Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 560

Chapter 557: The Eye Demon Wizard’s Fierce Reputation and the Inside Story of the Competition

Locke walked into the castle where the Academy of True Knowledge was located and entered the public laboratory. At that time, Freya, Mason, Barrett and others were also busy.

Therefore, Locke seized the opportunity and applied to Team Leader Celt for the use of the Sunlight Mirror and analyzed the composition of a natural magic structure.

After coming out of the Sunlight Divine Mirror, Locke secretly calculated the current progress in his mind. During this period, he was still doing preliminary experimental data, and thus discovered an unknown natural magic structure component and three new symbiotic relationships between pineapple magic plants and magical creatures.

However, the specific work situation can only be known after the three researchers in his group arrive at their workstations and he has a brief meeting with them.

At the same time, Locke was sitting at his workstation, sorting out documents when he suddenly saw a researcher from Group 4 coming with a Golden Mian Mountain Lecturer from another garden (college).

Locke glanced at it doubtfully. Because the six groups of Ekaterina Witch were competing for resources with each other, in order to avoid suspicion, people in different groups rarely communicated with each other.

But today, he didn’t expect that four groups of people and an official wizard from Golden Crown Mountain would come to find him.

The researcher from Group 4 greeted Locke, “This is Researcher Augustine, Mr. Garfield.”

Wizard Garfield greeted Locke in a friendly manner and whispered, “Hello, I am the lecturer of the Breeder Academy at Golden Crown Mountain. You can call me Garfield.”

“I’m also a staff member in the competition committee office for the first round of the Golden Crown Mountain Breeder Competition.”

Locke nodded. “Wizard Garfield, what can I do for you?”

The researcher from Group 4 has already left.

At the same time, Wizard Garfield whispered to Locke, “Look, Gregor and Williams are both students of Wizard Augustine. Our office has already received the breeding information for the flying magic plant they submitted.”

Locke nodded. He had indeed asked his two students to submit competition materials yesterday. Competitions within the school did not require the production of physical objects, only the submission of material reports.

With Locke’s current level of breeding knowledge, he can indeed immediately see the level of these apprentices from the breeding information submitted by them.

Therefore, in the apprentice-level breeder competition, only materials need to be submitted in the first two rounds, and actual items are required in the third round.

Locke said, “Is there a problem? It’s just a matter between apprentices. Is it worth it for Wizard Garfield to come all the way to the Institute of True Knowledge?”

Wizard Garfield smiled wryly and whispered, “Our competition committee reviewed the information submitted by your two students and agrees that they are very good. However, the number of apprentices that can participate in the second round of the Association-level Breeder Competition within an academy is limited to five.”

“We on the competition committee are having a hard time. So, can you ask one of your students to withdraw his participation?”

“Here’s what we think. It’s already quite impressive that some of Wizard Augustine’s students have made it to the second round. Within the Academy of True Knowledge, anyone who can help students secure a spot in the competition is already an exceptional wizard instructor. But the problem is, there are still many wizard instructors within our Breeder Academy and your Academy of True Knowledge whose students would like to participate…”

A hint of embarrassment crossed Wizard Garfield’s face. “It’s hard to satisfy everyone. We must consider the equal distribution of benefits.”

“Especially since there are three first-class wizard apprentices who are second-ring wizards, they are also participating in the competition. It would be bad to simply deny them a place. That would be too disrespectful to those second-ring wizards.”

“So, we hope you can convince a student to voluntarily give up the competition.”

“I’ve seen the profiles of your two students. I think Gregor’s overall ability is a little weaker, and you can persuade him to give up the competition. Williams’s student is indeed very outstanding…”

Locke glanced at him coldly.

Obviously, the other party came to find him because according to the normal competition process, it was difficult to find an excuse to eliminate his two students.

The reason was very simple. The information he gave to the two students to participate in the competition was all the information about the one-ring magic plant, the Big Green Leaf Dragon Bird, which he developed himself. And he could feel how excellent the Big Green Leaf Dragon Bird was along the way.

Anyway, I have never suffered any loss from the flying magic plants, so I think the Big Green Leaf Dragon Bird will be very powerful in the Yunze Wetland.

It is conceivable how rare it is to develop the information of the Big Green Leaf Dragon Bird from scratch. Naturally, Gregor and Williams, who have obtained this information, can each come up with a perfect answer to the competition under their own guidance.

Faced with this answer, the Jinmianshan competition committee was obviously under great pressure.

