Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 516 Synthesizing Three Phenolic Residues

Locke said to Director Morrison, "Then Director Morrison, I accept your advice. Your advice is the best for me."

“I am willing to sign a contract with Jinmianshan.”

Director Morrison smiled. "Wise."

"In a few days, you should receive two contracts, one from Golden Crown Mountain and the other from Boniface University. In any case, you can take a look at both contracts that I negotiated with them at the same time and compare the terms offered to you by both sides."

Director Morrison said, "If you enter the Golden Crown Mountain, then your mentor will be the witch Catherine."

"Entering the Institute of True Knowledge means learning and working at the same time, so the witch Catherine is both your mentor and your boss."

"Lady Catherine recently wanted to join the Ten-Person Project. I think she'll get you into the group as soon as possible and get to work."

"Lady Catherine is on the Academic Committee's side. After you enter the Advanced Academy of Truth at Mount Golden Crown, you need to first understand which faction you belong to. The relationship between the Academic Committee of Mount Golden Crown and your academy's Senate is not exactly good. Be careful not to make a mistake and offend other wizards without realizing it."

Director Morrison said with a smile, "Little Locke, you are the tenth champion of our Yunze Cup. You'd better work hard when you enter Jinmian Mountain."

"Your future achievements will affect the reputation of our Yunze Cup."

Director Morrison said politely, "Little Locke, if you need anything in the future, feel free to contact me."

Locke expressed his gratitude and then ended the video call.

Director Morrison's last words were most likely just a polite remark, given how busy he was.

It's not appropriate to ask him for help with troublesome matters, and it's even more inappropriate to ask him for help with simple matters.

However, having the contact information of a second-circle wizard is already a pretty good gain for me.

Locke snapped his fingers, shutting down the Gray Mist Slab, and whispered, "Large organizations have their advantages, but they also bring problems like complex personnel and numerous factions."

"It seems that there are at least four factions on Mount Golden Crown."

The Senate, the Academic Committee, Luxu Bridge, and the Deacon Inspection Team.

"In other words, by joining the Advanced Academy of Truth, I can obtain the advanced meditation method I've always dreamed of right from the start. At the same time, I will try my best to obtain the Special Grant Fund, which is a fund worth millions of magic stones."

"Secondly, I need to fulfill three major tasks—teaching, project, and article—to obtain my exit certificate before I can leave the Advanced Knowledge Institute and go out into the wider world."

Locke went down to the second floor and left the Feathered Serpent Pavilion. He walked to the largest breeding shop on White Dragon Street and asked, "Do you have the two Sea Gold plants I ordered before?"

The old wizard who greeted him at the shop was a cultivator at the Qi Transformation stage and the head of a mid-grade noble family in the Six Towers Land. The old wizard looked at Locke with great respect. Locke's status as the Cloud Ze Cup champion and his feat of sending the Nidhogg wizard of the Basil family into the Blood River Plane were both worthy of his respect.

The old wizard whispered, "Sea gold sand is a specialty of the border between darkness and light. There is almost no stock in our Six Towers Land, but if you want it, I naturally can't refuse."

"After using a lot of connections, I finally managed to gather seven pieces of sea gold sand."

“The normal price of Sea Gold Sand outside is 13,000 magic stones per plant, but in the Six Towers Land, there are transportation costs and losses from using personal connections…” The old wizard showed a hint of difficulty on his face. “Therefore, our shop has decided to raise the price of Sea Gold Sand to 20,000 magic stones.”

"Mr. Locke, is this alright?"

Locke nodded and said calmly, "Here you are, these are fourteen magic crystal cards."

There's no problem, the only problem is that I'm broke again.

The money he had just earned from selling the Gralasian Aging Potion had vanished in the blink of an eye. Locke appeared calm, but inwardly he was speechless.

He completed the transaction with the old wizard, and after checking that there were no problems with the seven sea ginseng roots, he turned around, said goodbye, and left the shop.

Two years ago, when I had just become a formal wizard, it was extremely difficult to obtain even a single Sea Gold Sand. It required exchanging 100 military merits in the Southeast Corner Region. But for me now, obtaining Sea Gold Sand is not so difficult; all I need is money.

Locke needs so much sea gold sand to synthesize it.

As Locke walked back to his residence in the White Dragon Tower, he said softly, "It's a pity that I'm about to leave the Six Towers Land now, and there's no time to apply for a project through the Six Towers Land to develop the Sea Gold Sands."

Synthesizing Lygodium japonicum requires a large amount of raw materials and some work. In fact, if you find someone to help you, you can achieve results faster.

However, the problem is not big.

Over the past year, I have made further progress in mastering the five cultivation methods. Therefore, with the help of this progress, I can try to synthesize and cultivate seven Lygodium japonicum plants independently.

Ultimately, I haven't been standing still; I've grown a lot.

The ecological garden where the Hydra was previously cultivated still has readily available equipment. With the help of the Dragon Crystal Ecological Dome, Tacitus, and Leopold, he still has the opportunity to upgrade the Sea Gold Sands once in a short period of time.

Unfortunately, his greatest assistant in the Land of the Six Towers, Montgomery, had already left the Land of the Six Towers and gone to the Rain Marsh.

Otherwise, I would be more confident.

Half a month later, since it wasn't a magical plant created out of thin air, but rather a certain degree of enhancement on the original sea ginseng, Locke managed to create a mutated sea ginseng after half a month.

Tacitus and Leopold have already returned.

Below the Dragon Crystal Ecological Dome, Locke waved his hand, and a huge sea gold sand emitting golden light fell into his palm.

This Lygodium japonicum plant doesn't look like a fern; it looks more like a tree.

"Sure enough, my previous guess was correct." Locke looked at the sea ginseng and said, "I synthesized the sea ginseng in the direction of tree fern, and as a result, I actually created a special synthesis formula within half a month, and the enhancement is very satisfactory to me."

"So, as long as I have enough knowledge and continue to make progress in breeding science, the speed at which I can develop special synthetic formulas will also increase as my progress in the field of breeding science improves."

"Grafting with Lygodium japonicum and the most unique tree fern among ferns enhances the Lygodium japonicum."

Locke looked at the entry for the shimmering sea ginseng at that moment—

[Level 8 crafted item, Shiny Sea Gold Sand, created by grafting Sea Gold Sand and Tree Fern using a grafting cultivation method, and further enhanced by a magic resonance cultivation method to strengthen their vitality and promote fusion.]

[Haijinsha successfully transformed from an ordinary fern into a magical tree fern. The tree fern's pseudo-wood structure made Haijinsha much larger, its basic magical power stronger, and all its strength doubled.]

In other words, Locke used tree ferns to treeify the sea larvae, thereby enhancing their power.

Of course, tree ferns are not real trees. Trees can grow thicker and thicker, but tree ferns are just plants that look like trees but are actually ferns formed by the accumulation of aerial roots.

Ferns cannot continue to grow after reaching adulthood.

Tree ferns simply encase themselves in layers of armor through their petioles and aerial roots, while the true stem inside is hidden within, only a few centimeters in diameter, still within the range of a fern.

(End of this chapter)