Old Hogg, the former steward of the small manor of Master Mapdoler, and Alan Hogg's father, has now been promoted to the Grand Deacon of the Mapdoler family, and is in full charge of the Mapdoler manor.

  Faced with this change, Jia Lan only responded with a smile.

  This situation is actually not uncommon. Although Alan is not a student of the main department, he is a magic apprentice from the University of Magic and Magic, which is enough for this country lord and nobleman to think it is worth investing.

  Master Mapdoler should feel fortunate, because during Alan's growth, although he was a little harsh on the Hogg family, he definitely did not treat them unfairly.

  Otherwise, Alan's purpose of going back this time might not be to visit relatives, but to take revenge.

  Jia Lan accepted the gratitude of Alan's father, and accepted the various mountain delicacies that Old Hogg collected and dried from the mountains near Maigeng Village in the early autumn. These were sent as gifts by him.

  Afterwards, Jia Lan introduced the four old mercenaries behind him to Alan. They were dressed as book bar helpers at the moment.

  Now, the Doom Castle has been handed over to Casey, Dave and the Browns.

  The Browns continue to be the managers of the Lemley Potion Workshop, while Casey and Dave are responsible for coordinating with the guards of the Golden Two-Headed Dragon Mercenary Group.

  When necessary, they will notify Jia Lan, or contact President Clark, who has been very busy recently, for Jia Lan.

  The four old mercenaries are nominally responsible for protecting Jia Lan's safety, but in fact, Casey and Dave can't bear to see the old mercenaries too tired, so they can follow Jia Lan to relax a little.

  However, the four old mercenaries who followed Jia Lan to the library of the Komo Academy couldn't rest, so they simply found a job in the book bar, which can not only conceal their identity as external employees of the academy, but also have something to do.

  Old Jimmy, who has recently regained his second spring, will sneak out of the academy every night, go to Kelan City to inquire about the news, and bring the collected intelligence back to Jia Lan.

  So at present, in addition to reading the books and studying in the library, Jia Lan has an additional task, which is to study the daily progress of this incident directed by him and intensifying according to the intelligence brought back by Old Jimmy.

  Every night, Jia Lan will record a detailed analysis report in the heavy parchment notebook with "On the Impact and Harm of Dumping on the Market and Economy" on the cover.

  Recently, Jia Lan's life is very fulfilling. He strives to improve his arcane strength, learn magic knowledge, study the knowledge system of the other world, and conduct a lot of experiments and research. Occasionally, he has to pay attention to the progress of the ongoing "other world experimental project".

  He seems to have returned to the previous era, the busy and fulfilling days spent with the teacher, there is always endless knowledge to learn, endless experiments to do, and all kinds of interesting things.

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  In the previous era, Jia Lan once thought that he would continue to enjoy this wonderful life until the end of his life.

  Then, like most mages, he would transform himself into an elemental creature or a virtual creature and continue to live.

  If his strength could reach the legendary level or above when he died, he might be able to try to transform himself into an immortal lich, just like his teacher had been working on before the Great Destruction.

  In this way, he would have a long enough life and plenty of time to do anything he wanted to do, including but not limited to mastering all the knowledge he was interested in.

  However, these ideas might be too far away.

  Jia Lan still has a long way to go to reach that level, but he vaguely feels that he might eventually follow the path of his teacher.

  The reason is that the contents of the three major knowledge systems of arcane knowledge, other world knowledge, and magic knowledge are too huge, so huge that he may not be able to fully explore the mysteries in his entire life, so he must live long enough.

  This means that after hundreds or even thousands of years, he must spare enough time to prepare for his "death".

  The arcane knowledge system that he was most familiar with was already vast and boundless.

  In his memory, no spellcaster had ever been able to truly reach the other side of the arcane... Of course, except for a spellcaster who became a god by relying on his own arcane abilities in the ancient times.

  The knowledge system of the other world is far more profound and complex than he imagined.

  The most important thing is that it is a knowledge system completely different from the arcane.

  He has only touched the surface now, but he has been shocked by the extensive, comprehensive, detailed and in-depth knowledge characteristics of the system.

  That kind of invisible and intangible destructive power cannot be controlled or prevented in the current environment.

  It can be said that the era and world he is in now are simply defenseless under the knowledge system of the other world.

  Therefore, even though he knew that the knowledge of the other world was very dangerous, Jia Lan could not resist its temptation and indulged in it involuntarily, just like a thirsty traveler in the desert, even if he knew that there was a cup of poison in his hand, he would not be able to bear to drink it.

  As for the magic knowledge, which he originally thought was a trivial branch of the arcane knowledge system, with in-depth learning, it gradually unveiled the mysterious veil and showed him the hidden essence.

  If the characteristics of arcane knowledge are complex and huge macro systems, then the characteristics of the knowledge of the other world are detailed and precise micro systems.

  As for magic knowledge, it is between the two, and is a simple and direct materialized middle view system.

  According to a unique allegorical short sentence in the memory left by the soul of the other world: the arcane is to complicate simple things, while magic is to simplify complex things. One is "breaking power with cleverness", and the other is "breaking cleverness with power".

  This can be seen from the energy system of magic.

  Although magic is not as varied as the arcane, and there are often hundreds of solutions, ways and means to deal with a difficult problem, magicians often use a "fireball" to solve any "obstacle".

  The problem that the "fireball" cannot solve is often caused by the lack of power of the "fireball".

  If it cannot be solved, use a bigger "fireball", there is always a "fireball" that can solve the problem.

  If no matter how big the "fireball" is, it can't solve the problem, then summon a forbidden spell such as a skyfire burning the city, a meteor shower, or a meteorite explosion, and directly wipe out the area where the problem occurs from this world, which can fundamentally solve the problem.

  Although it was simple and crude, Jia Lan had to admit that the supernatural powers mastered by magicians did have their reasons, and were far from being as elementary as he had imagined at the beginning.

  It was worth his time to carefully study the differences between magic and the arcane.

  The towering walls isolated the disturbances from the outside world, and life in the academy was closed and simple.

  The students who had happily spent a winter vacation returned to the atmosphere of learning, desperately accumulating credits, and working hard to successfully upgrade their grades in the annual exam at the end of the school year.