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It is worth mentioning that the main building of Eliot Hall is also responsible for managing several major student organizations of St. Clare's Abbey, such as the St. Clare's Abbey Student Union and the St. Clare's Abbey Debate Religious Studies Society. The offices are all located in the Elliott Building, so it's easy to find the wrong classroom.
Although the Eliot Building is nearly a century old, it has not stopped moving forward. In recent years, it has undergone many renovations and technological updates to meet the needs of modern imperial teaching.
The introduction of interactive magic whiteboards, imperial coordination system coverage and other facilities has given this ancient building new vitality.
As a plaque in the fourth-floor atrium of Eliot says - "The way of education lies in enlightening the mind, pursuing truth, and continuing glory."
The Eliot Building has witnessed the nearly century-long history of St. Creation's Abbey, and every brick and tile of it is imbued with the academic atmosphere and humanistic spirit of the highest university in the southern continent.
Those who can gather here are the most promising young people in the Creation Empire today.
The two of them walked unknowingly to the spacious lecture hall deep in the corridor on the fourth floor.
Sunlight slanted in through the floor-to-ceiling windows, coating the entire classroom of hundreds of square meters with a hazy golden color.
The classroom echoed with the laughter of the students. They greeted friends they had not seen over the weekend and chatted happily.
but.
Group divisions among students are also evident.
Although they study in the same college, the status of the students is very different.
At a glance, you can see from right to left that the students of St. Creation Monastery are divided into three areas: the aristocratic class composed of members of the royal family, great nobility, and important ministers' families, and the backbone composed of wealthy businessmen, officials, and children of remote aristocrats. Or the neutral class, a popular class composed of children from special enrollments and ordinary merchant families.
Even though they are all talented students, it is difficult for them to get rid of the shackles of status, and unknowingly they begin to form gangs based on their origins and family positions.
Although the blond boy and the aristocratic lady are qualified to join the aristocracy, they don't seem to want to reflect this sense of labeling in the class. They only found two seats in the middle and back with a good view.
It's still a while before the official class time.
Sitting in the classroom, I can hear the conversations in the classroom clearly.
"The new professor is directly leading the Level 4 class? Is that amazing?"
"There is no way. Professor Blanc is already at the age where he can retire. Now he can continue teaching at St. Clare's Monastery. On the one hand, it is because of Principal Violet's retention, and on the other hand, he does not want to get involved in the recruitment of the military."
"Perhaps we really can't find anyone, so we can only hurry up and bring in a new professor to fill the vacancy."
"I heard a little bit about the new professor..."
The noble student who spoke lowered his voice.
"Any gossip?"
"He is a poor nobleman transferred from the remote northwest region of Nickasassend. He may have never been to the capital before."
As soon as he finished speaking, a burst of contemptuous laughter sounded among the noble students.
In the eyes of the aristocracy, those remote and poor nobles who brought shame to the aristocracy have been expelled from the aristocracy.
As they were talking, some of them couldn't help but look at the figure of a female student with long black hair on the far left side of the classroom.
In the classroom of their course, there was a typical descendant of a declining noble.
I have to admit that she has an innate talent for magic engineering.
But she could not change her fate of being despised by the aristocracy because she chose to classify herself as a commoner.
"Then, which direction will the new professor prefer?"
"It is said that he is a young genius in magic engineering. He received a doctorate from the Empire at the age of 23, and became a professor at Northwestern University in Nyxasende at the age of 25. However, he was transferred here before he could officially teach."
Another group of students were still whispering, and some were worried.
The position of the course leader often affects students' course selection tendencies.
In some classes, you can see that most of them are aristocratic students, while in other classes, most of them are civilian students.
If it is an aristocratic professor, it will be very difficult for civilian students to pass and get high scores.
The reason why the previous Professor Blanc was liked by many students was precisely because Professor Blanc would not favor either the aristocratic faction or the popular faction, nor would he give preferential treatment or suppress students because of their origin, and he was very good to all students.
There are very few courses where you change professors midway, but if you do, it will be full of luck.
While the students were talking among themselves, the front door of the classroom was opened and light shone into the classroom.
All the students' eyes were focused on the black-haired man walking into the classroom, and their voices gradually became quiet.
His appearance was like morning mist floating on a calm lake at dawn, with a faint glow.
Mysterious, hazy, yet clear.
His movements show the condescending tolerance of secular culture, and his gentle eyes only focus on small actions such as closing the door, stepping onto the podium, and putting down the book, and will not be affected by anyone.
Until he finally looked sideways at the students on the other side of the desk.
Even though the conversation hasn’t started yet.
But when many students laid eyes on him for the first time, they felt that he would not be a bad person.
