Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 894

Chapter 889 Arthas’s magical plant test on the Golden Dragon Claw Air Plant!

The Dark World.

The Dark Lord’s palm descended like the heavens, obscuring the light of countless worlds fallen into darkness. In the shadows, someone sang hymns of praise, pleasing the endless darkness.

But just as the nameless wizard’s body was about to be covered by the darkness and become a shadow,

a black sun suddenly appeared in the sky of the Dark World. The black sun was even darker than the darkness of the Dark World, making the magical radiance of the Dark World seem like a galaxy of stars.

The Dark Lord looked up at the dark sun in terror, gritting his teeth.

“Priestly magic. They’re coming again.”

“They’ve been gone from this world for a long time, and they’ve reappeared.”

“The Tower of the Black Sun has returned.”

The black sun seemed to be the spire of the Tower of the Black Sun, its beacon. The moment the dark sun appeared, it disrupted the entire Dark World.

The nameless wizard seized the opportunity and immediately used the [Three Thousand Peach Killing Curse]. Countless pink peach petals surrounded his body, and the next moment, he vanished from the spot.

…

On the Vanguard Exploration Team, Locke received a message from his senior brother. He opened the Water Hyacinth System and saw that his senior brother had sent him a message.

“Junior Brother, quickly return my name to me.”

Locke was stunned for a moment, and then consciously tried to recall his senior brother’s name. Like the moon in the water, a flower in a mirror, there was always something separating him from his true name.

But the next moment, he seemed to see through some kind of fog.

Then a name appeared in the depths of his soul.

[Trajan]!

As soon as this name appeared, the wizard Trajan sent him a message in the Water Hyacinth System.

‘Thank you, Junior Brother. I owe you a lot this time.’

‘This time, in order to bring out the Heartbreak Flower, which is very important to them, from the Dark World, I was completely blocked by the Great Lord of the Dark World. This time I gained a lot, but I also suffered a lot of injuries, and I almost didn’t make it back.’ “

Lock asked doubtfully, ‘With my senior brother’s abilities, how could he possibly not return while exploring the world?’

Trajan replied to him.

‘The Great Void is vast; who can guarantee they will never be defeated? Only caution, pragmatism, and step-by-step exploration of the truth are the only true paths.’

‘This time, I made two unexpected discoveries. First, the Dark World is much larger than the area explored by the previous group of explorers, and there isn’t just one Dark Lord there. Furthermore, I discovered numerous ancient wizarding ruins in the Dark World.’

‘Second, I brought back a magical plant, the [Sad Flower], which is very important to their territory in the Dark World.’

Locke, on the exploration vanguard, saw the picture Trajan had sent him. It was a magical plant the size of a pearl, extremely small, rice-white, as if the flower would scatter at the slightest breeze.

Old pirate Henry instinctively wanted to lean closer to take a look, but Hussein’s clever positioning prevented him from craning his neck.”

Henry coughed and chuckled, “Professional habit, professional habit. We always like to look around when we’re on the ship.”

Locke turned his attention back to the picture of the Heartbreak Flower, examining it closely and discovering it was a magical plant he had never seen before.

This discovery by Wizard Trajan could very well become a new source of profit for their academic lineage, and might even become a key development direction for Golden Crown Mountain in the future.

Of course, this would require Wizard Trajan to publish articles, apply for projects, and strive to gain the approval of his teachers. Only then could the teachers take these materials to Golden Crown Mountain and persuade them to invest resources.

The wizarding ruins of the Dark World, and the Dark World itself, might become future targets for Golden Crown Mountain, but that remains to be seen.

Wizard Trajan’s major gains from his void exploration as a Sun Ring Wizard would clearly influence the future development of the Wizarding Academy.

Wizard Trajan said, “I have returned to the Wizarding World through a dimensional teleportation array in a wizarding ruin. By the way, junior brother, how was your dimensional exploration?”

Locke recounted his experiences in the Three Cave Worlds to Wizard Trajan.

After a while, Wizard Trajan replied to him, “I didn’t expect your experience to be so much better than mine.”

“Two great divine races, wizards from the Southern Wizarding Capital, a super-rich emerald spirit vein—quite a haul!”

Locke replied, “No way, Senior Brother. How can my harvest compare to yours? Neither of the two divine races are complete, and the Titans left that world long ago.”

Wizard Trajan replied.

“Don’t belittle yourself. It was your first time exploring the void, and I was worried you wouldn’t adapt. I didn’t expect you to gain so much in just four months. That super-rich emerald spirit vein—are you planning to entrust the academy to help you explore it, or will you build your own exploration facility?”

