Don't disturb the sorcerer's scientific research

Chapter 167 Departure, Jia Xiu's Team's First Adventure

Chapter 167 Departure, Jia Xiu's Team's First Adventure
Jia Xiu's academic performance in college was quite good.

A good student with competition awards and scientific achievements always has some privileges at school.

Saint Delos Academy has set up a special training program for Jia Xiu.

He can be exempted from some basic courses, allowing him relatively ample time for his own research.

Courses still within the teaching and training program are also allowed to be flexibly exempted, allowing students to directly take the academic qualification exam and pass the original final exam without having to attend classes again, thus obtaining the credits.

In fact, this policy of exempting students from the course if they pass the exam is open to all students; St. Terre has always been a very flexible school.

All students can participate by submitting an application, and they do not need to take the course after passing the exam.

It's just that very few people submit them.

This exam doesn't have attendance records; the final score is whatever you show on the paper. It's twice as difficult as a regular final exam.

The good news is that because there are so few people taking this exam, the efficiency is extremely high. The papers are graded on the spot after the exam is completed. The proctors are senior students from the professor's research group who set the questions, providing a one-stop "service" for proctoring and grading.

They might even be so bored that they stare at the candidate throughout the entire answer process, hand in the paper, and immediately receive the score.

"Not bad, 96. Congratulations, junior Jia Xiu, you passed the exam."

In the classroom, as Jia Xiu handed in his paper, the senior student proctoring the exam immediately announced his score.

Jia Xiu was the only one in this game.

However, upon hearing his senior's congratulations, he was not happy; instead, he frowned.

"96? Are you sure there's no mistake? It's only 96."

Jia Xiu was not very satisfied with the results. Although he had passed, he had taken five exams in the past few days to finish all the courses he was supposed to take this semester, so as to make enough time for the things in Çachdis Town.

He achieved perfect scores in the other four subjects.

Originally, Jia Xiu wasn't too concerned about getting a perfect score; passing was enough. Of course, it would be good if the score was exceptionally high, but it didn't matter if it wasn't very high.

However, because his foundation was so solid, he got four perfect scores in a row, so it was worth pursuing the final perfect score.

Four 100s and one 96.

What's the difference between this and making an incredible play in a team fight, turning the tide of battle, getting a quadra kill, only to have the last kill stolen by someone else?

unacceptable.

Where did I lose 4 points?

“Here,” the senior student turned the test paper over and pointed to a big question about the calculation of magic power generated by rune combinations, “although your result is correct, the method you used is wrong. The derivation from this step to this step is unreasonable.”

"Isn't that unreasonable?"

Jia Xiu countered with a question.

"Yes, this step doesn't directly lead to the next step."

His question made the senior suddenly lose confidence.

"This step is the discrete form of the Parma transformation theorem."

"Uh, what?"

"What year are you in, senior?"

Fifth grade.

Saint Delos has a six-year school system. The fifth graders are already the oldest students in the school, and most of the sixth graders are doing internships in various magical organizations, so they are rarely seen at school.

"If you're in fifth grade, you should be able to learn it next semester. If you want to know it now, the library has 'Introduction to the Elemental Rune System Conversion'. Chapter 2 should be this theorem, and Chapter 3 will discuss different forms."

Jia Xiu said confidently, "Or you can just ask your advisor. Trust me, it's definitely the right thing to do. Just confirm it before the grades are tallied. Thank you, senior."

"Uh, no, it's no trouble at all."

The senior student stared blankly as Jia Xiu left the classroom.

Who exactly is the senior student here?!

As for Jiaxiu, after leaving the examination hall, he rushed to meet up with Mia, Ram and Bubu.

You definitely can't assign tasks yourself.

The three leaders of Larvin will definitely be present, with an average level of five and a half, which is less than the level six recommended by the sect leader. So it would be reasonable to bring Bubu, who is only level 19.

The mission level requirements have nothing to do with his retinue.

Mia and Ram also applied for the academic proficiency test, hoping to finish the remaining courses and free up time.

Neither of them had a perfectionist obsession; for them, passing was a victory.

According to Mia, getting a few more points on the test wouldn't give her any money, and she had already claimed all the scholarships she could get. Now, she would feel like she was losing out if she got even one more point.

Jia Xiu simply couldn't understand where she had lost out.

"So, did you all pass your exams?"

"I just barely passed, what a close call," Ram replied sheepishly. "I didn't get 60 points on the questions I knew how to do, so I had to guess on a few questions I didn't know. I didn't expect to just guess and pass."

