Looking at the tapir's body, Lin turned it into bricks according to the method in the past. It's just that although this piece is not small, there are not many usable parts. The power of most tapirs will still overflow and return to the nothingness outside the dream.
It’s not that those that spill out cannot be intercepted. But doing so is equivalent to accepting everything about that tapir, good or bad, into the magic tower. Doing this may improve the efficiency of the tower's completion progress a lot. But it is seeping sand into the most important and vital place of oneself.
Lin is not the kind of person who seeks death just for the sake of speed. So it's obvious what the choice is. He just looked back at the second floor of the magic tower in the dream. If a baby tapir could use it, the part would be no more than a palm. So how many nightmare creatures are left in the semicircular wall on the second floor?
Three selves, speechless. Lin simply left the dream and continued his previous worries.
In mid-spring, the first faculty meeting of the month was held in the Dean’s Office on the third floor. The faculty meeting is usually held once a week, and if there is no special reason, it is held every Tuesday night, which is a rare free time for the apprentices to allocate themselves after dinner.
Basically, this time is for these children to perform tasks including bathing, laundry, and cleaning. Since facilities are limited, they have to take turns. Those who didn't take their turn can do some personal things, such as writing letters home, but most people still use it to review and prepare for their homework.
The teachers use this time to gather together and explain to each other the situations or difficulties encountered during this period, whether there are any solutions, or what kind of assistance is needed? In addition to several magicians and great magicians, the dormitory director Mrs. Du Li and the warrior instructor John Goodman also attended the meeting.
However, the first faculty meeting of each month also has a special meaning, which is pay day. At the same time, Lin will announce the college's financial income and expenditure for the previous month.
At first, some new magicians would happily chew on the ledgers, but this would not last for two months. That is to say, the great magician Juan Javier is more interested in this, but it is the format of double-entry accounting, not the content.
Lin Ke has an open attitude towards the ledger, and the same goes for the small treasury chained with the college's funds. For the sponsors and internal members of the college who want to check the accounts and count the funds, someone's attitude is welcome. But only under the two prerequisites of 'pre-agreement' and 'everyone knows', Lin will take out the account book or open the small vault for everyone to inspect. He ignored any secret audits.
The salary part is not much. Of course, there is still a difference between magicians and non-magicians. However, the great magician got a share, but like other magicians, he did not get more money. It's really because the teaching in the academy does not require big shots like the Great Magician. If you insist on joining in the fun, please feel aggrieved.
This time, in addition to the original magicians receiving a fixed monthly salary, the four officially dispatched magicians from the Kingdom of Reunion also received their own share. In this regard, they also showed a look of surprise. The old magician who took the lead, Lokotosh, asked vigilantly: "Sir Tripwood, did you make a mistake in giving us this salary?"
"To be courteous for nothing is to be either a traitor or a thief", Mi Di also has a similar saying. As an official dispatch, if they accept money from others without a reasonable reason, their loyalty will be questioned after they return to their own country. And the vast majority of people who are willing to become court magicians naturally have their own values and goals, and they cannot urinate in the same pot as a lonely ghost like Lin.
Even if Lin doesn't understand all of these people's concerns, he can probably understand part of the situation. So he explained: "I know that you all came to the college to study the education system on the order of His Majesty Gruber I, the king of the Kingdom of Reunion. For this, I collected a lot of tuition fees from that king, I agree to teach you well."
"That's right. We all know this."
"But you did put in your efforts last month to teach those apprentices according to the curriculum plan. Our salary here is on a back-end basis, that is, the money you are getting now belongs to last month's remuneration; this is why In the monthly faculty meeting, you can only look at the reasons why others receive salary. As long as there are people who have worked hard, they are eligible to receive this money. It has nothing to do with the deal between me and His Majesty the King."
It's a reasonable reason. So the four magicians hesitated for a while and accepted the kiel that was the result of their labor. However, Juan Javier had another objection. He said: "Lao Guy, let's discuss it. You see, my apprentice has also helped the college a lot. Should we also pay her a salary? How about not using the name of my assistant?" Just give her a little."
If other people raised this issue, Lin might discuss it with everyone. After all, back on Earth, there were countless positions such as assistant fees, teaching assistants, and graduate students, and they were not considered difficult titles. But for a certain great magician who had no integrity, Lin rejected it outright.
Someone who founded the college education system in Midland didn't want the phrase "Secretary beeps when there's something wrong, beeps when there's nothing wrong--Secretary" to appear in the academy. Even the silenced version.
