His Expression Darkened
Jerome was clearly furious at his father's incompetence, and his tone became intense.
"If your backing isn't strong enough, then suffer in silence. A man should be assertive and eloquent!"
Su Luo put down her phone, unsure of what to say for a moment, and turned to look at Notherland.
Notherland shook his head and immediately joined the group:
"Teacher, Senior Brother is right. As a man, you're already at a disadvantage in the system's competition; you're missing a money-printing machine. Others have multiple escape routes, but you're stuck with one narrow-mindedness."
Su Luo fell silent again.
What kind of era is this? It's so chaotic right from the start.
What does it mean to persuade your mentor to go out and sell himself?
This world is a giant marketplace.
Jerome continues to deal damage:
"I see you every day when I come to the Laboratory, and you always reply to my messages instantly during holidays."
Is this where you belong? Is this what you're supposed to be doing?
"If you don't use your academic time to cultivate relationships, and your holidays to socialize and drink, what will you use to compete with other professors?!"
"Did I force you to do this? Did you do all this for me?! Advisor Wang next door, his academic ability is lacking, and his background as a pseudo-dragon is a disadvantage, but he understands the basic rules of the game, and now he's become an invincible Tyrannosaurus Rex!"
After saying this, Jerome sighed deeply, looking quite miserable.
Opportunity doesn't favor those who only bury themselves in scientific research!
After Yun Xiaoxiao finished organizing the information and compiled it into a file, Su Luo opened it, first looking at the basic information about the world, and then focusing on the academic system.
Floating Continent, Aurelian, Myriad Races, Small Worlds, God Corpse, Tides, Weaving Magic, the Seven-Nation Federation, the Church, the Mage Alliance...
The region where Su Luo is located is a small floating island belonging to the Floating Continent Aurelian. A city-state called [Soren Xingjia] has been built on it.
Although it is called a floating island, it is only a small island compared to the Floating Continent. Its total area exceeds 500 million square kilometers, but most of the area is uninhabitable. This city-state also has a population of over 100 million.
It's so much bigger than the previous era; Central Continent here can only be considered a large floating island.
The academic system, maintained by the Seven-Nation Federation, is relatively applicable across the seven kingdoms and many city-states, and includes ranks such as Low-Rank Mage, Mid-Rank Mage, High-Rank Mage, Apprentice Archmage, Permanent Archmage Mage, Grand Archmage, Sage...
Academic qualifications and social standing are not entirely correlated with an individual's combat prowess or Mana abilities.
The vast Soren Xingjia has a population of over 100 million and a large number of Archmage, but only one person has reached the Sage level.
Su Luo is a 36-year-old Apprentice Archmage. She surpassed the Senior Mage at the age of 26 and became Apprentice Archmage, but for some reason, she was unable to be promoted from Apprentice Archmage to Permanent Archmage.
After all, there are more Permanent Archmages than Apprentice Archmages. Apprentice Archmages are just a transitional position; they can naturally rise to the rank after five or six years. The difficult thing is to become a grand archmage, which is equivalent to an academician in one's hometown.
The reason why Su Luo did not become a permanent member is also quite simple.
Young people are too proud to admit their mistakes. They don't know how to exchange favors, they don't understand drinking culture, and most importantly, they're not good at making money.
Having sorted out all the causes and consequences, Su Luo slowly stood up, casually turned off the conference room lights, and spoke indifferently:
"Alright, no need to worry, you'll all be promoted to high positions tomorrow."
"Who are you calling a chicken?" Jerome and Notherland retorted simultaneously.
Su Luo waved and left.
The small Cycle that had been constructed began to operate in Su Luo's mental world, and Divine Power and various energies within her body were attempting to transform into Mana.
"Continue to familiarize yourself with the network technology of this world, and help me find any large sources of Mana nearby."
"Turn left, towards the lab building." Yun Xiaoxiao was happy to do such simple things.
"The entire building's Mana supply comes from the main pipeline on the third basement level, where there is a medium-sized Mana storage array."
As Su Luo walked, she stopped. Behind her Notherland, who had followed her out of the conference room.
Su Luo's expression darkened.
Yun Xiaoxiao's expression also darkened: Su Luo's expression really darkened?
What happened?
"The Mana in this world is wrong; the elements cannot be reversed."
"Something's not right. Indeed, I found out that the entire island is free of magic." Yun Xiaoxiao sensed something was wrong.
"It seems to be encrypted, that's strange..."
Notherland jogged over and walked alongside Su Luo, offering quiet words of comfort.
"Teacher Su, please don't do anything rash. Senior Brother just had his project funding stolen by a High-Rank Mage under another mentor's name. He's just taking his frustration out on you. Please bear with it."
"You absolutely mustn't act impulsively and revoke the senior student's research eligibility, absolutely mustn't casually schedule eight basic public courses for him, thus draining his research time! Absolutely mustn't make minor adjustments to the author order before the core paper is finalized, taking his first-author spot! And most importantly, don't remove him from the core research group and turn him into a stray dog!"
Su Luo stopped in her tracks, as if she had remembered something.
It seems there's a lack of test subjects in this world; wouldn't it be inappropriate to use one's own nominal students?
"I'm going to conduct a high-energy experiment. Would you like to come and assist me?"
Su Luo asked in a humane manner.
"Ah, I'm purely theoretical; I don't know how to do experiments."
"So what was that lab report from the conference room earlier?"
"It was generated by AI. I had AI help me reduce the AI rate to 15%." Notherland was extremely candid.
"Get out of the research group."
"No, Master!" Notherland exclaimed in alarm.
It was just academic fraud to appease the teacher; was it really worth being expelled?
What happened to the promised collaborative system for protecting academic misconduct?
It seems she made a mistake by being perfunctory; fabricating facts is insignificant.
"Teacher, in the five years I've been in this research group, we've weathered all the storms together!"