Chapter 14: The Learning of Language and Magic

After arranging everything, Xu Yue changed into a more formal outfit.

After all, today Wins said he would take him to visit the teacher who taught him Carthus. As a scholar of Talumia, I believe that the teacher did not want to see his student as an impolite fellow.

The dress was made to order at Aunt Lalith's tailor's shop introduced by Mary, and it looked a bit like a priest's outfit from the western countries of the earth, but the color was light gray.

This costume is generally worn by people on the side of Talumia who are engaged in some of the more literal or knowledgeable professions, similar to the attire of the earth's clergy.

Of course, the scholars and magicians are mostly worn by the two professions when they are not wearing the regular scholar's uniform and magic robes.

"Dear Xu, you really look like a learned scholar in this dress!" said Wens with a little compliment when he saw Xu Yue.

In fact, it is true, Xu Yue's appearance in the East is much softer than that of the Westerners, although he is not handsome, but his gentle temperament and this dress really look like a knowledgeable scholar.

"I'm glad you said that, but don't spread this sentence, otherwise if others know that you praise an illiterate person who can't even write in a common language, those scholars will have to poke a few holes in your body with a pen!" Xu Yue said jokingly, shrugging his shoulders.

"Oh, I'm not afraid, Xu you're a real magic apprentice now. Any spellcaster is, or will be, an erudite person, and you're already preparing to take the first step, aren't you?" said Vince with a wink of slyness.

Vins spoke to Xu Yue enthusiastically as he led him out of his shop. The two didn't get in the car, and the linguistics teacher that Vince had found for him lived in Komodo.

After only seven or eight minutes of walking, the two stopped in front of a courtyard on the west side of the town. There are very few residents around this courtyard, but the streets are very neat.

The courtyard is neatly fenced and in the middle is a unique wooden house. Flower pots of different shapes are placed all around.

To Xu Yue's surprise, many potted plants were still growing tenaciously in this cold and freezing climate, and some were still blooming.

The plants are arranged in a staggered manner, and when combined, they give a sense of elegance.

Vins stopped at the door of the courtyard, knocked on the door of the courtyard and said in a loud voice, "Is Mr. Ugarit here?"

After waiting for a while, the door of Xiaomu opened, and an old man who looked to be in his sixties walked out of the room.

The old man has a meticulous white comb, and his eyes reveal a kind of wisdom that penetrates the world, and under the background of that scholar's uniform, just looking at his appearance can make people feel that this is a knowledgeable person.

His movements were very steady, and there was no sense of weakness that an old man should have. I saw him walk steadily to the courtyard gate, open the door, and let the two of them into the courtyard with a simple etiquette.

Although the ground in the small courtyard is land, it is very clean. The snow has been carefully swept away over the past few days, so there is no slippery feeling on the streets.

The living room in the wooden house is not large, but the furnishings are very reasonable, and the three people feel that the space for activities is very spacious after sitting in the house.

On the wall opposite the window is a fireplace, and the light and heat from the fire in the fireplace give the people in the cottage a warm and cozy feeling.

Sitting in the living room of this cottage, the surroundings are set up to make you feel calm, as if irritability and anxiety have left you in an instant.

"Hello Mr. Ugarit, I contacted you yesterday, and I think you know what we're here for. This is Mr. Xu Yue, who wants to learn Carthusian from you. Xu was an apprentice magician, but due to the unfortunate death of his teacher, he had not yet had time to hand over the Carthic language to him. And because Xu is a native of Chatner, he has not specifically learned the writing of the lingua franca. Vince said very formally.

"Xu, this is a Ugarite scholar, and the Ugarit scholar is a third-level scholar with a status equivalent to a third-level magician. With the consent of the Ugaritan Scholars, you will later study linguistics with the Ugaritan Scholars. Of course, I am only acting as an introducer, and the specific matters need to be discussed by the two of you personally. ”

After introducing the two sides, Vince sat aside and stopped talking.

Xu Yue knew that this was giving himself the opportunity to speak, so he stood up and bowed slightly and gave a polite salute.

"It's a pleasure to meet you, Ugaritan Scholar, as Director Vins said, I am a toddler on the path of knowledge and magic, and I need your help to bring me into the temple of knowledge. I wonder if you'd like to accept my commission?"

Scholars are a special profession in Talumia 6, they are people who are obsessed with knowledge.

On weekdays, they devote themselves to learning all kinds of knowledge.

From astronomy to geography, from history to humanities, from the occult to archaeology, and so on, they all studied and studied.

But if you think it's a bunch of nerds who can't fight the chicken, you'd be wrong.

Although not as powerful as a magician, who specializes in magical knowledge, every scholar can always find some special means to protect himself in the vast knowledge, and in many cases, some scholars' methods are even more mysterious and weird than magicians.

In Talumia 6, knowledge is not as readily available as on Earth, and it costs money to learn it. So the cost of becoming a scholar is definitely not lower than the cost of becoming a mage.

In order to be able to meet the conditions of their own continuous learning of new knowledge, scholars will accept commissions to teach others knowledge in exchange for corresponding money. The rarer and more advanced the knowledge, the more expensive they charge.

Many adventurers and mercenaries will also spend money to consult scholars in order to solve some problems. So it's not surprising that scholars live in a place like Komodo Town, where adventurers and mercenaries frequent.

Xu Yue's polite demeanor and polite words obviously left a good impression on Ugarit, and the young man's temperament was very similar to those of those erudite scholars, so his attitude was very kind.

"Of course, young man, everyone who desires to learn knowledge is worthy of respect, and I am only a pioneer in the temple of knowledge, and I am honored to be able to lead you through the doors of this temple. So what kind of learning method do you want to use? Do you want to learn for a certain amount of time, or do you just prescribe what kind of results you can achieve after learning?" said Ugarit, smiling.

