Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 450

Chapter 448: People whose data was stolen

The ninth-ranked breeder was asking, “What is a Ladybug Marauder?”
The seventh-ranked breeder, from the wizarding land of Rain Swamp within the Three Lakes, was asking how a wizard in the Cloud Cup could hire a dark wizard to steal someone else’s data.
Clearly, he knew what a Ladybug Marauder was.

Among the three swamps, the Lei Ze lowlands are the most prosperous, followed by the Yun Ze wetlands. The Yu Ze swamp is a swamp in its entirety, and there are only some herbal magical plants and miniaturized magical creatures inside, which has led to the natural resources being at a disadvantage. Therefore, it is considered to be the slower-developing wizard area among the three swamps.

However, the Sanze area has a geological-grade natural large-scale source of magic power [Cloud Lake].

The total area of Yunhu Lake is even equal to the total area of several wizarding lands. Therefore, the natural magic tides in Sanze Land are several orders of magnitude higher than other areas, so Sanze Land itself is extremely prosperous.

Only under the star sea.

Alaric, the wizard from the borderland of light and darkness, immediately @ed Yennefer, the third from the Spiral Basin. “Sixth brother said the person who hired the dark wizard is from the Spiral Basin. Third brother, aren’t you going to say anything?”

Locke and Yennefer spoke in the group at the same time, forbidding him to use such outrageous names – Sixth and Third – again.

Yennefer also sent a message in the group: “I didn’t hire him. There’s no need for the employer to reveal his true origins.”

Alaric the Wizard immediately sent a text message, ‘What you said seems reasonable on the surface, but you seem to be very familiar with the process of hiring ladybug raiders.’

Locke glanced at the text sent by Alaric the Wizard and almost gave him a thumbs up. This guy really is a natural at asking questions, and he has quite the skills in asking questions.

This saved him the trouble of testing the attitude of the contestant from the Spiral Basin towards him.

Yennefer sent a message: “I have heard of the Ladybug Marauders. Many people have had their research data stolen by them and are their victims.”

‘This is perfectly normal, and the wizards of Rainswamp are obviously aware of it.’

The seventh-ranked wizard from Rainswamp also chimed in. “It’s true that the Ladybug Marauders are notorious, and many people have fallen victim to them. However, there’s a powerful figure behind that organization, so other similar organizations have been eliminated multiple times, yet this one still exists.”

“I’ve also heard about this from my teachers. One of my seniors had obsessive-compulsive disorder early on. He required perfect data and a complete chain of evidence for every experiment he performed. He even spent ten years on an experiment that others could complete in three years. Then, just three days after he finished, the data was stolen by a ladybug predator.”

“The article was published by several people, and the Ladybug Predator sold his data to multiple people. My senior was so angry that he almost jumped into Yunhu Lake to commit suicide. Later, my advisor persuaded him to come down from Yunhu Lake. My advisor used his connections to give him a first-circle fund. This finally stopped his self-destructive thoughts and forced him to cure his obsessive-compulsive disorder.”

Yennefer sent a message. “Look, it’s normal to know about ladybug raiders. There are also similar victims in the breeding school of Nahel University where I work.”

“In short, Wizard Augustine, I really don’t know about this matter.”

Locke sent a smiley face in the small group and said nothing.

Nahil University?
Nahil University is the white wizard organization with a large number of black wizards.

Locke later looked up information in the library of the Land of Six Towers. The Spiral Basin and the Land of Six Towers were two extremes.

The land of the Six Towers has a rich environment but a poor system, which has led to the overall decline of the wizarding land. The Spiral Basin has an insufficient environment, but the internal vitality of the wizarding land is strong. It constantly absorbs resources and talents from the external wizarding lands, step by step to its current state, and there is even more than one second-ring wizard among them.

It is said that in the deepest part of the Spiral Basin, there were even traces of a three-ring wizard.

