The Confidence to Face the Future

At that thought,

Wayne felt utterly refreshed. He clicked his tongue.

Long live the Tower of Truth!

As expected of the sole wizard organization. Only strict rules could give rise to such a harmonious social environment.

Of course,

the "sole wizard organization" here did not mean there were no other wizard factions. Rather,

all those factions were branches beneath the Tower of Truth.

Following a pyramid structure,

the Tower of Truth stood at the very top of wizard society, with numerous branches beneath it, such as the Lord Wizard Academy,

the Elemental Wizard Academy,

the Formation Association, the Alchemy Association, and so on—all branches under the Tower of Truth. As for wizard forces such as families,

those kinds of groups

were likewise branches beneath the Tower of Truth. In other words, every wizard in Sanctuary World belonged to the Tower of Truth organization.

There was another force of this scale:

the Temple, the central force of the knights. Every knight on the continent fell under its administration.

These two great powers

were considered the two foremost powers in Sanctuary World.

As for whether there were forces capable of rivaling

or even surpassing them, Wayne could only say that he did not know.

The reason he knew about the Temple and the Tower of Truth was because branches of these two organizations

stood throughout human lands.

Back to the matter at hand.

After sorting out the train of thought behind the Miracle Array, Wayne put the array disk back into his spatial ring.

Now that his thoughts were in order,

he only needed to proceed step by step from here on.

Next came himself.

With a flip of his hand, he took out the formation diagram for the Level One Hundred-Blade Formation.

After opening it,

he first turned to the runes. At a glance, he could not help but smile.

"Tut, I really thought I'd almost become illiterate."

After joking about it,

Wayne began reading from the beginning. This reading allowed him to rediscover the joy in it.

After all,

he recognized every word and knew what it meant. It was nothing like before, when looking at the Miracle Array's formation diagram had been like reading a heavenly scripture.

In the blink of an eye, three days passed.

On the sofa on the second floor of the villa, Wayne was flipping through the Encyclopedia of Magical Plants, delivered by Didi Flying Car at the cost of one high-grade magic crystal.

It recorded every magical plant in Sanctuary World from apprentice grade and Level One, Level Two... all the way to Level Eight.

It was an incredibly thick volume.

Even after having it for an entire morning, Wayne had not finished reading the table of contents. One could imagine how vast its contents were.

Stopping what he was doing,

Wayne raised a hand and rubbed his brow, then picked up his fruit juice and took a sip.

Only then did he speak softly.

"This won't do. If I keep reading like this, by the time I find the magical plants I need,

it'll be the Year of the Monkey and the Month of the Horse."

As he spoke, Wayne sank into thought. Then he recalled the supply-and-demand relationship he had read about in his previous life.

So he silently asked himself three questions.

What did I need?

What did they need?

What sold best?

As soon as these three questions emerged, Wayne immediately found a direction. There were too many things he needed,

but for now, there was only one underlying principle:

magical plants that could help improve his realm or compensate for his shortcomings. Those were what he needed, so he could

select some magical plants from that angle.

Second,

what did they need?

"They" naturally referred to the followers he would have under his command in the future—Elemental Wizards and knights.

Only by possessing the resources they needed

could he make them follow him.

After all, charisma was charisma, but even the strongest charm could not keep people from needing to eat, could it?

Therefore, he could also choose some magical plants from that angle.

Lastly,

what sold best?

These were preparations for the future. Whether it was for exchanging resources later or after becoming a lord,

for the construction his territory would need—such as attracting extraordinary individuals and merchant associations—

all of it was foundational preparation.

At that thought,

Wayne found his bearings and immediately began searching with a clear goal in mind.

Three hours later,

Wayne finally selected three categories and ten types of magical plants.

First, what he needed himself.

Namely,

[Cloudmist Tea]: Could increase wisdom and make one's thoughts more active.

[Golden Pear Tree]: The pears it bore contained abundant gold-element magic power. They could greatly increase gold-element magic power and strengthen the body, making them suitable for gold-element knights, wizards, dragons, and all creatures containing the gold element.

For Wayne, who possessed infinite mental power, his body and comprehension were undoubtedly what he lacked most.

Therefore, these two

suited Wayne best. Moreover, both had a Level Seven limit, making them magical plants whose path to Level Seven was already visible.

Second, what his followers needed.

Namely,

[Knight's Flower]: An essential item for knight cultivation. It could increase vitality and physical strength.

[Awakening Flower]: Could allow wizards to rapidly restore mental power.

These two

had a higher upper limit than the ones Wayne had selected for himself, having already been cultivated to Level Eight.

That was because

both were indispensable for the cultivation of knights and wizards.

Third, the bestsellers.

Wayne selected the most from this category, a full four types.

Namely,

[Dragonfang Rice]: Regular consumption could slightly improve physical fitness. More importantly, it maintained the body's energy.

Regular consumers: knights.

[Five-Element Peach Tree]: It contained the origins of the five elements and could bear gold, wood, water, fire, and earth elemental peaches,

which contained large amounts of corresponding elemental magic power.

For example: gold peaches and fire peaches.

Regular consumers: wizards, knights, and dragons.

[Dragonblood Grass]: The main ingredient in healing potions.

[Celestial Spirit Fruit Tree]: Improved bloodline purity.

The upper limit of all four had reached Level Seven,

and they sold very well.

They could be considered the foundation Wayne was laying for his territory to attract extraordinary individuals and all manner of merchant associations.

As for the final two types,

Wayne did not consider the needs of the superstructure any further. Instead, he considered the foundation:

the ordinary people within his territory.

Wayne chose wheat, an apprentice-grade magical plant whose upper limit was merely apprentice grade, but its yield was high.

That way,

as long as he nurtured these nine types of little sprites,

his future territory would have both its upper structure and its lower foundation firmly established by Wayne.

As for the last type,

it was a choice Wayne made out of personal interest.

It was the tulip.

It was a rankless magical plant. Its grade depended entirely on how one cultivated it.

There were two reasons Wayne chose tulips.

First,

he had seen the sea of roses at the Rose Marquis's place.

So he hoped that his future territory would also have a symbolic representative.

Thus,

Wayne found tulips. They came in nine colors, and in his previous life, tulips also had nine meanings in their language of flowers.

Wayne happened to remember them,

so he chose tulips.

Second,

it would also serve, after he established his territory and family in the future,

as the symbol of both his territory and his family,

just like the Rose Marquis.

Those were the ten magical plants Wayne selected after careful consideration.

He would cultivate ten of each.

In a while, he could have the Didi Flying Car people begin purchasing them. The next few days would be busy, since Wayne needed to handle all of this personally.

He could not entrust it to others.

Three more days passed.

In the villa courtyard, after Wayne placed the last tulip beneath the soil into the Miracle Array's array disk and activated it,

he controlled the floating tulip to descend into its flowerpot.

Only then did he disperse the Flight Array.

"Finally finished."

As he spoke,

he turned to look at the now vibrant courtyard.

Only then did he nod in satisfaction.

After working for three days, everything was finally done. All he had to do next was wait three years

for the little sprites to be successfully nurtured.

Wayne would then possess one hundred little sprites.

Moreover,

three years later, after passing the minor examination, he would enter the free-study phase.

At that time,

whether he was recruiting followers or making whatever plans he wished, with one hundred little sprites at his side,

it would be no different from having a hundred supercars from his previous life

parked before his front door. Followers would come flooding in like the tide.

One hundred little sprites,

dancing around him—he did not even dare imagine how much confidence that would give him.