Because his eyes as blue as the lake are naturally filled with compassion and thoughts, but not half of them are for himself.
Just for the creatures and suffering I saw.
That is the gaze of a saint.
The professor took off his fedora hat with a rounded top and a small brim.
This top hat with simple lines, paired with a loose jacket over a gray suit and vest, makes him look even more calm and reserved as a scholar.
Gudong.
Many students in the classroom were swayed by his unique aura and swallowed subconsciously.
"I am Landry Wassington, the new professor at the School of Magical Engineering at St. Creation's Monastery."
He introduced himself,
"Don't be too formal. Today, you may prefer seminars or explanations of the syllabus to formal lectures."
The melodious voice instantly awakened the students from their trance, and the atmosphere in the classroom became active again.
Many students felt relaxed because of the way he looked, and even began to discuss quietly.
The new professor with black hair and blue eyes didn't pay attention to the increasingly noisy classroom. He just allowed the students to chat freely, took off his long gray windbreaker unhurriedly, hung it on the coat rack, and turned around again.
"Professor, what do you think of the current empire?"
A student sitting in the front row took the initiative to ask.
After a brief exchange of opinions with those around them, many students agreed that the professor was visually more inclined to be a moderate and conservative centrist, and might not be biased toward either the aristocracy or the common people.
Although this issue is very sensitive, it is undoubtedly the most important point for all the other students, and they can find out the professor's faction and position.
"..."
Lan Qi looked at the student who asked the question in confusion and said nothing.
Until this atmosphere made the classroom quiet again.
"The existence of the monastery is to provide a safe haven for independent thinkers. Political topics should not be involved in schools."
He finally spoke slowly, as if he was pondering this question,
"We all know that the world is no longer the same. Some people are laughing, some are crying, and most people are silent."
The same course will be taken by students of different grades.
Due to the freedom of the curriculum at St. Clare's Monastery, students are free to arrange their required and elective courses. However, many courses include prerequisite courses, so most students will still take more basic courses in the lower grades. , unlock subsequent advanced courses.
Of course, if students want to study more difficult courses in advance, they can directly contact the professor of the course and go to the Student Service Center to register after obtaining permission.
Lanqi's current course is an advanced specialized magic engineering course at level 4, "Research on Magical Engineering in the Demonic World." It is suitable for outstanding students who have completed their courses in the third year or are studying for an honorary bachelor's degree, as well as research-oriented students who will stay in school after graduation. Which one is it? This kind of class gathers the youngest magic engineering geniuses in the empire.
"So what?"
Some students couldn't help but ask. They didn't quite understand the professor's words, which were not related to the inside of the empire at all, but were more focused on the outside of the empire.
It has to be admitted that the current internal problems of the Creation Empire are closely related to the external problems, and they are causally related to each other.
But his pattern, what he saw, seemed completely different from theirs.
"The messenger who steals fire for mankind is the incarnation of light, or he can be the incarnation of death."
He opened the "Magic Book Old Chapter" in his hand and murmured to himself,
"Perhaps the moment when the Southern Continent truly needs a balance of terror has arrived."
Chapter 720 Lanqi’s Military Experiment
The air of Eliot House is filled with the unique smell of ink, parchment and ancient books.
"There are three lectures a week, each two hours. I personally don't like attendance points, and I don't like wasting time checking attendance status. There needs to be mutual trust between people. But before I came, the course leader Brown "Professor Ke has set attendance points as 10% of the final grade, so I will still take attendance symbolically for this semester's courses, and I will delete everyone's previous attendance results and start the attendance record again."
Lan Qi moved his eyes from the ancient books to the student list next to him, looking at the results of the previous attendance checks this semester.
Seeing that some students had already been deducted attendance points, he couldn't bear to see students lose one or two points.
After all, the final assessment only accounts for 50% of the final grade. This attendance score is still quite high and can affect whether the final grade is enough to get the highest grade.
Many students smiled. It seemed that the professor was very nice and Buddhist, and basically didn't care whether the students came or not.
Then there is no need to waste their precious research time in class for many days. Everyone sitting here is a proud genius magic craftsman of the empire, and no one thinks that such a young professor is much better than them.
It seems that not only will the passing rate this semester be quite high, but I will also hope to get a very excellent grade point in the end.
Level 4 courses have a fairly high weighting in both weighted average grades and grade points.
"The result of that roll call will be directly calculated as 10% of the score."
he added.
So he hoped that everyone would be lucky enough to come on the day he called his name.
"..."
This dog gambling teacher.
Doesn’t this mean that it will happen in every next class?
Is the trust between people the ultimate psychological warfare?
The crowd in the classroom gradually subsided, and all eyes were focused on the man standing on the podium.