Chapter 3600

"I am still considering the candidates for professors." Strange said.

"Don't look at me, I'm not going." Schiller said, "Teaching students is really too headache-inducing."

"But you are very good at bringing up children." Strange said, "You can always get along with young people. We need such teachers."

Schiller still wanted to refute, Strange continued: "You should know that boarding schools are not that good. If it were adults, that would be fine, but a group of children leaving their hometowns, studying alone in a place far from parents and family, and in a relatively closed environment like a school, I'm afraid there won't be few psychological problems."

Schiller sighed; he knew Strange was right. Boarding schools are terrifying.

Boarding schools and living on campus are not the same. You can go home on weekends when living on campus, but you stay in a boarding school for a whole semester, and sometimes you are not allowed to go home during holidays.

The most troublesome thing is that the school age of boarding schools is very long. Some combine elementary and junior high, some combine elementary, junior high, and high school, and you study for more than ten years.

This means that if you can't get along with teachers and classmates, then from your childhood to your teenage years, you will live in an environment of being bullied.

Parents who can throw their children into boarding schools are usually not that responsible. Most of them just want to give birth but not raise them, only requiring the school not to let the children run away, and they can't get help from them either. This means the children are completely isolated and helpless for more than ten years; it would be a miracle if they didn't have psychological problems.

Even if there are good people in the school and the teachers are very responsible, starting collective life too early will also make children overly exposed; either they become extremely sensitive and self-consuming, or they will become low in self-esteem, which is also a trouble.

Although Schiller doesn't think various universes will really send ordinary children over, most of them are like Damian, prodigies with legendary life experiences, but this doesn't mean there will be no problems.

On the contrary, precisely because they are all very capable, problems may be infinitely magnified, even to the point where adults may not necessarily be able to sort out and solve them.

"Alright." Schiller said, "Or else I'll go be the school doctor."

Strange laughed immediately; obviously, he was waiting for this sentence from Schiller. He didn't have the patience to coax that group of bear children.

"Has the address been chosen?" Schiller asked again.

"It can't be in New York City, but it can't be too far from New York either. I think maybe Massachusetts would be a good choice. Quite a few higher learning institutions are there, and adding another magic academy is nothing."

At this time, Schiller suddenly remembered that in the Harry Potter universe, the American magic academy seemed to be in Massachusetts.

It can only be said that this setting is quite reasonable. Because Massachusetts can be said to be a representative of states that are relatively prosperous but not so developed.

If the prosperity is too high, like New York, there is actually no place to build such a large school. With New York's land price, Stark might not be able to buy such a large piece of land even if he makes a move.

If the prosperity is too low, running to those states in the middle, the coming and going of students and professors is very troublesome. And people there are relatively conservative, maybe they would treat the magic academy as some kind of cult gathering place. It's not good if it endangers the life and feelings of the locals.

Massachusetts is a compromise choice. It has Boston inside and New York outside, and the industrial foundation is very good; the infrastructure is even better than New Jersey, and there are two world-renowned prestigious schools, MIT and Harvard, and the academic atmosphere is relatively strong.

Because it is located in the northeast, it has a temperate continental climate; the winter temperature will not be lower than 0 degrees, and it is not hot in summer; most days are around 20 degrees, which can be called warm in winter and cool in summer.

The most important thing is that this state has large forests, and Mount Greylock in the northwest corner basically belongs to a no-man's land. Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is located on this mountain, which can be completely called quiet in the midst of noise, taking into account both prosperity and natural temperament.

Unsurprisingly, Strange also took a fancy to this mountain. But Schiller felt a bit of a headache; he said: "Mount Greylock is the most important natural resource in Massachusetts, none other. They established a state protected area there, and even tourism resources have not been developed much. It is impossible to buy the land there."

"Then it's in the Berkshire area." Strange obviously had investigated long ago; he said, "Mount Greylock is the highest peak and also the most famous one, but actually there are quite a few small mountain ranges nearby that are not so famous. I know there is actually a private asylum nearby, which proves there is commercial land. I will go ask Nick to investigate."

"Hope it goes smoothly." Schiller said, "If it doesn't work, we'll go to the West Coast to buy a small island, just like the island where Tony got married."

"Superheroes mainly operate in New York, I don't approve. Too far from New York, in case something happens, we might not be able to rush over in time. It's better to keep it under our noses. We must make a good start."

Schiller of course also understands what he is referring to. The magic academy is just a beginning; there will definitely be more multiverse exchange activities in the future.

