Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 422 War Spells and Shared Resources

Next, Barbara the Witch, Montgomery, and Tacitus all had different opinions on what topic to choose.

The three argued endlessly. Tacitus wanted to take the reliable and conservative route of the tree people, while the witch Barbara believed that they should take a route that others had not thought of—such as developing a magical vine platform that could provide healing abilities.

Barbara the Witch is both a botanical wizard and a bloodline essence master of the pyromancy school. Her botanical specialization focuses on magical vines, while her pyromancy specialization focuses on the tree spirit route.

The witch Barbara was adept at combining the two, using magical vines to enhance her primary area of ​​research: the bloodline power of the tree spirit.

Therefore, she was able to boldly propose the idea of ​​developing large-scale healing magic vines.

Barbara the witch stretched out her left hand, and a magical vine with leaves of various shapes, resembling the waxing and waning moon, slowly crawled out from her left hand.

"This is a Moon Vine. It can absorb moonlight and transform it into a natural magical component similar to a first-level life science spell: Powerful Restoration. It also heals my wounds. There are many other magical vines with similar properties within this magical vine. With proper development, we can definitely develop a tactical-level magical plant."

"Victory comes from surprise!" said Barbara the witch.

Tacitus frowned. “There’s an old saying that the stranger something is, the faster it dies. I don’t see what’s so surprising about this.”

"There are many healing magic vines, but they are all single-target magical plants, and the accompanying magic is also single-target plant magic. They are not suitable as war spells."

“Many war spells require coordinated casting, which is completely different from the logic of individual spells,” Tacitus said. “There is very little information on tactical magical plants related to magical vines. Choosing this would be very dangerous and could even lead to our elimination in the first round of the main competition.”

The first round of the main competition will be a race to narrow down from twenty to ten. The participants are all the best first-level breeders and advanced breeders from various wizarding lands, so it is not surprising that some will be eliminated in the first round.

This is also part of Locke's pressure.

Their team had no competition experience whatsoever, and none of them held senior teaching positions.

The difficulty can be imagined.

Barbara the witch retorted, "Choosing the Treants would be a dead end for us. The Treants' information is indeed comprehensive, but that's only in relation to other wizarding lands. The information from the Six Towers Land is decades outdated. It's no secret that the Six Towers Land's development can't keep up with the outside world."

Both of them made a lot of sense, and Locke tapped the table, signaling them to stop being so confrontational.

After Tacitus and Barbara apologized to him again, assuring him that they would remain rational and friendly, he did so.

Locke took out the information on tactical plants in the southeastern corner region that his teacher, Harun Vera, had shared with him from his astral ring.

I had someone transcribe and copy these materials myself, which cost me 500 magic stones.

Locke then distributed the materials to everyone for reading. "Don't worry about the materials for now; I have sources outside the Six Towers."

The wizard Tacitus picked up the documents and his eyes lit up immediately. "Mr. Locke, you are truly amazing. With this information on the tree people, we can catch up with the level of the major wizarding lands."

"These materials are incredibly advanced. My goodness, have the major wizarding lands really studied tree people in such detail in the last fifty years? Look, there are two hundred families just for classifying tree people, which are divided into two categories: gymnosperm tree people and angiosperm tree people. There are at least ninety families of tree people that we can study at the first-level."

Locke replied briefly, "Yes, it's from the southeastern corner region."

"The southeastern corner of the region has forbidden forests, which is why botany and breeding are so advanced." "If you need any specific information, you can apply to me, and I'll try my best to get it for you."

“I have my own sect in the Southeast Corner Region, which allows me to access a lot of information. My sect’s network of connections will help us,” Locke added. “After learning that I was going to participate in the Yunze Cup, my sect chose to fully support me.”

The three formal wizards cast envious glances at Locke.

Because in the land of the Six Towers, they simply do not have the opportunity to be accepted by a sect, to enter a network of academic cliques, and to enjoy all the benefits of that network.

Most of them either become ghostwriters, exploited for their entire lives, never able to rise above their circumstances, with no other options but to give up or lie low.

Or perhaps a few exceptionally lucky wizards are chosen by witches within a family of wizards and marry into that family.

However, this second path is generally only accessible to wizards from outside wizarding lands.

Since long ago, the Six Towers have implemented a strict bloodline hierarchy system, making it virtually impossible to select commoner wizards to marry into the Six Towers, as that would break the deeply rooted family hierarchy within the Six Towers.

That is precisely the main ideology of the Land of Six Towers.

Barbara the witch held the documents with envy. "It's so good to have fellow disciples. Unlike us commoner wizards in the Six Towers, we're always fighting alone and always getting bullied."

"Unless... you join those mutual aid societies in the Spiral Basin..."

Tacitus glanced at her with a puzzled look. He didn't understand the hidden meaning behind it, and the three people present who did understand also remained silent because it was sensitive content and they didn't want to explain it to her.

Barbara the Witch and Montgomery Paul exchanged a glance, both realizing from each other's eyes that they were on the verge of becoming dark wizards.

Barbara the Witch said, "Well then, Boss Locke, I'd like to request some information on magical vines. I need information on both individual magical plants and tactical magical plants, is that alright? I can pay with magic stones... but I don't have much savings, so..."

Locke shook his head slightly. "No need, these materials were shared with me by my sect for free. We are now a research group, all in the same boat, so these materials can be shared without extra charge. Barbara, I will get these materials for you, but it will take some time."

Barbara paused for a moment, then expressed her envy again. "That's great! It turns out that in other wizarding lands, you don't have to pay to look up information. Unlike us, even within the same research group, we have to pay to look up information."

"Only family wizards have high-level access to the library. They force us to work for them by blocking information, exchanging our labor for some meager information from them."

Barbara looked puzzled. "I once spent six months without sleep working on a project for that bastard Eric Plutarch, just to earn a one-day access to the White Dragon Library at Level 3."

Barbara the witch pointed to her eyes and said, "During that time, I had dark circles under my eyes every single day. Half of my face was covered in dark circles."

"But this is really great. I never thought that joining your research group would have the added benefit of being able to freely access the information I need."

Barbara the Witch said, "Hmm... I don't even need to look it up. I just need to ask you for the relevant information."

The three first-ring wizards were also very interested in this.

(End of this chapter)