Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 678

Chapter 675 Life-Friendly Brand and Green Magic Project

A day later, Locke just walked out of the large metal telescope. It was a steel building as big as a house on the fifteenth floor of the research institute base. Huge amounts of energy needed to flow back every moment, otherwise it would not be able to support the operation of the telescope.

In essence, this is a large two-ring magic weapon.

With enough magical energy, even a Sun Ring wizard would not be able to withstand the radiation of this device with his physical body.

Locke used this device, spending 10,000 magic stones as a usage fee, and preliminarily analyzed the internal structural characteristics and specific mechanism of action of the ancient flower roots.

This part was done by Mason, the witch and the other two together, which saved me a lot of time.

When Locke walked out, Scarlett Witch contacted him through the Water Hyacinth System, saying that [Solas Lightfoot 30K] and [Melachi Magic Steps], together with all wizard shoe brands, launched a joint stranglehold operation on their Augustus wizard shoes.

Locke looked confused. “Joint strangulation?”

“Are they going to attack me?”

Scarlett Witch called over the video chat. “That’s absolutely impossible. Even a capital giant like Arthas wouldn’t dare to directly violate the laws of the White Wizards Association. After all, if they directly violated the laws of the White Wizards Association, they would be like dark wizards, defying the collective will of all wizarding academies—the orders of the Supreme Council of Truth.”

“There’s no need to talk about laws when suppressing dark wizards. They’re just doing business, so no one can say anything.”

“Now these two companies have launched a task – Wizard Shoes Exchange. Every pair of our Augustus Wizard Shoes can be directly exchanged for a better version of the Solas Lightfoot (30k) and any product series under the Meloch Magic Steps.”

“In other words, by purchasing used Augustus brand shoes, you can exchange them for a better pair of Magic Weaver wizard shoes. However, the original Augustus wizard shoes must be destroyed.”

Locke had a strange look in his eyes and immediately realized what the two top wizard shoe stores were doing.

Although on the surface it seems that the other party may even bring some new customers for speculation and profiteering.

But these new customers who come here to speculate and profiteer are never real customers of any store alliance or wizard brand.

On the contrary, this is a newly established wizard shoe brand, so increasing the number of seed users is the key to the survival of this brand.

Winning the bidding for wizard shoes, part of the Demon World War, was a landmark moment. Next, his own brand would become famous, and the monthly orders should increase.

The entire brand will enter a virtuous cycle and rapid growth stage, and what Solas Lightfoot and Melachi Magic Steps do is to take advantage of their status as leading capital giants to break this virtuous cycle of reputation and sales first, and use the trick of [exchange] to interrupt the process of accumulating seed users.

Let the Augustus wizard shoe brand become a transitional product under their several major wizard shoe brands, and introduce a large number of speculative customers to their own wizard shoe brand, these customers are likely to make their own wizard shoe brand notorious.

Especially those ‘scalper’ customers.

The real goal of those wizard shoe giants is not to directly eliminate the Augustus Wizard Shoe brand, because after their own brand won the Demon World War bid, this goal cannot be achieved in a short period of time.

Therefore, their goal is to prevent their Augustus Wizard brand from growing so healthily, to create a fear of being suppressed by giants, and to intimidate potential wizard investors who want to cooperate with them.

At the same time, if I am not mistaken, this is a combo. I am afraid that what will happen next is that the two major wizard shoe brands will join forces to acquire my small wizard shoe brand which has just started.

Locke asked directly: “Scarlett, how much did the other party bid?”

During the video call, Scarlett Witch was stunned for a moment, then said, “Locke, you’re really quick to react. You guessed it before I even said it. Someone from Solas Lightfoot is indeed coming to our side.”

“They even wanted Alsace to stop being the OEM for the Augustus Wizard Shoes brand, but no one on our side paid any attention to them.”

