NOVEL ONLINE FREE Chapter 16: Art
Deepblue is intense and regular. Time slips away inadvertently in a daze. Eldrin is still Eldrin, and his life has not changed much. However, a lot of inexplicable income has been added to the monthly bills , and "Isabella's joy" has always been the largest part of the income. Eldrin has never understood how he made Isabella "happy", but every time he saw the bill , he could really feel the heavy gold content of the Legendary Archmage's joy. At least if an Archmage wants such "joy", it won't take long for him to go bankrupt.
Although Isabella was always happy , Eldrin could only maintain a balance between income and expenditure. The training of a magician requires a huge expenditure that is unimaginable to ordinary people. It can be said that there is no end. Moreover, Eldrin's course schedule has changed recently. In addition to the large courses such as magic philosophy, continental politics, and alchemy that everyone can attend, the number of small-scale courses on his schedule has suddenly increased significantly. When he enters the classroom at the designated time, he will find that he is the only student in some subjects.
This is definitely not a good thing! At least that's what Eldrin thinks. Because every magician who teaches has a corresponding salary, and according to regulations, the salary is shared by all students in the class. Teaching individually means that Eldrin has to pay the entire salary of the teacher himself. Therefore, the expenditure items on his monthly bills are also expanding rapidly.
However, Eldrin found that after the Legendary Archmage's first joy, he suddenly received a lot more attention from people around him. People often pointed at him when they passed by, met him by chance, or even in class, and then whispered to each other. Eldrin's perception was not strong enough to detect the content of their conversations, and he didn't care. It was just that this feeling of being paid attention to all the time made little Eldrin feel uncomfortable all over.
the Legendary Archmage lasted less than a week, and he told the people in his inner circle that he had accepted a future Artificer as his student. These people did not last a full month, and told the news to their core confidants. This repeated, and in less than two months, the entire Deepblue knew that a future Artificer was being born. Although the future is full of uncertainties, since this is Isabella 's evaluation , it must be correct. Even if there are still people who have doubts, they will not be stupid enough to speak out . There are naturally a lot of people willing to eliminate the fool who always tells the truth, in exchange for "Isabella's joy", without the Legendary Archmage taking action.
Therefore, at this point, there is only one person in Deepblue who does not know who the future Artificer is, and that person is Eldrin. Of course, Eldrin did not fail to sense any anomalies. For example, for some reason, the number of courses related to magic circles , such as mathematics, geometry, composition, aesthetics, etc. , suddenly increased exponentially. In some courses, even in the basic tutorial part, there were still students, but later he was the only student left. However, in response to these anomalies, Eldrin was only slightly worried about the increase in expenses that the courses meant.
Recently, Eldrin's class schedule has changed again. There are more and more painting tutorials, and the basics of the course are sketching. Eldrin has started to learn a whole new field. But the homework he handed in always made the famous Norland painter laugh and cry. Each of Eldrin's sketches was so accurate that he couldn't find any flaws. But what about the spirit? Painting is art, not just a simple reproduction of reality. But if the reproduction of reality is indistinguishable from reality, it can also be called an art, right? So every time the great painter saw Eldrin's work, he always felt chest tightness and wanted to vomit blood. Those paintings that were accurate to one hundredth of a centimeter were like huge rocks, hitting his chest heavily, crushing his belief and understanding of art again and again.
How can it be so precise! How is it possible?!
But from beginning to end, the great painter could not utter a word of rebuke. Although Eldrin's paintings did not conform to the usual art of painting, anything that was taken to the extreme could be considered an art. Moreover, as a fifteenth-level archmage, the painter understood that Eldrin might not be good at art, but for a magician, especially an Artificer, this kind of precision was a unique talent. So he could not say anything inappropriate. After all, no matter how enthusiastic he was about art, he could not ignore the importance of "Isabella's joy". Just like a building needs a foundation, art also needs bread and gold coins to support it.
And if a future Saint Forgemaster was destroyed because of his preference, then he would have to face "Isabella's rage". Just thinking of that possible prospect, this great magician and painter with mysophobia would rather be desecrated by the polar Gray Dwarf.
