Magic Industrial Age

Treading through the afternoon sunlight, crossing the training grounds, and passing several laboratory buildings, Loye finally reached his destination before the school bell rang.

It was a large lake with a small island in the middle, and on the island stood a magnificent building.

Twelve stone-carved pillars surrounded and supported the dome of the entire building, and the white jade stone floor was so smooth that it reflected people's figures.

In addition, large areas of floor-to-ceiling windows, coupled with the soft light of magic crystal lamps, made this place radiant both day and night.

Loye strolled through it, truly feeling like he was traversing between civilization and barbarism, knowledge and time, which was quite unique!

This was the Philant Magic Academy's library.

Loye had to admit that the Habsburg Empire was indeed very different from the Duchy of Norman in his memory.

In the Duchy of Norman, the characteristics of feudal serfdom were written all over its face, and the nobility almost monopolized all resources.

Fields, mountains, mines, wealth, these tangible things were not to be mentioned, the most important thing was all kinds of knowledge, which only the nobility could access.

In other words, if one's background was not good, even with great ambition, it would be futile.

There was only one path to take: rebellion!

The Duchy of Norman also had a library, built by the Norman Grand Duke, located in the capital, and it contained a considerable number of books, but there was only this one.

To enter and consult materials, it was impossible without a noble title.

But the Habsburg Empire was different!

In the Habsburg Empire, almost every magic academy had a library, containing at least 300,000 books, covering history, literature, poetry, astronomy, geography, arithmetic, transcendence, and other aspects.

And this was just the individual contribution of the Habsburg royal family, the Hohenzollern family, which was the standard configuration for every library.

In addition, there were the individual collections of the magic academies, the contributions of nobles, and the works of scholars from various places, so that each library was a treasure.

Moreover, every student of the magic academy was qualified to enter it, select content of interest, and conduct reading and learning.

This alone was progress of civilization and liberation of knowledge.

Loye walked briskly, entered this vast hall of knowledge with his student badge, and lingered among the bookshelves.

However, he was not in a hurry to go to the 'transcendence area', but after searching for a moment, he found the 'history area'.

Then, he started from the distant past of barbarism and ancient times, gradually exploring the veins of this world.

Because he was using Deep Blue's scanning module, he didn't pick some books and find a seat like others.

Instead, he found a corner, trying to avoid the eyes of others, and quickly flipped through the pages.

Accurately speaking, Deep Blue did not have intelligence, but its 'data analysis module' was extremely useful and could provide various feasible methods under the existing conditions.

However, this 'analysis' did not come from nowhere, it required the assistance of various conditions, so the more information stored in the storage module, the more accurate the analysis would be.

Now, Loye was to supplement the basic information of this world.

He didn't mind flipping through all the books in the library, but that would take some time.

Time passed in reading, and Loye became more and more focused, with faint blue light flashing in his eyes, scanning a page in just one or two breaths.

Loye always felt that the greatest role of the intelligent gene butler was actually the scanning module and the auxiliary learning module.

There was no way around it, after technological development, there was an information explosion, people needed to accept too much information, and traditional reading and learning methods were not enough.

The scanning module of the intelligent gene butler perfectly solved this problem, the speed of recording information was not only fast enough, but it could also automatically organize, classify, and store.

If there was a need, it could also automatically retrieve, extract, combine, and apply!

On the Blue Star in that era, almost everyone was a polymath, which was nothing rare.

Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, the outside world was dim.

Because Loye had something on his mind, he didn't delay, put down the book in his hand, and walked out of the library.

He took a public carriage at the academy gate, and finally returned to 19 Lombard Street as the last ray of sunlight disappeared on the horizon.

Here, the adolescent Ang had been waiting for a long time, the boy was still wearing that ill-fitting gentleman's suit, holding an old cane in his hand.

The only difference was that he had a hat on his head, half new and half old.

Seeing Loye get off the carriage, Ang almost ran forward and handed over a money bag.

"Mr. Loye, is this your bounty?"

