Infrastructure starts from the game

When Leibnis left the office, he took the "Royal Discovery" journal away.

This magazine was created by His Majesty the Emperor himself 100 years ago.

The law of universal gravitation was published in its first issue, and many of the most important research results in the scientific field have been published since then, which have played a guiding role in the industrial revolution process of this plane.

The scientists of Academy City—then still alchemists—were happy with this at first.

In the age of magic, science is a partial subject, usually classified as alchemy, and does not have its own journal, so alchemists are very happy to have such a channel to discuss and publish their research results.

Moreover, the content of the original "Discovery" journal is also very detailed, one new formula after another, one new theorem after another, scholars are ecstatic about this, they seem to have returned to their student days, eager to learn new knowledge, and try to digest them, And use them to set out to change the world.

But gradually, people began to feel that something was not quite right.

First of all, I don't know where this knowledge comes from.

Although the papers in the journals have the names of the authors, they are either scholars who have never heard of them, or some royal advisors. After a little chat, they will understand that these people are actually in the learning stage and have no trace of thinking at all.

So people wondered whether His Majesty the Emperor had picked up a magic item that could tell the truth somewhere, or simply made a deal with gods or demons.

However, since the royal mage said that the emperor has no problem, and this knowledge is completely mortal knowledge, without any trace of magic, it only needs a smart enough brain to learn and demonstrate, so people did not delve into it.

Secondly, with the passage of time, the speed at which "Discovery" publishes new knowledge has slowed down.

This would have been a very normal situation.

When a new field is discovered, it is of course the time when various research results are the most. Even if His Majesty the Emperor really made a deal with something strange, it cannot be endless, and he needs to stop and digest.

And the person who can absorb and digest this knowledge the fastest will naturally become an expert in this field, completely transforming this knowledge into the knowledge of this world.

In this regard, Academy City has a natural advantage.

This city-state has the best scholars and the smartest brains. They master and learn the same knowledge faster than anyone else, and they can even draw inferences from one instance and become the transmitter of knowledge.

There are scholars in Academy City, even if there is "Discovery" magazine, even if His Majesty the Emperor carries out various reforms and expansions of the Royal Academy, it is still impossible to transfer the academic center from the Eastern Realm to the Royal Capital, and because Academy City Due to the complicated sources of students, it is not easy for outsiders to dig out those top scholars.

As a result, the general subjects of Academy City have been expanded like never before, completely crushing the magic subjects.

According to normal development, these scholars will grasp the development of new disciplines and dominate the research direction again. However, scholars have found that no matter how hard they try, the "Discovery" journal can always get results faster than them.

This is not obvious at first.

Generally speaking, in the initial stage, after reading the journal, a certain scholar felt that "it seems that a certain direction can be studied in depth", and then saw the relevant research content in the next issue of the journal.

If it is only this point, no one will feel that "Discovery" has read their own minds.

But later, all the projects approved by Academy City will basically publish relevant papers in "Discovery" after they have achieved a certain degree of progress, but it is not right to say that the other party stole and plagiarized, because the researchers here did not Getting to the final conclusion is just progress.

And the later it was, the closer the papers on "Discovery" were to the research of Academy City.

For example, the formula that Leibnis is currently deriving, he has completed 80.00% of the work, and he is just short of the last step, but "Discovery" has the entire derivation process of the formula, and even the symbols used are Leibnis's. Drawn, but it includes the part that Leibnis has not yet done.

"This is also some kind of divination, and it's not accurate."

A scholar who studied magic and science at the same time speculated so.

"The 'future' is infinite. If there are not enough clues, even the most brilliant fortune-teller will not be able to see the 'correct future'. If "Discovery" is a precognition magic item, we may have to progress to a certain level , so that we can see the final result clearly?"

But most scholars said: "I actually don't care if "Discovery" is a predictive magic item, but if it is peeping at my research, should I write my name honestly?!"

The scholars in Wangdu said that "Discovery" is not a magical item, and those studies are also the results of their research.

There has been a war of words between the two sides of the academic world, and now it is basically incompatible with each other, and they have no contact with each other.

Leibnis is relatively young, and he did not participate in the verbal war that year.

