36: Chapter 36 Gap

The remuneration of 300 magic stones was already a very generous task for ordinary Wizard Apprentices.

Professor Pulang had already advanced him the remuneration for tending the plantation.

As remuneration for a Wizard Apprentice, it averaged out to 10 magic stones per day.

For some Level 3 Wizard Apprentices taking on ordinary commissions in the Magic Plant Garden, it would take almost a week to reach this level.

Ross's social standing had quietly changed when he became the master-disciple partner of the Official Wizard Old Wizard Pulang.

The gap might not be apparent in the short term.

However, as time stretched on, a huge gap would open up between Ross and ordinary apprentices in terms of magic stone earning speed, mental strength enhancement, and other aspects.

It's just that for now, 300 magic stones were still somewhat insufficient for Ross's spending.

Whether he hoped to continuously invest magic stones into magic plant cultivation or into the research of "mana microorganisms".

It was merely a drop in the bucket.

Taking on the academy commission this time was also out of the hope of finding suitable ores to refine a magic cauldron of decent quality.

That way, he could try to explore the path of potions.

As for magic fields, he already had 5 mu of magic fields allocated to him by Professor Pulang.

If he had any needs, as long as he applied to Professor Pulang, he was afraid he could still apply for some more magic fields.

By then, he would cultivate magic plants with his left hand and refine potions with his right.

This would be very beneficial for Ross to complete the academy's major courses and finish the academy's credits.

Relying on magic plants and potions, whether directly selling them to earn magic stones or enjoying them himself to enhance his strength, they were both non-negligible aids.

Relying on strength to accumulate promotion resources on one hand, coupled with the help of his own "System".

Becoming an Official Wizard was even just around the corner.

After all, an Official Wizard was currently Ross's most urgent goal.

In the Wizard World, only by becoming an Official Wizard could one be considered a master of the Wizard World.

This was an intangible threshold.

No matter how vast the Wizard World was, it was not something an unofficial wizard could explore.

Mortals were directly restricted to death, only able to move and live in the territory where they were born.

Wizard Apprentices, perhaps after failing to break through to become Official Wizards and paying off the academy's loans...

...could go among the mortals to become an imposing lord, noble, or the like, but after a hundred years they would still be a pile of loess.

Only by growing into an Official Wizard would one have the time and power to explore the Wizard World.

And only Official Wizards, when going to a certain territory or locally, could acquire the rights belonging to a master.

Of course there would also be obligations, but compared to the rights and interests obtained by an Official Wizard, they were insignificant.

This was also why, when the Wizard World conquered countless worlds, even though there were many other ways to acquire extraordinary power, many of them were much simpler than becoming a wizard.

Some extraordinary paths might allow one to step into the extraordinary path simply by taking some potions.

Some relied on tempering the physical body to transcend mortality and become a saint.

However, in the Wizard World, wizards were the darlings of the world.

The will of the world only favored wizards.

Even the other path belonging to the "Knight" passed down from the beginning of the world, because it could not compete with the path of the "Wizard"...

...resulted in it now only retaining a development potential of the "Wizard Apprentice" level, even though it was also a part of the world's source power.

Unless combined with the wizard's path, much like paths such as the "Food Wizard".

The power of the "Knight" also had to walk a path similar to a "Knight Wizard" in order to develop by relying on the power of the "Wizard" path.

Otherwise, in the Wizard World, every step would be difficult.

However, becoming an Official Wizard in the Wizard World was not a particularly easy matter; in fact, ninety-nine percent of the intelligent living beings in the Wizard World could not reach this level.

Let alone promoting to Second-Ring, Third-Ring, and other levels of wizards, or even obtaining titles like "Star Wizard", "Silver Moon Wizard", and "Day Sun Wizard".

Every promotion would filter out eliminated ones who were unable to step into a higher realm.

This did not mean that these wizards lacked ambition, nor did it mean that their wisdom or level was limited.

It was just that they had not felt out a suitable path of development on the wizard's road.

Perhaps choosing other paths would be more suitable for these people, but having failed to enter a suitable power system during the foundation-building stage, it became very difficult to change once formed.

No world would spawn countless detached beings.

The more immortal and indestructible conscious existences there were, the more pressure the world had to bear.

If Ross had come to the Wizard World in the barbaric era, the Wizard World was not as powerful back then.

However, the threshold for becoming an Official Wizard would also be lowered quite a bit; in fact, in the barbaric era, mental strength reaching 1000 allowed one to promote to an Official Wizard.

Even when the Wizard World was just born, 100 mental strength could promote one to an Official Wizard.

Unfortunately, what Ross came to was a Wizard World with an extremely high power tier, where the apprentice threshold alone had a requirement of 100 mental strength.

An Official Wizard required even a mental strength of 10,000.

Although the resources of the Wizard World were also richer, how to step into an Official Wizard was still an extremely difficult threshold for the indigenous people here to cross.

The changes in the Wizard World were not rules formulated by anyone, but things that would inevitably happen when the world's origin grew stronger.

It was akin to walking from a primitive society to the steam age, where productivity changed rapidly, and the threshold for wizards thus became much higher.

For those pursuing strength, with the strengthening of the world's origin, both their own lower limit and upper limit had been elevated considerably...

It was just that with these 300 magic stones, one could probably buy less than two Spell Models, but no matter how many methods one had, they still needed mana to support them.

Too many Spell Models were not particularly urgent for Ross at present.

Because learning Spell Models not only required spending a large amount of time to learn some prerequisite knowledge...

...the pressure on mental strength was also very great, and coupled with unfamiliar Spell Models, their application in actual combat might not be ideal.

Rather than that, these 300 magic stones might as well be used to arm oneself.

Buying some equipment, wild first-aid kits, and other more practical things.

After all, the Wizard Apprentice stage had not reached the level of an Official Wizard; not only was one's own mana limited and mental strength pressure heavy...

...and the physical body was also in the mortal stage. Although it would be somewhat strengthened with the nourishment of mana, it was still a weakness that could not be ignored.

This field commission outside the Wizard Academy naturally had no problems before entering Boulder Town, but this time the abnormality happened inside the mine cave.

The situation and environment to be faced there would be much more complex.

Learning one more spell might yield suboptimal results.

If a situation of mana exhaustion occurred, he could not be completely powerless and lack the strength to truss a chicken.

It seemed that he still had to make a trip to Wizard Commercial Street.