Halen Vera shook his head slightly. "No, I don't have an advanced meditation method. The entire southeastern quadrant probably has very few of these meditation methods. Meditation methods have always been one of the most important resources and are artificially monopolized. Their distribution is completely controlled by associations in various regions. But in the southeastern quadrant, it's not necessarily impossible."

"After all, the southeastern quadrant also has Second Circle wizards, even relatively powerful wizards among Second Circle wizards, so there are special methods to obtain them, but the probability is really too small."

Halen Vera said, "This is a probability problem."

"The difficulty of you becoming a Second Circle wizard in the southeastern quadrant, the difficulty of you becoming a Second Circle wizard in the Sunshade Peninsula, and the difficulty of you becoming a Second Circle wizard in the Star Domain Sea are completely different."

"Although all three regions have Second Circle wizards and advanced meditation methods exist. But in the southeastern quadrant, Second Circle wizards can almost serve as one of the association's main administrators. In the Sunshade Peninsula, Second Circle wizards are merely senior wizard mentors and chief wizard mentors, those relatively high-level wizard mentor positions."

"Over there, Third Circle wizards are at the pinnacle of power."

"And in the Star Domain Sea... Second Circle wizards don't count as particularly special talents." When Halen Vera mentioned the Star Domain Sea, his eyes and tone revealed a sense of awe. "The Star Domain Sea absorbs talents from wizard lands everywhere. Countless formal wizards want to go there to chase a dream. There, the immigrant population of formal wizards is not even less than the local population."

"There, it's said that even Third Circle wizards can only be considered excellent talents."

"There, you can even see the shadows of Fourth Circle wizards and Fifth Circle wizards. Even the legendary Sixth Circle wizards exist. Of course, these are just hearsay on my part."

"Of course, this is also because teaching positions in the Star Domain Sea are the hardest to obtain. Even Sophia waited three years before passing the assessment, and there were many accidents and coincidences in between. Moreover, she was able to take the route of the City of a Thousand Towers [Partinos], which just happened to need a wizard mentor skilled at teaching students, because she taught an excellent student like you, and thus entered there to become a contract lecturer wizard there."

Halen Vera stated flatly, "Witch Sophia's position was completely due to her good luck, and then one of Lady Morgana's Second Circle wizard students had some connections and just happened to help her obtain information that a Third Circle wizard from a research group at [Partinos] needed a First Circle wizard to help teach students."

"Otherwise, she would have had to wait several more years, or might even have kept waiting."

Locke hadn't expected there were so many twists and turns involved.

He couldn't help but gasp. For him to go to the Star Domain Sea, one could imagine just how difficult it would be.

But the Star Domain Sea, where outstanding talents gathered, was a major center of the wizard world. If he wanted to develop, wanted to explore the truth, wanted to know more, he had no choice but to go there.

Indeed, as Teacher Halen Vera said, obtaining an advanced meditation method in a region full of Second Circle wizards where Second Circle wizards were as common as weeds was completely different in difficulty from obtaining one in a region where Second Circle wizards were like dragons, rarely seen.

Locke asked with confusion, "Teacher, what is a contract lecturer wizard?"

Halen Vera nodded slightly and explained, "Small places have their advantages, big places have their advantages, and both also have their disadvantages. So how to choose depends entirely on individual conditions."

"In a place like the Star Domain Sea, First Circle wizards don't count as any important resource. They're just one among countless replaceable options. So even if you obtain a teaching position there, it's not lifelong and won't be recorded in the archives by the White Wizard Association there."

"You need to continuously produce results and advance, proving your strength, in order to obtain the qualification to stay there. This is the contract system. The academy will sign contract after contract with you, ensuring that your growth and contribution excellence at each stage can meet the academy's requirements for you."

"But in the southeastern quadrant, First Circle wizards are the most precious resource. The academy would be overjoyed to have one more First Circle wizard. They'd hold you in their mouth, afraid you'd melt, or cup you in their hands, afraid you'd break."

"So precious, how could they be willing to let you leave? So it's lifelong, and you enjoy many resources from the academy. Even if you do nothing and just slack off, you can still obtain resources from the White Wizard Association and wizard organizations."

Locke understood and nodded slightly.

Therefore, for wizards who knew they had no hope of advancement, staying in a small place was actually more comfortable. Going to a big place would instead bring enormous survival pressure and life-threatening danger. It was better to choose to stay in a small place and be carefree.

Moreover, a small place didn't mean there was absolutely no hope of advancement. What if your talent mutated exceptionally?

What if your luck was amazing and you obtained some precious resources in the small place that allowed you to continue breaking through?

Furthermore, in Locke's view, speaking this way, there were actually many places where one could exploit loopholes. For example, if some place had decent resources and relatively few talents, then some wizards going to these places would actually be better than the Star Domain Sea.

They could go to the Star Domain Sea after their wings were full, which would always be easier and better than going to the Star Domain Sea to directly become the bottom tier with future development.

Halen Vera said, "If you want to become a Second Circle wizard in the future, besides obtaining an advanced meditation method, you also need to obtain many resources related to Second Circle wizards. In the southeastern quadrant, almost every one of these resources is owned, or even if you discover one, it will quickly become someone else's property."

"But in other regions, it may not necessarily be so."

"And then there's..." Halen Vera tapped the table with his finger. "Actually, thinking about these things is still somewhat far off. For something more down to earth, you need to quickly materialize your mental power into liquefaction, then materialize it into crystallization."

"This process requires enormous resources, and these resources are also relatively precious in the southeastern quadrant, extremely difficult to obtain."

Halen Vera said, "They're relatively easier for me to obtain. A teaching position means your status in a wizard land and the window for obtaining resources. The higher your teaching position in a wizard land, the higher your status, and the more channels you have for obtaining resources."

"So at this stage, the difficulty of obtaining resources is actually much lower for me currently than the difficulty you would face going to a place at the Sunshade Peninsula level."

Halen Vera said, "I'm just giving you an example so you can understand the logical relationships involved."

"But teaching positions, if you want to obtain them, require investing a lot of time in cultivating them. They can't be obtained overnight."

"My teaching position in the southeastern quadrant also came from years of hard work and cultivation."

Locke nodded slightly. "I understand, Teacher Halen."

Halen Vera nodded. "Good, it's good that you understand. After becoming a formal wizard, you actually have many choices, no longer like the apprentice stage where there were only those few choices."

"Just seeking teaching positions alone gives you many kinds of choices. The more excellent the wizard, the greater their choice space."

"Besides that, you have many other choices. Although many resources are monopolized by associations and wizard academies, so the way to obtain resources is highly bound to teaching positions, and basically all formal wizards who want to advance have to pursue higher teaching positions."

"But because your first teaching position can greatly determine your future height, many people don't want to settle and begin year after year of applications. Just like Witch Sophia once did. Of course, she was relatively lucky and capable among them. The years she waited weren't long."

Halen Vera said, "Relative to the long lifespan of a First Circle wizard, that is."

"Anyway, if you temporarily don't want to lower the caliber of teaching positions you're seeking, you can do other things first. There are many choices here."

Locke couldn't help but nod as he listened. The world of formal wizards was broader, more vast, with many more intricacies but it also proved that he was now different from wizard apprentices.