Of all the new cities in the empire, the Gate of the North may not be the most prosperous, but it is undoubtedly the most populous. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 There seems to be some talk that it is - at least in the future - the largest city in the North, but this is obviously not anyone's guess.

With the White River as the dividing line, the buildings of common sense are spread out in three irregular rectangular urban districts, and the complex streets are pieced together by different artifacts of different ages. The buildings were apparently not so elaborately planned, that even the high walls that protected the city were built with shacks of varying heights.

However, as a new city, the biggest "benefit" of this city is that there are not too many buildings older than 100 years old in the city. Cities that have developed in a short period of time with a lot of investment have lost their past glory, leaving only a chaotic and disorganized sense of the times.

Much of what used to make up this small town has long since been razed, and the artisans who were active throughout the city built new ones like industrious ants. To this day, they can still be seen dragging and dropping pieces of new and shiny building materials around the city.

And like most libraries in the Empire, part of the Great Library at the Gate of the End of the North was opened up to operate as a school. On the other hand, the Board of Education would approve the purchase of new office buildings in the city and pay the scribes a modest salary.

Libraries that are already large still need to buy a large collection of books to do their own work, so they are growing in size like a living thing. In addition to books, we also purchase a variety of instruments for the study of engineering and magic, and provide research laboratories and teaching needs.

It is important that the library has a large collection of books and state-of-the-art equipment. Although the day-to-day operation of the library requires a large amount of money, as a center for the study and storage of knowledge, these investments will definitely pay off accordingly.

As a scrivener, Frick certainly had no complaints about the Empire's large sums of money invested in libraries - after all, the vast majority of his salary came from them. The treasure trove of knowledge and the caretaker of knowledge are two terms that no matter how you hear them, you will not get bored.

At this time, he was strolling along the bookshelf on the west side of the Northland Gate Library, slowly checking the books displayed on the shelves, and occasionally keeping an eye out for the movements of the young students who sneaked into the library to flip through the books during the break, lest they accidentally break the precious books.

I don't know if it's because of the curiosity peculiar to this age, but the students who come here like to read books related to their compulsory courses, as well as books that introduce the results of demonic research. If Frick remembers correctly, there is indeed a course in their current compulsory education that simply adjusts their own magic to refine it, but that is only the level of introductory after all, and has nothing to do with the theories or phenomena they are passionate about.

To add insult to injury, he even heard rumors among his students that the library contained secrets - such as heretical manuscripts or magic books. It seems that there are still some people who think that if they can get their hands on those hidden books, they will be able to master ancient spells with a completely different system from the spells that are now popular, and the caster does not even need to master too complicated theories.

In fact, he was eager to tell the young people that the books on the open shelves were not so precious that an average family could not afford to afford them for a year, and that the manuscripts and scrolls of this value were basically stored in the compartments of the higher levels where identification was required to set foot in them.

As for the rumors of "heretical manuscripts that can make people mad enough at a glance" or "strange magic books wrapped in human skins", at least a scribe of his level should not be qualified to touch them—such things would have been sent to some special library to be closely guarded, and even burned in the furnace in order to make them "harmless".

From a scholar's point of view, it is not a good thing for this precious knowledge to be engulfed in flames like this...... But if there is really any danger in the description, then he doesn't mind dealing with it with drastic means. Knowledge is power, and unknown knowledge is unknown power, and if these unknown forces are large enough to destroy those who use knowledge, then perhaps it would be a wrong choice to touch it.

As for things like "ancient spells", compared to their rumored power, the reason why they were discarded or replaced was simply because their structure was too unstable. No one wants to blow up an entire house while they're roasting – and they don't want a spark the size of a bean.

Of course, he had no interest in tearing up young people's dreams or anything, and looking at the teenagers who were whispering about the "rumors", he just smiled lightly and continued to devote himself to his work—after all, it was the magician, not the scribe, who taught them the common sense and theory of magic.

He glanced at the corridor that connected to the east annex, and from there was the area where the sorcerers gathered, a special area carved out of the large library with an entire four-story building, which the scribes called the "Magic Research Building". Although it is considered the territory of the library, the vast majority of the people who are active in it are magicians who have registered with the Spell Bureau and young apprentices who study with them.

According to the provisions of the Magic Education Act, students who have demonstrated expertise in magic and spell theory in the course of their education in ordinary schools are eligible to become students of the Magic Academy. Those who perform better will be able to go directly to facilities like the Magic Research Building to receive education from experts.

Meritocracy? This phenomenon seems to be quite common in wizard circles, although until a few decades ago the education of wizards was actually concentrated in the upper class. After all, it is difficult for an ordinary person to have money to support the education of spells, after all, training a magician requires a considerable amount of money to invest in materials and courses, and the apprentice of a magician is also very likely to die in the rain at home due to improper operation.

This phenomenon did not improve until the Empire began to increase the popularization of sorcery in the official name, and ordinary people were eligible for a better education if they showed sufficient talent during the compulsory education period, at the cost of serving in official institutions.

It is worth mentioning that most of the scribes and mages in the central territories of the empire do not have a good relationship, with the exception of the phenomenon in the north. Perhaps because of the years of close proximity that gave the two sides time to understand, the scribes and wizards who worked together in the Northern Library were relatively friendly, and even exchanged new knowledge from each other's research in their spare time.

I don't know if it's a problem left over from history, but there are also a large number of mages active in the libraries in the north, and the Great Library of Perm, where he worked at the beginning, has even become the center of magic education in the north. The Empire's official sorcerer community shared the library with its vast collection of books, where sorcerers explored knowledge in the research room and the scriveners recorded it as if they were living beings.

If the investigation team organized by the scribes collects important information or samples in the field, it will often be provided to the sorcerers for research at the first time, and the research results of the scriveners will often be recorded by the scriveners and sent to the imperial capital at the first time.

After careful analysis and compilation, these materials will soon become brand new books, which will flow into the local libraries through official channels and be consulted by **** magicians. In contrast to the mystic mysticism of the past, the highly shared information now allows the mages to research new technologies more quickly.

However, if we want to discuss the real situation, although both scribes and sorcerers are "special talents" who use magic, the principles between the two seem to be decisively different. The study of sorcery is closer to a rational algorithm, while illusion places considerable emphasis on perceptual cognitive abilities.

Frick's knowledge of the sorcerers was only knowledgeable, they were once inextricably linked to ancient religious rituals, to the movement of celestial bodies, and even to the most basic components that make up the world—sorcerers study the causes of these synthesized phenomena and try to understand their laws.

In fact, he was quite interested in those complex theories, but unfortunately he was able to understand the conclusions of these knowledge, but he was not able to fully understand the principles. Perhaps this is the thinking ability that is more important to a mage than magic, but Frick clearly does not have what it takes to be a mage.

Since you can't understand it, let's increase your knowledge by understanding the knowledge they are studying, not to mention that the study of spells has created many substantial new things. For example, the mechanic gun in the hands of soldiers, the camera to keep photos, and the electric lamp that began to illuminate the city at night, when the magic research of the sorcerer is combined with engineering technology, the world seems to have changed more in the last hundred years than in the past thousand years.

However, while Frick was praising the sorcerers for their efforts today, smoke of strange colors wafted from the corridor leading to the Magical Research Building. After a while, the smoke gradually spread into the library, accompanied by an indescribable smell.

It was as if something had been ignited, but it was not the normal pungent smell of smoky fire, but the sweet and sour smell that seemed to be a mixture of fruits. Either way, the smoke has a nice smell that you won't be resistant to smelling for a long time.

If it weren't that strong......