Professor Emma came from the orthodox Academy Faction.
Compared with many self-taught wizards, wizards like her had equally pronounced strengths and weaknesses—the strength of Academy Faction wizards was their solid fundamentals. From theory to practice, they might not be proficient in every aspect, but at the very least, they would not make any major mistakes, nor would they leave behind hidden dangers of demonic deviation due to flaws in their minds like self-taught wizards.
But as the saying went, fortune and misfortune went hand in hand.
Excessively favorable innate conditions gradually became shackles on the growth of Academy Faction wizards.
Because they valued fundamentals, Academy Faction wizards often studied broadly, carefully comparing the magical theories of different schools during their studies, adopting their strengths while compensating for their weaknesses. Yet this also proved the old saying: the more one knew, the more one understood one's own ignorance. Excessive caution gradually caused Academy Faction wizards to lose their spirit of fearless advancement. Put nicely, it was called being prudent and mature; put harshly, it was being old-fashioned and timid.
Too many examples of predecessors making one wrong step over minor issues and ultimately cutting off their own futures cast deep psychological shadows over young wizards, causing them to lose the courage to take risks. But on the path of magical research, risk-taking, recklessness, and making mistakes were not entirely negative things.
Following the broad road opened by their academic predecessors all the way upward was certainly steady, but it also deprived them of many chances to trial and error. Many theories of Modern Magic Theory had been stumbled into through mistakes—because a group of predecessors had accidentally taken the wrong road instead of following the path of Classical Magic, they had instead blazed the grand avenue of modern magic.
Of course,