Chapter XXVIII The Education System
"Sir Tang Seng has no problem, and inheriting David's identity is also an official instruction. For you, it's perfectly fine to think of him as the real David Bane - that's what the memory manipulation was all about. The Chief of Personnel and Chief Decision-Maker, the Shadow Prince, Grand Arcanist Ramoraec, said with a serious expression.
"I know......" Although I had expected this to be the case, I was still very unhappy, what, a guy with a bad personality who I didn't know suddenly became a family, and I had to pretend to be very intimate in front of everyone and call him uncle, disgusting to death.
"Of course, it may be a little difficult for you, but hopefully you will be able to overcome it. Modifying memories multiple times in a short period of time can have very serious consequences, and we don't want to put you at risk because of our mistakes. ”
"Che, if that's the case, you shouldn't have changed other people's memories in the first place!"
"However, it was also a great opportunity to get to know this great talent more fully. The chief decision-maker rattled the bell, and a moment later, an assistant knocked on the door and entered, bringing in a personnel file.
"Lynne Taylor, female, received her initial education at Elementary School 3 as a child, during which she received bloodline development training, and attended the Elementary Arcane Academy as a teenager with an A in graduation. The results of the talent and development assessment are: general-purpose D-level mage talent, single score B, E-level perceptual talent, no assessment, agile C-level athletic talent, single score B, defensive B-level bloodline talent, single score defense ++; Grade B operational talent, with a single grade A. Quick thinking and strong learning ability, it is recommended to develop the direction of apothecary or wandmaster, it is recommended that the bloodline talent is used to be purified and converted to a warlock talent to stimulate, and it is strictly forbidden to develop into a melee career such as an arcane spearhead, and it is recommended to enter the Alchemy Academy in the next stage. ”
The education and evaluation system of Ghost City is very complete and comprehensive, which can well identify students' strengths and cultivate their growth. According to its core theory, students should enter school when they have the potential to be developed quickly, receive a systematic education, leave at the end of the development, and gradually translate what they have learned into practical performance on the job. In other words, they believe that only during the period of systematic education will a person produce substantial improvement, that is, the improvement of the total amount of knowledge and skills, and the improvement shown at other times is only an optimal combination of existing abilities, and the essential improvement is negligible while mastering or improving some applicable abilities while forgetting some abilities that are not commonly used or unsuitable.
According to this theory, they divide education into stages in a cycle of 5 to 3 years:
The first stage of education is enlightenment. All the children in Yin Soul City who reached the age of 5 before August 1 of that year must enter the school to start a collective life and receive a five-year comprehensive moral, intellectual and physical enlightenment. Normally, about 600 children are enrolled in the city each year.
The second stage of education is basic education. All primary school students between the ages of 10 and 11 who have completed the initial education in the same year are required to enter the junior school to receive a three-year comprehensive education, so as to lay a good foundation for receiving systematic and special education in the future. In addition, those with bloodline or athletic talent will receive additional special training. During this time, the young students will also be tested on their talent and quality.
Talents are divided into five categories, in order of importance: Arcane, Magic, Sports, Bloodline, and Others. Magic is the primary productive force in this world, and magical talent is naturally the top priority, and the ancient Naixer Empire is founded on arcane, and it is reasonable that arcane is more important than divine magic. In this world, where direct competition is fierce and individual forces vary greatly, the importance of combat effectiveness is undeniable, so athletic talent is second only to magical talent. Bloodline talent refers to a bloodline talent that is difficult to activate spellcasting ability, and usually only plays a supporting role, so it is far less important than a magical talent and less important than an athletic talent. The others are collectively referred to by all the talents except those four categories, from forging to art.
The quality of talents at this stage is divided into three levels of EDC: E is invalid to the point where such talents are not possessed or lack cultivation value for some reason, D is average, which refers to having talent but average talent, and almost all the residents of Netherworld City currently have at least one talent that has reached D, and C is medium and has good talents, as for how good they are, it will be left to the next stage to test. Over the past few decades, about 20% of the children in the Netherworld have at least one C-level talent, and for them, they will use memory weaving to assist in development at the appropriate stage in the future.
At the end of the second stage of education, the teenagers will be graded on the basis of their usual performance and test scores. A is excellent, accounting for 10%, indicating that the learning ability is very strong, excellent and very hard-working, should have the right to choose their own future; B is good, accounting for 20%, indicating that the learning ability is strong, and they are also working hard, should have the right to choose their own future according to their talents; C is average, indicating that the predetermined goal has been achieved but that's all, D is passing, only meeting the minimum standard, both categories should accept the future arranged by the school for you; evaluation E is failing.
Teenagers with a grade of D and all talents of E and E will lose the opportunity to become a citizen of Netherworld and will have to leave school to become a servant. The number of such juveniles is fixed at 5 per cent, or almost 30.
