Chapter 145

Chapter 145 Imbalance of Income and Expenditure

Six days later, in the bedroom.

Locke used advanced meditation techniques to enter a meditative state. After a night, he placed his palm on the amethyst matrix and frowned slightly.

450.

Locke gave a wry smile. Ever since he left the novice benefit period, the efficiency of his advanced meditation method was to increase his mental strength by about one point every five nights.

At this rate, he could only increase his mana by 75 points per year.

But this was the result after he had maximized his resources and used a large number of potions, including the Blood-Weeping Nightshade Potion, the Star Tears Potion, the Energy Potion, and the Four Seasons Fruit Core Fragrance to increase the conversion efficiency.

If he doesn’t use up all the resources and spends more than 400 magic stones on cultivation resources every day, his efficiency should be only a quarter of what it is now.

Locke fell into deep thought. “After all, my original talent was only level 3, so it’s natural that my cultivation speed would be slow. Based on the cultivation speed of a level 3 talent, it would probably take about 20 nights to increase one point of mana.”

“The mana increase in a year will not exceed 19. Even if the growth rate does not slow down as the mana increases, it will take five to six years to increase mana by 100 points.”

Locke’s expression changed slightly. “And it will definitely get harder and harder later on. The difficulty will increase exponentially. For someone with level three qualifications, if they rely entirely on self-cultivation without using any resources, it will take 20 to 30 years for their spiritual power to approach 600.”

Locke thought, “But now that I have maxed out my resources, my training speed is four times faster than before, so it should only take me five to six years to reach 600 spiritual power.”

“This speed is far behind the improvement speed of the Sons of Element.”

“But it should be about the same speed as the mana increase of those who have no money, use too many resources, and have a talent level between 5 and 6.”

Locke sighed. His current training speed was based on the resources he obtained by spending 400 magic stones every day, as well as the void gems he synthesized with the synthetic magic cube to purify the toxicity of the potions after using a large amount of them.

Otherwise, if he used such a large amount of medicine, there would be big problems.

Over time, various sequelae will be left on the body, and his progress will be slowed down.

“It’s so difficult for me, how much harder must it be for those with first-level or second-level qualifications?” Locke pondered. “But for those with those qualifications, the probability of becoming a first-level wizard apprentice is probably very low.”

“It will take five to six years for my mental strength to reach 600, and by then I will be around 24 years old.” Locke frowned. Although he was still young and still had great potential in the eyes of others, there was still a long time before he reached the age of 40, but this time was still a bit long.

If it could be shortened, Locke would still like to shorten it.

Because the area between 600 and 800 mental power will only be more difficult.

Moreover, Witch Sophia told herself several times that the younger she was when her mental power reached 800, the better, as the probability of being promoted to a formal wizard would be greater.

Therefore, the White Wizard Society has such a high demand for geniuses, because geniuses advance quickly, they reach the threshold to become formal wizards at a relatively young age, and their probability of becoming formal wizards is much greater than others.

Locke was relieved. “Fortunately, I took advantage of the newbie bonus period and didn’t let it go to waste.”

“Otherwise, my current mana is estimated to be only over 200. At the current rate of progress, I estimate that it will take more than ten years to reach 600 mana.”

Looking back, I had pretty good luck along the way. Two official wizards helped me to accelerate my acquisition of advanced meditation methods. I also happened to get the academy’s bulk purchasing contract, so I could make full use of the novice benefit period.

Locke pondered. “Five to six years is still too long, anyway. We need to find a way to shorten it.”

“Try to catch up with the speed of the Son of Element.”

“The best way is to go to the Chimera Market and buy a large amount of magic resources. I can use them to increase my meditation speed a bit. Even if I can’t reach the one-month novice benefit period, where I can increase my mental strength by over 200 points per month, it would be best if I could get close to that speed.”

“If you want resources, you need more money.” Locke drummed his fingers on the bedside table. “But I’m already struggling. My income from the plantation is only 3,500 magic stones per month, but my basic training expenses are around 8,000 magic stones each month.”

“The difference is huge.”

“If I hadn’t happened to have a group purchase contract, the difference would have been enough to send me into a vicious cycle of borrowing and repaying loans, until I became a debt slave.”

Locke pondered. “We still have to find new profit points.”

“My actual monthly expenses can’t possibly be 8,000 magic stones. Besides meditation, I have a lot of extra expenses. For example, the vampire research experiments I’ve been doing lately have required me to purchase a lot of small, inexpensive equipment, which adds up to a considerable expense.”

“Plantations, laboratories, and pharmacies all require money.”

“No wonder those first-class wizard apprentices always like to exploit second-class and third-class wizard apprentices. If I didn’t have a synthetic magic cube and could become a genius breeder and potion maker, and if I didn’t have other ways to make money, I would have ‘fallen’ too.”

Locke rubbed his brows. If he wanted to make rapid progress, he still had to find more sources of income. He was still poor.

However, the pharmacy had no way to increase its income quickly for the time being, because potions were meant to be drunk by people.

The review process is unusually long.

However, Locke did hear that Angron had developed many potions that had not yet completed the review process and had entered the Chimera Market.

He seemed to have relied on the powerful network of relationships of his wizard mentor, Harun Vera, to solve many troublesome processes and greatly speed up the research and development of each potion in his personal pharmacy – the verification stage.

The verification stage is the largest cost for all pharmacies. Angron, thanks to his network of connections with his wizard mentors, has done a good job in cost management in this regard.

It’s just that his character is really not that good.

“Go to sleep first.” Locke snapped his fingers, and the candlelight in the bedroom suddenly went out. “Many first-class wizard apprentices remain at this stage for decades.”

“Except for geniuses among geniuses like my teacher, Witch Sophia, no one is immune to this.”

“I’ve taken full advantage of the beginner benefits period for advanced meditation and gained a huge advantage over others.”

“I’ll go to the library tomorrow to look at the report I submitted a few days ago. I’ve been evaluated at a certain level and hope to exchange it for some magical resources.” Locke thought, “In the future, once I pass the Breeder exam and get a good score in the Breeder Competition finals, I’ll get another resource.”

“Also, I need to decide the direction of my Potions studies and the specific research direction of my personal pharmacy as soon as possible so that I can make more money.”

“Besides, I still have resources from the Wizard’s Secret Realm, and I haven’t chosen to redeem them yet.”

(End of this chapter)