Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 268 Monthly Income: 36,000 Magic Stones
Two weeks later, at night.

Locke was located in a medium-sized plantation next to his three-piece suit. Just as the wizard Harlan Vera had promised him, the approval for the medium-sized plantation came in within three days and was approved and certified by the association.

Within a week, the college sent him an alchemy hut in a medium-sized plantation.

This medium-sized plantation has 300 acres of land, so that all of my increasingly numerous magical plants can be planted.

At that time, within a week, his medium-sized plantation had already begun to take shape.

Thanks to Harlan Vera and his network of connections, and with their full support, Locke cultivated a magical field of 100 acres of Eye of Perseus lichen, 100 acres of Sycamore florida 'Two-Ball' lichen, and 100 acres of Emerald Iris lichen in just one week.

Although these 300 acres of magical fields are still in the soil-nurturing or seedling-nurturing stage, they have already taken shape, and my initial investment was less than a thousand magic stones.

The estimated investment for the next phase is as follows: because the top-tier wizard apprentices are taking turns helping me almost for free, the original total cost of at least 50,000 magic stones will now only require an investment of 10,000 magic stones to complete all three magic plant projects.

At the same time, this 10,000 magic stones also included the reconstruction of 100 acres of Crystal Palm Fire Lotus magic fields in his other two small and medium-sized plantations, as well as the newly opened 30 acres of Invisible Mandrake Vines and another 10 acres of Iron Wire Goosegrass magic fields.

Similarly, Locke's personal pharmaceutical lab, thanks to the help of a large number of people, has doubled the production of Memory Ointment, maintained the same production of Secondary Emerald Elixir, but tripled the production of Bear Spirit Emerald Elixir.

In this way, his own medicine workshop can produce 1000 tubes of memory ointment every month. After deducting the profits shared with his fellow disciples, he can earn a net profit of 7000 magic stones.

The production of Xiong Ling Cui Dan potion has increased to 300 bottles per month, which can bring in a net profit of 20,000 magic stones.

In other words, with the help of Harun Vera, his own pharmaceutical workshop developed rapidly and directly became a super pharmaceutical workshop that could earn 27,000 magic stones in net profit every month.

Locke had seen the rankings of his personal pharmacy. In a very short time, his personal pharmacy had surged into the top three and was even showing signs of becoming the number one apprentice-level pharmacy.

The number of potion shops that tried to contact him every day, and the number of wizard shopkeepers who wanted to purchase Bear Spirit Gallbladder Potion, were countless. He ordered his assistant, Terri, to handle them all.

Similarly, the magic fields in his three larger plantations, which recently cost only 5000 magic stones, generated two bulk purchase contracts worth a total of 60,000 magic stones.

Meanwhile, the scattered magic fields, when combined, bring in a monthly income of 9000 magic stones.

However, the truly valuable plant is the Emerald Iris Lichen, the main ingredient in the Bear Spirit Emerald Elixir. Once the hundred-acre magical field of this plant is successfully established, the academy's higher-ups will only purchase more Bear Spirit Emerald Elixir, and it may even be sold outside the academy.

I can earn even more money myself.

Furthermore, once the work of conquering the rare magical plant is completely completed, the two-ball sycamore tree can also absorb a massive amount of resources.

In addition, the treatment room settled his previous debts and gave him a treatment fee of 14,000 magic stones.

Locke calculated that his current monthly income is projected to reach a staggering 36,000 magic stones, while his savings will reach 51,000 magic stones.

As for his monthly expenses, he consistently spent 8000 magic stones on various resources each month without fail. In addition, by researching abyss-type potions and reducing the side effects of eye potions, he now takes 20 eye potions every month to accelerate his archaeology studies, so he spends 6000 magic stones on eye potions. He also spends 400 magic stones on two fission potions every month.

Including the cost of researching Eye Magic Potions each month, I spend about 2000 magic stones on experimental materials each month, so my monthly expenses are around 16,000 magic stones.

