Arcane Linguist

Chapter 172 Building Core Technology

On February 2th, Nieves City, spellcasting license test center.

Roland came here to take a few rounds of exams, passed all the written exams in one breath, and then, under the witness of the examiner, cast several designated spells in the mana spell-casting mode.

When he successfully completed the assigned spell, everyone in the room applauded.

Accompanied by Georg, he repeatedly praised: "Sir, it is so perfect."

So far, Roland has also mastered the "Concentration Technique", "Dimensional Leap" and "Speaking Words".

The first few of them are all level 2 spells, and Roland is working on expanding the list of spells he has mastered.

And "Smart Words" is a level 3 spell, which further increased his qualifications for obtaining a level [-] certificate.

The spells currently mastered by Roland are all carefully selected.

For example, the "Transformation", "Blink", and the current "Dimension Jump" that I went to the city of Lune some time ago, can be combined with divination and prediction methods to build my own combat capabilities.

This time, the effect of the "Skill of Words" is to make people know how to speak various languages, which is similar to "Language Proficiency", but it pays more attention to the effect of oral English.

This is preparations for going to the Kingdom of Lena.

"Concentration Technique" is a typical buff skill, which can increase the concentration identification when learning and casting spells.

"Now that I already have the fourth level of magic power, it's nothing to use it."

After hearing this, Roland smiled lightly and didn't say much.

"It's all because the "dream technique" you invented is effective for promotion. This method can be reused by others. This is what has been emphasized since the reform of arcane arts. "

Georg sincerely admired it.

"That's true. Although the mages in the past also paid attention to knowledge, it was more personal knowledge, and the power belonged to themselves, and they did not contribute much to the entire society.

At that time, most of the mages first learned spells such as "fireball" and "mage armor".

Later, it gradually turned to summoning monsters to fight, and "monster summoning" and "gate to another world" became popular again.

Modern mages pay more attention to the construction of the system.

The "dream technique" that you have successfully improved can allow people to advance to the rank in advance and possess the corresponding magic power. If you learn it later, the efficiency will be improved by an unknown amount.

This has made a huge contribution to the improvement of the overall strength of the empire, which is much better than advancing one's own rank and mastering a few more combat spells. "

The examiner at the test center heard the words and flattered him.

In this world, the strong are always respected, but the understanding of the power of the strong and the weak, as well as the value concept of spells, have undergone tremendous changes.

This is following the version of the times.

Not long after, Roland returned to No. 10 Chancellor to sort out the materials at hand.

This was sent by senior sister Froya, who was in charge of the joint research meeting, and it recorded in detail the research fields and directions of the members of the school.

At the same time, there are a number of applications for research grants.

Now Roland has some funds in his hands, which are special projects directly allocated by the committee.

He intends to make good use of it and develop the power of the school.

As for the foundation of the school, the Siris rune, he also has great confidence.

As long as we continue the successful experience of "Seres Power Word - Cut", we will continue to create more results.

The most urgent task is not to dig out new spells, but to accumulate the foundation, and first complete the magical structure of ancient characters such as oracle bone inscriptions, bronze inscriptions, and seal script.

Just when Roland was thinking of this, suddenly, the mailbox notification sounded.

"You have a new email, please check it..."

This is a special paid email with a little reminder.

Roland happened to be free, so he used the screen projection technique to take a look.

In the end, it was sent jointly by Skold and Tebow in the mage tower of Orvisto.

"Roland, we have successfully reduced the cost of scroll printing, which is close to the cost of scrolls for normal 0-level and 1-level spells!
Thanks to the calligraphy concept you proposed before, we have successfully changed many of the characters into cursive magic runes..."

OK, you guys!
He even deduced the "cursive" by himself!
Roland was a little surprised.

This is probably the joy of farming.

A handful of seeds are scattered on fertile ground, waiting to be harvested.

Although there are all kinds of hardships, the joy in the heart is indescribable at the moment when the seeds take root, grow vigorously, and bear fruit.

"Congratulations on your success, please make persistent efforts to create brilliance."

As school leaders, their success is their own success.

This also has implications for copyright interests.

"There is just one problem. There are already giants in the traditional spell scroll market. Even if we have reduced the cost to this point, it is still difficult to replace them."

Scudder explained with some distress.

