Arcane Linguist

Chapter 237 Preparations for "Thousand Characters" and "Enlightenment of Rhythm"
After leaving Paulina's company, Roland took Al back to the property he bought in Terry City.

This is a three-story villa located in the uptown area with wide spaces at the front and rear. A private garden is being added at his request.

In addition, the defense circle and the security facilities are also being strengthened.

Recently, the situation on Reiner's side seems to be a bit uneasy. Although it hasn't affected the Savarin area yet, as a well-informed high-ranking member of the Council, he still received some warnings.

"Master, there is a new message."

As soon as he sat down on the sofa in the living room, Al walked up to him and told him: "Mr. Diahiri, a senior partner of Hilt Company, is here and hopes to make an appointment for tomorrow's meeting."

Roland said: "Let him come to Xishan Manor to find me tomorrow."

He more or less guessed the purpose of the other party, who came to promote the phantom magic card.

……

The next day, Xishan Manor.

Diahiri and his party visited.

Roland met them in his office.

"Mr. Roland, this is a brand-new card we made by combining "scroll printing". It can basically be announced that the Siris series of decks has completed the transformation from entertainment to practicality...

This is the magic of the commercial field. Basically, you can treat them as spell scrolls with printed patterns that you can play with. They are usually used for entertainment and playing cards, and at critical moments, they can be used as spell scrolls.

Take the ordinary level 1 spell scrolls, the market price is 25 gold coins per copy, for example, after the movable type printing and scroll printing technology improved by Thibault, Mr. Skold and others of your school, the value reaches 30 gold coins per copy, and then the phantom magic card The value of the copyright empowers it, and it is already a valuable item of more than 100 gold coins. "

After some talks, Diahiri took out a well-prepared gift and displayed it in front of him.

Roland almost laughed out loud.

This is a talent!

The inventions of Tebow, Skold and others, scroll printing and the like, are actually quite tasteless at the current stage.

Because in the world of magic, handwritten runes have spirituality, and it is difficult to give spirituality to printed runes.

Of course, it is not absolutely impossible to do it, but just like giving life to an alchemy puppet, a certain "price" is required.

Consumables such as spell scrolls are very sensitive to cost.

As long as the cost is higher than hiring a mage to transcribe, the technology can never be called a success.

Even in the previous life of Blue Star, many jobs were cheaper for humans than machines, and they were still labor-intensive industries.

but!

This group of talents reversed their thinking and came up with some kind of printing technique blessing, worth 30 gold coins, and then printed some patterns and sold it for 100 gold coins.

In this way, it can be sold at a good price.

"In Art Rhine, the level 1 scroll can be sold for 100 gold coins...

Not to mention high-ranking mages, even mage apprentices will spit on you! "

Roland couldn't help but sigh with a smile.

"Please don't say that, Mr. Roland, what we sell are magical magic cards, and they are also the decks of the "Feng Shen Yan Yi" series created by you. They are currently released in limited quantities on the market, so they are rare and precious."

"Speaking of which, it's also a card, at best it's changed from magic paper to mithril material." Roland commented.

"But you're right, there are some things that can be sold for sky-high prices just by simply printing a pattern and adding some functions.

Although the Reiner world is backward, some old nobles still have a lot of wealth. This kind of thing must be very popular. "

According to the experience of Arterine, the suppression of low-magic civilization by high-magic civilization is all-round.

Some low-level spell scrolls casually flow out, which can also be used as family heirlooms.

Because low-magic civilizations do not have the production capacity of the magic industry at all, they can carry the power of magic on inanimate objects.

Even the cultivation of creatures themselves is very difficult, and a third-level mage can already be called an archmage.

Diahiri continued to introduce: "We specially combined the new standard promulgated by the Card Association in the year 10001 of the Alterian calendar, and planned to name this new type of magic card the Siris magic card, and registered the card field for you. series of patents.

In this new standard, the card level can be divided into 0~9 stars according to the role, item and skill level on the card. "

"Oh? Is this corresponding to the biological rank and spell level?" Roland Inches listened.

