0057 Friends, Life & Work
With a lovely girl, in a relaxed atmosphere and a pleasant mood, enjoy a fairly good meal, which is a novel experience that Jialan has never experienced before.
Even though he had been a noble mage with the title of [Viscount], and a teaching assistant and lecturer in the twelve affiliated colleges of the [Fort Collanburg Library], and a respected [Erudito] and [Researcher] in his own right, there would theoretically be no shortage of people around him who wanted to be friends with him.
However, the special serious academic research environment in the [Korranburg Library] makes it difficult for people to really become "friends" in the conventional sense, especially the people that Jialan most often comes into contact with, are those middle- and high-level mages with white beards and white hair, and most of the topics they can talk about are all kinds of complex and esoteric arcane experimental data.
What is a friend to those research maniacs?
In the concept of those research fanatics, it is impossible to have boring and time-wasting games such as afternoon tea, thirteen national chess, procard, pole ball, etc., if they are forced to play these games to deepen their relationship and enhance their relationship, it is very likely that the final result will develop into a high-intensity spell confrontation......
For example, if you use [Detection Thoughts] to determine the opponent's next move, or use [Powerful Creation] to create a card you need, and if you are caught cheating later, you can use [Summoning Meteorite], [Lightning Ball], [Firestorm], and [Advanced Flame Blast] to engage in a lively scuffle.
But what can mid- and high-level spellcasters do if they don't play any of this? Could it be that the two sides are invited to get together and have a cadaver dissection competition, or summon otherworldly creatures for a simulated war confrontation?
It is very likely that the losing side will go back and study a large-scale forbidden spell to save face, in that case, it is estimated that there will be no need for the cataclysm of 1,700 years ago, and the world realm has already been played bad by this group of people!
Jialan had heard from her teacher that thousands of years ago, two friends of the Great Arcane Mage had a small gamble with three Shiozawa olives at a spell exchange tea party, one summoned the [Abyss Legion] and the other summoned the [Hell Legion], and destroyed the kingdom where the spell exchange tea party was held within three hours.
However, I heard that before Jialan was frozen, the kingdom where the tea party was held was still unshaven...... Since then, the [Arcane Council] has forbidden any private gathering of spells with more than three casters.
Among the twelve affiliated colleges, Jialan was able to get in touch with some young spellcasters, including many young and beautiful female spellcasters, but in his capacity as a teaching assistant lecturer, those young spellcasters looked at him with respect, awe and worship.
The two sides at different levels are like a huge chasm, and there is basically no possibility of becoming close friends, even if Jialan is the same age as them, or even younger than them, everyone can't play together.
In general, Jialan's childhood was mostly spent in the teacher's huge laboratory.
The only rare time spent with people of the same age was that he was forcibly disqualified because he almost broke all the participants in the only "Multi-Country Mage Apprentice Quality Competition" jointly organized by the countries of the [Kovarare Continent]......
Therefore, Jialan cherishes the "friendship" that she has obtained from Alan, a kind and simple girl, which is not mixed with any impurities and substances.
"What a busy day!"
After sending Alan back to his dormitory, he returned to Jialan in the Great Librarian's Rest Cabin, glanced at the light blue gentle tent in the sky, sighed slightly, and stepped into the dark library.
Jialan's so-called "busy" naturally does not refer to how hard the first day of school was.
On the contrary, compared to when he was in the [Fort Collanburg Library], he felt like he was on vacation now.
At that time, he had to help in the teacher's laboratory at night, and he had to be busy with the management and organization of the library, and during the day, he had to go to the Twelve Academies to teach the spellcasters, and often did not have time to sleep for months.
Although for any caster, sleep becomes less and less important as his mental power increases, and most of the time he can directly use [Meditation] instead of sleep, saving twice as many lives as ordinary people...... Time never seems to be running out for spellcasters, as they are always busy.
The kind of mental fatigue that is in a state of intense tension and busyness for a long time is not something that ordinary people can bear, and only spellcasters who truly pursue the mystery can endure that kind of hardship.
But now, like an ordinary person, busy with all kinds of trivial things, Jialan has experienced a novel experience that he has never experienced before.
Since the original world realm has been buried deep underground with the explosion of the leylines 1,700 years ago, Jialan, who has come back in this era, decided to take a good look at this kind of life that is completely different from his original environment.
Perhaps, he could learn something from it that he had overlooked before......
"Smack!" snapped his fingers, and four bright clusters of light appeared out of thin air around Jialan's body, illuminating the dark and silent Great Library, the quiet and almost dead silence of the environment, which seemed a little eerie and terrifying, under the illumination of the light, the towering bookshelves, the escalators, and the convex and concave reliefs on the circular dome of the Great Library all reflected the light and shadow like ghosts.
No wonder there are terrifying legends in the big library, maybe it's sprinkled with insect repellent powder or something, there is not even the sound of insects inside and outside the big library, except for Jialan's footsteps and breathing, you can hear your own heartbeat quietly.
If it is an ordinary person, not to mention that it is good not to be scared to death in this environment, but for Jialan, this environment is exactly what he is most familiar with, compared to the three million rooms in the [Fort Colanburg Library], the huge library that seems to be the legendary "Gertty Knosso Minos Labyrinth", it is much more terrifying than this large library with a single floor of only 100,000 square meters.
With a wave of his hand, the four clusters of light created by the [Dancing Light Technique] were raised to the dome, and Jia Lan moved his fingers to begin his first job in this era.