After reading the story of Altria's life and learning about King Arthur's past and present lives, the magicians were all stunned.
It can be said that the story in the setting collection highlights the tragedy of Altria's life to the fullest, to the point of rubbing salt into the wound.
Of course, the magicians’ focus is not on Altria’s tragedy. They care more about the various settings in the story than the story itself.
"Altria is actually a man-made person. I really didn't realize that."
"Rather than calling her an artificial human, she is more like a modified human. She gained her power by injecting the blood of other races. So, can human blood mixed with other blood really make one stronger?"
"Go to the border and see the sub-orcs yourself. Not only do they lack the magical talents of humans, but they also lack the physical fitness of orcs. They have not absorbed the strengths of both races at all."
"That's true, but in reality, this doesn't mean that cyborgs can't be created, right? In fact, if we can absorb the strengths of various races, we might be able to create an extremely powerful creature."
"Uh, why do you find that so creepy? After all, if something like that really happened, would it still be human? His own perception of himself might not even be human."
"After all, cyborgs have long been a forbidden research project in the Mage Tower. Didn't the absurd things that the previous dean did prove the errors of these crazy studies?"
"You can't say that. We should take the essence of everything and discard the dross. The previous dean was too crazy and tried to completely change the biological nature of human beings. If he didn't go so far, maybe he could do it."
"That's right, and besides, cyborgs and the like, don't you think they're cool?"
"It's all about being handsome!"
"… "
All of a sudden, all kinds of voices rang out among the magicians.
Magicians are very interested in many things in Altria's story, such as the way the court magician Merlin trained Altria in her dreams...
Many magicians think that if they had such a convenient ability in reality, wouldn’t they be able to eat, drink and have fun every day, and then practice and solve problems in their dreams
Of course, it turns out that this is just wishful thinking. Human beings' current magic is not capable of deconstructing dreams, let alone interfering with them.
In addition, the sword in the stone that Altria pulled out, Mordred, the offspring created by Morgan le Fay based on Altria, and Altria's appearance that has hardly changed...
These numerous settings made the magicians unable to help but engage in heated discussions.
Perhaps many things are just settings in the story and cannot be realized in reality, but they can't help but discuss them.
This naturally includes the great sages at the top of the Mage Tower. Even though Durin was right in front of them, they had no scruples at all and expressed their opinions on the contents of the "Fate Zero" setting collection.
Chapter 367: Recruiting actors for "The Quintessential Quintuplets"!
Chapter 367
Although the "Fate Zero" setting collection had a huge influence when it first appeared, and it can be said that it completed a lot of supplements to the entire story of "Fate Zero", but after all, the content of such a short setting collection will not have a long-lasting impact.
Soon, people forgot about it and started looking forward to the sequel of the Fate series, "Fate Stay Night", which would be released at an unknown time.
After all, movies have a stronger impact than words, and people prefer to understand the stories of the Fate series through movies rather than just words.
During this period, many people have speculated what kind of story "Fate Stay Night" might have, but speculation is just speculation. To know what the story is, we still need to wait for the movie to be officially released to know the answer.
…
At the same time, at the top of the Mage's Tower.
After discussing the content of "Fate Zero", several great sages immediately turned around and asked Du Lin about the subsequent filming plans. It was obvious that they couldn't wait to know what kind of movie would be released next.
Naturally, Du Lin would not take the initiative to reveal such crucial information. Even to the great sages of the Mage Tower, he still did not explain too much. He just played dumb and then skipped the topic.
After everyone left, Dean Hohenheim suddenly looked at Du Lin and said:
"Regarding the enrollment of the Mage's Tower in a few months, do you have any ideas for the Magic Alchemy Department?"
Hearing what Dean Hohenheim suddenly said, Du Lin was slightly stunned and asked:
"Why do you ask this? The Magic Alchemy Department has only been restored for less than half a year, and the freshmen from the previous class haven't even finished digesting it yet."
Dean Hohenheim nodded in response to Du Lin's answer:
"Of course I know this, but in fact, the scale of creation of the magic alchemy discipline is now far greater than its actual size. The newly established patent system has almost only absorbed applications from your magic alchemy discipline, not to mention your movies and TV shows that have become popular throughout the empire. I think it may be time to consider expanding the scale of the discipline."
"Expanding the scale..."
