Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 816 Super Jaeger's Dream Flower

Carter Dunn's dormitory was a gallery filled with magical paintings. There were no flower patterns on the paintings, just streaks of paint that looked like rainbows.

Below these magical paintings are the artist's name, the painting's title, and a brief description.

Based on this introduction, Locke discovered that the various 'rainbows' on these magic paintings seemed to be an expression of some kind of artistic concept. It was probably that the higher-ups of the Rose Council approached those magic painters, hoping that they would use the colors of various rose-like flowers to create a combination, and then apply these pigments to the magic paintings to restore the beauty of these flowers turning into chaotic pigments.

In other words, these magic paintings are basically only decorative.

Locke's assessment of these magical paintings was simply this: 'Living in a dormitory filled with art is certainly a unique experience.'

At this moment, he and Carter entered Carter's makeshift laboratory. Although Carter thought the laboratory was too rudimentary, Locke thought it was sufficient.

He had already rented ten acres of magic fields at the Rose Council's market in advance. It wasn't expensive, as it was rented by the day, and he estimated that it would only cost him 30,000 to 40,000 magic stones in the end.

At this moment, in the makeshift laboratory attached to Carter's dormitory, he lifted the prototype of the dream flower, the Jaeger rose, out of a flowerpot in a corner.

That Jaeger rose was already half dead.

Perhaps feeling that this was indeed improper, Wizard Carter coughed awkwardly and explained to Locke, "Because maintenance costs money, I just found a flowerpot and planted it in it."

"I'm sorry, Lord Augustine, my room and laboratory are a bit messy."

Locke shook his head slightly.

"Give me your information."

Carter immediately squatted down and began rummaging through the messy documents in his cardboard box. He searched for five minutes, his forehead covered in sweat, and the more he searched, the more flustered he became, his eyes filled with guilt.

Because who would have thought that a second-ring archmage would take a liking to his research?

His documents were just scattered around.

When the time comes, he won't be able to find it anytime soon.

Locke sighed almost imperceptibly. To some extent, he could understand why the witch Olivia treated him this way.

"Just give me the part of the information you have."

Wizard Carter nodded immediately, stood up, and handed the document to Locke.

Locke flipped through the information, raised his eyebrows, and nodded. Although Wizard Carter didn't like organizing and classifying information, his thinking was still sound. No wonder he was able to become a Crystallization Wizard around the age of forty.

Although the top wizarding university in Yunze Wetlands does not have the same insane requirements for chair wizards as the Advanced True Knowledge Institute, they still generally require candidates to become crystallized wizards before the age of fifty, or even forty-five.

After all, there are far too many wizards who want to join these top wizarding universities in the Cloud Marsh Wetlands.

Locke glanced at it and saw that his main ideas were divided into two parts.

The first part involves improving the base stats of the Jaeger rose through hybridization, while also crossbreeding it with a rose called Black Death Rose and White Angel Rose.

A magical plant created by hybridizing three types of roses, capable of constructing powerful dreams.

The second part involves using the Queen's Chessboard and the enchanted spell model "Enchanted by Love" to construct a beautiful dreamscape, drawing the wizard's consciousness into it and allowing him to enjoy scenes from this world that cannot exist in the real world.

Locke looked at the second part and realized that the other party's basic skills were indeed very problematic; the breeding section in the first part was a complete mess.

Of course, this is largely due to his lack of real funding, which prevents him from conducting genuine research.

But the wizard Carter did an excellent job on the second part.

Without using the Queen's Chessboard, and without even having the money to buy the simplest enchanting equipment, he pieced together an enchanting knife and an enchanting workbench by scavenging discarded items from other people's labs, and managed to complete these parts quite well.

Locke looked at him in surprise.

"You're an enchanter?"

Wizard Carter said somewhat embarrassedly, "I have studied some and even passed the certification exam. The Rose Council's enchanting skills are quite good."

Locke nodded; that was the main reason he liked Carter.

His ideas about enchanting are indeed quite good.

The Dream Flower is not just a simple combat-grade magical plant, but a product of the integration of enchanting, breeding, and botany.

The breeding section is about cultivating this magical plant, the botany section is about designing a matching botanical spell model, and the enchanting section is about enchanting this magical plant with the "Enchanted" spell.

Carter has her own strengths in enchanting and spell modeling.

However, his talent in breeding is indeed only average.

His talent for breeding was a hindrance, and he was simply not capable of completing the project.

The reason why he was not valued in Olivia's research group is probably related to this, since what he is good at is exactly what Olivia doesn't value.

Locke said directly to Wizard Carter, "Then I'll leave the task of perfecting [Enjoying Life Without Thinking of Home] and the accompanying botanical spell model to you."

