If you don't get it right this round, you have a chance to try again in the next round.
However, the Dharma is a long-term process; you might spend decades working on a single problem and still not see results.
It's even possible that someone else will achieve this result before you do.
Once you become a mage, there's no turning back; if you want to retreat, you'd have to work for the Alliance for hundreds of years.
From any perspective, it seems that mages have no advantages other than living longer.
When I first became a mage apprentice, I had the same thoughts as you: Why can ordinary people live so easily, while we live such a tiring life?
At the time, my thoughts were even more extreme. I thought that ordinary people shouldn't be given such good benefits. Instead, we should use all sorts of means to force them to live a hard life. Isn't it a joke that mages have a harder life than ordinary people?
But when my research progressed, when my reconstructed spell model increased its power by fifty percent, when I analyzed the effects of new magical creature gene fragments.
It was as if the wisdom of the ancients had been passed on to me, and civilization had taken another small step forward on the path of pursuing truth.
The emotion and satisfaction this brought me are incomparable to any virtual world.
Young Zheng Li seemed to understand but not quite:
"I hope that I can also feel this kind of inspiration on my own path of pursuing truth."
"I roughly understand that being a monk is a responsibility and an obligation; monks need to guide and lead civilization forward."
The mentor in the virtual world nodded and said, "That's right. From ancient times to the Middle Ages, and then to modern times, mages have made our civilization more and more brilliant through their own efforts."
We need to do more to advance civilization.
Moreover, mages enjoy resources far exceeding those of ordinary people.
Zheng Li asked, "Does this mean we won't support ordinary people?"
In fact, there is no need to spend resources to support ordinary people.
For example, charging fees in the virtual world means everyone needs a way to work.
"With artificial intelligence, what jobs will they need to do? Besides art and writing-related jobs, in which fields can ordinary people outperform artificial intelligence?"
I've wondered before why we have to support so many ordinary people.
History books should mention that this was for the sake of genetic diversity.
A highly advanced magical civilization possesses profound knowledge of biology.
Genes can indeed mutate, and it is entirely possible to select only the superior gene segments.
However, the next generation bred in this way, having excellent genes, does not necessarily mean that they can become an excellent mage.
Even gene-edited offspring, aside from being physically superior, have a much lower success rate than naturally formed offspring.
As for the underlying principles, there are many different explanations from the monks, but none of them are definitively conclusive at present.
Ordinary people need to provide their genetic samples, which are stored in the alliance's gene bank to provide raw materials for breeding the next generation through technological means.
"Although no one has explicitly stated why ordinary people should be given preferential treatment, the reasons given by the predecessors who formulated this system were very lofty."
However, I suspect it's because most mages don't get married, and their genes need to be used by the alliance to cultivate the next generation.
You don't know who the next generation will be either. How can you guarantee that your next generation will also be a mage and not an ordinary person?
Furthermore, given sufficient productivity, why not give preferential treatment to ordinary people?
The alliance's preferential treatment of ordinary people is not only reflected in providing them with free living, but also in giving them the right to vote.
They can raise issues and then have the right to vote.
The only difference is the weight of the voting rights in the final result.
Because of the existence of advanced artificial intelligence, each person's voting proportion is different.
Artificial intelligence has a complex algorithm mechanism to calculate your vote value.
For example, an ordinary person who has never worked has a vote value of 1, an ordinary person who has worked and created value has a vote value of 5, and a mage apprentice has a vote value of 10.
Of course, the algorithm is not that simple; it will calculate the vote value based on your contribution.
Even though they are all mages, their contributions to the alliance differ, and therefore their vote value varies.
However, there are fewer mages than ordinary people, and the votes of ordinary people also carry weight.
Previously, ordinary people did not receive credit points every month; this is a right they fought for.
"Well, the paths of a monk and an ordinary person are two different ones. Monks can witness far more brilliance in their lives than ordinary people."
Even in the virtual world, Zheng Li could clearly see the captivating brilliance in his mentor's eyes.
Zheng Li nodded and said, "I understand. Also, I would like to ask under what circumstances a mage would choose not to be a mage and return to being an ordinary person?"
After thinking for a moment, the mentor said, "There are research reports in the library that specifically analyze how mages give up the pursuit of truth and just want to live a life of idleness and waiting to die. You can go and take a look."
Judging from the situation around me, the price of giving up being a mage is too heavy, and few people would choose this path.
Because becoming a mage requires passing numerous tests.
Generally, the only person I know who would give up is someone else. It was because someone else published the results of his research over a hundred years, and that person became a god of magic because of his research. He couldn't accept this blow and chose to give up.
He even filed an appeal, but the problem was quite coincidental: the person who published the review results before him did indeed have their own research, just two days earlier than him.
Then I heard that some people chose to give up becoming mages because they developed feelings for ordinary people in the virtual world, and only wanted to spend the rest of their lives with that ordinary person.
Of course, I've only heard of the latter, I've never seen it.
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