Planning After Arriving at the Society

After operating the Mana Communication System for five minutes, Fran was discouraged by its terrible user experience.

She was initially happy to have found something similar to her previous life, but the system was just too terrible.

While reading Paper number 1, she discovered that Paper had been published by Iris, the Society President of the Northern Lands Society.

The topic was "[Essential Learning for Alchemy School - Methods of Counterfeiting Various Precious Metals]", which made Fran want to take a look.

As a result, after she used the page-turning function, a large mass of text appeared, overlapping and squeezed together, after only a few pages.

When Fran turned the page again and returned to this page, it was miraculously fixed again.

After asking the mage beside her, Fran received this reply.

"This Mana Communication System is an experimental version that the Society President acquired from the developers at a low price. This version randomly rearranges the text, so you just need to turn to a new page."

Faced with this situation, Fran could only continue to endure the occasional interruptions to her thoughts by the gibberish. Then, after she had mastered the methods of forgery, she was just about to see if there were any other Paper.

She entered the numbers one by one until she reached number 20, but all of them required Contribution Points to view, which made Fran very upset.

However, this also raised a question for her: if everyone uses numbers to search, how can others find the content they want if they don't know the number?

With this question in mind, she asked the same monk who had just answered her question again, and he replied that there were people who specialized in this kind of business.

"Some people would go through all the Paper listed here, memorize all the titles, and then write them up for publication in specific newspapers."

As he spoke, the monk produced a thick book, the 37th edition of the Complete Thesis Catalog, which contained all the titles and specific numbers of the Paper.

At the Northern Lands Society, the search for specific Paper has become a business, almost replacing Fran's excellent screening and searching skills from her previous life with manpower.

It's better to directly list the specific numbers of all the Paper; however, a new edition is released every year.

Some people, however, will specifically buy those Paper, read them carefully, and then publish a collection of their selected Paper.

"This is ' Snowflake Selection,' the largest curated selection from the Northern Lands Society. Would you like to buy a copy? It's only 30 silver."

The mage's true intentions were revealed; no wonder he had answered Fran's questions so enthusiastically—he was trying to make money off Fran.

Fran's lips twitched. After hesitating for a moment, she still bought one, which made the smile on the mage's face even brighter.

Although Gold Coin are not as valuable as Contribution Points in the Northern Lands Society, Gold Coin can still be used to buy a lot of precious materials.

"By the way, are there any free compilations, the kind that don't Contribution Points?"

Fran suddenly asked, since she couldn't find the Contribution Points right now, she could only look at those free Paper for the time being.

"Yes, I'll look for it for you."

The monk rummaged in the bag for a while, then pulled out a creased book and handed it to Fran.

"This is only 10 silver, and we also have our Snowflake Weekly, would you like a copy? It's only 1 silver."

The monk spoke with great enthusiasm.

Snowflake Weekly is a publication that compiles statistics on newly published Paper from the past week, recommending the best ones.

Because the quality of the Paper varied each week, the price had to be lowered to one silver coin in order to encourage mages to subscribe to the weekly publication.

Furthermore, Snowflake Weekly also offers a paid featured spot. What if you write a masterpiece but are worried that no one will buy it?

Don't worry, the featured section in Snowflake Weekly will let more people know about your Paper...

After refusing the monk's attempt to sell her more books, Fran took the items and went to a bench to examine them slowly.

In fact, this method of selecting Paper and publishing weekly is very common throughout the Alliance, because after the Alliance was established, there were more and more mages, and they wrote more and more.

Despite having dedicated reviewers to ensure the quality of these Paper, the sheer volume of Paper received over time—enough to fill a small room in just one week—was overwhelming.

In this context, sorcerers emerged who specialized in searching for these Paper; they were highly professional in finding these outstanding Paper.

In this era without keyword search, those monks relied almost entirely on manpower to organize these Paper and sort out the research results within them.

Almost every University Association has a dedicated organization that publishes selected Paper for other mages to choose from.

Even if you want to search for content on a specific topic, as long as you pay, they will search for it for you and find all the relevant Paper.

Iris chose this system out of necessity. After her association was established, she had more and more Paper to work on, but she didn't have the professional staff from her previous University Association to handle Paper, so she had no choice but to use this new system.

Overall, this new system surpasses the traditional human-based structure. After all, even if those mages have blurred vision, they might not be as convenient as this system that doesn't require paper.

Fran, meanwhile, began to contemplate her next steps while seated in her chair.

She came to the Northern Lands Society for two reasons: first, to learn more magic, and second, to advance her career here.

She knew that Harbos had the Promotion Method Third Order Mage, and she could probably get it once she returned. However, she would need to learn Promotion Method Second Order Mage herself in the Northern Lands Society.

She glanced at a section on Snowflake Selection, where an article titled "Discussions on Second-Circle Mage Advancement" was displayed. It was said that this article had been featured in Snowflake Selection ' list of must-read articles for advancement for ten years after its publication, which showed its high value.

However, this article requires a relatively high number of Contribution Points —50 Contribution Points. Even most of the new Paper in Snowflake Weekly only require three or four Contribution Points.

This is clearly because the Society President deliberately increased the points required for mage advancement to make the Contribution Points more scarce.

Fran, on the other hand, began to think about what she should post next to earn so many Contribution Points.

After much thought, Fran decided to approach it from a mathematical perspective.

There was nothing Fran could do; she didn't know how far mathematics had progressed in this world, but from what she could see so far, she hadn't come across anything like Calculus.

There's a reason why casting spells doesn't necessarily require a perfectly accurate feeling. Normally, when people follow the teachings of their predecessors and cast spells, they don't always need to do it exactly as their predecessors did.

You just need to find that feeling when casting spells. Of course, having a standard casting procedure is also excellent. If you follow these summarized standard procedures, you can basically cast spells successfully.

For Fran, the scientific system she derived from Earth largely relied on a relatively complete mathematical foundation; without these mathematical expressions, many conclusions could not be reached.

Therefore, Fran must first 'establish' a mathematical system in the other world.