Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 640

Chapter 637 Three Kinds of Pineapples and Four Kinds of Fleshy Roots

Locke used the 200,000 magic stone subsidy he had borrowed from Arthas before, plus the 10 acres of free magic fields allocated to him by the two bases, and the help of the synthetic magic cube to cultivate the first batch of overlord snow-capped pineapples and overlord flame pineapples.

Locke looked at the two types of air plants in front of him that were covered with overlord patterns. Their heights did not change, but their widths had undergone abnormal changes.

After picking the seeds of the ordinary versions of the synthetic varieties of Snowcap Pineapple and Flame Pineapple and sealing them with a spell scroll, the seed harvest is completed.

All you have to do is give these seeds, the matching No. 2 Overlord Factor and the cell combination to Scarlett Witch and take them to the colonized world for production.

The giant snow-capped pineapple looks like an ice skate. Wherever it touches, it will be covered with frost and turn into ice.

At its base is a specialized ice-blue fleshy root with spiral guide grooves on both sides that guide the ice energy to form a special jet vortex.

The snow-capped pineapple has special fleshy roots.

Locke strengthened the vortex characteristics of its fleshy roots by synthesizing the Rubik’s Cube, and added the comprehensive strengthening of Overlord Element No. 2. In this way, the prototype of a pair of pure magic plant wizard shoes was completed.

The overlord flame pineapple is actually a subspecies of the giant snow-capped pineapple. The whole flame pineapple looks like a shoe, but the fleshy root is shaped like a jet tube. The inside of the fleshy root can spray out magical flames made of a mixture of natural magic structural components.

It can be said that the fleshy roots of the two pineapples have the potential to be developed into wizard shoes, and they are natural high-quality development targets.

This is the technical reserve that Locke developed when he was doing basic research.

At this moment, with the help of Overlord No. 2 and synthetic Rubik’s Cube, as well as its own increasingly mature breeding technology, its development has been accelerated.

But in the final analysis, it only has an accelerating effect.

If it originally took me a year to complete the development, now it only takes me less than a month.

The real accumulation has already been made, which is my own research on pineapple magic plants and overlord elements.

Witch Mason walked over to Locke’s side, looking at the magical field filled with two varieties of pineapple. “Succulent roots are a special product of plant roots, enlarged and thickened due to the storage of large amounts of water and nutrients. I never thought they could be transformed and developed into the power nozzles for the Magic Plant Wizard Shoes.”

“Team leader, your idea is really surprising.”

Locke said, “It’s not that my idea is surprising. Many wizards have similar ideas, but they just flashed through their minds and never acted on them.”

“Or maybe they were suppressed by the Magic Weaver and didn’t dare to touch the field of wizard shoes.”

“It’s just because of my identity that I can do things without any scruples. I don’t need to think as much as other wizards.”

Speaking of which, becoming a disciple of Witch Ekaterina through the Yunze Cup is definitely a good stepping stone.

Otherwise, as early as when he released the first pair of wizard shoes, he would have been sued by the magic weaver in the wizard court, and he might have been captured by the demon hunters and thrown into the wizard prison.

Locke had investigated similar cases before and found that the magic weavers of the Rose Council and some of the magic weavers in those textile workshops were really capable of doing such things.

It’s nothing like now, where that group of magic weavers only dare to send themselves some nonsense through private messages on the Water Hyacinth System.

This made Locke realize something.

You can touch some money because you have status.

A big part of the reason why it is so easy for me to make money now is that I am a researcher at the Jinmian Mountain Advanced Zhenzhi Academy.

Queen Catherine is his co-mentor!
If he were an ordinary formal wizard, he shouldn’t touch this money.

Similarly, if he were currently a second-ring wizard, he would make money faster, and Arthas would only give him more authority.

The logic of doing business in the wizarding world is actually completely different from the logic of doing business in one’s previous life.

Because no matter what, in the previous life, there was no strict hierarchy system clearly displayed, but in this wizarding world, whether you are a first-ring wizard, a second-ring wizard, or a third-ring wizard, it is clear at a glance.

It is also clear what teaching position you hold.

