At the end of the year 727 of the Aran calendar, it was a snowy day just like last year. The Orange Eaton Academy welcomed its first anniversary celebration.
Thinking back to this day a year ago, the first reveille sounded in the Maze World and started the prelude to the children's cries.
Of course, after that day, the reveille was played through a recording every day. Instead of letting Halloumi get up when the children were still asleep and rush to the academy from her home in the coldest morning just to blow the trumpet.
Since they could record surveillance footage, recording audio was not a big problem.
An anniversary celebration was also the first time the Maze World had participated in such an event. Before this, the people of the Lost Land would not celebrate the anniversary of any organization.
If it was back on Earth, a certain someone would also feel disgusted and uncomfortable with the school celebrations and sports events that happened every now and then. After all, he was a person who drifted on the edge of society and only cared about his own little world. But after taking charge of the academy and thinking about ways to gather the cohesive force of the organization, he realized that this was indeed the simplest and cheapest way.
However, the academy was established based on the model of a military academy. Of course, it was impossible to have a youthful, hot-blooded school festival like in anime and manga with a school drama. He also did not think that this group of children would be able to publish their results or something like that. They were all here to learn magic. If they were to excitedly show off some results that had nothing to do with magic, their parents would take their children away the next day.
Since it was impossible to copy the school anniversary celebration on Earth, could Lin not think of something to improve it? Anyway, no one knew what the original version looked like. If he did it, he would be the first to do it. Later generations could only make changes based on this foundation.
The first thing to do was to invite the families of these apprentices. Some people at home were held in their hands and enjoyed all kinds of doting. Even the children who came from poor mountain villages had parents and family. No one had jumped out of a rock. And these people all had one thing in common, which was that they were definitely concerned about whether their children were doing well in the academy.
It was meaningful to invite these people to take a look at the academy's environment and see their children on the day of the academy's anniversary celebration. From what Juan Javier had told him about Annmarie, the children missed their families, even if they didn't show it. After all, they were all children. Most of them had probably never left the place where they grew up before coming to Wulian City.
Send out an invitation, stating the time and place. Their families lived in Wulian City, or they came from well-off families. Of course, the parents of these children did not have to worry. However, the group of children who had to rely on the support of the Charlie Richard Foundation to have the opportunity to learn magic also had one or two family members who set off much earlier and made the long journey to Wulian City.
Fortunately, winter was the slack season, so the parents of the sponsored children could take the time to come and see how their children were doing.
Since there were people coming, they naturally needed to eat and drink. Therefore, Lin invited some food vendors to set up shop on the same day as the garden party. Anyway, he usually cooperated with this group of people. Every night when he was teaching Language P, he would come here once. Moreover, more and more vendors gathered.
Other than that, of course, he also invited some people related to the academy, as well as important people in Wulian City, including mages and nobles who gathered in this mage city.
In fact, this was the same as a noble banquet. Who to invite or not to invite was a matter of knowledge. With the idea of not wanting to offend people and the fact that it was the first time such an event was held, there was no way to estimate who would come or who would not come. Therefore, Lin just sent out invitations.
Of course, at such an academy celebration, just letting people eat and drink and purely bonding felt a little weak. Since the children were the protagonists of the academy, it was reasonable to reward the children with the best performance.
It just so happened that every teacher could have a pocket watch. This group of children had been envious of it for a long time. Some of the children with good family backgrounds, of course, directly said that they wanted it or wanted to buy it. Lin didn't say anything, so that on such a day, it would be a reward for being an excellent role model.
And the evaluation of excellence was not decided by a single person. In addition to having the children vote by secret ballot to choose a person they believed to be a role model, Lin also asked the teachers to choose a child to receive the award. This meant that at the academy's anniversary celebration, two children would be chosen to receive the award. This would become a rule.
Since it was going to be a rule that would continue in the future, of course, some rules had to be explained clearly. For example, the two candidates couldn't be the same person, and what had been won before couldn't be won again. After all, the original idea was to give out a pocket watch as a reward. If someone was really so excellent, or if they bribed everyone and made it so that they won the Double Crown for five years in a row and collected all ten pocket watches, this would completely destroy the original idea.