Although he vaguely knew about it, he used to think that he would not care much about it. After all, as the eldest son of a magic noble family, mathematics is just a tool that cannot be used for magic, and Leibnis didn't care about the reputation and money brought by the paper. , just purely love mathematics and want to know the answer to the question.

Now it was really his turn, and Leibnis found that he still felt that this was two-thirds of a detective novel, and he was looking forward to the ending, and suddenly being spoiled by the murderer was as disgusting.

"So, I hate magic the most!"

Leibniz sighed.

He flipped through the magazine in his hand, thinking that the knowledge in it might really be obtained by magic, he felt sick for a while, and was about to stuff the magazine into the trash can beside him.

At this time, a man jumped out from the bushes beside the trash can:

"Hey, nobleman! Accept my challenge!"

It's Kata.

This kid was met by Leibnis in Magic Gear.

——Leibnis hates magic, and he naturally hates the magic industry in Cecilia.So Leibnis has been paying attention to the magic gear in the last alchemy workshop in Cecilia City. Out of some mentality similar to that of a dumped fiancé watching his desolate fiancée sell his dowry, he even secretly saved a sum of money, wanting to Go to the bankruptcy auction for magic gear.

Fortunately, in the end, Magic Gear had a new heir to take over the business to avoid bankruptcy. Leibnis was relieved, but couldn't help but entered the workshop when the workshop was re-testing, and became one of the first batch of customers. one.

It was then that Leibnis met Kata.

Or, because Leibnis snatched the No.1 position on the game table, he was unilaterally entangled by this kid.

But the boy was different from Leibnis.

Although Kata is also a non-talented person, his aptitude is obviously a type with good talent among the non-talented. In the magic age, he is probably the type that can be transferred to a magic knight. It only took two months to pass the magic appraisal and enter the Magic major in Academy City.

It's just that this kid's motives are obviously not pure, and he has been devoting his energy to ambush Leibnis all day long.

Leibnis didn't want to ignore him.

"Challenge?" Leibnis said coldly: "What level is your magic cube in? I once said, as long as you beat me, I will accept your challenge!"

This is of course just rhetoric.

Leibnis simply felt that Kata was annoying and couldn't be driven away, so he gave this restriction.

After that, Kata did disappear for about half a month.

Now it popped up again.

"...That, that's not fair!" Of course Kata remembered the agreement, and her face flushed immediately.

He didn't get No.1 on the Magic Cube leaderboard, and he was wrong on this point, but Kata felt that if he kept fighting against the Magic Cube, he wouldn't have a chance to compete with Leibnis in a short time. .

Maybe it will be like the city of Cecilia again, and Leibniz won in the end.

"The high-difficulty mode of the Magic Cube is a math problem, right?!" Kata said angrily, "Our starting point is different!"

This is what Kata figured out after returning from this vacation.

Kata is just a child from an ordinary family. He didn't start learning mathematics until he started compulsory education at the age of nine.

And Leibnis, as a nobleman, had tutors to teach him all kinds of homework since he was a child—although Leibnis completely used mathematics as a way to decompress when he couldn't learn magic, but the time spent in contact with mathematics was longer than that of Kata. A lot more.

At least Kata thinks so.

If it was Leibnis in normal times, he would probably mildly agree with this unfairness, and then find other ways to dissuade or ignore Kata, at least he did this before.

But now was the time when Leibnis was in the worst mood.

"Are you sure it's just a different starting point?" Leibnis sneered, "Isn't it because of lack of talent?"

"what?"

Leibnis chased after him bluntly: "The problems in the Magic Cube are not mathematics at all, they are just calculations. Even if you can't do this level of problems, it only shows that you have no talent in this area. Choose to give up!"

"Since you also feel that it is unnecessary to work hard on the subject that you must lose, why bother with me? As I said earlier, I have no talent in magic power, and I can't operate that game table at all."

Leibnis said so, turned around and wanted to leave.

But Kata didn't want to give up.

He competed with the opponent for two months, and Kata would not believe Leibniz's claim that he had no talent.

And in the final analysis, the two people actually care about different things.

What Kata wants to compare is "game".

Leibnis, on the other hand, has always believed that the game table represents "magic".

So Kata didn't know that he had been bouncing around on other people's thunder spots, but felt that this nobleman was too pretentious to push three obstacles and four fours-speaking of which, I want to compete with you in a game, who cares whether you have magic talent or not.

