Professor Ian Gertel, Mu Yan had never heard of this person in "Dusk Era", because according to the original historical trajectory, he died in the 6th year of Dusk, that is, in 783 of the Faith calendar, and at that time, Falan City happened to take over the Wish of Light from the Kansa Ice Field and became the player's frontline against the undead.

It can be said that the old man walked sadly, just as sadly as he had fought before.

This man is short of gold in his life.

Ian was still a serious aristocrat, and when he was a student at Jialan, the academy offered a "magic output" course.

He caught up just in time for the tail of the affair.

Ian was very interested in the course and put a lot of energy into figuring out how to make his magic output smoother and more durable. But it's a pity, because of his poor talent in the mage field, no matter how much he uses his brain, he can't catch up with those classmates who have excellent talent but are unwilling to work hard.

So before he could figure it out, the matter was yellow. The reason is that the magic is not pure enough to be transported to the horn of Kane as a commodity, and other reasons that Principal William told Mu Yan, the latter did not provide assistance, and the school also rejected the proposal of the Clark family, and the funding chain was broken, and the school could not be maintained.

Desperate to learn of this fate, Ian was only enlightened when he heard about the idea of "sustainable magic energy" during a lecture given by a Silver Candle scholar, and genius combined it with "magic output" to create a new idea.

So he paid out of his own pocket to buy a small part of the stored mana, that is, the 'waste energy' that the magic furnace couldn't burn, and spent his spare time studying mana refining on his own while attending classes.

This is also the beginning of the "magic refining" of the Silver Candle Society in the future.

In Ian's opinion, things develop from simple to complex, so he thinks that he should start with the refinement of the magic of a low-level mage—like himself.

Ian, who had not yet joined the Silver Candle Society, showed extraordinary talent in this area, contrary to his poor magical qualifications, and he soon made good progress.

But this is also the beginning of the tragedy.

Ian's father was a baron, the kind of nobleman who had a wide ancestry, but not to the level of "hereditary replacement". So it was passed down step by step, and by the time Ian's father was mixed into a baron.

And this old man is just a country nobleman who flirts with maids all day long, keeps birds and walks dogs, and has nothing to do, and he can't even ride a horse.

While this status doesn't make Ian laugh at him, it doesn't provide him with much money. So Ian's research on magic refining was basically a desperate gamble, and he gambled his tuition for the next few years, because he could see how earth-shattering it was.

Fortunately, with unremitting efforts, he single-handedly developed a preliminary method of purifying mana, and the most effective commercial use of this method is to reduce the volume of mana crystals circulating on the market to 1/8 of the original, that is, the edge length of the hexahedron is shortened by half.

The transportation of a large number of mana crystals has always been achieved by flying magical beasts, and cannot be realized by space props in a large area.

And in order to prevent it from colliding and causing an explosion, each crystal ingot has to be mixed with a large amount of cushioning, which is more careful than that of a precision instrument, so the amount that each griffon carries is very limited. In addition, with the gradual depletion of the ore veins near Jialan, the transportation location is gradually expanding, so the transportation cost is increasing day by day, and this means can at least increase the transportation efficiency by half!

Ian, who got this result, rushed to Kane's Corner and gave the information to himself, hoping to continue his research in exchange for financial support from the other party.

However, his request was ruthlessly dismissed.

"Sorry, we don't see any commercial use."

He was greeted with such a cold word.

Ian was dumbfounded, he didn't expect such an obvious huge benefit that the other party would be so stupid as to turn a blind eye, and he couldn't help himself in anger for a while, so he actually started to fight with the staff on the spot.

As a crappy and weak mage who spends his days in the lab, he was undoubtedly easily subdued, and Kane's Horn had the school give him a three-day punishment based on the evidence in the image crystal.

At this time, Ian was really discouraged and at the lowest point in his life.

First, he temporarily lost the direction of his life, which was spiritual despair. Second, he ran out of money, which was material despair, and he would even drop out of school because of lack of money......

