Chapter Seventy-Six: A Crisis of Confidence
With the release of the seventh issue of Bignius, there was a growing discussion about Tyrion throughout the academy.
Even in a different place, this ugly dwarf is still so likable.
Among the knights of Lokan, most of the protagonists are great knights, and in order to facilitate the reader's own substitution, each of them is tall and heroic, and he is the first one as special as Tyrion. In addition to the novelty, Eric's narration skills and writing also really add a lot to the character.
But if you want to say regrets, there are also regrets, after all, there is no such an excellent actor as Peter Tinriki to interpret him, so that his image is not full enough.
However, from another point of view, this also leaves infinite room for imagination, and everyone's brain is different, but it is also the most in line with their own aesthetics.
In addition to the serialization of the story, there is another thing that has caused widespread discussion in the academy, and that is the news that Mu Yan devotes a quarter of the page to.
That is, the beginning and end of the explosion in the Nexus Zone yesterday morning.
Many students learned about this from others, but under the silence of Kane's Horn and the school's deliberate restraint of the situation, the matter cooled down completely in less than half a day, and gradually no one mentioned it.
But Mu Yan was so confused, and things were different in an instant.
He gave a detailed account of what had happened in the newspaper, as detailed as if he had personally experienced it (?). It also includes the tragic scene after the explosion of the secret room, and the image of the shock-absorbing enchantment of the Weston Great Hall flashing like a neon sign that morning, only concealing the specific identity of the person involved and the content of the work. After this series of propaganda, almost the whole school knew about the small actions behind the scenes of Kane's horn.
In the past, this chamber of commerce was not friendly in the eyes of the students, at least it was neutral, after all, it was the representative chamber of commerce of Jialan, representing the Magic Empire against the other two families. But as soon as this kind of thing was exposed, all kinds of speculation and doubts were instantly rampant.
Many of the students who worked with them began to recall their experiences, and even though there was nothing wrong with it, they vaguely felt that something was not right, as if they had really been pitted by Kane's horn.
In addition to the spontaneous suspicion of the students, there must be other people who are contributing to the troubles - no matter what world it is, there are people who beat the water dogs, not to mention that the Cape of Kane family has been dominant for so long, and there are more than one or two enemies...... It can be said that they are facing a serious crisis of confidence.
Soon, starting with a big-mouthed aristocrat, some seeming gossip spread rapidly.
"I have a distant relative who works in Cape Kane, and he says it's normal, it's just that you're rare and weird."
The nobleman bragged about his experience to others as usual, and the devil knows if he had such a relative, and the last time he opened with "I have a friend" and "I have a fellow countryman" respectively.
But in short, he managed to attract the attention of the people around him, and then he was lifted to the sky, and he talked about it in a fluttering manner.
"Actually, it's not this time that they analyze other people's magic patterns privately, it's just that they usually use subtle methods, and they haven't caused such a big accident. But if you think that they do this to every work, you would be very wrong, that is Kane's Horn, where is there so much spare time to fight with a group of students? Those senior advisors of the Demon Pattern Science have a precious time, they only need to look at your work to know the thoughts and ideas in it, and then whether there is cooperation or not, this thing belongs to Kane's Horn, and only those who are interested but do not understand it will be analyzed.
"This kind of 'borrowing' method will not leave any traces at all, plus you students don't understand how much value your ideas have, it is easy to be fooled, and even if they are exposed afterwards, a few gold coins can be discarded. Kane's Horn family has a big business, and there are a lot of dirty things in it, so don't think of those merchants as kind - where are the good merchants. ”
Soon, the word spread around the campus in various ways and in various versions, and if it weren't for the fact that Jialan was a semi-closed college, it would have been able to reach outside the school in just a few dinners.
But even if this crisis of confidence is confined to the school, it is fermenting much faster than expected.
At first, the students just listened to it as news, but as the students who had worked with the Horn of Kane responded one by one that they had indeed encountered similar incidents, it gradually changed in nature.
From discussion to denunciation.
By the end of the last class in the afternoon, at least hundreds of radical students had surrounded the Nexus to ask for an explanation from the head of Kane's Horn.
