Law of the Devil

The establishment of the Empire's Academy of Magic has been officially put on the agenda.

The location of the college had been decided a few months ago. The Imperial Academy at the end was established in a military fortress not far from the Acropolis in the southwest of the imperial capital. The military fortress has been established for decades, and it used to be the guard of the imperial capital. However, with the establishment of Weiyu, its usage rate has been greatly reduced. Except for the annual spring school, this military fortress is basically in a semi-idle state.

There are many considerations in choosing this place as the site of the Academy of Magic, the most important of which is to save money. The empire's finances are not rich, and if a new military academy is re-proposed, it will cause a lot of extra huge expenditures on the empire's finances, and using a ready-made military fortress is undoubtedly a good choice.

Moreover, the address of the school is far away from the imperial capital and the magic guild, but the emperor has stationed nearly 20,000 guards, and an acropolis is nearby—this kind of consideration must be his own prince Chen.

The original drill field in the military fortress has been planted with large tracts of green space and flower beds, and the original rows of permanent barracks inside have been transformed into school buildings.

As a magic academy, a base for cultivating magic talents for the empire, for reasons of confidentiality, a thousand guards were added to guard it.

In such a fortress that can accommodate tens of thousands of soldiers, there were less than two hundred people in the initial stage.

The one hundred students were finally determined after Zhang Lie's struggles in all aspects of the empire. For this contention, Du Wei did not participate. He is happy to stay out of it. In the end, the magic union got 30 quotas as it wished. As for the imperial family, Prince Chen directly selected forty from among the nobles who were most loyal to the imperial family.

The last 30 places were sent by party j.

The magic union occupies 30%, the royal family 40%, and the j side 30%.

According to the evil agreement secretly reached by several parties. This ratio will continue to be used in the future.

On top of other matters concerning the establishment of the school, the royal family and the magic union went through fierce competition again.

The Magic Union hopes to turn this magic academy into a purely training situation of "traditional" magicians. What is a traditional magician?

To put it simply: tall, noble, with the dignity of a magician, and with a high status. Mysterious and... stuffy.

Of course, this evaluation came from the mouth of Prince Chen, he was very dissatisfied with it, because in the plan of the Regent Five, the establishment of this Magic Academy was not for the purpose of cultivating a new batch of "magic masters"! The j side of the empire, the royal family, all need a group of magicians to serve them! It's not a group of masters who need to be held high by themselves!

In the past, those aristocratic and wealthy families wanted to recruit a magician. To win the favor of those magicians, one must not hesitate to spend Dali's wealth, even some distinguished nobles, and be polite to those magicians, even kneel down.

But this is absolutely not allowed to Prince Chen!

"What I want is not a group of masters! What I want is a group of people who can serve the empire!"

But Prince Chen's point of view. It was opposed by the Magic Union. Because the Magic Union believes that this is detrimental to the majesty of the magician. In their view, magicians should be superior.

Under the collision of two viewpoints, in the end Du Wei quietly entered the palace one day and gave Prince Chen an idea.

"Why do magicians have such a high status? Why are they so high? That's because there are too few magicians on Dalu. If there are as many magicians as there are warrior knights now..." Du Wei said: "I Saw a lot of samurai standing there waiting to get a job at the slave market. They weren't farmers, they weren't paupers, they weren't bums, they weren't beggars. Every one of them had at least one rank of samurai! But Their lives are not as dignified as beggars. It is because there are too many warriors on Dalu now! If the number of magicians reaches a certain level, then magicians are not uncommon."

"But the establishment of the Magic Academy should greatly alleviate this problem." Prince Chen said: "The establishment of the Magic Academy. In the future, a large number of magicians will leave this academy, and the increase in number is expected."

"It's not enough." Du Wei shook his head: "Fundamentally speaking, I think there are big problems in the way of training magicians."

Next, Prince Chen agreed with Du Wei's point of view.

"For a long time, the transmissions of magicians have been private apprentices, and the door is very strict. It can even be said that every magician strictly keeps the code of the magic knowledge he has mastered, and will never let outsiders know easily. And more importantly, the current profession of magician makes me feel that there is a big flaw, that is...the "user" and "researcher" are not correctly distinguished."

"Every magician spends most of his life researching, researching magic, and exploring the mysteries of magic. But the problem is... because they cherish each other's brooms and keep their own research codes strictly confidential, it makes it difficult for magicians to communicate with each other. Less communication. The result is a ridiculous phenomenon: Maybe the things that many magicians have researched all their lives are exactly the same as other magicians! Many magicians have spent their entire lives researching the same results. In this way It's too wasteful. We need a large number of people who know how to use magic, not a group of researchers. In my opinion, researchers only need, but there is no need. Every magician acts as a researcher, most of them People, as long as they know how to use it."

This is a very simple truth, just like in Du Wei's previous life, any middle school student knew Newton's law of gravity. Universities only need to study and know how to use this law... But there is no need for every student to study and discover this law by himself?

Just learn how to use it! If students are really going to spend half their lives researching this law like Newton did...

Hmph... From Du Wei's point of view, this is also a big restriction that restrains the development of the number of magicians.

The correct way to popularize it should be: you don't need to study it, you just need to master how to use it.

Everyone knows that one plus one equals two, but there is no need for everyone to delve into "Goldbach's conjecture"? .