“Alsace’s scale far exceeds theirs. The most powerful wizarding forces in Yunze Wetland are the seven top academies, followed by those medium-to-large wizarding organizations, such as the Magic Hub City and Kunguding Building Materials Academy that you encountered before…”

“And there’s Xiaoxi Mountain near Quinjoel University…”

“Or maybe it’s the Wutao Dynasty from the Rose Council…”

“The Yunze Wetland’s Ten Major Store Alliance is a recognized and rare organization of wizards from non-wizard academies that can compete with a powerful wizard academy in a wizarding land in terms of background and power.”

“Arthas is a transcendental behemoth, so he cannot be bought by an alliance of two wizard shoe stores. As for their bid, Solas Barefoot offered 10 million.”

“And said, if you want, they can pay it immediately, without delay.”

Locke had a strange expression. “1,000 Magic Crystal Cards? That’s pretty stingy. I earned 1,000 Magic Crystal Cards from this Demon World War alone. But that’s the only price they’re willing to pay.”

Locke sighed. “It seems like they still look down on us.”

As a trader from Alsace, Scarlett Witch seemed pleased to see a direct battle with the two giant wizard shoe giants of the Yunze Wetlands. A smile filled her eyes. “Who says it’s not?”

“These wizard shoe giants are always high and mighty, believing they can remain invincible forever thanks to the amplification effect of scale and numbers.”

Scarlett Witch said, “Also, I checked the stock market and found that the share prices of the two companies did not fluctuate at all.”

“It seems that the public still has full confidence in these two wizard shoes.”

“So, Locke, do you want to accept it?”

Locke decisively refused. “No, you’re kidding. Scarlett Witch, you know how hard I worked to find this business opportunity. If I give up, it will take a lot of effort to find another one. Besides, I don’t have the time.”

“No matter what I do, I need money now. And a lot of it. If those two shops that are allies can just give me the money directly, I might be willing to stop.”

Scarlett Witch looked into Locke’s eyes and saw that his eyes were red, as if he had not slept for a long time.

She exclaimed, “Soul decline? Congratulations… but this is too fast.”

Even Scarlett Witch couldn’t help but feel a little envious and jealous at this moment, but she quickly reacted.

Locke is a researcher at Golden Crown Mountain, while she is just a native wizard of Yunze Wetlands and a gold medal trader in Alsace.

Although the identity of a gold medal trader is enough to make many wizards in Yunze Wetland envious, there is an essential gap between the two compared to wizards like Locke who entered the Golden Crown Mountain through the Yunze Cup.

Thinking of this, Scarlett Witch directly accepted the fact that Locke entered the period of soul decline faster than her.

To many extents, a person’s identity is not only an identity for others, but also a kind of self-awareness for himself.

Therefore, Scarlett Witch could not accept that an ordinary wild wizard made faster progress than her, but she could accept that the researcher of the Advanced Academy of True Knowledge in Golden Crown Mountain made much faster progress than her.

This was also the reason why Locke originally sought to enter the Star Sea.

Locke said to Scarlett Witch, “Please ask the leaders of the two shops if they are willing to offer me a place in a medium-sized world. I want a world that has never been visited by any wizard.”

“Then I’m willing to give up developing wizard shoes.”

Scarlett Witch glanced at Locke with a complicated expression. “I’ll try.”

After a while, Scarlett Witch said to Locke in the video conversation: “The director of the crisis preparation department who contacted me from Solas Lightfoot directly refused.”

“The person in charge of contacting me from the Melochi Magic Steps asked me… and you, if we were crazy and if we wanted to see a wizard from the School of Psychic Studies.”

“He can pay.”

Scarlett Witch’s eyes flashed with anger. “These people are so arrogant.”

Locke said, “It seems the talks have fallen through. Actually, there was a deal, but they just didn’t think I was worth the price.”

“Then Scarlett Witch, please help me keep running the business. I will launch a fifth wizard shoe brand when I have time.”

“Keep pressing on. It’s just that I haven’t had much inspiration lately, and I’ve been so busy.”

Locke pondered, “I’ve clearly rejected the acquisition, but I don’t think the two companies will give up yet. Their trade-in strategy could indeed disrupt our healthy development from the start. Most dangerously, it could reduce our brand to a brand that can only be traded in for their wizard shoes on the second-hand market.”

