Chapter 66: The First Lesson
The students of Baron Rickato's Academy of Magic are a little strange, originally the classes in the academy were arranged every day, but today there was an inexplicable extra class.
The name of this class is very strange, it is called What Magical Mechanical Theory Foundation.
And this class is still a very rare open class, open to all students in the whole house, which means that any student of Baron Rictor's Academy of Magic can participate as long as they wish.
Adolescent students are naturally curious, so although the class was not mandatory, when the class began, more than half of the students in the college poured into the lecture hall.
The leaders of the college probably did not expect so many students to come to listen to the class when they arranged this class, although the arranged classroom was already the largest lecture hall in the college, but more than half of the students poured in, not only filling every seat in the lecture hall, but also crammed the rest of the empty space in the lecture hall to the point that there was no place to stay.
Orin Zetaman was one of the first students to storm the lecture hall, occupying a seat in the front row of the lecture hall and talking loudly with several of his classmates.
"Evan, I dare to bet with you, the teacher who will come out to give a lecture in a while must be President Xu Yixu, do you dare to bet with me?" Ou Lin said defiantly to a slender boy on his right.
The boy known as Evan snorted disdainfully, "You're talking nonsense." Is there anyone in the whole city of Bangta who knows magic machinery except for President Xu? Can you find another person to come out? If I bet with you, unless my brain is broken. ”
"That's it, Orin, your bet is too, I think we might as well bet on what President Xu will say in a while. A boy a little farther away chimed in.
"Foundations of the Theory of Magical Mechanics...... After all, this is only the first time President Xu has come to give a lecture, and if he talks too deeply, I am afraid that a lot of people here will not understand it. Sitting on Orin's left hand side was a girl with smooth blonde hair, who whispered as she pointed to the expectant and skeptical students in the large lecture hall behind her.
"Well, apart from us, who of these guys knows anything about magical machinery. Orin was unashamed.
If Xu Yi was here, he would find that the students who were sitting with Ou Lin at this time were the same students who had been working part-time in the factory to draw magic arrays for the past few months.
Compared to the other students in Baron Ricto's Academy of Magic, they were indeed qualified to say this.
However, Orin's words were a little louder, and they were heard by some students not far behind him, which immediately caused their dissatisfaction.
"Hey, Orin, what are you arrogant about? Aren't you just working in the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce for a few days, really when you don't know much about magic machines? I heard that you only draw the simplest magic arrays in there, and if you know about magic machines, I think you only know a little bit about magic machinery at most." One of the boys scoffed.
Orin turned his head without showing weakness, craned his neck and said, "Even if you know fur, you know more than you." Why?
The boy was immediately furious, pointed at Oulin and shouted, "Good boy, don't leave after school for a while!"
Ou Lin snorted: "If you don't go, you won't leave, who is afraid of whom?"
Seeing that the quarrel between the two was about to escalate, just at this time, a teacher walked into the lecture hall, and the students immediately recognized that this was Shearer, the director of the academy, who had always been known for his strictness, and instantly fell silent.
Orin and the boy glared at each other, but they could only pause for a moment and focus on the front.
Shearer's eyes swept over and saw the quiet lecture hall, so he nodded with satisfaction, then coughed lightly, and said loudly: "Students, let us warmly welcome Xu Yi, the president of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce!"
Ou Lin exchanged a "sure enough" look with several classmates around him, and then applauded vigorously.
Xu Yi walked up to the pulpit sideways, saw Ou Lin and the others sitting at the front at a glance, nodded at them with a smile, and then raised his right hand, and the students quieted down, staring at him with curious eyes.
During this time, the new flying chamber of commerce launched a novel magic machine, which can be said to have attracted countless eyes in Bangta City and was out of the limelight.
For these magic machines, many traditional magicians dismissed them as nonsense, and even insults to magic, but for the students of Baron Rictor's School of Magic, who were still in the rebellious period, they found it very interesting, which made them interested in Xu Yida, the president of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, who single-handedly invented these magic machines.
Although they had long known from the rumors of Ou Lin and others that Xu Yi was only a young man in his twenties, after seeing Xu Yi with their own eyes, the students were still surprised by his youth.
In the eyes of these students, learning magic is a very difficult task, and it is even more incredible to be able to master the magic circle, and even change the magic circle at will and merge it with those cold iron machinery.
This President Xu Yixu doesn't look much older than them, but not only does he have such a strong level of magic, but he also has so many amazing and strange ideas.
