Chapter 264: Dark Demon's After-school Teaching (2 in 1) |
[Suppose there are a number of magisters and single-headed, four-legged magical spirits in the same stadium. Together they had 35 heads and 94 feet. How many magisters and magic spirits are there in the stadium? ]
It was a simple chicken and rabbit cage problem, but for a first-year student who had only been exposed to equations for an hour, it was not so simple.
Professor Lily glanced around the classroom for a long time, and felt that if she randomly selected someone to answer the problem at this time, there would likely be some embarrassing situations that she didn't want to see, so instead of randomly naming a student, she chose Emma Mortis from the front row.
As Emma got up on the podium, all the students in the classroom breathed a sigh of relief. They all felt lucky that it wasn't them who was selected.
Emma carefully recalled Professor Lily's previous example. Although she didn't quite understand it, the format of this question was almost the same as that of the example, so it shouldn't be difficult to solve as long as she followed the same steps used to solve the example.
She soon wrote down the answer.
"Correct! Emma Mortis, five points!" Professor Lily was obviously excited, feeling that she still had a teaching talent.
Clearly, some students understood it immediately after she just explained it once.
Later, all it needed was to use some exercises to consolidate the knowledge!
Perfect!
...
After that, she didn't ask someone to come to the podium to answer the question again, but explained the question that Emma answered, and then began to issue the test papers.
The difficulty of the test paper was not too high, and it could be solved by self-studying the textbook.
But sadly, there were no textbooks!
…
The arithmetic class came to an end amid the rustling sound of passing the exam papers.
After Professor Lily gave her teaching today a nine out of ten, she left the classroom satisfied, leaving only many confused faces.
….
"Ah!" Not knowing who screamed the first, but the classroom was instantly filled with sorrowful cries.
Susan and Lucy frowned and looked at the test paper, then looked at Emma sycophantically, thinking that becoming friends with Emma was the wisest choice they made last year!
Dianna and Rose in the back row were also holding dense notebooks and looking pitifully at Dark.
Dark helplessly said: "The library, tonight."
Dianna: "Yeah!" Rose: "Whew."
The pressure of staying by the top students' side was still relatively high. When school first started, neither of them cared so much about grades. But now they began to care about it subconsciously.
...
Meanwhile, White and Robert were looking at each other, both pale-faced. The two had already been struggling in this course, and now they were even more lost.
Robert even almost fell asleep, which was something that was quite rare to see recently.
After a while, White asked in a low voice, "How about I go and ask Betty-senpai?"
All he could think of was Betty and Scott.
But Scott...
Fortunately, he got to know Betty-senpai well during his last secret passage exploration!
As for "Dark" and "Gap", he no longer had time to think about it anymore.
...
Until the start of the Magic Theory class, the students were still worried about it.
Professor Cazer asked a student curiously, "What happened? Why do they all look so glum?"
The student complained, "Professor, the arithmetic class is really hard, we need help!"
"I see." Professor Cazer waved his wand to signal him to sit down, then smiled, "Don't worry, if you can't pass the final exam this semester, you will be able to take remedial classes next semester."
The classroom suddenly became dead silent.
But Professor Cazer didn't care about the silence. He turned and said: "Everyone, close the textbook. Today, we are going to learn how to make a special magic spell card- Ultimate Card!"
"Ultimate Card?" The students couldn't help looking up at the podium.
What Professor Cazer said clearly aroused the interest of most people.
There were many types of magic spell cards, and ultimate cards and Magic Charm Cards were just some of them.
But compared to the more popular Magic Charm Card, ultimate cards could only be regarded as a niche category.
Whether it was an actual battle or a duel, very few people would use ultimate cards.
Because ultimate cards had no advantages in terms of effects and crafting, and the restrictions on its use were greater than that of magic spell cards.
Most of the Magic Charm Cards could be used only by injecting the magic energy provided by the magisters themselves, but before ultimate cards could be used, the magisters needed to summon the corresponding magic spirits.
And if magisters and magical spirits were not coordinated well, it would be easy to make mistakes, thus losing the duel.
However, in the early stage when the young magisters still hadn't learned Magical Language and could not craft the Magic Charm Cards, Ultimate Cards, which were the cards that could be successfully crafted without the knowledge of Magical Language, still had their unique advantages.
However, this was not textbook knowledge. It was just the personal teaching of Professor Cazer.
After a few minutes.
Professor Cazer briefly introduced the [Ultimate Card], and then began to explain the application method and crafting method of the [Ultimate Card] in detail.
Of course, he would only explain theoretical knowledge in this class, and practical teaching could only be carried out the next week.
By the next magic theory class, the first-year students must prepare the materials for the experiment, and they would need to buy the material themselves.
As for the credits required for purchasing materials… students would eventually find a way to obtain it.
But if they couldn't even afford the cheapest materials, they would only observe in the end!
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"Ultimate card?" Dark thought carefully while listening to Professor Cazer's explanation.
The ultimate of a magical spirit was generally exclusive, but there were also some magical spirits that had formed a system, and some of their ultimates could be used by each other, which could make the application range of ultimate cards wider, making them close to Magic Charm Cards in terms of convenience.
"I don't know if Pokémon is considered a system?"
"Different Pokémon can learn the same skills, but can the ultimate based on this also be universal?"
"For example, the skill of [Round] can be learned by Sylveon and Popplio.”
“And [Round] also has a link effect.”
“It is just that the crafting of this ultimate card has many factors to consider, and the crafting difficulty is also very high.”
“Moreover, it's not that I'll definitely be able to make it..."
As Dark was listening, he gradually came to a realization.
It was no wonder that the crafting method of [Ultimate Card] was not described in the textbook. It turned out that it was not a mature system in itself, but a new technology that was still under development.
