In Harlan Vela's office, Harlan Vela asked, "By the way, Locke, how quickly is your Mental Power increasing through meditation now?"
Locke said, "About 1 point per day."
Harlan nodded. "That rate is even faster than I expected. It's roughly twice as fast as the rate at which a Child of the Element improves after advancing."
"After reaching First Ring, you can draw more Natural Force from the Natural Force Plane, so naturally your improvement rate will be very fast."
"This is different from the apprentice stage. At the apprentice stage, it took ten nights, or even twenty nights, of hard meditation to increase Mana by 1 point. Formal Wizards increase Mana much faster."
"The difficulty of advancement lies in the gap between the Liquefaction Stage and the Vaporization Stage—a full 3,000 points of Mental Power, meaning the total amount."
Harlan Vela said, "That gap of 3,000 Mental Power is equivalent to the Mental Power of three ordinary Wizards. But your Mental Power growth rate is much faster than I expected."
"After becoming a Formal Wizard, innate talent matters far less than before. What matters is no longer your affinity with elemental particles. Formal Wizards have too many methods to alter their own bodies and souls, so what matters is ideas, projects, and resources."
Locke nodded. That was indeed the case.
The reason Wizard Apprentices and mortals could not improve their talents through bodily modifications was not primarily a lack of resources.
It was because their bodies were too fragile.
It was like carving flowers into a block of soft tofu. Naturally, it was extremely difficult.
But a Formal Wizard's soul was protected by a Permanent Defense Field, allowing them to make relatively major changes to themselves.
Increasing their affinity with elemental particles was naturally a trivial matter.
In essence,