Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 659 The Idea of ​​Establishing the Wizard Shoe Shop Alliance and the Pixiu Angle Fractal Spiral Constraint Equation System

Locke hadn't expected that this thing would hide such a significant security risk, and a chill immediately ran down his spine.

The wizarding world is fraught with danger; even conducting research carries the risk of death. Countless high-ring wizards have perished in their own out-of-control experiments in their laboratories. I was just one step away from following in their footsteps.

Locke said, "Teacher, I understand. I will handle these things carefully."

The witch Catherine nodded. "Show me the mature forms of these seeds. You should be able to project them using archaeological magic; archaeological wizards certainly have an advantage in certain areas."

Locke said, "Yes, teacher."

With a wave of his hand, an ancient flower appeared before the witch Catherine.

The witch Catherine looked at the ancient flower with interest, then said, "This is clearly a fake flower. Do those ancient wizards of the Tower of the Black Sun have so much leisure time?"

“Hmm…” said Ekaterina the witch, “My fake best friends in the Rose Council might like this. Wait a minute, the shape of this fake flower is quite interesting. I once saw a magical plant with this shape in the deepest part of the Emerald Dream. Of course, that was a third-ring level magical plant, and it was also closely related to some things.”

"The creation of this fake flower must have touched upon that secret. It seems that although the Age of Stars, dominated by the Tower of the Black Sun, did not make much contribution to the exploration of the Great Void, it did delve quite deeply into the secrets of certain special planes in the Endless Void."

"Hmm...that makes sense. In the era before void warships, exploring special planes would be much simpler than developing the Great Void. Void warship technology was perfected during that dark and heavy colonial era...but in the Age of Stars, star projection technology should have already appeared."

"With the Star Projection technology, exploring special planes would be much simpler, and second-circle wizards could use Star Projection."

Locke was completely baffled by what the witch Catherine said.

This should be common knowledge for a third-ring level wizard.

Or at least it's common sense that it's within the Second Ring Road.

Locke did not dare to interrupt Catherine the Witch's thoughts, but Catherine the Witch took the initiative to speak to Locke: "Locke, I remember that in your previous research, you mentioned that the Big Black Diamond Pineapple would mimic the surrounding plants during its growth process."

Locke looked at the witch Catherine with surprise. He had never expected that the Throne Wizard would have the leisure to read the articles of such an unknown young first-ring wizard as himself.

Locke nodded and said, "That's right, teacher."

The witch Catherine said, "Then, use the first-circle botanical spell Model: Rapid Growth to make a large black diamond pineapple grow."

"And mimic this ancient flower."

"If I'm not mistaken, the spiral lines contained in the shape of your ancient flower are not ordinary spiral lines."

The witch Catherine said, "The appearance of many magical plants contains certain theorems. You and I are both breeders, so we know them."

"But among the extremely rare magical plants, behind their appearance lies not just ordinary theorems, but a special energy-locking structure. Moreover, this energy-locking structure often has special functions."

"Now, have a large black diamond pineapple mimic this ancient flower, immediately. I want to see what happens."

Catherine the Witch's tone turned serious. She gave the hairdresser a look and ordered him to step back, then sat up straight.

Locke sensed that the atmosphere had become serious.

He nodded and said, "Okay, teacher."

Locke took out a large black diamond pineapple from his astral ring and placed it directly on the table in front of the sofa. Then he placed a piece of mossy pith next to the table.

Air plants, especially those of the pineapple family, have a unique feature: their roots are simply fixed roots.

Its leaves function as both the roots and leaves of a regular magic plant, absorbing water and nutrients while also performing photosynthesis in a special way.

Therefore, it does not need to be grown in soil.

This is also one of the reasons why it is suitable as a wizard's shoe.

If it were any other magical plant, whose roots couldn't be separated from soil or a planting medium, it naturally couldn't serve as a wizard's shoe, accompanying the wizard to other places every day.

