084 Spellcasting Events
He was inspired by his laptop and turned his mind to the full bookshelf outside. Although it was easy to copy other people's spell books directly, and he could learn this arcane through basic reading and understanding, but this was limited to low-level arcane below level three, arcane at level three and above level three. Even if someone copied his spell book for you, how could he learn the spells in it if he couldn't understand it at all?
This means that you can learn by yourself by reading 1+1=2 of primary school textbooks, but if you show him calculus directly, he may not be able to understand it.
Moreover, the biggest disadvantage is that even if you can learn low-level arcane by copying other people's spell books, it is only limited to learning. You can only operate according to the process described in other people's spell books, and you cannot flexibly perform and innovate. Didn't you hear the old mage say that no spellcaster's spell book has the same content, and no spellcaster's arcane effect is the same.
Take the level 0 arcane as an example. Suppose the level 0 arcane is a firecracker. If it is copied, it means that someone else gives you a firecracker made by him. Just put it on the fire, and you just learned how to cast it.
If it was learned by yourself, it might be because of your own fantasy that firecrackers were made into spring thunder or into sky-storm cannon. Then, although it is also a level 0 arcane, its power and effect are completely different.
Lin Jia must have no chance of staying here for a long time to study, but he couldn't take away these materials. Could he have copied them all? He gave up after taking a look at the rows of racks outside.
Take your phone or use the camera on your computer to take pictures of the contents of those books?
After thinking about it, Lin Jia gave up. There were at least thousands of books on the bookshelf outside, and they were only materials for arcane techniques below level three. It was painful to take a page by page on your phone.
After packing up his laptop and cell phone, Lin Jia walked out with the stack of books in his arms. The old mage looked at him in surprise and walked out from behind the reception desk: "His Magister Brand, do you have any other needs?"
"Uh, nothing!" Lin Jia put the books on the counter and said to the old master: "I have finished copying."
"How is it possible? So fast?" the old mage didn't believe it.
There is no need to show off in this regard. Should I take out my phone and let him see it? Lin Jia smiled and asked in a different way: "Is the secret information here allowed to be copied?"
"Of course!" The old mage looked at him in surprise: "This is why I am here. In addition to being unable to take these originals away, it is allowed to be copied at will."
"So that means I can copy all the information and take it away?" Lin Jia's eyes lit up.
"Yes." The old mage was confused. Could this oriental man intend to copy all the materials and take them away? Or did he plan to build an Aufa library by himself? You must know that building an Aufa library is not something that ordinary people can afford. The price of parchment used to copy those materials is not cheap, let alone binding it into a book.
Basically, the price of a blank sheepshop is about twenty gold coins. Although the binding of ordinary blank sheepshop is not as exquisite and exquisite as that of a spell book, the number of pages of the parchment book is several times higher than that of a spell book, and the parchment is larger in size, which is the kind of thing that can kill people, so books are very expensive.
"That's good, you know, I'm from the East and may be going back in a while. In order to avoid not being able to find arcane information after going back, I would like to ask some people to help me copy the information here in a short time."
"It's not that bad..." The old mage glanced at the rows of bookshelf. If a parchment book counts as 20 gold coins, the thousands of books here would cost at least 20,000 gold coins. However, I heard that the Orientals auctioned many valuable Oriental treasures, so they should be able to take out the money.
Lin Jia was so worried that he could not use thick and heavy things if he was not worried about the price of parchment books. Even if he copied them, he would not be able to take them away. Moreover, he did not copy all the books, because many of the books on the bookshelf here had similar contents or had different opinions. He only needed to ask the old master as the manager to pick out the most incisive one from them.
It is estimated that there are dozens of books in a thousand books. After all, these are just arcane materials of level 0 to 2. There is no need to copy them in detail. This way, there is not a lot of them. So he plans to use the batch of A4 copy paper and letter paper he brought.
He read it when he was just flipping through the book. Don’t read the parchment book is thick and heavy. In fact, there are no more than one hundred parchment paper in a book, and there are not many words on each parchment. Because of the quill, the font cannot be too small. The characters used in this world are not Chinese characters, but symbolic characters similar to ancient Greek characters. Therefore, the number of words on one side will not exceed 500 words, and the plus and the opposite sides will only add up to 1,000 words.