The third stage of education is a special education, which is semi-closed for 3 years, divided into three categories: arcane, divine and general, and is aimed at new graduates of junior colleges between the ages of 13 and 14. The admission criteria for the Elementary Arcane Academy are: Grade A Talent is unlimited, or Grade B Arcane Talent CD, or Grade C Arcane Talent C, with an average enrollment of 150 students per year, Elementary Darkmoon Academy, the Divine Academy of the Netherland, with an average enrollment of about 100 students per year, except that the Elementary Darkmoon Academy, the Divine Academy of the Netherlands, has similar admission criteria to the Arcane Academy, except that the Arcane Talent is replaced by an Divine Talent with an average of 100 students per year, and the others enter the Elementary Vocational Academy, with an average of about 320 students per year. Seniors with athletic specialties are also required to enter three types of primary colleges, but the learning content focuses on combat sports.
It should be pointed out that elementary colleges have a withdrawal mechanism, and students who have scored consecutive E in the semi-annual test will be ordered to withdraw from the school. Students from the Arcane Academy and the Darkmoon Academy are eliminated to the Vocational Academy, and students from the Vocational Academy are eliminated from the Servants.
B-level talents are differentiated at this stage, meaning that they have more development potential than C under the same conditions, and the combined number of Spell Shepherd's three caster talents can usually be sixty or seventy per year. Because there are so many of them, they get noticed but they don't usually get noticed.
At the end of the third phase of education, the cadets will undergo a three-month military training, after which they will be graded on a comprehensive basis for military training performance, peacetime performance and examination results. Compared with basic education, there are more assessment items at this stage, which are divided into five major items: mage, warlock, priest, warrior and others, and each major item is under a number of sub-items.
For the individual occupational assessments, A means (Level 2) Level 4, B means (Level 2) Level 3, C means (Level 1) Level 2, D means (Level 1) Level 1, and E means that no sufficiently significant progress has been made. The "Other" category is evaluated on different criteria, and all valuable skills outside of direct combat are placed here. There are also "+" grades inspired by Bloodline talents, each representing a notable ability.
A in the overall score requires at least one individual grade of A, or two individual grades of B, or 1B2C, and the overall score of BCD in order, and E means that no individual score can get a D. Generally speaking, about 20 people get A and 100 people get B every year, the proportion of C and D is not much different, and the number of people who get E or are eliminated by vocational colleges is almost 20 people a year, which is slightly less than the number of eliminators in junior colleges.
At the end of the third stage of education, all students who have achieved at least D will receive Netherworld citizenship, usually around 550, of which about 1/3 are spellcasters who have mastered at least Tier 1 spells, and the ratio of arcane to divine magic is slightly more than 3:2. Those with excellent grades will continue their studies at secondary colleges, citizens who have not obtained admission qualifications and have shown sufficient athletic ability will be enlisted in the army, and others will be assigned employment according to their strengths.
The fourth stage is to improve education, which is open to full-time for a period of 3 years, divided into two categories: arcane and magical, with the aim of making geniuses with excellent magical talent and strong learning ability quickly become talents, or cultivating talents who can be cultivated into intermediate spellcasters and magic warriors, and the enrollment is open to fresh graduates of primary colleges between the ages of 16 and 17 and those over 20 years old who have completed compulsory military service. The admission criteria for the Intermediate Arcane Academy are: a comprehensive score of A for fresh graduates, B for Arcane Talent B and a score of not less than B in the Arcane Individual, or an average of 60 students per year for Rank 2 and Level 4 for former students and passing the entrance test, while the admission criteria for the Medium Darkmoon Academy are similar to those for the Arcane Academy, except that the Arcane requirements are replaced by Divine Arts, with an average of 40 students per year.
A-level talents are differentiated at this stage, meaning that there is value to be focused on in the next five years, usually no more than 10 in a year.
At the end of the fourth stage of education, the colleges that can successfully graduate are already good talents. The evaluation criteria are similar to those of the third stage, except that they have been raised by 1 and 2 levels.
All citizens who are at least 20 years old and have not joined the military are required to enlist in the army for one year as compulsory military service in the Shadow City.
The rest of the education is a two-year night school, somewhat similar to the on-the-job education on Earth, divided into five categories: arcane, magical, military, combat, and others, all of which are designed to advance those who have mastered their current abilities to a higher level. Of course, there is a limit to this improvement, which is a high-level academy of 4th to 5th rank in terms of spellcasters, and a high-level combat academy of 10 to 11th levels of swordsmanship in terms of warriors. As for the higher colleges, there is, but there is no open admission.
In addition, it is said that there are certain special colleges, but there is also no open admission.
