Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 349 Obtaining the Green Dragon Bone Fossil
Locke was taken aback; it was the first time he had ever met such an honest person.

Although the green dragon's bone and wing fossils were not perfectly preserved, they were still fossils of a dragon that would have been a second-circle wizard by adulthood. With such a complete structure, the wing fossils could be sold for 100,000 magic stones, which was not impossible. However, he directly halved the price.

Is this how people in the Dragonbone World do business?
Locke nodded and said, "Of course, I'll give you 50,000 magic stones immediately. Do you want to receive magic stones or magic crystal cards?"

Magic Crystal Cards are actually the same as Magic Stones, but Locke only came into contact with a kind of currency equivalent to high-value Magic Stones after becoming a first-ring wizard.

Its origin is also from the Starry Sea, and it can store 10,000 magic stones inside, so one magic crystal card is equivalent to 10,000 magic stones.

Like magic stones, magic crystal cards cannot be damaged, nor can they be maliciously thrown into planes or voids that cannot be retrieved.

Magic Crystal Cards are simply for facilitating transactions and the circulation of Magic Stones, as well as for simplifying settlements.

For example, with 50,000 magic stones, you only need to trade five magic crystal cards, not five small magic stone mountains.

I have already exchanged my 200,000 magic stones at the Magic Stone Management Office of the White Wizard Association for 19 magic crystal cards. I only have 10,000 loose magic stones left for future use, to buy small items.

Or you can pay the difference.

The wizard Taren said calmly, "I want five magic crystal cards. Thank you, first-ring wizard of the Great World of Truth."

Locke was completely bewildered. "Thank me for what? I got a great deal!"

The people from the Dragonbone World seemed too honest, which made Locke feel somewhat uncomfortable.

He hesitated for a moment, then took out a bottle of Bear Spirit Jade Elixir from his Astral Ring. “I think the main problem in your world is that the residual magical pressure from those dragon bones has permanently altered your living environment and affected your bodies. If you don’t become wizards, it’s difficult for mortal bodies to resist that constant radiation.”

"This potion can increase your magic resistance, which might be helpful. You might want to buy some to try; this bottle is for you."

The wizard Taren took the potion bottle Locke handed him, opened the bottle of Bear Spirit Jade Potion, smelled it slightly, then drank a little. His eyes immediately lit up. "Good stuff. It can increase my magic resistance. The potency is very mild; even if a mortal drank it, it wouldn't be too dangerous."

"Thank you, wizard of the Great World of Truth. What you recommended is exactly what I need."

The wizard Taren's eyes gleamed with excitement. "Perhaps I can purchase more this time. The Dragonbone World and your University of Verdandia have collaborated to develop a dimensional portal, which greatly reduces the cost of traveling to and from the Great World of Truth. Our world's void plane orbit is now much closer to your Southeast Corner Region."

"I will purchase more of this potion. Thank you, kind stranger wizard. Wizards of the Great Wizard of Truth are always so kind."

Locke nodded, but also harbored some doubts about the so-called 'always kind' wizards that this Taren wizard had encountered before. "This is Lady Irina's business card; you can buy large quantities of Bear Spirit Gallbladder Potion from her."

"If you need it."

"I'll be going now." Locke used his telekinesis to envelop the entire dragon bone fossil and placed it into his astral ring, all in less than a second.

Seeing this, the wizard Taren muttered to himself, "Such powerful telekinesis. Is this the meaning of materializing mental energy?"

“In our Dragonbone World, there are no first-ring wizards at the vaporization stage, so I didn’t know the specific effects of materializing spiritual power before.”

……

Locke left the potion auction and officially began a life of seclusion.

Since the academy did not assign him any new students, Locke only needed to give simple instructions to the three students he already had and arrange for them to continue working in his pharmaceutical workshop.

Besides that, he spent his days either communicating with Hussein, consulting with his teacher Harun Vera, or attending gatherings with fellow students.

