Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 187 Undercurrents (One Week Later)

A week later.

In his office at the Healing Hands Clinic, Locke compiled a preliminary document on the Emerald Iris Lichen, which he planned to submit to the Breeder Competition.

This information needs a little more refinement before it can be submitted to the competition committee.

At the same time, he looked at the results of his treatment with the Xiongling Cuidan medicine over the past week.

First, the sixteen patients with the curse of magical plants were completely cured, and the five patients with the curse of magical plants who appeared in the following five days were also cured.

Meanwhile, he led Anglu and Aishi to refine over a hundred doses of Bear Spirit Gallbladder Elixir within a week, curing a total of 67 patients.

This includes victims of the cursed plant, as well as victims of other curses.

Among these patients, some suffered from the troublesome curse of split consciousness, others from the troublesome curse of multiple self-curses, and still others from other intractable curses.

The Bear Spirit Jade Gallbladder Elixir has shown excellent therapeutic effects, even surpassing the therapeutic effects of many original curse-specific remedies.

Because this potion works by strengthening the person's own magic resistance, this method of removal is the least harmful to the cursed person's vital energy, and may even have some benefits for their body.

A week later, Locke received a notification from the higher-ups at the treatment center.

The clinic's leadership decided to have their team begin using the Bear Spirit Jade Elixir on wizard apprentices who were afflicted with common curses like the Thousand Edge Curse and the Bleeding Curse.

This demonstrates that his Bear Spirit Jade Elixir has shown astonishing healing efficacy against a variety of curses.

The academy's leadership has begun considering extending the use of the Bear Spirit Jade Elixir to common curse-related illnesses and continuing to test its performance.

Locke also began collecting data and writing some articles during that week, just waiting to submit them to the library.

Meanwhile, the academy's higher-ups have begun urging Locke to expedite the third phase of trials for the Bear Spirit Gallbladder Potion, so that the potion can officially enter the Chimera Market and become a publicly available product.

At his workstation, Locke wrote an application for an award for outstanding projects related to the Emerald Iris Lichen Cultivation Program.

I didn't know much about this before, so I had never applied.

Now that I know, I naturally want to apply and swindle some money from the academy to expand my Emerald Iris Lichen Magic Field.

Half an hour later, Locke stood up and said to Anglu and Aisie, "Gentlemen, I have something to do this afternoon, so please take care of my work today."

Anglu and Aishi naturally had no objections.

Locke immediately left the Healing Hand Clinic and headed to the public library, where project proposals were submitted.

In addition, Locke also needs to publish several newly written articles and check the ratings of his previously published articles.

"My teacher gave me a month to strengthen myself and carry out the infiltration and decapitation plan," Locke pondered. "My first priority is to continue studying archaeology to enhance the ancient biological bloodline modification within me."

"This will directly improve my combat power, and it will also allow me to use more Eye Demon Potions and Fission Potions, or even more harmful... banned drugs."

"If I can win another award for outstanding projects, I will have more than 11,400 magic stones in my savings. I can use this money to buy some equipment and magical plants, learn some powerful plant spells, improve my combat power as soon as possible, enrich my spell pool again, and fully unleash my current magic power."

Locke pondered.

He hadn't considered that among them were 2000 magic stones, originally intended for the academy to use for testing the Bear Spirit Gallbladder Potion and for expanding the Emerald Iris Lichen.

Because once this kind of money is distributed, how you use it is entirely up to you.

This amount of money is just a small sum; I'd rather use it on things I urgently need first.

Moreover, my salary from the treatment center will be paid at the end of this month. My team has treated so many patients this month; it will be a considerable sum.

Of course, the treatment center provides itself with patients, so most of the profits still go to the treatment center.

This is different from the income he receives from the patients he shares with the Sofia witch.

……

After Locke left the clinic, inside the office of Angron's personal workshop at the Healing Hand Clinic.

Angron stood in the middle of the office, his brow furrowed, facing his assistant Carrie Ackerman, the other second-class wizard apprentice assistants, and his other junior apprentice, Newke, a first-class wizard apprentice.

Anglong's face was extremely grim. He looked at the information in his hand and said, "Bear Spirit Jade Gallbladder Potion?"

"That's troublesome."

"The academy's higher-ups are extremely interested in this potion project, and they attach a very high level of importance to it, almost as much as they do to the projects we potion-making wizards are working on. The subsidies for outstanding projects have already been distributed."

“If this continues, our studio will not be able to monopolize the few spots in the therapy center this year, and it may even threaten the position of the outstanding therapist I want.”

"The academy's higher-ups seem to think that the merit of this potion is about the same as my merit in solving the Blood Curse of the Mother and Child Giants."

Angron's eyes were gloomy. "As you all know, I desperately need the reward following the title of Outstanding Healer: the [Swarm Consciousness Potion]."

"Giving this potion to anyone in the academy other than a wizarding seed like me would be a waste."

“You are still far from becoming formal wizards. Only when you fall into my hands can you be considered the best use of resources.”

Carrie Ackerman said dejectedly, "But senior, it's already happened. What should we do now?"

Newk, a first-class wizard apprentice, had a glint in his eye. “Senior Angron, why don’t we use our teacher’s network of connections to find a solution from another angle?”

“We can find a way to get Locke Augustine out of the treatment center.”

“He has projects on hand, so we can find a way to let him focus on his experiments with the Bear Spirit Gallbladder Potion.”

“Once he’s no longer in the treatment center, he can’t compete with you for the title.”

Anglong immediately denied it, shaking his head and saying, "No. First of all, the academy's higher-ups are now paying attention to this place, which is different from what we've encountered before."

"Our little tricks are likely to be discovered."

"Secondly, this requires using Professor Harlan Vera's network of connections, which the professor will definitely notice. But... recently the professor has been quite fond of Locke Augustine..."

Anglong's eyes were gloomy. "I can't be sure of the teacher's attitude towards this matter at that time. As you all know, the teacher greatly admires talented people."

Angron clenched his fists, his eyes filled with anger, resentment, and a hint of contempt. He hadn't expected that what he wanted would be threatened by a mere upstart who had just advanced to the rank of first-class wizard apprentice.

'I'm the Potions prodigy of Lilith's Hut, and this newcomer is incredibly tactless, daring to offend me.' Angron thought gloomily, then looked up at the people in the workshop and said, 'You all better work harder.'

“The future will definitely not be as comfortable as before. As long as our studio’s healing output still exceeds that of Locke Augustine’s team, those four reward slots will still be in our studio’s hands.”

Inside Angron's studio, everyone's expressions were different.

What Anglon said is indeed very true, but the problem is, can it actually be done?

The healing efficacy of the Bear Spirit Jade Elixir has been repeatedly tested and experimented with over the past week, and it has been proven to have an extremely high healing efficiency against curse magic.

How can they compete with Xiongling Cuidan medicine on their own?
(End of this chapter)