Ten Q1 Journal Papers in a Month and the Overpowered Starlit Golden Dragon Claw · Air Pineapple Wizard's Shoes!

Madam Rosamund stood up and carefully studied Wizard Argos's expression, confirming that he was not joking.

A storm surged in Madam Rosamund's heart, like waves rolling upon the sea. Those were Q1 Journals, yet Locke could publish ten of them in a single month. She had seen countless Moon-Ring Wizards grit their teeth and struggle, seeking every scrap of resources they could obtain, all for the sake of publishing one Q1 Journal. Through countless freezing nights, they endlessly revised their papers just to publish in Q1 or Q2 Journals.

How many Moon-Ring Wizards, merely to publish papers, had even followed in their mentors' footsteps and done what they had once despised most—exploiting their own students?

As many Moon-Ring Wizards fought desperately like that, just as many lost heart after being rejected by journals again and again, then began to waste away.

Moon Ring was a threshold.

For many exceptionally gifted wizards, it was the end of their lives as wizards. They would spend the rest of their lives circling endlessly at the Moon-Ring stage.

This was why wizards demanded that younger wizards publish as many Q1 papers as possible while they were still young, gain honors, and strengthen their magical power. The later one reached Moon Ring, the more likely one was to be trapped there.

Madam Rosamund had heard some High-Ring Wizards claim that Moon Ring and Sun Ring were fundamentally the same level, so there was no reason to linger at Moon Ring. She did not believe such claims at all, because that was only true for wizards with genuine potential. For most wizards, Moon Ring was their endpoint.

Most Moon-Ring Wizards exhausted their potential to reach this level, then spent the rest of their lives striving to publish a few more Q1 papers.

Yet Locke had just