Chapter 20: The Mystical Archive
Beside Perrin was a door made of blocks.
Walk through the door to a grocery store in the corner of the trading market on the ground floor of the tower.
Heloh didn't know why the apprentice had to come to such a dilapidated grocery house to pick up the books on the list.
Hundreds of people crowded into the house.
Before Heloh could enter, he heard a shout from inside:
"Slow down, slow down! Don't squeeze, it's all there! After receiving the books, you can choose a mentor, and if you don't know the system, you can ask me directly, five soul coins for a question! ”
However, every apprentice who came out of receiving the book couldn't stop cursing:
"Profiteers!"
From the outside, it looks like an ordinary general store, but when you go inside, you find that it is very large.
Sure enough, it also inherited the characteristics of the tower, the space folding soul technique.
After looking at it in the past few days, Helo found that this soul technique was too common, and it was found in every room, as if everyone could.
Everywhere the eye swept, the floor was covered with a mess of books and newspapers, and some staggered bottles and cans.
There are also countless bookshelves and containers more than ten meters high on display in the house, all of which bear undue weight.
Obviously, the lattice is already crowded with paper, and I don't know who forced a corner of the book into it, revealing most of the cover - 'Black Goat's Eye Replanting Points'.
And the front.
An old man with a white beard and a bald head sits behind a desk covered with suede table mats.
When an apprentice arrived, he pulled out a cloth bag from under the table.
But with so many cloth pockets, Helo nodded on his toes, and he didn't see where he had taken it out.
After showing the voucher, the old man read it and ticked off the name on the parchment with the quill in his hand.
Helo received his cloth bag.
Before leaving the desk, the old man habitually sold:
"Detroit grocery store, good quality and low price, you can come and see it when you don't have money, you can find good things!"
After speaking, he raised his eyebrows and winked at Helo.
Chilling, Helo hurriedly quickened the pace of leaving.
Instead of waiting to go back to the dormitory, he randomly found a corner, flipped through the things in his cloth pocket, and began to check the list.
The grocery store was in a terrible environment, and many of the apprentices were crouching in the corner, just like him, worried about something.
If something goes wrong, you can go back and save it in time.
"First of all, the map!"
Unfolded a twice-folded sheepskin, the map of the [Ground Floor Market] where it is currently located is presented in front of Helo's eyes.
A red arrow was on the edge of the 'Detroit grocery store,' which was where he was right now.
The tower still took care of the apprentices, and in order to prevent them from getting lost in the complex terrain of the tower, he deliberately engraved the location soul technique on the map.
Densely packed shops are spread all over the sheepskin, and as Helo's fingertips draw, the names of the chosen shops are enlarged.
"Otherworldly version of navigation, the needle is good, it's quite clear, the only pity is that there is no voice reminder."
In the upper right corner of the map, in addition to the scale bar, there is also a classification of floors, and when you point to the floor, the map plans the nearest void staircase leading to that floor.
Once you enter the level, the map on the parchment will completely transform into the situation on that level.
There are seven floors in total, except for the [Ground Floor Market], [Dormitory Hall], [Library], and three public areas, the remaining four floors are all about teaching.
The two floors of the [Ground Floor Market] and the [Library] belong to the public area of the tower, which belongs to the safe area of the forbidden soul.
The rest are closed floors during the Sorcerer's apprenticeship.
The enclosed floor is not limited to Helo's phase, but contains all the apprentices of the Sorcerer.
"As for the apprentices... It's normal. ”
In total, the Tower has a three-year adaptation period for each phase of the Sorcerer's Apprentice.
During the so-called adaptation period, apprentices receive 20 Soul Coins per month and are not required to perform semester tasks.
There will be an assessment every three years, and the results of the assessment will determine the apprentice's resource treatment for the next three years.
In the ninth year, which is the last assessment, the tower will directly distribute resources for three years, and if it cannot be promoted to rank magician in the last year...
Helo knew with his toes what the horrific fate awaited them was.
The so-called assessment is divided into different types, and different assessment tasks are formulated according to the apprentices of different systems.
But the ultimate goal is to screen out most of the garbage that the tower considers to be substandard and concentrate resources.
As for the usefulness of Soul Coins.
Harrow had seen Mena activate the long-range [Door] before, using a bag of soul coins.
This magician currency, which is certified by the thirteen towers, has great purchasing power.
For apprentices, almost everything can be linked to Soul Coins.
For example, subscribing to a tutor course, a basic soul course is often around 12~18 sessions, and the cost of soul coins ranges from 15~30 pieces.
It depends on the difficulty of the course, its popularity, and the instructor's suggested price.
Of course, the Tower will limit the price of the course so that it doesn't get too high.
Some course instructors will provide lab materials, but this is limited to the experience package.
If you want to be proficient or really master it, you have to wait until you buy the materials after class and practice repeatedly.
As for the in-depth study of the system, the development of soul arts, the purchase of tickets to the Soul Valley, etc., it is not yet something that the apprentice can consider.
At the very least, he had to learn a way to make a living.
Otherwise, with the tower's subsistence alone, he would have lived a very poor life during his ten-year apprenticeship.
All in all, Soul Coin is closely related to the life of a sorcerer, studying, becoming stronger, and so on.
It is an essential consumable for all Tower Sorcerers.
When you have enough Soul Coins, you can even make them into a bed and sleep on them, which has a weak effect on the rate at which your Soul Power increases.
Over time, it can also help.
There are also four paper books in the cloth pocket and a brass ... Book?
'Sorcerer's Basic Knowledge'
'Essential Soul Art for Apprenticeship'
'Simple Use of Soul Circuits'
'Silver Moon Tidal Meditation'
These are four paper books, as well as four short courses, which will be taught by teaching assistants, which are also essential courses for the apprentices.
As for that brass book...
It was very heavy, Helo tried it, but brute force alone could not open it, and tried to infuse soul energy.
With the infusion of soul energy, the notches on the brass cover were lit up, and by the time the entire cover notches were lit, the book could be easily opened.
Heloh could feel that the brass book was bound to his soul.
"The Mystical Archive?"
The instructions for the use of the brass book are also understood.
Used to receive messages from the Tower, the Sorcerer can also inquire, interact, and record through the Mystical Archive and the Tower.
It can also be used to chat with sorcerers!
"This! Dream back to the days when I went out and asked someone for the Penguin..."
But it's already very happy to have a LAN in the tower, at least you don't have to worry about flying pigeons passing books, and pigeons are eaten halfway!
And at this time.
A message popped up from the Mystical Codex.
"Please choose a system course instructor!" [Click to view]
This is a mandatory message for all new students in the Tower's newsletter.
Unlike the four basic courses, they are only used regularly in the early stages of apprenticeship.
And this systematic course runs through the life of a sorcerer.
System courses often have a sorcerer of the earl rank as the main instructor, and the sorcerer of this rank has already mastered all the basic knowledge of the system, and then he will open up his own soul structure.
At the back end of the Mystical Codex, the Tower also thoughtfully synchronizes the fit of the apprentice with different systems.
This also greatly facilitates the selection and comparison of apprentices.
The future tower needs to choose the first cornerstone at this moment.
But in the face of the different systems full of pages, Helo couldn't help but sigh:
"It's a bit too much of a system that fits me highly, and I'm guilty of phobia!"