In the year 727 Orange Eaton Academy's anniversary celebration, the outstanding person elected by the apprentices was Lenny, the oldest student in the year 726. Although his results in magic studies were mediocre and not particularly outstanding, he was very convincing when it came to leading this group of adults and children.
In the monthly election of the autonomous apprentices, although there was a condition that he couldn't be re-elected, Lenny could become the leader of the apprentice brigade every few months. Even if he wasn't a leader, he would still take on other important positions. This showed how important he was in the hearts of the other apprentices.
To the teachers in the academy, this big child wasn't a scheming person who only wanted to buy people's hearts, or a person who would do anything no matter who asked him to do it. Although he had some little tricks up his sleeve, it was undeniable that this child had the demeanor of a leader. Moreover, he was originally on the teachers' pocket list.
Since the apprentices had chosen their candidate, the teachers naturally had to choose the second child other than Lenny. Although the other magicians who had just joined the academy also spoke, the right to speak was mainly concentrated on the two elders, Juan Javier and Eli Huber. Lin occasionally interjected, but it had nothing to do with the candidates.
In the end, the teachers chose a talented girl who passed the Second Ring apprentice exam at the age of eight: Charlotte. To be honest, Lin didn't like this kind of way of determining whether a person was good or not based on talent and performance.
However, regardless of whether it was the girl's intelligence or her diligence in learning, it could be said to be remarkable. No one could be picky about her. Especially in physical training, she didn't lose to the older children at all. This made Lin seriously think about whether it was good or bad for this kind of child who was still in the developing stage to undergo such intense physical training.
In short, under the gaze of all the guests, the magic apprentices of the academy came out in teams. And the oldest, Lenny, and the naive Charlotte, came out to accept the praise together. The prize was a silver pocket watch engraved with their names and the year they won the award.
This kind of reward caused a commotion in the audience. Ever since the first batch of magicians and archmagicians received the teacher's pocket watch, Juan Javier had been very showy and brought the pocket watch to every social event he attended. He would always find an opportunity to take out the pocket watch inadvertently and look at the time.
The server had already announced the time. The forum also had a small change. The time was fixed in the upper right corner of the screen, and the size was mainly to not hinder the normal browsing of the articles. At the same time, all the posts and replies were also timestamped. So for the people who frequented the forum, the concept of time was already known, but no one felt the need to use it. Until a certain archmagician appeared out of nowhere …
For them, the biggest use of the pocket watch wasn't to see the time and arrange their work and rest, but to show off and show off. It was like wearing jewelry on people's bodies. Those things were very expensive and showed that the wearer could afford this very expensive thing, but what other purpose did it have?
Seeing someone take out a round, palm-sized object along the silver chain and lift the cover of the watch, saying, "It's three twenty-seven in the afternoon." Or, "Oh, it's already so late. It's already nine in the evening." The nobles and the other showy sorcerers were all excited.
Want to buy it? No way!
If someone didn't give in, the others could only helplessly.
Want to open it? You're courting death!
The teachers who got their hands on the pocket watch would treat it like a treasure and store it away. How could they be willing to let someone open it and see what was going on inside?
However, the calculator jointly developed by Juan Javier and Eli Huber was like opening a window for everyone, allowing people who learned Language P to see a different world. It turned out that this programming language could not only be used to design magic towers or forums, but also to make things like calculators that were close to life. And the point was that it was profitable!
Even if they couldn't afford to open the pocket watch, they could still afford to open the calculator.
Someone refused to give away or sell more pocket watches, which made other people who had some experience in learning Language P to have the idea of imitating. Although the Society of Sorcerers attached great importance to and protected intellectual property rights, although there was no such term in the mysterious land, the judgment of items was quite relaxed.
As long as a few design changes were made to make the item look obviously different, it could be regarded as a new thing. In addition, the time server had been announced long ago, and it was also said that anyone could freely use the time content. So in the second half of 727, many kinds of watches flooded the trading market of Wulian City. But the most popular one was still the Orange Eaton Academy commemorative pocket watch that was priceless.
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