There's a saying that can simply describe this phenomenon: "People thrive when they move, but trees die when they're moved."

However, the growing medium for air plants is air, which makes the pure magical plant wizard shoes possible.

Locke used the Rapid Growth spell, and the Great Black Diamond Pineapple absorbed the nutrients from the mossy pith, growing rapidly under Locke's exquisite botanical magic.

For his current level of life magic, planting such a common first-level magical plant is not difficult at all.

Soon, the large black diamond pineapple grew into an adult, and its scaly black leaves twisted and turned, forming eerie and strange spiral patterns resembling those of ancient flowers.

This spiral pattern contains spiral patterns within spiral patterns, seemingly capable of being infinitely subdivided.

"The Great Black Diamond Pineapple has a mechanism that mimics the surrounding magical plants, pretending to be other plants to prevent itself from being eaten by specific herbivorous magical creatures," Locke said. "Using the Great Black Diamond Pineapple can indeed spontaneously mimic the surrounding magical plants."

The witch Catherine praised, "Excellent, your magical skills as a breeder are becoming increasingly adept."

"It just lacks the rich experience accumulated over the years."

At this moment, the Black Diamond Pineapple suddenly changed its state, and a small magical tidal whirlwind appeared above its head.

As a result, cracks appeared on the table where the large black diamond pineapple was placed.

Locke and the witch Catherine both looked over.

Locke pondered, "The shape of this peculiar spiral angle actually possesses such power. The Big Black Diamond Pineapple only has leaves that are similar to it, yet it has undergone such a change."

Locke picked up the large black diamond pineapple and saw that it seemed to be frantically absorbing the surrounding magical tides, with an absorption efficiency more than ten times higher than that of an ordinary large black diamond pineapple.

"Teacher, congratulations! You have discovered a new energy-locking structure."

Catherine the Witch was quite surprised, then looked at Locke through the video communication of the Water Hyacinth System with amusement and asked, "I discovered it? Didn't you discover it?"

"What does this have to do with me? I'm just helping you out."

Locke said, "Teacher..."

The witch Catherine waved her hand and said, "I don't need a discovery of this caliber. It's not even icing on the cake for me, but for you, it's... a lifeline."

"I only gave you a little insight. There's no need to say more, or I'll get angry."

"Alright, do as I said, do some tests on this magical plant. I have a guess."

Following Catherine the Witch's instructions, Locke conducted some tests on the large black diamond pineapple and was surprised to find that the magical plant characteristics of the large black diamond pineapple had increased by at least two times as the efficiency of obtaining magical tides increased.

Of course, it's not without its flaws; it absorbs the surrounding magical tides too quickly, creating a magical tide vortex.

The witch Catherine asked, "What do you think would happen if these magical plants grew too much in one area?"

Locke said, "It's an ecological disaster. But teacher, when I first saw the ancient flower clusters, this phenomenon didn't occur."

The witch Catherine said, "That is just an ominous thing, an artificial flower. This shape does not come from them; it is the Tower of the Black Sun's copy of some kind of magical plant that originally existed in nature."

"That ominous object must have had some other design. That's why this phenomenon didn't occur. Okay, I have some data here from my previous research on fractal function spirals. I'll give it to you. It should help you speed up the discovery of the functional equation for this spiral."

Catherine the Witch gave a strange look. "By the way, you can come back to Mount Golden Crown when you have some free time. A Sun Ring Wizard and a Three Ring Wizard are looking for you."

"There's no need to rush, let them wait a while if they want to wait."

"No one can bully you on Mount Jinmian."

"Your return this time should be quite exciting. I saw a second-circle wizard waiting for you back in Group 2. Locke, enjoy your vacation in the Qionghua Enclave."

Locke paused for a moment, then nodded and said, "Okay, teacher."

At the same time, he wondered why so many high-level wizards wanted to find him after he had just gone on a short trip.