"Wow, I'm not surprised at all."

Jia Xiu now feels that Ram's strong luck doesn't seem like a passive skill, but rather like there's some kind of god of fate watching over him, controlling it when luck is needed. Otherwise, why would this strong luck be able to control the score, just enough to pass?

"Where's Mia?"

"It's alright, it's just that the divination subject is a bit troublesome, it's giving me a headache from all the calculations."

She went to study prophecy for personal gain and because of Druidic tradition. Well-known Druids often engage in mysterious little prophecies about nature.

To put it bluntly, it means having a high level of sophistication, and a higher level of sophistication means a higher appearance fee.

Mia is wherever there is money to be made.

"Um, why is the verb in prophecy 'to calculate'?"

Jia Xiu was a little curious. Prophecy was not a school of prophecy, but just a branch of this school.

Under the broad category of divination spells, there are many spells for detection, investigation, and identification.

Prophecy, on the other hand, is purely about prediction.

Jia Xiu considered the most "mystical" magic spells and had never really studied them.

And I feel that this kind of mystical thing shouldn't be something that can be figured out.

I've never heard of Larvin calling a prophetic mage a fortune teller.

"Of course it counts, what else did you think?"

"I thought it would be about experiencing the universe and nature, listening to divine pronouncements, and receiving a series of vague revelations, most of which don't even speak in human language."

Jia Xiu's understanding of prophetic magic can be described as a culmination of stereotypes.

Those who learn about prophecies through legends and stories generally have this impression, which is also the fundamental reason for the abundance of mystery surrounding them.

In contrast, those who specialize in throwing large fireballs, aiming to throw even bigger and hotter fireballs, seem to have very low appearance fees.

Mia sighed and explained, "That kind of thing exists, but it's rare. It depends on your relationship with the gods. The most important divination technique is to calculate. For example, if you want to predict something, let's take our upcoming adventure mission as an example."

"First, we need to collect relevant information, then remove outliers from this information, and then identify the characteristics of this information. Next comes the key to divination. Different schools of divination have different data processing and analysis methods. Using the corresponding methods, we can calculate different possible outcomes..."

As Jasmine listened to Mia's rambling explanations of her prophetic arts, the more he listened, the more familiar it seemed.

Isn't this a prediction made by a big data model?
Data collection, feature processing, and then training different models—in this sense, different oracles are different large models.

The style of prophecy suddenly shifted from the mystical side to the scientific side.

So prophecies make sense after all?

However, the mystery has not diminished; on the contrary, it has become even more mysterious.

Brainpower big data sounds way more frightening than receiving some vague, unsettling revelation!

No wonder there are so few reliable prophetic mages. Apart from those who have good relationships with the gods and use "divine power servers" for calculations, what kind of brainpower do they have to rely on to do it all?

Even someone as skilled as Mia, who can mentally calculate random powers, struggles to learn this.

People with prophetic abilities are all monsters.

A great way to test if a child has a talent for prophecy is to put your hand under their nose and check. If they can still breathe, they don't have that talent. The accuracy rate is as high as 99%.

"Hey, but you passed, right?"

Jia Xiu asked again.

“Of course I passed,” Mia said with considerable pride. “The learning process was already painful enough. If I had studied for so long and then failed in the end, wouldn’t that have been the biggest loss?”

"So your predictive abilities are pretty good." "Uh..."

Mia scratched her head slightly awkwardly, "Actually, it's not that great, but it'll do."

"That's good. If you can pass the test just by looking at the paper, you're either the best or at least among the top students."

The failure rate in divination was the highest among all the subjects offered in Saint Terre, and it was a complete collapse.

Even with attendance accounting for 40% of the grade and the final exam graders doing their utmost to improve the results, the pass rate is still less than 30%.

Aside from the fact that this course is a required course for prophetic schools, someone like Mia, who chose it herself, is definitely a rare breed.

Those who score over 60 on the written exam are practically "extinct".

"Here, take it."

Jia Xiu pulled a thick stack of documents directly from his bag.

"what is this?"

"I've done the data collection for all the commissions related to the town of Çachdis over the past century. Now it's your turn to demonstrate your capabilities and calculate our success rate. We've already learned all that; it would be a waste not to use it."

"I really appreciate your trust."

Mia's tone was slightly resentful, but she still took the documents.