But there is a problem in the Spiral Basin, that is, the white wizards and the black wizards are mixed together. There are even white wizards in the Spiral Basin who take off their white wizard robes and put on black wizard robes, or take off their black wizard robes and the characteristics of the white wizard robes will be revealed underneath.

Many of the wizards there are members of both the White Wizards Association and the Black Wizards Alliance.

Being eclectic and seeking talents is the unique feature of Spiral Basin.

The center of the Spiral Basin is also connected to a very troublesome plane in the void – the Corrupted Deep Sea Plane, which has a plane gate with a super-large community.

The Corrupted Deep Sea Plane is a special plane formed by the decay of a giant water element plane with ecological collapse. It is filled with foul-smelling water elements, so this plane is of little use to wizard civilization, but is like a pest.

The wizards of the Spiral Basin have long needed to resist the Plague Water Elemental Emperor from the corrupt deep sea plane.

Therefore, the area has to endure both scarce resources and the enormous pressure of war. Under such pressure, there is no distinction between black and white wizards in the Spiral Basin, and people are extremely tolerant of ideological disputes.

Locke took a look at the small group. He knew from the beginning that it would be difficult to get any results by asking questions in the group, so he just tried it out.

First, it shows that the other party’s attempt to steal their data has failed.

The second is to warn the other party.

Third, we will see if we can lock onto the target. From the current point of view, Yennefer in the Spiral Basin is indeed suspicious and needs to be guarded against in the future.

At the same time, Edgar David, the wizard from the Sun Shadow Peninsula, who was ranked first in the group, unexpectedly sent a message in the group. As soon as he appeared, he @ed the second place and said, “I also encountered ladybug raiders here, but my laboratory is guarded by ancient war trees. Ancient war trees have war domains, which can automatically lock on to hostile forces and use them to form a war domain.”

“So, I discovered the ladybug raider who sneaked into my lab and tried to steal my core data, and I killed him on the spot.”

‘Second place, is there any trouble over there?’

“Who on earth is so devoid of values as to hire the Ladybug Marauders to steal data during the competition? But you underestimate the Yunze Cup. In a competition like this, any wizard whose data you stole is doomed from the start.”

‘The strong always remain strong, and the truly strong are not afraid of any challenge!’

From the first few words that the first person said, Locke immediately realized that the other party was a strong and bloodthirsty person. The Ladybug Plunderer should have made a deal with him, but he directly chose to kill the dark wizard with his own hands instead of making a deal that would be beneficial to him.

It can be seen that for him, satisfying the desire to kill, or satisfying his inner wishes, is itself a kind of benefit.

Moreover, the opponent is a score dog…

Wow, this wizard Edgar David, he came up and @ed the second place, and it seemed that he didn’t even take the third place seriously.

Faced with so much doubt, Yennefer, who was ranked third, sent a message in the group. “I’m going to do an experiment.”

“Honestly, even if your project is actually completed, it won’t be as good as my Mushroom King. I have no reason to hire the Ladybug Marauders.”

Then, Yennefer stopped replying to messages in the group.

Alaric and the fourth wizard, Karel Knight from the Reze Lowlands, were having a heated discussion there. They were both trying to guess who had hired the ladybug raiders.

Wizard Karel Knight said, “Anyway, no matter who hired them, the people who hired them and the people whose data was stolen must be incompetent.”

“How could someone who is truly capable have their data stolen successfully?”

Meanwhile, the second witch from Yunze Wetland, Diana, finally made her first appearance in the group today. “Well… I’ve been in my lab 24/7, sleeping and eating there, and my students and partners are doing the same.”

“So I don’t think the Ladybug Marauders have any chance of stealing my project data.”

“However, thank you all for your kind reminder. I’m busy now, and I haven’t finished today’s experiment yet. Alas, all the wizards in my research group haven’t slept for three months.”

“Everyone, I have to get busy. No more small talk.”

Locke’s face turned strange.

The second place in Yunze Wetland seems to be a…workaholic. The entire research team hasn’t slept once in three months?

This is really exaggerated.

