Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems

Chapter 424: Unfinished Project from the Star Domain Sea

Witch Sophia said, "So I have a large amount of materials I can provide to you. However, because the Ecological Niche Communication Spell can only transmit information between minds, I can only tell you a portion of the content I know.""But there's no way for me to directly look up Star Domain Sea materials for you. After all, the Lucky Four-Leaf Clover Ring can only be used three times in total."

Witch Sophia's brow once again shot out a magical radiance that entered Locke's mind.

However, because the amount of information in this transmission was too large, Locke discovered that this information seemed to have self-sealed itself in the form of some kind of spell model, transforming into a sphere of light located in his sea of consciousness.

He couldn't read it directly. Otherwise, in an instant, if this information sphere exploded, it would directly harm his mind.

After Witch Sophia went to the Star Domain Sea, she seemed to have made substantial progress in Mind School spells, so these methods secretly alarmed Locke.

He felt that if Witch Sophia hadn't just wanted to transmit information to him but had wanted to attack him instead, he would find it truly troublesome to figure out how to defend against such methods.

'Teacher's magical level is becoming more and more formidable. I actually have the illusion that the gap between her and me is growing larger instead,' Locke thought. 'But sooner or later, I will catch up to Teacher Sophia on this endless road toward truth and become her fellow traveler.'

Locke thanked Witch Sophia, "Thank you, Teacher."

Witch Sophia shook her head slightly. "You're my first student. If you have difficulties, how could I not help you? Besides that, I have one more thing to tell you."

"First, if you want to participate in the Cloud Marsh Cup, you must consider one thing, the aesthetics of the wizards of Cloud Marsh Wetland. The aesthetics of wizards in different wizard lands are different, and the more advanced the wizard land, the more serious this tendency becomes."

"Only the Star Domain Sea is an exception, because the Star Domain Sea's aesthetic is inclusiveness."

"The Star Domain Sea welcomes all wizards to enter, whether black or white, whether wizards of the Spiritualist School or the Divine School, whether you are morally upstanding or utterly evil, the Star Domain Sea welcomes all."

"The Star Domain Sea is a place that helps others achieve success, and is also a region that in a certain sense is incomparably cruel."

"As for Cloud Marsh Wetland's aesthetic... it's the ultimate form of 'water civilization.' My personal view is that the wizards of Cloud Marsh Wetland are all pursuing the construction of a habitable 'poem' within a square inch through extremely restrained methods."

"They're pursuing magic that uses skill to overcome force."

"This aesthetic tendency greatly influences the direction the wizards of Cloud Marsh Wetland pursue in magic, as well as the form of their magic. Of course, this is only a collective aesthetic. Applied to individuals, it's not quite accurate, because every wizard is unique."

Witch Sophia said, "Therefore, the Cloud Marsh Cup actually hides an implicit weak evaluation standard, which is whether it can relatively conform to the aesthetics of the wizards of Cloud Marsh Wetland."

"So if the topic you choose is something like the Great Gorilla Treant type, then you've already lost half the battle from the start. At the same level, the wizards of Cloud Marsh Wetland would absolutely not choose the Great Gorilla Treant to win."

"Because they would think that type of magical plant is too crude, lacks controllability, and has no room for technique. Similarly, if the topic you choose is the Skeleton Elderwood Treant, then you haven't just lost most of the battle, you're destined from the start to have no possibility of winning."

"Because the Skeleton Elderwood Tree has an appearance that's too ugly and disgusting, and its habits even challenge the inherent understanding of magical aesthetics that the wizards of Cloud Marsh Wetland have. Therefore, they would absolutely not judge this type of magical plant as the winner."

Witch Sophia said, "In comparison, the Star Domain Sea is much more tolerant in this regard. So there are also White Wizard Association critics who say the Star Domain Sea is excessively tolerant, has no principles, is a mixed bag with good and bad, and many very evil wizards have infiltrated it."

Locke nodded slightly. This was the benefit of having a master's guidance.

Some hidden standards weren't even written in the competition rules, but would indeed affect the competition results.

Just like this overall aesthetic tendency of Cloud Marsh Wetland.

