Basari doesn't say more.
The better he becomes, the greater the gap between him and his peers, and the more he feels the importance of talent for a wizard apprentice.
Only out of ten thousand mortals can one be born with the talent to become a wizard apprentice. There are more qualified descendants of wizards, but only one in a few hundred.
The vast majority of these qualified individuals are born unable to withstand the promotion ceremony of a first level wizard and can only be apprenticed wizards for a lifetime. Only a few lucky individuals, due to the subtle differences in their souls from ordinary people, can withstand the ceremony and have the opportunity to become a first level wizard.
In addition to the huge cost, this promotion ceremony is also difficult to succeed. For example, the uncle of Basari, Marion, failed to promote a wizard. Not only did he not have a second chance in his life, but he also received permanent damage. His body was still alive, like a walking corpse.
In the oasis of the Abbas family, there are also over 100000 mortals, but now the total number of wizard apprentices in the Abbas family is less than 50, including 6 foreign wizard apprentices who married and settled with the Abbas family wizard apprentices.
Among the older ancestors of the Abbas family, there were someone with the qualifications to become first level wizards. But in the end, only the wizard Alec successfully completed the promotion ceremony, and the others either failed or could not be promoted. Decades later, they all died of old age, and some unfortunate people died on the spot or went crazy.
As a wizard apprentice, using the same meditation method and starting meditation at the same time and place, the brothers of Basari meditated for ten days, which is equivalent to the effect of Basari meditating for a day.
Of course, this is mainly attributed to Basari's ability to break the boundary between soul and matter at the age of seventeen, and to directly obtain the elemental power that exists in the material world with the soul.
According to the speculation of the old wizard Alec, Basari may be carrying some extraordinary biological bloodline related to light attributes, which is why he was able to easily make significant breakthroughs in light element related meditation one after another.
If nothing unexpected happens, before the age of thirty, Basari will surely be able to exercise his spirit and magic to the limit of his apprentice stage as a wizard and start trying to hold ceremonies to become a first-class wizard.
As his brothers grew older, their ability to persist in meditation gradually shortened, their ability to absorb elemental energy from nature gradually declined, and they could not even reach the limit of a wizard apprentice for a lifetime, let alone become first-class wizards.
Another difficulty is that the older the wizard apprentice gets, the less active their body becomes, and the greater the likelihood of sudden death on the spot during the ceremony. Uncles like Basari have all missed the best opportunity for promotion, making it difficult to hold ceremonies and become first-class wizards.
With Basari's age and talent, his success rate in promotion is indeed much higher than that of the average person, which is why the wizard Alec particularly values him.
Unfortunately, the supernatural biological bloodline does not increase the success rate of a wizard apprentice becoming a formal wizard, and even when selecting the main materials, it is necessary to consider whether there will be severe conflicts with the original bloodline. Otherwise, Basari could have held a ceremony to become a first-class wizard before the age of thirty.
Both of them understood these situations, so when he saw Basari's silence, Cadbin quickly adjusted his mindset and handed over his work.
"There are three main responsibilities for stationed in the Flame Sea."
"Firstly, upon receiving an alarm, help the miners eliminate some occasional monsters that may break in."
"Secondly, guard the miners' camp outside, expel any wizard apprentices or robbers who come to rob, and promptly store the extracted gemstones in the warehouse to avoid damage. The family sends people to pick them up every month."
"Finally, they are responsible for handling any troubles that may arise from the traveling caravans, which is related to the family How much business tax can a clan collect."
As Cadbin spoke, he handed over all the necessary items for guarding the Flame Sea to Basari and personally taught him how to use them.
"In addition, the caravan will also give you many bribes, which you deserve. You don't need to refuse, just register and notify the family. But remember, even if you take their money, don't be biased when dealing with conflicts, unless one of them has not bribed you."
"If you encounter powerful monsters or first level wizards that cannot be dealt with to attack a town, do not leave the wizard tower. The best way is to rely on the wizard tower to delay time and wait for the family's rescue."
"This is the control core and manipulation method of the Flame Sea Rune Array. I can only leave after you become familiar with how to use it."
Bashari took over the control core and found that it was a huge crystal diamond, carved into a double-layer Regular dodecahedron with many complex runes.
After another four or five days, it was not until Basari had mastered how to use the control core in his hand that Cardbin packed his bags and returned to Moonlight Lake.
After Cadbin left, Basari became the highest ranking representative of the Abbas family on this side of the Flame Sea.
He first summoned several managers from the Abbas family who were responsible for managing the miners, gained a preliminary understanding of the mining screening process of the gemstone mine, and handed them several magic props that could be instantly communicated, so that they could inform themselves in a timely manner when something happened.
