Arcane Linguist

Chapter 2 Oracle Overview

Not long after, in a cafe in Flandre Academy, three people sat opposite each other, discussing all possible remedies under the current system.

But the more you negotiate, the more difficult it becomes.

Because this matter is indeed not so easy to solve.

The Arcane Empire, Atrein, respects knowledge and respects all scholars and wise people, especially the spellcasters who gain power from it—the mage.

This empire is carrying out reforms related to truth, and all old, obscure, and chaotic knowledge will be replaced by the arcane arts of the new era.

Mages are no longer those ancient wizards who read obscure spells and study potions and astrology all day long, nor are they believers in the Fireball God Cult who only cover firepower and bombard indiscriminately, but followers of science.

Scientific thinking in the name of the arcane developed into a new standard of truth.

They promote a modern arcane education method, granting the spell quota corresponding to the degree through the magic network, and endowing them with the ability to cast spells.

A standard Atlantian has been indoctrinated with the ideal of becoming a modern mage (arcanist) since childhood, and learns general knowledge in the local enlightenment primary school.

After reaching the legal age (8 years old), they will take part in the assessment and enter higher institutions (six-year elementary schools and four-year high schools), and then select the best for admission and enter the Master Tower for further study.

Mage tower, research topics, arcane achievements, money and wealth, immortality, demon-like power...

All these are the themes of this era.

But not everyone is qualified to play the trend. Many people drop out of school for various reasons in the middle of their studies, change jobs, or inherit their father's business and go to work in farming.

The tower entrance exam is the biggest obstacle in their life.

"If it doesn't work, why not just repeat the grade and try again in a year?" Cynthia suggested.

Atalie shook her head: "It will cost at least a thousand gold coins..."

Cynthia said: "My family has some money, I can lend him some money, but it's not easy to convince my parents, so I can only try my best."

Roland said: "Xinia, thank you for your kindness, but this method is not suitable."

Cynthia said: "What's not suitable?

The Empire only provides compulsory education under the normal school system. If you study at your own expense, can you afford it?
It is also impossible for those commercial banks and plane colonization companies to invest in a penniless little character like you. "

"What I mean is...if I don't pass the entrance examination to the Mage Tower, I may not be able to pay it back after working hard all my life."

Roland was silent for a while, then flatly refused.

Cynthia said angrily, "Why are you so unambitious?"

Roland didn't explain, just shook his head with a wry smile.

Cynthia's kindness was kind, but she seemed too naive.

After thinking about it, Roland still said: "Now that things have come to an end, I can only try to avoid the previous topic selection and rewrite the thesis.

In the eyes of the Arcane Committee, that Ramkey submitted his thesis earlier than me, and his argumentation process was more rigorous and thoughtful than mine. No matter how you look at it, it seems that he is the original one, and mine has become a plagiarism instead! "

Thinking that the consequences of hardwriting the original text would inevitably make Ramkey beat him up, and even falling back to the bottom of society might not be safe, Roland couldn't help but feel a chill down his spine.

"It's disgusting. Isn't there fairness and justice in this world?"

Cynthia gritted her teeth, more annoyed than Roland himself.

"Now there is only one day left before the deadline for submission, is it too late?"

Atali interjected and asked, the worry in her eyes was evident.

The difficulty of the graduation exam is not low, and you have to deliberately avoid things you are good at and familiar with, which is tantamount to dancing in shackles.

"If you don't have time, you have to try it.

And now I don't have any hope of being admitted to the Mage Tower, so I hope to graduate smoothly and not drop out of school. "

Roland pretended to be calm and said calmly.

After bidding farewell to Atalie and her best friend Xinia, Roland did not go back to the dormitory, but went to the library, found a remote corner, and began to conceive his first true arcane thesis after coming to this world.

It is really difficult for the predecessor to write a paper that is enough to pass the exam in one day.

But thanks to the education he received in his previous life, Roland has a certain degree of education and an understanding of the history of natural science development, and he also knows that special scientific research techniques called "filling the gaps in the country" have been born in some fields.

It just so happened that the major of his predecessor was the rune department that was strongly related to language, history, and sociology. The topic of the thesis he wrote before was also a self-created text.

In other words, the predecessor, Ramqi and others are using what they have learned to try to create a simple language and writing system!
Roland may not understand magic, but he is no stranger to it, because he has a background in linguistics, majoring in historical linguistics.

In the previous life, the information on the earth was developed, and everyone in the same profession had already been involved to the point where they were too embarrassed to come out to meet people without creating a language. The game industry, as the ninth art, often required the participation of linguists. Fictional languages ​​and scripts.

What's more, as a real world, there are naturally some things that can be introduced and used to "fill the gaps in the Art Rhine".

For example, a symbol of civilization that has thousands of years of historical and cultural heritage and naturally developed - Chinese, the Chinese character system!

Accompanied by the activation of the level 0 trick "Scribe", a quill pen floating in mid-air appeared out of thin air, and quickly copied as it moved.

Roland decided to choose the writing system of Oracle Bone Inscriptions as the theme and focus on summarizing such a writing system.

Oracle bone inscriptions are an ancient Chinese language, also known as "Qi Wen", "Oracle Bone Inscriptions", "Yin Ruins Characters" or "Turtle Shell and Animal Bone Inscriptions". They are the earliest mature Chinese characters that can be seen in the current academic circle.

After the royal divination in the late Shang Dynasty, this kind of written deed was engraved on tortoise shells or animal bones to record events, hence the name.

Due to space reasons, Roland focused on describing the function of the inscriptions it inherited, explaining its narrative (pre-cis), destiny, divination, and verification of the document system, laying the framework, and "creating" by the way There are about a hundred or so basic characters such as ten million, ten million, and heaven, earth, sun, moon, rain, thunder, and lightning.

It seems that because of time travel and rebirth, his spiritual power has increased a lot, and the memory of his previous life has become clearer. It is unexpectedly easy and simple to reproduce according to the impression in his mind.

In just half a day's work, Roland completed this arcane treatise that could determine his future and destiny in this world.

The small teleportation array in the library was connected to the magic net. He put the paper on it without hesitation, chose to scan and submit.

(End of this chapter)