Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 830 I don't need you to pay, I'm still hunting them down!

The next day, in the Golden Dynasty, amidst the ancient buildings of the Merry Ruins, Alaric stood rather awkwardly before Russell's throne.

Russell took out a letter and frowned.

"So, this is the question you wanted to ask me?"

Alaric braced himself and said, "This second-circle wizard from Golden Crown Mountain in Yunze Wetland greatly admires your teachings, so he asked me to consult you. Teacher, he truly appreciates your teachings."

"Perhaps this question seems a bit simplistic to you. But you might be able to give him a chance."

Russell glanced at Alaric from the throne.

"No, that's a very good question."

“Alaric. Indeed, I appreciate the person who asked this question, and I admire wizards with broad social skills even more.”

The Russell Throne himself wore a golden armor that looked like a tropical beach shirt, and he also wore a cowboy hat, only it was covered with gold ornaments.

To everyone's surprise, Wizard Alaric saw admiration for him in the eyes of the usually serious King Russell.

Wizard Alaric was extremely surprised.

'The teacher actually appreciated my action? Why? Does it mean the teacher prefers extroverted, sociable wizards?'

'How come I never noticed this before? I can't believe I didn't realize it.'

Wizard Russell said, “I believe that good ideas are always developed through communication with geniuses. You did a very good job with Alaric.”

"Besides, I've been following this second-ring wizard's matches. He has the blood of a golden dragon. Back then, I had the idea of ​​taking him on as a student. But after seeing him go to the Red Dragon Throne, I gave up on that idea. As for the other thrones, forget about them; I can't afford to mess with the Red Dragon Throne."

Russell the wizard glanced at the questions Locke had raised in his letter.

"His ideas are excellent; I never expected him to have researched the foxtail grass family to this extent."

"Hmm? This line of thinking seems to contain the ideas of others."

As a throne wizard, Russell immediately recognized that Locke's research was based on the ideas of a very excellent wizard and continued in the research.

"That wizard's magic level shouldn't be high, because her knowledge isn't extensive, she doesn't stand far enough, and her perspective is narrow. But her thinking is too ingenious. She has the insightful thinking to break through from 0 to 1. I haven't seen such talent in the boundary between light and darkness for a long time."

“I can see two geniuses in this letter. They each have their own strengths, no wonder they have been able to advance the research on the foxtail grass family of magical plants to this extent.”

"In the letters, he even vaguely figured out the key to the continuous degeneration of the Foxtail Grass family. It was indeed a special kind of necromancy. Truly, the younger generation surpasses the older.

A glint of interest flashed in Russell's eyes.

"I spent a long time researching the foxtail grass family of magical plants to figure this out, and this junior has already figured it out. I wonder how he found out."

Russell the wizard suddenly sighed.

Wizard Alaric asked him somewhat anxiously, "Teacher, why are you sighing?"

Wizard Russell seemed somewhat disheartened.

“Our border between light and darkness has long been in decline. Talented people from the eastern border used to flock to our border between light and darkness. Back then, our border between light and darkness was full of talented people and had no shortage of geniuses. Later, we declined, and both students and formal wizards went elsewhere.”

"Thus, the once glorious border between darkness and light now only lives on clinging to its past glory. For so many years, I have never encountered two such geniuses in the border between darkness and light. But now, in this letter, I have seen them."

Are they all from Yunze Wetland?

Wizard Alaric was somewhat embarrassed.

"Teacher, I don't know."

The wizard Russell said to him, “Then you should try to find out this. Ask who the second wizard behind the ideas in this letter is. If she is not a student of the Red Dragon Throne, then I have a way to win her over.”

Wizard Alaric immediately replied, "Yes, teacher."

Russell looked at the letter in his hand, thought for a moment, and then took out a specimen of golden foxtail grass from his golden astral ring. He then placed the golden foxtail grass specimen, along with Locke's letter, into an envelope and stamped it with a magic seal.

Throne Russell gave the letter to Wizard Alaric, saying, "Send this letter back to your friend. If he sends any other letters later, he can bring them to me immediately. You don't need to bother your senior brother again."