It would be troublesome if two students of a researcher from Jinmian Mountain took up two-fifths of Jinmian Mountain’s entry quota.

But it would be very troublesome to break the rules and eliminate Locke’s two students, because Locke is backed by the witch Ekaterina, who is a key member of the Golden Crown Mountain Academic Committee.

Moreover, the middle-level people in Jinmian Mountain also knew that Locke was a member of the struggle among the four major forces behind Jinmian Mountain and was a candidate for the Academic Committee.

Therefore, it would be unwise to directly confront the academic committee on this matter.

Therefore, the only option for the competition committee was to proactively send a one-ring crystallized wizard staff member to negotiate with Locke.

Wizard Garfield whispered, “This is the unspoken rule of our Golden Crown Mountain, and there’s nothing wrong with it. Wizard Locke, I hope you can understand that our competition committee definitely hopes that our students can win first place in the association-level competition.”

“And the students of the second-ring wizards will obviously have greater potential. We also hope to see five students from five different instructors… As you know, resources are limited and places are in short supply…”

Locke looked at him coldly. “Are you done? I have a meeting with my team members later. I’m very busy, so could you please leave?”

Locke didn’t care if he offended him.

Before entering Jinmian Mountain, Director Morrison told himself not to be afraid of offending people, because positions in Jinmian Mountain are so specific that you would have offended others on the first day you entered.

It would be foolish to give up your own interests for fear of offending others.

It’s like if you don’t fight for any benefits, you won’t offend anyone.

Unless he leaves Jinmian Mountain, he will inevitably offend others.

Moreover, he was a candidate for the faction of the Academic Committee, so there was no need for him to be vain about a lecturer from Jinmian Mountain.

I asked two students to participate in the competition so that they could make progress and gain resources at the same time.

Since my two students have been able to obtain places in the competition, why should I, as their mentor, give in?

That doesn’t make sense.

Wizard Garfield whispered, “They are just two students. They are not very knowledgeable and can be easily fooled. Wizard Locke, I am embarrassed by your behavior.”

“The tournament committee can offer you an apology. As compensation, we will give you a magic crystal card. This is one month’s salary for the Zhenzhi Academy.”

Locke glanced at him in surprise, and at the same time realized that Jinmian Mountain implemented a salary confidentiality system, so he definitely didn’t know that Jinmian Mountain actually gave him a living allowance of 20,000 magic stones every month.

But this is not the point. No matter how short of money I am, I will definitely not take ten thousand magic stones seriously.

Locke glanced at Wizard Garfield indifferently, and then found that Witch Mason and others had already arrived at their workstations.

He stood up and greeted the three people, and the three people responded to him.

Mason Witch looked at Locke curiously. “What are these colleagues from the Breeder Academy doing here at the Institute of True Knowledge?”

Locke said: “Nothing, just talking nonsense to me.”

The Mason witches noticed Locke’s indifference towards them, and they immediately took their own stance, looking at the wizard with indifference.

Wizard Garfield knew he had screwed up.

He hadn’t expected Locke to be so tough. Generally speaking, weren’t researchers who had just joined Golden Crown Mountain for less than six months easy to talk to and coax?!

Wizard Garfield wanted to get angry, but when he thought about the fact that this was the territory of the Academy of True Knowledge, he knew that if he dared to get angry here, he would probably be in big trouble.

Moreover, when he thought about the background behind the other party, he felt that there was really no way he could do anything to Locke.

Unless the second-ring wizard director of their event committee office has a problem with Locke, how could their director, a seasoned man, put himself in such a predicament?

Even if something goes wrong later, it will definitely be these young lecturers in the first stage who will take the responsibility. There is no reason to let the old seniors take the responsibility.

What’s more, there is probably an academic committee standing behind Locke.

The situation is even more special.

The academic power held by the Academic Committee is not under the administrative power of the Senate, and it is backed by the Deacon Inspection Group.

The inspection team can only protect itself.

In this matter, their office was originally in the wrong. In order to balance the interests of all parties, they wanted to violate some academic ethics and make private contacts with Locke to see if he was easy to talk to, and could take the initiative to give in and sacrifice his own interests to help them maintain the so-called balance.

Therefore, Wizard Garfield could only smile bitterly and say to Locke: “Wizard Locke, you misunderstood me.”

“Okay. Since you’re not interested in my proposal, I’ll leave first.”

Wizard Garfield smiled bitterly in his heart.

