Arcane Linguist

Chapter 164 Roland's New Job
After a few days, Roland packed up his luggage and made arrangements for the people in the tower and the duty rotation. Then he embarked on a journey and formally went to Nieves City to practice on a temporary duty.

"I really didn't expect that I would come to this city again in such a capacity."

Stepping out of the teleportation formation, the first person to express emotion was the green dragon Cuina.

Beside Roland, Al, Lady Fox Ear, Lady Dog Ear and other servants got busy, and the big and small bags were also dragged off the stage and moved to the side immediately.

They don't have much time to sigh, according to the regulations, it is important to quickly clear the things on the array.

Seeing this scene, the people around couldn't help casting surprised glances.

But Roland was wearing the usual robes common to mid-level mages, with his hands in his pockets, and he did not carry a staff or other equipment for battle mages. A group of delicate maids were busy beside him. A tall female elf and two short cats and cats stood There, you know that this person is either rich or noble.

Roland saw someone pointing from a distance, and suddenly remembered that this scene seemed familiar.

How do you say it?

Star travel?

But shouting and embracing was not the pomp he wanted, it was just bringing the servants here because of moving.

After a while, Al called the reserved moving company's carriage, and the big and small bags were also arranged properly, and they rushed to the new house rented here.

Roland didn't go with him, but took Trina with him, and went to the Art Rhine Mage Tower near the magic circle, intending to visit the teacher on duty here.

The surface of the huge mage tower overflows with magical aura, and under the sunlight, it looks like it was carved from white jade.

This is the famous landmark building of Nevis, the city of sky, and now the highest level of the empire, the office of the Arcane Council, the Art Rhine Mage Tower.

As soon as he stepped into the gate of the outer compound, he heard a warning sound from the tower spirit.

"The important place of the committee, idlers are not allowed to enter!"

A mage guard in silver-white light armor stepped forward and stopped Roland and Trina.

"You two, please stay here. Do you have anything to do here?"

"Oh, I'm looking for my teacher."

Roland took off his mage badge and handed it over.

The mage guard took it, input magic power to check it, and seemed to have learned his identity from Ta Ling.

"Hello, Mr. Roland, you can go in, but this..."

He looked at Trina with a hesitant expression.

"Is it a creature from another world, a family of giant dragons?"

"Yes, this is my personal bodyguard, Ms. Trina."

"I'm very sorry, aliens are not allowed inside."

"Tch!" Trina spat, but didn't say much, and said to Roland, "Then I'll wait for you outside."

Roland said, "Okay, I'll come out as soon as possible."

……

There were no pedestrians in the open space in front of the mage tower, because at this time point, few people were wandering outside.

But after entering the interior, more people come and go.

Along the way, there are many people wearing gorgeous robes and badges of high-ranking mages. Some of the affairs officers working here are in a hurry, as if they have endless business.

Roland took the public hanging ladder up to the second level of the mage tower.

This is where the Archmages work.

A staff member saw it and went up to greet him, but unexpectedly found that it was a familiar face.

"Mr. Roland?"

Roland came here with his teacher last time, and lived here for a while while avoiding journalists.

"You are here to find His Excellency Orvisto, he happens to be here, I will take you there."

The staff was very polite and quickly took Roland there.

At this moment, a well-mannered mage wearing a gorgeous mage robe and gold-rimmed glasses walked in. It was the high-ranking mage Swain I had seen before.

"Senior Swain, nice to see you again."

Roland was quite impressed with this high-level mage, although he hadn't seen him for a long time.

Swain smiled, and greeted in the same way: "Roland, we meet again. I have heard a lot of news about you."

The two were old, and they were both under Orvisto's door, so they quickly chatted enthusiastically, talking and laughing while going to Orvisto's office.

Soon after, they came inside and saw Orvisto sitting in the office reviewing documents.

"You are all here?"

Orvisto nodded and walked out from behind the big table.

"Sit down, I'm still working, so let's make a long story short."

Roland sat down with Swain on the small sofa in the reception area, looked at him, and motioned for him to go first.

Swain was not polite either, and started talking.

"Teacher, I have just returned from my investigation in the world of mist, and I have seen the cultural history and ancient ruins there, which is indeed of great benefit."

It turned out that he had gone to another world for investigation.

