Chapter 185: Closing the Heart
In a permanent military fortification in the Academy of Magic, which was originally the headquarters of this military fortress, it has now been completely transformed into a three-story building, and the sign of the Magic Society is hanging at the entrance downstairs.
A group of four court magicians, two court scholars, as well as Dewey and Wei Wei'an, as well as Master Erik and his two apprentices, are compiling together all the research results that have been obtained in the Magical Society in recent days.
In the end, a set of basic textbooks for use in the Academy of Magic was compiled, including the basic theory of magic, as well as some of the research results of various departments of magic, including the improvement of spells, and the creation of several new spells, as well as the use and transformation of some magic props, the use of magic crystals, and so on.
Du Wei looked at it carefully, and felt that this was the most suitable entry-level textbook for beginner magic learners he had seen at the moment.
Thirty percent of the first batch of magic students were teenagers selected from the Magic Guild, most of these guys were from the traditional wizards' disciples, had a good foundation, and were excellent in the Magic Guild, and their education methods were very backward.
In fact, in the early days of the establishment of the Academy of Magic, the way of education and training was basically carried out according to the traditional model.
First, the talents are tested, then the students are divided into departments according to their talents, and then they are taught separately by several teachers in the current magic academy (several magicians from the court and the magic union).
In Du Wei's view, this is almost a change of soup without a change of medicine.
His plan was to revise a set of basic land materials for all students to learn, and then set up some basic subjects. The fixed teacher serves as the teacher of the fixed subject. And then... Everything was according to the model of the kind of school he had known in his previous life.
However, this model was rejected by the Wizards Guild under the pretext of "going against tradition".
The establishment of the Magic Society has already annoyed the old Chairman Jargo Dogg, and any new proposal to be adopted now will be vigorously resisted by the Magic Guild.
But it doesn't matter.
"Let the students of the Magic Guild continue their old traditions. Du Wei laughed: "Let our students be educated according to the SHKP model. They get theirs, we get ours. ”
Subsequently, on the resolution of the management committee of the Academy of Magic, the court magicians occupied seven seats, and the magic guild occupied seven. And Du Wei occupies one.
Finally, a resolution was adopted: a resolution on the management of separate teaching within the Academy.
The resolution was adopted by eight votes in favour and seven against.
The Academy of Magic decided. Establish several branches in the house, and the first branch is divided according to the magic of different departments, such as the wind magic branch, the fire magic branch, and so on.
However, students are allowed to take courses in other branches at the same time as their major in this branch. All of the Branches' Programs are open to the public, and any student is allowed to sit in on them. And it is pointed out that when graduating from all the local colleges, in addition to the major courses of their own branch, they must pass all the major courses, and at the same time must pass three elective courses.
After the students have tested their talents in the first place. The sorting ceremony was completed, and it was clear that fire magic, as the mainstream of tradition, had once again gained Master An.
Even Du Wei has made some plans, if possible in the future, he may also put Joanna... Even the green-robed Gandalf was brought into the academy.
Well, if you really bring in the green-robed Gandoff, I'm afraid you'll have to change his identity.
This branch of Jianwei, the main content of the professor, is some magic foundation, mainly... Magical Pharmaceutics.
Of course, the name of the academy cannot be called "Pharmacy Branch", because of the common discrimination against pharmacy in the magician***, if you hang such a name, I'm afraid many people won't sign up at all.
Therefore, after thinking about it for an afternoon, Du Wei personally proposed the name of this branch:
Sorting House of Hogwarts for Witchcraft and Wizardry
The special feature of the Hogwarts branch is that all the subjects they teach are not majors, all of them are electives! That is, this branch does not have a fixed number of students of their own, and all the students come from other branches to take elective courses.
What is surprising is that after Hogwarts was officially launched, in just three days, the number of students who signed up for the elective course jumped to the fire branch of the Magic Guild!
Forty!
Among them, thirty students from the military all signed up for Hogwarts elective courses, mainly because Dewey was born in the Rollin family and had a strong appeal in the military, as well as Dewey's fame, and the dizzyingly powerful lineup of the Sorting House.
In addition, the ten academies belong to the royal camp, and none of the thirty academies belonging to the Magic Guild have signed up.
It is necessary to mention here that the identities of all the cadets of the Academy of Magic, the thirty cadets of the military, were selected from the army, and thirty soldiers who were only eighteen years old were selected, and they all underwent some tests of magical talent in the army, standing out from tens of thousands of people. And most of the students selected by the royal family are like this, using some aristocratic families to select some second sons or teenagers who have no inheritance rights. These guys have no possibility of inheriting the family, and they are willing to choose the path of magicians as their hope for future development.
