Leo didn't discuss artificial intelligence with Yaoyao; such a difficult topic would be like casting pearls before swine.
After resolving matters at the Academy of Sciences of Sciences, Leo privately met with nuclear energy experts to inquire about the progress of the nuclear plant and nuclear research.
Nuclear fusion was the key to Leo's advancement to the Stigmata Level. Before the New Earth was under Leo's control, he couldn't even buy a hydrogen bomb, and all information about nuclear fusion was prohibited.
Now, not only do they have all the data on nuclear fusion, but Leo's Shadow Space also contains more than a dozen high-yield hydrogen bombs.
Leo had witnessed the power of this weapon before. The explosion instantly killed a level three extreme Tiger Beastmen at its center, and the aftershocks dealt 10,000 damage at a distance of five kilometers. Even at a distance of fifty kilometers, it still had more than 1,000 attack power, making it a solid level four attack.
If we had possessed such a powerful weapon beforehand, we wouldn't have been so helpless during the Purple Flame Stigmata Wizard's rampage...
This powerful weapon that threatens one's personal safety must be completely under one's own control, and no one else should be allowed to touch it.
Therefore, when Leo fully took control of the New Earth, the first thing he did was to centralize the management of all hydrogen bombs. Of the two thousand Gulu Beast he brought, a quarter were stationed in the nuclear factory to guard against any unforeseen dangers. That place was arguably the second safest place on the New Earth.
The ten leaders had no objection to these demands, because before Leo, these hydrogen bombs were not under their control.
Leo's only request was to transfer the hydrogen bomb to someone else.
The academy on the New Earth is operating smoothly, with the number of students admitted each year remaining constant at one thousand. Since Hu Jianxing was the first to be promoted to Low-Level Wizard Apprentice, over the years it has been able to guarantee an average of two students being promoted every day.
In just over a year, Leo will need to open a spatial portal to send a thousand apprentices to the Wizard World for higher-level learning.
While it seems like a great achievement to have two students successfully promoted to the academy every day, it doesn't mean that everyone can succeed.
Even if these students were selected based on their highest basic attributes, once they arrived at the academy, it couldn't prevent them from falling behind in the courses and becoming complacent.
If a student fails to advance to the Wizard Apprentice within five years, they will face either expulsion or remaining at the academy in a second-tier position.
In the Wizard World, it takes an average of eight years for an ordinary person to become Low-Level Wizard Apprentice. In a place like the New Earth Wizard Academy, where energy is scarce, Leo only gave them five years, which is quite strict, even to the point of being somewhat cruel.
But for Leo, his resources are limited, so he must choose the best among the best and avoid wasting any resources.
Furthermore, the fact that these students are selected from billions of people worldwide, that they have the opportunity to know the truth of the world and have the chance to come into contact with wizards, is already the greatest opportunity of their lives.
Even if they are expelled from the academy, their lives will not be ordinary. In the eyes of the government, these expelled people are high-quality talents, the top students they desperately want.
After all, those who can graduate from the academy are no ordinary people!
Not becoming Wizard Apprentice after five years at the academy does not mean that being expelled will prevent one from becoming an apprentice.
The academy is expelling their people, not the knowledge they possess.
In less than a decade, graduates of the academy have already established themselves in the political and business spheres of New Earth.
In the past twenty years, in a world beyond the comprehension of ordinary people, those who have graduated from the academy have woven a vast and intricate web around the world, bringing the entire world under their control.
Leaving the academy does not mean that these people have no connection with it anymore. The academy has promised that as long as they achieve certain results, they can still redeem corresponding rewards from the academy.
For example, the energy they need for cultivation, and the fruits that are more effective than any medicine, have led many students to achieve advancement outside the academy.
Thirty years later, even among the top ten leaders, there was a student from the academy. Although there was only one, everyone who knew the inside story knew that within a few decades, the academy would firmly control the world in every aspect.
Can these students betray the academy and betray Leo?
Impossible, because they signed a contract when they enrolled. The academy would provide them with cultivation resources and all the necessary learning conditions. The price was that, under the witness of the Wizard Will, they would repay the academy and Leo according to their level of achievement.
The contract stipulates that the lower the level of the trainee, the more requirements there will be. If they never advance to the apprentice level and remain ordinary people, they will face the obligation to never betray and to always obey.
As your level increases, the fewer restrictions you'll face.
Once they reach the level of Official Wizard, they only need to use a portion of their earnings to repay the academy for its guidance; the academy will not control Official Wizard.
