Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 165 Rejecting Qingmiao Studio

Lancaster's confident smile froze for a moment. He looked at Locke with slight disbelief and actually asked, "Excuse me, junior Locke."

"I didn't hear what you just said. Are you saying you're rejecting our Qingmiao Studio?"

Locke frowned, looking slightly impatient.

In fact, Lancaster was just an ordinary first-class wizard apprentice, while he himself had already faintly entered the middle stage of the first-class wizard apprentice level.

Locke stated firmly, "Yes, Lancaster, I don't want to join any studio."

They have their own magical plant cultivation project, and come with a bunch of other projects. They could practically set up a studio on their own.

It's just that it lacks a little accumulation.

Upon hearing this, the others stopped in their tracks, because Locke had already rejected even the Seedling Studio, so he certainly wouldn't consider their Breeder Studio either.

But Lancaster still chased after him, blocking Locke's path, and said, "Junior Locke, you may not know what Green Seed Studio is."

"Qingmiao Studio is the largest studio in the academy. Even the second-ranked [Tengyu Studio] and the third-ranked [Yunsong Studio] are far behind our studio."

Lancaster's eyes even flashed with anger, as if he were rebuking an ignorant fool. "Even for breeders, joining our Seedling Studio is a rare opportunity."

"It's very difficult to join."

"We invited you because there's a project to cultivate defensive magical plants, and we need to train a new breeder to take over the project."

"Otherwise, you might not have had this luck."

Locke raised his eyebrows impatiently.

He felt he had been polite enough, but this wizard named Lancaster still didn't know when to advance or retreat.

"I am not interested."

"Go find whoever you want."

Lancaster was utterly enraged. "You...Augustine, you are too arrogant."

Locke frowned.

He felt his reaction was perfectly normal; he had been very patient with this first-class wizard apprentice who was weaker than him in both magical power and breeding.

Moreover, I have stated several times that I do not want to be involved in any studio, and this is not specifically targeting Qingmiao Studio.

But this wizard kept pestering her, as if she absolutely needed this job and missing out would be her loss.

But that's not really the case.

In order to get rid of the entanglement as soon as possible, Locke said directly: "I remember that your so-called executive partner, Mary, was only ranked eleventh in the White Wizard Association Breeder Competition preliminary round."

"And I am fifth."

"I don't think there's anything good about joining Qingmiao Studio."

“Lancaster, I’ll repeat myself, I have no interest in entering any studio. If you dare to stand in my way again, you’ll face the consequences.”

Locke immediately sensed that Lancaster was releasing his magical pressure, trying to overwhelm him on a magical level.

However, the magical pressure on his body surface automatically retaliated, and immediately the magical pressure of the two first-class wizard apprentices descended. In an instant, the small stones with a radius of ten meters around the two of them floated into the air.

The next moment, Lancaster felt as if he had been riding in a speeding car and crashed violently into a steel wall. He swayed, and a trickle of blood flowed from the corner of his mouth. In that moment of distraction, Locke walked straight past him.

To compete with a wizard whose magical pressure is greater than one's own is the most foolish thing in the world.

If you don't go head-to-head, you can use your magical experience and other strengths to find a roundabout way to win. But if it's a contest of magical pressure, the person with higher quality and greater quantity of magical pressure will win.

No one present could react in time. They never expected that a simple recruitment would cause two first-class wizard apprentices to fight each other on the magical pressure level.

Moreover, the one who had the upper hand was not a partner of Qingmiao Studio, but a first-class wizard apprentice who had been promoted for less than half a year.

Lancaster stood there for several minutes before he recovered. He had just clashed head-on with Locke in a magical pressure contest, relying on the fact that he had been a first-class wizard apprentice for six and a half years, while Locke was only a newly promoted first-class wizard apprentice.

He wanted to use the magical power he had accumulated to teach this 'insolent' first-class wizard apprentice a lesson.

Who would have thought that he would be the one to get a lesson?

Lancaster felt a pang of fear at first, as he seemed to have provoked a wizard more powerful than himself, but he quickly thought of the Seedling Studio behind him.

Lancaster snapped out of his daze, a flicker of fear, unease, and utter rage crossing his eyes. "How could a newly promoted first-class wizard apprentice possess such immense magical pressure..."

"But just because you have a little talent, you dare to disregard our Green Seed Studio like this? You really don't know your place. Our Green Seed Studio has plenty of certified breeders and first-class wizard apprentices."

Lancaster noticed the glances and mocking looks he received from the crowd, and he immediately felt that he had just made a huge fool of himself in front of everyone.

He felt his face burning.

Lancaster immediately turned around in a fit of rage and shouted at Locke, who had already walked away, "Augustine, you will regret this!"

“You rejected our Green Seed Studio. I wonder which studio within the academy you can find a job in.”

"With an attitude like yours, no studio could afford a talent like you!"

"I will report this to Senior Mary truthfully. You just wait!"

Locke didn't turn around, but instead raised his left hand and waved at him from a distance. "Okay, I'll be waiting."

Anyway, as long as he doesn't forcibly block my way or prevent me from walking, then it has nothing to do with me.

She was busy heading to Aisi and Anglu's shop to sign the contract for the memory ointment.

The so-called workshops are nothing more than places where breeders who are temporarily not capable enough band together for mutual support, or where powerful breeders begin to cooperate with other first-class wizard apprentices in order to increase production.

I don't need to join any studio at all. On the contrary, I am quite interested in opening my own breeder's studio in the future.

By opening a studio, one can gain first-class wizard apprentice employees and partial management control over the plantation from them.

Locke raised an eyebrow, snapped his fingers, and muttered to himself, "Speaking of which, he's still a white wizard after all; his threats are so childish."

"They actually threatened me by saying they would make it impossible for me to find a job."

"If they were dark wizards, they would probably have come straight for us. But we're from the same academy, so we don't really have any conflict of interest. It's just their attitude that annoys me, so there's really no reason for us to fight."

Although Locke was able to suppress his emotions and waste half a day to slowly refuse the work invitation from Qingmiao Studio, he compromised.

But Locke thought about it carefully and realized that it wasn't necessary.

I really can't find the slightest reason why I should compromise myself.

(End of this chapter)