He couldn't even as much as breathe without setting up panels to approve budget costs. The politicking involved always proved to be an exhausting pattern that was getting increasingly more difficult to navigate.
The fact was that a significant amount of resources and time was needed to train a single mage. It was abysmal, even by a noble's standards. This was probably why lower level members of the class system never rose to the height of powerful or senior mages. As Quaid ran the numbers in his head, he thought to himself in a calculating tone;
"If indeed ordinary people like Xzavier can master this power without mana, then, going by the most conservative estimate, the resources needed for training a batch of ordinary people would be way less than that of training mages…"
His eyes sparkled in exhilaration. He could already see it in his mind's eye. This was going to be a whole new revolution!
