Arcane Linguist

Chapter 150 Finalization of the Writing System

Orvisto Mage Tower, in residence.

"The compilation of the magic rune is passed, the structure is reasonable, and the resonance rate is passed... Passed!"

Roland was exchanging emails, reviewing the results of magical seal characters jointly contributed by members of the school.

Since the establishment of the Joint Research Institute, he no longer works alone, so this project has won the support of all parties.

The establishment of radicals enables him to adopt a collaborative approach similar to that of an open source community, and gather the power of everyone through joint research.

There is no distributed version control system such as Git in this world, but since ancient times, some engineering experience of national revision books or great Confucianism repair books is enough to greatly make up for this defect, so this project is progressing smoothly.

After some efficient work, the effect of "Scholar's Enthusiasm" gradually faded, and Roland, whose brain had been running at high speed for a long time, finally felt a little tired.

After he gave an instruction to copy files to the "Magic Quill" next to him, he stood up and stretched long.

"Owner."

The fox-eared lady who was waiting next to her came over and served the milk tea she had already prepared.

Roland took the tea and drank it, and at the same time asked: "Help me sort out these manuscripts."

The fox-eared lady responded.

Immediately packed up the manuscripts and went to the small desk on the other side to get busy.

Roland came to the rocking chair and sat down, cast the "screen casting technique", and checked the news on the magic net.

At this time, it was already June 6th. The "Dream Art" paper submitted to "Magic" was officially published, and as expected, it received many congratulatory letters.

The Magic Web Management Office also issued an announcement at the same time, stating that this spell would be assessed, which set off a wave of learning new spells.

Many people have expressed that they will try to use this method to improve their mage status.

Roland didn't care about the upsurge, but looked at another email.

"Dear Mr. Roland, your application for exemption from the test has been approved..."

Seeing this, he was refreshed.

"Including the previous Level 2 spells, including the Power Word of Siris, I finally filled the 10 spots.

Finally approved for promotion!
From now on, I will be a real Tier [-] mage! "

The second-level mage still belongs to the low-level category. Under normal circumstances, the spell quota is 6/4/2, that is, 0 level 6 spells, 1 level 4 spells, and 2 level 2 spells;
However, this is only the quota for the battle mage sequence itself.

Roland has arcane achievements and other additional rewards. The current quota is obviously higher than that of normal second-tier mages.

"Your level 0~2 spell available quota has increased.

当前法术配额：12/11/8/6/4+1/4/2/0+1……”

Looking at the email sent by the Magic Net Management Office, Roland smiled slightly.

"With the system of Arterine, it is always arcane achievements and various special awards that really widen the gap in strength between mages.

Of course, magic equipment and combat experience are equally important.

The composition of strength is diversified and all-round, and the current promotion is only one part of it.

Its greatest significance is to verify the feasibility of using the "dream technique" to improve oneself.

Next, it should be to obtain the third-level certificate as soon as possible, and then find a way to break through the bottleneck. "

From trainee sorcerer to level one to level three, the gap is actually not very big, and most people can rely on time accumulation to improve.

But starting from the fourth level, it is the difference between the low level and the middle level.

A breakthrough is required in the middle, or some potions and rituals for promotion are sought.

In fact, things like "Dream Art" were originally supposed to be used to advance from Tier [-] to Tier [-], but Roland used his divine power to deduce and mastered this spell in advance.

In the process of popularization, how to evolve and develop, even he himself is not quite sure.

"Roland, look quickly, some people on the Internet are discussing whether you should participate in this year's 'Arcane Star' selection!"

At this moment, Scudder suddenly sent a message using the messenger technique.

"Those people must have too much trouble."

Roland couldn't help replying.

He looked through it curiously, and sure enough, in the community of the "Arcane Review", which is known as the magic net toilet, a group of idle gossip lovers have already started discussions.

One of the posts became very popular, and it was titled: "Hot Candidates for This Year's Arcane Star".

This was originally just a simple popular science post, introducing leading talents in various fields of the Seven Schools to the people who eat melons.

Most of them are well-known arcanists above the sixth or seventh rank, and they are easy to be nominated by all parties to participate in the selection of arcane stars.

I don't know which die-hard fan or little black boy it is, so I mentioned Roland inexplicably.

As a result, Roland, who had nothing to do with this matter, was immediately popularized.

"A sorcerer who has just been promoted to the first level and has taken off his apprentice hat can also select the 'Arcane Star'? Don't make people laugh!"

