Six days later, in his bedroom.
Locke used the advanced ditation thod and entered a ditative state. After a night had passed, he placed his palm on the athyst matrix and frowned slightly.
450.
Locke showed a bitter smile. Since leaving the beginner's benefit period, his ditation efficiency using the advanced ditation thod was approximately one point of ntal power increase every five nights.
At this rate, he could only gain 75 points of mana in a year.
But this was still the result after maxing out resources, using large amounts of potions, Weeping Blood Nightshade Potion, Stardust Tears Potion, Energy Potions, plus Four Seasons Fruit Core Incense to increase conversion efficiency.
If he didn't max out resources and spend over four hundred magic stones daily on cultivation resources, his efficiency would probably be only one-fourth of what it currently was.
Locke fell into contemplation. "After all, my original talent was only Level 3. Slow cultivation speed is normal. According to Level 3 talent cultivation speed, it would probably take around 20 nights to gain 1 point of mana originally."
"Annual mana growth wouldn't exceed 19. Even if growth speed doesn't slow with increasing mana, wanting to grow one hundred points of mana would require five to six years."
Locke's expression changed slightly. "Moreover, it will definitely beco increasingly difficult later on, with difficulty increasing geotrically. For people with Level 3 talent, relying entirely on self-cultivation without using resources, reaching 600 ntal power would require twenty to thirty years."
Locke thought, "But now I'm maxing out resources, and my cultivation speed is four tis the original, so reaching 600 ntal power should only take 5 to 6 years."
"This speed is far behind the improvent rate of Children of Elents."
"But it should be similar to the mana improvent speed of those without money to use many resources, with talent levels between 5th and 6th grade."
Locke sighed. His current cultivation speed was achieved by spending 400 magic stones daily on resources, plus using gems synthesized with his Synthesis Cube to purify the toxicity from extensive potion use.
Otherwise, using so many potions would cause major problems.
Over ti, it would leave various aftereffects on his body and slow his progress.
"If it's this difficult for , how much harder must it be for those with Level 1 and Level 2 talent?" Locke thought. "Though people with such talent probably have very low chances of becoming first-class wizard apprentices."
"Five to six years before my ntal power reaches 600, when I'll be around 24 years old." Locke frowned. Though still young and considered very promising by others, with plenty of ti before the 40-year threshold, this tifra was still sowhat long.
If it could be shortened, Locke would want to shorten it.
Because the 600 to 800 ntal power range would only be more difficult.
Moreover, Witch Sophia had told him multiple tis that the younger one was when reaching 800 ntal power, the better, the higher the probability of advancing to formal wizard.
This was why White Wizard Association had such high demand for geniuses, because geniuses advanced quickly, reaching the threshold for becoming formal wizards at a younger age, giving them much higher probabilities of becoming formal wizards than others.
Locke felt grateful. "Fortunately, I seized the beginner's benefit period and didn't let it go to waste."
"Otherwise, my current mana would probably only be in the two hundreds. At the current progress rate, I estimate it would take over ten years to reach 600 mana."
Looking back, his luck along the way had been decent. Two formal wizards had helped accelerate his acquisition of the advanced ditation thod, and he'd perfectly obtained the academy's procurent contract to utilize the beginner's benefit period.
Locke considered, "Regardless, five to six years is still too long. I need to find ways to shorten this ti."
"Strive to catch up to the speed of Children of Elents."
"The best thod would be to go to Chira Trading Market and purchase large amounts of magical resources, using them to further advance my ditation speed. Even if I can't reach the exaggerated rate of gaining over 200 ntal power points per month during the beginner's benefit period, I should at least get close to that speed."
"Wanting resources requires more money." Locke tapped the bedside table with his fingers. "But I'm already experiencing inco-expense imbalance. My botanical garden currently only generates 3,500 magic stones monthly, but my basic monthly cultivation expenses are 8,000 magic stones."
"The difference is quite large."
"If not for having a procurent contract order, this difference would be enough to put in a vicious cycle of borrowing and repaying loans until I beca a debt slave."
Locke thought, "I still must find new profit sources."
"My actual monthly expenses definitely can't be just 8,000 magic stones, because besides ditation, I have many additional expenses, like the recent vampire research experints requiring purchases of many inexpensive but nurous small equipnt pieces, collectively another expense."
"The botanical garden, laboratory, and pharmacy all require money."
"No wonder those first-class wizard apprentices always like exploiting second and third-class wizard apprentices. If I didn't have the Synthesis Cube to beco a genius breeder and potion master with other inco sources, I'd have to 'fall' too."
Locke rubbed his temples. To progress rapidly, he still needed to find more inco sources, he was still poor.
However, regarding the pharmacy, there was no imdiate way to quickly increase inco, since potions were ant for human consumption.
The approval process was extraordinarily lengthy but Locke had heard that Anglon had developed many potions that hadn't completed all approval processes and entered Chira Trading Market.
He seed to leverage his ntor Halen Vera's powerful network to solve many troubleso procedures, greatly accelerating his personal pharmacy's research-to-validation phases for each potion.
The validation phase was every pharmacy's greatest cost. Anglon had managed costs well in this area through his ntor's network connections.
His character just wasn't very good.
"Let's sleep first." Locke snapped his fingers, and the bedroom candles imdiately extinguished. "Many first-class wizard apprentices stay at this stage for decades anyway."
"Except for geniuses among geniuses like my teacher, Witch Sophia, no one can avoid this."
"I've already fully utilized the advanced ditation thod's beginner benefit period, gaining far more advantages than others."
"Tomorrow I'll visit the library to see what rating my report from a few days ago received, hopefully exchanging for so magical resources." Locke thought, "In the future, after passing the breeder examination and achieving good results in the breeder competition finals, I can gain another batch of resources."
"Also, I need to quickly decide my potion studies developnt direction and determine my personal pharmacy's specific research focus to better earn money."
"Moreover, I still have one wizard secret realm resource that I haven't chosen to exchange yet."
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