Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 419

Chapter 417 Tactical Magic Plant

Locke came back to his senses and said to Montgomery, “I don’t care about your past grudges with Eric, but my team really needs people like you. If you’re willing, you can join our team.”

Locke said, “It’s just that our team has limited funds, so I can only give you a living allowance of 5,000 magic stones per month. Do you have any objections?”

“If you have any questions, we can talk about it.”

Although the Plutarch family gave him one million magic stones as funding, Locke still had to save some money.

How to control financial expenditure, spend funds where they should be spent, and save funds where they should be saved, this is also something that a project leader needs to know.

Through practicing on several recent projects, Locke has become more and more adept at controlling costs.

Montgomery was stunned when he heard Locke say that he would receive a monthly living allowance of 5,000 magic stones. He then smiled wryly and said to Locke, “Master Augustine, to be honest, I only get 1,500 magic stones a month as an assistant professor at the White Dragon Magic University.”

“The Plutarchs need to ensure that I remain impoverished and that I sell my labor to earn additional funds for living and research.”

“So, if you can give me 5,000 magic stones every month, it’s already a lot. I’m very satisfied.”

Locke was almost speechless. Five thousand magic stones a month was a relatively low salary for hiring an ordinary first-ring wizard.

Who knew that the Plutarch family was even more stingy than he imagined.

Locke thought for a moment. “I remember that the White Wizard Association provides stipends for each university teaching position. I also remember that even for assistant teachers, the association provides a monthly stipend of 2,000 magic stones, and the school only needs to pay a small portion of the salary. It seems that they even deducted 500 from your basic stipend.”

Locke was speechless. “That’s like not paying you anything, but making money from you.”

No wonder the famous families in the Six Towers Land are so rich. After all, all their wealth was earned from the local wizards in the Six Towers Land.

After all, the absolute wealth of the Six Towers itself is not that much, so the only way to get wealth is to plunder it from these local wizards.

All wizarding organizations registered under the White Wizard Association allocate teaching positions according to the number of students.

Specific rules vary from place to place.

For example, in the Land of Six Towers, for every twenty first-class wizard apprentices, one teaching position can be added and subsidies from the White Wizard Association can be obtained.

The specific rules are very complicated, and since Locke has not officially joined any school, he doesn’t know much about them.

But no matter what, teaching positions are valuable because they are limited in number.

Behind this there are often specific resources corresponding to this wizarding land, as well as corresponding subsidies from the White Wizards Association.

It now appears that this part of the funds was intercepted by the Plutarch family.

Locke talked with Montgomery for a while and signed a basic contract drawn up by the contractor. Then Locke interviewed some wizards and selected three useful first-class wizard apprentices.

At present, his team has gathered a first-ring wizard Montgomery and four first-class wizard apprentices.

Next, by adding a few more first-ring wizards and first-class wizard apprentices, we can officially participate in the Yunze Cup.

Locke looked at the empty office and thought, “With Montgomery’s example, I think the civilian wizards in the Six Towers should know that I’m not joking or putting on an act. Next, there should be more civilian wizards coming for interviews. I will need more first-ring wizards and first-class wizard apprentices.”

Locke has looked at the participation records of the Yunze Cup in previous years, and the number of participating teams often reaches dozens of people.

After all, the Yunze Cup is seriously designing tactical-level weapons, and it involves a lot of information and fields.

Developing this kind of tactical-grade weapon magic plant requires an extremely large number of people.

This is a weapon designed for medium-scale warfare, not an ordinary single-soldier design.

Locke had read the requirements of the Yunze Cup. The goal of the competition was to design a multi-person cooperative magic plant that could be operated by 3-5 official wizards, rather than a single weapon.

If it is someone with ordinary individual weapons, one breeder is enough to handle it. At most, I will be a little tired, but it is still possible to complete it.

But for tactical-grade weapons, this is not necessarily the case.

It’s like the difference between designing a gun and designing a main battle tank.

If designing ordinary single-soldier magic plants is just the personal work of breeders, then designing this kind of tactical-level magic plant can be considered a true entry into the field of war weapons.

Because only tactical-level magic plants that require the joint operation of multiple first-ring wizards have the potential to form a decisive firepower network or some kind of steel torrent in war.

In the office, Locke flipped through the documents he had borrowed from the Six Towers and thought, “This is also my first time designing tactical weapons for a medium-sized war. The logic behind this is completely different from the individual weapon designs I used to design.”

“I can actually get some inspiration from the botanical magic I recently learned, [Branches of the Same Breed].”

“This is also a completely new field for me. It’s not easy to participate in a cross-wizarding-territory competition. By then, everyone who participates in the Yunze Cup will be the most powerful breeder genius in the local wizarding land.”

This competition, starting from the main competition, is a showdown between the genius breeders from various wizarding lands.

Locke looked at his gray mist slate, on which was a large amount of breeding-related information sent to him by Teacher Harun Vera, especially the relevant documents on tactical-level magic plants, which were huge in number.

Locke immediately replied: “Thank you, Mr. Harun, thank you for helping me find the information.”

Because the information in the Six Towers Land was too low-level, Locke could only ask his teacher in Lilith’s Hut to send him some information.

Harlan Vera replied to himself with a message, “Of course. I’d love for you to participate in the Yunze Cup. Our Southeast Region will also be participating in the Yunze Cup this time, and the preliminaries are currently underway. Our team of breeders at Lilith’s Cottage is competing fiercely with the breeder teams from Four Seasons Garden and Verdandia University for spots.”

“Fortunately, the Secret Fire Academy and the Northern Niflheim University have nothing to do with this event, so the competition isn’t more intense.”

“The Yunze Cup has been held many times, and its value increases with each time. After the last Yunze Cup, this competition has entered the sights of many wizards in the mainstream wizarding society in many wizarding lands, and has become a springboard for obtaining better teaching positions.”

“Dear Locke, you have to be careful. Even if you don’t take it seriously, you might not be able to get the ranking you want in this kind of competition.”

Harlan Vera sent a message: “Anyway, I will pay close attention to your ranking in this competition. You must set a good example for your fellow students.”

Locke looked at the message sent to him by Harun Vera with a mixture of laughter and tears.

Well, Teacher Harun started to subconsciously praise himself again, and used his own name and achievements to praise his current students.

“With the information the teacher sent me, I’ve solved my current data shortage problem. As expected of a Gold Member, you can actually send so much information at once.”

“All that’s left is to analyze the winning entries from previous years of the Yunze Cup and choose a topic. This step is very important. If I choose the wrong topic, I won’t even make it past the first round of the competition.” Locke pondered, “Let alone leading my team into the finals.”

The definition of tactical-level weapons is a weapon system used to directly support war operations and attack enemy tactical targets. Its core lies in changing the local battlefield through powerful firepower or rapid and precise attacks.

In the past, main battle tanks, anti-tank missiles, machine guns, and drones were all considered tactical weapons.

They needed to think carefully about which tactical-level magic plant to develop. This would determine whether they could make it through the first round of the competition.

(End of this chapter)