In the year 766 of the Terra calendar, the middle of the autumn foliage season.

In the afternoon, the lecture was held in the small building.

At this time, almost all the students had already left, and even Elder Pude had recently tested a few knowledge points of Ian, and after receiving a satisfactory answer, he went to the frontline position outside the city to negotiate with the viscount on the distribution of supplies in the imperial capital.

But Ian happened to be thinking about a question about the inscription, and didn't want to interrupt his train of thought, so he stayed in the classroom alone.

Inscriptions, also known as runes, are a skill that originated with the dwarves and eventually spread to the Terra tribes.

The root of the inscription, as the name suggests, is built on the 'literal'.

If you want to learn, you must first learn to read and write. And this is also the difficulty that bothers the most beginners in inscriptions.

On the continent of Terra, except for some dialects of various ethnic groups and countries, the same language is basically spoken, which is also called 'lingua franca'.

It is said that this language has been spoken since the time of civilization in the previous era, so even if the ancestors of the continental countries were scattered all over the world, they could communicate normally when they met.

Even the vernacular of an indigenous language is, in essence, nothing more than a distorted, extremely dialectalized and omitted lingua franca – at least a few words can still be understood.

The lingua franca is composed of all kinds of geometric figures, which are more like paintings than symbols, and are more like some kind of special code than natural words.

Judging from the fact that this language was already used by the pre-era civilization, Ian had a bold guess, that is, the pre-era civilization of the Terra continent was a highly developed and unified advanced civilization that had eliminated all kinds of primitive natural languages.

The lingua franca is the 'Esperanto' created by the other side.

And the foundation of the inscription lies on this 'universal language'.

Specific etching patterns, raised stripe structures, and a variety of regular and complex geometric shapes can induce fluctuations in the natural psionic field, which has been proven by major scholars.

And the flesh structure of the monster and the various strange and extraordinary phenomena that the bone texture can induce are powerful proofs.

It is through learning to reproduce these patterns and artificially reproduce the extraordinary power of natural phenomena and demonic beasts on a variety of materials.

Inscription craftsmen and inscription scholars are a higher profession that requires skilled craftsmanship and extensive knowledge in order to improve.

Coincidentally, the lingua franca text is very similar to the overall structure of the inscription - or rather, the lingua franca itself is an extremely simplified inscription that omits all the complex parts.

"The real inscriptions, the depth of the lines, the width has extremely high requirements, the concave and embossed are two different research directions, and even some higher inscriptions themselves are a three-dimensional three-dimensional structure, requiring a variety of complex hollow and miniature inscriptions, people with insufficient spatial imagination, even according to the picture will be wrong."

"In addition to this, special inscriptions also require special light and ink fills to work."

Ian closed his notes, and he fell into deep thought.

Reproduction, utilization, and learning of different transcendent structures are the essence of inscriptions, and only those with good memory have the basis for learning inscriptions.

As it happens, Ian's memory is quite good.

For more than a month, he had become proficient in reading and writing the lingua franca of Terra, thanks to Ian's mother, a bright and literate woman who had already laid a little foundation at a young age, which made it easy for him to learn and not take time to get used to.

The one hundred and three most basic inscription styles are also kept in mind, and they will not be forgotten no matter what.

But learning to read and write the lingua franca, mastering the structure of several inscriptions, and the distance between being truly proficient in inscriptions is equivalent to just learning how to write from one to ten, and being required to write poems in seven steps; As soon as he learned addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, he was asked to solve the Riemann conjecture.

If nothing else, 'light and ink science' is a big problem.

If the inscription is an engine and the light ink is gasoline, the inscription can certainly induce changes in the natural psionic field, but it does not have power in itself, and needs to be filled with light and ink in order to create a real effect.

The primordial light and ink is the blood of various demonic beasts, the liquid containing essentia power, but just like the same firewood can be used to cook vegetables, but if you want to drive a rocket ship, the fuel you need must not be selected coal.

"If you only understand the effect of the inscription, you can only reproduce and depict the inscription, and you can only be regarded as an inscription craftsman. Only those who have mastered the basic structure of inscriptions, learned how to reorganize inscriptions, created new effects, and even equipped themselves with specific light and ink are truly inscription scholars. ”

"But Harrison Harbor has only craftsmen, not scholars."

After more than a month of study, Ian has mastered some basic inscription construction, and if he has a lot of practical practice, he can also go to the front line like his former blacksmith 'classmates' to maintain alchemy cannons and various inscription machinery.

This can only be regarded as an entry, and it is barely an apprentice, but even Elder Pude, who is a teacher, only has more inscriptions, and the inscriptions are more skilled in maintenance than them, and there is no difference in essence.

Apprentices and journeymen.

But it is enough to make the nobles courteous.

"The course is coming to an end, and there are two weeks to go, but I don't have much to learn."

Nodding slightly, Ian stood up and prepared to leave the building.

Although it was only the most basic part, Elder Pudde's course did provide him with a solid foundation, at least he was no longer ignorant of alchemy and inscriptions, and he could study on his own if he came across relevant literature and materials in the future.

"The accumulation of essentia is a water mill, and inscriptions and alchemy also need to be accumulated for a long time, and I have entered a bottleneck period."

Since the completion of condensing the source seed, Ian's past body deficit has been quickly remedied, and under the nourishment of food containing essentia, it can be called unprecedented health.

After more than a month of exercise, he even felt that his body had completely transformed, his pores had become delicate, his skin seemed to be fair and delicate, but in fact it was quite flexible, his internal organs had also been strengthened, his digestion had increased greatly, and many difficult actions that could not be done before had become easier and simpler, and ordinary people who wanted to tie him with ropes or shackles would be easily freed.

Because he was still young, he couldn't rush to strengthen his muscles, but even so, because of his adequate nutrition, Ian's strength and endurance were also quite strengthened.

If he were now, when he encountered the three native hunters who attacked him and Brin in the first place, he wouldn't need Brin to attract attention for him to sneak attack, he could suppress the other party head-on, and even kill one or two.

But now this level is the limit.

The sublimation of the liver is already on the right track, but it will not be completely completed until the end of the year, and at that time, Ian will have the most basic qualifications to take potions, otherwise, many potion materials are enough to poison ordinary people and beginners like him just by contacting.

You must know that ordinary cultivators, for the sake of stability, will even spend a few years sublimating their internal organs before considering taking potions for the ultimate transformation.

Ian was able to advance so much because of Hilliard's detailed planning for him.

"It's time to get ready to hunt, or pick up some Warcraft materials to prepare for the future."