Above the mage!

Chapter 308 Preparation
"This is your residence. The children will share a room with four people, and the adults will share a room with two people. The conditions are limited."

Caitlin brought the branch's teachers and children to a newly built complex at the corner of the main street and introduced the row of new houses.

The buildings in Phoenix are all made of stone, and against the backdrop of the snowy environment, they exude a cold and rustic atmosphere.

The row of houses in front of us is visibly much simpler than other houses.

The outer walls of the house are made of stones of varying sizes, with irregular frost textures in the gaps.

The roof was covered with flat slabs of stone, on which a thin layer of snow had accumulated, like a white hat on the house.

Each window is a simply carved-out square hole, without an elaborate window frame, and is roughly fixed with a few animal bones. Icicles of varying lengths hang from the edges of the window holes, like natural crystal curtains.

The door was also made in a hurry. It was just a large stone slab with rough axe marks on it. However, in order to resist the severe cold, the gaps in the door were stuffed with furry animal skins.

Caitlin stopped walking, and her voice was clearly heard by everyone: "But this has been built urgently by His Highness. In Phoenix right now, almost everyone is engaged in land reclamation and farming. It is only because of His Highness's personal order that the Zhenbing Tribe sent people to build these houses for you."

While introducing, Caitlin did not forget to try to gain favor from Godra.

"To have a decent house to live in, to shelter us from the wind and snow, is already beyond our expectations. How can we complain about the poor conditions?" Guardian Damon, the branch director, said with a wry smile, a bit of self-mockery.

This is the truth.

Although Caitlin didn't say it explicitly, Damon's guardians and instructors all knew it.

As the remnants of the Snowfield Guardians who were wiped out by the Zhenbing Tribe, they are now, to put it nicely, surrenderers, to put it bluntly, captives.

Generally speaking, prisoners were mostly used as coolies and lived in simple tents.

A bunch of people were crowded together with no privacy and slept on the floor. It was unlike now when they could be allocated free and regular housing.

Thinking of this, Guardian Damon even felt a little moved.

Caitlin smiled slightly, looked up at the teachers, and said, "Everyone put your things down and get ready to go with me to meet His Highness."

"Meet His Highness?!" After hearing Caitlin's words, the instructors and even Damon's guardians were all stunned and looked at each other for several times, still unable to believe it.

Among the guardians of the snowfield, the most powerful are the "Guardian" and the "Hunter".

To be honest, these instructors were forced to become instructors because of their lack of strength and talent, and they are all just first-ring Iceborn mages.

A first-ring mage, although not a worthless commodity in the Zhenbing tribe, is certainly not rare or precious.

Even among the Snowfield Guardians, they rarely have the opportunity to meet the sect's top leaders.

And Gaode, as the king of the Zhenbing tribe, actually wants to meet them in person?
How could this not make everyone full of doubts?

"Lady Caitlin, are you sure you want to take us to meet the Ice King?" Damon calmed himself down, but still couldn't help but ask. He needed to confirm it again, fearing that he had heard it wrong.

Caitlin looked at everyone's reactions and smiled softly. She knew what everyone was thinking, so she gently explained: "With your status, you are indeed not qualified to meet His Highness."

She said it bluntly, without any euphemism.

"But the situation is a little different. According to His Highness's plan, you will be incorporated into Phoenix's Ministry of Education."

Caitlin paused for a moment, giving everyone some time to digest the information, and then continued, "And the Ministry of Education is not an ordinary department, but a department that His Highness is personally in charge of."

After a pause, Caitlin emphasized, "In Phoenix, even the Ministry of Agriculture, which cultivated Northwest Barley No. 1, was handed over to Lady Flora and the War Mother by His Highness, instead of being in charge himself."

After quickly putting down his limited luggage, Damon and the instructors, led by Caitlin, came to the city hall, outside Goder's office.

Gaode did not meet with everyone at once, but let them enter the office in turns.

Damon was the first to enter.

"Lady Caitlin, are you really okay?" While waiting outside the door, Ona twisted the edge of her clothes with her fingers, feeling somewhat worried and uneasy.

Although she had prepared herself mentally more than once on the road, when she really got here, all those preparations became shoddy projects and collapsed all at once.

After all, if Gaode really wanted to make a fuss about it, they would have directly offended Gaode.

Caitlin comforted him, "Don't worry, Your Highness is a reasonable person, and you didn't do anything."