After all, she was also a member of the adventure team and one of the adventurers involved. Predicting the success rate would give her some idea of the odds.

The "Big Three" reunited and returned to the Tower of Aurelius to pick up the team's true powerhouse, Bubu.

Bubu is very excited about this adventure.

This aligns well with its vision of chivalry, as there are primarily two types of knights in the novel.

They obey the orders of a powerful nobleman, often a princess, then practice chivalry, achieve great deeds through their strength, and finally win the princess's heart while gaining fame and fortune.

Or perhaps you travel the world, encountering various events along the way, shining brightly in these unexpected events, saving villages or towns, and then departing gracefully to continue your journey.

It can be described as the "formulaic" style of chivalric romance novels.

But Bubu loves this kind of thing. Going to remote towns and carrying out missions shrouded in mystery is exactly what the second kind of knight story is all about, perfectly matching its beautiful imagination of the life of a heroic knight.

Although the real life of a knight is quite boring.

What excited Bubu, besides the chivalrous spirit, was that he had recently lost his job.

Since Margaret no longer obsesses over the issue of magical uniformity, she no longer needs to study dragon language magic and has been focusing on vampires lately.

Consequently, all the dragons she raised became unusable, and she sold them all at the livestock market.

"Female university professor's personal use of 99% new Yalong..."

Dragons are rare in this world, but not particularly uncommon. They are very useful for farm work, and if you can handle them, they are much stronger than oxen.

After these dragons were sold, Bubu, who was also the dragon keeper, had nothing to do.

It's been so idle lately that it's practically jumping around on its own.

It personally demonstrated what it means for labor to be a human need, even though it is not a personal matter.

At the entrance of the Mage Tower, Bubu rode Big Yellow, which was already equipped with ultraviolet headlights and two thousand ultraviolet flashbangs, waiting to head to the Adventurers' Guild together.

Yes, two thousand flashbangs.

Jaxiu's provocation of the Firecaster dwarves had an effect beyond expectations.

Their hatred for the Frostbeard dwarves was indeed quite high.

Spurred on by the Frostbeard Clan's refusal to give it a try, the Fireforged Clan dwarves worked non-stop to create flashbangs. The crafts team spent 34 consecutive hours creating a prototype, and then mobilized all the dwarves in the clan who could make them to ramp up production.

So much so that Jia Xiu felt a little embarrassed during the inspection, having exhausted the dwarves.

The three—one undead, one mimic, and one ghost in superimposed form—arrived at the Adventurers' Guild branch.

Since he had finally made the trip, and although his main purpose wasn't to complete the commission, he figured he might as well do some work along the way, so Jia Xiu took on a bunch of commissions.

He accepted every single commission from the town of Çachdis that was still incomplete.

It's always good to have many commissions; every one you can complete is a bonus, and that's all money.

However, the first problem with accepting a commission is that in order to complete the mission, you must first register as an adventure team with the guild.

"What is your strength level?"

The association does not have a particularly clear classification of the teams' strength levels, but rather classifies them into cast iron, bronze, silver, gold, and crystal levels.

The highest grade of crystal is the one containing the word "stone," because it corresponds to the primordial crystal.

It is indeed much more high-end than gold.

Before reaching the Gold level, the association does not conduct assessments; you simply register and state your level, and that is your level.

It sounds like a makeshift operation, but it's actually not bad.

For levels below Gold, the main impact is on the difficulty of the commissions that can be accepted.

You got arrogant and registered as a high-level player, then took on difficult missions. The worst that could happen is that you kill yourself, and the association suffers no loss.

Respecting individual destiny is a matter of course.

As for Jia Xiu, "cast iron, definitely cast iron."

The staff member glanced suspiciously at Bubu, who was looking around.

Are you sure it's cast iron?

"I'm sure," Jia Xiu said with certainty.

"OK then."

The staff indicated the level on the registration form. Respecting individual fate means that if a high-level team insists on doing low-level tasks and earning less money, they will not be stopped.

"What are your names?"

"hiss……"

Naming a child is a difficult problem, and Jia Xiu is not good at it.

"Uh, the Silver Hand?"

"Then you can only call it Silver Hand-128, because there are already 127 people with the same name."

"You mean there are 127 people who accepted names followed by numbers?"

"Yes, otherwise there would be five figures of teams with the same name as the Silver Hand."

"That...the Lion of Light?"

"106."

"Make more money?"

"17."

"How can someone have a duplicate name like 'Make More Money'?!"