"So this is actually somewhat similar to the spells bestowed by a Sect Master."
To verify whether Bubu's method truly worked, Jia Xiu combed through a massive pile of materials.
In the end, he unexpectedly found something in records related to Warlocks.
It was a Warlock's speculation on why Warlocks could use abilities or spells bestowed by their Sect Masters.
Surprisingly, it had not been a Mage researching Warlocks out of curiosity. Someone among the Warlocks themselves had taken the initiative to study it.
Jia Xiu suddenly felt the comfort of finding a fellow traveler. It turned out he was not the only Warlock whose main profession was academia.
Come to think of it, that made sense. Their line of work essentially meant doing whatever their Sect Masters liked doing. Who was to say there could not be a few Sect Masters who enjoyed research?
Reasonable.
Speaking of which, a powerful Sect Master could have more than one contracted Warlock. What if there were an academic-type Sect Master who signed up a whole bunch of Warlocks, assigned them research tasks, and refused to grant them power if they failed to finish their work?
He got it. The relationship most resembling that between a Sect Master and a Warlock was not that of a god and believer—it was that of an advisor and graduate student!
There were even methods for those who did not want to complete their tasks in exchange for power: taking the social route to forge a closer connection, even directly climbing to the top, switching positions, and thoroughly bewitching the other party so they could reap without sowing.
Jia Xiu could not help recalling the outrageous little stories from academic circles he had read before.
All he could say was that each wave crashed higher than the