Chapter 468: The Price of Wisdom
William strolls through the public library of the Tower of Wisdom and Curiosity.
This library is a seven-story grand tower, located in the northeast of the Twin Towers, belonging to the key defense area, when William entered, he found that the old wizard who was secretly guarding was not below him, that is, this was also a second-level wizard.
The foundation of the tower of wisdom and curiosity can be seen.
Compared to most of the tower's slender stature, it looks a bit bloated.
It's like a fat man with a big belly.
Naturally, there is a lot of mystical knowledge contained in it.
At the door of the library, there are two lines of words.
One line reads, knowledge has a price!
Another line reads, The Silent Ones Go Further!
The Tower of Wisdom and Inquisition is a wizarding organization that is generous, and the public library is open to every official member of it.
Potion recipes, experiment summaries, mystical secrets, advanced meditation methods, magic weapon making, witchcraft models...... The whole nine yards.
These high-priced knowledge sold in the major wizarding bazaars outside are just free parchment books here.
As long as your level is up to par, you can browse at the public library as much as you like.
Except that it is not allowed to be taught to another person!
Everyone who wants to enter the public library to look for materials must make a vow to the black ruins, to the remnants of the black consciousness of the legendary concept.
Once violated, the soul becomes the nourishment of the black residual consciousness of the concept.
Unless one day his strength exceeds the residual consciousness of the black concept, so that he is not afraid of the backlash of the oath.
Floors 1-3 of this public library are preserved with mystical knowledge at the level of wizard apprentices.
The 4th and 5th floors are preserved by the mysterious knowledge of first-level wizards.
There is not much mysterious knowledge about second-level wizards, there is only one layer, which is 6 floors.
It's kind of like a pyramid, the higher you go, the less you get.
Each floor is hundreds of meters high, and the short one is more than 50 meters.
The walls of the tower are the bookshelves.
This is the accumulation of every official member of the Tower of Wisdom and Curiosity over the years.
In turn, the accumulation of so much knowledge has also promoted the generation of wisdom and knowledge towers to become stronger, and eventually become a behemoth.
In this library, William not only saw the complete meditation method of the Pupil of Truth, which was enough to cultivate to the level of a third-level great wizard, but also saw various other high-level meditation methods, such as "Fire Codex", "Pale Flame", "Crown of Thorns" and so on.
These are all meditation methods that can reach the realm of a third-level great wizard, and they are placed in this library at will, so that the official members of the Wisdom and Knowledge Tower who are qualified can consult them at will.
In addition to these meditations, there are also a number of improved models of witchcraft, the Mystic Power Theory, in the library.
These are all mysterious knowledge that cannot be bought outside, or require a lot of money to buy, and they are "heirlooms" that are closely guarded by wizarding families!
William picked up a book and flipped it up, and couldn't help but be attracted by the mysterious knowledge recorded in the book, along with the magic mirror in William's arms.
The magic mirror is like a sponge, hungry and thirsty with William, absorbing the crystallization of wisdom and the wisdom of the tower of knowledge for thousands of years, so that he forgets the passage of time.
A month passed, two months passed, three months passed.
William indulged in the pleasure of reading until he received a message from Sue, the bearer of the Tower of Command:
"William, though I know that interrupting a person's pleasure is a sinful thing, it is time for you to fulfill your obligations."
"Knowledge needs to be accumulated, wisdom can be enlightened, and light can be passed on from generation to generation!"
Hearing Sue's words, William had to come out of the public library and return to his Sky Tower.
Most of the Sky Towers were previously close associates of the previous tower-bearer, Milu Dadaru, either from his clan or from his disciples.
Due to the rules of the Tower of Wisdom and Knowledge, William could not eradicate them, so William expelled them all from the Sky Tower.
Some of them entered other towers, some returned to their own families, and some received chores in exchange for a reward for the glory of the towers of wisdom and knowledge.
William became a loner, the Sky Tower became an empty tower, not to mention a first-level wizard, and even a wizard apprentice had no call.
Seeing this, William, as the holder of the Sky Tower, issued a recruitment order to the entire Tower of Wisdom and Knowledge, but unfortunately, there were few applicants.
There is not a single first-level wizard who meets William's expectations.
Only a few hopeless wizard apprentices arrived.
There is no way, the atmosphere of the Tower of Wisdom and Curiosity is relatively equal and free.
In many cases, it is not only the tower holder who is "working on the job", but also the "worker" is also picking the boss.
Obviously, William, who is new to the city and has a shallow foundation, is difficult to get into the eyes of those "talents".
Because in their eyes, what William, a second-level wizard, could bring to them was not as much as what several other second-level wizards had taught them.
This is the same as William's "top talents" in his previous life, but when many people envy the work treatment of leading companies such as Tencent, Huawei, and Alibaba, these "top talents" are picking and choosing with offers from many large companies, looking at corporate culture, looking at the boss's personality, looking at future prospects and so on.
Even if a big mistake is made, the person above will only raise the board high and fall gently.
Unlike ordinary talents, if they accidentally make a mistake and grab a few more boxes of moon cakes, they will be cut down by the so-called values with tears!
William recruited a few wizard apprentices, who were okay with running errands, but it was still unsatisfactory to take on the responsibility of assisting William in his "witchcraft research".
Although wizard apprentices are only supernumerary members of the Tower of Wisdom and Knowledge, and do not have to hand in a copy of "occult knowledge" every year, they are certainly not eligible to enter the public library.
Of course, there are some wizard apprentices who are better and contribute "occult knowledge" to the tower of wisdom and curiosity early on, and the public library will also open it to them.
But that's not the point.
The point is that most of the tasks of the Tower of Wisdom and Knowledge are loose, flexible, and only one point, which is mandatory and cannot be avoided.
That's the war with the Forest of Bones.
This was decided by the two third-level wizards of the Tower of Wisdom and Knowledge, not to mention William, and the other tower-bearers had no room for bargaining.
At a critical time, the tower bearer has to bear the heavy responsibility of attacking the fortifications, facing the second-level wizards of the Bone Forest.
And the other party is often also in a state of heavy guarding.
At this time, the importance of subordinates is reflected.
In the past, the tower bearers carried out this task with the combat elites in their own towers.
In the intensity of such a war, less than the first-level wizard realm, the others are cannon fodder, and the same is true for third-class wizard apprentices.
If you look at it this way, William can only be regarded as a lonely person.
It's too dangerous.
William thought of Tina, of his men on the floating island of Berknay.
He thought about it for a while, and called the new wizard apprentice of the Sky Tower, Andre!
A guy in his twenties who has just become a second-level wizard apprentice.