Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 218 Atlas Color Palette

Elagabalus said regretfully, "It's a pity that although the illness was later diagnosed, just as you said, it was an imbalance in the elements of the body and soul."

"But I don't have the money to hire a professional wizard to treat my wife, and the potion-making assistants are all helpless and have all refused to help me."

"No one has even offered a possible solution like you. If I had met you back then, perhaps my wife would still have a chance of survival."

"Although the [Volcanic Lava Core], [Heart of Extreme Ice], and [Lung of Storm] are also very expensive, at least these are things I might be able to afford after signing the loan agreement."

"So, my first wife eventually died."

A hint of sadness appeared on Elagabalus's face.

Elagabalus then changed the subject. "However, I later married a new wife, and we are now living happily."

“My current wife is my fourth wife. My second wife divorced me, my third wife died in a mission, and my current fourth wife is a student of my wizard mentor…”

Locke turned and glanced at him, feeling rather speechless.

When I first saw this man, he talked about his first wife with a sad expression, and he spent more than a year creating a magic painting to preserve her most beautiful face for the world. I thought he was a devoted lover.

Who knew, he was a player.

So you hung your first wife's portrait in the most prominent place in your gallery just to maintain your image as a devoted lover?

Locke frowned, hesitated for a moment, and then managed to say, "Yes, the road to love is always full of bumps."

Locke quickly steered the conversation back to the main topic. "This sketch artist, I'd like to hire you for a month. Please use your magic drawing skills to record my magical plant and potion creations."

Elagabalus, obviously, often did this for people, so he naturally knew about it.

His eyes lit up. Opening a shop in such an expensive market as Chimera Market, far away from his wizarding organization, and having to pay hefty rent every year would mean he would incur considerable costs each year.

Therefore, Eragabarus desperately needs business.

For someone like Locke, an invitation takes a month and requires him to create a complete set of magic paintings, which is clearly a relatively large project in his personal gallery.

Elagabalus's smile immediately widened, and even his usually melancholic, artistic face became more sunny.

"Sure, of course. I still have some loose orders on hand, which will take about another week to finish. Once I'm done, I'll come over to your place and draw the magic paintings you need."

Elagabalus smiled and said, "My name is Elagabalus. Oh, there's my personal information on the door. I'm a first-class wizard apprentice at the Atlas Color Palette."

"I also have a certified badge of a formal sketch artist. I also have 16 B-level articles, 1 A-level article, and 45 C-level articles from our academy. In addition, I once had a magic painting that won a top 100 place in the magic painting competition of the White Wizard Association, and thus obtained a top 100 certification badge."

Elagabalus quickly recounted his resume to Locke.

Locke did indeed see a blue badge marked with 100 on the badge he wore on his chest. At the top of the badge were the emblem of the White Wizarding Association, the industry mark of the speed painter, and the mark of the competition.

This shows that Elagabalus did indeed participate in the magic painting competition in the entire southeastern corner of the region and achieved a top 100 ranking.

Locke said briefly, "I am Locke Augustine, a student at Lilith Hut."

Elagabalus said to Locke, "My pricing is as follows: the sketching assistant mainly sells simple sketches and watercolor paintings. I don't do those simple, mass-produced paintings that are mainly for decoration and everyday use."

“I only sell proper magic paintings here. That is, a magic painting starts at least at thirty magic stones,” Elagabalus said. “A basic magic painting that only records a two-dimensional image costs 30 magic stones, while a magic painting that records a three-dimensional image of a landscape or person costs 80 magic stones.”

Locke nodded slightly; the price was basically reasonable.

Because the portrait of the witch lady required the use of a 0.5-level illusion projection spell, and the speed painter had to use all their abilities to perfectly replicate it in two and three dimensions.

A medium-quality enchanted item typically costs between 100 and 150 magic stones.

A medium-to-high quality enchanted item costs around 500 magic stones.

Even though both are first-class wizard apprentice level speed painters, one of their magic paintings can only sell for 30 to 80 magic stones. It seems that alchemists are still making more money.

However, Locke thought for a moment, recalling Tyne, the alchemist's assistant at Kentry's Workshop, and how he always saw Tyne looking disheveled, and shook his head slightly.

Alchemists make money, that's what it means to make money.

But every day, I have to make myself look like a coal sprite that just crawled out of the coal dust.

It's still more fun being a breeder and a potion maker yourself.

The potions for a potion master's assistant range from Memory Ointment (15 magic stones per tube) to Star Tear (150 magic stones per bottle) to Eye Potion (300 magic stones per bottle).

Potions are available at various price points.

Moreover, potions are essential consumables for wizards, and they buy them frequently, unlike Tyne who always ends up covered in dirt and grime.

The breeders are doing something similar: Super Mandragora costs 30 magic stones per plant, Crystal Palm Fire Lotus costs 5 magic stones per plant, and Eye of Perseus Lichen costs 100 magic stones per plant.

However, cultivating this crop is slightly more tiring than being a potion maker.

Elagabalus continued to Locke, saying, "The most basic magic painting is to use illusion magic to preserve certain information you want to keep within the painting, so that time can no longer easily wash it away."

"If you want more functional magic drawings, you can add features to the most basic whiteboard magic drawing."

"For example, to increase illusion attack ability, add 50 magic stones. To increase illusion control ability, also add 50 magic stones."

"To add the ability to create a map-like magic painting, or even a magic painting that displays your location information on a map, you need to add 100 magic stones."

"This is quite complicated. Although it looks like a simple function, to achieve this function, at least three illusion spell models must be used in the magic painting. The more illusion models there are, the more difficult it is to create the magic painting. It is a very complicated thing."

Upon hearing this, Locke looked up and glanced at Eragabalus.

Elagabalus thought about it carefully. "Apart from the fact that adding the magic painting function costs 100 magic stones, the other function additions basically only cost 50 magic stones."

“For example, there’s also the ability to add trap-type functions. For instance, if you want to create a trap-type magic painting, you can leave one of your spells inside my magic painting and attack the enemy the moment they touch it. That’s also possible. This function will cost 50 magic stones.” Elagabalus said, “This is much simpler than creating a map. You only need to use a 0.5-ring [Delayed Illusion] model.”

"To create a qualified magic map, you need to use a 0.8-ring illusion model [Activated Map]."

Elagabalus thought about it carefully, "That's basically it. Magic paintings have quite a few uses. For example, you can let me use a basic magic painting to record the evolution of a certain ecological disaster, a laboratory out of control."

(End of this chapter)