"It was me who truly offended His Highness, but you see the current situation." Caitlin patted Ona on the shoulder.

After hearing what Caitlin said, Oona's nervousness was slightly relieved.

Before entering Goder's office, Damon was subjected to a very detailed body search.

Afterwards, with a nervous mood, he finally met the person in the prophecy, the new king of the Zhenbing tribe, Gaode.

And at this point, Damon finally understood why Catelyn called Godder "Your Highness".

Under normal circumstances, it would be more appropriate for these foreigners to call Gao De "Your Majesty".

Although the title of Your Highness is still respectful, it is somewhat intimate.

——It was not out of intimacy, but because the new king was too young, definitely no more than twenty years old. His fingers holding the feather pen were slender and his eyes were glowing with fluorescence, which was a manifestation of his abundant life energy.

He really couldn't imagine that the person in the prophecy would be such a young stranger.

"Damon, Guardian?" Goder sat at the long table, flipping through the list handed to him by Caitlin.

"Yes, your highness," Guardian Damon replied with his head bowed respectfully.

"I was asked by the Guardian of Baruch to visit you, but unfortunately you were out at the time and I didn't meet you."

Gode ​​mentioned this casually, but Damon felt nervous, and subconsciously thought that Gode was going to settle the score later.

Fortunately, Gao De really just mentioned it casually, and before he could reply, he had already received the next sentence.

"Are you literate? When I say literate, I mean both reading and writing. And you must really master it, not just knowing the language."

However, Gode's first question was still completely beyond Damon's expectations, so much so that he was stunned for a moment and couldn't answer it immediately.

"Of course, this is the most basic requirement for teaching in a chapter.
"After reacting, Damon hurriedly answered, then remembered his identity and added: "Although I am not a teacher, I often serve as a teacher, so I still have the ability to read and write."

In the Zhenbing tribe, most Iceborn mages are actually illiterate.

After all, there are only a few times in daily life when you need to recognize words. If you really need to interpret words, you can easily solve it by casting a [Language Comprehending] spell. There is no need to spend energy learning to read and write.

But the teaching of the Snowfield Guardians is different. Their mission is to teach the orphans. How can they impart knowledge if they themselves cannot read?
Therefore, literacy and writing are essential skills for teaching.

"No, Your Highness, do you mean the common language or the Ace language?" After answering, Damon seemed to suddenly think of something key and asked again hurriedly.

"Ace language," Goder put down the list and looked at Damon with interest, "Do you also know the common language?"

Damon hesitated for a moment before he spoke, "I have indeed learned some. A few years ago, I rescued a foreigner in the snowfield. He was seriously injured and had to recuperate with us for half a year. I had nothing to do, so I learned some common language from him."

Gode ​​laughed, "That's great, we finally found someone who understands the common language." "Your Highness?" Damon didn't understand why Gode laughed, but he vaguely felt that this should be a good thing.

"You have two choices. One is to be assigned to work under Deputy Minister Grant of the Ministry of Agriculture to open up wasteland and cultivate the land. The other is to become a teacher under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education and be responsible for teaching reading and writing the common language."

"Neither of them is a slave, but the former will work harder, while the latter will be more respected."

Is this still a choice?

Not to mention that teaching is his main job and his comfort zone, but farming sounds like hard labor.
Damon looked up at Godard and answered carefully, "Your Highness, I choose to be a teacher."

"I just don't know which elders' children I should teach?"

Gode ​​looked too young and didn't look like a man with children at all, so in Damon's opinion, Gode should be asked to teach the children of the elders of the Zhenbing tribe.

"Not the elders' children," Gao De shook his head and said calmly, "but to teach all the children of school age in the Zhenbing tribe."

"We have limited manpower now. Later on, we may even extend this to teaching adult members to read and write, but that's for the future."

"All?" Damon was stunned. Firstly, he didn't understand the meaning of doing this, and secondly, he couldn't imagine such a large scale of teaching.

"Yes, all of them." Goder confirmed.

Even though he didn't understand, Damon still nodded silently and tactfully.

"Then from now on, you are a second-level teacher at Phoenix No. 1 Middle School."

"Level 2 teacher." Damon couldn't help but ask, "Is there a higher level above that?"

"Yes, there are first-level teachers, senior teachers, and special teachers above them. Those who are only responsible for teaching literacy are second-level teachers. Starting from the first-level teachers, they are responsible for teaching more advanced content, including but not limited to the introduction to mage practice and spell teaching." Gode didn't mind revealing some of his future plans to Damon.

