Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 430

Chapter 428 Both comrades and friends!

Alicia said to Locke, “I saw you win the Moss Shield Medal Tournament and the Thousand-Eyed Vine Tournament. Your two eyegrasses shone brightly in the Southeast Corner, earning you well-deserved championships in both competitions. The wizards from the Firaide family have been bringing this up lately.”

Only the Shadow Eye Grass is a project under the Filayd family, so the Filayd family and the old wizard Collins both have the cultivation methods of the eye grass, but the problem is that Locke’s Shadow Eye Grass and Golden Eye Grass were researched by himself, so they have nothing to do with the Filayd family.

But who knew that Locke was the junior brother of Wizard Anthony, the acting head of the Filaide family, and a breeder he specially invited to support him.

At the same time, both Eye Grass projects were derived from the Youying Eye Grass, so Wizard Anthony often had a smile on his face during this period. Locke’s success also enhanced his prestige.

Not only that, Locke’s current success in the Plutarch family has indirectly boosted the power of the wizard Anthony in the Philaeid family.

Therefore, much of the information Locke needed to participate in the Yunze Cup was provided by Wizard Anthony on the gray fog slate.

Locke said on the streets of Bailong Street: “It’s just two small competitions, so it’s easy to win. Both kinds of eye grass are considered good among the first-ring magic plants.”

“Winning is within my expectations.”

Alicia is not wearing a white wizard robe at the moment, but a bright red one. She seems to like red very much, but she is no longer dressed as childishly as before.

The current style is very mature.

It also fits her current social status.

Alicia smiled and said, “Only you can say such things. You won two small competitions, and some members of the Plutarch family realized that you are really working on the project. Currently, those rumors have decreased a lot.”

“Although there are still many people with ill intentions who talk about us, rumors stop at the wise, Locke. Soon those people will find out that they are wrong. You are not making money, but working hard on the project.”

Alicia explained to Locke, “It’s just that there are very few family wizards in your research group. Are you sure you don’t need some outstanding family wizards? I have quite a few relatives who have told me that they can help you.”

Locke nodded. “I’m definitely short of people, but I need them to provide resumes and take competency tests. I’m short of capable people.”

Alicia smiled and said, “Okay, I’ll have someone send you the information in a few days. It includes information about my cousin, Julian’s son. Julian and Eric have always been very close, and I don’t understand why he’s been trying to get his son into your research group through me.”

“Anyway, it’s up to you to decide, Locke.” Alicia sighed and said, “I’ve been reflecting a lot lately, especially after seeing the social structure of the Mage Plane. Perhaps my grandfather has always wanted to change the current situation in the Six Towers. But after becoming acting head of the family, I can feel how difficult it is to achieve that desire.”

“The Plutarch family is the leader of the family wizards. If we want to reform, we must first reform ourselves.”

Locke listened silently without interrupting.

Witch Sophia reminded herself that she should just do the project honestly here. If she got too involved, she would probably be involved in the complicated feuds of the Plutarch family.

Besides, as a fledgling first-ring wizard, I don’t have the experience to guide all the wizards in the Six Towers on how to live.

That’s not what I should do now.

Alicia confided to Locke, “I think that if your team, which is composed entirely of civilian wizards, can win a place in the Yunze Cup, it will be a huge change for me and for the Land of Six Towers.”

“This will destroy the illusions that the family wizards of the Six Towers have deceived themselves into believing. It will make them face the fact that the local civilian wizards of the Six Towers are also capable of such excellence.”

Alicia said, “Although institutional change is either drastic or gradual, it can’t be accomplished overnight. But after experiencing the airship incident, I feel like my entire thinking has changed.”

“Witches of the Necromancy school often say that death inevitably takes away some of the deceased’s souls. Even if they are resurrected through Necromancy magic, the resurrected person will never be the same person they were before. They will suffer from memory loss, illogicality, and nonsense, or even lose their humanity and transform into a beast.”

“But I imagine that a wizard approaching death will also undergo a profound transformation.” Alicia frowned as she looked at White Dragon Street. “After that incident, I’ve changed a lot.”

“I want to make the Six Towers a better place, worthy of the resources I have obtained here.”

“I want to make things better for the Plutarch family.”

Alicia frowned seriously, and at this moment her magic pressure had a special fluctuation. Locke captured this keenly and found that this change appeared for a moment and then quickly disappeared.

