Faced with Di'ersi's complaints, Moxidu did not respond at once.
Instead, he waited until Saine had left the sitting room and entered the laboratory. Only after the sound of the door closing did he slowly reply, "It should be possible."
"Dean Martin and the others began planning this more than a hundred years ago. I came here fifty years ago, and over the years, I've watched quite a few promising youngsters grow up."
"With the current caliber and standards of the Black Wizard Academy's apprentices, merely fulfilling Dean Martin and the others' requirements should not be a problem." Moxidu said as he touched the cup on the table in front of him.
The liquid in the cups before the two Formal Black Wizards was no ordinary thing, but a certain high-end Meditation Potion personally concocted by Di'ersi.
Not only could it speed up the recovery of magicians' Mental Strength and improve the quality of meditation, it was also fragrant and refreshing to drink.
To apprentices, it was simply an unimaginable supreme-grade potion.
But to the two Formal Black Wizards, it was merely tea to ease their fatigue.
Saine's mentor, Moxidu, had not been so extravagant in the past.
However, ever since he had secretly formed an alliance of mutual offense and defense with Di'ersi, he had received many similar potions from this beautiful female magician.
Likewise, Master Deers had recently asked Moxidu to forge a high-quality magical piece of equipment for her in his spare time.
The two Black Magicians could be said to be taking what they needed, and both were outstanding figures in their respective fields.
By joining hands, once that Time-Space Rift truly opened in the future, they would be able to maximize the gains they obtained from the Alien Plane beyond it.
Though Moxidu and Di'ersi each managed fairly well among Black Magicians due to their alchemy and potion-making skills,
they still fell far short of those Formal Magicians on the Surface World who had Holy Towers at their backs.
More resource channels and richer accumulations of knowledge made the magicians within those Holy Towers the fastest-growing beings in the Wizard World.
Moxidu was already over eight hundred years old. He had only a little more than a hundred years left before reaching the end of his lifespan.
Not to mention becoming a Second-Level Magician—he was still a long way from even reaching the peak of the first level.
At the same age, many magicians within Holy Towers had already advanced to the second or even third level,
while he alone continued to squander his days at the first level.
This situation was partly due to the Black Magician community's scarcity of resources and its closed-off exchange of knowledge.
Of course, part of the reason was also that Moxidu himself had devoted too much energy and time to the study of alchemy, gradually straying from the path in his exploration of the true essence of magical elements.
Senior brother Zorro believed that Mentor Moxidu valued his second junior brother the most, and that he had regarded him as the heir to his legacy back then.
Moxidu himself thought so as well.
But looking over all the disciples Moxidu had taken in, the one who truly resembled him most was Zorro.
"Heh heh heh, I heard that Wote and the others who went to raid the Surface World seem to have had their whereabouts discovered."
"Dean Dadalong found two magical marks on the floating ship," Di'ersi said.
"Hm? Was it an ordinary magician organization, or a Holy Tower?" Moxidu asked, his expression tense.
"Not sure. It was probably ordinary magicians."
"If they were people from a Holy Tower, the two of them probably would not have made it back." Di'ersi shook her head.
"Hmph, the Surface Holy Tower Magicians have monopolized over eighty percent of the Wizard World's resources. Must they now refuse to leave even the underground alone?" Moxidu said indignantly.
Di'ersi nodded in deep agreement and said, "Not only that, the vast majority of apprentice candidates in the Wizard World have also been snatched away by those Holy Towers."
"Hmph, I heard that the Holy Tower Academy's apprentice admission standard is an initial Mental Strength of over 10 points."
"Among the batch of apprentices Wote and the others brought back from their raid this time, how many had Mental Strength above 10?"
"If that were not the case, Dean Martin and the others would not have lowered the admission standard for Entry-Level Apprentices." Di'ersi said regretfully.
"The apprentice admission standard in the Black Domain of the Western Islands is also an initial Mental Strength above 10. This is a reliable standard our Wizard World has worked out since the Ancient Era."
"Although initial Mental Strength does not represent the ultimate heights an apprentice can reach, what truly determines a magician's power is the wisdom they possess."
"Still, the level of their initial Mental Strength directly determines how quickly they can get started."
"If you ask me, those Holy Towers of the Wizard World are all sanctimonious hypocrites."
"Where do those Holy Tower Magicians come from? They're all nobles! This has gradually become a game for nobles."
"On the other hand, though our Western Islands have harsher conditions and relatively poorer resources, the magic academies of the Black Domain recruit apprentices from all children of suitable age within the radiation-controlled territories."
"Who is truly fairer?" Moxidu sneered.
Although Moxidu and Di'ersi both came from the Black Domain of the Western Islands, the Western Islands were simply too vast. Even the Black Domain itself was far beyond the limits that two Formal Black Wizards could explore.
Moxidu and Di'ersi came from two island continents on the outskirts of the Black Domain. Since Moxidu had gone deep into the Black Domain's magic academies for further study in his early years, he understood the situation in its heartland better than Di'ersi did.
Even in certain perspectives on matters, Moxidu differed noticeably from Di'ersi.
Di'ersi placed greater importance on personal and immediate gains.
Though Moxidu usually spoke little, he sometimes considered matters that reached much farther into the future.
Of course, Moxidu's words were somewhat biased.
The differing thresholds for recruiting apprentices between the Black Domain and the Holy Tower Academies across the normal Wizard Continent involved many layers of consideration and other reasons; they could not be reduced merely to the question of "fairness."
And the Black Domain's apprentice competition mechanism... both Black Magicians had personally walked that path.
Though neither of them had fought their way out of a pure Black Wizard Academy like Andis, their apprentice years could hardly have been much easier.
Otherwise, their temperaments would not have become so paranoid and crazed.
Speaking of apprentice admission standards, Moxidu, who had seen much more of the Western Islands, could not help but sigh, "Although I also find those Knights' Halls of the Wizard World quite unpleasant, at least the Knights' Halls recruit attendants from all humanity, without distinguishing between high and low, noble and common."
"When I came from the Western Islands, I passed by and saw quite a few Commoner Knights Academies."
"I heard that this reform in the Knights' Halls was personally promoted across the entire Wizard World by an incomparably powerful knight from the ancient times."
"I wonder whether such a figure will be born among us magicians in the future." Moxidu sighed.
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