“Once this perception becomes fixed, it will be troublesome. It will conflict with our Demon World War Dark Horse brand. Scarlett Witch, have you contacted the experts at Jungle Hand yet?”

Scarlett Witch shook her head and said, “I’m trying my best. By the way, I did apply for special treatment for you from Arthas. According to the unspoken rules of the Yunze Wetlands, a first-ring wizard can only sell his products within one wizarding district.”

“Only second-ring wizards can sell in multiple wizard regions in Yunze Wetland. Arthas has given you special treatment, giving you the same status as a second-ring breeder. Therefore, you can choose the second region among the ten regions of Golden Crown Mountain to sell simultaneously.”

“I predict that the monthly income from your wizard shoes will increase many times over. Your income will increase significantly.”

Locke nodded and said, “That’s great. I choose Bonifacios.”

The reason why I chose this area is because there are several of my friends in this area, including Witch Diana and Contract Master Hussein.

The ten regions are all similar to me, because pure magic plant wizard shoes are a blue ocean market, and there are many breeders and botanical wizards in Yunze Wetland.

Therefore, you might as well choose a region that you have some understanding of and where you have some acquaintances.

Scarlett Witch nodded, weighing the options in her mind and confirming that there was no problem. “Okay.”

Locke said, “I’ll take the initiative to contact the people from Jungle Hand.”

Scarlett Witch asked in surprise, “Do you know anyone from the Jungle Hand?”

She looked surprised. “Those people are difficult to get along with.”

Locke said: “It’s okay. As long as you know how to get along with them, they are actually quite cute.”

Locke thought of the Salvadoran experts and the witch Grace from the southern border area, Green Steel City.

The latter cannot be contacted, but the former can be contacted through the Gray Mist Slate himself.

Scarlett Witch raised her eyebrows, revealing an unreadable expression. “Cute? Uh… well, this is probably a metaphor.”

The two of them communicated again for a while, determined the future development direction of the Augustus Wizard Shoes, and then hung up the video call.

Locke randomly found an empty room in Group 2’s research institute base and walked in. He chanted a spell, summoned a gray mist slate, and then found the contact information of the Salvadoran expert on the gray mist slate.

He directly sent a video call request. Because it was cracked, he did not need to purchase a gold membership of 10,000 magic stones per month to use this function.

The call request was quickly answered.

What old man Salvador was holding on his head at this moment was not a lotus leaf, but a big winter melon. The whole winter melon was like white jade and was about the same size as old man Salvador’s head. The green vines of the white jade winter melon were wrapped around his chin like a crown.

The Salvadoran expert said in surprise, “Good afternoon, Wizard Locke. It’s been a long time since we last spoke. I didn’t expect you to contact me so suddenly.”

“Hmm? Aren’t you in the Land of Six Towers? Why does it feel like the magic tide over there is not right?”

Locke saw a tropical rainforest behind the Salvadoran expert, and the background seemed to be night, so he guessed that there was a place of eternal night – the Sun Shadow Peninsula.

“Expert Salvador, are you in the Sun Shadow Peninsula? I’m no longer in the Six Towers. I’m in the Yunze Wetland.”

Salvador looked surprised. “Yunze Wetland? Why are you going to such a high-level wizarding land?”

“Well, I’m in the Hikage Peninsula. There’s the Jungle Hand’s Shinchiin on the Hikage Peninsula, and I’m currently working for the Shinchiin here. Are you going to Yunze Wetland for tourism? Or for business?”

“Just look at the tropical rainforest behind me. Most of the Sun Shadow Peninsula is covered in this kind of woodland. The magical plants here are also very special. Because there is so little sunlight here, all the magical plants here have been forced to evolve special magical plant organs that use geothermal heat as a source of energy.”

“Because the magical plants of the Hikage Peninsula rely heavily on geothermal energy, their chloroplast organs have degenerated and are now commonly equipped with vortex fluid organs, which convert geothermal energy into life energy. The magical creatures have also changed accordingly.”

