Xia Duoran, it is true that formal apprentices have the opportunity to ask questions, but everyone can only ask questions once a day, and generally the number of formal mages is not too large, and asking questions will not occupy too much teaching time, but if there is no limit, one person can ask questions for a day.

Xia Duo hurriedly said what Dean wanted to know, and Garner was silent for a moment, and said: "The apprentice you said should be lacking in mathematical foundation, to solve this problem, you only need to use some basic knowledge in arcane geometry, you let him go to the library to borrow the book "Geometric Principles in 0 Ring Spells", presumably it can solve his problem." ”

Chado jotted down Garner's instructions, and the other apprentices silently wrote down the book, and although they did not have the right to ask questions, they still had no problem listening.

After answering Xia Duo's question, Garner's teaching task for today is also over, his magic initiation class will take a week in total, and teaching initiation classes to new apprentices is not a good errand, and formal mages are usually reluctant to do it.

Because the initiation class has the lowest rating in the mage tower, the reward is naturally the lowest, but the reward for the official mage is like a chicken rib, which is a lot of money for the apprentice.

It was also after some competition that Garner became the instructor of this year's new apprenticeship.

……

After the dismissal, Xia Duo went directly to the restaurant next to him to get two loaves of bread and returned to the dormitory floor, there were still more than three hours to "turn off the lights", he needed to hurry up to Dean to continue to sort out the color dictionary.

And even if the half of the "Sacred Proverbs of the Lord of Radiance" is finished, there are still more words and words waiting for him, but by then he will need to go to the library to borrow books.

02163 dormitory, Dean has returned, and he doesn't want to delve into anything more today, but while nibbling on bread, he sits outside the dormitory door and looks absentmindedly at his notes, waiting for Xia Duo to arrive.

The thought that Xia Duo would most likely bring him the key to the final level of the official apprenticeship made Dean a little impetuous, he had been in the Mage Tower for two years, and if he couldn't become a full apprentice in the third year, his family would no longer support him.

If it weren't for the luck of having access to a full-fledged apprentice who hadn't yet begun his initiation, and could have traded a fraction of the price for a question, Dean might have despaired.

The vast majority of the entire mage tower are ordinary apprentices like him, and everyone asks questions to the master of thought, but the opportunities are very limited, after meeting the needs of the formal apprentices themselves, how many can they be divided?

Even if there were, it wasn't something Dean could afford.

When Xia Duo came to the vicinity of the 02163 dormitory, he saw Dean sitting at the door in a daze, and even when he approached, Dean didn't notice it.

"Dean, why don't you go in?"

"Shado!" Hearing this obviously accented color-resistant lingua franca, Dean was instantly overjoyed, "Shado, you're back!" I've helped you transcribe the first half of the Divine Proverbs of the Lord of Radiance back this afternoon. ”

Xia Duo was stunned when he heard this, "Didn't you go to class?" ”

"I'm out of touch." Dean said in his tone, "Master Mage's lectures never care whether we understand or not, and there are no formal apprentices, so there is no question session, and the course I am taking now has been repeated for the third round, and it doesn't matter much if I miss a day or two." ”

Xia Duo was silent, the treatment of this ordinary apprentice is really sad.

The Mage Tower allows them to listen to lectures and borrow books, but it does not allow them to ask questions, which is a rhythm that forces them all to become self-taught geniuses, in fact, the official apprentices in the Mage Tower come over like this.

Except for Chado.

"I asked that question for you today, but I'm in an initiation class, not a formal mage."

"It's okay, it's okay!" Dean's eyes lit up, and he looked at Xia Duo expectantly, he didn't care what kind of apprentice or mage, as long as he could give him an answer, even if it was a beggar, he wouldn't mind.

Chado repeated Garner's answer, focusing on the Geometry in the 0-Ring Spell.

After listening to Xia Duo's relay, and the official apprentice's evaluation, Dean was a little distracted, the book had been in his hands several times, but because it was not a direct spell casting technique, he put it back again.

Thinking about it at the moment, I really regret it.

"Xia Duo, wait a minute!"

Dean rushed into the room and came out with a notebook, "Here, I have copied the first half of the "Sacred Proverbs of the Lord of Radiance" that I scraped before, this notebook is for you, you can sort out the words in it first, and tomorrow I will explain the specific pronunciation and meaning to you." ”

He couldn't wait to rush to the library, but thinking that reading books alone might not solve his problem, Dean simply gave the note to Chardo.

Xia Duo looked at the notebook that Dean had stuffed into his hand, the one he had copied yesterday, but the first half had been scraped off by Dean and re-copied the Book of Proverbs.

Such a standard notebook, if brand new, will cost 15 gold coins at the material claim office.

And if the magic knowledge is recorded in it, it can be called a spell book, and the price increases almost geometrically, depending on the value of the knowledge inside.

However, even if the paper inside has been scraped and written many times, and the book is full of worthless Proverbs, this notebook is worth at least a few gold coins.

The high cost of knowledge is also reflected in the high cost of paper, which Chado has not yet seen - paper made of cheap materials, all of which are animal skin paper, usually the skin of a lamb.

Of course, there are calfskins, monitor lizard skins and other skins suitable for making paper, and even dragon skins, but the price is unimaginable, Chardo has not heard of any dragon slaying deeds of the Chromian people in Savile Town for half a year, only heard that there is a dragon skin magic book in the Elf Country, which is said to record the magic that can destroy the world.

The path of a mage requires not only talent, but also money.

Some seemingly inconspicuous but not lacking basic consumables are worth a lot of money, such as a bottle of ink for 10 gold coins, a blank note of 100 pages for 15 gold coins, and the cost of borrowing a library is usually one percent of the book itself (at least 1 gold coin).

If you only rely on the salary of 1 silver coin a day in the Mage Tower, how can you maintain it, you must find a way to make money, whether it is from the family behind you or from other apprentices.

The notebook that Dean had given him, even though it was full of words, was very happy that the man with only six pieces of parchment could not afford to hurt him.

He plans to sort out all the words in it and then scratch it clean as his first notebook, so that he doesn't need to buy parchment alone, which is too cost-effective, and he can save money to buy original blank notes later.

However, as soon as he was so happy, Xia Duo also forgot his original plan, and when he returned to his dormitory, he remembered that he was going to re-agree with Dean about the deal.