Arcane Linguist

Chapter 30 Alternate Committee Gallo
City of the Sky, Nieves, headquarters of the "Rune" journal.

The windows of the rooms in the building are bright and clean, and the tables and chairs are tidy. Accompanied by the light sound of the small teleportation circle, one document after another is revealed from the inside. At the same time, several fax-like machines made by alchemy nearby is also continuing to operate.

It keeps copying the copies of the submitted papers, and then the invisible servants distribute them to different desks according to the number, waiting for the mages in the editorial department to review.

Several well-dressed high-ranking mages are taking a break from their busy schedule.

"The new issue of "Arcane" has come out. Have you read the oracle bone script research?"

"Of course I read it. I waited for a few days to see it first. Don't tell me, it's really well written."

"I heard that it was written by a man named Roland, who is also a trainee mage!"

As arcane researchers, these high-level mages are still quite concerned about the emergence of new things. After all, these things largely represent the power they can master.

The topic gradually aroused the interest of colleagues nearby. Someone came over and joined them and said, "I've been busy since yesterday, but I haven't had time to read it yet. What's going on with that paper, and what else... Oracle bone inscriptions?" ? Why does it sound a bit weird, I always feel like the style of the ancient ancestors."

People who have seen it told me: "It was originally a complete and systematic explanation of a new type of writing from the perspective of ancient ancestors, and even included the origin and development of writing.

But to be honest, as far as my personal feeling is concerned, perhaps this type of text should be called 'square characters' more appropriately. "

"'Square words'? Sounds plausible."

"This kind of script uses a variety of word-making rules, and has some ideographic and phonetic features. It is very different from Elvish, Abyssal, Sena, and Atlas. It even has a dictionary that comes with it. It's hard to chew."

"It's okay, it's okay, it's not included in the official textbooks, and there's no need to study it specially."

When everyone heard this, they couldn't help laughing.

New languages ​​and characters are born in Alteraine every year, and of course some of them are recognized as masterpieces of geniuses.

But how many can become popular, continue to be accepted by the public, and then gradually become the mainstream advocated by the government?Even if they can reach that step, it may take hundreds or thousands of years.

Just then, several more manuscripts appeared.

Different from the only "Arcane", here is a high-level mage as a reviewer to review, because there are more people and relatively fixed editorial staff.

Taring was not in charge of the assignment of review tasks here, and he didn't find out until those busy people returned to their desks.

""Improvement of the "Light Art" Spell Scroll Based on the Research on the Magic of Oracle Bone Inscriptions", this paper, come and read it..."

Everyone gathered around, only seeing the title, they were refreshed.

"Good guy, just said the oracle bone inscriptions, and the oracle bone inscriptions arrived, why don't you name it, it was written by Roland!"

"Look at what he wrote."

At this moment, someone else made a new discovery, and two other papers appeared.

"This article is the rune, lexical, and grammatical and semantic analysis in the magic of oracle bone inscriptions, and it is the standard for measuring improvement."

"This one is about improved scribalism, and it's also closely related to his paper."

Everyone looked at each other speechlessly, and suddenly realized something, with shocked expressions on their faces.

"This... I'm afraid it's really starting to be magical!"

……

At this time, another place in the city, in a low-key but luxuriously decorated small hall.

Long tables were set with gleaming silverware, and crystal goblets gleamed enchantingly in the magic lamps.

The air is filled with the faint fragrance of fine wine, interspersed with the refreshing aroma of books and ink and soft music.

On both sides of the table, several mages from the faction under the name of Master Watson sat casually on the beautifully carved high-back chairs, but they were discussing topics related to oracle bone inscriptions.

"Mr. Watson's good intentions, how can those guys who are eager for quick success and quick profit understand!
He didn't want this kind of shoddy writing to enter the public's field of vision, thereby disrupting the already devastated Alterian language!
Ladies and gentlemen, protecting civilization is everyone's responsibility. Let's find out the flaws in this kind of writing and criticize it! "

The high-level officials of the Arcane Empire Art Rhine have long acknowledged the reality that their own writing system is poor, and have also made many targeted improvements.

And after these improvements failed, they made up their minds to completely eliminate Atlantis and implement a new, practical magic script that fits the current level of arcane development and future trends.

However, there are related concepts that for thousands of years, many high-level mages, archmages, and even legendary mages participated in it, but failed to produce any actual results.

Under the inertia of history, of course, they will not easily accept new languages ​​and characters, especially those supported by the reformers such as Archmage Luneforth.

At that moment, everyone took out their magnifying glasses one after another, and seriously studied the published periodicals they had just obtained.

"Huh? They directly abstracted and simplified the two-dimensional picture and used it as a root. Regardless of characters, phrases, phrases, and sentences, regardless of content words or function words, monosyllable words almost occupy the core position of commonly used words..."

"There are also these tables of celestial stems and earthly branches, which can actually use words to create related expressions of astronomical astrology?"

"Wait, pay attention to the information density of this kind of square characters. I just made a simple evaluation of this writing system based on the information carrier standard, and found that it not only has extremely high information density, but also has extremely high recognition efficiency and recognition speed. .

"This... this seems to be almost invulnerable regardless of magic!"

Everyone couldn't help but looked at each other in disbelief.

"Hehe, so what? Is magic possible?"

Suddenly, a voice rang out.

Everyone looked at the speaker in unison. It was a mage wearing a suit and dress with meticulously combed hair.

This sorcerer had a handsome face and a haughty demeanor. Standing upright, his expression was as haughty as a cedar tree. His eyes swept across the surrounding crowd calmly, with an unconcealable conceit in his eyes.

When he sees everyone, he can't help feeling that he is being looked down upon, but he is used to it.

Because he is one of the proud disciples of Master Watson, alternate member Gallo Orgorioso.

"No matter how impeccable it is, with this fatal flaw, it cannot become popular!
Don't worry, this kind of thing made by the trainee mage is nothing to worry about. "

Gallo brought the goblet in his hand to his lips and took a sip, smiled faintly, and said disdainfully.

(End of this chapter)