Loye took it, tossed it slightly, didn't open it to check, just looked Ang up and down before asking: "How is it, did anyone make things difficult for you today?"

"How could they?"

Ang gestured exaggeratedly: "That's the first mate of the Bloody Mary, Jack with the name of the Ripper, a bloodthirsty pirate.

You don't know, when I sent the body to the security office, the expressions of those people were frightened, they seemed to be scared."

"In the eastern part of the city, our Brothers gang is considered to have made a name for ourselves.

They may not care about us beggars, but they are definitely very afraid of you behind us, and it also allows us to beg for food.

Mr. Loye, on behalf of the brothers in the gang, I would like to express our highest gratitude to you."

The strength of the Habsburg Empire was beyond doubt, but this did not mean that there were no dark corners.

In fact, the newly budding magic industrial revolution had a great impact on society, almost affecting all aspects.

And Auckland City didn't even have a decent police station, and security was managed by the city guards.

Those security offices were equivalent to the places where the city guards were stationed, and the detection rate remained at three percent all year round, which was almost equal to nothing.

As a result, two industries were born, detectives who specialized in tracking and investigating cases; and bounty hunters who specialized in tracking and arresting people.

Of course, more were gangs entrenched in one place, and mercenaries engaged in various illegal trades.

Everything was imperfect, naturally, everything seemed so chaotic.

The eastern district of Auckland City was originally a slum, with a mixed bag of people and gangs.

The most miserable were orphans like Ang.

They had no parents to protect them, no source of income, and could only do some newspaper selling and delivery work, and were hungry every day.

This didn't even include the oppression, robbery, and bullying of gang members.

Loye also happened to save Ang once.

He was not a saint, but he still had a bottom line, and there were some things he couldn't turn a blind eye to.

On that one occasion, Ang pestered him!

Over time, the two sides had reached a cooperation, Ang would use his intelligence network to provide Loye with accurate information; and the matters of action would be done by Loye himself.

This one business was the three Jacks who escaped from prison, and the bounty in exchange was a 20/80 split.

Loye got 80%, and Ang got 20%, but what Ang valued most was actually the reputation, the Brothers gang made a name for themselves, and these little guys would have a better time.

Looking at Ang, Loye nodded slightly and said, "I can help you with part of it, but I can't help you forever.

So, Ang, you have to practice the Swift Sword skills I taught you more."

"Mr. Loye, I will work hard."

"Alright, let's do that, I look forward to your next good news."

"Okay!"

After dismissing Ang, Loye opened the door and went home, Mrs. Cassidy had already greeted him with a smile.

Loye wasn't ambiguous, he asked for a portion of hot water and food, and then walked up to the second floor.

In his room, he cleared his gains.

Jack the Ripper, as a well-known figure, was worth eighty silver Tills, as for the two subordinates, there was only a reward of twenty silver Tills each.

That is, this one deal was a total of one hundred and twenty silver Tills, Loye took 80% exclusively, which was ninety-six silver Tills.

Ang was sensible, he gave a full one hundred silver Tills, which was one gold coin.

This was already the monthly income of a middle-class family, a man with a decent job.

Getting this windfall, Loye was quite happy, he had a hearty dinner, took a bath, and went straight to bed, without delay, he turned on the auxiliary learning module.

Among the many modules of Deep Blue, the scanning module was to record information, but the recorded information was only recorded, memory and learning were two different things.

Therefore, the auxiliary learning module had the basis for existence.

Auxiliary learning, as the name suggests, the intelligent gene butler would use the contents of the book as a blueprint to conduct secondary analysis, in order to create an almost real illusion.

The power of words is never as good as real experience, just like reading is not as memorable as watching a movie.

Of course, forgetting will still happen, auxiliary learning is only auxiliary, how much can be comprehended depends on the individual.

But this was already very good, it was several times, or even dozens of times faster than normal learning.

That night, Loye seemed to have had countless bizarre dreams, and by the morning, he had already digested the history books he had read yesterday.

Well, it can't be said that he completely digested them, but he had some memory in his mind, and he could retrieve them when needed.