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Adam, who couldn't be idle at all, went to look at the work of Hudson Eddy and the others, and after pointing out a few things that needed to be changed, he ordered Lydia to help him find some novel assistants. Especially those with experience in fantasy are the best.

Although after the end of the copyright negotiations, the related work has been reduced a lot. In addition to sending one or two assistants to keep an eye on the work progress of the new line, Tonares returned to New York. It felt very comfortable. After asking her herself and getting a positive answer, she and Tonares transferred her identity to a studio established by Adam to become his private and exclusive secretary to help him with related trivial matters .

During the few months when Lydia was transferred to Adam's side as a secretary, she worked hard to learn a lot of knowledge about related industries, and made some contacts that were extremely useful in her work.So when Adam asked her to help him find a novel assistant, Lydia did it with little effort.

And Lydia's main job now is to decorate another 100-square-meter studio for Adam. Although the current studio is not bad and can meet most of the needs, but for Adam, this studio will be the best in the future. Where he spends the most time, whether it is for himself or for his assistants to work for him more comfortably, a comfortable studio is always better.

As early as in the process of copyright negotiations, Adam and Lydia have taken a fancy to another place, two blocks away from the current studio, with better scenery and a little more remote, but Adam can buy it directly, without Pay the rent every month, and when you come to your own place, you can decorate it as you want, so you don’t have to worry about being driven away and it will be cheaper for others.

In the end, Adam spent less than 20 US dollars to get a room of more than 100 square meters to serve as his new studio, but it would take more than half a year to live in it. Fortunately, Adam spent more time in LA.

On the next day, Adam interviewed more than a dozen people, and selected three men in their twenties to thirties to be his assistants in the novel.Although it is just a novel, it seems a waste to find three assistants to help.

But in fact, if Adam didn't feel that the future of this book was uncertain, maybe he wanted to find more assistants, because his ambition was even greater.

Before writing this book, Adam first signed an absolute confidentiality contract with them to prevent the contents from being leaked out and cause a series of problems. If it really happened, then they wouldn't panic and be at a loss.

And having been in this circle for so long, the few assistants who have just signed the contract naturally have no resistance to the non-disclosure agreement. In fact, for people of their status, it is strange that there is no money non-disclosure agreement.

Adam's arrangement for the three of them had been planned long ago. Before the novel officially started, Adam was responsible for designing the basic structure of the entire wizarding world. The knowledge obtained in it was completed by Adam.

To be honest, although they were very active in interviewing and becoming assistants of Adam Studio, but for a writer who started out in science fiction, instead of consolidating his reputation and status in the science fiction world, he turned around and fell into the pit of fantasy novels The idea is extremely incomprehensible.

But who asked Adam to pay more, the salary he paid the three people was five floors higher than the average salary in the industry.

I originally thought that I would spend a month or two fooling around in this studio, get the money first, and then talk about it. After the novel comes out, seeing the quality, whether he is satisfied or not has nothing to do with these little assistants. They can also take advantage of these Opportunities, job seekers seek work, earn extra money earn extra money.

However, when Adam pulled them into the studio for the first general meeting of the novel "The Witcher", they all changed their original ideas.In particular, when Adam printed his basic background setting for the novel "The Witcher" into a booklet and distributed it to them, seeing that the booklet was completely different from the fantasy novel they had read before, I suddenly felt that every part of my body Every cell is awakened.

They are all veterans in the world of fantasy novels. They have read too many fantasy novels. Apart from the classic basics, most fantasy novels cannot escape those routines. Even the classic basic fantasy novels exclude the magic setting. Besides, it can basically be said to be a chivalrous novel of alternate history.

But what Adam put in their hands was a world that was really built on the basis of the fantasy profession of wizards, nobles, bloodlines, witchcraft, black and white wizards, etc., the novel settings made them suddenly have a kind of brains. Feel.

After reading the entire content, they knew that what they had in their hands was only a corner of the wizarding world, but this corner of the world alone was much larger than the pattern of 90.00% nine fantasy novels.

Even if Adam didn't say a word about his ambitions to him, but from this huge setting of the wizarding world in only five or six pages, it can be seen how ambitious Adam is for this novel. Not one book, but a series, a super fantasy series about wizards.