Locke pondered for a moment.

“I’m still considering that,”

Wizard Trajan said. “No rush. Take your time. Once we’ve all returned to Golden Crown Mountain, perhaps we can have a small celebration banquet to celebrate our academy completing two valuable void explorations.”

Locke fell into thought.

Indeed, how to develop that super-rich vein was a real problem.

It was foreseeable that developing that super mine would require investing tens of millions of magic stones, and he would also need to find a professional earth wizard to assess the mine’s reserves.

Whether to sell the entire mine as a package or to build a magic heavy factory for development were questions.

And whether financing was needed for the magic heavy factory was another issue.

Furthermore, the magic heavy factory would inevitably produce pollutants like heavy particles of the elemental rings, requiring corresponding environmental protection facilities.

He didn’t want to see nightmares from the Three Cavern Worlds the next time he went to the Emerald Dream.

That would truly be a nightmare.

Locke saw the message from Wizard Trajan.

“However, this means that we at Golden Crown Mountain have offended the Dark Lord of the Dark World. The Dark World is extremely special; the darkness of any world can connect to it.” “Therefore,

although the natives of the Dark World don’t possess mature interdimensional travel capabilities, they probably still have ways to interfere with the wizarding world. Our lineage is likely to be at war with the Dark Lord.” “

The Dark Lord will stop at nothing to reclaim the Heartbreak Flower from my hands.”

Locke sent Trajan a reassuring image.

Then, he summoned Scarlett.

“Scarlett, my clone has delivered the Golden Dragon Claw Air Plant to you, along with related combat records. Please post them on the pre-sale section of the Arthas platform.”

In the manor of the Arthas Shop Alliance in the Golden Crown Mountain region, Scarlett, shortly after replying to Locke, stood up from her recliner and looked curiously at the magic box presented by an ordinary first-ring wizard.

The first-ring wizard’s forehead was covered in sweat. A

second-ring magical plant, even placed in a special magic box, exerts unimaginable pressure on a first-ring being.

Scarlett entered the password and opened the magic box. She opened a crack in the box, and a golden light burst forth, dazzling her eyes.

“This is…”

Scarlett took a half step back and immediately closed the magic box.

She was slightly out of breath, looking at the magic box containing the Golden Dragon Claw Air Plant, a flicker of fear crossing her eyes.

“This is definitely not an ordinary second-circle magical plant. With the equipment in our current manor, it’s impossible to fully test it.”

Scarlett the Witch realized she was falling behind Locke’s growth rate.

“It must be sent to Arthas’s headquarters in the Elven Great World for professional evaluation by their experts. After this deal, my privileges will likely be revoked by Arthas. Lord Augustine will probably cooperate with those officials at headquarters.”

Scarlett the Witch sighed.

There was no other way.

However, after this deal, she should be able to become a Platinum Trader, and then she could consider using the advantages of this position to become a second-circle wizard.

Perhaps she would succeed, perhaps not.

But regardless, this was the closest she had ever come to becoming a second-circle wizard.

Becoming a Platinum Trader in Arthas, with the opportunity to enter a second-circle wizard’s secret realm, was her greatest chance. A

week

later, the second-ring breeder evaluators in the Elf World quickly received a batch of magical plant evaluation tasks from the Golden Crown Mountain region.

The evaluation tasks from Arthas headquarters were delivered in packages, with five products per package, given to one evaluator.

The evaluators would conduct concentrated magical plant trait evaluations.

These evaluators were previously excellent breeders, but as they aged and their creativity declined, they stepped down to the sidelines, becoming magical plant trait evaluators.

At this moment, an older evaluator ordered his subordinates to send him the data from ten packages.

The reason these products needed to be packaged was that Arthas headquarters received a large number of evaluation tasks from various colony worlds, including both good magical plants and those that were merely for show.

To ensure that the evaluators work diligently and verify the characteristics of each magical plant, after these magical plant creations are sent to the Elven World, they are scattered and rearranged by Arthas’s staff and distributed to various evaluators. These evaluators then lead their respective departments to test the characteristics of each magical plant and issue test certificates.

This “package system” stems from Arthas’s discovery that some high-level wizard evaluators, to save time, would have their lower-level wizards test obviously easier magical plants, leading to incorrect test reports and resulting in lawsuits against Arthas by merchants or customers, causing Arthas to pay compensation.

Therefore, Arthas designed the “packaging system” to prevent high-level evaluators from being careless in testing obviously low-quality magical plants to save time.

However, there are always ways around this. This second-level evaluator, Kungu, would usually give these “magical plant packages” to his subordinates for an initial screening, separating the ordinary magical plants from the excellent ones.

