Seeing Jie Ming's reaction, Viola was taken aback.
"What's wrong?"
Jie Ming's expression turned strange.
"Senior, your mental strength… increased by 30%?"
"That's right. Oh, that energy of yours can indeed be used to strengthen the body, but I thought it was too wasteful. I just tried it for a bit, then used all of it to strengthen my mental strength."
"Is there a problem?"
Jie Ming fell silent.
A problem?
Yes, a huge one—bigger than big!
Standing in front of the experiment, Jie Ming's brow slowly furrowed.
He quickly re-simulated the previously recorded data in his spiritual sea.
Based on his extensive experiments with the Blood Sacrifice Method, when the sacrifice was of the same rank and the recipient's talent had reached the current level cap, the excess power did not disappear. Instead, it converted according to the recipient's own cultivation base.
According to his experimental research records, a same-rank sacrifice could increase the recipient's cultivation by roughly five to thirty percent. In the wizard system, this naturally translated to enhanced mental strength and physical fortitude.
There was nothing wrong with that. The problem lay in the magnitude of the increase.
Calculating from the baseline of Viola's mental strength fluctuations he had sensed earlier, each of these three sacrifices should have only increased mental strength by about ten percent.
But Viola's mental strength had just increased by exactly thirty percent.
This meant that the full benefits from sacrificing three sixth-level clones had all been converted into mental strength, with no talent enhancement whatsoever.
Jie Ming slowly exhaled. "…"
Until this moment, he finally understood the source of the vague unease he had felt after his earlier experiments.
The crux lay in the talent of high-rank wizards.
Not only did those who reached high positions in the immortal cultivation system generally possess good talent, but the same held true for the wizard system.
Those who could advance through the ranks to become high-rank beings almost never had significant shortcomings in talent.
Elemental Affinity, soul strength, mental growth rate—these indicators of potential were constantly supplemented by various resources at low levels.
If there were obvious defects, they would never reach high ranks.
For example, the Mars wizard he had encountered when he first entered school. Originally, his third-level talent made it impossible to become a formal wizard, but using resources gained on the battlefield, he compensated for his deficiencies and finally advanced. (Chapter 5)
But this meant that his original plan—to use the Blood Sacrifice Method to enhance the talents of high-rank wizards and thereby earn a massive amount of military merits—had been wrong from the start!
High-rank wizards simply didn't need talent enhancement.
Thinking about it, Jie Ming couldn't help but feel a headache coming on.
However, when his gaze fell on Viola's face, he paused slightly.
His senior's eyes were practically shining, and the joy on her face was impossible to hide.
There was no way… she thought this technique was useless.
Jie Ming tentatively asked, "Senior, how do you feel about this? If placed on the market, what do you think its commercial prospects would be?"
Hearing this, Viola looked as if she had heard an incredible question. She blinked. "Commercial prospects?"
After thinking for a moment, she suddenly turned serious. "Let me confirm first: besides the technical cost of this array itself, the main consumable is just clones of the same rank as the recipient, right?"
"That's right." Jie Ming nodded.
"Does inscribing the array require any special materials, or does the clone itself have any special requirements?"
"No special materials or requirements. In extreme cases, the array can be used with just mental construct. The clones don't need knowledge or combat ability—only their life rank needs to meet the requirement."
"Are there any limitations to this technique in terms of mental strength enhancement? For example, it becomes unusable at the eighth level?"
Jie Ming scratched his head. "I don't think so. Although it hasn't been tested, based on the principles, at most the effect would be somewhat poorer for eighth-level wizards, since most eighth-level wizards have monstrous accumulation…"
Before he finished speaking, Viola suddenly stepped forward and slammed both hands onto Jie Ming's shoulders.
Bang!
Because she was too excited, Viola's force was a bit strong, and a faint metallic grating sound came from the puppet's shoulder.
"Of course it has prospects!" Her eyes lit up, and her speech quickened. "And huge prospects at that!"
"Don't even mention those sixth- or seventh-level wizards—even those big shots who have just advanced to eighth level will be scrambling for your technique!"
Jie Ming was stunned. "Eighth-level wizards also need to increase mental strength?"
"Of course."
Viola nodded matter-of-factly.
"Do you know what eighth-level wizards need most after advancing? It's not laws or knowledge—it's mental strength!"
Jie Ming was a bit puzzled. "But I've heard that after eighth-level wizards stabilize their laws, they can achieve zero mental power consumption."
Viola didn't refute. "That's true, but what you're talking about is combat situations."
"However, in non-combat states, if eighth-level wizards want to improve, they need to constantly perfect their own law stabilization. Every deduction, every experiment, every activation of their domain in this process requires massive mental strength support."
"But mental strength isn't like elemental energy—it can't be easily increased. Especially for beings of the eighth-level and above, most mental-strength-enhancing potions become ineffective. Aside from slowly accumulating over time, there's almost no other way."
"Many seventh- and eighth-level wizards have to spend several millennia just to gain a little mental strength."