Chapter 223 Knowledge and David's Return
The leap in life level brought about by being promoted to a second-level wizard, the feeling of controlling power is so wonderful.
So much so that Benjamin couldn't help but want to spend more time to familiarize himself with and develop his new abilities.
Unfortunately, after the promotion, Benjamin didn't even have time to savor the new power brought by the second-level wizard. Under the urging of the contract, he quickly devoted himself to learning new knowledge.
Although he actually still had many things he wanted to arrange and configure, such as further optimizing his four core witchcrafts, or quickly dealing with the various spoils brought from the Flame Frost Plane.
But at the beginning, in order to purchase the disposable magical weapon that could use space jumps, he signed a heavy contract with Master Alvin of the Tower of Annihilation.
Strictly speaking, he was the one who owed Master Alvin a huge debt.
As one of the debts, the contract they signed stipulated that after being promoted to a second-level wizard, Benjamin must give priority to learning the designated knowledge provided by the other party.
Moreover, it is necessary to integrate this knowledge as quickly as possible, then optimize it and integrate it into one's own unique "Eye of All Uses" witchcraft model.
Afterwards, he needed to provide this new optimized "Eye of All Uses" witchcraft model in its entirety to Master Alvin.
By then, the debt between them was only half settled.
As for the remaining half... that will have to wait until he is promoted to a third-level wizard in the future.
The binding force of a contract acts directly on the soul.
After feeling the restraint from his soul, Jemin did not dare to delay. He immediately contacted Master Alvin who was still conducting research in the Flame Frost Plane through the magic network terminal.
The other party seemed to have anticipated that Jieming would contact him at this time.
Almost at the moment the communication was connected, an unimaginably large torrent of data was poured directly into Jemin's laboratory terminal through the encrypted channel.
The other party sent Benjamin a large amount of various information, like mountains and seas.
After just a cursory glance at the catalog, Benjamin felt a dull pain in his head.
All of this information contains extremely advanced knowledge about "space gaps"!
Its content should mainly talk about the cognition and application of certain special spatial characteristics.
You should know that generally only third-level wizards will begin to formally come into contact with and study space-related knowledge.
It is not impossible for a second-level wizard to get in touch with it in advance, but due to the limitations of life level and cognitive ability, he basically cannot use it even if he learns it.
Moreover, the difficulty of learning is extremely exaggerated, which is tantamount to asking an elementary school student who has just learned arithmetic to directly study calculus.
Benjamin made a rough estimate that it would take a long time to learn all the knowledge and truly master it instead of just memorizing it by rote.
He estimated that he would have to study non-stop for at least one or two hundred years!
Fortunately, after being promoted to a second-level wizard, not only is there a huge difference in strength, but the wizard's lifespan is also greatly enhanced with the leap in life level.
As lifespans increase and time passes, wizards' "concept of time" will gradually undergo fundamental changes.
Just like when you are a first-level wizard, the theoretical lifespan of a wizard is between one thousand and one thousand five hundred years.
Therefore, some wizards who live longer will subtly develop a sense of time that is about 10 times longer than that of ordinary people.
This is just like when Benjamin participated in the war in the Flame Frost Plane, but because of an accident, he served for more than fifty years at a time.
For ordinary people, this period of time is almost half of their life.
But according to the time concept of a first-level wizard, converted into the feeling of an ordinary person, it would be something like this: he originally planned to be on a business trip for more than a year, but something unexpected happened, and he was on a business trip for five years at once.
Although it is exaggerated, it is still within an acceptable range.
When it comes to the second-level wizard, the increase in lifespan is not as exaggerated as when the first-level wizard is promoted.
But for a healthy second-level wizard, living for four to five thousand years is not a problem at all.
Therefore, for a second-level wizard, it is not unacceptable to spend more than a hundred years to learn a very important piece of knowledge.
Even for many wizards, this is the norm.
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"Space-related knowledge is indeed notoriously difficult to learn..."
Only when Benjamin really started to learn did he deeply understand this.
After actually getting started, even with his highly active brain and soul after his promotion, Benjamin still felt overwhelmed when faced with those distorted, abstract spatial theories that completely violated conventional physical cognition.
It's not just the concepts that are difficult to understand; simply learning and understanding the various data can cause considerable pressure.
However, this extreme pressure is not without benefits.
