148. The Scholars of the Commonwealth of Brandon
The place where Orna is located is a super-large ward with dozens of beds, this is the latest military hospital in Phoenix, although the house is large, in fact, this hospital is not actually open, not to mention the patients, now the doctors and nurses here are all combined, and they can be counted on one hand.
Ornar was one of the four patients, along with two men and a woman, the oldest of whom appeared to be no more than sixteen or seventeen years old. Unlike Ornar, their bodies were too weak to withstand much torment, except for the girl, whose eyes were weakly open, and the others remained unconscious until now.
The beds of the four of them were all shrunk in one direction, and the beds were surrounded by curtains, and Orna didn't notice it at first, until a nurse came to rehydrate them, and when he pulled the curtain open, he found that there were three other people lying next to him, and he roughly swept around, all three of them were magicians with the ship, and there were no sailors.
"If we were saved, where did the others go?" said Orna, frowning, a little puzzled.
Next to his bed, Lin Jue and Lin Yue were sitting aside, Lin Jue noticed his gaze, probably understood what he was thinking, so he sighed lightly and said: "When I found you at that time, you all suffered from severe dehydration symptoms, and at the same time, only the four of you were still alive, and the others were dead. ”
"Oh, by the way, I think I should tell you this, Captain Orner, when we found the Salvation, she was so damaged that it sank. ”
Obviously, he could still understand Chinese, but he was not very proficient in speaking, and his eyes had already darkened before Lin Yue translated these words to him.
After a long silence, the corners of Orner's mouth kept sobbing, as if he wanted to say something, but every time he opened his mouth, his mouth closed again, and he always seemed to feel that he couldn't speak.
For a man who has been seafaring for many years, the ship is his everything, and the sinking of the ship is almost equivalent to the collapse of the sky.
Lin Jue took out two notebooks from the bedside table, shook them in front of Orna's eyes, and said, "I know everything about what happened to you. ”
With that, Lin Jue handed the notebook to Orna.
"By the way, according to the logbook, I have sent a ship to reverse-track the course to the isolated island to pick up the people. ”
Olnar waved his hand, not taking the two notebooks, but said, "The ship is sinking, and there is no point in keeping them, it is just a matter of sadness, you can keep them." ”
Lin Jue sighed and said, "Don't be too sad, the Salvation has completed her last mission, at least her captain is still alive, and besides, the news has been passed on, isn't it?"
Orna knew that Lin Jue was comforting himself, he had lived a long time, and he felt like a mirror for these people, so he said softly: "Thank you." ”
Looking at Orna's appearance, Lin Jue always felt a little unbearable in his heart.
After a moment of silence, Lin Jue asked, "Is there anything I can do to help you?"
Ornar said, "No, let me be alone for a while." ”
Lin Jue shook his head helplessly, stood up with Lin Yue, and pulled up the curtain next to the hospital bed again.
Lin Jue was going to leave like this, but when he saw the girl who was still weak but had her eyes open, he hesitated for a moment and walked towards the girl's hospital bed.
He couldn't figure out why this fleet had so many magicians with it, and if it was just to concoct anti-illusion potions, then why wasn't there any movement on the ships of the Salvation and the Martyrdom?
Lin Jue sat on another bed next to the girl's bed, and asked the nurse to support her on the pillow and sit up.
"How do you feel?" asked Lin Jue.
Lin Yue was about to translate, but the girl waved her hand and said softly in that weak voice: "No need, I can understand, I am a scholar, and I have learned the lingua franca of the mainland." ”
Since the Yan Empire is currently the center of the whole world, Chinese is the lingua franca of the human world, except for the alien races and ethnic groups in the Eastern Continent, all races on the Central Continent communicate with human beings in Chinese.
"Scholar?" Lin Jue wondered, "Aren't you a magician?"
The girl shook her head and said, "To be precise, I am an alchemist, in the National Academy of Magic, my major course is alchemy materials, and I have not passed the magician level, so I can't be called a magician." ”
Although he didn't know much about some of the situations in the magic world, Lin Jue still knew a little about the classification of magicians in general, and he understood it as soon as the girl said this.
In the wizarding world of Western countries, people who are new to the profession of magicians will study regionally according to the disciplines designated by the wizards' guild.
The main reason is that the subject of magic is too broad and profound, covering too wide, if you insist on reading through the books and studying hard, unless you go through the kind of cramming in the later Great Celestial Empire, in order to lay the foundation for your future life, that is, the college entrance examination, otherwise an ordinary person will not be able to master magic for hundreds of years.
Even if it is a talent cultivated by exam-oriented education, after many years, they will no longer review these contents, and most of them only remember the knowledge they can be exposed to in their work, and the rest have long been forgotten, after all, they are not learning by interest, but for vanity, or learning for exams, if they are not used in the future, it is no different from white learning.
The same is true of the subject of magic, which would be meaningless if it were to be studied in that way.
As a result, the Magicians' Guild unified and standardized the magic that had evolved and developed for hundreds of years and thousands of years, split it apart, and threw aside all the knowledge that did not help the improvement of the magician's level, and established a separate discipline to distinguish it from the basic science of magic.
The magician, the main thing to learn is the condensed version of the basics of magic, and the bloated part that has been dismantled has become a subject that can be learned or not learned by virtue of interest, if it is said now, the basics of magic can be understood as mathematics, and the other parts can be understood as physical chemistry and other disciplines that rely on the existence of mathematics.
It's the same with magicians, we can understand it this way, some can study mathematics all their lives and eventually become a mathematician, and some can study physics and eventually become physicists.
Alchemy is also a branch of magic, similar to physical chemistry that relies on mathematics, but is separated from a separate discipline from mathematics, but the subject of alchemy is still too complex, and it is still divided into two disciplines, one is alchemical materials, and the other is alchemical pharmacy. The former is generally called an alchemist, while the latter is called an apothecary.
It seems that this girl is the former, who mainly cultivates gold material science, and has not passed the magician level assessment, that is, she has not yet graduated, so she can only call herself a scholar, not a magician, or an alchemist.
It's just that what are these people doing in the Sea of Mists with a group of scholars who haven't yet taken any magic ratings? Can they find the artifact? Is this a joke?
Moreover, if you want to bring a group of people who mainly practice gold potion on the ship, at least to prepare anti-illusion potions, it makes sense, what is the matter with bringing a scholar of alchemical materials science on board?
If we think about it from this starting point, these scholars did not actually participate in the battle, but had their own purpose, forming a group of scholars to travel with the ship, if this is the case, perhaps these magicians, their major disciplines, are not repeated.
Lin Jue couldn't help but fall into thought, what would be their purpose?