"That's right, common cards correspond to 0-1 level creatures and spells;
精英对应2~3，英雄对应4~5，史诗对应6~7，神话对应8~9；

The biggest difference between it and the old standard lies in its practicality.

The practical functions that should have been available only to rare and above cards will be fully popularized in common cards.

Therefore, the minimum price for Siris magic cards is 100 gold coins per common card, and they will be upgraded according to the level of corresponding spells and summoned creatures..."

High-level cards cannot be printed and can only be handcrafted.

And because the card surface is very small compared to the spell scroll, it requires very exquisite skills to do it, and it is also given a lot of value.

Compared with the ordinary spell scroll business, these cards are very gimmick and can be sold at a premium.

Roland pondered for a while, and said to him: "I hope that these profits can be used to invest in the research of Thibault and Skold, and in the future, the price of spell scrolls will be lowered.

The philosophy of our Seris school is the value generated in the production and development, which can support reproduction and development.

The purpose of grabbing profits is also to promote the progress of civilization. "

Diahiri was slightly startled when he heard the words, and immediately praised sincerely: "Your Excellency's words are very true, in fact, from a commercial point of view, we judge that with a certain amount of investment, improved movable type printing will also be able to create a new alchemy system.

Only in this way can we truly defeat the giants in the field of traditional spell scrolls and have our own place.

If possible, we hope to achieve 0~5 silver coins at level 10, and less than 1 gold coins at level 10. There is no plan for higher levels, but we also hope to reduce the cost by more than 50%, so that it can be regarded as a true arcane innovation. . "

At this time, Princess Rosa came in with tea and distributed it to the two of them.

After Diahiri thanked him, he took out his pocket watch after drinking the cup of tea.

"Before I knew it, it was getting late, so I took my leave first.

It was a pleasure talking with you, and I hope to see you next time to discuss more topics. "

Roland nodded: "I also look forward to meeting you next time."

After Diahiri left, Roland picked up the card he left and looked at it.

These, without exception, are all printed in the latest simplified characters, which are easy to read and legible.

In addition to the transformation of classic spells such as "Magic Missile", Hilt has also thoughtfully added the magic of the Siris series.

For example, Power Words!
The biggest feature of these cards is that they can be used as literacy cards and materials for learning magic.

Because it is not just the magic scroll itself, there is also a lot of text information attached to the card, and the use of the Siris rune has already begun to take shape here.

When Princess Rosa came back after seeing off the visitors, Roland picked up the card book, handed it to her and said, "Rosa, I will give this to you.

In addition to replacing the spell scroll, this kind of card also has the function of some literacy cards. If you have time, play a lot, and it can also improve the level of Cyris. "

Rosa was pleasantly surprised.

……

Businessmen are profit-seeking and move fast.

In just a few days, the workshop for the Siris magic card has been prepared.

Distributors from all walks of life have been notified, and Paulina has also received new advertising invitations.

She had already collaborated with Hilt Company to shoot the advertisement of the Oracle Scroll, and this time it was changed to the Siris magic card, which was also a matter of course.

Lena Lacey was chosen to accompany the dance, and she was very interested in seeing the new gadgets from the high magic civilization for the first time.

After learning that he could earn tens of thousands of gold coins just by shooting such an advertisement, his eyes shined and he determined to become a star too.

However, during the filming set, during the break, she saw those Siris magic cards, but she became interested in the learning function of these cards.

"This kind of thing can be used to learn magic?"

The staff said: "Yes, miss, because good magic spells and rune models are self-reporting, and excellent mages have self-learning ability, it is very convenient to explore the mysteries of magic.

In the past, there were mages who relied on deconstructing and copying spell scrolls to learn.

The Siris magic card uses the common scroll technology and follows the popular standard, the only difference is that it uses the Siris language to describe, and the Siris runes are used for spell modeling..."

This is somewhat like programming a microcontroller.

Looking at the source code itself is also a kind of learning.

And Phantom Spell Cards are open source.

The source code originally running on the spell scroll platform was transplanted to the card platform, but it did not rely on a mechanism such as a virtual machine, but used magic materials such as Mithril Gold or Magic Crystal to carry it.

