Don't disturb the sorcerer's scientific research

Chapter 133 Jia Xiu's arrangements were crystal clear.

Margaret had anticipated that Jasmine would be better than her.

After all, that kid's talent is obvious to everyone, and it's only a matter of time before he grows to be even more powerful than her.

But the key point is that, in her expectation, she gradually grows to be better than her!
He's only been in school for less than half a year, yet he's already better than her!

Where does growth occur?

Although he is better than her in research, his magical abilities are not yet superior, but it is estimated that he will surpass her in the next few years.

Wouldn't that make it seem like her only contribution as a mentor was discovering Jia Xiu, and that she deserves credit for discovering a genius?

As for education and guidance, that has nothing to do with her; it's entirely her own doing.

A master-disciple relationship on the surface!

After studying Jashy's new findings for three days in Gillianis's laboratory, Margaret broke down.

In the lab, I looked like a refugee, with messy hair, staring blankly at the lab bench.

She was incredulous to discover that she couldn't understand Jia Xiuzheng's research at all.

The part about enlightenment techniques is alright; it's relatively easy to understand and can be replicated.

But how were those runes used as examples to replace vampire runes conceived?

She wanted to follow Jia Xiu's research and use the same method to replace the dragon language magic runes.

I have absolutely no clue what to do.

I have absolutely no idea how to replace the function of the Dragon Runes.

She recalled a saying circulating in the world of magic.

An ordinary person's life's contribution may simply be helping a genius save an afternoon.

She now feels she has said too much.

Not the part that lasted all afternoon.

Rather, it's the ordinary people; those who make contributions are basically not considered ordinary people.

She even started to consider whether to change the direction of her research.

She has always believed that while she is young, she should do something that can change the world.

Now it feels like the issue of the unity of magic is such a big problem that it shouldn't be something she's at a certain level to study.

Instead of focusing on research, you should focus on things that are actually researchable. As an "ordinary person," you should think about how you can make a contribution in your life.

If she continues to obsess over the issue of the uniformity of magic, she might not achieve anything in her life as a mage.

Although the College of Santoro does not have a policy of "publish or perish" for those who fail to meet research standards, it would be quite shameful to have no notable achievements throughout one's entire career.

So, which direction should we change to?

She scratched her head and began to think about a new problem.

Just as Margaret was rediscovering herself, Jasmine returned from her lecture.

"Dear friends! Our lab will soon have servers to run spells!"

Jia Xiu entered the room and spoke immediately, his tone very happy.

Bubu, standing to the side, didn't seem very happy. It felt unclean. Did being a knight's squire mean that one of the duties was to be pinched by the knight's senior?
Inside the villa, Mia, Ram, and Gillianis were cooking.

Gillianice has finally found someone to eat with; the only thing she's been thinking about these past few days is what to eat for the next meal.

Today I had seafood risotto, and I found only a small amount of rice among all the seafood.

The accompanying beverage was beer from the monastery, the ultimate gout combo.

The monastery's expertise in winemaking is a long-standing tradition.

Upon hearing Jia Xiu's voice, the three who had been silently showing off looked up.

"What is a server?" Ram asked.

"Why is it a 'run' spell?" Mia asked.

"Are you allergic to seafood?" Gillianice asked. "If you're not, why are you just standing there like an idiot?"

Jia Xiu explained, "I have reached an agreement with a demigod of the Holy Light pantheon, the Radiant Knight we encountered in the last round of the competition."

"Radiant Knight? Ram thinks He's a bit slow."

"Wow, Ram, how did you figure that out?" Jashu was a little surprised. Ram had never interacted with the Radiant Knight before, and Justina had been pretending to be mute during the match.

"Aura, Ram sensed the same aura in Him as Ram, so He was stunned."

An analogy has emerged: "hurting others a thousand while harming oneself two thousand."

"So, boss, you went out to give a lecture and also managed to trick a demigod along the way?" Mia asked.

"What do you mean by deceiving a demigod? We call this a mutually beneficial, complementary, and excellent cooperative relationship where each of us gets what we need."

Jashu said, "Justina, uh, that's the name of the Radiant Knight when she's not pretending to be the Mute Knight. She has promised to provide us with a certain amount of divinely bestowed magic, so that we can use her power to cast spells and help us conduct magical experiments that we couldn't do otherwise."

