The World of Deities

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio  Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Rolon touched his forehead and took a look at his leather jacket. Within such a short time of arbitration, he had already scuffed a fist-sized hole in his leather jacket. This jacket could not be worn anymore.

Rolon could not imagine how Su Ye came up with these things. At first glance, it did not seem very difficult. However, there was always more than met the eye. One could not rely on feelings alone.

Putting aside other factors, now that all the teachers and students in the school knew about the Feynman technique, how many people could keep learning using this technique?

Less than one percent would be able to do so.

Moreover, not only could Su Ye keep using the Feynman technique to learn, he could also summarize and refine it. It was not a simple task.

Lake revealed a bitter smile as he muttered to himself, “Who is the real genius here?”

Jimmy was also at a loss.

Ebert kept swallowing his saliva, to the point that it almost hurt his throat.

“Sigh. He must be the descendent of the goddess of luck…” Ebert could only come up with such a possibility in the end.

Other than a few students who were desperately learning this technique, most of them were engaged in discussion.

As for the teachers and masters, they were contemplating about the Feynman technique and the Cone of Learning. They were even inspired by the Cone of Learning and were exchanging their thoughts with each other.

Carlos stood in the hall in a daze. He felt as though he had been abandoned by the world.

At first, he felt that the whole world was dark. Only a beam of light from the Divine Realm shone on him. He felt very lonely.

However, after being lonely for a long time, he suddenly realized that the whole world was bright. It was just that a shadow covered him. He was isolated, yet the whole world was rejoicing.

Carlos looked at Su Ye.

Su Ye had nothing to do, so he began to study the Giant Eye.

Carlos felt as though Su Ye was humiliating him.

The night was getting darker and Su Ye’s stomach was growling. Therefore, he opened his magic book and subconsciously clicked into the cafeteria menu.

Su Ye was about to order food during the arbitration.

Carlos glanced at Su Ye and confirmed that the latter was humiliating him!

Su Ye shook his head. Unfortunately, this was not the cafeteria. There was a menu, but he could not place an order. He could only go hungry.

Su Ye found that the three Archmages were completely engrossed in studying the Feynman technique and the Cone of Learning. He looked around and noticed that Carlos was quite close to him.

Therefore, Su Ye asked, “Apart from the Feynman technique, how many of my methods have you applied for a patent?”

Everyone pricked up their ears and widened their eyes.

“I have also submitted an application for a patent for… They’re all my own ideas!” Carlos said angrily.

“Fine. I won’t argue with you on that. Besides ‘teaching as learning’, you also applied for a patent for the Map Memorization technique, right? Anything else?”

Carlos carefully went through Su Ye’s words in his mind five times and found no trap in his statement. He then replied, “I only applied for patents for ‘teaching as learning’ and the Map Memorization technique.”

“Show me the Map Memorization technique you applied for,” Su Ye instructed.

Carlos was silent.

Lawrence waved his hand and a white light shot out. It did not land on Su Ye’s book, but on the Giant Eye.

All the teachers and students in the school could see Carlos’ map.

Carlos was on the brink of tears. His teacher’s teacher was too mean and was a big bully. Lawrence was well-aware that he might be stealing… No, he couldn’t think like that!

Su Ye looked at it once and shook his head. He asked Hort, “Do you think his technique is right?”

Hort hesitated for a long time and replied honestly, “It’s exactly the same as what I learned.”

All the students and teachers also looked at Carlos’ map. It was quite simple, so there shouldn’t be any problems this time.

Carlos forced a smile and said, “Since Hort also uses it like this, you can’t possibly make up a bunch of fake key points and fake essence, right?”

Su Ye faced Carlos. He sighed and said, “It’s understandable for Hort to say so. However, you’re the one who wants to expel me from Plato Academy. You’re a fifth grade Black Iron mage and you’re in the top ten of your class. You have used my method for so long. Yet in the end, your understanding of it is exactly the same as that of Hort? I’m so disappointed in you!”