It wasn't that Leo didn't want to control these students, but rather that the Wizard Will had strict rules: no wizard was allowed to enslave another wizard in any form.
Leo cannot lock this student in for life through a contract, because such a contract is inherently invalid.
However, while Leo recouped his costs a thousandfold from them, he also bound them together with various benefits, leaving them all with his mark. After all, their home planet was under Leo 'Leo control, and the academies they studied at since childhood were also Leo's. These emotional entanglements meant that they could not completely break free from Leo.
In the fortieth year, the first student to be promoted to Official Wizard appeared. It was Hu Jianxing again, who was promoted one level as Elemental Wizard.
Since the founding of both the New Earth Wizard Academy and the Wizard World Leo Wizard Academy, this school has achieved its first-ever Level 1 promotion with top marks in all exams and promotions!
The current Leo Wizard Academy in the Wizard World is no longer the desolate place it once was, with only a thousand students and twenty teachers.
Nearly 25,000 students, 50 full-time teachers, and hundreds of apprentices and teaching assistants.
This number of apprentices is not much different from other Stigmata academies. As long as the high-end talent pool is replenished, it will be a complete academy.
At this moment, the area beneath the central tower of the academy was already crowded with apprentices, all of whom had been transferred to the Wizard World from the New Earth in recent years.
The students varied in strength, ranging from Low-Level Wizard Apprentice who had just entered the Wizard World to those like Meng Jie, who were among the first batch of students, and some of them had even reached the peak of the apprentice level.
They were eagerly awaiting the tower's gates. The first among them, Hu Jianxing, had entered the tower two months prior to undergo a Official Wizard.
They had just sensed a breakthrough, and the location was right here at the tower. It was obvious that their senior, Hu Jianxing, had once again accomplished a great feat.
As the tower doors slowly opened, Hu Jianxing, dressed in a wizard's robe, flew out of the tower.
"Senior, you're awesome!"
"Senior, that's awesome."
Watching Hu Jianxing fly through the air using his own abilities, everyone below cheered, for the Official Wizard is the ability to fly without the aid of any external force.
Even the usually composed Hu Jianxing couldn't suppress the smile that appeared on his face at this moment. He couldn't even remember how much hardship he had endured in his forty years of hard study and struggle, but it was all worth it.
As the car slowly landed in front of the crowd, Meng Jie, Shi Xiang, Liu Xinqi, and a group of familiar friends stepped forward to offer their congratulations, "Congratulations, congratulations!"
"Hahaha, sorry I got ahead of you again." Hu Jianxing laughed heartily. Breaking through to the Level One Formal Wizard meant that his lifespan was as high as a thousand years, and the amount of magic he could release with every move exceeded one thousand points.
He is already a walking urban disaster, a wizard capable of participating in expeditions!
We will catch up with you.
After forty years of friendship, Meng Jie and his friends didn't feel any neglect towards Hu Jianxing's promotion; on the contrary, they were genuinely happy for their friend.
"I've prepared a party at my dorm, and everything was bought from Green Cottage, just to celebrate for you."
"Then you're going to spend a lot of money." Hu Jianxing patted his good brother on the shoulder. The things at Green Cottage were good, but they were also really expensive. They usually saved up for many years before daring to splurge a little. He didn't expect his brother to be so generous today.
"It's alright, I'll just tell them to remember your debt."
How could you do this?
"Now that you've become First-Level Wizard, you'll be the one earning energy crystals. Why are you still arguing with us who spend Wizard Coin?"
You're absolutely right.
A group of people, chatting and laughing, walked towards their dormitory. They were from New Earth, and the emergence of Official Wizard was something to celebrate.
The expenses for the celebration were not recorded in Hu Jianxing's account, but were paid for by everyone pooling their money.
After the party, Hu Jianli gathered the first group of apprentices who had come to the Wizard World together.
"We've been in the Wizard World from New Earth for 36 years. I've already submitted an application to Vice Dean Charlotte to return to New Earth once. I expect to hear back in a few days. Get ready, we're going back together."
"I'm speechless, thank you so much."
The students were moved to tears by Hu Jianxing's words. When they first came, they said it would be difficult to go back, but no one expected it to be so difficult. They had stayed in the Wizard World for 36 years and had never gone back even once.
These apprentices had a lifespan of 200 years, and Hu Jianxing's lifespan reached 1000 years after advancing one level. 36 years was nothing to them, but for humans on the New Earth, it was half a lifetime, or even a lifetime for some.
The fact that Hu Jianxing thought of them after his promotion and allowed them to return to Earth is equivalent to giving them a precious opportunity to see their families again.