Chapter 1288 Huck's promotion and apprenticeship arrives
In this regard, Raz continued to be silent. He lowered his head, his eyes turned straight, and he was not sure if "McCad" was trying to test him, or he really just asked accidentally in advance.
But how to answer, Rhodes was a little hesitant. It was related to his future and destiny. Whether to regret it or not was not a difficult choice for a spell caster.
It’s just that Rhodes doesn’t want to do that. During this time together, he has been impressed by the knowledge and magnanimity of McCard, the so-called “newcomer”. He is not willing to say perfunctory or even deceptive words.
After thinking about it, Ross finally followed the truest choice in his heart, "Sir, I need to seriously consider this matter, but one thing I can guarantee is that I will never be an enemy of you."
“Okay, tell me your choice after you complete your promotion!”
Chateau did not force the other party to make a choice on the spot. In fact, Ross's answer seemed to him to be very sincere. If he were a villain, he might have agreed well now, but he might have turned his back immediately afterwards.
Furthermore, what he needs is a collaborator who is willing to cooperate sincerely and proactively, rather than a passive coercion forced by the situation.
If Rhodes is unwilling, he really won't do anything to the other party, he will just be a little disappointed.
There are currently fourteen assistant researchers in the laboratory. If most people agree, Xia Duo will laugh out loud, because that means that at least twenty-eight high-level mages will follow his arrangements and conduct the research he specifies.
Of course, the more people who agree, the better it is for him.
Ideally, there can be up to 14*(1+3)+3=59 high-level mages to conduct various research under his arrangement.
This is simply awesome!
It can be foreseen that once he leaves this projection plane, Xia Duo will not have such good research conditions for a long time in the future.
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Time flies.
Two days later, Huck successfully advanced to the rank of Arcanist. Combined with his experience in at least three "good" evaluation projects, his application for promotion to the rank of Level 1 Researcher was quickly approved by the superiors.
Huck Laboratory was established!
On the same day, Sha Duo proposed an outsourcing plan to the Hacker Laboratory for the project "Improvement and Expansion of the Teleportation Spell Response Mechanism Based on the Background Fluctuation Positioning of the Magic Network", which Hacker readily accepted.
At the same time, Sha Duo’s own preparations for the trial production of the spell chip have been completed.
On this day, after reaching an outsourcing agreement with Hacker Laboratory, Shaduo suddenly received a notice from the management center, saying that there was a group of new apprentices that McArdle Laboratory needed to accept.
The so-called apprentices are actually formal mages.
There are mostly low-level mages, and a few are already mid-level mages, and all of them have been upgraded in a way similar to the Tower of Time level promotion test. They are not spell-casting tools who only know individual spells of relevant levels.
Each laboratory of the institute will be assigned a certain number of apprentices. If one of them can become a high-level mage or arcanist, the researcher will be rewarded with corresponding points.
These apprentices have been screened at the academy stage, and being able to enter the academy shows that they are the best among their peers.
Assigned to various laboratories, in addition to serving as a de facto spell battery, they sometimes also provide constructive opinions on laboratory projects.
It can be said that there is almost no laboratory that does not welcome apprentices. Of course, assistant researchers may not welcome them, because it will take up too much of their time to guide apprentices, and they will not receive fair compensation from formal researchers.
But here in Chateau, he did not welcome the arrival of apprentices.
The project he is currently arranging for everyone in the laboratory is difficult to complete even for a high-level mage, not to mention the additional conditions mentioned above, and it will not be easy to complete.
If he hadn't followed up on the progress of the projects and often given pointers, he really doubted that any one of these projects would have been scrapped in the end.
With the arrival of apprentices, the assistant researchers will be distracted and their precious time will be wasted. This is difficult for Xia Duo to accept.
Perhaps these apprentices may be helpful to the project, but the possibility is not high. If they are simply used as a spell battery, they cannot make up for the losses they cause.
Chateau was very suspicious of whether some level 1 researchers who opposed him were causing trouble, because counting the time, it was not yet the time to graduate from the Magic Academy.
The most obvious evidence is that, as a newly established laboratory, Harker Laboratory has no apprenticeships.
Only Xia Duo was arranged. It was hard not to think about it. If he didn't graduate early and enroll early, would those apprentices show up?
He also had doubts about the quality of the apprentices. If he was given a bunch of duds again, the proportion of high-level mages that would eventually appear would be too low, which would be another troublesome matter.
However, Chateau could not say anything against it, because these systems were reasonable, more in line with the overall interests of the empire's survivors, supported by everyone, and the superiors would not allow him to object.
At the same time, Xia Duo himself could not find a reason to object. Could it be that he was worried that the apprentices would affect the progress of the laboratory project?
Others are also affected, why don’t they say anything?
This will make his situation more difficult, and some people may have to review his rank and authority again.
“Why is it so difficult for me!”
After slandering him, Shado had no choice but to ask the Rhodes Management Center to bring the people back. A total of twelve people were arranged according to the normal number of people in the laboratory.
Otherwise, according to the ratio of one senior mage to three apprentices, and arrange for dozens of people to come over, then there will be no need to work in the laboratory, and everyone will take their children.
You must know that although there are more than a dozen assistant researchers in the McCard Laboratory now, they will be promoted and leave.
By then, dozens of apprentices would be piled up in the laboratory, asking for Xia Duo to take care of them. Thinking about that scene really made him feel physically and mentally exhausted.
Such a comparison, it seems that these twelve apprentices are not difficult to accept now!
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Not long after, Rhodes brought back twelve young people, nine boys and three girls. With a wave of his hand, Xia Duo arranged them to observe the various project teams and left them there for a short time.
As long as they do not interfere with the progress of the project, it will be treated as if twelve new potted plants have been added to the laboratory.
After doing this, Xia Duo looked at the apprenticeship information that Ross brought back. Although he graduated early and was admitted early, he finally didn't get anything wrong with him.
Of these twelve people, four passed the mid-level mage exam, and although the remaining eight failed to pass the mid-level exam, they were only a few points short.
If this is placed in the Tower of Time, they can now complete the upgrade through the ring promotion trial and become mid-level mages.
If nothing unexpected happens, these twelve people can become high-level mages in as little as two or three years, or as slowly as three or four years.