Main Text Chapter 61 The Crossroads of Life
After Sanders finished this part, he told Angel a bit about the research on fit in the wizarding world.
"The quantification of the fit of the mental power model is a concept proposed by Runenberg, the all-encompassing wizard a hundred years ago. Because of the conflicting nature of this concept, it is only circulated in the circle of formal wizards, and few apprentices know about it."
Sanders said: "Runenberg measures each gifted person's fit with the mental power model on a scale of 0-100. If the fit exceeds 20, it is already very good and there is hope of becoming an official wizard."
"I said before that with mass guidance methods such as the "Triangular Guidance Method", some people can become wizards, but some people will waste their lives. This is because...this mass guidance method actually has no guarantee of compatibility. With good luck, People, maybe your compatibility with the Triangle Guidance Method is very high, then you may be able to break through the wizard barrier and achieve immortality in the future. But for those who are unlucky, maybe your compatibility with the Triangle Guidance Method is 0, and you will not be able to step into it for the rest of your life. It is also possible to enter the junior apprenticeship stage.”
"Of course, in addition to this mass guidance method, almost every wizard organization has a more precious special guidance method. The reason why this special guidance method is precious is that they guarantee the compatibility!"
"For example, our Savage Cave has more than ten special guidance methods. The most common one is called "Six-sided Rhombic Crystal Extended Meditation Method." No matter how talented anyone practices this guidance method, there will be at least a 3-level fit. Guaranteed.”
Angel didn't understand what Sanders was talking about at first, but when he said this, he gradually understood: "There are 3 degrees of compatibility as a guarantee...that is to say, when you practice this guidance method, you will have 3 degrees of compatibility. On the basis of this, if this talented person is still suitable for this guidance method, then the degree of fit will be higher? "
In fact, this is just like the ring game in some amusement parks on Earth. There are various playthings on the ground, and then you pay for 10 rings. As long as the plaything is in the ring, then this thing is yours. No matter if you don't catch a toy in 10 traps, as long as you buy 10 traps, the seller will give you a keychain, and this keychain is the so-called guarantee.
In the same way, if a guidance method has a guaranteed value, then based on this guaranteed value, there will be much room for control.
Sanders: "Yes, many special guidance methods are secrets that have been studied for generations by various wizarding schools. It is precisely because of the guaranteed compatibility that people flock to them."
"I see. Then why don't you let the apprentices learn this special guidance method from the beginning?" Angel wondered, could it be that he has a selfish mentality?
"Even if each wizarding school decides to open up special guidance methods for talented people to learn, with a guarantee, the degree of compatibility may not be high enough to definitely become a wizard." Sanders added: "Did you know that the degree of compatibility needs to be How high does it take to become a 100% wizard?"
How high is it? Of course Angel didn't know, but he estimated in his heart that if the compatibility is more than 20, it is possible to become a wizard, then...
"60?" Angel thought this number might be more reasonable.
Sanders shook his head: "Lunenberg's inference is that one must have a compatibility level of over 95 to become a 100% wizard."
"Not everyone can achieve 95 compatibility. For the sake of an unreachable number, it is completely unnecessary for major wizard organizations to popularize their own special guidance methods. Use special guidance methods as a target Sexual strategy, that’s fine.”
"So, generally speaking, if you want to get the special guidance method of the wizard organization, you need to pay a high price."
When Sanders said this, he turned to look at Angel:
"What I should tell you is pretty much the same. Yesterday I said that I would give you a chance to choose the guidance method. So, let's start now."
Angel's expression also became solemn.
"First, I will teach you the core guidance method of the Savage Cave, the "Montos Eight-Side Guidance Method". It is the guidance method with the highest guaranteed fit among all the special guidance methods in the Savage Cave, with a guaranteed value of 13." Sander After Si finished talking about the first choice, he added, "If you want to get it, you have to pay. The price is to sign a contract with Savage Cave for at least a hundred years. Within a hundred years, the organization has the right to make any arrangements for you, and you must obey unconditionally." "
A hundred-year contract...and it has the most inhumane overlord clause. Angel was a little scared and hoped that the next one would be better.
"Second, you can create your own spiritual power model based on "Initial Glory" on the third shelf of the library." When Sanders finished talking about this choice, he did not say the price to pay. Because if you want to build a mental power model alone, it cannot be completed by just one person. The construction time of many models often requires hundreds of people from the entire organization to perform repeated calculations and comparisons before they can be completed.
Moreover, "Initial Glory", which records the birth of the first meditation method, is actually not valuable. In the wizard's exchange, one magic crystal can buy dozens of copies.
"Third, I will recommend you a special guidance book. I don't know the guaranteed value of this guidance book. Because it is very special... Moreover, this guidance book is not in my hands, not even in the wizard's hands. Realm, it’s in another plane. This plane is called the Nightmare Realm.”
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Angel was worried when he returned to his tent.
Angel didn't even take off his clothes. He threw himself directly into the soft quilt and remained motionless. Even Toby stood on his back and played, but he didn't care. He was immersed in complicated thoughts.
Sanders gave him ten days to make a choice and reply to him before landing in the Guman Kingdom. Angel agreed, and he also needed some time to think.
The reason why he didn't make a decision immediately was that every choice was not a smooth road for him.
Choose to sign a hundred-year overlord clause with the Savage Cave? Angel didn't want to. He didn't even know what the specific style of the Savage Cave was. How could he easily agree to become their puppet?
But after listening to Sanders' other two ways, Angel felt that signing a contract with the Savage Cave might be simpler.
The second way Sanders gave him was to create a mental model by himself. This way sounds simple, but it is not easy to do.
Sanders warned him that this way might be the most difficult way, and countless wizards died on this way one after another. Angel didn't know what this way was, but seeing Sanders's serious look, he didn't dare to try it easily.
It took hundreds of years to come up with a useful mental model with the ability of the entire wizard organization. Can he complete it alone? And it was completed in a short time. This is absolutely impossible.
So Angel had to give up this option.
The third option Sanders gave him was even more mysterious.
This special guidance method that existed in the Nightmare Realm was once accidentally seen by Sanders before he was promoted to a wizard. When he was in the Nightmare Realm, he could recite this guidance method by heart, so he was ready to return to the wizard world and restart his life with this guidance method.
But strangely, after he returned to the wizard world, he completely forgot the content of the guidance method. He only remembered that he had this experience and that this guidance method seemed really precious.
Things in the Nightmare Realm have always been mysterious. So Sanders had to give up.
Later, after Sanders was promoted to a formal wizard, because of his own talent, he went in and out of the Nightmare Realm many times, and he saw the guidance method again, but it was still the same as last time-
When he was in the Nightmare Realm, he could recite the guidance method by heart. But when he returned to the wizard world, he couldn't remember it at all.
The Nightmare Realm is also a very special type among all the discovered pan-planes. It is impossible to record the guidance method by being clever. Because the nightmare world seems real and fake, like a fantasy and real, what you see may not be real, and what you think is fake may be real.
After many years of hard work, Sanders still has no results. He thought that the guidance method may not be for him, and then he simply gave up. Until Angel appeared.
Angel buried his head in the quilt, and his mind was still echoing what Sanders said when he left:
"Your talent is very special, and you are very likely to get the guidance method. Although my magic is related to the nightmare world, I have to say that the nightmare world is full of dangers, and it is a life-threatening situation for a formal wizard to step into it. So, you have to choose carefully."