Locke said to Wizard Carter, "You need to hurry, because I will make the Dream Flower and complete the related breeding work within a week."

Wizard Carter paused for a moment.

"A week? Okay...okay."

Wizard Carter pondered for a moment and said to Locke, "Lord Augustine, if you would like, you could try learning some second-circle botany spells, such as 'Ephemeral Dream.' The idea for my Dream Flower comes from a simplified first-circle version of 'Ephemeral Dream,' a fleeting moment."

Locke pondered for a moment, "Alright, we'll each take what we need. Here's 700,000 magic stones, take it. With this money, you should be able to finish modifying the enchantment spell model for 'Enchanted'."

Wizard Carter's eyes widened when he saw the seven hundred thousand magic stones.

Locke actually gave him the money directly, without even needing to go through the finance department for reimbursement.

Wizard Carter said, "Lord Augustine, I will complete the mission as soon as possible."

……

Three days later, Locke was cultivating magical plants in a shop he rented in a magical field on Rose Street. At this time, the ten acres of land were filled with first-ring level roses or wild roses.

Locke, meanwhile, looked at the pink and white Jaeger rose in his hand. This Jaeger rose was based on Carter's research, but because it had gone too far, it was almost unrelated to the wizard Carter's original idea.

Locke rejected Carter's design in breeding and, based on the Jaeger rose, combined it with the Black Death rose and the Red Devil rose to complete the Dream Flower at the first-ring level.

The advantage of hybridization is that pollen from multiple types of magical plants can be used for hybridization simultaneously.

This involves combining ligands from a father (who provides pollen) and a mother (who receives pollen) with different genetic backgrounds.

In this way, multiple magical plant traits can be passed on to the next generation, and genetic diversity can be created.

In a sense, hybridization breeding is far superior to grafting breeding in terms of both genetic diversity and the stable inheritance of multiple plant traits to the next generation.

The reason Locke didn't like using hybridization breeding methods before was because most of the magical plants he cultivated had little to do with flowers.

Although hybridization can be used even without flowers, the difficulty and results are incomparable.

The greatest benefit of grafting is actually supporting the rapid and healthy growth of certain plants.

Of course, through spiritual fusion, the grafted magical plant will also possess some of the spiritual characteristics of the rootstock, thus unstablely inheriting certain magical plant traits.

However, grafting cultivation cannot, like hybridization cultivation, simultaneously crossbreed multiple pollen types to create complex genetic conditions.

Locke looked at the Dream Flower in his hand in the ten acres of magic field and sighed. He still had too little foundation.

This time, after entering the Rose Council, they spent three days using the Moon of Evolution to accelerate the growth of magical plants, combining the blooming and withering of flowers with the synthesis of magic cubes, and with this complex and ever-changing hybridization cultivation method, finally designing a dream flower that Carter had envisioned.

This experience only reinforced Locke's belief that he needed to go through more to accumulate more experience.

I still have too little experience in evolutionary biology and breeding.

For example, this time, I used pollen from three different rose/rose varieties to hybridize, which was a completely new experience.

It's even quite interesting.

It must be said that the hybridization of rose-like magical plants is indeed very interesting.

Locke read the description of the Dream Flower: "[Jaeger Dream Flower, Level 8 Crafted Item. Created by hybridizing the pollen of the Red Devil Rose and the Black Death Rose as the male parent, and the pistil of the Jaeger Rose as the female parent.]"

[It possesses the ability to independently construct dreams; one can enter a dream simply by smelling its fragrance.]

Locke frowned, used a wisp of lunar essence, and infused it into the Jaeger Dream Flower, preparing to forcibly upgrade it to a second-ring magical plant.

When he killed those pirates last time, he obtained three and a half potions. However, the corpse of the pirate from the Star Ring Wizard was special, so he had not yet refined it into a potion.

In other words, including the half-zero potion he obtained from the Twin Demon Realms, he now has a total of five zero potions.

One Zero Potion was used to support the six branches and twelve flowers of the Great Glazed Winter Green Plum, one Zero Potion was used to support my Second Ring Sea Gold Sand (one of the plants had broken off, and I replanted a Second Ring Sea Gold Sand), and another Zero Potion was used to support the Great Blood Wave Pineapple Wizard Shoes. Now there are two left.

Therefore, Locke used one portion to evolve the Jaeger Dream Flower.

An hour later, Locke plucked an imaginary root from a golden peach tree and grafted it onto the Dream Flower, turning the Jaeger Dream Flower into a second-ring wild magical plant.

But Locke wasn't finished yet.

This level of sophistication is far from sufficient to create an imaginary root server.

The breeding system he designed, which quickly produces articles and results, is far more than that.

