The Arcane Linguist
Chapter 417

Putting himself on the line

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"Master Farn, these are all admirers of yours. They hope to learn Seris from you and master the Electromagnetic Cannon..."

In the Red Fort, a Sinvira officer led several mages inside and reported to him.

"Master Farn, a pleasure to meet you!"

"We've come from the nearby fortresses..."

"We've encountered some questions while studying Seris on our own, and we hope you can offer us some guidance..."

The mages were all Middle-Tier Mages from Xinweila World, and they showed tremendous enthusiasm from the moment they met him.

After exchanging greetings with them, Farn answered their questions one by one.

With his current mastery of Arcana, guiding them from the basics to proficiency was quite easy. His own Seris level had already reached level 6 or higher.

Before long, everyone left, leaving Farn to speak with his followers.

"The obstacle Sinvira's people face in learning the Electromagnetic Cannon is Seris.

"And the obstacle to learning Seris is culture.

"Only by truly immersing themselves in the culture can they genuinely grasp the original meanings of its words and sentences and achieve the correct resonance.

"I intend to promote my teacher's Romance of Seris here, along with the annotations I've written for it."

"Annotations?"

"Yes. When I studied under my teacher, I still carried some habits ingrained in Sinvira's people. It took me considerable effort to correct them."

The Seris words "zhu" and "shi" each had their own meanings. Later generations combined them into a fixed term.

It referred to text explaining words and sentences, introducing and commenting on the vocabulary, content, background, and quotations in a book or article.

Annotations to ancient books began in the pre-Qin period. In ancient China, they were divided into finer categories, known as zhu, shi, zhuan, jian, shu, and zhangju, among others. Their scope was broad,

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