Feng Qi understood Napel very well, but he himself was not fully prepared. After returning to his room and lighting the lighting crystal, he habitually opened his diary. However, he did not write anything, but instead looked through the records of the past few days. He felt that he should also think carefully about his own destiny.
May 7
Today is the first day in the Hewan New District. The royal capital mages who came with us are all very excited. They are looking forward to seeing the results of magic research here, but I am looking forward to seeing the place itself, what kind of place can cultivate mages like Xiao Chen and Luo Ling.
Ever since I met them in the capital, I have always felt that they have a very different temperament. Although they are very powerful, they never use this power to show off their status or to contrast the weakness of others. No matter what their purpose is. At least when I met them, I felt that they were sincerely willing to help us mages who are in trouble.
I just visited this area briefly today, but I have already discovered that in these neat, straight, and somewhat cold streets, one can feel a kind of care. They separate the places where people and cars walk, so that the nobles' cars and horses do not threaten the lives of ordinary people. They set aside precious land and built parks for ordinary people to rest and play. They keep the city clean, and even in the places where civilians live, there are no feces, urine, or corpses.
I saw that there was no awe in the eyes of the ordinary people who received us, but their conversation and knowledge made many of us feel ashamed.
If the two mages Xiao Chen and Luo Ling grew up in such an environment, it would not be difficult to understand why they could become such remarkable figures.
I believe that everything that has been done here, as long as the Spirit Refining Tower is willing to do it, can also turn a small town into this. But why has this never happened
May 8
I take back what I said yesterday. After visiting their so-called factory, I realized that even if the Tower of God Training wanted to do it, there was no way to turn a small town into this.
I never thought that all kinds of small things could be made in different factories and then put together to magically become the beautiful city we see.
The key to enabling them to do this is standards. We visited a factory that makes steel pipes in detail. They produce a variety of pipes ranging from the thickness of a finger to the thickness of a thigh. Although we don’t know what those steel pipes will be used for, what amazed us was that the size of the same steel pipe is always exactly the same.
Most magicians don't understand the significance of this, and some even secretly say that they want to visit places like the academy first. But I see the awesomeness of this place. The iron pipes made by the blacksmith shop in the capital are always large and small, and the fireballs made by the magicians in the Royal Mage Tower are always large and small.
These Chinese can make steel pipes of the same thickness, so why can't they make magic consistent
Think about it, the two sides in a war, one side's magic is big, some small, some near, some far away. The other side is uniform and hits the same target accurately. Who will win in the end? The conclusion is very obvious.
I can associate the steel pipe with magic because I discovered this from the analysis of magic by the two magicians Xiao Chen and Luo Ling. They always like to use a unified standard to judge and measure magic. I remember that the magician Luo Ling once said: What kind of magic record is good? That is, the magic that the magician a thousand years later casts by looking at my manuscript is the same as the magic I cast today.
Many people thought it was a joke at the time, but today I realized that it was their instinct!
May 9
Went to school today and it made me question what magical talent is.
For us, the schools we can think of are the schools that train priests in the Temple of Nature, or the schools that train nobles in the capital. But the schools here are open to everyone. Six years of compulsory education is implemented here, which means that all children must go to class.
For us magicians, we don't care whether ordinary people can attend classes or not. But the children here are very different from those in other places, that is, they have extremely high magic talent. Any magician who has participated in the recruitment of apprentices in the magic tower will know how rare it is in this world to have people with magic talent. Magic is so profound and mysterious that most people's talents cannot understand this power beyond common sense.
But here I saw many children in their teens, all of whom began to show magical talent. What was even more amazing was that they had developed a test paper. As long as one could answer the questions on the test paper and achieve a certain score, it meant that this person had a high chance of awakening. They called this test the "Magic Entrance Stage Test."
As outsiders, we have no way of seeing the contents of the test papers. Some of my colleagues were skeptical, but I think there is no need for the Chinese to deceive us.
We have always found that children from noble families are more likely to awaken magical talents, but the children here are obviously from ordinary, even poor families. Is it possible that the source of talent is not blood, but education? However, there are also many children who have received aristocratic education but have not really awakened magical talents. Just go to those aristocratic schools and you will know that the proportion of students who have awakened magical talents is still pitifully small.
Is it because the content of the study is different? Just like after applying the mathematical methods that Xiao Chen and Luo Ling taught us in the reading club, our ability to understand the structure of magic has become much stronger. If the children here learn those things from a young age, will it be easier for them to understand the structure of magic
May 10
The theme of today's visit is the magic school. In addition to visiting the school building, we also listened to the speech of Mr. Mao Kai, the most advanced magician in the field of magic theory in the Tower of China. He is a very talented magician. Although the novel theories and hypotheses he proposed are different from the traditional magic cognition, I naturally believe them.
What surprised me was that in Chinese magic schools, not everyone spent all their time learning magic. The younger ones had to complete the basic courses every day before learning magic, while the adults had to finish their daily work. This was unimaginable in the magic tower, where every wizard wanted to use every moment, every minute and every second to learn magic.
When I asked Mr. Mao Kai about this issue, he told me a Chinese proverb: Sharpening the knife does not delay the chopping of wood.