Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 4 Patty Aisa
Inside the dormitories of Aurelian College.

The college dormitories are all for two people and are fully furnished, but at this moment, Locke is the only one in the dormitory.

Another student, also from Anjou, was the son of a count in the Kingdom of Anjou. He had already dropped out of school early due to financial pressure.

The dormitory was quiet, but that made it convenient for Locke to get things done.

Locke took out the level 2 crafted item from the Horadric Cube. With a flick of his wrist, the Horadric Cube began to spin automatically, sparks flying like a galaxy exploding, a magnificent sight.

Then, several beams of light condensed in his hand into a sapphire the size of a fist.

Before Locke's eyes appeared the entry for this sapphire—

[Tier 2 Item: Sapphire, velvety blue in color, medium saturation, shimmering like water in sunlight. A luxury item favored by nobles, it can be used to craft valuable ornaments, rings, and jewelry, worth approximately 10-30 gold coins.]

Locke's eyes were subtle. He had only put three sapphire fragments into the Horadric Cube. Those three sapphire fragments were just cheap things he had bought in a bag at the market for three gold coins.

Even gem craftsmen are too lazy to use them to set jewelry.

However, after being combined with Horadric Cubes, its value increased several dozen times.

The Horadric Cube truly lives up to its reputation as a super artifact from the game of my previous life, capable of transforming low-level resources into high-level resources.

In my previous life's game, I had just obtained the Horadric Cube and hadn't yet carefully read the game's guide and recipes for crafting Rubik's Cubes.

However, even if we had researched it back then, it wouldn't be of much use now.

After all, this is another world, not a game.

Therefore, you need to carefully study how to make good use of the synthesis magic.

Locke pondered, "With the Horadric Cube, at least I have a way to solve the financial crisis. However, it's a long-term solution that can't address the immediate problem."

"I need to establish myself in this college first, so I must get that outstanding graduate spot. That way, I can dispel Professor Old's idea."

Locke's eyes flashed with doubt. "However, why would the original owner die just from copying textbooks for that old man Alder? In the week before the original owner died, he felt physically exhausted and tired every day."

"How on earth did he do it?"

He observed that neither the Aurelian Academy nor the continent of Corfu possessed any supernatural power.

This is just an ordinary medieval world.

There's no such thing as a knight's breathing technique.

Locke decided to continue the synthesis, and even change the synthesis formula.

Instead of using three sapphires of the same quality, he used a level 2 sapphire, a gold ring rated as a level 2 crafting item by the Horadric Cube, and a level 2 crafting item quality natural ruby.

To synthesize a Rubik's Cube, you can use the same item of the same level; or you can use different types of items of the same level.

However, it's hard to say what will be synthesized in this way.

Therefore, players need to discover the crafting recipes themselves within the game.

Locke looked at the Rubik's Cube in front of him and was reminded that he would have to wait another 2 hours.

In other words, I have to wait two hours to get a level 3 crafted item.

"The best way I can think of to use the Rubik's Cube right now..." Locke thought, "is to synthesize high-quality gemstone jewelry, and then sell it outside as a genius gemstone designer, using the proceeds to pay for my tuition."

"Step by step."

"Perhaps it can be used for something better in the future." Locke looked at the workbook that Dean Tungus had given him. He flipped through it and found that the questions in the workbook were several times more difficult than the last homework assignment.

With my skill level, it's simply impossible for me to complete.

Locke checked the assignment and found nothing unusual. He turned to the first page. "Mr. Tunguska, what is the purpose of giving me this assignment?"

"Is he just asking me to finish it? But the difficulty of the assignments far exceeds the current course progress, so his goal is to make me learn on my own."

Locke flipped through the thick textbook in front of him.

"But history class is in two days, and I certainly won't have time to study on my own. If Mr. Tunguska is testing my self-study ability and making me complete his assignment, it's impossible for me to finish it in two days."

"But there are ways to take shortcuts."

"If this path is blocked, then we'll try another one."

Locke got up, left his dormitory, and headed towards the dormitory's common lounge.

Inside the dormitory's common lounge.

Patty Aisa crossed her arms, leaned against a pillar in the lounge, raised an eyebrow, and looked at the runic textbook Locke handed her.

“Locke Augustine, we should never have been friends, nor have we ever spoken. Why are you coming to me?”

"I'll tutor you!"

Locke looked at the blonde girl in front of him. He wiped his nose. Patty Aisa was a commoner student at the academy and one of the best students in the language class.

Unlike herself, she had a very good relationship with Dean Tunguska, who often gave her extra tutoring. It was said that she had already completed all the ancient language courses for the semester ahead of schedule.

I absolutely cannot finish that assignment in two days, but if I take another approach and ask someone else for help, that's a different story.

I can ask someone who knows the course to explain the key points of the textbook content to me based on the assignments. In this way, I can 'learn the language' in the shortest amount of time and at least pass the assessment.

Locke wasn't a rigid person. One reason he chose Patty Aisa was that she had good grades and a good relationship with Dean Tunguska. Another reason was that Patty Aisa came from a commoner background and was relatively poor.

They simply had their tuition waived by the college.

But if there's an opportunity to make money, I certainly won't pass it up.

The graduation requirements for the children of the wealthy and powerful within the academy are very low, so they don't even pay much attention in class. Naturally, the academy won't seek out these children from ordinary families and spend money to provide them with extra tutoring.

Locke said, "I can pay for the tutoring."

"I really hope to finish the assignment Professor Tunguska gave me in class."

Patty Aisa nodded, and after thinking for a moment, said, "Alright, I might as well make money off you nobles."

"I want two hundred gold coins. That's not expensive."

“By tutoring you, I am sacrificing my own time, and I can no longer use that time to study.”

Locke said, "Okay. I'll pay you after I finish the lessons."

Anyway, I'm not worried about having so much debt.

If I can stay, I'm sure I can find a way to pay with those two hundred gold coins.

Patty Aisa looked at Locke with a strange smile and said, "Let me make this clear beforehand, I'll tutor you, but if you can't learn it, don't blame me."

(End of this chapter)