Locke asked with confusion, "Teacher Halen, what are these other choices you mentioned?"

Halen Vera smiled. "Actually, it's not anything particularly complicated. After becoming a formal wizard, there's no longer a concept of schooling or academic system. Everything is work, and since it's work, there are always flexible methods."

"So, for example, if during this time you temporarily haven't applied for a desired teaching position, you can go do other things first, do things that will improve your ability to obtain your desired teaching position and enhance your core competitiveness."

"Just like Witch Sophia once did."

Halen Vera pointed out, "For instance, you still don't have a formal potion master certification certificate or senior breeder certificate, and you haven't obtained any archaeologist-related certificates. But taking these certificates can demonstrate some of your core abilities."

"Besides that, some award-winning magical plant works and potion works can all become your core competitiveness, preferably association-level awards."

"The more advanced the wizard land, the more they disdain the gold content of competitions at the wizard academy level in the southeastern quadrant. But because of the White Wizard Association's laws, they must at least somewhat recognize competitions at our White Wizard Association level here."

"So completing some relatively major projects, obtaining some awards, and publishing association-level S-rank articles can all enhance your core competitiveness."

"Then there's teaching some excellent students. In some teaching-oriented teaching positions in the Star Domain Sea, this will have very great advantages."

"In short, all your achievements will ultimately become your support for competing for greater resources."

Halen Vera paused. "Next is the key point, have you heard of the Origin Academy of True Knowledge?"

Locke shook his head.

Halen Vera stood up, moved a chair in front of Locke, then said, "Please sit."

"It's normal that you don't know. In the southeastern quadrant, only Virdantia University and Niflheim University have applied for and obtained the Origin Academy of True Knowledge."

"Besides that, other white wizard academies haven't established [Origin Academies of True Knowledge]."

"Generally speaking, after a wizard becomes a formal wizard, they just need to directly join a wizard academy." Halen Vera said, "But for geniuses like you who want to develop further and want to become Second Circle wizards, you can't be so casual."

"The conditions to enter ordinary wizard academies are very low, but to enter those wizard academies with superior resources, the conditions are very high."

"So the association came up with a solution. It gives young First Circle wizards from regions with average teaching conditions like you an opportunity, while also fully utilizing your talents to contribute to white wizard society's development. This is the Origin Academy of True Knowledge."

Halen Vera poured some Portsmouth wizard fragrant tea into a teacup, then used a cold water cold brewing method to bring out the fragrance of this wizard fragrant tea and its function of purifying potion toxicity. Then he pushed this cup of tea in front of Locke. "In other words, the Origin Academy of True Knowledge was prepared for people like you."

"The Origin Academy of True Knowledge is a unit that some wizard academies can apply for from the White Wizard Association by using certain very good projects with great prospects, while also possessing the qualifications themselves. It can simultaneously obtain funding from multiple sources including the White Wizard Association headquarters, the local academy, and self-provided funds."

"The Origin Academy of True Knowledge will specially recruit newly advanced First Circle wizards like you to go work there, and after entering, both you and the Academy of True Knowledge will receive rewards from the White Wizard Association headquarters."

Halen Vera took a sip of wizard fragrant tea. "Essentially, the local wizard academy needs excellent talents to help them complete projects; the wizard association intends to benefit young First Circle wizards, cultivate them, and help them move from small places to big places; and young First Circle wizards need this kind of help to replace the blank period without teaching positions."

"So this system was created."

"Of course, entering the Origin Academy of True Knowledge also requires a very high threshold. Very excellent young First Circle wizards are needed to enter. Moreover, because the Origin Academy of True Knowledge doesn't count as work experience, if you only want to enter ordinary wizard organizations, then entering the Origin Academy of True Knowledge would be a complete waste of time."

Halen Vera said, "At the First Circle wizard stage, we have countless choices, completely different from wizard apprentices."

"So everything must be chosen according to individual circumstances. The same choice will have different pros and cons for individuals with different conditions."

"But I don't want you to stay in the southeastern quadrant, or even stay in wizard lands whose level isn't much higher than the southeastern quadrant."

Halen Vera said, "So I've done thorough homework for you and explored many paths for you."

Locke bowed to Halen Vera. "Thank you, Teacher."

Halen Vera nodded with relief. "You being able to go to better places is also an honor for me."

