Before ascending to God, be a good lord

Chapter 8 6

The large-scale mobilization of the barbarians did not affect that Rand was still learning the calendar and natural knowledge of this world.

What shocked him the most at this moment was not the two suns and three moons in the sky, nor the very complicated calendar and climate caused by it, but the green box in his hand.

In Rand’s hometown, there is a view that the accuracy of a civilization’s measurement can prove the height of the civilization’s development. In his hometown, in ancient times, rope and wood could only be used to roughly express a concept of length. With the improvement of civilization, the “ "foot", "inch", "zhang", "two", "jin" and other basic concepts of weights and measures, but these concepts have changed with the times and dynasties, and there are some discrepancies in different periods.

But these discrepancies could be tolerated before the entire industrial age, because handicraft products at that time did not require large-scale production and division of labor in the industrial chain.

After the industrial age, the assembly line and mass production required higher and higher processing requirements for all parts, and the tolerance for individual differences between parts became lower and lower, and the more sophisticated industrial products, the higher the accuracy requirements. higher.

At this moment, Rand is holding the alchemy calendar in his hand. There must be hundreds of nobles in the entire human empire, not to mention more than 1000. Each of them has a standard weight and measure benchmark, which shows that at least from the level of the human empire, there are needs for various A highly coordinated industry in the region.

But aren't we a feudal empire?Am I still acting as the Baron (agent)?A wild baron who eats food in the wild is chased away by the barbarians every day. How can there be an industrial chain to cooperate.

Not only the baronies on this frontier, but Rand has never heard of other nobles, knights, or caravans expressing expressions accurate to the hour. Everyone is talking about a certain day (yesterday, the day before yesterday) in the first ten days of this month. A certain period of time, such as morning, afternoon, and evening, never said something like 996:9 am on September 14, 10. Such an expression shows that life around the entire Rand is stuck in the traditional agricultural era. You only need to know that today is roughly Dates and weather patterns will do.

The calendar in front of him directly broke the stereotype of Rand. This feudal human empire not only knew the meaning of time and precise weights and measures very well, but also established precise standards that surpassed the needs of society through magical means.But what is the precise meaning of this?

"Uncle Albert" Rand couldn't find the words to express it for a while, "This, this calendar, has so many functions!"

"It's amazing, isn't it?" There was even an imperceptible sense of pride on Albert's face, "Precise control of time and space is the basic principle of nobility, although you may not always meet the need for this in your life." The alchemy calendar, but this is because we are too remote here, and in major cities, the precise concept of time is very important."

"What do these nobles need precise time for?" In Lante's impression, what important things could the so-called feudal nobles have?

"Meeting" Albert is very firm
"What?" Rand was shocked. He didn't expect that he came to the extraordinary feudal world of sword and magic, and could meet meetings that needed to be held on time.

"Magic is very magical. As early as thousands of years ago, magicians invented alchemy props that can see the opposite side. After hundreds of years of innovation, the latest alchemy mirror can see the other 3-5 mirrors at the same time. In all kingdoms, there is a special hall of mirrors, which is used to communicate with earls and marquises.

The kingdom has a special time for meetings. Every time there is a meeting, the king will enter the hall of mirrors, and the earls will go to the mirror in their best attire to hold high-level meetings of the entire kingdom.The imperial capital also has such a system, but it is more complicated. "

So this feudal country not only holds meetings, but also holds video conferences. What are you going to say at this meeting?Coordinate flood control and drought relief or summer grain storage? "The high-level officials held this meeting in a timely manner, but for the real implementation of the matter, we, the middle and low-level nobles, still need to rely on messengers to ride horses? Then will this have any timeliness?"

"Yes, the action of reporting legends. Each legend has an associated kingdom, empire department, or academy, sect. The legend itself can go to other locations through the portal. But according to the rules of the empire, legends can go to other kingdoms or territories. Duty to report to local legends or kingdoms."

