Arcane Lord

When he came to the library floor for the first time, Xia Duo looked around curiously, but there was nothing interesting to see. It was similar to the library before time travel, except that there were many more single-room transcription rooms and spell laboratories. .

There are more than 20 sections in the library, but there are actually not many books in each section, and there are many duplicate books. In total, they may not have as many books as the middle school library before Xia Duo traveled through time.

Knowledge is too scarce and knowledge is too precious.

On the way here, Sami had already introduced this official apprentice named "Edrich" to Sha Duo. He came from a business family and was smart since he was a child, but his mind was not on magic, but on becoming a great businessman.

But even so, he went from an ordinary apprentice to a formal apprentice. After that, he stopped studying magic and did not leave. Instead, he stayed in the mage tower as a businessman.

The superiors tacitly approved of him.

…

In a copy room filled with goods, Shado met Edrich himself, as well as two ordinary apprentices working here.

"Edrich, I brought you a new customer. You can entertain him. I have to leave first."

"Go ahead, my credibility is recognized."

After sending Sami away, Edrich then turned his attention to Shado, "Mr. Shado, do you need anything? Everything from candles, matches, and sewing needles to magic scrolls and spell books. I have it all.”

Edrich is the apprentice with the least mage temperament that Shado has ever seen in the mage tower. He really lives up to his name as a "merchant apprentice"!

After telling him that he was going to sell the opportunity to ask questions, Edrich's eyes suddenly shone. However, when he heard that he could only ask questions from Ganal, the official apprentice, the light instantly weakened a little, but it was still very bright. expect.

"Mr. Chateau, are you really prepared to sell your opportunity to ask questions?"

"It's true. Although I am now an official apprentice, I have just joined the Mage Tower. The opportunity to ask questions is not of much use to me in a short period of time. It is a good choice to exchange it for the resources I need."

Edrich instantly understood Shado's plan and asked again, "What happens after that?"

"We'll look at it later. If necessary, we can sell it."

"Okay, okay!" Edrich said repeatedly, and began to rummage for something on the messy desk in the copy room. He soon found an account book, and then said, "Mr. Chateau, the afternoon class will start soon. Can I start trading today?”

"Okay, but can I advance some money in advance?"

"Yes, but you can only advance half of it."

At this point, Edrich remembered that the two of them had not yet discussed the specific price of asking a question, so he took out a piece of parchment and handed it to Xia Duo, "This is the reward for an opportunity to ask a question, usually in the form of Payment can be made in the form of gold coins or casting materials. If you have other requirements, you can also make them, but there is no guarantee that anyone will accept them."

Xia Duo understands that as an intermediary, he does not produce anything himself and relies on resource integration to earn intermediary fees. However, Edrich also sells some goods himself, which is considered a side business.

It is recorded on the parchment that one opportunity to ask questions can be exchanged for 10 gold coins, or equivalent casting materials. This is the price here at Edrich. If Sha Duo contacted him himself, it would probably exceed 10 gold coins.

But Xia Duo is very satisfied. With such a channel, he doesn't need to waste time on his own. Gold coins are exchanged for time, which is a good deal for Xia Duo now.

"Can I switch to parchment and ink?"

"no problem."

Edrich turned around and counted out a stack of parchment and a small wooden bottle from the pile of goods, and handed it to Xia Duo, "Half the advance is 5 gold coins, ink is 3 gold coins, two pieces of parchment are 3 silver coins, a total of 14, whichever one is more A silver coin is considered a discount for the first transaction.”

Shado nodded and took it. After that, Edrich picked a question from a ledger used to register questions and informed Shado that this was the question he needed to ask in the afternoon.

It is also a question about [Repair Technique], but it is slightly different from what Dean asked. This question is about the structural transformation of [Repair Technique] under different material casting objects.

It seems to be a bit on the application level. Xia Duo speculates that this apprentice should be closer to mastering [Repair Technique] than Dean. However, even though he is only one layer away from being a formal apprentice, he still has no qualifications to ask questions and can only wander around. Seek help from others.

Although he felt a little sad in his heart, if he was asked to help others ask questions for free, Xia Duo would not do such a stupid thing.

From this perspective, mages seem to be extreme egoists!

I have been in this atmosphere since my apprenticeship, and I don’t know what the scenery above is like. Xia Duo is looking forward to it.

…

With the questions conveyed by Edrich, Shaduo hurriedly left the library floor and returned to the lobby on the first floor. At this time, almost all the people on the first floor were gone. Only the seven or eight apprentices who had class yesterday were piled together. Small talk.

Seeing Xia Duo's arrival, their voices became quieter, but they did not greet Xia Duo in any way. They seemed to have excluded Xia Duo from the small circle.

However, Xia Duo doesn't care yet. It is almost impossible for such a small circle to survive. It will soon disintegrate according to the speed of each person's learning progress. There is no benefit. Who is willing to play house with the "underachievers".

Chateau randomly found an empty seat, took out some of the dictionaries he had compiled, and began to read and memorize silently, until Ganal, who was teaching at 12:30, arrived.

Like yesterday, today's course does not involve any specific magical knowledge, but rather establishes a magical worldview for apprentices - from the characteristics, levels, and advancement routes of spell mages, to the mages' understanding of everything.

Chateau was very interested in such curriculum design. He speculated that if such enlightenment courses were not summarized from long-term practice, then the person who designed these courses must be a wise man.

And he is a wise man who is good at teaching.

After class, Chateau asked the question given by Edrich, and Ganal answered it again, but this time he no longer pointed out a certain book, but directly explained how to do it, and then left.

Chateau couldn't understand. He was worried that he had forgotten, so he didn't bother to get dinner. He hurried to the library and informed Edrich of Ganard's answer. He also received the other half of the reward for this question-a small bottle of ink, 14 piece of parchment, for which he also paid 1 silver coin.

When leaving the library, Sha Duo met Dean who came to borrow some books, but this time Sha Duo did not forget to renegotiate the deal with Dean.

It went smoothly. Dean didn't have much say. He borrowed the book "Geometry Principles in Level 0 Spells" yesterday. It was very useful, but it was not enough for him to master the [Repair Technique] smoothly in a short period of time.

He also needed Chateau's opportunity to ask questions.

The two made a new agreement - within this week, Dean must interpret the Nese language words for Sha Duo after dinner, including pronunciation and definition; while Sha Duo asked Dean one more question.

After a week, make a new appointment.

…

In this way, Xia Duo's life in the mage tower gradually got on the right track - sorting out the dictionary during the day, attending classes in the afternoon and using it as a chance to ask questions, asking Dean to interpret Nese words in the evening, and occasionally lighting candles to study after lights out.

Time passed little by little, and the first week that Sha Duo spent in the Mage Tower passed like this.