For a long time after Jenny had finished, neither Gawain nor Hetty broke the silence.

But Hettie could feel a powerful aura overflowing from the ancestor, and there was an ice cave around him, so much so that just sitting nearby, she felt her magic froze all over her body—and this unbearable feeling lasted until Gawain spoke.

Gawain spoke, his tone surprisingly calm: "What's your mentor's name?" ”

“…… William, William Birkenstock," said Jenny, with a bit of a stumbling voice, "he is not a court mage, but he has a high standing in St. Sunil, he is an honorary advisor to the Royal Mage Society, and...... It's powerful. ”

Gawain just nodded quietly: "William Birkenstock, Honorary Advisor of the Royal Mage Society, I know. ”

Hetty felt that the atmosphere was too oppressive, and she had to say something to get the almost frozen air flowing again: "What about after that? Are you still working on the content of your notes? ”

"I pretended to give up the theories in the notes, but I was secretly researching," Jenny whispered, "and the tutor had a little interest in the notes, but he didn't bother to read them, but sat back and saw what we could do, and Mr. Ravenkes' death seemed to be evidence that the tutor was sure that the research in the notes was absurd, and he completely diverted his attention from it, while I pretended to give up on the theories as well." ”

"Therefore, he could never have known of the existence of the constant E, and he disdained to look at any of the statements in his notes, and to complete all his judgment by impression, and by his foolish impression," said Gawain's tone with extreme contempt, "he knew neither what he despised nor what he had missed, and he did not even know that he had missed something—I had never heard of such a foolish and ignorant man." ”

Jenny's eyes widened slightly, this was the first time she had heard someone use the words "stupid and ignorant" to evaluate her mentor, a great magician who was famous in the Royal Mage Society, and even had an honorary seat in the Secret Magic......

But she didn't dare to echo Gawain's words, just hung her head slightly and continued: "Then I slowly became a skilled rune master, the mentor used to wonder why I was able to complete rune adjustments with apprentice-level magic skills, but he still had a lot to focus on, and a slave apprentice like me was so numerous in his mage tower that he quickly took his attention away from me - until not long ago, the news that the king was going to form a southern frontier expedition came out, and various powerful nobles began to form this team, The tutor found me out of the blue......"

Hetty snorted lightly: "So it's that William Birkenstock Grand Magician again, who packaged a fourth-level rune master with a mage apprentice as a mid-level professional and arranged it into the aid team." ”

"Maybe he just wants to get rid of a burden, after all, I'm in his heart...... Always considered disobedient and untalented," Jenny nodded with a wry smile, "And letting a mage apprentice use the rank of rune master to fill up the number is already a serious deception and humiliation, so probably he also has the instruction and support of some big people in the royal capital." Lord Duke, I would like to remind you that I am not a special case, half of the 100-strong team is stuffed in this way, and basically they are all excluded and deviant people, either they have no status and have been kicked out of the burden, or they are people who have no professional rank but are actually useless. Like Mr. Santis, the official mage of the second level, although he is a second-level arcanist, he is actually born with weak mental power, and can only release three or four second-level spells in a row, and Mr. Bruce, the carpenter, who spent half his life researching the institution, but was excluded by the carpenter's association because of his unsociability, and was expelled from the association many years ago, until this time he organized the construction of the team, the association temporarily found him, and after restoring his membership, he was stuffed into the team to fill the ......"

Hetty was dumbfounded when he heard this: "What about the nobles in the royal capital......"

However, Gawain couldn't help but laugh, "I owe them a debt of gratitude, for every family involved in this, and for your mentor, Jenny—those idiots will never know how much wealth they are missing." Deviant? Well, the last thing this land is afraid of is deviance, if those people who are conformist and bring a lot of connections here, I don't want it! ”

Hetty looked at Gawain with worried eyes: "Ancestor, you don't have to comfort yourself like this......"

Gawain: "...... Why are you a bit of a Rebecca tendency? ”

"Huh?"

"I mean head iron...... You don't understand," Gawain waved his hand and turned his head to look at Jenny, "Let the past pass, Miss Jenny Perrault, you have arrived at your new home, put aside all your fears and worries, you can continue your own research, above board, as you like, I will allow you, but I will also support you, from now on you can go to Heti every month to receive the materials for rune research, I only have one request-"

Jenny didn't expect Gawain to announce her support for herself so frankly and even enthusiastically, she was still immersed in great consternation, and only subconsciously asked, "What request?" ”

"Organize your research, summarize it, and summarize it into formulas and theorems that are as simple as possible," Gawain said, looking at the notebook on the desk, "I can tell from your notes that you are a practical researcher, and you are good at using experience to assemble these equations, and I happen to have someone in my territory who can complement you—my descendant, Rebecca Cecil, who is an extremely nimble girl and is also very good at mathematics, and I will let you both study these things together." I hope what you end up with is a ......."

