Chapter 224 Paying Debts
After David finished chatting, he ended the call in a hurry without even having time to say goodbye.
From the anxiety and urgency that he showed even though he tried hard to hide it, Benjamin guessed that this guy probably had a lot of debts that he couldn't pay off.
After hanging up the phone, Benjamin couldn't help but laugh.
He had discovered that in wizard civilization, if you didn't have debts of at least a hundred years, you would be embarrassed to tell others that you were a "genius."
Actually, this is understandable.
After all, for a group like wizards who are extremely rational and believe in equal exchange, the so-called "investment" is never free.
Only when they confirm that you have further potential and can bring them sufficient returns, will those high-level wizards or large organizations be willing to invest in you.
It can be said that in wizard civilization, the amount of debt a wizard carries, to some extent, also represents the outside world's recognition of your potential.
Those wizards who truly have potential often carry a huge amount of debt.
After saying goodbye to David, Benjamin once again immersed himself in learning the vast amount of space knowledge.
He estimated that he would not be able to chat with David in the short term.
Since the other party has decided to retreat and advance to the second-level wizard, there will be no response in the next ten years or even decades.
The reason why Benjamin was able to successfully advance to a second-level wizard in just a few months was that he had already spent the long fifty years in the Flame Frost Plane to complete most of the prerequisites for promotion.
The most important and time-consuming step for a first-level wizard to be promoted to a second-level wizard is to thoroughly and systematically "re-organize" and integrate all the knowledge he has learned since his apprenticeship.
This means that depending on the amount of knowledge each wizard has, the time required to advance from level one to level two will be completely different.
Wizards in the logistics department usually acquire a vast and complex amount of knowledge, so the amount of information they need to sort out and integrate when they are promoted is astronomical.
This results in their general promotion being very slow, with the time spent being calculated in years, and there is no way for them to be promoted in the ever-changing battlefield.
The opposite is true for combat wizards.
Most of the knowledge they learned focused on fighting and killing, and the system was relatively simple and pure.
When getting promoted, they usually only need to sort out their work for a few days and re-optimize their combat system to quickly complete the promotion.
Therefore, on the battlefield, combat wizards are often promoted at an astonishing speed.
Basically, as long as you are lucky enough to obtain enough resources and seize an opportunity for combat insights, you can be promoted on the spot.
However, the promotion speed of logistics wizards is much slower.
Of course, an increase in level does not necessarily mean an increase in combat effectiveness.
What really affects a wizard's power is the amount of knowledge he possesses and the depth of his understanding of that knowledge.
The wizard's level mainly increases the upper limit of power that the wizard can contain and release, but it does not mean that you can really fully utilize this upper limit.
Many top-tier sixth-level wizards have accumulated enough resources and wealth to produce hundreds of "quickly-made" sixth-level wizards in a short period of time using pure resources.
But the sixth-level wizards assembled in this way have no actual combat power at all.
Not to mention fighting against the elite alchemical units created by normal level six wizards themselves, such "quickly made" wizards may not even be able to defeat the indigenous gods of the same level who rely on instinct to fight.
Just like Senior Viola.
With the help of a tube of "Soul Sublimation Potion", she was promoted to a level six wizard in one go, and she looked extremely powerful and majestic.
But in fact, apart from the knowledge and application of the law of "pain" that she had already thoroughly studied in advance, her combat effectiveness in other aspects is not comparable to that of a real veteran fifth-level wizard, and she is afraid that she can't even beat an ordinary fourth-level logistics wizard with a solid knowledge reserve.
The reason why Mentor Clark rushed to the Flame Frost Plane was to ask Viola to help him.
In addition to capturing her to pay off the debt and in order to get access to top-level materials such as the "living plane" as soon as possible, it is also to allow Viola to accumulate enough knowledge and experience in the process of helping out.
She could transform her empty realm power into real strength as soon as possible.
In the following time, with the help of the body-building method, Benjamin learned the spatial knowledge much faster than he expected.
In the end, it took him only more than 20 years to completely learn the knowledge that was originally estimated to take at least nearly a hundred years to barely master, and he was able to master it.
After he finished learning, he became more certain of one thing - the spatial knowledge he learned from Master Roland was indeed of no use to him now.
