I, a cultivator, have ended up in the wizarding world.

Chapter 201 Settlement of Harvest and Camp Missions

After leaving Viola's side, Jemin went straight back to his laboratory.

Click.

As the door clicked shut, the protective array inside the laboratory activated simultaneously, and the entire world fell silent instantly.

With a thought, Jemin solemnly took out the two space expansion bags that he had stuffed to the brim in the Frost Dark Realm, almost reaching their capacity limit, and placed them in the center of the empty laboratory.

Wow! !

Guided by his mental power, the opening of the space expansion bag tilted, as if a floodgate had been opened.

The next moment, countless items emanating a chilling aura poured out of the bag like a landslide and a tsunami!

The first thing to emerge was the Yeti's core.

Tens of thousands of ice crystal cores, each radiating pure ice elemental energy.

They piled up together, reflecting a dazzling yet cold light under the bright laboratory lights, like a small mountain of diamonds, causing the temperature in the entire laboratory to drop several degrees.

Next came all sorts of rare materials plundered from the Frost Dark Realm.

There is "Frozen Essence" that resembles frozen moonlight, "Heart of Frozen Earth" that exudes the power of the earth's veins, and some unknown ice-attribute metals and minerals dismantled from the buildings of the Yeti City.

The materials were piled up like mountains, covering almost half the floor of the laboratory.

Finally, there were the scattered energy crystals and some miscellaneous items.

Standing before this "iceberg" of wealth, Jemin's eyes gleamed with satisfaction.

Instead of manually counting each item, he activated "Eye of Reconnaissance" and connected to his magic network terminal, enabling the "Asset Assessment" function of the military merit exchange system.

An invisible light screen was projected from the terminal, slowly sweeping across the mountain of materials piled on the ground.

Lines of data are rapidly refreshed, jumped, categorized, and valued on the light screen.

[Detected 'Level 1 Yeti Core', Quantity: 98452, Estimated exchange value for military merits...]

[Detected 'Level 2 Yeti Cores', Quantity: 7, Estimated exchange value for military merits...]

[Detected 'Frost Essence', Weight: Approximately 6.7 tons, Quality: Excellent, Expected to be exchanged for military merits...]

【detected……】

The data stream cascaded down like a waterfall, eventually converging at the top of the light screen into a number that satisfied Jamin.

"Total assessment value: 534,700 military merits."

This only represents the value of those quantifiable materials and energy crystals!
Immediately afterwards, Jemin pulled up his combat record from this operation—the glorious feat of wiping out an entire Yeti city.

Although the vast majority of them were only level one Yetis, their terrifying quantity was enough to make up for their lack of quality.

After the system automatically determined and calculated his merits, a large sum of money was directly deposited into his account.

"Military merits: 138,900 military merits".

If he can sell these materials, his total gain from this trip will exceed 670,000 military merits!

This doesn't even include those truly significant achievements that cannot be simply measured by military merit.

For example, the "Level 4 Lava Giant Corpse" lying quietly at the deepest part of his spatial expansion bag, still radiating terrifying pressure, and the massive amount of "Yin Sha Qi" collected in those two gourds, whose quality had reached the Xuanhei level!
"Phew..." Jemin let out a long sigh of relief.

This trip to the Frost Dark Realm was exactly as he had predicted... no, it was even beyond his expectations!
By taking advantage of information asymmetry, the rewards were so great that ordinary wizards could hardly imagine them.

This windfall pulled him back from the poverty line, giving him the means to squander money once again.

In the wizarding world, assets are an important measure of a wizard's status.

After all, a weak wizard may not necessarily be poor, but a powerful wizard is definitely very rich.

An ordinary wizard apprentice's entire fortune is usually between tens and thousands of points.

A qualified first-level official wizard can have total assets of tens of thousands of points, which is considered quite wealthy.

A level two wizard typically has assets in the hundreds of thousands of points, while a level three wizard can generally possess assets in the millions of points.

The value difference between military merit points and the "school points" used by the Norren Workshop is approximately one to ten.

In other words, the items that Jemin could directly sell and exchange for military merits this time were worth the equivalent of 6.7 million school points!

This is almost equivalent to the entire fortune accumulated by a well-established third-level wizard throughout his life!

However, after the initial excitement, when Jemin looked at the mountain of spoils in front of him and compared the "fine gold" and "red potion" that he had once relied on to make his fortune, he couldn't help but let out a complex sigh.

