Chapter 4: Magic
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Without a substantive position, Rowan suddenly became much more relaxed, freeing up a lot of time to focus on the books distributed by magic.
These two books are a must-read for all magicians at the beginning of the introduction, one is called Spellcasting Medium and Basic Materials, and the other is an overview of the basics of magic.
The first thing Rowan opened was an overview of magic.
Luo Wen's level of education in this life is not high, he only received a year of education in the Viscount's Palace, and he learned quite poorly, so it was quite difficult to read this book, and he didn't know many words, so he asked the housekeeper for a dictionary, and he looked through the dictionary again and again, and read it very slowly.
This overview of magic,In general, the origin and function of magic,Its derivative professions are roughly described.,As for the more in-depth things, I didn't say anything.,Rowan read it once.,Just read the novel.γ And that spell casting medium is what really needs to be valued.
The magician has strong mental power, and can resonate with the ubiquitous magic elements through spiritual power, and then cast spells, but when the professional level is not enough, and the mental power is not enough to control the magic elements, it is necessary to use the casting materials as a medium to communicate the magic elements, and when the mental power is strong enough, the casting materials can be abandoned, of course, before the advanced magicians, including the intermediate magicians, the casting materials are essential, and for a magician, the casting materials are an essential learning process.
Moreover, many research topics related to magic are born out of the course of casting materials, such as alchemists, puppeteers, and so on in the branches of magic, almost all magic systems need to be proficient in this course.
Rowan watched it for a long time and came to a conclusion that this course should be regarded as chemistry on the earth, and it is a little more complicated than chemistry. However, as for the things related to magic materials, Rowan watched them with relish.
Although he was not an expert in the study of physics and chemistry in his previous life, looking at these things did not hinder his research, especially this kind of thing involving the high-energy world, which made people full of various interests.
However, the spell casting material is in the back, involving something called magic ciphertext, which makes people have a bit of a headache, it is said, this is a special text for magicians, in addition, magicians also need to master the strange rune text of magic runes, this kind of ghost drawing rune-like thing looks very mysterious, and weird and inexplicable, Rowan frowned, but there are not many of these things to learn on it, after all, it is just an introductory publication, not a real magician reading.
"It turns out that the profession of magician is so interesting, it seems that it really needs to be done. After learning a little about the profession of magician, Rowan was full of anticipation.
For ordinary people, magicians are great, magical beings, but for a real magician, magic is a very boring process, meditation, research, meditation, research, basically such a process, basically similar to the process of samurai, but a little bit richer. The difference is that
The Wizard is a scholar-type, Research professions, whether it is the study of new magic, or new materials, requires a lot of energy, through a lot of research on materials, to get their information, attributes, and finally with their own magic use, during this period, whether it is to buy materials, or to buy experimental equipment, it costs a lot of money, and most of these materials are not very cheap, so, for a magician, talent is the key, but more importantly, there is no capital, many magicians have a very difficult life throughout their lives, although they are high, but in fact they are very hardγ
Therefore, every magician is extremely short of money, and only by backing the mountain can he become stronger, without a source of funds, or without a backer, then the magician is destined to be poor all his life.
When Rowan saw this, he just felt that he was going to be a local tyrant, but he found that he was still a poor egg in the wizarding world, and he was a poor egg with more than a dozen silver coins a month, and he couldn't afford any kind of material in this book.
The materials corresponding to materials science are divided into nine levels according to the level of use and the degree of cherishment, and the lowest level of materials is equivalent to the price of medicinal materials for hundreds of years in the previous life, and Luo Wen suddenly felt a little toothache.
However, as a modern person, encountering such a new thing naturally aroused Rowan's interest, and this was a night, and the next morning, he fell asleep and slept until the afternoon.
When I woke up, although I was still a little drowsy, I was very energetic, but I was a little hungry.
"It feels like I'm back in college. He muttered, washed, dressed.
Of course, now his clothes are no longer the linen clothes worn by horses, but have been replaced by fine cloth clothes, and the outer one is a medium brocade robe customized from the Viscount's Mansion, which has shown his identity and status in the Viscount's Mansion, but these things are all made by those nobles, Rowan felt that he was wearing it on his body, twisted it slightly, and walked to the back kitchen.