Therefore, the amount of money one can earn will be largely limited by one’s current magic level and teaching position.

Locke said, “Air plants don’t have proper roots, but mutant varieties like the Tillandsia tiliacea have special fleshy roots. If we continue along this line, we could create a whole series of products under the Augustus brand.”

“In the future, I can cultivate more wizard shoes made of air pineapple magic plants with fleshy roots.”

Witch Mason pursed her lips. “That team leader, Team 2 leader Teacher Sis, and Lord Throne all wanted us here to research the drought resistance mechanisms of magical plants.”

“You are using public resources for personal gain!”

Locke looked at Witch Mason and said, “Why, Mason, are you going to report me?”

Witch Mason smiled and said, “Of course not. After all, they are just my leaders, and the team leaders are my friends. Besides, we are all quite poor. It is normal for me to use the facilities in the laboratory and do some small research of my own.”

Mason Witch smiled and said, “Team Leader, I’ll go take care of my own business. You continue with your work.”

Locke looked at Mason Witch and said, “By the way, I may not be in the lab next month. Please help me do some research in the lab.”

“You can try to help me cultivate drought resistance in these two magical plants. No matter what, we have to save face and at least make others feel that what we are doing may be somewhat related to the overall direction of the two research groups.”

Mason nodded. “I understand, Team Leader.”

After Witch Mason left, Locke took out an air plant from the synthetic cube, which was made by combining two snow mountain pineapples and a piece of lightning stone.

This wizard-shoe-shaped air plant was surrounded by flashes of lightning, and at the bottom was a swollen, fleshy root that looked like a railroad track.

‘Level 8 synthetic item: Lightning Pineapple.’

“A subspecies of the Great Snow Mountain Pineapple, it possesses a newly evolved fleshy root at its base, capable of storing large amounts of energy and water, along with various lightning-like natural magical components. These are ejected through the transformed fleshy root, granting wizards the ability to move at high speeds.”

Locke nodded slightly after reading the entry. “Currently, I have two main ideas for pineapples. One is to use the special atavistic fleshy roots of the Snow Mountain pineapple to transform them into jets.”

“One is the mimicry muscle of the giant hummingbird pineapple. It provides the wizard with mobility through rebound force.”

“To be honest, the weak abilities of these pineapples, even if made into wizard shoes, are not enough to compare with the performance of the magic weaver’s wizard shoes. But… I used the No. 2 Overlord Element to strengthen them all, and that changed.”

“This will give me a certain performance advantage. Coupled with my own brand advantage, it will be enough to carve out a path in the field of wizard shoes.”

Locke suddenly thought of something, “Right.”

Locke walked back to his workstation and looked through some information. “The fleshy root itself is a kind of energy-locking structure. However, it’s a common type of magical plant energy-locking structure.”

Locke looked through two sets of information and found that both sets contained a large amount of information on the fleshy roots of various magical plants that had been discovered thousands of years ago.

Succulent roots themselves are the product of plant evolution in order to cope with certain intermittent resource shortages.

“Energy-locking organs are organs that magical plants develop to efficiently utilize magical energy in response to resource shortages,” Locke said. “This also means that some energy-locking organs can better utilize magical energy when magical energy is abundant.”

“Therefore, in order to make good use of the energy-locking structure, I must further develop my wizard shoes.”

“Research in this area has been very helpful to me. I hope I can discover more energy-locking structures. Of course, this depends on luck. Currently, I’m focusing on the fleshy roots. If I can fully understand them, that will be enough for me.”

Locke nodded. “Right, then we can arrange for the three Mason witches and their students to conduct drought resistance experiments on the fleshy roots of my three air plants, in order to study the corresponding mechanisms.”

They all have fleshy roots, but there are still hundreds of specific sub-classifications within them.

Locke also wanted to know the specific characteristics of the fleshy roots of the three types of air plants that he was currently promoting.

“So, developing a new energy-locking structure is very helpful to my wizard shoe business.”

Locke pondered.

He didn’t consider getting magic clothes, wizard gloves, or wizard hat.