"Indeed, for wizards, even war is ultimately just an occasional windfall. The most profitable and stable source of income is always the monopolistic profit generated by the knowledge in their minds." He knew in his heart that although this gain seemed terrifying, it was essentially a one-time event.

He can't always encounter such a "good thing" where high-level combat forces retreat en masse, allowing him to take whatever he wants.

Such opportunities are rare and hard to come by.

But the monetization of knowledge is entirely different.

Just like the "refined gold" refining technique he mastered during his apprenticeship.

Because its properties are too specialized, it can only be rated as a "level 5 material" in the wizard material rating system.

But this means that even during his apprenticeship, Jemin had already mastered an exclusive technology that was comparable to the core products of a level five wizard!
Even if it's just "raw materials," their technological barriers and value are far beyond what low-level wizards can imagine.

Therefore, the speed at which Jemin made money during his apprenticeship was actually close to the efficiency of a level 5 wizard monetizing his core knowledge!

This is the fundamental reason why he was able to accumulate such terrifying wealth as an apprentice, wealth that would put countless professional wizards to shame.

"A one-time plunder can never compare to a sustainable monopoly."

This extraordinary achievement only strengthened Jemin's resolve to focus on the study of knowledge.

The more than 600,000 military merits he plundered this time may seem enormous, but for his future cultivation and research, it is just a drop in the ocean.

This amount of military merit could be almost entirely consumed in a single large-scale experiment.

True wealth remains those things that cannot be valued.

"Unfortunately, the huge profits gained at once make many wizards unable to see this point... Next time you see Amy and Victor, have a chat with them, and hopefully they won't go on to study combat wizardry."

Having figured this out, Jieming's mindset completely calmed down.

He started working, sorting all the materials on the ground into categories.

He kept the items that were useful to him separately, while those that were of little use to him and were only suitable for exchanging for military merits were bundled together and prepared to be disposed of all at once.

……

……

The news spread quickly.

Not long after Jemin returned, all the wizards in the camp confirmed that Master Augustine, the commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force, would personally "pilot" the ship plane back to the border to mobilize troops.

This means that for a long time to come, the camp will be without its top combat force, and communication with the higher-ups of the main plane will be greatly affected.

To prevent any problems from arising during this period, a new round of construction and reinforcement began throughout the camp.

Temporary defensive fortifications were converted into permanent structures, energy hubs were reinforced to guard against potential attacks, and more advanced protective magic array nodes were built and activated...

Everything was proceeding smoothly to prevent any unexpected problems from arising during Augustine's absence.

Against this backdrop, Jemin did not rush to risk venturing deep into enemy territory again.

He has a large sum of military merits to his name, enough to support his experiments for the next few years, so he's not in a hurry now.

He volunteered to the camp command and accepted a task to build a protective magic array node inside the camp.

The task was of moderate intensity, allowing him to gain consistent merit while also enabling him to continue his research in his laboratory during the downtime during construction.

Of course, besides no longer lacking military merits, there was an even more important reason that made Jemin temporarily change his strategy—he was pleasantly surprised to find that he no longer seemed to need to go out specifically to seek out "worldly energy"!

After all, besides news about Augustine's troop deployment, the strange phenomenon of the recent anomaly in the Frostfire Plane—the simultaneous withdrawal of high-level combat forces from the two native races—has also become known to the wizards and has quickly spread throughout the camp.

The combination of these two pieces of intelligence was like a bombshell dropped into the seemingly peaceful wizard camp, sparking countless speculations, anxieties, and concerns about the future of the war.

It can only be said that even rational wizards inevitably enjoy discussing current affairs.

Moreover, the current situation is closely related to their safety, so the level of attention is naturally higher, which leads to an increase in the production of worldly energy.

Although it is still far from comparable to a normal society of living beings, its efficiency has reached a considerable level.

"Is this anxiety? Fear? Or the mental strain from speculating about the unknown?" In the laboratory, Jemin silently analyzed the source of these "worldly energies".

However, the fluctuations in the production of mortal energy also made him realize that, in such an environment, beneath the seemingly calm exterior of the wizards lay hearts as volatile as volcanoes, ready to erupt at any moment.

Based on this collection efficiency, coupled with the upcoming arrival of 30,000 reinforcements...

Jemin secretly calculated in his mind that, based on the time he spent serving in the Frostfire Plane, he might actually be able to collect a sufficient amount of mortal energy.

Therefore, the best strategy now is to consolidate our position in the camp and wait for the situation to change.

(End of this chapter)