strictlysupreme Chapter 422: Star Sea Scholar and Truth Wizard
Chapter 422: Star Sea Scholar and Truth Wizard
Witch Sophia quickly left the work area and moved away from the precision instruments where each piece of equipment was worth tens of millions of magic stones.Every instrument in these laboratories, even an ordinary device, if taken outside would be a priceless treasure that wizard academies in external wizard lands would scramble to obtain.
They were items that could serve as academy heirlooms.
In fact, this wasn't just a matter of money.
Every piece of equipment in these laboratories was either difficult for external wizard lands to purchase, or even if they managed to buy it, they had no way to maintain or repair it.
This was the advantage of the Star Domain Sea.
Of course, this was also because this laboratory belonged to the Fourth Circle wizard, the Star Sea Scholar Grand Wizard.
Every Star Sea Scholar was a leading figure in the wizard world, possessing the powerful comprehensive ability to establish a discipline and cultivate talent in that discipline. It could be said that Star Sea Scholars at this level could already partially determine the strength or weakness of a magic category.
Some magic categories had many Star Sea Scholars, so that magic category was powerful. Some magic categories had few Star Sea Scholars, so that magic category still needed development.
The title of Star Sea Scholar itself was bestowed upon those Fourth Circle wizards who possessed powerful discipline-building capabilities.
As for those Fourth Circle wizards who weren't good at discipline building but had made major breakthrough achievements in fundamental theoretical research and updated the foundational theory of an entire magic category, they would be awarded the title of "Truth Wizard."
Witch Sophia's luck was very good. The grand mentor of her team in the academy city was a Third Circle wizard with the title of "Throne Wizard," who controlled various high-level grants and countless horizontal projects, with many talented people under his command.
Her grand-mentor was that Fourth Circle wizard "Star Sea Scholar."
It was just that her grand mentor needed a wizard skilled in teaching for a certain small project, so he made an exception and selected Witch Sophia. However, over these two years, Witch Sophia's status within this research group had risen sharply, and she was currently thriving here.
Unfortunately, in this research group that essentially belonged to the Star Sea Scholar, there were simply too many people. A Star Sea Scholar's research group was equivalent to the combined number of wizards from countless wizard academies.
The wizard team alone consisted of tens of thousands of people.
Sophia sighed slightly. If she were a Second Circle wizard now, perhaps she could speak up and find a way to get Locke into this research group but the problem was that she wasn't yet.
Earlier, her senior brother had finally taken the initiative to ask about Locke, but unfortunately, Locke's credentials weren't excellent enough. A 21-year-old liquefaction wizard still wasn't enough to make that Second Circle wizard senior brother proactively invite Locke to join this research group.
Otherwise, even coming as a temporary worker, or joining here with the identity of the Origin Academy of True Knowledge, would have been good.
Witch Sophia came to a corner of the laboratory and closed the magical door, entering inside. At the same time, she used the Ecological Niche Communication Spell to form a resonance with Locke in the long river of ecological niche torrents, producing a synchronization of their inner voices.
Witch Sophia said to Locke, "Locke, I really didn't expect that you're already a liquefaction wizard now. You only used two years to go from an ordinary formal wizard to a liquefaction wizard. This is truly rare."
"My judgment of you back then wasn't wrong. You're suited to come to the Star Domain Sea, not to remain in that small corner of the southeastern quadrant as an ordinary wizard, wasting your talents."
Witch Sophia's image was transmitted to Locke's heart through magical pressure.
The Ecological Niche Communication Spell essentially allowed two people to meet within their hearts.
Locke looked at Witch Sophia and was stunned for a moment. At this time, Witch Sophia wore a simple and elegant white wizard robe. The youthfulness on her face had long since faded, though there was still a flower on top of her wizard hat.
However, the type of magical flower had changed. It had become a Second Circle magical plant called "Rainbow Tulip" that resembled a flame emblem.
It was magnificently beautiful, possessing all the colors of the rainbow. The beauty of its petals seemed like colors that didn't belong to the mortal world, far surpassing any scene depicted by the paintbrush of any First Circle magical painter.
Within the blooming flower of the Rainbow Tulip, there were also two spiraling gold and silver stamens entwined together. Those were Spiral Siphon Stamens.
Witch Sophia looked at Locke and smiled, saying, "Locke, you've grown up."
"Your appearance has changed somewhat, becoming more mature, and your magical pressure has changed to an even greater degree."
"This represents that your personality has also undergone certain changes."
Locke asked in confusion, "Teacher Sophia, is the change in magical pressure characteristics related to personality changes?"
Witch Sophia said, "This is a theory from the Mind School of the Star Domain Sea. They started from changes in magical pressure and discovered that changes in the nature of magical pressure are related to changes in the wizard's own personality and cognitive perspective, and proposed the famous 'Magical Pressure Cognitive Development Theory.'"
"This theory was recently proposed by a Third Circle wizard, a Throne Wizard, from the Mind School of the Star Domain Sea. He obtained the title of Throne Wizard because of it."
"This theory is currently spreading to various wizard lands and can slightly change the magical foundation of the Mind School."