Introduction to the Master's Training? !
But the wizards in the North are basically Iceborn wizards, and all their knowledge and power come from their bloodline. Damon was even more confused.

"So, if you want to make progress, you can take some time to learn some spells. In the library of Phoenix No. 44 Middle School, there are spell formulas for tricks. At present, [Clay Shaping] is particularly important."

Gaode kindly reminded Damon, hoping that he could better integrate into the education system he built.

"I understand, Your Highness." Damon responded, but he was actually confused and retreated in a daze.

Godard picked up the quill and gently circled Damon's name on the list.

This is the first person to master the common language so far.

——The Ace language used by the people in the North is still too ancient and niche.

Throughout the entire plane, except for the people of the North, humans in other countries all use the common language.

As a native language, Ais language certainly has a special meaning for the people of the North, but it also serves as an invisible prison, restricting the communication between the people of the North and the outside world.

If the North wants to rise, learning and popularizing the common language is a must.

The simplest example is that a lot of advanced and profound knowledge in the outside world, no matter in which field, is written in the common language.

Without mastering it, even learning a trick would be difficult.

After confirming the arrangements for Damon, the next person was brought in.

Gao De looked up and saw that it was an acquaintance:
Ona, who was discovered by Flora to be not a good person.

Although she was trying her best to restrain herself, it was still noticeable that Ona's legs were trembling slightly.

Gao De smiled slightly and said softly: "Don't be nervous. Can you read? How about the common language?"

This afternoon, Gao De was busy asking for instructions on how to receive instruction from the Snowfield Guardians.

This is something that must be done in order to ensure the smooth development of universal education.

But at present, other people cannot understand his educational philosophy and ideas for building an educational system.

So even for these trivial matters, he had to do them himself.

After seeing off the last teacher, Gao De put down his feather pen, stretched himself, and then buried his head in his work without slacking for a moment.

Education is not that simple. It is not as simple as just gathering a group of children together and finding a few teachers to teach them. There are many things to do.

In addition to the site selection and construction of teaching venues, the selection and appointment of teachers, the construction of the education system, and the convening and organization of students, the more critical and more difficult thing is to develop a set of teaching content that is interconnected and in line with his educational philosophy, precise and strict teaching standards, flexible and effective teaching methods, and even compile systematic and practical teaching materials.

And in this northern border where there is a shortage of talent and ignorant ideas, all these complicated tasks naturally have to fall on his shoulders alone.

Some time ago, Gaode has roughly determined the teaching content and teaching standards.

What he has been doing these days is to establish measurement units.

Yes, in addition to the most basic reading and writing, Gaode is also preparing to unify weights and measures in the upcoming compulsory education.

He would start with the most basic unit of length, refer to the weights and measures of his previous life, standardize a clear and practical standard unit for various measurements, and popularize it in Phoenix through compulsory education.

In fact, Gaode has already been consciously carrying out this work.

For example, the "mu" used as the unit of measurement for land area in Jinhui Farm and the "kilogram" used as the unit of measurement for barley weight are both new units of measurement proposed by him.

Gao De had not finished the work in his hands when there was another knock on the door, breaking the silence in the room.

"Come in." Gao De said casually without raising his head.

The door hinge creaked slightly, and an elder of the Zhenbing tribe, dressed in a thick snow bear fur robe, slowly walked in.

He bowed slightly to Gao De and said, "My king, this is the scabbard and sword sheath made according to your request."

The scabbard is long and narrow, just right for the sword body of [North Wind]. The sword sheath is made of tanned snow rhinoceros hide, which is rough but not hard, and tough and cold-resistant.

This was specially ordered by God to be manufactured by the tribe for the upcoming star teleportation.

The combination of this scabbard and the sword sheath can tightly wrap up [North Wind] from head to toe.

To a certain extent, it can isolate the chill from the north wind, but of course, the extent is extremely limited.

Their most important function is to conceal the overly eye-catching, strange and gorgeous appearance of [North Wind].

[North Wind] is so eye-catching that anyone who takes a look at it can tell that it is a high-level extraordinary sword.

Since the mage was only at the first level, it was too easy to attract unnecessary troubles by carrying such an eye-catching item.

Now, with this tightly fitting scabbard and the thick sword sheath, at first glance, [North Wind] is just an ordinary sword.

(End of this chapter)