Chapter 31: Power

Jie Ming looked at the material list constantly refreshing on the Magic Net, from the most common copper and iron, to rare elemental crystals, to ore samples from unknown star regions...

Although his credits were unmatched, he wanted to buy all these "ordinary materials" and study them one by one?

Almost impossible!

There are too many types of materials!

And this is just ordinary materials!

Above that, there are "supernatural materials" that contain peculiar energy, laws, or concepts!

Those are the keys to refining powerful magic tools and potions!

The credits he earned now are just a drop in the ocean compared to the vast material inventory of the entire wizard civilization.

Not to mention buying supernatural materials, even if he wanted to collect samples of all ordinary materials, his credits would be evaporated quickly under a series of costs such as purchasing, transportation, and storage.

"It seems... I can only... take it slowly..."

Jie Ming sat in his mid-tier laboratory, looking at the material list on the Magic Net, and couldn't help but sigh.

That excitement brought by earning a large amount of credits at once was diluted a lot by the vastness and complexity of the material system.

His road to "becoming stronger" seemed far longer and more difficult than imagined.

Putting away the idea of wanton purchasing, Jie Ming only symbolically purchased a few special material samples that looked like they had corresponding concepts in the Cultivation system, intending to start from these first.

After calming his mood, Jie Ming's days returned to calm.

Go to class during the day, and learn the basic theories of alchemy, potion studies, and rune studies in the laboratory after class.

At night, he would read various knowledge obtained from the Great Dao Library in the depths of his consciousness while practicing.

Under the filling of massive learning, Jie Ming's life became fulfilling and compact, and even his desire to earn credits became much smaller.

After more than a month, the school replenished fifty cubic meters of gold again, but he didn't buy too much this time, only bought twenty cubic meters to refine into Essence Gold as the foundation of his future artifact refining material library, and didn't continue to sell the rest.

After all, with his current situation, the credits remaining from the last sale of Essence Gold were enough for him to use for a long time.

This day, after finishing the public class on basic alchemy theory, Jie Ming was preparing to return to his laboratory as usual, but Mentor Clark called him to stop.

"Apprentice Jie Ming." Mentor Clark looked at him expressionlessly.

"Mentor, is there anything?" Jie Ming tightened his heart habitually.

Mentor Clark didn't seem to notice Jie Ming's tension. He just asked in that tone without emotion: "What research are you doing recently?"

"Uh... is this caring about me?"

Jie Ming blinked, really unable to get anything from Mentor Clark's expressionless face.

After thinking about it, Jie Ming decided to answer part of it truthfully: "I am trying to familiarize myself with the properties of various materials."

After listening, Clark looked at him inexplicably.

However, he didn't say much, just simply ordered: "Go back and check the mission area on the Magic Net."

After speaking, he turned and left, leaving Jie Ming standing there, full of doubts.

"This... was that expression just now expressing satisfaction with me?" Jie Ming was a bit uncertain, after all, the expression fluctuation of this mentor was really too inconspicuous.

Occasionally Jie Ming would envy his own mentor's face like a paralyzed face, at least in many cases, he wouldn't be discovered for his true psychology.

Carrying the mentor's strange order, and saying hello to the surprised Amy, Jie Ming returned to the mid-tier laboratory.

He opened the Magic Net terminal of the laboratory, connected to the academy's internal Magic Net, and entered the mission area.

Pulling to the bulletin board, he browsed casually.

Those familiar low-tier missions were still there, but a new announcement at the very top instantly caught his line of sight:

【Workshop Emergency Project Announcement: Material Sorting Project for Bottom Storage Room Started!】

【Description: The wizard civilization has conquered countless planes and accumulated a massive amount of old-era or foreign-plane material samples that have not been processed in time in the bottom storage room. These samples are numerous in variety and complex in characteristics, and urgently need manpower to carry out preliminary cataloging, cleaning, and basic characteristic analysis. Now recruiting volunteer apprentices with certain material science foundations and willingness to contribute to participate in this project.】

【Mission cycle: Long-term effective.】

【Credit reward: Medium (calculated based on workload and results).】

【Special note: Participants have the opportunity to contact a large number of unclassified rare material samples. This is an excellent opportunity to improve material science knowledge and expand horizons.】

【Application method: Submit application to the mission office.】

Jie Ming looked at the content on the announcement, and his eyes lit up instantly.

This was exactly what he needed most at this moment!

An opportunity to legally contact a massive amount of materials of different types and have the opportunity to conduct preliminary research!

And such a mission was actually placed there without anyone taking it. If there was no trick in it, Jie Ming would eat this table on the spot!

This is simply sending a pillow when sleepy, and it is the top-tier down pillow!

Privileges are really disgusting!

What? The object of the privilege is himself?

Then it's fine.

Without any hesitation, Jie Ming immediately clicked the "Sign up" option on the Magic Net terminal and submitted his apprentice number.

Submission successful.

He looked at the mission announcement board again, wanting to see the details of that announcement carefully.

However, the moment he blinked, the announcement that was just at the very top disappeared silently, as if it had never appeared.

Jie Ming was stunned for a moment, and then reacted.

"666, not even acting anymore, right!"

Mentor Clark's inexplicable look turned out to mean this...

Jie Ming sat on the chair, looking at the empty mission area announcement board, and a strong sense of gratitude and emotion surged in his heart.

Only then did he truly recognize the convenience brought by the second-level cultivation agreement.

It is not just the improvement of credits and permissions, but also the support of "information" and "opportunities" provided by high-tier wizards in the dark!

It can be said that this agreement helped Jie Ming open many secret channels that ordinary apprentices didn't even know existed.

On the other side, Clark stayed in his laboratory, nodded with satisfaction looking at the mission taken away on the terminal interface, and then closed the mission's acceptance with his authority.

In this world where knowledge is power, no one dares to monitor a wizard's laboratory, after all, that is a hatred even more irreconcilable than killing the whole family.

But just collecting some irrelevant information doesn't necessarily have to be so troublesome, for example... one can guess quite a lot from the other party's recent purchase list. ===== CHAPTER 32 =====