"Wizards' aesthetics will indeed affect the upper limit of achievements they can attain in the future and influence their choices," Locke thought.

Witch Sophia said, "Moreover, you told me before that your current permanent defensive field is Forest Sanctuary, so I want to recommend this project to you even more."

A piece of information flew out from Witch Sophia's brow and entered Locke's mind. The amount of this information was relatively small, so Locke directly read it.

This was actually a project concept, along with some foundational data.

"This is?" Locke looked at this project, one exquisite spell model after another, and was stunned for a moment. "Teacher, this seems to be someone else's project data, and the structure is complete, the planning is reasonable, and the quality is extremely high. If taken to our southeastern quadrant, it would almost certainly receive First Circle funding."

Witch Sophia nodded and said, "Yes, this is a project that my senior brother and I submitted during a group meeting in our research group. Our research group is extremely large, and everyone is a cog in the machine, so our research content isn't too free either. Therefore, although this project was good, my senior brother and I had to follow the main direction. In the end, we switched to a project in a different direction."

Locke marveled inwardly.

Speaking of which, the quality of the project information Witch Sophia gave him was already very high. Who knew they had later produced an even better project.

One could only say, as expected of a Third Circle Throne Wizard's research group, truly formidable.

Anything randomly eliminated at a group meeting, if taken out, could dominate grant applications in other wizard lands.

Witch Sophia said, "Although this project is indeed not favored in our research group, I personally still think this is a very good project, and it's full of skillful ingenious ideas, very much in line with the aesthetics of the wizards of Cloud Marsh Wetland."

"This is a tactical magical plant design, but our research group doesn't really like this kind of project that's focused on practical application and limited to the weapons level, so they're not interested in it. That's why it was neglected."

"The main idea of this tactical magical plant is that it can coordinate with the permanent defensive field of First Circle wizards, fusing multiple wizards' permanent defensive fields together through the magical plant, even stacking them together. Through mutual stacking, it forms multiple permanent defensive fields."

Locke's eyes brightened slightly.

This was a project with the permanent defensive field as its research core. That meant this kind of thing either wouldn't produce any results, but if it generally had results, it would definitely be major results.

Teacher Sophia was absolutely right. This kind of thing was simply too suitable for him.

He had multiple permanent defensive fields, and this project was full of ingenious ideas and conformed to the aesthetics of the wizards of Cloud Marsh Wetland. Wasn't this exactly the direction that the wizards of Cloud Marsh Wetland liked!

Witch Sophia used magic to outline an illusory vine in her hand. This vine's stem was like an exquisite metal chain, and between each bionic chain link, there were also two small vine leaves.

"This is the Chain Magic Vine. It was the source of inspiration for my senior brother and me. It's one of the four major vine magical plants, a parasitic type magical vine. Its aerial roots parasitize on us wizards' bodies, but what's very special is that it has the unique characteristic of parasitizing on permanent defensive fields."

"So my senior brother and I came up with the idea of using finite element cultivation methods, wanting to use it and some other magical vines as a foundation to cultivate a large magical vine weapon platform controlled by 3 to 5 wizards."

Witch Sophia sighed. "It's just that we later chose other topics. This topic was only one-third completed, having just formed a prototype and basic data."

"Locke, if you're interested, you can also complete it and make it whole. I can't guarantee that the current approach is correct. Perhaps it's just a waste of time."

"Although this is a project from our laboratory, this project doesn't need to use any special equipment. I imagine that in the Land of Six Towers, you should also be able to complete it. However, its difficulty is extremely high. After all, it involves magical plants with permanent defensive fields, so the research and development difficulty is very great."

"The trade-offs in this, Locke, you need to weigh for yourself."

"If you think your current research group doesn't have the capability to develop this kind of magical plant weapon platform, you can also choose other suitable magical plants from the materials I transmitted to you for corresponding development."

Witch Sophia said a lot in one breath. "Alright, Locke, I hope I can help you. The time for the Ecological Niche Communication Spell is almost up."

"I wish you good luck. I'll be waiting for you in the Star Domain Sea."