Chapter 17: An Annoying History of Ancient Magic

Once, how I longed for that magical magic.

Wands, magic robes, spells, gestures, as long as it's about magic, I'm very interested, but that doesn't include the boring history of ancient magic......

Come on!

I've come to Reox to study magic, not to see the great achievements of my ancestors!

The Origin, Development, and Improvement of Magic?

A famous magician in history?

Could it be that remembering this makes my magic more powerful?

Hey!

As Scott said, in the first week, Reoks will not teach you any magic, but will only tell you some things about magic, in Jiang Zhe's opinion, even if that magician bothered to talk for a long time, he was far less interested than a small fireball called Jiang Zhe.

Unfortunately, the history of magic is a compulsory subject......

Came to a large classroom that could seat hundreds of people early, but had to listen to Professor Huo De talk about the ancient history of magic, foaming at the mouth, Jiang Zhe felt very helpless about this.

Jiang Zhe turned his head to look at Scott, and saw that he was holding a book with the thickness of Chengren's palm and flipping through it, looking at the dense small words on the page, Jiang Zhe felt dizzy just by looking at it, and he really didn't know how that guy was calm.

As for the future battle mage Allen, he also held his head and looked intently at the books on the table......

Could it be that this guy has changed his surname?

In Jiang Zhe's opinion, this roommate is even more impatient than himself, he can actually read?

"Tick ......"

This guy slept so hard that he couldn't even leave his saliva behind!

Alas, even if I go to another world, I still can't escape the fate of going to school?

Moving to the side, Jiang Zhe held his head and looked out the window, bored looking at the clouds in the sky.

Baiyun ...... It's so white......

“...... The origin of magic is alchemy, and the alchemist Wells has made outstanding contributions to the development of magic...... Wells has a very famous academic study, who of you here can name that alchemy formula?" As he spoke, Professor Hodd put down the book in his hand and looked up at the magician apprentices in the classroom, as for Jiang Zhe and the three of them who were sitting at the end of the distraction, he naturally saw it in his eyes.

"The Refining of Boiled Salt, Professor Hodd!" said the red-haired girl who was riding in the same carriage with Jiang Zhe raised her hand.

"Good, Lavia!"

Professor Hodd nodded with satisfaction, and suddenly asked with a smile, "Magic is a very magical science, but it is full of dangers, as your enlightenment professor, I have the obligation to tell you this! Okay, that's all for the history of ancient magic for the time being, let me ask a few questions to test your understanding of magic: Modern magic is roughly divided into three systems, do you know that there are three systems?"

"I know!"

"Professor, I know!" After Professor Hodder asked, there were many students in the classroom who wanted to prove their "erudition".

But unfortunately, Professor Hodd ignored the raised hands of the students present, pointed in the direction of the back seat and said, "Soth, you can answer!"

Suddenly, hundreds of pairs of eyes in the classroom looked at the back of the classroom, making Scott, who was concentrating on reading, feel a little uncomfortable, looked up at Professor Huode, and then at Jiang Zhe beside him, and reminded in a low voice, "Soss!

"Hmm?" Jiang Zhe, who was still thinking about why Baiyun was so white, came back to his senses and looked at Scott suspiciously, and then felt that the classroom seemed to be a little too quiet, and when he looked up, he found that Professor Huo De looked at him and shook his head slightly.

Is there really anything special about this kid as the principal said? Why can't I see it?

As far as Professor Hodd is concerned, he doesn't really like this child who wanders in his class, and the two children around him, one who reads by himself and the other who sleeps grogily, has never met such a student after teaching for two or three years......

However, Professor Hodd was also a brilliant young magician, and he was not upset by this, but he was very interested in the child named South, and he wanted to find out why the headmaster thought this child was special......

"Soth, modern magic is roughly divided into three systems, do you know that there are three systems?"

Obviously, Jiang Zhe was very confused about Professor Hodder's unreasonable 'favor', and stood up under Scott's whispered reminder.

"Can you answer my question, kid?" Professor Hodd asked, and while he was asking, many students looked contemptuously in Jiang Zhe's direction, and there were a few faint words of 'commoner', 'ignorant', and 'poor ghost'.

Although they have only been together for one day, Scott also knows his roommate roughly, and knows that although his roommate does not like to talk, and his words and deeds are alienated and cold, he is indeed a person worth making friends with, much better than the other guy!

So, he whispered, "Soth, it's white magic, blue magic, and black magic!"

And all this really fell in the eyes of Professor Huo De, just as he was about to speak, he heard Jiang Zhe say, "I'm sorry, professor, I don't know!"

