Benjamin could not help but sink into thought.
The first method was basically out of the question. Although Wizard Civilization was advanced enough, Level 8 Wizards were still the absolute ceiling.
As for Level 9 Wizards, such beings had already transcended the very concept of this world. They existed entirely beyond the ceiling.
Although there were quite a few Level 8 Wizards across Wizard Civilization as a whole, these wizards generally followed at the sides of Level 9 Wizards, expanding territory on the true front-line battlefields.
Places like Noren Academy... or even the entire region under Noren Workshop's responsibility, were merely scraps of scraps from the Plane Battlefield. It did not even count as "bandit suppression"—at most, it was "postwar reconstruction."
So there was no point even thinking of getting a Level 8 Wizard to deal with the enemy. They could only use the remaining two methods.
There was naturally no need to elaborate on weakening the Plane Origin. The Academy mostly used methods of this kind, and most importantly, this method could also intensify the war to a certain extent.
As for the Wizard Apprentices lost in the process, they were merely a necessary price. Even the Wizard Apprentices themselves would not deny that.
It was no exaggeration to say that the value of a single high-ranking wizard far surpassed that of tens of thousands of low-ranking wizards.
So to Wizard Civilization, the second method... was a win-win situation.
The principle behind the final method was actually very simple.
Level 6 beings could come into contact with the Plane Origin, provided that the plane itself did not resist them.
In other words, if it was an outside Level 6 creature, manipulating it would be extremely difficult unless it forcibly subdued the entire plane.
But a Level 6 being that