The family has no money, and his father said before he was sent to Jialan Academy that he has 3 sons, and he invests the most in him because he can see the future. But if the future is buried by his own hands, then he will have to focus on the other two sons.

After coming out of the confinement room, Ian felt that his life was bleak, but it wasn't long before he suddenly received an olive branch from the Silver Candle Society, and a certain big man in it heard about him out of nowhere and sent out an invitation.

Ian suddenly knelt on the ground excitedly and praised Mia loudly, crying uncontrollably.

The Silver Candle Club applied for something similar to a bursary fund for him, so that he could continue his studies, and Ian was so moved that he proposed the magic refining project he had been studying for a long time at a group meeting, which was quickly recognized by his mentor and colleagues, and began to form a project team with him as the core.

This was the beginning of the Silver Candle Society's "Magical Refining". Ian's previous self-developed volume compression is only a small part of it. And after previous failures, as well as continuous learning in the Silver Candle Society, Ian also took a more long-term view, and pointed out that the order from low to high is wrong, because the solution to complex problems must be compatible with simple problems, but blindly solving simple problems will lead people to a dead end, and the more advanced mages can access the purer elements, and their research should be reversed.

So the Silver Candle Society formulated the topic that Mu Yan learned.

The reason why this topic was restarted in "Dusk Era" was because of the large influx of players, who provided a large number of samples for scholars through "Sperm Donation Weekly...... Of course, that's all for later.

In the midst of this, another event happened, and it was also a major event that changed Ian's life.

Halfway through the project, it took more than ten years for Ian to graduate from Jialan Academy and officially become a scholar of the Silver Candle Society.

Although he hated Kane's Horn, he never mentioned it, after all, the Silver Candle Society provided him with tuition, and Kane's Horn was the owner of the Silver Candle Society, and he was also past the age of being stunned, so naturally he would not do such an embarrassing thing for both parties.

However, after a certain contact with the horn of Kane, when he looked up from the redundant experimental data, he inadvertently found that the magic transportation business of the horn of Kane was twice as efficient as before! It was precisely his original conclusion that was used!

Ian was in a state of great rage, and he felt that the sky was dark, that he had been deceived, and that the most trusted organization and the most hated enemy had joined forces to deceive him!

At this moment, he seemed to have fallen into deep darkness again, and he was so depressed that he could not breathe.

For more than a decade, his loyalty and trust in the contribution of the Silver Candle Society have been like unbridled ridicule at this time, trampling on his dignity.

So Ian angrily went to the upper echelons and found the scholar who had recruited him in the first place.

In the face of his anger, the old scholar sighed and calmly recounted the ins and outs.

In fact, before Ian had a quarrel with Kane's Horn, and before he was punished by the school, he hadn't heard of his research at all, and it was the people from Kane's Horn who found him afterwards and told him that a promising scholar had fallen into a low ebb in his life, and told him the whole process - in the image crystal that caused Ian to eat punishment, his every move, every detail of his operation, and even the spitting stars that popped out of the corners of his mouth when he gave a speech with flying eyebrows were extremely clear.

In other words, as long as you are not a fool, you can reproduce this "volume compression" process that he regarded as a treasure with reference to this crystal.

But the people of Kane's Horn didn't do it so badly, and their goal was very clear, either let this genius die, and Kane's Horn would not use this patent, but smash the crystal, let this secret rot in the stomach, and wait for the next talented scholar to discover it.

Alternatively, the Silver Candle will accept him and form a project team, after which the Kane Horn will buy out the patent from the Silver Candle Club at a bargain price.

Ian was stunned.

"But, but why would they do it?" He asked at the time.

"You don't seem to realize the significance of your research." The old scholar replied, "Magical transport happens every minute, kid. According to the supremacy of the Horn of Kane at the beginning of its establishment, individual authorization can be divided into 1%-5% of the net profit, which is inversely proportional to the size of the profit, and in your case it must be 1%.

"But do you know how much gold is in the 1%? It's enough to make you richer than a king. Because mana transport happens every minute, as long as the mana is not exhausted, it will continue forever, it is Jialan's blood. As long as Jialan does not die, your son, your grandson, as long as your family is not extinct, even if your descendants lie in bed and sleep all day, they can receive a large amount of gold coins from the Horn of Kane, and they will have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of their lives.

