Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 568 Bestseller! A 24-Hour Sales Sensation!
As soon as Locke opened the backend interface of Arthas's cooperating wizard using the Lingzhi Magic Plant, a pop-up appeared asking if he needed to pay for traffic. After Locke closed it, he saw two products that were already online under his account.

They are the Nine-Headed Hydra Plant and the Five-Headed Hydra Plant, respectively.

Locke saw that the two magical plants were currently being sold in 415 stores across the Golden Crown Mountain Group region in the Cloud Marsh Wetlands of Arthas.

However, both of the plant-themed products have sold zero units so far.

Locke frowned, a bad feeling creeping into his heart.

He glanced at the second-ring magical artifact, the Angel's Tear Bracelet, on his left wrist and began to ponder how to make a safe landing if his Hydra series encountered an unexpected setback today.

Locke remained expressionless as he glanced at the sales status of the remaining items displayed on Arthas's backend interface.

First, on September 1st, the entire backend collaborator interface turned pink, and the words "September 1st" were carefully designed, appearing at the top of the backend page like blooming roses.

Then, most importantly, is the 24-hour real-time sales total list.

At this point, the top ten on the list were no longer common breeding soil, nutrient solutions, or other commonly used breeding materials, nor were they some commonly used small breeding equipment. Instead, they were magical bouquets composed of ten kinds of rose-type magical plants.

The publishers behind these publications, whether individuals or studios, all show that they have a background with the Rose Council, or at least with wizarding academies in the vicinity of the Rose Council, and thus have a joint training relationship with the Rose Council.

The Rose Council has reached an extremely profound level of expertise in the cultivation and research of rose-type magical plants. This wizarding organization has existed for over 4,600 years, and associated with it is a history of cultivating rose-type magical plants spanning over 4,600 years.

Locke glanced at the total sales chart, and the number one item was a bouquet made of bright red true love roses, called Eternal True Love.

It consists of a single ring-shaped magical plant: a large red true love rose and ten apprentice-level multi-headed small roses. It is said that it can convey the wizard's sincere love, transforming the love in his heart into a rich floral fragrance in reality.

A bouquet of eternal true love is priced at 20,000 magic stones.

Locke sensed that the bouquet likely carried a hint of aphrodisiac and enchantment magic. In short, given that their relationship wasn't quite good yet, but there were still some emotions involved, using such a bouquet would be most effective.

It can make the emotions between two people reach a point of deep intimacy in a very short time, break the ice, and take the most crucial step.

In addition, this bouquet is carefully crafted by florists from the Rose Council's breeder branch, who combine various rose-type magical plants to create a synergistic effect that is not simply 1+1 equal to 2.

This is the core of the Rose Council's understanding of the language of roses.

According to the product description, the Eternal Love Bouquet likely expresses true love and transforms the wizard's emotions into tangible floral fragrances. Therefore, even if it's not used to break the ice, it would have multiple uses.

In addition, Rose University's years of operation on the September 1st Festival of True Love has naturally made this magical bouquet of eternal true love a top seller in Alsace on this day.

It will probably top the bestseller list in Frankfurt as well.

Locke glanced at it and saw that the second place was a bouquet of sweet words, with the Secret Begonia as the main flower and the Apprentice-level Magic Pearl Spirea, Baby's Breath, and Snow Willow as the secondary flowers and foliage.

It is said that the two wizards who hold it in their hands can hear each other's most sincere words of love for it.

Because it allows one to directly hear the other's passionate feelings, and some of the words are things that even wizards who usually suppress their emotions would never say, it is loved by many witches.

The price is 21,000 magic stones per bundle.

The third place bouquet features a heart-shaped rose as the main flower, complemented by multi-headed roses, forget-me-nots, and baby's breath, with chamomile and angelica as the secondary flowers. This bouquet is named "Unity of Hearts and Minds".

The price is 23,000 magic stones per bundle.

The roses in this bouquet symbolize that the two wizards holding it can sense each other's emotional changes, truly achieving unity of purpose.

They achieved something that ordinary couples could not.

Besides these, the remaining seven items on the overall sales chart are all similar magic bouquets.

Because of the existence of the language of roses, their effects are quite magical and, in a sense, very practical.

In fact, these magical bouquets are different from ordinary bouquets in the mortal world. They can be preserved for a very long time, almost decades if carefully cared for, and can also be used to perform some general botanical magic.

If one insists on using them as weapons, it's not impossible, but generally speaking, wizards who choose to buy them rarely use them as weapons.

Even if you fall on hard times, you can resell these magical bouquets through secondhand channels.

In fact, these magical bouquets are more like a piece of furniture, a fixed asset, which can be placed in the home for long-term use after purchase.

Locke saw that it was 10 a.m., and the top three magic bouquets on the total sales chart had already sold more than 150 units.

Although these three items are already considered top sellers today, and today is also the True Love Festival, a special commemorative holiday led by the Rose Council.

