Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 841

Chapter 838 The experiment of atavism is completed, and the golden wheat field reappears!

At Dragonblood Market on Golden Crown Mountain, Locke rented a single room for each of the two at an inn in Dragonblood Market, charging 100,000 magic stones per month. Since he only needed to pay for half a month, he only spent 100,000 magic stones in total. There

was no other way; although there were rooms for 10,000 magic stones a month, those rooms were either shared with other wizards or so small as to be practically just a single room, lacking any supporting facilities like laboratories.

Hussein and Henry, the old pirate, were, after all, second-ring wizards—one a genius lawyer, the other a seasoned, ruthless poison-wielding wizard.

He couldn’t be so stingy as to put them in those kinds of rooms.

So, he chose a room that was neither too expensive nor too cheap.

The two were quite satisfied with the inn in Dragonblood Market.

Putting everything else aside, the living environment was indeed quite good.

The inherited magic array of Mount Golden Crown constantly draws upon the sun’s fire from the heavens, transforming it into a unique magical tide that descends. Conducting experiments here is far superior to that at the foot of the mountain.

It’s fair to say that every time Hussein visits, he feels that the magical tides in the air alone at Mount Golden Crown are far stronger than in other regions.

If Locke hadn’t provided the old pirate with a permit, asking the demon hunters of Mount Golden Crown to turn a blind eye, he would normally never have been able to set foot on Mount Golden Crown in his lifetime.

Therefore, old Henry’s eyes darted around, wishing Locke would invite him to stay for a year.

Of course, this was impossible.

Because he was a Void Pirate, and Void Pirates run out of money if they don’t rob; he had no concept of saving.

Locke looked at old Henry and asked, “This must be the first time a Poison Blade wizard has come to our Golden Crown Mountain, right? Are you settling in well? If you need anything, you can let me know.”

Old Henry, the Poison Blade wizard, was a proud man. He turned his head away, snorted, and said, “It’s…it’s alright.”

“There are many alchemy shops on this street,”

he said, his eyes gleaming.

This was the first time he had encountered so many shops run by white wizard alchemists; it was truly a magnificent sight.

The shops at the pirate mothership port were practically robbery, acting as merchants to the strong and bandits to the weak.

Therefore, this was the first time he had been immersed in the logic of such a powerful commercial society within the white wizarding community.

Locke looked at the two of them and said, “I’ve discussed it with the innkeeper. I’ll be using this inn room as an interview location for the next few days to recruit about ten formal wizards.”

Henry thought for a moment. Exploring an undeveloped medium-sized plane, based on the level Locke had described to him, ten first-ring wizards and three second-ring wizards were actually a bit too few.

There are enough second-ring wizards, but it would be better to double the number of first-ring wizards.

The current ten first-ring wizards are barely enough.

Henry said, “We can cut back on the rest, but there are three people we can’t cut back on. The first is a prophet. We’ll have alchemists on our pirate ship who specialize in crafting prophetic artifacts and magical eyes.”

“Your white wizarding society should also have quite a few prophetists who can travel through the void. Prophets are essential for void exploration and planar exploration. They can even save the lives of an entire ship when we lose our sense of direction in the void!”

“The second candidate is a potion master, and specifically a potion master specializing in healing. Oh, we can cut back on that.”

Old Henry glanced at Locke.

He then remembered that Locke himself was the best potion master, but he didn’t know if his level had reached the second ring.

“The third is an alchemist who can repair void warships. But I can do that; when I’m on the ship, ship repair is my job.”

Locke nodded.

Then he only needed to recruit one more prophetic wizard.

Locke thought of Georgina the Witch.

But that wouldn’t work. Georgina the Witch was different from Hussein. Hussein owed him a huge favor, and if Georgina the Witch came, he’d have to share the profits with her.

The most reasonable approach was to interview a skilled first-ring crystallization wizard and hire him through a contract.

Anyway, with his strength, he could control these first-ring wizards.

Locke said to the two, “If you two have any trustworthy students, you can bring them along.”

The two didn’t respond.

One was a pirate, and the other didn’t have anyone truly trustworthy at the Mithril Law Firm.

Locke glanced at them. Well, it seemed there was little hope of these two helping him recruit anyone.

He had originally hoped that the two second-ring archmages would bring his students over.

Locke then explained to the two what he currently knew about the three cave worlds.

After he finished, both of them were stunned.

Hussein’s eyes showed confusion.

“How can there be so many second-ring level beings in the Three Holes World? Gods? Are those giants living on the craters really false gods?”

the old pirate said. “Even in a typical medium-sized world, they’re usually only this level. And exploring medium-sized worlds carries a high risk of death for second-ring wizards.”

“The Endless Void is full of vicious and dangerous worlds.”

Locke nodded.

“That’s all the information the Void Cube has so far. We’ll have to wait and see when we get there.”

“Hopefully we can recruit an excellent prophet.”