A three-ring ring and a sun ring?
A second ring road?
Am I really that popular?
At this moment, Locke accepted the information package delivered by the witch Catherine. Looking at the information, his confidence soared. "This is far more detailed than the information I bought in this Qionghua enclave."

"The teacher had previously conducted research on the connection between the shape of plants and special spirals, so he did a lot of spiral simulations of functional equations."

“Some of the spiral patterns even resemble the shape of my ancient flower, which is great. It greatly reduces the time I need to deduce that particular set of spiral equations from the shape of this ancient flower.”

"Once I get that set of equations, I can try to crack this spiral and then put it on many of my magical plants. This spiral energy-locking structure should have many uses."

"One of the major reasons that limits the characteristics of magical plants is the speed at which they absorb magical tides. I never expected that I could obtain this special energy-locking structure that increases the speed at which magical plants absorb magical tides through the Ancient Flower."

It's important to know that the biggest difference between a second-ring magical plant and a first-ring magical plant lies in the imaginary root.

This special spiral can, to some extent, also increase the efficiency of magical plants in absorbing nutrients and magical tides.

Locke rubbed his hands together. "Perfect. I can use the remaining time to study my spiral here while finishing my long article on the excavation of the Abyss Ruins."

At that moment, a dark wizard apprentice knocked on the door again, and after receiving permission, entered the room and told Locke, "Master Augustine, I couldn't find the Frost Box equipment..."

Locke frowned.

Staying in this Qionghua Enclave, Locke realized the advantages of the Yunze Wetland, where there was nothing at all.

We lack equipment, data, and talent... to be honest, we don't have much either.

The quality of these first-class wizard apprentices is incomparable to that of those from Golden Crown Mountain.

The fact that Locke was able to command these wizard apprentices made him feel that his two students, Williams and Gregor, were super geniuses...

Locke said, "Don't you have the Ice Box? Then let's use the Hibernation Chest that the Summoning School usually uses instead."

"Could you rent me a hibernation wardrobe?"

“I’ll pay with the magic stones, even double the price.” Locke sighed. In this place, he had no choice but to use double the magic stones to solve the problem.

Fortunately, there is a fairy family bank here, and various parties are sending money to me. With the money from this month and last month added together, I have received another 600,000 magic stones.

Because this is a dark wizarding academy, I basically have no personal expenses. As for some supplies... I can take them myself, and no one dares to charge me. If I paid for them, they would be terrified.

So, I stayed here for a while without expending any energy.

The first-class wizard apprentice, a dark wizard, swallowed nervously, fearing that Locke might suddenly fly into a rage and punish him.

He hesitated, then said, "Augustine... Master, please forgive me, what is the Hibernation Wardrobe... I'm sorry, Master, I really don't know anything about such a thing..."

The student was so scared that his back almost touched the ground; he was practically kneeling before Locke.

Locke sighed.

Well, a lack of solid basic knowledge is a characteristic of the wizard apprentices in the Qionghua Enclave.

This isn't Yunze Wetland, after all; there aren't that many useful wizard apprentices here for me to use.

They need to be taught something three times before they can do anything.

Locke said patiently, "I'm not going to eat you, so don't be nervous."

The student became even more nervous, his whole body trembling.

Locke gave him a cold look.

The student immediately stopped trembling.

Locke said, "The Hibernation Cabinet is a device commonly used by formal wizards of the Summoning School when conducting animal experiments. It can maintain a specific temperature and magical tidal concentration gradient inside, allowing magical creatures to hibernate. If you don't have an Ice Box, then you'll have to go and see if you can find a Hibernation Cabinet for my experiments."

"It's barely usable."

"Hibernation cabinets are more common than ice boxes. Many magical creatures have the habit of hibernation, so hibernation cabinets are used in many common experiments of the Summoning School."

I wanted to use the Hibernation Magic Cabinet to determine the germination temperature of those ancient magical plant seeds.