Du Lin frowned slightly at the dean's words.
After all, he has hardly ever been in charge of the magical alchemy discipline until now, and the only manager of the entire discipline is Scar, who is almost going bald from working overtime.
However, due to the overall discontinuity of the subject, there were almost no lecturers other than Scar in the magic alchemy subject. Unless Du Lin was brought in to teach every day, the result of expanding the subject would only cause Scar, who was already almost exhausted, to die of overwork.
So no matter how you think about it, the expansion of the discipline of magic alchemy is something that should not happen.
But Dean Hohenheim obviously had his considerations when he said this, so Du Lin still wanted to hear his opinion.
On the other side, after noticing Durin's gaze, Dean Hohenheim thought for a while and then said:
"The reason why I want you to expand the scale before the next semester starts is because I want the Magic Alchemy Department to accept more ordinary students. After all, ordinary people can't control magic power, and it's impossible for them to learn existing magic. There are already many scholars studying the general history of magic, so there is no need for them to learn it."
"No matter how you think about it, if you want to recruit ordinary people into the magic academy, you can only import them into your Magic Alchemy School. After all, Magic Alchemy has undergone initial development, and now there are some skills that ordinary people can learn. They should be able to learn a lot."
"… "
After hearing what Dean Hohenheim said, Durin fell silent.
After thinking for a while, he slowly nodded and said:
"Indeed, after the introduction of magic stones from the Dwarf Kingdom, the magic alchemy discipline has enough energy. Even if ordinary people do not have magic power, they should be able to control the existing energy and use it through alchemical techniques. They may even be able to master some basic magic formulas."
"So you agree?"
"Well, as long as the academy can give us support and send some lecturers to help us out, and prevent Scar and I from dying from overwork, then there will be no problem."
"sure."
Upon hearing Du Lin's words, Dean Hohenheim immediately smiled and breathed a sigh of relief.
In this regard, Du Lin also knew the pressure that the other party was carrying. It could be said that it was indeed too difficult for the other party to do such an act that violated the past rules in the name of the dean of the Imperial Magic Academy.
But what is foreseeable is that if all this is finally successfully accomplished and a new history is created, the other party will also be engraved in the history of the empire as a great man like the first dean Roland.
…
After returning from the Imperial Academy of Magic, Du Lin started filming the new movie without any hesitation.
In the scheduled schedule, "The Quintessential Quintuplets" and the second season of "KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World" have already been planned and must be filmed as soon as possible no matter what.
In addition, Du Lin has entrusted the filming of "Fate Stay Night" to Chase.
After all, the fact that he was able to completely film the second half of "Fate Zero" is enough to prove Chase's strength.
The only problem is that the confrontation between the Western Frontier of the Empire and the Orc Kingdom has once again run into problems, and all members of the Imperial Central Knights have gone to the battlefield, so several of the main actors naturally cannot come back to film the movie.
Under such circumstances, Chase himself had to temporarily give up filming the movie and instead plan to decide on the actors for the movie first.
After receiving the script from Durin, he already had the idea of selecting actors. Except for those servants who were too distinctive in the story, he had already considered most of the characters.
As for all this, after Du Lin handed the script to the other party, he no longer cared about it and let the other party shoot it.
He himself returned to Northric as soon as possible and asked Zat to gather the main actors of "KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World" and then began to select actors for "The Quintessential Quintuplets".
Although before the selection, he felt that everything was very simple, after all, there were not many characters in "The Quintessence", and the five heroines were also very distinctive, so he might be able to find them quickly by searching widely.
But it was not until several days after Du Lin posted the recruitment statement and still had no news that he finally felt a little panicked.
"Is it difficult to find five beautiful girls who look exactly the same but have different features? No, it seems that this is really difficult to find..."
Suddenly, Du Lin felt a little nervous.
After all, he had just boasted to His Majesty the King that he could definitely make a movie, but now problems have arisen before the mission has even begun. This is too outrageous...
Just when Durin couldn't help wanting to go look for it himself, and even considered whether the problem could be solved through magic, news suddenly came from Vanir, saying that there was clues about the actor!
Chapter 368: Dulin Edward? Get him out!
Chapter 368
Regarding the actors of "The Quintessential Quintuplets", Du Lin was originally full of confidence.
