Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 192 Three-Eyed Tiger Cat Fossil

Locke nodded, meaning that to gain more access to the Wizarding Realm, one would need to acquire more titles.

The highest-level apprentice title, such as Wizard Seed, can even grant the user the privilege of entering a regular wizarding realm once a year.

However, I'll be working with the witch Sophia recently, so I don't need to think about entering the Forbidden Forest Secret Realm or exchanging for another chance to enter the Wizard's Secret Realm.

Locke said, "Then let's use 400 contribution points to exchange for a Bursting Pea."

This way, you can synthesize a magical plant that is extremely rare at the apprentice level.

This will maximize your combat effectiveness, allowing you to protect yourself and increase your ability to plunder loot in the Black Wizard's territory when you undertake an infiltration mission a month later.

The dwarf scholar Ordos said, "Very well, I'll arrange it for you right away."

Soon, a halfling second-class wizard apprentice pushed a cart over. On the cart were three large, exquisite black rattan boxes.

Locke opened the three vine-shaped boxes, checked them, and confirmed that there were no problems.

Inside each of the three vine boxes was a Bursting Pea. The pods of this magical plant were round, resembling a steel pipe with a funnel-shaped opening. Below the funnel-shaped opening was a small red pouch.

The moment this thing spews out pea berries, it secretes a special viscous substance with a natural 0.5 ring of burning magic, and then it sprays out flame berries.

The stem of this magical plant is bulging, like a big belly.

That's because inside the main stem of the pod are hard, steel-like peas, about six hundred of them.

Therefore, the entire magic plant is very large, about the length of a person's arm.

The roots of the Shooter Pea are coiled and twisted like springs, because these roots penetrate into the soil and stabilize the Shooter Pea's balance at the moment of its attack.

Most of the roots, stems, branches, and leaves of this rare magical plant are similar to those of a pea plant. Only the leaves in the head area are needle-shaped. These needle-shaped leaves serve the function of heat dissipation and are actually the heat dissipation leaves of the Bursting Pea.

By gathering a large amount of wind element, the high temperature generated at the moment of shooting is dissipated into the air. In other words, the Pea Shooter creates a high temperature in the surrounding air at the moment of shooting.

Essentially, this is the 0.3 ring spell model of the Shooter Pea: Heat Dissipation.

High-level magical plants may possess multiple passive spell models, similar to advanced magical creatures, and their natural magical energy structure will be more complex.

Ultimately, however, the Shooter Pea is just a magical plant that was artificially designed in a laboratory. Therefore, this magical plant is different from most of the magical plants that Locke had encountered before. Its entire body shows signs of being designed.

After examining the three Shooter Peas, Locke recalled the associated spells for this magical plant. It seemed that this magical plant had been carefully cultivated by some wizards, and therefore there were many related spell models.

For example, the Rapid Fire Spell triples the firing speed of the Pea Shooter, creating a barrage of metal ammunition to suppress the enemy.

There's also the Pea Splitter Charm, which means that when the Shooter Pea fires a Steel Pea, the bullet splits, turning one into two.

If the Rapid Fire Spell and the Split Spell can be used together, they can create an even more terrifying suppressive firepower against the enemy.

In addition, the Shooter Pea has a matching potion, which seems to be called the Pea Refill Potion. This potion can quickly replenish the Shooter Pea's missing pea ammo. The Shooter Pea can use the Pea Refill Potion a maximum of three times a day.

Locke remembered that the academy's general education classes offered courses on the Metal Frenzy spell series of Shooter Peas.

The course also includes recipes for making Pea Filler Potions, or information on where to buy the potions. Therefore, by spending 500 magic stones to enroll in the course, one can learn the complete set of Pea Shooter spells.

Locke placed the three large Vine Whisper Boxes into his Astral Ring. Within the Astral Plane, the three Shooter Peas would cease growing, and there would be no problem with their preservation.

However, the Astral Ring has limited storage space. After exchanging for three Burst Peas, Locke greeted the dwarf scholar Or, then left the public library and headed towards the Chimera Market.

Locke went to a potion auction at Lilith's Cottage. He had reserved a fossil of a three-eyed tiger cat at the potion auction a long time ago, but had not yet received it.

But this morning, someone from the auction house came to inform me that the item was in stock.

Backstage at the potion auction, Locke found the operator, who became even more respectful upon seeing the excellent apprentice badge Locke wore on his chest.

"Dear Breeder Locke, you reserved a fossil of a three-eyed tiger cat at the auction six months ago. At that time, we were out of stock, but now we have it in stock."

"Since you are a highly interested client, and that client is short of money, we may not go through an auction, but rather complete this deal through a direct transaction."

Can you agree to this?

Locke nodded.

This is entirely beneficial to me.

He knew that the auction had this rule: some people who came here to entrust their items to auction needed to gather magical resources quickly for some reason, and they would choose to trade directly with a client who had a high level of interest.

Of course, this would result in a loss of funds, since the price would definitely be higher if it were auctioned.

The auction operator's smile remained unchanged. "The client requested two thousand magic stones."

"So, would you like to pay immediately, or..."

Locke frowned slightly and immediately shook his head. "Too expensive."

"Although the fossils of the three-eyed tiger cat are precious, paleontology is a niche field. And the study of paleontological fossils is an even more niche field within paleontology. This price is completely unreasonable."

The operator seemed about to say something, but Locke feigned a failed deal and turned to leave.

He knew that the client was in a hurry to raise some magic stones, and that there weren't many people who would want to buy fossils like this.

This thing is precious. But in the white wizarding society, there are very few wizards capable of conducting related research, so it's destined that there will be very few buyers.

Sure enough, after he made a move to leave, the operator was clearly flustered, seemingly not expecting Locke to be so decisive.

He quickly stepped forward and said to Locke, "Locke, the breeder, I can tell you that the client's bottom price is 1,200 magic stones."

"I apologize to you for my previous dishonesty."

"If you agree, we can complete the transaction immediately."

Locke then stopped in his tracks. After thinking for a moment, he realized that 1,200 magic stones was indeed a reasonable price, in line with the price for the rapid trading of ancient fossils.

In fact, the price is slightly lower than the normal price.

After all, the Three-Eyed Tiger Cat is considered quite powerful among ancient creatures, a genuine magical creature approaching the first level.

"With this fossil, I can accelerate the improvement of my archaeology skills, and I can also use it, along with the two Cat Queens I have, to further purify their bloodlines," Locke pondered. "Perhaps I can find a way to extract ancient creature bloodlines with a certain degree of purity in the near future, and then enhance the purity of these ancient creature bloodlines through synthesis, ultimately obtaining a qualified Three-Eyed Tiger Cat bloodline."

'If successful, this will greatly enhance my combat capabilities. My physical constitution will also improve, allowing me to use more banned drugs. My progress in archaeology will also improve rapidly.'

(End of this chapter)