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

Chapter 72 The Wizard's Needs

"However... the academy is actually willing to offer high-ranking military merits as rewards. Can the dean afford it?"

After the initial excitement subsided, Jemin calmed down and realized something was amiss.

Just as Clark said, the academy is definitely not just asking him this time; probably all the high-level wizards in the school who are skilled in alchemy will be asked to create materials that can resist energy erosion.

He was only a level three wizard apprentice, and his output and the quality of the materials he produced were certainly far inferior to those of other advanced wizards.

The military merits earned should also be distributed according to each person's contribution. Therefore, the amount of military merits earned by the academy this time is quite considerable.

These are all high-level military merits. They cannot be exchanged between points and military merits, nor between high-level and low-level military merits. They can only be obtained by completing the missions of the Star Orbit Arbitration Court.

To accept a mission from the Star Orbit Arbitration Court, one must be at least a level seven wizard.

The only seventh-level wizard in the entire Norren Academy is the Dean, whom we have never met.

"Guess why the Dean hasn't shown up all these years?" Clark's face showed a rare gloating expression. "Of course, he's been working like a slave on the front lines."

"hiss……"

The thought that even the mysterious and unpredictable Dean would have to work like a beast of burden made Jemin want to laugh.

However, considering that he would still have to work under the other party in the future, and fearing that the other party would make things difficult for him when they came back, he could only force himself to twist his expression into a grimacing grimace and gasp for breath.

"Ahem... Hmm... To support the entire academy single-handedly, the Dean is truly a role model for us all..."

"Laugh if you want, that old man isn't exactly a respectable guy anyway." Clark glanced at him with a half-smile.

Perhaps because of his resonance with the cattle and horses, the expression on his face was no longer so stiff.

Jemin's lips curled slightly, but he managed to suppress his smile.

To divert attention, he raised another question:
"That shadow plane looks really tough to deal with."

"That plane has a very special form. The creatures inside are in a state of being half-elemental and half-biological, and the special nature of the shadow element itself has caused great losses to the wizards."

Clark didn't hide anything and fluently recounted the information about the Shadow Plane, since Jemin's Level 2 training agreement gave him the authority to know these things.

"It's so difficult to fight... then why doesn't the dean take action himself?" Jemin couldn't help but wonder.

Judging from the reactions of the academy and Clark, there shouldn't be any powerhouses of the same level as the Dean in the Shadow Dimension, otherwise they wouldn't be so relaxed.

Moreover, the higher the wizard's level, the greater the gap between them and other powerful beings of the same level in other civilizations. The strength of a high-level wizard far surpasses that of ordinary beings of the same level.

Even if there really are level seven beings in the Shadow Plane, even if their numbers exceed double digits, and considering the support of the entire plane, they probably wouldn't be enough for that Dean to defeat with one hand.

"Because there is a god in that world who is equivalent to a level six being."

"Hmm?" Jemin couldn't help but tilt his head in confusion. Clark glanced at him, ignoring his question, and instead asked, "What do you think is the purpose of the entire wizarding civilization's enthusiasm for waging interdimensional wars?"

What is the purpose of the wizards waging war?
Jemin blinked, thought carefully for a moment, and then cautiously replied, "For...resources and knowledge?"

Wizards pursue many things, but in essence, they boil down to two things: resources and knowledge.

“Not bad, not as easily blinded as those fools.” Clark smiled approvingly.

“We wage war not because we enjoy the pleasure of destruction… Although there are fools like that, the vast majority of wizards participate in interdimensional wars simply to gain more knowledge and resources so that they can advance further.”

“If a plane is willing to offer up all its knowledge and resources the moment it is invaded, then the wizards will not necessarily destroy the original civilization of that plane, and may even be willing to accept them as new servants... This is how many servant planes in Norren Workshop came about.”

"Even if the native inhabitants of the plane resist to the extreme, the wizards don't care, and are even happy to see it, because war can catalyze the birth of knowledge."

"In fact, because war has such a powerful catalytic effect, some forces, after finding a new plane, will invest wizards of a balanced level according to the overall power of the plane, in order to ensure that the war continues to be at an extremely high intensity to catalyze the birth of new knowledge."

At this point, Clark glanced down at an inconspicuous bracelet on his wrist: "Of course, extreme individuals like these are usually in the Crimson Court's camp, while the Star Ring Federation's ideology leans more towards what I said before."

"Can the ideologies of these two camps really be distinguished as good or evil?" Jemin's eye twitched, and he couldn't help but complain in his mind.

In Jemin's view, both the Star Ring Federation and the Crimson Court were Class A war criminals!

Neither of them is any good.

what?
Am I now a member of the Star Ring Federation?
Ah, that's okay.

However, Jemin now understands why the Academy is willing to expend so many resources on the Shadow Plane. Such a troublesome plane must contain even more exciting resources and knowledge.

Noticing Clark's gaze, Jemin coughed lightly, suppressing his thoughts:

"If that's the case, shouldn't the dean take action? That way, at least most of the resources can be preserved."

“That’s the most troublesome part.” Clark shook his head. “Level 6 beings are indeed not worth mentioning. If it’s a head-on confrontation, even some of the better level 5 wizards could kill them.”

"The problem is that once a living being reaches level six, it can access the origin of the plane. Even if a level six living being cannot have the same precise control over the origin of the plane as a wizard, it still has the ability to drag the entire plane down with it even with a rough application."

Jemin finally understood; it all came down to cost-effectiveness and profit.

If a direct confrontation is used, and the enemy is driven to extreme despair, the wizards' expedition could very well end in failure.

"So how should we handle this situation?"

"Three methods. First, find a more powerful wizard to handle it. Generally, an eighth-level wizard can forcibly suppress the opponent's act of destroying the plane, even if the opponent is also an eighth-level being. As for the second method, it is to continuously send troops to slowly weaken the opponent's plane's power until the plane's origin is weakened to a certain extent. Or..."

Clark paused, then looked meaningfully out the window: "...There's a wizard in that plane who has advanced to level six."

(End of this chapter)