Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 381

Chapter 379 One Month

Chapter 379
A month passed quickly. During this month, Locke lived in the White Elephant Tower. Every day he was either meditating or traveling between the four projects.

He was already familiar with the land of the six towers, at least the area around the White Elephant Tower.

The locations of those four projects could not be inside the White Elephant Tower, but in some small wizard towers outside the White Elephant Tower.

Locke hired a car fleet to go there, and within a month he kept traveling back and forth between the four cities in the Land of Six Towers, entering the wizard towers, observing the projects he liked, and helping these four projects apply for funds from the association branch.

At this time, in a small wizard tower in the center of a city called Vilas.

Wizard Locke and Collins, his assistant, and Claudia Mendes, a witch assistant assigned by the Filayd family, stood together in the core building area of the wizard tower, which is the core energy pool of the wizard tower.

In the azure pool of arcane energy, thirty plants of Wandering Shadow Eye Grass grew out of the pool, sprouted and grew rapidly, and under the irrigation of the pool water, rapidly transformed into adults.

The wizard tower can gather the magical energy from the surrounding earth veins and air to condense an arcane energy pool. In other words, the arcane energy pool is the most core component of the wizard tower and the most valuable place.

Ordinary magical plants can grow faster under the irrigation of energy from this arcane energy pool, and therefore have always been a very important research resource in the Six Towers.

It’s a pity that most wizard towers, even small ones, belong to family wizards. One must be from a lower-class family to be the master of a tower.

Wizard Collins has been an assistant professor at the Magic Gem University for more than fifty years, but he has never been in charge of a wizard tower independently and had access to such precious resources independently. Locke, on the other hand, applied for this resource in less than a day.

In the eyes of old wizard Collins, Locke is a man with powerful resources and connections in the land of the six towers.

Wizard Collins ordered his assistants to conduct some tests on the magical properties of the eyegrass. After the tests were completed, Wizard Collins excitedly said to Locke, “Master Locke, thank you for applying for the resources for me, as well as the right to use this wizard tower. This allows me to use the arcane energy pool of this wizard tower for research.”

“By the way, many of your opinions and ideas have played a vital role in helping me complete this project. Now that the characteristics of the eyegrass are basically complete, all we need to do next is make some minor modifications before we can publish the article.”

Wizard Collins saluted Locke and said, “Lord Locke, your contribution to this project is obvious to all. You have provided a lot of ideas, funds, and equipment, so I would like to list you as the first author.”

Locke waved his hand. “No, you don’t have to give me any of the five works.”

“Participating in your project is my greatest gain.”

Wizard Collins looked puzzled, but hadn’t the family wizard taken on their project just to be the first author or corresponding author?
Locke was being honest; he didn’t want to have a relatively mediocre project or article under his name, even if he was just the corresponding author helping someone else submit a paper.

Locke said to the old wizard Collins, “Give me twenty of the finished eyegrass you cultivated. I also need to use the arcane energy pool of this wizard tower. I have some new ideas about eyegrass and want to try them alone.”

The old wizard Collins bowed to Locke. “A new idea?”

“Try it?”

“Alright, Master Locke, please do as you please. Right now, I don’t need much equipment or resources. I’ll be staying in the academy office, working on the paper with my students.”

Old wizard Collins seemed to be scared by the wizards in his family. Now that Locke didn’t want anything, he seemed a little scared. Therefore, he was very eager to write the article immediately, publish it, and even apply for a patent.

Locke nodded casually. The old wizard Collins bowed to Locke and said, “Thank you again. If it weren’t for your funding, I would never have been able to complete this project. The magical plant called the Wandering Eye Grass would never have been born.”

“Unfortunately, I was recently expelled from Magic Gem University.”

Locke nodded slightly. The other party was expelled from the university, and it was no longer something he could do.

After all, the cooperation between the two parties is only about the Eye Grass Magic Plant project, and the wizard members on the Magic Gem University side are complicated. Who knows why the old wizard Collins was kicked out by the other side.

However, helping him complete this project would at least make his future life easier. The patent and sales revenue from eating this Eye Grass Magic Plant alone should be enough to support his normal life.

After all, he is old and doesn’t need to use any magical resources.

After Wizard Collins and his students left with the ten eyegrasses, Locke looked at Claudia Mendes, who had been standing behind him in silence, and asked, “Claudia, do you have anything to say? Just say whatever you want to say.”

Claudia is a first-ring blood elf wizard who studies magic from the protection school.

Of course, she is just an ordinary wizard from the protection school. After all, she is just a wizard from the Six Towers Land, and is definitely not as powerful as the barrier master from the High Sky Plain.

Claudia is a formal wizard guard arranged for Locke by Wizard Anthony. This is a high-paying standard that Wizard Anthony gives to his fellow disciples.

In this way, when other younger students come here in the future, they can also be arranged to have a formal wizard guard.

After all, Wizard Anthony could be said to be following the convention, because Locke had also enjoyed this treatment.

Claudia saluted Locke. She had automatically been assigned by Wizard Anthony to be Locke’s guard, and she considered herself Locke’s subordinate. “Master Augustine, we are a group of lowly civilian wizards. We are very lucky to have your favor.”

“They even dared not to dedicate their first work and newsletter to you. You are truly too lenient with them.”

“You are a core member of the Filayd family.”

“He is being too disrespectful to you.”

Locke shook his head slightly. “No, being the correspondent and first author of an article of that caliber would be a real hassle for me.”

Claudia was a little confused and had a puzzled expression, but she said nothing.

Locke put the remaining twenty eyegrasses in the arcane energy pool into his ring, and then asked Claudia to go outside the wizard tower to deal with other things.

After she left, Locke immediately put the three eye grasses into his synthetic cube and began to test the special synthetic formula of the eye grass.

“Twenty plants may not be enough. We need to use the seeds of the eye grass to plant some more. Fortunately, Wizard Collins and his team are very frugal with their fund expenses. They still have 50,000 magic stones left.”

“Only less than half was spent?” Locke shook his head slightly. “With these magic stones, plus this pool of arcane energy, it should be enough for me to produce some adult eyeweeds and synthesize them.”

“I have to say, the arcane energy pool technology is indeed very good and has many functions.” Locke looked at the azure pool in front of him, where the magic energy was almost condensed into liquid, and thought: “But in contrast, the wizard tower will continuously absorb magic power from the surrounding environment.”

“If it weren’t for the Six Towers’ unique location, any other wizarding land would quickly become depleted of resources if exploited this way. This is probably the biggest factor limiting the widespread distribution of wizard tower technology.” Locke frowned. “That’s not right.”

“When a wizard is inside the wizard tower, they can receive a backflow of energy, increasing their mana several times out of thin air. This powerful combat power boost can ensure that this wizard is undefeated among his peers.”

“And the Forest Sanctuary actually has the effect of infusing me with magical energy. The Wizard Tower and the Forest Sanctuary have similar effects. Wizard Levis said that the Forest Sanctuary is a kind of permanent defensive force field magic he developed in order to advance to the second-ring wizard level.” A thought flashed through Locke’s mind. “Could it be that there is some connection between the Wizard Tower and the second-ring wizards?”

“That’s not right.”

“Since wizard towers are no longer popular in the mainstream of the wizarding world, this shows that the connection between the Second Ring and wizard towers is not that great.”

(End of this chapter)