Roger's process of achieving Eternal Life was the same as his thought process when he tried to walk the Path to Immortality.
It wasn't about growth in power, but prioritizing one's existential status.
But the problem was.
The level of power required to achieve Eternal Life, Roger had already reached through natural growth! Just as Voldemort said, Roger was a 'monster'.
In less than a year of encountering magic, his Mental Power had grown to a level not much weaker than Dumbledore's.
With the Three-Dimensional Law as an amplifier, by the time Roger's theory of Eternal Life was complete, his power had also grown to a degree sufficient to support the transformation of his life form.
Normally, achieving Eternal Life independently through Roger's envisioned path required a foundation of strength.
It was just that Roger's natural growth in power was so rapid that he overlooked this point.
And on the Path to Immortality, this overlooked flaw immediately became apparent.
As Nicolas Flamel had said, Roger's Time Plague spell itself was not the error.
The error was Roger's time anchoring chain, which started at the end of the first semester and did not link together all the spacetime he had experienced from birth until now.
The incomplete self-anchoring prevented the changes from becoming a part of Roger's mind, thus causing a backlash in the Reincarnation Plan.
And Roger had not completed this, not because he didn't want to, but because with his power, he couldn't link all his past spacetime!
His current power was insufficient to support him in achieving the Path to Immortality! Once he understood this, what Roger needed to do next was very simple.
He needed to expand his power, to enable himself to do more things, so that no matter how his Path to Immortality unfolded, he would be more at ease.
Various operations that could only exist in theory now had space to be carried out in practice, unlike now, where he would get stuck in a dead end with one wrong move.
The power leap after achieving Eternal Life was like a poisonous shortcut, causing Roger to ignore the approach of taking the long way around with persistent effort over the past year.
Little did he know, sometimes taking a shortcut is taking the long way around, and going the long way around can actually be the true shortcut!
Of course, the current development of the wizard civilization had already proven that humanity had limits, and how difficult it was to improve Mental Power without a life leap.
Therefore, Roger couldn't stubbornly stick to the current magical system.
That would only allow Roger to grow in spellcasting techniques, but not allow for a breakthrough development in the source of his power.
Roger had only one path.
The Three-Dimensional Law, the Second Magic! The Second Magic was what Roger would focus on developing next!
"And in terms of specific actions, what are you going to do?" Dumbledore asked, feeling Roger's seriousness.
He couldn't help but care. With Roger's current strength, he was like the 'sun' in the wizarding world. His immense gravity meant that every move he made would cause ripples throughout the entire planetary system.
With Eternal Life as his goal, Roger always felt 'weak' in his self-perception. In reality, Roger's current strength was more than enough to contend with the Five Virtuous Sages of Earth, making him terrifyingly powerful.
"Without further ado, I am going to promote my Second Magic, the Illusory True Realm, to wizard society immediately." Roger changed his strategy of suppressing social changes and waiting for his strength to grow before flattening everything.
Instead, he would drive social change to assist his own growth in strength.
"So soon? Won't that..." Dumbledore frowned, clearly hesitant.
It seemed his earlier ominous premonition was related to this matter.
"I know your concerns, Headmaster Dumbledore. I will naturally not suddenly reveal all the information and force the method of the Second Magic to land abruptly," Roger said with a smile.
Every wizard in the world represented a future possibility. How could Roger do this in a way that would cause widespread chaos or even war?
"Coincidentally, my Virtual Reality is also about to begin public beta testing for the entire wizarding society."
"And my Second Magic itself is a deep binding of the virtual world with the self, allowing wizards to obtain a phantom creator status, a system that allows practitioners to gain new points of power growth."
"Then let's do both things together."
"Let them naturally practice the Second Magic," Roger said.
In his previous life, Roger had seen a movie. The story was about a few children playing a game in their room, using game props to simulate a war.
The children chatted and laughed, took breaks when they were tired, and continued playing after eating and drinking, just like all the leisure time children had experienced before.
But in reality, Earth was facing an alien invasion at that time, and the Earth Allied Forces were fighting aliens in outer space.
The aliens' AI technology was extremely high. No matter which country's staff planned their strategies, the AI could see through all their strategic intentions, leading to a great defeat.
While the children seemed to be playing games, in reality, the Earth Allied Forces were acting according to the children's game setups to prevent the alien AI from seeing through their strategic deployments.
Even when the children rested and took no action, the Allied Forces followed suit, ordering the entire army to remain silent, even at the cost of heavy casualties.
Roger was adopting a similar method.
Who said that during cultivation, the person must be aware that they are cultivating?
Roger could completely make the wizards think they were playing games, but in reality, they would be walking further and further down the path of cultivating the Second Magic.
This was not a very difficult thing for Roger.
It was just that Roger didn't like doing it this way.
Because in Roger's eyes, it was like parents pouring medicine into a Coke bottle. Even if it was for the child's own good and beneficial to the child, it was still a deception.
But now, Roger had a new perspective.
"Specifically, it's roughly like this." Roger gave Dumbledore a general description of what he planned to do.
"I see." Dumbledore fell into thought upon hearing this, beginning to consider its feasibility.
And the risks involved.
"So, when do you plan to reveal the truth to people?" Dumbledore asked.
"Reveal? No, I plan to let them 'discover' the truth themselves," Roger replied.
In reality, it still came down to those two words: sequence! The effect Roger wanted to achieve wasn't for Wizards to know that virtual reality technology had greatly enhanced their power from the start.
It was for Wizards to discover that virtual reality technology could gradually increase their strength through continuous use.
When the sequence was swapped, marvelous things would happen.
"As the saying goes, 'Knowledge is not lightly shared.' What I spoon-feed them is far less valuable than what they seek themselves."
This was where Roger's perspective differed from his previous self.
He no longer viewed everything as 'life,' nor did he see things from the superior position of a 'parent' to human civilization.
Instead, he regarded all beings more equally, thinking about his actions from a strategic standpoint.
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