To ordinary Professionals who never dared to stop, there was never enough time.
Although the elevation of the entire plane had greatly reduced the difficulty of learning Profession Skills, gaining inspiration for Awakening professional abilities, and advancing in rank.
This was not as simple as saving a few years of effort. Many bottlenecks that had once been impossible to break through would now naturally give way with time. What had once been a massive Law Decree-level hurdle, with only one success in ten advancement attempts, had effectively become nine successes in ten. A higher-dimensional world also meant easy access to abundant resources and many deities offering paths upward.
"Predictably, the situation where the endpoint for ninety percent of Professionals was Tier 2 or Tier 3 will become one where ninety percent end at Tier 4 or Tier 5. The numbers may not seem to have risen much, but in reality, this means both grassroots and high-end combat power will increase tenfold, or even a hundredfold, within a century."
Perhaps a more straightforward comparison would be easier to understand. Lower the passing score by a dozen points, and the number of people who passed would multiply several times over. The hardest part had always been those few steps across the line.
And those who crossed that line and gained a better future could rise further in their work and business ventures. Looking back, the gap between a life spent below the line and one spent above it was impossible to compare.
Of course, there would still be an endpoint that trapped most people, but with the water level higher, the overall strength of the world would grow enormously. It would survive much longer in the competitive struggle of the multiverse. When you encountered a bear, there was no need to outrun