After all, if you are a true noble child and have the opportunity to inherit a huge family, no one wants to be a weird magician.
Most of these people have a record of serving in the army, and most of them even have considerable martial arts skills, after all, the martial arts practice on the mainland is very strong, especially the thirty eighteen-year-old trainees selected by the military, all of whom have at least one year of service experience in the military, and their talents are quite good, they have received military training, and they are very disciplined. Even the military, before sending them in, had a militarized formation, with captains, chiefs, and discipline.
In Du Wei's view, these 30 people in the military are the most worthy of being wooed by himself. They don't have a family, the only backstage is the military, and most of them are from poor families (if you are rich and powerful, who would want to be a big soldier?) These people pay attention to records, and they have great respect for themselves who were born in a military family, and they are young, eighteen years old, which is the age of boiling blood, and they are very plastic, and young people are easy to be incited to blood, as long as they get a little tricks, it is easy to transfer the center of these guys to their own personal bodies.
On the first day of the opening of the Hogwarts Branch, Dewey did not pull everyone into the classroom like other Branches, but on the first day of registration, Dewey stood at the door of the Sorting House wearing a mage robe.
Looking at the forty students who came one after another, Du Wei did not let them enter the branch directly, but stood at the gate by himself. Blocking everyone's path.
"Be quiet. Looking at the four eyes below curiously
Staring at themselves, although Du Wei was younger than most of them. (Thirty military cadets were all eighteen years old, while the other ten cadets were from various families loyal to the royal family, but all were unfavored children, the youngest being only thirteen years old.)
These immature faces were full of curiosity about themselves, and Du Wei looked at the group of young people with great satisfaction: "Before you walk through this door, I, as the head of the branch, have something to explain to you! These words are not good, so after I finish speaking, if someone is not satisfied, you can turn your face and leave here!"
Du Wei deliberately said these words in a slow tone, and everyone was a little overwhelmed.
"I know. Most of you are military personnel. After Du Wei said this, the military cadets all consciously stood up straight, "Most of you don't know anything about magic. Hum...... They're all from poor families, or they're little nobles who don't have the right to inherit, am I right?"
Silent below.
"If you are on the trajectory of your life, your life is not at all
There is no hope! You may have to be ordinary soldiers. Or small workers, apprentices...... And some of these noble children who have no right of inheritance, when you reach adulthood, you will not receive any inheritance from the family estate, and you will live in the dìdū. had to go into the army to serve, or...... Just go to some shops and be a little gangster or a small merchant who smells of copper!"
"But now, the establishment of the Academy of Magic has given you a turning point in your lives! You guys, who may not usually show any talent, were found out that you have magical talent overnight, and then you were sent here! Maybe when you came in, there were still many people who showed envy to you! Yes! You must have made it a matter of pride that you would become a magician in the future! Become a magician that everyone admires and fears! Right? You think that becoming a magician is a very proud thing, very spirited, very beautiful...... The nobles will recruit you, you will become the guests of honor, you will become the big people who are flattered by everyone, and even you guys from the military, when you go back, you will be promoted
Am I right?"
It was still silent, but the students from the military showed a hint of shame on their faces. What Du Wei said was largely what these people were thinking.
"But you're all wrong!" Du Wei suddenly yelled with all his might: "I can tell you, you are all wrong!!"
Then, the smile on Du Wei's face was very cold: "What I want to tell you is, don't expect to realize your dreams with me -- that ridiculous dream! I will shatter your illusions and expectations with my own hands! Also, break your ridiculous self-esteem!
Everyone's faces darkened, and some people already showed hesitant expressions on their faces.
"But!" Du Wei said in a loud voice, "But, as long as you can get out of me!
"I can say very politely, I will not train you to be the kind of magician who is arrogant but has a lot of straw! I will not let you become the kind of empty shelf that thinks you are full of wealth, but you have never seen a real magic beast or a real test in your life! What I can teach you is the real thing! How to fight with magic! If you use your magic weapons in a real and efficient way! If you use magic to defeat any enemy you face! I will give you the real thing! Instead of letting you stay in the lab every day and fiddle with those boring things! Your future will be on the front line, shedding blood and fighting for the empire!
After a deliberate pause, Du Wei looked at the people below: "Now, I will give you a minute to think about it, if you feel disappointed, you can turn your face and go back, I will not hold you responsible, I will give you a choice." ”
Sure enough, in a minute, quietly, in the crowd, eight people left. Those are the children of the nobility chosen by the royal family, and they just want to be prosperous as magicians.
All the military people stayed, and in addition, there were two little boys, Du Wei looked at the two young boys twice, these two boys were wearing ordinary coarse cloth clothes, and Du Wei immediately remembered the personal information of the students he had memorized firmly.