And if he uses his paper and an atomic pen, he can write two or three thousand words in a piece of A4 paper? If he writes both sides of the front and back, it will be 6,000 words.
After taking out a tube of atomic pen for the old master, the old master couldn't put it down and played with it for a while, and carefully wrote a few words on a piece of parchment paper. He suggested in surprise: "If you use this magical ink pen that can write small but very clear fonts, it can greatly reduce the use of parchment books. If you want to speed up the transcription speed, I suggest you ask a few more copyists to hire a trained physical laborer to pay 3 silver coins per day, while an untrained physical laborer’s daily wage is 1 silver coin, but a qualified copyist’s daily wage is 3 gold coins per day! "
Lin Jia calculated that this time he brought a total of 50 atomic pens, and there were several boxes of refills, which were enough to give the old wizard a "magical" atomic pen and 100 gold coins as the price. He asked him to recruit and supervise fifty transcribes on his behalf, and asked him to pick up nearly 60 incisive level 0 to 2 secret magic materials from the huge library, and then select the most insightful insights for each arcane from these 60 books, compressing them into the contents of ten parchments.
There are also ten spell books of other spell casters at level 0 to 2, so they naturally have to copy them all.
Lin Jia and the old master worked hard for a long time. After roughly stating that there were about 2 million words in total to be copied. In fact, because the font sizes of each book vary, there are many large-scale graphics and pictures, and there are actually not so many words. So if you ask 50 copywriters, each person will not exceed 30,000 words at most. According to each copywriter, it only takes three days to complete it!
Lin Jia took out a whole box of 500 A4 copy papers and handed them to the old master. According to the calculation, it would be enough to use up to 350 copies of these contents. The extra thing is to be afraid of the loss of copying them.
When a neat stack of snow-white paper was placed in front of the old mage, he was stunned. Lin Jia pushed him several times before he came to his senses. He pointed at the stack of a4 copy paper in disbelief and said, "You...you plan to use this silk paper to copy arcane materials of level 0 to 2??"
Although I know that paper in this world is very expensive and can only be used when copying a very small number of precious document materials or precious high-level arcane materials, but I don’t need this old man to pay for these papers, why are you so excited?
"It's so extravagant! It's so extravagant!" The old mage murmured to himself and fell into a daze. Lin Jia had to leave him with fifty atomic pens and told him that he would come back to pick it up three days later. He also had to go to the store street to buy all kinds of spell casting materials that he needed. It's better to have a sorcerer profession, and there is no need for spell casting materials as a medium.
What Lin Jia didn't expect was that a decision he had made suddenly caused a lot of chaos in the caster world of the Ice Floating Castle!
Originally, he only planned to invite fifty spellcasters to apply for copywriters. The reward for five gold coins per day was quite generous, but the old mage, who was shocked by such a thick stack of silk paper as thin as cicadas and as white as snow, reported the matter to the top leaders of the Mage Guild, and then the matter was urgently reported to the Floating Ice Castle Council.
Although the members of the Floating Ice Castle Council knew that there were a lot of paper on the oriental people, they could tell from the fact that he used silk paper to wrap cigarettes, they did not expect that he had so much on him, and they were extravagant to copy some basic introductory arcane materials that were "very garbage" in the eyes of those advanced spellcasters.
The box of A4 copy paper was carefully held by a team of law enforcement knights in the library of the Mage Guild, and was immediately sent to the Ice Castle Council. After the members surrounded and studied the bodies of aliens for a while, many senior spellcasters among the members could no longer bear it. Headed by His Excellency Turk Sass, the president of the Adventurer Guild and the part-time president of the Council, urgently summoned the spellcasters above level five under the Adventurer Guild.
The administrators of each temple could not tolerate the paper they thought was better than the silk paper used in their temples to copy precious divine scriptures and copied level 0 to 2 garbage arcane materials on them, and they summoned their clergy.
It can be said that the advanced casters of the entire Ice Floating Castle were "tolerable, but unbearable!", and copied them on these precious papers, gathering the essence of the experiences of all advanced casters in arcane, and using an ink with a fragrant floral scent, and using a crystal clear and beautiful ink pen. In their opinion, being able to participate in it, copy their handwriting and experiences on precious papers, and signing their own experiences after their own experiences is a very honorable event!
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Chapter completed!