"Also, those two witches you gave to your senior brother, I've ordered him to return them to you. I have high hopes for him, and the witches will only interfere with his research. Don't let me ruin things."

"I advise you to get rid of those witches around you."

Alaric shuddered, his heart bleeding.

He never imagined that by simply sending a letter to Locke and asking a question, he would end up losing even his most beloved witches.

Although Russell's throne was only giving him advice, would he dare disobey it?
Alaric's heart was bleeding.

At the same time, he looked at the letter with suspicion, because the Russell Throne had not written any reply at all, but had only sent back a specimen of foxtail grass.

The Russell Throne glanced at him and said, “Don’t worry. Locke Augustine is different from you; he’s a true breeding genius. The moment he sees this specimen, he’ll understand what I’m saying.”

The Russell Throne had absolute confidence in Locke, after all, this wizard was really amazing to have figured out the key to the degeneration of the Foxtail Grass family at the ordinary second ring stage.

Wizard Alaric replied, "Yes, teacher."

……

At Golden Crown Mountain, Locke contacted the old pirate Henry through the Water Hyacinth System, and almost instantly, the old pirate Henry replied.

"Yes, I am here. I have been waiting for Mr. Augustine for a long time."

"Bottle after bottle of wizard's wine has been emptied, but Mr. Augustine still hasn't contacted me. I thought you weren't going to contact me again. Hahaha..."

Locke asked, "Haven't you been robbing anyone lately? No work to do?"

The old pirate Henry replied, "Since our last failure, we haven't received a single application to plunder. They must doubt our capabilities. Mr. Augustine, I desperately need an opportunity to prove my worth."

I've been waiting for your contact for a long time.

Locke was speechless.

The pirate wizards copied the fund system, which resulted in the pirates also becoming very entangled.

Ultimately, the most pitiful among the five great wars were the pirate wizards, these humanoid magical artifacts were practically self-sufficient.

Moreover, it has to be rolled up.

There's a possibility that you might not be able to support yourself!
That great pirate captain, a former truth wizard, truly lived up to his reputation as a graduate of the White Wizarding University.

His methods were so extreme that even "skinning and dismembering" wouldn't be enough to describe them.

The old pirate Henry sent him a message. 'By the way, Mr. Augustine. We've tried applying for quite a few projects lately, but none have been approved. Only one project has caught my attention. It involves plundering a specific shipment from the high elf world of Arthas.'

'Although I can't see the specific content, I can see the name of the publisher: Solas Lightfoot.'

Locke narrowed his eyes instantly.

Careless.

Because his production line was essentially entrusted to Arthas, and Arthas, as the actual beneficiary behind it, was a large number of fourth-circle wizards, he had always assumed that Arthas's transport line was very safe.

But he never expected that Solas the Lightfoot would issue a plundering order to the pirates on the mother ship.

At this point, he had invested a large amount of his funds in that batch of goods, and if anything went wrong with those goods, he would go bankrupt.

Locke knew the old pirate was reminding him; otherwise, there would have been no need for him to bring it up suddenly.

Has anyone answered?

Henry sent me a message.

'No one has yet been able to devise a plan or write a good strategy for raiding Arthas's transport stations. Therefore, no one has been granted permission to do so. However, even if someone were to be granted permission, the chances of a successful raid are slim.'

'The transport depots in Alsace are among the hardest to raid.'

I don't think there's a high chance anyone will answer.

Locke nodded immediately.

However, he immediately realized a problem, because the difficulty Old Henry was referring to was the difficulty of plundering the entire transport station, not the difficulty of plundering a specific batch of his goods.

Moreover, Yunze Wetland has been the site of five major wars.

Solas can hire pirates with his bare feet, but can't he hire other people?
Realizing this, Locke immediately made up his mind that when Arthas was about to bring the shipment back from the High Elf world, he could send his clone on the transport station's flight to personally protect the goods.

'While Arthas's security should be quite good, logically speaking, attacking my shipment is indeed a way to deal with my Augustus Wizard Shoes Shop alliance. It can nip my alliance in the bud.'