The Orvisto runes come from the compilation of ancient runes, which involve the history and culture of many elves, and are the results of arcane arts rooted in this civilization.

Compared with Roland, this Swain is the true inheritor of Orvisto's arcane achievements, and has extremely profound attainments in this field.

As for Roland, he hasn't officially started learning the Orvisto runes yet!

Roland listened vaguely, and then realized that the foggy world they called was a lost ancient city of elves, which was caught in some kind of doomsday crisis.

Si Wei also gained some gains from this trip, and the things obtained from it can be used to supplement the insufficiency of the Orvisto rune, making it more perfect.

"The investigation of the ruins is an important method for arcane research. If you have the opportunity in the future, you can also go there and have a look. It may be helpful for your Siris rune."

After listening to Swain's report, Orvisto said nothing to Roland.

"Serith rune?"

Swain looked a little confused.

"During your absence, Roland has already made some achievements. This trip to Nevis City is to seek a position in the editorial department of "Rune"."

Orvisto briefly introduced the field of the Siris School opened up by Roland.

Swain showed surprise on his face, never expecting that the little junior in his eyes has reached such a level in just two years.

It's good that he has some understanding of Roland's affairs, but he didn't expect such an exaggeration.

"Swain is a senior editor in the editorial department of "Magic", and he also worked in "Rune" before. He went out for inspection in the past year, and there are too many rotation dates owed, so he might have to stay on duty for a long time.

If you have any questions, you can just ask him.

By the way, when you complete the entry procedures later, I will ask someone to apply for a "Arcane" review assistant status for you.

This way, it is an important resume, and secondly, it is also convenient to enter and exit..."

Swain was surprised to hear Orvisto's exhortation to Roland. These indoctrinations seemed ordinary, but in fact they were not simple at all.

You know, this is the highest authority of the Arcane Empire, the office of the Arcane Committee!

The teacher is the archmage, grand arcanist, and arcane committee member of the empire.

This kind of person can distinguish between serious and serious, and can distinguish between public and private.

This kind of performance shows that Roland is indeed qualified for these.

Otherwise, it would be self-defeating to do so.

"It seems that a lot of things did happen during the time I was away." Swain showed a look of interest, and said to Roland with a smile, "Let's have a good chat later."

……

Afterwards, Roland left the location of the Arcane Council, called Trina who was waiting outside boredly, and rushed to his new home together.

It was a high-end neighborhood in the south of Nieves City, called Shansel Avenue, and the place he rented was Villa No. 10.

The city of Nevis is located on a huge pumice stone. The mages of the magic age built a city on it, known as the city of the sky, so the area is not large.

It is not an exaggeration to describe this place with every inch of land, unless it is an old aristocrat like the Cowrens family, it is almost impossible for ordinary people to own a property here.

However, the regime of the Magic Empire changed several times, the old nobles gradually lost their influence, and the real estate was also taken into public ownership. All these were collected by the Arcane Committee of Arterine and transformed into public rental housing.

The rent in such a place is not cheap. Roland rents a villa with an area of ​​1000 square meters.

Its main building is a 3-storey building with 16 rooms and 5 halls. The monthly rent is 550 gold coins, which is just the most basic housing cost and does not include private gardens, swimming pools, and nearby parks and neighborhoods. common maintenance costs.

If you add the shelter fee for arranging alien creatures to rent here, it will probably cost more than 800 gold coins.

You must know that even the special allowance of authoritative experts is only enough to maintain a living standard of 200 gold coins per month, and this is already considered a luxury.

But the corresponding environment is quiet, comfortable and beautiful.

Roland lived here with a few servants, and his own succubus companion butler, who took care of everything, so he didn't have to worry about his daily life.

More importantly, it is very close to the editorial office of the "Rune" journal, where he will be working in the future, and it takes about 15 minutes to walk there.

If you are not in a hurry, going back and forth like this every day is considered a walk.

Mr. Roland is a frugal person, he saves the daily transportation expenses, is healthy and environmentally friendly.

After Roland arrived, what he saw was the scene of Al leading a few maids up and down.

Roland asked: "Didn't you say that this is a high-end villa where you can move in with your bags? Why are there so many things to do?"

Fox Er Niang said with a smile: "Master, in order to maintain the same living habits as in the mage's tower, Elder Sister decided to modify the interior decoration according to the situation on site."