In the case of Lynne Taylor, as a student at the Elementary School of Magic, grades speak for themselves. General-purpose D-level mage talent, single score B, indicating mastery of Tier 2 arcane arts, with 3 mage levels, Agile C-level athletic talent, single score B, indicating that you have practiced the skills of agile warrior, with 3 related class levels, and defensive B-level bloodline talent, single score ++, indicating that 2 defensive abilities are activated, and B-level operational talents, with a single grade A, indicating that they are very good at one or more important production skills, and from the point of view of their stature, they are obviously not forging, and low-level mages are unlikely to be good at enchantment, so potion concoction with alchemy as the core or wand manufacturing with gem carving as the core is most likely.
Overall, she is a very good learner and a very hard-working child who is doing well at this stage, but she is limited by talent, and it is wiser to focus on more valuable specialties than to force her development in the arcane arts. Since the athletic talent is good, the good grades also inspire two defensive talents, but instead of being absorbed into the army's key training, it is forbidden to develop in the direction of dual cultivation of magic and martial arts such as arcane elite soldiers to prevent war damage, then the "more valuable specialty" is undoubtedly logistics or scientific research, and the academy's recommendation to go to the Alchemy Academy also confirms this.
"Well, it's very good, and considering the keen insight and tenacious will required to quickly decipher the weaving of memories without outside assistance, it is necessary to add a focus on the logo. The Chief of Personnel and Chief Decider, the Shadow Prince, the Grand Arcanist Ramolek picked up his pen and added a few words to the file. If it weren't for that, how could he have been deliberately selected as one of the marriage options and placed next to a genius who needed to be invested in the proud disciple of Master Owo, who was powerful and successful in entrepreneurship, and who was known as "expected to become a great arcanist in twenty years".
"Miss Taylor, I don't think it's right for a determined and adventurous person like you, but rather to receive more targeted training in order to reach your full potential and make a greater difference. What do you think?" the chief decider asked in an affirmative tone, leaning forward slightly.
"I'm glad to do it. "Although I don't know what special training is, since I am the chief decision-maker, I will definitely be able to point out the direction for myself who is not ideal for talent matching. Dad, I also hope to become a nobleman.
"Sir Tang Seng, as a member of Miss Taylor's family, I would like to hear your opinion on the direction of her development. ”
'That guy is an unrelated person who doesn't know anything about the situation, why should he listen to his nonsense?!'
We've only known each other for a day, and I don't know. However, the black-haired girl has a beautiful face, excellent academics, good at changing faces, and good at attacking spells, and her father died for some reason, I have already thought of a suitable one, and even the name is almost the same!'' Miss Taylor's family had already made up her mind, but she pretended to be cautious and said: "Lynn, in order for us to be able to make a more accurate judgment, I think you may be able to introduce your abilities in more detail first. ”
“...... Comprehensive evaluation, total class level 8, focusing on the direction of spells, good at alchemy and gem carving. In terms of spell casting ability, the Changemaker is level 2 and level 3, prohibits enchantment and necromancy, is good at change and plastic energy, and other spells have also been learned, and he has learned the range of super demons, and he has not yet practiced secret arts. In terms of non-spell casting ability, he is good at fist skills, and has practiced the Warrior Monk technique, learned the Shock Break and inspired the intuitive ability, and the swordsmanship is also good, and the magic sword technique has inspired the resistance ability. ”
The so-called resistance refers to the stimulation of the bloodline in a certain way through special training, so that the blood of the whole body is always in a low-energy excitation state, in order to enhance its own anti-demon strength, although it is slightly narrower than the ability of the divine grace with a similar effect, but it can make the comprehensive strength of the warrior with a strong bloodline to a higher level, and the value is quite high. Warlocks can also be activated, but not many people usually do this - it takes up 4 levels of bloodline talent, which can increase the level of Warlocks by 4 after development, and it is completely more than worth the loss for Warlocks who can activate spells.
The intuitive ability is more chicken, and it needs to be combined with the insight of the warrior monk to be activated by the 2nd stage of the warlock talent, the effect is to sense the wind pressure through the skin, dodge in time before the attack is imminent, and the requirements are high and the limit is large and the effect is small - the warriors need to wear armor will cause the ability to fail, and the caster must distance himself to avoid getting close. Normally, no one would inspire this except for the Spell Fist Warrior Monk of the Mage Department.
"My Great Yin Soul City is really full of talents, and I am already so good at a young age, and I think I will be able to become the leader of the new generation in time. Mike said heartily. Although Lynn's talent combination is not ideal, and it is not bad to inspire the bloodline talent of resistance ability that is of great significance to magic warriors, but in addition to production skills, what she is good at and what the school recommends is the direction of spells whose talent can only be said to be acceptable, and most of them have some unavoidable hardships. However, even if you don't have any special talents, the learning ability reflected in reaching the overall career level of 8 at the age of 16 alone is definitely a one-in-a-million genius. There are only 25,000 residents, but more than 20 such characters can emerge every year, and the quality of Yin Soul City is really far beyond other places, and the teacher is honest and does not deceive me. However, my Sanzang Town is also full of talents, and there are more than ten geniuses of this level in just two and a half years, but it's a pity that except for Audrey, they are not of my race......
