Chapter 67: Chapter 63: Lynn’s Bankruptcy Game (Combined Chapter, Happy Mid-Autumn Festival to Everyone)
“Good morning, everyone. I am the new professor of Arcane Mathematics here at Yiyeta Magic Academy, and you can call me Lynn…”
Under the gaze of the apprentices, some surprised and others skeptical, Lynn stood at the lectern, using his hand as a pen and pure magic power as ink, writing his name in the air.
The quiet classroom immediately became noisy.
“Professor Lynn, I heard you came from beyond the Mist Sea. Can you tell us what it’s like out there?”
“Professor Philip said you believe this continent is spherical, so why don’t the people underneath fall off?”
Perhaps because Lynn looked quite young, not much older than they were, the Wizard Apprentices did not show the reserve they might have in front of other professors and chattered away with various questions.
They asked how he crossed the Mist Sea, defeated the great whirlpool, what kind of magic he used to destroy half a coastal city, and even mentioned his free-fall experiments.
It was clear that within just a day and a half, his stories had spread. These apprentices weren’t necessarily looking forward to the course itself; they were purely curious about this new professor from beyond the Mist Sea.
Faced with a barrage of questions, Lynn did not know which one to answer first. It was at this moment that Johnny, who was sitting to the side, suddenly asked.
“Professor Lynn, what is Arcane Mathematics?”
Lynn breathed a sigh of relief and began to explain.
“Good question. Arcane Mathematics is a discipline that studies complex concepts such as quantity, structure, change, and space. You can use it to calculate the circumference of the planet beneath our feet, investigate the laws of motion of the stars, and decode the universal constants… Arcane Mathematics encompasses nearly everything you see and is the most important tool for understanding the truths and the world around us!”
As he spoke, Lynn used the principle of sound wave transmission to amplify his voice, causing everyone’s eardrums to buzz and successfully quieting the previously noisy classroom.
Every apprentice in the room, hearing these grandiose terms from Lynn’s mouth, couldn’t help but feel a sense of longing, with many realizing they were attending a very special magic course.
However, after painting a grand vision, Lynn changed his tone and continued. “Of course, these profound concepts of Arcane Mathematics are still too far ahead for you. For now, you must start by learning the simplest addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division…”
“Isn’t that just arithmetic?” an apprentice in the front row interrupted, unable to help himself. “We have already learned that in the basic course.”
Knowing how to read and understanding basic operations are prerequisites for learning magic. Therefore, Yiyeta Academy usually provides a period of remedial basic education to children born in poor families, teaching them to read, do arithmetic, and recognize basic magical symbols, among other things.
“By learning multiplication and division, can we master some powerful magic?” another Wizard Apprentice asked curiously.
“No,” Lynn shook his head.
Seeing his denial, the faces of the apprentices became visibly disappointed. Some even doubted whether Lynn’s exaltation of Arcane Mathematics was just a ruse to get them to take the class.
“So this course in Arcane Mathematics is just like the basic class? Arithmetic isn’t that hard. I mastered it all in just over a month…” bragged a freckled-faced boy who looked about fifteen years old.
“Oh? Is that so? Are you sure?” Lynn asked with a smile and then clapped his hands, drawing everybody’s attention.
Although he could release “Magic – Bombardment” to show these people the impressive power of combining magic with Arcane Mathematics, Lynn knew that to continue with the course, he had to make them understand that even pure mathematics has unimaginable power!
“In that case, let’s make a bet!” Lynn said with a sly smile. He snapped his fingers and, with the assistance of “Mage’s Hand,” the four desks in front of him floated up and merged into an even larger square table.
Feather quills on the lectern immediately soaked themselves in ink and divided the large square table into thirty-six smaller squares, six by six.
“The rules are very simple. Place one copper coin in the first square, two in the second, four in the third, and so on,” Lynn explained, looking around the classroom at each apprentice with an enticing tone.
“If anyone can fill these squares with the corresponding coins, I will immediately write an application to the Wizard Council, stating that they have completed their studies in Arcane Mathematics with perfect marks, and I’ll also give them a vial of ‘Magic Source’…”
“Professor, is that true? You’re not joking, are you?” Pearce, a tall and thin apprentice in his twenties, suddenly stood up, asking excitedly.
What is “Magic Source”?
It’s the most important thing for Wizard Apprentices to become full-fledged Wizards, worth hundreds… even thousands of gold coins, and not something you can buy just with money!
For Pearce, who was in his twenties and still hadn’t completed any subject studies, Lynn’s two promises were extremely important.