March 17. Sunday. 9 a.m.

Kenneth sat in the basic classroom on the first floor of the school building, looking around from time to time.

The structure of the first-grade building, the Kutlian Castle, is a ring structure, with a small courtyard in the center and a fountain in the atrium. The main entrance of the school building is located to the east of the castle, while the back entrance is opposite the laboratory of magical technology. Once you enter the main entrance, you will see the garden of the atrium, which is flanked by classrooms for students, on the left is the history of magic classroom, and on the right is Kenneth's basic classroom.

And Kenneth is looking around because the classroom is so big. The whole classroom has only an iron gate facing the podium, about 10 meters high, and the walls around it are carved from bricks and stones, and the floor is a little potholed because it is paved with stone bricks.

At the front of the classroom is an eight-meter-tall sculpture of a bald man with a heroic face, wearing the robes worn by magicians, and a floor-dragging cloak on the outside, with his hands behind his back to look up at the stars. In front of the statue of Abraham is a large lectern, in front of which are the students' desks, and between the lectern and the desks is a passage about three meters wide. There are 20 rows of desks in the classroom, each row is two long desks shared by students, one desk can seat five people, and there is a five-meter-wide aisle between the two rows of desks. Kenneth and Mick were sitting on the left-hand desks in the fourth row.

Although there were no windows, the classroom was not dim, and eight huge five-story crystal lamps hung down from the roof to the aisle in the middle of the desk. Each lamp is made of one thousand and twenty-four diamond-shaped crystals, about half of which contain a small amount of fire and illumination, making the entire classroom as bright as the outside.

At this time, there was a mature beauty standing on the podium, wearing a pair of glasses, aged about thirty years old, tall, with a beautiful face, and a beautiful mole on the corner of her lips added a different kind of charm to it, she was the professor in charge of teaching the first grade basic course, Sophia Judy, who was giving a welcome speech to everyone. She also held a black stone in her hand that was identical to the one used by Claire before, and Mick asked the others in the dorm room out of curiosity, and the omniscient Auston told him that it was a special stone called the "Echo Stone", which amplifies the voice of a person when speaking four to six times.

Mick sat next to Kenneth, and when he saw that Kenneth was not paying attention, he couldn't help but kick Kenneth underneath him, and motioned for him to withdraw his attention with his eyes.

Kenneth didn't dare to disobey Mick's words, so he obediently took his eyes back from the crystal lamp.

“…… All in all, the 184 new students of the Lutheran School of Magic here, I hope you will not waste your talents easily. That's what I want to say to you at the beginning of the school year. Sophia put down the echo stone and bowed slightly, ending her entrance speech with thunderous applause.

Kenneth heard only the last sentence, but he still applauded enthusiastically with the crowd.

"Okay, so now I'm going to explain to you what you need to learn this year. First of all, you will need to take three courses this year, namely the Fundamentals of Magic, the History of Magic, and a course chosen for you by your instructor. Among them, I will be in charge of your basic magic class, and Professor Duru will be in charge of your history of magic class. In addition to these three courses, there will also be a practical assessment at the end of the semester, and you can only advance to the second year if you pass the above four grades and become a second-order magician. ”

Speaking of this, Sophia said with a sweet and dangerous smile on her face: "But I would like to remind you that the passing score of each course in Lutheran College is seventy points~"

As soon as Sophia's voice fell, the classroom immediately erupted in a chaotic discussion.

"Alright, stop complaining uselessly, imps. As for the course arrangement, after you have decided on your third course this afternoon, your tutor will arrange the course for you and register it with the school office, and you will be able to find out the specific course schedule from your student registration card. Now let's start the lesson. ”

"Magical Fundamentals is a discipline about the knowledge of magic arrays, including magical linguistics and magical architecture, of which magical linguistics is more important, and the main content of our year's magical fundamentals is magical linguistics, that is, learning magical languages." After the formal lecture, Sophia stepped down from the podium, holding a staff in her left hand and an echo stone in her right hand, and walked up to a girl sitting in the first row rather casually, leaned against her table and said, "Come, this lovely girl, tell me your name." ”

"I—my name is Jasmine......" The girl seemed a little nervous, and couldn't help but pause as she spoke.

Sophia smiled, put her hand on the shoulder of the girl named Jasmine, and continued to ask, "Okay, Jasmine, can you tell everyone what the elements that make up the magic array?" ”

A trace of panic flashed in Jasmine's pale golden eyes, and after seeing Sophia hand the echo stone to her mouth, she said in a panic: "The constituent elements of the magic array are, yes, magic...... Yes, I'm sorry! At the end, he looked like he was about to cry.

