On the first day the Nightmare Demons came to the Demon King's Palace, after having dinner in the open-air restaurant, they rubbed their round bellies and excitedly discussed the many delicious foods with each other. They were about to return to their temporary camp to sleep when they were stopped by the kind-hearted demon soldiers.
This demon soldier was a member of the team that protected the Nightmare Clan along the way, and was quite familiar with them: "Don't leave in a hurry, you still have class to go to!"
"Class? What is class?"
"It's just learning knowledge!" The demon soldier waved his hands and explained excitedly, "Before, the king taught us to learn mathematics, listen to stories, and learn to write magic words! For example, a roasted chicken can lay eight eggs a day, how many eggs can ten roasted chickens lay in a day?"
The nightmare demons blinked in confusion, and finally, they all turned their gaze to their smartest patriarch, Sur.
Su Er: “…”
She is smart, but not this kind of smart!
She also doesn't know how many eggs a roast chicken will lay!
"That's eighty."
The demon soldier proudly asked and answered his own questions, with his tail held high. Although he was showing off, he also noticed the nightmare demons' confused mood and hurried to comfort them.
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"Don't worry, the king will definitely find a demon who is good at studying to help you with your lessons. When the Winged Demons first arrived, they didn't know how to do it. Now, the leader of the Winged Demons, Feiwu, is one of the best demons in study! I heard that the leader of the Winged Demons caught up with all the courses in the Demon King's Palace in just five days!"
The nightmare demons all breathed a sigh of relief, but Sur suddenly had a bad feeling.
Sure enough, the next night, Feiwu flew into the temporary residence of the Nightmare Clan with its head held high. It flicked its tail and said in a rhythmic voice: "I am your tutor. You can call me Teacher Feiwu! Our goal is to learn addition and subtraction in three days, and to be proficient in multiplication and division in five days! Go for it!"
Not to mention how devastated Sur was the next day, that night, listening to the demons come on stage to share what they knew about the habits and weaknesses of the Warcraft Stonecutter Ants, the Nightmare Demons all felt it was novel and benefited a lot, and they couldn't help but look forward to the class more.
Of course, although Fei Wu had very high requirements, he was indeed serious and responsible in his lectures. He tapped the blackboard with his right hand, trying hard to teach the Nightmare Demons the thinking method of addition and subtraction. After teaching for a long time, he realized in despair that this group of Nightmare Demons could not even count to ten.
"How could this happen?" Feiwu was so angry that he flapped his wings and slammed into the ceiling, almost knocking himself out. "Aren't you known as the smartest race in the Demon Realm?"
Soul was also desperate: "This really isn't the smart way!"
The other Nightmare Demons grumbled unconvincedly: "Why do we have to learn to count? We can never count to ten, what's the big deal?"
Fei Wu took a deep breath and finally understood why the Demon King hesitated and told him to be more patient when he applied to be a tutor for the Nightmare Demon Tribe.
As expected of a king who is good at planning and strategizing, he even knows that the Nightmare Demons appear to be very smart but are actually extremely stupid!
"If you don't know how to count, when you sell pottery, you get five pieces of bacon for one pottery. Five pottery should be exchanged for twenty-five pieces of bacon, but they only give you fifteen, and you don't even know you've been cheated!"
He spoke angrily for a long time, and the nightmare demons finally realized the importance of mathematics. They all hung their tails in guilt. Finally, it was Sur who stood up and sincerely apologized to Feiwu: "We will study hard."
The flying crow's wings exploded and fell down with a whoosh.
He had a strong and violent personality, but was also very easy to appease. When the nightmare demons all looked at him with pitiful expressions, he immediately calmed down and waved his hand: "Okay, I expected too much. I heard that when the goblins first came, they also started learning by counting. Then let's slow down the process. Tonight, you just need to count fifty numbers!"
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Half a month later, the Nightmare Village of the Nightmare Demons was built, and they learned to count fluently within one hundred.
A month later, several of Feiwu's feathers had fallen off, and the Nightmare Demon was finally able to use addition and subtraction.
In the end, Sul felt a little embarrassed. She knew how hard Feiwu tried to teach them, so she secretly asked Barlow, a goblin who was also good at math, to help them with their lessons, hoping to give Feiwu a surprise.