"What we can do now is only equivalent to about 90%~110% of ordinary spell scrolls. Taking into account the advantage of lower copyright tax, we can still compete. If the giant initiates a challenge, he will be photographed dead in the laboratory immediately."

Roland said: "That's true, there is no particularly obvious advantage, and it is impossible for latecomers to catch up."

This kind of cost has no obvious advantage for the time being, but it is barely usable.

Of course, he also believes that this kind of thing can continue to improve and develop, but what about the conditions required for improvement and development?

You can't always rely on investment to burn money, can you?
No matter how much it is, it will not be burned.

"Yeah, what should I do? The only advantage now is to occupy the popularity of Siris, and it can be made into something unique.

In fact, we use the feature of "calligraphy contains meaning" to inject spirit into printed things, making it have a "soul".

Ordinary printed matter has no soul, so it cannot be used like something copied by the mage himself.

This is doomed to a limited range of its use. "

Scudder said to Roland.

Roland replied to him: "Don't worry, there must be a way before the car reaches the mountain..."

When he said this, a flash of inspiration suddenly appeared in his mind.

"By the way, have you ever heard of the phantom magic card?"

"Phantom Magic Card? Of course I've heard of it." Scudder replied as expected.

This is a card game that has been passed down for thousands of years, and its status in this universe is simply higher than Go and Chess.

However, since modernization, the number of entertainment methods has increased, and it gradually feels like it is becoming a niche.

Except for those people who really have a lot of time and energy and nowhere to spend, others don't necessarily fight.

"It's good that you know. Recently, Katona Company has invented some new cards of the Siris module in Iser. Perhaps we can seize the opportunity in the vertical field through empowerment technology and print this new type of card. The scroll is injected into the phantom magic card, making it more practical and entertaining, forming a new grip of user experience..."

"Wait, what and what, please speak human words!"

"Oh, it is to use your technology to print the Siris phantom magic card, and use the new technology's gimmick to make a wave of it.

We have complete intellectual property rights, and other channels in the field of entertainment toys can also avoid competing with those original reel giants on the traditional track.

Someone in this world invented magic cards. When a card is thrown, it can be used as a magic scroll, which is handsome and convenient. "

Roland didn't care about the fact that Kevin Katona and the others were a company in the field of entertainment and education, and transformed them into arms production in minutes.

This is like saying that the online game market has already been full of giants.

However, with the rise of Two-dimensional and the international market, small companies raked in tens of billions a year and immediately became new giants.

The original giant can only look forward to sigh.

"Hey!" Scudder was shocked.

"Huh?" Tebow was also shocked.

"This matter may be feasible!"

"Okay, I'll give you Kevin's contact information, you can talk to him!"

……

After dealing with this matter, Roland continued to go to the editorial department of "Rune" to process the manuscript.

"Mr. Roland, good afternoon, all the materials you need are ready."

Outside the office, when the new intern saw Roland, he hurriedly bowed aside and reminded him.

Roland stopped and looked at the man.

This is Dilent, who recently joined the editorial department, and has now successfully entered the job as an intern in the editorial department.

"Dilent, if you have time, you can try to draft some comments to help me review these papers."

When Durant heard this, he was surprised at first, and then some unexpected joy.

"Is it really possible?"

"The Seris School is a new school. Those who have a higher arcane level than you may not necessarily have expertise in this field. If you spend less time and energy here than you, your level may not be as high as yours.

Besides, it's all up to me, isn't it? "

Roland said with a smile.

He has now learned that Dilent is his admirer, and also a lover of Siris.

Right now, the Siris School is employing people, and lacks cronies cultivated by single-handedly.

If the other party is willing to learn actively, he will never be stingy with opportunities.

"Thank you very much!"

Of course, Dylant also heard Roland's meaning of cultivation, and said in surprise.

"These recent manuscripts seem to be of good quality."

Not long after, Roland walked into the room and began to read, but said with a bit of ease.

Dillant didn't dare to take the credit, and quickly reminded: "This is all handled by Senior Georg."

"His research on Seris is not shallow, but it makes me worry a lot."

Roland said with satisfaction.

At present, the Celesian School mainly has research progress in the three major fields of writing, phonetics, and literature. The corresponding magical research results are the three branches of runes, incantations, and signified meanings.

The derivatives are some improvements and transformations of the original magic, such as silver scale armor, scroll printing, phantom magic cards and other products.

