After the simple ceremony ended, Charles became an officially registered Third-Ring Grand Wizard of Isata.
There were many benefits to becoming a Grand Wizard. First, he could spend a small sum to purchase a tower from Isata's middle and upper echelons.
Such a tower served many purposes. Like Anderson, he could use it as his own lair.
His own business, interplanar portals, teaching the students he took in here, making money here, and so on.
When Charles had been a First-Ring or Second-Ring Wizard, he could have taken students as well.
But at that time, Charles himself had still been a student, and he had been extremely busy. He rarely moved about within Isata, and had few opportunities to recruit good students.
But after becoming a Third-Ring Grand Wizard, Charles had developed his own insights into both the mastery of wizardry and methods of cultivation.
He could make a grand display of it, like Anderson, and take in a large number of students at once.
If he were more ruthless, he could even raise them like venomous insects in a jar—selecting only the outstanding ones from among them, while treating the rest as expendable fodder.
Even if he were kinder, taking in these students could still help Charles make money.
Charles could even bring these students to fight in his own plane, needing only to pay them part of their wages.
For the rest, he could use knowledge as payment.
Anderson was the same. Most of the wizards in his current wizard force were his students, so his expenses were very low.
A wizard's combat strength far surpassed that of professional fighters.
Charles also planned to return to Isata and take in a large group of students once his territory in the Osela plane had stabilized.
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