"Wow, that seems pretty impressive."

Mia thought for a moment and immediately came up with many experiments that could be conducted using this opportunity.

Limited by her own skill level, she can only scale down and reduce the requirements for many of her magical researches related to bacteria, making do with what she has, or she has to entrust them to other druids.

Despite her current status among druids, commissions are still easy to obtain, but the need for communication makes it difficult to guarantee the complete accuracy of information. Commissioned experiments are certainly not as suitable for her own requirements as experiments she conducts herself.

"The only downside is that if you want her to help you cast a spell, you have to first organize the spells you want to experiment with, and only after she confirms them can you start providing magic."

Justina was a little slow-witted, but not stupid. She was afraid that Jashu would come up with some strange thing that would drain magic away.

"Well, it's alright."

Mia felt it was reasonable for someone to check first if she wanted them to help her cast a spell.

She now understands why it's called a server.

It turns out that it meant asking the other party to provide support services.

"So what do we need to do? Should we all start believing in the Radiant Knights? Ram believes in the craftsmanship god Thorgan. By the way, does Justina accept one disciple believing in two gods, or the ogre part believing in Thorgan and the human part believing in her?"

After hanging out with Jia Xiu for a while, Mia's speaking style has gradually become more and more outrageous.

"No, we don't need to believe in her."

"Then what's she after?"

As soon as she finished speaking, Mia was startled and suddenly remembered the embarrassing little stories she had secretly read late at night.

In those stories, the way to connect with God is very direct, often involving close-range communication.

Could it be that Mia looked at Jashy with great shock?

Our leader has already sacrificed himself for scientific research!
"What's with that expression? Justina and I agreed that she would provide the magic for casting spells, and I would arrange a series of novels featuring her as the protagonist to boost the brand awareness of Radiant Knight. If this plan succeeds, there may be follow-up developments such as illusions, dramas, and merchandise. She will also increase the amount of magic power we are allowed to use."

Simply put, the available server bandwidth is positively correlated with the server's reputation.

"Then, what about the novel?"

"not yet."

"Is it only when the novel is published that her magic can be used, or..."

"It can be used right now." "Does the novel have a deadline?"

"No, I said that artistic creation requires inspiration, so I write whenever I have inspiration."

"She agreed?"

"She agreed."

Mia raised an eyebrow; she now agreed with Ram's assessment—this demigod did indeed sound rather dull.

Gillianice, who had been eating melon seeds while chewing on a crab claw, delivered the final blow.

"So you actually just went out to give a lecture and incidentally tricked a demigod."

"Cooperation, this is called cooperation."

"What if the novel doesn't become well-known in the end?"

"Then it didn't even start."

"There's no need to compensate that demigod for anything; we'll just use her magic for a while for free."

"Need not."

Gillianis put down the crab claw. "We elves may have some cultural differences with you humans. In our understanding, this behavior is basically considered cheating. As your good buddy, I sincerely suggest that after you've cheated this one, you should try to cheat the dwarves next. If you succeed, it will definitely provide the elves with laughs for the next two hundred years."

Jia Xiu rolled his eyes.

Just wait, when the Glorious Knight becomes a fashionable item in the realm of gods, people will know that this is absolutely a great collaboration.

As for now, quickly compile a list of all the spells you wanted to cast but couldn't yet, sort them by importance, and send them to Justina for confirmation.

Since the server is up and running, let's not leave it idle.

"Mia, if you have any experiments to do, make a table first. Ram, uh, Ram, never mind, others won't understand your experiments."

If we're talking about who in this group studies magic in the most abstract way, Bubu would only rank second; Ram is the one who truly follows his intuition completely.

The key point is that he can actually produce something despite doing all this, which is quite unreasonable.

"Oh, right, where's the advisor?"

Just then, Jia Xiu realized that someone was missing. Usually at this time, Margaret should be drinking and chatting with Gillianis.

Now that the lab has secured new resources, she, as the supervisor, should at least experience them.

“Little Mary,” Margaret already had a nickname for Gillianis, “she’s been in the lab researching your Enlightenment spell to replace the vampire runes.”

Just as Margaret was mentioned, she herself emerged from the underground laboratory.

