Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 663

Chapter 660: The Demon Weaver’s Unspoken Rules, What Does This Have to Do with Me, the Breeder?

Locke made a video call directly to Scarlett Witch. After waiting for a while, Scarlett Witch agreed to answer the call. At this time, she was wearing a wizard hat with a peacock feather on it, a pearl necklace around her neck, and was dressed like a lady.

At this time, she was obviously in a colonial plane under the jurisdiction of Yunze Wetland.

This colonial plane was captured in the near-Earth void orbit of the wizarding world, otherwise Locke would not have been able to communicate with Scarlett Witch who was in the colonial plane.

Beside Scarlett Witch were many red-skinned minotaurs working in the fields. One minotaur, dressed in clothing similar to that of the wizarding world, looked at Locke’s projection with respect and bowed to it in worship.

There were also two red-haired minotaur servants holding two palm-leaf fans and fanning Scarlett Witch.

Scarlett Witch took a sip of the drink brought by the red-haired minotaur servant, looked at Locke and said, “My dear partner, Locke, it’s been a long time since we last contacted each other. It’s been almost two months.”

“What have you been doing lately?”

“Haha, just asking casually. I can see from your expression that you don’t want to say anything, so forget about the polite words. We’re already so familiar with each other anyway.”

Scarlett Witch laughed.

Locke looked at Scarlett Witch’s pomp and said, “I haven’t seen you for two months, Scarlett Witch, and you’ve become so pompous.”

Scarlett Witch was stunned for a moment. “Oh, you mean this? This is a courtesy given to me by the Minotaur Emperor of this colonial dimension. If I refuse, this Minotaur will be punished.”

“This plane is our traditional world of Arthas. We in Arthas have cooperated with the Tauren Emperor here and opened many plantations here. This world and the Tauren Empire of this world have also made a lot of money. It’s a pity that the Tauren of this world have few talented wizards.”

“So, it can only serve as a cheap production base,” Scarlett Witch said. “Alsace had just conquered a medium-sized plane and discovered that many intelligent beings on that world possess wizarding talent. They are naturally amenable to our wooing. Their aesthetics are similar to ours, so we can absorb and assimilate their culture.”

“So Alsace gave them free infrastructure investment.”

Locke raised his eyebrows in surprise. “Huh? I thought you guys from the Alsace Shop Alliance were going there to make money.”

Scarlett Witch smiled and said, “The structure of our Alsace Shop Alliance is far more profound than you think. My dear friend, Locke.”

“Traditionally, there are only two types of colonies in the Yunze Wetlands: one is a cheap production base, and the other is a talent market attracted by the culture. However, the Yunze Wetlands’ Ten Major Store Alliance, in the midst of constant competition, has recently realized that simply utilizing these colonized worlds in this way is a waste. For example, if a world with the potential to become the second society of the wizarding world is invested in magic and infrastructure, and is provided with a basic education in magical civilization… a large number of wizards can be produced…”

Scarlett Witch was so excited that she danced with joy and said, “Just think about it, can you do business in a society with only ten wizards, or in a society with ten thousand wizards?”

“So, Arthas will invest in that world and help them improve their civilization. Arthas firmly believes that as long as a world’s magical civilization is sufficiently developed, there will be consumption, and with consumption, things can be sold there.”

Locke thought for a moment and nodded, “That’s true. But can this still be called colonization? You’re practically angel investors.”

Scarlett Witch used her eyes to command the minotaur servant to bring the drink to her lips. “It doesn’t matter what you call it. Calling it colonization is just due to historical inertia.”

“As long as we can make money, that’s all. Yunze Wetland is different from other wizarding lands. There aren’t so many ideologies that stick to conventions. So we don’t care much about these names.”

“Making money is key. As a shop alliance worth tens of billions of magic stones, Arthas has recently invested in a lot of these colonial planes,” Scarlett Witch said. “However, this kind of thing requires long-term investment and won’t generate profits in a short period of time. Instead, it’s making a lot of money for the Constructor Shop Alliance and related wizard academies. After all, building infrastructure requires investment from them.”

Locke nodded and said, “Scarlett Witch, let’s put aside the business of those great wizards for now. That business has nothing to do with us first- and second-ring wizards.”

The scale at which the wizarding world can do business is closely tied to the hierarchy.

