Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 526

Chapter 523: Four Elements Rings and the Last Place Elimination System

Chapter 523: The Four Elements Rings and the Last-in-First-Out Elimination System.
The first-ring wizard who was responsible for receiving them was a wizard named Matthew Fleming. He was wearing a blue and gray wizard robe. He greeted Locke and Daniel, and then said to them in a respectful but distant tone, “You two must be Researchers Augustine and Brooke, right?”

“My name is Matthew Fleming. You can just call me Wizard Matthew. I’m also a researcher at the Academy of True Knowledge. Similarly, the wizards from Dragon Fern Garden will be responsible for meeting you. These first-class wizard apprentices are all students jointly trained at Dragon Fern Garden.”

“They are the students who help us. Well, some of them may become your students in the future.”

Wizard Matthew said concisely, “Please follow me. I will explain to you both about Golden Crown Mountain Academy and our Advanced Zhenzhi Academy, and then take you both to report to the Academy.”

“These students will carry your things for you. Please inform them clearly of any large and valuable items. These apprentices can easily damage expensive items.”

Locke shrugged, “I don’t have anything to move.”

Wizard Daniel said, “I do have one. I have a hurricane speed meter and a polarization variance instrument. They are still on the airship. I’m looking for someone to help me move them.”

“Those two large instruments are extremely precise. I can’t just place them roughly into the Astral Ring, fearing the magical energy will affect the precision of the instruments. They need to be carried manually.”

Wizard Daniel looked at the eight first-class wizard apprentices in charge of reception and said, “Also, you can’t use any magic to lift them. As long as you don’t use magic to move them, there’s no need to worry about any damage to these two instruments.”

Wizard Daniel explained to Wizards Locke and Matthew, “The protective devices of those two instruments are quite solid and difficult to affect with physical means.”

The eight first-class wizard apprentices immediately saluted him respectfully and said that they would do as they were told and carry it properly.

After all, both Wizard Locke and Wizard Daniel could become their future mentors, and since they were both official wizards, no student dared to offend them.

Wizard Matthew nodded. “That’s good. It’s really inconvenient for a weatherman to be away from home.”

“Weathermen have too much large equipment.”

Wizard Matthew looked at the Druid’s Ring on Locke’s left hand. “Druid’s Ring? Nice stuff.”

Wizard Matthew also raised his right hand, revealing the Druid’s Ring he was wearing. “Look, I have one too. Carrying a Druid’s Ring with us breeders makes many things much easier.”

Eight first-class wizard apprentices went to help Wizard Daniel move the equipment. The equipment would be delivered directly to Wizard Daniel’s dormitory, so Wizard Daniel didn’t have to worry about it at all.

The two followed Wizard Matthew towards the Zhenzhi Temple.

As the three of them made their way up the mountain, Wizard Matthew raised his right hand and gave Locke the four remaining rings on his right hand. “However, I think just one druid ring isn’t enough, so look…”

“This is the Ring of the Four Elements.”

Locke raised his brow. “What is this?”

Wizard Matthew laughed. “I entered the Yunze Wetlands three years before you two, so I’ve had access to more advanced breeder equipment. The Druid’s Ring is certainly good, but it’s old. The Four Elements Rings are all the rage these days, and each of these four magical rings is a treasure.”

“An elemental plane ring is made from a demiplane with specific attributes. For example, my fire ring is made from the elemental plane, the fire demiplane.”

“The four rings correspond to the four basic elemental particles: earth, water, fire, and wind.”

“Using these four rings and continuously infusing energy into the Druid Ring can help the Druid Ring obtain an energy circulation that is almost equivalent to that of the Prime Material Plane. This is extremely important.”

As a weather master, Wizard Daniel only partially understood what was said, but as a breeder, Locke certainly understood the energy cycle that was exactly the same as that in the main material plane, and how important this was for breeding.

The various cycles within the Druid Ring that he currently carries are all simulations of the real world, but they are not the real world.

But if you also have a ring of four elements, and use the energy of the four elemental demiplanes, you can make the space inside the druid ring no different from reality.

In this way, many experiments that can only be done in reality and magical plants that can only be cultivated can now be done in the Druid’s Ring.

Moreover, there are many more wonderful uses.

Locke felt it was a good idea just by thinking about it.

Locke said to Wizard Matthew, “Listen to Researcher Matthew, if you put it that way, then the effect of this four-element ring is indeed very great.”

“The breeding science in Yunze Wetland is developing rapidly. But these four rings must be very expensive.”

Wizard Matthew nodded, a flicker of pain in his eyes. “The four rings together cost a total of 800,000 magic stones. If I didn’t have a special need, I wouldn’t have purchased such expensive rings.”

“Actually, I’ll be honest with you two researchers,” Wizard Matthew said. “I bought these four rings with a loan. The loan and financial industries in our Yunze Wetland are much more developed, and you two will see them in the future.”

“Loan purchases are quite common here,” Wizard Matthew said. “After all, the money you can borrow is actually your money.”

“But the money I have to pay back every month is really unbearable.”

“And it will be very troublesome if you can’t pay back the money. Those wizards setting up stalls that you encountered when you got off the airship were basically wizards who owed a lot of money to others. However, most of them are definitely not wizards from our Golden Crown Mountain, but official wizards from small wizard organizations outside.”

“There’s a huge temptation to spend ahead of time, and there will always be people who miscalculate their future income and end up being unable to repay their loans.”

