"How do you sell ink? How many? ”

"A bottle of ink 10 gold coins, a standard ink bottle." However, it seemed that Xia Duo did not have much money in his hand, so the apprentice suppressed his voice and said more, "If you are short of money, I can sell you a bottle of my homemade ink for only 1 gold coin." ”

“……”

Xia Duo didn't expect that the people at the material application office would still carry private goods, but he really didn't have much money on hand, if he couldn't buy ink, even if he bought parchment, it would be useless, so he could only choose to buy private goods.

"Okay, 6 more pieces of parchment, and brand new."

"Yes!"

Xia Duo took out 22 silver coins from the inner pocket of the mage's robe and lined them up on the counter, except for leaving 5 silver coins for emergencies, Xia Duo exchanged all the money for study tools.

A man has no confidence if he has no money, and Xia Duo hopes that such days can end as soon as possible.

Standing in front of the counter and checking the parchment and ink he bought, he made sure that it was brand new, and Xia Duo put it away, but the ink was a little bit like that-

A wooden vial, the ink in it was so faint that she could see the bottom of it, and Xia Duo even doubted if he could leave a mark on the parchment.

If this apprentice hadn't demonstrated it to Xia Duo on the spot, Xia Duo would never have bought this inferior ink, it was too light, and it could only leave traces.

But that's the only way I can afford it right now.

……

After leaving the supply claim office, I either went to the library to borrow books and organize dictionaries, or I went to Dean's to copy them.

On the elevator, Xia Duo chose to go to the dormitory floor without the slightest hesitation, because it also costs money to borrow books from the library, and now you can save a little.

"Dean, are you there?"

"Shado, you-" Dean opened the door with a messy hair, his face a little hideous, and his eyes bloodshot, "I thought you weren't here today!" ”

"I'd like to borrow your half copy of the Divine Proverbs of the Lord of Radiance, can I?"

"Okay, come in."

Dean turned back to the room, and Xia Duo saw that there were a few notes on the desk in the room, and a few pieces of loose parchment.

"You can copy it from me, and I'll look at other books first." Dean haphazardly put away the things on the desk and said to Shado.

Xia Duo was willing to refuse, but Dean had an expression of "I want to watch", which made it impossible to refuse, and Xia Duo guessed that Dean was worried that he would see the contents of the first half of the notebook.

……

The lingua franca of Nase, Xia Duo has already spoken (basic communication), and now it is necessary to fill in more words and the words corresponding to all the words.

When he read the "Sacred Proverbs of the Lord of Radiance" with Dean before, Xia Duo noticed it, and now after purposeful identification and analysis, Xia Duo found that-

The Resistant Script is made up of 26 basic letters, and after deliberately picking out similar ones for a single inquiry with Dean, Xia Duo determined that the Resistant Script is a phonetic script that closely resembles English on Earth.

Then the problem becomes much simpler.

As long as all the words are arranged in order, and then equipped with phonetic transcription and meaning, isn't a dictionary made?

"The Divine Proverbs of the Lord of Radiance" covers quite a lot of content, as long as the words that appear in it are sorted out, it is a simple but practical dictionary, and you can query the words you don't know at any time in the future, if you can't find it, the dictionary needs to be expanded.

Although Xia Duo would like to do it in one step, he only has 6 pieces of parchment now, which may not be enough to organize all the words, but can only start with the first letter, and organize as much as he can.

……

The color-resistant writing was completely unfamiliar to Xia Duo, and the quill pen was also very difficult to use, but Xia Duo overcame these difficulties one by one, and nothing could stop his thirst for knowledge.

In this way, time passed little by little in Dean's gaze from incomprehension and confusion to sudden realization and admiration.

Xia Duo's annotations to the words of Nasese did not use the Chinese he was most familiar with, but used pinyin, with phonetic transcription, which looked like the secret personal secret texts used by mages to record secrets, which was quite mysterious.

At least Dean was bluffed, he wasn't even a formal apprentice at the moment, and where did he get access to the knowledge of the secret text.

Half of the "Sacred Proverbs of the Lord of Radiance" was read over and over again by Xia Duo, and he had sorted out all the words in this half of the book, starting with the first and second color-resistant letters, and also accompanied them with phonetic transcription and meaning.

If you look at it this way, it won't take much time to compile a simple dictionary, and Xia Duo is looking forward to the scene when he takes the dictionary to the library to borrow it.

Just as he was about to hurry up and sort out the other words, the light in Dean's dormitory suddenly dimmed, as if it had suddenly changed from day to night, and although he could still see five fingers, he couldn't continue to write.

Xia Duo felt that the darkness of the night was even thicker than the inferior ink he bought.

"Dean, does the Mage Tower do this every day?"

"Well, the light inside the Mage Tower also comes from the outside world, and when the Lord of Light returns to His kingdom, the inside of the Mage Tower will no longer provide light, but I heard that if you have the power pool authority like the Mage, there will be no day or night restrictions."

With that, Xia Duo understood that the Emotional Mage Tower uses solar energy, but the reserve energy is not open to apprentices, and if you want to get more time to study, you can only light candles at night.

No wonder the apprentices were given candles and matches.

However, since the lights had been "turned off", and Dean had no intention of lighting a candle for him, Xia Duo had no choice but to say goodbye and leave, because it was the first day, and Xia Duo did not realize how tight the apprentice's time was.

……

02163 dormitory, here Xia Duo just opened the door from the inside, and seven or eight apprentices outside squeezed in, and at the same time shouted:

"Dean, it's your turn today, why haven't you lit a candle yet?"

Xia Duo didn't leave for a while, wanting to see what was going on, Dean was a little embarrassed for a while, but fortunately, the light was very dim at this time, and he couldn't see it, and he didn't care that Xia Duo was still there, so he took out a match from the inner pocket of the mage's robe and lit his own candle.

One by one, the apprentices who had just come in passed the fire from Dean's candles, and then they all took their candles and left in a hula.

"That-Xia Duo, it's not cost-effective to use a match a day, so I'll make an appointment with a few people to share it, do you want to continue to transcribe?"

Although he said that, Dean was stuck in the doorway, and he had no intention of letting Xia Duo go in again.

"No need, I'll go back, I don't know what chores will be tomorrow."

Xia Duo also felt a little funny, but after thinking about it carefully, these apprentices who were struggling at the bottom may be a true portrayal of himself in the future, and when he thought about it, he felt that his own idea just now was really funny.

Returning to his dormitory in the dark, Shado began to gradually adjust to life in the mage tower.