Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 445

Chapter 443 Grafting of Animals and Plants

Chapter 443 Grafting of Animals and Plants
The next day, after Locke finished a day of meditation, he entered the special laboratory again to consult materials and use the magic co-frequency cultivation method to direct the mutation of the Chain Magic Vine so that the Chain Magic Vine could gain further abilities.

During this process, Locke answered several students’ questions. He addressed Leopold, a man who had just obtained his official breeder certificate this year and whose mana had reached 800 last month. He was currently a capable assistant in the laboratory. He said, “Your proposal of using grafting to cultivate plants and animals is indeed meaningful, as it is the research focus of first-stage breeders.”

“Using the first-level grafting healing technique, you can graft part of an animal’s blood essence onto a plant to form a special plant.”

Locke said: “But the side effects will be huge.”

Locke thought for a moment and decided to demonstrate to Leopold. Leopold’s mana fluctuation had reached 800. He was very capable and was the team leader among the wizard apprentices.

Locke stretched out his hand, and an apprentice-level subspecies of the Chain Demon Vine fell into Locke’s hand. At the same time, Locke took out a glass bottle containing the wolf spider blood essence from the star ring.

Then Locke cut off the subspecies magic vine, opened the glass bottle of wolf spider essence, and grafted the two together, while using a first-level grafting healing technique.

Leopold looked at this scene in astonishment. He had not expected that the first-level grafting healing technique could achieve this level.

Soon, the subspecies of the magic vine absorbed the wolf spider’s essence, and the entire magic vine underwent some morphological changes.

When Locke let go of the subspecies magic vine, the magic vine turned around and attacked Leopold who was standing beside him. The magic vine, which had been strengthened by the wolf spider, was so fast that Leopold could not react at all. Before he could recite any defensive spells, the magic vine had already come in front of him, trying to make a hole in his forehead.

Leopold turned pale with fear, but the next moment, Locke stretched out his left hand, grabbed the magic vine, and squeezed it slightly, and the whole magic vine exploded.

Leopold gasped. “Teacher Augustine, that demonic plant… has gone berserk… has gone berserk…”

Locke nodded slightly. “The blood essence of magical creatures is too different for magical plants. Even if forced to heal by grafting, it will usually be more difficult than grafting between plants.”

“Furthermore, when the magic plant is combined with blood essence, it’s very easy to go berserk. This is because the blood essence contains several special factors that plant essence doesn’t have. They’re originally used to stabilize the moving bodies of magical creatures and the violently changing magical energy. The magic plant, which remains essentially stationary, doesn’t need those special factors. But once the two are grafted together, the magic plant gains those special factors, causing the berserk phenomenon we just saw.”

“Once a demonic plant goes berserk, it often unleashes power it didn’t originally possess,” Locke said. “But this also means that this demonic plant is leading itself and everything around it to destruction.”

Leopold asked doubtfully, “But Teacher Barbara and Teacher Montgomery are still grafting magical creatures and plants…”

Locke nodded and said, “Sometimes, in order to solve a problem, grafting magical plants with magical creatures may bring unexpected surprises. But this requires rich grafting experience. Moreover, Witch Barbara is also a wizard of blood science. With her guidance, Wizard Montgomery can perform this kind of grafting.”

“Well, Leopold, that’s all for today’s questions.”

Leopold bowed to Locke and saluted. “Thank you for your guidance, Professor Locke. Through your guidance, I have a better understanding of the grafting method. I hope I can help our research group in the future.”

Locke nodded.

Leopold was also born a commoner wizard. Before joining his own research group, he had been a ghostwriter for several first-class wizard apprentices of the Plutarch family.

I heard that he also wrote articles for George Plutarch.

Since joining his own research group, he has stopped such activities.

However, after Leopold’s mana reached 800, his advancement potion went to his original wizard mentor. After all, Locke did not have a teaching position and was not his real wizard mentor.

Leopold works within his own group and has not done any work for his original mentor’s group.

But the problem is, if he wants to get the advancement potion, even if it’s just a hope, he needs to work like a slave for his original wizard mentor, otherwise he will never get the advancement potion.

Locke didn’t know what Leopold was thinking. Since he reached a mana of 800, he hadn’t been meditating much in the past few days. Instead, he worked hard in his own group and was not at all anxious about upgrading the potion.