The development level of the universe is uneven; relatively backward universes will definitely want to learn from relatively advanced universes. Because no matter which universe, the survival pressure faced by humans is very high.

The American comic world is not a fairy tale world. Dangers are everywhere in the universe, and countless disasters descend in turn. Such huge pressure will lead them to want to seek outward at all costs, in the hope of obtaining more survival materials.

Even if others don't want to, Batman definitely will. Because he is smart enough and decisive enough. When the era of big universe exchange comes, those who can decisively grasp this opportunity will definitely be able to walk in the front. So the establishment of the multiverse magic academy is just a beginning.

Perhaps, in the future, there will also be other schools used to teach human technology; there will be many cross-universe organizations and alliances, united to fight against cosmic disasters; there will be many, many people from different universes standing together for development and progress.

In the end, they will definitely reach a human alliance in a broad sense, not just humans on Earth in a certain universe, but humans in many universes united together, exchanging the fruits of development.

This is actually not science fiction. If you look at the human race of a universe as a separate individual, then this is nothing more than repeating the history of human development.

When humans were still in the trees, they were gregarious animals. When they came to the ground to walk upright, they formed settlements, and then larger tribes, city-states, and countries.

Gregariousness and aggregation are human nature. If they don't know there are other universes, they can only grope alone in the dark universe. And once they discover that there are the same selves in other universes, then they will definitely want to communicate; the desire for communication is one of the cornerstones of humans forming modern society.

Some people tend to think that opening up multiverse exchange channels will lead to a multiverse melee. But Schiller asserts that it won't, the reason is the two mentioned above: one is individual survival pressure, and the other is human instinct.

Now it seems that everything is developing in a good direction. The trend of multiverse integration has become more and more obvious. Perhaps one day, the human civilization of a certain universe encounters a disaster, and human civilizations of countless universes extend a helping hand.

Back then, human ancestors relied on gregariousness and relay hunting to kill all the creatures they could kill. If possible, repeating this process again is not bad.

After the ribbon-cutting ceremony ended, Schiller sat in the office writing and drawing for a long time. He felt that Strange was right; they had to make a good start, so that they could give confidence to those who extended the olive branch of communication.

Especially since most of the promoters are Batman. Convincing Batman is not that easy. Since the other party took out sincerity first, then their side naturally has to show professional standards.

If there are no accidents, Strange will build a castle. This is not because he really must replicate Harry Potter, but if he wants to get materials from Asgard, a castle is indeed the most suitable.

After all, according to the Asgardians' understanding of architecture, the materials sent over might be about the same as those used to build the Xiangong back then. The Xiangong is not a lonely palace, but a castle architectural complex.

You can't expect this group of gods to understand what modernism is. The materials they send over are more likely to be some kind of stone with magical properties, or wood from magical trees, rather than sheet metal painted hardware parts.

If possible, Schiller actually hopes to build a building with a style similar to the Xiangong. Because besides being magnificent, it is also very gorgeous, which can definitely satisfy the requirements of investors.

Of course, it cannot have too strong an Asgardian style; the details still need human modification. However, Strange definitely won't draw the design drawings himself; if he finds a professional designer and modifies a few more versions, he will always be able to achieve the effect he wants.

Schiller actually feels that he doesn't need to find a professional architectural designer, but rather a game modeler. Because of the existence of magic, there is no need to consider structure and load-bearing problems too much, and the aesthetic aspect can naturally go up another level.

A little later, Strange called and said: "I forgot to ask you, what should the magic academy be called?"

"Isn't it called Kamar-Taj?"

"Every universe has a Kamar-Taj, this doesn't reflect the characteristics of our universe. So we need to come up with a new name."

"What do you think is good?" Schiller really couldn't think of it, because he really had no interest in those god-talking magic vocabulary and complex mythological legends.

"Or else call it Hogwarts?"

"I said don't call the big name!" Schiller raised his voice and said, "And Hogwarts is a British school! The American one is not called this!"

"What's the difference?" Strange appeared very indifferent.

"No, it can't be called this." Schiller's obsessive-compulsive disorder acted up, he said, "That's British. Unless you plan to build one in the UK too, otherwise it definitely can't be called this."

"Then call it Massachusetts Magic Academy."

"You are simply too rustic."

"Then what is the American magic academy called?"

"Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry."

"Then call it this."

?? A daily transition ^_^

? (End of chapter)