“Changes in the magical plants will drive collective changes in higher-level consumers within the ecosystem. That’s why plants are so important in ecology.”

The wizard Salvador said, “By the way, I’ve been thinking about my previous promise lately. If you wait a little longer, maybe I’ll have a chance to get you into the Zhenzhiyuan of the Jungle Hand on the Sun Shadow Peninsula!”

Locke had a strange expression on his face. “Wait, Master Salvador, thank you for your kindness. But I may not need it anymore.”

“I am currently in the Advanced Zhenzhi Academy on Jinmai Mountain in Yunze Wetland.”

“Be a researcher.”

The wizard Salvador had a strange expression on his face, his pupils suddenly constricted, as if he found it somewhat unbelievable. “You? Golden Crown Mountain? Yunze Wetland?”

“The land of Sanze is an area that even the Jungle Hand finds difficult to enter.”

In the eastern border area, the base camp of Jungle Hand seems to be the Sun Shadow Peninsula, and they have great influence in the Sun Shadow Peninsula.

Locke nodded and said, “Well, I came to you this time because I need an expert’s help with something.”

He briefly explained his concept of pure magic plant wizard shoes to the Salvadoran experts, and then said that the giants of the wizard shoe store alliance in Yunze Wetland were currently working together to suppress him.

Sure enough, after hearing this, old man Salvador immediately fell into extreme anger, “What! These hateful magical creature executioners who forced the mountains to work, how dare they do this!”

“These people should apologize to all wizards in the world!”

“These people are so terrible! The world is ruined and people’s hearts are rotten.”

The winter melon worn on the head of the Salvadoran wizard sensed the emotions of its owner and gradually changed from white jade to deep red.

Locke didn’t expect that his headdress could actually reflect the owner’s emotional changes.

The Salvadoran wizard said righteously, “The concept of pure magic plant wizard shoes is so perfect. It perfectly fits the energy conservation and environmental protection advocated by our Jungle Hand, as well as the concept of long-term development.”

“Just wait, Locke. Don’t worry, I won’t let you be bullied by those horrible life-killers. I’ll contact my friends at Jungle Hands and help you define your wizard shoes as a life-friendly brand.”

Locke’s pupils shrank slightly.

This is what he wants.

No matter how small the power of the Jungle Hand is in Yunze Wetlands, it is already very powerful for an individual wizard.

In order to meet the annual green environmental protection indicators, the major wizard academies in Yunze Wetland need to directly purchase some green environmental protection products. They will not really think seriously about doing some environmental protection things to offset the indicators.

After all, the land of Sanze is currently a place where the Jungle Hand cannot intervene.

But as long as his own wizard shoe brand is recognized as a green and environmentally friendly brand, he will get a large number of orders even if it is just to meet the environmental protection indicators, and he can stabilize his brand reputation under the impact of the other party’s [exchange] strategy.

Expert Salvador said, “Not only that. I’m also going to contact my friends and have Jungle Hand list Solas Lightfoot and Melachi Magic Step as this year’s most backward store alliances, and have their notoriety published in the Jungle Hand Newspaper!”

Locke was confused. “What is that?”

The Salvadoran expert said, “Over the past decade, we at Jungle Hand have created a ranking of the least environmentally friendly store alliances. As you know, we receive a lot of investment every year, which we can’t spend all, so we established a newspaper. For the sake of environmental protection, we don’t charge for these newspapers and distribute them to the wizards for free.”

“There will be some very useful sections in the newspaper, including a section promoting our Jungle Hand philosophy, including a section for the Least Progressive Shop Alliance. Wait, I’ll contact someone right away and have them appear on this section.”

Expert Salvador bared his teeth and clawed. “Why are these demons not born in Hell or the Abyss, but in the wizarding world? They are so evil.”

“I will let all wizards in the entire Eastern Territory see their notoriety.”

Locke blinked. Wizard Salvador was just an ordinary first-ring wizard, but because he was a famous jungle ecological restoration expert, he had special powers within the Jungle Hand.

