The bloody action on the outskirts of Calenta and the gloom of the uprooting seemed to have been swept away by the extraordinarily lavish dinner of the Winter Festival, but the days that followed were more uneventful. The voyage from Calenta to Gureg takes about a month, and for most of the month, except for a day at a small island in the Thunder Ocean, the fleet spends most of its time in the company of the endless sea, and the occasional seabird encounter is a pleasure.

From time to time, Samuel will try to hook up with the beautiful Miss Flomina, and it can be seen that the other party is also interested in Samuel, but the other party seems to be deliberately maintaining a close relationship with Samuel, and Samuel has not made any breakthroughs in the relationship between the two so far. Flomina was tasked with the tasks assigned by her family, so she spent most of her time working in the room with her entourage.

Samuel had been observing the changes in his body, and as time passed, the tentacle form became larger, and the tentacle that had just grown became longer. He always carried the "frog" that caused him to awaken, poking its round belly from time to time, but the latter did not react, let alone show the slightest sign of awakening.

Samuel put the matter aside and continued his work of carving the auxiliary circle. Due to the difficulty of this carving, Samuel spent five days and countless failures before finally adding a small gray circle to the top of the auxiliary circle.

This is a "flash" circle that is used to enhance the "short-range precision teleportation" of the transformation system. This spell allows the caster to teleport to any location within 20 meters of them, and can also be used to teleport other objects, but when teleporting other objects, the spell will be affected by the object's spell resistance, which may cause the spell to fail.

The Short Precision Teleportation is a cast time of 3 seconds, which is too time-consuming for a Battle Mage, so the Mages have developed a secondary circle called Flash, which allows the caster to turn the Short Precision Teleport into an instantaneous. The instantaneous "short-distance precision teleportation technique" can save the mage's life in many cases, but the instantaneous spell will cause a great burden on the auxiliary circle, causing it to "overheat", and it needs to be "cooled" for a period of time before it can continue to be used, and the mage can instantaneously use this spell many times by constructing multiple "flash" circles, but at a certain soul strength, the auxiliary circle that the mage can carry is limited, so how many "flash" circles to construct becomes a matter worth weighing.

Most of the Transformation Mages only construct one "Flash Circle", but Samuel, whose soul strength is much higher than that of his peers, has constructed two, further strengthening his survivability.

Following the "Flash", Samuel then constructed two auxiliary circles, "Arcane Charge" and "Energy Burst", the former can greatly increase the spell penetration ability of the next spell, and the latter can greatly increase the power of the next spell by about 2 times.

As with "Flash", the secondary circle will "overheat" after one activation.

After that, after much consideration, Samuel carved another "Magic Surge" circle, which functions similarly to the "Flash" circle,

However, it can be used to turn any spell into an instantaneous spell, but at the cost, it consumes several times more mana, and instantaneous spells require more mental power than normal spells. Of course, the Mana Rush circle also suffers from overheating and takes longer to cool down than the Flash circle.

More than ten days have passed since his awakening, and Samuel found that his spiritual power and other qualifications are still improving, and at this rate, it won't be long before he touches the threshold of the archmage. In addition, Samuel's soul strength is constantly increasing, which means that he can carry several more auxiliary circles than when he first awakened.

But after completing these auxiliary circles, Samuel stopped for a while and did not continue to carve the auxiliary circles. Although Samuel's level of theoretical research in the arcane is quite high, he has not experienced a battle since becoming a high-level mage, and he has no personal experience of the problems faced by battle mages, so he does not know in what direction to strengthen himself for a while. So I had to pause for the time being, after all, although the auxiliary circles that had been carved could be erased and then carved with other auxiliary circles, but after all, this was time-consuming and labor-intensive, and required a lot of money.

After suspending the task of carving auxiliary circles, Samuel began to get bored. He had spent most of the past few years aboard floating ships, but as a military officer, he had a lot of business to deal with, from routine fleet administration to urgent military operations, enough to consume an entire day. It's the first time in several years that I've appeared as a passenger on a floating ship like this. Although he was indeed the majority shareholder of the company, the company's affairs were largely handled by Toft, and now that the affairs of the small fleet were handled by Scheer, he did not really have any work on his hands.

Fortunately, the boring days didn't last long, and one early morning, Samuel was woken up by a commotion outside the door.

"See land!"

Samuel, who was still sleepy, remembered that the days were indeed coming to the end of his trip. He casually put on a coat and prepared to go to the top floor to work overtime to join in the fun. Even though it was only 7 a.m., the deck was already packed. He didn't rub into the crowd any more, but found an empty spot at random, and leaned against the railing.

