Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 574

Chapter 571: Venture Capital and Second-Class Fund Project Application

In Locke’s dormitory living room, Wizard Daniel and Locke sat at a long oak table. Daniel took a sip of Cuiluo Green Tea and said to Locke, “My Divination Mist sold very well during the Weather Festival on August 22nd. I earned two million magic stones and almost made it onto the best-selling list that day.”

“I was originally planning to share this good news with you, but when I came to visit you today, you told me that your Hydra series of magical plants had earned you a total of 6.5 million magic stones.”

Wizard Daniel exclaimed in amazement. “Six and a half million magic stones! I’ve never seen so much money in my life. If you were in our Fission Mausoleum, many second-ring wizards wouldn’t be able to make that much.”

“In our Fission Mausoleum, if a first-ring wizard could make so much money, he would probably attract the attention of many second-ring wizards.”

Wizard Daniel smiled and said, “But, on the other hand, only a place like the Yunze Wetlands can allow a first-ring wizard to earn so much money. If it were in our Fission Mausoleum, let alone 6.5 million magic stones, even the 2 million magic stones I earned from selling the Divination Spirit Mist would be impossible.”

“Most profitable things in Fission Mausoleum require connections.”

Wizard Daniel said, “A wizard might be able to earn hundreds of thousands of magic stones with his or her own talent, but if you want to go further, it depends on the strength of your connections. Who is your teacher? Are your students promising? Do you have connections in your family? Are you working alone, or do you have a lot of support?”

Wizard Daniel said, “Small places have less traffic, and when you get to a certain point, everyone can see what you do.”

“It’s nothing like the Yunze Wetlands. The scale here is too huge. For example, if you hadn’t told me that September 1st is your breeder’s True Love Day, I wouldn’t have known about it.”

Locke smiled and said, “If you hadn’t told me that the other day was your weather division’s weather festival, I wouldn’t have known about it.”

Wizard Daniel said, “These are all festivals hyped up by the store alliance. If you don’t pay attention, you won’t know about them. After all, these festivals are trivial and numerous.”

Wizard Daniel spread out his right hand, and a ball of silver mist appeared in it. “But congratulations. You made so much money in one go. Look, this is my divination mist.”

I saw this ball of silver mist, like gel, appear in the hands of Wizard Daniel.

“I created the Divination Mist by combining meteorology with the information I read about prophetic magic on Mount Golden Crown. It can amplify the prophetic magic of prophets. For me, I can also use it to speculate on things from the past.”

Wizard Daniel waved his hand, and the divination mist covered the floor, and immediately the mist formed footprints one after another. Most of these footprints were from Locke, and some were from the wood elf maids in Locke’s room.

“Wizards from the prophecy school really like this kind of thing. It sells well there.”

Locke nodded slightly. “Indeed. Daniel, you seemed very busy recently. It’s hard to see you normally.”

Wizard Daniel coughed. “I wasn’t in the wizarding world for a while.”

“I went to a medium-sized colonized plane in Mount Golden Crown. My research group has some research that requires us to go to that colonized plane. It’s a special plane filled with magma and fire. It’s clearly a material plane, and a life plane, but according to the research of earth wizards, that plane was collided with other planes at the beginning of its formation, causing the leakage of core energy. As a result, the entire plane is like purgatory year-round. We call it the Purgatory Plane.”

“The native life forms of the Purgatory Plane are a type of demonic race, and their plane is also facing the Nine Suns Sky Problem.”

“The primordial force leaking from the Earth’s core transformed into nine suns in the sky, ravaging the entire land of that world like a toaster, making it impossible for normal life to survive. Therefore, that demonic race could only use their warships to invade everywhere, hoping to move out of that plane. However, they recently encountered a wizard civilization.”

“They found a more realistic solution – to turn to the wizarding world and let the wizards help them.”

“Solving that world’s [Nine Days Problem] is the key project of the three-ring wizard, Feodor Throne, whom I follow.”

Wizard Daniel smiled and said, “Now, Throne Fyodor has asked me to go to the Purgatory Plane to research the Nine Days Problem together. Maybe in the end, he will give me his sub-project.”

Locke looked up at Wizard Daniel and said, “Congratulations.”

Wizard Daniel waved his hands repeatedly. “However, this matter hasn’t even begun. Right now, they’re just asking me to go to Purgatory to lend a hand. I guess they’re still observing my abilities, after all, my second-class True Knowledge Academy fund isn’t complete yet.”

“I have no idea at the moment. Well, it’s mainly because I’m short of money. I have a lot of equipment, but I didn’t have the money to buy it before, which slowed my progress. But now it’s different.”

Wizard Daniel smiled and said, “With the two million I earned from the Weather Festival, I can use my own money to speed up the research process.”

Wizard Daniel said, “By the way, now that you have money, have you ever thought about how to save it?”

