Momolo found a pair of glasses from somewhere and put them on his face. That gave him the air of a gentle scholar, but his radiant and happy expression greatly undermined his sense of calm.
"Study time!" he loudly announced.
So Luo Binhan pulled out "Starlight World" from the bookshelf after a long absence. Under the guidance of Momolo, he silently recited the word "White Tower" to the directory, and a summary of the relevant results quickly appeared in front of him.
The densely packed entries made Luo Binhan dizzy, including the names of many people who were immediately known to be Masters of the White Tower, various devices with unknown functions, and even introductions to several types of food.
Momolo clicked on a summary entry for him, which gave a general introduction to the major mainstream schools and bases of the White Tower. As the largest pan-conventional group in the alliance, this organization is parallel to the "Top Ten" in terms of status. It is mainly responsible for coordinating and coordinating alliance policies on the contract side within the alliance and promoting the common development of the second type of civilization. According to tradition, its internal highest decision-making authority rotates among several well-known magic schools, and is ultimately handed over to the school known as the "Camarilla" for execution. Decision-making in the modern White Tower is mostly discussed by the top wizards of various schools, and communication with "October" is maintained through the person in charge of external affairs. The current official spokesperson of Central City is Bingwen Yinhui of Yinhui Tower.
Luo Binhanlu read a few paragraphs one after another, feeling that the discussions on the classification of spells were difficult to understand and boring. So he put down "Starlight World" and searched for related content in "Xunqu" and "Jingwei". Sure enough, both books mention the White Tower, but the themes are quite different. The article in "Jingwei" is a discussion about clothing:
About the color of the mage's robe
In the past tradition, people believed that the color of a mage's robe showed his position and strength, and based on this premise, a variety of legends and stories were derived based on prototypes or purely imaginary. Famous cases include the "Great Necromancer Du Fuga" who always wears black robes, and the "Great Sage in White Robes" who has great magical powers and is proficient in sacred spells. This type of cognitive culture is so prevalent that variations of it can be found in the most remote astral planes of the Alliance. This often makes residents of the rational world full of doubts: Does color have some extremely important special value to mages? Is it also an integral part of a complex ritual leading to the source of mystery?
However, the answer is probably no. We don't yet know whether the clothing styles have any impact on the more secretive, introverted, and isolated ancient law, but a vigorous anti-color discrimination movement is rapidly spreading among the new generation of mages in the White Tower. They are deeply abhorred by the clothing color requirements in the old tradition, and point out that many primitive civilizations did not use black as a conceptual symbol of negativity or death when they were born. Using clothing color to strengthen such concepts forces them to accept the cultural traditions of superior civilizations. , which undoubtedly violates the alliance's protection treaty and spirit of equality for vulnerable civilizations. In order to help the public break this solidified perception, more mages have begun to break traditional dressing habits, or wear colorful wizard robes mixed with multiple colors as an expression of their political opinions...
Luo Binhan urgently grabbed a flower candy and stuffed it into his mouth, then threw away "Jingwei" and opened "Xunqu". The article above is somewhat related to his confusion. It seems to be reviewing the history of apprenticeship.
...At the same time, most mage organizations and departments are still implementing an apprenticeship system based on the customary law of personal dependence, which is filled with all kinds of unnecessary corporal punishment and fraudulent operations. This kind of schooling rules that is close to slavery forms a strong contrast with the joyful magic technology boom period called the "Prosperous Age".
At this point, the difficulties faced by apprentices may be worse than those faced by any minority group in a clustered society. Although in the era of about 32 count units around 137-51 of the Alliance Convention, this rule of personal subordination, which is close to slavery, has been abolished in the Toril Celestial Wall System and the Durandian sovereignty area rich in sucrose, and is being more A "civilized" employment system (i.e. a very primitive apprenticeship agreement) replaced it, but it still existed on a large scale in Athas Skywall and the gate cities that were still filled with a large number of primitive spellcasters at that time. Slave ships cower in and out of the Gate City's harbor at high and low tides, selling everything from pansapiens to Stoneheart hatchlings. The Atas Skywall leader's ship that also often appears in the port of Gate City mostly carries and replaces a large number of young apprentices. They are promised to learn wave manipulation and mysterious skills, but most of them do not survive to adulthood, and in about 13 In his life, he only understood how to bake the Lord's special bread.
