Chapter 40 Learning magic starts with saving the alphabet
A dozen books.
You have to see it all, or rather, memorize it all.
Master Elliot, who felt that he had repaid the favor, said goodbye and left. Grete stood in front of the table, looking at the thick stack of textbooks in front of him, and breathed a sigh of relief.
He stretched out his hand and measured it: there were about ten books, larger than the 16-karat volume in his previous life, stretching from the solid oak tabletop to his neck. He leaned forward, lowered his head, and placed his chin flat.
in writing.
Is this thickness...
Just, little things.
Which medical student's textbooks, exercise books, atlases, etc. are not stacked high enough for one person?
Grete followed Master Eliot's instructions and flipped through the pile of books. The first book, he didn't know the characters, the second one, he didn't know the characters, the third one, he still didn't know the characters...
fall!
Are they all written in magic words?
Co-author In order to learn magic, I have to learn a language first, right?
And it’s still mute…
Holding a glimmer of hope, Grete flipped through the first book to the last one, and found that except for "Magical Philology", all other basic textbooks and magic principles were written in words he didn't recognize. He had no choice but to put those
The books were piled back on the bookshelf, I opened the last book, and began to fight with the magic words desperately.
There are 4,500 vocabulary words for Level 4.
I memorized it in one month that year.
There are 5,500 vocabulary words for Level 6.
I forgot how long it took to memorize it. Anyway, under the heavy pressure of professional courses, I took advantage of every opportunity to memorize it. It seems that it is quite easy to pass CET-6.
Magic words…
How many words are there in this dictionary?
Grete had not counted, nor did he want to count.
The only thing he can be sure of is that this "Magical Philology" is the thickest book among the nearly a hundred books on the bookshelf. Other books are at most one fist thick, but he can be two fists thick.
The characters are also written in small sizes. If the characters in other books are number one, or one circle larger than the number one, the characters in this book are only size two.
The volume of this content is almost as big as that of Cihai...
Gretel whined silently. He gritted his teeth and opened the first page, and then he felt like he had been slapped on the forehead again.
The arrangement of this book is very random. It is written wherever I think of it, or arranged according to the importance that the author thinks. At the beginning of the first page, the four elements are arranged in order: fire, water, wind,
earth.
Turn another page. Magic, dragon, spirit, early Yuan Dynasty, Mars, Venus, sun, Saturn.
Page 3. Big universe, small universe, birth, death, sages, devils...
Gretel:……
I want a dictionary!
I want all words in alphabetical order!
At least give me the alphabet first!
The English 26-letter alphabet, the Japanese syllabary, the German 30-syllable alphabet, and the International Phonetic Alphabet, please come back... I will no longer dislike you for being too basic...
However no one responded to him.
There is no dictionary, no phonetic notation, no one releases "language proficiency" to let him know the magic words instantly, and there is no intelligent brain to scan all the information and engrave unfamiliar language words into the database.
After Gretel finished crying and wiping away her tears, she could only take out the pen from her backpack, spread out the paper, and began to rely on herself and work hard——
First, count all the letters that have appeared...
It took about half an hour to flip through thirty or fifty pages of the book at hand, and smeared the big one on the paper. After making sure that no new letters appeared, Gretel took a deep breath and started to sort them.
Fortunately, the appearance of this kind of magic text is slightly similar to that of the Latin family. Gretel purely looks at the face, and puts the one that looks like A in the first one, and the one that looks like B in the second one. Unlike the English letters, just
Arrange them in order according to German letters and Roman letters.
What, this letter looks really special and doesn’t look like anyone else?
Always throw it to the end!
After this round of work, I discovered that the characters I wanted to learn were not too complicated. There were about sixty letters. Considering that some of them only appeared at the beginning of words, we can roughly infer that there are upper and lower cases. In other words, the total number of letters
About thirty.
Grete turned over the manuscript paper in his hand and wrote a new letter every other paragraph. Then, looking at the "Magical Philology" spread out in front of him, he became angry and rubbed his wrist...
This entire book needs to be reorganized!
It's not easy. It's really not easy to compile a dictionary... No wonder "Dictionary Publishing House" revises dictionaries once every ten years. Just revising this book can feed half of the people in the society. Really, the workload is so heavy
…
And now all this workload is his alone T_T
Forget it, when reading online articles in the past, some seniors still had to use code-breaking methods to decipher the magic language themselves. Comparatively speaking, he had ready-made books to copy, so he was relatively happy...
Grete went page by page, copying the words and their corresponding common language definitions in "Magical Philology" under the corresponding initial letters. Not to mention, copying is quite useful for deepening memory. At least after copying one page, Grete
Te found that the page he copied had been memorized.
Grete worked hard for a long time, his eyes were blurred from copying, his wrist was sore, and he suspected that he was about to suffer from tenosynovitis. When he wanted to use a treatment on his wrist to comfort him, Grete found that he had encountered the first difficulty.
:
We've run out of paper.
I brought a total of five or six pieces of paper, with dense writing on both sides, and then there was no room to write...
Tear a blank page from which book?
Grete felt that he could not do such a thing.
Looking for someone to borrow paper?
I don’t dare. Master Herman said that copying is prohibited. Now if you ask someone to borrow it, wouldn’t you be hitting the muzzle of the gun yourself?
Looking for help and interceding with Master Gehrman?
Gretel felt that he had not lived enough and did not want to be blasted into black coal by the fireball...
He thought quickly for a moment, stuffed the paper, pen and ink into his backpack, put it on his back and left. He could still read the reference book tomorrow, but if he didn't go back to the city, the store would be closed and there would be nowhere to buy paper~~~
He rushed back to the city and rushed into his home. He closed the door, moved to the side of the square table, moved the chair with broken legs, moved away the bricks holding the legs of the chair, and dug a few shovels of soil underneath.
There was a small money bag lying neatly inside. Grete took it out and poured it out. A small pile of coins jingled in his hand and fell out.
Two silver coins and seven copper coins.
At the other end of the long street, Uncle Simon's bakery sells black bread for one copper coin. Save it, you can eat it all day.
One silver coin can be exchanged for ten copper coins. This small bag of money is enough for the original person for one month.
——His salary in the city guard is five silver coins a month. If he is patrolling in the city, he can go to the military camp for a meal. After all, he can save two silver coins a month to meet other daily expenses.
But if you want to buy paper... this amount of money is probably not enough. The productivity level of this other world is not much better than that of the Middle Ages. In my impression, in this era, paper and pens are extremely expensive...
Gretel hesitated for a moment, climbed under the bed, pushed open the book box, and dug out a small box from the bottom.