Xu Yue thought for a while and said, "I figured out that after studying with you, Guò will be able to master the reading and writing of Carthusian proficiently, and be proficient in the words of the lingua franca and some special words. Learn until you learn!"

Ugarit raised his eyebrows slightly and said with a smile: "It will take a lot of time, especially to learn from scratch. However, Vince said that you are still an apprentice of magic, so as long as you learn to read this magic quickly, then it will not be too difficult for you. ”

Xu Yue said helplessly: "I'm ashamed, in fact, because my teacher died suddenly, I haven't started learning magic yet. However, as long as I can master some Carthusian language, then I believe that I will be able to perform this skill, after all, this is just a magic trick, and the knowledge involved is relatively rudimentary. ”

Ugarit nodded in understanding, thought about it and gave her opinion.

"Then if it's for the purpose of learning, I charge a little more. Carthus, because it is magical knowledge, belongs to the occult discipline, and I will charge a price of one hundred and fifty gold coins. Lingua franca I would charge the price of fifty gold coins. For one year, you can come to me every morning after breakfast for a year, and if you don't fully learn after a year, you need to add another 100 gold coins to continue teaching, and the time limit is still one year, you see. ”

Xu Yue just thought about it slightly and nodded in agreement.

Before he came, he had learned the price of the relevant knowledge from Vance, and when he heard Ugarit's offer, he knew that the scholar had a good image of him, so he gave him a relatively low price. Otherwise, the price will be at least about fifty gold coins more expensive.

As for the one-year deadline set by the other party, he didn't take it to heart. In fact, he planned to spend a maximum of three months learning the words of Carthusian and lingua franca.

It's not that he's gifted at learning a language, in fact, as a guy who barely managed to pass the English level 4 exam three times, his talent for language learning can only be described as terrible.

The reason why he set himself the goal of learning two languages and one language in a maximum of three months was not because of arrogance, but because of the confidence that the magic of 'fast reading' that Ugarit called him gave him.

Magic has been practiced in Talumia for tens of thousands of years, and its system is so rigorous that the knowledge involved is not even under the technology of the earth.

For example, there are strict standards for the composition and arrangement of magical elements during the release of a magic spell, and in order to accurately meet these standards, you must first learn mathematics and master spatial geometry, otherwise you will not be able to calculate the spatial model of the arrangement of magical elements.

Secondly, you need to understand how each magic element changes in various environments after combining with different magic elements, which is no easier than studying chemistry in college.

Then you have to understand the properties of a magic, what energy it can be restrained by, in what energy it will be boosted, in what way you can chant a magic spell, how it works, etc......

"A magician's life is a life of learning!" Xu Yue remembered what Oward said to him.

If someone wants to improve their mental power by meditation as written in the novel, and then manipulate the fire element to rub the fireball with a few random spells.

So let's not talk about whether it can be released, even if this person hits the big luck and releases a fireball technique.

The result is a 99 percent chance that you will blow yourself up first, a 0.99 percent chance that you will die because of the backlash of the magic element, and only a 1 in 1,000 chance that you will become a fool and survive because of the confusion of mental power.

It is almost a recognized truth for a magician who does not even know the knowledge of magical materials to survive his own magical reality.

Therefore, the amount of knowledge that a magician learns also represents the strength of the magician. The wisdom and learning of each mage is amazing, and this is a recognized truth throughout Talumia 6.

In ancient times, in the early days of the rise of magic, magicians needed to learn the knowledge of various disciplines, and with the development of magic, the subjects that magicians needed to learn increased in geometric numbers.

You must know that human memory is forgetting, and it is possible that what you remember today will be forgotten after a long time.

Even if the magician's brain is improved through meditation, it is not immune to this. Therefore, many magicians have to learn the same knowledge over and over again to consolidate their memories.

A lot of boring learning and repetition of memories made all those who aspired to follow the path of magic crazy, and even many magicians at that time couldn't stand this way of learning, so they had to give up the diversity of magic and specialize in only one of the magic disciplines.

At that time, this practice once led to the emergence of a large number of single-line mages such as so-called fire mages who could only rub fireballs and throw fire walls, or ice mages who could only shoot ice arrows.

The knowledge required for these special mages who only learn a single type of magical element is greatly reduced.

And because he specialized in one or the other, he was more powerful in a single magic, and during that time, specializing in a single magic became the mainstream of the magic world.

But as time passed, these magicians were embarrassed to see that as their level increased, even if they were a single magician learning advanced magic, they would inevitably need to learn the knowledge of other disciplines in order to learn.

Because of the lack of relevant knowledge, it is becoming more and more difficult for them to advance, and most of them are stuck in a certain realm and cannot advance an inch.

And because the magic elements used in the spells are too simple, their spells lack diversity and adaptability, and they can only rub fireballs or throw ice arrows like a turret when exploring and fighting, and then become an ornament when their mental power is exhausted. They don't have the variety of attacks and all-around perks of traditional mages.

So in the end, more and more single-line mages were replaced by archers, after all, although the power of bows and arrows is lower, archers will not only shoot a dozen arrows and become waste that can only be protected.

If you use magic arrows, the power of the bow and arrow is no worse than that of those low-level fire mages who can't make the cut, and even more durable.

It was only then that the monolineage mages realized how important the knowledge they had discarded was, and in the end they had to put in more effort to go back and relearn it.

But in any case, the boring learning and repetitive memorization of massive knowledge have really affected the development of the discipline of magic.

At that time, with the exception of a few geniuses, most magicians had to learn and consolidate too much knowledge to slow down their advancement, and it was not until a magician named Levine Bernat understood the magic of 'fast reading' that the problem was completely solved.

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