Deer College - Cafeteria
"Where were you assigned?" Xia Xiu asked curiously, looking at Camille sitting across from him and eating her sauce noodles in small bites.
"Ah, I was assigned to the Blackwood dormitory, a double room," Camille quickly swallowed her sauce noodles and replied.
"I see, a double room," Xia Xiu said thoughtfully.
Generally speaking, new students were assigned to triple and double rooms, an assignment method intended to make it easier for newcomers to form small groups. As for why he was assigned to a single room at the Di, it most likely had to do with his Heaven Lineage; people from the Heaven Lineage rarely drifted outside of the Sanctum factions.
"Right, I wanted to ask, what major are you planning to choose?" Camille asked, pretending to be casual.
"The preparation time for choosing a major is one week. The Deer College think tank requires us to understand the corresponding basic thaumaturgy concepts according to regulations before letting students choose a major.
The reason the think tank asks us to read those excerpted contents is so that newcomers can quickly build the basic framework of the thaumaturgy world, giving students a general understanding."
"As for now, it's not urgent to make a decision."
Xia Xiu did not answer Camille's question directly.
"Oh," Camille replied somewhat dejectedly, though she quickly adjusted her mood and said excitedly to Xia Xiu:
"This is my first time coming into contact with the other side of the world, and everything is so fresh to me. The magical floating city, the academy for transcendent education, the lineages connecting the Ether Sea..."
The more Camille spoke, the brighter her eyes became, while Xia Xiu quietly listened to the excited outpouring of the young girl in front of him.
A Muggle who possessed the [Synesthesia] entry without even connecting to a lineage was worth his time to cultivate.
Investing a bit of non-material emotion and time could secure the friendship of a potential powerhouse, which was a win no matter how he looked at it.
A gentle smile appeared at the corner of Xia Xiu's mouth, and he said to Camille:
"What is your lineage connection degree right now?"
"Let me check. 15%. Cinderella said I'll need three more days to communicate with the Ether Sea, at which point the Deer College will grant authorization. Only then can I truly link to the lineage," Camille said, glancing at her AI sprite.
"Cinderella is the name I gave the sprite," Camille added, explaining in a soft voice.
"Cinderella, huh..." Xia Xiu said.
"Mm, I especially liked this story when I was little," Camille said sheepishly.
"The Deer College is also a major lineage encompassing the Fivefold State, but the Deer College has gone relatively far in the development of the Blue Book. However, choosing which Normal State is a thaumaturge's own business; you can learn more about the five Normal States to make it easier for yourself to make a choice."
"Mm."
After a while, both of them finished their dinner. They put their food trays in the sink and then left the cafeteria together.
"Well then, goodbye. I hope you have a good dream tonight," Xia Xiu said, bidding farewell to the fidgeting Camille beside him.
"..., you too." It was only then that Camille snapped back to her senses, realizing that she and Xia Xiu had already arrived at the intersection between the Anderson dormitory and the Blackwood dormitory.
At the intersection stood a giant Douglas fir; heading south led to Blackwood, while heading north led to Anderson.
The two bid farewell right there. In a bit of a trance, Camille followed Cinderella's guidance to her dormitory room, 233. The dorm room was very spacious, consisting of two bedrooms and a living room.
There was one detail Camille cared about very much: the door and threshold of dorm 233 were larger and higher than those around it, and in her heart, she faintly guessed who her roommate was.
"Yo, we meet again. My name is Ushas," the two-meter-tall three-eyed woman looked at Camille and smiled warmly.
With a pale face, Camille squeezed out a smile and replied, "C-Camille..."
Anderson Dormitory - Room 404
[Beep-]
Xia Xiu passed the authentication for room 404 and walked inside. He casually put down the suitcase he was carrying, took off his shoes, and hung his trench coat and hat on the clothes rack inside the room.
Xia Xiu took a brief walk around to familiarize himself with the environment, after which his entire demeanor began to grow casual.
He leaned against the sofa in the living room, resting his arms on both sides, looking somewhat decadent and lazy.
By joining the Deer College, the first step of his goal was completed.
Next came steadily pushing forward his own strength.
According to his plan, his primary task next at the Deer College was to obtain the Four Great Seals imprints of Terran modernized thaumaturgy standards.
The Four Great Seals were the cornerstone in the casting of Terran modernized thaumaturgy, corresponding to four kinds of ARad Fields. Most non-[entry] type thaumaturgy casting relied on the Four Great Seals to be performed.
Moreover, wanting to convert thaumaturgy into a solidified [entry] also required the Four Great Seals.
The Four Great Seals were the most foundational transcendent knowledge a thaumaturge needed to master.
Players in his past life only needed to complete corresponding quests to learn the Four Great Seals, and once the quests were completed, the game template would display them as learned.
The Xia Xiu of the present, after transmigrating, possessed no such thing as a game template. Although the player templates and other interface template settings in the game were lineages, their essence was still that universal system where you completed a quest, met the conditions, and could learn something with a beep.
And while a lineage looked like a system, its essence was a tool created by the Terran people to observe the [Ether Sea] and anchor their own existence.
Studying, huh.
Lazily, Xia Xiu rubbed the space between his brows. One of the experiments he conducted in his past life was collecting books from the "Terra Chronicles" and attending lectures.
From this point, it could be seen that Xia Xiu's thought process differed from ordinary people.
The reason he could understand and read Terran script after transmigrating was precisely because when he played the game in his past life, he had forcibly learned the language of Terra from scratch.
In his past life, Xia Xiu had found the [Language System] in a corner of the game interface settings and discovered an option for [Real-Time Translation] within it.
Curious, he turned the option off at the time.
Good grief, the NPCs' speech and the Terran text instantly turned into gibberish that he could neither understand nor read.
More interestingly, the players' speech also turned into gibberish by his ears, and the players possessed a peculiar accent distinct from the natives' gibberish; the players' gibberish sounded exceptionally rigid.
Later, after he forcibly learned the Terra Language in the game and went to listen to the players' speech again, he was able to make out a thick dubbed-translation flavor. No wonder the Terra natives caught players with absolute precision every single time.
After learning Terran script in his past life, he also perused a large amount of Terran history, discovering many interesting details.
However, whenever he wanted to learn something educational, accidents would always crop up to stop him.
Now I am considered settled in Terra, with an official Terra household registration. Damn it, please don't pull any more weird stunts on me.
Xia Xiu muttered inwardly; the kind of fortune that made him seem like a jinx in his past life's game had indeed given him no small amount of psychological trauma.
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