5: What is the White Witch's Path?

Green Anglet's study room was lined with three bookshelves, most of which were still in use.

Half were textbooks for various subjects and borrowed reference books.

The other half were all the notes Green Anglet had taken over the past nine years.

Looking at the hundreds of books and notes, Green Anglet couldn't help but smile wryly.

"The wizard's path..."

"It's not just about learning and comprehending how to cast wizardry; there are difficulties in that aspect."

"The wizard's path, what's even more difficult is—the usual study and accumulation, as well as the research and analysis of knowledge."

Green Anglet silently analyzed the profession of a wizard:

"This requires wizards to consistently learn and research, and White Wizards have even higher demands in this area."

"And my Golden Finger isn't a chip."

"A Golden Finger like a chip, which can store data, assist the host in research, and perform data analysis, is very suitable for wizards, this kind of knowledge-research-oriented transcendent profession."

"However, having it is better than not having it, and besides, a Golden Finger also needs to be developed."

Green Anglet encouraged himself:

"Maybe my soul talent—Hundredfold Harvest—still holds a surprise."

...After organizing his studies, Green Anglet started to get a headache about making money.

"Alas..."

As a spellcasting profession, being a wizard is very expensive.

It's common knowledge that mages are lords, and the poor are not worthy of casting spells.

To conduct experiments, experimental materials require magic stones;

To learn advanced knowledge, knowledge requires payment, also magic stones;

To cultivate the Meditation Technique, potions are needed for assistance, and these also require magic stones;

...And Green Anglet, of humble origins, with no relatives or connections, no family elders to support him, and no academy mentors amazed by his talent to give him special attention.

In this vast Wizard Academy, Green Anglet was currently just an ordinary Low-level Wizard Apprentice.

If he wanted to make money, he could only rely on himself... At Plant Heart Wizard Academy.

Every Wizard Apprentice from an ordinary background must have a side profession to support their cultivation; this side profession is the job opportunity provided by the academy to help them earn money and sustain themselves.

(Just a chosen worker... someone complained:)

The lowest barrier to entry was Magical Plant Cultivator.

The area covered by the Wizard Array protecting the Wizard Tower was extremely vast, and the academy wizards had cultivated tens of thousands of acres of Demonized Plants cultivation fields within it.

The output of low-level, intermediate, and a small amount of advanced Demonized Plantss accounted for nearly 40% of the entire Wizard Academy's income.

Therefore, one could become a Magical Plant Cultivator by passing several courses on cultivating Demonized Plantss and mastering a few low-level Demonized Plants cultivation wizardry spells.

All apprentices who passed the second Five-Year Grand Examination would be awarded the title of Junior Magical Plant Cultivator, and their monthly salary would increase from the current one magic stone per month for odd jobs in the fields to four magic stones or more per month.

"Low barrier, naturally less pay."

This was Green Anglet's assessment... To earn more, one had to choose a more difficult profession.

Apothecary.

Requires learning the properties and fusion changes of common magic potions, the processing of semi-finished magic potion materials, the four basic characteristics of magical properties, and other knowledge related to Pharmacology.

As well as two related 0-ring Intermediate Wizardry spells for refining magic potions—Junior Magic Perception and Junior Magic Essence Wizardry.

Therefore, Apothecaries start as Intermediate Wizard Apprentices, unlike Intermediate Magical Plant Cultivators, where even Low-level Wizard Apprentices can pass the exam.

"This is a profession with a moderate barrier and great prospects. After all, the 'potion-chugging' style is not uncommon in any world," Green Anglet commented... Magic Item Crafter.

Requires learning the basic properties and processing methods of 300 types of Demonized Plantss and 200 types of ores, the four basic characteristics of magical properties, the construction and enchantment of basic Wizard Arrays, and other knowledge related to magic item crafting.

Similarly requires learning two related 0-ring Intermediate Wizardry spells.

This is also a profession that only Intermediate Wizard Apprentices can enter.

"This is a profession with a moderate barrier and decent prospects. Tools and equipment are always in high demand everywhere," Green Anglet commented... Wizard Array Master, this profession has the highest requirements.

To outline a complete basic Hexagram Wizard Array, sufficient Spiritual Power is required for research, making it a profession that only Advanced Wizard Apprentices can begin to learn.

"This is a profession with an extremely high barrier, purely dependent on talent. Think of advanced mathematics, think of geometric calculus, and you'll understand," Green Anglet commented... Green Anglet estimated his wealth and knowledge.

He felt that for the third Five-Year Grand Examination, he still needed to play it safe.

He had to pursue both the Magical Plant Cultivator and Apothecary paths simultaneously.

Although this would make Green Anglet's early life very difficult.

But there was no other way... A lot of knowledge in Pharmacology required payment.

This was the same in any Wizard Academy.

Therefore.

Green Anglet had to first go farming and do odd jobs to afford the fees for his Pharmacology studies.

Green Anglet encouraged himself:

"It's decided."

"Green Anglet, you can do it!"

"Brave bull, unafraid of difficulties."

"Charge!"

...Green Anglet carefully recalled and organized his current situation.

Based on the real situation, he sorted out and drafted a short-term study plan...

Green Anglet knew very well that to achieve some results, he couldn't do without a comprehensive study plan and good study habits.

Green Anglet had been in the academy for nine years and four months, and there were eight months left until the end of the second Five-Year Assessment.

Green Anglet had to redouble his efforts... Back on Blue Star, Green Anglet had met a girl who was very persistent in her studies.

She was Green Anglet's high school classmate, her grades weren't particularly good, but she was the most diligent student in the class.

In class, she was always the first to arrive and the last to leave the classroom.

She always wore a pair of thick, black-rimmed glasses, and her long bangs covered her eyebrows and eyes.

Perhaps due to a genuine lack of talent, despite her hard work, she only got into a junior college in the end.

However, at the ten-year graduation reunion, she had become the most educated person in the class.

It turned out that even after going to university, she maintained her study habits from high school.

She studied for more than ten hours every day, come rain or shine, without fail.

So, she later successfully transferred to a bachelor's program.

She then got into a top ten national university for her master's degree, and after graduating with her master's, she was directly admitted to the same university for her Ph.D.

Now she stayed on as a university lecturer, still wearing a pair of thick, black-rimmed glasses, but no one dared to underestimate those glasses anymore...

Green Anglet believed in a saying:

"Success is ninety-nine percent perspiration plus one percent talent."

"Now that I have the powerful talent of Hundredfold Harvest, all that's left is hard work."