Hussein said. “Ideally, we can recruit Quinnjoll. If Quinnjoll isn’t an option, we can recruit someone from Little Rest Mountain. They’re the best prophet wizarding university in Cloudswamp.”

“Don’t hire a prophet from a small wizarding university. I don’t want to encounter unnecessary dangers while traveling through the void just to save money.”

the old pirate said. “Don’t worry, my ability to identify the direction of astral light is top-notch. As long as we don’t encounter any special circumstances, there won’t be any problems.”

…

Half a month later.

Golden Crown Mountain, Dune Plane, in the tenth underground laboratory of Group 2.

Locke looked at the golden foxtail grass covering the thirty acres in front of him. During this time, he had burned through more than four million magic stones and used various equipment from the two groups. If the two groups didn’t have it, he would borrow it from outside.

At this moment, Locke, wearing the Sunlight Magic Mirror monocle, looked at the golden foxtail grass in front of him. He saw that this golden foxtail grass was parasitized by a Golden Lantern Vine. As a dodder-type magic plant, the Golden Lantern Vine was no longer a self-sustaining plant.

Its chloroplasts are almost completely gone, its stem surface is bulging with papillary organs, and it differentiates into penetrating columns. These thin stems break through the epidermis of the parasitized magical plant, and then it uses specialized haustoria to burrow beneath the epidermis and begin to absorb nutrients.

Besides its penetrating stems and haustoria, the Golden Lantern Vine also has fruits that resemble tiny golden lanterns.

Therefore, it is quite pleasing to the eye.

Locke used the Evolution Moon to shorten the magical plant’s growth cycle and accelerate the experiment. Through continuous experimentation,

he repeatedly parasitized the Golden Lantern Vine onto Golden Foxtail Grass, constantly purchasing seedlings and seeds of Golden Foxtail Grass, and spending resources to use the Evolution Moon to accelerate its growth and maturity.

Despite sparing no resources, Locke discovered that most Golden Foxtail Grass seeds, once parasitized, would be unable to reproduce.

Golden Foxtail Grass is a second-ring magical plant, but before full development—during its seedling stage—it’s only a first-ring, or even apprentice-level, magical plant in terms of magical pressure.

At the seed stage, once parasitized, the Golden Lamp Vine would directly drain it to death.

However, Golden Foxtail Grass seedlings, after being parasitized, have a chance to survive and not wither and die.

In this situation, the seedlings might be too small and have too low a total magical pressure, allowing the Golden Lamp Vine to directly absorb most of their nutrients, even drawing away some of their plant essence.

“When the Golden Lamp Vine parasitizes a non-tree-type magical plant, it unintentionally absorbs a portion of the plant’s plant essence because the parasitized plant is too small,”

Locke noticed. “What’s even more interesting is that the Golden Lamp Vine is one of the few parasitic magical plants that actively tries to keep its parasitized plant alive.”

“Therefore, after the Golden Lamp Vine has taken half of the plant’s plant essence from the parasitized plant, turning it into a haploid, it will voluntarily give half of its own plant essence to the Golden Foxtail Grass.”

Locke finally understood what Wizard Russell meant.

Because after this relationship occurred, the Golden Foxtail Grass in front of him clearly reverted to some of the magical plant traits of the original Golden Wheat.

The Golden Wheat he had seen in the spell model of the historical reenactment seemed to have reappeared before him.

It couldn’t be said to be completely the same, but it was at least 70% similar.

Locke looked at the golden stem in front of him, the three narrow leaves with edges as thin as cicada wings, but shining with a dazzling golden light. When the wind blew slightly, the leaves would resonate with a clear chime like a set of bells.

The golden wheat fields that once covered the hillsides at the boundary between day and night seem to have come back to life.

What is most striking is that the awns hanging from the tips of the ears are not ordinary wheat awns, but three hundred and sixty slender golden needles of the sun, which automatically adjust their direction with the angle of the sun’s ring, absorbing the sun’s rays and converting them into energy.

Locke pondered, “A Golden Lamp Vine unintentionally parasitized a seedling of Green Foxtail Grass, absorbing its entire set of plant essences, turning it into a haploid magical plant. Before the Green Foxtail Grass collapsed, the Golden Lamp Vine shared its set of plant essences with it.” “

Because the Green Foxtail Grass lost its set of plant essences, the plant factors shaped by the special necromancy that caused its degeneration naturally decreased by half. The set of plant essences shared by the Golden Lamp Vine combined with the Green Foxtail Grass’s own set, naturally allowing it to revive more of its historical traits.” “

Because of the miraculous power of nature, a single act of parasitism by a magical plant allowed the Green Foxtail Grass to embark on a new path of evolution, becoming the Golden Foxtail Grass several years later. The power of nature surpasses the magic of those necromancers from thousands of years ago.” “

According to Wizard Russell’s ideas and my repeated experiments, this is probably why the Golden Foxtail Grass can evolve again.”

Locke knew what this meant.

“Now, this golden foxtail grass, after my repeated operations, has once again exhibited atavistic characteristics.”

