Chapter 477 - The Hostess’s Gravitas (2/2)

After all, Roland and Betta were always ready to teach them a lesson.

More importantly, the atmosphere of learning was quite intense in all three cla.s.ses.

Motivated by Roland and Betta, two studying maniacs, the other students became more diligent than before.

However, it was actually the mentors who were most shocked.

Over the past half-year, Roland had become acquainted with all the senior mentors, including a few elders.

Every time he happened upon a problem, Roland would take some gifts and ask them about it regardless of whether or not they taught the Ruby Cla.s.s.

At first, the mentors could answer Roland’s questions easily.

But after the new semester began, Roland was starting to ask questions about the advanced application of magic arrays and the sophisticated tricks in matter transition.

For example, how could the capacity of the nodes in a magic array be increased without breaking their upper limit?

Or, how could the magic elements be mutually transformed in a magic array?

Those questions were tricky even for the Legendary Mages.

The fact that Roland was asking such questions suggested that he was on his path to becoming a Legend.

Although Roland didn’t become much stronger, he was more and more fluent in magic theories.

But everybody knew that, once you laid a solid foundation, you would make progress easily later.

Almost all the mentors had realized that Roland had an unimaginable future.

For that, a special meeting was held among the Council of Elders.

“I have a proposal,” said Alfred. “What do you think of transferring Roland to the Meteorite Cla.s.s and Betta to the Obsidian Cla.s.s?”

“No objection here.”

All the elders nodded.

They had all witnessed the progress that Roland and Betta made.

Staying in the Ruby Cla.s.s would be a waste of their talents. They would be held back.

“Also, the annual communication meeting will take place two months from now,” said Alfred. “I suggest that Roland and Betta be taken as two of the ten accompanying students with US.”

“I have no objection.”

“Seconded.”

The decision was pa.s.sed without any objections.

Roland and Betta’s cla.s.s transfer was quite influential.

Understandably, the Meteorite Cla.s.s and the Obsidian Cla.s.s weren’t too happy. The Ruby Cla.s.s wasn’t happy either. Both Roland and Betta were willing to share. With their help, everybody in the Ruby Cla.s.s had someone to turn to whenever they had questions, and they had been progressing much faster than before.

But if Roland and Betta were transferred away, they would be in no position to ask them questions any longer.

Roland didn’t think much. Personally, he was quite delighted to be transferred to the Meteorite Cla.s.s.

He had already sensed that Triton and Montasisa couldn’t meet his needs anymore.

The three teachers who were responsible for teaching the Meteorite Cla.s.s, in comparison, were all Legends.

They were definitely much more capable.

As he expected, after three days of cla.s.ses, Roland found that some of the problems and puzzles that had been bothering him were resolved easily.

The optimization of magic arrays was exactly one of those problems.

Magic materials were required to draw a magic array. Depending on their size and function, a magic array needed at least one gold coin’s worth of materials, and a ma.s.sive magic array could easily cost a hundred gold coins. The teleportation magic array to teleport multiple people demanded more than five gold coins’ worth of materials. A large one that could teleport a hundred people at once might cost a hundred gold coins.

Therefore, the magic arrays had to be optimized in order to be promoted and popularized.

Their cost had to be lowered.

Mr. Freud, who taught the Meteorite Cla.s.s, came up with a trick, which was to manufacture magic arrays with molds. Specifically speaking, he extracted the sap of a cheap magic herb, poured it into a mold, and then “printed” a magic array on the ground.

The sap of this magic herb was magically conductive but also highly volatile. So, the magic array would disappear after it was used once.

As a result, not only could a magic array be quickly formed this way, but it would also disappear after being used. So, the magic array could be kept a secret, and n.o.body could steal it.

The magic arrays created with such a trick couldn’t cost more than one silver coin per usage.

The smaller magic arrays would probably only cost a dozen coppers.

But Freud didn’t specify what materials were best to be made into molds, or what materials were most suitable as the stripes of the magic arrays. He asked the students to experiment to find out.

That was his unique trick that he wouldn’t fully divulge easily.

Roland had to admit that every Legend had his or her personal advantages. Roland returned to his manor, which had already become very beautiful with a large flat lawn and a nice stone road.

There were also a dozen plain-looking maids who were busy working.

Andonara, on the other hand, was sitting before the house with a round table in front of her.

Marilyn, wearing a black-and-white suit for maids, was pitifully being scolded by her. “As I’ve said a million times, the bed belongs to me and Roland. Don’t just crawl underneath every soft, furry blanket and sleep there, or Roland might mistake you for me, take off all your clothes, and do you.”

Roland was immediately lost for words.