Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 677

Chapter 674: Punishment from the Magic Weavers’ Guild

Chapter 674: Punishment and Sanctions by the Magic Weaver Industry Association
. The same thing happened at the Solas Lightfoot (30k) seminar. During the latest market analysis and review, this group of wizard managers, wizard designers and wizard manufacturers unexpectedly discovered that in the centralized procurement of Golden Crown Mountain, the winning bidder for the first-ring wizard shoes was actually a wizard shoe brand that had never been seen before.

The Moon Ring Wizard Supervisor at Solas Lightfoot (30k) said angrily, “Pure Magic Plant Wizard Shoes? What the hell is that? It doesn’t look like a sub-brand that Meloch Magic Steps and his gang would establish.”

The head of the Moon Ring Wizard Department had a very grim expression on his face. Although it was only a one-ring market and the transaction volume was only over 20 million magic stones, it didn’t seem like the problem was very serious.

Compared with their overall market share and stock price of Solas Lightfoot (30k), it is just a drop in the ocean.

But the problem is that the large store alliance Solas Lightfoot (30k) adopts a completely different production model from Locke’s Augustus Wizard Shoes brand.

Locke’s wizard shoe brand adopts a light asset model. In addition to building the brand, both the distributors and manufacturers rely on Alsace.

In order to avoid dependence on platforms like Alsace, Solas Lightfoot (30k) must maintain its own distributors and manufacturers, and at the same time invest huge amounts of commercial maintenance and advertising maintenance at all times.

In order to enhance the reputation of Solas Lightfoot (30k), they sponsor many sports competitions and competitions with other wizard academies every year.

The heavy asset model adopted by Solas Lightfoot (30k) is to use huge upfront investment costs to maintain its own moat.

Therefore, Solas Lightfoot (30k) has a lot of leverage, so liquidity is still relatively tight.

These 20 million are already a considerable amount of cash flow for Solas Guangfu (30k).

Although it is insignificant compared to the more than 1 billion fixed assets of Solas Guangzu (30k).

The alliance of heavy asset stores is most afraid of falling into a death cycle of cash flow, and the Demon World War in Yunze Wetland is a very good advertising platform.

The entire Demon World War, from top to bottom, is full of traces of intervention by the upper echelons of the White Wizards, and everything can be commercialized. Therefore, Solas Light Feet (30k), as an alliance of famous wizard shoe stores, has spent a lot of energy to compete for wizard shoe orders in the five major wars of the seven major academies.

Who would have known that this time, they lost all the wizard shoe orders from Golden Crown Mountain. The first order was lost to a small brand that appeared out of nowhere, the second order was lost to Melachi Magic Steps, and the third order was lost to [Vicos].

It is said that this time, Vicos focused on the development of the three-ring wizard shoes, and thus won the recognition of the reviewers of Golden Crown Mountain.

But the problem is, at the technical seminar, many Solas Lightfoot (30k) wizards were looking through the information of the Augustus wizard shoe brand.

They all realized a problem.

On the surface, the biggest enemy of Solas Lightfoot (30k) in the defeat of Golden Crown Mountain this time was Meloch Magic Step and Vicos, because they defeated them in the second-ring and third-ring wizard shoes market.

But Solas Lightfoot (30k) is also better than the products of the two store allies in the other six wars.

After all, Solas Lightfoot (30k) submitted 21 design plans and physical objects to the seven top colleges.

But the key point is that it would be fine if the Augustus Wizard Shoes were a brand of wizard shoes made by a magic weaver.

At most, afterwards, Solas Guangfu (30k) would buy the brand with money that the first-ring wizard had never seen in his life, and he would buy the entire brand and related technical routes.

But the problem is, these are pure magic plant wizard shoes.

At the technical seminar of Solas Lightfoot (30k), a group of second-ring wizards and first-ring wizards looked at each other and realized the seriousness of the problem.

The Second Ring Chief Designer of Solas Guangzu (30k) whispered, “A store alliance, using a heavy asset model, once established, will make it difficult for later comers to replicate.”