Al said seriously: "This is to make the host's living more comfortable and comfortable. Of course, there is also the renovation of the living area to suit Lady Trina."

In a place like Nieves, even a dragon has to be coiled, so Trina can only live here in the shape of an elf for a while.

In order to show respect for her high rank, Roland deliberately chose a place with a side building, and allocated the entire place to her.

Trina didn't know what "concubine" meant in Seris culture, so she was quite satisfied.

It is connected to the private garden and swimming pool in the villa, and to the other side, across the high wall, is the ecological park shared by the community.

Although it was impossible to live as freely as in the wild, because Roland promised to provide a big meal every day, he agreed to live with him here.

But these are not things that Roland is in a hurry to deal with.

He handed over these trivial matters of life to Al, and after a brief lunch and a short rest, he went to the editorial office of "Rune".

……

At this moment, in the "Rune" editorial department, everyone gathered.

Originally, the working hours of this place were very casual, and most people were divided into two shifts, the upper and lower shifts, but because they heard a news, they all chose to come here at this time.

When Roland arrived, he immediately recognized the mage Lei who had communicated with him on the magic net.

Beside him, a total of four mages, three men and one woman, were waiting. Together with the handymen and assistants who worked for the editorial department, a total of ten people were waiting here.

"Mr. Roland, welcome."

Even though Roland was a lecturer with a lower rank than himself, Lei, who had already reached the rank of associate professor, showed great enthusiasm, and stepped forward to shake hands with him, as if he was a follower willing to be inferior.

"I am Lei, and I am currently in charge of the arcane content related to the school of magic in the editorial department of "Rune"."

He looked middle-aged and mature, wearing a thick modern-style long coat and gold-rimmed glasses. He looked like a university liberal arts professor in the twentieth century.

Next to him, a man who was dressed in the same modern dress, but looked much more fashionable, with his hair combed and polished came out.

"Victor, I am currently in charge of the arcane content related to the School of Runes and the School of Magic in the editorial department of "Rune". Nice to meet you, Mr. Roland."

"It's a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Victor." Roland also shook hands with him.

Immediately afterwards, there was a fair-skinned woman in her thirties with dazzling golden long hair.

Although she is far from being as glamorous and dazzling as Lunephth, she can also be called a typical Bai Fumei type. Although the expensive modern women's clothing is not gorgeous, it is not difficult to tell that it is carefully crafted by famous craftsmen Made, full of fashion beauty.

"My name is Anna. I am a runegrapher and a scholar of mysticism. Nice to meet you."

After chatting for a while, I realized that she was a mage from the Gnosis school.

The School of Gnosis is not as keen on stargazing, divination, and feeling dreams as ordinary people think. That is because after entering modernization and carrying out arcane reforms, the content of these subjects has been incorporated into the arcane category of the School of True Knowledge. .

In short, it is to use arcane arts to analyze mystery, scientific magic, and reject feudal superstition.

Because of this, she once studied in the rune department and studied rune knowledge for a period of time.

This reminded Roland of what senior sister Froya had said.

If you want to improve in the field of arcane art, or develop in other places besides arcane art, as Sophia said, you should transfer to other schools when you have almost learned it.

The knowledge of the rune school is very basic and useful, so some experts in the fields of occultism or alchemy have studied it.

Masters will not limit their knowledge to a certain professional field, but extend it as much as possible within the scope of their ability, trying to include more.

As for specialization, that is another direction of development.

Then came Wynn and Bob, two ordinary-looking senior mages who were also associate professors.

There is no official job in this editorial department who is not a high-level arcanist!
They are experts from the Alchemy School and the Elemental School respectively, and they are also responsible for the content of their respective disciplines. They also have made achievements here because of their experience in studying runes, and each has published some relatively professional articles.

It's just that these resumes pale in comparison to Roland, who won the Morning Star Award for his achievements in linguistics.

It's not just the lack of arcane achievements, but also the gap in professionalism.

"Linguistics includes hundreds of sub-disciplines such as philology, phonetics, grammar, semantics, dialects, lexicology, runes, spells, cryptography, etc. You are especially good at philology and philology, grammar Semantics, semantics... We have already read your results and admire them deeply."

"This time you can join the editorial department, and the professionalism of "Rune" in this field will be more guaranteed. Before we encountered corresponding problems, most of them were to ask the superior department or the "Arcane" The authoritative experts from the side came to participate in the review, not to mention the trouble, but it seems very useless..."