Facing the curious eyes of the students, Xu Yi spoke.
"Students, I know that everyone doesn't like to listen to nonsense, so I'll get straight to the point. The reason why I asked Director Shearer to help me arrange this class today is not to teach you anything as a teacher, but to talk to you. As for what to talk about? Magical machines, of course. The name of this class is called the Foundations of Magical Mechanics, so I'll talk about this foundation. ”
"I think everyone now knows a little bit about the products of our Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and they should also understand what kind of magic machinery is. As a student of Baron Rickto's Academy of Magic, you obviously know more about magic, but you are a little rusty with the term machine, so my focus today is on machinery. ”
"A machine is a tool. With this kind of tool, people can do some tasks more easily and with less effort, and it can also make some tasks less difficult. To take the simplest example, when digging the soil, I think everyone will not dig directly by hand, but choose a shovel, because with a shovel, it will be easier and more convenient to dig the soil. Then the shovel is actually a machine. ”
"Of course, the shovel is a very simple machine, and the machine I am talking about is relatively more complicated. Students should know that our Xinfei Chamber of Commerce just launched a magic rice cooker some time ago. This is an ordinary household magic machine, and its specific role is to cook rice. When there is no magic rice cooker, if you want to eat rice or porridge at home, you must use firewood to make a fire, and then cook the rice in the pot. And with the magic rice cooker, you only need to pour rice and an appropriate amount of water into the magic rice cooker, then press the switch, wait patiently for a while, and it will be cooked automatically. Isn't it more convenient than cooking over a fire?"
"Magic machines, you can also call them magic machines. Because machinery is the foundation, magic is the power used to drive machinery. The students are all studying magic, and they should know very well that the power of magic is very powerful. So have you ever wondered if you can use magic to kill enemies anywhere else? I'm not going to talk about what magic should be used for today, but I'm just going to give you an idea of what magic machines can be used for. For example, the magic rice cooker can be used to cook rice, the small magic harvester can harvest grain more easily, and the magic fan can blow a cool breeze...... There are many, many things that magic can do, and now that our new flying chamber of commerce is just getting started, I am sure that you will definitely see a variety of magic machines in the future. And I believe that these magic machines will also change everyone's lives little by little. ”
"Why are magic machines able to do this? That's what we're going to be about in today's lesson. The reason why magic can be used as a power source and used to drive machinery to do tasks that are difficult for humans to do involves some considerable expertise. And this knowledge is the theory of magical machinery. The basic concept is that magic is the power and the machine is the table. Specifically......
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At first, the students were skeptical and didn't listen too closely.
However, as Xu Yi continued to speak, the expressions on the students' faces gradually became focused.
These theories mentioned by Xu Yi are simply unheard of for students.
Young students are already in a stage where they are trying to absorb information from the outside world, and something as novel and interesting as the theory of magical mechanics will certainly interest them.
As a result, Xu Yi spoke more and more energetically, and the students listened more and more energetically.
It wasn't until Director Shearer came in for the third time to remind him that Xu Yi woke up and found that the sky outside had become dark, but it was already past the end of school.
Xu Yi had no choice but to announce that this was the end of today's lesson.
The students were not satisfied with listening to it, and they even asked Xu Yi to talk more.
In this regard, Xu Yi could only reluctantly say that he could only come here today, and at the same time hinted that he would continue to give lectures in the future, and if he was interested, the students could come to listen to the lectures again.
Only then did the students let Xu Yi go, and they left the lecture hall with a heated discussion with each other.
Seeing the enthusiastic appearance of the students, Director Shearer on the side sighed, shook his head at Xu Yi and said, "President Xu, I really shouldn't have promised you to let you give this class." You see, so many students are intrigued by you, and I'm worried about whether they will be distracted in the future. ”
Xu Yi smiled: "How come." Director Shearer, I've been teaching magic all the time. It's a good thing that students are interested, and they're sure to be more interested in learning magic later on. You should be happy about it. ”
"Are you sure they're interested in magic rather than magic machines?" Director Shearer snorted.
Xu Yi laughed, thinking that he had donated five hundred gold coins to Baron Rickato's Academy of Magic in one go, so that Vivien could be shoehorned into Baron Rickato's Academy of Magic in exchange for this opportunity to teach, if he couldn't take advantage of this to plant the seeds of becoming a magical mechanical engineer in the hearts of these students, then the five hundred gold coins would have been too unjustly spent.
As a businessman, how could he do such a loss-making thing?