“So, we’re not really afraid of Meloch’s Magic Step. As for Vicos, haha, it just happened that they snatched an order from us.”

“There’s a huge gap in technology and assets between Vicos and us, so this is just a minor tiff,” Second Ring’s chief designer muttered. “As I said before, the moat built by the heavy asset model is like a giant moving forward with heavy equipment, difficult to fall, and they’ve already pocketed most of the profits along this route.”

“but……”

The Moon Ring Wizard Supervisor continued, “But… this is only based on the existing model. We, Solas Lightfoot (30K), as heavily armored Titans, are only invincible along this existing path. But once a second or third path appears, as heavily armored Titans, we will be unable to move, becoming restricted in every way.”

“Pure Magic Plant Wizard Shoes have never been our enemy in the past. Furthermore, we also have some funds to spend on research routes that may threaten our store alliances. We have also set up a ‘Crisis Preparatory Department’ to persuade these wizards to abandon these research routes in advance.”

“To ensure that these research paths will never be pursued by talented wizards.”

“We can even directly give money to those wizards to make them give up on their own initiative.”

“But look at these pure magic plant wizard shoes. The magic plant performance of the Snow Top Pineapple 02 version… The performance of these wizard shoes is already comparable to our top-level first-level wizard shoes.”

The Moon Ring Wizard Supervisor asked, “Where is the director of our crisis preparedness department? What do you do for a living? Why are you putting such mature pure magic plant wizard shoes on the market?”

At the technical seminar, the wizard at the first crystallization stage, who was sitting at the end of the long table, immediately stood up, bowed to the director, and said, “I’m sorry, Director. This wizard brand was established within the past six months, and our department has indeed been observing it for some time.”

“The wizard behind this brand is a researcher at Mount Golden Crown, and has close ties with the Three Ring Throne wizards. Therefore, we didn’t act rashly, but instead assessed the threat level to Solas’s Lightfoot (30K). A month ago, our assessment was that there wasn’t much of a threat…”

“The quality of their wizard shoes was only average at the time, and there was also the possibility of conflict with the No. 1 Overlord Element Industry. Therefore, our department prepared to take a gradual approach…”

The Moon Ring Wizard Minister’s face darkened. “What do you mean by no threat? What do you mean by taking it slow? Then tell me, how could the Augustus Wizard Shoes brand produce such mature, top-tier wizard shoes in such a short time?”

“Have you ever considered whether our store alliance’s stock price will plummet, our investment will decrease, and our funding chain will be disrupted? The most terrifying thing is, if one happens, there will be another. Those breeders will swarm in like sharks smelling blood.”

“That’s an unknown market, an unknown world. We, Solas Lightfoot, cannot get caught up in such a market or such a world. We will lose the advantages that have allowed us to thrive so long.”

“And this Demon World War is the best advertising platform!”

“The Augustus Wizard Shoes brand is enough to leapfrog into a third-tier, or even second-tier, wizard shoe brand, and it still has great potential!”

At the long table, a second-ring wizard muttered, “There’s never been a precedent of a first-ring wizard owning a second- or third-tier wizard shoe brand in such a large market.”

“That’s against the rules. I remember that if this happens, a series of association rules and regulations can be invoked to separate the wizard from his wizard shoe brand in order to make the economic order and the magical hierarchy conform.”

Another second-ring wizard reminded him, “Take a look at this wizard’s credentials. He’s not just an ordinary researcher at Mount Golden Crown, but also a champion of the Spell Combat Tournament and a competitor in the Holy Grail of Silence. He’s basically a second-ring wizard.”

“With all these identities combined, he’d likely be considered a second-ring wizard by the Holy Magistrates’ Court. In short, I think it’s unlikely that the Law will become our helper and help us eliminate a potential opponent. If he had no identity, it would be much easier.”

The second-ring wizard smiled and said, “Young people should at least experience how dark this world is. However, this wizard does have a status, so he really can’t see this darkness.”

The director of the crisis response department apologized softly, “Everyone, this is our department’s problem.”