The New World has appeared on the skyline, and although it is only a thin green line on the horizon at the moment due to the distance, it is a novelty enough for many passengers. Of course, standing in Samuel's place, nothing can be seen.

"Aren't you going to lean over and have a look?" asked an unfamiliar voice.

Samuel turned his head and saw a man in his forties and fifties, with a pair of one-sided glasses. Obviously, the man didn't intend to go into the crowd to see it.

"I've seen this scene hundreds of times, and I've long been interested"

"Yes, you have served in the floating fleet for so many years", Samuel never concealed his identity, so his identity is not a secret on the ship.

But who are you?

"Fryers Cooler", the man introduced himself, "a professor who just lost his job"

Samuel felt that the name was a little familiar, was it the source fire scholar Fryles Kuller?

"That's right, I'm the same Flairs who studied Source Fire at Winterhold Academy. The man said, "But Wintercastle recently stopped the source fire research project, so I had to leave. ”

The so-called source fire is actually a kind of law seed that can assimilate the rules in the nearby space.

The most common application of Source Fire is against Mana Corruption. The mechanism of mana corruption is not yet fully understood by humans, but it is certain that the root cause of mana corruption is the aberration of the laws. When the laws of a certain area are distorted, the magic generated in that area will be mutated, which is often referred to as "magic corruption". The corrupted magic can no longer be used by humans, and will cause harm to the human body, causing various corruption diseases.

The best way to deal with mana corruption is to remove the law aberration, and one possible way to do this is to place a source fire in the area, which will gradually assimilate the laws of the nearby area, and thus eliminate the law aberration. It is worth mentioning that there is an upper limit to the power of the source fire, and when the degree of distortion is greater than a certain threshold, the source fire can no longer assimilate it.

The original source fire was a gift from the gods to humans, and the humans since then have used these source fires as a template to imitate new source fires, but the power of these source fires is far less than the source fires given by the gods, so they are also called secondary source fires, and the source fires given by the gods are called higher source fires. In the "Pioneer Age", the gods had intensively lowered the source fire, and human beings relied on these source fires to open up territory in the New World, but after the subsequent "Silent Era", the gods no longer lowered the source fire, and after the initial high source fire was exhausted, most of the human settlements in the New World were successively corrupted and devoured by magic, and to this day, human beings can only survive on the edge of the New World with the secondary source fire they have created.

Samuel, who had always followed the academic community, knew that Fryers was one of the most famous Flame Scholars in the world, and he couldn't believe that he would be kicked out of Winterhold Academy.

"The academic committee believes that in the current technological era, the configuration of the source fire has reached the optimum, and there is no possibility of further optimization. So the source fire research project has little value anymore. ”

Samuel silently, this is the current situation of Carlin's academic circles, although the basic disciplines are extremely valuable, but its researchers are in an increasingly difficult situation, but some less important applied technologies are favored by capital because they are closer to the market.

"So what are you going to do now?" Samuel asked

"The Dullaves College in Fort North was willing to let me continue my research, so I was rushing there. ”

To the north of Fort is already the northern border of Greg, and to the north is the boundless area of heavy magical corruption, which is already desolate compared to Wintercastle in the heart of Carlin.

"But it's a place to stay, isn't it?" said Fryers. "It's you, General Samuel, what do you plan to do in the future?"

"I'm going to go to Guleg, pool the company's assets, sell them together, and start retirement early. Samuel looked at the passengers who were excitedly looking at the distant skyline, "I don't think you're interested in looking at the continent in the distance, why don't you go down and have a drink?"

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The ship's bar was sparsely populated at this time, and most of the people were still on the top deck, but fortunately the bartender and others were still holding on to their posts—they had no interest in joining in the excitement when they traveled back and forth between Carlin and Gureg all year round.

Samuel, who was already bored, took Fryers to pass the time, and Samuel was very interested in the anecdotes of the academic world that Fryers told, and Fryers was happy to hear what Samuel had seen during his many years of military career.

Samuel was surprised to learn that Fryers was working on a new tinder configuration and had made some progress, that human fire technology had not advanced for centuries, as if there was an invisible force blocking humanity, but now, there seemed to be a crack in the wall.

What Samuel didn't understand was why Winterhold College kicked Fryers out when so much progress had been made.