The main thing is that it is best for people to be good at one thing before moving on to other things.

Also, making wizard shoes has already offended enough people. If I make more, I’m afraid I’ll really become enemies with all the magic weavers.

In the field of wizard shoes alone, there are more than a dozen well-known wizard shoe brands and hundreds of unknown brands, as well as a series of related industrial chains.

If I interfere with the wizard shoes, it would be equivalent to directly offending the above series of people.

After all, in their eyes, as a breeder, I shouldn’t invade their territory.

Everyone hates themselves to the core, but because of their status, they have to endure it.

I should seriously create a wizard shoe brand before considering other things.

Or it’s not too late to take action when you encounter another good opportunity.

Locke arranged his research plan for after his departure and wrote down the tasks for Mason and the other three witches on his to-do list. “Currently, the data from Group 2 suggests that fleshy roots can be divided into four main categories.”

“Tuberous roots, tuberous roots, bulbs and rhizomes.”

“There are a total of 312 types of demonic plants with fleshy roots within the same ring.”

“The fleshy roots of the 312 types of magical plants can only be divided into these four categories, but each one is slightly different. I will have Witch Mason use the three magic mirrors and other equipment to study the specific conditions of the fleshy roots of the three types of pineapples.”

“Sampling and mapping, scanning of macrostructure and microstructure, and osmotic pressure inside cells.”

“After completing these three steps, we’ll conduct a drought stress experiment in groups to measure the root shrinkage rate and the recovery index after rehydration…”

“We also need to use the three magic mirrors to explore its internal reaction mechanism to the drought, the changes in its internal microstructure, and the changes in the composition of its natural magic power…”

Locke pondered, “If I could become familiar with the characteristics of the fleshy roots of these three pineapples, as well as all their mechanisms, I might be able to make better wizard shoes.”

“It also helps me with synthesis.”

Locke tidied himself up, then left his workstation, carrying the seeds, and returned to Xiaotao Mountain through the portal thirty floors underground in the research institute. He then took the Cloud Whale to a plantation in Alsace at the foot of the mountain.

Locke found Scarlett Witch there and gave her the seeds he had harvested. “Take them and plant them in the colonized world. You can also cooperate with the group of alchemists from before. Go contact them.”

“I’ve been busy lately and won’t be able to return to Golden Crown Mountain for about a month.”

Scarlett Witch nodded thoughtfully and took the two cloth bags and two wizard shoe designs from Locke.

“Then I will directly put these two works on the shelves in Alsace for you.”

“I hope you can hear good news when you come back in a month or so. That’s fine too. We’ll release the second and third Wizard Shoes in quick succession. But do you have any ideas for the centralized procurement of Wizard Shoes I mentioned earlier?”

Locke shook his head. “I’ve seen the requirements for the Demon World War. They’re very high. Our wizard shoes are of decent quality, but even after being fully enhanced with Overlord Element No. 2, they can’t compete with the quality of the top wizard shoe brands.”

“Golden Crown Mountain used to most often use designs from external tenders from the two major brands, Melochie Magic Step and Solas Lightfoot (30K). Sometimes, they would use designs from their own two-ring breeders.”

“That means it’s going to be very difficult for us to outperform these three designs,” Locke said. “I guess even I can only try my best. And I only have a few ideas at the moment.”

“It’s about utilizing the energy-locking organs that plants produce when they lack energy and water.”

Locke said, “But right now, my research on fleshy roots is still relatively superficial. If I further refine my research in this area, I should be able to further improve the quality of this product. Similarly, I’ve looked at the energy-locking structures of the 57 types of magical plant organs found in the remaining first-ring magical plants.”

“So far, it hasn’t been very helpful for me to make wizard shoes. Besides the fleshy roots, it might be the special energy-locking structure of the [cotyledons] that helps me.”

In fact, the mimicry muscles of the hummingbird pineapple are also a kind of energy-locking structure, belonging to a type called [transpiration flow pulsating xylem duct].

The cotyledon is a part of the plant seed, which is an organ structure that helps the plant seed to increase and absorb energy in the early stage.