At this time, the wizard capitalists at the long table had no time to pay attention to him, but began to discuss how to deal with it now.

A designer from Solas Lightfoot (30K) suggested: “Since v*olence can’t solve it, why not try commercial suppression?”

“We can suppress his production line, increase the production cost of each pair of his wizard shoes, reduce his profits, and then we can directly pay to acquire his brand and technology route. These first-ring wizards just want to make a fortune, so let them make it.”

“Let him make a fortune.”

Solas’s Lightfoot’s second-ring chief designer shook his head and said, “Haha. A first-ring wizard? You think he’s easy to deal with? He’s a disciple of the Golden Crown Mountain and a competitor in the Silent Grail. I have reason to believe that if he weren’t participating in the Silent Grail, he would have already advanced to the second ring, or is in the process of doing so.”

“If you think he’s a wizard who can be easily dismissed, you’re probably going to suffer a great loss.”

“And, look at his production line. He’s partnered with Alsace. The distribution channels he uses are provided by Alsace, and the production channels he uses are also provided by Alsace. How can we fight him? With our size, we can’t move Alsace, the real capital.”

A second-ring wizard complained, “Arthas? Capital? They don’t deserve that! They’re just a bunch of landowners. Damn it, we just fell out with them not long ago. They used to rely on their platform to exploit us every day.”

“We’ve already fallen out with Arthas. If this guy is cooperating with another small store alliance platform, we can directly bribe the store alliance platform and force them to forbid cooperation with this guy.”

“We used to suppress those small brands in the same way, but now that this guy is a guest of Alsace, I’m afraid it will be difficult.”

The wizard continued, “How about lowering the price to suppress it? Well, that’s unlikely. Our products are works of art and are so expensive, how can we lower the price? If the price is lowered, I’m afraid the impact on us will be even more serious.”

A group of people began to discuss how to deal with this situation.

At this time, Solas Lightfoot (30k) and Melachi Magic Steps had the biggest reactions, while other second- and third-tier wizard shoe brands did not react too strongly.

The main reason is that other wizard shoe brands are just eating the leftovers of these two companies, so they naturally have no motivation to interfere and, as industry giants, suppress newcomers.

At the same time, the Rose Council and the Magic Weaver Industry Association also responded.

As a transcendent top wizard academy, the Rose Council naturally had more discussions. A group of magic weavers and flower language masters exchanged some information they cared about during the conversation, and thus talked about the Augustus wizard shoe brand.

Most wizards in the Rose Council were disparaging about this, but this matter had nothing to do with them.

However, some senior wizards in the Rose Council are major shareholders of traditional wizard shoe brands, so they are naturally unhappy at the moment.

But after seeing that it was a brand founded by researchers from Jinmian Mountain, I didn’t have any idea what to do.

The Magic Weaver Industry Association reacted strongly. They began an emergency discussion overnight and determined that someone had seriously violated the rules and regulations of the Magic Weaver Industry Association.

Moreover, from its creation to its rise, the Augustus Wizard Shoes brand has never sought the advice of the Magic Weaver Industry Association, nor has it applied for relevant asset audits and production licenses from this industry association.

Of course, later in the meeting, the association discovered that Locke was a breeder and did not need the association at all. The production of wizard shoes did not require any association’s production license, and the establishment of a wizard shoe store alliance did not require any asset audit.

These are the unspoken rules formed spontaneously by this folk association and have nothing to do with the White Wizard Association.

So, the association held a meeting for a long time and found that they had no way to deal with Locke Augustine.

As a result, the chairman of the association was immediately furious and immediately had someone write a letter of sanctions. He printed four copies and sent them to the Breeders’ Industry Association, Golden Crown Mountain, Locke himself, and Alsace respectively.

During the meeting, a magic weaver at the first crystallization stage asked, “Chief, how do we punish those who violate the rules?”

The association president pondered, “Let’s make some threats first. As for the specific sanctions, let’s ban Locke Augustine from joining our association.”

(End of this chapter)