Although he now knew all the manifestations and theoretical contents of the "space gap", with his current mental strength and soul observation ability, he was simply unable to directly observe this microscopic phenomenon existing in the space gap.
If you can't observe, you can't manipulate.
Therefore, at this stage, this advanced knowledge is of no practical use except for allowing him to repay part of the loan.
However, Benjamin was not too disappointed.
He had anticipated this kind of thing.
A wizard's knowledge is progressive. Although the spatial knowledge he has learned is of little use to him now, it will save him a lot of trouble when he is promoted to the third level and involves spatial knowledge.
It never hurts to lay a good foundation in advance.
After a while, after Benjamin confirmed that his "Eye of All Uses" witchcraft model had evolved into a new form with the incorporation of these new knowledge, he quickly contacted Master Roland of the Tower of Nirvana again.
"Oh? Wizard Jemin? Are you done?"
When Master Roland saw the message from Jermyn on the other end of the communication, his tone was filled with undisguised surprise.
In his opinion, it was already a gifted talent for Benjamin to complete this task within a hundred years.
He never expected that it would only take the other party more than 20 years.
And when he received the optimized and upgraded "Eye of All Uses" witchcraft model transmitted by Jeming, loaded it into his own spiritual sea and tried it out briefly, he was even more surprised.
The observation effect was better than he expected!
Jieming not only completed the task, but the quality of his work was beyond imagination!
Roland originally expected that this level of observation ability would only be possible after Benjamin became a third-level wizard.
The changes in witchcraft itself are closely related to the wizard's ability to understand knowledge.
This shows that Benjamin not only learned the knowledge, but his understanding of the spatial knowledge is even deeper than that of some third-level wizards who specialize in this field!
"Incredible... simply incredible!" Master Roland exclaimed sincerely. "Wizard Jeming, you possess unparalleled talent in spatial perception and model building! If... you're willing, you can join my research team after you advance to level three! I promise you'll have access to the best resources and cutting-edge knowledge in space gap research!"
"Well... I still need to see what my instructor arranges..."
Faced with the solemn invitation from a fifth-level wizard, Benjamin smiled awkwardly and politely declined his invitation.
Benjamin also knew that what Wizard Roland said was true, but there was a lot of water in it.
After all, the so-called "space gap" is just a very inconspicuous small branch of space knowledge.
When Wizard Roland said it was the most cutting-edge knowledge, Jeming believed it. After all, this thing was really useless in space knowledge, and its effect could easily be covered and replaced by other space knowledge.
Benjamin estimated that "space gap" was the necessary prerequisite knowledge for certain special witchcrafts in the Tower of Annihilation, which was why it was studied by Wizard Roland.
No matter from which perspective, there is no need for him to study the knowledge of "space gaps" in depth.
After being politely rejected by Benjamin, Master Roland also expressed great regret.
But he was not angry about it, instead his attitude became more enthusiastic.
He seemed determined to establish a good relationship with Benjamin, a "genius" with great potential.
"In that case, I won't force it." Master Roland's tone was filled with a hint of regret, and then he changed the subject, "By the way, Wizard Jeming, to thank you for your excellent work this time, I personally want to give you a small gift. Are you interested in a more effective magical device that can teleport and escape?"
"I can help you build a bridge and let my seventh-level mentor personally make one for you." He threw out a temptation that made Benjamin's heart stop.
"With the might of a seventh-level wizard, the spatial magical weapon he created can ignore most spatial interference or spatial confinement effects! It's definitely the best choice for saving your life!"
As if sensing Benjamin's concerns, Master Roland added, "Of course, you don't have to worry about the price. Even if you can't pay right now, it doesn't matter. You can... continue to borrow money from my mentor!"
When he heard the word "loan", Benjamin immediately understood what this guy was trying to do.
He could only smile awkwardly again and quickly declined the other party's "kindness".
Just kidding, he has to pay back the debt owed to a fifth-level wizard to the third level.
If he owes another debt to a level seven powerful being, he will probably never be able to turn things around in his life.
Master Roland felt a little regretful when he saw this.
Before ending the communication, he still said that if Benjamin's thoughts changed in the future, he could contact him again at any time.
(End of this chapter)
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