"A wizard with qualifications like yours should go to the best places, not stay in those ordinary places, waste your life, and let others plunder value from you."

"The Origin Academy of True Knowledge doesn't count as work experience, so entering it won't affect the level of wizard academy you can go to in the future. So this is also one choice I recommend."

"The application conditions for the Origin Academy of True Knowledge are that you must be a First Circle liquefaction wizard, under fifty years old, and have a project in hand that the Academy of True Knowledge values."

"Because entering the Academy of True Knowledge isn't for you to study, but to bring value to the Academy of True Knowledge and bring value to everyone. So you need to have a project in hand that the Academy of True Knowledge is interested in, that overlaps with the Academy of True Knowledge's current main project direction, and can help some of the Academy of True Knowledge's research."

"And the Academy of True Knowledge will invest money in your project, giving you funds, equipment and resources, as well as manpower."

"Overall, the original intention of establishing the Academy of True Knowledge was to provide a support platform for super geniuses like you. Although this system in some wizard lands has already begun to deform."

Halen Vera hesitated. "Of course, there are actually other non-mainstream choices. For example, some wizards, after becoming First Circle wizards, begin traveling through major wizard lands, trying to find wizard resources buried by time, wizard ruins, or certain special magical resources."

"There are also wizards who try to form their own wizard forces. But in my personal view, these are all taking detours." 𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦

"When there are already paved routes available, there's no need to take these relatively niche routes."

Halen Vera said, "Besides that, when waiting for teaching positions, if you don't want to go to the Origin Academy of True Knowledge, you can first go work at commercial shops, markets, or studios under some powerful wizards."

"Going to work at those informal places doesn't affect the caliber of teaching positions you can find later."

"At least you can first earn some money, gain some experience, and obtain some magical resources."

Halen Vera tapped the table with his finger, trying hard to think about whether there were any other choices he hadn't mentioned. "Then there are some even more niche minority choices. For example, a very few plant-based wizards will be invited by some white wizard private organizations to go to a certain forest and become forest surveyors."

"Or breeders are invited by certain white wizard private civilian organizations to become plant breeders for water conservancy projects in important wizard land river areas, things like that."

"These are relatively niche and minority choices, mostly temporary choices."

"Most white wizards are still pursuing teaching positions."

"Even if they're retiring or slacking off, it's more comfortable to do so within wizard academies, supported by apprentices and mortals."

Halen Vera said, "However, Origin Academies of True Knowledge also have at least two tiers. Ordinary Academies of True Knowledge and Advanced Academies of True Knowledge. But no matter where you go, you need letters of recommendation."

"I can write you a letter of recommendation, but ordinary Academies of True Knowledge require at least two recommendation letters from wizards at my level, while Advanced Academies of True Knowledge, in addition to needing two recommendation letters from wizards at our level, also need a recommendation letter from a Second Circle wizard..."

"Of course, recommendation letters only increase your chances of entry compared to others. They're not absolute. It mainly depends on the First Circle wizard's own level."

Halen Vera said, "Back then, Witch Sophia almost went to an Origin Academy of True Knowledge. Because many teaching positions in the Star Domain Sea compulsorily require you to first have work experience at an Origin Academy of True Knowledge before they'll let you apply."

"This establishes an invisible threshold, a way to reduce the difficulty for wizard academies in the Star Domain Sea to screen young First Circle wizards coming from outside."

"However, later she was very lucky and unexpectedly obtained a special job from a Third Circle wizard research group team from the Academy City, which didn't require Origin Academy of True Knowledge work experience."

"That's basically it."

Locke nodded slightly. Before age fifty, materializing mental power to the liquefaction degree, this indeed wasn't an ordinary requirement.

If a formal wizard became a formal wizard at age forty, then the time left for him to upgrade to vaporization and liquefaction was only a mere ten years.

This was clearly not enough.

So the application conditions for this Origin Academy of True Knowledge essentially had higher qualification requirements for this First Circle wizard.

At the same time, it also gave everyone some self-awareness. If you couldn't even meet such requirements, then don't even mention seeking teaching positions at wizard academies in larger wizard lands.

And Locke was currently twenty years old and already a vaporization stage First Circle wizard. So for him to meet this Academy of True Knowledge's requirements, he still had thirty years available.

With such a long backup time, he would be very comfortable.