Flitwick's Treasures

Of course, fame and fortune were not actually that important to Flitwick.

Flitwick himself was a World Wizard Dueling Tournament champion. If he truly cared so much about fame and fortune, would writing books at home over the years not have earned him more than teaching at Hogwarts?

What Flitwick valued more was spiritual fulfillment and a sense of achievement.

If anything could give him a greater sense of achievement than winning the World Wizard Dueling Tournament, it would be training another World Wizard Dueling Tournament champion, would it not?

Not only was he strong himself, but the students he taught were strong as well. That was undoubtedly the highest affirmation of his dual identity as both a duelist and a professor.

Flitwick told Manus of his decision, and after a brief moment of thought, Manus happily agreed.

Starting preparations for the Magical Schools Dueling Tournament so early was indeed beyond his original plans. A wizard dueling tournament above the interschool level had never been part of Manus's plans at all.

But plans changed, especially after Manus enrolled. As he continued encountering things that students should not have been exposed to, his plans for the future would continue to change as well.

This world was different from the one before his transmigration. Back then, although several nations had even been at war and the Main Plane was exploring and developing one discovered plane after another, things had generally been stable.

Stable enough that Manus could begin preparing his own Mage Tower before he was a hundred years old, immerse himself in research without paying any attention to the outside world, and spend centuries or millennia without worrying about falling behind the times.

Because while he himself continued to improve, the world's upper limit would not change. For beings who expanded