The two boys were dressed in plain coarse cloth clothes. Du Wei immediately remembered the personal information of the student he had firmly memorized.
Bebe and Toka, these are a pair of brothers, born from a father who was a baron loyal to the royal family, but both brothers were children born to the baron and the maid of the family, and they didn't even have the status of concubines, they were pure illegitimate children.
"Very good" Du Wei looked at the remaining thirty-two students with satisfaction: "One day in the future, you will be happy for the choice of heaven." What I need here is not those who want to climb up, but those who are willing to really learn, such people can learn the real things from me! I will teach you the most practical skills without reservation! I promise that in the near future, those who quit, those who are in other branches, and maybe still be able to fiddle with beautiful magic gems in the warm laboratory, some of us will already be able to hunt ferocious magical beasts alone in the harshest frozen forest!! While those guys were still flaunting their titles of magicians to the nobles, many of you could already beat them seven or eight at a time!
Then, Du Wei suddenly pulled out his wand from under his robe, and then in front of everyone, he turned around on both sides of the branch gate behind him, and used one end of his wand to write two lines of big words on both sides of the door with magic!
"Please go another way if you are promoted and get rich! Don't enter this door if you are greedy for life and afraid of death!"
These two lines of words written in magic shone on the door, and the young students below, looking at the two lines written by the branch dean and the duke, everyone's eyes showed a kind of passionate excitement that only young people can have.
These glances or expressions have different meanings, but they have only one thing in common: they all have respect for Du Wei.
"Now!" Du Wei suddenly exclaimed, "I know you were soldiers before you came here. Tell me who is in charge of you!"
"It's me. Lord Duke. The tallest and most burly guy stood at the front and shouted, "I'm the captain, my lord." ”
He involuntarily gave Du Wei a military salute in accordance with the etiquette of a soldier: clenched his fists and raised them flat on his chest, and beat his heart.
"You lead the team, and everyone will line up to run ten laps on the grass!
"Run out of cāo??" the young captain was stunned, and so was everyone.
These students from the military are no strangers, but I haven't heard that being a magician also has to train to run out of cāo, right?
"Questions?" said Du Wei's expression, which was non-negotiable.
"We need a plausible explanation. It was the illegitimate brothers standing at the back of the crowd who spoke.
Du Wei glanced at the two little guys: "Explanation? Okay, this is the first time." And for the last time, because you haven't walked through my door yet, I can make an exception and explain it once. But later, in my branch. No questions are allowed against the dean or the teacher!"
"Yes. The two little ones seemed to be intimidated by Du Wei's oppressive eyes, and lowered their heads uneasily.
"Most of you should have seen those traditional magicians, right?" Du Wei sneered: "In addition to the characteristics of powerful, mysterious, and eccentric, what is the most important impression that magicians give you? Go!!"
After saying that, Du Wei didn't even look at the children, and then turned his face and walked into the courtyard.
The captain of the military behind him had already shouted the password loudly, and the thirty military cadets followed the order neatly and turned around and lined up. Run towards the grass outside. And the two illegitimate brothers hesitated for a moment, and finally made up their minds. He also ran along.
"We could have forty students. As soon as Du Wei entered the courtyard, he saw Master Erik standing at the top of the stairs, smiling at him, and asking questions: "You took the initiative to scare away eight just now."
Du Wei nodded: "You are right, but I have always believed that quality is more important than quantity. The rest of these people are what I need.
Master Erik smiled a little strangely, he tiptoed to look at the boys who were running hard in the distance, and said with a wry smile: "Du Wei, I really don't understand, are you planning to let them cultivate both magic and martial arts?"
"Of course not. Du Wei shook his head: "What I just said is true, the current magicians are too weak. Magicians are in contact with poisonous drugs or gems all day long, and their bodies have been greatly damaged, and most of them have been hiding in their rooms for years to study, so that most magicians are extremely weak to the point that even if they have powerful skills, if they can't use them, they are equivalent to zero! I have even heard that many magicians even need to obey the samurai to carry them when they go out, and more magicians are already so weak that they can't even wave their wands - this is definitely not a joke, but a fact. ”
Speaking of this, Du Wei suddenly realized that the person standing in front of him was a standard "traditional" magician, and he quickly closed his mouth and looked at Master Erik uneasily.
Old Arik did not show the slightest dissatisfaction, he seemed to sigh: "You are right. Most magicians have indeed been pampered for too long. Even if many people's bodies have not been abolished, the willpower of the jīng god has also been abolished. ”
With that, Master Erik walked to the door and carefully looked at the two lines that Du Wei had written on the door.
"Please go another way to get promoted and get rich! Don't enter this door if you are greedy for life and afraid of death! Very good!"