"I remember you should be part of the Sage Sequence, right?"
"It's the Old Era Historian Sequence."
This self-mocking explanation made Malin pause before he remembered—indeed, even though the Sage Sequence was a T0 Sequence, basically no one could truly become a Sage, as the last three steps didn't require Magic Potions but required the Tier Three Old Era Historians to climb up on their own.
The Sage Sequence, one of the few publicly known T0 Sequences, was powerful because it could give anyone who embarked on this sequence a sufficient boost in intelligence, but the danger also started from the Tier Three Old Era Historian.
In fact, as early as Tier Five, this sequence was already showing its dangerous form—the Tier Five Archive Librarian, Tier Four Old Era Story Scribe, Tier Three Old Era Historian, then moving to Tier Two Old Era History Writer and Tier One Think Tank Curator, each promotion was a sublimation and refinement of Spiritual Energy.