As the moon of evolution descended, Locke chanted a spell, and the second-ring Jaeger Dream Flower began to wither.

Second Ring Botanical Spell Model: Flowers Bloom and Fade!

Three flower seeds fell, and a two-ring Jaeger's Dream Flower withered.

Locke frowned, looking at the surrounding magic fields. He had miscalculated; he hadn't considered the resources needed to cultivate three second-ring magic plants. These current magic fields couldn't support even one second-ring plant. He needed to switch to higher-level magic fields.

But that would cost at least 300,000 magic stones per acre of magic field.

"It's still more fun to mess with the equipment in the teacher's second lab."

Locke recalled that in the laboratory of Group 2, he directly accessed the magic array and magical resources.

He went to negotiate with the owner of the shop alliance and, after paying one million magic stones (one hundred thousand of which was a deposit), he borrowed three acres of magic fields of level two.

These three acres of magical fields are located underground in this shop, which is also underground on Rose Street.

Locke looked up at the sky and saw that the ceiling of the basement was the bottom of a surging pool of elements.

So that's how it is. An elemental fission well was placed above this basement to artificially create a magical tide concentration gradient environment that allows second-ring magical plants to grow. But if the elemental fission well above is attacked, the entire commercial street will probably be blown up.

No wonder that borrowing three acres of magic fields for only a short period of time cost so much.

These artificially created second-ring magical plants provide a suitable growing environment, and they are indeed very expensive to produce. If you don't create them for your own use but rent them from someone else, it will cost a lot of money.

Locke placed three seeds into the magic field, then manipulated the magic array to concentrate the magic tide. Because the magic tide was so dense, a magic tide storm even appeared in the basement.

Three storms crashed against the walls of the basement, which had been reinforced by a defensive magic array.

At this moment, Locke chanted a spell, using the second-circle spell [Enhanced Growth Acceleration] to accelerate the growth of these magical plants.

Four days later, three Jaeger Dream Flowers with two rings sprouted. Locke picked them and examined them in his hand. "Some degeneration has occurred. I don't know if it's due to limited conditions and rudimentary equipment, or if the offspring of hybridization can degenerate under certain circumstances."

"After all, I didn't backcross them, so I didn't stabilize their traits."

There's no other way; if we were to complete the return shipment, the costs, time, and manpower required would be even greater.

And there's no need for it.

Although some degradation has occurred, it is sufficient for synthesis.

Locke pondered, "Actually, the Jaeger Dream Flower, which was enhanced by the Moon of Evolution and leveled up out of thin air, is already usable."

"Therefore, I don't need to keep synthesizing and searching for recipes, but it's best to enhance it once more with the synthesis cube."

"In this way, we might get a better result."

After all, the core of his imaginary root virtual server was still the Netherworld Iron Tree, a mysterious magical plant of unknown level that he had discovered beneath the River Styx. Essentially, even if this plan succeeded, it would be because he had obtained the power of that mysterious magical plant.

Otherwise, simply sharing the imaginary root is unreliable.

The number of imaginary roots is directly proportional to the energy that can be provided to a magical plant. If the energy is insufficient, several second-ring magical plants may even collapse at the same time.

Therefore, the key is to have enough energy.

And what could possibly possess more or more powerful energy than that mysterious Underworld Iron Tree?

One day later, inside the underground laboratory.

Locke took out the Jaeger Dream Flower, which he had enhanced twice, from the Rubik's Cube.

[Super Jaeger's Dream Flower, a level 9 crafted item, is synthesized from three second-ring Jaeger's Dream Flowers. It possesses powerful energy and can construct a stable dream for an extended period, creating an independent dream space. It is said that during its growth, it unintentionally hybridized with pollen from the Crimson Demon Rose, thus generating its unique dream space.]

This independent dream space, located on a pillar of the Super Jaeger Dream Flower, is approximately the size of a thumbnail.

Although the material foundation for coping with the real world is extremely limited, the dream world possesses a sufficiently vast capacity. By making good use of this dream space, one might be able to accomplish extraordinary things.

Locke's eyes lit up slightly when he saw this dream space.

"We were lucky this time; a special synthesis formula appeared directly."

"By the way, the Crimson Demon Rose does indeed possess a separate spiritual space on the pistil within its flower. This is the Crimson Demon Rose's unique ability and its charm; the Crimson Demon will capture the souls that die under its fragrance and send them into that spiritual space."

"The teacher once planted a pot of Red Devil in the corridor of the castle at True Knowledge Academy to warn other wizards against entering the garden corridor near her office."

Locke's eyes lit up slightly.

This is what makes hybridization breeding so interesting, and it's also what makes the Magic Plant Flower so interesting—by using multiple parent plants (pollen), you can cultivate Magic Plants with different shapes.