Locke said to the old pirate Henry, "Thanks to your reminder this time. I'll be heading to my target plane soon; you can enter the Cloud Marsh Wetlands soon."

"I'll arrange for someone to give you an identity so you can move around the vicinity of Golden Crown Mountain. Don't do anything out of line. Golden Crown Mountain has very strong surveillance capabilities; whatever you do will be known."

Every blade of grass and every tree on Mount Jinmian is an eyepiece.

This is something I only recently discovered, since there are a lot of treants, goblins, and elves on Mount Jinmian.

Henry the old pirate seemed extremely excited about this and sent over a picture of a ship and a pirate hat.

Locke also sent a message to Hussein, informing him that he was about to embark on a void exploration mission.

Meanwhile, Locke saw through the free library on the Water Hyacinth system that the two shops, Solas's Lightfoot and Melochy's Magic Step, had recently become even more fiercely opposed.

Because of the large-scale return of pirates by Solas Footwear, and the opportunistic attack by Melochy Magic Steps on Solas Footwear's stock price, Solas Footwear has recently started focusing on some of Melochy Magic Steps' problematic models.

Surprisingly, Solas Barefoot seemed to know Melochy very well, discovering that many of Melochy's wizard shoe styles had serious design flaws and proving that these flaws were related to the deaths of some wizards.

This has embroiled Melochy's Magic Steps in some legal disputes.

This also led to the recent announcement by Melochy Magic Steps that they will hold a Void Exploration themed event within six months and invite a famous Void Explorer to endorse Wizard Shoes.

Locke thought, "As a result, both Melochy and Solas Footwear will be holding themed events in the next six months, inviting famous explorers to endorse their products. Of course, it seems that the two companies are also competing against each other."

"It seems the two families have too much grudge from the past. It shouldn't have anything to do with me."

"not my business."

Locke thought that he had recently come up with a design idea for his second pair of second-ring wizard shoes.

They're just waiting for the first batch of second-ring wizard shoes to sell, which will recoup some of their losses, before they can start designing the second batch of second-ring wizard shoes and exploring the Void.

“Developing the Three Holes World will require a lot of money. I will either borrow from a bank or obtain this large sum of money through the Wizard Shoe Shop Alliance.”

Locke pondered, "Furthermore, I also need sufficient funds to complete the research on flying magical plants in the Golden Cup, as well as to accumulate preliminary experimental data to apply for special grants."

At this moment, Locke stood on the Golden Crown Mountain, waiting for Hussein's reply.

Hussein sent three messages to Locke through the water hyacinth system.

"Yes, I'm in the Jinmianshan District."

"Locke, I'm being hunted by the Pale Pilgrims. Three second-circle wizards are trying to kill me; their magic pressure is around 15,000 each."

'I need some time to get rid of them.'

Locke frowned and sent a message to Hussein.

'coordinate?'

Hussein sent over a surprised emoji.

"I've run out of money lately. I don't have the funds to hire such an expensive senior researcher as you to help me."

Locke said, "How could a wealthy lawyer like you be broke?"

Hussein sent a message.

'The original version of the Vampire Conversion Curse - Perpetual Defensive Field Shell is extremely expensive. It requires the blood of various high-level magical creatures to upgrade its level and increase its strength; otherwise, it's just a regular permanent defensive field shell. Moreover, I'm still being relentlessly hunted. For some reason, the Pale Pirates are convinced I'm a traitor, and their attitude towards traitors is that they must die.'

Locke sent him a message.

Send me the coordinates. You don't need to pay.

'I've been hunting them myself lately.'

The enemy is in the open, while you are in the dark; you know the enemy's basic information. This is the best hunting environment.

Locke curled his lips into a smile, and for a fleeting moment, his pupils turned into golden vertical pupils.

The more Zero Potions one needs for one's own Evolution Moon, the better.

Right now, Hussein is actually followed by three necromancers with a magic pressure of 15,000, which is really great.

These are practically perfect potion ingredients delivered right to my doorstep!

(End of this chapter)