Leopold saluted Locke and said, “Teacher Locke, I have finished my experimental work today. I want to go back to the dormitory to look up some information.”

Locke nodded. “Yeah, sure. It’s up to you.”

“Remember to compile a copy of the data on the demonic plant subspecies our group has recently created and send it to all first-ring wizards, including me.”

“Okay, Mr. Locke.” Leopold saluted again and left.

Locke looked up at Leopold’s departing back and frowned slightly. If a student like Leopold were in a wizarding land outside, he would have obtained the promotion potion long ago, and their wizard mentor would urge him to be promoted to a first-ring wizard as soon as possible.

It is of great benefit for every wizard mentor to train a formal wizard student.

Not only are there the hidden benefits of connections, but also reputation, prestige, application resources, and more student places.

Moreover, the White Wizard Association will give special rewards for every formal wizard trained. These rewards are all tied to the teaching position. As long as the system is still effective, wizard instructors will hope to have more formal wizard students under their command.

However, the reward system of the Six Towers has completely collapsed and is entirely controlled by the family wizards. Naturally, they don’t care whether their students can become official wizards.

Instead, they have to suppress their students to prevent them from becoming official wizards, escaping from their control, and no longer working for them.

Locke frowned. The promotion potion was a top secret material of the White Wizard Association and was prohibited from circulation on the market, so it was impossible for him to help Leopold get it.

According to the rules, Leopold’s potion would be distributed to his teacher first, so there was really nothing he could do about it.

Locke came back to his senses and focused his attention on the small group on the Gray Mist Slate. Ever since he joined the group, he often checked the chat content within the group and found that the tenth-ranked research group in the group was indeed on the verge of disbanding.

He was a wizard from Dragonfall. Although the wizards there were high-ranking, they were more adept at alchemy and enchantment, with no interest in breeding. Therefore, his wizard academy had no intention of supporting him from the beginning. Once he entered the Yunze Cup, a large group of people from the academy attempted to force someone into his research group.

The wizard Marius Lawrence was also a person who was easily influenced by others. As a result, not only was his research group filled with people with connections, but those who were originally capable of doing things were also squeezed out.

This led to the remaining people becoming demoralized.

This morning, Marius Lawrence spoke up in the group, and as soon as he spoke, he blamed the Mountain Shadow Council Academy he worked for for not paying attention to their breeding science, not valuing their breeders, and now completely messing up his project.

In short, Wizard Marius was full of complaints.

He didn’t dare to speak out in the Mountain Shadow Council, so he had to find a place to speak out, and the Yunze Cup finals group was a good outlet.

Locke peeked through the screen and sighed that it seemed that every participating research group had its own problems. Perhaps it was true as Witch Barbara had said before, the problems we would encounter would definitely be encountered by our competitors.

Whoever is more patient has already gained the upper hand.

Locke saw that in the small group, Alaric, the wizard from the borderland of darkness and brightness, comforted him a few words, and the wizard Yennefer, who ranked third, rarely @ed him in the group. “You can’t blame anyone else for this. It’s your fault for being so soft-hearted. Those students under you are even more wronged than you. They worked so hard to help you win the competition, and you replaced them with your relatives as soon as you entered the finals.”

Marius Lawrence seemed stunned for a moment, then he added to the small group chat @Yennefer of Spiral Basin – “You can’t blame me for this. The new students, even the wizard instructors, all have resumes that are better than those of my original research group! I think we should choose the best from the best, so I made a temporary replacement.”

Yennefer gave him a sneering look.

Alaric, the wizard at the border of darkness and brightness, said, “That’s not right. Resumes can be polished, but the ability to do the job is the real deal. Changing commanders mid-battle is a big taboo.”

“By the way, does that mean your project can’t go on? Then, won’t there only be nine contestants in the finals?”

Wizard Alaric was undoubtedly gathering intelligence again, but Wizard Marius Lawrence was stimulated and immediately stated that his project was still moving forward. He would try his best to complete the experiment within the specified time and gave a lot of details that revealed the progress of his experiment.

Locke raised a brow. “It seems I don’t have to worry about this Crystallized First Ring Wizard from Dragonfall. He’s no longer my competitor. From the details he revealed, his project is indeed progressing slowly, and the core staff has almost all left.”

Locke closed the gray mist slate and heard a knock on the door. He opened the door of the laboratory and found that it was a director of the finance office of the Plutarch family, a first-ring liquefaction wizard.

