In the bedroom of White Dragon Tower, Locke sat on the bed after completing his meditation for the day, while also considering whether he should accept the project from the Starfield Sea.
There was no doubt that the project was very suitable for the competition he was about to enter. The only problem was its difficulty.
It was simply too difficult.
Locke himself wanted to take on the Starfield Sea project. Witch Sophia had handed it to him because he was exceptionally compatible with it, and because she believed he had a way to complete it.
Locke was confident as well. After all, he had the Synthesis Cube, which could allow him to skip a large number of experimental steps and lock onto the correct direction. He would definitely do the project, but the question was whether to use it as his competition entry.
"Completing this project will require an investment of at least a million Magic Stones, no matter how I look at it," Locke mused. "If I don't make use of this competition opportunity, who knows how long it would take me to save that much money myself? Besides, using it for the competition is the most suitable choice."
"I'm just worried that this project team won't be able to keep up with my ideas."
Aiming too high while lacking the ability to deliver was the most common problem among small mentors' project teams.
After all, not everyone pursued high-difficulty research. Many wizards were more pragmatic. For wizard society to develop, it needed both wizards who pursued ideals and wizards who kept their feet on the ground, working on translating achievements into practical applications and making incremental breakthroughs.
Because many small mentors took steps that were too large and overlooked the level of their current platform, they easily