Regarding the afternoon classes, Xia Duo consulted the tower spirit. Apprentices can make their own decisions based on their own learning progress. Generally, apprentices who have just entered the mage tower will be taught by some outstanding formal apprentices in the hall on the first floor.
Furthermore, you can choose to join the course of a formal mage, no application is required, but a formal mage will not specifically change the progress for a certain person. If you can't keep up, you will either have to drop out of the next level course, or continue listening until the course is repeated again.
By asking the tower spirit, you can get a list of courses offered by various official mages. Xia Duo got a general understanding. There are detailed explanations of a specific spell, the structure of the magic network, the manufacturing of magic items, and even specialized mages.
Etiquette class, elf etiquette class.
However, these have nothing to do with Xia Duo for the time being. His current magic foundation is almost 0, and he has not even passed the text level. How can he be in the mood to consider other things.
The only thing he can choose now is the most basic "Magic Enlightenment Course", which is taught by a formal apprentice named Ganal in the hall on the first floor.
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In the lobby on the first floor of the Tower of Time, although the previous official mage steward had mentioned that 26 new apprentices had joined this year, when Sha Duo came here, there were only less than 10 of them.
Xiao Neil also appeared among them, and Xia Duo was not surprised. He had already realized it when he entered the tower for the assessment. Except for him, everyone else had more or less money in their families. They invited someone who had given up magic.
It does not cost much for apprentices who leave the mage tower to initiate early enlightenment.
12:30.
Ganard, the official apprentice who was teaching the class, suddenly appeared in the hall on the first floor, glanced around, and finally stopped at Xia Duo.
The apprentice's ability is indeed very noticeable when surrounded by a group of unenlightened people.
However, facing Ganal's gaze, Chateau still looked at him very generously. He did have shortcomings, but he was working hard to improve, and there was nothing shameful about it.
Fortunately, Ganal only stared at him for a moment, and then started today's lecture without any ridicule or words of criticism.
"Everyone, since you have chosen to join the Mage Tower, you can't waste these three years. Otherwise, why not just go to the town to find other jobs? Since you have thoughts about the path of magic, you have to give it all.
Don’t waste your energy and your family’s efforts.”
"Today's class will not involve any magic knowledge. I will introduce to you my experience of living, studying, and working in the Mage Tower, as well as the stories of several legendary figures."
Ganal's first lesson did not start directly with magic. Instead, he first told everyone about daily life in the Mage Tower and things that need to be paid attention to at work, with a little encouragement and prospects.
The experience of being a formal apprentice was also very valuable to Chateau. He eagerly absorbed the experience taught by Ganal, and combined it with his own specificity, leaving records on parchment from time to time.
The stories of legendary figures told by Ganal also brought great spiritual encouragement to Shado.
Archmage Darthriel was a farmer until he was 30 years old. He accidentally obtained a magic enlightenment book when he was 30 years old, but he did not choose to sell the book to improve his life.
Instead, he spent a huge amount of money to learn writing from scratch. During this period, even his son laughed at him and thought it was extremely ridiculous for a peasant to dream of becoming a mage.
But Darthriel never gave up. Faced with doubts from his family and ridicule from his neighbors, he could only secretly use his spare time to learn from scholars in the city.
People were surprised that Darthriel pulled a cart of dry firewood into the town, but did not come back with any silver coins. Day by day, year by year, Darthriel released the first 0 when he was 35 years old.
When he learned magic, his life changed.
After the local lord learned about the story of a peasant who became a mage through self-study, he invested in him and brought him into the mage tower. From then on, Dathriel was on the road to magic.
When he was 45 years old, the orcs invaded Darthriel's hometown. At the critical moment, Darthriel descended from the sky with magic all over him. Only then did people know that he had become a noble archmage.
And many people believe that Archmage Darthriel will become a legend.
Shado had heard the legend of Darthriel from adventurers at the Old Neil Inn before, but what the adventurers told was more scattered and exaggerated, and it was not as vivid and real as what Ganal told.
In addition to Archmage Darthriel, Ganal also tells the story of Grand Arcanist Congenio, who invented the Ioun Stone hundreds of years ago and is still alive today.
It is also vivid and touching, which makes Xia Duo yearn for it.
However, to Shado's surprise, Iolum's name was not mentioned by Ganal. In the background of the game that Shado played before crossing over, the name Iolum was the same as Netheril.
The most closely associated name.
When it comes to Netheril, we have to mention the floating city - cutting off the mountain peak, making it float and reverse, and build a city in the clouds on it.
What can support a mountain peak going in and out of the clouds?
The answer is the Mithral core invented by Iolum.
However, Sha Duo has never heard of the Floating City since he traveled through time. Obviously, the Mysel Energy Core has not been invented yet. Sha Duo does not know when the Mysser Energy Core was invented by Iolum.
But before this time, Iolum should not be an unknown person, not to mention the fact that Lord Saville's ancestor, the Great Arcanist Saville, was a student of Iolum.
Ganal mentioned before that he wanted to tell the story of a legendary figure, and Shado was also expecting that there would be a story about Iolum, but to his surprise, he didn't mention it at all.
Shado was extremely eager for the Mysel Energy Core and the Floating City. If he came to Netheril and couldn't control the floating city to traverse various planes, then his trip would be in vain.
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Time flies, and half a day has passed. At around 5 p.m., Ganal is ready to end today's lecture, and before the end is the daily question and answer session.
Even formal apprenticeships will have a question-and-answer session, but usually formal apprenticeships are taught to ordinary apprentices, so they can often be ignored, but today there is an extra question.
Ganal did not ignore Shado, but directly called him by name, "Apprentice Shado, do you have any questions to ask?"
The other seven or eight ordinary apprentices immediately looked at Xia Duo with envy. Xia Duo actually had many questions in his heart. He did not have the ability to communicate with real formal apprentices on an equal footing, so he could only ask questions through the opportunity of asking questions.
Already.
But it's not possible today. Yesterday, he and Dean agreed to help him ask questions about [Repair Technique] to the official mage. Although Ganal is not an official mage, he can become a formal apprentice. It shouldn't be difficult to answer this question, but I don't know him.
Will you answer questions outside of the course?
"I promised an apprentice to ask questions about [Repair Technique] for him, is that okay?"
Ganal was not surprised at all. He had seen too many such behaviors of trading personal opportunities to ask questions. "Okay, but I can only answer one question."