At this time, it was the peak period of the flow of people on campus, and it was the nature of young people to watch the excitement, so the team of 100 people increased several times, and they rushed to the Demon Pivot District, blocking the "source of gold" tightly.
Seeing that the situation was not good, several teachers in charge of the Demon Pivot District hurriedly went to the workshop in the Cape of Kane to find someone, but when they arrived, they were told that the four senior advisors did not come every day, except for the two who were stunned a day ago, the other two simply did not come to work today.
As for the person in charge who succeeded Gao Wen, he didn't know about it at all, he was also in a hurry, and the accounts at hand were still confused, let alone caring about these public opinions.
The only one in the entire workshop who knew everything about it, and was still there, was a waiter.
The waiter's name was Armand Hammer, and it was he who saw that Mu Yan's head ring was wrong that day, and personally went to Gao Wen to receive him, and after the accident, he was the first to open the iron door of the secret room and carry the three people who had passed out.
So the temporary person in charge immediately pushed him out like grasping a life-saving straw, and he lied that he had a stomachache and went to the toilet, leaving the teachers of the academy and Armand with a bewildered face.
"What should I do, this ......"
"Just call me Seaman." Mr. Scarface scratched his bald head, and his keen perception made the shouting of the students linger in his ears all the time.
It's really noisy!
"Damn, these virgins who have nowhere to vent their energy." He muttered and grabbed Armand, flashing white light several times in a row, and the two came to the entrance of the Demon Pivot District.
Seeing Seaman come out with a person, the students were stunned at first, but when they saw Armand's waiter dressed up, they became even more angry.
"Mr. Seaman! What we want is a statement! Not a scapegoat! ”
"That's right! He's just a waiter, I've seen him! ”
"Do you really mean that we don't understand anything? Tomorrow he won't be a waiter here! ”
"That's it! We protest! Let the person in charge here come out! ”
Armand looked at the excited students, his mind spun quickly, and he instantly understood what was going on.
He turned his head to look at Seaman, "Teacher Seaman, let me down, I'll talk to them." ”
"Okay."
Seaman also breathed a sigh of relief and placed Armand on the ground. The latter straightened his clothes and bowed to the students in front of him.
"Everyone, be quiet."
His voice was very calm, and there was a calm temperament. This makes him look like a trustworthy person.
Seeing this, the student raised his hand, and the voice behind him suddenly weakened.
"Thank you." Armand bowed slightly, "My name is Armand Hammer, I've been a waiter in the Demon Nexus for five years, and I've seen almost every one of you, and most of them can be named. ”
As he spoke, he pointed to the student in charge, "Gabri, an outstanding student of the alchemy department." You've been here a year and a half ago, and if I'm not mistaken, you've improved some kind of potion, right? ”
"Awakening Elixir, Mr. Armand." Gabbrey said loudly: "I have improved the awakening potion on the market, so that the magic power it can recover has increased by thirty percent, but the cost has not increased at all!" Three months ago, the Horn of Kane put a new awakening potion on the storefront of the Cruze neighborhood, and the recovery power has also increased by 30%, and I am sure that I have a part to do it! But I didn't get paid for it! ”
"No, you got it, lying is not what a Jialan person should do." Armand said, "I remember when you came here with a nervous look on your face and asked me if this was the 'Workshop of the Cape of Kane', and I took you in so that Mr. Supervisor could meet you. Later, when you left, you were so excited that you kept saying 'the tuition fee has been paid' and said 'thank you' to me in a rare way, and you were obviously happy with the deal, weren't you? ”
Gabriel's face flushed all of a sudden, it was true that as Armand said, he was not dissatisfied with that transaction, but today he was suddenly reminded that the store in the Cruze neighborhood sold at least a few thousand gold coins of potions every day, and he was complacent when he only got 1,000 gold coins, this huge gap was unbearable for him, and he felt that he had been deceived.
"That's true, but, but that's because I don't understand the value of my own research!" He shouted in a thick voice, "You still deceived me! ”
"That's right! It's a deception! ”
"Liar! Deceiver! ”
"Let your real responsible person come out!"
Armand waved his hand helplessly, signaling silence.