"That being said, in the face of other countries' population bases of millions of people, our advantage is nothing. The Yin Prince shook his head and sighed. For example, a super genius of your level has never appeared in Yin Soul City in two thousand years. If not, how can it be unanimously favored for key investments.
"How pure is Lynn's bloodline?" "Actually, I don't know how to improve people with bad qualifications, so they can only be biochemically modified......
"Now it's over 70 percent. "If that's not the case, why waste 2 bloodline talents to stimulate intuition......
Activating spells is only possible if at least 70% of the bloodline talent is from a single source. When the purity is insufficient, the miscellaneous veins must be solidified in some way to eliminate interference, and Audrey's X-turning secret technique is the most typical way. But for Yin Soul City, the X-Turning Secret Technique does not apply.
Because they often take the initiative to introduce all kinds of excellent foreign bloodlines in order to improve their own bloodline level, the special bloodline of Yin Soul City is based on the Pik essence bloodline and fuses many kinds of warlock bloodline fragments to form a highly complex bloodline. The X-turn secret technique requires a sufficiently high proportion of the corresponding bloodline, and there is no one in the bloodline of Yin Soul City that can be achieved except for Pikejing. Although he was able to obtain some quite practical spell-like abilities when he cultivated, he lost all his foundations, leaving only some scattered remnants, and it was no longer possible to become a warlock.
The usual practice of Yin Soul City is to activate the resistance ability, purify the bloodline and increase its own anti-demon strength, but the disadvantage is that the solidified miscellaneous veins and main veins are usually only half and half. In other words, there were originally 11 main veins and 3 miscellaneous veins, although it was very difficult to activate spells, but theoretically, it was a super genius who could become a level 14 warlock, and after activating the resistance ability to purify the bloodline, it was just an ordinary genius who could become a level 10 warlock. It is precisely for this reason that although the quality of the bloodline in Yin Soul City is quite high, the proportion of high-level warlocks is not higher than in other places.
Lynn's situation was even worse, she used a total of 6 talents to purify the bloodline, and only then did she purify the bloodline to more than 70%, touching the threshold of activating spells with the help of external forces. In this case, the warlock's prospects are naturally very limited.
"Then why didn't you stick to the path of the Curse Fist Warrior Monk?" asked someone continuing to pretend. In fact, the reason is very obvious, an actor's self-cultivation and the perseverance required by a warrior monk are very incompatible.
"Because I love the arcane even more, I've dreamed of being a good magic researcher since I was a child!" Lynn replied in a serious manner.
"In that case, considering Lynn's excellent learning ability, I think the Mage plus Wand Maker can be considered. War Mages have low requirements for bloodline purity, which is more suitable than Warlocks in this case. Wands are the most useful consumables, and they don't require advanced arcane magic to achieve the best results, and you can learn gem magic even further. "Although I don't know how to improve, I know how to cosplay very well!
Miss Ben is a brilliant talent who has just been praised by Prince Lamolec, so don't learn those little tricks that are not good at what is not high!!'
The so-called battle mage, in fact, is a special warlock who specializes in combat spells, the advantage is that the threshold is low and the progress is fast, the disadvantage is that the choice of spells is basically limited to plastic energy spells, the adaptability is extremely poor, and the development potential is limited, which can be approximated as the heavy firepower of the magic world. As for gem magic, you can also know the pride of throwing a lot of money when you hear the name.
"Well, that makes sense. Grand Arcanist Ramoracle nodded, "After all, it is difficult for Miss Taylor to develop much in terms of warlocks, so she can concentrate on the path of mages in the future." War Mages, while not promising, work well as a means of rapidly exploiting potential. I don't know what you think?"
In fact, no matter how she chooses, she will definitely have difficulties in spells. A mage is the first and foremost knowledge, and the ability to learn is almost the most important talent. Taylor's learning ability can be said to be extremely strong, but his talent is only rated D, so there is only one possibility - the affinity of the magic net is too low. In this case, if you want to master a 3rd order spell, you can always think of a way, and 4th order is not impossible, but if you want 5 order, it will definitely be more expensive than worth the loss. It is precisely for this reason that the school recommends developing into an alchemist or wandmaster - due to the characteristics of raw materials and the cost factor, the number of spells infused in the potion is basically not more than level 3, so a level 3 spell is enough for an alchemist. The wand, on the other hand, expands the range of materials at the expense of increasing the difficulty of use, reducing the cost of manufacturing, and the spells infused are basically not more than 4 levels.
“...... As you wish. "Since the chief decider said it, it won't be bad if you think about it.