Arcane Linguist

Chapter 13

"Hello, Roland, my name is Scudder."

Among the two students who came to meet him, one of them was a chubby boy who looked a little simple and honest, but he was wearing gorgeous clothes and had fair skin. He was from a noble family.

With a bright smile on his face, he shook hands with Roland.

The other person is a red-haired girl wearing black-rimmed glasses. She was holding a stack of thick books tightly when she met her, looking a little nervous.

She stretched out her hand in a hurry, trying to imitate their handshake, but she almost slipped the book from her arms.

She couldn't help but blushed, and said timidly, "Yi... Yiwen."

"Hello, Yi Wen, nice to meet you."

Roland touched his chest with his right hand, bowed slightly, and said sincerely.

"I... nice to meet you too..."

Yiwen lowered her head, twisted her body, and said in an inaudible voice.

"Okay, Yiwen, don't be nervous. The three of you are the only students in this tower this year. You will spend many years together as classmates in the future. I have called you here this time to give you a chance to get to know each other. Each other, exchange contact information."

The person in charge of the freshmen, the double-tailed loli senior Froya, watched them salute each other, and said with a smile.

Taking advantage of the gap between the exchanges, the maids brought up some fruits, drinks and other things for them to enjoy.

Several people sat down and turned the topic to arcane arts.

Only at this time did Roland realize that Scudder was more interested in the applied science of magic words, to put it bluntly, in the research of alchemy, magic scrolls, etc., and he was responsible for multiple invention patents and related awards.

Yi Wen is an expert in translation, good at translating various foreign languages ​​and languages, especially proficient in Elvish and Celestial languages.

She had already obtained two advanced translation certificates certified by the empire during her time in the academy, and her professional accomplishments were comparable to some high-level arcanists!

As for Roland, Froya blew a little for him.

"He was personally recruited by Your Excellency Orvisto, and he was specially granted the quota of level 1 spell proficiency! The current major he chooses is Linguistics."

Scudder and Evan were immediately in awe.

The linguistics of Alteraine includes hundreds of sub-disciplines such as philology, phonetics, grammar, semantics, dialectology, lexicography, runes, spells, cryptography, etc. It is the root and ancestor of the rune school. It is also the most basic general subject.

Not to mention the authenticity of the mages who specialize in this, being able to conduct research in such an ancient and traditional (outdated) field is a pure founder (thankless), worthy of everyone's respect and love (protection) Rare Animals).

Roland said: "My graduation thesis during college was a review of a writing system called oracle bone inscriptions, and I planned to create a brand new ideographic writing system based on the pictographic, referring, knowing, and pictophonic character creation methods.

As we all know, the language of Arterine is not bad, but the words... can be called a mess. This is also because the magic power of Arterine was borrowed from elves and dragons in the early stage of development, and it was deeply affected invisibly. "

Froya couldn't help showing a bit of helplessness: "This direction is really not that easy to go deep into. It's vast and complicated, not to mention hard to produce results, and it's hard to get wide recognition, so it has always been a hot topic rather than a hot topic."

"Indeed, creating a text and language in the true sense is almost equivalent to shaping the soul of a civilization!"

"The history of the creation of characters is the history of the development of civilization. It is impossible for one person to imagine it out of thin air than the practice of millions of people over a long period of time.

Many so-called creations are actually the mirror image of the original text, distortions, pronunciation and grammar rules are often also based on existing things.

The writing system that modern mages tried to create also has these limitations.

After all, most of them still have to learn from the language and characters of the elves and dragons, with limited innovation and difficult to unify standards. "

Skold and Egwene also expressed their opinions.

"Is that how everyone sees it?"

During the exchange, Roland fell into deep thought.

At first, he copied oracle bone inscriptions just for graduation.

Unexpectedly, he was able to be highly recognized by the Archmage Orvisto and recruited himself into the tower.

This shows that its existence does have certain arcane significance.

Roland also likes to read some novels about time travel and rebirth, and has seen settings such as "The ancient forbidden curse is actually Mandarin", "Chinese is the language of the gods".

All these things may become real through the introduction of one's own efforts.

But everyone wants to enjoy the shade under the tree, and even pick the fruit. Sometimes, I have not seen anyone planting a tree before, but I have to do it myself.

I have to be the predecessor who planted the tree!
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With such motivation, Roland continued to frequent the library, deduced the evolution of font shape, pronunciation, meaning, etc. based on the existing characters, and gradually perfected the character creation rules and basic sentence patterns of oracle bone inscriptions, even relying on the precious memories in his mind , compiled a dictionary.

Some things, even by copying, are not so easy to copy.

Roland has selected and organized thousands of words, and he still needs to consider whether it fits the general environment of this world. There are also some creative values ​​of his own.

Due to the lack of freshmen in the same class, each other's every move was paid close attention to each other, and what he did soon alarmed the head of freshmen, Froya, and two classmates.

Froya shook her head again and again: "What should I say about you, tsk tsk... Are you ambitious, or are you overconfident?"

But Scudder said enviously: "Sister Froya, don't say that, I think Roland is very brave, and he is ahead of us.

Although the duration of study here is a full four years, most people can obtain official mage status in two or three years if they work hard enough.

At that time, the mage level will be raised according to the old system, but the arcanist will be completely linked to the arcane achievements.

With one more paper, it is possible to have one more advantage, which has a great impact! "

Yiwen also showed a look of shock, and at the same time, she was a little bit excited: "Luo... Student Luo Lan is really amazing!"

"All right, all right, don't regret it if you get rejected!"

Froya rolled her eyes and said.

"You juniors who don't know the heights of the sky and the depths of the earth, you have never been beaten by the cruel reality.

Do you really think that arcane essays are those little essays you wrote in your student days to practice your skills? "

These freshmen are all from top academic backgrounds, so they don't think there is anything wrong with such advanced learning and research.

But the entire Arcane Empire and the Arcane World have not made any significant progress in the huge project for thousands of years, so let him, the savior, promote it?

What a beautiful idea!

(End of this chapter)