Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 203 Discussion by the Competition Committee
Room 107.

Locke nodded slightly as he looked at the room full of medium-quality parasitic magical plants.

The quality of the magical plant seeds in this room is quite good among medium-grade magical plants; they are a relatively rare type.

After a quick selection, he found two parasitic magical plants suitable as extra loading shells for the Rotten Amorphophallus King: the Tuber Mine and the Thunder Electric Potato.

Tuber Mine is a parasitic potato plant. It looks grayish and must parasitize other plants. It has a layer of parasitic aerial roots on its surface, which can absorb energy from other plants.

In return, these tuber mines protect the parasitized magical plants and explode when the plants are in danger.

Similarly, the Thunder Potato is also a parasitic type of magical plant.

On its potato vine, there is also a pale purple parasitic aerial root (a root that grows in the air).

These electric potato vines have many electric potatoes hanging from their surface. When these electric potatoes touch an enemy, they explode, dealing a certain amount of Electro damage.

Essentially, the Thunder Potato contains a natural magical structure similar to the [Electric Palm] spell, so once it explodes, it is naturally equivalent to a 0.3-ring Evocation spell.

Locke considered the choice between the tuber mine and the Thunder Potato, and ultimately chose the Thunder Potato because he lacked elemental damage magic, which the Thunder Potato could make up for.

Tuber mines are purely explosive spells and do not involve elemental damage.

Thunderbolt Potato Vine is a parasitic magical plant that can parasitize its own Rotten Soil Arum King, forming a symbiotic relationship. It is powered by its own rare, high-quality magical plants. With some minor adjustments to its spell model, Mayfly Flower Cannon, it should be able to increase the attack power of future Thunderbolt Potato Vine attacks to 0.5 rings.

In this way, the Thunderbolt Potato Shells were not entirely useless in their own battles.

The Mayfly Flower Cannon can fire spore projectiles while simultaneously launching Thunder Potatoes to increase damage, or it can fire Thunder Potatoes alone. In any case, it has a wide range of applications and can effectively make up for its shortcomings in battle.

After Locke exchanged ten seeds of this parasitic magical plant with Ruby, the two of them headed towards the mine shaft via the perforated iron floor of the underground space.

Ruby kept thanking Locke for his advice as they walked, while Locke nodded and silently planned for the future as they went.

First, I need to cultivate Thunderbolt Potato Vine and Big Green Leaf Banana as soon as possible. Second, I need to quickly learn the Metal Frenzy series of spells that accompany the Shooter Pea. Third, I also need to complete the tasks at the academy.

The third phase of experiments on the Bear Spirit Gallbladder Potion needs to be completed, and the sales of Emerald Iris Lichen and Eye of Perseus need to be finalized as soon as possible. Meanwhile, my sixth magical plant creation should be the flying magical plant, [Big Green Leaf Banana].

My personal pharmaceutical lab is still in its early stages of operation, and I should focus on consolidating the sales of the memory ointment as soon as possible, while also starting to think about what new medicines to develop after the Bear Spirit Gallbladder Medicine.

As soon as possible, you need to decide which type of pharmaceuticals your personal pharmaceutical lab will develop in the future.

Locke turned his attention to several potions he usually used for meditation, such as the Star Tear Potion, the Blood-Soaked Dragon Sunflower Potion, and the Energy Potion.

However, these medicines are extremely difficult to prepare, and their formulas have not yet been made public.

That's why I didn't choose to synthesize it before.

There is a big difference between magic potions and magic plants.

You don't need to know the specific recipe or the original cultivation method to obtain the specific method to improve the plant. At most, you just need to buy the original seed.

However, when you synthesize a potion yourself, you can only obtain information about the improved formula, but you cannot know the original potion formula. And if you don't know the original potion formula, you have no way to proceed even if you have information about the improved formula.

Secondly, those potions need to be taken in fixed quantities. Quantity and consistent use are far more important than a single dose for enhancing efficacy.

Therefore, Locke had no choice but to synthesize those potions due to a lack of funds.

However, once the pharmaceutical lab stabilizes in the future, it might be able to develop in the direction of improving these commonly used meditation remedies. This would not only reduce the cost of purchasing remedies for cultivation but might also allow them to earn more money and further improve their meditation speed.

Although she didn't know why, even the witch Sophia had mentioned to her several times that she should try to reach 800 mental strength as soon as possible.

This can greatly increase one's chances of becoming a formal wizard.

Locke also wondered how the custom magical plant competition organized by the academy's combat department was going.

Today should be the registration deadline.

I wonder if my Eye of Perseus lichen can win this competition?!

There are many skilled breeders in the academy, so I can't underestimate them.

Winning this game would be a great help to me, both financially and in terms of reputation.

On the mine ladder, Ruby watched Locke deep in thought. She wisely chose to remain silent while secretly glancing at Locke with admiration.

'One day, I also want to become a certified breeder like this senior student, Augustine, and become a part of protecting and balancing the natural ecosystem.'

……

Lilith's Hut, located in one of the many alchemy huts housing the combat department, inside the office of the Targeted Magic Plant Competition Committee.

The official wizards who are members of the committee in charge of organizing this competition are compiling information on the participants.

In addition to these official wizards, there were also people like Zack, who were in charge of procurement and bidding for the combat department.

There are others like him who are in charge of centralized procurement and bidding for the plant-related projects.

They are all in this office right now, reviewing the materials submitted for this competition together with the official wizards.

Senior breeder Jonas Cortez was one of the main judges for the competition.

He said to his colleagues and those in charge of centralized procurement bidding, "Everyone should first organize the registration materials."

"And a preliminary ranking list was drawn up."

"The primary principle is that performance in real-world applications is more important than data performance. The breeder's past achievements and the level of the studio they work in are also important evaluation criteria."

"Some small studios produce magical plants that look very good in the data, but in actual use they have many shortcomings and are practically useless."

"After the initial ranking, we have a general idea of ​​which works are likely to win the championship."

"Then, we will conduct practical tests on these magical plant creations that have been sent over, and the top three creations with the best results will be selected!"

"We can offer them a centralized procurement contract as a reward."

"Of course, in this process, the comprehensive combat data of those magical plants in the past will definitely account for a larger proportion of the score."

"That would be safer."

"Therefore, we also need to collect statistics and examine whether the original versions of these magical plant works were used in past wars and what their results were."

(End of this chapter)