Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 570 The reaction of Golden Crown Mountain, a side income of 6.5 million magic stones!

In Group Six, the Celtic Group Leader was drinking wizard's wine with Group Three Leader [Esther the Witch]. The wizard's wine from the wine capital of Rain Marsh was so delicious that it made people feel refreshed and happy.

Wizarding beverages were invented by potion makers. Over 70% of the Rainswamp is swampy, which has fostered a rich brewing culture. Advanced breeding and potion-making skills, combined with the unique geographical environment, have created the most advanced brewing culture in the wizarding world.

The Celtic leader was savoring the delicious wine when Esther, the witch, suddenly appeared with a wish-granting mushroom and said to him, "Little Celtic, do you know that Locke from your sixth group published his work on Arthas's platform?"

The Celtic leader paused for a moment, then chuckled, "Oh, right, today is the Rose Council's September 1st True Love Festival. Esther, which male wizard have you taken a fancy to? Are you going to buy a bouquet of magic flowers too?"

Esther gave him a cold look. "If you say another word, I'll get rough with you. Fine, see for yourself."

"Locke's Five-Headed Serpent has reached number five on today's overall sales chart! The Five-Headed Serpent Magic Plant is a vine-type defensive magic plant, not even a magical bouquet."

When the Celtic leader saw the image Esther showed him, he instantly snapped out of his daze. A second-circle wizard can see both the first-circle and second-circle interfaces of the Arthas Shop Alliance's collaborator interface.

At this moment, on the first ring interface, Locke's five-headed serpent plant was prominently ranked fifth on the overall sales chart on the homepage.

The Celtic team leader sobered up instantly and quickly calculated the profits. "Tens of millions in sales? Locke's profit will be at least two million, maybe even three million."

"Good heavens, he's just a first-ring wizard, and he can earn ten third-class funds from the Institute of Truth, or six second-class funds from the Institute of Truth, just by selling this one piece?"

Although it is said that ten times the horizontal amount is equal to one times the vertical amount, because the vertical amount not only represents the amount, but also the right to use the equipment, the relevant status, the ease of applying for funds in the future, and the resume.

But the money earned horizontally is real and tangible.

At this moment, the Celtic leader gave a wry smile. "This guy can even make more money than me, a second-circle wizard."

"However, if it's Locke, it's normal for him to earn so much money. He's a talented person, and my sixth group is even more powerful with him. Alas, it's all thanks to His Majesty's trust in me that such a great talent was assigned to my group."

The Celtic team leader started to gloat.

Esther the Witch gave him a cold look. "Don't be so smug. Locke is indeed a talented person, but the problem is you are his direct superior."

The Celtic leader's expression changed slightly. He quickly took out the Ganoderma lucidum from his astral ring and opened the communication interface. On his contact interface, he saw a barrage of messages from the leaders of the Senate of various Golden Crown Mountains.

Although no third-ring wizards have intervened in this matter so far, the information bombardment has been directed at second-ring true-forging Sun Ring wizards or pseudo-forging Moon Ring wizards, who are very powerful among second-ring wizards.

Among them was one of the three vice ministers of the Senate's Academic Affairs Department, a second-ring True Forge Wizard—a Sun Ring Wizard—who directly questioned him, 'Celt, were you aware that your group members were secretly cooperating with Arthas? Now, wizards from the Rose Council have come to ask me if this is the intention of Golden Crown Mountain.'

"They suspect we deliberately sabotaged the Rose Council's multi-million dollar publicity investment in the True Love Festival, as well as the deep-rooted legacy built over generations. They asked me if I could shoulder the responsibility. Did you even know about these things?"

'Reply to me quickly! Celtic!'

Celtic's expression changed slightly. "This is like stirring up a hornet's nest. Have the Senate people gone mad? They're all sending me messages like crazy."

Esther took a sip of the wizard's wine, then pointed at the leaderboard and said, "It's not the Senate that's gone mad, it's the Rose Council that's going mad. Look at the leaderboard, True Love Festival isn't just a festival for the Rose Council to make money, it's also a festival to promote their rose language."

"Their advertising expenses in Alsace alone amounted to tens of millions. Some products seemed to be selling well, but in reality, they were making tens of millions in revenue and tens of millions in sales. The money was just like flowing water, all of which was used to buy advertising."

"As a result, four of the works on this ranking are not magical bouquets. Especially Little Locke's work, which is already in fifth place. If it breaks into the top three, I estimate that the third-ring wizards of the Rose Council will be coming to our door by now."

Esther said, "If it were just Little Locke's work on the list, that would be fine; it would just be an isolated case. But now, there are four people on the list at once, which looks like they've joined forces with the four of us to deliberately sabotage things. Especially Little Locke and Diana of Bonifacius, who are currently on the Throne Lord's side."