Scott was stunned, and when he looked up, he found Professor Hodd frowning at him, and he suddenly understood in his heart.

There was something special about this kid, but he wasn't as special as the principal said......

Professor Hodd nodded, walked over slowly, and continued to ask, "Then do you know the general classification of magic?

"I'm sorry, Professor......"

"That's ...... Does anyone here know?" Hodd looked around, and suddenly pointed to the red-haired girl and said, "Lavia!"

"It's the impact system, the fire system, the lightning system, the ice system, the light system, the gravity system, and the spirit system!" the red-haired girl looked at Jiang Zhe with a little contempt.

"Very good!" Professor Hodd was satisfied, after all, this kind of classification could not be answered by students who did not have a certain degree of attainment in magic, "What about the division in the shape of magic?"

Jiang Zhe shrugged and said, "I'm sorry, Professor!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a mockery came from the classroom, "Is that all he can say?"

Frowning and glaring at the blonde boy who spoke, Professor Hodd looked again at the child named Soth, especially the child's eyes......

It seems that this child, who looks very gentle on the outside, has a very proud heart! a heart that will not be shaken by anything in the outside world!

Is it because he doesn't care? Or is it for some other reason?

After thinking about it, Professor Huo De still couldn't think of a reason, so he casually pointed in the direction of the girl-haired girl and said, "Lavia, you answer!"

"It's balls, arrows, rings, shields, enchantments, spirits, personifications, and spells, Professor!"

"Very good! but I missed the breath and the spell mark, hmm...... It may take a long time for you to understand these two," as he spoke, Huo De walked to Jiang Zhe's table, looked down at Allen, who was sleeping in a daze, and said to Jiang Zhe, "I'm disappointed, Sos ......" The disappointment he was referring to was naturally Jiang Zhe's distraction in class.

Jiang Zhe smiled bitterly and said, "I'm also disappointed, professor......" Jiang Zhe's disappointment refers to coming to a world full of magic and entering a magic academy, but he found that the first thing he had to learn was not magical magic, but the boring history of magic.

Unlike the aristocratic children in the classroom who laughed mockingly, Professor Huo De seemed to understand Jiang Zhe's meaning a little, and looked up and down the child with dark blonde hair with a strange expression.

"Smack!" Suddenly, Professor Hodd snapped his fingers and said to the children in the classroom, "Alright, that's all for today's lesson...... By the way, don't forget what I said at the beginning, what I said in this class may appear in the assessment in a week's time, that's all!

The children in the classroom gloated and left.

Glancing at Professor Huo De and then at Jiang Zhe, Scott hesitated and patted Allen on the back, "Hey!"

"Hmm?" Allen, who was sleeping in a daze, looked up, "What's the end?" As he was talking, he suddenly looked at Professor Huo De standing beside him, his expression was very embarrassed, and he said, "Hello Professor!

"Alright, let's go!" said Scott impatiently.

"Hmm, Nathos?"

"Alright, let's go!"

"Forehead ......"

Seeing that there was no one in the classroom, Professor Huo De asked Jiang Zhe to sit down and said in a serious voice, "Soth, I find that you seem to lack interest in the history of magic......

"Yes, Professor," Jiang Zhe didn't think he could fool a magician's eyes, nor did he want to deceive him, and said honestly, "I'm only interested in the magic itself, not the great achievements of the ancient great magicians, and I don't think it enhances the power of the magic I cast!"

"Oh?" Professor Hodder's expression was full of surprise, and he said strangely, "You mean to say that this subject is far less interesting to you than a small fireball?"

"I'm sorry, Professor!"

This kid ......

Professor Hodd thought for a moment and said earnestly, "Soth, magic is not as simple as you think, magic itself is full of dangers, and the purpose of this discipline set up by Reox Academy is not only to let us admire the outstanding contributions of the ancient great magicians, but also to help you understand the horror of magic, reduce and avoid the dangers when learning magic...... For example, fire magic and water magic, these are two diametrically opposed elemental magic, if you mix the two elements together, they will explode!However, if you have the mental power and control of the great magician, you can mix these two elements together to produce another completely different element, that is, the composite magic thunder magic of the two...... This knowledge is a precious treasure left by the great magicians of ancient times, and what we need to do is to understand it! Understanding magic at its root can reduce the misfortunes that come with our study ......of magic."

Listening to Professor Huo De's explanation, Jiang Zhe finally understood the intention of this discipline, but ......

"That's what I said, but I don't know what's going on, so I can't really get interested......"

Looking at Jiang Zhe's appearance, Professor Huo De smiled, shook his head and said, "Child, learning magic is a pleasant thing, but it is also a very boring thing...... If you don't have a certain amount of knowledge, you may not be able to advance to the rank of magician for the rest of your life......"

