Industrial Revolution of the Mage Lords

Chapter 150 Magical Wikipedia

Harvey soon received a reply message from the Burning Lord, in which the other party agreed to fulfill his previous promise.

[Scorching Overlord: Dear Mr. Turing, I have discussed with the other two chiefs and have unanimously agreed to your request. We will now formally invite Mr. Neumann, the Observer, to join the Spellcaster Union as an honorary member...]

He read the long message over and over again, and could no longer suppress the smile on his face. Finally, he couldn't help but slap the desk and burst into laughter.

Harvey knew very well what this meant - he would gain the highest authority to access those massive amounts of precious documents and magical knowledge. He would be qualified to freely retrieve and read any magic book recorded and collected by the Federation for thousands of years.

This is equivalent to allowing Harvey, a mid-level spellcaster who has just learned to swim, to immediately possess a vast ocean of magical knowledge. How can he not be ecstatic about this?

If he were a necromancer in the past, although he was also a spellcaster who graduated from a regular mage academy and was an orthodox mage registered with the Federation, in order to obtain nearly unlimited knowledge access, he would at least need to become a formal member of the Federation and serve in the Evil Moon Mountains for several years, slowly accumulating reputation and job level, and finally being promoted to a high-level spellcaster before he could barely achieve it.

As far as Harvey knew, the number of high-level spellcasters in the Federation who were necromancers was so small that they could be counted on two hands, and none of them held important positions. They were extremely marginalized.

"Next, I need to communicate and negotiate with the other party to determine a suitable method for me to access literature online..."

After all, it was impossible for Harvey to visit the Sky Domain Magic Library in Alayeh in reality. That would be no different from running naked on the street. He could only take advantage of the convenience of the Magic Network Forum and ask the Federation to set up a special working group to connect with him and upload the required information and documents to the forum for him to review.

Harvey didn't think the other party would reject his proposal, because this document upload group specifically serving him also meant that the number of forum members with a federation background could be increased by two to three, which was exactly what their small group wanted to achieve.

The background faction with the largest number of forum members means that their voice and benefits in the forum can be maximized.

"If we can trick the Federation into uploading all their valuable literature and materials to the forum and create a Magic Wikipedia on the Magic Web Forum, that would be the most attractive and valuable..." Harvey suddenly had an idea and recalled the painful experience of looking up various references and paper materials during his graduation season in his previous life.

Yes, this is indeed a great idea, but it will probably take a long time to implement, and it will not be possible to produce a finished product in a short time. But you can make a prototype first and try it out.

Harvey took action as soon as he thought of it. He immediately took out a pen and paper and began to write the general outline of the plan.

First of all, this magic wiki must be an independent section in the forum with access rights.

Forum members can be divided into different levels of information access based on the amount of points they have. The higher the authority, the more information they can access...

But this will lead to a problem - that is, members who originally have a background in the Federation will not be able to gain any benefits from it. After all, they do not need to spend any points in reality to read documents at will in the Sky Domain Magic Tower.

Therefore, Harvey also added an additional rule for open source knowledge, that is, members of other intelligent races besides the Federation can also enter their own race's knowledge documents or valuable historical materials into it, and then judge its value based on the ratings of paid readers, so that those who upload and share the documents can obtain corresponding points.

This will enable true payment for knowledge, which is fully in line with the "open communication" principle of the forum's inception.

"I wonder if these spellcasters, who already hold high positions in various magical organizations in the real world, can accept completely open communication and the free flow of magical knowledge given the current situation of strict barriers between spellcasting factions..."

As the largest official organization of spellcasters on the continent, the Federation is the most open and advanced in terms of academic exchanges. This is also due to the large number of wizard academies they have established throughout the southern continent, so that the profession of magician is no longer firmly controlled by a very small number of wizard families.

However, the conservative faction within the Federation still has the upper hand in numbers, and still adheres to the outdated practices of the wizarding families in the past on academic issues, keeping a very tight lid on many magical knowledge and research results.

Harvey could only roughly judge that the members with federation backgrounds who were qualified to join the Spellcaster Forum were not among these conservative factions, but if the number of members was increased on a large scale in the future, it would inevitably attract hostility and attacks from the conservatives.

The chief gentleman of the Federation, the Scorching Lord, has now been directly "exposed" in front of Harvey. He will at least stand on the side of the forum as long as it does not harm the interests of the Federation.

"I hope this open-minded Chief Wizard can mediate for me and remove the obstacles of the conservatives..." Harvey sighed secretly as he wrote the plan.

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In fact, many of the magic theories and knowledge of ancient wizards had been overturned one by one by the magic geniuses that continued to emerge in the era during thousands of years of rapid development. Even the meditation method that Harvey learned when he first started studying at the School of the Undead had undergone several generations of improvement and transformation.

However, the uniquely creative magic of legendary spellcasters, along with the constantly evolving and improved spells of high-level spellcasters, remains far more popular among today's spellcasters than the mix of common techniques. The Spellcasters' Union of Alayeh was founded only a century ago, and while it inherits much of the magical heritage of the ancient wizard kingdom, the latter's knowledge reserves are far inferior to the former's in both quantity and quality.

After all, the only criterion for measuring a spell is the spell effect. Whether it is a combat spell or an auxiliary spell, it strictly follows a unified evaluation system.