"Speaking of which, three of these four people were in the top three of the Yunze Cup. I bet the wizards in the Yunze Cup tournament committee office at Bonifacius University are having a good time right now."

This incident was a minor blow to the Rose Council, but for Bonifacius University, it significantly enhanced the prestige of their university-sponsored competition.

Esther checked the forums of Bonifacius University on the Water Hyacinth Network and, sure enough, found that many wizards, and even wizarding apprentices, were discussing the matter and praising the three contestants of the Cloud Ze Cup to the skies.

"What are you going to do, Celtic Group Leader?" Esther asked, a look of anticipation on her face. "Are you going to tough it out yourself, or are you going to push little Locke out and let him explain to the Senate's academic affairs wizards himself?"

The Celtic group leader immediately took screenshots of all the messages bombarded by the student affairs department's Sun Ring Wizard and forwarded them to Catherine's Throne.

Thirty seconds later, the witch Catherine sent a question mark.

The Celtic group leader smiled at Esther and said, "I won't choose either of them. I'll just forward the message that the vice minister of the student affairs department sent me to Lord Throne. They don't dare to approach Lord Throne, they only dare to approach an ordinary second-circle wizard like me."

"But His Majesty the Throne cares about Locke quite a bit, so this matter can be left to His Majesty the Throne to handle."

Esther looked at Celt in surprise and said, "Little Celt, you actually dared to approach the Throne Lord. It seems the Throne Lord is too easy to talk to. You were almost persuaded to resign by the higher-ups before, but the Throne Lord gave you the opportunity to stay. After that, you seem to be very afraid of the academy's higher-ups."

The Celtic group leader smiled and said helplessly, "I've hit rock bottom and bounced back. Besides, Locke is my trump card now. As his direct superior, I certainly can't let these complicated struggles within the academy affect him."

Soon, the aggressive tone of the Sun Ring Wizard from the Senate's Student Affairs Department softened abruptly, and he sent a message to Celt: 'Celt Wizard, I simply wanted to ask you whether we at Golden Crown Mountain were in the wrong, or if it was purely a coincidence, in order to determine my attitude towards the wizards of the Rose Council.'

'Why would you send my message to Catherine the Throne?'

"This matter doesn't need a third-ring wizard to handle. You've completely misunderstood me. Please explain this to His Majesty the Throne for me."

The Celtic team leader sent a helpless emoji, followed by a sweating emoji, and said, "Minister, I'm just a regular second-tier player. This matter is beyond my authority. You should explain it to His Majesty the Throne yourself."

Celtic immediately closed his messaging app and saw a message from the vice president of the academic affairs department.

The vice minister of the academic affairs department said to Celt, "One of your wizards, Locke Augustine, has a magical plant that topped the Arthas 24-hour sales chart during the True Love Festival. We've decided to reward him with a Water Jade Peach."

"Although it's just a ranking in Alsace, his actions demonstrate the breeding standards of our Golden Crown Mountain as a high-efficiency agricultural region. This is commendable."

"Therefore, the Academic Affairs Department is preparing to give him a special reward."

Celt and Esther were not surprised by this, because most of the wizards in the Department of Education were members of their Academic Committee, so the Department of Education belonged to the Academic Committee faction and would naturally favor them. Meanwhile, the Deacon Inspection Group, one of the three major local powers of Mount Golden Crown, remained neutral and completely ignored the matter.

Ultimately, this is just a horizontal project.

This is not in the fundamental interests of the three parties.

After Celtic replied to the vice minister of the academic affairs department, he sent Locke a congratulatory message.

Seeing this, Esther hesitated for a moment, wondering whether she should congratulate Diana, the witch who was being jointly trained with her group. But after thinking about it, she decided not to do so.

Because it is not necessary.

First of all, Diana the Witch had only just joined their group, and as a second-ring Sun-ring wizard, there was no need for her to curry favor with her.

Secondly, the Diana witch wasn't from their university; it was just a joint program.

Most importantly, Esther, as the leader of Group Three, is a Sun Ring Wizard who has already established herself at Mount Golden Crown, making her far superior in status and strength to Celt, an ordinary second-ring Wizard.

Therefore, she had no need to do something that would lower her status.

Unlike the Celts, she doesn't need a wizarding talent to work on projects so she can stay on Mount Golden Crown.

Every second-ring wizard is the future of a first-ring wizard, so naturally, one must treat a first-ring wizard with the utmost respect.

This is also to ensure that first-ring wizards maintain respect for truth and magic.

Meanwhile, in the office of the Yunze Cup tournament committee at Bonifacius University, Director Morrison was all smiles as he spoke with the Mekanian's machine spirit through a second-ring magical artifact, the Space Mirror, in front of him.

