Chapter 3 The Archmage's Favor
Sky City Nevis, Mages Council, Arcane Council.
Against a dark background like a vast void, billions of brilliance are like stars. In the dark, countless formulas, secret texts, and spells float up like white letters, turning into huge lights and shadows that spread into the dark sky.
One arcane treatise after another in the form of manuscripts is like a meteor thrown towards a huge ball of light deep in the center, as big as a star.
It is as majestic and majestic as a god. Just the lines projected by the light spots in it seem to be millions of light-years wide. Looking at it, it seems to be filled with the sky, filled with endless creation between the heaven and earth.
But just after Roland put the arcane thesis written into it, this huge ball of light, as majestic as a god, suddenly stopped for no reason.
In an instant, the time of heaven and earth seemed to have gone through thousands of years.
In the vast void, a melodious voice echoed among billions of stars.
"What's wrong?"
Suddenly a giant hand came forward, covering the sky and the sun, as if blocking the entire universe.
This "universe" turned out to be just a spherical object the size of a human head, and the ball of light floating in the chaos of the void was just a tower spirit the size of a fist.
"Lord Ovisto, here is a new arcane treatise."
The little tower spirit had read the article a thousand times in an instant and stated its suggestions in an emotionless mechanical voice.
"You might be interested."
"oh?"
The owner of the voice snapped his fingers with some interest.
In an instant, a light screen like a screen appeared in front of him, and immediately after, thousands of words poured down like a waterfall.
"Is it a new hieroglyphic writing system? It's a bit interesting. How come these days' rune department apprentices all like to create their own languages and characters.
It’s actually a rare analytical language, it’s really unconventional…”
The relaxed voice gradually stopped, as if he found that things were not simple.
Because Atrein's language and characters need to resonate with magical power, they are naturally suitable for phonetic expressions. They are a typical phonetic writing system and exhibit significant inflectional characteristics.
A complex magic element often only needs to add affixes, various prepositions, postpositions, attributives, adverbials, and clauses in front of it to express more meanings. If you need to further perfect the expression, you can add a single word.
Plural, yin and yang, progressive tense, perfect tense, future tense...
In terms of high emotional intelligence, this language system is "rigorous" and "standardized", and is naturally as neat as "tying knots to record events".
But this magical language is not perfect. At least after the development of arcana, people have realized its various inconveniences in expression and written recording.
It... is completely unsuitable for writing and recording!
Although bards often praise Atrein's language as "as beautiful as poetry", they are only beautiful.
Even the most conservative and proud of the Atrein people are troubled by its complex and changeable tenses and long and complicated word combinations, not to mention the shitty grammar system!
So far, Atrein writing has reached a dead end, which has also led many senior mages and top students of the Arcane Academy to directly and ruthlessly abandon it and use elven writing as a substitute for writing.
Even at this moment, the arcane treatise written by Roland is written in Elvish script.
This is not only allowed in the Arcane Empire, it is even encouraged. It can be said to be a fashion popular among the upper classes.
You can’t speak Elvish or write Elvish characters, and you are embarrassed to say that you are a mage, a high-class person...
But after all, the language and writing of the elves are not the product of human civilization itself, and it is impossible for the mage master to always use these to teach his descendants and develop his own arcana.
Because of this, the upper echelons of the Arcane Empire are also eager to try to create some efficient and convenient new magic texts.
This kind of writing must be able to carry increasingly complex magical knowledge and arcane principles and become a good carrier.
"A hieroglyphic writing system created for narrative purposes..."
Ovisto studied it carefully with some interest.
"Teacher Ovisto, you have a new meeting invitation..."
A man in his thirties wearing a gorgeous mage robe walked in.
"Swain, you're here just in time, read this article!"
"What kind of article is it? The teacher's behavior really surprised me. But now I am just a small review assistant. Is it really appropriate to just read the graduation thesis of an apprentice like this?"
"Of course it's appropriate, because I have decided to admit him to my mage tower. There will be no trouble of leaking secrets or illegal operations."
"Huh?"
Swain looked shocked.
He said he was surprised before, with a slight sense of ridicule, and didn't take it seriously.
But now, I'm really starting to get curious.
"What kind of paper can actually get through the eyes of Archmage Ovisto, who is known for his strictness?"
The high-level mage who was the review assistant smiled, sat down at the large redwood table opposite, and adjusted the gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose.
"Hieroglyphics, oracle bone inscriptions... Huh?"
Seeing Swain's expression of shock at first and then gradually showing shock, Ovisto couldn't help but smile.
"How about it?"
"My teacher, are you really sure this is an article that an apprentice can write?"
Swain raised his head and did not answer his question directly, but he already expressed his thoughts.
After taking a few deep breaths, Swain couldn't help but said: "I think the level shown in this article is enough to be regarded as a talent, and the teacher's decision to admit him was wise.
Wise.
However, if you want to ensure that we are recruited into the Mage Tower, I am afraid it will take some effort."
"How to say?"
“As an archmage who is very likely to be promoted to a legend, it is inevitable that his every move attracts attention and even the people he follows are popular.
I think back then, I was greatly tempted and almost abducted to another place."
Ovisto looked at his proud disciple and suddenly realized that this was really the case.
Although he had absolute confidence in his mage tower, he could not resist the fact that the student was limited by experience and knowledge and did not understand the value of the Ovisto mage tower in the arcane world. He was easily fooled by others using the rankings of the old era, and was fooled by a little
Get away with a small profit!
Swain took the initiative to come to the rescue and said: "Teacher is interested in arcana and has no time to pay attention to such shady tricks, so let me, a student, do it for you and go to Flandre in person.
Chapter completed!