Although her hair was messy and slightly oily, and her eyes were puffy and a little dark, she walked briskly and had a smile on her face.

"Little Mary, have you figured it out yet?"

"Hmph!" Margaret smiled slightly. "No!"

I don't know why she could speak so confidently without having fully understood the subject.

"I give up. I'm not going to study it anymore. I'll go back to studying spells. Spells suit me better."

After much deliberation in the lab, Margaret finally decided to return to her original area of ​​expertise and research how to summon or create things more efficiently and conveniently, which she estimated had some potential.

"Wait, mentor, you haven't decided what type of spell you want to study yet, right?" Jia Xiu suddenly asked.

"Not sure yet, why?"

“That’s great. We anticipate that our lab will be using the power of a demigod to complete a series of experimental tests for a long time to come. There will be a lot of data to process and a lot of issues to address. And you, Margaret, our best and most experienced mentor, are the perfect fit for this job.”

Jia Xiuzheng was worried about many of the more tedious tasks in the experiments he was preparing to conduct.

And now the supervisor has nothing to do.

"Reborn! I'll make my mentor a research laborer!"

Upon hearing Jia Xiu's words, Margaret was taken aback. "Are you assigning me a research task?"

"No, no, no, mentor, this is called 'the capable should do more'."

"That's what you said when you asked me to help you sell the Phantom."

"Yes, doesn't this prove that I've always thought you, my mentor, are a capable person?"

Margaret was momentarily taken aback by Jassiu's question.

Her primary concern wasn't even that Jia Xiu had gotten involved with a demigod.

Jia Xiu continued, "Moreover, when our lab produces results, aren't you always the corresponding author? As the corresponding author, you're responsible for communication and coordinating with all parties."

At this point, Margaret suddenly realized, "Oh yeah, she's the corresponding author."

There's no rule against mentors colluding with students to produce research results.

Processing data doesn't interfere with her research on spells.

Aside from failing to live up to his role as a mentor, it seems there are no other flaws.

After realizing that although she was a young prodigy who became a lecturer at Saint-Deux, she wasn't really that much of a genius, Margaret's mindset became more peaceful.

I've made peace with myself.

Others who want to get ahead don't even get the chance.

So Margaret readily agreed, ready to demonstrate what it means for choice to be more important than effort.

And so, at Gillianis's house, Margaret and Justin, the "bosses" of the group, got to work, preparing the first batch of spells that Justin needed.

The main reason is that the spells are difficult or consume a lot of resources, and sometimes require the combined efforts of multiple mages to use. Going through the academy's procedures can be very troublesome.

Borrowing the power of a demigod would be much more convenient; she could handle it herself.

And some very complicated work, such as Jia Xiu wanting to fully verify the success of the vampire rune replacement. The most direct way is to go through all known vampire first-level spells and tricks involved in the replacement.

If you do it yourself, you have to learn everything one by one, which is a huge workload. But with divine power, you don't have to learn anything; you can force the spells to be used by relying on "great strength and flying bricks".

Ultimately, the upper limit of the first batch of lists was just enough to reach the limit of magic that Justina had promised to allocate to Jashu.

Not a single bit of "bandwidth" is wasted; every penny is carefully calculated.

I wonder if the Radiant Knight will regret making that promise without careful consideration after seeing this first batch of lists.

The few days of rest ended amidst busy scientific research tasks.

Jia Xiu almost forgot that there was still a fourth round of competition to be held, and a final that would determine only one winner.

He was so relaxed about the fourth round mainly because he was no longer under pressure to rank.

Because he ranked first in the second and third rounds, with a significant lead, and with a decent performance in the first round, Jia Xiu only needs to pass the final round to secure first place in the overall standings of the four preliminary rounds and gain the greatest advantage in the final.

Mia and Ram had similar mindsets.

After all, the two of them were tied for first place in the second and third rounds. If their performance in the first round hadn't been so poor, Jia Xiu's team could have secured the top three spots in the preliminaries in advance.

This was Santoro's most prestigious performance in this competition.

Therefore, in the final round of the competition, these three were quite different from the other contestants who were still trying to improve their rankings and were both nervous and excited.

The three were as relaxed as could be, waiting for the professors from the Vita Sage Academy to announce the rules for the final round...

(End of this chapter)