For a long time after Jenny finished, neither Gwen nor Heti broke the silence.
But Heti could feel a powerful aura overflowing from her ancestor. It was as if there was an ice cave around him. Just by sitting nearby, she could feel her magic gradually freezing. This unbearable feeling lasted until Gwen opened his mouth.
Gwen opened his mouth, and his tone was surprisingly calm. "What's the name of your mentor?"
"… William, William Birken," Jenny said a little hesitantly. "He's not a court mage, but he's very influential in St. Sunil. He's the honorary advisor of the Royal Mage Society, and … he's very powerful."
Gwen just nodded quietly. "William Birken, honorary advisor of the Royal Mage Society. I see."
Heti felt that the atmosphere was too depressing. She had to say something to make the almost frozen air flow again. "What happened after that? Did you continue to study the contents of the notes? "
"I pretended to give up the theories in the notes, but I was secretly studying them," Jenny said in a low voice. "My mentor was also a little interested in the notes, but he didn't bother to read them carefully. He just wanted to see what we could come up with. Mr. Ravenketh's death seemed to have become a piece of evidence for my mentor to confirm that the research in the notes was absurd and wrong. So he completely shifted his attention to this aspect, and I pretended to give up those theories as well."
"So, he could never know the existence of the constant E, and he didn't bother to read any of the statements in the notes. He completed all the judgments based on his impression, based on his stupid impression." Gwen's tone was extremely contemptuous. "He didn't know what he was despising, nor did he know what he was missing. He didn't even know what he was missing. I've never heard of such a stupid and ignorant person."
Jenny's eyes widened slightly. This was the first time she had heard someone use the word 'stupid and ignorant' to describe her mentor, a great mage who was famous in the Royal Mage Society and even had an honorary seat in the Secret Assembly …
But she did not dare to agree with Gwen. She just lowered her head slightly and continued. "Then I slowly became a skilled runemaster. My mentor was once curious about how I could complete the rune adjustment with the magic skills of an apprentice, but he had a lot of things to pay attention to, and there were countless servant apprentices like me in his mage tower. Soon, he shifted his attention away from me. Until not long ago, the news that the king was going to form a pioneering team in the Southern Region came. All the powerful nobles began to form this team, and my mentor suddenly found me …"
Heti snorted softly. "So it was that Great Mage William Birken again. He packaged a fourth-level runemaster who was a mage apprentice as a middle-level professional and arranged for her to be part of the rescue team."
"Maybe he just wants to get rid of a burden. After all, in his heart … I'm always disobedient and have no talent." Jenny nodded with a bitter smile. "And to let a mage apprentice use the rank of a runemaster to make up the number, this is already a serious deceit and humiliation. So, he probably has the approval and support of some big shots in the king's city. Lord Duke, I would like to remind you that I am not a special case. Half of the hundred people in this team were squeezed in to make up the numbers. Furthermore, most of them were ostracized and rebellious people. They either have no status and were kicked out of the team, or they are people who have a profession level but are actually useless in the real world. Like that second-level official mage Mr. Santis. Although he's a second-level arcanist, he's actually born with weak spiritual power and can only cast three or four second-level spells in a row. And Mr. Bruce, the carpenter, spent half his life studying mechanisms, but he was ostracized by the Carpenter's Association because he's not good at socializing. He was expelled from the association many years ago. It was not until this rescue team that the association found him and put him in the team to make up the numbers … "
Heti was stunned. "Did the Captical nobles have to …"
However, Gwen could not help but laugh. "I should thank them instead. I should thank every family that intervened in this matter, and also thank your mentor, Jenny. Those idiots will never know how much wealth they missed out on. Rebellious? Well, the last thing we're afraid of in this land is rebellious people. I don't want those people who stick to the rules and bring a lot of connections with them! "
Heti looked at Gwen with a worried look. "Ancestor, you don't have to comfort yourself like that …"
Gwen: "… Why do you have a tendency to be like Rebecca?"
"Ah?"
Gwen waved his hand and turned to look at Jenny. "Let bygones be bygones. Miss Jenny Perrault, you've moved to a new home. Put all your fears and worries aside. You can continue your own research, openly and freely. I not only allow you to do so, but I'll also support you. From now on, you can go to Heti every month to get materials for rune research. I only have one request —"
Jenny did not expect Gwen to be so frank and even enthusiastically declare his support for her. She was still immersed in the great shock. At this time, she just asked subconsciously, "What request?"