Everyone was stunned momentarily before bursting into laughter.

Hort also laughed, but he vaguely felt that he shouldn’t have laughed.

Carlos blushed.

Then, all the students saw that the screen in front of them was marked with a big red cross by Su Ye.

After that, Su Ye first told everyone about the map that he had taught Hort.

The Magic Tower in between the yellow land and the blue sea towered into the clouds and was surrounded by carriages. Amidst the ice and snow of the north, Beast Souls were roaming while a big ship was advancing by breaking through the ice. Between the two rivers, the magic lamps loomed in the sky and flying carpets could be seen flying everywhere. In the great desert of Egypt, the golden hourglasses stood majestically while the pyramids of Egypt hovered over the sky…

“This Map Memorization technique is actually composed of multiple methods. One of which is the visual memory technique, which I heard from others and analyzed for my own use. Carlos, can you tell me why is it easier to remember images than words?”

Carlos was silent, like an unfortunate child who was called out by the teacher to answer questions when he was distracted in class.

Su Ye explained, “It is because we, humans, have a very short history of word formation. Besides that, the time we spend learning words is short as well. However, as soon as we are born, we are exposed to images. Therefore, our ability to remember images is stronger. Visual memory technique is…”

Su Ye presented Carlos with another question, “Carlos, why do you think I added color and movement to the map used in the Map Memorization technique?”

Carlos remained silent.

Su Ye continued to expound, “It is because humans don’t like monotonous schemes. We have a deeper memory for bright colors. I deliberately made the things inside the map move as the human eye is better at capturing moving objects…”

“There’s also the exaggeration memory principle. Carlos… Nevermind, you can’t answer it even if I ask. It is useful because our brains tend to ignore those ordinary things and remember those strange things more vividly, so I made the important things inside the map especially huge.”

Su Ye delivered his last piece of analysis, “Finally, why didn’t I add more things on the map? This is related to our ability to remember things. I discovered that most of us can remember one to four numbers easily, but memorization becomes difficult from the fifth number onwards. Hence, I believe that human memory is divided into chunks and we can at most remember four chunks at a time. Of course, this number will occasionally decrease. For example, for someone like Carlos, I suspect that he can at most remember three chunks at a time.”

After Su Ye finished speaking, everyone looked at Carlos with pity.

Prior to this, they had already placed their trust in Su Ye. His analysis and summary of the Map Memorization technique was like the meteor that fell from the sky and delivered a final blow to Carlos, who was on the verge of collapse.

The two of them were on completely different levels.

Everything was exactly like what Su Ye said. Carlos’ words were summarized based on what he saw on the surface, while Su Ye could fully understand each method.

This was no longer a matter of Carlos stealing Su Ye’s ideas, but rather, Carlos was dumb enough to frame Su Ye before he could make head or tail of the stolen ideas.

Carlos’ right hand, which was holding onto his robe, was trembling violently as though he had a stroke.

The three arbitrators were still thinking.

Su Ye simply walked to the entrance and chatted with the students gathered there.

Niedern kept winking at Su Ye, signaling him to pay attention to the arbitration. However, Su Ye missed his signal.

The teachers didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. Plato Academy had always been a place for serious study; where did this guy get his demeanor from? He practically turned the arbitration into his own classroom. Besides that, he was just a mage apprentice. He didn’t even have a proper magic badge.

But… the teachers suddenly turned sullen.

Su Ye didn’t have a proper magic badge, but it looked like he was about to receive a Mana Source badge. Moreover, he would most likely be awarded with more than one or two Mana Source badges.

Lawrence could not stand it any longer and gently coughed.

Su Ye immediately turned around and returned to his original position, as though he was being watched by a teacher who had suddenly walked into the classroom when he was in a self-study class.

Lawrence urged in a low voice, “Cromwell, I think we should end this as soon as possible.”

Some of the mages nearby almost laughed out loud. Lawrence’s words carried a hidden meaning: if this did not end soon, Su Ye would become an arbitrator!