Chapter 146

Chapter 146 B-level article, contribution points 50

Chapter 146 B-level article, contribution points 50

The next day, Lilith’s cabin was located in the Central Academy Library on the west side of the port city. It was a huge building, not an alchemy cabin.

The entire building is antique. It is not a stone building in the southeast corner, but a seven-story wooden building that is shaped like a stacked tower.

At its core is a high-level magical plant, the [Babel Tree], which supports it.

The crown of the Babel tree supports the various ancillary rooms of the library, giving the public library in Lilith Cottage a unique character.

The first floor of the library.

A dwarf scholar was sitting on a chair. He had a serene temperament completely different from that of the alchemist. He wore a pair of plain glasses and was flipping through a book that was thicker than a brick. His fingers were thin and slender, like bones, and one could clearly see the joints in his fingers.

In addition to this dwarf scholar, there are a large number of other staff members in the library, all of whom appear to be relatively quiet.

There is even a formal wizard of halfling origin, majoring in general studies, who is leading his students on the first floor of the library, studying and telling the history of this library.

Locke walked into the library, saluted the halfling wizard in the distance, and then quickly walked towards the person in charge of the first floor of the library, the dwarf scholar.

The public library is a public building in Lilith Lodge and is also the base camp for general scholars in Lilith Lodge – a teaching and research base.

The so-called general studies refer to wizards who specialize in general magic in the school of prophecy.

Wizards who study this type of magic have two ultimate certification goals. One is to obtain a Doctor of General Studies certificate, become a knowledgeable general studies scholar, and work in the library system.

The second is to give up taking the general doctoral certification exam, take the appraiser exam, and follow the route of appraiser assistant – appraiser – senior appraiser.

But in doing so, they would leave the library system, distance themselves from the subsidies from the college leadership and associations, and embark on the path of self-reliance.

General Studies is, to some extent, a highly specialized category of magic with a very narrow field of application.

Therefore, they can only be seen in the slightly larger wizard academies in the southeast corner, and the jobs they can find are very limited. Most of them survive on subsidies from the White Wizards Association.

But there are also some senior appraisers who live a very comfortable life.

Locke walked up to the first-class wizard apprentice, the dwarf Orr, and said, “Scholar Orr, what was the score for the article I submitted six days ago?”

The dwarf Orr’s eyes lit up when he saw Locke approaching. “Augustine, the Potion Master, you’re here. If you hadn’t come, I would have sent you a letter.”

“Potion Master Augustine, the article you submitted six days ago has been cross-examined and judged by three Doctors of General Studies (first-class wizard apprentices). The evaluation score is 71 points. The classification level is B.”

“You can get 50 contribution points.”

The dwarf, Orr, held a yellow envelope with his slender, bone-like fingers and handed it to Locke. “You don’t have to come in person anymore. You potion masters are very busy. I’ll arrange for the library’s servants to deliver the letter.”

“You’ve only just been promoted to a first-class wizard apprentice. I didn’t expect you to publish an article with a score of over 70 points so soon.”

The dwarf Orr’s eyes flickered with cunning. “And you must have a high-level vampire captive in your possession, otherwise you wouldn’t be able to publish that article.”

“I’m so envious. You should be able to publish five or six more related articles from that vampire. As long as you can get above 60 points, which is C level, you can get 20 contribution points.”

“Even if you just accumulate them and publish a few more articles, you can redeem a lot of resources.”

The dwarf scholar, Orr, gave Locke a kind smile. “Your article is very interesting. I really enjoy reading about vampires, but unfortunately there are only a limited number of such articles and very little research on them.”

“I hope you can post a few more. Oh, and you caught a vampire. Does the academy know about that?”

Locke nodded slightly to express his gratitude. “Thank you. I’ll try to be quick. Scholar Orr, I’ve placed the vampire in the magical creature breeding room of my wizard mentor.”

The dwarf scholar Orr nodded in understanding. “It’s a collection of an official wizard, so that makes sense.”

“You can keep the vampire and do your own research.”

In the library system, first-class wizard apprentices do not need to rely too much on their own wizard mentors to publish articles. After all, there are a large number of general education doctors and wizard apprentices with general education majors in the library system.

General education means learning everything and understanding a little bit of everything. They cannot do the work themselves, but they are very professional in evaluating and appreciating things.

The greatest value of these general studies scholars is to preserve knowledge and heritage for the college, record the various achievements within the college, review these achievements, and classify and grade them.

Also, these generalist wizards can use spells from the school of divination.

They are needed when recording something in the library or looking up certain knowledge.

The library contains a vast amount of information, and it is really difficult to find the knowledge you need without using prophecy spells.

The article grading system within the college is divided into S-level (90-100 points), A-level (80-89 points), B-level (70-79 points), C-level (60-69 points), and D-level (less than 60 points).

The contribution points that can be obtained by people of the same level are similar. The score grading within the same level is just to make it easier for wizards who come to inquire to understand the reliability of these data and the excellence of the research methods.

Therefore, the score is just for your own reference. If you care about the magic resources and qualifications you gain, the level of the article is the most important.

S-level refers to breakthrough results with innovative potential and a very high citation rate. This type of work has basically nothing to do with me now, and they are all formal wizard-level stuff.

Level A refers to important research results that represent substantial breakthroughs in existing theories/technologies.

If Locke dared to disclose the recipe of his memory ointment and the cultivation methods of several magical plants, then his articles should all be at this level. It’s just that they are all apprentice-level things and the scores are not high enough.

Grade B articles use qualified research methods but have limited innovation. They only have some highlights and are relatively useful as material.

At first, Locke thought that the article he submitted could not be rated as B, but unexpectedly it was still rated as B.

This was probably because the academy was in the middle of a wizarding war with the Blood Curse Tribunal.

Level C refers to relatively basic research, which has some practical value but not much impact.

As for Grade D articles, they do not offer any rewards and only serve to enrich the library without much other purpose. This type of articles is also the most common in the library.

Because many first-class wizard apprentices cannot guarantee the quality of their articles when they keep publishing them, and sometimes they rely entirely on luck, and then they will be identified by general wizards as being just some mediocre articles.

Then it became just something to fill the library’s book collection.

This classification is similar in all the college libraries in the southeast corner, as well as the association library of the White Wizard Association.

The only difference is that association libraries are more stringent than academic libraries. Basically, the level of materials in association libraries will automatically be raised to a higher level when they are brought to academic libraries.

For example, a B-level article in an association library would generally be half a level higher in a better college library, but would be an A-level article in a worse college library.

Locke opened the envelope and saw the congratulations from the scholars in the college library, as well as a reward of 50 contribution points.

Locke was momentarily lost in thought. “Yuli went to the mortal realm and toiled for months, earning only 20 contribution points. I earned 50 contribution points just by posting a random article.”

“Dean Tunguska and his team have been there their entire lives. They only earned 15 contribution points for me, Patty, and Code’s class…”

‘It turns out that publishing articles is the fastest way to earn contribution points.’

Locke sighed for a moment.

But then he thought again, that wasn’t right. Publishing articles was the fastest way to gain contribution points, and everyone knew that.

But the problem is that not everyone has the ability to publish high-scoring articles. Most people can only publish low-quality articles with scores below 60.

(End of this chapter)