Three Paths of Lord Wizards

As for this,

Compared to Wayne's apprentice-level wizard array, the Golden Nurturing Array, it was the most suitable choice,

but Wayne was in no hurry,

because although he had gained a basic understanding of the introductory chapter on Lord Wizards,

his current grasp of the basics was still insufficient when it came to the area of his sea of consciousness.

For instance, after imprinting an apprentice-level wizard array,

would his sea of consciousness become insufficient after he advanced to a Level One official Lord Wizard,

leaving him unable to continue progressing?

Whether he could continue leveling up afterward was also something Wayne needed to consider carefully.

Foundation.

It sounded commonplace, but Wayne knew even better that another name for foundation was groundwork. Only with solid groundwork could he,

Wayne,

walk more steadily and farther along the path of pursuing truth.

As he pondered,

Wayne's stomach suddenly growled, and he stopped hesitating.

After putting a top-grade non-elemental magic crystal

and the gold card into his pocket,

he headed outside the villa.

The next day arrived.

Wayne got up early, washed up,

and headed for the teleportation passage.

After finding a senior student on the way and paying him one purple gold coin, the senior sent him to the Teaching District.

Watching the senior fly away,

Wayne's mouth twitched. "What a twisted sense of humor."

Starting from yesterday's meal,

Wayne had realized a problem. The academy was so enormous that even with teleportation passages,

each district itself was still vast,

making travel far too time-consuming. It was not until he walked out of the entrance to the seventh dormitory district for new students

that Wayne truly understood

what a twisted sense of humor meant. Many senior students from the Elemental Wizard Academy had set themselves up outside as Didi Flying Cars.

Why did they do that?

The academy called it "cultivating bonds early, in preparation for becoming followers."

Of course,

there was another consideration: work-study programs. Compared to the Lord Wizard Academy,

the other two academies

were painfully difficult places, charging money for everything.

Knowledge cost money,

experiments cost money, and everything everywhere cost money. There were also many commoners among them, since advanced talent was not as difficult to awaken as top-tier talent.

In contrast, at the Lord Wizard Academy,

every student who could enroll came from a family. Even the worst off were descendants of meritorious figures like Wayne,

and had received investment from the lord of their home region.

After all, every student who could enter the Lord Wizard Academy possessed top-tier talent.

Of course,

if one asked whether there were unlucky people who had received no investment—

of course there were.

[Rose Marquis: Please watch the VCR of the second awakener with dual top-tier talents!]

What were they supposed to do?

The senior students had put it this way: walk on their own two legs, of course.

They could treat it as exercise, anyway.

Back to the point.

As for why Wayne had come to the Teaching District,

it was not to attend class.

That could be done at any time.

What mattered most right now

was that Wayne intended to visit the library and look for records and materials on Lord Wizard cultivation,

hoping to gain a complete understanding.

Rather than charging in headfirst without knowing anything.

Three days passed.

Wayne leaned against the sofa in the living room on the second floor of the villa, quietly thinking.

Over the past three days,

after Wayne had charged one hundred purple gold coins to Rose Marquis's supplementary gold card, he had finally gained

an overall understanding

of Lord Wizards.

First, Lord Wizards had three paths. The first was the Elemental Wizard Array Master path, centered around elemental wizard arrays.

For example,

the apprentice-level imprint, Golden Element Energy-Gathering Auxiliary Formation,

or the Level One wizard imprint, Golden Element: Golden Radiance Formation, and so on.

In essence,

it involved splitting a complete super array into several arrays. In the end, for a Level Seven True Spirit Golden Element Lord Wizard,

it would form

the Level Seven True Spirit Array: Myriad Golden Radiance Formation.

With a light tap of one finger,

a True Spirit-level array spanning hundreds of millions of miles would take shape,

and countless golden rays would descend from the sky,

creating an all-encompassing attack.

To be honest, Wayne was tempted when he saw this.

After all,

the description alone made it terrifyingly powerful. Yet Wayne always felt that this path was not comprehensive enough,

or rather, that it did not suit him.

But that was also thanks to Wayne's speculation. If his next speculation came true,

then among the remaining two paths,

one would be Wayne's choice, and he would not become a representative of being capable of everything yet good at nothing, like Murong Fu.

The second Lord Wizard path

was that of the functional wizard array master. The arrays they imprinted

were functional in nature.

Such as teleportation arrays and alchemy arrays. They assisted Lord Wizards, and after a territory's hundred years of development came to an end,

they often created the wealthiest territories.

Prosperity

and wealth were their bywords.

Although they did not become synonymous with power like Elemental Wizards,

under the current backdrop of the Great Development Era,

there was no warfare.

Therefore, this functional Lord Wizard path was the choice of most Lord Wizards.

However,

it did not suit Wayne. From the first day he had been born into this other world,

he had known

that he would not live for a mere hundred years. So the question was,

if even a hundred-year lifespan could not satisfy him,

then his goal was naturally immortality. But if it was immortality he sought, how could Lord Wizards, who were now called the protagonists of the era,

possibly

remain the protagonists of the era forever?

Since that was the case, there might be no wars at present, but would there not be wars in the future?

Therefore, this path did not suit Wayne.

After all,

when Chinese people had a choice, no one would want to place their own safety,

even with the slightest possibility,

in someone else's hands.

That left only the final path, the one Wayne would choose if his speculation proved correct.

This path was that of the all-round wizard.

Of course, in the current era, this path was also called the good-for-nothing wizard path. It was terrifyingly strong in the early stages,

able to fight and capable of many functions as well.

But once one reached the Level Seven True Spirit stage, one became good at nothing. Their functions could not compare with those of functional Lord Wizards,

and their attacks could not compare with Elemental Lord Wizards who focused purely on offense.

The sea of consciousness had only so much space.

Therefore, among Lord Wizards,

this path

had become known as all-round at the lower levels,

and good at nothing at the highest levels.

The underlying reason was that it divided the sea of consciousness into two parts. One part imprinted elemental offensive killing arrays,

while the other was used for functional imprints.

To be honest, Wayne thought highly of this path. Even though his speculation had not yet been verified,

he still favored it.

The reason was that this path faced the problem of insufficient sea of consciousness area. But from another perspective,

if the area were sufficient,

then this path could be said to be a road leading straight to heaven. Right now, Wayne faced

two questions.

First, would his speculation succeed?

Second, why was it that on the path of all-round Lord Wizards, once they reached the Level Seven True Spirit Lord Wizard level,

the area of their sea of consciousness had still not expanded enough

to carry two complete wizard arrays?

As long as he understood the reason, Wayne could determine whether his speculation was correct

and then make his choice,

or even deduce

the wizard path most suitable for himself.

[Everyone, take a guess. What is the protagonist's speculation?]