The two expressed their great welcome to Roland's arrival. After all, in the world of arcane arts, results and professionalism come first.

This is related to the jobs of many people, and it is also the source of power and wealth.

After a simple welcome meeting, Lei enthusiastically led Roland aside and introduced each department and corresponding staff to him.

Compared with the official members of the editorial department, the status of other people is much lower. They are either assistants or ordinary clerks, responsible for printing materials, reviewing and proofreading.

However, even for these seemingly ordinary jobs, one must be from the Mage Tower and have the title of teaching assistant, and he must be a senior teaching assistant.

In other words, even the current senior Froya is not qualified to work here.

In Lei's words, such requirements are already very low. If it is changed to "Arcane", at least one must be a lecturer or above to work as a handyman.

Even, a high-ranking mage...

The "Arcane" manuscript review assistant that Orvisto wants Roland to work part-time is a post dedicated to serving the Archmage.

Roland's position here will be a special reviewer. Strictly speaking, he is not an editor included in the official establishment, but because of the rise of the Seris School and the increasing number of related manuscripts, it is also of considerable importance. .

Generally speaking, the identity of this special expert is determined by the arcane status and the importance of the subject.

Because Roland's importance is roughly equivalent to that of a high-level mage, the position he holds now is more formal than an on-the-job editor.

"Rune" showed due courtesy to this, and equipped him with a full-time assistant who also served as secretary.

Other than that, the handymen and various service personnel are shared by the editorial department and are not responsible to Roland, so there is no need to get to know them for a while.

This assistant is a 25-year-old official mage who has been working for many years, and has just reached the senior teaching assistant rank this year.

"Joge, I was born in the Rune Department of Iser's Mage Tower. I am very happy to serve you, Mr. Roland!"

The other party greeted Roland happily, and said proudly: "I am also a trainee member of the Siris Language Research Association!"

"Nowadays, the members of the school are scattered everywhere. Even in the editorial department of a front-line journal like ours, there are some people. However, the school is always loosely organized. It usually does not participate in gatherings and does not disclose its identity. Not necessarily everyone can know."

Lei smiled and said to Roland.

"I also became interested in the Siris School recently, and I only found out after I joined."

The opportunity for him to join the school was knowing the calligraphy of Sailis. Before that, he had only heard about Sailis.

The qualifications in the school are not as deep as this assistant Qiao Geshen.

Roland was very satisfied with this, because he knew that this was the best candidate that Lei and the others had carefully arranged for him.

There are indeed many school members in the Iser Mage Tower, and their loyalty is still very high.

Although his status is there, enough to overwhelm any senior teaching assistant, but if he can sincerely worship and admire him, he can save a lot of things.

Afterwards, Roland formally went through the formalities of registration and began to register the work certificate here.

At this time, Lei discovered that Roland's mage level had become a senior lecturer!

"Promoted so soon?"

"It's the same as joining here. The Arcane Committee has approved me to be promoted by license, so I don't need to go through the qualifications."

Roland smiled lightly, as if he was talking about small things that had nothing to do with him.

If Lei knew the Seris dialect, he would definitely raise his thumbs up and say, "I have to!"

But he didn't understand, so he could only flatter him in Elvish language: "Your reputation is as wide as the wind of the trade, and even the Arcane Committee has already widely accepted it. At this age, I still... um , is just a trainee mage!"

Accompanied by Georg, he was deeply impressed and couldn't help but nodded in agreement.

In a few years, some people will still be students in the mage's tower, and Mr. Roland may have become a professor.

The gap between people is bigger than that between people and dogs.

Being able to be an assistant beside such a character is simply a blessing in life!

After a while, Lei bid farewell and left, and went back to work at his post.

Roland came to the office prepared for him by the editorial department and called Georg over.

"Tell me about the specific work here? I'm new here, and I haven't had time to understand it yet."

"No problem, sir, what would you like to know first?"

"Well, let's talk about the working system first, and the specific time for commuting to and from get off work..."

So hard to travel through rebirth, you can't pay back 996, right?
It's not okay to get off work too late, I have to go back to feed the cat and walk the dog.

As Roland thought about it, he began to understand the specific situation from Georg's narration.

(End of this chapter)