Above the mage!

Chapter 165 Composite Runes
Susan looked through the documents for a long time but found nothing.

Finally, he put down the materials in his hand, thought for a while, and called the staff who arranged the course.

"Why is it that the attendance rate of all courses in the college has increased a lot recently, especially the basic courses, which have even increased by 40% to 50%?"

Chairman Susan asked directly: "What new measures have you taken?"

Under normal circumstances, the attendance rate of all courses within the college fluctuates within a fixed range, and it is rare for such a large change to occur.

In his opinion, it is likely that the staff under him have done their job well.

The construction of academic style has always been one of the key tasks of the committee. Now seeing such fruitful results, he, as the chairman, is quite satisfied.

The staff member being questioned scratched his head in embarrassment and said, "No, we haven't implemented any new measures."

"What is that?" Su Sang raised her eyebrows and continued to ask.

"The new students we recruited this time are working too hard," the staff member said weakly.

"In the past, new students had their own credits for the mage level settlement when they entered school, so they could take one or two courses in the first year to make up 10 credits. There was no pressure at all, and the average number of elective courses was only three."

“But this year.”

The staff member paused and said with emotion: "It's only the third month, and many new students have just completed their enrollment tasks, but the average number of courses they choose has reached three, which is equivalent to a whole year for new students in previous years."

"The efforts of the new students have indirectly boosted the enthusiasm of some old students to choose courses."

Su Sang suddenly realized that it was no wonder that the basic courses had the largest increase in attendance among all courses.

It turns out that it’s because the main force is freshmen.

Freshmen can only take basic courses.

"The new students we recruited this time have good character." Su Sang praised.

"Mainly there's a catfish," the staff member said.

"Catfish? Who is it?" As the chairman and one of the top mages in the academy, Su Sang actually didn't know much about what was going on.

The things that can be reported to him are usually big events, and no one will spread gossip to him.

"It's Gaode." The staff member explained the dispute between Gaode and Youlan in detail:
".He took 16 courses, so Yulan also took seven courses in order to get the first place in credits. Then, Jelica was not to be outdone and also took seven courses. With these three people in front of them, the remaining new students couldn't be too far behind and more or less added one or two courses."

"A second-class wizard apprentice, competing with Youlan for first place in credits?" Su Sang smiled, picked up the teacup on the table and took a sip of tea slowly, "And he's taking sixteen courses at the same time?"

It wasn't a smile of satisfaction, but a smile of anger.

He still had some impression of this Gao De, a "country bumpkin" who was called lucky by others.

Susan had no problem with Gaode's "country bumpkin" background.

Because he entered Seres College as a civilian, and relied on his own efforts step by step to reach his current position.

He had no particular aversion to relying on letters of recommendation for admission.

After all, there are so many aristocratic students in the academy who entered through their family connections.

But now, Su Sang's opinion of Gao De has dropped a lot.

He hated two types of students the most in his life. One type was those who entered the academy based on their family background or their own talents, but did not cherish the academy's resources and spent their days idling around.

The other type is pretentious, pretending to be working hard to show others, but in fact they are just acting and have not learned anything at all.

Especially the latter, they don’t understand at all that the effort is only for themselves, not for others to see!
And now, Su Sang classified Gao De into the second category of students.

After all, Gao De's behavior, from a common sense point of view, is an act of grandstanding. He is in the limelight now, but when the end-of-course assessment comes, won't his true colors be exposed?
All the limelight you are getting now will be returned by then.

What's the point?

Let him be. He is the one who delayed me anyway. At least he indirectly improved the academic atmosphere of the academy, which is not meaningless. Su Sang's eyebrows jumped and she waved her hand, "Okay, I understand."

Frozen Moon 8th.

After achieving two breakthroughs in the Guidance Method, Gaode's progress in meditation finally improved.

On this day, he successfully materialized the tenth lotus petal.

According to common sense, even if Gaode's talent for meditation is far superior to his talent for guiding practice, since guiding practice can be assisted by many external objects, the progress will be much better than meditation.

The reason why he can barely keep up now is because he uses [Divine Guidance +] to frequently enter the flow state, which will also stimulate the growth of mental strength to a certain extent.

This was an unexpected gain that Gaode did not expect.

Although the degree of stimulation is not particularly obvious, it is better than nothing.

Frozen Moon 11th.

With the help of [Divine Guidance +], Gaode learned all 651 level basic runes.

"Mastering all the basic runes at level zero is already part of the assessment for the second phase of the rune course." He Xi let out a breath and told Gao De the truth.

"Your current level is equivalent to that of veteran students who have studied runes for two years, and you have only been learning runes for two and a half months."

The old students that He Xi mentioned are those who have been screened and have a talent for runes.

In fact, if it were an ordinary person, it would probably take him ten years to reach Gao De’s current level.

Gao De did not realize how exaggerated this was. He knew that he had a certain talent for runes, but he attributed more to [Divine Guidance +].

"Next, you will learn the combination of compound runes."

"I will first teach you the thirty-six classic compound runes. However, these are just templates. The composition of compound runes is amorphous. Every rune master has his own compound runes that he is good at."

"And the composite rune is also the beginning of the gap between rune masters."

"A good rune master can combine the most clear and easy-to-understand compound runes using the least number of basic runes and the most concise structure according to needs."

"At the same time, the composite runes they combine will also have good maintainability, which can make it easy to maintain and convenient for other rune masters to maintain in the future;"

"High efficiency, streamlined structure and design allow good rune masters to combine compound runes with lower energy consumption, while compound runes drawn by poor rune masters often have unnecessary basic runes, wasting magic power."

"High scalability. A good compound rune must have a flexible structure, which allows it to be better connected with other compound runes to form a magic circle. Compound runes drawn by poor rune masters often have difficulties in combining with other compound runes."

“High security.”

"high performance"

After He Xi spoke a lot, he took out a stack of rune diagrams and handed them to Gao De.

"These thirty-six classic compound runes are good compound runes that perfectly meet these conditions."

"The first step in learning is to imitate. You should first master all the thirty-six classic compound runes and try to deconstruct and understand their design principles."

"When you feel you have mastered it, I will give you another question. Then you can design your own compound rune according to my requirements."

(End of this chapter)