"But for it to spread to your area, I estimate it will take another forty to fifty years. If you were in places closer to the Star Domain Sea, such as Cloud Marsh Wetland, or the Twilight Border, or Dragon Fall Land and Thunder Marsh Lowlands, I estimate it would only take ten to twenty years to reach there."
Witch Sophia said, "In short, the subtle changes in every wizard's magical pressure can reflect that wizard's growth."
Witch Sophia reached out and grasped a wisp of Locke's magical pressure in their inner space. That wisp of magical pressure danced at her fingertips. "Previously, although your magical pressure was full of hope, it wasn't this solid."
Sophia smiled and said, "This is the kind of magical pressure only someone who has experienced practice and setbacks would have. It seems you've experienced quite a few things during this time, Locke."
"Locke, what matter did you contact me about this time?"
Locke immediately explained his current situation and told Witch Sophia that he wanted to participate in the Cloud Marsh Cup and had already formed a simple small research group.
After hearing this, Witch Sophia immediately smiled and shook her head. "You're really too good at pulling in projects, aren't you? Locke, do you know that you have a very rare ability, which is pulling in projects."
"You actually got those wizards from the Land of Six Towers to invest a large amount of funding into your ideas. You don't even have any teaching position, haven't worked on any major projects, and haven't published any particularly impressive papers. Yet the Plutarch family just like that invested at least two million five hundred thousand magic stones in you."
Witch Sophia's eyes widened. "Alright, in a certain sense, this development direction of yours is actually quite good."
"Although you didn't immediately enter a large project group in the Star Domain Sea, you obtained a large amount of horizontal funding from sponsors from two families and gained free research rights and competition participation rights. Grasp this well, and it can rapidly improve your credentials."
Locke said embarrassedly, "Teacher, I was just lucky. When riding the wizard airship, I happened to save the little princess of the Plutarch family, and then when treating Grand Wizard Sulla, I happened to discover Grand Wizard Sulla's secret."
Because Witch Sophia was far away from the Land of Six Towers and couldn't possibly have conflicts of interest with them, Locke didn't hide this matter.
Moreover, at this moment the two were communicating heart to heart, so there was no possibility of anyone eavesdropping. To bypass the long river of ecological niche torrents and directly eavesdrop on their conversation wasn't impossible, but any wizard capable of doing so probably wouldn't bother to do such a thing.
Witch Sophia said, "No, ordinary people, even if they encountered these situations, would only think they had run into some troubles. But you were able to find opportunities within these troubles and seize every opportunity. This is your personal ability."
Witch Sophia said, "You did absolutely right to contact me using the Four-Leaf Clover Lucky Ring this time. First, I have a large amount of Star Domain Sea materials that can help you participate in the Cloud Marsh Cup competition."
"Secondly, regarding that Grand Wizard Sulla matter, I need to specifically caution you to prevent you from unknowingly getting involved in a struggle that originally had nothing to do with you."
Witch Sophia said, "That Grand Wizard Sulla has long-standing grudges with others, and he may not be in the right. You just need to focus on doing projects for Grand Wizard Sulla. Treat him as an ordinary sponsor. This way, no matter what happens, according to convention, it will be very difficult for trouble to reach you personally."
"After all, from what you've said, your real sponsor should be that girl named Alicia. She's actually relatively clean. If you maintain your relationship with her, you won't be dragged into strange old grudges."
Witch Sophia said, "Because First Circle wizards can live for a long time, chains of hatred are complicated. Some matters make it very difficult to say who's right and who's wrong. Usually, both sides have problems. It's rare for conflicts between two parties where one side is completely without fault and the other side has all the problems."
"In short, at your current stage, it's best to avoid those complex conflicts, especially conflicts between First Circle wizards. Often in the end..." Witch Sophia said, "It will involve matters above them. For example, even Second Circle wizards might get involved."
Locke's heart jumped in alarm. "Thank you for the reminder, Teacher."
Witch Sophia said, "Just keep doing what you're currently doing. There's no problem. You're just a wizard sponsored by the Plutarch family. As long as you don't continue to deeply participate in their family's internal affairs, there shouldn't be any problems."
Witch Sophia said, "The Ecological Niche Communication Spell can be maintained for a long time. The most interesting thing about being in the long river of ecological niche torrents is that time perception becomes distorted. Outside, only a very short time may pass, possibly just an hour, but we can discuss things here for half a month."
"This is because the speed at which the ecological torrent river transmits information is extremely fast, far exceeding the speed of text and language information transmission. So this causes our perception of time to become distorted."
"Just right, I can tell you two things. The first is how to become a First Circle crystallization wizard. Knowledge regarding this part should be difficult to find in wizard lands at the level of the Land of Six Towers. In my view, that Grand Wizard Sulla also doesn't want you to obtain this knowledge, because if you become a crystallization wizard, you would pose a great threat to him, and you already know too many of his secrets and even possess the ability to affect his lifeline."
"The second piece of knowledge is that I want to tell you about some interesting information regarding tactical magical plants from the Star Domain Sea."