The specific cultivation method for the Super Jaeger Plant in front of him was also told to him through the entry. In other words, he could try to cultivate it from beginning to end using the hybridization method.

However, Locke didn't have that thought at the moment.

He held the pale pink Jaeger Dream Flower in his hand. This Super Jaeger was entirely pink, but the surface of the flower had streaks of red blood vessels, like the bloodstains on a beautiful woman's fair face that had been scratched.

“It’s only level 9 now, so we can synthesize it again. But…” Locke frowned. Just this one plant has already cost him a million magic stones. Synthesizing it again would cost him even more money.

Forget it.

If we use the teacher's lab to do experiments, the cost can be reduced significantly.

Currently, this Super Jaeger is perfectly capable of fulfilling the tasks it envisioned.

If my idea could actually be realized.

Locke sent a message to Wizard Carter via the Water Hyacinth System: "Carter, are you done on your end? I need the enchanted spell model 'Enchanted by Happiness'."

……

Inside the Queen's Chessboard, Wizard Carter was working diligently. He wiped the sweat from his brow, fearing that his spirituality might mix with the spirituality of the room, which would cause very serious damage to his soul.

Wizard Carter noticed Locke calling him and opened the Ganoderma lucidum plant.

"Lord Locke is so fast? As expected of a second-ring Grand Wizard, he has cultivated the Dream Flower so quickly."

He texted Locke: 'Lord Locke, give me three more days, and I can finish.'

……

In the underground magic field, Locke turned off the [Sun Lamp] and raised an eyebrow.

"Hmm? It only takes three days to complete? He's quite fast. It seems he does have a good talent for enchanting."

"My shop alliance needs this kind of talent."

Studying three subjects on my own was already very difficult, and enchanting was something I had never known before.

There were two decent wizards among those who came to the Rose Council this time. Perhaps I can recruit them into my Augustus Wizard Shoes Shop Alliance in the future.

Of course, this is on the premise that one's own shop alliance can survive Solas's ruthless attack.

In the basement.

Locke knew it would take some time before he could see Carter, so he decided to try putting the Dream Flower into the River Styx first.

After all, the dream flower is already complete; the enchanted magic model is merely adding a rule to the dream space within it.

Even without that enchantment spell, he could still use the "Ephemeral Dream" technique he learned in the Golden Crown Mountain Library to create some simple dream worlds.

Locke chanted a spell to summon the River Styx. He had previously obtained a large amount of the legacy left behind by the Ghost Lich in the southeast corner of the territory. With the insightful perspective of a second-ring wizard, although many functions were unusable, he could still use some of them to summon the River Styx.

"We need offerings."

Locke exuded a strong killing intent. "To open the gates to the underworld, one needs to sacrifice the death energy that clings to their body, so one needs to kill offerings to accumulate death energy. Black wizards often have to slaughter many apprentices in order to open the gates to the underworld."

"However, I can skip this step. I still have a lot of death energy accumulated from killing second-ring and first-ring wizards. I'm worried that this will make me seem too fierce and menacing, which could easily lead to misunderstandings and a bad first impression. In the future, I can use the method of opening the gates of the underworld to consume the death energy on my body."

At this moment, a gate to the underworld opened, the 'gate' appearing and disappearing, as if it were a crack between the two worlds.

If they are wizards of the Ghostly Cult, they need to prepare a lot of rituals to protect themselves before they can enter the underworld, and there is a high degree of danger involved.

But at this moment, Locke is a second-ring wizard.

With one step, he stepped directly from the wizarding world into the underworld, onto the River Styx.

"It should be around here."

Locke, through his magical connection with the Time-Shadow Fern, moved the opened gate to the River Styx where he had been before. He saw many underworld creatures wandering on the River Styx.

"Hmm? Why are there quite a few creatures from the underworld cleaning the river?"

"Hmm, it definitely has nothing to do with me. Let's throw this demonic plant into the River Styx first."

Locke threw the Dream Flower directly into the river. The Dream Flower, which had been so docile in Locke's hand as if it were an ordinary object, suddenly expanded and exploded with magical pressure the moment it was thrown, falling towards the River Styx like a mountain.

Suddenly, the River Styx surged with wind and clouds, its waves rising and falling incessantly.

The demons of the underworld on the River Styx were swaying and staggering on the underworld warships.

These demons seemed unable to see Locke. They looked like red-skinned monsters with burning soul fire in their pupils. They seemed to be able to see dead creatures clearly, but not living things.

They were terrified on the boat. "What happened?"

"Ah, what's that above us? Quickly, move the warship further away!"

"It needs to be suppressed!"

"quick……"

"Who on earth is throwing things into our River Styx again?!"

(End of this chapter)