"Legends are demigods, why is there still territorial management?" Rand thought it was very interesting. Doesn't this world respect the strong? Why are there so many rules when there are all legendary strongs?
"Because the legend is a former demigod, many demigods are gods in one area. Shouldn't the gods go from their own area to the area of ​​other gods?"

It seems that these demigods are the land god and the city god.Rant complained in his heart, when he suddenly remembered something. "Albert, there is one more thing. Why is our length in meters and our weight in grams? Is this uniform throughout the human empire?"

"Yes, not only that, but there is unity among orcs and elves"

"Huh?" Rand felt that humans were a bit powerful.

"To be precise, this is the standard left over from ancient civilizations. There are these relics in all the large cities of humans, elves, orcs, dwarves, and mermaids. All civilized cities are built around the relics, so many standards are unified. As for the two phrases called mi and ke, it was after the emperor ascended the throne that he unified the pronunciation and language of the entire human race."

"The Emperor of God not only released a unified measurement accuracy standard, but also standardized the language?"

"Yes, not only that, but the Emperor also created the first official school, set up a unified examination, invented the most commonly used paper today, and improved printing technology.

Later, according to his discovery, the rank originally known as the demigod was divided into three legendary ranks. He passed on the knowledge of extraordinary occupations to those non-noble students, so that demon possessors from ordinary classes could also have the opportunity Become a legend.

The Tower of Purity he created can accommodate students from different regions, classes, nationalities and even races. "From Albert's tone, Rand could hear the admiration and yearning beyond words.

"At that moment, the human race had never experienced such a rapid development. The special products in the city were transported through the portal. There were human exploration teams in the sky, ocean, forest, and mountains. New schools continued to emerge. The world The mysteries of history are constantly being discovered, and the mysteries of history are being unraveled." Albert's tone suddenly calmed down, "After a hundred years of exploration, human beings have discovered that in the vast universe, there are still many planets that can be explored and developed."

Ok?How come space travel started before the invention of the train?Lante felt that he had missed it.

"Space mages among magicians discovered that they could use the coordinates of the starry sky to develop other stars. The most famous disciple of the Emperor, the legendary starry sky mage Klein, first discovered the mysteries of the starry sky. After the planets, mankind began the era of space exploration”

"In the 600th year of the God Emperor, human beings had already used not only one colony, but four planets smaller than Alivia and eight planes without planets. At that time, human beings had surpassed the ancient civilizations of history. Achievements, comparable to the descendants of the gods."

Well, the height of civilization of the entire human empire has been raised a lot in Rand's heart. If it is to explore the starry sky, then precise time is indispensable.Although this principle of exploration is unfamiliar to Rand, the purpose of exploration and expansion is the same, to expand the living space of races and civilizations.

"What are the tools we use to explore space and the universe?"

"A magic circle, in a big city, every noble castle and magister's tower needs hundreds of complex magic circles. Through magic methods such as magic circles, magic lines, and magic locks, the magic power is run according to the requirements. To achieve the corresponding effect, a complex magic circle has dozens of small magic circles combined, which requires a high degree of cooperation in space, time and distance.

Such a magic circle can only be successfully drawn by a strong man above the magister level. Speaking of this, Albert expressed his feelings, "Rand, the power of our human empire is beyond the imagination of the nobles here.

The two suns are on the top, March is the same day, the greatness of the human empire began when the emperor ascended the throne. For 1000 years, human beings have expelled orcs, Megatron elves, opened up the universe, and created legends. This is the greatest era of human beings! "

Lante looked at Albert's praise and asked, "Let me ask you, since our human empire is like this, why am I, a baron family, driven away by the barbarians?"

Albert looked at Rand and smiled with relief, "The mighty power belongs to the Emperor, and the decline comes from the tide of magic."

The magic tide is a magic phenomenon that lacks certainty. When the first 5 planets of the Liangyang and Raya galaxies are connected in a line, a magic tide will be generated. If 3 moons are also on this line, a super magic wave will be formed. According to the specific position and angle of the planet, the strength of the magic tide is also different.

