Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 842

Chapter 839 Atavism: The Giant Mountain Dragon n*ked Fern!

Cloudze Wetlands, Quinjol District, Little Rest Mountain.

Little Rest Mountain possesses the third-ranked magical spring in Cloudze Wetlands, the [Spring of Life]. Benefiting from the life magic emanating from the Spring of Life, Little Rest Mountain is an important botanical research base in Cloudze Wetlands.

While learning the basics of spiritual energy, Locke learned that the foundation of the Spring of Life lies in the various spiritual energies beneath this magical spring, especially the most important life energy.

That is a very high-grade spiritual energy.

Similarly, whether it’s Golden Crown Mountain, Boniface University, or Quinjol, the magical springs they possess are all based on spiritual energy.

Spiritual energy studies are not only important for botanical wizards and breeders, but also for earth wizards and ocean wizards.

At this moment, a staff member in the Little Rest Cup tournament committee office, a Star Ring Wizard, looked at Locke with a puzzled expression.

“Wizard Augustine, you took five million magic stones ahead of time, and now you’re short of money, so are you looking for more sponsorship?”

Clearly, this Star Ring wizard was quite experienced in this area.

The Little Rest Cup, as a recently established second-ring competition, lacked a sufficient number of top-tier players, so they often proactively sponsored promising ordinary second-ring wizards to participate.

Moreover, this Star Ring wizard, Nicklus, frequently encountered situations where some of their sponsored seeded players, after running out of funds, tried to get more funding from them.

After all, research is notoriously difficult to control costs.

Sometimes, you spend a lot of money and end up with nothing.

The key is that it’s hard to judge whether you’re just one step away from failure, or if you’ve completely gone down the wrong path, and continuing to invest will only result in wasted effort.

Wizard Nicklus had extensive experience dealing with wizards who demanded additional funding from their Little Rest Cup competition committee office. In fact, in the last ten years, only one wizard from Storm Tower had convinced him to obtain funding from him.

Everyone else was convinced by him.

Wizard Nickrus deliberately feigned difficulty and said to Locke, “Wizard Augustine, I’m sorry, our tournament committee has its own rules and regulations.”

“We can’t provide any additional funding.”

“I regret that,”

Locke said. “Wizard Nickrus, you misunderstand. I came to you not to ask for additional funding. I wanted to tell you that I’ve achieved a breakthrough success in reverting Golden Foxtail Grass and Green Foxtail Grass to Golden Ear Wheat.”

Locke held up the reverted Golden Foxtail Grass in his hand for the wizard to see.

Wizard Nickrus was stunned for a moment, then checked the time.

“What, it’s done? So fast?”

Wizard Nickrus himself was a second-ring breeder, so he naturally knew what completing the reversion of Golden Ear Wheat meant.

First, Golden Ear Wheat was one of the symbols of the boundary between light and darkness, extinct for many years.

The reversion of Golden Ear Wheat was of great significance, a definite boon to the Little Rest Cup.

Because what the Little Rest Cup most urgently wanted was fame.

What could be more captivating than resurrecting an extinct golden wheat across eras?

Secondly, if the golden wheat could successfully revert to its ancestral form, it would signify that Locke’s reversion technique was highly advanced, potentially even worthy of a publication in a top-tier Zone 1 journal within the second ring.

Zone 2 was practically guaranteed, but Zone 1 was uncertain.

Mainly, even Sun Ring wizards published Zone 2 journals; Zone 1 was generally their domain.

A wizard capable of publishing in a Zone 1 journal outside of Sun Ring periods was either a prodigy or possessed an incredibly powerful team.

Wizard Nicklus looked at the golden foxtail grass in Locke’s hand. He suddenly chanted a spell, and a magical radiance appeared in the illusory image. A

brilliant white light shone towards Locke.

However, the light was distorted; the 360 sun wheat awns of the golden foxtail grass in Locke’s hand released their own light, distorting the magical radiance and absorbing it into the magical plant.

Wizard Nicklus swallowed hard.

“This is the most distinctive feature of Golden Wheat—the Radiant Photon Plant Factor. It’s the most important plant factor component of the Golden Plant Essence Group. Legend has it that Golden Wheat can absorb the surrounding sunlight and all magical light, condensing into the Radiant Photon of Golden Wheat.”

“This is the key gene of Golden Wheat. The magical plant in your hand is Golden Wheat.”

Locke coughed and reminded him, “Wizard Nickrus, that’s not accurate. This magical plant is probably missing quite a few key plant factors that Golden Wheat possesses.”

