The grander the blueprint, the more it needed to be fulfilled step by step.
The taller the tower, the more it needed to be built floor by floor. This was not to emphasize the importance of foundations, but a far more practical limitation.
"Burning Money and resources at this rate is ridiculous." After roughly calculating his recent expenses, even Lu PingAn had to admit that "research and development" was nothing but a money-burning, cost-inefficient bottomless pit of a budget.
Becoming a Professional required money and resources. Under normal circumstances, Professionals worked while improving themselves.
They happened to need time to absorb and digest new powers, but once they reached the higher tiers, a single path might be needed to bring about an obvious qualitative change. Their growth inevitably slowed, and unless their abilities formed multiplicative combinations or chemical reactions, low-tier abilities were basically useless in actual combat.
High-Level Professionals might need many years to achieve a qualitative transformation, but Lu PingAn did not have the time to wait.
As it happened, he was a "stacking-type," "research-and-development-type" ability user—a special kind who simulated, or even reconstructed and shaped, a world according to his own ideals. As long as resources and talent were supplied in full, his phased results would come faster.
Unlike other Professionals, every phased result he achieved—even an additional enchantment on a weapon, or a ten-percent improvement to the fire oak foundation—would bring a noticeable increase to his final product.
At his core, with humanity within him, he possessed the greatest number of "layers of accumulation." The theoretical limit of an independent life form's evolution was infinite.
Too many research projects required investment, tracking, and summarization, and only his acceleration ability could keep this work from taking decades.
So, for once, he stayed quiet for a while and honestly