For the time being, it's all about his own expansion of territory.

The contribution of these people is to check for gaps and fill in gaps, and to improve some details.

It was effortless for Roland to read these papers at present, and he could easily judge which ones were in line with the previous Blue Star information he had preserved, and which ones were obviously off the road.

A few days later, Roland came to the editorial department of "Rune" again, and as expected, he saw the magic seal character co-authored by Leitlin, Tebow, and Skold.

After such a period of hard work, they successfully magically transformed seal characters with more than a thousand characters into seal characters.

This is the result corresponding to oracle bone runes and gold inscriptions.

In fact, Roland himself had made some plans and published them on the official website of the Seris School, which were widely quoted by them and regarded as the standard.

Such a result, full of Seres, fully complied with the norms in his heart, so he approved it with a wave of his hand.

Immediately afterwards, another article that seemed familiar.

Seal Science (Heraldry): Mystical Seal!
"A New Type of Practical Secret Seal, Seal Seal"

Needless to say, this is the result of Bu Nuo.

From the oracle bone inscription seals in the past, to the gold inscription seals later, to the current seal seals, he has been following the development of the Siris School all the way.

Now, I have finally found a magical result that is most suitable for the Eastern seal.

The secret imprint he used here is similar to the results obtained by Skold and the others, but it is encrypted and has a special form of spiritual imprint.

Its function is not to carry mana resonance, input and output magic power, nor the actual casting of spells, but verification and induction.

It has the functions of identifying mages, encrypting and decrypting information.

This is roughly equivalent to the application of cryptography in the scientific community.

Roland read it with interest, and quickly understood his train of thought.

Sure enough, it is similar to the application of asymmetric encryption algorithm, which disassembles and combines the results of the Siris rune.

The public key is used to encrypt the plaintext, and the private key is used to decrypt the ciphertext, and the sender (encryptor) knows the public key of the recipient, and only the recipient (decryptor) is the only one who knows his own private key people.

This achievement cites the materials of "Shuowen Jiezi" attached to the article "Construction of the Saili Language Writing System", including radicals, and the construction methods of big seal script and small seal script.

According to this article, he quickly grasped his train of thought, and after some calculations, he began to condense magic power in his body and began to meditate.

Gradually, a mysterious imprint with a peculiar shape, like an artistic font, emerged in the mind and was projected in reality.

"Ro"!
It can be vaguely seen that it is the shape of "Luo" in seal script.

"It's interesting, it can be used as a new type of personal imprint."

At the moment, Roland added it to the level 0 spell "Secret Mark" that he had mastered in the past, and it became a new feature.

This is equivalent to a special mark, a private seal that can fully prove his identity.

"According to this article, it can be authorized based on this, so I should simply use this imprint for my signature in the editorial department of "Runes"."

At that moment, he cast the "Secret Seal" again to release the private seal stored just now.

Immediately, a flame-like handwriting was engraved on the paper, burning out of thin air.

……

After returning, Roland specially sent an email to Bu Nuo, and had a detailed discussion with him.

The application of cryptography has a long history in the history and culture of Siris.

It can be seen from the word "deed" in the ancient "contract" that this is a way of engraving, which is extended to the meaning of agreement and proof.

The tiger talisman and other things used to mobilize military power in later generations were made of bronze or gold into a token in the shape of a tiger, which was split into two halves and kept separately by the general and the emperor.

Only when two Tiger Talismans are used together at the same time can the holder gain the right to dispatch troops.

This is the earliest application of cryptography and user authentication, and the word "conformity" in modern Chinese comes from this.

Compatible and consistent, two talisman cards are combined together, it is correct, and the same is true for "compatibility".

By the way, the origin of the word "contract" is also similar to this, and it is used in official fish charms and bank notes of merchants.

These things also have applications in the world of magic, such as "messaging" and "wind communication", and even communication methods such as "telepathy".

For another example, keep signatures, places for certification, sign contracts, approve documents, and authorize at different levels.

What Roland now uses for Al, who takes care of his daily life, is a secret imprint authorized by himself, which can mobilize his subsidiary sub-account in Union Bank to withdraw some money.

Mobilizing the magic net and reviewing the mailbox is another secret imprint.

Reply email, another one...

