Great Elf Sage

While Philip was still confused about his choice and persistence, Shirley, who had not been heard from for more than ten years, was at the Magic Academy in Aurora City telling the history of the Magic Academy to the newly admitted magic apprentices this year. .shung

“...Countries have their own almanac calculation methods based on different myths, legends and historical events. Most of these almanac calculation methods are no more than tens or hundreds of years, and national almanacs that are more than hundreds of years old almost do not exist... This is for those who only live in one country. It’s fine for the common people within the country, but for people who look beyond the scope of a country, this way of understanding history is not applicable..."

Shirley, who was wearing the blue mage robe of a magic academy lecturer and wearing a badge with a six-ring magic pattern on her left chest, picked up a thick hard-cover book on the desk. The pages of the book turned automatically, layer by layer of magic. The technique emerged out of thin air, and a picture began to appear on the floating blackboard behind Shirley.

The picture is a chronicle in the form of a tree diagram, with a 'backbone' starting from 'Transcendental Silence' and extending to the 'Escalation of the Proxy War between the United Kingdom and the Eastern United Kingdom' that spread across the continent not long ago, recording The main events in the mainland from the end of the True Spirit War until now.

In addition to the 'main trunk', several 'branches' will extend from each point in time, marking events that occurred at the same time and were worthy of recording.

"...We magicians are studying the truth of the world, not to serve anyone... We are different from those vulgar court magicians. In the process of exploring the truth and getting closer to the source, the development history of the material world will be A very good reference experience, so we need to have a comprehensive understanding of history..."

Shirley's left hand held the "Instructor's Book" that was distributed to every lecturer in the Magic Academy, allowing the teaching content to automatically emerge. Her right hand gently brushed the open pages, and the magic spells changed accordingly. Several key time points were marked on the 'Continental Chronicle' on the floating blackboard.

“…the Ancient Era, the first three thousand years of creation, was an era when extraordinary power ravaged the material world. Chaos was one of the greatest characteristics of that era. The specific history of the Ancient Era cannot be verified, and the origin of modern civilization can be traced back to the starting point. Before and after the True Spirit War, when the four sages with the highest seats among magicians compiled this 'Continental Chronicle' many years ago, they took into account the wide applicability and accuracy and combined the concepts of 'Ancient True Spirit Hidden' and The 'Transcendent Concealment' incident, which is the key point of the 'Disappearance of the True Spirit Descendants', marks the end of the True Spirit War and is also the starting point of our history..."

Gently brushing her right hand again, a few lines of text appeared on the 'Continental Chronicle', Shirley continued

"...From the perspective of our magicians, that was the year when extraordinary power disappeared and order came to the material world. It was also the year when the light of civilization was ignited and extraordinary systems began to appear. It was the beginning when mortals could begin to pursue the truth... This year is the 'First Year of the Civilization Calendar'! And this year is already the 6930th year of the Civilization Calendar."

There were waves of slight exclamations in the lecture theater with a roughly right-angled fan-shaped structure.

Seeing the wonder and admiration of these young magic apprentices, Shirley felt a little relieved.

When she first came into contact with magic, before she could successfully engrave the basic spell, Shirley had already served as a lecturer at the Magic Academy. Seven years ago, she successfully inscribed the first four-ring spell, became an intermediate magician, and obtained With the title of 'Child of Magic' attached to her blue robe, she is already qualified to get a seat as a professor in the academy and become a 'Magister' who guides official magicians.

But Shirley has no interest in these. On the contrary, she is more passionate about enlightening those ignorant children who have just embarked on the path of magic and want to control their own destiny.

Although the memory of the destruction of the Blue Mountains is still profound, it is a bit distant to her now... The whereabouts of her compatriots are now known, and Shirley, who is now focusing on magic research, will no longer feel unbearable to look back on that experience.

Shirley's persistence in that memory is now only her brother Sher, who is still missing...

After leaving a few dozen seconds for these children to feel the weight of history, Shirley continued.

"In the nearly seven thousand years from the first year of the Civilization Calendar to the present, many major events have occurred. These are things that you, as magic apprentices, need to know generally, but the academy does not specifically require everyone's mastery of this. How much needs to be achieved, so if you want to understand these histories in depth, you need to check out relevant documents in the college library in your free time... In addition to the common sense knowledge of the division between ancient times and modern times, there is a period of history that is As magic apprentices, you must remember..."

His right hand lightly brushed over the "Book of Mentors" again, and another period of history very close to the present was marked on the floating blackboard.

Shirley went on to say

"...Thirty years ago, that is, the 6900th year of the civilized calendar, it was the year when the sages of the magic path began to gather and the Council of White-robed Sages first appeared. This year was the 'First Year of Magic' !”

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Near noon, the teaching ended.

The immature and young magic apprentices collectively stood up and gave a mage salute to the lecturer Shirley, and then left the lecture theater one after another.

A few of the more studious magic apprentices stayed behind. After encouraging each other, they nervously walked up to Shirley.

A human girl who was pushed out by her companions stuttered and asked.

"Tutor! Can we ask you a question?"

Shirley smiled knowingly. She would deliberately stay after each class, just to give those proactive children a chance.

