Arcane Lord

Regarding the afternoon teaching, Xia Duo consulted the tower spirit. Apprentices can make their own decisions based on their own learning progress. Generally, apprentices who have just entered the mage tower will be taught by some outstanding formal apprentices in the hall on the first floor.

Furthermore, you can choose to join the official mage's course without applying, but the official mage will not specifically change the progress for a certain person. If you can't keep up, you will either have to drop out of the first level course, or continue to listen until the course is repeated again.

By asking the tower spirit, you can get a list of courses offered by various official mages. Xia Duo got a rough idea. There are detailed explanations of a specific spell, the structure of the magic network, the manufacturing of magic items, and even specialized mages. Etiquette classes, elf etiquette classes.

However, these have nothing to do with Xia Duo for the time being. His current magic foundation is almost 0, and he has not even passed the text level. How can he be in the mood to consider other things.

The only thing he can choose now is the most basic "Magic Enlightenment Course", which is taught by a formal apprentice named Ganal in the hall on the first floor.

…

In the lobby on the first floor of the Tower of Time, although the previous official mage steward had mentioned that 26 new apprentices had joined this year, when Sha Duo came here, there were only less than 10 of them.

Xiao Neil also appeared among them, and Xia Duo was not surprised. He had already realized it when he entered the tower for the assessment. Except for him, everyone else had more or less money in their families. They invited someone who had given up magic. It doesn't cost much for apprentices who leave the mage tower to initiate early enlightenment.

12:30.

Ganard, the formal apprentice who was teaching, suddenly appeared in the hall on the first floor, glanced around, and finally stopped at Xia Duo. Xia Duo was helpless. He now only had the title of official apprentice, but no official The apprentice's ability is indeed quite noticeable when surrounded by a group of unenlightened people.

However, facing Ganal's gaze, Shado still looked at him very generously. He did have shortcomings, but he was working hard to improve, and there was nothing to be ashamed of.

Fortunately, Ganal only stared at him for a moment, and then started today's lecture without any words of ridicule or criticism.

"Everyone, since you have chosen to join the Mage Tower, you can't waste these three years. Otherwise, why not just go to the town to find other jobs? Since you have thoughts about the path of magic, you have to give it all Don’t waste your family’s energy.”

"Today's class will not involve any magic knowledge. I will introduce to you my experience of living, studying, and working in the Mage Tower, as well as the stories of several legendary figures."

Ganal's first lesson did not start directly with magic. Instead, he first told everyone about things that need to be paid attention to in daily life and work in the Mage Tower, with a little encouragement and prospects.

The experience of a formal apprentice was also very valuable to Shado. He eagerly absorbed the experience taught by Ganal, combined it with his own specificity, and left records on parchment from time to time.

The stories of legendary figures told by Ganal also brought great spiritual encouragement to Shado.

Archmage Darthriel was a farmer until he was 30 years old. He accidentally obtained a magic enlightenment book when he was 30 years old, but he did not choose to sell the book to improve his life.

Instead, he spent a huge amount of money to learn writing from scratch. During this period, even his son laughed at him and thought it was extremely ridiculous for a peasant to dream of becoming a mage.

But Darthriel never gave up. Faced with doubts from his family and ridicule from his neighbors, he could only secretly use his spare time to learn from scholars in the city.

People were surprised that Darthriel pulled a cart of dry firewood into the town, but did not come back with any silver coins. Day by day, year by year, Darthriel released the first 0 when he was 35 years old. His life changed when he learned magic.

After the local lord learned about the story of a peasant who became a mage through self-taught work, he invested in him and brought him into the mage tower. From then on, Dathriel was unstoppable on the road to magic.

When he was 45 years old, the orcs invaded Darthriel's hometown. At the critical moment, Darthriel descended from the sky with magic all over the sky. Only then did people know that he had become a noble archmage.

And many people believe that Archmage Darthriel will become a legend.

Shado had heard the legend of Darthriel from the adventurers at the Old Neil Inn before, but the adventurers' stories were more scattered and exaggerated, and were not as vivid and true as Ganal's story.

In addition to Archmage Dathriel, Ganal also tells the story of Grand Arcanist Congenio, who invented the Ioun Stone hundreds of years ago and is still alive today.

It is also vivid and touching, which makes Xia Duo yearn for it.

However, to Shado's surprise, Iolum's name was not mentioned by Ganal. In the background of the game that Shado played before crossing over, the name Iolum was the same as Netheril. The most closely associated name.

When it comes to Netheril, we have to mention the floating city - a city in the clouds that cuts off the mountain peaks, makes them float in the air and reverses them, and builds them.

What can support a section of a mountain peak going in and out of the clouds?

The answer is the Mithra core invented by Iolum.

However, Sha Duo has never heard of the Floating City since he traveled through time. Obviously, the Mysser Energy Core has not been invented yet. Sha Duo doesn’t know when the Mysser Energy Core was invented by Iolum.

But before this, Iolum should not be an unknown person, not to mention the legend that Lord Saville's ancestor, the Great Arcanist Saville, was Iolum's student.

Ganal mentioned before that he wanted to tell the story of a legendary figure. Shado also expected that the story of Iolum would appear, but he didn't expect it to be mentioned at all.

Shado was extremely eager for the Myser Energy Core and the Floating City. If he came to Netheril and couldn't control the floating city to traverse various planes, then his trip would be in vain.

…

Time flew by and half a day passed. At around 5 p.m., Ganal was ready to end today’s lectures, and before the end was the daily Q\u0026A session.

Even formal apprenticeships will have a question-and-answer session, but usually formal apprenticeships are taught to ordinary apprentices, so they can often be ignored, but today there is an extra Xia Duo.

Ganal did not ignore Shado, but directly called him by name, "Apprentice Shado, do you have any questions to ask?"

The other seven or eight ordinary apprentices immediately looked at Xia Duo with envy. Xia Duo actually had many questions in his heart that he wanted to ask. He did not have the ability to communicate with real formal apprentices on an equal footing, so he could only take the opportunity to ask questions. .

But it’s not possible today. He and Dean agreed yesterday to help him ask questions about [Repair Technique] to the official mage. Although Ganal is not an official mage, he can become a formal apprentice. It shouldn’t be difficult to answer this question, but I don’t know him. Will you answer questions outside of the course?

"I promised an apprentice to ask questions about [Repair Technique] for him, is that okay?"

Ganal was not surprised at all. He had seen too many such behaviors of trading personal opportunities to ask questions. "Okay, but I can only answer one question."