When he was finished, Angor looked at Sunders with an expecting expression.
Sunders was silent for a while before he finally smiled.
“Good. Mostly correct. To be a wizard, you must have a fast mana flow. How to increase that speed has always been a lifelong subject for wizards.
“You already mentioned it. A high spiritual power indicator affects flow speed. But there’s another question here, like you just said, if your spirit model does not suit you, it will not help you quicken the mana flow. This is where we reach a key point. Finding a spirit model that suits you best is the real condition whether you can keep up on the path of wizardry.
“I suggested you not to learn the common channeling methods in the books. They may be the most stable methods concluded by different wizards after thousands of decades. They can hardly go wrong. But their efficiency depends on the user, and might not suit you well. If you spend a hundred years on a model that does not work well on you, you would waste your life.”
Angor thought about Mara. Mara spent decades to become a High Apprentice, not because he could not find destiny, but because he chose the wrong way from the very beginning.
“Why do different models work differently on people? No one has an answer to it yet. Almost every major wizard organization keeps gathering data to experiment on it, and they still haven’t reached a conclusion,” said Sunders. He pondered and said, “My guess is that people all have different life passwords.”
Sunders did not explain what a “life password” was. Angor had no idea, but he guessed it could have something to do with DNA?
Sunders continued, “We can say that more than 80% of all apprentices idled their lives away because they didn’t choose a fitting spirit model. And many of the remaining people don’t do well with their channeling methods. As you said, they have to improvise. It’s difficult, but they can still become wizards as long as they have enough resources, find their destiny, and work hard.
“This, is why few apprentices made it to wizards.”