Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 331 Gift of a Magical Artifact: The Everlasting Invisibility Cloak

Locke paused for a moment, then pushed the glass of witch's tomato juice that Lady Irina had offered him towards her. "Senior Irina, please. Could you tell me how to crack the Nigwald Astrology System?"

Lady Irina watched as Locke pushed the witch's tomato juice, which she had paid for, in front of her as a reward, and she couldn't help but feel a mixture of anger and amusement.

She laughed a few times, and their relationship became even more harmonious.

Only people of the same social class can afford to make jokes.

Being able to take a joke is a key signal of a deepening relationship.

It's also a way to quickly build rapport.

Of course, this method can only be used if you and the other party are in different social classes. Otherwise, if you make a joke on your own initiative, the other party may take it as a provocation.

Mrs. Irina shook her head slightly with a sigh and smiled at Locke, "Only you, Locke, would do something like bringing me the things I bought to reward me. But it's good this way. I was worried that you were too serious, so I was a little reserved in my speech."

"But I never expected that the infamous bewitching wizard would actually have such a lively personality."

Locke said, "Senior Irina, those are all misunderstandings about me from the outside world."

"These are all stereotypes."

Mrs. Irina nodded in agreement, saying with deep conviction, "That's true. Actually, I've always been quite outgoing among my fellow disciples, and I like to cooperate with others and rely on those capable senior students. Oh, and now I have a genius junior brother like you."

“But because I always have a stern face in front of those students, many people misunderstand me.” Lady Irina sighed regretfully. “Actually, I’m only in my fifties, which is the prime of life for a formal wizard, and I’m quite young.”

Mrs. Irina said, "But I can't really mingle with those students."

"So, I had no choice but to let them misunderstand me."

Locke nodded. "It's alright. Our friends know what kind of person you are, that's enough."

Mrs. Irina said, "Let's get back to the main topic."

"Locke, the name Nigward, when transliterated into the magical languages ​​of their prophetic school, means 'citizens of the Mist Kingdom.' This system is built upon the corpse of a world serpent from a small to medium-sized world that the White Wizard Association of the Southeast Corner conquered in its early years."

"That giant world serpent is a strange serpent that coils around that small to medium-sized world. The inhabitants of that world dwell on it and call themselves the Children of the Mist."

"The White Wizard Association named that snake the Giant Serpent of the Mist Kingdom."

Lady Irina said, "The Nigward Astrological System is very powerful. In fact, even if you leave the Southeast Corner and go to a nearby wizarding land, you may still be able to use this system. The Association only prohibits it to avoid disputes from other wizarding lands."

"But in fact, as far as I know, there are quite a few first-ring wizards who secretly crack the system and use it in neighboring wizarding territories. The association is well aware of this, but they just don't pursue it too seriously. As long as you don't get caught, you'll be fine, but if you do get caught, things will become very troublesome."

Mrs. Irina blinked. "So, you'd better not tell anyone what I'm telling you. It won't do you any good, junior."

"You just need to pretend you don't know anything."

Locke suddenly realized. "I see."

Does that mean the Nigwald astrological system is based on a small to medium-sized world?

No wonder this system is so powerful; it can use prophetic magic to connect most of the first-ring wizards in the southeastern corner of the region.

Lady Irina said, "There are many research groups responsible for the Nigwald astrological system, and the structure of the members is complex, which leaves many loopholes. But to modify it from within the system, we need to find excellent wizards from the school of prophecy."

"That would require paying a relatively high cost, and it would also be easy to be discovered, so apart from the wizards within their prophetic school, basically no one would do it."

“There’s always a solution.” Lady Irina took out a soft invisibility cloak from her astral ring. “I have a shop that specializes in selling ‘gray’ items, and they have special magical artifacts for solving this problem.”

Lady Irina pointed to the silver-gray invisibility cloak on the table and said to Locke, "This is the Permanent Invisibility Cloak, a first-level enchanted item, a magical artifact."