But to be honest, at the first stage, the number of wizards who have that much money to buy these magical plant bouquets is still very limited.

So far, these best-selling items have sold over 150 units, which means that the number of official wizards in Yunze Wetland is sufficient and they have enough money.

Of course, there should also be the wizards behind these three super-popular items. They should have special privileges in Arthas, which is why they can sell them not only in one region, but possibly in multiple regions, or even the entire Cloudweed Wetlands.

However, that should be a special collaboration between Arthas and the Rose Council for the Festival of True Love.

Even second-ring wizards don't normally enjoy this kind of privilege.

Locke switched interfaces and looked at the product category rankings. His current track was not the overall sales ranking, but the sales rankings of various categories within the sub-categories of products.

My own Hydra series of magical plants should be on the defensive magical plant list within the first-level magical plant list, and also on the tactical magical plant list within the defensive magical plant list, as well as on the tactical vine magical plant list within the third-level sub-list.

At this moment, Locke saw that the top three defensive magic plant rankings had already sold about a dozen units, a number that far exceeded their usual daily sales growth.

Locke switched to the tactical-level defensive magical plant and immediately discovered that the problem wasn't with his own Hydra magical plant, because none of the ten tactical-level defensive magical plants on the current list had been sold.

Moreover, because their two magical plant products were newly launched, they had priority and were ranked first and second respectively.

As for the three-tiered sales rankings and the tactical-level defensive vine magical plant rankings, there's no need to even look at them, because these rankings don't even include ten types of tactical-level defensive vine magical plants.

In the entirety of Arthas, including the two magical plants I contributed to this field, there are a total of seven related magical plants.

Moreover, looking at the two magical plants with rather comical names, Locke felt that these two plants were just there to make up the numbers, or that the publishers were rather casual.

They may have a long-term partnership with Arthas, so they can release some rather casual magical plant products, since nobody will buy them anyway.

Arthas only needs to provide them with an interface, which is just a waste of memory.

"It seems that level one tactical defensive magical plants are not selling very well in Yunze Wetlands." Locke pondered with a headache, "If that's the case, I need to think about how to fund my next research project."

“If Mason Witch and her gang asked me for money now, I wouldn’t even be able to come up with the funds I advanced for them.”

"I would be unable to continue the learning tasks assigned to me by my tutor because I didn't have the money."

Locke said, "If all else fails, ask Scarlett for those Hydra and Five-Headed Hydras that she can't sell, and I'll take them back to the Southeast Corner to try and sell them."

"At least I can break even, so it's not a complete loss. I can land safely. It's just that after that, it might not be easy to cooperate with Arthas anymore."

Locke sighed. Fortunately, in the past two weeks, his team had basically analyzed the mechanism and pathways of action of the 26 pineapple magic plants, as well as the seven natural magic structural components. In another two weeks to a month, they would be able to finish the work and conclude the project.

However, research on type 2 Tyrannosaurus Rex requires more funding; otherwise, it can only be superficially explored, or it can be handed over to well-funded research groups, or even involve wizards of higher levels.

After all, Locke needed the Queen's Chessboard equipment to compare the two substances at the Force level, in order to produce relevant data so that wizards in the Overlord Breeding Technology industry chain could have more choices after reviewing the data. But in doing so, many subsequent benefits would be irrelevant to Locke.

Locke essentially created a pie, but he couldn't afford to eat a bite himself, so he had to hand it over to others to devour.

Although this is something that many talented first-ring wizards go through, Locke is certainly somewhat unwilling at this moment.

But if you're really short of money, even if you don't want to, you can only temporarily accept reality.

Locke returned the materials to the library, somewhat dejected, and went back to his dormitory, but quickly composed himself.

He went to the makeshift laboratory that had been set up for him in his dormitory and composed himself.

“I’m not really upset,” Locke said. “Failure is normal. Have I forgotten how I comforted Albert before? Just because things went smoothly before doesn’t mean we can’t accept failure.”

"Failure once is not terrible, but if you let it affect your mood and cause you to be careless in everything you do afterward, leading to a series of failures, then you can't blame yourself for bad luck, but rather for having too poor mental resilience."

Locke composed himself and placed the tissue extract from the pineapple into the live extraction vessel, a mid-level breeder's equipment he had borrowed from the public laboratory.

After extracting the elemental substances, Locke sucked them in with a syringe and injected them into a nearby first-class wizard apprentice-level golden jasmine flower.

Less than half a minute after the injection, the yellow iris flower suddenly began to change. The small yellow five-pointed stars began to grow wildly, the branches and leaves became larger and thicker, and streaks of flower fluff floated in the air.

Its surface developed a red, metallic-looking keratin layer, and it grew thorns. The red, metallic keratin layer was the color of rusted iron.

"Although there is no Queen's Chessboard, this relatively simple experimental method can still show the difference between King Factor 1 and King Factor 2."