During his exploration of the Abyss Ruins, Locke discovered that the temperature in that era was extremely low, which may have had a collective impact on the magical plants.

Through this experiment, I can determine the average temperature of the era of stars.

This point will play a crucial role in corroborating one's own excavation and discovery of the ruins.

After hearing this, the student left feeling guilty, and Locke didn't know if he had understood it or not.

Half a month later.

In the laboratory lent to him by the Ashes Cult, Locke finally confirmed the simplified functional equation of the spiral of that ancient flower.

This is a set of elegant and concise formulas, consisting of fifteen functional equations.

However, it represents a rare energy-locking structure.

Locke said, "This formula is too complicated. If my teacher hadn't given me the research materials, I probably would have spent at least ten years on it. No, even longer."

This is because Locke discovered, while reverse-engineering the special spiral of the ancient flower, that this special spiral seemed to have a built-in cognitive shield.

If it weren't for the manuscripts containing information about the Catherine the Witch, it would have been very difficult for him to even contend with this peculiar phenomenon of his mind going blank halfway through a calculation.

“It must be because my rank is not high enough,” Locke pondered. “This special spiral curve may really come from the depths of the Emerald Plane, or the depths of some special plane.”

"But discovering this particular spiral curve... is good for me."

Locke looked at the peculiar pattern on the paper in front of him. It was a strange spiral pattern that he had drawn himself. It was extremely complex, with curves within curves.

Even when using a magnifying glass to examine details, you'll find that there are still details within details.

It is clearly just a pattern on a piece of paper, but it uses an unusually large amount of ink.

Just like the Big Black Diamond Pineapple, once it mimics this spiral fractal curve, it will inexplicably be able to quickly absorb the surrounding magical tides, just as its leaf surface area increases and its absorption efficiency of surrounding matter improves.

Moreover, this special structure is only useful for plants.

Locke tried applying this structure to simple alchemical items, but the alchemical items did not show any increase in energy transfer or absorption efficiency.

Therefore, this special energy-locking structure is only useful for magical plants.

Locke looked at the laboratory table and saw a pair of large snow-capped pineapples with distinctive spiral angles on their leaves.

This is a magical plant that I synthesized using the large snow-capped pineapple and the large black diamond pineapple that mimics ancient flowers.

However, you can actually achieve this by using grafting cultivation.

It simply reduces the cultivation time and improves the cultivation quality by using Rubik's Cube synthesis.

Locke took it out to the wilderness and put it on.

At the same time, he felt as if an ice track had appeared beneath his feet, and a pair of large snow-capped pineapples turned into ice skates. With a little effort, he glided forward on this ice track.

Locke seemed to be gliding around the horizon on roller skates.

"Sure enough, using this spiral shape will fully enhance my Great Snow-capped Pineapple Wizard Shoes. This will allow an ordinary wizard to glide through the sky using botanical magic that leans towards ice magic, just like Diana did when she participated in the Cloud Ze Cup."

"The speed is very close to the speed at which the Witch Diana glided through the sky."

Locke tested it.

It's worth noting that Diana the Witch was a witch in the first crystallization stage.

If a formal wizard can approach the speed at which she once glided through the air while wearing her wizard shoes, it demonstrates the superiority of the pure magical plant wizard shoes she created!
The purpose of wizard shoes is to enable wizards who are not good at moving to have the ability to move at high speed, adapt to certain special terrains, and have a certain degree of defensive ability.

Indeed, that's the basic requirement, and the primary requirement, for the centralized procurement bidding in the Demon Realm War!
Wizard shoes were created to increase the movement speed of wizards!

All other functions are secondary; what really matters is whether it can increase speed!

Locke achieved this using an ordinary large snow-capped pineapple, after it underwent dominance and special spiral hornification.

This is enough to prove that, in Locke's hands, the Pure Magic Plant Wizard Shoes became a real possibility.

This could potentially bring Locke enormous wealth.