Along the way, his back has been pointed at by many people, some are jealous, some are envious, and some are disdainful and even disgusted, but after awakening his memory, Rowan doesn't care about these, he just needs to remember the few people who need to be remembered, and everyone else doesn't have to care so much.
The back kitchen of the Viscount's Mansion is very large, divided into several levels, slaves, ordinary servants, senior servants, supervisors, stewards, stewards, all different, and each level has a special dining room. As soon as Rowan walked up, he saw Robert being greeted by the head chef.
Robert was a very tall fat man, with a tonnage of more than 200 kilograms, a man with a sleek and serious face, and a considerable prestige in the back kitchen, otherwise he would not have been able to afford it.
Rowan didn't wait for Robert to speak, he was the first to speak, and said, "I've seen Robert in charge." β
The head chef is equivalent to the steward level, which is a little worse than the butler level.
Robert didn't get angry, he seemed to have forgotten what had embarrassed Rowan before, and opened his mouth wide and said directly, "You're welcome, everyone is a family, what's polite, the lord said, in the future, your food will be treated according to the steward, come and come, come with me." You're a magician now, and you can't be with those mud legs. β
Rowan raised his eyebrows, didn't mind much, followed Robert, and came to the steward's hall.
In fact, there are only seven or eight people who can manage things in the Viscount's Mansion, and there are a total of thousands of people in the Viscount's Mansion, and the bottom is the slave, and the top of the slave is the servant, and the servant is the ordinary supervisor, and the supervisor is the steward, and the steward is the steward, and there are more than a dozen supervisors, and there are seven or eight stewards, and there is only one steward.
When Luo Wen came, there was no one in the steward's hall, he just glanced at it, and he knew how much thought the head chef and the steward had spent on himself, this point was originally only leftovers, but when he came, there were still hot dishes, which was unusual. If it were put on an ordinary person, it would be estimated that he would have to be grateful to this viscount, but Rowan is different, as a modern person, how can he give all his faith to another person, this is absolutely impossible.
Picking out some of his favorite foods, Rowan sent the head chef away and enjoyed them slowly.
The food in the Viscount's Mansion is very good, even before, when he was a horse boy, he never went hungry, although the head chef was embarrassed by him, but he was never embarrassed to be excessive, the strictest one in the Viscount's Mansion is that it is strictly forbidden to treat anyone badly in food, including slaves, which is why for so many years, there has never been a single incident of slacking off or stealing in the Viscount's Mansion.
Rowan was enjoying it, he ate relatively quickly, and in less than five minutes, he had already filled his stomach, and was packing up and preparing to go out, when at this time, a person came in at the door of the steward's hall.
Rowan glanced at it, his eyes narrowed, and he immediately straightened up his bent body, and looked at the person from a condescending manner, this person was none other than the steward of the stables, Erlov.
Erlov walked in quietly, and after seeing Rowan, he was stunned, mainly because Rowan's temperament had changed too much, and he couldn't believe that this was a person, especially when Rowan put on a cold temperament, Erlov actually felt that he was a head lower than this person, and suddenly felt a little embarrassed.
His flatterer walked over with a smile, lowered his head, and said, "Lord Rowan, it was my fault before, please γγγγγγ Please also... He couldn't say the rest of the words.
As a stable supervisor, you don't need to ask about bullying your subordinates.
Rowan glanced at him.
Although the steward lowered his head, he was still a head taller than him, and Rowan scolded secretly, the people in this world are too tall. He waved his hand and said, "I don't remember what happened before, you can go." β
Erlov quietly breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Then disturb Lord Rowan." He quietly retreated, and as long as Rowan didn't care, then his position wouldn't fall.
Seeing Erlov walk out, Rowan sighed in his heart, this is the change of identity and position, this is life.
Not to mention that he is not a real magician now, the change of identity alone has such a big impact, if he really becomes a magician, then it will not be what it will become.
Rowan touched his chin, and many YY pictures suddenly appeared in his mind, hey, the picture is too beautiful, I dare not look at it!
Leaving the kitchen, Rowan returned to his room and continued his research on basic materials, learning the words of this world and the newly learned magical ciphertext by the way.