Eldrin occasionally worries about his bills . He now has many more "homeworks". On average, he has to complete a small painting, two to five magic circle decomposition diagrams, and a lot of plane geometry homework every night. Not to mention the difficulty of the homework content, the key is that the stationery for writing homework is very expensive. First of all, writing tools require a large amount of special magic paper, such as star pattern paper, moon mark paper, Abyss nightmare cloth, etc., and there are many kinds of ink, from ordinary dark ink to Lorsgar Infernal Blood. Anyway, the common feature of these materials is that they are expensive, and basically the longer the name, the more expensive it is. As for plane geometry, because it is a three-dimensional composition, it needs to be completed on the magic image of the magic laboratory table. The number of magic crystals consumed, Eldrin has no intention of calculating. In short, he often sees waiters carrying boxes of brand new magic crystals in and then moving the empty boxes out.
If the Legendary Archmage 's joy had not continued, Eldrin really didn't know how he would continue, and now he could only barely maintain a balance between income and expenditure. He also encountered the same problem of not being able to make ends meet in terms of time management. In addition to classes and homework, he also needed to meditate and practice magic skills, and the time currently spent on these aspects had been compressed to the limit. If he reduced it further, it would really affect the growth of his own magic power.
In setting the expected growth rate of magic power, Eldrin used the average level of low-level mages observed in daily life as a comparison benchmark, and did not use Minnie and other outliers as a comparison. Even if it is just to maintain the basic speed of magic improvement, it is necessary to rely on magic power recovery potions. The price of magic power recovery potion is 500 gold coins. If you use one bottle every day, it will be 15,000 gold coins a month. It is another expensive expense.
With so little time, Eldrin's only option was to reduce his sleep time. However, when he was growing up, the food he was given every day was specially formulated, containing the flesh and blood of several rare monsters, which could condense the essence and accelerate the growth of the body. In order for these special ingredients to fully exert their medicinal effects, they all need enough sleep. Fortunately, there are many ways in Deepblue that can be used for shallow meditation through sleep. Although the effect is limited, it is better than nothing.
The problem Eldrin is facing now is that there are too many things to do, but too little time. How to allocate limited time and resources to maximize the overall effect is obviously a mathematical problem. And the difficulty of this problem will increase linearly with the increase of variables. Eldrin spent a full four days sorting out the things to do one by one, summarizing them into several major categories, listing the necessary steps, and exerting his wisdom to the limit. He calculated the best allocation plan for materials, time and operations, and finally solved the problem that has been bothering him. These four days are extremely worthwhile, because once the plan is formed, the "precision" talent immediately produces a benefit comparison result of the new and old plans. If you don't optimize to maximize the overall effect, then within a month, Eldrin will waste more time than the sum of these four days.
However, in this way, Eldrin found that he was living like a most precise alchemical machine. But what did it matter ? His world had been digitized, and he didn't mind living a more mechanical life.
Thus, in a life as precise as a magic clock, Eldrin welcomed his first spring in Deepblue , and also his eleventh birthday. That morning, he stood in front of the mirror and looked at himself in the mirror.
The person standing opposite was already a teenager. Because children in the mountains tend to grow taller, and the special food provided speeds up and consolidates this growth process, Eldrin is now more than half a head taller than children of the same age, and looks like thirteen or fourteen years old. His face has almost completely lost its childishness, and his calm eyes make people mistakenly think that they belong to an adult. Perhaps it is because he has experienced too many changes, or perhaps it is because of the blood inherited from his father Gordon, Eldrin's facial contours have some hard lines, and he looks a bit manly. On the other hand, his appearance has inherited more of the characteristics of the Silvermoon Elves, long and slightly curved eyes, slender and straight eyebrows, and a tall and straight nose, all of which are the characteristics of pure-blooded nobles of the high elves. Eldrin doesn't care about his appearance, but a lot of painting and aesthetics courses have made him realize that his appearance is not bad...
It is very rare... The talent of 'precision' immediately corrected his wrong view.
But what does it matter? Little Eldrin didn't care at all. Half a year of intensive education had already left a deep imprint of Deepblue on his mind . That is, power is everything, and beautiful things are just an appendage of power, just like beautiful women are a must-have medal for big men.
Of course, Eldrin's growing knowledge taught him that, in many cases, a beautiful man was a rarer medal.
Anyway, this year Eldrin turned eleven. Children in the mountains mature early, and some get married at the age of twelve. Looking back on the first ten years of his life, every birthday, Irene would give him a summary of the year and tell him what he had gained in the year. But what about this year?
On his eleventh birthday, Eldrin had only a mirror reflecting himself and the ever-burning fire of his memory.