Chapter 221 Message and Promotion Requirements
Only after dealing with this matter did Benjamin finally relax.
He leaned back in his comfortable chair and began to look through the magic network terminal in the laboratory, checking the various information accumulated over the past fifty years.
Before, he just glanced through the monitoring records on space stability. Now that he has calmed down, Jieming found that he has a lot of things to deal with.
Just like the message list on the terminal, in addition to the information sent by David about the handover of materials and some research progress, there are also various transaction records at the intersection over the past fifty years.
The most prominent ones were mainly messages from his two friends, Amy and Victor.
The two people's messages were similar, and each left two messages.
The first message was posted about forty years ago.
In terms of content, they said that they had completed the last round of military service and had originally planned to come to meet Jieming and exchange their respective gains.
But unfortunately, because Benjamin was still in the distant Flame Frost Plane, busy with the heavy work of post-war statistics, he was unable to get away.
So, they could only helplessly leave a message, asking Benjamin to come and get together with them after he came back.
The other message came four or five years after the first one.
After waiting for a few years, the two found that there was still no sign of Benjamin returning, so they left another message saying that they had decided to start a new round of military service.
Victor's message was more tactful.
He just told Benjamin that once they completed this new round of military service, they would basically be able to complete the long military service contract they signed with the college when they enrolled.
Only then will they be truly free and can freely choose their future path.
Amy's message was much more direct.
In a tone that left no room for doubt but also carried a hint of expectation, she told Benjamin to "wait for them."
After they return from this military service, the three of them will go to a wider plane battlefield together as free wizards to embark on a real adventure.
Looking at the messages between the two, especially the confidence revealed between the lines of Amy's, Benjamin couldn't help but smile knowingly.
Judging from the tone of the messages, both men seemed to have gained considerable experience during their decades of military service.
I guess his strength and vision have been greatly improved, and he feels that he can catch up with or even surpass himself.
Although Benjamin is also very confident.
After all, in the past fifty years, he had experienced the adventure of the living plane and had studied and learned a great deal of knowledge.
My own progress is probably far beyond their imagination, and I don’t think it will be so easy to catch up with them.
However, it was also a happy blessing for him to see his friend pick himself up and find his way forward on this cruel path of wizardry.
He simply replied to the two with a message, informing them that he had returned and wishing them good luck in their military service.
After replying to some other messages that needed to be replied to, Benjamin also conducted a careful inspection and maintenance upgrade of the Golden Garden's defense system, the energy cycle of the underground laboratory, the arrangement of personnel in the territory, and even the Purgatory Sulfur Plane assigned to him. Finally, Benjamin finished dealing with all the trivial matters in the outside world.
It was more than ten days later that Benjamin returned to the laboratory.
He took a deep breath, calmed his mind completely, and officially began to prepare for his promotion to a second-level wizard.
Of the three core conditions required for the promotion to a second-level wizard, after fifty years of daily meditation and accumulation in the Flame Frost Plane, Benjamin's mental power had already completely filled the "Ring of Truth" and reached the hardware standard for promotion.
As for the larger and more complex knowledge system needed to rebuild the "Ring of Truth", he had also completed the knowledge reserve and was ready through the massive amount of information he had been exposed to over the past fifty years, as well as the study and research in his spare time.
Now, only the last and most crucial step remains - to make your soul and body reach a state of "extreme activity".
This requirement is essentially to lay the foundation for the second-level wizard to be promoted to the third-level wizard in the future.
Because only an extremely active soul and body can more clearly perceive the changes in the ubiquitous "rules" within the plane.
This will prepare you for future rule selection and research.
Of course, on a practical level, an extremely active body and soul can also enable wizards to better perceive and connect with the elemental forces around them.
This will significantly reduce the "threshold" for wizards to manipulate elemental power, making spell casting faster and less consuming.
At the same time, if the wizard chooses a more appropriate system, he can even make his body briefly enter the "elemental" state during the battle.
However, according to the communication between mentors Benjamin and Clark and senior Viola, they do not recommend relying too much on this "elementalization" method during combat.
According to those two, the so-called "elementalization of the body" seems to be immune to most physical damage.
But in fact, if it encounters a physical attack with a large enough equivalent or with special rules, it will still be easily defeated.
Moreover, when facing attacks from elements of the same origin or opposite elements, the elementalized body will become more fragile and suffer double damage.
This ability can only be used to bully weaklings at best.
If you use it rashly when facing an opponent of the same level, you are simply seeking death.
Unfortunately, during the plane war, wizards have to fight against enemies of the same level or even higher level most of the time.
Therefore, Benjamin did not pay too much attention to the so-called "combat advantage".
What he really values is the great help that "extreme activation" can provide in perceiving rules.
However, with the existing technology of wizard civilization, most of the means are unable to maintain the "extreme activation" of the body and soul at a normal level.
The few technologies that can maintain normalcy are ridiculously costly, requiring the consumption of vast quantities of precious resources or extremely dangerous bloodline modifications.
Even with Jieming's wealth, after reading the information, he felt that he could not afford it at all.
Therefore, mainstream wizards came up with a tricky but effective method - before advancing, they would undergo high-intensity "transformation surgery" or take special "magic potions" to put their bodies and souls into a temporary, unstable "activated" state.
Afterwards, the promotion ceremony was immediately carried out.
With the help of the "life sublimation" phenomenon produced by the leap of life levels during promotion, this temporary state can be stabilized permanently!
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(End of this chapter)
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