Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 573 The Little Golden Jujube Hanging Tree and the Ancient Forest

After thinking it over and asking the Celtic team leader a few questions, and then checking the information himself, Locke confirmed that what the trader Bruce said was true before he decided to pay fifty magic crystal cards to purchase the Golden Relic Branch.

This Golden Palace Remnant Branch is extremely powerful; Locke couldn't even store it in his Astral Ring.

“It’s time to upgrade my Astral Ring.” Locke looked at the Astral Ring in his hand.

Upgrading astral rings is actually quite simple: just take them to the alchemy workshop and merge the different astral rings, causing the spaces of the two astral rings to merge.

Locke's Astral Ring has been fused several times, and its internal space is currently the size of a small football field, with its magical pressure also increasing accordingly.

However, as a first-level ultimate magical plant, the Golden Palace Remnant Branch's magical pressure was still far too great compared to the Star Realm Ring he currently possessed, to the point that he couldn't even place it inside using the Star Realm Ring.

It's like a passageway the size of a door, too large to fit a ship into the space behind it.

Bruce, the trader, immediately said to Locke, "Mr. Augustine, we can arrange for someone to deliver your Golden Relic to the location you specify."

Locke frowned, placed his palm on the surface of the Golden Relic Branch, and forcibly suppressed it temporarily with his magic. Then, he used the Druid's Ring, which was empowered by the Four Elements Ring, to open the dimensional gate and send it into it.

The Druid's ring contains a sanctuary of two hundred acres of forest. Under the suppression of this sanctuary and the sapling of the Ancient Tree of Life, as well as the seal of its own magic, even the Golden Remnant Branch can only submit.

"Truly powerful magic," said the wizard Bruce.

"Looks like I won't have to do anything more," Wizard Bruce said with a smile.

Locke looked at Wizard Bruce and said, "I need some jujube-type magical plants. Do you have any recommendations?"

Wizard Bruce pondered for a moment and said, "The peach-type magical plants in the Golden Crown Mountain region are definitely the most abundant, and they would also be the best among tree-type magical plants at the same price. However, there are also some decent jujube-type magical plants in this exhibition hall."

"Please come this way."

They wandered through the exhibition hall, which was a small ecological garden where many precious magical plants were displayed.

Furthermore, this purchase option will only be offered to a customer if the trader at Golden Peach Garden believes the customer is eligible to buy.

Locke believes this is somewhat like scarcity marketing.

Wizard Bruce pointed to a jujube tree with ruby-like fruits and told Locke, "This is the Zanhuang Jujube Tree. It's a relatively rare magical plant of the jujube tree type."

Locke shook his head. "I don't want these jujube trees with big jujubes; I need those magical plants with smaller jujubes."

As a seasoned trader in Golden Peach Garden, Wizard Bruce immediately understood. "Peach Bow and Thorn Arrow?"

"That is truly an ancient yet vibrant traditional botanical magic of the Yunze Wetland. I see, you were trying to create the matching magical plants for the Peach Bow Thorn Arrow."

"I understand. Please follow me."

Wizard Bruce led Locke to a jujube tree with an inverted cone-shaped trunk. The tree was thick at the base and thin at the top, looking like a wooden thorn.

The tree is over ten meters tall, and tiny jujubes, about the size of rice grains, hang among its branches and leaves. The leaves are oval-shaped and look very simple.

Trader Bruce said, "This is the Little Golden Jujube Hanging Tree. We all know that jujube trees have a unique characteristic that sets them apart from other fruit trees, and that is the hanging tree.

Locke nodded slightly. Jujube trees have a unique jujube branching system, which means that every year when they bear fruit, soft fruiting branches will sprout from the branches of the older trees, and after the fruit has been borne, these branches will fall off completely at a certain time.

The result depends entirely on this one-time, shedding, annual (one-year-old) new branch.

Most other fruit trees rely on perennial fruiting branches, or although they bear fruit on current-year branches, some of these current-year branches will become permanent branches.

Or it may depend on the results of the previous year's branches.

In short, jujube trees have the unique characteristic of producing new annual branches every year.

Therefore, shamans call these one-year-old fruiting branches of the jujube tree "jujube hangings".

The jujube hanging is a core and important feature of jujube-type magical plants.

Breeders can not only focus on cultivating the fruit of jujube trees, but also manipulate the branches of one-year-old trees to cultivate a large number of magical jujube-like plants with a special jujube hanging system as the core.

The small golden jujube tree in front of us is clearly a specially improved and cultivated jujube tree system, which is why the fruits on the jujube tree are particularly small.

Like a grain of rice.

Clearly, this entire magical plant was prepared to strengthen the jujube branch. Because jujube magical plants naturally possess a large number of fast-growing branches, jujube branches can use magical power to quickly obtain more disposable branches in a very short time.

Using this mechanism, one can launch numerous magical plant branch throws at the enemy in a very short period of time.

The magical plants that were originally like the War Tree and the Life Tree, oak-type trees, would damage one's vital energy with each branch they threw, and if too many were thrown in a short period of time, it could even endanger one's life.

However, for the Jujube Tree Demon Plant, throwing out a large number of demon plant branches in a short period of time, which is called "spear throwing", is a common phenomenon.

