The next day.

A corner of the pure white city.

Mr. Arsène walked through the door. He was late for the afternoon. It took a lot of effort for the middle-aged scholar to convince his son to discourage the idea of joining the army. He is such a precious son, he can't say anything......

Arsène already has a daughter who is a soldier, and even if she doesn't let her son go, she can prevaricate. Strange to say, of the three major countries – in fact, of all the countries of the continent – Errios has the highest percentage of female military personnel.

In Errios, young people can only dance with knives and sticks all day long, and they will be laughed at. Many would rather choose a lower-paying civilian job than join the military.

In order to maintain adequate staffing, the threshold for women in Elrios to join the army is very low. Any girl who is in good health and willing to serve for a long time can join them.

The empire has a law that "forces" unmarried women to serve for a short period of time, but in fact, there are many loopholes that can be exploited, and the actual proportion of female soldiers in the emperor is not as good as that of Elrios.

The sky was overcast, and it looked like it was going to rain soon. Arsène was not in a good mood either. As one of only two non-division directors of the Elrios Society, Arsène was marginalized on the board.

He understood that he was nominally equal to those mages, but within the Society, his status was inferior to that of those mage directors. It is only for the sake of external fairness that the society stipulates that "among the twenty directors, there must be two non-practitioner scholars".

Among the three major systems of arcane, divine art, and secret rituals, arcane is the most dependent on acquired learning, but it has not completely escaped the influence of innate talent.

Almost all arcane spellcasters are well-learned, and many are mages who are knowledgeable scholars. However, not every scholar can become an outstanding mage, and there is no shortage of well-read people like Arsène, who have not been able to become a mage.

The director of the Erios Society, is one of the culminations that ordinary scholars who are not spellcasters can reach in Erios. Outside the Society, Arsène was highly respected. But in the Society, he was still a dwarf mage.

Well, now the war has broken out. In war, mages are a valuable force, and ordinary scholars are powerless......

Forget it.

Arsène is still somewhat self-aware.

……

The daily work of the school is not stressful. There is no patent office in the cloud world, but the Elrios mages have naturally formed a system to protect knowledge and art from being stolen.

By partially submitting part of the research to the Society, mages can request the Society's arbitration if they suspect a colleague of stealing their work. The Society can use the results submitted to them by the mages for further research, but only with the consent of the mage and for a significant fee.

The problem is that not every mage is willing to give their work to the Society.

First of all, the mages cherish their work so much that they want them to give it to others, even if it's just a simple description - they have to think about it repeatedly.

A lot of powerful mages only believe in themselves. They would teach their life's work to their favorite disciples, and even bring them into coffins. Betraying one-of-a-kind spells is a rarity in open Elrios, let alone in the Empire and Okad.

Secondly, even if they really feel that their achievements cannot be saved, the mages have many other options, so why do they have to rely on the official so-called society?

For example, I heard that the "Lord of the Clouds" loved strange little spells in his life, and he would not be greedy for my achievements, and he was very protective of his shortcomings, so why didn't he directly dedicate the spells I invented to him? Maybe when he is happy, a little treasure leaks from his fingers, and it will be much more beneficial than what he can get from the school.

As a result, the school can only deal with things that have nothing to do with interests.

For a long time, what kind of Okadian alliance states plan to compile and print a dialect dictionary, what is the history of ancient orc migrations, what is the discovery of the cyan bee people who are thought to be extinct for a long time, what is the "Four Arguments for the Existence of the Broken World Under the Clouds"......

Learn to drown in these studies all day. Although these studies are also valuable, they do not have much to do with the mages.

The Society also proceeds to publish all the articles they think are valuable on the first day of every month.

The girl was shocked when she heard the news: Isn't this a de facto academic journal!

But the girl soon understood that this "magazine" was far from academic journals in the contemporary sense, the inclusion standards were not uniform, the content was confusing, and according to the standards of the earth, the journal of any "pheasant" university would kill it in seconds.

It's better to wait for yourself as a traverser to free up your hands to talk about this kind of thing - this is the idea of a girl after reading a "school journal".

Arsèna, one of the Society's twenty councillors, was responsible for the final review of a number of non-arcane articles. For him, he was thankful for the occasional article on smelting ore, or "synthetic griffin blood".

As for "rose petals can be made into an inexhaustible mana furnace"...... Spare me, it's been a thousand years for Mao, and someone still writes this kind of stupid article that has nothing to do?

Wasted ink......

It would be nice if Miss Brightness of the Empire had chosen to contribute her research on the classification of books to herself, rather than printing pamphlets directly in the Empire...... Arsène couldn't help but think so.

Arsène didn't have a contribution that caught his eye. A few months ago, he had received an article that had left him stunned - as a result, the president of the Society stuck the article for several months on the grounds that the author of the article was anonymous and probably not Master Elrios.

Arsène was dismissive of this. Not to mention ordinary non-law scholars Erios, it is not once or twice that foreigners publish articles in academic journals. Mr. Chairman is just making excuses.

Deliberately stuck with Lao Tzu's favorite articles to block Lao Tzu?

Isn't it my daughter who dumped your son! Arsène thought indignantly.

Word spread in the White City that Arsène's daughter slapped the chairman's son in public, and the son was so angry that he scolded him on the spot for being a "rude woman that no one wants" (the most vicious thing he could come up with).

Arsène didn't blame her daughter, but she had a little more contempt for the chairman. To say that you, the son, with the help of your father, it took ten years of hard work to become the lowest-level junior mage of the sea of clouds...... What kind of pride do you have for this talent?

My girl is a squadron leader before she was seventeen years old, and she is not as good as a graduate of the military department of Solidar Academy.

He forgot: When his daughter refused to enter the academy and insisted on becoming a soldier, he was almost so angry that he directly cut off the relationship between the two parties......

……

"Director." Arsène was still "insulting" the chairman in the most vicious gesture a scholar could come up with, when a young attendant greeted him.

"Didn't see me ...... Thinking about what's important? Arsène said impatiently.

"Director," the attendant whispered, "the ...... The gentleman is writing again. ”

"That one?"

Arsène snorted. The squire had long helped him sort through the papers, and when he mentioned "that gentleman," he was referring to the author of the anonymous article not long ago. No one, including the chairman, knew that Arsène himself had secretly contacted him several times.

"Don't let anyone in." Arsène pushed his attendant away, slipped into his small office, and locked the door.

There was already an envelope on the desk. Arsène couldn't wait to open the envelope. The last time we corresponded, he kindly told the other party that whatever he said would make the other party's article published smoothly.

The first paragraph of the letter surprised him:

[Go find Miss Victoria, the "Bright World" of the current Empire in Elrios.] She is my fellow traveler. Bring her my article. I think she'll be willing to say a few nice things to your stubborn chairman about my article. 】

"Sir?" Seeing that Monsieur Arsène was standing still with a puzzled expression, the attendant asked cautiously.

"Get me a carriage." Arsène said.

"Huh? Sir, you have just ......," said the attendant in surprise, but Arsène's reproachful look made him hold back half of his words, and he did not feel like he had lost his job for such a trivial matter, "Yes, sir, I will go ...... now"