[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-wizard-unlimited-profession-slots":3,"chapter-wizard-unlimited-profession-slots-wizard-unlimited-profession-slots-chapter-708":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Wizard: Unlimited Profession Slots",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},226832,494,"Chapter 708 - 331: Wildfire Spreading (Part 2)","wizard-unlimited-profession-slots-chapter-708",708,"\u003Cp>The young apprentices’ eyes began to glow, mixing greed, fear, and a morbid excitement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Ron stepped onto the street, the noisy discussions abruptly ceased.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone’s gaze turned to him, but no one dared to look him in the eye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The apprentices dispersed like frightened little animals, but he could feel countless gazes following him from behind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s Lecturer Ralph...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The temporary deputy of the New Star Plan...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I heard Cassandra Tower Master hosted a private dinner for him personally...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whenever he looked back, everyone would quickly lower their heads, pretending to be engrossed in watching the display board.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This strange atmosphere reminded Ron of scenes in certain animal documentaries.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the top predator appears, other animals instinctively keep their distance, neither daring to provoke nor ignore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A few Official Wizards maintained a veneer of calm, but the complex emotions in their eyes were perfectly clear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Awe, jealousy, curiosity, and a subtle fear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not fear of Ron himself, but of the Conquest Faction and Cassandra behind him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the way to the library, Ron observed more disturbing changes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wizards who were once focused on pure academic research now lingered by the street’s information boards, inquiring about the conditions and requirements to join the conquest teams.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The once deserted specialty bookstores of \"Otherworld Geography\" and \"War Magic\" now had long lines outside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ron even saw several normally gentle theoretical researchers fiercely discussing various plundering techniques and enslavement methods.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I heard the ’Spirit Shackles’ Magic can completely control the minds of alien races...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But that kind of magic... might contaminate the controlled person’s personality...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It doesn’t matter, who cares about those alien races, as long as it doesn’t rebound on oneself.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These conversations reminded Ron of those colonizers and slave traders in Earth’s history.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under the temptation of enormous profits, the boundary between civilization and morality became blurred, revealing the darkest sides of humanity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More worrying was that some young apprentices started organizing small groups to discuss how to participate in the conquest plans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although their current strength was far from enough to perform cross-border conquests, this dangerous thought had already begun to sprout.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The atmosphere of the entire Crystal Tower was undergoing a fundamental transformation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The once rigorous scholarship was yielding to adventurous restlessness, the pure pursuit of knowledge was being replaced by utilitarian plundering desires.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Knowledge was still important, but now it carried a more sinister meaning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No longer a beacon illuminating civilization’s path, but a tool for conquest and enslavement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ron calmly analyzed this change in his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From a sociological perspective, this was a typical trait of a civilization transitioning from inward development to outward expansion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When internal resources began to dwindle, outward plundering became the only choice to maintain development.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the problem was that the speed of this transition was too rapid, almost leaving no time for people to adapt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cassandra, by displaying massive conquest achievements, artificially created a \"conquest frenzy,\" driving even the originally rational scholars to greed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This situation provided both opportunities and dangers for Ron.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On one hand, in such an environment, it was easier for someone with great strength like him to gain recognition and resources;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the other hand, when the entire society was gripped by madness, maintaining rationality might instead become a dangerous \"heretical\" trait.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>......\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entrance of the Crystal Tower’s library stood with a daunting stone door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t ordinary stone but some living mineral that changed color according to the observer’s emotions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Ron approached, the sleeping runes on the door began to awaken, gradually shifting from a dull gray to a warning orange, finally stabilizing at a symbol of high authority, gold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The guard at the door wasn’t a human but a three-meter-tall crystal construct.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its body was composed of semi-transparent blue crystals, with an Energy Core spinning ceaselessly within its chest cavity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More unsettling was that the construct’s \"face\" was actually a sleek mirror, reflecting the deepest fears of the observer in real-time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Ron gazed at the mirror, he saw not his own reflection, but a figure entangled by countless tendrils, a manifestation of his concern over the possible loss of control in the future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Identity confirmation in process...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The construct’s voice was as grating as crystal shards scraping: \"Detected high-level authority, initiating deep scan.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The subsequent identity verification process was extremely unsettling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The construct first scanned Ron’s Magic Power signature, then used some invasive mental probe to analyze his thinking patterns.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This scan lasted nearly five minutes, and the sensation of being thoroughly inspected was intensely unpleasant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could feel the construct searching for specific \"marks.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>... marks that might suggest he was linked to danger in some way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, last night’s interaction with the King of Illusions left no obvious traces in his mental structure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Witch King-level existence evidently possessed the ability to perfectly cover its influence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, the construct’s mirror-like face turned toward Ron, its voice carrying mechanical bewilderment:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Your mental structure presents an extremely rare multi-layer protection pattern.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The complexity of this... is exceptional even among Associate Professor level.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its Energy Core’s rotation speed visibly accelerated, emitting a deep 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