"It's just a theoretical possibility, and there have been many similar developments over the past century, but the end result has been very disappointing," Fryers explains, "and the Winter Hold Institute has completely lost faith in this field, and the funding has become more and more tight in recent years, so it has cancelled my research funding." ”

Anyway, this so-called progress is estimated to be a disappointment.

Samuel was thinking about whether he should cheer Fryers up, when he suddenly felt someone pat himself on the back, and when he turned around, he saw a little boy holding a book and coffee, the boy was about ten years old, wearing an Air Force military cap much larger than his head, a cup of free coffee provided by the bartender in his right hand, and a thick book in his left hand with "Outline of the History of Modern War" written on the cover. It is a very professional book, which is rarely read by ordinary people, and generally only those who plan to take the unified entrance examination of the Carlin Military Academy will read this long and boring big book.

"Is there anyone sitting here, please? the rest of the place is full," the boy gestured to Samuel's next to him.

Samuel realized that he had been talking to Fryers for a long time, and the people on deck were returning to the cabin, and the bar was already overcrowded.

After getting Samuel's consent, the boy unceremoniously sat down in his seat, then picked up the "Outline of Modern War History" and read it, taking a sip of coffee from time to time, completely ignoring Samuel and the others.

Samuel thought it was very amusing, and he glanced at the book in the boy's hand, which had already taken all kinds of notes, and Samuel, who had a very good eye, could read them clearly. The notes contain the boy's thoughts on the various battles, most of which are very immature, but some of them are still eye-catching. Samuel thought to himself that this boy was quite talented.

However, there may be no one around to point out, these ideas have stepped on several "minefields" of the Carlin Air Force entrance exam, as a person who has come over, Samuel can't help but open his mouth to point out a few words:

"There is nothing wrong with your idea of equipping a cruiser with a large-caliber short gun, but you must not reveal your propensity in favor of a large-caliber short gun during the exam"

In fact, Falais was a big fan of the large-caliber short gun, which, despite its short range and poor accuracy, allowed small and medium-sized ships to sink large ships. The corresponding small-caliber long guns could not penetrate the armor of large ships at all.

Hearing Samuel's words, the boy turned his head with a puzzled expression.

"Actually, I'm also a supporter of large-caliber short guns, but the education system of the Carlin Air Force is basically controlled by believers in small-caliber long-barreled guns, and although they won't embarrass you openly, your inclination is enough to make people who read the papers have a bad impression of you. Samuel explained.

"But a properly used short gun can indeed turn the tide of battle, and a small number of small-caliber long guns on a cruiser can be a deterrent to a large one, and if it really doesn't work, it may be a good idea to specialize in building a battleship with a smaller tonnage than a cruiser to equip a large-caliber short gun", the boy still insisted on his idea.

The idea of equipping the fleet with a battleship smaller than a cruiser to carry large-caliber short guns struck a chord. But he shook his head anyway:

"You can wait until you officially enter the army to stick to your ideas, and before that you have to hide your thoughts. ”

The boy finally nodded in understanding.

Samuel suddenly thought of one thing: if he was going to take the Air Force's unified admissions exam, why did he run to Gureg at this time?

"I was dropped out of my previous high school because under the latest policy, students whose families had received relief from the General Relief Agency could not continue to attend school. The boy's face was a little gloomy, but he quickly recovered, "So my father got a job in Guleg, and I can get into the military school in Guleg"

The Empire's previous policy, which prohibited children from attending public schools for families who were receiving relief from the Relief Administration, has recently been upgraded to prohibit the children of families who have received relief from the Relief Administration, even if they no longer receive it.

The policy was intended to deter families who still had sufficient income but were intent on swindling out of handouts, and by the way, to alleviate the overcrowding and underfunding of public schools. But this hard-line, one-size-fits-all policy appears to have hurt a large number of genuinely needy families.

But Samuel's focus at the moment is not here, as a veteran who has served in the Guleg theater for many years, he knows that Guleg does not have an Air Force Academy at all. He was about to point it out, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he swallowed it back. He realized that it might be a white lie from the boy's father. The father may not be able to bear to shatter his child's dream of the Air Force like this, so he made up this lie that Samuel could see through at a glance. But if nothing else, sooner or later, the boy's dream of his own air force may only be a dream forever.

Samuel sighed, but still smiled, and he touched the boy's head.

"That's right, you can also get into a military school in Guleg. ”

Fryers, who was on the side, saw something from Samuel's expression, he wanted to speak again and again, but in the end he still didn't expose Samuel's lies.