Chapter 372 New Life in the Research Institute

Mage Cohen was walking in the spacious and bright corridor of the Magical Technology Research Institute. Researchers wearing white magician's short robes came and went by his side. From time to time, some people stopped to say hello to each other, and then they went to work together with them. laboratory.

Cohen also wore the same white robe.

It takes seventy-two steps from the entrance of the institute to the front hall, and one hundred and two steps from the front hall to the first practical technology research room. There will be three doors and a corridor in the middle. Cohen is on this route that he has become familiar with. He walked unhurriedly, and every step he fell was extremely precise.

He lowered his head and glanced at himself. In fact, this short white robe had almost no decoration, but a metal stamped card was pinned to the chest of the robe. The card was printed with his own name and a serial number, and This is not a robe with magical effects - it is just a cloth robe. If there is anything special, almost everyone in this institute wears similar clothes, and this Clothes have a very unusual meaning in this land.

This dress represents the identity of "Magic Technician", a title that has never been heard before and is unique to this land.

Since he came to this land, Cohen has been working in the Institute of Magic Technology for more than four weeks, that is, more than forty days. For this third-level arcanist from the capital, life in Cecil Land is very similar to that of Cecil. What he imagined at first was not exactly the same - here he got his wish to meet the powerful ancient arcanist, and also the legendary pioneering hero, and he also saw the magic net, the magic engine, etc. It is said that A magical creation of some lost technology, but aside from that, he was in a very different environment than he imagined.

It's not a rough and barren frontier where the Cecilians have taken root and prospered unbelievably, but at the same time it's not a land that follows ancient rituals - although it was built by a real A true ancient hero, but Cecil's rules can almost be described as deviant in the eyes of Cohen, a wizard in the capital.

The great freedom of commoners, the relegation of the aristocratic system, the efficient control of the Government Affairs Office... Cecil's territory is located in the southern border of Ansu, but everything that happens here seems to be in a distant story. When a foreign country appeared, Cohen thought he was invited here as a mage, and wanted to dig into some ancient relics and musty books to study, but he didn't expect that he would become a " "Magic Technician Apprentice", to learn a set of unheard of knowledge from scratch, and - to learn with a group of mage apprentices, craftsmen, and scholars.

In this field, everyone's starting line is the same, and extraordinary people have no privileges.

to be frank,

It wasn't easy to get used to at first, but now Cohen has gradually gotten used to it. He is not a son of a noble family, nor is he a genius mage with outstanding talent. He is just a son of a lucky businessman. In Wangdu, the mage He has never enjoyed the privileges of an extraordinary person in the circle, and it is naturally much easier to adapt here. And he realized one thing more wisely, that is, even if what happened in this land is deviant, he has no right to question-because the order of this land was formulated by Gawain Cecil. The people of these orders also established the order of Ansu seven hundred years ago.

All the so-called "rules of civilized society" in Ansu today are nothing more than the evolution of the words that the ancient hero casually said seven centuries ago after a long time, so what are the "etiquettes" discussed in Cecil Land? "Orthodox" is meaningless at all, and what the founding grand duke said is orthodoxy.

Cohen made this belief clear in his heart early, but he himself didn't know if this belief came about after he saw the Master Carmel bowing to Gawain Cecil...

With some wild thoughts in his mind, Cohen came to the door of the First Practical Technology Laboratory, but before he opened the door, a young girl with a single flaxen ponytail came running from the corridor, waving her hand. With a rolled up scroll: "Cohen! New issue of Cecil Weekly! I bought it for you - don't forget to invite me back to dinner!"

Cohen raised his hand to take the weekly newspaper from the girl, agreed casually, and watched the girl happily run to another research room at the end of the corridor.

The girl's name is Mediah, a mage apprentice brought by Kant. She came earlier than Cohen and became a "senior" in the Institute of Magical Technology. Cohen's life in the institute was affected by her inconvenience. less care. Mediah is an enthusiastic girl, and seems to be deeply influenced by the lord's thinking, helpful and has little sense of hierarchy, and many people in the institute like this enthusiastic girl.

Cohen shook his head with a smile, and walked into the laboratory where he was working while looking at the newspaper in his hand.

Newspapers, this is also something unique to this land. It didn't appear very early. So far, there have been three issues, but Cohen is very interested in it. Reading newspapers is not as exhausting as reading magic books. , while the content on it is interesting and practical, and Cohen uses it as a kind of relaxation reading for energy regulation—and he knows that many people at the institute do too.

