I, a cultivator, have ended up in the wizarding world.

Chapter 20 An Anonymous Masterpiece

The mission detection center of Norren Academy is located at the deepest part of the academy's tenth underground level.

Here, sunlight never shines, only the Magic Lamp emits a cold glow.

Countless complex magical instruments were at work, emitting a low hum, and the air was filled with a strange smell of various materials mixed together, which was more intense and mixed than the smell in the laboratory.

This is one of the busiest areas in the entire workshop.

As part of a wizarding organization that rules multiple planes, Norren Academy also has several smaller planes under its control.

In addition, with wizards emerging from the academy constantly attacking new planes, the academy receives a massive amount of new materials every day from various planes and channels.

These materials need to undergo rigorous testing to determine their properties, grade, and potential uses.

The testing process is extremely detailed and tedious, requiring different materials to undergo dozens or even hundreds of tests, including physical strength, energy conduction, elemental corrosion, chemical reaction, stability, and curse resistance.

Even though the wizards here are constantly busy, the testing queues are often so long that it's despairing.

Due to a lack of manpower, even though the wizards frequently protested, they were still unable to alleviate the problem.

Today, the wizard in charge of testing isolation materials—an elderly man with gray hair and wrinkles around his eyes, jokingly referred to by his colleagues as the "resistance barrier," a first-level official wizard—is sitting at his testing table as usual.

His job was to put various samples of the new insulating materials into specific magical instruments and run a fixed testing process.

This job is tedious and boring. Most of the mature materials produced by high-level wizards will go directly to higher-level testing or be sent directly to the research department.

The materials he handles are mostly new creations developed by junior wizards or apprentices. These materials are often filled with unrealistic fantasies and vary greatly in quality.

“White iron-based insulating material? Ha, yet another ‘new type of insulating material’.” He habitually picked up a sample bottle with a special number, and seeing the simple label on it, he couldn’t help but laugh contemptuously.

The bottle contained several unremarkable pieces of material that looked like ordinary tin coated with gold powder.

He was used to this kind of thing.

These newcomers always think that they can create some earth-shattering new inventions by simply finding some special-looking ores or randomly combining alchemical materials.

Furthermore, they carefully concealed the specific names of the ingredients, fearing that others would steal their "exclusive formula."

"Naive," the old wizard thought to himself, shaking his head.

Not to mention that this work is subject to the restrictions of the academic contract, no one would dare to covet these research results.

As formal wizards, they have a broader perspective and more profound knowledge. To them, the things these apprentices tinker with are like crude toys made by children, and there is no need to steal their technology.

Those so-called "recipes" may be full of errors in their eyes, and may even contain basic mistakes in alchemy.

Despite his inner grumbling, he obediently placed one of the material samples into a large testing instrument and initiated the standard testing procedure.

This is the meticulousness that wizards develop from years of experimentation; even when faced with hopeless results, they still adhere to the procedures.

The instrument started operating, the runes lit up, and energy fluctuations scanned the interior of the material.

"Initiating basic testing, physical impact resistance... blunt force impact... grade, inferior..."

Listening to the sounds coming from the instrument, the old wizard habitually lowered his head to record the test results without looking up.

Before long, a series of physical resistance tests came to an end, and the final test results appeared on the instrument screen.

[Physical impact resistance: Inferior]

"As expected." He pursed his lips and placed the material into another instrument to continue testing.

"Resistance to energy shock..."

[Energy Shock Resistance: Poor]

"Ha! Just as I expected." Seeing that the first two results were both inferior, the old wizard's expectations dropped to zero.

In fact, he had a premonition when he saw the specific structure of the material. It was obvious that the only thing that could really work was the golden substance on top, and the rest of the basic structure was supported by white iron.

He had initially hoped for this thing to have energy resistance, but now it seems he was overthinking it.

The fact that it has low resistance to physical energy indicates that there must be something wrong with its basic structure and energy conduction mode.

Unless it has an amazing ability to resist corrosion, this material will definitely be considered scrap.

"Next is the corrosion resistance test... first, the elemental corrosion resistance..." He pressed the button to start the next round of testing.

Given inferior physical and energy resistance, to improve resistance to erosion, one must at least reach the level of a first-ring formal wizard to be considered "usable".

To gain attention, one needs to reach the level of a second- or even third-ring wizard.

However, this requirement is quite stringent even for formal wizards, and it is almost impossible to achieve for materials researched by apprentices.

However, just as he was waiting for the results with this thought in mind, the testing instrument emitted a soft but crisp beep.

The result came out.

[Resistance to Elemental Corrosion: Excellent! Assessment: Equivalent to a Level 3 Regular Wizard!]

Whether it was my imagination or not, the voices broadcasting by the instruments seemed rather enthusiastic.

The old wizard's hand trembled violently, and he almost dropped the recording tablet he was holding!
"What?!" He suddenly looked up, staring incredulously at the screen of the testing instrument.

Excellent? Third Ring Road level?!

He rubbed his eyes, thinking he was seeing things.

He has been doing this testing work for decades, has seen countless materials, and has also tested the research results of some formal wizards.

The elemental resistance at the level of a third-ring wizard is something that even most second-ring wizards' creations might not be able to achieve!
And this is a material testing result that looks like scrap metal, with even the submitter's name crudely labeled?!

This single result alone, even if all other tests were subpar, is enough to attract the attention of a formal wizard!

However, his shock came too early.

"Corrosion resistance..." The new test results followed immediately.

[Resistance to Mental Corruption: Excellent! Assessment: Equivalent to a fourth-ring official wizard!]

[Mind Control Resistance: Excellent! Assessment: Equivalent to a fourth-ring wizard!]

[Corrosion resistance: Excellent! Assessment: The assessment exceeds the current instrument's capabilities! Upgrading the testing equipment is recommended!]

[Curse Resistance: Excellent! Assessment: The assessment exceeds the range of the current instrument! Upgrading the testing is recommended!]

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(End of this chapter)