In the days that followed, Jeming’s life seemed to return to a calm rhythm.

Until this day, he received an assignment notification from Professor Clark.

“Is it going to be another strategic supply task like before?!” Jeming watchfully looked at Professor Clark.

The last task had exhausted him, leaving him with quite a bit of psychological shadow.

“If it’s the same as last time, I won’t accept it. I’m really busy now…”

“Don’t worry, the situation on the Shadow Plane is going smoothly, and there hasn’t been any wartime demand recently.” Professor Clark lifted his head from a pile of messy papers and rubbed his temples.

“It’s almost that time of year again to dispense the Talent Transformation Potion, and this time, you need to execute the dispensing task in one area. The Academy will provide dispensing equipment and routes… this is a simple task, it won’t take up much of your time.”

Upon hearing this, Jeming was even more puzzled. Professor Clark was right; tasks like dispensing Talent Potion indeed weren’t troublesome.

The so-called dispensing of Talent Potion is an inherent method by which wizards transform a plane.

With the development and expansion of the Endless Plane by wizards, their need for fresh blood is growing.

The attrition of war, occupation following plane conquests, transformation of new knowledge, and breakthroughs in research fields all require an endless supply of talent.

Given the extremely low probability of humans naturally having wizard aptitude, the Wizard Civilization has developed an efficient “population optimization” mechanism.

At some point in time, wizards began the habitual practice of periodically deploying Talent Transformation Potion in the planes they rule over.

These diluted Talent Transformation Potions are introduced into the entire plane in a form akin to rain, gradually improving the average aptitude of humans within the plane.

This transformation is subtle, not demanding immediate results.

Moreover, when people with high aptitude combine, they have a slightly higher chance of producing offspring with higher aptitude. As long as this continues, in time it will achieve the widespread capacity for meditation cultivation among all humans in the plane.

The subordinate planes of the Nolun Workshop are divided into two parts.

One part is the Core Plane, numbered before 10, those with a long history. They’ve been transformed for so long that they have achieved the goal of everyone possessing extraordinary talents, and the average level of aptitude is extremely high.

The other part includes planes newly established after the later expansions, ranging from number 10 to over 130, such as the Nolun 13th Plane where Jeming is located.

The Nolun 13th Plane where Jeming resides hasn’t been undergoing transformation for too long compared to the Core Plane, perhaps only about 200 to 300 years, so the average growth in the aptitude of people in the plane is not significant, and the proportion able to enter the transcendent stage is not high.

For this reason, wizards have maintained a medieval living and technological standard in this plane, and the existence of the extraordinary is not revealed, to ensure social structure stability.

Only when the proportion of the population able to practice the Meditation Method reaches a certain level, will wizards gradually reveal the existence of extraordinary power, guiding ordinary people to below engage with it.

And when the proportion of transcendents rises a bit more, they might even elevate the technological levels and production levels of the plane to satisfy the lifestyle and psychological needs of more and more transcendents.

In the Core Planes, which have universal possession of talents beyond the First Level, the technological standards can even reach levels akin to those in futuristic science fiction worlds.

Because by then, even the most ordinary person in the plane can utilize extraordinary powers, and equipment operating on extraordinary powers can be freely distributed to achieve a technological leap.

Of course, in addition to humans on the traditional wizard planes, the Wizard Civilization also has numerous servant tribes under its rule.

Although their power varies, the proportion of transcendents in the tribes able to become servants is generally quite remarkable, most staying at 100%.

Moreover, the Wizard Civilization has acquired much knowledge that allows ordinary people to ascend to extraordinary status while conquering various Multi-Dimensional Planes, and it even possesses technologies to transform ordinary people into transcendents.

Despite such advantageous conditions, the Wizard Civilization still does not relax the thresholds for producing transcendents.

Over time, this knowledge is gradually phased out, or absorbed into the wizard system.

The main reason for choosing this approach is simple: the Wizard Civilization is too powerful!

While the knowledge that might enable ordinary people to gain extraordinary power is valid, it mostly produces weak transcendents with too low cost-effectiveness.

And for the present Wizard Civilization, weak transcendents incapable of advancing knowledge have no real significance, only increasing management costs.

For instance, a regular Alchemy Wizard, once mastering Human Alchemy Technique and Artificial Soul Technology, can, provided the resources, independently produce armies of transcendents.

Like Clark, a Sixth Level Alchemy Wizard, can even mass-produce Fourth Level Wizard-level transcendents on an assembly line approach, and his elite units can also reach the Sixth Level.

For such an existence, the knowledge that might allow mortals to birth transcendents at steamline holds no meaning.

Thus, unless the number of talented individuals in the entire civilization system is so high it can’t be concealed, wizards will not open the path to the extraordinary for untalented ordinary people.

After years of development, wizards have ultimately concluded that only High Tier Wizards hold true value in the Wizard Civilization.

And entities like Wizard Academies essentially serve as cradles for producing higher tier wizards, with Wizard Apprentices merely being consumables in the process of selecting for High Tier Wizards.

So, even for a plane like Nolun 13th Plane that’s “newly” developed, regardless of the low number of talented individuals, Nolun Academy still requires apprentices with talents of the Third Level or above, without any intention to relax the threshold.

Ultimately, the testing of wizard talent reflects one’s innate spiritual power and soul strength; someone with high talent might not necessarily be wise, but someone wise is definitely not low in talent.

To the wizards, cultivating those who don’t meet talent standards is “not cost-effective,” and their only function is to birth more talented individuals.

This is the Wizard Civilization, a civilization rational to the point of ruthless.

But as a beneficiary of this system, Jeming really has no objections.

After all, although it seems like it cuts off most people’s choices, even according to his moral standpoint, the wizards treat their talentless kin quite decently.

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