Mage Cohen was walking in the spacious and bright corridor of the Institute of Magical Technology. Researchers wearing white magician technician robes were walking around him. From time to time, some people stopped to say hello to each other, and then they made an appointment to go together. The laboratory where you work.
Cohen is also wearing the same white robe.
It takes seventy-two steps from the entrance of the institute to the front hall, and one hundred and two steps from the front hall to the First Practical Technology Laboratory. There will be three doors and a corridor in between. Cohen is here He walked leisurely on a route that he had become familiar with, and every step he took was extremely precise.
He lowered his head and glanced at himself. This short white robe actually had almost no decoration. There was just a metal stamped card pinned to the chest of the robe, with his own name printed on it. A name and a series of numbers, and this is not a robe with magical effects - it is just a cloth robe. If there is anything special about it, it is that almost everyone in this research institute is wearing it. Similar clothes, and this clothes has a very unusual meaning in this land.
The identity represented by this piece of clothing is "Magic Technician", a title that has never been heard of and is unique to this land.
Since arriving in this land, Cohen has been working in the Magic Technology Research Institute for more than four weeks, which is more than forty days. For this third-level arcanist from the royal capital, Life in the Cecil Territory was not exactly what he had originally imagined - here he got his wish and met the powerful ancient arcanist, the legendary pioneer hero, and the magic network. , magic energy engines, etc. are said to be magical creations of some kind of lost technology, but aside from these, the environment he is in is very different from what he imagined.
This is not a difficult and desolate pioneer land. The Cecil people have taken root here and are incredibly prosperous, but at the same time, this is not a land that follows ancient rituals - despite the establishment of He is a true ancient hero, but Cecil's rules can almost be described as deviant in the eyes of Cohen, a mage from the royal capital.
The civilians have great freedom, the aristocratic system has taken a back seat, and the Government Affairs Department has efficient control... The Cecil Territory is located in the southern border of Ansu, but everything that happens here seems to be somewhere. A distant foreign country that only appears in stories. Cohen originally thought that he was sent here as a mage to immerse himself in studying some ancient relics and musty-smelling classics, but he never expected that he would end up here. He became a "magic technician apprentice" and had to learn a set of unheard of knowledge from scratch, and moreover - he learned with a group of mage apprentices, craftsmen, and scholars.
In this field, everyone has the same starting point, and extraordinary people no longer have special privileges.
To be honest, it was really hard to adapt to this at first, but now Cohen has gradually gotten used to it. He is not a descendant of a noble family, nor is he a talented mage with outstanding talents. He is just a certain person. Just a lucky businessman, in the royal capitalHe has not enjoyed any extraordinary privileges in the mage circle, so it is naturally much easier to adapt here. And he realized one thing more wisely, that is, no matter how deviant the things that happened in this land were, he was not qualified to question it - because the order of this land was established by Gawain Cecil. The people of these orders also formulated the order of Ansu seven hundred years ago.
All the so-called "rules of civilized society" in Ansu today are just the evolution of the words casually spoken by the ancient hero seven centuries ago over a long period of time, so in Se It is completely meaningless to discuss "etiquette and orthodoxy" in Xirling. What the Founding Duke said is orthodoxy.
Cohen had made this belief clear in his mind early on, but he himself didn’t know if this belief came about after he saw the Master of Carmel bowing to Gawain Cecil with his own eyes... …
With some random thoughts in his mind, Cohen came to the door of the First Practical Technology Research Laboratory, but before he opened the door, a young girl with a flaxen single ponytail came out of the corridor. He ran over, waving a rolled-up paper in his hand: "Cohen! The new issue of Cecil Weekly! I bought it for you - don't forget to treat me to dinner later!"
Cohen raised his hand to take the weekly newspaper from the girl, agreed casually, and then watched the girl happily run to another research room at the end of the corridor.
The girl's name is Media, a mage apprentice brought from Kant. She came earlier than Cohen and became a "senior" in the Institute of Magical Technology. Cohen was in the institute His life has received a lot of care from her. Media is an enthusiastic girl, and she seems to be deeply influenced by the lord's thoughts. She is helpful and has little sense of hierarchy. Many people in the institute like this enthusiastic girl.
Cohen smiled and shook his head, looking at the newspaper in his hand as he walked into the laboratory where he worked.
Newspapers, which are also unique to this land, appeared not very early, with only three issues published so far, but Cohen is very interested in them. Newspapers are not like The magic book is also energy-consuming, but the content on it is interesting and practical. Cohen uses it as a relaxing read to regulate energy-he knows that many people in the institute do the same.