He would then personally test the excellent magical plants, while the ordinary ones would continue to be tested by his subordinates or even outsourced.

This saved him a lot of work.

For high-level wizards, time is life. Some want to use their spare time to work hard, while others just want to relax.

Kungu was the former.

Although he had been dismissed from Arthas’s technical development department, he still wanted to use his spare time and the saved resources to do his own research.

Despite being over four hundred years old, he was still just an ordinary second-ring wizard with 17,000 magic pressure. He didn’t have many award-winning magical plant works, nor a single article in the second-ring, first-zone, only three articles that had made it to the second-ring, second-zone due to good luck.

But Kungu still wanted to seize every opportunity to make the most of

his remaining time. At this moment, Kungu was reading the data. He scrambled out all the products that looked ordinary, made a task list, and handed it to his subordinates.

But then, Kungu saw a preliminary test report on the magical plant traits of the Golden Dragon Claw Air Plant, and he paused.

“Pure magical plant wizard shoes? No, these are wizard gloves.”

“These magical plant traits…”

Kungu’s pupils suddenly shrank. He immediately realized that this was not an unremarkable second-ring magical plant breeding work.

The breeding level of this magical plant had reached a very high level.

Kungu rubbed his eyes and immediately said, “I see there’s an expedited testing application. This magical plant creation can’t be taken lightly. Although the applicant is just a low-level gold trader, if I mess up this kind of work… I’ll lose my job.”

For an old hand like him, he could certainly distinguish between what was important and what wasn’t.

This magical plant, with its astonishing initial test data, stood out like a ray of light among the other magical plants in the package.

Kungu said to a crystallization wizard at a workstation in the office, “Go and get that Golden Dragon Claw Air Plant. We’ll conduct a separate test immediately today.”

The crystallization wizard was taken aback. “The group test is supposed to be this afternoon.”

“Boss, if we conduct a separate test now, it will obviously incur some unnecessary expenses and disrupt our work schedule.”

Kungu, the evaluator, said in a firm tone, “No reason why. Do it now.”

The crystallization wizard was stunned for a moment, because Kungu, the old evaluator, was also old, so he rarely had such a firm attitude.

The crystallizing wizard immediately realized something, stepped forward, stopped the two high elf apprentices passing through the corridor, and relayed his orders.

“You two go and retrieve box number 0153 into the laboratory, and notify the team to begin testing.”

The two first-class wizard apprentices hesitated, as the group testing was scheduled for the afternoon.

One of the first-class wizard apprentices, who was close to the crystallizing wizard, whispered, “Teacher, what happened? Wouldn’t conducting individual tests increase costs?”

The crystallizing wizard’s expression immediately turned serious, as if he had discovered a plan.

“Why are you being so nosy? There’s no why, just do it.”

The two first-class wizard apprentices were startled. They quickly bowed, indicating they would go to work, and then turned and left to retrieve box number 0153.

Inside the warehouse, two first-class wizard apprentice high elves whispered, “It’s rare to see such a gentle teacher so angry. It seems this 0153 magic box is something very important.”

Another first-class wizard apprentice high elf regretted his earlier statement. “I should have known better than to ask so many questions. The teacher must have his own reasons. He already knows what he wants us to do. What’s the point of asking more questions? Do we think we’re as smart as a crystallized archmage?”

Arthas completed his evaluation of the Golden Dragon Claw in just half a morning.

Kungu smiled as he looked at the data sheet his crystallized wizard had brought him.

The crystallized wizard exclaimed, “This magical plant’s magic pressure is 19999, which is practically the limit of a normal second-ring magic plant. Whether it’s the instantaneous doubling of magic pressure or other data, I’ve never seen such impressive figures before. No wonder you wanted to test this magical plant immediately, sir. This magical plant stands out among all the second-ring magical plants.”

Kungu, the evaluator, glanced at him and smiled.

“You understand now? But you only saw the surface; you didn’t see the real substance inside. After all, you’re just a first-ring breeder. You can’t understand the intricacies behind it.” “

This magical plant was bred using the Spirit Breath Cultivation Method. But I think it used a method—I can’t be sure if it was a completely new structured garden grotto—for cultivation. Half of this magical plant’s power lies in its special imaginary root. This special imaginary root is simply groundbreaking.”

“Even among magical plant creations, it’s extremely unique among second-ring magical plants. These tests alone aren’t enough. Go get some common wizard shoes; I need to conduct phenotypic tests on them.”