The application of these encryption algorithms and user authentication has penetrated into all aspects of daily life. They belong to the kind of things that seem to be very low-level and useless, but in fact they are completely inseparable.

In a sense, this is also a kind of productivity, and it is still a very important productivity.

"Seres runes are promising in this regard, the key lies in how to popularize them so that they can gradually replace the original ones.

We need to exhibit good enough characteristics to be able to replace them.

This is the bottleneck that will inevitably be encountered when optimization and improvement reach a certain level, and it is also a problem that will be encountered in the development of new things..."

When he was telling Boono these things, he thought of the problem of scroll printing.

In fact, this is also the question of how those developing countries in the previous life of Blue Star can get out of technological autonomy and overtake on corners.

The established developed countries, when they are fully ahead in the fields of science and technology, military affairs, culture, etc., are sufficient to completely suppress developing countries.

"Generally speaking, the existing magic runes of our Siris school are all complementing the many existing arcane achievements of the magic school, but it is precisely because of this that many aspects are controlled by others and have no advantage.

For example, a "secret seal" is a "secret seal" in elven script, and it is also a "secret seal" in Cyris runes.

What level should be reached, or what kind of advantages should be possessed, in order to gradually replace them, and at least occupy their own place in one of the fields?
The answer is obvious. It is impossible for us to achieve that level now. The only thing we can rely on is a new, favorable market under our control...

We need to get enough profit from that place. "

"From now on, such protective barriers can only be implemented within the Siris School, but they can gradually be extended to Alteraine and to the markets opened by various companies.

Regarding this point, Roland, you don't need to worry too much.

The higher-ups of Alter Rhine have always had the intention of de-elvenization, and even improved the entire At Rhine language.

The Siris language and characters, and even the Siris runes derived from them, belong to local independent innovations and will definitely be protected. "

Roland said: "Then, what about the interior of Arterine, between us, the Autodox School, and the traditional language of Arterine?"

"This..." Bu Nuo hesitated.

The palms and backs of the hands are full of flesh, and it is difficult to hold a bowl of water level.

……

There is no definite answer to this question yet.

However, whether it was Roland himself, Bu Nuo, or Skold and others.

In fact, they have already faintly felt it.

The answer must be found in the market itself.

In today's era, the first condition for the development of arcane art is the market. Only when it has won enough market share and captured enough political and economic benefits can it develop.

What Roland saw was a deeper level than what Bu Nuo, Skold and the others saw.

Because the motherland of Blue Star in his previous life has experienced a huge and far-reaching change, many former technology companies are facing the test of technological transformation and international competition, from a planned economy to a market economy, from technological backwardness to independent innovation, summed up Many valuable and practical experiences.

All of this must be controlled from the perspective of macro history and the development pattern of the times in order to find the right direction and win the future.

Ordinary people can only vaguely feel that the teacher's support is a blessing, the committee's support is a boost, and the opening of the Reiner Kingdom is another great opportunity.

But there is no concept of how to grasp and utilize these things.

Similarly, talent is the core, technology and property rights are resources, and these are not difficult to understand.

But how to truly grasp the balance between these relationships, how to distribute benefits, and win over talents may also be vague.

Roland is also learning and growing.

While planning the layout, he vaguely settled on the general situation of going to the Kingdom of Leiner to find opportunities, but at the same time, within the scope of his ability, he insisted on passing the review of the "Rune" editorial department.

First send the two papers to the official publication of the Kangzhuang Avenue.

But at this time, another piece of good news suddenly came.

"Mr. Roland, we have rubbed back the 'original rune' you asked for!

It does contain some ancient runes never seen before, with extraordinary magical meanings! "

The person who sent the email was the adventurer Jonis who once captured monsters for him. At that time, he had revealed to Roland the news of a suspected ancient city-state in the humanistic era, so as to make friends.

Roland did not refuse their kindness, and after that incident, he re-entrusted the task.

In the end, they actually got a valuable document from the ruins.

The compilation of the Siris runes needs to draw nourishment from the world's own rune system.

In a sense, this is a kind of "cottage", and it is also a line of imitation of late-comer technology.

But with what is in the library today, the gap cannot be fully opened, and some additional innovation is required.

This is exactly what he needs right now.

Roland was overjoyed when he heard the news, and quickly instructed: "Please mail the extension, my address in Nevis City is the editorial department of "Rune"..."

(End of this chapter)