Chapter 5 New Blood
3-016 Room is not large.
The layout inside is also very simple, with a bed, a table and a chair.
There are pillows and quilts on the bed, and several books on the table.
As for the switches on the wall at the door, the power supply lines similar to electric wires, and the lighting fixtures similar to electric lamps on the ceiling, they could no longer shock Link.
Are you used to it?
No, I just adjusted my mentality.
No matter how sci-fi or magical things appear in the wizarding world in the future, Link will quickly accept them, even if they are Gundam or Transformers.
Link closed the door, sat down at the table, put the package on the table and opened it.
The contents of the package are simple.
Two sets of clothes without patches, some dry food for easy storage, and 2 gold coins and 63 silver coins wrapped in layers of cloth.
A blacksmith family, without damaging their muscles or affecting their survival, took out 2 gold coins and 63 silver coins, which was already emptying their wealth.
After wrapping the gold and silver coins again, Link pressed his right hand on the package with mixed emotions.
Is it just money?
This is even more profound love and care.
For a long time, Link took deep breaths several times, and with the help of "Occlumency", he regained his composure.
He stood up and put the package on the inside of the bed against the wall, then sat back at the table and flipped through the books on the table.
Link is literate.
The specific situation is unclear elsewhere, but the Viscounty of Holiday has a rigid rule that children between the ages of six and twelve must receive literacy education.
When his soul first traveled through this world, Link didn't know the reason for this rule.
After all, Viscount Holiday is not a public servant serving the people. Instead, he usually rides on the heads of his subjects to dominate.
Now, Link can guess a thing or two. Anyway, it is related to the annual wizard qualification test.
Illiteracy is not conducive to a wizarding education, right?
The characters in the wizarding world are mainly hieroglyphics, mixed with some picophonetic characters and ideographic characters. The glyphs are highly similar to oracle bone inscriptions, but the pronunciation is very different from Chinese.
To give an inappropriate example, the word "mine" is pronounced as "kuang" in modern Chinese. If placed in the wizarding world, it would be pronounced as "kewuang".
To give another more inappropriate but intuitive example, "lamp" is written as "lamp" and pronounced as "lamp".
That's roughly the situation.
If it weren't for his original memory and physical habits, Link wouldn't be able to quickly adapt to the writing and pronunciation of the wizarding world.
The first booklet was very thin, only five or six pages long, with the words "Passenger Instructions" written on the cover.
Link carefully read it from beginning to end and summarized it. In fact, there are only three things that need special attention.
First, fighting is prohibited on the ship. Second, deliberate damage to items and facilities on the ship is prohibited. Third, the restaurant is located on the fourth floor of the ship and is available around the clock. You can take whatever you want, but waste is prohibited.
As for not being able to cast spells or conduct experiments in the room and having to go to a special place, Link said, I don’t know how to do that yet!
"Instructions for Passengers" was moved aside, and Link picked up the second booklet, "Instructions for New Bloods".
After reading it, Link's mood was not affected by the content, and he was more or less as expected.
The so-called "new blood" refers to the young girls with wizard qualifications collected from the many islands scattered in the four oceans by the wizard organizations of the main continent.
These boys and girls have neither received relevant education since childhood, nor do they have the magic stone, the common currency of the main continent, and cannot survive independently on the main continent.
Therefore, the moment the new bloods are selected, they have already acquiesced that they will sign an agreement with a certain wizard organization on the main continent.
The content is roughly that the wizard organization provides the new blood with the expenses to travel to the main continent, provides four years of tuition and room and board fees, and guarantees the new blood's most basic learning and survival. The new blood needs to sign a contract with the wizard organization after four years. further agreement to formally join the organization.
It's just that it's the same agreement, but there is a huge difference between being successfully promoted to an official wizard within four years and not being promoted to an official wizard.
Officially, wizards sign a ten-year work service agreement, during which they have personal freedom, paid work, and good benefits.
Unofficial wizards sign a twenty-year work service agreement. During this period, they have no personal freedom and work remuneration is extremely low, similar to that of slaves.
If there is a war, the latter will have to act as cannon fodder!
"Sure enough, there is no free lunch in the world. No matter what, you have to pay a price."
Link closed the "New Blood Instructions", moved it under the "Passenger Instructions", and picked up the third and final booklet, "West Coast Tudor University" Overview of the District Wizarding Organization.
This booklet talks about the last stop of the White Sail's voyage, the situation of the wizarding organization in the Tudor region on the west coast of the main continent, but it is really just an overview.
The description of each wizard organization is as brief as a dragonfly, with only a few strokes mentioning who the founder is, who the current controller is, what they are good at, and where they are located.
It’s not like there’s nothing gained after reading it.
Link found one that was very suitable for him from the thirty-nine wizard organizations.
Riversouth School of Biology and Medicine.
The name is a bit weird, but its introduction is that it is very good at plant cultivation, animal cultivation, extraordinary medical treatment and life blessing. It is suitable for new blood with water element affinity, wood element affinity, earth element affinity and light element affinity.
"No surprises, just choose it."
Link closed the booklet and made a decisive decision.
Of course, he didn't have to hang from this tree.
If there are other better options, why not?
After organizing the three booklets and placing them in the upper right corner of the desktop, Link suddenly realized that he seemed to have nothing to do.
The Paro wizard was nowhere to be seen.
Jimny, Chris, Christina and Jasmine don't have much information to dig up, so there is no need to force them to get together and just let it take its course.
The "Passenger Instructions" mentioned that it will arrive at the Port of Manham in the Tudor Region on the west coast in five days.
"What are you going to do with these five days?"
Link couldn't help but think deeply.
After a while, Link made the decision to practice Occlumency.
After all, it was the first draw that I had finally saved enough money to get, so I had to make good use of it.
As a result, Link's five days on the boat became regular.
At meal time, we went to the restaurant located on the fourth floor of the cabin to have dinner and have a brief chat with Jimny, Chris, Christina, and Jasmine.
The rest of the time, he stayed in his room and practiced Occlumency.
I don't pay any attention to the social interactions between new bloods.
I have to say that although the system costs a lot of money, it is also effective.
"Occlumency", which has a very high threshold for learning, is as simple as eating and drinking for Link.
In just five days, Link has practiced "Occlumency" to the highest level. It can be maintained around the clock, preventing other people's mental power from invading the brain, and can also disguise memories at will to confuse others.
Link also made an attempt.
He used the memory palace method as the theoretical basis and used the "Occlumency Technique" to build his own thinking palace.
(End of chapter)