White Wizard Association Joint Competition

Locke quickly finished reading the meditation method loan contract. The 50,000 Magic Stones had to be repaid within fifty years, with a total interest rate of 50 percent. Otherwise, the Academy would forcibly seize some of his assets as collateral and auction them off to recover the money.

Of course, this was probably only a right the Academy theoretically possessed. A First-Class Wizard Apprentice was valuable simply by existing, so the Academy would not easily fall out with one of its First-Class Wizard Apprentices.

Even if a First-Class Wizard Apprentice could not repay the money, the Academy likely would not do that. It would merely gain more say over that First-Class Wizard Apprentice.

In other words, the Academy would have something to hold over them.

But that was only compared to ordinary First-Class Wizard Apprentices.

For a "genius" like Locke, who could earn massive amounts of Magic Stones through many new varieties of Magic Plants, repaying this debt would not be too difficult.

Should he sign it?

Locke thought for a moment and decided to sign.

Because this was not merely a matter of 50,000 Magic Stones.

If 50,000 Magic Stones alone could truly buy an Advanced Meditation Method, then at worst, he could wait a few years, save enough Magic Stones through synthetic plants, and exchange them later.

Though there was no need to do that.

After all, remaining at the same Mana level for a long time and only progressing at a snail's pace was psychologically torturous. But it was not that simple. The essence of this contract was to give him an opportunity to obtain an Advanced Meditation Method.

And this opportunity required a First-Class Wizard Apprentice to hand his own weakness over to the Academy's upper ranks.

That was the key.

Otherwise, according to convention, the