Salomon's learning cycle is much longer than that of other mages - this is not only because he is a disciple of the Supreme Mage, but more importantly because of his age.
Kamal Taj would not let a minor hold a position in the temple under any circumstances. No matter how powerful Salomon's magic was, in everyone's opinion, he still needed to learn.
Therefore, he naturally had no desire for quick success, but followed the courses arranged by the Supreme Mage and Athena day after day. This is very important. The accumulation of basic knowledge will be of great help to Salomon in the future. If Salomon, like Strange, uses translation software to read the cracked grimoires, if he is similar to Strange, If he encounters a grimoire that needs to be deciphered in a ruin without internet, he will be helpless.
[Language Mastery cannot decode secret messages hidden in words or symbols, such as magic runes. These codes are not part of the written language, and reading magic books requires deciphering. The same is true for wizards' magic books and scrolls. Copying also has a failure rate. 】
Therefore, His Holiness attached great importance to Salomon’s linguistics education, and in order to help Salomon understand modern society (in His Holiness’s opinion, Salomon only understood magic but not science), the Ancient One The Master also specially arranged for the London Temple to find a school for Salomon to register for. Salomon will take the exam when he is old enough.
He had already taken the Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 exams when he was seven years old. With the results of this SATs exam, Salomon can successfully take the entrance exam that he must take when he is thirteen years old—— Although he never went to school once, the London Temple solved the problem with banknotes. This is the first time Kamal Taj has done this, because the school-age children in Kamal Taj can only practice martial arts and then go to secular schools, such as Alice Gulliver, the guardian of the Hong Kong Temple Wu Guiyue My daughter can only come to Karma Taj headquarters to learn self-protection skills.
There has never been any minor who devoted himself to the study of magic like Salomon. Although Salomon did not seem to feel uncomfortable with this almost isolated life, but instead enjoyed it, Master Gu Yi was still a little worried that this kind of life decoupled from secular society would make Salomon develop a withdrawn character. Sometimes His Holiness even suspected that he had passed on his indifferent character to Salomon.
This is not possible. This kind of personality cannot deter those extradimensional creatures trying to invade the earth.
The joy of living in a dead house is unimaginable by others. Salomon also changes the posters in his bedroom every three months. Due to his proficiency in the language, he can watch the new shows as quickly as possible without any need. translate. It is difficult for others to understand Salomon's happiness. As long as there is Internet and food, he can stay at home forever. Except for Mount Athena, he does not need to go out at all.
This month his wife is Holo, a girl with a wolf tail and wolf ears who cannot be refuted. (New episode in January 2008)
This kind of life seems extremely abnormal to outsiders. On countless occasions, Master Xiao Wang tried to pull Salomon out of the room so that he could take him for a walk on the street. However, Salomon rejected them all. The rainy weather in London made him a little uncomfortable. If he wanted to eat fish and chips or go to the British Museum, he would go by himself; as for In New York, it's better not to show your face there. Who knows when a big green fat man will suddenly appear there and beat and smash him, maybe there will be two of them; he goes to Hong Kong a lot, he is outside the temple. A frequent visitor to that snack street, Salomon can now communicate with the stall owners in fluent Cantonese.
As for entertainment? What entertainment is better than magic? My friend, isn’t this the most amazing thing in the world interesting enough? The only thing that makes Salomon a little uncomfortable is that he has to face the dark dimension from time to time.
"I have already known my wife Adria when I was your age." Casilios was very friendly to Salomon. Although he was often very heavy-handed during his training in self-protection, he faced Salomon. When Lomon was there, he tended to direct without boredom.
He said to Salomon who was staying in the room, "You should go out for more walks instead of immersing yourself in books all the time. Kama Taj's work is not heavy enough to require you to share it. You should go to school and meet a few people." Girl, staying at Kamal Taj will make you feel like an old man.
If my child were still alive, he would probably be as old as you, and I might even risk being sued to let him taste beer... Anyway, it's not a good thing to stay in the room all the time, if you If you want to exercise, you can come to me. "
Casilios kept his head down when he said this, and Salomon couldn't see clearly his expression. Was it grief? Or miss it? But looking back a few years later, Salomon could only recall the cold smell of the cold wind blowing from the Himalayas mixed with the decaying dust in the room, and the man standing in front of him with gray hair who had lost everything. man.
It is said that Casilios was introduced by Baron Mordo, because the purpose of Karma Taj has always been to lend a helping hand to those in need. Of course, these people must have magical talents.
Except for those personally recruited by His Holiness, such as Salomon and Strange, almost all other mages got started in this way. The original Kama Taj was established by Master Gu Yi through this method.
His Holiness’s idea is similar to “escaping into Buddhism”, because only those who have almost lost everything are attracted by Kama Taj’s direction lock that protects the earth, and can they not be tempted by worldly wealth and honor, and wholeheartedly take on the responsibility of the external dimension. It is the responsibility of fighting, so Kamal Taj will pay attention to purification, in order to calm the tortured soul of the practitioner.
It cannot be said that this idea is not good. The selection criteria of the Ancient One Master have lasted for more than a thousand years. This system has withstood the test of time, but there are still many apprentices similar to Cassilios, and not all of them. Everyone is willing to immerse themselves in the world of magic like Salomon.
Some people are attracted by the concept of Kama Taj, such as Mordo, who was attracted by the concept of the Mage Monastery to protect the earth, and volunteered to become a mage to resist the outer dimensions. He has been committed to the mission for more than a thousand years. I have great respect for the ancient mage who fights against the outer dimensions.
There are also some people, that is, those mage families. These people are all combined from the mage who first practiced in Kama Taj. They are all descendants of the first batch of disciples of the Venerable, such as Wang and Wu Guiyue. This group of people is also an important part of Kamal Taj. These people have spent their whole lives in Kamal Taj. They have accepted the teachings of His Holiness for several generations. There are still a few people in these families who have been infinitely close to the position of the Supreme Master. , but they were tortured to death batch after batch by the Venerable.
Despite this, they were important supporters of the Ancient One.
And those practitioners who are recruited from the secular world are often not pure enough. They still have regrets in the secular world, such as Cassilios, whose purpose is to see his wife again; or who learn magic just to find a way out and achieve the goal. Purpose, not everyone in Karma Taj entered the secular world after learning magic to become kings and hegemons, or do evil and enjoy material things that are difficult for ordinary people to achieve.
Although His Holiness has no prejudice against material enjoyment, Master Ancient One has also bloodily cleaned up some of those who used magic to cause mischief.
In modern times, Master Gu Yi rarely does this kind of thing. The reason is very simple - with the progress of the times, the amount of information that modern people gain in a day far exceeds that in the past. If we really want to completely require the Master to have no distracting thoughts, then There is probably no one left at Karma Taj. His Holiness knew that if the water is clear, there will be no fish. Therefore, His Holiness also relaxed the selection criteria for new members of Kama Taj - it doesn’t matter if they come to Kama Taj for a purpose, as long as they don’t use magic to do evil. , as long as you take on the responsibility of protecting the earth, then you can do whatever you want. Only belief in Dormammu is something that the Ancient One Master will never tolerate.
Now it seems that Salomon's soul seems too peaceful.
So Master Ancient One planned to let Salomon do something.
ps: It’s a throw away setting, combining comic and movie settings. The next chapter is a new event.