"It doesn't matter," Jiang Zhe shrugged and said, "It's just a title!"

"......" Professor Hodd was stunned, looking at the child in front of him, as if he had seen his former self: many children who had never been exposed to magic hoped to learn powerful magic at first......

"Soth, why did you learn magic? I mean, why did you learn powerful magic?"

This is a familiar question......

Jiang Zhe was stunned and said suspiciously, "What is the magic that is not powerful?"

This time, Professor Hodd was stunned, what do you mean by 'what is not powerful magic to do?'

"That'...... What about when you learn powerful magic?"

"Later?"

"yes, are you going to learn powerful magic, but haven't you thought about what you can do with it?"

"What ...... to do" Jiang Zhe was stunned, to be honest, he really hadn't thought about it.

He hesitated for a minute before he said, "To become a powerful magician?"

Listening to the answer that even the child himself was not sure of, Professor Hodd smiled and shook his head, he gradually understood what the great magician meant.

Is it just learning magic for the sake of learning magic?

If that's the case, the kid might really be a great figure in the future......

But at the same time, this child also has a certain dangerous surname!

Professor Hodd is no stranger to this kind of child, in the history of the Reox Academy, there have been many such children, and they have grown up to be very famous, some have become a great and respected great magician, and some have made a pact with demons for the sake of the so-called 'great power', and turned away from humanity......

The huge gap is influenced by what they experience......

"Soth, have you ever thought about what subject to major in?"

"Yes, fire blue magic!"

Really......

No wonder the principal brought this kid to his attention......

After thinking about it, Professor Hodd smiled and said, "Soth, it looks like we're going to have to get along for a long time......"

"Huh?"

"Don't you know? I'm a major in fire-based green magic, and of course, you'll be your future fire-based green magic mentor......"

"Huh?" Jiang Zhe then remembered that this professor had once cast a fire-based summoning technique in front of himself and others.

"Hehe, Soth, this way, if you can pass the assessment in a week, I will make an exception and secretly teach you a magic, fireball ......"

"Fireball?" Jiang Zhe's originally interested expression suddenly became a little deflated.

"Hey, even if you pass the assessment, you children have to start from the basics, and what you learned at the beginning was just a small fireball, which is just a first-level magic!"

"That fireball is ......"

"Level two!"

"......" Jiang Zhe opened his mouth, his expression was a little speechless, what about fooling the child?

A little amused by the child's expression in front of him, Professor Huo De smiled and said, "So, do you want to learn? Of course, if you are very talented, I can also secretly teach you some magic first, and give you some guidance...... You know? When I was studying magic at Reox, I was always the prefect of the grade!"

"Really?" Jiang Zhe was a little skeptical.

"Of course!" Professor Hodd shrugged, "provided you pass the exam in a week's time......

"Does it have to be like this?"

"If you want to be successful in magic, you have to have a lot of knowledge, and knowledge is the prerequisite for being a magician! Now you only need to remember some famous people and events in history, but what about later? You have to get the knowledge you want from the vast number of magicians' codex......"

“...... Oh well......"

"Hehe," Professor Huo De smiled, suddenly lowered his head and said mysteriously, "I can give you a hint, the assessment in a week will only test the things within two hundred years of the new calendar......

"Two Hundred Years ......"

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"Two hundred years...... That's what a hint is?"

Looking at the three books with a knuckle thick on the table, Jiang Zhe couldn't help but burst into a foul mouth.

Oh, and to explain here, Jiang Zhe is now in the library of Reox, that is, the tallest tower to the southeast, and here, he finally understands what it means to be massive.

He had never seen a library that huge...... He was shocked.

What catches your eye is some giant bookshelves that are five or six meters high and twenty or thirty meters long.

Looking at the dense magic books on the shelves, Jiang Zhe felt a little dizzy.

Don't forget, this is just the bottom floor of the library......

"That's all for two hundred years!" It was Scott who helped Jiang Zhe find the book, and as for Allen, as for the guy Allen, as early as the moment he entered the library, his feet were weak, and he went back to the dormitory with a few nonsense excuses.

Looking at the three thick books, Jiang Zhe shook his head and sighed, "I really don't have much confidence......

Scott smiled faintly and said sincerely, "Actually, I can help you borrow these three books temporarily......"

"Isn't it impossible to borrow?" Jiang Zhe was a little puzzled.

"That being said," Scott said with a shrug of self-deprecation, "you know, I'm a nobleman......"

