Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems

Chapter 411: Results of the Three Major Projects

Locke left the elemental pool chamber and came to his office in the White Dragon Tower. Because he needed to oversee three major projects and participate in the Cloud Marsh Cup competition, the Plutarch family had provided him with this office.Inside the office, Locke summoned Claudia and the Old Wizard Collins. At this time, Old Wizard Collins had already written papers and reports about the Shadow Eye Grass and had applied for patents.

At the same time, Old Wizard Collins had become extremely respectful toward Locke, because Locke had only used one month's time to completely transform the eye grass he had researched for over thirty years, making it even more powerful and developing two variant subspecies.

This was probably what genius meant.

Wizard Collins looked at Locke, his gaze filled with approval, "Lord Augustine, I have already submitted the project completion document to the White Wizard Association and received signed confirmation. Thank you for your help with my research. Without you, my eye grass would never have reached the practical stage in my lifetime."

"And the two types of eye grass variants you developed have greatly enriched the variety of my eye grass."

Wizard Collins bowed to Locke. Locke's behavior of continuing research on his foundation and developing two new eye grasses could make his eye grass more famous.

Although this kind of fame was almost useless in the Land of Six Towers, at least it gave his lifetime of research some closure.

Wizard Collins smiled, "I have already returned all the fixed assets and funds clearly, and the team has been disbanded."

"I even submitted the eye grass to a small innovation award in the Land of Six Towers. Although I don't think there's any chance of winning, I'm already quite satisfied now." Old wizard Collins smiled at Locke, "Lord Locke, you're going to participate in the Cloud Marsh Cup. I'm too old, my energy and knowledge can't keep up, but I can contribute a little for you by helping you with interview work to save you energy."

Locke nodded slightly, "Alright."

In fact, Locke had already written two articles about Shadow Eye Grass and Golden Eye Grass, published them through the White Wizard Association of the Land of Six Towers, and obtained two Association S-rank articles.

At the same time, Locke also submitted these two types of eye grass to two cross-wizard-land niche award competitions, the Moss Shield Medal Competition and the Thousand-Eyed Vine Competition. Both competitions were relatively obscure contests held in the southeastern quadrant.

They were also cross-wizard-land level, but quite small in scale, only popular among wizards from several wizard academies in several wizard lands. Locke only learned about these two competitions through Halen Vera's network connections. Ordinary First Circle wizards would probably have great difficulty even hearing about their existence.

Sometimes, just knowing these competitions exist meant you had already won more than half the battle.

These two competitions didn't have very many participants, so Locke spent thirty thousand magic stones to find someone to send the two eye grass plants back to the southeastern quadrant to participate in the competitions.

There was no choice. Competitions in the Land of Six Towers really weren't recognized by anyone. Because of the existence of the Forbidden Forest in the southeastern quadrant, breeding studies there had never been weak, and the breeding competitions there were still quite recognized by various places.

Currently, he had savings of 160,000 magic stones in hand.

Because he had funding for three major projects and competition funds, he rarely needed to spend his own money now.

After Locke discussed some work with Claudia, he received the wizards from the project team helping him develop plant magic in this office.

In this project team of wizards, only one-third were civilian wizards, while the other two-thirds were all family wizards.

Work had been ongoing for over a month now, and the progress couldn't be said to be nonexistent, it could only be said to be pitifully little.

Locke looked at the two Plutarch family plant wizards before him and could only sigh. His requirements for them had really been lowered again and again.

In the Land of Six Towers, there was one bad thing, which was that there were really too few talents, requiring extensive filtering.

In the Land of Six Towers, wizards who just freeloaded were far more numerous than wizards who could actually work.

This caused his requirements for them to constantly lower, from initially preparing to majorly modify Eye of Plants, Photosynthesis, and Plant Mimicry to adapt to Golden Eye Grass, Shadow Eye Grass and Large Green Leaf Dragon Sparrow, to later seeing these people really couldn't do it and preparing for medium modifications, and now to small modifications.

But even so, these two Plutarch family wizards still indicated to him that the data volume was really too large. They had been working for a month and had almost no progress.

Locke looked up at the two wizards, almost wanting to imitate Grand Wizard Sulla and cast a powerful human charm spell on them, then remotely manipulate their memories and control their bodies to make them conduct research.

Locke sighed slightly in his heart. There was no choice, he could only rely on himself. If he pieced things together himself, it might also work.

Locke modified the three diagrams on the desk once, "If the data can't be calculated, then increase the manpower. Our research group has very abundant funding. If it can't be calculated, recruit a few more first-class wizard apprentices. Oh right, don't recruit family wizards, recruit civilian wizards."

"Civilian wizards know how to work."

"This should be fine, right? I'll also work hard together with you all, striving to complete the three plant magic improvement spells within half a year."

There was no choice. He lacked experience before, and there were no talents here, so this plant magic improvement project was really a tangled mess.

After these two family wizards talked with him for a while, displayed their presence, and promised they would work hard to complete the task, what came next made Locke quite comfortable.

Because the next two magical plant cultivation projects were his strengths. Locke listened to their reports. First, the seven types of magical plants involved in the Spirit Spring Soul Surge Potion had all been completed with the help of Locke using the Synthesis Cube. They were Jade Iris Lichen, Azure Lichen, Moonlight Lichen, Sunlight Lichen, Vermillion Lichen, and Starlight Lichen.

Among these, Jade Iris Lichen was the most special, possessing adaptive magical resistance.

But the other six apprentice-level lichens had also all been improved to a certain degree.

This project could almost be concluded at this point.

And the other gem magical plant at the Lewis Mining Research Institute, with Locke using the Synthesis Cube to accelerate synthesis, plus his own finite element cultivation technology, and utilizing that research institute's decent research capabilities, was also almost complete.

Placed on Locke's desk was a diamond-like succulent. It seemed transparent, but upon careful touch, one discovered this was just a succulent composed of white diamond-shaped leaves. It felt gelatinous to the touch with vacuoles inside.

Its tiny succulent leaves were like many small leaves stacked together, very beautiful.

The middle-aged wizard Takla proudly declared to Locke, "Director, through our efforts, this tiny thing can release tremendous energy. Whether for sneak attacks or strategic reserves, it's extremely useful. I can hardly believe this is something our research institute could produce. Of course, this is all thanks to you."