Seeing that Leibnis was about to leave, Kata hurriedly said: "That's not the case! At least you have to compare to know... huh?!"

Kata stretched out his hand to hold Leibnis, but before he could grab Leibniz's sleeve, he spun around for a while, and then hit the back of his head heavily on the floor.

"It seems that not only your math talent is not good, but your combat talent is also not very good."

Leibnis stepped on Kata's chest.

He learned more than just mathematics from an early age.

Leibnis casually broke off a nearby branch and used it as a long sword to press Kata's throat: "Don't bother me! Otherwise, I'll kill you next time!"

"Haha, has the evil nobleman finally revealed his true colors?" Kata grinned in pain, but his eyes were still shining brightly: "I don't want to give up!"

"...Is this kid actually a masochist?"

Leibnis frowned and wanted to threaten the other party a few more words, but a voice spoke out his heart instead.

Leibnis and Kata were taken aback at the same time, and looked to the side, only to see a black robe squatting there, looking at them with its arms on its face.

This is not the point, they also found that their position has changed.

Originally, Kata ambushed Leibnis on the boulevard near the mathematics building, but after turning their heads, they found that they did not know when they were standing in a hall with a huge magic circle painted on it. , Not far away, there was a dark-skinned man looking at them in shock.

Leibnis naturally knew that person:

"Mr Gancak?"

Leibnis turned pale, and quickly backed away from Kata.

Anyway, for a professor to murder a student, even if the student is a standard masochist, it is a very dishonorable act.

Kata's attention never shifted from the black robe from the beginning.

"Aren't you the owner of the magic gear?!" Kata asked in surprise, and he immediately sat up vigorously, "Sure enough, you also built the magic base in Academy City! Then the game table business has also expanded here come?"

In this way, he didn't have to bother dragging Leibnis back to the city of Cecilia for a "showdown".

Just find a gaming table nearby.

It's a pity that the black robe replied: "I don't think you need a game table for the time being." With this extra spirit, wouldn't it be good to add more magic power to the mushroom?

With that said, Angel stood up and looked at Leibnis.

Gancak immediately stepped forward in a very "sensible" way, and as an introducer, he said: "Mr. Leibnis, you should know this person, the owner of your favorite magic gear, Angel Cecilia .”

I don't like magic gears.

Leibnis retorted in his heart, but still nodded out of politeness: "... hello."

"Mr. Angel, this is Mr. Leibnis, the mathematical genius of the Friedrich family, who is currently..." Gancak took advantage of the opportunity to flatter Leibnis, not for the purpose of introducing him to Angel. It was to make Leibnis feel better—who knew that the black robe would encounter such an embarrassing scene when he used spells to transfer people over!

It's just that Gancak didn't finish his sentence. He suddenly noticed the "Discovery" magazine that Leibnis was holding in his hand, and recalling Leibnis' uncharacteristic appearance before, Gancak suddenly realized something.

It's over!It seems that they found each other at the most inappropriate time.

But it was too late to retreat at this time, Gan Kak bit the bullet and said: "With him here, your magic base station will never have to worry about any computing power."

Leibnis was not fooled by Gancak: "A computing power problem?"

"Mr. Angor is laying the magic power base station, which is the magic power base station where you obtained the magic cube meditation method of No. I can get your help."

"Sorry, I'm not in a good state recently, so I can't help you." Leibnis said immediately.

Sure enough?

Gan Kak's smile froze for a moment, and he glanced at the face of the black robe, not sure if he wanted to persuade him to go on.

After all, considering Leibniz's current state, any further persuasion would be a feud.

But he specially introduced Leibnis to come over, and he also found it difficult to deal with the other party's lack of face!

The black robe didn't care if he would become enemies with Leibnis: "Your state doesn't matter, if you are really as talented as Gancak said, you can help just by standing there."

...Don't all of you listen to people?

Leibnis thought angrily.

It's a pity that Angel doesn't know how to read people's faces. He stared at Kata: He also remembers this young man who is the second in the ranking.

The black robe held Kata and said, "You come too!"

Kata does not reject it.

He felt that since Angel wanted Leibniz's help, it was only natural to ask him as a second...temporary second help.