The three of them quickly reached the foot of the mountain, where hundreds of tree people took the initiative to salute them.

A huge banyan tree man walked over. This tree man possessed a magic pressure at the level of a ring crystallization, but it seemed to be just a tree man guarding the foot of the Golden Crown Mountain Academy.

A rain cloud followed the banyan tree man’s head. When it approached, the temperature suddenly dropped a little.

The Banyan Tree Man glanced at Wizard Matthew and said slowly but forcefully, “Little Matthew, you’re back. These two are the new members of our Golden Crown Mountain, right?”

“Ahahahaha…”

Every time the banyan tree man laughs, his speech gets stuck because he speaks slowly, so it sounds very strange.

Wizard Matthew introduced Locke and Daniel to the banyan tree man. Wizard Matthew said to Locke and the others, “This is the banyan tree elder Gru who is in charge of guarding the entrance to Golden Crown Mountain.”

“He has been a doorman at Jinmian Mountain for many years. Although he doesn’t have a teaching position, his status is not low. He is an elder of Jinmian Mountain.”

“Many second-ring wizards are his friends.”

“After all, when everyone returns, they will all ask [Gru] to open the gate.”

“Those tree people are all children adopted by Gru. In fact, there are more. The tree people have signed a contract with us, Golden Crown Mountain. We are allies. In peacetime, it is Gru who guards Golden Crown Mountain, and in times of war…” Wizard Matthew said, “I don’t know either.”

“Because no one has dared to start a wizard war against Golden Crown Mountain.”

Gru judged that the three were wizards from Golden Crown Mountain, so he took the initiative to make way, revealing the road behind him that was hidden by life magic and led to the deep path on the mountain.

“Please, if you three need a means of transportation up the mountain, I can let some of my children, the ash tree people and the baobab tree people, who are fast and strong, carry you up the mountain.”

Wizard Matthew said, “That’s not necessary.”

Wizard Matthew explained in a low voice, “Even the fastest tree people are actually very slow, and… they want money.”

“In Yunze, no matter what you do, you have to pay.”

“Without money, you can’t move an inch!”

Daniel asked Matthew curiously. “Researcher Matthew, you’re almost out of the Advanced Research Institute, right? It’s been three years, after all.”

Wizard Matthew turned around and blinked, then thought for a moment before saying, “Oh, you don’t know much about the Jinmaon Mountain Zhenzhi Academy.”

“You misunderstood. I’m not from the Advanced Academy of Phenomenon, I’m from the Ordinary Academy. The Advanced Academy of Phenomenon at Mount Jinman, including you two, only has thirteen members in total. Almost every one of them is either the best First Ring wizard in the school, or the undisputed champion of a cross-wizarding regional competition. They are truly the chosen ones of heaven.”

“But there are a total of 180 ordinary researchers in the Academy of True Knowledge in Mount Jinman. I am one of them.”

“But even though I say that, I don’t feel inferior.”

Wizard Matthew explained, “Whether we are researchers at the Advanced Institute of True Knowledge or researchers at the Ordinary Institute of True Knowledge, we are all subject to the same evaluation system, and there is a system of elimination for those who rank last in points.”

“After all, there are still a large number of wizards eagerly waiting for our Academy of True Knowledge. Therefore, every year we eliminate the bottom 30 wizards to encourage us to make rational use of the resources within the Academy of True Knowledge.”

“After the points lag behind, the unsuccessful wizards who have been waiting for a year will be eliminated and will directly fill the remaining four years of the Academy of True Knowledge quota. They will continue to work and enter the next round of the points elimination system.”

Wizard Matthew said, “Those who fail to pass the ordinary Zhenzhi Academy are also ranked. Those with higher rankings have a greater chance of waiting for the next year and taking their place. Therefore, many wizards would rather wait outside for a year and observe the situation than take up teaching positions elsewhere.”

“There are only so many carrot pits, but there are so many people who are targeted.”

“Although you two are the pride of the Advanced Institute of True Knowledge, the problem is that you all almost have to independently work on the related projects assigned by your co-advisors. Unlike us ordinary researchers in the Institute of True Knowledge, we can work together on the projects assigned by our co-advisors. Therefore, the difficulty of the challenges we face is completely different.”

“We can do this together, and we have the experience of our predecessors. But you are alone and helpless.”

“Last year, a wizard from the Academy of Advanced Knowledge was eliminated because he was not used to doing his own research independently.”

“The project requirements and work style at Yunze Wetland are completely different from those outside. They’re much more demanding, even demanding. Under such circumstances, it’s hard for me to imagine a wizard still being able to work independently on a project. Each of us who comes here is supposed to experience a huge leap in thinking, encountering cutting-edge fields we’ve never encountered before. And yet, at the same time, you, the members of the Advanced True Knowledge Academy… are expected to be completely independent and autonomous.”

“You two must have received some help from teachers in the past.”

“Good luck to you two.”

Wizard Matthew looked at Locke and Daniel and said, “Of course, the pride of the Advanced Zhenzhi Academy being eliminated by the last place is a tragedy that no one wants to see.”

“With your abilities, you two will definitely not let this tragedy happen again.”

“I don’t want to see this happen either.”

Wizard Matthew turned and looked at the two of them. “Congratulations, you’ve arrived in a brand new world.”

(End of this chapter)