Gawain stopped abruptly at this point, as if carefully considering the vocabulary, until a few seconds later, in the curious eyes of Hetty and Jenny, he found the most suitable word: "Textbook, I hope you can organize all this into a textbook, a textbook that can be understood by as many people as possible." Of course, this is only the final result, it is a wish of mine, it will be difficult to realize, you can take your time, you can tell me what is missing. ”

"These ...... Is it really that heavy? Jenny finally realized that Gawain was not lying to herself, but in addition to the great surprise, she was only confused and incredulous, "Do you want to train a lot of runemasters like me?" ”

Gao Wen smiled slightly: "Cultivating a rune master? No, I intend to make the contents of this notebook common sense for every spellcaster in my realm in the future, and even for everyone. ”

With that, he stood up, and solemnly pushed the large book back to Jenny: "Put it away, protect it, and if you have time and opportunity in the future, it is better to make a copy, knowledge is more valuable than the book itself, and the handwriting of its first part has begun to fade into obscurity." ”

Jenny nodded a little panickedly: "Yes...... Yes, I must have kept your command in mind. ”

"Then I'll go first, you have a good rest, and I'll introduce Rebecca to you when I get back."

Gawain and Hetty left the cabin, leaving Jenny alone staring at the heavy book in her hand.

The burn scar on the left cheek seemed to be beginning to ache faintly, this was the first time she walked into her mentor's laboratory, and the scar left when she stood on the magic array as an experimental material, it had been with her for five years, it was no longer painful, but for some reason, it hurt again.

Then she finally realized that those injuries had always hurt, but it had become a habit to be painful, so that she took them for granted.

It wasn't until today, in front of an ancient hero who had been resurrected from 700 years ago, that she seemed to lose control, pouring out many things that had been pressed in her heart for many years, and leaving behind all the numbness and camouflage used for pain relief, that she gradually felt that she had regained a little ...... The perception of the living.

It turns out that living people can hurt.

She hugged the notebook that carried the will of three generations of masters and her years of hard work, and suddenly cried bitterly.

After leaving Jenny's cabin, Gawain's face became gloomy again, and Hetty once again had the illusion that her magic was about to be frozen, and she cautiously looked at the face of her ancestor: "You...... Angry? ”

Gawain couldn't help but scold: "Stupid! Ignorant! Stupid! Ten out of ten mentally retarded people who are not mixed with water! ”

"You mean...... That mentor for Jenny? ”

"That thing is embarrassed to say that it is Jenny's 'mentor'?" Gawain snorted disdainfully, "I'm ashamed to be of the same race as him. ”

"I think ...... too That mage named William Birkenstock is stupid," Hetty shook his head, "I know that traditionalist mages are stubborn, but I didn't expect anyone to be stubborn and blind to such an extent, Jenny and Raven Keith have already achieved a lot, that William Birkenstock can turn a blind eye completely, and never read the notebook carefully from beginning to end - is he blind?" ”

Gawain snorted: "Blind? He's certainly not blind, he's just perfectly fitting the rules of his class - what do you think was the reason for that William Birkenstock to ignore the work of Jenny and Raven Keys, to ignore the fact that those formulas exist? ”

Herty guessed, "Because Jenny and Raven Keith are low?" So their research is not credible either? ”

"It's just a secondary reason, the real reason - it's because Jenny and Raven Keith are slave apprentices, slaves," Gawain had already seen through all this, "It's enough for that magician to see the two as a 'different species' from himself, is he 'deliberately' ignoring Jenny and their achievements?" No, not at all, he hadn't even noticed what Jenny had achieved from the beginning, he hadn't seen it at all, he hadn't thought about it at all. The only thing he noticed was that 'his slaves did not obey orders.' ”

Hetty: "......"

After a few moments, she asked, "We can send a letter of protest to the king, with your duke title, it is impossible for the king not to react a little, the great magician is more or less ......"

"No, I don't like protests, because it's useless," Gawain waved his hand vigorously, "now that this patchwork of a hundred people has arrived in the territory, do you think that king will be afraid of my protests?" It was indeed the powerful nobles in the royal capital who intervened in this team, but since the team was able to set off, it means that Francis II at least acquiesced in this matter, so why did he acquiesce? ”

Hetty quickly reacted: "Because he has fulfilled the 'etiquette' and 'rules', as a king, he has no other faults." ”

"That's right, the etiquette and rules of the aristocracy, everyone in this era only recognizes this."

"Then this thing ......"

"Don't worry, Hety, don't worry," Gao Wen let out a long breath and laughed slowly, "Etiquette and rules won't protect them forever. ”