Most of the common spells that have been passed down from ancient times to the present day have been studied thoroughly by countless spellcasters, and it is difficult to have new potential for improvement and enhancement. Only creative spells can provide spellcasters with inspiration for research. By learning and analyzing their essential laws, they can achieve the only path to rank promotion.

This is also the main purpose that Harvey wants to achieve in Magic Wikipedia. Innovation and development always emerge from extensive mutual communication and learning.

After he drafted the framework of the forum module of the Magic Encyclopedia, he first logged into the Magic Network with the new code name he had registered in advance - Observer Neumann, and then directly clicked on the forum code name of Mr. Burning Overlord who was active online at the moment, and initiated a request for private communication.

Observer Neumann: Hello, Mr. Scorching Master, I apologize for contacting you so late. I'm sure Mr. Turing has already introduced me to you in advance...

[Scorching Overlord: It's an honor to speak with you, Mr. Observer. Are you contacting me today about joining the Federation?]

Harvey glanced at the forum plan for the magic encyclopedia that was currently placed next to the "Magic Brain" instrument, and briefly wrote down the contents of the plan in text form and sent it to the legendary spellcaster.

[Observer Neumann: The above are some of my requests for access to information after joining the Federation. I'm sure you're aware that I can't easily reach Alayeh and actually enter the Magic Library in the Sky Realm to browse the tomes. Therefore, I need you to arrange for someone to upload all the information I need... Of course, for this, I'm willing to provide three forum member memberships as compensation for your services.]

Salas looked at the content sent by the other party on the crystal panel. In fact, he was not surprised. He knew very well that neither Mr. Turing nor the Observer would be likely to come to Alayeh in person. The existence of these ancient races suspected to be from another dimension was probably restricted by certain rules of the real space. They could not come to the real world in their original form. They could only communicate secretly with the spellcasters in the real world through the form of the spellcaster forum.

[Scorching Overlord: This is a minor issue. I can fully satisfy your request. I will assign three staff members to directly access the magical literature and research materials stored within the Federation on your behalf. At the same time, these three people will still adhere to the basic requirements for joining the forum and must all be high-level spellcasters. This will ensure fairness.]

Harvey couldn't help but laugh. This chief gentleman must have secretly selected many high-level spellcasters and lined up to join the spellcaster forum. Being able to jump the queue early now is like picking up a huge bargain. He doesn't have to wait until the next time the forum recruits new members to pay a large amount of points or compete for a place through auction.

[Observer Neumann: Besides that, I have an interesting proposal that I'd like to discuss directly with you... I'd like to establish a virtual magical knowledge repository similar to the Sky Domain Magic Library within the forum... I wonder if you're interested in this?]

Harvey's hands kept rapidly typing on the typing keys of the "Magic Brain" instrument, instilling some basic framework and operating rules of the magic Wikipedia he had previously drafted into the legendary spellcaster opposite in the form of text.

The code name of the Scorching Lord kept flashing, indicating that the other party had been receiving and reading the long message sent by Harvey, but had not replied for a long time. It was not known whether the other party was shocked by Harvey's bold idea or suspected that Harvey had some ulterior motive.

"He actually wants to upload the research documents and magical knowledge collected by the Federation to the Spellcaster Forum and share them publicly with all forum members?" Soren Dawson stood beside Salas, looking at the text on the crystal panel, and looked at his colleagues in disbelief.

"What a ridiculous and whimsical idea! Haha, let alone the creative spells that only legendary spellcasters are qualified and capable of creating, the improved spells of those high-level spellcasters alone are enough for them to treasure and not allow anyone to covet them. Without an exchange of interests of equal value, who would be willing to share them publicly?" Soren Dawson paced back and forth in the study in annoyance, muttering to himself to refute the observer's suggestion.

Sarath fell into unexpected silence and did not immediately agree with Dawson's remarks.

Not only the seven old-fashioned and conservative wizarding kingdoms, but even within the Federation there are a large proportion of conservative spellcasters. Their concepts and views are exactly the same as those of old-school research-oriented spellcasters like Dawson.

"Dawson, have you ever thought about how our wizard ancestors learned how to obtain and use magic from dragons, elves, giants, demons, and other magical creatures thousands of years ago? Then, through constant trial and error, they created various magics through analysis and gained powerful strength. As a result, humans, the weakest and short-lived species among all the races on the continent, stood at the top of the extraordinary world..."

"Such a brilliant and glorious victory made us, its successors, even more persistent and fanatical in our pursuit of the knowledge and power brought by magic, spreading the seeds of magic across the entire southern continent... Until the sudden emergence and growth of the Church of Light, which in just a few hundred years had become a force of equal strength with us, and whose prestige in the eyes of ordinary mortals was many times greater than ours. For nearly a hundred years, we were forced to form a humiliating alliance with them in order to resist the demonic invasion..."

The legendary spellcaster Kemo Salas's voice became increasingly low, and his emotions seemed to be fluctuating abnormally. Even the originally furious Dawson calmed down, his eyes dimming.

"If we continue to allow the conservatives to tightly control the knowledge and research results of the magical world and continue to erect high barriers to the aristocracy, I am worried that in a few decades, after we old guys gradually die out, it will be difficult for human spellcasters to produce geniuses who can be called legendary..."

He stood up, looked deeply at his old friend with whom he had worked for thirty years, and warned him meaningfully.

"At that time, the end of human spellcasters will truly come..."

(End of this chapter)