At this moment, Director Morrison burst into laughter.

The little robot girl looked at him in confusion. "Lord Morrison, what's making you so happy?"

Morrison's eyes were wide with a smile. "Remember Edgar David, Diana the Witch, and Locke Augustine? Their works topped the 24-hour sales charts in Arthas during the Rose Council's True Love Festival. I imagine the upper echelons of the Rose Council must be quite astonished and furious right now."

"I quickly contacted people. This is the best publicity for our Yunze Cup commercial event. We should take advantage of this dramatic development to promote our Yunze Cup and create a rumor that the runner-up, champion, and third-place winner of the Yunze Cup have jointly dominated the rankings."

"The news headline should be: Yunze Cup: Three Gods Slaughter the Rankings!"

"Great, this name is fantastic!"

Director Morrison was a man of his word. He immediately contacted the editor-in-chief of Frog Newspaper, one of the largest news outlets in Yunze Wetland, and proactively sent them the hot topics, key points, and relevant information.

The two sides are old friends.

They also gave him five Magic Crystal Cards from the Fairy Bank as a gift.

The other person immediately sent him an 'OK' emoji.

The little girl with the machine spirit rolled her eyes. She suddenly remembered the three wizards with the second-ring characteristics. She pursed her lips and recalled with some pain the memory of being chased by Locke. She was almost caught back then.

The little girl, a machine spirit, pondered for a moment, and taking advantage of Director Morrison's good mood, tentatively asked, "So, Lord Morrison, could you approve my request for a new alchemy chip? It only requires about one million magic stones to complete my computing power upgrade..."

When Director Morrison heard about money, he immediately realized what was going on and frowned, saying, "What do you need so much money for? One million magic stones can buy a hundred ordinary first-ring magic weapons. Although their power is a bit weaker, it can still buy about five or six crystallized first-ring magic weapons."

"You need so many magic stones... It's not about the money, but also about the increased computing power. Your combat strength has increased too much, which will affect your future Yunze Cup matches. How about this, I'll approve 30 magic stones for you. That's the limit. You can use these magic stones to play around with."

The Yunze Cup tournament committee has its own tournament fund. After all, this is a profitable commercial competition, which is why Director Morrison can be so generous with his money—it's not his money anyway.

Spending 300,000 on the machine spirit is essentially a case of the customer paying for it.

The little girl with the mechanical spirit sighed. "That's too stingy."

……

Inside the dormitory at Golden Crown Mountain, Locke saw a congratulatory message from Scarlett the Witch: "Congratulations! Although I had some expectations, I didn't expect the sales of Hydra to be this good."

"You have earned a total of 6.5 million magic stones!"

"That's an astonishing number. But after my team and I worked hard to stimulate and fully tap into the potential, and after I bought some traffic for you, I estimate that the sales of Hydra and Hydra have reached their limit for a while, and we probably won't be able to make much money from them anymore."

This is related to Locke's marketing strategy and Alsace's marketing policies.

In any case, this day truly brought out the full potential of the two products in the Golden Crown Mountain region and part of the potential in the Cloud Ze Wetland, which is why Locke was able to earn a staggering 6.5 million magic stones in just one day!
With these magic stones in hand, Locke began to think about where to rent the Queen's Chessboard.

Even if the Queen's Chessboard is a three-ring magic artifact, as long as I have the money, I can still rent this equipment outside of Golden Crown Mountain, and use it to complete the analysis at the Force level, and publish research related to Tyrant Element No. 2, while also conducting some Tyrant Element research myself.

Meanwhile, Locke will continue to purchase one-ring magical plants to fill his forest sanctuary.

The assimilation of trees in the Forest Sanctuary takes time, so the earlier more trees are transplanted, the better.

Some things become more powerful the older they are, and the Forest Sanctuary is exactly that kind of thing!
Furthermore, with these items, I can confidently learn the Peach Bow and Thorn Arrow techniques, and even inquire about information related to medium-sized or larger planes.

After all, to advance to the second-circle wizard level, I would need a medium-sized plane!
“Besides, with this money, I won’t have to wait another month. I can finish my second-class True Knowledge Academy fund project this month and apply to the academy for a first-class True Knowledge Academy fund project.” Locke said, “Money really is the accelerator of everything.”

"With money, I can cultivate the Giant Rubber Duck Crown Pineapple in bulk and sell it to those lightning wizards so they can buy it back for research. Unfortunately, Thunderbirds and Lightning Bees don't have any particularly large industries, so the Giant Rubber Duck Crown Pineapple's economic value isn't very high; it's just a drop in the ocean."

(End of this chapter)