Trader Bruce said, "The growth environment of the Little Golden Jujube Tree requires a special resource called Golden Witch Stone. Golden Witch Stone is the masterpiece of alchemists, but it requires a second-level gravity transmutation array and consumes a lot of resources and exquisite technology to be successfully refined."

"The reputation of the Vajra Witch Stone is second only to the Five Elements Witch Stone. It is extremely rare, so it is very difficult to make the little Vajra Jujube Hanging grow into an adult."

"Besides needing Vajra Witch Stone, the Little Vajra Jujube Tree doesn't need anything else. It can grow even in the most barren areas."

"The fast-growing branches of the Little Vajra Jujube Tree possess a special power, gathering most of its magical energy. This energy can transform into Vajra swords and form a group of Vajra swords to attack the enemy." "Most terrifyingly, the Little Vajra Jujube Tree possesses the indestructible Vajra Witch Stone property, making it difficult to block, difficult to influence, difficult to change... an unchanging Vajra."

"However, controlling this magical plant requires powerful magic; if one is not careful, one will suffer a backlash."

Locke nodded slightly. In fact, the same thing happened with the Golden Palace Remnant Branch just now; it was just a matter of how much backlash it would cause.

Powerful magical plants like these often suffer from the problem of magical backlash.

However, as a guardian of nature, possessing the saplings of the ancient tree of life and the sacred forest domain, which can transform into a forest ecosystem, and a distributed psionic network, he has many advantages over ordinary botanical wizards in terms of magical backlash.

Ordinary wizards do have to worry about whether they will suffer a backlash if they control too many powerful magical plants at the same time.

Locke observed the little golden jujube tree and quickly determined that this magical plant was indeed suitable for the spell model of [Peach Arch Thorn Arrow].

Or rather, the reason why the wizard Bruce dared to recommend this magical plant to himself was because it was the most suitable magical plant for Peach Arch Thorn Arrow.

Locke asked, "How much does this magical plant cost?"

Wizard Bruce said, "Five hundred thousand magic stones!"

Seeing Locke's surprised look, he immediately said, "The main reason is that the Little Golden Jujube Hanging and the Golden Palace Remnant Branch are magical plants of the same level. Although they are not beneficial for learning advanced meditation techniques, they possess second-ring characteristics, and the Little Golden Jujube Hanging also has a special ability."

"To protect the wizard with whom you have established a magical bond."

"The Little Golden Jujube Hanging Duck can withstand magical damage and mitigate it by letting the jujube hanging fall. This function may come in handy at certain crucial moments."

Locke nodded slightly; that was the substitution function.

Locke thought about it carefully and decided that since he had already spent 500,000 to buy the Golden Palace Branch, buying another small Golden Jujube Tree wouldn't be a big deal.

Moreover, he had already asked the Celtic leader, who told him that the items in this exhibition hall were indeed beyond the reach of ordinary wizards.

In other words, despite the high price of these magical plants, many wizards cannot buy them even if they want to. These are considered luxury items among magical plants.

The Golden Palace Remnant Branch and the Small Golden Jujube Hanging Pendant are not only expensive, but also symbolize status.

The Peach Bow and Thorn Arrow are related to advanced meditation techniques, so buying them is not a bad deal.

Locke then looked at some luxury magical plants and finally decided to return to the storefront of Golden Peach Garden.

Because his own forest sanctuary is expected to increase the total number of organisms, and the main element of his forest sanctuary, tree-type magical plants, needs to pay attention to the diversity of tree species to prevent monotony.

So Locke then purchased 81 first-ring shrub-level magic plants, Gem Holly, from Bruce, at a price of 4000 magic stones per plant in the shop.

Gem Holly is a shrub among holly trees, unlike Red Holly, a powerful combat-type magical plant.

Gem Holly is just a shrub, and only a functional first-level magical plant, making it the weakest among first-level magical plants.

It has almost no power.

Therefore, the price is cheap.

But the jewel holly is extremely beautiful, its leaves resembling various colored gemstones, and each shrub looks like a Christmas tree.

It looks very festive.

Most importantly, the Gem Holly, like other holly trees, is a steadfast and silent guardian of the forest. It can actively share nutrients with the trees in the forest through its roots and symbiotic magical fungi.

Moreover, the gem holly has the ability to purify the soil, making it a relatively common type of magical plant used in the shrub layer of a forest.

If Locke transplants 81 Gem Holly shrubs and 105 Beechwoods into the Forest Sanctuary, his Forest Sanctuary will have 302 first-ring level adult magical plants.

Under the control of the ancient tree sapling and itself, it will become a powerful forest community, an ancient forest.

As a gift, Wizard Bruce also gave Locke a number of apprentice-level magical plants of the green manure type and the wind element type, mainly various grasses, legumes and vines.

These don't count as money.

As a result, Locke spent 1,950,400 magic stones at this store today.

But it's all worth it.

In this way, his own forest sanctuary will become the ancient forest that Dean Levi spoke of!
From adulthood to antiquity!

Under Locke's plan, the core area will reach 500 acres, and the area for apprentice-level trees may also be 500 acres, totaling a massive 1,000 acres.

It will become a thousand-acre forest.

The Ring of the Druid contains 1,500 acres of land.

Only in this way can one fully utilize the Druid's Ring empowered by the four elements, and at the same time, allow one's magical power to grow to an unparalleled level, enhancing one's second-ring characteristics!

(End of this chapter)