The text of this world is similar to the English of the previous life, all of which belong to the one-dimensional character class, the structure is simple, and the grammar is relatively simple, but the magic ciphertext is different, the magic ciphertext is a two-dimensional text, which is equivalent to Chinese characters, but it is a little more complex than the Hanzi, and each word represents quite a lot of meaning, which is basically equivalent to a QR code, which is very difficult to understand.
Fortunately, Rowan was an engineer in his last life, and he was quite good at dealing with this kind of incident, otherwise, he would have a headache just by looking at it a few times.
Soon, a week passed, and it was Saturday.
On this morning, Rowan dressed neatly, went out early in the morning, refused the horse pick-up of the stable steward, and walked to the gate of Sakura City on foot.
Rowan touched his chin, not knowing what was going on, but he still kept under his feet, and came to the city gate, ready to be tested.
At this moment, a person who looked like a team leader walked over, with a smile on his face, and said, "Lord Rowan, in the future, when you go to the city gate, you don't need to go through the inspection, you can directly enter the city, this is your token." After saying that, he handed over a token with the word cherry blossom written on the front of it.
Luo Wen was a little strange, isn't this the city lord's order, so he wondered, "Lord Guard, what's going on?"
The team leader explained softly, "This is a sign of respect for all magicians. β
Rowan immediately knew what was going on, and put the token under his hand, "Dare to ask the name of the adult?"
The team leader immediately applied for a surprise and said, "My name is David, the future magician, if you need followers, I am willing to take the lead for you." β
Rowan sighed in his heart, this is the power of a magician!
"Definitely. Collecting the token, Rowan took his leave.
Although Sakura City is located in the border area of the Holy Forest Empire, there are still a large number of merchants passing by, and the grain output ratio in the plains is extremely high, although it is the lowest county level, plus the villages and towns outside the city, there are almost three or four hundred thousand people, and it is very lively every day.
To tell the truth, Rowan has never seen a serious caravan, not only is it a little strange to see it at the moment, although he is a subordinate, but the past ten years have not been in vain, he knows that the world is inconvenient, all kinds of goods transit transportation, all rely on this kind of business, they will bring things from all over the country to other areas that others may not be able to go to in their lifetime, earn a huge difference in commodity prices, the profit is very high, of course, the danger is also great, the fierce beasts in the mountains and forests, there are thieves, robbers, this industry, is also a very dangerous industry, so every caravan, is basically a small army, they hire mercenaries by issuing missions, or train them themselves, a caravan has a minimum of a dozen warriors, and a maximum of hundreds or thousands of warriors, which is basically not much different from a small army.
Rowan really hadn't seen it before, so he simply stopped and observed it carefully for a while.
Soon, the caravan came out of the inns, and soon hundreds of pack carts gathered, and ordinary guards, mercenaries, and merchants also came out of the inns, and after meeting each other, they began to sort out and inspect the goods, and then the whole caravan drove neatly through the streets towards the city gate.
Seeing the caravan leave, Rowan also turned to leave, and as he walked, he admired the exotic scenery, and soon came to the magic house.
The door of the magic office opened, and Rowan slowly walked in.
After basic magic training, Rowan also roughly understood the role of magic.
The magic institute is the lowest branch of the magic guild in each county, composed of an intermediate magician and one or several junior magicians, he undertakes the detection and screening of all the children in the entire county, and also undertakes the functions of adjusting the strange events in the entire county, but he is not a government agency, just an institution of the magic guild, not under the jurisdiction of the local government, but it has a cooperating role, no matter where, as long as it is the city lord's line, it will not be stupid to the point of being embarrassed by magic.
The magic institute also serves as a set of task systems, through which any professional has the right to issue tasks to the magic guild, such as asking for a set of equipment, or enchanting weapons, etc., or who is sick, asking the magician to help, etc., as long as the magic guild feels that it can take the next task, you can come in and offer a reward.
As soon as he walked through the door, a voice came from the side, "Rowan, Director Steven asked you to go to the third floor." β
Rowan glanced back, and saw a middle-aged man at the task window in the hall on the first floor, holding a book in his hand, looking at it with relish, without raising his head, but he still nodded and said, "Thank you." Then he walked to the third floor.