Before the renovation of his new home had even finished, Lin Jie was about to welcome his first class.
The reason why it was so fast was because the first batch of students had already been decided. The ones who signed up were all the mages teaching in the academy, including Great Mage Kabanbai and his wife, as well as some well-informed people. The latter could be people who were studying in the academy, or people who paid special attention to Lin Jie's movements. Among these people, there were those who sincerely wanted to learn, and of course, there were also those who were prepared to nitpick.
However, Lin Jie was not afraid of this. Behind him stood Liu Hui, Zhao Shuang, Zu Chongzhi, Gauss, Newton, Archimedes, and so on. If he was still defeated by this native of the mathematical desert, then he could only sigh that he was not good enough and would make a fool of himself.
Because it was his first class, and because he was busy with his new home, he did not have time to visit the academy and familiarize himself with the environment. Therefore, Great Mage Kabanbai sent a carriage to welcome Lin Jie's first class.
Lin Jie could only admire this kind of lineup. As expected of a Great Mage, the extravagance was quite complete. It was different from those wild mages who rolled in the mud and did not eat. Thinking back to when he had just transmigrated, squatting in a cesspool waiting to ambush the uncivilized goblins, it was like a different world.
Because his new home was not far from the academy, he gritted his teeth and endured the uncomfortable feeling of sitting in the carriage for the second time. The last time he sat in the carriage, it was bumpy all the way to Great Mage Kabanbai's home. Not only was Fen complaining, but he also regretted it. On the way back, he used all kinds of excuses to decline and used a Blink spell to escape.
This time, he was not familiar with the place and had to rely on Great Mage Kabanbai's people to arrange everything, so he just let them arrange everything. It would save him from making requests everywhere and hoping that they would cooperate, making it seem like he was not cooperating. Leaving a bad impression was not a good thing for the future.
As soon as he entered the gate guarded by iron magic puppets, the style of Kabanbai Academy was strongly reflected in his eyes. Similar to the historical universities in Europe on Earth, this place gave off the feeling of a palace complex. With marble pillars and various decorative carvings as the main theme, it gave off a dignified and sacred feeling.
Considering the current situation of the maze world, it was naturally more powerful than civilization. Therefore, the people in the Land of Enchantment were not like the people on Earth, who were obsessed with the construction of parks and scenery. However, there was a lot of green scenery in the academy. Moreover, it was carefully organized and planned, with a strong European style. It was as if the magicians were proclaiming that they would conquer nature.
There was a considerable distance between the buildings, just like how a king could not allow others to stand shoulder to shoulder with him. Every building stood alone. However, according to the driver's introduction, this was actually to prevent the students or sorcerers studying inside from accidentally losing control of their magic experiments. The magic that went out of control would not spread to other places.
Thanks to the driver's introduction, Lin had a rough idea of the academy that occupied a large area. Of course, there was also the act of secretly opening the map.
At the same time, he also understood why Kabambai had chosen to build his academy on the outskirts of Estari. This was because in the old city district, which was near the hotel where they stayed before, it was impossible to have such a large area of empty land for construction.
The carriage stopped in front of a building that was relatively small and inconspicuous compared to the other buildings. According to the driver, every building in the academy would be named according to the course taught in it. In addition to teaching, the teachers would also be provided with a room to rest and decorate the interior freely. Similar courses would be gathered in one place, which was also to make it easier for the teachers to communicate with each other.
After hearing this, a certain person could not help but complain in his heart. Not only was this academy established, but it also had a territory. It was becoming more and more like a university.
The place that the driver brought Lin to was one of the few empty buildings in the academy, which was temporarily allocated to the "mathematics" department. If there was a need for a bigger place in the future, it would naturally be moved to a bigger building. As for the lines that were not spoken, it was probably because if there was no one to study them in the future, they would be kicked out of the academy.
In short, in today's Land of Enchantment, the system of the academy was not completely clear, and many things were still changing. And this small building in Kabambai Academy was the starting point of the mathematics department in the Land of Enchantment.
This "small" building was small, but compared to the houses that ordinary people lived in, it was still ridiculously big. There were a total of three classrooms. After entering from the gate, there were two classrooms on the first floor on the right. On the second floor, there was a lounge for teaching Mages. It was divided into four rooms, which could be adjusted at any time.
On the left, there was only a large lecture hall. The design was of course from the Southwest Peninsula, the original academy that had closed down. It was said that someone took over, but Marco Lin did not care. It was the work of a certain person.
Generally speaking, only buildings that provided elementary education had such classrooms, because they could accommodate more students at a time. But today was a bit special. There were a lot of Mages and non-Mages who applied to sit in on the class. Ordinary classrooms could not accommodate so many people, so this building with lecture halls was found.