Kata asked enthusiastically, "What are you going to do?"

"Test," Angel said, "... If you want to, just test the combat system."

"Battle system? Is it similar to the one in "Magic Arena"?!" Kata's eyes lit up.

Unlike Leibnis, Kata returned to his hometown this time during the Holy Spirit's Day holiday. He not only went to Magic Gear to play "Magic Ring", but also participated in the Holy Spirit's Day carnival!It was only because the winter vacation was too short that he didn't go to the leaderboard to compete for the ranking.

However, there is no game table, and it is also possible to use that to "show off" with Leibnis.

"Almost." The black robe nodded this time.

Leibnis frowned: "I don't—"

He felt empty.

Leibnis was stunned for a moment, and found that the branch that he had been holding in his hand before was in the hands of the black robe.

Angel wrote two runes on the branch, and then stuffed the branch into Kata's hand: "But it's different from the magic arena, you have to fight in person."

"Personally?" Kata took the branch in a daze.

Then out of the corner of his eye he saw something draped over his shoulder.

Kata lowered his head subconsciously, and saw a half-rotten face looking at him with black hole-like eyes.

"Ah!" Kata immediately jumped up.

However, his movements were a step slower, and the terrifying head still bit him down.

And there is no pain.

Kata only saw the head passing through him, so the red -5 value emerged from him.

Kata has seen this before, but it is only on the game characters, which is a sign of low health.

Did you hurt yourself?But it doesn't hurt!

Kata thought blankly.

And that head flew back and hit Kata again.

"Don't be afraid, it's a phantom, attack the opponent with the sword in your hand." The black robe on the side guided leisurely.

"Sword? Sword!"

Kata froze for a moment, looked at the branch in his hand, then reacted, and slashed towards the head, but his movement was still a little slower, and the -10 mark floated on his body again.

But after being attacked twice in this way, Kata has grasped the point.

"Isn't it right to use this attack?"

Kata asked loudly, holding the branch, turned around and swung it down at the head that was about to attack him for the third time.

The runes on the branches glowed, and the head was about to be split in half.

But before Kata could heave a sigh of relief, he saw that the split head had grown back into two equally terrifying heads, whistling and flying towards him.

"Ahhh, this is a foul!"

Kata screamed.

Fortunately, the flying speed of the heads is not very fast, and the direction of movement is also a bit "stupid". As long as Kata concentrates, he can smash them smoothly.

During Kata's "battle" with these terrifying head phantoms, the evil black robe came to Leibnis.

"Don't you try to control those phantoms?"

"It's not okay to kill the students, but it's okay to teach this kind of stalker a little lesson, right?"

"At least let him understand how it feels to be entangled."

Leibnis: ...

Leibnis finally looked at the black robe: "I have the physique of forbidden magic."

"The magic power base station will provide you with enough magic power. You only need to make operations like the game table and the magic cube," Angel said, and handed a handle to Leibnis, "Try it?"

Leibnis hesitated for a while, then took the handle.

Then, a huge and flexible head flew towards Kata.

"Wow, wow, you don't talk about martial arts!"

Kata screamed and started running away.

Looking at the two confronting each other, the evil black robe happily pulled out the rune panel:

"Sure enough, if the computing power is sufficient, it is possible to count human movements and attack strength."

It's just too much calculation.

Whether it is the game table or "Magic Arena", it is a pre-set rune, and the attack action and attack value are designed from the beginning, so the core of the rune is enough to control the operation of these games.

But for "online games", each player's movement and strength must be counted, which is definitely not possible in Cecilia City, and only when so many students and teachers in Academy City can provide computing power. Can consider it.

And this is not just a matter of computing power, but also requires strong numerical values ​​to help Angel deploy the combat power system.

Now it seems that Leibniz is indeed a suitable candidate.

Angel wanted to praise Gancak a few words, but he saw the other party looking at him in admiration: "As expected of Mrs. Cecilia, I suddenly found a way to let Mr. Leibnis vent his anger. I thought he was so angry. , I won’t agree to help anyway!”

"Angry? Is he angry?" Angel belatedly asked.

"Of course! Ah, I'm not saying he's mad at that kid, but that his academic achievements are likely to be reported first again."

"... Tell me about this in detail."

Angel demanded.