A series of "excellent" and "superior" results popped out like a string of firecrackers, and the old wizard's jaw nearly dropped to the table.
His previously disdainful smile completely froze, replaced by a face full of shock and uncontrollable trembling.
Resistance against Spiritual Power invasion and Mental Control reached Fourth Ring level?!
This is already approaching the core resistance of some high-tier protective constructs!
And the last few items, Corrosion resistance and Curse resistance, directly reported "assessment exceeded current equipment range" and suggested "upgrade detection"?!
This equipment can detect the resistance of materials below Tier Five Wizards!
How is this possible?!
The old wizard's anomaly caught the attention of other detection wizards around him.
They crowded around to look, and after seeing those two glaring "inferior" results at the top, followed by a dazzling string of "excellent," "superior," and even "assessment exceeded range," the entire detection center erupted!
"What the hell is this material?!"
"How can the initial physical and energy resistance be so poor, but the later corrosion resistance so high? Completely inconsistent!"
"Exceeded equipment range? This material must be researched by at least Tier Five Wizards! Who submitted this?!"
"Submitter name? Is it a High Level Wizard? Why didn't it go through a special channel?"
They all looked at the simple label on the material sample bottle, which only read "White Iron Base Insulation Material" and an apprentice number!
"An apprentice?!" Everyone was stunned.
A Wizard Apprentice?! What a joke?!
A detection wizard with only First-Ring Official Wizard level, tremblingly picked up the record board, his voice altered: "Quick! Get the supervisor!!!"
The whole detection center was in chaos, all the wizards gathered around, staring at the unremarkable white iron pieces, their eyes filled with shock, confusion, and disbelief.
Some clever wizards had already started secretly contacting their companions after seeing this test result, advising them to be ready to purchase this numbered insulation material on the Magic Net.
Materials with Curse and Corrosion resistance exceeding Tier Five are absolutely regulated resources, even at Nolun Workshop.
Insulation materials?
What a waste!
Wouldn't it be better to use this level of material to make Protective Witchcraft Artifacts?!
As for the weak physical and energy resistance... that's never been a problem!
After all, wizards excel at these two forms of protection, and there are related protective measures aplenty.
In endless plane wars, the biggest trouble wizards encounter is the erosion and damage caused by various incomprehensible unknown forces.
The reason Logistics Element wizards follow to the frontlines is to constantly analyze the special energies or substances within planes and quickly research countermeasures.
Similarly, the largest losses among Logistics Element wizards occur due to damages in the process of researching these things.
With this thing, unless extremely unlucky, it'd be like gaining another life!
More and more wizards realized this, and covert communication outside became increasingly common.
Therefore, when the supervisor arrived, almost the entire academy's Official Wizards were excited.
That night, an anonymous apprentice and a nondescript material unleashed a silent thunderbolt in the depths of Nolun Academy's Alchemy Workshop.
Meanwhile, as the focus of everyone's discussion, Jeming was sweating away in a corner of the warehouse, working hard in "brick-moving" for those life-saving Points.
He had no idea that his thoughtless action had sparked such upheaval within the academy.
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The smell of dust and assorted minerals permeated the fifth material warehouse.
This warehouse looked like a giant cave, filled with various raw materials.
The air was filled with the dust from minerals and dry scents of plants, with sunlight shining through rune glass holes at the top, forming beams of light in which countless tiny dust particles danced.
Jeming, wearing protective clothing, along with several other apprentices, was assigned here with a mountain of minerals and plants piled in front.
They needed to identify these materials one-by-one according to the "Basic Materials Manual", sort them into different boxes, then weigh them and label them.
"Oh, another physical task." One apprentice from the same cohort sighed and bent over to start moving minerals.
"If only it were just simple physical work, why do we also have to identify minerals? These things all look identical!" Another apprentice sighed as well.
Jeming said nothing, donned his protective gear, and joined in.
Using his Spiritual Power, he carefully identified the minerals in his hands while mechanically repeating the sorting and weighing actions.
Suddenly, Jeming paused because he saw Victor entering the warehouse with his task partner.
They seemed to have just finished a task and came here looking for the next one.
Victor immediately noticed Jeming's group doing the "sorting" task, but he didn't come over. Instead, he led his partner to the task board in the warehouse division.
After a while, Jeming heard Victor's voice coming from nearby.
He seemed to have found a seemingly good task and was persuading his partner.
"Look, this 'Energy Conductivity Testing' task requires going to the third energy room… although it's a bit remote, the task itself isn't hard, just operating a few instruments, and offers double the Points for sorting!" Victor's tone was alluring, "Don't just do physical work, use your brain!"
His partner seemed hesitant: "Energy room… I've heard energies there can sometimes be unstable…"
"No worries! There are protective measures! Besides, instability means more data to record, maybe even write a small report for the mentor and leave a good impression?" Victor nonchalantly dispelled his partner's concerns, his tone filled with confidence that he "surely isn't wrong".
Listening to him, Jeming smirked.
He was sure Victor must have taken some favor from someone in the energy room, purely tricking the naive ones here.
Of course, calling it tricking might be too harsh, since what he said wasn't wrong either.
However, Victor didn't tell this unlucky guy that most energy fluctuations tested in the energy room weren't harmonious and, although not harmful to the body, would inevitably cause dizziness, headaches, nausea, and vomiting for two or three days after testing.
But Jeming had no intention of exposing this guy, since there was no deep grudge between them.