"What nonsense are you talking about? Mr. Roland is clearly a fifth-rank arcanist. We have a dual-track system for mage ranks in Arterine, and an intermediate lecturer is his real rank!"

"Even so, they are not qualified to participate in the selection. The other candidates are usually above the sixth level, and this is only a name for the selection. So many arcanists of the seventh to eighth level are not eligible yet!"

"Those old and vulgar people rely on their qualifications. After several years, they finally got the chance to be selected. How can they compare with our Lord Roland?"

"Yes, Mr. Roland's achievements are resounding. In the past ten years, which Arcanist's achievements can compare with his?"

"Don't say ten years, not even 100 years!"

"Forgive me, arcane stars can be selected bye-bye, and they don't necessarily have to be selected every year. Among them, fame, qualifications, achievements, strength, and other conditions are all indispensable. Even if there is no arcanist If the results are comparable to Roland, it should be a bye, he is too junior to talk about this right now!"

"It's a fool's opinion that the arcane world is so degraded because of your stink of ranking seniority!"

……

Roland was numb.

Big brother, you can do it!
What is my situation now, do you have no idea?

It is said that people are afraid of being famous and pigs are afraid of being strong. He does have some fans now, but many unnecessary troubles follow.

For example, under this kind of topic, it is easy to be lifted out of the tank.

Quite a number of sixth-level, seventh-level, and even eighth-level arcanists are said to be completely inadequate to compare with them.

This is also due to the fact that Alteraine does not award the Arcane Star Award to the Archmage as a rule, for fear that the Archmage's reputation and status will be too important, which will affect the fairness of the selection. The public will also be denounced as worthless.

Roland looked at those accounts and found that many of them were wild mages and adventurers.

Among them, I don't know how many fake posts, or people who make fire at random.

It is not easy to find it along the Internet.

It was not easy for him to come forward in such a matter, so he had to turn to his teacher for help and ask how to deal with it.

After hearing this, Orvisto laughed, but he didn't care: "Do you think that you are the only one who encounters such troubles? Everyone comes here like this, and you won't be blamed.

However, when encountering this kind of thing, one should be cautious in words and deeds, so as not to be too sharp and offend people without knowing it. "

"Teacher, what are the requirements to win this award? Is it really based on influence, fame and qualifications as the rumors say?"

"Indeed, what you have to do now is to wait for time to prove your achievements."

What Orvisto was referring to was the influence of the whole school of Seres.

If the school fails to form a sufficiently strong force, it means that the significance of this achievement is not that great.

vice versa.

When Roland heard about it, he put it aside for the time being.

Those people on Monet can say whatever they like.

There was really nothing he could do about it.

Fortunately, as time passed, this year's Arcane Star Awards were all bye, and no one won this honor.

Sure enough, the heat of this matter gradually faded, and no one talked about it.

By this time, it was already late June.

Roland finally sorted out his ninth paper - "Construction of the Siresian Writing System".

Attachment: "Shuowen Jiezi"!
The thesis itself is very simple, just a short essay of preface and review nature.

Roland gave an introduction to the accompanying "Shuowen Jiezi", summarizing the development history of the Seres language in a simple and simple way, which can be regarded as a staged summary.

"Shuowen Jiezi" is China's first dictionary that systematically analyzes the shape of characters and studies etymology. It was written by Xu Shen, a classicist and philologist in the Eastern Han Dynasty. During the first year (12 years).

Xu Shen created 540 radicals according to the shape of the characters, and classified 9353 characters into 540 parts, and the 540 parts were grouped into 14 categories according to the shape. The catalog is divided into one article, and there are 14 chapters in the whole book, including a volume of preface.

In this book, he systematically expounded the rules of Chinese character creation—Six Books, which are the four methods of word creation named pictographic, referring to things, knowing, and pictophonic by later scholars, as well as the two methods of using characters by transcribing and borrowing.

This is a summary of the entire writing system, and it is also the essence of Chinese writing.

The process of magicalization can be handed over to people in this world, but such fundamentals still need to be handled by oneself so as not to deviate.

Naturally, there was a reason for choosing to publish such a paper when the seal character magic project was almost in progress.

Jiang Liangfu once stated in "Ancient Philology" (Zhejiang People's Publishing House, 1984 edition): "All the laws of Chinese characters are all expressed in the shape of Xiaozhuan. It summarizes all the trends and laws of the development of Chinese characters, and also embodies the entire spirit of the structure of Chinese characters."

It can be said unceremoniously that this is another new masterpiece of Roland since he carried "Studies on Oracle Bone Inscriptions" and "Bronze Inscriptions".