The remaining time was devoted to the cultivation of flying magical plants at the Forbidden Forest Research Institute.

Locke is determined to reach the first level in his field of breeding by developing a first-level flying magical plant.

The reason for developing flying magical plants is simple. First, there was already a plan in mind; the Great Green Owl Banana had many follow-up ideas. Second, while he now possessed defensive magic and his offensive magic was becoming more diverse, he lacked flight magic, limiting his mobility and making it easy for him to defeat enemies but be unable to catch them.

Therefore, I do need a powerful flying magical plant right now.

The reason for placing it in the prohibited forest is that, currently, the prohibited forest is not only not dangerous for me, but is even quite safe.

Moreover, there are still some remaining resources in that research institute that can be used to develop magical plants.

As I am about to leave Lilith's Hut, the Natural Academy will no longer be able to provide magic stones and equipment to support me in setting up a new project. Developing a completely new magical plant is a time-consuming, labor-intensive, and large-scale task.

Two months later, Locke, along with Albert whom he had invited, ventured deep into the Forbidden Forest and entered the research institute.

He needed to develop a new first-level magical plant, and since it was nearing the stage of yielding results, he found a wizard apprentice who was very close to becoming a first-level wizard to assist him.

At this moment, in the several temperature-controlled planting rooms inside the research institute, Locke allowed Albert to observe everything except for sealing off the Forest Sanctuary, which prevented Albert from seeing it.

Albert observed that all five temperature-controlled growing rooms contained various subspecies of the large green banana.

Albert walked among the various subspecies of the Great Blue Owl Banana, as if entering a banana forest. What was terrifying was that every banana tree in this forest was a rare and priceless magical plant in the outside world.

Albert looked at Locke with admiration in his eyes. "Is this the laboratory of a first-ring wizard? Every magical plant in here is a rare apprentice-level flying magical plant."

"Moreover, Locke... you can actually take me freely through the Forbidden Forest without any Forbidden Forest creatures attacking us."

Albert exclaimed, "You've built a research institute inside the Forbidden Forest! That's quite an achievement!"

Locke nodded. "Albert, I didn't build the research institute; I just found it. The reason the Forbidden Forest creatures don't attack us is simply because I used a special method, which isn't safe and is quite prone to failure."

Locke said, "By the way, if you're interested, you can pick out a few flying magical plants from my five temperature-controlled planting laboratories and take them back with you."

“These flying magical plants are indeed all more powerful than the Great Green Owl Banana I originally used.”

"This can be your payment."

An interest flashed in Albert's eyes. He had already been eyeing Locke's Great Green Owl Banana back in the Curse Spell Research Institute, so now he naturally wanted the magical plant in this forest.

He's almost drooling over it.

Nothing could be more torturous than taking out a bunch of rare flying magical plants, placing them in front of a botanical wizard, and then having none of these things belong to him.

Albert laughed and said, "Then I won't refuse, thank you Locke. But, what exactly do you want me to help you with?"

“You didn’t mention this before. And you’ve cultivated so many… rare apprentice-level magical plants.”

Albert could tell that the reason so many of these rare apprentice-level magical plants could be cultivated was because Locke had cracked the technique for cultivating rare magical plants—the Twin-Ball Sycamore Tree.

Even so, cultivating such a large number would require a considerable amount of resources.

Locke nodded. "I've invested 120,000 magic stones here, filling this soil with various magical resources to nourish it and support the growth and rapid development of this banana grove. It's taken me eight months in total."

"My goal is... to develop my first one-ring magical plant."

Albert suddenly realized, "Could this be... the Sword Tomb among the magical plants? This is the finite element single-component analysis method that only advanced breeders can use!"

Locke glanced at him in surprise, then realized that the other man must have heard of the methods of advanced breeders. He nodded, confirming Albert's guess. "Indeed, this is a magical plant graveyard."

(End of this chapter)