Chapter 624 - 603: Turning Wizards Into Standard Parts!
Chapter 624: Chapter 603: Turning Wizards Into Standard Parts!
In a reception room within the Cybertron Fortress.
The core executives of Wesren Heavy Industry sat upright on both sides of the round table.
Chief Financial Officer Colin stared at the shriveled string of numbers, the corner of his eye twitching slightly. Administrative Director Vera, meanwhile, swiped her fingertips rapidly across a data pad, trying to make sense of the complex budget.
They had recently witnessed firsthand as their boss launched the seemingly insane "Phase II Civilization Construction Project." Today, they were invited here to discuss the implementation details of popularizing Extraordinary Power.
"The framework for the infrastructure has been built, and commerce has been opened up in all major administrative districts," Allen said, his deep blue eyes sweeping over everyone present. "But this massive machine called the ’Divine Kingdom of Ten Thousand Machines’ is currently missing its core driving gear."
"Are you referring to... the popularization of Extraordinary Power?" Colin interjected sharply, though his tone revealed a hint of financial concern.
"To be precise, a scaled technical population," Allen corrected. "Jarvis, report the current talent data for the Divine Kingdom."
Jarvis’s voice immediately echoed in the spacious conference room.
"The current total population of the G-771 Plane is 765 million. After three years of mandatory basic education, the overall literacy rate has reached 42 percent.
"However, there are only 37,000 locally trained engineers, 120,000 production line operators, and 80,000 equipment maintenance personnel. As for the number of Wizard Apprentices possessing Magic Power—zero."
Allen stood up and paced around the conference room.
"Thirty-seven thousand engineers sounds like a lot. But it’s barely enough to maintain our newly added Golem assembly lines.
"Everyone, we need to develop thirteen primary colonial Planes nearby, and we need to form cross-Star Domain Floating Ship Merchant Teams. Relying on these tens of thousands of people isn’t even a drop in the bucket."
He leaned his hands on the table, his oppressive gaze enveloping the entire room. "What we need are millions of Transcendents. We need a massive number of casting tool people."
Vera stopped recording and looked up. "Boss, this isn’t realistic. The Seven Towers Alliance takes an average of thirty years to train an Official Wizard, costing over fifty thousand Magic Stones.
"Even for the lowest-level Wizard Apprentice, the annual cost of Magic Potions, experimental materials, and mentor fees is an astronomical sum. We don’t have that much money, nor do we have the time to wait for them to grow."
"That is the traditional Wizard training model. It’s too slow, too inefficient!"
Allen straightened up. As a Transmigrator, from his very first day in the Wizarding World, he had scoffed at that teaching method, which still carried the influence of master-disciple inheritance.
"They view knowledge as private property. Most of them still use the ancient and inefficient apprenticeship system, wasting vast amounts of time on meaningless trial and error. They are picking successors to their legacy, whereas I—I am recruiting employees."
Allen tapped his fingertip lightly in the air, and a file titled "Wizard Apprentice Talent Testing System" was pulled up. This was already the latest product of reform in the Wizarding World.
"In traditional testing, checking Magic Affinity requires the apprentice to hold a ’Magic Power Injector’ while an Official Wizard observes their reaction one-on-one. Meditation Talent requires a mentor to personally recite the Entry Spell, expending Spiritual Power to guide them.
"This workshop-style screening, which recruits once every ten years and picks out only a handful of people at a time, is simply a crime against population resources."
Allen looked into the empty space. "Jarvis, display the design blueprint for the ’Truth Type I’ comprehensive testing cabin."
In the center of the sand table, a holographic projection of a silver-gray metal device resembling a hibernation pod instantly formed. Its lines were sleek, and the surface of the cabin was etched with dense, miniature Rune Circuits.
"This is a mass-produced testing device I designed by integrating Alchemy."
Allen pointed at the projection, explaining this epoch-making educational product. "The bottom of the cabin has a built-in Magic Source that can automatically release a fixed amount of gentle, inert Magic Flow. It is equipped with a ’Brain Wave Sensing Helmet’ that features a minimalist audio version of the Entry Spell.
"The tester lies inside, and the cabin door closes. The system will automatically monitor their body’s resonance with Magic Power and capture their brain wave patterns. The results are produced in three minutes.
"The Magic Power resonance is converted into a precise numerical value from 0 to 100, and memory and concentration tests can also be conducted simultaneously. The entire process requires zero manual intervention from a Wizard, and the results are uploaded directly to the Grand Governor database."
Colin looked at the equipment parameters, utterly astonished. This thing wasn’t actually difficult to manufacture; it was just that no one had ever specifically designed it. He hadn’t expected a Morning Star Wizard like Allen to take a hands-on approach to such a matter.
He asked curiously, "Boss, what is the manufacturing cost of this device?"
"Setting aside the initial research and development costs, the material cost for a single unit is less than five hundred Low-Level Magic Stones," Allen calmly stated, throwing out an extremely low figure.
Colin didn’t expect it to be so cheap. At this cost, it could absolutely be mass-produced.
Allen didn’t give everyone time to react, directly issuing an order. "Jarvis, focus all efforts on producing the ’Truth Type I’ testing cabin. I want ten thousand units produced within a month and deployed to every town across the entire continent."
His words revealed his true ambition. "In the G-771 Plane, the age-appropriate population between fourteen and twenty-five totals 120 million. I want to complete mandatory universal testing for all 120 million of them!"
One hundred and twenty million people!
In the history of the Wizarding World, no organization or Plane had ever conducted such an insane Transcendent population census. Traditional White Wizards sat high and mighty, disdaining the idea of panning for gold in the gravel. They were unwilling to proactively share knowledge with others, only selecting from the small minority who voluntarily signed up.