The most powerful super magic field usually occurs once every 1000 years.When a magic tide occurs, the magic power level of the entire planet will go from low to high to low and then return to calm, just like a tide.

The time for the magic tide to occur is usually only ten minutes, but because of the sudden impact of magic power in a short period of time, many very precise magic circles will be affected.The magic tide not only caused the instantaneous tide of magic power, but also caused instability in the space.

"During the last demonic tide, the entire human empire was greatly affected, not only the Galloping Horse Kingdom was destroyed, many teleportation circles of human beings were terminated due to the impact of the demonic tide, and many legendary powerhouses happened to be guarding various colonies And lost contact, the foreign race invaded the human territory with the help of the demon tide, which led to the decline of the human empire."

"Teacher, you know a lot. Did you learn this in Maned Wolf City? Or in Dragon Tooth City?" Lante was a little curious, because this kind of popular science knowledge is not just about collecting knowledge and historical materials. It is also part of the development of civilization to standardize and simplify textbooks that conform to historical logic and value orientation.

This shows that the mainstream of this civilization is actively constructing a narrative structure. Today, the narrative structure is that the great power belongs to the emperor, and the decline begins with the tide of magic.What he was most curious about was who was trying to construct such a narrative in a feudal era.

"Neither, there is no school in Maned Wolf City, only Earl Maned Wolf's own school, that school only accepts students above knight apprentices, and [-]% of them are children of the Maned Wolf family, and [-]% want to join the Maned Wolf family Viscount or Baron’s child”

The joining that Albert said included marrying a woman from the Maned Wolf family, becoming a knight of the Maned Wolf family, etc. If there were female demon possessors in the entire Northwest Earldom, they would usually be sent directly to Dragon Tooth City for education.

"Dragon Tooth City has a noble school. If you want to go there, you need about 200 gold coins every six months. This is probably the income after one year of trading in our territory, but our territory doesn't have many gold coins. Most of the traders are bartering. things.

And young people go there even just to meet the girls there. "Albert's attitude towards the middle schools in the two cities is clear at a glance.

"There is only one place that has a strong inclusiveness, regardless of gender, race, age, family background, and that is the Tower of Purity in the Imperial Capital. That great magic tower is 100 stories high, and dozens of magisters live in it. a legendary powerhouse"

"The school is in the tower?"

"Of course not, the school has established 16 magic schools in the entire imperial capital, the first 8 of these schools are intermediate schools, and the last 8 are junior schools.

Children over the age of 7 who are determined to arouse their magical powers can apply to study in elementary schools. If they can become magician apprentices from demon possessors before the age of 12, or become junior mages before the age of 16, they can go to intermediate schools to study for 5 years.

If you can break through to an intermediate mage, you will be eligible to enter the Tower of Purity as a magister assistant.

If you can break through to a senior magician, you can directly enter the Tower of Purity. At this moment, Albert had an extremely reverent expression, as if he was talking about the kingdom of God he believed in.

Rant knew that with Albert's appearance, he might not have been able to enter the Tower of Purity if he had studied for a few years but failed to become a magician.Although Rand wanted to complain, he was afraid of hurting Albert.

"Isn't the imperial capital a place where magicians gather? Shouldn't there be many magic towers? Why does it have to be a pure tower?"

"Because the Tower of Purity is the place where the most legends are born, the first batch of magisters Klein, Zhuoqin, Karl Red Dragon, and Nick Dujuan cultivated by the Emperor were promoted to legends in the Tower of Purity. Not only explored the path of legend, but also explored the way of cultivating legend, this is the most attractive place of the Tower of Purity.

Rand, the path of a human transcendent has become clear, that is, the path from possessing demons to becoming transcendent, and from transcendent to ascending to the rank of god.You have to be your teacher from the saints in the past, take it as your wish to ascend to the gods, and take it as your duty to revive the Galloping Horse Kingdom."

"Okay, so what shall we have for dinner tonight?" Rand really didn't want to eat flatbread, and wanted something less choking.

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