"Who exactly was Wuding?"
"One character for 'cart' actually has fifteen different forms?"
"What the hell are these things? Is this how Square Characters work?"
"I finally managed to make sense of the words, and now there's this!"
"I thought I'd already mastered Oracle, but it turns out I haven't even reached the beginner level!"
As the discussion circles expanded, more people obtained hand-copied manuscripts.
Some discussions even began circulating on the Magic Network.
Unsurprisingly, cries of anguish rose from every quarter, and the complaints never stopped.
While everyone hurried to study in private, they also sent letters grumbling and denouncing Roland.
There was no contradiction between the two, because the former was Arcana, and the latter was life.
To gain the power of magic, to earn promotions and money...
They could slog through anything, however obscure and difficult.
As long as it had value.
But as intelligent beings, they were naturally inclined to seek comfort and avoid hard work.
Sometimes, they even needed spells like Scholar's Zeal to keep themselves motivated to study.
All Roland could do was spread his hands helplessly.
I know you're all anxious, but hold your horses.
What you're dealing with now is only the appetizer before the feast.
I haven't even had time to add things like burning tortoise shells and Hetu and Luoshu, let alone bring over a whole system of Huaxia philosophy headed by the I Ching, which will have to wait until King Wen of Zhou's era.
And later on, plenty of poems will require memorizing the entire text and doing reading comprehension.
You have all sorts of magic to help you learn, so studying should get more enjoyable as you go.
Surely, probably, maybe...
It'll be fine, right?
At the end of July, in the Mage Tower.
Roland