Master Feng Qi walked on the clean and tidy road towards his dormitory in Hewan New District.
He and his reading club partner, Master Nepper, lived in a two-bedroom dormitory. Each of them had a separate room, and they shared a living room and bathroom.
The bedroom provided each person with a bed, a desk, a bookshelf and a wardrobe. The living room had a set of wooden sofas and a dining table. This was a typical Chinese housing style. Feng Qi and his companions came from the capital to visit and settled down only a week ago, but they had already gotten used to it.
For young mages like him and Naper who lived in the Mage Tower, the environment here was not luxurious, but it was much better than their residence in the Mage Tower.
Although mages are noble, that is only for ordinary people. In the Mage Tower, these low-level mages of humble origin are only slightly better than magic apprentices, and are located at the bottom of the pyramid. The space in the Mage Tower is limited, and every inch of land is valuable. They would rather vacate the space for high-level mages to use as laboratories than improve the accommodation conditions for low-level mages. Feng Qi only has a small room of about ten square meters in the Mage Tower, where he eats, drinks, sleeps, and does everything else.
Of course, if you go out to join the nobles or make money as a mercenary, you can naturally save some property and buy a comfortable house in a small town, but that almost cuts off your path to growth and learning. Not living in the Mage Tower means that you don't have the opportunity to see your mentor often, and you can't get enough experimental resources. Therefore, people like Feng Qi can only grit their teeth and live in a corner of the Mage Tower, hoping that one day they can be promoted to the middle level and turn their lives around.
However, everything changed after they joined the reading club. Not to mention the many opportunities for exchange and learning in the reading club, the many additional resources provided by Tasia and Xiao Chen alone made these people very happy. Later, Luo Ling bought a series of experimental props in the Chinese office and set up several good laboratories, which gave them more opportunities for experiments outside of the Mage Tower and the Magic Association. Feng Qi relied on these to get closer and closer to the intermediate level.
This time when he came to the Chinese territory, he felt that he had made the wisest decision. Better accommodation conditions, more academic exchanges, and better laboratories were all things he had never thought of in the royal capital.
Moreover, the way Chinese people understand magic is completely different from the traditional magicians in the kingdom. After the high-level magician named Mao Kai gave them a lesson, almost everyone felt that their understanding of magic had been refreshed. From the magic element theory he proposed, Feng Qi even felt that the efficiency of meditation had increased by 20%. Their laboratory was also completely different from the royal capital. Although only a part of the external basic laboratory was open to visitors like them, some of the technologies used in it were already unheard of by them.
After staying here for a week, Feng Qi felt that his progress in cultivation was equivalent to half a month in the capital. In the past two days, he had been feeling that his mental power was stirring, and it seemed that he was about to break through.
When Feng Qi arrived at his room, he saw their roommate, Master Naper, writing furiously at the dining table in the living room. He had a few steamed buns and a bowl of soup beside him, and he was writing while eating.
Feng Qi glanced at the paper on his desk and found that it was something like magic experience. He asked curiously, "Why don't you go to your room and write it?"
"There's more space outside. I'm not afraid of others reading what I write here. It's something I'm contributing anyway, so what if they read it?" Naper said indifferently.
"Are you planning to stay and participate in that project?" Feng Qi asked.
"That's right." Napel looked up at him and continued to write his own things. The project they were talking about was called "Magician Talent Introduction Program", which could be said to be the highlight and ultimate goal of this so-called inspection activity.
The project has subdivided the treatment of magicians at various levels. For example, as long as a low-level magician like Nepel chooses to join the Tower of China and settle down and work in the Black Mountain area, he will be allocated a house of his own, have access to advanced laboratories, have more library permissions, and be arranged into a suitable magician study group and research group.
"We have two months to investigate. Why did you make the decision so early?" Feng Qi asked in surprise.
Naper put down his pen, sighed softly and said, "Feng Qi, I am different from you. You are at least a magician of the Spirit Refining Tower, one of the Royal Magic Towers, and you may still be struggling whether to leave the Spirit Refining Tower. But what do I have? I am just an ordinary magician from the countryside, just a little better than those wild magicians. I have been looking for opportunities in the Magic Association for the past few years, but I haven't made much progress. But here, in the China Tower, I see the possibility of growth. I have made up my mind and must seize this opportunity as soon as possible.
You know, besides the high-level mages teaching the low-level mages, everyone here learns through study groups. Joining a good study group makes a big difference. The study group I was assigned to these two days has a very good atmosphere, and the group leader also takes good care of me. Moreover, several of the Chinese mages are geniuses. I have never seen so many talented mages gathered together. It just so happens that their recent research on magic rays overlaps with what I have learned in the Mage Tower. We in the Tower of Bright Light have done some research on the characteristics of various magic rays, and I am also good at this kind of magic. Over the past few days, I have been of great help to them. The group leader told me privately that if I apply to join the program, I can stay in their group. Do you know what this means?"
"What?"
"Joining a group where I can play a role, a group with great potential, means I can integrate here faster. This is completely different from waiting until the end and having the magic group assign groups, or simply forming a group by ourselves." Napel couldn't help but stand up and clenched his fists. "This will directly affect the resources I get and my final achievements. You know what? The two members of our group who are only in their twenties are already mid-level mages, and the team leader is only twenty-four or twenty-five, but he will soon enter the high-level. I hope I can be with people like this."
"So, you're going to contribute everything you have?"
"Of course, I have to show my sincerity. What's wrong with contributing the little I've learned in exchange for the opportunity to join here, and in exchange for points.
I even think that for the Chinese, exchanging with some mages like this is a disadvantage, because they don't have anything good in their hands. Just think about it, what Mr. Mao Kai has told us these days is far more valuable than this, isn't it? After joining, there will definitely be more important things to share with us, especially the detailed process and data of those experiments. "