Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 437

Chapter 435 Eric who copied Locke

Chapter 435
After Eric, who plagiarized Locke, left the research group, Locke went to Alicia’s dean’s office on the 20km floor of the White Dragon Tower in the afternoon.

The office is very spacious and the furnishings are extremely gorgeous. They seem to be things left over from the time of the great wizard Sura. Many items in the office are magic weapons that can be used immediately as long as they are imprinted with the soul.

Moreover, there seems to be a special spell formation inside this office, and the blood energy here is materialized into a red spiritual line that can be seen by the n*ked eye.

Locke just took a few breaths of air here and found that some kind of true dragon blood in his body was growing rapidly, and the dragon language runes hidden under his skin were becoming more complex at an accelerated rate.

“As expected of the office of the leader of the Bloodline Refiners’ headquarters.” Locke glanced at the furnishings in the office. There were many magic gems here. By placing these magic gems in specific positions and adding a ring of ritual magic power unique to crystallized wizards, a magic circle can be set up here to gather bloodline power, which is of great benefit to bloodline wizards.

No wonder Alicia’s magic pressure has been increasing rapidly recently. Being in this office, she enjoys the best resources of the Six Towers. Her mana is naturally increasing rapidly daily, currently reaching 3500. At this rate, it will only take about a year for her to reach the liquefied stage.

Of course, this is also partly due to the Mammon powder that I improved in collaboration with Alicia.

Alicia sat in a chair in her office, holding the bloodline spell model that Great Wizard Sura had given Locke. She said, “Hmm? This is a spell model made by our bloodline refiner. It’s of very high quality, and the spell model has been fine-tuned very reasonably.”

Alicia was a little amazed at the blood-red bead floating on the pad of her thumb and said with a smile, “This spell model is not only fine-tuned and reasonable, but also perfectly suited to your soul.”

“And the nature of your magic. The wizard who gave you this blood bead has mastered bloodline studies to a pinnacle of perfection. It’s truly admirable. Without years of accumulated experience and constant improvement and study, it would be impossible to achieve such a perfect universal spell model for bloodline studies.”

Locke asked, “Alicia, I want to ask if there are any other problems with this rune… For example, if there are some things in it that will create weaknesses for me.”

Alicia suddenly understood. “So, Locke, that’s what you’re worried about. But a wizard who can create such a work of art as a spell model should have the basic integrity to not do such a thing.”

“Let’s not talk about that for now. This bloodline spell model is contained in a drop of condensed blood from a Kolmado beast. Kolmado beasts are lizard-like underground magical creatures from the Six Towers Land, often used to carry high-level magical ores. Its blood undergoes dozens of processing steps before becoming a drop of condensed blood that can be used to carry universal bloodline spell models.”

“This is one of the most core intellectual assets of our Six Towers, and it’s also the most important thing for a Bloodline Purifier. The Bloodline Purifier’s universal and special bloodline magic is also contained in this True Blood.”

“Most importantly, a drop of blood like this is extremely difficult to create, and the information it can carry is extremely limited, so it’s essentially impossible to tamper with it. And the drop of blood in your hand is so perfect, making it even more impossible.”

Alicia frowned, as if trying to come up with an analogy that would help Locke understand this product of blood science. “Creating flawed True Blood is like trying to mix some unknown liquid into a bottle of wizard wine while maintaining the purity of the blood itself. It’s incredibly difficult. Unless you’re dealing with inferior True Blood, a Bloodline Purifier can tell at a glance if there’s a problem.”

Locke nodded. “So what you’re saying is that one drop of real blood can’t do anything, and that it would take multiple drops of real blood?”

Alicia thought about it seriously and said, “Locke, I’m not sure. There’s no such course taught in the Six Towers. This kind of thing is probably only something that dark wizards are good at.”

“However, what you said does have the possibility of this happening.”

Alicia returned the blood to Locke. “However, there’s only one drop of blood here, so it’s fine even if you use it. From my perspective, there’s no problem with that.”

“If you’re interested in this kind of thing… perhaps you can ask me to make it for you in the future. I can also make this most basic first-level universal bloodline magic, but it won’t be as perfect as this true blood.”

Locke nodded, and after thinking for a moment, he took the drop of real blood and dripped it onto his skin. Now that he had confirmed that there was absolutely no problem with the drop of real blood, he could use it with confidence.

After this drop of real blood came into contact with the skin of his arm, it was immediately absorbed by the pores on his arm skin. In just a moment, this drop of real blood was completely absorbed by the skin of his arm.