“But actually, I only need to optimize two steps to achieve a perfect artificial atavism.”

“First, soak the semi-mature golden foxtail grass in a 7:1 mixture of yellow-skinned mushroom extract seven times.”

Locke didn’t use a crucible or direct soaking; instead, he used the Fire Tree Silver Flower spell. An enchanted knife appeared in his hand, absorbing the yellow-skinned mushroom extract. Then, the Fire Tree Silver Flower enchanted knife flew towards the golden foxtail grass, injecting it into the magical plant.

Next, he used a powerful growth-accelerating spell to speed up the growth of the golden foxtail grass. Then, when some abnormal atavistic factors appeared, he used a magical magnetic field to preemptively cut them off.

After seven injections of yellow-skinned mushroom extract, Locke obtained a golden foxtail grass that had further atavisticated.

That golden foxtail grass had already begun to possess the key plant factors of golden wheat and started absorbing the surrounding light.

“Second, remove the parasitic behavior.”

Locke used the Fire Tree Silver Flower spell to cut off the golden lamp vine.

Instantly, the golden foxtail grass severed its parasitic relationship with the golden lantern vine.

At this moment, the golden foxtail grass clearly possessed at least one key plant factor from the golden plant essence of the golden wheat.

With Locke’s relentless infusion of magical resources, the watering with various nutrient-rich soils, and even the effect of [Verdant Spirit Breath] which could increase the growth speed and quality of second-ring magical plants, this magical plant grew rapidly, becoming an adult.

Locke established a magical grafting relationship with this magical plant, and with a wave of his hand, the magical plant flew into his hand.

Looking at the magical plant that had stolen his magical radiance, Locke knew that its ancestral regression had reached a certain level.

“The atavism is complete.” “

By pouring the Yellow Mushroom Essence into my Evolution Moon, just like the Zero Potion, I can use the Fire Tree Silver Flower Spell to send it into a magical plant. First, use the Golden Lantern Vine to turn the magical plant that needs atavism into a haploid, then let the Golden Lantern Vine share a set of plant essence with it, and then proceed with the atavism. Both the success rate and the degree of atavism after success will be improved.”

Most importantly, this mechanism avoids triggering the necromancy magic of the Foxtail Grass family’s plant essence.

It seems that this process of extracting plant essence, becoming haploid, and then sharing plant essence to become diploid weakens the effect of that necromancy magic, or perhaps it makes the Foxtail Grass no longer just a pure Foxtail Grass.

Locke pondered, “This combination will also be useful for other magical plants. Because the Golden Lantern Vine’s behavior of absorbing and sharing plant essence increases the possibility of atavism in its natural state.”

In essence, the Golden Lantern Vine’s own plant essence is very short; it is a typical magical plant with little plant factor.

Its plant essence information is minimal.

However, it can share plant essence with a magical plant, allowing that magical plant to develop a normal diploid form.

In other words, when a magical plant becomes diploid, its original plant essence is actually the one that truly functions, while the Golden Lantern Vine’s plant essence is essentially inactive.

It’s like two people forming a team, but only one is working while the other is just playing around.

This results in a magical plant, during its development, displaying more of the magical plant traits contained within its own plant essence. Combined with Locke’s yellow-skinned mushroom extract, this directly disrupts the mechanism of inhibitory factor expression, causing it to revert to its ancestral form.

While a complete reversion is impossible, judging from the current level, it’s at least 70-80% likely.

Of course, this is also due to the sufficient research data on the Golden Foxtail Grass.

Locke pondered, “The precision of the atavism can still be improved. The parasitic mechanism of the Golden Lamp Vine can be optimized. The ratio of Yellow-skinned Mushroom Extract and White Jade Aloe Vera can still be adjusted.”

“However, so far, the atavism evolution has been successfully completed. Furthermore, I can conduct my experiments with my flying magical plant.”

Locke, holding the magical plant, made a video call to the Xiaoxi Cup competition committee office.

Although the Xiaoxi Cup entry deadline was still six months away, and the competition wouldn’t be held for another six months

, he didn’t have that much time to waste.

He’d just submit his work and end the competition.

He was very satisfied with the project’s completion; if the Xiaoxi Cup was also satisfied, he could almost win the championship ahead of schedule.

Anyway, he’d let the Xiaoxi Cup studio decide the specific solution.

He could focus on the Golden Cup and dimensional exploration.

This way, his progress should be relatively fast among the top-tier sponsors.

He had just received a large amount of funding, which could be used to directly develop his Golden Cup entry and the second wizard’s shoes.

‘If the Xiaoxi Cup could settle my results early, I could immediately obtain a Tourmaline King Peach.’ Locke pondered, “

Right, it’s time to pay attention to other markets around the Rose Throne. Given the current academic rivalry, anything I do will be attributed to my teacher. This allows me to explore markets I wouldn’t normally be allowed into.”

“It’s time to see what other markets offer opportunities to earn more money.”

(End of Chapter)