"What language was flawless from the moment it appeared? What language could master everything and do anything?
Whether it's a natural language or a magical language, its written structure and pictographic features can be developed and modified later.
Magicalized construction... did you people not even receive a basic compulsory education? Don't you know you can solve these problems using techniques for translating foreign words, such as transliteration, semantic translation, a combination of sound and meaning, loan translation, or adding morphemes?
There's no need to rush information encoding or pronunciation either. Once the prospects for magicalization become clear, you can take your time refining them. You could even gather the efforts of fellow mages and perfect them after forming a new school!
Yet you expect a newborn language that has only just entered the field of magicalization to immediately possess features only a mature magical language would have. Have you no shame?
And what's this about unstable spell structures... if they're unstable, improve them! Why aren't mine unstable? (Experimental data attached)
Clearly, your own failure to understand Oracle is what makes the Spell Scrolls you transcribe produce inconsistent effects. Before finding fault with someone else, why don't you check whether the fault lies with you?
Plenty of magical languages can't even be used to recite incantations for high-tier spells, and some magical scripts can't transcribe high-grade scrolls. Does that stop them from being useful elsewhere?
This isn't an argument at all. You've just got too much time on your hands!
You idle around day after day, doing nothing worthwhile and dreaming up useless nonsense. What a bunch of **!"
Everyone who read the article was stunned.
While its author had still tried to present facts and reason in the first half, the second half had all but exposed his true colors as he launched straight into personal attacks.
Gallo and Oksaya were the very people who had cooked up the earlier critical article. Having finally seized on unstable spell structures as a weakness to attack, they were hardly going to let it go so easily.
They immediately wrote a rebuttal.
To their shock, however, the next day's headline still belonged to that anonymous flamethrower.
Oksaya's article had been squeezed into a corner of the second page, looking utterly pitiful as its readership plummeted.
All anyone could do was watch yesterday's big shot square up and unleash another furious tirade.
This time, he dispensed with any preamble and opened with a blistering barrage.
"Oksaya, you actually have the nerve to publish an article arguing with me? Have you finished your paper? Wrapped up your project? Submitted your results? Had your funding audited?
With all that real work left undone, you insist on stirring up trouble here. Have you been playing with succubi every day until your brain fluid drained out and your intelligence dropped, or did a female dragon's bleep-squeeze your head flat?"
In one corner of the city, veins bulged on Oksaya's forehead and his eyelids twitched violently as he read this.
"This guy must be one of our own. Otherwise, he wouldn't know our teacher's tone and habits so well!"
The others within their school were furious too.
They had sensed something wrong since yesterday. That familiar tone, those familiar words—why did it sound so much like their teacher, Grand Mage Watson?
But their venerable teacher could not possibly have come forward to speak up for Roland. When he had been forced to yield on the review panel and allow that paper on oracle-bone characters to be published, even they, sitting in the hearing seats, had felt his resentment and dejection. How could he possibly speak on the other side's behalf?
There was only one possibility: the other person knew their school's people and affairs intimately and had deliberately imitated their teacher's tone to berate them.
"Stay calm. Don't let him provoke you. Refute him with sound arguments and evidence."
Gallo stopped Oksaya just as he was about to fire back with insults.
"You're right, Gallo," Oksaya said. "I almost let him lead me astray."
The others voiced their agreement. That person's intentions were utterly malicious. He was trying to make them dance to his tune, and they absolutely could not fall for it.
"This person has absolutely no class."
Inside the Orvisto Wizard Tower, Roland could not help remarking on it.
"But I really do like him."
Sometimes, lowering one's standards of conduct really could benefit one's physical and mental health.
It seemed he would have to take back what he had said before. Once a street-corner screaming match became psychological warfare, it was hard to withstand too.
After marveling at the spectacle, he could not help smiling slightly.
That anonymous, ill-mannered big shot was like his mouthpiece on the Magic Network, saying so many things he either could not conveniently say himself or had not yet had time to say.
Granted, Oracle itself was a relatively mature writing system, but as a magical language, it was still in its infancy.
That was also why it came under attack in the field of magicalization, yet he found it difficult to refute those attacks.
After all, he was a nobody whose words carried little weight, and Atrelin was a society ruled by mages. Many High Mages wielded terrifying power.
Even if he hurled insults back, he had to watch how far he went. Otherwise, they might come looking for him in person through the Magic Network.
Though his teacher stood behind him, there was no need to invite trouble lightly and create problems for the old man.
"But even if this ill-mannered big shot has helped me vent my anger, he can't actually resolve those doubts for me.
Those who refuse to acknowledge it still won't.
At the end of the day, you have to be strong enough to prove yourself!"
With that clear understanding, Roland felt as though he had gained the support of a long-lasting Scholar's Zeal. He worked himself to the bone for days on end, throwing himself into what he ought to be doing.
Go ahead and argue. Stir things up!
You'll only generate more buzz for the development of Oracle-Bone Magicalization!
He pinned everything on the forthcoming paper. It would be an epoch-making achievement, one that would win everyone's recognition!
In just a few short days, they successfully completed the final push.
His senior schoolmates compiled the materials and handed them to Roland to serve as lead writer, producing the draft of a major paper titled "Research on Oracle Magicalization."
The paper would be submitted to Arcana with Archmage Ovesto as the corresponding author and Roland as the first author.
After two months of controversy and over a month on the back foot, they finally had the confidence to strike back!
On the 14th, Roland finished the first draft as well. Since he had spent the preceding months continually developing and organizing his ideas, the actual work progressed very quickly.
On the 17th, he clarified the paper's underlying logic and incorporated the "complete Oracle conversion" he had accomplished independently, providing strong practical support.
The improvement data for a full hundred types of Spell Scrolls served as a solid foundation.
On the 20th, he continued organizing the material and established the broad framework of Oracle-Bone Magicalization. The beginnings of a new discipline had emerged.
Archmage Ovesto read it and was full of praise.
He even said, "Combine this with the dictionary you compiled last time, and you could rename it Introduction to Oracle Magicalization and use it directly as a textbook!"
That was extraordinarily high praise.
Both the natural-language and magical-language components of Oracle had now been completed within it, and its localization was already highly mature.
On the 23rd, sporting dark circles from his sleepless nights, Roland formally submitted the new paper to Arcana!
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