"Oh, don't care so much, cute Jasmine," Sophia looked commonplace, obviously this is not the first time this situation has appeared, Sophia gently touched Jasmine's head, gave her an encouraging expression and continued, "I think Jasmine-san may be too nervous, I hope you don't laugh at her~ Okay, let's get down to business, the magic array is the most critical part of casting magic, so of course we should know how it is composed." ”

"I think all of you here must have seen the magic circle, and you should know that there are circles, triangles, and many complex patterns on the magic circle. These are actually the constituent elements of the magic array, and in the linguistics of magic, we divide the composition of the magic array into two parts, one is the 'framework' and the other is the 'technique'. ”

"What is a 'frame'? The frame is a vehicle for communication between the magic array and the elements. If you are interested, you can draw a circle on the table and use your mental power to contact it to see what happens. Remember that it must be a closed circle~" Sophia smiled mysteriously at the freshmen.

Curious, Kenneth picked up the prepared charcoal and drew a large circle on the table, and then tried to mobilize his poor mental power, and was surprised to find that the elements in the center of the circle were a little more intense than the elements around him, and when he turned his head to look at Mick, he found that Mick had a "sure enough" expression on his face.

"Okay, stop, don't you feel that the elements in the circle are a little more intense than those outside the circle?" Sophia clapped her hands and motioned for everyone to stop, smiled and asked everyone, and after seeing the freshmen nodding their heads in unison, she explained, "This is the first and most important frame of the magic array - 'circle'. It's all about gathering elements and releasing magic, so it's important to remember. And the more high-level the magic array, the more elements need to be gathered, and the number of circles in a magic array represents the level of this magic array. ”

"Next up is the second frame – the 'triangle'. Its function is to lock the elemental types and further gather them, so that at most one elemental rune can be drawn in the triangle. Now you can draw a tangent triangle in the circle on your table, and then draw the shape of a water drop in the center of it, and then feel it with your mental power. Sophia used the staff in her hand to draw a triangle in the air, which is also the ability of the staff to materialize the spirit, said to everyone.

Kenneth added another triangle to his great circle as she said, and then drew a teardrop-shaped pattern in the triangle, but when he touched his magic circle with his spiritual power, he didn't feel anything else, it was still four elements that were more intense than the surroundings.

Mick, who was sitting next to Kenneth, saw Kenneth touching his head and looking confused, and knew that he was in trouble, and after looking at the magic circle in front of Kenneth, he pointed to the top of his magic circle and said, "Kenny, your triangle is not connected to the circle outside." ”

At this time, Sophia happened to walk to the fourth row, and after seeing Kenneth's magic array, she spoke again: "Do some students feel that their magic array is no different from the one just now?" Then you just made the same mistake as this classmate, take a closer look at your magic array, is it not completely connected to the triangle and the outer circle? ”

After seeing the "oh" sounds of many people, Sophia explained to everyone: "The framework of the magic array is interlocking and a whole. If the triangle is not fully connected to the outer circle, its interior cannot be fully communicated, and naturally it cannot take effect. ”

Kenneth erased the triangle inside his big circle with his fingers, and then redrew a triangle that was completely connected to the outer circle, and when Kenneth touched the magic circle with his spiritual power again, he was surprised to find that there was only a relatively rich water element left in the magic circle at this time.

"Everyone should feel that there is only water element left in their magic array, that's right, this is the role of the 'triangle' as the framework of the magic array. The triangle can also form a frame 'six-pointed star', but this is only needed for sixth-order magic, so you can ignore it for now. ”

"The last framework I would like to introduce to you is the 'square', and the role of the square in the magic circle is 'transformation' or 'addition'. After you have taken Professor Harlan's 'Elementalology', you will know that the four elements also have additional attributes, such as the wind element with spatial attributes, so when using some space-based magic, you need to add squares to the ordinary wind magic array. However, this is also required for second-order magic and above, so it is useless to tell you at this time. ”

Just when Kenneth thought that Sophia was going to continue walking back, she leaned against her table and said to everyone: "The above three patterns form the framework of the magic array, and then what I want to talk to you about is the more important 'technique'. ”

"The 'spell' includes two parts: 'Elemental Runes' and 'Magical Language', not to mention the elemental runes, I don't think you don't know these four runes," Sophia said as she used her staff to draw four runes in the air, namely the flame pattern representing the fire element, the water drop pattern representing the water element, the three top-down wavy lines representing the wind element, and the horizontal plus a diamond shape representing the earth element, as if it was a stone tablet pattern erected on the ground, and then continued, "And the next one" The language of magic is the most important part of our magical foundations. ”

With the disappearance of the four elements in the air, Sophia slashed a vertical in the air, and then added a horizontal fold to the top next to that vertical to draw a strange rune.

And Kenneth looked at this unfamiliar rune, his mind ached slightly, and after a trance, when he looked at the rune again, he inexplicably felt a strange sense of familiarity.