But there is a phenomenon in the current magicians that makes Du Wei feel absurd: even some low-level magicians, when learning some low-level magic spells, have to rely on themselves to study the mysteries of these spells, including how to reduce , some notes that can be omitted, etc... In fact, their teachers may have mastered this technique long ago, but those magicians will never easily tell anyone, even their own disciples, about their research results! Rather bring it into the coffin!

Du Wei spent an afternoon explaining this truth to Prince Chen, and tried to use some simple language to explain the models of universal education that he knew in his previous life. Prince Chen's eyes lit up when he heard this, and finally he stood up. Seeing the excited expression on his face, he even wanted to hug Du Wei and kiss him.

But the next problem is: how to let the existing magicians contribute their research results?

After that, Du Wei and Prince Chen studied for a long time.

For magicians, what do they value most?

money? No, every magician has considerable wealth. The magic crystals and magic gems in their hands are treasures in the eyes of ordinary people, but to magicians, they are just magic materials.

woman? Not to mention... Magicians focus on the study of magic, and they don't have time to waste on such things.

right? Still not.

In the end, Du Wei came to a conclusion: status and fame!

Magicians pay great attention to their own status. Many times, when they are recruited by rich and noble families, they deliberately put on airs, because they think that if they are recruited easily, they will lose their status. Status is very important to a magician.

And reputation is more important to magicians.

Du Wei even added an almost vicious statement. In his opinion, most magicians in this world are very "pretentious".

Mostly so.

When he said this. He even forgot that he and Prince Chen are both magicians.

Magicians like to be on top, have a high status, like to put on airs, and like to pretend to be inaccessible. They are eccentric (or pretend to be eccentric), they aspire to great fame, but at the same time they pretend to be nonchalant.

This, what is it if it is not pretense?

"So, if they want a name, we will give them a name. If they want a status, we will give them a status!" Du Wei said with a smile: "This may attract some magicians to contribute their research results. We can use these research As a result, a set of fixed things has been compiled and handed over to the students in the academy, they don’t need to study it from scratch, they just need to learn how to use it.”

Therefore, on the day when the Academy of Magic was established, at the opening ceremony, His Royal Highness Prince Chen, the current actual ruler of the empire, was present in person. And personally inscribed the name "Imperial Academy of Magic" on the wall outside the academy. ——This is also Du Wei's proposal.

Then, in front of the first batch of magic students, more than a dozen court magicians, and many magicians from the magic union present, Prince Chen suddenly announced an unplanned thing:

"At the same time as the Academy of Magic was established, a new magician organization was also announced: the Imperial Society of Magic!"

Imperial Society of Magic. in name. It belongs to the School of Magic. The difference between this society and the magic union is that it is not a strict organization that has any management or statutory regulations on magicians. It is relatively loose and does not have any management and constraints on magicians.

The so-called "learning" mainly allows magicians to conduct academic discussions and exchange their research results in the field of magic. And the society will commend and reward the magicians who have made research results.

The form of reward is not calculated in gold coins...

In a very eye-catching corridor just behind the square of the Academy of Magic, on a wall made of pure jade, at the first position at one end of the wall, there is a strikingly carved statue.

This is a bust of an old magician. His face was lifelike, with a snow-white cloak and robe, a very graceful smile, and even every fine wrinkle on his face was extremely clear.

And below it, a plate of pure gold engraved with a few lines:

"Sicilis-Jacques Gandolf (710-960 Empire), a magister known as dalu, his main contribution: discovered six ways of hatching dragon eggs, discovered thirteen kinds of rare magic plants, and seven kinds The improvement of intermediate magic spells, and the creation of a new advanced magic spell, etc. Thanks to Master Gandolf for his contribution, so that future generations can learn his research results."

This statue of Gandalf, together with the following gold plate describing some of the main events of his life, is placed at the entrance of this jade corridor. And behind, the 300-meter-long corridor is still empty, leaving enough space!

"...The establishment of this society is not responsible for restraining magicians. It is just a purely academic discussion and exchange organization." Prince Chen stood on the high platform with his unique smile on his face: " Any magician can apply to join the society, and does not need to pay any membership fees, and does not need to assume any contribution obligations to the society. Of course... it is not absolute. As long as you enter the society, you can check the information stored in the society Other magicians exchange and contribute magic research results. Of course, this is conditional. For example, in the early days of the establishment of the society, thank our Lord Duwei and Vivian. Both of them are The disciples of the late magister Gandolf, they have set an example and contributed a part of the research results of Master Gandolf in the society. Every new member, if you want, can also contribute The results of some of your magic research, and then, you can consult any materials that the society has kept... including Master Gandolf. This is the spirit of our magic society: sharing!"

The audience was in an uproar!

Especially those magicians!

Can I consult the magic research results left by Master Gandolf? This is an extremely tempting condition for a magician!

Afterwards, Prince Chen publicly announced some details about the "sharing" of the Magic Society.

Some of the research results of Gandolf contributed by Du Wei and Vivian at the beginning have been divided into five levels, from one star to five stars.

In the future, as long as you contribute your research results to newly joined magicians, they will be evaluated by several invited senior and famous magicians. For example, if your contribution has received a three-star rating, then you will have three chances to "share". You can freely consult research results of any level below the three-star rating stored in the Society. Of course, there are only three chances (three for three-star, four for four-star, and only one for one-star). If you want to read more, you must also contribute your own new research results.

The only exception is that if the research results you contributed are evaluated as five-star, then you will be eligible to share for life, and you can access all the materials in the society at any time throughout your life! .