It was only because their professor was Cazer that they had the opportunity to learn relevant knowledge.
This part of knowledge could be regarded as Professor Cazer's unique knowledge, which had great value.
So when Dark was taking notes, he became more serious.
...
Magic Theory ended soon.
Students who knew that knowledge was precious only hated that time went by too fast.
The students who were drowsy could not wait to run out of class immediately.
Lunch Time.
The students gradually forgot the homework in the arithmetic class and the purchase of experimental materials, and talked about the History of Magic class in the afternoon, the interpretation of predictions, and the Rookie League on Saturday.
After eating and drinking, taking a nap, it was already afternoon before everyone realized it.
The students hurriedly picked up their school bags, ran to the classroom, and rushed into the lecture hall of History of Magic before two o'clock.
Professor Ryan Hex seemed to have carried out a certain degree of reflection after experiencing the emotional state of the last class. In this History of Magic class this afternoon, he specially talked about some interesting stories during the march, and brought some laughter to the class.
At the end of the History of Magic class, he collected the homework on "Traitor" that had been assigned in the previous class, and then assigned a new homework.
"I hope Professor Hex can answer my doubts." Dark couldn't help thinking when he handed in his homework.
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That night, the library was flooded with a large number of first-year students, each biting their pen, trying to overcome the difficulty of the arithmetic class.
But for them who had never been exposed to this knowledge, that test paper was too difficult!
In order to seek answers, they had to stand up and ask around, and the sound of discussion between them gradually became uncontrollable.
The silence of the reading room was broken, and finally attracted the scolding from Ms. Bella!
And then the angry Ms. Bella directly kicked all the first-year students out of the library!
Looking at the embarrassing looks of the first-year students, all the seniors laughed schadenfreudely.
As a result, they were also severely scolded by Ms. Bella
Dark, who was also kicked out of the library, smiled bitterly.
But in an avalanche, no snowflake was innocent.
He also whispered in the reading room just now, contributing to the disturbance of the environment.
...
Dark beckoned to Dianna and Rose: "Let's go. Let's go back to the common room. In that place, we don't have to lower our voices."
Trying to teach someone knowledge in the library while keeping the voice down was indeed a bit difficult.
Instead, it was better to do it in the common room.
Dianna and Rose nodded in agreement.
The three then left the library in frustration, and returned to the common room of Noble House first, quickly occupying a good place.
Then, Dark continued the lecture!
Although it was a lecture, and the content of Professor Dark and Lily was actually the same, Dark's lecture was more detailed, the language he used was more straightforward, and it was much easier to understand.
And one-on-two teaching was also much more focused.
Combined with the test papers given by Lily, it was easier to master by combining memorising and application.
Under Dark's patient teaching, even Dianna also gradually mastered the basics and was able to answer the questions by herself.
Seeing her working hard to complete the test paper, Dark couldn't help showing a gratified smile.
Teaching and educating people was actually a very rewarding thing.
It was also a good way to enrich one's campus life.
But when he was about to get up, he suddenly found many pairs of small eyes full of "thirst for knowledge" looking at him.
The first-year students of Noble House looked at him eagerly, like little lambs waiting to be fed.
So in the Noble House common room that night, there was a scene that hadn't appeared in Saint Marian for many years.
Almost all the Noble House first-year students sat around and listened carefully to Professor Demon's lecture.
The seniors came or went, all looking at the group of first-year students with strange expressions.
Especially the blond boy standing in the middle made them feel something special.
A few senior students couldn't help but listen, and suddenly found that the "equations" and "variables" taught by Dark were things they had never even heard of!
So behind the first-year students, there were a few more senior listeners.
...
It wasn't until ten o'clock in the evening that Dark finished this lecture.
He took a sip of the apple juice that DemiDevimon sent him, and clapped his hands: "Then this is the end of today's lecture. If there is anything you don't understand, please ask each other and try to think for yourself. When learning arithmetic, you shouldn't be afraid. If you can face it bravely, it'll be at your mercy."
The Noble House first year students nodded appreciatively.
Some even wrote down his words as a motto.
The goodwill between people is always improved through giving and receiving.
If Dark also had a [Forbidden Love], he would be able to see that their favorability for him had skyrocketed.
The benefits of these changes were not immediately apparent, but it would gradually reveal over time.
After doing his best, Dark returned to the dormitory, checked the magic spirits' homework, and went to sleep.
This day was terrifyingly fulfilling!
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The next day, Friday.
The first class in the morning was duel class, and the second class was magic beast class.
In the duel class, Professor Jones reiterated this week's homework.
She asked seven students who had joined the dueling club to apply for the Saturday morning's Rookie League, play at least one game, and then write a short essay analyzing it.
The rest of the students needed to select a contestant and write an analytical essay centered on the duel from the perspective of the audience.
But in fact, there was no need for her to reiterate many times, this year's first-year students were more interested in this than she imagined, and had long been looking forward to the duel.
The second class that followed was Magic Beast class.
Professor Nini actually caught another Mind Flayer!
When she took out the familiar jar from the "small school bag", the faces of the students who were lucky enough to escape in the last class suddenly turned green!
But Professor Nini was still a little proud: "The homework left last week, everyone did very well. In order to make up for the opportunity missed by some students last week, I... I went to the dungeon to catch another Mind Flayer. This one is bigger, and it will definitely last longer!"
Then, without waiting for the students to "applaud and celebrate", she lifted the lid of the jar a little and pinched out one fresh Mind Flayer!
As soon as this Mind Flayer came out, it took a sharp breath, and its body suddenly swelled to a height of two meters. Its ghost-like body was fuming gray smoke, and the three black holes on its twisted face were dark and deep.
Compared with the previous Mind Flayer, which was only one meter high, this one was more than just "bigger".