Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems

Chapter 420: War Spells and Shared Resources

Next, regarding which research topic to choose, Witch Barbara, Montgomery, and Tacitus all had different views.The three argued endlessly. Tacitus wanted to pursue the treant route, which was reliable and conservative, while Witch Barbara believed they should pursue a route that others wouldn't think of, such as researching a magical vine platform that could provide healing capabilities.

Witch Barbara was both a botanist wizard and a bloodline refiner of the Conjuration School. Her botanical direction mainly specialized in magical vines, while her Conjuration School direction mainly specialized in the dryad route.

Witch Barbara was very skilled at combining the two, using magical vines to strengthen her main research field, the bloodline power of the dryad body itself.

Therefore, she dared to boldly propose the idea of developing large-scale healing-type magical vines.

Witch Barbara extended her left hand, and a magical vine with leaves shaped like the various phases of the moon slowly crawled out from her left hand.

"This is Moon Vine. It can absorb moonlight and convert it into natural magical structural components similar to the First Circle Life School spell, Potent Healing, and heal wounds on my body. Among magical vines, there are many more with this kind of characteristic. As long as we develop them properly, we can definitely create a tactical-level magical plant," Witch Barbara said. "Only by being unexpected can we achieve victory!"

Tacitus frowned. "There's an old saying that the weirder something is, the faster it dies. I don't see what's so unexpected about this."

"There are many healing-type magical vines, but they're all individual soldier-level magical plants, paired with individual soldier plant magic. They're not suitable as war spells."

"War spells often need to be cast jointly, with completely different logic from individual soldier magic," Tacitus said. "There's far too little information on tactical magical plants related to magical vines. Choosing this would be very dangerous and more likely to get us eliminated in the first round of the main competition."

The first round of the main competition would narrow twenty down to ten, and the participants were all the most outstanding First Circle breeders and senior breeders from various wizard lands, so being eliminated in the first round wasn't anything unusual.

Part of Locke's pressure also came from this.

Their team had no competition experience at all and not a single senior faculty position.

The difficulty could be imagined.

Witch Barbara countered, "Choosing treants would be even more of a dead end for us. The treant information is indeed complete, but that's only for other wizard lands. The Land of Six Towers' information has been outdated for decades. The development of the Land of Six Towers can't keep up with the outside world, this isn't any secret."

Both made very good points. Locke tapped the table, signaling for the two to stop being so confrontational.

After Tacitus and Barbara apologized to him again, expressing that they would maintain rationality and friendliness, Locke took out from his astral ring the information on tactical-level plants from the southeastern quadrant that his teacher Halen Vera had previously shared with him.

He had previously paid someone five hundred magic stones to transcribe and copy this information.

Locke distributed this information to everyone to read. "As for the issue of information, there's no need to worry for now. I have sources from outside the Land of Six Towers."

Wizard Tacitus picked up the information and immediately his eyes lit up. "Mr. Locke, you're truly capable. With this treant information, we can catch up to the level of the major wizard lands."

"This information is really advanced. My goodness, in the last fifty years, have the major wizard lands really researched treants in such detail? Look, just the classification of treants alone has two hundred families, divided into two categories: gymnosperm treants and angiosperm treants. The families of First Circle level treants that we can research number at least ninety."

Locke replied briefly, "Yes, it's from the southeastern quadrant."

"The southeastern quadrant has the Forbidden Forest, so botany and breeding are developed there."

"Whatever specific information you want, you can apply to me, and I'll find a way to get it for you."

"I have my own school connections in the southeastern quadrant and can obtain quite a bit of information. My school's network will help us," Locke added. "After my school learned that I was participating in the Cloud Marsh Cup, they chose to fully support me."

The three formal wizards cast envious looks at Locke.

Because in the Land of Six Towers, they simply didn't have such opportunities to be accepted by a school and enter an academic faction's network, enjoying all the benefits within that network.

Most of their options were either to become ghostwriters for others, having their labor exploited for life, never getting ahead, with no choice but to give up and resign themselves to their fate.

Or there were indeed a small number of particularly lucky wizards who would be valued by witches from family wizards and marry into them.

However, this second path could generally only be taken by wizards from outside wizard lands.

Because from long ago, the Land of Six Towers had implemented a strict bloodline hierarchy system. It was basically impossible to choose commoner wizards to marry into families within the Land of Six Towers itself, as that would break the deeply entrenched family hierarchy concepts within the Six Towers.

That was precisely where the main ideology of the Land of Six Towers lay.

Witch Barbara held this information enviously. "Having connections with fellow disciples is really wonderful. Unlike us commoner wizards from the Land of Six Towers who are always fighting alone and always being bullied."

"Unless... we join those mutual aid societies in the Spiral Basin..."

Tacitus looked at her questioningly. He didn't understand the hidden implications here, and the three people present who did understand didn't want to actively explain because it was sensitive content, so they all maintained silence.

Witch Barbara and Montgomery Paul exchanged glances, both seeing in the other's eyes that they had nearly walked the path of becoming black wizards.

Witch Barbara said, "Then, Boss Locke, I'd like to apply to you for information on magical vines. I need information on both individual magical plants and tactical magical plants, is that okay? I can pay magic stones... but I don't have much in savings, so..."

Locke shook his head slightly. "No need. This information is all freely shared with me by my school. We're now one research group, people on the same boat, so this information can be shared without additional charges. Barbara, I'll help you request this information, but it will take some time."

Barbara was stunned for a moment and expressed her envy again. "How wonderful. So in other wizard lands, accessing information doesn't cost money. Unlike us, even in the same research group, accessing information costs money."

"Only family wizards have advanced access privileges to the library. They themselves force us to work for them by monopolizing information, using our own labor to exchange for some pitiful information from their hands."

Barbara's expression was complex. "I once worked for six months straight without sleep on a project for that bastard Eric Plutarch, just to earn one day of Level 3 access privileges to the White Dragon Library."

Witch Barbara pointed at her eyes. "During that time, I had dark circles under my eyes every single day. Half my face was practically dark circles."

"But now it's really wonderful. I didn't expect that joining your research group, Boss, would also have the extra benefit of being able to freely access the information I need."

Witch Barbara said, "Well... I don't even need to search for it myself. I just need to ask you for the relevant information."

The three First Circle wizards were all very interested in this.