Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 276: Three Great Wizarding Realms in Succession
Inside Harlan Vera's office.

Harlan Vera smiled upon hearing Locke's request; he and Locke now seemed to be mutually benefiting.

With his help, Locke unleashed his true potential, and Harlan Vera's network of connections has also benefited greatly in the past year due to the projects brought about by Locke himself.

Now that Locke has offered to take his juniors into the Wizarding Realm, Harlan Vera is certainly happy to see it.

Harun Vera laughed, "You know what, I actually have a few students under my wing, and I'd like you to take them into the secret realm. Zoina told me last time that thanks to you, Locke, otherwise her gains in the secret realm would have been reduced by at least half."

"By the way, Angron, you might also be able to enter the Tesla Wasteland Secret Realm with Locke."

Harlan Vera said to Angron beside her, seemingly casually, "Angron, doesn't your mental enhancement potion project require the Tesla Electric Flower from the Tesla Wasteland? I remember it's a rare magical plant that can only be found in the Tesla Wasteland secret realm."

“It’s usually quite difficult to get one, but if you team up with Locke this time, with your combined abilities, you’ll definitely be able to get the Tesla Electric Flower.”

Angron stiffened, glancing at Locke with envy and fear, and gritted his teeth as he refused, "Teacher Harlan, no need."

“I’m very busy lately and don’t plan to go to the Tesla Wasteland. I don’t think my junior, Locke, would wait six months for me to go to the Tesla Wasteland either.”

Angron gritted his teeth and gave Locke a defiant look.

Unfortunately, Locke ignored him.

Harun Vera frowned slightly, a look of disappointment flashing in his eyes. He had intended to mediate the conflict between Locke and Angron, but he did not expect Angron to refuse him outright.

Harun Vera's gaze toward Angron grew even colder. "Since that's the case, I won't force you. You'd better take care of yourself."

Angron sensed the extreme dissatisfaction in Harlan Vera's tone, and his face paled even more.

Harlan Vera looked at Carrie Ackerman behind Angron and said, "Carrie, would you like to go to the Tesla Wasteland with Locke?"

Carrie Ackerman's eyes lit up immediately, and she could hardly contain herself as she said, "Yes, Professor Harlan, I am willing to go to the Tesla Wasteland with Senior Locke."

For the past year, Carrie has been struggling with how to ease the tension in her relationship with Locke.

As a magical academic partner, she was most afraid of offending an absolute star in Locke's network of connections. Now that her mentor Harlen Vera was taking the initiative to help them ease the tension, how could she dare to refuse? Of course, she readily agreed.

Moreover, Carly knew that Zoina had received considerable help when she went to the secret realm with Locke, and Carly naturally didn't want to miss this good opportunity.

Carrie bowed slightly to Locke and said, "Senior, thank you so much. You really saved my life. I have a project that requires special resources from the Tesla Wasteland Secret Realm, but I can't possibly obtain them on my own."

"With your help, everyone's life has become much easier."

Carrie offered Locke a box of Yuhua Bamboo Leaf Scented Tea, saying, "Senior Locke, this is a wizard tea that I made myself. It's a token of my appreciation."

"Here you go, Senior Locke."

Locke frowned slightly, but out of respect for Harlan Vera, he accepted the wizard tea.

Ultimately, Carrie Ackerman was already his junior in the same lineage. As long as he remained within this network and enjoyed the benefits it brought him, he could only ignore her at most.

Unless she deliberately does something outrageous.

Besides, all she had done before was to be disrespectful with her words; there wasn't much of a conflict between them. After Locke accepted the wizard tea she had personally made, Carrie Ackerman undoubtedly breathed a sigh of relief, and a smile appeared on her face. From now on, she could probably shamelessly follow Locke around, just like the other junior students.

With a dark expression, Angron said directly to Harun Vera, "Teacher, I need to go back to do my experiments."

After saying that, he turned and left angrily.

Carrie Ackerman, on the other hand, was somewhat flustered, suddenly realizing that her attitude just now had offended Angron again.

Carrie looked left at Angron and right at Locke, and for a moment stood in the middle of the office, unsure of who to follow.

Harlan Vera watched Angron storm off, frowned, and sighed.

……

A week later, Locke led his juniors to clear the normal dungeon three times in a row. During this process, he also obtained a large number of memory fragments.

Needless to say, Locke obtained another batch of first-level magic fragments from the Transfiguration school at the Eternal Twilight Garden.

Extreme Ice Island is a naturally independent small magical island located in the sea near the port of Lilith House. It is also considered part of the main Lilith House area, so Locke can enter without worrying about being ambushed by the official wizards from the Black Wizard side.

On that magical island, there was also the echo of a formal ice element wizard. Therefore, by hunting ice elementals on the island, one could obtain memory fragments. Locke fully utilized his strength and obtained a large number of memory fragments there.

At the same time, Locke also obtained the seed of a rare and unique high-grade magical plant from that secret realm—the [Six-sided Prism Sentry Tower Ice Tree].

It was a rare magical plant seed that suddenly appeared after I hunted a large number of ice elemental life forms.

Locke estimated that Albert and his group obtained the first-ring magical plant larvae through a similar method, relying on luck and strength to obtain them from the secret realm.

In the Tesla Wasteland, a natural magical hub near the Lilith House headquarters, there are numerous spacetime rifts that could summon otherworldly monsters at any time.

In this wasteland, there is an echo that was transformed and solidified after the death of a first-circle lightning magic wizard of the Evocation School. Countless lightning elemental life forms wander here.

At this moment, in this wasteland, Locke, Carrie, and another first-class wizard apprentice in his forties were hunting lightning elemental lifeforms.

Locke's goal, however, is to lead his two junior classmates to hunt down a Thunder Elemental Lord, the most powerful being in this secret realm and the one closest to a first-ring life form.

Above the wasteland, thunderclouds covered the land, and thunderstorms descended continuously. Balls of lightning, under the magic of the Thunder Elemental Lord, swirled around it to protect it.

Carrie Ackerman used plant magic roots to entwine the Thunder Elemental Lord, employing a mid-to-high-level magical plant, the Guardian Tree. She drove the roots of the Guardian Tree into the soil and wrapped them around the Thunder Elemental Lord from a distance of over two hundred meters.

Carrie exclaimed to Locke in surprise, "Senior, I've got it under control!"

"Senior, quickly seize the opportunity to kill it!"

Another first-class wizard apprentice continuously used plant magic to resist the Lightning Elemental Lord's [Summon Lightning] spell, which was casually aimed at Kali.

An apprentice wizard who is hit by a lightning spell will die instantly. That is a first-level spell, only it loses a lot of magical energy due to the passage of time.

(End of this chapter)