Of course, it doesn't mean that the setting given by Adam is perfect and wonderful. The shock and admiration in their hearts is due to the whimsy in Adam's mind, but this setting is still in many places. There are contradictions, there are places that are divorced from reality, and some are too absurd.

An author who wants to write a classic, or at least has the idea of ​​writing a classic, will never allow such obviously criticized shortcomings in his novels.But it doesn't matter, because this is the main reason why Adam paid a high price for them to enter the studio.

Adam built the basic structure, and then the three assistants came to find out the unreasonable places, make modifications, and enrich the structure given by Adam, and enrich the world through mutual discussion and debate.

It has to be said that although the assistants are somewhat lacking in terms of world outlook and overall situation, they filled the fantasy structure given by Adam with the improved Western medieval cultural customs, and after countless quarrels, they adjusted it perfectly. As if real.

After setting the tone for the general world, Adam also brought in the three people next door who had completed the work on the comic "Druids". A total of seven people began to refine the history of the entire continent that Adam initially defined as the wizarding world.

Adam will give the main history, such as the birth of the wizarding world, as well as the memorabilia, the distribution of black and white wizarding forces, and the relationship.Then the other six coolies detailed the entire history, and even designed the entire history of each college's forces to create an existence similar to a chronicle.

After completing the power layout, he began to design the distribution of family power below the wizard and the intricate relationship with various countries. Although Adam only wanted to make a rough power map at first, he did not expect that the six assistants were almost obsessed with it. Among them, he almost regarded him as a game, indulging in the fantasy game of creating wizarding world for more than ten hours a day, unable to extricate himself.

In order to make the wizarding forces and the relationship network of various countries more rigorous and reliable, they even introduced the intricate relationship of various European countries. For this reason, they consulted a large number of political and historical unofficial histories, and finally adapted them and blended them into the novel.

What made Adam speechless the most was that one of them, Lynch Adams, even used a Latin language that was only circulated in a very small number of places and is now almost lost as the wizard language. After Adam heard it, he would It was put into a new general meeting of "Wizards", and it was voted on. Finally, it was passed unanimously, and the special language for wizards was set.

Adam remembered that when watching The Big Bang Theory before time travel, when Sheldon and the others were discussing the Lord of the Rings, they quoted a brand new language created by Tolkien in the Lord of the Rings many times.

Adam was very impressed by this, and he was also deeply envious and admired. With such a real spirit, how could he not write a real fantasy classic?

Therefore, when Lynch proposed this idea, Adam agreed in his heart a long time ago. He ordered him to concentrate on creating a language unique to the wizarding world based on this language, and summarize it into a book.

Lynch said that his good friend is a university linguist called Hobbs Oliver, a professor at the University of California, and he can be invited to help them design. Adam met this professor named Hobbs and felt like a A very honest otaku who likes fantasy and comics.When he knew that Adam was the creator of "Druid", he was extremely excited, and even took out the comics for Adam to sign.

When Adam expressed his hope that he could help them create a language as the exclusive language of the fantasy novel "The Witcher", he expressed his great honor, and even did not ask for compensation to serve Adam for free.

Of course, Adam rejected the idea of ​​letting him serve for free. He is not short of that little money, so there is no need to take advantage of him, and it also avoids possible disputes in the future. The excited eyes couldn't bear to cheat him.

In the end, Adam took out [-] U.S. dollars, saying that this was his reward, and as long as they signed the contract, the [-] U.S. dollars would be remitted to his bank account.Although Hobbs is a little embarrassed, after all, being able to participate in the creation of a novel that sounds cool is an extremely interesting thing for a person like him who is a fantasy dead house and not too short of money. What's more, the other party is still his idol.

Regardless, Adam closed the deal and returned to the studio to continue finishing up the Wizarding World until a phone call hit his hotel room.

"Hey Adam, miss me?"

Adam dropped the phone, ran downstairs quickly, and saw Carol, whom he hadn't seen for a long time, who was a little bronzed by the warm sunshine of California. The two standing a few meters apart felt as if they had passed away.