Locke was shrouded in a bright red blood magic, and then he realized that the drop of true blood that spread in his body penetrated into the blood essence deep in his body, and the blood essence deep in his body gathered together again, combining with his original blood essence in the form of a blood factor.

Become an external blood factor.

“So that’s what true blood is – it gives me a certain universal spellcasting ability in the form of external bloodline factors, and entrusts the spell model information to the bloodline factors within my bloodline essence, rather than in the sea of consciousness.” Locke understood.

What made him feel most at ease was that he could sense that he could control this drop of true blood to leave his body at any time.

Alicia thought for a moment and said, “That’s fine. After all, Locke, you’re not a bloodline wizard. But ultimately, that’s a biased interpretation.”

“If a Bloodline Refiner were to use this universal bloodline spell model, there would still be a corresponding spell model star in their sea of consciousness. However, you’re only using your True Blood as equipment, which is equivalent to adding an extra spell slot to your spell pool. That’s why no spell model star has manifested in your sea of consciousness.”

Locke nodded. “This was given to me by the great wizard Sura.”

Alicia was stunned for a moment, then she covered her mouth and chuckled. “I was just wondering which blood refiner had created this. In the Six Towers, there are only a handful of wizards who can create such a magnificent true blood.”

“Hmm…you and my grandfather are so much alike,” Alicia said. “My grandfather once received a potion from a potion master friend that could reduce the side effects of blood contamination. But instead of taking it immediately, he came to me and asked me to check if there was anything wrong with it.”

“He’s clearly a very good friend of that potion master, yet he’s still so wary of him.” Alicia laughed, as clear as a silver bell. “You two are exactly alike in this respect.”

“It’s obvious that you two are now in a partnership.”

“However, it’s normal for you to be cautious. My grandfather was very good at finding leverage over others.”

Locke changed the subject and said, “By the way, Alicia, when I came to your office, I heard a quarrel in your office and saw Eric walking out of your office. Are you okay?”

“What does he want to do now?”

Alicia’s brows darkened as she spoke of this. “Eric has determined that I allowed you to participate in the Yunze Cup in order to make money. Therefore, he also wants the family’s financial support to participate in the Golden Cup held at the border of Huiming.”

“The Golden Cup is the bloodline transformation competition at the border.”

“Eric thought that since I could make money with the Yunze Cup, he could too.”

“He thinks my way of making money is very novel. He didn’t react to it before, but now that he has, I naturally want him to get a share of it.”

Alicia said, “The Golden Cup requires that all participants must transform their bloodlines with golden magical properties. The Six Towers Land has never conducted any research on golden bloodlines.”

“I don’t think he’ll even make it past the first round.”

Locke said casually: “Now you are the acting head of the family, you can reject the application he submitted on the grounds that it is of low quality.”

“This isn’t difficult.”

Alicia’s face turned bitter. “No, the quality of his application this time is quite good. At least I can’t find any flaws that would warrant immediate rejection. So, I had no choice but to let him participate and promised him a funding of 700,000 magic stones.”

“At least in terms of the process, I can’t find any fault.”

Locke glanced at Alicia strangely. “That’s not right. I’ve transferred Eric’s ghostwriter to my research group. He shouldn’t have any ghostwriters writing for him. How could he possibly write an application like that?”

Alicia said, “I’ve heard about this. I heard that Eric spent money to find some marginal wizards among the family wizards, as well as some civilian wizards. The level of these wizards is not very high. So Eric came up with a new method – copying.”

“It’s being an academic tailor,” Alicia explained to Locke.

“There are quite a few people like this in the Six Towers. They just go around and read the excellent articles written by wizards in the Six Towers, or even outside the Six Towers, to see what good ideas are in those excellent articles, and then they immediately cut them out and put them into their own articles.”

“Even for some newly published works, or those that haven’t been published yet or are about to be published, you can immediately copy down the excellent parts and make some minor revisions.”

“By copying from here and there, he could cobble together a passable article. He just wanted to make money, so naturally he only needed to write a project application. As for whether it could be completed later, that was none of his business.”

Alicia said, “Look, this is his project proposal. He even copied some of your ideas from your article. He even copied the part about the elemental backflow principle of the diamond succulent you wrote about during the Six Towers period. He also wants to create a golden bloodline that allows for self-infusion of elements.”

