Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 444

Chapter 442 Yunze Cup Private Group

Locke exchanged a few words with them briefly and then returned to his suite in the White Dragon Tower. During this time, a lot of people came to disturb him, trying to force his students or himself into his research group.

Even if he was just walking in the corridor inside the White Dragon Tower, there would be a bunch of wizards greeting him and trying to leave an impression on him.

Locke was very annoyed by this.

Finally, he simply used the Green Leaf Dragon Bird and walked around with the magic of the School of Psychic [Dragon Power].

Anyway, for botanical wizards, it is very common to wear some decorative magical plant on the back or head.

In this way, not to mention the apprentices, even among the first-ring wizards in the White Dragon Tower, only a few can stand in front of him, and most of the first-ring wizards cannot get within 10 meters of him.

Because as long as you come over, you must bear the magic of the School of Psychic [Dragon Power] and be suppressed by the mind at all times.

Locke was finally able to have some peace and quiet.

When Locke returned to his suite and walked into the potions room to prepare for a new round of practice of the Mastermind Control potion, the gray mist slate in front of him suddenly appeared in front of Locke automatically without being summoned.

Locke frowned because the gray mist stone slab was wrapped with the roots of a water hyacinth-like magical plant, and the roots were green.

A water hyacinth entwined itself on its own gray misty slab.

Locke recognized where the water hyacinth came from. When he had read a lot of information related to the Yunze Cup, he had seen the unique magical plants in the Yunze Wetland. Naturally, he could recognize that this water hyacinth came from the Yunze Wetland and its name was [Qingwu Lingluo].

The water hyacinth itself is like transparent gauze, which can absorb water vapor and transform it into a kind of therapeutic mist. The lake surface where it appears must be shrouded in mist and is beautiful beyond words.

But it is said that the mist emitted by the water hyacinth Qingwu Lingluo can do more than just heal others.

The gray mist covering the gray fog slab quickly turned green.

A line of words appeared on the gray mist slate: [Hello, Yunze Cup participant, Mr. Locke Augustine. Please don’t be angry. I am a staff member of the Yunze Cup Competition Membership Committee of Bonifacius University in Yunze Wetland. I simply used the unique water hyacinth network of Yunze Wetland to connect to the Nigward Astrology System in your southeastern region.]

The various wizarding lands are far apart, and for some reason, their communication systems are not interoperable. Therefore, we can only use some gray area methods to contact the breeders participating in the finals.

[Next, I can pull you into our small group for the Yunze Cup finals. This small group will continue to exist after I remove the magic.]

This is achieved by utilizing the water hyacinth network of our Yunze Wetlands, scientifically known as ‘Floating Pu’ (Floating Pu’s Silk), to connect the association-level communication systems of your major wizarding lands. We can connect the Six Towers’ letter paper network, the Southeast Corner’s Nigward astrology system, the Leize Lowlands’ thundercloud network, and other communication systems through the water hyacinth network. Through the methods of the School of Prophecy, you can use the communication systems of various wizarding lands to join the same group.

[You can choose to accept or reject. If you reject, we will try to notify you of the competition in other ways, such as sending a letter, but it may take more time than notifying you in a small group.]

Locke thought about it and wrote a line of words on his gray mist slate – Agree.

Soon, a group automatically appeared on the interface of the gray fog slate.

A line of words appeared on the contact interface on the gray mist slate: [Welcome to the Yunze Cup Finals group. If you have any questions, please contact us in the group.]

Locke saw that there were currently twelve people in the group, including ten main participants, one staff member of the competition committee, and one wizard who did not enter the final round.

The wizard sent a regretful emoji in the group chat, followed by a message: “I’m so sorry I didn’t make it to the finals. I’ll still participate in the next Yunze Cup.”

The next moment, he took the initiative to leave the group.

In the Yunze Cup group, no one paid attention to him and instead sent a bunch of messages –

[Has the genius breeder from the Six Towers finally joined the group? ]

[What a rare visitor! I haven’t seen a breeder from the Six Pagodas for a long time.]

Staff: [Well, because the Six Towers have always been quite isolated, it was difficult to get in touch with them before. It took us a long time to finally find the contact information for Wizard Augustine.]

I guess we didn’t anticipate that the Six Towers team would make it to the finals, so we didn’t plan to add them to the group from the beginning. When we announced the tournament schedule, the Six Towers wizards weren’t in the group, so we probably didn’t see it. You probably didn’t expect them to make it to the finals, even so.

Locke looked at the person who sent such a long string of messages. He seemed to be a wizard from the borderland between darkness and light, named Alaric.

The main research is on magic plants with golden attributes, and the tactical magic plant project proposed this time is also a golden magic plant – the golden apple tree man.

From their conversation, I realized that this small group has existed for a long time.

It seemed that all the main leaders of the wizarding teams that entered the first round of the competition were included in it.

I’m afraid the name of this small group was only changed in the past few days.

Locke felt a little ashamed. It turned out that he had never received any notification from the competition committee.

“But this really doesn’t affect my participation in the competition.” Locke sat on the stool in the bedroom and thought: “The information of previous Yunze Cup competitions can be found.”

“I can write a good project proposal based on the information from previous competitions, and the basic principles remain the same.”

“Sometimes knowing too much information is useless. It’s better to focus on the information you already have and work hard.”

Locke looked into the small group, about to close it, as he was still very busy, when the wizard Alaric from the borderland of darkness and brightness suddenly @ him and asked, “Wizard Augustine, I checked your project application. What’s the status of the magical plant you mentioned designed based on the permanent defense field? Do you have a prototype yet?”

As soon as these words were spoken, Locke became alert instantly. This was an attempt to spy on the enemy.

The other party was obviously testing his progress and judging the degree of threat he posed to him.

Locke suspected that there was more than one contestant wizard staring at this small group at this moment.

By the way, this guy Alaric seems to be ranked fifth, and I am ranked sixth, so of course he cares a lot about me.

Meanwhile, the fourth person in the group was Karel Knight, a wizard from the Rezer Lowlands. He also @ed himself in the group. “When I first read your project proposal, I felt that Wizard Augustine was a very creative wizard. I’m just wondering about the current progress of this magical plant.”

“I’m quite interested.”

Locke suddenly felt speechless. The fifth and fourth places were both old silver coins.

The first, second, and third place holders remained silent. Were they truly oblivious, or were they acting like Voldemort?
Locke pondered for a moment. Replying to any message would likely reveal the progress of his experiment, and these two were clearly very concerned about it.

After all, the low ranking of my project application was largely due to the team’s insufficient past experience and the fact that the topic was too difficult.

But if my current experiment progresses well, then everything will be different.

“It’s better not to chat too much in a group full of competitors.” Locke thought: “If you don’t speak up, even a god will find it difficult to stop you.”

Locke directly sent two emoticons.

Suddenly, both the wizard Alaric and the wizard Karel Knight looked very disappointed.

Wizard Alaric said, “Another talkative one. No one has been talking in the group lately. I wonder if everyone’s experiments are progressing well and are almost ready for production.”

Wizard Karel Knight replied in the group chat, “How could it be that fast? Don’t forget, a few days ago, the tenth-place team was nearly dismantled because of all the connections filling in the team. He hasn’t been talking in the group in recent days, probably because he’s having a headache.”

“It’s only the first month since the finals began. Every day after that, we’ll be more and more tormented. Time is tight, the results are not perfect, resources are beginning to be scarce, and morale within the research team is unsettled.”

“This is only the first month. From now on, it’s going to get harder and harder. Alaric, stop hanging around in the group asking for information all day. If you have this time, you might as well do a few more experiments on your own.”

(End of this chapter)