Barlow loves making friends the most. He jumped up and down. Although he didn't understand why learning mathematics in advance was a surprise for Feiwu, he happily agreed to Sur's request. He also did not confiscate the bacon Sur gave him, but arrived at the Nightmare Village on time at midnight.
In the center of dozens of wooden houses in the Nightmare Village, a huge square was built that can accommodate hundreds of demons at the same time. There are swings, slides and see-saws, which are toys designed by the king for the cubs in the kindergarten. However, the adult demon soldiers also have a lot of fun playing with them, so several more were built here as well.
"Today I'm going to teach you multiplication," Barro said crisply, his voice lively and pleasing. "Imagine that the Demon King's palace has many roast chickens. One roast chicken can lay five eggs a day. How many eggs can ten roast chickens lay? This kind of problem can be calculated using multiplication."
A Nightmare Demon raised his hand actively: "I know! It can lay fifteen eggs! Ten roast chickens, five eggs each, ten plus five is fifteen!"
"How is that possible? Don't talk nonsense!" Another Nightmare Demon also raised his hand, turned to look at the Nightmare Demon, and loudly refuted, "It must be twenty! I once passed by a chicken coop and counted them. There were exactly twenty eggs in the nest!"
Barlow: “Huh?”
He vaguely remembered that he had taught the demon soldiers mathematics a long time ago.
No wonder the Winged Demon Chief Fei Wu has become more and more irritable recently. Baro thought with tears in his eyes, the Nightmare Demon Clan is really difficult to teach!
Is it too late to resign now?
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It took a month and a half before the Winged Demons' mathematics courses caught up with the progress of the demons in the Demon King's Palace.
Compared to their outstanding talent in learning magic words, the Nightmare Demons' math was extremely poor. In the end, when the entire tribe learned multiplication and division within 100, Feiwu, who had fought with the monsters until he was dying and never cried out in pain, couldn't help but sit down in the middle of the Nightmare Village, without even taking care of his beautiful wings, and cried loudly while wiping his tears.
He had originally planned to be a teacher for Sur, but who would have thought that teaching a nightmare demon math problems would be so difficult! He was so worried that the feathers on his head were about to fall off!
The nightmare demons knew they were in the wrong, so they circled around Feiwu, comforting him in soft voices and handing him a cup of lava slime bubble tea that had been warmed in the magma.
"Don't cry," Suer squatted beside him, "A new batch of pottery has been made in the pottery factory. This time, with the guidance of the king, new pigments are used. It is a very beautiful fiery red dinner plate. Can I give you my share?"
"No need," Feiwu sobbed, "I don't like red."
Su Er was helpless: "Then let's go together? It's time to go to bed."
Feiwu then stood up with red eyes, thinking of how he had just cried in such an ungraceful manner, and felt very ashamed. He flapped his wings vigorously, and ran away in a panic without even saying hello to the nightmare demons.
Knowing how much trouble they had caused Feiwu, the Nightmare Demons walked towards their respective cabins while whispering about giving Feiwu a thank-you gift: "I heard that Teacher Feiwu often stayed up all night thinking about what math problems to give us some time ago."
"Yes, and mathematics is indeed very useful," a nightmare demon agreed. "When I was working in a pottery factory, I often had to record how many ceramics were made every day and how many were excellent products. If I hadn't learned mathematics, I wouldn't have been able to do my job at all."
Another nightmare demon agreed: "The same goes for textile factories! But since Chief Sur developed the magic of spinning cotton thread based on the experience of the pottery factory, the efficiency has been greatly improved. We only need to weave the cotton thread and then calculate the amount of cotton cloth."
They chattered and discussed one after another until the Nightmare Chief Sur clapped his hands vigorously, signaling all the Nightmare Demons to be quiet: "It's late, go back to bed. The King said that there will be a legion expansion competition in three days. There are sixteen places this time. Nightmare Demons who want to join the barracks must train hard!"
The nightmare demons nodded in unison and said hello happily.
Watching the tribesmen walking hand in hand towards their respective wooden houses, Sur turned and left, trying to remain serious, but the smile on his lips was very bright.
In the past, when they were in the tribe, the nightmare demons never dared to go out at night. They would hurriedly hide in the caves before the sun set. But now it was already midnight, and they were still chatting happily. When they returned to the wooden house, the whole demon group was relaxed and light-hearted.
"Thank you, my king," she murmured sincerely, "this is the most beautiful place I have ever seen."
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