Chapter 109: Reiner's Private Work
Chapter 109: Reiner's Private Work
As a result, it took a long time for Reiner to explain the ins and outs to Claire. Fortunately, she knew Elise herself, so she didn't have any strange imaginations.
Soon, her attention was attracted by the dress that Elise brought. It was two hand-sewn dresses, one of which was mainly in dark colors, leaving a lot of space between the arms and the hemline. In order to show the wearer's skin, the dress was decorated with stars, forming twelve intricate constellations that surrounded the dress, like the night sky.
The other was brighter in color, decorated with primroses. The petals falling on the white dress showed a full sense of girlhood. Compared with the dull and serious dresses of ordinary nobles, this dress was more suitable for lively and lovely girls.
Elise obviously spent a lot of thought on these two dresses. Both the design and the craftsmanship were first-class, and they were absolutely valuable.
Dana looked at the dress with some envy, then looked at Claire, and suddenly felt like she was losing.
In the end, Elise did not stay to have dinner with Reiner and others. He had left his shop for a long time, so he had to return to Torrendo today. Before leaving, he left an address for Dana, because Dan Na still needed to study at Luna Nova Magical Academy, so they decided to communicate with each other by letter regarding the guidance of costume design.
The commotion brought by his visit gradually subsided, but Reiner's research on isotopes had been stagnant.
The materials he needed for his experiment had to be purchased from each demiplane, and it would take several weeks to transport it.
Most demiplanes had no direct connection with the main plane. People needed to cross stargates to jump from the main plane to the demiplanes. These channels that could not be explained by the current magic theory could not be artificially created. It could only be found by searching in the entire demiplane.
The discovery time of the first demiplane could no longer be found in any records. It was now generally accepted that the Griffin demiplane was the first demiplane to be colonized and developed in historical records. The stargate leading to this plane was located in Midland Federation. It was precisely because of this that that area had been a wealthy place since ancient times. People there used the resources from the other world to develop themselves and build a brilliant civilized empire.
Later, stargates leading to different demiplanes were gradually discovered, and mankind entered the era of great transcendence. According to historical records, in just a hundred years, at least one hundred demiplanes were discovered. Some of these demiplanes were directly connected to the main plane, some were discovered in other demiplanes. The territory of civilization expanded dozens of times in an instant during that period.
During that period of time, the humans on the main plane were dominated by ancient wizards. They built a huge magic empire as if the stars and the galaxies were within reach.
However, afterward, humans encountered an extremely powerful enemy. The mages called them "Anomalies." They were monsters with a body that was completely different from the creatures on the main plane and each demiplane. There were a large number of them. When they reached a half-plane, they would loot all the resources, leaving a desolate plane in the end.
The first time anomalies appeared, they destroyed the resource-rich demiplane Sauron and slaughtered several mid-level mages. As a result, the mages had to forcibly close the six stargates leading to Sauron. The stargates cannot be regenerated. They were an extremely precious resource, but for the safety of other planes, the mages could only do so.
As a result, anomalies also called Sauron anomalies and were feared by people.
At the same time, amongst mages, the contradiction between the mystic mages and the bloodline mages had also been intensified by the appearance of Sauron anomalies. Some people believed that the whole world should start actively seeking out the lair of Sauron anomalies and destroy them completely. Others believed that Sauron was just locusts of planes, and there was no need to make a fuss about it. There were also people who were extremely pessimistic, thinking that only by escaping from the current star realms could they survive.
The Sauron anomalies disappeared after that large-scale appearance, and only occasionally appeared in certain planes located on the border of civilization, which aroused the suspicion of the entire magic empire.
Such disputes lasted for thousands of years. In the end, Hermann Braggs created the modern magic system and ended the disputes. The old magic empire, which had been precarious for a long time, fell apart, and many kingdoms and federations under the old magic empire became independent.
Between the demiplanes, the distance between every stargate was very far. Although it only took a short moment to pass the stargate from one demiplane to the other demiplane, the goods could only rely on horse-drawn carriages or emerging steam trains, the speed was slow.
The minerals purchased by Reiner also come from different demiplanes and were transported by conventional means at extremely slow speeds.
"It would be great if there was some kind of express delivery."
Reiner thought. Since the materials hadn't arrived yet, he naturally couldn't start his experiment, and there was nothing that required special attention recently, so he put his previous ideas into practice.
It was naturally not a bikini or maid uniform, but a roughly bound book on the table.
On the cover, Reiner's notes read "A Complete Explanation of Ian Gray's Teaching Material".
There was no doubt that this was a guide.
After the book was opened, there was an analysis of the knowledge of the general teaching materials, as well as corresponding exercises. At the end of each chapter, there were also questions for comprehensive knowledge.
This was a manual that Reiner made by condensing all the knowledge from some similar textbooks in the past. Whether it was for exam-oriented education or purely as a learning guide, it was very effective. This had been proved by the performance of the students of Luna Nova Magical Academy.
In addition, there were two more books next to Reiner's hand.
"Ten Years of Magic Test" and "Five Years of Test and Three Years of Mock Exams".
As the name suggests, one of them was a collection of real questions from the magic test from the past ten years, and the other was a collection of five years of real questions and three years of mock questions. The questions and answers were all available from the Magic Association. But no one thought of sorting it out before.
Reiner added some new knowledge points to it, and at the same time systematically distinguished these topics according to textbook subjects, and compiled these two sets of reference books.
Through the experience of taking the magic exam in Torrendo, Reiner learned that although the magic exam could determine the future development direction of an apprentice in this world, there were too few strategies and references for exam-taking. In Reiner's words, this world's exam-oriented education was still in its infancy.
Although he didn't think that good test scores meant a higher level of magic, since there were apprentices like Dana who were troubled by learning, these textbooks should have a certain meaning.
Of course, the most important thing was that these textbooks could be used to make a lot of money