Benjamin's gaze fell on Wizard Starfall, who was still in a state of excitement, the halo of her soul gently rippling with agitation.
A flash of insight suddenly struck his mind, and he instantly understood the true meaning behind Mentor Clark's earlier words.
When Mentor Clark said Starfall "might not make it in time for this war," he had not meant that she would be unable to reshape her body or recover her combat strength within eighty years.
The real key was that, after obtaining this Training Agreement, Noren Workshop's rational decision-makers would never allow her to personally involve herself in such a dangerous war between factions, where it was a fight to the death!
Wizard Apprentices who could obtain a Level Two Training Agreement were also one-in-ten-thousand geniuses, but among the hundreds of Noren Academies under Noren Workshop's command, there would still be seven or eight such people emerging from each intake of new students.
They were the Workshop's reserve of future talent, worth protecting, but not irreplaceable.
But a Level One Training Agreement...
Benjamin silently calculated that since Noren Workshop's founding, within the territories of its two old neighbors—the Tower of Silence and the Chaos Cult—three forces entwined for who knew how many tens of thousands of years, Starfall was very likely the first recipient of a Level One Training Agreement!
No, considering the revolutionary nature of her research results, she was almost certainly the first!
She was no longer merely Noren Workshop's treasure. She was a strategic asset marked by the highest levels of the Star Ring Federation as "possibly capable of propelling civilization as a whole into a leap forward"!
To send such an existence onto the battlefield, to participate in a high-intensity Wizard War whose outcome was uncertain and where she could fall at any