Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 171 Severin's Counterattack
On the second floor, inside the offices of Locke, Anglu, and Aisie.

Aisie said with some concern, "Locke, no matter what, you seem far too confident. These patients were originally pushed onto us by them, so this gives them even more reason to push them onto us..."

Anglu shook his head, stopping Aisie from continuing, and said, "Aisi, Locke is a better potion-making assistant and breeder than us. Trust his judgment."

Ever since Locke sold a memory ointment at the shop where Anglu worked, Anglu realized that Locke's talent in potion-making surpassed his own.

Aisie nodded. "I was just reminding Locke. After all, these cursed beings are quite troublesome, and if things go wrong, they might end up in our hands."

"It will lower our evaluation score. The year-end outstanding therapist award will no longer apply to us. Our team's evaluation score had been gradually improving recently."

"That's why everyone chooses to avoid it. If it weren't for the academy's mandatory requirement, who would accept the victim of such a troublesome new curse, especially one that involves multiple interdisciplinary fields?"

"It's very easy to end up losing money in the process of treating him, or to have your rating lowered if you can't treat him properly."

Aisie raised an eyebrow and said, "I think the happiest person right now is Carrie Ackerman. I saw her gloating this morning; her studio wants to monopolize the three best therapists and one outstanding therapist spots this year."

"Therefore, she sees the normal teams in the treatment center as her main adversaries. She probably thinks now that our team is no longer a threat to them."

Locke was sitting at his workstation, reading a B-level article he had borrowed from the public library.

Locke looked up at Aisie in confusion. "Aisie, their workshop only has two first-class wizard apprentices. Are they going to monopolize all four spots?"

Aisie explained, "Now, besides the one where Carrie Ackerman resides at the infirmary, they also have many first-class wizard apprentices and potion-making assistants who come to their Angron workshop from time to time."

"In this way, those potion-making assistants don't need to come for several hours almost every day of the month like we do; they only need to come from time to time."

"However, they can have a large number of patient treatment records and a large number of excellent reviews. Therefore, they are certainly likely to monopolize the four award slots in the treatment center."

Anglu chimed in, "They're probably all students within their mentor Harun Vera's network, their seniors and juniors."

“Their network of relationships is extremely large, so as Harun Vera’s outstanding student, Angron must also need to create benefits for his juniors, and in turn, those juniors can also help him.”

"Therefore, he can use this method to set up a studio, reduce the workload of his juniors, and at the same time create very good treatment records through his network of relationships to ensure that most of the spots can go to their studio."

Anglu let out a sigh of relief. "The evaluation criteria for the four spots mainly look at the number of treatments received and the difficult problems solved. Anglu Studio has a strong advantage in both of these aspects."

"I estimate that in the end, they might even pile up the number of patients they treat onto a few people for the sake of rewards, thus completing the exchange of benefits within their internal network of relationships."

In a sense, this is the advantage of being a student of an academic clique.

Anglu said, "These four spots were originally set up by the Healing Center to reward us resident potion-making assistants, but who knew that Anglu and his group would take advantage of the situation."

Anglu sighed. "Anyway, wherever there's profit to be made within the academy, there will always be people like this suddenly appearing."

At his workstation, Locke nodded. "Let's focus on doing our own jobs first; that's the only thing we can control."

Anglu said, "That's true."

Locke looked down at the documents, his eyes flickering. Indeed, due to its large workforce and powerful strength, Angron Studios was originally very likely to monopolize the four special reward slots established this year.

But actually, their team isn't without its advantages. If I'm not mistaken, they should see a lot of special patients coming in the next month.

"I'm no longer a breeding assistant; I'm a full-fledged breeder, and also a potion-making assistant," Locke pondered. "So, if the curse on magical plants surges, the academy will likely assign me as a priority to solve this problem."

'Even if they send breeders to assist the potion-making assistants, they shouldn't be able to surpass me. So, this year, I might actually be able to compete with Angron Works for a prize spot, or even that one and only outstanding healer spot!'

……

On the edge of Lilith's Cottage territory, there is a village of mortals.

At this point, all the mortals in the entire village had died, but their bodies were controlled by dark magic, and they were unaware that they were dead, continuing to live as usual.

It provides cover for the dark wizards hiding here.

Severin was in the village's makeshift underground laboratory. A first-class dark wizard apprentice hurried into her laboratory to report back to her about the message sent back by the trading partners at the Healing Hand Clinic.

Severin was dressed in a black robe, her face concealed by a hood, but when she turned around, her appearance nearly frightened the ordinary first-class wizard apprentice who belonged to the same wizarding organization.

Severin's appearance, while retaining the bestial features of a vampire, had a face that looked like patches, pieced together one square after another, with different parts of her body even having different shades of color.

This only shows that the different parts of her body did not originate from the same source.

Severin raised her eyebrows angrily. "That breeder named Locke dared to publicly belittle the curse I designed?"

"Damn it. Locke Augustine... a nobody who has just become a first-class wizard apprentice, yet he dares to mock my work in public. How ridiculous."

"ridiculous."

The ordinary first-class wizard apprentice looked at Severin with some fear. "Lord Sagamor, I think the other party may simply not have enough skill to detect the level of your curse."

"He's just a newly promoted first-class wizard apprentice, and I heard his talent level isn't very high."

"As you know, newly promoted first-class wizard apprentices are so lacking in magical knowledge... In your eyes, they are not much different from second-class wizard apprentices."

Severin turned around, her tone becoming fierce, "So what! I will make that white wizard named Augustine know the price of scorning me—the great cursed one of the Blood Curse Court."

"I'm going to teach him a painful lesson he'll never forget!"

“Field, relay my order: triple the intensity of all previous actions. I am going to devise a curse upon their Lilith Hut and their allies’ more First-Class Wizard Apprentices.”

"When the victims of my curse fill their healing hands clinics, I'll see if they can still think that my curse of the plant is just an insignificant curse."

"Hahahahahaha..."

"Hopefully, this young breeder will still be so confident."

(End of this chapter)