"Both of them, after being injected into the plant, exhibited the property of making the plant thicker and larger. However, No. 1 Tyrant Extract caused the plant to emit an unbearable odor, while No. 2 Tyrant Extract, after being injected into the yellow iris, did not have an odor, but instead caused changes in the cuticle layer."

"But the energy of the magical plants has increased abnormally, and they are in a state known as the 'Overlord State' in terms of both magical pressure and spirituality. I just don't know about the state of the Force level... that can only be seen with the Queen's Chessboard."

The next moment, the yellow iris exploded, turning into fragments and bursting into flames, quickly turning to ashes on the experimental table.

Locke was not surprised by this; it was just that this yellow oriole grass could not withstand the Overlord Essence. The Overlord Demon Plant is a breeding branch that has been developed for many years.

It requires careful study to master; it's not something you can simply extract a single element, inject it into a plant with a syringe, and expect to make it dominant.

In fact, the hegemonic cultivation method has been explored for over a hundred years before it went from having no application to becoming a mature industry.

Locke said, "But this simple experiment has already proven that the No. 2 Tyrannosaurus Rex I discovered has great application potential. The Tyrannosaurus Rex pineapple I cultivated has very strong economic potential."

Speaking of economic potential, Locke was reminded of Hydra.

At that time, he used the Ganoderma lucidum plant again to open Arthas's collaborator backend interface. It was already past noon.

Locke glanced at the interface and was immediately stunned.

At this time, his two magical plants were not sold in zero units, but rather in multiple units each. The Hydra plant sold five units, and the Five-Headed Hydra plant sold ten units.

Furthermore, while I was looking at the backend interface, Five-Headed Serpent sold three more units, and Hydra sold one unit.

At the same time, the rankings of my two magical plants on the leaderboard rose rapidly.

Because the Hydra and Five-Headed Serpent are different from other magical plant products, which sell for tens of thousands, while ours sell for one hundred thousand and the other for two hundred thousand.

This means it will be harder to sell, but once it is sold, the money earned will be greater.

The six Hydras already involve a huge sum of 1.2 million magic stones.

Thirteen five-headed serpents already represent a transaction amount of 1.3 million magic stones, which is no small business.

Locke's two magical plants have now both entered the sales rankings for defensive magical plants on September 1st.

One is ninth place, and the other is tenth place.

"Hmm? There were zero orders in the morning, but by noon, they suddenly started to increase." Locke was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized that his Hydra series magical plants might be sold differently from those magical plants that cost a little over ten thousand.

Others focus on quantity, while we focus on quality.

Therefore, there will be many people placing orders for those magical plants from the very beginning.

Many wizards may have initially been observing their two magical plant products, but the real customers have not yet arrived.

Moreover, Scarlett's witch team probably played a part in this, as they are likely negotiating with various wizarding organizations and have already achieved some success.

Next, Locke saw the sales figures for his two magical plants soar.

He continued his experiments with Tyrant Essence in the makeshift laboratory in his dormitory. He injected Tyrant Essence into the apprentice-level magical plant Bloodthorn to observe the degree of attack enhancement, and injected Tyrant Essence into the apprentice-level magical plant Iron Shield Grass to observe the degree of defense enhancement.

Tyrant Essence is a multifunctional natural magical structural component that can comprehensively enhance a magical plant, which is why this substance has many applications.

However, there is a drawback: it transforms functional magical plants into combat-type magical plants.

Throughout the experiment, Locke kept an eye on the sales of his two products.

The outcome was truly unexpected and took an unexpected turn.

Especially the five-headed snake, which sold 101 plants by 5 p.m.

That is, a transaction amount of just over ten million was completed.

This is an astonishing number of transactions.

Similarly, his own Hydra also sold thirty units around 5 PM, completing a transaction volume of six million.

Based on the profit he can receive, he can obtain more than four million magic stones from the current transactions.

"More than four million magic stones?" Locke calculated the profit and was slightly surprised by it.

He had already prepared himself for a soft landing if the investment failed, but who knew that in just one afternoon, he had sold so many of his two magical plant products.

At this time, his two magical plants occupied the fifth and first positions respectively on the best-selling list of defensive magical plants.

Hydra is in fifth place, while the five-headed hydra plant is in first place.

Meanwhile, the five-headed snake even appeared in tenth place on the day's total sales chart!

At this moment, countless wizards who were paying attention to Arthas's rankings all focused their attention on the tenth place on the overall sales list.

In an office within the Rose Council's Breeders Academy, a first-ring crystallization wizard was so angry that he stood up abruptly from his workstation. Just moments ago, the "Pink Lovers" bouquet, which his team was promoting, had fallen off Arthas's 24-hour sales chart.

"What is this five-headed serpent?" The wizard's face darkened. "How could something like this appear on the True Love Festival's sales chart! A non-magical bouquet is actually in the top ten!"

"How can this be!"

"They actually pushed my pink lover out of the rankings."

(End of this chapter)