Because it was so slight and so short-lived, if Locke had not been taking eye-demon potions for a long time, which enhanced his mental sensitivity, and was extremely familiar with Alicia’s magic fluctuations, he would not have been able to discover it at all.

“Alicia’s magical pressure fluctuations have undergone a special change. She seems to have changed a lot.” Locke thought: “She must have undergone some unknown change just now.”

Alicia looked at Locke and said, “After this period of time, I have come to a realization, and this conclusion is extremely cruel – becoming excellent is killing the family itself.”

“Now I understand my grandfather’s thinking. As long as the Six Towers become excellent, the family and the local system will be forced to change. As long as I can connect the evaluation system of the Six Towers with the wizarding lands outside, those who deceive themselves will have to face reality.”

Alicia said to Locke, “Locke, you are the first step for me to try to do this. I hope you can get a good ranking in the Yunze Cup.”

“You and I are both comrades-in-arms and friends.”

Locke hesitated for a moment, then thought of the fact that they were friends. He whispered, “Alicia, you have a good idea. But you will offend too many wizards.”

“I suggest you take everything slow. Don’t rush it.”

Alicia said, “Of course.”

“Grandfather told me the same thing. He also strongly supports my idea.”

Alicia looked at Locke, her face slightly flushed. “It’s so reassuring to have a reliable comrade like you by my side. Let’s get back to the point. How’s your research group going, Locke?”

Thinking of the research team, Locke felt a little worried. “The initial personnel have been selected, and we are currently selecting the research topic. However, the conflict between Barbara and Tacitus in my research team is getting deeper and deeper. Their personalities are seriously incompatible.”

“That’s my first concern.”

“My second concern is the group meetings this month. Each of the three of them has good individual abilities, but when they meet together, they always argue and question each other, thus diverting the discussion elsewhere.”

“The project proposals they submitted within this month weren’t as good as I expected. They were of limited help to me and were generally average.”

Locke said, “This is my first time leading such a large research group. I’m worried that there’s something wrong with my management style that’s causing me to be unable to harness the talents of these people.”

Alicia shook her head and looked at Locke with trust. “No, Locke is the most reliable wizard. How could there be any problem?”

“Perhaps their conflict is just a minor incident within the research group. If we let it take its course, we might be able to reap good rewards.”

“Give them some time, they might make you something good.”

Locke and Alicia looked at each other and smiled. One of them was the acting head of the family, and the other was a junior tutor without a teaching position.

To a certain extent, the two of them really share the same suffering and are truly comrades-in-arms.

Two trainee comrades.

The two walked for a while on Bailong Street, and Alicia asked Locke to go to another store on Bailong Street that she thought was very valuable.

Alicia said to Locke, “I heard that the Yunze Cup’s actual combat test was conducted using those Mechanians, right? Although we don’t have an artificial race as advanced as the Mechanians on Bailong Street, we do have a shop called Joseph’s Puppet Shop on Bailong Street.”

“There are many puppets in there, which are specially used to help wizards cast spells or test the performance of magical plants, magical tools, and other items.”

“Perhaps, going to that store can help you.”

“That shop is run by an alchemist. Its headquarters is in Yunze Wetlands, and this is their branch. They have a variety of golems to choose from, including flesh golems, steel golems, diamond golems, clay golems, ice golems, rock golems, and so on…”

“Especially the Iron Golem. The Mekanian people’s manufacturing technology was partly based on the Iron Golem. I think going to that shop and practicing with it will definitely be beneficial for your participation in the competition.”

Facing Locke’s surprised look, Alicia blushed slightly and explained, “I’ve also looked up some information related to the Yunze Cup recently. So I know what the Mekanians are.”

Locke said to Alicia, “Thank you, Alicia. This must have taken a lot of effort on your part.”

Alicia shook her head and said, “I’m your financial backer, so naturally I have to help you. This is also helping myself.”

Alicia said, “By the way, how is your learning of the Mastermind Control Potion going? We can communicate and discuss frequently. This should help you make your first bottle of Mastermind Control Potion as soon as possible.”

“I previously asked my butler to send you a batch of substitute lower-level materials for practicing Mastermind Control.”

