Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 282 Execution Hammerhead Mushroom

Soon, several formally certified wizards arrived outside room 31 to gather information, but they were all easily turned away by the Green Witch Christine. As a result, everyone assumed that Christine had friends or family members who needed to break through to become formally certified wizards, and therefore no one dared to compete with her.

Although this understanding is not wrong, after all, Locke is her junior brother.

Locke said to Christine, "Senior, thank you so much this time. Without you, I don't think things would have been so simple."

Christine laughed and said, "It's no big deal."

"I just hope that after my junior breaks through to become a formal wizard, he can still remember a thing or two about his senior." Christine sighed.

“I wasn’t considered particularly gifted in Professor Harlan Vera’s network of connections before. Even after becoming a first-ring wizard, although my status rose slightly, I was still too ordinary compared to those geniuses.”

"I've been stuck at the level of a regular first-circle wizard for too long."

Listening to Christine's complaints, Locke could somewhat understand Christine's awkward position within the network of wizard Harun Vera.

After all, his teacher, the witch Sophia, seemed to have turned into spiritual energy shortly after becoming a formal wizard.

Three years later, his spiritual power crystallized.

Locke could only thank Christine again, saying, "Senior, I will never forget your help."

Christine smiled with satisfaction. "Good."

"Don't worry, you're auctioning in my private room. As long as I don't tell anyone, almost everyone will assume that I'm the one who auctioned your items. This auction is organized by the academy, so the academy certainly won't go around spreading rumors."

"Shoot whatever you want."

Locke nodded seriously. Next, he used another 15,000 magic stones to bid on a set of Star Soul Elixir, three bottles in total. It was an excellent potion that could help one break through to become a formal wizard. Although its effects were not as good as the Cave Worm Spinal Fluid, it was still a very rare and precious item.

Although its main raw material, Star Soul Grass, is not extinct, it is almost nonexistent and can only be found in the greenhouses of a few wizards.

Its preparation method has not yet been published or has been cracked by the black market, so it cannot be purchased through normal channels. Therefore, the dwarf scholar Or had not recommended this potion to Locke.

However, based on Locke's recent research on various potions related to breakthroughs, he believes that Star Soul Elixir may be able to assist in advancement potions, reduce the side effects of advancement potions, and better help him break through to become a formal wizard.

Two hours later, Locke made another move, this time with a special high-level magical plant seed, the Execution Hammerhead Mushroom.

What's particularly interesting about these advanced magical plant seeds is that these extremely rare magical plants have only one way to sprout and develop: first, they must establish a magical grafting connection with a wizard, and then automatically become an adult when that wizard breaks through to become a formal wizard.

It absorbs the excess magical tides and turbulence caused by the wizard's breakthrough, and grows into an adult form.

This is a magical plant that only grows when one breaks through to become a formal wizard, but it is incredibly powerful, so Locke bought it on a whim.

This magical plant can generally only be obtained by grafting magical power onto it during the apprentice stage. In other words, once you become a formal wizard, you will definitely not be able to obtain it.

It also has a unique characteristic: it must undergo magical grafting at the seed stage, and can only be grafted with a wizard who helps it grow into an adult. It is a magical plant with extremely strict growth conditions.

However, its power is astonishing. It can be combined with the first-level magic [Skull-Splitter Hammer], and the Execution Hammerhead Mushroom can absorb various magical alloys in the later stages to enhance its power.

After Locke spent 10,000 magic stones to bid for the Execution Hammerhead Mushroom strain, he spent another 25,000 magic stones to bid for a set of Brilliant Aura.

Absorbing this brilliant spiritual energy during a breakthrough can maximize your protection and increase your chances of success.

In this way, Locke spent a total of 65,000 magic stones at the auction to acquire a large amount of magical resources for his breakthrough. Christine couldn't help but stare at Locke in astonishment, seemingly not expecting that Locke, a mere wizard apprentice, would have such wealth.

This is too exaggerated.

Christine recalled how she used to feel bad for spending a few hundred magic stones during her apprenticeship. She smiled bitterly and shook her head slightly, thinking that people couldn't be compared.

On the auction stage, auctioneer Reagan himself was caught up in the frenzy of the auction. In this place of high consumption, high returns, and high gambling, it is easy for people to lose control of their emotions.

Auctioneer Reagan exclaimed enthusiastically, "Below is a fragment of the Heavy Magic Land. Dr. Robert has examined this fragment and confirmed that it was produced by a high-concentration magical tide explosion. Every grain of dust contains magical tides that are many times more concentrated."

"It can be used for breakthroughs, for making magic puppets, for making golems, for making magic potions—it's useful in every way. Anyway, it's reusable, and you can rent it to others or sell it to others later. Buying it is definitely a good deal! Starting bid: 30,000 magic stones!"

Christine's eyes lit up slightly. "Fragments of heavily magical land can also be used to grow rare magical plants. Some rare magical plants of the first level can only grow in heavily magical land."

"What great luck! To encounter something like this in this kind of setting. Even at auctions like this, you don't always come across such a good item. I'll bid 30,000 magic stones."

Soon, another private room raised the price to 6 magic stones.

This amazing thing has clearly driven even the most qualified wizards a little crazy.

After continuous price competition, the price quickly reached 10 magic stones, but the price has not yet reached its limit.

The price quickly reached 15 magic stones, and half an hour later, it reached 20 magic stones.

Locke still felt hopeful when the price was 10 magic stones and bid several times. However, after seeing that the price had reached 20 magic stones and still hadn't stopped, he gave up on buying the Heavy Magic Land Fragment.

“Such valuable items are obviously going to be fiercely contested by all formal wizards; there’s no way I’d get a chance. Even if it were for rent, there’d probably be a long queue by now,” Locke thought. “But fortunately, I won’t need such valuable resources once I break through to become a formal wizard.”

The current resources are more or less sufficient.

'I'll auction off a few more magical resources, and that should be enough.'

Ultimately, this heavily magical land was sold for 30 magic stones to a first-ring wizard whose spiritual power had crystallized.

Many wizards at the scene groaned in despair, feeling that the wizard had gone too far by raising the price to such an exorbitant level, artificially inflating future transaction prices for the Demon Land.

Next, Locke auctioned off several magical resources that were generally of little interest to professional wizards. He spent 150,000 magic stones at the auction to buy a bunch of magical resources related to breakthroughs.

Many of the formal wizards present glanced at him sideways.

A fully-fledged wizard, looking towards room 31, muttered, "Could it be that Christine has an illegitimate child who is about to break through to become a fully-fledged wizard? Or is she under some kind of mental curse, and has practically emptied her coffers to buy resources?"

Another official wizard beside him said, "Come on, even if it were his own illegitimate child, I doubt he would be willing to spend so many magic stones to buy magical resources for him. After all, he needs magical resources himself."

"Christine, she's definitely gone mad."

Many first-ring wizards privately discussed the matter and all agreed that Christine had recently lost her mind.

However, this was a matter for the Four Seasons Garden community itself, so they only whispered a few words about it privately.

In the private room on the 31st, Christine was somewhat stunned by Locke's extravagant spending.

(End of this chapter)