"Listen to me, ladies and gentlemen. And you, Gabrie-san. You may not know why it's been a year since we've launched this potion, not because you're trying to forget about it, but because your research isn't perfect at all, or that it's a safety hazard. ”
"You lie!!" Gabrie was furious, he did not allow his masterpiece to be vilified, "It doesn't have any side effects, I've experimented with it myself!" ”
"No, it does, but you can't find it with your abilities." Armand said solemnly: "You may not know how long it takes for a potion to go through from being improved to being good enough to put on the shelves, you are not an alchemist of Kane's Horn, so you don't care about this process. Your genius idea, like everyone else, has to go through a long period of testing and refinement, and only when you are sure that it will be harmless to humans in the long term will be put on the shelves, and this process usually takes half a year to complete on Kesky rats.
"I have a colleague who happens to be the breeder of this kind of rat, and one day half a year ago, he jokingly told me that after taking a reagent called "Awakening Agent II", all the hair of the rats turned from brown to white within a month, and then fell off one by one, and finally even the skin turned white and miserable. As a consequence, the slightest exposure to sunlight can cause their skin to burn, red, and even fester.
"The reason why you didn't notice it was because your hair was originally white, and as a mage, your resistance and shallow routine perfectly avoided it, so you felt it harmless. Did Gabriel feel that the sun was too dazzling this year, and that he would feel inexplicably itchy and swollen in the summer? ”
Gabry was silent, the other party was right, he did have a similar experience, but as a person who squatted in the alchemy laboratory all year round, his skin allergies were already the norm, so he didn't care much about it......
"And that's what Kane's Horn is responsible for improving." Armand took advantage of the victory, "From 'idea' to 'product', the difficulty is not much less than generating a genius idea out of thin air, which is also the purpose of Kane's Horn's workshop in the Nexus District. It's a place where your dreams come true, but it's not a welfare organization. Here, everyone who works is paid, and even I, an insignificant waiter, get a good salary to live on. But I didn't provide any direct help to you, which is the expenditure of the intermediate link.
"The tuition fees that you pay to the college are actually divided into countless trickles and remitted to different people. Behind me, Mr. Seaman, Mr. Rhodes, Mr. Devin, Mr. Dawn, who was in charge of teaching, and the guards who guarded the gates of the academy, were all beneficiaries of this money...... But had any of them ever asked Principal William for a salary equivalent to the tuition fees of his students? This is clearly a stupid act.
"Just as the Jialan Academy abandoned the traditional educational philosophy of the Mage Tower and established the School of Magic to unify the teaching of knowledge and promote the spirit of 'sharing', so is the purpose of the Horn of Kane. Similarly, just as the Jialan Academy was initially founded, the Cape of Kane will encounter various obstacles, even the covetousness of villains.
"I don't deny that Director Gawain did it for personal purposes a day ago, but he has already been severely punished from above, and the Horn of Kane has also negotiated with the gentleman who provided the idea, and this should have ended the matter, but it seems that you have been provoked and used as a gun.
"Time is so precious, we might as well focus on learning and thinking, instead of being provoked and doing irrational things, in addition to wasting time, this also makes people see a joke, isn't it."
Armand spoke eloquently, and his voice was neither humble nor arrogant in the Nexus District.
This time, not only Gabrie was silent, but even the angry students behind him also shut up one by one, and many began to wonder if they were really being used as he said.
Seeing that the situation was stabilized by Armand, several teachers behind him also stepped forward to reassure the students.
This time happened to be the meal, and the leader Gabby lowered his head and said nothing, and the people watching the excitement gradually dispersed.
There were few people, and these hundreds of people lost their confidence, so they waved their hands and left, and a conflict was resolved.
It wasn't until the crowd dispersed and there was no one in front of him that Armand silently walked back to the workshop.
As soon as he returned, the new person in charge grabbed him to inquire about the situation, and was immediately relieved to learn that the matter had been resolved.
"I knew that those students couldn't make any waves." The person in charge said disdainfully, judging the two of them from the panic before.
Armand smiled reluctantly, he had something to say, but as soon as he reached his lips, he was interrupted.
"It's okay, you can go down first." The person in charge waved his hand, and Armand was stunned for a moment, then nodded and left.