354. A field of wild ducks flew in the lake

Towards the end of the semester, I always had to wake up from meditation every morning, running around the square in front of the school building, and many times, I was like a huge light bulb between Noah and Shirley Newman, not only putting up with their eyebrows, but also having breakfast with them.

During this time, I did not miss the magic class in the big classroom, and the quiet study life made it rare for me to have a good time to calm down and study before the end of this semester, but various evaluations and exams were about to usher, which made the atmosphere of the college tense and depressing before the summer.

On the lawn, under the shade of the trees, by the pool, you can always see the magicians holding the magic book and chanting spells or holding a thin branch and constantly gesturing, and even Shirley Newman, who usually has excellent grades in various fields, can't help but sit quietly on the side while I talk to Noah and study the magic book carefully, and there will be three or five close friends who get together to discuss the controversial knowledge of magic.

Before I knew it, more than ten days had passed, and there were already people in the academy preparing for the 'Summer Festival' three days in advance, and on the square lawn in front of the campus teaching building, some exquisite color sheds were being built one after another, which gave me the feeling that it was like preparing for a large-scale open-air exhibition, and the summer festival was probably the students of the School of Magic showing the outside world what they had gained in the past year.

Many students attach great importance to this exhibition held on the platform of the Academy of Magic, and even some magic students began to prepare two months ago, such as the future inscription masters of the empire gathered in the Inscription Society, who jointly designed and drew a set of magic pattern construction suits, which has been widely spread in the academy, and this 'Summer Festival' is more for those fourth-year seniors who are about to graduate from the Royal Academy of Magic, and they will show their talents at the Summer Festival.

The Royal Academy of Magic will also invite the royal family and the Grand Duke to come, whether it is the royal family or the big lords and dukes who guard one side, they are still very interested in the magic students in the Royal Academy of Magic, and excellent magicians are very popular wherever they go.

Over the years, the summer festival of the Royal Academy of Magic has gradually entered people's field of vision, and until now, the summer festival of the Royal Academy of Magic is not only a display platform for the graduates of the academy, but also attracts other magical institutions in the imperial capital, such as the Imperial Capital Magic Research Institute will also take out many new achievements from research to display, as well as the major magical life professional guilds in the imperial capital, the Alchemist Guild, the Inscription Master Guild, the Magic Apothecary Guild, the Magic Tailor Guild, The Jewelers' Guild and so on, and so on, there are many other small groups that are unknown and can come together as long as they have something to do with magic.

Anyway, among the celebrities and nobles who participated in the summer festival, there were many big donors, and who knows what kind of special preferences they have.

The Yerkes scholar also applied for a display stand from the Academy of Magic, and he wanted to find some buyers for the 'Snake Fang' magic pattern set leather armor, in fact, I have been persuading him to design some mainstream magic pattern structures, such as the '** Power' and the 'Earth Shield' magic pattern set suitable for knights to wear, after all, the Knights are the main legions in the Imperial army.

The Yerkes scholar had an eccentric personality, but he was not an idiot who couldn't listen to people, and after some thought, he agreed with me.

For Yerkis Scholars, the most accessible thing is the Magic Pattern Construct with the 'Earth Shield' Earth Magic Skill, which was previously a single piece of Constructed Leather Armor, but now it has been redesigned by the Yerkes Scholar and turned into a Demon Pattern Set, ready to be displayed with the 'Demon Serpent's Fang' at the Summer Festival.

The carpenters in the square were building booths out of wooden planks, fixed ropes were pulled everywhere, and two magicians from the logistics department were holding parchment in their hands, patrolling back and forth under the wooden shelves, and the academy was full of busy and lively scenes.

The preparations for the summer festival have left the square lawn in shambles, and many magic students have gathered around the fountain.

I sat leisurely on the stone platform of the pool, one hand reached into the pool water and gently stirred the clear pool water, and the other hand held a magic book of space geometry, which couldn't help but give me a big headache, this space geometry magic book contains the most basic knowledge of the magic array and the first solution of space magic, for me, it is difficult to imagine the three-dimensional patterns constructed by those lines in the book.

