Hiring Experimental Subjects

Next, Locke spent the entire morning at the Healing Hand Clinic. After returning in the afternoon, he studied the Lesser Emerald Potion for three hours.

That evening, Locke began using the Advanced Meditation Method and started meditating.

Since he had to seize the benefits of the first month, Locke directly maxed out all his resources. He drank a bottle of Tears of the Stars Potion, used Four Seasons Fruit-Kernel Incense, and took an Energy Potion before meditating for the entire night.

As a result, his daily Magic Stone expenditure had now reached 400 Magic Stones, while his current savings amounted to only 5,500 Magic Stones.

That consisted of his original savings, plus the income generated by the Plantation last month.

His current Plantation earned him 3,700 Magic Stones each month.

Following this calculation, Locke could sustain this full-resource consumption for about thirteen days. After that, he would run out of money.

This month's Plantation output would not be settled at Golden Secret until the end of the month.

The fees for treating the Wizard Apprentices at the clinic would also have to wait until the end of the month to be settled in full.

Therefore, Locke had actually fallen into a temporary financial crisis.

If this continued, he would have no choice but to stop using the Advanced Meditation Method with all his resources, causing him to miss the Newbie Benefit Period for using the Advanced Meditation Method.

Alternatively, he could sign a loan contract outside, but loans from outside the Academy generally came with frighteningly high interest rates, while an Academy loan contract was troublesome to process.

Inside Locke's residence.

Locke ordered three Gray Dwarves and two Cat-girls to clean his home while taking a bite of the apple in his hand.

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