Chapter 223

The leap in life level brought by being promoted to a Tier 2 Wizard, that feeling of controlling power is so wonderful.

So much so that Jie Ming couldn't help but want to spend more time to get familiar with and develop the new abilities he had acquired.

Unfortunately, after the promotion ended, Jie Ming didn't even have time to carefully savor the brand-new power brought by the Tier 2 Wizard before he was urged by the contract to invest in the learning of new knowledge as soon as possible.

Although he actually had many things he wanted to arrange and deploy, such as further optimizing his four core spells, or dealing with the various spoils brought from the Flame-Frost Plane as soon as possible.

But back then, in order to purchase the one-time wizard tool that could perform space jumps, he signed a heavy contract with Master Alvin of the Tower of Silence.

Strictly speaking, he owed a huge debt to Master Alvin.

As one of the debts, the contract they signed at that time stipulated that Jie Ming must prioritize learning the designated knowledge provided by the other party after being promoted to a Tier 2 Wizard.

Moreover, he must master these knowledge as soon as possible, then optimize it, and integrate it into his unique "Universal Eye" spell model.

Afterward, he needed to provide this brand-new optimized "Universal Eye" spell model completely to Master Alvin.

By then, the debt between them could be considered to have just barely ended halfway.

As for the other half... that would have to wait until he was promoted to a Tier 3 Wizard in the future.

The binding force of the contract acts directly on the soul.

Jie Ming didn't dare to neglect after feeling the restraint from his soul, and he immediately contacted Master Alvin, who was still researching in the Flame-Frost Plane, through the magic net terminal.

The other party seemed to have expected that Jie Ming would contact him at this time point.

Almost the moment the communication was connected, a torrent of data so huge that it was unimaginable was poured directly into Jie Ming's laboratory terminal through an encrypted channel.

The other party sent Jie Ming a large pile of various materials like mountains and seas.

Jie Ming just flipped through the catalog roughly, and felt his brain start to ache faintly.

These materials were all extremely profound knowledge about "Spatial Gaps"!

Its content mainly tells about a kind of cognition and application of a certain special spatial characteristic.

You must know that under normal circumstances, only Tier 3 wizards will start to formally contact and study spatial knowledge.

It is not impossible for Tier 2 wizards to contact in advance, but because of the limitations of life level and cognitive ability, they basically can't use it even if they learn it.

Moreover, the difficulty of learning is also abnormally exaggerated, no different from letting a primary school student who has just learned arithmetic directly study calculus.

Jie Ming roughly estimated that if he wanted to learn all these knowledge and achieve true mastery, rather than rote memorization.

He estimated that he would have to study for at least one or two hundred years without sleep!

Fortunately, after being promoted to a Tier 2 Wizard, it is not only a world of difference in strength, but the wizard's lifespan has also been significantly enhanced following the leap in life level.

And with the increase of lifespan and the passage of time, wizards will also gradually undergo fundamental changes in their "concept of time."

Just like when he was a Tier 1 Wizard, the theoretical lifespan of a wizard was between one thousand and one thousand five hundred years.

Therefore, for some wizards who live relatively long, in a subtle way, their concept of time will probably be stretched by about 10 times compared to ordinary people.

This is like Jie Ming participating in the Flame-Frost Plane war before, but because of an accident, he served for more than fifty years at once.

This time is almost half a lifetime for mortals.

But according to the conversion of the Tier 1 Wizard's concept of time into the feeling of ordinary people, it is probably—originally intended to go on a business trip for a little over a year, but because of an accident, he went on a business trip for five years at once.

Although it is also exaggerated, it is still within a range that people can accept.

And by the time of Tier 2 Wizard, although the growth range of lifespan is not as exaggerated as when Tier 1 Wizard is promoted.

But a healthy Tier 2 Wizard living for four thousand to five thousand years is completely no problem.

Therefore, for a Tier 2 Wizard, taking more than a hundred years specifically to learn a certain extremely important knowledge is not something that cannot be accepted.

It is even a normal state for many wizards.

"Spatial knowledge is indeed notoriously difficult to learn..."

When Jie Ming really started to learn, he deeply realized this point.

After actually getting started, even if he had a highly activated brain and soul after promotion, when facing those twisted, abstract spatial theories that completely violated conventional physical cognition, Jie Ming still felt his head swell when learning.

It is not only the difficulty of understanding concepts, but also the learning and understanding of various data that can cause quite exaggerated pressure.

However, this extreme pressure is not without benefits.