“Atavism can’t completely revive a magical plant that existed in the past from its complex and redundant plant essence group. This isn’t the real Golden Wheat. The real Golden Wheat is at least a Moon Ring-level magical plant.”

Wizard Nickrus said, “Having the Radiant Photon Plant Factor means it is Golden Wheat.”

Seeing that he was so certain that this was Golden Wheat, Locke didn’t say anything more.

Obviously, for the Little Breath Cup, insisting that this golden foxtail grass was Golden Wheat would be very beneficial to them.

The key issue is that there’s no such thing as Golden Wheat right now, not even a specimen. There are only records in ancient texts. So, to say that this golden foxtail grass, which shares 70% similarity with Golden Wheat and possesses the same Brilliant Photon Plant Factor, is Golden Wheat isn’t entirely wrong.

It’s just a bit far-fetched.

The troubled expression on Wizard Nicklus’s face immediately disappeared, replaced by a joyful smile, making him seem much more amiable.

“Wizard Locke, you’re truly a young talent. You deserve to be called a genius among breeders; you’ve actually revived Golden Wheat, which has been extinct for many years.”

“However, in that case, you can directly participate in our competition and start preparing to submit related articles. Why contact me?”

Locke said, “It’s like this. I know some competitions have a mechanism for determining the champion in advance. I want to win the championship as soon as possible.”

Wizard Nicklus’s smile didn’t fade much. He thought for a moment and said, “Determine the champion in advance, huh? I understand your plan.”

As long as it’s not about money, anything is negotiable.

Moreover, Locke’s magical plant is extremely significant to their Little Rest Cup. If they win a championship in a category of this caliber, it will actually enhance the prestige of their competition.

If a competition were to randomly award the championship to unqualified magical plant categories, then no matter how famous those categories were in the past, they would quickly become a laughing stock.

However, if a winning entry in a competition becomes very famous, it can actually increase the prestige of the competition.

Increased prestige attracts even more excellent entries.

Furthermore, the champion’s title is considered recognized by the wizarding university.

At this moment, Wizard Nicklus cautiously said to Locke, “Wizard Locke, I understand that as a young second-ring wizard, you must be eager to convert your completed projects into championships and articles. But the deadline for the Lesser Rest Cup is still six months away, and we’ve never had the experience of completing a competition ahead of schedule before.”

“So I need to discuss your request with the director. Please wait a moment.”

Wizard Nicklus turned and left his desk. About five minutes later, he led in a bearded wizard with a full white beard.

The Moon Ring Wizard Director looked at Locke with a satisfied smile, and at the golden wheat he was displaying.

Maupassant, the Moon Ring Wizard Director, said to Locke, “Wizard Augustine, our Little Rest Cup has never ended a competition prematurely before. You only need to wait six months before participating again, and you will definitely win the championship with this work. That’s my statement.”

He was joking; as the director of the competition, Maupassant certainly knew the average level of the past champions.

The magical plant in Locke’s hands, in terms of completion, significance, and innovation, had completely surpassed the average level of past Little Rest Cup champions.

Even if the level of past Little Rest Cup champions had increased dramatically, it hadn’t reached this point.

However, after discussing with Wizard Nickrus, Maupassant still felt that, what if?

What if, in the next six months, another genius wanted to participate? Wouldn’t announcing the results prematurely cause the Little Rest Cup a huge loss?

And most importantly, the Little Rest Cup had never ended a competition prematurely before.

Maupassant said, “Of course, as long as Wizard Locke participates in our Little Rest Cup in six months, in addition to the five million magic stones I previously agreed to give you, I will also take three million magic stones from my personal account.”

This was the result of Maupassant’s careful consideration.

Regardless, he needed Locke to work, and naturally dared not offend him.

Therefore, after carefully balancing the interests, he was willing to offer an additional three million magic stones to appease Locke.

Maupassant had calculated in his mind that Locke would only be waiting for six months; he had only been in the Golden Crown Mountain True Knowledge Institute for a year. Logically speaking, a senior researcher wouldn’t be in a time rush.

Therefore, the cost of Locke waiting six months wouldn’t be too great, according to common sense.

Moreover, he had already offered three million magic stones as compensation for Locke’s Golden Ear Wheat; logically, Locke would most likely agree.

Although Locke’s work could enhance the prestige of the Little Rest Cup, Maupassant felt that no matter what, the Little Rest Cup’s traditions shouldn’t be broken like this.

Locke frowned; waiting six months was unacceptable.

Why?

For him, completing this project would immediately grant him the special reward from Mount Golden Crown.

