Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 418

Chapter 416 Interview and Team Building

A month later, in Locke’s office.

Locke borrowed the name of the Plutarch family to recruit breeders who wanted to participate in the Yunze Cup throughout the Six Towers and held interviews.

The interview was divided into two parts. The first one was conducted by old wizard Collins and Claudia together, and the second one was conducted by Locke himself.

Because some unqualified wizards can be eliminated during the early auditions, the quality of the wizards interviewed in Locke’s office is quite high, including family wizards and civilian wizards.

Locke asked a family wizard to leave his office and ordered the next wizard to come in. “Next one, please come in.”

“The number of civilian wizards submitting resumes is still small.” Locke pondered: “I guess there are still many civilian wizards who are waiting and watching, or think that this is just another show, so the number of applicants is not large.”

“In the land of the Six Towers, the only people who can be used are the civilian wizards. The remaining family wizards are those of the more marginalized small tribes. Otherwise, even if others have the ability, I can’t command them.”

“I need to set an example and encourage outstanding civilian breeders from the Six Towers to come for interviews. Only then will I have a chance to win the Yunze Cup. Otherwise, if I rely solely on myself, I will be seriously short of manpower for such a large competition.”

Locke glanced at Alicia and ordered someone to send over the list and information of major projects in the Six Towers, from which he looked for useful semi-finished magic plant projects.

At the same time, a young ordinary first-ring wizard walked into his room. Locke looked up at him and said, “Have we met before? Oh, yes, we have met in the library.”

Locke remembered that the other party was the ordinary wizard who only had level 4 authority and could only sit lonely in the corner of the library and had difficulty in looking up information.

However, for ordinary students in the Six Towers, he is still a superior figure and a big boss.

Everything has its contrast.

This is also the reason why some civilian first-ring wizards are willing to stay in the Six Towers to live a stable life and retire.

Montgomery Paul saw Locke and remembered him, and his eyes flashed with joy. “Lord Augustine, I never thought you would remember me after just one encounter in the library. I am Montgomery Paul, a First Ring Botany Wizard and a Senior Breeder.”

For Paul, it was a rare opportunity that a liquefied wizard in the Land of Six Towers could remember his name, and it was something worth being happy about.

After all, he had long been outside the mainstream wizarding community of the White Dragon Magic Gem University. Knowing that he was just a commoner, he had long since given up on his own initiative and had no interest in improving his teaching position here.

He didn’t even have any first-class wizard apprentices, let alone second-class wizard apprentices. He only taught some public courses in the White Dragon Tower and was truly an insignificant marginal figure.

Locke nodded. “Well, I have a good memory. I saw you before, so I remembered you.”

Locke knew that remembering someone would undoubtedly make people happy.

“I had been saving up for a few years to buy a ticket to another wizarding land,” Montgomery said. “My goal was to go to the Spiral Basin.”

“Many civilian wizards who became First Ring Wizards in our Six Towers Land went there, and there are some organizations similar to the Mutual Aid Society there. I originally wanted to quit my teaching position here and try my luck there, even if I couldn’t get any teaching position for the time being.”

“However, Master Augustine, you suddenly want to form a breeder team to participate in the Yunze Cup…so I also want to give it a try.”

“I felt like this might be my chance.”

There was a glimmer of hope in Montgomery’s eyes.

Locke looked at the resume Montgomery had provided, slightly surprised. “You haven’t published any A-level articles, nor have you done any major breeding-related projects?”

Montgomery hesitated, then handed over a new resume. “No, that’s not the case. In fact, I was a ghostwriter for Eric Plutarch. I was born into a poor family in the Land of the Six Towers. My background is insignificant. Do you know how I got there?”

Locke glanced at him.

Montgomery went on, “Eric Plutarch discovered my talent in the mortal world of the Six Towers, provided me with food and clothing, allowed me to receive wizard education, and became my friend. Up to this point, I was very grateful to him and wanted to repay him. But then I suddenly realized that in the Six Towers, we common wizards would never be qualified to be friends with their family wizards.”

Montgomery grimaced. “In fact, I wrote all the articles on breeding in Eric Plutarch!”

Locke raised his brows, because Eric had at least two association S-level breeding articles, and he also had a lot of association S-level articles in other fields, especially in the field of hemology.

Locke had long suspected that this could not have been done by that guy himself.