Locke looked at Wizard Daniel in confusion.

Wizard Daniel handed Locke a document. “Look, this is the rate at which prices are rising in Yunze Wetland. If you keep your money, it could shrink due to the increase in the number of magic stones sold and the rapid rise in prices.”

“So, we need to find some financial institutions to help us manage our finances.”

“The most wasteful approach is to leave a large amount of funds in our Star Ring, gathering dust. The more mediocre approach is to deposit them in the Big Five banks or small to medium-sized wizarding banks, charging rigid interest rates.”

“But there are actually some better ways. Recently, my senior in the lab recommended me a witch who speaks well, is good-looking, thoughtful, and cares about me and always praises me!”

Wizard Daniel took out the Wish Ganoderma Lucidum, opened his communication interface, and pulled up a witch’s contact list. “Look, this is the witch. She explained to me many financial products in Yunze Wetland, such as purchasing wizard gold coin bonds issued by the White Wizard Association and venture capital.”

Wizard Daniel seemed excited. “I recently listened to this witch and tried my hand at the Dragon Blood Market Castle stock market. I made quite a bit of money. She’s even teaching me about venture capital, saying it’ll help me make even more money!”

Wizard Daniel’s eyes sparkled. “There are so many kind people in Yunze Wetlands. This witch said she wanted to grow up with me, and that we felt like old friends from the moment we met. Oh, and by the way, her name is Witch Reina, a wizard from the Enchanting School, an enchanter.”

The more Locke listened, the more he felt something was amiss. “So, she admires you?”

Wizard Daniel nodded. “She said I was a gifted weather forecaster.”

Locke asked, “What is venture capital?”

Wizard Gold Bonds were known to the White Wizards Association. They were coins minted with magical gold and were essentially like government bonds. The coins themselves were not valuable, but they were indestructible.

To buy wizard gold coins, you need to pay a huge fortune in exchange for an ordinary indestructible gold coin made of gold magic. Then there is a certain time limit. When the time limit is reached, you can use the wizard gold coin to exchange for the face value on the gold coin.

For example, a 10-digit wizard gold coin means that you can exchange it for 100,000 magic stones, but generally, to buy a 10-digit wizard gold coin, you only need to pay 98,000 magic stones.

This is a method used by the White Wizard Association in Sanze Land to obtain a large amount of funds in a short period of time.

It is a form of distribution of social resources.

Purchasing wizard gold coins is still a relatively safe financial product, but when Locke heard Daniel mention venture capital, for some reason, a bad idea suddenly came to his mind.

He glanced at his left hand and the Angel’s Tear bracelet. He was not wearing it at the moment. In recent times, his super intuitive ability had actually made some progress.

Wizard Daniel smiled and said, “Venture capital is a type of market investment that offers high returns but also high risks. But don’t worry, that kind-hearted witch with a keen eye has inside information. She will guide me to invest in wizard shops that may seem inferior but are actually high-quality.”

“With her help, I’ve made a lot of money recently. Yunze Wetland is so interesting. It turns out that all you need to do is invest money wisely, and money will make money. There’s no need to do any research or develop any engineering products.”

“This feels really good.” Wizard Daniel narrowed his eyes and smiled. “It’s really fast to make money this way.”

“It’s caused me to relax recently. My work progress on my second-class Zhenzhi Academy Fund project has been affected.”

Locke hesitated for a moment and said, “Daniel, I think as researchers we should still do our job well.”

“Also, from what you said, it seems like you’ve been lucky lately. But you still have to be careful.”

Wizard Daniel said, “Of course. If I lose money, I will definitely quit. Locke, do you want to get rich together?”

“I can recommend this witch to you. You are my best friend in Golden Crown Mountain. I have thought about this for a long time. If there is such a good thing, we can do it together.”

“Don’t worry, that witch will listen to me. She has a source who is a third-ring wizard, so there will be absolutely no problem.”

Daniel said enthusiastically.

Locke thought for a moment and said, “Forget it, Daniel. I have enough money right now. If I were to invest in venture capital, firstly, I don’t understand it, and secondly, I’d have to wait.”

“When you make money, take me with you.”

Locke took a more cautious attitude towards this unknown thing.

Although we can’t give up without trying anything, there’s no need to be so impatient. The first person to do something will most likely end up in a miserable failure.

Why not, let’s take a look at Daniel’s situation first.

As a good friend, Locke still reminded Daniel to be cautious.

But Locke would not interfere and ask Daniel to stop doing such dangerous things, because Wizard Daniel was a formal wizard and an adult in the wizarding world.

Adults have their own judgment and their own choices. Regardless of the outcome, one must respect the choices made by a formal wizard out of his own will.

At most I can remind and give suggestions.

