Chapter 787: The First Plenary Meeting of the Progress Society

Tilake heard this, and his eyes immediately became eager; almost without any hesitation, he said immediately, "We will certainly not abandon tradition!"

In fact, the Progress Society had already begun discussing the necessity of the 【Ascension Trial】 internally; it clearly lengthened the time for advancement, and if not for these words from Xia Duo today, he himself might have secretly chosen other ways to advance.

But now, Tilake only wanted to say that other methods could go see the undead; he would only choose the 【Ascension Trial】. Compared to the slight delay in advancement time brought by the 【Ascension Trial】, he was more willing to see the hope of being able to become an Arcanist.

At this moment, everyone in the conference room had also heard the conversation between Xia Duo and Tilake, their expressions varied, but the only common point was that they had more hope for the future.

Before long, the members of the Progress Society arrived one after another.

This included Dien and others who had previously been temporarily transferred to the Horst Research Lab to help with the mass production design, Jianaer who had just met with Xia Duo, and Dewan who had long been immersed in the Plane Exploration Layer for Astral Mage training.

Even several Teachers whom Xia Duo had just seen in the Apprentice classroom had arrived here, such as Jibusen, Halun, Kelin, and other New Mages.

They were also members of the Progress Society.

As of now, Xia Duo had incorporated all the New Mages of the Tower of Time into the Academic Affairs Office; on one hand, it was to give them an opportunity to identify gaps and perfect their foundations during the teaching process.

On the other hand, this was actually also a talent reserve mechanism.

Currently, the Tower of Time could only provide jobs in the Academic Affairs Office and the Magic Technician Office for New Mages. Xia Duo was somewhat reluctant to let this batch of newly grown Mages become Magic Technicians, so they could only be Teachers first.

Of course, perhaps before they became Official Mages, they would already be people of the Academic Affairs Office.

Just waiting for them to grow further, the outstanding ones among them might establish their own research labs like Tilake, or continue teaching tasks, and of course, it was also possible they would go to be Magic Technicians.

Regarding the study classes for low-rank Mages and the advanced study classes for Intermediate Mages, Xia Duo treated them all equally; no matter which department they belonged to or what work they did, they could participate.

They all possessed a bright future.

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As more and more people gathered in this large conference room, besides some Official Mages Xia Duo was already familiar with, there were also many new faces Xia Duo did not recognize well.

The members of the Progress Society were roughly divided into three levels—

Formal Member, must be an Official Mage;

Probationary Member, must be a Level 3 Apprentice, that is, a quasi-Mage who had completed all Apprentice Courses and only lacked passing the 【Ascension Trial】 to advance; Associate Member, must be an Apprentice who agreed with the philosophy of the Progress Society, had passed an assessment, and also possessed a certain amount of potential.

As for those Apprentices who were actively leaning toward the Progress Society, strictly speaking, they were not considered members of the Progress Society, and Xia Duo had not called them this time.

It was not a bad thing that quite a few new faces came this time; Xia Duo knew this meant his team was growing, and at the same time, with Dien introducing them to him, he was not worried about recognizing the wrong person.

In fact, with his current memory ability, as long as he knew a name and appearance once, he would not forget it again in the future.

"This is Ta Yi, who recently became a Probationary Member; his talent is good, perhaps soon we will have another companion!"

"This is Pierre, who also recently became a Probationary Member; his talent is good."

Besides the two new Probationary Members, Dien also introduced some of the outstanding ones among the Associate Members of the Progress Society to Xia Duo.

As for some slightly ordinary Associate Members, only a name appeared; not everyone had the opportunity to receive commentary from Dien.

Looking at the trace of dignity revealed between Dien's introductions and comments, Xia Duo could not help but feel a bit dazed; two years ago, Dien was also just an Apprentice, and at that time, he perhaps did not even have the qualifications to be commented on by others.

Everything was different now! Xia Duo had many thoughts about this, but he did not show a bit on his face, nodding and greeting the members; before long, all 47 members of the Progress Society had arrived.

Among them, there were 11 Formal Members, that is, Official Mages.

Of course, among these 11 people, except for Xia Duo, all the others were low-rank Mages, and this also included the three people who had just become Official Mages not long ago: Jibusen, Halun, and Kelin.

There were 6 Probationary Members; there were 7 before, but after Jibusen and the other two became Official Mages, they were promoted to Formal Members, and later only Ta Yi and Pierre were added, so now there were only six.

There were 30 Associate Members; it was not that there could not be more, but Xia Duo had restricted the unlimited expansion of the Progress Society.

Not to mention the scale of nearly a thousand Apprentices in the Tower of Time today, even in the past, there were more than 300 Apprentices; if one picked casually, it would not be the case that there were only 30 people.

In fact, there were many Apprentices actively leaning toward the Progress Society who fully met the conditions for Associate Members, but more people were not necessarily a good thing.

Sometimes setting a threshold instead made people flock to it, thereby affecting the overall ethos and atmosphere of the Tower of Time.

However, Xia Duo was already considering slightly expanding the personnel restrictions of the Progress Society, and he was going to talk about this matter this time.

After all, with nearly a thousand Apprentices receiving academy-style training, there would always be some who stood out; under the effect of a large base, the number would definitely not be small.

If these people were not members of the Progress Society, then what face did the Progress Society have to claim to represent the three advanced things!

It was just that the Progress Society had its own regulations; any member must advance level by level, and except for special circumstances, they were not allowed to skip levels. It would not be good when Level 3 Apprentices appeared among those New Apprentices; at that time, should he let them become Associate Members? Or directly become Probationary Members?

Or wait until they became Official Mages, then let them directly become Formal Members?

Then they would be unable to receive the Baptism of the complete organizational philosophy, which would be somewhat of a pity!

Therefore, it was necessary to gather them in advance, and while they were still in a weak state, embed the organizational philosophy deep into their hearts; only by constantly strengthening it in the future would there be a possibility that they would still identify with it after they became strong.

As for how to strengthen it, Xia Duo did not need to worry too much; the organization naturally had the function of assimilating members. Those who accepted assimilation would naturally feel like a fish in water, and those who did not accept it would only feel rejection, and leaving would be a matter of time.

So-called purification did not require the Controller to do it deliberately.

Of course, the premise of all this was that this organization possessed a relatively complete philosophy, or program, and a system to maintain the normal operation of the organization.

This was the system.

To use the words of the Magic world, it was that the Order Force had already formed, so it was destined to grow sturdily! Xia Duo was temporarily unable to glimpse that so-called Order Force from the operation of the system, but he still knew the power of the system, and had deep personal experience.

(End of this chapter)