With the increase of the magic level, the affinity of the water element is also constantly improving, my perception extends out in the pool water, and a strange scene suddenly appears in the sea of spirits, and the internal space of the entire pool is completely imprinted in my mind, I look at the three-dimensional space of the fountain in the sea of spirits in amazement, Noah pushes me, and then pulls my thoughts out of the sea of spirits.

"Aren't you worried about the Charms exam in the afternoon, Mrs. Whitney will put a 'C' on your assessment form?" Noah said to me as he sat on the edge of the pool and grinned.

For Noah, spells were the last thing he needed to worry about, and he was so familiar with the magic spells in the textbook that even if he recited them the other way around, there would be no pauses or jams, and he was now thinking about how he could recite two different spells at the same time.

And I was still under Mrs. Whitney's observation, and Mrs. Whitney could not let go of the lessons I had missed, and she would wake me up at the end of each class to recite a spell, and although I always stumbled and could not satisfy her, I was able to recite it completely, but Mrs. Whitney could not say anything.

I withdrew the hand that was stretched into the water, and the illusion in the sea of spirit disappeared without a trace, and suddenly I felt that the geometry of space had opened a door for me, but at this time, I had to ask Noah next to me to stop the noise, and I retorted to him: " Of course I mind, no one wants to spend the whole summer being listless because of a certain subject, but even in the face of the pressure of failing a subject, I also want to learn Charms in my own way, at least I'm trying to make some changes, Noah, don't you think that Charms has entered a misunderstanding now?"

My words did not make Noah realize, but they did attract Shirley Newman, who was reading intently, to look at her in surprise, but she did not speak, hoping expectantly that I would continue.

I confessed: "Time stagnation, it is precisely His Majesty Ogura's book "Magic and Time Relativity" that changed the pattern of the human magical world, so that magicians who originally needed to study and practice diligently for three or five months, or even more than half a year or a year, to learn a magical skill, after having the magic of time stagnation, greatly shortened the process!"

I performed a 'hydrotherapy' on the top of Noah's head, believing that under the cover of the 'time stagnate' magic, Noah couldn't see how I drew the magic pattern circle and chanted the spell, he could only see me stretch out my fingers, and the water elemental magic poured out from my fingertips, converging on the top of his head, like a pleasant wind chime, 'rustling' non-stop.

In Noah's astonished gaze, I then said to him: "There may be nothing wrong with this, when we cast the spell and enter the dimensional space at the moment, we don't need the rhythm and rhythm of the spell, we just need to recite the spell as quickly as possible, draw the magic pattern array, even if it can be completed in the end, it doesn't matter, after leaving that space, just continue to read it boldly, and the success rate of casting the spell is still very high." ”

Seeing a hint of confusion on Noah's face, I took the opportunity to ask him, "But Noah, have you ever thought about what we ended up doing when we learned magic with such a mentality?"

Noah said with some uncertainty, "Because of the stagnation of the casting time, the mana is rapidly draining, the mana in the magic pool is rapidly depleted, or something else?" ”

I said, "Regarding the inheritance of human magic - we will be missing some of the essence of magic skills, and one day in the future, all magicians will have to rely on 'time stagnation' to perform magic, and everyone has forgotten the original components of magic skills: the rhythm of the spell, the fit between the spell and the magic pattern, etc., this does not mean that the magic civilization is constantly improving, on the contrary, I think that doing so will make us magicians slowly fall into an abyss." ”

"Of course, I am not here to deny the great achievements of His Majesty Ogura, who wrote Magic and Time with the intention of making low-level magic instantaneous. But just because we have learned 'time to stand still' does not mean that we do not grasp the essence of the spell - the incomparably beautiful rhythm of the ancient elves. I said to Noah.

After that, I once again performed the 'hydrotherapy' magic, this time I did not do it in a state of 'time standstill', but used the familiar rhythm and rhythm, singing the ancient elven spells, and at the same time mastering the moderate rhythm, drawing the water magic pattern, this set of actions I have done at least 5,000 times, like flowing water, even from the sidelines feel extremely smooth.