The Kungu evaluator reported the situation to Queen Ella Grant, a

native Sun-ring wizard from the Elven Great World, through Arthas’s internal communication software.

The Kungu evaluator pondered: ‘Although I’m now in a secondary role, there are still opportunities to improve and contribute. As long as you have a keen eye, isn’t this an opportunity?’

‘I’m not afraid of not getting good works for evaluation. I’m afraid that even if they come, I won’t notice them. ‘ To get the leader’s attention, you can’t just do your assigned tasks.

“I’m so lucky, this piece just happened to end up in my bag.”

The crystallized wizard subordinate paused, stunned. “Second-ring wizard shoes…those are very expensive…”

the Kungu reviewer pursed his lips. “Borrow them.”

The crystallized wizard subordinate frowned and coughed, “Boss, I can’t borrow second-ring wizard shoes.”

The Kungu reviewer frowned. “Then I’ll go borrow them.”

“Blue Ribbon, Arthas, Melochy…I need to borrow wizard shoes from all those shops in the Alliance.”

…

At Golden Crown Mountain, Locke’s clone saw two invitations delivered to his dormitory and was immediately stunned, because these were invitations from Solas Barefoot and Melochy to attend their respective themed events.

At the same time, he received a third message, a letter from the Brandy Wizard.

It was a technical seminar hosted by the Sun Ring Wizard from the Rose Council.

Locke frowned, because the Brandy Wizard had been sharing information with him lately, and he had responded out of politeness, but it had only made things worse.

“Let’s leave Brandy for now. Both Solas Barefoot and Melochy have held events themed around Void Exploration. According to the information Rose Witch shared with me, after these events, they’ll be locked in a price war, each offering discounts to suppress the other.”

“That will be a harsh winter for all the wizard shoe shop alliances that rely on low prices.”

“Is their invitation to my event a kind of authoritative declaration?”

Locke saw the magical plant test report Scarlett Witch had sent him. “Hmm. There’s even a comparative test data report with various versions of wizard shoes from the two wizard shoe shop alliances.”

“I didn’t expect Arthas to be so interested in my work. This saves me a lot of trouble.”

Locke published these report data, along with his own edited planar exploration combat test report, on Arthas’s pre-sale platform.

At the same time, Locke said to Scarlett Witch, “Scarlett Witch, you can contact the various Void Exploration teams now. Let’s begin our plan.”

Both shop alliances are currently targeting the Void Exploration wizard customer base.

This group was originally Solas Barefoot’s core business.

Essentially, this war was instigated by Melochy Magic Step.

Therefore, both sides have been striving to find support from excellent wizard exploration leaders, hoping to gain their purchase of wizard shoes to enhance their brand’s authority.

Locke pondered, “I have absolute confidence in the Golden Dragon Claw Air Pineapple.”

“These wizard shoes have reached the top level of ordinary second-ring wizard shoes from both wizard shoe shop alliances. But the cost is relatively low, and they can also be used as magic gloves.”

“Success or failure hinges on this. As long as we use good products and win the hearts of those Void Exploration Team wizards, my Augustus Wizard Shoe Shop Alliance will officially step onto the stage of Cloudswamp Wetlands.”

Only the second-ring world is the true stage!

Only by entering the second-ring wizard shoe market can we truly enter the Void Exploration market, and the origin of wizard shoes was precisely for Void Exploration.

At this moment, Locke noticed someone was looking for him on the Ganoderma lucidum plant; he saw it was Wizard Daniel.

Daniel the Wizard said to Locke, “Locke, do you know about the academic exchange conference recently hosted by Master Patrick Finch, the Sun Ring Wizard of the Rose Council?”

“I’ve seen many friends talking about it lately. They say that at the conference, Wizard Patrick will propose a revolutionary type of magical plant and its breeding method. I think you should go and listen; I’ve got tickets. I’m planning to go; I have two. If you want to go, we can go together.”

Locke raised an eyebrow, because if he remembered correctly, this academic exchange conference was the one Brandy the Wizard had invited him to.

He thought for a moment.

Since it was Daniel the Wizard’s invitation, going wouldn’t hurt; exchanging techniques with a peer was perfectly normal. Working

in isolation was definitely not advisable.

If it were Brandy the Wizard who invited him, he would have taken a drastic approach to prevent him from deliberately conveying harmful information. But since it was Daniel the Wizard, he could go and take a look.

He was just about to use the Golden Dragon Claw Air Plant he had cultivated in the Three Hole Worlds to smash the two major wizard shoe shop alliances and launch a formal declaration of war against them.

Since there’s not much else to do for the time being, spending some time at an academic conference is a good alternative.

(End of Chapter)