It is impossible for a first-ring wizard or a second-ring wizard to do such a big business.

On the contrary, high-level wizards can even directly create such a large-scale store alliance platform and let most breeders work for this platform.

In essence, the owner of this platform is a giant landowner.

Of course, there should be more than one owner behind this store alliance. This is a listed store alliance, and the equity ownership entities behind it are very complicated.

Locke said, “Let’s talk about something that concerns us. It’s about my wizard shoes, and Scarlett Witch, can you become a platinum trader? I want to ask how much each of my two wizard shoes sold for.”

Scarlett Witch was stunned for a moment before saying, “I helped you run the Shoe Exchange Festival and World Walking Day, and earned a total of three million magic stones. Take a look. That’s pretty good. After all, these are rare pure magic plant wizard shoes.”

“If you didn’t have the title of Spell Combat Tournament Champion, I estimate you could only earn one-third of this net profit.”

“We might even lose money. Of course, there’s also the initial success of our Augustus Wizard Shoes brand. We’ve successfully impressed many of our wizarding clients with the Overlord Hummingbird Wizard Shoes, endorsed by the champion of the Magic Combat Tournament.”

“I only increased your profits by using labels like environmentally friendly and second-generation Overlord Magic Plant products.”

Locke nodded slightly.

I had already anticipated this profit.

After all, these two products did not take much effort on my part. The only reason I was able to make this money was because Scarlett Witch operated it for me and I had a good historical record, so I just took advantage of it.

Before I discovered the Pixiu horn fractal spiral constraint equations, the performance of the wizard shoes I made was only average.

The sales were largely due to the momentum of the magic fighting competition.

“Three million magic stones…well, that’s enough.” Locke said.

At least it’s enough to pay off my debts and start the next round of research.

Now that the exploration of the abyss ruins is completed, I can finally focus my energy on completing the first-class fund project of the Zhenzhi Academy.

Do some serious research on locking energy structure.

It just so happens that in order to optimize his first great magic and think about the second great magic, he also needs to study the energy locking structure.

There was a lack of research on the energy-locking structure during the Age of Stars. The great magic that he had conceived in the historical reproduction of the Age of Stars needed to be optimized again using the energy-locking structure.

Locke said to Scarlett Witch: “By the way, Scarlett Witch, I have figured out how to develop the fourth set of wizard shoes.”

Scarlett Witch was delighted. “Welcome. If we keep up this momentum, our Augustus Wizard Shoes should become a third-rate wizard shoe brand in the Yunze Wetlands.”

“At least I can occupy a place now.”

Locke raised a brow. “Third-rate? Scarlett Witch, if you’re going to start a wizard shoe brand, you have to start the best. During this time, I’ve also adapted to life in Yunze Wetland. The developed commercial society in Yunze Wetland did make it difficult for me to adapt at first, but I think, in order to maximize my future development, I need to consider how to make more money.”

“I want to be serious about building a wizard shoe brand, so I have to be the best.”

Scarlett Witch was stunned for a moment, then she became serious. “Okay. I like ambitious partners.”

She just thought Locke was ambitious.

But as Locke’s gold medal trader, why not encourage Locke?

Anyway, it’s just a few words and you don’t have to pay.

Locke asked, “Scarlett Witch, I’ve gotten some clues about the centralized procurement of wizard shoes for the Demon World War at Golden Crown Mountain that you mentioned earlier. By the way, when is the deadline for design and sample submission for this centralized procurement?”

Scarlett Witch was stunned for a moment, then she thought of something and looked a little guilty.

“The deadline is in January.”

Locke nodded slightly. One month later, that’s still enough time.

After all, the constraint equations of the fractal spiral of the Pixiu horn have been calculated by myself. As a breeder, I only need to rely on the big black diamond pineapple and graft it with the big snow top pineapple and its subspecies to cultivate a pineapple magic plant that can mimic the fractal spiral and energy-locking structure of the Pixiu horn.

Then use the synthetic cube to improve the cultivation speed and quality.

One month is more than enough, and I can even use the remaining time to do some research on Group 2.

Apply for the first-class project fund of Zhenzhi Institute as soon as possible.

Scarlett Witch felt a little guilty. “Locke, but regarding this wizard shoe group buy, I’ve thought it over carefully. I was inconsiderate before. After all, I was just a silver trader before, with limited experience.”

