Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 147, 46 S-level articles

The general education wizards of the library system act like an insurmountable barrier, blocking out all unqualified articles.

Locke sighed softly. 'Yuri, with Harlen Vera's network of connections, should have plenty of resources for publishing articles, right? No, wait, she's already been marginalized.'

Locke suddenly thought of his teacher, the witch Sophia, and asked the dwarf scholar Or, "My wizarding mentor is the witch Sophia. May I inquire how many articles she has published and what their rankings are?"

"Does this part involve personal privacy? If so, let's skip it."

The dwarf scholar Or laughed, as if he had heard a joke. "Other issues may include privacy, but when it comes to the number and quality of articles published, I think most excellent wizards wouldn't mind letting others know."

The dwarf scholar Orr's eyes appeared with numerous runes. "I'll use the spell model of general knowledge, the query spell, to give you a lookup."

"I've got it. Your wizard mentor, Lady Sophia, is a core student of Lady Morgana. She has vast academic resources and has naturally published many articles."

"She started publishing when she was a third-class wizard apprentice, and she has published a total of 211 articles."

"Among them, more than 70 articles with scores below 60 were published during the third-level wizard apprentice stage and the second-level wizard apprentice stage. However, a total of 5 S-level articles, 15 A-level articles, 49 B-level articles, and 72 C-level articles were also published."

Locke was surprised, "There are so many."

The dwarf scholar Or sat behind the library counter and said with a smile, "Of course there are many. Lady Sophia is Lady Morgana's student. Lady Morgana has so many research resources at her disposal. If you just give her a little bit, she can easily publish a paper."

"Take the vampire in your hand, for example. It was given to you by your wizard mentor, right? She gave you this vampire, so you can do a lot of things with it. She can also lend it to your students and your team."

"Within the network of wizarding mentors, if you are a key person to be trained, you will be able to access a lot of resources... You can start publishing articles as early as a third-class wizarding apprentice."

The dwarf scholar Orl explained with a smile.

Locke nodded. "I see."

Articles from the White Wizard Society in the Southeast Corner cannot be co-authored; each author must publish their own work.

Therefore, the identity of the wizard mentor will not be mentioned in the article at all.

However, when Sophia first joined Lady Morgana's side, she should have already been at level 7, so she naturally received the best treatment. Starting as a third-class wizard apprentice, she was able to do all sorts of things by leveraging Lady Morgana's network of connections.

As long as Lady Morgana had her students hand over various resources and teams to the Witch Sophia, and with the Witch Sophia's own intelligence and talent, producing results and articles would be a piece of cake.

'So, this is the normal treatment a level 7 Elemental Child receives within the academy,' Locke belatedly thought. 'There are two reasons why I didn't receive this treatment.'

"First, my initial aptitude was only level three, so Teacher Sophia didn't pay enough attention to me at first; it only increased later."

'But I've only been a first-class wizard apprentice for two years.'

'The second reason is that my wizarding mentor, the witch Sophia, didn't have her own network of relationships.'

Locke suddenly realized... wasn't Lady Morgana the chief examiner for this year's official breeder exam?
Locke's expression turned strange. Teacher Sophia had said that she had a bad relationship with this year's chief breeder examiner, but the two were also teacher and student.

'I wonder what their true relationship is.' Locke pondered. 'Never mind, I'll just take the exam as usual.'

Whatever happens is none of my business.

Locke looked at the dwarf scholar Orl and said, "Scholar Orl, I would like to inquire about the number of articles published by Lady Morgana."

"May I?"

The dwarf scholar Orl laughed and said, "Of course, and it's free. It's a free right for first-class wizard apprentices within the academy."

"I used the search function to find that Mrs. Morgana published a total of 2143 articles in the public library of Lilith's Hut, but she paid a confidentiality fee every year to block the specific level of her articles, so I can only find the number."

"The only publicly disclosed ranking is the number of S-rank articles, which totals 46."

The dwarf scholar Or explained to Locke, "Aside from publishing S-level articles herself, Lady Morgana probably has her students publish articles below A-level."

"After all, the number of these articles can determine whether a wizard apprentice can be selected as a [Wizard Seed] at Lilith's Hut."

"As we all know, the logic of white wizards in choosing wizard seeds is completely different from that of black wizards. It is based on a comprehensive consideration of various fields—talent level, certificates on their bodies, but those are basically the same."

"Therefore, the number of articles published is the most concrete indicator of a wizard's talent level."

Locke nodded thoughtfully. "May I look up the specific articles by Lady Morgana?"

The dwarf scholar, Ordos, said, “Of course. But in the public library, only D-level articles are completely free. C-level articles are only partially free. So, to search for a specific article, you will need to pay a certain amount of contribution points. If you don’t have contribution points, you will need to pay with magic stones.”

"In the public library, 1 contribution point is equal to 10 magic stones."

"Searching for C-level articles requires 1 contribution point, searching for B-level articles requires 5 contribution points, searching for A-level articles requires 10 contribution points, searching for S-level articles... You do not currently have this permission."

Locke's face darkened.

In other words, the 50 contribution points I just obtained can only be used to search the contents of 5 A-level articles. However, as far as I know, the most important thing about contribution points is that they can be used to exchange for entry opportunities into the Wizard's Secret Realm, as well as potions, magical plants, and alchemical items that can only be exchanged with contribution points in the academy.

Using this to look up information seems a bit too extravagant, since I don't have any special experiments to do and don't need to look up any information.

Locke shook his head slightly: "Let's forget about it."

In that case, if I need to look up a lot of information in the future, I can use magic stones to buy resources and save my contribution points for things that magic stones can't buy, like the chance to enter the Wizard's Secret Realm.

Wait a minute, Locke suddenly realized that if he wanted to understand the peculiar bloodline in his body, he might be able to buy some information here and conduct some research first, which might be useful.

(End of this chapter)