After all, even if the apprentice who can take the initiative is not very talented, his future achievements will not be bad, not to mention the talent that can be admitted to her classroom in the college assessment...

So she said in a gentle tone

"I don't know what other lecturers in the college are like, but my teaching method is closer to the magic association in the south. Since I am the lecturer of this classroom, you can ask me questions at any time as long as I am still in the classroom."

Shirley's words gave these studious magic apprentices a little more courage.

The girl who took the lead before relaxed a little and asked boldly again.

"Teacher, um... I, I have always been fascinated by magic. When I first entered the academy, I looked through some documents in this area in the library. I remember that in the Atalan continent, 'magic' It appeared thousands of years ago, but why is the emergence of the Sage's Seat the first year of magic?"

The girl stuttered a little at first, but her words became clearer and clearer later on. Several other magic apprentices behind her also nodded, expressing their confusion about this question.

In response to the questions from the magic apprentices, Shirley smiled and replied

"Originally, this will only be told to you as supplementary content to the magician's seat sequence after you successfully meditate on the initial spell and open the sea of ​​consciousness to become a gray-robed magic apprentice. But since you discovered it in advance, it doesn't hurt for me to tell you in advance. "

"Magician seat sequence..." The immature apprentices chewed on this somewhat difficult-to-speak vocabulary. This was a new term that they had never heard of before.

Shirley said with a smile.

"The world generally distinguishes the classes of magicians by apprentices, low-level, mid-level, high-level, and legends, but these are just levels that symbolize strength. Within our orthodox magicians, there are people who do not distinguish their identities based on strength." The seat sequence', the level of the seat sequence is directly related to the magician's mastery of the truth. The higher the seat, the richer the knowledge reserve, and the closer to the source of the world... And the highest seat in the sequence is the seat of the sage."

The girl frowned and asked in confusion

"But what does this have to do with the division of the first year of magic?"

Shirley opened the "Book of Mentors" in her hand again, and the pages of the book turned automatically. Images and paragraphs of text appeared in the "Book of Mentors", and vaguely could be seen the instructions related to the steps on the magic ladder.

Shirley sighed.

"Perhaps the extraordinary power called 'magic' has already appeared, but it was the sages who created it from scratch... It can be said that the earliest 'magic' became an orderly and complete power system. ', it can only be regarded as a kind of extraordinary power. It was not until the white-robed sages built the magic ladder and opened up a feasible way to reach the source that the extraordinary system called 'magic' truly appeared!"

The apprentices talked a lot, and finally had a general understanding of the difference between 'magic' and the magic system, and also understood why the first year of magic was set in the year when the Council of Sages appeared.

After asking many questions, the girl became bolder and continued to ask

"So, the four great sages were the ones who built the magic ladder in the first place, and were the magicians closest to the roots of the world? Are they as powerful as Julian, the 'Fire Magister' of the magic association?"

Shirley replied with a smile

"The white-robed sage is the highest seat in the magician seat sequence. The magician who reaches this seat means that he has mastered some knowledge close to the source, but this does not mean that they are weak. In fact, although the blue-robed magician has The strength of the magician ranges from mid-level to legendary, but once he reaches the seat of the red-robed great mage, the magician's understanding of the truth is enough to make his strength no less than the ninth ring... And the white-robed sage's true understanding of the world The understanding is close to the root, and this understanding is fed back into the strength, at least he is a legendary magician!"

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The magic apprentices all left with satisfaction, and Shirley closed the "Book of Instructors", left the classroom, and walked to her private villa in the accommodation area of ​​the Magic Academy.

On the way, Shirley suddenly recalled that she seemed to have failed to answer the girl's last question.

"Are the four great sages the ones who built the magic ladder in the first place... There seems to be no clear record of this in the literature, but judging from their ages, Lord Gandalf, Lord Chiron, and Lord Hohenheim, the three of them, He should indeed be one of the original sages, but Mr. Nolan..."

Shirley flipped through the "Book of Mentors" in her hand. The names of the four authors were written on the title page. They were the names of the four sages with the highest rank among magicians.

The first author at the top is Nolan Morningstar, the dean and chief professor of the Magic Academy, the only prince among the four royal families of the Elf Forest, and the 'Sage of Knowledge and Mystery'.

Others don't know, but Shirley has been to the Elf Forest and has a good relationship with Natsu and other four elves who stay in Aslan Continent, so she knows one thing very well.

Mr. Nolan, like Chris, were both born in the 6900th century of the civilizational calendar defined by the four elves of the Forest of Elves. The year Nolan was born was the year when the Sage's Seat appeared. One year is also the first year of magic, and Nolan has now become one of the four great sages...

"Is there any connection here... Haha, what am I thinking? Maybe the first sages were gathering earlier, but in the end it was the four great sages who unified the theory of the magic ladder, and Mr. Nolan He is the one who has made the greatest contribution among them, so in order to commemorate this genius, the first year of magic should be divided by his birth!"

Shirley shook her head, and like almost all the 'insiders' who thought about this coincidence, she stopped thinking about it.

But Shirley, who gave up thinking about this problem, didn't know that for a moment just now, she was close to another 'reality' hidden in the shadows of this world...

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To be continued.

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