After leaving Gorsa's Wizard Tower, Wizard Murphy appeared atop the Wall of Sighs.
"Lord Murphy!"
"Lord Murphy!"
The patrolling wizards who passed by respectfully greeted Murphy.
They greeted him with genuine warmth and sincerity, looking at the great wizard who had selflessly devoted over a hundred years to the Stat Continent.
Unlike Flim and Alik, Wizard Murphy had never established a wizard faction. He had led the wizards in resisting the Black Tide all this time, protecting the Stat Continent's peace for so many years.
That was why wizards from every faction treated Wizard Murphy with great respect.
Murphy paid them no heed, simply gazing quietly out at the distant sea.
A wave of the Black Tide had just passed, and many wizards had died at the Wall of Sighs. Fortunately, this wave had not been very strong, and their losses were still within acceptable limits.
"The lower-tier wizards are developing too slowly these days." Some people were talking in the distance. They hadn't seen Murphy, but he could hear them clearly.
"Another Wizard Tower has become vacant, but no new Tier 3 Wizards have come to report for duty."
"In my opinion, we should implement the Ascension Channel Law again. We shouldn't waste our resources on wizards who can't advance. Anyone who hasn't become a Level 3 Apprentice by the age of thirty, or an Official Wizard by fifty, should be forced to become a cornerstone of the Wall of Sighs."
"Cornerstone" was just a nicer name for cannon fodder.
The one who said this was a Tier 1 Wizard.
If he had been a Tier 2 Wizard, he would have added something like, "Anyone who hasn't become a Tier 2 Wizard by a certain age."
Murphy chuckled and shook his head.
"What a bunch of self-indulgent fools." He