Moreover, he had too many projects to handle; finishing one meant immediately moving on to the next.

Unlike other wizards, waiting six months would be a significant loss.

However, Locke remained calm and composed, saying to Maupassant and Nickrus, “You two probably think there might be a dark horse emerging. But ultimately, you lack confidence in my work.” “

But I’m confident I can convince you both to let me win the fifth Little Rest Cup ahead of schedule,”

Locke said. “Both of you are breeders superior to me, so I won’t say much more. I’m going to use atavism to evolve a magical plant.”

Nickrus hesitated.

At this moment, Maupassant stopped Nickrus with a look, smiling at Locke: “Sure.”

Nickrus immediately understood what his master was thinking.

The prestige of the Little Rest Cup wasn’t just related to the level of the winning work, but also to the skill of the previous champions themselves.

The better the champion develops, the greater the significance for a competition like the Xiaoxi Cup, which lacks sufficient experience.

However, the wizard Nickrus was pondering this.

‘Reverting to an ancestral form and evolving a second magical plant? If it’s possible, then Locke Augustine’s technique for reverting to the ancestral form of Golden Wheat is already quite mature and widespread. That’s a completely different matter.’

‘But can he really do it?’

‘Reverting to the ancestral form of Golden Wheat required so many resources to complete. Can reverting to the ancestral form of other magical plants be done so quickly?’

Locke took out an ordinary Sea Gold Sand from his astral ring; this Sea Gold Sand wasn’t even a tree fern.

Originally, his own method of reverting to the ancestral form was indeed insufficient to directly revert to the ancestral form of a magical plant with complete research data.

Not to mention anything else, he needed to perform the plant essence sequencing of a magical plant beforehand to carry out the reverting to the ancestral form.

Before using the Yellow-skinned Mushroom Extract for reversion, it’s necessary to know the approximate sequence of plant factors within the plant essence. This allows for the removal of any suspicious plant factors in the early stages of malignant changes.

Secondly, even with these conditions, insufficient research data makes it difficult to complete the reversion.

The combination of Yellow-skinned Mushroom Extract and Golden Lamp Vine is intended for the Dogtail family to revert to Golden Ear Wheat.

Whether Golden Lamp Vine can parasitize other magical plants is unknown, and the extent to which Yellow-skinned Mushroom Extract disrupts the expression mechanisms of other magical plants’ inhibitory factors is also uncertain.

However, Locke possesses a sufficiently excellent catalyst—the Zero Potion!

The blank spirituality within the Zero Potion can be injected into the plant essence of a magical plant undergoing reversion. Because the blank spirituality can temporarily compensate for the lack of a complete set of plant essences, it reduces the damage the magical plant suffers when Golden Lamp Vine absorbs plant essence.

Since the blank spirituality can attach to the plant essence, stabilizing the reversion process and reducing the damage of Yellow-skinned Mushroom Extract to the plant factors, it can stabilize the effects of Yellow-skinned Mushroom Extract.

Therefore, a single dose of Zero Potion can assist in the reversion of a magical plant.

This is the basis of Locke’s confidence in reverting an ordinary Sea Gold Plant to its ancestral form in front of two breeders with higher magic levels than himself.

And coincidentally, he recently acquired three more doses of Zero Potion!

Locke placed the Sea Gold Plant into the magical field before him. At the same time, two objects resembling enchanted knives flew from his hands—one silver, one gold.

These were the Fire Tree Silver Flower Spell infused with Yellow Mushroom Essence, and the other a Golden Lamp Vine driven by the Will to Resist.

The two ‘enchanted knives’ twirled in his hands like throwing knives, exquisitely swirling and dancing around the Sea Gold Plant, modifying its plant factors.

Simultaneously, Locke used the Lunar Cultivation Method to inject a dose of Zero Potion into the Sea Gold Plant.

At this moment, Master Maupassant and Wizard Nicklus watched with great curiosity the Sea Gold Plant in the magical field before Locke.

What would happen?

Speaking of Sea Gold Sand, it is a very ancient magical plant. It seems that its ancestor is an even more ancient fern magical plant, but what exactly it is, there seems to be very little research on it.

After all, it is just a single-ring magical plant, which would not attract the special attention of wizards.

At this moment, the young sea ginseng seedling, nourished by Locke’s magic and the Zero Potion, grew rapidly, with leaves falling one after another, and some of its climbing stems becoming extremely thick.

It resembled a giant dragon.

Locke blinked in surprise.

“A giant dragon n*ked fern?”

(End of Chapter)