Seeing that Daniel had been obsessed with this recently, and that he had indeed made a lot of money, he even showed him his 250 magic crystal card deposits, so Locke could only congratulate him.

After Daniel left, Locke went to the public laboratory and received congratulations from Mason Witch and others, as well as compliments from a group of researchers from the Academy of True Knowledge.

These people each had their own thoughts, but at least on the surface, they all gave Locke some praise.

After they left, Locke received a water jade peach from Team Leader Celtic. Now he had four water jade peaches in stock.

At the workstation, Mason Witch and others waited until everyone dispersed and went to do their own things, then came over to congratulate Locke again.

Witch Mason said, “Six and a half million… This number is something that poor researchers like us can’t even imagine.”

Freya’s eyes practically shone with money. “It’s unbelievable! That’s fifty-four years of our salary! Even if I worked on ten horizontal projects, I wouldn’t make that much.”

“Besides, I might not even have ten horizontal ones! You’re worthy of being our team leader!”

Wizard Barrett whispered, “A few days ago, I thought you, Team Leader Locke, would be short of money, but I didn’t expect you to earn so much money in such a short time.”

Locke looked up at Wizard Barrett.

Wizard Barrett explained, “Your behavior earlier was very similar to what Team Leader Celtic does when he’s broke. The three of us noticed that, so we took the initiative to cover the cost over the past few days and never asked Team Leader Locke for any money.”

Witch Mason and Witch Freya smiled at each other.

Witch Freya laughed and said, “Barrett told us not to tell anyone, fearing that you, Team Leader Locke, would lose face. Actually, I think you wouldn’t be so narrow-minded.”

Locke felt a warm feeling in his heart. No wonder these three people had never asked him to advance money recently. They just sent bills and asked him to go to the finance office to file accounts and use the fund money to reimburse the money they advanced.

It turned out that they noticed their predicament a few days ago.

Locke whispered, “Thank you, everyone.”

Witch Mason said, “Locke, we should be the ones thanking you. The three of us had our second-class funding project applications approved a few days ago.”

Locke was surprised: “So fast?”

Witch Freya said, “It’s mainly because of your last final report, which was very impressive, Team Leader.”

“Therefore, the difficulty of reviewing our project application by the Fund Management Department of the White Wizard Association will naturally be much lower. In particular, in the eyes of other wizards, the three of us are still following your project.”

“So, this greatly reduces the difficulty of our project application being approved for the second-class fund project.”

Witch Freya said, “But this way, all members of our group will be awarded the second-class funding project of the Institute of True Knowledge.”

The Zhenzhi Academy Fund is divided into four grades. The second-grade fund project is definitely not a low project level in the Zhenzhi Academy.

All of them have won second-class funding projects from the Zhenzhi Institute. If they can all be successfully completed, it will be a great event.

Locke said, “Don’t worry about the second-class fund project. As long as we work together, let alone the second-class, even the first-class, the four of us can complete it!”

When Witch Mason, Witch Freya, and Wizard Barrett heard the first-class project fund mentioned by Locke, they swallowed their saliva and suppressed their inner desire.

Originally they thought that it would be great if one of the three of them could complete the second-class project fund, but now all three of them may be able to complete the second-class project fund.

Moreover, Locke told them that they might be able to complete the first-class project funding.

This is a huge temptation for them.

Moreover, this is what Locke said, not just nonsense said by anyone, so it is highly credible.

Witch Freya laughed and said, “It seems that we are going to be taken away by Locke.”

Locke shook his head slightly. “You’ve all helped me a lot. Without you, it would have taken me about a year to complete this project. Now it’s almost done in just two months. We’re helping each other.”

Locke said, “Now that I have sufficient funds, I plan to find a store alliance to rent the Queen’s chessboard. Do you have any good ideas?”

Witch Mason and Wizard Barrett shook their heads.

Witch Freya said, “You can go to the Joseph Golem Shop Alliance or the Quetzalcoatl Ancient Pavilion. Although these two shop alliances are small, their rules are not so strict. They will not fully abide by the rule that prohibits first-ring wizards from using the Queen’s Chessboard.”

“I’ve heard before that Adrian Iverson from the Advanced True Knowledge Academy in Group 1 once borrowed the Queen Chessboard from the Joseph Golem Shop Alliance during the First Ring Crystallization stage for some reason. It cost him one million magic stones.”

“Of course, he is now at the ordinary second ring stage.”

“However, I only heard it from others. So I don’t know the specific details.” Witch Freya undoubtedly has the widest circle of friends among the four people in the group, so she is more informed about gossip.

Locke thought about it and realized that the Queen’s Chessboard would be very useful for second-ring wizards and third-ring wizards. It would not only be useful in breeding, but also in potions and alchemy, and even enchantment and psychology.

Therefore, many store alliances have this kind of equipment.

It’s just that the equipment is too sophisticated to be used by first-ring wizards.

