Natives and territory residents advanced in level and template in ways completely different from Awakeners and Evolvers. They were also entirely different from people like Cecilia and Zhen Mi, who had signed Follower Contracts.
As time passed and they grew older, natives with decent aptitude would gradually reach level 10. If they lived somewhere with abundant Spirit Force, those with good aptitude would naturally break through to level 11.
These children, for example, were boys and girls the Black Heaven Cult had painstakingly gathered to refine the Grievance Spirit Banner. All had at least above-average aptitude. Even without guidance, most would grow to be as strong as the bandits in the cult's outer organization by adulthood.
Strict military training and systematic instruction would greatly shorten that process. It could also produce Elite Templates or even Boss Templates.
Close-combat and archery experts like Li Shuyi and Cecilia had already mastered the corresponding Combat Specializations. Teaching these children would be well within their abilities.
They could also actively teach skills they had practiced to the proficient level, such as Li Shuyi's Invincible Slash sword technique and Cecilia's Stringless Bow.
The world of Evolvers tended toward realism. Bai Xiaowen therefore reasoned that professional manuals could probably be taught once mastered to a proficient level. After all, the manuals they studied now let them advance quickly by absorbing their predecessors' insights. Once they reached proficiency, perhaps they could write such manuals themselves and imbue them with their own insights.
Even if proficiency was not enough, what about the level above it? Under rules that tended toward realism, it had to be possible. But it was too early to dwell on that. Better to find a way to obtain some unclaimed professional manuals from the Spirit Realm Plane, much as he had obtained the Great