It deconstructs the rules of Chinese characters, arrangement style, explanation method, interpretation principle, configuration system, etc., and together builds a great monument that is insurmountable in the entire history of Chinese development.

Roland believes that it is a milestone in the traditional Chinese (Traditional Chinese) in the true sense.

Although when it was transported to this world, some branches were consciously cut off, and some simplified characters were retained from various ancient Chinese, 籀, seal, Qin stone, or style, vulgar style, and strange characters, as a basis for the future development of simplified characters. bedding.

This is for ease of acceptance and learning.

Making such a decision was not an easy task, but Roland didn't want to repeat the "four ways to write the word fennel in fennel beans", so he simply kept the simple and traditional one like "fennel".

As for the scripts and scripts of the Seven Kingdoms, all the seven styles of calligraphy were also cut off, and only the small seal script of the Qin Kingdom remained.

Calligraphy can be divided into seal script, regular script, official script, running script, regular script, etc., and can also be subdivided into big seal and small seal script, Wei Bei Tang Kai, thin gold style, and Song style.

But Yan Guo characters, Korean characters, and Qi characters are really unnecessary.

There are reasons for these various choices, and they are not just copied blindly, and the soul database in the back of my mind is not so complete.

Roland consciously narrowed down the development route of Cyris, just like a big tree has many roots, but only one trunk, and then develops branches and leaves on it, and bears fruit.

What he has gathered now is such a backbone.

Starting from this article, the Seris language system has completely completed the rooting of the tree, and is about to enter a new chapter.

Because these various characters will be detached from the changes of different fonts such as oracle bone inscriptions and bronze inscriptions, and will be completely stable.

In the history of the evolution of traditional Chinese characters for thousands of years, there are not many newly created characters, because it is already a relatively mature and stable system. Even a batch of elements in the periodic table are rarely used, and they were used by the imperial clan of the Ming Dynasty. The characters in the names of the princes and grandchildren, or the word "赵" invented by Wu Zetian, are essentially derivatives within the framework of this system.

From then on, there are only heteromorphic or different calligraphic variants.

In January 2001, the "Law of the People's Republic of China on the Common Language and Writing of the People's Republic of China" was implemented, which clearly stipulates that China implements standardized Chinese characters, and also defines the scope of traditional Chinese characters. On June 1, 2013, the "General Standard Chinese Character List" was published. The "Comparison Table of Standard Characters, Traditional Chinese Characters, and Variant Characters" was published. The use of Chinese characters in general application fields is subject to the standard character list.

This is the summary of the previous life Blue Star in the later life.

But Roland has consciously paid attention to these differences from now on, and will also "invent" the corresponding simplified Chinese characters and simplified radicals.

During the finalization period, Roland consulted some members of the school for their opinions, and at the same time consulted Lunefice and his teacher, which was greatly recognized.

They also believe that this will push the entire Siris writing system to a whole new level.

It's still the same, and you can directly contribute to "Arcane" when you are ready.

Unlike ordinary people who would find it difficult to publish an article on "Arcane", Roland no longer set his sights on such a platform.

So after he finished this task, he summoned Al, happily approached the stele to brush, and practiced calligraphy.

But in the editorial department of "Arcane", there was a small disturbance.

The archmage in charge of reviewing the manuscript could see that the writing system of the entire Seres language had indeed taken shape.

The previous oracle bone inscriptions, bronze inscriptions, seal characters and other characters were all unified into the framework of "Seres characters".

"The corresponding Siris rune should also come out."

"This should be a universal magical rune. Through a unified coding method, various characters and calligraphy fonts will be accommodated to form the final solution."

"Perhaps the Arcane Star should be granted to him when this Siris rune comes out."

The arcanists of the Rune School all saw his ambition and plan, but their reaction was unexpectedly calm.

In the minds of many people, it is almost a matter of time before Roland obtains the Arcane Star.

A few years faster or a few years slower, that's all.

And when the comments of several great mages in the editorial department spread, all parties agreed unanimously.

There was no fixed standard for the selection of Arcane Stars, and what was important was that it would happen naturally.

However, there are still some projects or goals in reality.

This kind of thing that has not yet been formed, but will almost certainly be launched, can be used as a specific indicator.

"Where does this go? If you want to include calligraphy fonts and various special-shaped characters in a unified way, plus simplified characters, more than half of them have not yet come out in time.

Then we have to carry out magical transformations one by one, and then there are stereotypes of classical Chinese, improvement of vernacular, various literary genres, meaning carriers...