Locke looked at the pair of large, snow-capped wizard shoes and said, "However, it does require a considerable amount of magic power. That's a drawback."

"But the advantage is that an ordinary first-ring wizard, as long as he wears it, can have the speed of Diana the Witch in the Cloud Cup."

Locke skated through the air, circling a small hill to test the durability of the wizard shoes. "I never thought I'd actually succeeded in finding a way to wear these wizard shoes."

The reason why pure plant-based wizard shoes were completely unsuccessful was not only due to the collective rejection and resistance from the magic weavers, but also because the quality and performance of pure plant-based wizard shoes were simply inferior to those made by magic weavers.

The wizard shoes made by magic weavers have been continuously developed by alchemists in terms of textile materials and structure, and optimized by enchanters. They also have a complete development history and industrial chain.

Therefore, the breeders' magical plants were completely outmatched by the magic weavers in the development of wizard shoes, magic clothes, magic gloves, and wizard hats, and thus they stopped developing in these four areas.

They then focused their efforts on developing combat-related magical plants and magical plants used as materials for potions.

But Locke, at this moment, has paved the way for the development of pure magic plant wizard shoes by using the Overlord Transformation and special spiral angles.

"I need a lot of money right now to break through to the second ring. But if I focus my efforts on combat-type magical plants, or areas that breeders commonly work in, I'll be entering a red ocean market."

"There are countless breeding geniuses in Yunze Wetland. The common magic plant market is a red ocean market, but wizard shoes are different."

Locke landed on the ground and put away the wizard shoes. "According to my previous market research, the wizard shoe market is now completely dominated by magic weavers. In order to make more money, magic weavers have added too many functions to a pair of wizard shoes through industry rules, pursuing comprehensive development."

"Wizard shoes are fireproof, coldproof, invisible, and corrosion-resistant, and they even need to be cleaned by themselves. They have many functions and are very expensive, averaging much higher prices than other types of magical artifacts crafted by alchemists, and also higher prices and more functions than wizard shoes from other wizarding lands. All of this is because the magic weavers control the entire wizard shoe industry ecosystem in Cloud Marsh Wetlands!"

"But other people, such as breeders, who want to enter this industry, will face the problem that the performance of wizard shoes is not as good as that of wizard shoes made by magic weavers. So outsiders cannot enter this market, and over time, the price of wizard shoes in Yunze Wetland has become more and more distorted."

"The major wizard shoe weaving workshops have hijacked wizarding colleges and even formed industry rules. Through standard design drawings, they have made all wizard weavers accustomed from the very beginning of their studies to adding redundant designs and functions to wizard shoes in order to increase the standard selling price."

"But the premise for all this is that the wizard's shoes made by the magic weaver... can be superior to those made by wizards from other schools of thought, but now that I've joined, the rules have changed."

"If I just launch a single-function, reasonably priced Augustus series of wizard shoes, I should be able to make a lot of money. I can also set up a breeder's workshop to specialize in this!"

"In this way, I can support the enormous costs required for my research and becoming a second-circle wizard to construct two extremely powerful spells."

Locke was constantly worried about money.

Constructing two extremely powerful spells would cost twice as much money; the Forest Sanctuary is still a money-guzzling giant!

Moreover, if you want to create a more powerful magic spell that is fundamentally better than others, you need to invest more money.

So, it all comes down to money, money, money – it all comes down to the word "money".

Locke decided to establish a wizard shoe brand, or even... a wizard shoe shop alliance, to use the money to support himself in becoming a second-circle wizard.

As for offending people?

That's out of the question.

From the very first day I arrived at Jinmian Mountain, I knew that unless I was nothing at all, just by doing well, I was already offending people.

Locke said, "Let's call this set of spiral equations the Pixiu angle fractal spiral constraint equations."

"By the way, I need to contact Scarlett the Witch. I wonder how much money those two witch shoes of mine made for me this time."

(End of this chapter)