It has the advantages of a native system, and can also be rewritten and debugged very conveniently.

Moreover, from the material point of view, compared to scrolls using magic paper, its copying and burning performance is much stronger.

The rune content of the magic paper is copied (burned) once, and it may be scrapped after a few times of debugging, but a good mithril card may be rewritten hundreds or thousands of times, and the magic crystal card can even reach Thousands of times.

Lacey didn't quite understand it, but that didn't prevent her from drawing a conclusion. Consider buying one for Diego!
Knowing that this kind of magic card actually costs hundreds of gold coins, and there is no market for it, it is not easy to buy, Lacey couldn't help but click her tongue.

In this regard, the staff explained: "Some cards are dangerous, and they can only be bought after entering the Mage Tower and obtaining authorization.

However, there is no such restriction for 0-star cards, and they only need 20 gold coins. "

"Alright then, I'll buy a "Light Art" card. "

Lacey herself is a believer in the Lord of Radiance. With a slight movement in her mind, Fu Zhixin chose a "Light Art" skill card.

This is called "supernatural power" in the Siris module.

As it happens, this is Roland's first successful Oracle Bone Culture classic spell, and it is also the starting point of the entire Siris magic system.

The information contained in it is the most comprehensive and abundant.

……

After Roland learned that Hilt Company had launched an operation, he didn't care anymore.

He is very busy now, not only to supervise the compilation of "Reiner's Canon", but also to handover with the Church of the Goddess of Light to carry out a series of cooperation.

In addition, the teaching affairs of my post have also reached a critical period.

He has been preparing various teaching plans and textbooks for a long time, and even participated in the compilation of the entire Serris Academy's educational affairs regulations.

Although the council has some experienced lecturers and professors who are very experienced in how to carry out the work, but Seres is a language they are not familiar with, which will cause some difficulties in connection.

The previous examination standards were born for this purpose.

In this regard, Roland can only copy some things that Blue Star experienced in his previous life.

In terms of teaching materials, he also stepped up his creation.

All kinds of historical materials, poems, Fu, and even the content of novels are cataloged.

But he always felt that these were not enough, so he decided to copy some more.

"Thousand Characters" can be fully displayed, and various idioms and allusions can be freely used.

In order to adapt to the version with insufficient information, he was very restrained and only copied a small part.

This can be used as a literacy book for mages to get started.

In addition, a very useful one is the rhyme enlightenment readers such as "Li Weng Conversation with Rhyme" and "Sound Enlightenment".

Among them, the author of "Li Weng Conversation Rhyme" is Li Yu in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasty, and the author of "Sound Rhythm Enlightenment" is Che Wanyu in the Qing Dynasty.

There are certain similarities in their content, they are all compiled into catchy rhyming sentences according to the rhyme, subtly instilling flat and oblique confrontation skills, cultivating language sense, and increasing vocabulary.

Through such enlightenment readings, you can have a better understanding of the various prosody and duality of the Seres language.

After some comparison and consideration, Roland decided to use "Sound Enlightenment" written by Che Wanyu in the Qing Dynasty, because it is easier to understand than "Li Weng Duiyun", and it also lacks some idioms and allusions.

Of course, things like "Disciples Regulations" and "Three Character Classics" are also classic enlightenment readings.

But Roland believes that the former has a lot of dross, while the latter also has some allusions and concepts that are not acclimatized.

Although it is possible to discard the chaff and save the chaff, and modify it appropriately, if it is too troublesome to select and compile, simply reject it across the board and no longer use it.

These are content that is biased towards moral education and has little to do with magical power.

Both Art Rhine and Reiner are yearning for arcane arts and the power of magic.

To combine this era, things that are considered useful will be recognized and respected.

People in other worlds also have judgment, and there are also wise men and elites like Gnobion and Ubor among them.

Reminiscing in dreams, opening and copying books, all in one go.

In just a few days, Roland took out "The Thousand-Character Essay" and "Rhythm Enlightenment" and submitted them to the Council for approval for inclusion in the textbooks.

(End of this chapter)