“Don’t mention it. This idea, combined with parts of other articles he copied, really helped him piece together an article that is impossible to spot the problem unless you look closely. Now, many wizards in the family have even been deceived by him and believe that he really wants to participate in the Golden Cup.”

“But from his tone just now, I can tell that he doesn’t even plan to make it past the first round. He’s just going to scam 700,000 magic stones. If he doesn’t write the project application seriously, and simply writes a few articles and fabricates some data, it won’t cost much. The rest of the money will be his.”

“He originally wanted to apply for two million in family subsidies, and I had a hard time reducing it to seven hundred thousand. If you hadn’t just walked into my office, I’m afraid he would have continued to bother me.”

Locke nodded.

Alicia said, “No matter how much I explain it to him, he won’t believe you. You’re not really going there to make money, but to compete seriously and build your resume. He was just in my office, and he thinks your project proposal won’t even make it past the first round. He thinks you’re just an academic tailor.”

Alicia said worriedly, “I hope 700,000 magic stones can satisfy his appetite and he won’t ask me for more investment next time. His procedures are all fine this time, and I can’t refuse him without reason. He even deceived some of the family wizards this time.”

“I really don’t know how my grandfather could have controlled him when he was alive.”

Locke shook his head slightly. “A scholarly tailor will think anyone is a scholarly tailor. That’s not surprising.”

“However, his project application may be enough to fool the wizards in the Six Towers, but if he were to participate in a competition at the border of darkness and brightness, he wouldn’t even make it past the first round.”

“I’ve submitted my project application to the Yunze Cup competition committee. I think the results will be out within a week. By then, Eric will know whether I’m serious about participating.”

“If you want to increase your investment, let him achieve some tangible results first.”

Alicia nodded in belief and said, “Well, I definitely believe you.”

Alicia then chatted with Locke for a while about the Mastermind Control Potion. Her knowledge of bloodline studies was indeed mediocre, far from the level of the Great Wizard Sura, mainly because she herself did not like bloodline studies.

But Alicia’s level in potions is indeed impressive, and is improving every day. Her discussions with Locke have even accelerated her progress.

With Alicia as his external brain, Locke quickly figured out many problems in configuring the Mastermind Control Potion, and noticed that because many of the core materials used in the Mastermind Control Potion were psychic creatures, he had to use ice-attribute magic flames to freeze their mental energies first.

Otherwise, even if psychic creatures die, they can still use their psychic powers to interfere with reality for a period of time after death.

Psionics is a field of study within the School of Psychics, and all magic within the School of Psychics has similar characteristics.

Therefore, using the magic flame of ice element to freeze the thoughts of the potion ingredients is the key to refining the main brain control potion.

Locke also discussed with Alicia about improving the Rhino Bloodline Potion. Locke synthesized fifteen versions of the Rhino Bloodline Potion and proactively shared the three best formula changes with Alicia.

Alicia’s eyes sparkled as she looked at Locke, as if she were looking at a soulmate. “Locke, every time I discuss Potions with you, I gain something new. Chatting with you is such a pleasure.”

“Adding unicorn horn powder to strengthen the unicorn bloodline transformation potion is definitely worth a try. And as you mentioned, we can replace the wind elemental magic flame with lightning elemental magic flame to speed up the reaction of the natural magic structure components within the potion.”

Alicia had a remarkable intuition for potions. “This modified formula will indeed improve the effect by at least 30%.”

“If I can improve the accuracy of bloodline positioning by this much, I should be able to advance to a liquefied wizard within half a year.”

Alicia said to Locke, “It’s great to have such an excellent friend like you. Maybe we should open a potion shop specializing in the Augustus series as soon as possible. I want to be the manager then.”

“Let’s experience the thrill of being a real potion master.”

Alicia thought for a moment and said, “Let’s open a joint-stock store. You, me, and the Plutarch family will each hold a portion of the shares. This way, the Plutarch family can pay for the initial investment.”

“I have another idea. For this shop we opened together, we can all adopt a merit-based selection method. We can use the job opportunities provided by our shop to give those outstanding potion wizards in the Six Towers a chance.”

“I think it makes perfect sense.”

Locke looked at Alicia with sparkling eyes and sighed in his heart that power really can change people. Half a year ago, Alicia was not like this, but half a year after she took charge of the Plutarch family, even her personality had some slight changes.

Locke naturally had no objection. This would also benefit him. He didn’t have to pay too much attention and could just sit there and share the money. “Okay.”

“You and I will provide the technology and knowledge, and the Plutarch family will provide the funding.”

(End of this chapter)