"Do you know why the family of the Council of Six has a steady stream of wealth? Because their ancestors helped the merchants seven hundred years ago, before the Horn of Kane was established. Those six were the most prestigious mages of their time, as well as the most prestigious scholars, so the Horn of Kane never stopped sending gold coins to the six houses for more than 700 years. This is also part of the Supreme Ordinance.

"Of course, there have only been six such cases, and only six have occurred. The people of Kane's Horn are not fools and will not create a seventh or eighth such council family. So they almost never allow individual shares. ”

Hearing this, Ian looked up in disbelief:

"That's why they want to buy it out at a fixed price? The silver candle will pass—"

"Of course, it always has been. All of the Silver Candle's patents are sold in one go, and only then can we get enough money from this group of merchants to sustain the research - and in this respect, the figures they give are conscientious. ”

The old scholar laughed self-deprecatingly, "because they know that every patent brings in hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of times the money." Even, the reason why you can complete your studies later on, all the tuition fees are provided by them. ”

Ian couldn't speak for a long time, and it took a while to hold back a question.

"But why don't we come by ourselves?"

The old scholar smiled again, "Silly boy, the reason why the Silver Candle Society is great is because of your purity. You are always seeking the truth, and the knowledge and power you possess are admiring even for the white-robed mages. These things will make you calculate, your mind will be shackled, and you will be obsessed with money and fame, which is an act of destroying the foundation. ”

He sighed.

"At the beginning of the establishment of Jialan, Kane's Horn and the Silver Candle Society were like two brothers, the elder brother was in charge of household affairs, and the younger brother was in charge of academics. But with the passage of time, the descendants of the two gradually separated from Germany, and only the form of the same family on the surface was inherited, and the elder brother gradually mastered the whole of the family.

"To put it bluntly, as long as the brother wants to, the Horn of Kane can destroy the Silver Candle Society, and then rebuild a new institution on its ruins, calling it the Copper Kettle Society, or the Golden Flame Society. While it would take a long time for the organization to grow to the point where the Silver Candle Order is now, it could be done before they fall apart. We really don't have a choice. ”

Ian, who was young and vigorous at the time, could not accept this fact, and he stood up angrily and cursed the old scholar in front of him loudly.

"You're a traitor! Shame on you scholars! You keep saying 'pure', but you're not pure! You sold the Silver Candle Society to the Horn of Kane for money! ”

The old scholar didn't respond, he wasn't even angry, he just smiled tiredly.

"I can't argue with that, kid. You're right, I'm no longer 'pure', I've become calculating, obsessed with money and calculations, my eyes have been clouded, and I can't see the truth clearly......

"But, one day you'll understand.

"When we don't have the ability to change the environment, we have to adapt to it and survive until one day an individual is born in the group who can turn the situation around. However, until then, in order to survive, in order to survive better, someone has to bear this infamy, someone has to become impure like me, and only in this way can we better protect you and let the chicks grow up healthy.

"I hope you are the one who can stand up, and I also hope that you can stand on the ruins of the Cape of Kane and denounce me loudly, denounce me, and I accept all of this.

"But until then—before you're strong enough to stand up, you shouldn't be this red-eyed, hideous-looking, completely lost mind, you're like a beast now. And the beast is destined to be unable to reverse all this. ”

After that, Ian fell to his knees and cried for a day and a night, until all the tears were dry, and then he passed out.

And Ian, who woke up again, never mentioned it again, and we don't know if he was silently accumulating strength or waiting for the person who could stand up. The only thing he knows is that when he faces the people of Kane's Horn, despite the infinite hatred in his heart, he still suppresses it, but still cooperates with them and tries his best to fight for the best of the Silver Candle Society.

This is Old Man Ian's life, and this is why he cried like a child after seeing Mu Yan's behavior and hearing about yesterday's incident.

Over the years, no one has ever spoken up for his grievances, and Mu Yan is the first.