After spending more than a year with this great magician, I have become quite familiar with him. A few people of similar age, of course, make all kinds of jokes, both erotic and vegetarian, without any taboos. Regardless of his strength, in Lin's opinion, this guy is just a playboy, and he is also a tall, rich and handsome single aristocrat.
He will probably continue to play like this until the one who is naturally capable of restraining him appears, and then die of gonorrhea or syphilis one day. Sexually transmitted diseases also exist in the Mysterious Land, and unfortunately, this is a disease that cannot be cured by magic. The gods can only replenish the patient's vitality and pray that one day the patient can produce antibodies to resist the disease.
All in all, Lin felt sorry for Annemarie, Juan Javier's apprentice. Being a disciple of this guy is really bad luck for eight lifetimes.
Not to mention whether it was out of love or care that he wanted to help his apprentice get a salary, or because he had various thoughts of "parents seeing their children's red envelopes", this was not the first time Juan made such a request. Of course, this is not the first time that Lin has shot someone, and I believe it will not be the last time.
We reviewed the gains and losses of the previous week and discussed the arrangements for the coming week. One thing was also put in front of everyone, that is, an apprentice applied for a practical course. Because this was something that had been raised a long time ago, everyone wanted to discuss what tasks to take on and how to arrange the accompanying protectors. Of course, the applicant's ability to participate in actual combat is also the focus of discussion.
There is no precedent for how the academy will mediate the tasks that apprentices participate in, and it is not clear how to arrange related matters, so Lin himself is in charge for the time being. He selected some tasks that were not very difficult and did not involve long journeys from the West Tower that managed apprentices, the North Tower that managed magicians, and the tasks provided by the Adventurer's Guild and Mercenary Guild on the forum.
The targets are all goblins.
For such an opponent, several magicians were so disgusted that they did not hide their expressions. Elihuber, with a sour look on his face, even asked: "Why do you always choose tasks related to goblins?"
"Isn't it good to fight goblins?" Lin asked back, and then said: "It's the planting season now. If we allow the goblins to cause trouble and delay the farming season, it is very likely that the whole family will starve to death or freeze to death. Besides, you guys I think it’s troublesome because these little green-skinned guys are so cunning and cunning that it’s hard to crush them with their own strength.”
Everyone laughed a few times, the meaning couldn't be more obvious. However, Lin Ke did not give up persuading everyone, saying: "In my opinion, goblins are cunning, can use weapons, and are especially good at using traps, so they will be a good target for military training. And the most important thing is that their individual characteristics are worse than those of magicians, or even magicians. Magic apprentices are far inferior. So as long as you are careful, safety is not a problem."
If you look at things from different angles, sometimes you will have different ideas.
It's like asking apprentices to use goblins as actual combat targets. The instinctive reaction of most magicians is that this is very troublesome and the reward is not much, so they don't want to do it. But if you look at the apprentices' actual combat training, you will find that the goblins are a very challenging and high-quality target that is completely backward in strength.
For the apprentices, if they can deal with the goblins smoothly, it probably won't be a big problem in the future as long as they don't find opponents or monsters that are much stronger than themselves. The premise is that you can really stand alone.
It’s not like someone has no experience of being taken out to do things. Basically, as long as someone is familiar with the situation and takes the lead, others will be happy and relaxed, and they will follow the leader's actions without thinking about anything. In this situation, there will be no other experience except killing.
If in the future these apprentices become official magicians and leave the academy to become independent, they will think that they will be as easy to deal with as they were in the academy days when they face these uncivilized green-skinned bastards and take it lightly. In the end, it was the academy's fault that the fledgling's life was taken away.
In order to avoid such a situation from happening, this group of magicians worked with John Goodman to evaluate various possibilities and solutions to various emergencies for the apprentices participating in actual combat.
The last topic for discussion is about application for practical courses. The original intention was to allow people who became second-level magic apprentices to spend more time in areas other than third-level apprentice magic.
But now it seems that some apprentices who have only passed the first level of the assessment, or even failed the first level of the assessment, also want to participate in practical courses. Especially the older apprentices, like Lenny.
In the end, everyone discussed an unfinished charter, which temporarily only allowed people above the level of first-level apprentices to participate, and this required the approval of all teachers. Not whoever wants to go out to fight will have a chance. On the one hand, except for those who participate in actual combat, their strength is not enough to fight. These need to be evaluated by instructors.
What makes people worried is that they do not want the application for practical courses to become a means for apprentices to temporarily escape from the academy. This can only rely on teachers to clearly understand the situation and give warnings in advance; and then vigorously publicize it, hoping that they will be conscious and not use this small means of evasion.
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