Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 195 Group Meeting
Locke looked at the Tombstone Grimoire. "The Tombstone Grimoire contains methods for creating relatively pure ancient bloodline essence."

"But this will require another sum of money." Locke thought as he read the knowledge in the magic book, "It will probably require about two thousand magic stones."

"I only have a little over 8,800 magic stones left in my savings right now, and I still have a series of expenses to cover. I hope the academy can release the medical expenses I earned this month as soon as possible, and also release the two outstanding project subsidies from above."

Locke pondered, "However, this money still needs to be spent. It's all for the sake of improving my physique so I can enjoy taking performance-enhancing drugs more in the future."

Locke was preparing to go to the Chimera Market to buy the experimental materials, equipment, and consumables he needed when Anglu and Aisie also came to visit.

The two came to the door because they had arranged to go to the third floor of the Healing Hands Clinic for a group meeting that afternoon.

The Healing Hands holds a monthly group meeting, which the potion-making assistants can choose to attend or not. However, Locke was specifically invited to this meeting, and he guessed that it might be related to the third phase of his Bear Spirit Gallbladder potion trials.

When Anglu and Aishi saw Locke open the door to the laboratory, they glanced at Locke's lab with curiosity. They were stunned for a moment when they saw a fossil that looked like amber on Locke's lab workbench, not understanding what it was.

Anglu smiled at Locke and said, "Locke, neither Aisie nor I have seen you much in the clinic's office this week."

"Without you, Aisie and I have become somewhat speechless lately."

Aisha said angrily, "Isn't it because every time you talk to me, you're bragging about your achievements? Who wants to listen to you talk like you're giving a report every day?"

"You're not my boss!"

"It's much more comfortable with Locke. Locke is usually silent in the office, and he always has his head down, I don't know what he's reading."

Anglu smiled and said, "That's probably what genius is all about."

Although Anglu and Aishi's magical power is currently at roughly the same level as Locke's, the Bear Spirit Gallbladder Potion that Locke created at the Healing Hand Clinic is so powerful that the two veteran first-class wizard apprentices now look up to Locke as their leader.

Moreover, the two of them didn't seem to stand out particularly among Edwin's students, otherwise they wouldn't have been given jobs at the treatment center.

Anglu turned to Locke and said seriously, "Locke, the group meeting is about to start, so we came here specifically to go with you."

"Although your mentor, the witch Sophia, didn't attend the group meeting this time, the three official wizards specifically notified you. This shows how much they value you, and I think it's also conveying the opinions of the academy's higher-ups."

Locke nodded. Although he wanted to focus on his research, he was simply too busy and needed help in many places.

It seems that recruiting more assistants is now a must.

Unfortunately, if Sophia the Witch had her own network of connections, it would have been more reliable to use her fellow disciples within that network.

The interests of both sides are now more closely intertwined.

Locke and the two others, each riding an Engel Spiral Snail, headed towards the valley where the Healing Hand Clinic was located.

Locke and his companions headed straight for the third floor. Along the way, the potion master's assistants and the patients all bowed slightly to Locke or nodded in acknowledgment.

The excellent apprentice badge that Locke wore was enough to make most first-class wizard apprentices nod in agreement with him.

Especially recently, he has gained fame and earned great honors at the Healing Hands Clinic.

Locke's level was also gradually rising, entering the middle level of first-class wizard apprentices, and even striving to catch up with the top batch of first-class wizard apprentices. In the conference room on the third floor of the Healing Hand, a large round table was already full of people, all of whom were the most outstanding first-class wizard apprentices in the Healing Hand Healing Center, as well as three formal wizards who were in charge of presiding over the meeting.

Among them was the wizard Derek Jones, who had once been in charge of assessing Locke's potion-making assistants. Derek Jones nodded slightly to Locke, and Locke bowed to him.

The three official wizards sat in the three front seats of the round table, while the first seat on the left side of the round table was empty, as that seat was reserved for the speaker during the group meeting.

On the wall facing the round table in the conference room, there was a white cloth hanging, which was a light and shadow screen.

Sometimes, when a wizard needs to present information, he will use light and shadow magic to magnify the information and project it onto a light and shadow screen so that everyone can see the information on the screen.

When the wizard Edwin saw Angru, Aisie, and the others about to sit in the last few seats at the oval table, he coughed and said to Locke, "Locke, Angru, Aisie, you can come and sit in the seats next to me."

"Today, when we give this report, you are among the main participants."

"Let's sit in the front row."

"Come on, you guys make way, sit back a bit, and clear out three seats for Locke's team. Those who don't have anything to report today don't need to sit at the oval table."

Locke naturally had no objection. In fact, he could sit anywhere, even if he were to sit at the door like one of the first-class wizard apprentices in this conference room, carrying a small stool.

But Anglu and Aisi, like ostriches, hunched over and sat anxiously in the front seats of the oval table.

To be honest, the two of them rarely sit in such front seats, whether at Edwin Wizard's academic conferences or at the Healing Hand Clinic's group meetings.

After all, they don't usually have any achievements to report, so if you really asked them to report, they would find it difficult to say anything.

Today, they were seated in such prominent positions at the front of the group meeting. Their faces turned red, their hearts raced, and they couldn't help but feel nervous.

Locke sat down next to the wizard Edwin and bowed to him. Edwin, in turn, smiled with satisfaction at Locke's politeness.

Meanwhile, sitting opposite the oval table in the group meeting was Angron, a first-class wizard apprentice and a wizarding seed specializing in potions at Lilith's Hut.

The moment Angron saw Locke, his face darkened, but when Locke looked at him, he put on a smile and said in a feigned cheerful tone, "Junior Locke, this must be your first time participating in a group meeting at the Healing Center."

"I haven't seen you the last few times. Haha, don't be nervous, you have projects on hand, there's no need to be too nervous."

Locke frowned slightly. "Senior Angron, you've misunderstood. I'm not nervous."

Angron's smile stiffened for a moment, then he gave Locke a seemingly amiable smile. "That's good."

Wizard Edwin glanced at the group members and tapped the table with his fingers. "Everyone's here. I'll chair this meeting."

"First, let's review the work done in our treatment center this month. I want to make it clear to you that the college is paying more and more attention to the work done in our treatment center. I hope that some students will not be as perfunctory in their work as before."

"Angron, you're here for the group meeting too. Why don't you introduce the work done by your Angron Studio this month, and what your future plans are?"

(End of this chapter)