In short, after Locke came into contact with the data of the two groups, he found that a large part of the research focus of the two groups was on the energy-locking structural organs.

Especially in the exploration of the uses and structures of existing energy-locking structural organs, as well as the structural components containing natural magic.

Therefore, while reading materials for the past half month, I have indeed made great progress in this area.

Scarlett Witch smiled and said, “It’s good to have an idea. Please try it if you can. But don’t be too burdened.”

“Even if you don’t participate in the Demon World War, just because you’re a participant in the Plane Conquest Tournament, our wizard shoe brand will be famous enough.”

Locke nodded slightly. “Scarlett Witch, I’ll leave the operation of these two products to you.”

I still need to study the part about the locking structure in detail.

The special responses that plants have evolved to cope with drought are really interesting.

During this research process, my horizons have been broadened and I have gained knowledge that I have never had before.

If you want to take the performance of wizard shoes a step further, it seems that the best way is to have a deeper understanding of the research data on existing energy-locking structures.

Or…find a more efficient energy-locking structure!
…

In the research institute of the Dune plane of Group 2, Witch Mason, Witch Freya and Wizard Barrett gathered together.

Witch Mason said, “Anyway, that’s it. Our little boss is currently busy, so we’ll have to rely on ourselves for the next month or so.”

“We can try to sort out Little Boss’s ideas and help him submit a project application for the first-class project fund.”

Freya’s eyes lit up. “If we can pass, the team leader will definitely be very happy. He will look up to the three of us.”

Wizard Barrett whispered, “Is it that easy? The research on energy-locking structures like fleshy roots is already very mature. It would be easy for us to apply for second and third prizes. But I’m not sure if applying for first prize will work.”

Mason Witch took the information Locke gave her and said, “With all the high-quality preliminary experimental data that Little Boss did earlier, how could it not work?”

“We also have to believe in our own abilities.”

Witch Mason’s expression suddenly changed slightly, as an abnormal magical pressure came from the 30th floor above the research institute, pressing down on everyone.

Witch Freya and Wizard Barrett also groaned.

Only to hear a wizard at a workstation not far away exclaim in surprise: “The eldest brother is back.”

“Has Wizard Zalan Bailey become a Second Ring Wizard? Oh my god, this is his fifth year in the ordinary Academy of True Knowledge. I didn’t expect him to be even better than those researchers at the Advanced Academy of True Knowledge and become a Second Ring Wizard first.”

“Now that Wizard Zalan Bailey has become a second-ring wizard, he will be able to compete for the special funding project plan.”

“Not only that, our Group 2’s research resources will also be tilted towards this second-ring wizard. Poor researcher who just came to our Advanced Institute of True Knowledge, he has such bad luck, he just happened to run into our senior brother who returned to Group 2!”

Inside the Sith wizard’s office, a hint of surprise appeared on his face. “Zarlan Bailey has become a second-ring wizard? Great, that’s great.”

“I just acquired Locke Augustine’s team, and now I have a second-ring wizard member.”

“It’s like adding wings to a tiger.”

“Rose Council, Storm Tower, we still have a long way to go in this costly war!”

At that time, at the workstations in the public office, Witch Mason, Wizard Barrett, and Witch Freya immediately realized that the magical pressure of the wizard Zalan Bailey seemed to be aimed at them.

The demonic pressure in their area seems to be greater than that in other areas.

However, the other party seemed to realize that there was no magic pressure from Locke Augustine here, and the next moment, he completely disappeared.

Witch Freya raised her brows. “Your presence is ill-intentioned.”

Wizard Barrett said, “He sees the boss as a threat, that’s why he’s like this.”

Witch Mason sneered. “Who cares? Does he dare to make a move? Zalan Bailey… this guy hasn’t been recruited by the Academic Committee, the Senate, or anyone from the Inspection Deacons. This can only mean one thing: he’s… of limited value.”

“It’s fine if the Senate and the Academic Committee didn’t look for him, but logically, the Inspection Deacons would have. But I haven’t heard of that. I think there’s something wrong with the so-called Senior Brother from Group 2’s great magic.”

(End of this chapter)