Unexpectedly, when I was recruiting people to participate in the Yunze Cup, I would meet one of the article writers for Eric.

Montgomery complained bitterly to Locke: “Eric became my friend with bad intentions from the beginning. He was like cultivating a fruit tree, waiting for the fruit to mature so that he could pick the fruit.”

“I’ve been writing for him since I was a first-class wizard apprentice. Even after finally becoming a first-ring wizard, I’m still writing for him,” Montgomery said excitedly. “He even forbade me to leave the Six Towers. He wants to continue exploiting me until he’s squeezed everything out of me, until there’s nothing left to be squeezed out. Only then will he let me go.”

Locke asked curiously, “What about you?”

Montgomery realized he had let something slip and took a deep breath. Then, thinking of something, he took the initiative to tell Locke frankly, “I haven’t bought a ticket yet. Well, actually, I’m planning to sneak across to the Spiral Basin. The Spiral Basin is connected to the Six Towers by land, and it is the easiest to cross of all the natural barriers. Many of my predecessors are in the same situation as me. We have managed to carve out a relatively safe route among the natural barriers, although it is still very dangerous.”

“But through that path, there might be a way for us to escape the physical coercion of the wizard family in the Land of Six Towers.”

Locke suddenly asked, “So, the so-called mutual aid association in the Spiral Basin was probably founded by a dark wizard, right? Were you originally planning to become a dark wizard?”

Montgomery was stunned for a moment, then said to Locke: “Master Augustine, you are very perceptive.”

“Yes, only the Dark Wizard Alliance of the Spiral Basin dared to accept us and give us protection. The White Wizard Association of the Spiral Basin and the White Wizard Association of the Six Towers are likely to collude with each other and make some deals for some economic benefits, and then sell out all of us First Ring wizards who sneaked over.”

Montgomery said to Locke, “Lord Augustine, I can see that you really want to win the Yunze Cup. It would be very beneficial for a genius like you. Even though you are in the Six Towers, a guest of the Plutarch family, and the most valued right-hand man of the Alicia family, the Six Towers is still not a place for you to stay for long.”

“If you choose me, I am willing to help you. Besides, you are not afraid of Eric at all.”

“I’ve witnessed it twice. Whenever Eric mentioned your name, fear flashed in his eyes. You are Eric’s nemesis. No matter how tyrannical Eric is, he can’t do anything to you.”

Locke quickly recalled the contents of Eric’s two S-level breeding articles. He remembered that one was about the one-ring magic plant [Desert Fox Grass] and the other was about the one-ring magic plant [Climbing Wisteria].

Both of these are two new types of auxiliary magic plants, and the quality cannot be said to be low. Although the characteristics of the two magic plants are average in his eyes, considering that Montgomery’s research conditions are very limited, it can be seen that he must be very talented.

There just isn’t enough resources.

Eric was just exhausting his resources by treating him like an ordinary ghostwriter.

Locke didn’t hesitate much. He definitely needed this kind of talent. It was really his luck that his team could get this kind of talent.

With Montgomery, my chances of getting a ranking in the Yunze Cup will be greatly improved.

Locke asked Montgomery a few questions and found that this guy’s talent in breeding was even slightly higher than his actual level.

He was able to quickly answer some of his own questions about breeding.

There were some questions that he had never heard before and he did not understand this part of knowledge, but he reacted quickly and could draw inferences from one example to another. His conclusions were often almost the same as the information in Locke’s hands.

Locke thought to himself: “Talent. But if not, in the land of the Six Towers, these civilian wizards do not have talents beyond ordinary wizards, how could they become first-ring wizards.”

“Essentially, they’ve been chosen by the tide of change. Every commoner wizard who appears before me must have been a genius in his youth. If I hadn’t appeared in the Six Towers, Montgomery would have found a way to sneak across the river and escape Eric’s pursuit. If he succeeded, he would have won a new life in the Spiral Basin and become a Dark Wizard.”

‘If he fails, he will die in the natural danger between the two wizarding lands, unknown to everyone.’

Locke suddenly realized something. The black wizard who was competing with the great wizard Sura for plane resources in the wizard plane seemed to be from the Spiral Basin, according to what the great wizard Sura said.

Could it be that the other party was once the ghostwriter for the great wizard Sura?

(End of this chapter)