High School of Demon Hunting

Chapter 2180: Chapter 401: The Magic Script Professor Discusses Magic Script

The Magic Script class of Astronomy Class 08-1 is normally scheduled for Tuesdays from 2 PM to 5 PM, but in the fourteenth week of this semester, due to the festival, the class was canceled.

In theory, every class at First University is unique, and a canceled class does not have the possibility of being made up. However, Professor Montreya, who teaches the Magic Script class, is stubborn and firm, seriously applying to the Professor Joint Meeting for an additional class on Saturday and Sunday to compensate for the teaching loss caused by the holiday.

This application faced strong opposition from the Student Union.

Adding classes is impossible; the entire school has never heard of a precedent for making up classes lost due to holidays. The conflict between the two sides was laid on the round table of the Professor Joint Meeting, causing several college deans to scratch their heads.

On one hand, the serious and responsible attitude of Professor Montreya is highly commendable, and the reasons he submitted are also very substantial — including the approaching end of the semester, the recent increase in school activities, the importance of advanced Magic Script courses, and the crucial role of a solid foundation for the future of every young wizard, etc.

On the other hand, the Student Union’s rebuttal reasoning is also very strong, which is non-compliance — the school takes holidays according to regulations, and students take vacations according to regulations, while adding classes is not supported by ”First University Management Regulations” and other related ’rules’.

The old wizards at the Joint Meeting were entangled for quite a while, and eventually, after weighing, they provided a compromise, which was to cancel Thursday afternoon’s ’Career Planning’ and replace it with a Magic Script class.

One is a school-wide basic course, the other is a school-wide elective course, obvious which is lighter and heavier.

Thus arose the complaints such as the stick figure behind the door ’The ghost story of letting the magic portrait work overtime’.

When the slender, black-robed Magic Language Professor entered the classroom, everyone lowered their heads, nervously cross-checking their respective Magic Script translations, fearing being named by the professor to write on the blackboard.

The professor wore a stern face with a terrifying low pressure swirling around him, his sallow skin tense over his prominent cheekbones, scanning the classroom with his usual severe gaze.

Everyone held their breath like startled quails.

Bang!

A large stack of parchment was thumped onto the lectern by the professor, the sound not loud but causing everyone’s heart to jump several times, and the air in the classroom seemed to freeze.

”I originally didn’t intend to take up your rest time, and certainly didn’t plan to steal other teachers’ class time.”

Professor Montreya’s voice was not loud, but in the quiet classroom, it seemed exceptionally clear: ”However, the assignments you submitted this week are too disappointing for me... If you continue with these poor habits of translation and writing, I very much doubt whether anyone will achieve a passing grade in the semester-end exams just a few weeks away!”

The words were somewhat heavy.

Zheng Qing subconsciously glanced at his tablemate, Xiao Xiao, whose posture was upright, his expression serious looking towards the podium, seemingly unaware that the professor’s criticism included him.

”Zheng Qing!” The professor tapped the lectern lightly but firmly.

The young cost student swiftly withdrew his wandering gaze, bouncing out of his seat as if electrocuted: ”Yes, Professor!”

”What do you know about the Magic Script we are studying?”

This question was too large, Zheng Qing immediately felt flustered, stuttering a while before answering, intermittently: ”Magic Script... modern Magic Script... modern standardized Magic Script is founded on the growth principles of the Cabalistic tree... Magic Script is divided into primary Magic Script and secondary Magic Script... each Magic Script represents a phoneme, both sound... and then each Magic Script has a corresponding noun, which starts or ends with sounds related to Magic Script... hmm, Magic Script is composed of straight lines resembling branches, with ’branches’ heading up along the diagonal, or down, or protruding in curves, and when writing, you can write from left to right or right to left, or asymmetrically flipped according to personal writing habits...”

”Stop!” Professor Montreya interrupted the warlock’s answer with a question: ”Aside from writing methods, are there any other ’non-standard’ format requirements in the Magic Script you learned?”

Non-standard requirements?

Zheng Qing had some trouble understanding, shaking his head in confusion.

Bang!

The professor slapped the stack of parchment, slightly raising his voice: ”Since there are no other non-standard requirements, then why in the standard Magic Script assignment I asked for, did so many people insert ’cipher script’? Who told you to use seven emotions and seven sufferings to refer to seven kinds of metals? Why use a snake devouring another snake to represent the process of fusion? Who taught you these metaphorical and indirect writing styles?”

Upon hearing this, Zheng Qing suddenly understood the reason for the professor’s mood today.

To make an inappropriate analogy, the ’non-regulatory’ writing styles the professor mentioned are like using Martian script or emoticons in a college entrance exam essay, which young wizards see as a popular writing style, even besides being playful and cute, it can adequately express the writer’s mood.

But to the professor, this is a severe desecration of the standardized Magic Script!

(╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻!

”I know, many must be silently cursing me as ’rigid’, ’unadaptable’, ’old-fashioned’, and some students will think standardized Magic Script will continue to evolve over time, mixing these ’popular vocabulary’ in Magic Script writing is a certain manifestation of embracing the times.”

The professor pressed one hand on the lectern, gripping the lecture notes with the other, slightly restraining his anger, but his attitude remained stern: ”I won’t deny any possibility. But I want to emphasize that the Magic Script class is a standardized Magic Script class... just like the statement I ingrained in you during the first class — what is Magic Script? Magic Script is the analysis of wisdom, the consciousness of each of us, a comprehensive communication method established by wizards that is effective, belonging to wizards as ’universal language’... whether ancient Nilo-Runes or more obscure Thebes Witch Text, Malacian Mother Text, and unique scripts, etc., each type of magical text contains the respective wizard group’s understanding and development of magic.”

”Why did magic societies of the old era dissolve with the development of the times? Why did old-school wizards let their descendants enter First University to learn modern magic theory and knowledge?”

”Because ’cipher text’ represents estrangement, division, represents keeping cherished ideas like treasures and mutual distrust, represents the lost inheritance of ancient traditions, represents narrow-mindedness, obscurity, and isolation!”

”A long time ago, magic was entirely ’mysticism’, and the wizards who hid in mage towers or deep in the forests used magic scripts that were thoroughly mysterious and unknown. To maintain their rule and authority, they deliberately used individual drawings, symbols, and strange marks to hide spells and magic knowledge... which is something we absolutely do not advocate! A thousand years ago, wizards left many magical insights that we may never have the opportunity to decipher; do you want wizards a thousand years from now to also be unable to understand your magic notes?”

”First University is founded on openness, inclusiveness, and mutual understanding. Even a demon, we have sufficient tolerance to accept. Even dangerous black magic experiments, we can tolerate... the only thing that cannot be accepted is rebuilding walls of knowledge that prevent others from interpreting our magic!”

”This tendency must be firmly suppressed, even if only a hint!”

The professor swung his arm holding the lecture notes forcefully downward, making a decisive slicing gesture.