical technology really lagging behind?

It stands to reason that it will not lag behind, and it has even advanced to the point where it can only be described as "science fiction".

However, in Gao Wen's eyes, it is still backward - the vast majority of people are still planing food in the ground, still using crude wooden tools and physical strength to survive, still struggling to find food and clothing, and suffering minor illnesses and disasters. The reason for all this is not that the level of technology cannot be reached-the level of technology has long been reached, it is just that it has not been popularized.

This is the special feature of this world: Even if various advanced technologies based on magic are not popularized, they can still be mastered and realized by individuals!

Even if their development is restricted by the factor of "unpopularity", the "high starting point" of magic has determined that even their original use methods are enough to allow those who have power to live a good life.

People at the top possess supernatural power, and they have been able to use this supernatural power to enable themselves to live an advanced life of extreme comfort and convenience. As the ruling power spreads, even if there are a very small number of gifted and lucky people in the lower class who master these powers, they will be absorbed by the social structure of this world and transformed into a new aristocratic class, and become a part of maintaining this situation. Members—and more importantly, before the appearance of the Hive Magic Net and rune logic, before the appearance of the "third-party observer" Gawain, no one would have thought of how to popularize all of this, and how to popularize all of this consequences.

So this world is lagging behind, even if it has long-distance communication, even if it has energy weapons, even if it has biochemical technology, virtual reality technology, and anti-gravity technology, it is still lagging behind for thousands of years.

However, Gao Wen believes that even if there is no appearance of himself, the world will always get rid of this sinking situation one day-as long as human beings are still thinking, then changes will always occur, and if a wild mage is buried, there will always be new ones. People summed up the rules of runes and the concept of the magic net, and there will always be someone with extraordinary talent or even just too lucky to realize all this...

There is no need to worry about whether the technological accumulation in this world is sufficient - there is no shortage of technological accumulation here, what is lacking is only a process of popularization and the power to ensure popularization.

But since he has already appeared in this era, and has not seen anyone other than himself realize the significance of popularizing all of this, then he is more than happy to do all of this with his own hands...

Gao Wen's thoughts were ups and downs. After realizing that there are actually countless advanced technologies waiting to be liberated in this world, his fighting spirit was burning again, but at this moment, he saw a black shadow suddenly flashing on the square below. Passed and flew towards this side.

He closed the window with ease.

"Gao Wen, let me tell you something about the Machinery Manufacturing Plant... Paji."

It wasn't until the half-elf lady was shot out with a slap that Gawain realized that he seemed to have heard the words "Mechanical Manufacturing Institute" just now—this shame of all things came to report a serious matter?

Gao Wen hurriedly opened the window again, and almost the moment the window opened, he saw a black shadow rushing up from below, and bumped into himself: "You are going to die! How can you see it so clearly? Someone came and closed the window on purpose!"

Gao Wen grabbed Hu Po, who was baring his teeth and claws: "How can you not go through the front door every day! Next time I put a mousetrap on the window, I warn you—and you said what happened to the Machinery Manufacturing Institute?"

Amber barked her teeth and claws for the last few times, and when she found that she couldn't get free, she quickly got down to business: "There seems to be something wrong with that Nicholas egg. It fell to the ground just now, and it's in a mess!"

Work machine accident? !

It is no exaggeration to say that Gao Wen really broke out in a cold sweat at this moment. He grabbed Amber's belt without saying a word, pinched her to the armpit, and then walked out of the room without even leaving the door. The window jumped out: "Hold on firmly!!"

"Didn't you jump out of the window too!"

"To shut up!"

Gao Wen rushed to the new factory building of the Machinery Manufacturing Institute almost in a straight line - the citizens along the way didn't even see what happened, they only felt a gust of wind blowing across the street - just a few minutes later, he was We have arrived at the place where Nicholas Egg is staying.

The main workshop of the new machinery factory is brightly lit, and almost all the craftsmen and apprentices in the machinery factory have gathered in the wide interior space, while Nicholas Egg is in the middle of the crowd—he is quietly "lying" there, huge The silver-white funny smile is facing the sky, it looks so funny...

The corner of Gao Wen's mouth trembled. He felt that the funny painting on the surface of the big ball was too eye-catching, so that it could give people a sense of drama in this situation, but he quickly adjusted and stepped forward to ask: "What's the matter?" What happened? Eggy—can you still hear me?"

"How many times have I said it, at least call me a boss!" Nicholas made a buzzing sound inside the egg, and the sphere shook slightly on the spot, but there was still no sign of floating up, "I said, why are you humans making such a fuss? Of... I am not dead..."

Gawain heaved a sigh of relief when he heard that the iron ball star still had a response, and then he looked suspiciously at the big metal ball in front of him: "Then you are..."

"Looks like I have a cold," Nicholas said buzzingly, "a sudden cold."

"cold?"

"Yes, a cold. Isn't it common sense that you can't float when you have a cold?"

"...This is not common sense for human beings!" Gawain stared at him immediately, and at the same time deeply felt the differences brought about by different species, and then asked a little worriedly, "By the way, why does your race catch a cold? Is it? Or is it infected?"

"Probably because I came into contact with the stimulus," Nicholas said in a muffled voice, "When I come into contact with certain energy fields or material stimuli, I tend to catch a cold... I tried to process several new materials today, and there may be some irritants in them." source."

Gawain immediately turned to the craftsmen and apprentices around him: "What has he been exposed to today?"

A rune craftsman shrank his head: "My lord, the most special thing the director processed today should be this..."

As he spoke, he asked his apprentices to push over a large piece of "rough stone" that was loaded on a trolley.

"This is a new ore discovered by the exploration team from the Dark Mountains. Ms. Hetty said that she sensed that the ore has a high magical activity."

Chapter 0202 New Ore

Gawain looked at the ores pushed up by the apprentices. From the first glance, he could tell that these ores contained magic-related substances.

It is a kind of silver-gray mineral with slight blue-purple stripes. Under certain light, it will have a metallic texture. The blue-purple stripes appear hazy and illusory when watched. This is an extremely vivid magic The characteristics of the material, and it is the characteristic that only the magic material with high purity and excellent magic conductivity will have.

A brand-new mineral that may be used in the field of magic has been discovered in the Dark Mountains. This is undoubtedly excellent news, but Gawain is more worried about whether the Nicholas egg will be damaged after being affected by this "stimulus". Leave a longer-term problem: "How long will it take for your cold to get better? Is this disease serious in your...group?"