During the learning process, Jieming discovered that under such high mental pressure, the "body-building method" he practiced, which was adapted from the world of immortal cultivation, was actually undergoing some strange evolution on its own!
It seems to be adjusting the structure of its body and soul, actively adapting to the external pressure that comes from its soul and spirit.
The specific manifestation is that his brain activity becomes higher and higher under this high-pressure learning!
And my understanding of some abstract concepts is becoming smoother and smoother.
When he was learning these spatial knowledge, he went from struggling at the beginning to becoming faster and smoother!
Those theories that were originally obscure and difficult to understand seemed to become clear.
Jie Ming couldn't help but feel a little shocked by this.
He hadn't expected that the physical cultivation methods in the world of immortal cultivation could adapt to this kind of "mental pressure" derived from knowledge learning and carry out targeted self-evolution!
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More than ten years passed after Benjamin was completely immersed in the ocean of knowledge and became oblivious to what was happening outside.
On this day, when he was in the laboratory, struggling to analyze a complex model of "space curvature folding", the magic network terminal on his wrist suddenly made a slight sound, indicating that he had received a new message.
Jermyn temporarily pulled himself away from the ocean of knowledge and glanced at the source of the information.
It's David.
He returned from the front.
Jermyn was quite impressed by David.
This level ten genius from the Norn Workshop seemed to have received considerable stimulation after the trials in the Eloshia plane.
I heard that after arranging all the work after the trial, this guy plunged into his own laboratory and devoted himself to research for more than 30 years.
Thoroughly digest all the gains from the trial.
Then, he went to the plane battlefield with full confidence to participate in military service.
David's luck was obviously much better than Benjamin's, and he didn't encounter any accidents like the living plane.
He was assigned to a relatively stable plane, and lived there peacefully for more than 30 years in another strange world. He returned after successfully completing the military service contract required by the academy.
The reason why he contacted Jieming as soon as possible was because he saw the message that Jieming sent him after he came back.
After all, the reason why Benjamin accepted that group of remnants from the Elosia plane was because he was entrusted by him.
Although the two have not met many times, they are considered acquaintances.
They exchanged information with each other through the magic network terminal.
Benjamin briefly talked about the transformation of the survivors in his territory, and told him that Nolen College had taken over and everything was going well.
Afterwards, the two briefly exchanged their experiences in the plane war.
At the end of the conversation, David also revealed to Jermyn the real purpose of his return.
"Speaking of which, the reason I came back this time was because I felt the 'opportunity' to be promoted to a second-level wizard on the battlefield. That's why I finished the mission early and came back to prepare for the breakthrough." There was a hint of excitement and anticipation in David's tone that was hard to conceal.
"Really? That's really good news." Upon hearing this, Benjamin was sincerely happy for him.
"Congratulations in advance, David."
Don’t be fooled by the fact that when you were at Norn College, the promotional materials seemed to be always filled with legends of lucky people like “Senior So-and-so was promoted to a third-level wizard in five years after participating in the plane war” or even “promoted to a fifth-level wizard in ten years”.
But in fact, he is a very small minority among the very small minority, and he is the "child of destiny" who can only be born once among the tens of billions of wizards.
Moreover, most of those who are promoted so quickly are combat wizards.
Benjamin remembered very clearly that when he first entered the school, most of the seniors in the logistics department who had already participated in a round of plane wars were still first-level wizards.
Many of them are still at the stage of third-level wizard apprentices and are not even official wizards.
This is also the essential difference between logistics wizards and combat wizards.
According to general statistics, the promotion speed of logistics wizards in the early stages is mostly average.
What matters is the steady work and the accumulation of experience.
The promotion speed of combat wizards, on the other hand, shows a serious polarization.
If you are lucky, you can find some rare materials on the plane battlefield, or find some important information and receive official rewards.
It is not impossible to reach the top in one step.
Those who are unlucky may not be able to be promoted to a second-level wizard for hundreds of years due to injuries or lack of resources.
Of course, judging from the overall statistics released by the college, the number of promotions on both sides seems to be 50-50.
Sometimes, there are even more combat wizards who are promoted faster.
But both Benjamin and David knew the cruel truth behind the data: only those with good luck could come back alive from the bloody battlefield!
Those who were unlucky have already died.
(My supervisor has forced me to do hard labor, so I’m asking for leave in advance. I’ll take a day off tomorrow.)
(End of this chapter)
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