In the process of learning, Jie Ming discovered that his body was under such high mental pressure, and the "Body Tempering Method" he practiced, which was adapted from the cultivation world, was actually evolving autonomously in a peculiar way!

It seems to be adjusting the structure of the body and soul, actively adapting to this external pressure derived from the soul and spirit.

Its specific manifestation is that his brain activity level is becoming higher and higher under this high-pressure learning!

And the understanding of some abstract concepts is becoming smoother and smoother.

When he was learning this spatial knowledge, he went from being difficult at the beginning to becoming faster and smoother!

Those originally obscure and difficult theories seemed to have become clear.

Jie Ming couldn't help but feel somewhat shocked by this.

He didn't expect that the body-tempering method of the cultivation world could even adapt to this kind of "mental pressure" derived from knowledge learning and carry out targeted self-evolution!

After Jie Ming was completely immersed in the ocean of knowledge and didn't hear anything outside the window, another ten years passed.

On this day, he was in the laboratory, struggling to analyze a complex model about "spatial curvature folding," when the magic net terminal on his wrist suddenly made a light sound, prompting him that he had received a new message.

Jie Ming temporarily withdrew from the ocean of knowledge and glanced at the source of the message.

It was David.

He was back from the front line.

Jie Ming still had a quite deep impression of David.

This ten-level genius from the Plane Nuolun Workshop seemed to have been stimulated quite a bit after the trial of the Eloxia Plane before.

I heard that after the trial ended and all the work was arranged, this guy dived into his laboratory and studied for more than thirty years.

Completely digested all the gains from the trial.

Then, he went to the plane battlefield to participate in military service with full confidence.

David's luck was obviously much better than Jie Ming's, and he didn't encounter any accidents like a living plane.

He was assigned to a relatively stable plane, stayed in another strange world for more than thirty years, and returned after successfully completing the military service contract stipulated by the academy.

The reason why he contacted Jie Ming at the first time was also because he saw the message Jie Ming sent him after he returned.

After all, the reason why Jie Ming accepted that batch of survivors of the Eloxia Plane back then could also be considered as being entrusted by him.

Although the two didn't meet many times, they could be considered acquaintances.

They communicated their recent situations through the magic net terminal.

Jie Ming simply talked about the transformation situation of those survivors in his territory and told him that the Plane Nuolun Academy had taken over and everything was going well.

Afterward, the two simply exchanged the situations they encountered in the plane war.

At the end of the exchange, David also revealed to Jie Ming the true purpose of his return this time.

"Speaking of which, I came back this time because I felt the 'opportunity' to be promoted to a Tier 2 Wizard on the battlefield. So I ended the mission early and came back to prepare for a breakthrough." David's tone carried a hint of irrepressible excitement and expectation.

"Is that so? That's really good news." Hearing this, Jie Ming was also sincerely happy for him.

"Congratulations in advance, David."

Don't look at when he was at Plane Nuolun Academy, it seemed that those promotional materials were always filled with legends of "some senior, after participating in the plane war, was promoted to a Tier 3 Wizard in five years," and even "promoted to a Tier 5 Wizard in ten years" lucky people.

But in fact, that is one of the very few, a "child of destiny" born out of every hundred billion wizards.

Moreover, most of those who are promoted so quickly are combat wizards.

Jie Ming remembered very clearly that when he first enrolled, most of the logistics senior students who had already participated in a round of plane war were still Tier 1 wizards.

Even many of them were still at the stage of Tier 3 wizard apprentices and were not formal wizards at all.

This can also be considered the essential difference between logistics wizards and combat wizards.

Judging from universal statistical data, the promotion speed of logistics wizards in the early stage is generally quite average.

It pays attention to a water-grinding effort, thick accumulation and thin hair.

And the promotion speed of combat wizards presents a serious polarization.

Those with good luck can find some rare materials on the plane battlefield, or find some important information and get official rewards.

It is not impossible to reach the sky in one step.

And those with bad luck might be unable to be promoted to a Tier 2 Wizard for hundreds of years because of injury or lack of resources.

Of course, judging from the overall statistical data released by the academy, the number of promotions on both sides seems to be fifty-fifty.

Sometimes, the number of combat wizards promoted faster is even a little more.

But Jie Ming and David both know the cruel truth behind this data: because only those with good luck can return alive from the bloody plane battlefield!

And those with bad luck have long since died.

(Caught as a coolie by the mentor, ask for leave in advance, ask for leave for one day tomorrow.)

(End of chapter)