"Sort out your research, summarize, and summarize it into as simple and understandable formulas and theorems as possible," Gwen said as he looked at the notebook on the table. "I can see from your notes that you are a practical researcher. You are good at using experience to come up with these calculations, and I happen to have someone in my territory who can complement you — my descendant Rebecca Cecil. She is a very flexible girl, and she is also very good at mathematics. I will let you two study these things together. I hope that what you finally come up with can be a … "
Gwen suddenly stopped, as if he was carefully considering the words. It was not until a few seconds later, under the curious eyes of Heti and Jenny, that he found the most suitable word. "Teaching material, I hope you can organize all these into a teaching material that can be understood by as many people as possible. Of course, this is only the final result. It is a wish of mine, and it will be difficult to realize it. You can take your time. You can tell me if you need anything. "
"These … are these really so important?" Jenny finally realized that Gwen was not lying to her. But in addition to the great surprise, she only felt confused and incredulous. "Do you want to train a large number of runemasters like me?"
Gwen smiled slightly. "Train runemasters? No, I intend to make the contents of this notebook the common sense of every spellcaster in the territory in the future, and even the common sense of every person. "
After that, he stood up and solemnly pushed the big book back to Jenny. "Keep it well and protect it well. And if you have the time and opportunity in the future, it is best to make a copy. Knowledge is more precious than the book itself. The first part of the handwriting has already begun to blur."
Jenny was a little flustered and nodded repeatedly. "Yes … yes, I will remember your order."
"Then I will leave first. Have a good rest. I will introduce Rebecca to you later."
Gwen and Heti left the cabin, leaving Jenny alone to stare at the thick book in her hands.
The burn scar on the left side of her face seemed to be faintly painful. This was the scar that was left when she first walked into her teacher's laboratory and stood on the magic array as an experimental subject. It had been with her for five years. It was not painful at first, but for some reason, it began to hurt again at this time.
Then she finally understood that the scar had always been painful. It was just that the pain had become a habit, so she had completely taken it for granted.
Until today, in front of an ancient hero who was resurrected from seven hundred years ago, she seemed to have lost control. She poured out the many things that had been suppressed in her heart for many years, and threw away the numbness and pretense used to relieve pain. Gradually, she felt that she had regained a little bit of … the consciousness of a living person.
It turned out that living people could feel pain.
She hugged the notebook that carried the will of three generations of masters and her years of painstaking effort and suddenly burst into tears.
After leaving Jenny's cabin, Gwen's face became gloomy again. Heti once again had the illusion that her magic power was about to be frozen. She carefully looked at her ancestor's face. "Are you … very angry?"
Gawain couldn't help but curse, "How stupid! Ignorant! Stupid! I'm 100% sure that he's a complete retard! "
"You mean … Jenny's teacher?"
"That guy has the nerve to say that he is Jenny's' teacher '?" Gwen snorted disdainfully. "I'm ashamed to be of the same race as him."
"I think so too … that mage named William Birken is really stupid." Heti shook her head. "I know that traditional mages are stubborn, but I didn't expect someone to be so stubborn and blind. Jenny and Ravenous Case had clearly made a lot of achievements, but that William Birken could completely ignore them, and did not take a look at the notebook from beginning to end. Is he blind?"
Gwen snorted. "Blind? He is not blind, of course; he is only perfectly conforming to the rules of his class--and why do you suppose that William Birken overlooked the work of Jenny and Ravencaius, and the fact of the formulae? "
Heti guessed. "Because Jenny and Ravenous Case's strength is low? So their research can't be trusted? "
"That's just a secondary reason. The real reason is that Jenny and Ravenous Case are servant apprentices, slaves." Gwen had already seen through all this. "This is enough for the mage to regard the two of them as' another species' different from himself. Did he 'deliberately' ignore the results of Jenny and Ravenous Case? No, not at all. He didn't even notice the results of Jenny and Ravenous Case from the beginning. He didn't even look at it, he didn't even think about it. The only thing he noticed was that his slaves didn't obey his orders. "
Heti was speechless.
After a moment, she asked, "We can send a protest letter to the king. With your title as a duke, the king can't not do anything. That great mage more or less —"
"No, I don't like to protest, because it's useless." Gwen waved his hand hard. "Now that the hundred people have arrived at the territory, do you think the king will be afraid of my protest? It's true that the Captical nobles have intervened in this team, but since the team can set off, it means that Francis II has at least acquiesced in this matter. So why did he acquiesce? "
Heti quickly reacted. "Because he has done all the 'courtesy' and 'rules'. As a king, he has no other fault."
"Yes, the courtesy and rules of the nobles. Everyone in this era only recognizes this."
"Then this matter …"
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