Chapter 147

Chapter 147: 46 S-level articles

The general studies wizards in the library system are like a natural barrier that will block all unqualified articles.

Locke sighed slightly. “With Harlan Vera’s connections behind her, Yuli should have plenty of resources to publish articles. But that’s not true. She’s been marginalized.”

Locke suddenly thought of his teacher, Witch Sophia, and asked the dwarf scholar Orr, “My wizard mentor is Witch Sophia. Can I check how many articles she has published and what level they are?”

“Does this part involve personal privacy? If so, forget it.”

The dwarf scholar, Orr, laughed, as if he’d heard something funny. “Otherwise, there might be privacy issues, but regarding the number and quality of published articles, I think most excellent wizards wouldn’t mind others knowing.”

A large number of runes appeared in the eyes of the dwarf scholar Orr. “I will use the spell model of General Studies, Query, to check for you.”

“Yes, your wizard mentor, Lady Witch Sophia, is Madam Morgana’s core student. She has vast academic resources and has naturally published many articles.”

“She started posting since she was a third-class wizard apprentice. There are 211 of them in total.”

“Among them, during the third-class wizard apprenticeship stage and the second-class wizard apprenticeship stage, more than 70 articles with scores below 60 were published. However, a total of 5 S-level articles, 15 A-level articles, 49 B-level articles, and 72 C-level articles were published.”

Locke was surprised, “There are so many.”

The dwarf scholar Orr, sitting behind the library counter, smiled and said, “Of course there are more. Lady Sophia is Lady Morgana’s student. Lady Morgana has so many research resources at her disposal. If we just give her a little bit, it will be easy for her to produce a paper.”

“For example, the vampire in your hand was given to you by your wizard mentor. She gave you this vampire, and you can do a lot with it. She can also lend it to your students and your team.”

“Within the wizard mentor’s network, if you are a key training target, you will be able to access a lot of resources… You can try to publish articles starting from the third-class wizard apprentice.”

The dwarf scholar Orr explained with a smile.

Locke nodded, “I see.”

Articles from the Southeast Corner White Wizard Society cannot be jointly signed and can only be published by one person.

Therefore, who the wizard mentor is will not be reflected in the article at all.

However, when Witch Sophia first joined Madam Morgana, she should have been at level 7 qualification, so she naturally received the best treatment. Starting from being a third-class wizard apprentice, she could use Madam Morgana’s network of relationships to do various things.

As long as Madam Morgana asks her students to hand over various resources and teams to Witch Sophia, and then relies on Witch Sophia’s own intelligence and talent, it will be easy to produce results and publish articles.

“So, this is the normal treatment for a Level 7 Elemental Son within the academy.” Locke thought belatedly, “There are two reasons why I didn’t receive this treatment.”

“First, my initial qualification was only level three, so Teacher Sophia didn’t pay enough attention to me at first, but it started to increase later.”

‘But I’ve only been a first-class wizard apprentice for two years.’

‘The second reason is that my wizard mentor, Sophia the Witch, does not have her own network of connections.’

Locke suddenly thought… Madam Morgana, wasn’t that the examiner for this year’s official breeder exam?

Locke’s face turned strange.

Teacher Sophia said that she had a bad relationship with this year’s breeder examiner, but they were also teacher and student.

“I don’t know what their true relationship is.” Locke thought: “Forget it, I’ll just take the exam normally.”

‘Whatever happens has nothing to do with me.’

Locke looked at the dwarf scholar Orr, “Scholar Orr, I want to check the number of articles published by Madam Morgana.”

“May I?”

The dwarf scholar Orr smiled and said, “Of course you can, and it’s free. This is the free right of a first-class wizard apprentice in the academy.”

“I used a search technique and found that Madam Morgana has published a total of 2,143 articles in the public library at Lilith Cottage. However, she pays a confidentiality fee every year to block the specific level of her articles, so I can only find the number.”

“The only publicly available rank is the number of S-rank articles, which total 46.”

The dwarf scholar Orr explained to Locke, “Madam Morgana publishes S-level articles herself, but probably all articles below A-level are published by her students.”

“After all, the number of these articles will determine whether wizard apprentices can be selected as the [Wizard Seed] of Lilith’s Hut.”

“As we all know, the logic behind the White Wizards’ selection of Wizard Seeds is completely different from that of the Dark Wizards’. It’s based on a comprehensive consideration of various areas—talent level, certificates, but they’re basically the same.”

“So the number of published articles is the most concrete indicator of a wizard’s talent.”

Locke nodded thoughtfully. “Can I look up the specific article about Lady Morgana?”

The dwarf scholar Orr said, “Of course. But in the public library, only D-level articles are completely free. C-level articles are only partially free. So to search for specific articles, you need to pay a certain amount of contribution points. If you don’t have contribution points, you need to pay magic stones.”

“In the public library, 1 contribution point is equal to 10 magic stones.”

“Searching for C-level articles requires 1 contribution point, searching for B-level articles requires 5 contribution points, searching for A-level articles requires 10 contribution points, and searching for S-level articles… you don’t have this permission yet.”

Locke’s face darkened.

In other words, the 50 contribution points he had just obtained could only be used to query the specific content of 5 A-level articles. But as far as he knew, the most important thing about contribution points was that they could be used to exchange for opportunities to enter the wizard secret realm, as well as some potions and magic plants, as well as alchemical items in the academy that could only be exchanged with contribution points.

It seems a bit too extravagant to use it to query this. I don’t have any special experiments to do and don’t need to look up any information.

Locke shook his head slightly: “Forget it.”

In this way, if you need to query a large amount of information in the future, you can use magic stones to purchase resources, and keep the contribution points for exchanging for opportunities to enter the wizard secret realm, which are things that cannot be bought with magic stones.

Wait, Locke suddenly thought, if he wanted to understand the peculiar bloodline in his body, maybe he could buy some information here and conduct some investigation himself first, which might be useful.

(End of this chapter)