Jiang Zhe suddenly understood, shook his head and said, "No need, it's actually the same!" He didn't want to owe others favors for no reason, you know, Scott and he were just roommates, not friends in a sense.

Seeing that Jiang Zhe refused, Scott didn't insist, he also knew a little about his roommate's surname, looked around, and said, "It's quiet anyway......"

It was indeed quiet, and there was a huge library, with only a few dozen students concentrating on the long tables.

Patting the extremely thick book in his hand, Scott said, "Then I'll go back first?"

"Yes!"

Three books...... How can you memorize it?!

Exhaling in frustration, Jiang Zhe looked around, and suddenly saw quills on the long tables and parchment similar to sketchbooks, which were originally intended for the students here to take notes.

Do you really want to use that trick?

After a fierce ideological struggle, Jiang Zhe still sat down at a long table and reached out to take the quill pen and parchment paper on the table...... As he said, he hates carrying things, more than he hates milk!

He prefers to put in a bit of effort rather than rote memorization - for example, making a cheat sheet or something.

So, in the corner of the quiet library, there was a slight rustle......

But it didn't take long for Jiang Zhe to find that he seemed to be in a small trouble—the very uncomfortable quill seriously affected his writing speed.

At this time, a gentle voice came from not far away, "Do you have any doubts?"

Jiang Zhe looked up, only to find that on the other side of the long table, three seats away, sat a thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl—with sea-blue hair and eyes that resembled sapphires—looking at him suspiciously.

"I'm just not used to using this pen!" Jiang Zhe said lightly.

"Hmm?" The girl glanced at Jiang Zhe, and when she saw a thick stack of parchment on Jiang Zhe's right hand, her expression was a little puzzled, "Do you need to take a lot of notes?"

"Hmph!" Jiang Zhe shrugged.

"Maybe I might be able to help you," the girl said, took the book in her hand and walked to Jiang Zhe and sat down, her white right hand stretched out from the magic robe, pointed to the quill in Jiang Zhe's hand and said, "Close your eyes and think about what the pen you want in your mind......"

After looking at the girl in front of him suspiciously for a long time, Jiang Zhe closed his eyes suspiciously, and recalled the appearance of the fountain pen in his mind.

"Deifo, Oramo, Ateena!"

"Huh?" With that spell, Jiang Zhe suddenly felt that the quill in his hand seemed to change a little, and when he opened his eyes, he saw that he was holding a fountain pen in his hand......

"It's a weird pen!" Looking at the boy opposite him in astonishment, the girl smiled faintly and said, "It's just a very basic transfiguration, you can learn it in the third grade......

"It's incredible...... Jiang Zhe looked at the girl in front of him who looked three or four years older, and then looked at the pen in his hand, muttering to himself.

"Only for two hours!" the girl reminded.

"Oh......" Jiang Zhe came back to his senses at this time, and hurriedly devoted himself to his 'great cause', and after copying several more copies, he suddenly remembered something, raised his head and said, "Thank you!"

The girl who was concentrating on reading glanced at Jiang Zhe, and suddenly saw the dense parchment on the table, and said suspiciously, "That's nothing, but it'...... Do you need to take notes to do this?"

If it were someone else, Jiang Zhe might not pay attention to it, but because of this girl who did him a small favor, Jiang Zhe only hesitated, and still answered her question with a little embarrassment.

"This ...... I'm not good at memorizing...... And a week later there was an exam on the history of ancient magic...... So......" he tried to divert from the embarrassing topic, "I see that you can use magic that you can only learn in your third year, aren't you a freshman?"

"Fourth year, Dia Pallas!"

"First year, Soth!"

What we know is that Jiang Zhe is not good at words, and his fourth-grade 'senior sister' may also be a person who does not talk much, and after a brief self-introduction, the two of them continue their business: Jiang Zhe continues to make a cheat sheet, and the girl named Dia continues to read her book.

As the clock wore on, it was getting dark outside, and a cuckoo with a bell was circling around the library, probably closing soon.

"Whew," exhaled slightly, Dia closed the book, rubbed her sour eyes, but suddenly saw that the strange junior was still struggling to copy, copying all over her head sweat, she smiled slightly, got up to put the book back on the shelf.

As she passed by these juniors, probably out of curiosity, she glanced over, but this glance surprised her a little, because she saw that the script used by the juniors to copy was not the common script she was familiar with.

What is it?

Dia lowered her head with a puzzled face, wanting to take a closer look, and at this moment, the junior seemed to sense someone around him, and turned his head in surprise...... Four-eye interlock......

"You...... What are you doing?"

ps: People in their twenties, it's really a bit difficult to write about the words and deeds of teenage children, can anyone tell me what it looks like to be a teenager?

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