But with my identity, maybe I can use the Queen’s chessboard of the Quetzalcoatl Ancient Pavilion. In any case, it is worth a try.

If you want to acquire a relatively complete basic usage of Overlord Element No. 2 in a short period of time, it is impossible to do so without using the Queen’s Chessboard.

“Among the first-level journals, the general journals of the Three Marshes Land are the highest-ranked and the most difficult to access. This is contrary to the logic of the journals of the higher levels, probably because wizards at the first level need to read a wide range of literature.” Locke pondered: “So, in most cases, the specialized journals of the first level are easier to access than ‘Green Grass Cloud Marsh’.”

The reason why two of my articles were able to be published in the first section last time was because one of them was a natural magic structure that had never been discovered before.

It is the darling of “Green Grass Cloud Lake”, and its natural magic structure components have potential effects on multiple magical fields.

There is another article about the method and principle of using the power of Mist to accelerate the process of becoming a one-ring crystallized wizard. This kind of article related to breaking through the level is also the favorite of “Qingcao Yunze”. If it is changed to another direction, it may not be included in “Qingcao Yunze”.

There are eight specialized journals on botany in Zone 1 of Yunze Wetland, and there are countless specialized journals on botany in Zones 2, 3 and 4.

Among the first-level journals, the regional journals in Zone 1 are undoubtedly the most valuable.

Locke estimated that he could publish several first-tier articles because of this No. 2 Overlord, and basically all of them could be published in “Qingcao Yunze”.

But perhaps we can go a step further and submit to the general journal “Qingming Lei Ze” which is a link in the Lei Ze lowland.

In Area 1, it is generally recognized that “Qingming Lei Ze” is more difficult and the difficulty of climbing up is higher.

At the same time, I might also submit to… the Xingyuhai’s first-ring regional journal, “Yihuan Xinghai”!
It’s recognized as the top-tier journal in the first ring!
Of course, this is just a try, and there’s a high probability that it won’t be accepted.

Similarly, you can also submit your work to some journals in the first circle of professional subdivisions that are generally recognized as more difficult to publish, such as “Pan and Farming” published by the Botanical Fourth Circle Truth Wizard in Yunze Wetland.

This journal is rare and its value can even exceed that of the journal “Qingcao Yunze”.

At least this is the case for wizards who specialize in agricultural breeding, a sub-field of the magic sub-direction of the School of Life Science’s breeding science.

Although the value of general journals is generally higher than that of specialized journals.

But there are also some more special journals in various industries.

However, strictly speaking, overlord hormone is not considered traditional agricultural breeding, so Locke estimated that if he applied to this holy place in the minds of agricultural breeding wizards, he would most likely not be approved.

Perhaps you can try the very valuable journal “Plant and Analysis” founded by Bonifacius University in the field of plant natural product analysis.

This journal is also very difficult to publish, and its reputation is quite great in the Sanze area, and it is widely recognized by wizards from all over the world.

Locke now has money in his hands, so he is certainly confident that he can produce the relevant experimental data of Overlord No. 2 as soon as possible.

At that time, after Locke discussed the work progress with Mason Witch and others again, he returned to his workstation and was about to organize the materials when he found that his wish Ganoderma lucidum vibrated in the star ring.

He took out the wish-granting Ganoderma lucidum, only to find that a strange witch he didn’t know had sent him a friend request.

Her name was Witch Reina!
Locke saw the message on her friend request: “Hello, senior. I’m Reina Guldo. I’m a market analyst from the prophetic school, and I’m best at group predictions.”

“Senior, do you want to increase your wealth quickly? I’m a fortune teller, and you have money. If we work together, we can definitely make a lot of money in a short period of time. If you don’t believe me, you can test my ability with a small amount of money!”

Locke looked strange. “Witch Reina? Could she be the kind-hearted witch Daniel mentioned? But didn’t Daniel say she was an enchanter? Why is he talking about a market analyst from his own school of prophecy now?”

“Is it the same person? If so, then she shouldn’t know that Daniel and I are familiar with each other.”

“Besides, she must have a problem.”

Locke thought about it, took a screenshot of the friend invitation, sent it to Daniel, and then rejected the other party’s friend invitation. After that, he no longer paid attention to this matter.

Locke thought, “I should have thought of this long ago. This is the Yunze Wetland, where industry and commerce are developed, and there are all kinds of people here.”

“I have a lot of money now, and many wizards have seen it, so naturally there will be people with ulterior motives approaching me and Daniel. I hope Daniel can wake up soon. There is nothing else I can do for him.”

Daniel seemed to think that he and the witch had some kind of special relationship, so if he interfered casually, he would only offend him.

Instead of this, I’d better talk less.

Besides, he is a formal wizard and an adult.

Every adult should be responsible for his or her own choices.

(End of this chapter)