Benjamin's days seemed to return to a peaceful rhythm.
Until one day, he received a mission notice from Mentor Clark.
"Don't tell me it's another job like last time, where I have to provide strategic reserves?!" Benjamin looked at Mentor Clark warily.
The previous mission had exhausted him badly, even leaving him with a bit of psychological trauma.
"If it's still that kind of work, I'm not taking it. I'm very busy right now..."
"Don't worry. The situation on the Shadow Plane is going very smoothly, and there haven't been any display requirements lately." At that moment, Mentor Clark raised his head from a pile of messy papers and rubbed the bridge of his nose.
"It's about time to spread aptitude-enhancement potion for the new year. This time, you'll be responsible for dispersing it across one region. The Academy will provide the spreading equipment and route... It's a simple mission this time. It won't take up much of your time."
Benjamin found that even stranger upon hearing it. Mentor Clark was right—tasks like dispersing aptitude potion really were no trouble.
So-called aptitude-enhancement potion was a standard method the wizards used to transform planes.
As the wizards developed and expanded across the endless planes, their need for fresh blood grew greater and greater.
The losses of war, the occupation of conquered planes, the conversion of new knowledge, and breakthroughs in scientific research all required an unceasing stream of talent.
Since the chance of naturally born human populations possessing wizard aptitude was simply too low, Wizard Civilization had developed an efficient "population optimization" mechanism.
No one knew when it began, but wizards had become accustomed to regularly releasing aptitude-enhancement potion across the planes they ruled on a vast scale.
These diluted aptitude-enhancement potions would be cast over entire planes in the form