These people are capable of serving as managers of the Abbas family, and they are all talents who have undergone intense competition and ultimately take up positions. However, these people do not have the talent to meditate and become wizards, and can only be mortals for a lifetime.
True wizards, even apprentices, do not recognize these mortals as their kind at all, nor do they care to have any communication with them.
Basari does not discriminate against these ordinary managers, but these people have long been discriminated against by wizards. The concept of inferiority has long been deeply ingrained in his heart. Even if he actively seeks to chat with them, no one dares to truly treat him as a member of the same to chat, so he ultimately can only let these people leave without interest.
In the following time, the life in Basari will be simpler.
Every day he falls asleep at dawn and sleeps until noon, when the activity of the light element reaches its peak. He meditates for four hours, using his soul to capture the power of light and strengthen his magic.
In the evening, before dinner. Basari would dedicate an hour to handling various mundane tasks related to mortals, such as asking the miners if they were ready to start work, whether the caravan was in conflict within the Abbas family's area, and receiving every merchant who came to bribe him.
For the traveling caravans, although this oasis is not large in area, it is a necessary passage for them. Any caravan needs to stop here to rest, replenish food and water, otherwise they will die of thirst and hunger in the desert.
And these tasks cannot be completed overnight, and caravans usually need to stay for about a week to provide sufficient rest for personnel and camels.
In this case, many caravans would trade with each other, allowing merchants to travel fewer routes without the need for specialized sales or procurement channels.
Over time, the four wizard families also realized their interests and opened their own commercial districts near the four city gates, providing various services for the traveling caravans and obtaining profits and taxes.
However, it should be noted that transportation and communication are not convenient in the desert. If matters in the oasis need to be resolved by the elders of the family and then brought back, it will take at least a week, and merchants cannot wait that long. Therefore, in the oasis, several stationed wizard apprentices are almost uncrowned kings, holding almost all power.
Because of this, in addition to paying taxes, the trading caravans also provide an additional bribe to the wizard apprentices.
Perhaps the bribes offered by a caravan were not enough to make the wizard apprentice wealthy, but with the numerous caravans that flowed in and out every day, the total amount of these bribes became extremely large.
It is precisely because of this that the family established mortal spies in this small town to monitor the powerful wizard apprentices. And apprentices can only accept bribes of no more than a certain amount, and all of them must be registered and recorded, and the elders of the family can determine whether there are any special circumstances.
Basari knew that these surpluses were the benefits that the family provided to the wizard apprentices stationed abroad, after all, it was the duty of every wizard apprentice to stay abroad, and the family would not pay them any wages or subsidies.
Set aside one hour per day to operate the market, and throughout the evening, Basari will study the carving of gemstones in the Wizard's Tower while keeping an eye out for any alarms. Many Nocturnality monsters also like sneaking attacks on miners at night. Even if supervisors have the alchemy potion that can expel them, there will still be some accidents every once in a while.
Despite this, Basari did not carve any gemstones. Instead, they carefully studied the notes left by their ancestors while using glass to learn the most basic manual carving techniques in gemstone carving.
A simple and fulfilling day like this will take three years to pass.
Three years later, Basbari was basically familiar with all kinds of knowledge related to gem processing, and a pair of palms had formed a Muscle memory of how to use various tools. Only then did he take out the original stones given to him by the old patriarch and begin to formally carve his first gem.
In order to save materials, he chose to refine the simplest reflective bead.
This type of treasure bead is made entirely of crystal and does not require specific cutting surfaces to be polished. Instead, the crystal needs to be extracted from the stone and polished into a sphere. Then, special tools are used to drill a small hole on the surface at any point, which is as thin as a hair and straight through the center of the sphere. Then use this channel to hollow out the center of the Crystal ball, and carve a few formulaic runes into the interior, which is considered to be a success.
Basari held a crystal raw stone the size of a human head in both hands and began to slowly cut off its surface with a carving knife, revealing the irregularly shaped crystals underneath.
This step went very smoothly, as Basari looked at the crystal that had already been peeled off its surface and calmly began to polish it.
First, a rough bead was shaped with a chisel, and then Basari used a spherical polishing tool to put the crystal into it. After operating according to certain steps, a transparent Crystal ball was completed.
Then came the real difficulty, hollowing out.
Basari grabbed the special tool, and instead of looking at the Crystal ball fixed on the table, he felt it with his spirit, and then slowly opened the surface and the center of the ball with a drill bit.
At this moment, Basari was thinking about how to carve those simple runes on the surface inside the ball. The force used in his hand slightly exceeded the limit, and the tools used for hollowing out immediately broke into the ball. This production failed.
Basari looked at the broken tool in his hand and was stunned for a moment. It took him a while to regain his composure and start collecting the waste.