The Ladybug Marauder would definitely not be able to interfere with such a research group.

There is no chance of sneaking in at all.

“Before, when I saw the second-place winner was silent, I thought she was Voldemort. Now it seems she’s been busy with experiments.” Locke pondered, “The first-place wizard, David, disdains to communicate with us. His only rival is probably the second-place witch, Diana from Yunze Wetlands.”

“The third witch, Yennefer, is uncertain whether she is a dark wizard or a white wizard. She is suspected to be related to the large-scale hiring of ladybug raiders to steal data.”

“The fourth is from the Lei Ze Lowlands, the fifth is the inquisitive wizard Alaric, the sixth is me, the seventh is a wizard from the Rain Swamp, the eighth, ninth, and tenth have all spoken in the group now.”

“Well, the competition in this Yunze Cup is indeed fierce.” Locke thought for a moment and decided to return to his special laboratory in the White Dragon Tower to quickly put the inspiration he had just gained from the battle with the black wizard into practical testing.

But at this moment, the gray fog slab suddenly shook.

I saw that the fourth place, Karel Knight, the wizard from the Razer Lowlands, who had just been mocking in the group that anyone whose data was stolen must be incompetent, was constantly @ing everyone in the group –

“Where are the documents I left in my lab? Why are they gone?”

“Listen to me, the guy who hired the dark wizard! I spent my university’s funds and the First Ring Fund’s funds to create this information. It belongs to the White Wizard Association of our Lei Ze Lowlands!”

Wizard Karel Knight went crazy, improving his data’s status, “You used dark wizards to steal the assets of the White Wizard Association, which is a serious violation of the law. I will report you and send you to the dark wizard prison.”

“Give me back my information!”

The fifth-place wizard, Alaric, from the borderland of darkness and brightness, probably seeing how miserable he was, comforted him, saying, “Don’t be too angry.”

“You have to cut your losses in time. Fortunately, it’s only been a month since the competition began. Even if the data was stolen, how much could they have taken? If you make some minor adjustments, it will be usable again.”

Wizard Karel Knight angrily sent a text. “Entries to the Yunze Cup require originality. If he uses my information to find someone to publish some articles, my work will lose its originality and I will lose the competition before it even begins.”

“Fine-tuning the direction now is no easy task! Just reporting to the finance department, rewriting the project plan, and the financial accounting documents would take an incalculable amount of effort. Using such petty tricks to deceive others is truly unethical.”

“There must be a dark wizard among us. The meaning of the competition is to let all contestants bring out their best to win, not just to win. The process of participating is a learning process in itself, but those dark wizards will never understand this.”

Alaric said something in the group chat, somewhat honestly. “But didn’t you say that those whose data is stolen are incompetent?”

“You should accept the reality a little bit. After all, this is also a kind of inferiority in skills.”

Wizard Karel Knight directly @ Alaric. “I think it’s you who hired those dark wizards.”

Alaric the Wizard was immediately annoyed. “Please stop biting people! I’m a noble of the Golden Dynasty, enjoying immense honor and privilege in the land of darkness and light. How could I possibly do such a thing? I was just trying to comfort you. Didn’t you see I was the only one in the group who paid any attention to you?”

Then the two started arguing.

When Locke saw this scene, he immediately closed the gray fog slate.

I have no interest in watching others quarrel.

I just looked at the information in the small group, just to observe the general personality of my competitors.

However, this is all incidental.

Locke turned and left Bailong Street and reported the matter to the Plutarch family, asking the Plutarch family to handle the follow-up matters.

Locke, on the other hand, returned to his own special laboratory.

At the White Dragon Tower, 20km away, Witch Barbara came over and quickly told Locke that she found some confusion in the bills, but she had already gone to the finance office to readjust them and returned the extra money.

Locke nodded slightly. “I understand. I’ve already solved this matter. Solving it this way will save us a lot of trouble in the future.”

“By the way, I want to conduct an experiment right away. I have a new idea. Please help me call Montgomery over.”

(End of this chapter)