172 Study Helps One Progress (2/2)

In Lucien’s mind, he still had lots of questions unsolved, but he also had this feeling that these questions actually involved the ultimate secrets of the world.

When Lucien compared the two books, Basic Geometry of Magic and Common Algebra, in his spirit library earlier today, he was certain that both of them were books introducing Euclidean geometry, analytic geometry and equations, and the principles of the concepts were basically the same with that of the knowledge on Earth, except the fact that Euclidean geometry was called Tower geometry in this world.

However, at the same time, Lucien still found many unexplainable things if he tried to understand this world based on his knowledge, for example, soul, spiritual power, those missing stars, and the unique element named Tai. Lucien was guessing that something micro or macro in this world was quite different from his understanding.

The latest issue of Arcana, of course, had been copied and saved in Lucien’s spirit library. The thirty articles in this issue were mostly about the assorted application of complex function in different ”fields”, for example, how to divide the sphere of spiritual power into multiple plane fields, while a small percentage of them were about finding new elements by spectrum analysis. Obviously, these topics had been gaining great interest of arcanists.

Lucien was well aware of the fact that the ultimate secrets of the world were still very far from them, so he asked Astar one of his most practical questions, ”Mr. Astar, I wonder if I can learn the meditation promoted by the congress in advance?”

Lucien wanted to upgrade himself, for sure.

”I think I have the right to do so, yes, as a high-rank mage.” Astar smiled, ”But you gotta show me your potential, so I know it’s worth breaking the rules for you.”

”What do you want to see specifically, Mr. Astar?” Lucien was not surprised. He was already used to trading and bargaining.

”I know you have pretty good spiritual power potential.” Astar put down his knife and fork elegantly, ”If you can do a good job on directing the apprentices, or make good progress on studying arcana yourself, I can consider teaching you Brook Meditation in advance before you arrive at the congress.”

”I’m quite sure I can do it.” Lucien smiled confidently.

”Show me, then.” Astar nodded.

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Ten o’clock in the morning, the second day.

In his own room, Lucien said to the three apprentices with a smile on his face,

”Are you three all following me?”

Annick nodded out of excitement, ”Yes! Yes, Mr. Evans! It’s much better now!”

”I feel the same way, too, Mr. Evans!” said Layria in an admiring tone, ”You’re a genius, Mr. Evans!”

”It’s hard to believe that you just started studying arcana yesterday!” agreed Heidi aloud.

”Okay… Okay, I’m flattered, and thank you all.” Lucien nodded with his gentle smile, ”These are some exercises for enhancing understanding.”

As he was saying, Lucien took out a stack test sheet and handed them to the apprentices.

Then Lucien took out Math Principles in the Philosophy of Magic and continued to read the rest of it.

As time went, Annick, Layria and Heidi looked more and more serious as they were working hard on their exercises.

When it was close to noon, Annick first stood up and said to Lucien with a relieved face, ”Mr. Evans, I finished all of the questions.”

”How do you feel, Annick?” asked Lucien.

”These questions are surely tough, but now I feel like my understanding of the knowledge that I learned earlier has been enhanced like you said,” answered Annick, quite excitedly.

Then, both Layria and Heidi put down their quills almost at the same time and handed their works to Lucien.

And they both agreed with Annick’s feedback.

Lucien put down the book he was reading and checked the apprentices’ work. He pointed out some details that they should have put more thoughts into.

After that, the three apprentices exchanged a look between each other and then asked together, ”Mr. Evans, lunch time?”

”Sure. Time to eat.” Lucien smiled.

Hearing that, the three apprentices released a long sigh at the same time.

”And I got more for you three after lunch.” Lucien took out another stack of work sheet, ”Study helps one progress.”

The three apprentices, for a second, thought that they saw an evil smile on Mr. Evans’ face.