Phonch understands Néppert well, but he himself is not quite ready. Returning to his room to light the lighting spar, he habitually opened a diary of his own. But he didn't put pen to paper, but looked through the records of the past few days. He felt like he had to think about where he was going to be.

May 7th

Today is the first day of coming to Hewan New Area, and the royal capital mages who came with me are all looking forward to seeing the results of magic research here, while what I am looking forward to is seeing this place itself, what kind of place has cultivated mages like Xiao Chen and Luo Ling.

Ever since I came into contact with them in the royal capital, I have always felt that they have a very different temperament. Although they are very powerful, they have never used this strength to show their status or contrast the weakness of others. No matter what their purpose is. At least in contact with me, I sensed that they were genuinely willing to help those mages who were confined to our predicament.

Today I have only briefly visited this area, but I have already noticed that in this neatly organized, horizontal and vertical, somewhat cold street, people can feel a kind of care, they separate people and cars from the places where they walk, and do not let the chariots and horses of the noble people threaten the lives of ordinary people. They set aside valuable land and created parks for ordinary people to rest and play. They keep the city clean, and even if it is a place where civilians live, there is no excrement and corpses of all kinds.

I saw the ordinary people who received us, and there was no awe in their eyes. And their conversation and knowledge have put many of us to shame.

If the two mages, Xiao Chen and Luo Ling, had grown up in such an environment, it would not be difficult to understand that they could become such amazing characters.

I believe that everything that has been done here, as long as the Tower of Alchemy is willing to do it, can also turn a small town into this. But why has this never happened?

May 8th

I took back what I said yesterday, and after visiting their so-called factory, I realized that even if the Tower of the Gods was willing to do it, there was no way to turn a small town like this.

I never imagined that all kinds of small things could be made from different factories and then put together to magically become the beautiful city we see.

And the key to enabling them to do so is standards. We took a detailed tour of a factory that makes steel pipes. They produce all kinds of pipes as small as finger size and as large as thigh thickness, although we don't know what those steel pipes will be used for, but we are amazed that the size of the same steel pipe is always exactly the same.

Most magicians don't understand the meaning of this, and some even secretly say that they want to visit the academy or something like that first. But I see the horror here. The iron pipes punched out of the king's blacksmith shop are always large and small, and in the same way, the fireballs that the royal mage tower magician said are always large and small.

These Chinese can make steel pipes the same thickness, why can they make magic consistent?

Think about it, the two sides of the confrontation in the war, the magic of one side, there are big and small, near and far. The other side was aligned and hit the same target with precision. Who will emerge victorious?

I can associate magic from steel pipes because I found this from the analysis of magic by Xiao Chen and Luo Ling, two mages, who always like to judge and measure magic by a unified standard. I remember that Master Luo Ling once said, "What kind of magic record is good?" That is, the magic that a magician will perform when he looks at my manuscript after a thousand years is the same as the one I cast today.

At the time, many people thought it was a joke, but today I found out that it was their instinct!

May 9th

Went to school today, and it made me wonder what magical talent is.

For us, the school that can be thought of is a school for priests in the temple of nature, or a school for nobles in the royal capital. But the schools here are open to everyone. There are six years of compulsory education here, which means that all children have to go to class.

For us magicians, it doesn't matter if ordinary people go to class or not. But the children here are very different from the children in other places, that is, they are extremely talented in magic. Any mage who has participated in the Magic Tower's apprenticeship will know how rare people with magical talents are in this world. Magic is so profound and mysterious that most people's talents cannot comprehend this power beyond common sense.

But here I see a lot of teenage children who are starting to show their talent for magic. What's even more amazing is that they have developed a kind of test paper. As long as the person can answer the questions on this kind of test paper and achieve a certain score, it means that the person has a high probability of awakening, and they call this test the "Magic Entrance Test".

As outsiders, we have no way to see the content of this kind of test paper, and some of our peers will be skeptical, but I don't think there is any need for the Chinese to deceive us.

We have always found that children from aristocratic families are more likely to awaken their magical talents, but the children here are obviously from ordinary, even poor families, is the source of talent not because of blood, but because of education? However, there are also many children who have received aristocratic education who have not really awakened their magical talents, as long as you go to those aristocratic schools, you can see that the proportion of students awakening magical talents is still pitiful.

Is it because the content of learning is different? Just like after using the mathematical methods that Xiao Chen and Luo Ling taught us in the book club, our ability to understand the structure of magic is much stronger. Wouldn't it be easier for children here to understand the structure of magic if they learned those things from an early age?

May 10th

In addition to visiting the school building, we also listened to the speech of His Excellency Mao Kai, the highest level of magic theory in the Tower of China. He was a gifted magician, and he proposed novel theories and hypotheses that differed from traditional magical perceptions. But I naturally believed it.

What surprised me was that in the Chinese magic school, everyone did not spend all their time learning magic, the younger ones had to complete those basic courses every day to learn magic, and those adults needed to do their daily work, which was unimaginable in the magic tower, where every mage was eager to spend every moment and every minute and every second on magic learning.

When I consulted His Excellency Mao Kai on this issue, he told me a Chinese proverb: sharpen a knife and make a mistake for a woodcutter.