And Cohen knew that the recent projects he and his colleagues at the institute were working on had a lot to do with this "newspaper."

"Korn - good morning," after entering the laboratory, there was a hello from a colleague immediately. A familiar magician greeted Cohen. The magician saw the newspaper in Cohen's hand. , couldn't help but wonder, "What's written on it this time? I haven't had time to read it yet."

Another magician next to him said with a smile: "I hope to see the sequel to the last issue of "The Northern Mountains and Forests" - I really didn't expect that there are so many strange legends in the northern part of the kingdom."

"Pay more attention to useful news," Cohen glanced at the magician and raised the newspaper in his hand, "It says that our king has gone to the border to negotiate with Emperor Typhon - and Gord Wen deduces that they will meet next week."

"Tsk, this day has come," the magician who spoke first smacked his lips, "It seems that our King is also in a hurry."

"No one likes wars, especially His Majesty the King - he has to put in a lot of money," said the second magus, laughing, "he spent ten years renovating the Silver Fort. savings!"

Cohen didn't participate in the next conversation, he just smiled and shook his head, folded the newspaper and put it in his cabinet.

On the pioneering lands of the remote southern frontier, it was so natural for two men who had been artisan and wizard apprentices to talk about a negotiation between the king and the emperor of a neighboring country—and this negotiation was not an old story of a few years ago, but What's going on these days, it's really an incredible scene.

Cecil seems to be used to accepting all kinds of incredible things, but it may take a little while for him, a magician from the capital, to fully adapt to all this.

At this moment, a person walked into the laboratory, and the magicians who were talking in various places and sorting out their personal belongings immediately became quiet.

It was a girl with dark brown hair, younger than everyone on the scene, and even seemed to have just grown up. She had a bright smile on her face, and she walked all the way, but no one in the laboratory dared to Despise this young girl, including Cohen.

Because this girl who looks only seventeen or eighteen years old is the owner of the entire Magic Technology Research Institute, and also the heir of the ancient family who has inherited the surname of Cecil and ruled this land.

"Hello everyone!" The girl happily walked to the center of the laboratory and waved her hand to greet the people on the scene. She couldn't see any aristocratic momentum at all, but Cohen still bowed his head respectfully like the others, using a neat voice Salute: "Good morning, Dame Rebecca."

"Okay, don't be polite," Rebecca waved her hands. "We will continue the subject today, and each group will continue to test the part of the data and materials that they are responsible for. Bruce, Terry, come here, I have a new idea. It needs to be verified."

The workflow of the laboratory came into play immediately, and the people in each "team" entered the working state in the shortest time, and Cohen also threw himself into his task - he has not yet become an official magician, but He was trained as an apprentice, but he had a third-level arcanist qualification, and his learning in the field of rune logic was progressing rapidly, so he obtained the qualification to enter the laboratory in advance,

He himself cherished such an opportunity.

The "magic research" of the Institute of Magic Technology is different from other places. There are no dark and cramped magic towers, gloomy and lonely magicians, and there are no trembling magic apprentices and strange and obscure spell experiments that rely on luck. Here, A large number of technicians discuss and cooperate with each other. Everyone's inspiration and ideas will be discussed and verified. A large topic will be divided into small parts in the laboratory, and then several groups will work together to "research" , this unprecedented way of studying magic was eye-opening to Cohen at first, and it didn't take him long to become fully immersed in it - this kind of thought and thought, inspiration and inspiration, all together to share knowledge, for the sake of Working hard with one goal is much more comfortable than staying in the Royal Capital Mage Association.

Cohen's task isn't complicated -- he's in charge of testing which magic can imprint which material and making sure the process is reversible.

In fact, most work groups in the lab are doing this simple but boring job.

Cohen knew the purpose of this work - to create a "printing tool" that can be used for both rapid plate making and reuse. This task target is hung on the wall of the laboratory opposite the door, and has Been there for many days.

That's why the project he's working on with his colleagues now has a lot to do with "newspapers" - the people in the lab are smart, and everyone can imagine that once their research is successful, this new printing tool can In what field is it used.

Thinking that the research he was doing could be transformed into something new and significant, Cohen felt an unprecedented drive—one that was completely different from rote memorization after months of finally mastering a new spell. different.

He has the feeling that he is also part of making history.