Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 496 Invitation Letters from Various Wizarding Academies
Locke thought for a moment, then nodded and said, "Not to mention you, even I have received a lot of invitations in the past month. I'm planning to sort them out and pick out the ones that are worth noting."

"The Reptile Garden... I've heard of this wizarding organization. It's a very famous wizarding organization in the Rainswamp. I remember that the Reptile Garden is very good at cultivating reptiles and magical plants related to reptile magical creatures."

"I remember that one of the ultimate goals of that wizarding organization was to create an ecosystem suitable for reptilian magical creatures to live in."

"That wizarding organization seems to have a great admiration for reptilian magical creatures."

Locke remembered it because he had read an article from this wizarding organization in the free library of the wizard airship. The Reptile Garden believed that the most powerful magical creatures in the world did not exist in this world, nor were they the dragons of today, but rather the reptilian magical creatures that had ruled the wizarding world for countless years. Therefore, they had always hoped to create those reptilian magical creatures through modern magical means.

Locke remembered that article vividly because the magical creatures created by the Reptile Garden using modern magic... all looked very much like dinosaurs.

The Reptile Garden, on the one hand, insists that dragons have the bloodline of reptiles, but on the other hand, it believes that dragons belong to the sky, while reptiles belong to the earth, and that the connection between the two is not significant. In the process of evolution, the two have completely separated.

Locke said, "By the way, the Reptile Gardens did indeed extend an invitation to me. It's because the Reptile Gardens likes to invite archaeologists over. They recently wanted to use the bloodlines of ancient creatures to recreate the era of those magical reptile creatures that ruled the earth, an era that probably only exists in their writings and fantasies."

Locke said, "That's right. Creeper Garden is, after all, a top-tier institution in the Three Swamps. It has quite a few third-ring wizards, and even throne wizards. I think it would be good for Montgomery and Barbara to develop there. Congratulations to you two."

Montgomery and Barbara smiled happily.

Montgomery said to Locke, "I have to thank you for this, boss. If it weren't for you, I would have even... I would have already forcibly smuggled myself in and risked my life to become a dark wizard in the Spiral Basin."

Barbara the witch covered her face. "You still think that I was already flirting with the dark wizards and even participated in some of their operations."

"But then, I suddenly saw that the boss was inviting all the common wizards to participate in the Yunze Cup. I wanted to try again, and who knew that the boss would actually lead us to win the Yunze Cup competition. Suddenly, I went from being ignored by everyone and even on the verge of becoming a black wizard as a first-ring wizard to being invited by the top schools in the Three Swamps."

"It really feels like a dream," said Barbara the witch.

Barbara the witch smiled and asked Locke, "Boss, you didn't realize I had been involved in the activities of dark wizards before, did you?"

Montgomery and Locke exchanged a smile. Locke, sitting in his chair, laughed and said, "No, quite the opposite. On your very first day here, Montgomery complained to me that you were a dark wizard."

Barbara the Witch looked at Montgomery in surprise.

Montgomery explained, "It's not my fault, we weren't very familiar with each other back then."

Locke asked, "When are you two planning to leave?"

Montgomery said, "Because there's no time to lose, we've already bought our tickets and we're leaving today."

"Boss... goodbye."

Barbara the Witch also fell silent. "This year of participating in the Yunze Cup was probably the happiest time of my life. Exploring the truth with the boss was truly a delightful experience."

Locke nodded slightly. "Alright, then you can go ahead."

Montgomery said, "Boss Locke, you won't be a second-circle wizard next time we meet, will you?"

“We might not have to wait that long to meet.” Locke raised an eyebrow. “The Three Swamps are easily accessible. To communicate with each of the major wizarding lands, one needs to cross natural barriers. But the Three Swamps are unique in that there is a network of paths in the sky that connects them. It only takes a few hours to travel from one wizarding land to another.”

"It can also be traveled by water, and Yunhu Lake is naturally connected to the Three Swamps." "Therefore, although the Three Swamps are three wizarding lands, in terms of the convenience of transportation, they are like one wizarding land."

"Not to mention the convenient transportation within the Three Swamps, it is also much easier to travel from the Three Swamps to other wizarding lands."

Montgomery and Barbara the Witch nodded in agreement.

Montgomery said, "That's true."

After the two left, Locke sat back down in his seat and thought to himself, "Tacitus and Leopold seem to have no intention of leaving the Land of the Six Towers. Both of them want to follow me, or rather, follow Alicia after I leave."

"They have all found their place."

"And what about myself?"

Locke opened his desk drawer, and immediately there was a pile of letters inside, all of which had been delivered through the Hurricane Eye magic circle of the White Wizard Association's dispatch department.

The above are magical seals from various wizarding academies.

Locke flipped through the letters, which came from various wizarding territories in the Eastern Boundary. A total of 17 wizarding territories had extended invitations to him.

This is in stark contrast to his previous state of being ignored.

Even……

Locke looked at a letter from the Starry Sea and frowned. He had posted a job ad at the Dispatch Department a month ago, and now he had actually received a reply from the Starry Sea.

"The Tower of Dawn." Locke opened the letter and read it. He learned that the Tower of Dawn was a wizarding academy specializing in the study of light magic particles in the Evocation school. This time, a third-circle wizard specializing in light magic particles had a sudden inspiration while researching a light magic that could replace the sun and moon for illumination. He wanted to create a magical plant that could replace the sun and moon.

This idea requires the involvement of excellent breeders to be realized.

According to the introduction, he was not the only breeder invited. However, the Wizarding Academy of Xingyuhai had a very high standard. If they were to invite someone, they would invite the best breeder. Therefore, they extended an invitation to him, the champion of Yunze Cup, as well as to many other excellent breeders.

"If you go there, you won't be a lecturer mage, you won't be given a teaching position, and you won't even be given a spot in the Institute of True Knowledge. You'll just start as a junior tutor without any official position." Locke's expression changed slightly. It was obvious that the other party had just gathered a group of breeders for a sudden idea and asked them to help that third-ring wizard realize this idea.

Even the third-ring wizard himself wouldn't take the idea too seriously; the actual experiments would be conducted by his other students.

Locke said, "As expected of the Star Domain Sea, they certainly have high aspirations. But for me, who did not win the Cloud Ze Cup, this is indeed an opportunity to enter the Star Domain Sea."

“But for me, having won the championship, agreeing to these conditions and going to the Starfield Sea would be a huge loss. The Tower of Dawn doesn’t seem like an academy that values ​​breeders too much; in fact, that academy has never been involved in breeding before.” Locke thought for a while and looked at the other faculty invitations. “Here are invitations from top wizarding academies in Sunshadow Peninsula, the Boundary Between Darkness and Light, the Land of Dragonfall, and the Land of Three Swamps.”

"I want to choose again."

"Now, I have the right to choose."

(End of this chapter)