"Ah, I have really mastered magic, and I can use it so easily!" Shirley Newman gently covered her mouth.

I smiled and said to Noah proudly, "So, at the moment when you boast that you are incredibly fluent in reciting those spells, it is very incorrect to try to find the idea of chanting two different spells at the same time. If you want to run, you have to learn how to walk at least because you can't keep running with a walker. ”

While chatting, the bell rang on the roof of the teaching building, and the magic students gathered at the water's edge stood up one after another, holding magic books and rushing towards the teaching building, like black wild ducks fluttering in the lake and wanting to fly.

In my panic, I was a little uncertain, but in the fluttering crowd of magical students, I seemed to see a familiar figure—Mrs. Whitney.

The mana test, the magician rating, and the mental power test are always the three important factors that evaluate the growth of a magician, and there are several magic tests this morning...... Although there is some apprehension in my heart, it is also some unreasonable nervousness.

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Ten days ago, Lady Arya had met with Kig at the Academy of Magic, and had been recognized by Kiger, who had officially become my business partner with Kiger, who had recently become extremely busy, riding in the magic caravan every day, going between the rune board workshop and the weaving workshop, and occasionally helping me to the blacksmith's workshop to check the progress of the light rails and nails.

The first batch of rails has been successfully transported from the blacksmith workshop in 'North Duisburg' to the warehouse at the airport.

The rune board workshop began to try out the engraving printing mold today, and Mrs. Arya rushed to the rune board workshop early in the morning with the adamantite gold solution, the former owner of the rune board workshop, Nick, is indeed a qualified factory manager, since Nick saw the design concept of the Adamantite Magic Rune Board, he has been eating and living in the rune board workshop for more than ten days, and the thirteen apprentices left in the workshop have been making the red copper rune board day and night, according to Mrs. Arya, the red copper rune plates hoarded in the rune board workshop have been piled up like a hill in the courtyard.

I hadn't heard much of Lady Arya talking about the recent situation in her textile workshop, but I had heard that she had recently made a trip to the airport, probably not only to check the quality of the light rails, but also to get some spider silk ingots from her material warehouse at the airport.

However, seeing that the busy Lady Arya finally regained her vitality and confidence, she suddenly seemed to have become several years younger.

Recently, I was in the magic laboratory of the Yerkis scholar every night, helping him draw a large number of 'Earth Shield' magic pattern constructs, and I would be busy until the early hours of the morning every day, and then I took the magic caravan back to the academy dormitory, and I meditated in the dormitory until dawn, took Noah out for a morning jog in the morning, sat in the lecture hall for classes, and then rushed to the magic research institute in the afternoon, and so on and so on.

According to the owner of the leather shop, these hard leather armor were trophies brought back by the Prince of Wales from the Warsaw plane, and it seems that in the Warsaw plane, the seventh prince of the Grimm Empire not only reaped the victory, but also obtained some trophies, which were taken from the demon generals of the demon legion, and then these hard leather armor with the physical characteristics of the evil ghosts flowed into the magic market of the imperial capital, and was transformed into hard leather armor suitable for the imperial knights。

The Yerkes scholar heeded my advice and has been working with me in the lab for the last few days. Earth Shield's Magic Pattern Suit, in order to catch up with those Magic Pattern Suits, I don't know how many times my mana will be exhausted every night, anyway, when my mana is on the verge of exhaustion, I sit down and meditate, my mana recovery speed is three or five times faster than that of a magician of the same level, and my mental power is also very abundant, enough to support me to meditate so unscrupulously anytime and anywhere every day, draw a magic pattern circle to me like a demon, until the mana is exhausted, and then meditate, alternating back and forth, almost every night I can't stop.

Not long after I was promoted to a fifth-level magician (probably less than two weeks), the magic pool in my body appeared full again, and the magic vortex was running at high speed, condensing the mana into water droplets like an oil press and falling into the magic pool, at this time, the mana in the magic pool reached a full state, and those mana in the magic pool were like surging torrents, turning over rivers and seas, and the barriers of the magic pool that could be broken at any time fully showed that I was not too far away from being promoted to a sixth-level magician.