“Now that I’m a top trader and have a wider social circle, I’ve realized that this Wizard Shoes group purchase is more complicated than I thought.”

“I think the waters are too deep here. We’d better not get our hopes up too much.”

Locke looked at her doubtfully. “What’s the problem? Even you have no confidence?”

Scarlett Witch saw Locke standing in the wild with no one around, and she was in the colonial plane, so she spoke directly without beating around the bush, “I didn’t expect that things involving the magic weaver industry are even darker than I thought.”

“Locke, do you know about the service fee alliance of the magic weaver industry?”

Locke thought for a moment. “What is that?”

He had also heard about the corruption and chaos that had accumulated in the magic weaver industry.

Scarlett Witch said, “This relates to why pure magic plant wizard shoes are hated and excluded by magic weavers, and why they are not allowed to exist and are suppressed.”

“Generally speaking, if it’s just for the sake of making money, then there will definitely be magic weavers who will find that pure magic plant wizard shoes can make money and try to enter this market.”

Locke nodded slightly. “Where there’s profit, there the wizards will be.”

Scarlett Witch said, “The problem lies with the service fee alliance. I’ve never been exposed to this before, and I didn’t know there were so many unspoken rules among magic weavers.”

“The alliance of the major weaving workshops and shops of the magic weavers, as well as the high-level magic weavers, have formed an industry standard through their magic weaver industry union, which includes the standard for the service fee of wizard shoes.”

Scarlett Witch said, “The standard document is forbidden from being disseminated, so I can’t show it to you. I only saw it at a trader’s gathering.”

“This is completely different from our breeder industry. Our breeder union only protects the rights of individual breeders and does not do such things.”

“The standard service fee for wizard shoes is to cover the regular service fee for internal charging of wizard shoes, as well as maintenance services such as cleaning and repairs.”

Locke raised a brow.

Witch Scarlett said, “According to this standard, magic weavers making wizard shoes must consider systematic scrapping.”

“A systemic failure ensures that individuals and colleges who purchase wizard shoes pay a huge annual maintenance fee.”

Locke was speechless. “This… The current price of wizard shoes is already quite high for a magical weapon. They’re really inflated. And they’re even charging a maintenance fee.”

Scarlett Witch said, “The unit price of maintenance is higher than the profit of wizard shoes.”

“Also, there’s recycling for wizard shoes. Magic weavers, leveraging their powerful position, specify in the purchase contract that discarded wizard shoes must be returned to a few designated alliance stores for environmentally friendly disposal.”

“But that’s really cost recovery.”

“If a wizard who violates the rules is brought to court, he may have to pay a fine.”

Locke frowned. He had some information about this. Everyone knew about it and it was not difficult to find out.

It’s just that I really didn’t know about the service fee.

No wonder those magic weavers were so dissatisfied with me after I won the championship in the magic fighting competition and topped the sales list.

At that time, I thought that they felt that as a breeder, I should not sell wizard shoes.

Only now do I realize that there are so many tricks behind wizard shoes, and I foolishly sold magic plant wizard shoes, which directly violated the unspoken rules of their industry.

But…what does this have to do with me?

Anyway, I have the support of the Golden Crown Mountain and I sell some first-level wizard shoes, so no one can do anything to me.

With my current status, it is appropriate for me to do this business and find my own blue ocean market.

As long as you can eat it.

Scarlett Witch said, “So, if you participate in the centralized procurement, I’m afraid it will be very difficult. If you push them too hard, they can easily unite and collude with each other. For example, they can work together to lower the price that you can’t even offer and win the centralized procurement. So no matter what, we can’t win the centralized procurement.”

“Before, I asked you to try to participate in the Demon World Set Purchase at Golden Crown Mountain. It was my mistake. I’m sorry, Locke.”

Locke shook his head slightly, and after thinking for a while, he said, “No, you brought me good news. You made me realize that my wizard shoes are even more competitive than I thought…”

If that’s the case, with the Pixiu horn fractal spiral constraint equations, the wizard shoes I made myself could completely defeat them in the Demon World War procurement.

Because of their long-term monopoly, the other party has done too many things to increase the cost for buyers, and as a breeder, there is no need for me to be restricted by the standard setting of wizard shoe service fees.

What does the rules set by the Magic Weavers’ Union have to do with a breeder like me?!

(End of this chapter)