Locke nodded and said, “Those materials are very useful to me. After all, I can only fail a limited number of times. The core ingredient of the Mastermind Control Potion is the brain of a single-ring Illithid. You can only obtain that material by slaying Illithids in the Abyss.”

Alicia nodded. “That’s good. As long as I can help you.”

Locke glanced at Alicia’s magic pressure and said, “Your current magic pressure is still increasing too slowly. You mentioned earlier that you wanted to work with me to improve the formula of the unicorn potion. We can give it a try. If the improvement is successful and the positioning accuracy of the unicorn bloodline is increased, it will definitely continue to improve your physical strength and increase your absorption of the Mammon Powder potion.”

“By the way, can’t the bloodline of the conjurer be strengthened with spells?” Locke said, “Then we can definitely try to strengthen the bloodline of the unicorn rhino from both the conjuration school and the potion school.”

Locke really had no time to do anything else recently, so he had been working on projects, and even his attempts to make money laterally were delayed.

Before, he had thought about whether he could synthesize some gems and sell them here.

Later he gave up this idea because synthesis would take a long time and he would need to take advantage of synthesis opportunities every day to test formulas and conduct research on those projects.

There are no extra synthesis opportunities for synthesizing gems. Besides, there is a problem with synthesizing gems. I am not an alchemist, so I cannot reasonably explain the source of a large number of high-level gems.

Therefore, as for gems, Locke only plans to synthesize some high-level gems for his own use, and not to sell them.

However, he had the idea of selling some potions and magic plants, but he was too busy now and could only make a choice between the project and making money for the time being.

So, it has not been done yet.

Alicia’s eyes lit up. “If we can combine the Rhino Bloodline Transformation Potion, Mammon’s Powder Potion, and Toxicity Counteracting Potion, we could definitely open a shop here.”

“This combination of potions can help a wizard quickly advance from an ordinary first-level wizard to a liquefied wizard.”

“If we can open a shop like this, we can make a lot of money. However, the three potions are very difficult to refine. The local potion masters in the Six Towers do not have such refining skills, even if they know the formula.”

“Similarly, there are still physical requirements for users, and it is not suitable for everyone.”

Alicia’s physique is still good, after all, she has the physical bonus of the Scorpion Woman’s bloodline. This method is still not suitable for an ordinary wizard to use, otherwise the body will explode and die.

However, since there are many bloodline wizards in the land of the Six Towers, and their physiques are relatively good, if this set of combination potions is opened in the land of the Six Towers, it is likely that a lot of money can be made.

Alicia said, “Locke, maybe I can open a shop with you in the Land of Six Towers.”

“You can continue to call it the name of your potion series products in the Southeast Corner. You can call it the Augustus Series Potions Store.” Alicia said, “What do you think?”

“Okay.” Locke felt the scorching heat coming from the letter in his pocket. He took it out and was stunned for a moment. “Things have taken such a turn.”

“In this case, the project from the Star Sea… can indeed be considered and allowed to continue by my research team.”

Alicia looked at the letter in his hand. “Locke? What’s wrong?”

Locke put the letter away. “It’s nothing, really. My research team’s progress has been stuck for a month, and suddenly, today, they’ve achieved some great results. Montgomery, in my group, teamed up with Witch Barbara and Wizard Tacitus to come up with a new and excellent project proposal. It also synergizes really well with a topic I’ve already been eyeing.”

“I just hinted at this direction to them before, but I didn’t expect those three to give me such a big surprise.”

“This way, I can make up my mind and continue working on the project I wanted to do before.”

After hearing this, Alicia smiled. “I expected things to develop this way. My greatest achievement since becoming the head of the family is discovering that if you just let things take their natural course, someone who can solve the problem will naturally appear.”

“Sometimes, there’s no need to be so anxious. There’s no need to patch up conflicts within the team. The more you try to patch things up, the more arguments there will be. Just let nature take its course, and they’ll resolve it on their own. They’re all First Ring wizards now.”

Locke was suddenly speechless.

The person Alicia mentioned, who showed up to solve the problem on her own, couldn’t it be herself?
Locke discovered that Alicia seemed to have a hands-off management style.

This is completely different from the management style of the great wizard Sulla, who is concerned about everything, manipulates everything behind the scenes, and hates others getting out of his control.

These two methods each have their own advantages and disadvantages.

(End of this chapter)