The mages who received the notice showed excitement in their eyes, and they came in small groups to the 044 conference room where the notice was delivered. Here, Xia Duo was already waiting in advance.
"First of all, congratulations to you for being successfully selected into the Tower of Time Oriented Training Program. I believe you all already understand the content of the program. Now it's time for you to choose your direction."
Xia Duo looked at everyone and explained his arrangement, "The general direction is the plane field, but the subdivided fields are quite different. You can only choose one for the time being——
"The first one is demiplane creation modulation. My main job in the future is to assist me in conducting a series of demiplane creation experiments and be responsible for the specific creation modulation work.
"The second one is the plane exploration array operation. The main work in the future is to join the plane exploration center and participate in the exploration of the ethereal layer or the star realm.
"The third one is more special. I won't tell you what I will do specifically for the time being. What I can say is that I will select the best among those who have passed the assessment in the first two directions to engage in research in this third direction.
"In addition, if you choose to engage in research in the third direction, you will need to stay in the Tower of Time or the Floating City for a long time in the future, but you can also choose to bring your family over."
The third direction is actually the lunar exploration plan. Research in this area is very risky. For the time being, only the Tower of Time or the Floating City can barely support such research.
But in the later stage, you still have to be mentally prepared to face the true God. After all, no one knows whether divine punishment will appear again when the exploration is in the actual stage.
"I'll give you ten minutes now to make your choice."
After saying that, Xia Duo walked out of the conference room and closed the door. He did not peek into the discussion inside, but leaned against the wall of the corridor outside the conference room, silently sorting out the information on the new mage of the Tower of Time in his mind.
The one hundred people in the conference room are the first batch of quasi-high-level mages trained in the Tower of Time, but they are by no means the last batch. Xia Duo plans to decide when to select the next batch based on the final assessment results of this group of people.
, how to pick and how much to pick.
However, he is actually very optimistic about these young people. If nothing unexpected happens, there is a high probability that all of the first batch of 100 people will pass.
The next batch will be as urgent as this time, and notifications should be given some time in advance, and new mages who are already working will be allowed to sign up. If selected in this way, the quality should be higher.
In addition, the regular training mechanism for new mages should also be improved.
Today's Tower of Time has a relatively complete teaching system that only involves the apprenticeship stage and becoming a formal mage, that is, you can work directly after passing the professional exam.
But as the number of new mages increases, there are not that many jobs available for them at the moment. The recruitment of each independent research laboratory is limited after all, and most of these are only first-level mages.
Although he has received a relatively complete basic magic education, it is difficult to participate in such complicated research at a time. Like Xia Duo, who needs an assistant now, it is not to launch a targeted training plan.
He told Leiden before that the territory supports new mages to return to their hometowns to start businesses, and the purpose is also to divert these new mages.
Currently, the number of new mages registered in the Tower of Time who have passed the first-level mage examination has exceeded 400, and the number is still increasing by dozens every month.
This is actually normal. The restructuring of the Tower of Time started three years ago. Several batches of new apprentices were recruited that year, adding up to hundreds of people.
The plan formulated at that time was to train them into official mages within three years. Later, the Tower of Time textbooks were updated many times. On the one hand, it did extend the learning progress, but on the other hand, it also greatly improved the learning rate.
Now that the three-year period has passed, formal mages are not just popping up one after another, but as long as the relevant policies of the Tower of Time remain unchanged, a group of people will graduate from the apprenticeship stage every year in the future.
As for whether you can pass the official mage class assessment, it depends on each person.
Not all of the earliest batches of apprentices three years ago could pass the class assessment. Those who failed would of course be counted as the training fees for the three-year apprenticeship period and would have to work for the Tower of Time to repay the money.
However, the tuition fee at that time was set at one thousand gold coins for three years. This price was relatively high at the time, but for a mage, even an apprentice, it was not an astronomical figure that was completely out of reach.
But looking at it today, this price is somewhat low.
The formal citizens of the Great Xia Territory can basically receive more than a thousand gold coins when the land is granted. If measured by the minimum wage, it is almost more than two years' salary.
In other words, if an apprentice fails to pass the class assessment after three years and stays in the Tower of Time as a magic technician, it will only take a little over two years at most to pay off the tuition.
Of course, Xia Duo didn't want to pay for anything through tuition, but wanted to use this method to give the apprentices a sense of urgency, which is what happened in the Tower of Time.
If it were somewhere else, you might not be able to learn anything by spending thousands of gold coins.
In the long run, the tuition for the Tower of Time will still increase. If you don't want to pay the tuition, just study hard and pass the class assessment.
The next stage of learning for the new mage will also follow this model. If you can keep upgrading, it will be free. If not, then you will only be charged the tuition for that stage.
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Xia Duo thought about it, and soon ten minutes passed. He returned to the conference room. At this time, the original one hundred people in the conference room were clearly divided into two blocks.
One area has a larger number of people, approximately seventy or eighty, while the other area has relatively few people, only a dozen or twenty.
"Have you made your choices? Tell me your choices!" Xia Duo first looked at the group with fewer people and asked.
"We chose the second direction, plane exploration array operation."
The more than 20 people answered in unison, then all that was left was to choose the first direction, which was demiplane creation modulation.
Xia Duo is not surprised by everyone's choice. He has just made it clear that those who choose the direction of demiplane will become his assistant in the future, and those who choose the direction of plane exploration will enter the plane exploration center in the future.
The Plane Exploration Center is a newly established organization directly under the Tower of Time, but how can working in this organization compare to being his assistant? Although Shado doesn't think so, many people do.
However, Xia Duo respects the choices of these people and will not underestimate or value them because of this. The choices are made by themselves, so they need to bear all future consequences themselves.
Xia Duo sincerely hopes that these people will choose fields they like, so that even if they make difficult progress in this field in the future, they will still enjoy themselves.