Although, if you are doing serious work or simply pursuing a teaching position, these rights are of no use.

But only in this kind of business competition, or similar matters, will this right show its power.

He himself had never expected that the wizard Salvador had the ability to make the alliance of these two stores appear in newspapers throughout the eastern region and scold them in them.

The Salvadoran wizard said, “I will also contact my friends to conduct an environmental investigation on these two store alliances.”

“There must be something wrong with them!”

“Also, the concept of pure magic plant wizard shoes that you proposed, Locke, is very consistent with the Green Magic plan that Jungle Hand has always been committed to. This Green Magic plan was not developed by Jungle Hand alone, but was jointly promoted with the White Wizard Association headquarters.”

For some reason, after mentioning the White Wizard Headquarters, old man Salvador’s expression became much more serious, no longer as crazy. “In other words, this is a plan jointly launched by Jungle Hand and ‘Sky’.”

“For years, the Jungle Hand has been trying to strengthen the green magic program in the Three Lakes. But it has always been able to only make a small attempt.”

The Salvadoran wizard pondered, “But your business plan makes me think that Jungle Hand might be able to take advantage of the opportunity to partially realize this plan in the Yunze Wetlands.”

“The so-called Green Magic Plan has a set of strict indicators, primarily aimed at reducing pollution, reducing the consumption of non-renewable resources, achieving a series of future goals, including reducing emissions of gases and wastewater including heavy element particles, and producing products with minimal environmental impact.”

“We at Jungle Hands actually feel that this goal is too modest. As a result, for years, local governments have been lip-service to it, even allowing for a lot of so-called ‘objective’ pollution within this plan.”

The Salvadoran wizard said, “Anyway, I can find someone to define your brand as life-friendly, invest in your brand through the Green Magic Plan, and apply for brand protection and anti-competition protection from the local White Wizards Association.”

“Then, you can fine the two stores that are participating in the trade-in program and force them to give you some of their market share.”

“Anyway, I still need to discuss this with someone. Locke, just wait. The local Jungle Hands experts should be contacting you in a few days.”

Locke knew that things would not be as easy as Salvador said. After all, those capitalists would not give up their own flesh and blood and directly give up a specific market for a so-called green magic plan.

But as long as he could attract the Hand of the Jungle, he could drive out the wolf and swallow the tiger, and let the Hand of the Jungle help him bear the pressure exerted on him by the combined capitals. He just needed to take advantage of this time to become a second-ring wizard, strengthen his position, and at the same time strengthen his brand, forcing the major wizard shoe store alliances to accept reality.

Time is on your side.

As long as he could survive the first wave of joint stranglehold and the heavy pressure, the cost of each subsequent attack would become higher and higher.

Capital is always profit-seeking. As time goes by, those wizards who bet on the traditional wizard shoe industry will bet on their own side.

His own Augustus Wizard Shoes might even be able to turn the tables and become the new wizard shoe giant in Yunze Wetland!
Of course, this also requires him to become a second-ring wizard as soon as possible. Otherwise, if a large number of investors who are waiting and watching join in and strangle him, it will be troublesome.

At the same time, if you want to occupy the real market of wizard shoes, you must not only win in the first ring, but also in the second ring and even the third ring.

The two top wizard shoe brands are now in a stalemate with me at the first ring stage, and have an absolute advantage. Needless to say, the second ring is also a problem, and the high-end level of the third ring is naturally not something I can get involved in now.

Therefore, Locke estimated that the two store alliances’ targeting of him was unlikely to be a desperate fight to deal with a life-and-death crisis, but rather an attitude of suppressing the younger generation and preventing accidents.

As long as he could increase the cost of their suppression of him, the two sides would be able to form a balance of power. For a long time, before he tried to break through their barrier of the second-ring wizard shoes, they should be able to keep to themselves.

Introducing the Jungle Hand will only increase the cost for them to suppress themselves.

It now seems that this strategy is correct for the time being, and I may even be able to take advantage of the Green Magic Plan.

(End of this chapter)