He did not have a very good relationship with Eric’s branch and was considered neutral to the Plutarch family.

The chief director of the finance department is Eric’s relative, but there are a lot of other directors under the finance department.

The liquefied wizard, upon finding Locke, suddenly had a look in his eyes, and handed the bill to Locke. “Wizard Augustine, I finally found you. I didn’t dare to bother you originally because I had nothing to do.”

“But look at this.”

“Look at this bill. He bought high-grade nutrient soil, but he actually added an extra zero. Ten thousand magic stones became one hundred thousand magic stones. The key is that I signed it and submitted the entire bill.”

Wizard Sphenis said, “This is a serious mistake. The student who reported it is named Leopold.”

“He’s a first-class wizard apprentice. Look at how careless these civilian wizards are. They accidentally caused such a big problem. This is a bill of 90,000 magic stones. This is a serious problem. I manage the assets of the Plutarch family and need to be responsible for the family’s wealth.”

Wizard Sphenis frowned in disgust, revealing his hostility and disgust towards common wizards in front of Locke. “Those common wizards must have been so kind to you that they dared to make such a big mistake.”

“You’d better place some of our reliable family wizards in your research group. Perhaps the first-class wizard apprentice wanted to embezzle these 90,000 magic stones for his own pocket.”

Locke frowned, glanced at Wizard Sphenis, then took the bill from him and found that it was signed by Witch Barbara.

Locke called Barbara, a witch with mud all over her face, and was shocked when she saw the bill. “What’s going on? Why did Leopold write an extra zero?”

Barbara looked at the furious Wizard Sphindis, then looked at Locke guiltily, and said, “Maybe I trusted him too much, so I signed it when he gave it to me without reading it carefully.”

“These are nine magic crystal cards… This is a big problem.”

Ninety thousand magic stones is actually not a small number. It can be used to buy nine first-ring magic plants, nine first-ring magic weapons of medium quality, or even seven to eight golems, which can be used to buy a lot of resources to assist meditation.

This amount of money would definitely be a drop in the bucket if used for a big project, but it would be more than enough for a wizard’s training.

Witch Barbara quickly realized that this mistake might become an excuse for family wizards like Wizard Sphenis to cause trouble, and this matter could be a big deal or a small one.

To put it bluntly, it was an attempt to falsify accounts and defraud the Plutarch family of their funds, a serious crime. Not only would it be impossible for him to stay in Locke’s research group, but I’m afraid the wizard Sphenis would send Leopold to the wizard prison.

Locke was extremely troubled. Although he had heard before that the dispute between the research group and the finance department was very complicated and the two sides were often in conflict, he did not expect things to develop like this.

This was the first time I encountered this, so I was not prepared.

Barbara spoke up for Leopold. “Boss Locke, Leopold doesn’t have the guts to covet the nine magic crystal cards. Even if you sell him, it wouldn’t be enough to pay him back.”

“He must have been too busy with work, so he made the mistake. Some time ago, his wizard mentor took away his advancement potion, and he was depressed for a while. The mistake must have occurred at that time.”

Wizard Sphindis said coldly, “As a common wizard, I’ve rarely seen money. It’s normal for me to have evil thoughts when I see such a large sum of money.”

“I’m not here to cause trouble. I have great respect for Wizard Locke Augustine and acknowledge your and the eldest lady’s leadership of our family.”

“But I think Wizard Augustine thinks too highly of those civilian wizards. This time I found evidence of their corruption, but how much more is there that I haven’t discovered? When I return, I will thoroughly check all the previous bills!”

Witch Barbara turned her head and said, “You…”

She felt a little powerless. During this period, the Plutarch family and the wizards of the major families in the White Dragon Tower seemed to be provoked and often targeted the civilian wizards in their research group.

The hostility towards civilian wizards in the Land of the Six Towers has reached an incredible level.

They can accept how outstanding civilian wizards from outside can be, and even rule this place, but they absolutely cannot accept the excellence of civilian wizards in the land of the Six Towers.

Locke thought for a moment and said, “Leopold is currently in his dormitory. Let’s go find him. Witch Barbara, please check our group’s internal bills. If it’s just a misunderstanding, return the extra money to the finance office.”

Witch Barbara quickly said, “Yes.”

(End of this chapter)