...In the next calendar counting unit, the intensity of the civil war between the Witch King in Atas Tianbi District reached its peak, and a terrifying number of family apprentices were liberated in disguise. At the beginning of the civil war, they transferred the missionary rights of two star layers to the nearby Feerun God System (the territory was mostly based on the main star layer of the Toriel Celestial Wall System) in exchange for the sharing rights of three secondary elemental planes. The earth elemental plane immediately became a strategic location, a rugged and solid button embedded in the main star layer of the Athas sky wall area. The wars surrounding its ownership were countless, which in disguise depleted the war potential of the Atas Skywall District, so that when faced with the army of stone-heart incubators on the rational side who came after the abducted cubs in the later period, Atas The Witch Kings are as weak as young children.
...Turn your attention back to the Feilun God System under the Doriel Sky Wall Area. The Philanthology has deified magic technology, and therefore requires as many mages as possible to be directly subordinate to the goddess of magic, rather than enslaving each other layer by layer. Toriel took the lead in abolishing the apprenticeship system that was close to slavery in the mainland and its colonies, but took over the territories that still followed this system, which caused a lot of confusion in the oracles and laws. It wasn't until the Sprout Year in Toril's Skywall that these conflicts were basically corrected. The apprentice slaves can now at least appear in the local court and regain their freedom - but first they must prove that they are capable of self-sufficiency and continuous improvement. , and continue to glorify the magic goddess of the Feilun pantheon. Therefore, many people would rather remain apprentices because they can have a room, a garden to share, and a few free days, rather than "being driven by a stinking whip and destroying their own foundation in death." . One apprentice complained after hearing that he was free: "I will not leave my master. He rescued me from the halfling shaman and treated me like a son. He gave me food, clothing and everything."
On the lush island of Pemba, the mandrake garden is still tended by apprentices. When the buds of the mandrake were red and ripe, a large group of apprentices were driven into the garden, dug out the wailing mandrake roots from the earth, and placed them in handmade and enchanted soundproof baskets to hand to their mentors. There have been numerous cases of conspiracy surrounding this herb. An apprentice once tampered with the soundproof basket, making the enchanted handle very fragile. When his mentor lifted the rattan basket filled with harvest, the handle immediately broke under the weight, and the mandrake's fatal cry resounded through the sky, killing the thirty-two low-level red robes present.
Luo Binhan shook his head and put "Xunqu" aside. He felt that he had read enough stories about the apprentice, so he picked up "The Astral Realm" to check out other content.
He first searched for "conventional law", and the entry that appeared was explained as follows:
"Legacy-Conventional Law" is one of the currently popular ways of classifying civilizations in the alliance. The rational side is also called the "First Class Civilization" and the Conventional Side is the "Second Class Civilization." Initially, the core basis of this classification method was "whether a set of rational cognitive methods and scientific research systems serve as the driving force for the development of civilization." However, with the increasing number of civilizations of the "general theory" and "general laws" types, the definitional boundaries of this classification are becoming increasingly blurred. With the rise of Yuan theory and many related theoretical models, the binary construction of "pure theory-ancient covenant" that was considered absolutely stable in the past is also facing unprecedented challenges. A large number of scholars have begun to believe that this classification is not actually based on objective facts, but is an exclusionary thought of some civilizations. At least it can only be regarded as a social classification based on traditional experience rather than objective facts.
"Is it so troublesome?" Luo Binhan said to Momolo.
"This is a very complicated political issue, Mr. Luo."
Luo Binhan stared at Momoluo's harmless expression, suspecting that he didn't really understand him either.
He started searching for "dragon" again and found that the number of entries related to it was no less than that of "white tower". Most of them are introductions to scaly creatures such as dragons, pseudo-dragons, draconians, etc. The entry for "true dragon" is very concise and comprehensive, such as "an intelligent and powerful ancient creature" .
Finally, he finally found a very inconspicuous short entry in the cultural category:
Transform into a dragon
A form of address that exists within ancient conventions and is used to refer to some specific raceless creatures that often have some special power and status. It is still unclear what judgment rules are followed for the use of this title, but the creatures (or creature-like phenomena) that receive this title are extremely destructive and have a strong and dangerous sense of hostility towards intellectual civilization.
The entry itself ends here, but there are links to related concepts at the end. Luo Binhan glanced over casually and found that there was the "Curse of the White River" mentioned by Jing Huang.
He immediately clicked on the entry, which read:
There is a "dragon curse" that is said to exist in the Wuyuan Territory. Based on the social relationships of the dragon transformers, a highly dangerous reduction phenomenon occurs. Its authenticity and principle are still unknown. There are two legal descriptions of this curse:
"A son kills his father, a disciple kills his master, and brothers kill each other."
"If one person becomes a dragon, the rest of his family will go crazy."
Luo Binhan's heart suddenly skipped a beat. He remembered that he didn't call home before he ascended to heaven, and now his mother might be more crazy than a dragon.