And Cohen knows that the recent projects he and his colleagues in the institute are working on are also closely related to this thing called "newspaper".
"Cohen - Good morning," after entering the laboratory, greetings from colleagues were immediately heard nearby. A familiar magic technician greeted Cohen. This magician When the technician saw the newspaper in Cohen's hand, he couldn't help but become curious, "What's written on it this time? I haven't had time to read it yet."
Another magic technician next to him said with a smile: "I I hope to see a sequel to the last issue of "Stories from the Northern Mountains and Forests" - I really didn't expect that there are so many weird legends in the northern part of the kingdom."
"Pay more attention to useful news." Cohen glanced at the magic technician and raised the newspaper in his hand. "It says that our King has gone to the border to meet Emperor Typhon. Negotiations took place - and Mr Godwin reasoned they would meet next week. "
"Tsk, this day has come," the magic technician who spoke first smacked his lips, "It seems that our King is also very anxious. "
"No one likes war, especially His Majesty the King - he has to spend a lot of money," the second magic technician said while laughing, "He ten years ago Renovating Silver Castle is a waste of my savings! ”
Cohen did not participate in the rest of the conversation. He just smiled and shook his head, folded the newspaper and put it in his cabinet.
In the pioneering territory of the remote southern frontier On the street, two people who were just craftsmen and mage apprentices talked so naturally about the negotiation between the king and the emperor of the neighboring country - and this negotiation was not old news from a few years ago, but what was happening these days, This is truly an incredible scene.
Cecilians seem to be accustomed to accepting all kinds of incredible things, but it may take a while for him, a magician from the royal capital, to fully adapt to all this. Just give it a little time.
At this moment, a person walked into the laboratory, and the magic technicians who were talking and sorting out their personal belongings immediately fell silent.
She is a girl with dark brown hair. She is younger than everyone present and even looks like she has just grown up. She has a bright smile on her face and has been very successful along the way, but no one in the laboratory dares to look down upon her. The same goes for this young girl, including Cohen.
Because this girl, who looks only 17 or 18 years old, is the master of the entire Magical Technology Research Institute, and she also inherits the surname Cecil and rules this place. Heir to an ancient family that owns a piece of land.
“Hello everyone! "The girl happily walked to the center of the laboratory and waved to greet the people present. She did not show any aristocratic aura at all, but Cohen still lowered his head respectfully like everyone else and paid tribute in a neat voice: "Good morning, Dame Rebecca. "
"Okay, okay, don't be polite, everyone," Rebecca waved her hands, "We will continue the project today, and each group will continue to test the part of the data and materials they are responsible for. Bruce, Terry, come here, I have a new idea that I need to test. ”
The workflow of the laboratory came into effect immediately. People in each “group” got into working mode in the shortest possible time. Cohen also followed suit and devoted himself to his tasks - he has not yet become a A formal magic technician, he is receiving training as an apprentice. However, with a third-level arcanist qualification, he has made rapid progress in the field of runic logic, so he has obtained the qualification to work in the laboratory in advance.
He himself cherishes this opportunity
The Magical Technology Research Institute's "Magic Research.""It's different from other places. There are no dark and cramped magic towers and gloomy and lonely magicians, nor are there trembling magic apprentices and weird and obscure spell experiments that rely solely on luck. Here, a large number of technical staff discuss and cooperate with each other, Everyone's inspirations and ideas will be discussed and verified. A large topic is divided into small parts in the laboratory, and then several groups work together to "research". This is an unprecedented way to study magic. It was an eye-opener for Cohen at the very beginning, and it didn’t take long for him to be completely immersed in it - this kind of collision of ideas and ideas, the blending of inspiration and inspiration, everyone sharing knowledge together, and the way of working towards a goal is comparable to It's much more comfortable in the Royal Capital Mage Association.
Cohen's task is not complicated - he is responsible for testing which magic can leave an imprint on which material, and ensuring that the process is reversible. p>
In fact, most of the working groups in the laboratory are doing this simple but boring work
Cohen knows the purpose of this work - to create a method that can quickly make plates. The "printing tool" that can be reused is hung on the wall facing the door of the laboratory, and has been hanging there for many days.
That's why he said that he is now with. The projects carried out by colleagues have a lot to do with "newspapers" - the people in the laboratory are very smart, and everyone can think of the fields in which this new printing tool can be used once their research is successful.
When he thinks that the research he is doing can be transformed into a new thing of great significance, Cohen will feel an unprecedented motivation - this kind of motivation is not the same as finally mastering it after months of rote memorization. It's completely different.
He has the feeling that he is also participating in the construction of history.