When Austin returned to the kitchen and shared the surprise she had received from Jersey with Irina, the girl cried tears of joy and kept shouting at him three times before finally believing that she had heard correctly.
As for Lilian, when she heard that she had another 'student', she laughed uncharacteristically. She naturally has her own considerations, and if she teaches two people to study together at the same time, maybe it will save more time. Because no matter how you look at Irina, she is a very smart girl, and she is still at the most suitable age for learning, and she must be faster than Austin in mastering words, as long as she learns it, she can completely push Austin's learning problems to her in the future and liberate herself.
"Since you're all going to live in the manor, you have plenty of time to study, 5 to 7 in the morning and 2 to 4 in the afternoon, are you all right?" Lillian quickly stepped into her role and arranged her study time.
Austin and Irena looked at each other and said in unison, "No problem." "
"Well, today is special, from now on, until 10:30. "
Lillian is also a man of action, and immediately leads Austin and Irene to the small library on the first floor, and takes out the basic language books that she has prepared long ago, as well as pen and paper.
"I'm going to teach you Sinis first, although this language is no longer used in everyday life, but most of the books that the mage needs to read are written in this ancient language, so it is what you need to master the most at the moment. Lillian was also fully prepared for today's lecture, and after a few considerations, she decided to put the lingua franca aside and learn Sinis directly.
"Sister, what is Sinis?" said lovely Irena with a confused face, she had never heard of Sinis before.
"I'll just say it once, I'll just say it, I'll have to remember it. Lillian, who was interrupted, was not angry, but patiently taught Erina some historical knowledge: "Sinis is the language that was spoken in the Magic Empire of Sinis, which fell more than a thousand years ago, just like the lingua franca of today, when the people of Casassem spoke Sinis. In fact, there are still some places where Sinis is still spoken, such as the kingdom of Herum to the north, which was once the center of the Sinis Empire, and some ancient families proudly consider themselves to be the remnants and glorious heirs of Sinis, insisting that their family members also use Sinis on a daily basis. "
"Oh, I see. Irena nodded earnestly.
"Then I'll continue. Lillian flipped through the basic language textbook on the table, pushed it between Austin and Irina, and began to speak: "Sinis is much more complex than the current lingua franca, such as the number of basic letters that make it up, Sinis has a total of 65 basic letters, while the lingua franca has only 18 simple letters. Don't think it's difficult, you don't know, in the far east, that country called Great Xia, each of them has its own character, is there 5,000 or 10,000? I can't imagine how they should learn words. "
"These 65 basic letters, this page is turned now, I will read them to you one by one, you two must remember my pronunciation firmly, and it must also correspond to the letters you read, understand?"
Austin and Irena both nodded, "Got it." "
So their first class was spent in the 65 basic letters of the Sinis language. As Lillian had expected, Irena was more gifted in this area, and by the time 10:30 came, she had memorized them all and could read them out exactly in alphabetical order.
Austen, on the other hand, made a little worse progress, only wrote down half of it, and the pronunciation was still very inaccurate. Lilian could only shake her head at this result, after all, he was past the best age to study.
"Okay, that's it for the morning class, and at noon Irena you have to take the time to teach your stupid brother and help him revise, otherwise he won't be able to keep up with the afternoon class. Now, it's time to prepare lunch, Irena you're going to be my assistant in the kitchen, Austin you're going to the well in the backyard to get two buckets of water, and then sweep the yard in the vestibule. Lillian had already learned from Austin that Jersey had ordered them to share the chores, and with little need to get used to, she immediately changed from a maid to a housekeeper and began to call the shots. Austin and Irena naturally didn't dare to disobey, this was what they had to do when they lived in Navia Manor, and they immediately obeyed Lilian's orders and went their separate ways.
It was not difficult to carry water and sweep the yard, even if the yard was large, Austin finished his work before lunch began, but he was very curious, is this usually Lilian doing it alone? "
Lilian, who was sipping a plate of mushroom soup, raised her head when she heard this, wiped her lower lip with a napkin, and then replied: "Usually it's just me, but every half a month, the owner will hire another group of people to clean the entire manor." In addition, when I am really busy, I can ask the master to apply for the use of the golems in the manor, although they are clumsy, the work of sweeping the yard is still fine. "
The novel word "Golem?" immediately sparked the curiosity of both Austin and Irina.
"Well, a magical creation, mages who are proficient in tectonics and alchemy like to make some to act as their guards and minions, but they need to consume magic crystals to act, which is very expensive. "
"Can they still act as guards?
"Of course, the golems were first invented for war, and the first time they appeared on the stage of history was in the middle of the Sinis Empire, when the legendary archmage Saranford created 5,000 steel golems and led them to slaughter the unbeatable hill giants. "
"Giants, monsters that are more than five meters tall and have fists bigger than a human?" Austin's mouth was so surprised that he could swallow an egg.
Lillian nodded: "The golem's entire body is almost all made of metal, and although the giants are extremely powerful, it is difficult to inflict fatal damage on them, and Lord Saranford led this torrent of steel, and almost did not encounter effective resistance to exterminate this race that often causes trouble on the borders of the Empire." Of course, the leader of the giants, the son of the demigod Grammer, was slain by Lord Saranford's own hands, and those golems, although powerful, could hardly do any harm to the legendary creatures. "
These simple words outlined a glorious history of mankind for Austen, and he couldn't help but have a bloody picture of the golem slaughtering giants in his mind.
"Alright, the story is over, let's eat, and we will continue to study in the afternoon. Lillian taps the silver plate with a spoon to awaken the fantasies-addicted Austin, and as for Irina, the little girl is not interested in fighting and killing.
Because in the morning I already knew the basic alphabet of the Sinisian language, in the afternoon Lillian after examining Irina's memory, she thought that she could start learning to spell, as for Austin, it was still a little worse, but for the sake of progress, let him find time to make up for it himself, she didn't care.
"As with learning spells, accumulation is the key, the total number of words in Sinis is about 20,000, and there are 5,000 commonly used words, I ask you to memorize 50 words a day, and it will take about 3 months to learn to write common words. Now pick up the parchment paper and pen on the table, and I'll teach you some of the simplest everyday vocabulary first, well, remember to write smaller, paper is very expensive. "
So Lillian began her second lesson...