And the system of sitting in was to choose to only attend one class, unlike those who paid more and planned to study for a long time. To put it simply, these people might turn around and leave as soon as they heard that they were customers.
After entering the lecture hall, there was no applause, no scattering of flowers, and of course, there was no music. What welcomed someone was pairs of sharp hawk-like eyes, as if they wanted to pierce through people. As for the number of people, maybe the small classrooms could not accommodate them, but it was not to the extent that the lecture hall was full.
Lin was not pretentious. He went straight to the podium without introducing himself. Because today's protagonist should not be himself.
The first thing he said was to ask everyone present: "Why do you want to study mathematics?"
It seemed that this was a question that many people had in mind, and even a question that they were prepared to ask. But a certain person asked first. Looking around at everyone, he could see that his preemptive show of strength had a good effect. Among them was Great Mage Kabambai, who was sitting in the middle of the front row. He did not think in a nitpicking way, but seriously thought about this question: Why?
Lin continued: "Many of you here are my seniors, and your attainments in magic are far superior to mine. So, I will use magic to try to explain the question of why you want to study mathematics. "
Seeing that the originally restless people had settled down and wanted to hear what he had to say, Lin Li did not hesitate. Using his self-invented magic whiteboard, Lin drew a three-dimensional geometric model in the air of the lecture hall, which was similar to a molecular structure. He also explained: "What you see in front of you is the concrete structure of a spell model. I believe that you can see that this is the standard structure of the third-circle apprentice-level spell, Fireball. "
At the same time, Lin used the magic mirror screen in the lecture hall to display all the pages of Fireball in the standard textbook of the Association. Most of the descriptions were written. If an apprentice wanted to learn magic, they had to rely on the teacher's explanation and imagination, as well as countless attempts and efforts to construct the spell model that was difficult to be shown in detail, and only then could they successfully cast Fireball.
If this three-dimensional picture could be shown to the apprentices directly, who knew how much effort would be saved? So, regardless of the mathematics, the structure and the magic used in the demonstration before their eyes were worth the price of the ticket for many Mages.
However, Marco Lin did not stop there. Instead, he explained the description of Fireball in the Association's public textbook one by one, and how to transform it into the three-dimensional picture. Moreover, how much authority should be poured into each node in order to exert the greatest power as stated in the textbook.
After the apprentice-level spell Fireball was completed, Lin said: "Apprentice-Level spells are recognized as the most stable spell model, the easiest to cast, and the most powerful magic. Most people believe that there is no room for improvement in apprentice-level spells. Is that really the case? "
Most of the Mages present sneered at such a rhetorical question, and no one answered the lecturer on the podium. They were waiting to see the other party make a bigger fool of himself, and then let him be unable to turn the tables.
At this time, however, Lin changed the topic and said: "Before discussing the improvement of Fireball, let me first introduce you to what I think is the most beautiful sequence of numbers. As you all know, authorities are actually eight kinds of omnipresent, indescribable things that are pervasive in the land of mystery. Knowledge, strength, authority, faith, wealth, dexterity, perception, and mystery. Have you ever thought about the relationship between the eight kinds of authorities? – "
Saying that, Lin took out a magic stone of the lowest level, the Brilliant Red rank, and waved it in front of everyone.
"– when authorities are in a state of balance, is there anything special about them?"
Saying that, Lin used a trick that couldn't even be considered an apprentice-level spell to force the authority out of the magic stone and turn it into a light mist of eight colors. This was a demonstration that every Mage would do when teaching an apprentice. The intention was to let the apprentice more directly 'see' the existence of authority, and then understand the foundation of meditation and feel the 'authority'.
But this time, Lin forced out all the authority contained in the Brilliant Red rank magic stone until the magic stone turned into a white crystal. However, he didn't let the authority spill out, but rather restrained it. Then, he skillfully separated the eight different colored lumps of intertwining light mist.
When he saw the smallest black light mist, Lin reached out, grabbed it, and kneaded it into a small cube. At the same time, he said: "Everyone's understanding of authority is that some have more and some have less. The black blob represented mystery, as well as the rarest authority. Let's shape the mysterious light mist of authority into a cube of the same length, width, and height, and treat it as a unit. Then, let's see how many units the other authorities are equal to. "
Because it was a conscious effort to capture the rarest, the second light mist of authority to be captured was purple perception, which was shaped into two cubes. Next was dexterity, four cubes; wealth, eight; faith, sixteen; authority, thirty-two; strength, sixty-four; knowledge, one hundred and twenty-eight. After capturing all the light mists, there were a total of 255 units.
Everyone was dazzled by this maneuver, but there was nothing out of the ordinary about it. Because if they were in his shoes, they could also do it. In fact, they could do it even better and faster. But, what was the purpose of this? To explain which authorities were less and which were more?
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