After all, with the amount of scripts he had written, the actors only needed to be the protagonist Fuutarou Uesugi's family and the five quintuplets. The other characters almost only needed to be cast as extras and did not need to be given much consideration.
To describe Du Lin's mood in one sentence, he has never fought such a rich battle in his life...
But because he was too confident at the beginning and did not give it enough consideration, he was stunned when he found out that quintuplet sisters almost did not exist in the world.
In this situation, when Du Lin heard Viscount Barnier say that he had clues, he immediately went to find the other party.
"Oh, great and respectable God of Movies, Lord Dulin, you are finally here."
As soon as they met, Viscount Barnil acted like a dog-licker, which made Du Lin reveal a subtle expression.
But in fact, Barnier's mentality is also easy to understand.
After all, movies are now taking over the empire with unstoppable force, occupying every town, big and small, at an unimaginable speed, and the countless wealth they bring is almost enough to make any thoughtful businessman scream from the bottom of his heart.
As the beneficiary of all this, Barnil had already worshipped Durin as a god in his heart. He seemed to be quite restrained at the moment, but who knows what weird prayers he was muttering when he was alone.
On the other side, ignoring Vanir's licking dog look, Du Lin sighed and said decisively:
"I heard that Viscount Vanir seems to have some clues about the actor I'm looking for?"
"certainly."
As the nominal helmsman of the film industry, Banier immediately demonstrated his professionalism and quickly took out a document and handed it to Du Lin.
"This is a piece of information I came across in a town in the West. The five girls in the information are the daughters of a theater director. He wanted to have all five daughters join the stage play industry, but because the entire stage play industry has declined due to the impact of movies, he is about to give up this idea. If Director Du Lin goes to him in the name of making a movie, I think he should agree to your request."
"A stage play?"
Hearing what Vanir said, Du Lin frowned slightly.
After all, he had met many people in charge of stage plays before. Although they were polite on the surface and showed great respect to him, they still secretly resentful of him for destroying the industry.
Chase is considered an outlier, which is also due to the fact that he was marginalized in the mainstream stage of stage plays in the past.
Therefore, when he realized that he needed to meet the person in charge of the stage play again, Du Lin was actually a little reluctant in his heart.
But faced with the dilemma of not being able to find actors, Du Lin finally made up his mind and prepared to go to the West to meet the other party.
So, Durin returned to Edward's Tavern as soon as possible, packed up his things and prepared to set off for the West.
Just then Helena looked over from a distance and asked him what he was going to do.
After learning that Du Lin was going to the West, the girl immediately showed a subtle attitude.
"What’s wrong with you?"
Facing Du Lin's confusion, Helena thought about it and made up her mind and said:
"Well, my hometown is actually in the Western Territory. I haven't been back for a long time. How about I go with you this time?"
"You haven't been back for a long time? But I remember you went back once after filming the first part of "KonoSuba: God's Blessing for a Wonderful World"?"
"Ahahaha, actually... well... "
"You're not going to tell me that you just made up an excuse and actually used the money you earned to draw cards?"
"This... you... Du Lin, could it be that you have learned the magic of mind reading?"
"… "
Seeing the girl's confession, Du Lin sighed helplessly, waved his hand and asked her to stand on the teleportation magic circle.
Soon, the two disappeared from the spot and set off for the western border of the empire.
…
The western border of the empire.
As a land that Durin had never set foot on, the Westland had always retained a sense of mystery in Durin's heart.
After all, he had been to the North when filming "Goblin Slayer", and to the East when filming "Fate Zero" and "Kara no Kyoukai", plus the Imperial Capital where the Imperial Magic Academy is located.
In the entire empire, the western border was the only place he had never been to.
Now, after coming here, Du Lin has finally completed the achievement of traveling through the four borders of the empire.
In order to find the person in charge of the stage play, Du Lin spent a long time asking for directions and finally found the city where the other party was, the western fortress of Ludasas.
"The troupe manager we are looking for is named Rondo Dutch. He is a famous troupe manager in the West. He has led his stage play troupe to achieve amazing results in various performance conferences in the West. However, due to the influence of movies, his troupe has been greatly impacted recently and has not performed for a long time. In other words, with the terrifying dominance of movies nowadays, even if he performs again, not many people will come to watch."
Du Lin said this in a serious tone.
This scene slightly surprised Helena who was standing by.