Chapter 5

Mentor Jack's words flashed through Jie Ming's mind like a lightning bolt, instantly lighting up the cruel truth hidden under the academy's promotional offensive.

In just five years, only 153 people survived out of over five thousand.

These who died were not ordinary cannon fodder, but proper wizards who had undergone ten years of professional training!

Those shiny returning people were the "survivors" who were the very few who survived and successfully promoted among the millions of cannon fodder.

The academy displayed them to attract more young people who had not experienced the world to follow one after another and become new cannon fodder.

A chill that went deep into the bone marrow struck instantly!

This wizarding world was far more cruel and realistic than he imagined.

The wizard academy was not a pure academic hall, but a culture dish and conveyor belt for a huge war machine.

They were in urgent need of "fuel," and new apprentices were the fuel most easily ignited.

The thirty-year contract was not just a shackle; in the face of such a high death rate, such a long contract also meant the academy's implicit recognition and expectation of the survival ability of Logistics Department wizards.

But even so, the death rate of Logistics Department wizards was close to half...

As for the combat department... the length of the contract had already indicated the tragedy of the casualties; wizards were not philanthropists, but even they thought that as long as a combat wizard survived on the front line for more than 5 years, they could break even.

Such a terrifying death rate, such a tragic war situation...

"Aren't you afraid?" Jie Ming asked subconsciously.

His quota for freshman questions had been used up, but the wizards didn't ignore him.

Hearing Jie Ming's question, they looked at each other, and after a moment of silence, they laughed loudly.

"Hahahaha!!! How could we not be afraid? Perhaps there are people in this world who are not afraid of death, but they are destined to be a minority!" The potion wizard laughed and touched Jie Ming's head.

Jie Ming's gaze became more puzzled, and Mentor Jack understood his gaze, lowered his head and smiled: "Don't understand why?"

"Yes."

"We are indeed afraid of death, but besides death, there are things more worth pursuing that are urging us on!"

"What?"

"Do you know? The multiverse is very vast, so vast that even if a plane is destroyed, it is just an inconspicuous starlight. On the other hand, this means near-infinite possibilities."

As he spoke, Jack pointed to the combat department's promotion stage, where Mars, the Tier 3 wizard standing at the very front of all wizards, was signing for an apprentice at this time.

"See him? Mars is only a level three talent, theoretically he could never become an official wizard in his life, but look at him now..."

"Knowledge, power, lifespan, status, glory, wealth... any desire can be realized in the endless planes, and what you have to do is 'merely' to survive on the battlefield."

"On the road to chasing your own desires and ideals, no matter how high the death rate is, it is just a 'necessary cost'!"

Hearing these words, Jie Ming's heart sank.

A necessary cost?

Behind the understated words was unimaginable bloodshed.

The noise and incitement in the square instantly became harsh and full of murderous intent in Jie Ming's ears; those young faces longing for glory and power seemed to have already seen their ending of falling on the alien battlefield in his eyes.

"What a... cruel world..." he whispered to himself.

"But it is also a world full of hope, isn't it?"

Seeing that Jie Ming's mood was a bit low, Jack smiled meaningfully:

"Of course, the death rate of the Logistics Department is actually not high; after all, the Logistics Department is the orthodox of Nuolun..."

"What do you mean?" Jie Ming was stunned.

"There is no need to hide this from you; anyway, you will discover the problem when you sign the contract later." Jack raised his head and looked around.

"The plane we are in now is called Plane Nuolun 13, and the so-called Nuolun Academy is actually just a basic talent training base that provides fresh blood for a certain wizard organization, so when you sign the contract, you are not signing a contract with Nuolun Academy, but signing a contract with the wizard organization behind it."

"As for the name of that wizard organization..." Mentor Jack elongated his tone, "It's called Nuolun Workshop."

Jie Ming's eyelids jumped; the information exploded in the other party's words was a bit much.

Not to mention the exaggerated thing that a wizard organization actually had multiple planes as reserve talent bases, even the name was unexpected.

Since it was named "Workshop," it meant that this wizard organization was at least famous for "manufacturing" at the beginning.

Looking at it this way, it was no problem for Jack to say that the Logistics Department was the orthodox.

However...

"If the Logistics Department is the orthodox, why use this method?" Jie Ming looked at the scene around him in confusion.

Compared with the crowded situation of the combat department, the current area of the Logistics Department could be called deserted.

"Doing this... will definitely miss many geniuses with good qualifications, right?"

Not to mention the real welfare gap, even if someone really saw the danger in it, those who were young and had outstanding talent must have extreme self-confidence that they were the protagonists of the world; these people basically couldn't possibly choose the Logistics Department.

"Because... this was originally a trial aimed at 'wisdom'."

Speaking of this, not only Jack, but the wizards around also showed smug expressions:

"Talented people do cultivate faster, but for wizards, the most important trait is 'wisdom'."

"Talent can be changed, only wisdom is innate, not to mention that now we can go to other planes, and talent is not worth mentioning under endless opportunities. However, unlike talent, wisdom has no clear external manifestation, so the academy thought of such a method."

"The academy actually left many flaws; as long as you see through the problems behind this promotion, it means you have the ability to think independently without being affected by the surrounding environment, sufficiently sharp insight, and... sufficient self-knowledge. To become a wizard, these abilities are essential."

A wizard on the side couldn't help but tease: "I heard that when wizards hadn't left the source plane, in order to screen for wise people, they would deliberately let apprentices go to the academy's location by big ship, and arrange various enemies on the way to test them."

"However, such a test method has too much loss, and the intensity of damage is not easy to control, plus now it is in a period of great development, and all kinds of places are short of manpower, so it can only be changed to this relatively gentle way."

Without bothering about the discussion of those guys behind, Jack reached out and canceled the illusion barrier, waving his hand at Jie Ming: "Alright, the Q&A time ends here, next it depends on your own decision."