Faced with this situation, he really had no good solution. If he didn’t follow the rules, the academic committee behind Locke would probably hold him accountable in the future. If he followed the rules, the entry materials submitted by Locke’s two students would definitely not fail to get a place in the competition.

At this moment, Wizard Garfield actually admired Locke a little and no longer had any prejudice against this wizard from the outside world.

Before he left, he glanced at Locke curiously. Judging from the completeness of the information submitted by the two students, Locke might have a very powerful large-scale project of flying magic plants.

Generally speaking, wizards who come from outside wizarding lands rarely have so many large projects on hand, and even rarer still, they generously distribute them to their students.

This is very rare.

Wizard Garfield sighed and had no choice but to leave.

Soon, he left the Zhenzhiyuan Castle, walked across half of the Golden Crown Mountain, and came to the castle where the Breeder Academy of Golden Crown Mountain was located. He went up to the third floor and entered the Breeder Competition Office.

A wizard in the office immediately asked him, “So, you should have convinced Wizard Augustine. It’s just a small matter between two apprentices. I think Wizard Augustine will give our office some respect.”

Wizard Garfield chuckled bitterly. “Convinced? He almost glared at me. I pissed him off. No wonder I heard he’s called the Eye Demon Wizard in the Land of the Six Towers and the Southeastern Corner.”

“You have no idea how strong the evil spirit and aura this wizard carries is.”

The deputy director immediately looked over. “What? You didn’t convince Wizard Augustine?”

The deputy director’s eyes flashed with surprise. “It’s rare to see a new researcher joining Jinmian Mountain so bold and completely unafraid of offending others. I thought he was easy to control.”

“What kind of nickname is Eye Demon Wizard?”

Wizard Garfield said, “I looked up his information a while ago. It’s said that when he was an apprentice, he personally killed hundreds of dark wizard apprentices from a wizard academy in front of a formal dark wizard. Because of this, the dark wizards in the southeast corner gave him the nickname “Eye Demon Wizard.”

“Later, during the Black and White Wizard War in the southeastern region, he personally killed an ordinary first-ring dark wizard in front of a first-ring crystallized dark wizard. From then on, he became notorious.”

“Oh, right. He was in the land of the Six Towers and was involved in the death of a one-ring crystallized wizard. It is said that the one-ring crystallized wizard committed suicide…”

At this time, the wizards in the office were no longer talking.

The deputy director, a wizard at the first crystallization stage, swallowed hard. “A first crystallization wizard… committing suicide? How can these two terms be connected?”

Wizard Garfield said, “It is said that the Eye Demon Wizard and the Bloodline Wizard entered a secret wizard realm, and he was the only one who came out.”

“Then, the local White Wizard Association conducted an investigation and proved that the one-ring crystal wizard committed suicide. The Eye Demon wizard was completely innocent.”

The wizards in the office all gasped.

What a ruthless person this is.

Many white wizards in the office are diligently doing experiments and taking projects day after day. At most, they get involved in some office politics. Who can have such rich experience?

At this point, the deputy chief wizard frowned. “Hearing what you said, I do think this Eye Demon Wizard is… a bit fierce.”

“This guy doesn’t sound like a white wizard, but more like a dark wizard. He actually took the life of a one-ring crystallized wizard on his hands, and he just stayed in a secret wizard realm with him before committing suicide?”

“The Ethics Review Committee hasn’t found any problems with him yet.”

At this moment, the wizards in the office became a little nervous. It sounded like this was indeed a wizard who was not easy to deal with.

Wizard Garfield said, “Deputy Director, where is the Director? We need the Director to come out and give us his opinion.”

The deputy director spread his hands and said, “The director went to give a lecture at a seven-color nursery. Before he left, he specifically instructed us to take care of this matter.”

Wizard Garfield was speechless.

Good guy, the leader just threw the difficult problem to them and then ran away.

Let them decide for themselves.

Wizard Garfield spoke with difficulty: “The director has to go give lectures for a few days. If he comes back in a few days, there will still be time to deal with this matter.”

The deputy director blinked. “He didn’t specify a time. I guess he’s waiting for the people in our office to finish processing. He’ll be back when he finishes.”

“Hasn’t the Director always been like this?”

The wizards in the office twitched their lips.

The deputy director said, “Forget it. We have no choice but to follow the rules. Do we really want to hand our secrets to the academic committee? As for what will happen next, if anyone has any objections, I can’t do anything about it.”

“I hope the threshold of our office won’t be trampled down by those second-ring wizards.”

(End of this chapter)