After all these are in place, we can talk about the unification of magic runes and merge them into the collection of Seris runes. "

Roland shook his head secretly after reading some feedback feedback.

Thought the writing in Seres ended here?
Wrong, the stage of traditional Chinese and classical Chinese is just beginning!

But just the text itself, it can be said that the framework has been established, stable and mature.

The construction of the Cyris Rune can also be carried out simultaneously.

The first thing to do is to bring in the previous magical achievements such as oracle bone inscriptions, bronze inscriptions, and seal characters, and compile them comprehensively.

This will be a long-term project.

This kind of thing has never been done by one person. Although Roland has carried many achievements from Blue Star in his previous life, after being magical, it is the joint achievement of the members of the school.

This is also the foundation he laid in this world.

Roland began to discuss this issue within the school.

The development sequence and stage markers of "Jia Jin Zhuan Li Cao Kai Xing Jian" were clearly put forward for the first time.

At this moment, Tarling sent a notice saying that Orvisto asked him to go there.

Roland came to the ninth floor of the mage tower to meet his teacher.

Orvisto was in the study, met Roland, and said: "The graduation season of another year is here. According to the previous practice, I will go to Nevis City for rotation, and the authority in the mage tower will be handed over to Ta Ling.

This time, because there are some otherworldly matters that need to be dealt with, it may take longer than before to leave. You stay here, and if you have anything, please contact me in time. "

Roland said with a smile: "Teacher, are you referring to Trina? The Mage Tower has its own defense mechanism. It's just an adult dragon, and it can't turn the sky."

Orvisto gave him a blank look, but he didn't say much, he just said: "The enrollment plan in the tower is still carried out according to last year's specifications, if there are satisfactory talents by then, please pay more attention.

Now that you have the status of an intermediate lecturer, you can be regarded as having experience in teaching work. However, you have not experienced other positions as a mage stationed in the tower. I want to take advantage of the arrival of the new school year to let you do an internship. "

"Rotation internship?" Roland was slightly startled when he heard this, but soon understood.

Alteraine has always believed in the saying that learning is superior to being an official, and high-ranking arcanists are all directly in control of power.

He is even more likely to start a school and become a potential leader of a party.

The teacher is training himself as the new tower master.

It may not be necessary to inherit the title in this mage tower, but after all, it is possible to take charge of a mage tower, or hold an important position on the committee.

No basic work experience is not enough.

"Originally, this kind of thing didn't start until after you graduated from the tower, but you took off your apprenticeship hat in advance, so it is necessary to arrange it." Orvisto explained.

Roland said: "Understood, teacher, which position should I start with first?"

Orvisto said: "The affairs in the tower are nothing more than four categories: teaching, research, daily operation, and defense, and the most cumbersome and common among them is daily operation.

This involves the management of servants and materials in the tower, the maintenance of various equipment, the operation of the magic circle, and so on.

But these can all be outsourced, so that specialized personnel can be used to perform the service, or a dedicated person can be responsible for it like a general affairs officer, without the tower owner needing to worry too much.

The same is true for defense work, you only need to hold these positions concurrently to get a general understanding.

The job of an arcanist is teaching and research, and among them, the management of the library, spellcasting training room, and arcane laboratory is the most important.

You should start as a librarian first, and understand the work of book procurement and various data collection and management after a mage tower is established.

There may also be many out-of-print orphans or anonymous works from different worlds involved, which requires a certain amount of experience and knowledge to judge the classification. "

Roland said: "Okay, teacher, I will try my best."

"In this mage tower, the library in the teaching area on the seventh floor is a public library, which stores various published books and arcane materials, and on the ninth floor, my private library contains some rare books.

You have read it before, but you have not understood it from the perspective of a manager. You will have to learn how to manage and manage these things in the future, so that you will have the opportunity to build your own private collection in the future. "

"Then teacher, will you send me some rare copies from the outside world?" Roland asked tentatively.

"You don't need to think about it, it would be good if you can open a part of it for your reference or transcription." Orvisto vetoed it on the spot, and warned by the way, "Every book here has been registered and cataloged, don't let me go gone."

There is no such thing as a scholar here, because magic books and various precious materials represent rare knowledge, and the circulation of such knowledge is itself controlled.

Every arcanist attaches great importance to these things, and without permission, they are as close as master and student, father and son, and they will not easily give or accept.

　Part of the information is extracted from Baidu Encyclopedia and Internet information. It is hereby stated that in order to avoid affecting reading, it is not frequently marked in the text.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)