My monthly income is 36,000, while my consumption is only a little over 16,000 magic stones.

In this way, I can accumulate 20,000 magic stones every month.

With the help of Harun Vera's network of connections, his own plantation and pharmacy unleashed a terrifying earning power, accumulating astonishing magical resources for himself.

Bringing so many projects with him, and integrating them into Harlan Vera's network of connections, injected a real and powerful vitality into that network, like fresh water flowing into a pond. This made Locke almost instantly a star within the network, even a semi-core member. In the past two weeks, Locke had greeted countless people and gotten to know many new faces.

Sophia the Witch's prediction was correct. Once she entered this network of relationships, it was like a fish entering the ocean. Instantly, all her previous accumulations turned into income and exploded.

Of course, this was also due to the full support of Harlan Vera; otherwise, he would never have had so many people to instantly acquire such a large venue and spread the business so far.

This network of relationships has brought me so many conveniences.

Locke stood in the now deserted plantation, looking thoughtfully at a two-ball sycamore tree before him.

On the two main trunks of this two-ball sycamore tree, a rotten konjac plant has been grafted onto each of them. The grafting has been successful and the plants are nearing maturity.

I previously tried grafting various rare magical plants, but I only succeeded in grafting the Amorphophallus titanum, while I failed with the Black Bamboo and Clivia miniata.

As a general-purpose rootstock magical plant, the Two-Ball Sycamore Tree is not a panacea; there are always rare magical plants that cannot be grafted successfully.

At this time, after two weeks of cultivation, the two Amorphophallus titans are nearing maturity. The two-ball sycamore trees require an extremely large area, and only one two-ball sycamore tree can be planted in one acre of magic field.

But at this moment, the two rare magical plants, the Rotten Amorphophallus King, on this two-ball sycamore tree have matured and are blooming with Rotten Flowers.

Locke carefully cut off the two Amorphophallus titans with the grafting knife given to him by his mentor, Harun Vera. "With these two Amorphophallus titans, I can use the [Mayfly Flower Cannon] to control three Amorphophallus titans."

"With the energy of the Talmud Tree People and the distributed psionic network, I can indeed manipulate more Rotten Amorphophallus Kings than ordinary wizards. I can control three Rotten Amorphophallus Kings at the same time, which further enhances my combat power."

"Moreover, the closer I get to the first ring, the more I need to start considering a very important question—what kind of first-ring permanent defensive force field magic should I choose?"

Essentially, all the magic a wizard learns before inscribing a permanent defensive field is preparation for that magic.

Their magical knowledge and experience will converge here to form their unique, permanent defensive force field.

This is something Harun Vera reminded herself of a week ago.

And he had indeed witnessed it firsthand; the spell chosen by the first-ring permanent defensive field determined his future combat power as a first-ring wizard.

Rashid Taril, for example, made a mistake because of his oversight in developing a first-ring permanent defensive field. This resulted in him having significant weaknesses after becoming a first-ring wizard, making him more vulnerable than the average first-ring wizard.

If it were the Witch Gabriel, whose first ring of permanent defensive force field was arcane prophecy, she would possess all sorts of wondrous intuitions.

Essentially, a first-circle wizard's permanent defensive field is never a standard spell, but rather reflects the wizard's magical philosophy, either by creating new spells or by modifying existing first-circle spells.

Therefore, this part definitely needs careful consideration.

Once it's engraved, there's no chance to re-engrave it; you can only modify it from scratch.

Locke's eyes shifted slightly. "My mana has now reached 781. It's time to go to the Wizarding Realm Forbidden Forest to harvest some magical resources. Essentially, the Wizarding Realm is a secret realm specially prepared for training wizard apprentices. There are a lot of resources there related to advancing to a formal wizard, as well as information related to the first-ring permanent defensive force field spell."

"I should ask my mentor Harun Vera for his opinion and see if he has any special plans. Perhaps then I can find the direction for my permanent defensive force field."

(End of this chapter)