"The alchemists made it from the feathers of the Invisible Bird, and the key point is that it's coated with an alchemical material called Absorbing Membrane 81." "I forgot the exact scientific name, but it's an alchemical material developed by a first-level formal alchemist specifically to circumvent the limitations of the Nigwald Astrological System."

"You know about it, right? Alchemy is about changing materials by adjusting the arrangement of elemental particles, combining different levels of magical materials, or other methods to create new magical materials."

“Magic alloys are just the simplest of them, but they are also the mainstream of alchemy. Therefore, the main focus of the alchemy assistant at this stage is on researching magic alloys.”

"At the first level, formal alchemists will not only develop better magical alloys, but also new magical materials, such as special films, special metals, high-energy polymers, and so on."

"Of course, I don't understand these things either. I just run a dozen or so alchemy workshops," said Lady Irina. "If you wear this magical invisibility cloak that has been secretly coated with a special film numbered 81, the Nigwald Astrological System will be unable to pinpoint your location."

"The Nigwald Astrological System works by having you activate the system, which releases subtle magical fluctuations into your surroundings. Then, through the feedback of these magical fluctuations, it confirms your approximate location—not your exact location, but a very broad approximate location—and then confirms whether you are still in the southeastern corner region."

"But as long as you wear this invisibility cloak, the thin film on the clothing will absorb the slight magical fluctuations emitted when you activate the system, and the Nigwald Astrological System will not be able to pinpoint your location. Then you can use it in other wizarding locations."

Mrs. Irina said, "This system is quite useful, so why not use it?"

"Wearing this invisibility cloak, the Nigwald Astrological System will be unable to see your location. Therefore, you will only be unable to use this system when you reach the true limit of its reach."

"Consider this invisibility cloak a gift from me," said Lady Irina. "The cloak itself isn't valuable, only worth about a thousand magic stones. The invisibility magic it's enchanted with is quite mediocre; it's crudely made. It's practically impossible for it to deceive anyone at the first-ring wizard stage, so its price can't be measured by normal magical artifact standards."

"The valuable part is the No. 81 absorption membrane on top. In my shop, it's normal for one of these invisibility cloaks to sell for 10,000 magic stones."

Locke raised an eyebrow, surprised that such a gray item could fetch such an outrageous price.

He also understood why Lady Irina didn't know much about alchemy.

Because the field of magic has developed to its current state, and it is now extremely vast and profound.

For example, potion-making alone has dozens of branches, and even more sub-branches.

The same applies to breeding science. Some breeding wizards specialize in studying only a small category of magical plants, and there are hundreds of such categories.

Every year, new sub-disciplines emerge in these two fields, and new disruptive theories appear.

The realm of magic is so vast, like an ocean, inexhaustible and boundless.

Like the truth.

In this era of the flourishing of wizarding civilization, being a polymath is no longer possible, desirable, or necessary.

It would be a waste of time for someone to learn so much knowledge from so many parallel fields, so it's normal that Lady Irina doesn't know much about the field of alchemy.

Locke only learned about the basic knowledge of other fields from his course on everything and by reading some popular science magazines and articles on a regular basis.

Currently, he is studying four fields: botany, breeding, potion-making, and archaeology. The knowledge systems of these four fields are all connected. Even with the Rubik's Cube to simplify his learning, there is no need to add any new fields of study.

At least for now, there is no such demand.

Anyway, even if you need knowledge from other disciplines, you can find a wizard from the generalist school, who is the wizard who truly cultivates all-rounders in this era.

Find out from them which type of articles you need and ask them to recommend some books.

If you only need some items, then just buy them.

Locke accepted the invisibility cloak. Since Lady Irina wanted to give it to him, he had no reason to refuse. "Thank you, senior."

Lady Irina smiled slightly. "We can keep in touch more often on the Gray Mist Slab in the future."

(End of this chapter)