516: Synthesizing Three sea gold sands
Locke said to Director Morrison, "Then, Director Morrison, I accept your advice. Your opinion should be the best for me."
"I am willing to sign a contract with Golden Crown Mountain."
Director Morrison smiled. "Wise."
"In a few days, two contracts should be sent to you—one from Golden Crown Mountain and one from Bonifacius University. Regardless, you can look at both contracts I negotiated with them simultaneously and compare the terms they are offering you."
Director Morrison said, "If you enter Golden Crown Mountain, your cooperating mentor will be Witch Yekaterina."
"Entering the True Knowledge Institute means you will be studying and working at the same time, so Witch Yekaterina will be both your mentor and your boss."
"Lady Yekaterina is looking to join the Ten-Person Project recently, so I think she will have you join the group as soon as possible to get to work."
"Lady Yekaterina is on the side of the Academic Committee. After you enter the Hall of Advanced True Knowledge at Golden Crown Mountain, you must first understand which faction you belong to. The relationship between Golden Crown Mountain's Academic Committee and your academy's Senate is not exactly good. Make sure not to get it wrong and offend other wizards unknowingly."
Director Morrison smiled and said, "Little Locke, you are the champion of our 10th Yunze Cup. You must work hard after entering Golden Crown Mountain."
"Your future achievements will affect the reputation of our Yunze Cup."
Director Morrison exchanged some pleasantries, "Little Locke, if you have anything in the future, feel free to contact me."
Locke expressed his gratitude and then disconnected the video call.
Director Morrison's last sentence was most likely just a courtesy; after all, he was simply too busy.
It would be inappropriate to go to him for troublesome matters, and even more inappropriate to ask for his help with simple ones.
However, having the contact information of a Second Ring Wizard was already a decent gain for himself.
Locke snapped his fingers, closed the grey mist slate, and whispered, "Large organizations have their benefits, but they also bring the problem of complex personnel and numerous factions."
"It seems Golden Crown Mountain has at least four factions: the Senate, the Academic Committee, Lu Xu Bridge, and the Deacon Inspection Group."
"In other words, by joining the Hall of Advanced True Knowledge, I can obtain the Advanced Meditation Technique I have dreamed of right from the start. At the same time, I must try my best to obtain the special grant fund—that is a fund worth millions of magic stones."
"Secondly, I need to fulfill the three major tasks—teaching tasks, project tasks, and article tasks—to obtain the exit certificate. Only then can I walk out of the Hall of Advanced True Knowledge and head toward a larger world."
Locke walked downstairs, exited the Feathered Serpent Ancient Pavilion, and went to the largest breeding shop on White Dragon Street. He asked, "Are the two sea gold sands I ordered earlier in stock?"
The wizard in the Gasification Stage who received him at the shop was also the head of a mid-tier noble family in the Six Towers Land. This old wizard looked at Locke with extreme respect. Whether it was Locke's identity as the Yunze Cup champion or his feat of sending the Basil Family's wizard Nidhogg into the Blood River Plane, both were worthy of his respect.
The old wizard whispered, "sea gold sand is a specialty of the Hui Ming Borderland and is almost out of stock in our Six Towers Land, but since you want it, I naturally must make it happen."
"After pulling quite a few strings, I finally managed to scrape together seven sea gold sands."
"The normal market price for sea gold sand outside is 13,000 magic stones per unit, but here in the Six Towers Land, considering the shipping costs and the depletion of favors..." The old wizard looked a bit troubled. "Therefore, our shop has decided to raise the price of sea gold sand to 20,000 magic stones."
"Mr. Locke, is this acceptable?"
Locke nodded and said calmly, "Here you go, these are fourteen magic crystal cards."
There were no problems; the only problem was that he had become penniless again.
The money he had just earned from selling the Gelas Aging Potion was all gone in the blink of an eye.
Locke appeared calm on the surface, but he was actually a bit speechless inside.
He completed the transaction with the old wizard, and after checking that all seven sea gold sands were in good condition, he turned to bid him farewell and left the shop.
For himself two years ago, when he had just become a Formal Wizard, it would have been very difficult to obtain even one sea gold sand, requiring him to exchange 100 military merits in the Southeast Corner Region. But for him now, obtaining sea gold sand was not that difficult; as long as he had money, it was fine.
And the reason Locke needed so many sea gold sands was to perform synthesis.
Locke walked back to his residence in the White Dragon Tower and whispered, "It's a pity that I am about to leave the Six Towers Land, so I don't have time to apply for a project through the Six Towers Land to develop the sea gold sand."
Synthesizing sea gold sand requires a large amount of raw materials and some work. Actually, if he found someone to help him, the speed of producing results would be faster.
However, it was not a big problem.
Over the past year, his mastery of the five major cultivation methods had also advanced further. Therefore, with this growth, he could attempt to synthesize and cultivate the seven sea gold sands independently.
At the end of the day, he was not standing still; he had grown a lot.
In the ecological garden where he had previously cultivated the Hydra, there was still ready-made equipment. With the Dragon Crystal Ecological Dome and the help of Tacitus and Leopold, he still had a chance to upgrade the sea gold sand in a short time.
It was just a pity that his greatest assistant in the Six Towers Land, Montgomery, had already left the Six Towers Land and headed to the Yuze Marsh.
Otherwise, he would have been more confident.
Half a month later, since he was not cultivating a magic plant from scratch but rather enhancing the original sea gold sand to a certain degree, Locke managed to produce a mutated sea gold sand after half a month.
Tacitus and Leopold had already returned.
Under the Dragon Crystal Ecological Dome, Locke waved his hand, and a massive sea gold sand emitting a golden light landed in his palm.
This sea gold sand did not look like a fern; it looked more like a tree.
"As expected, my previous hypothesis was correct," Locke said while looking at the sea gold sand. "I directed the synthesis of the sea gold sand toward the tree fern, and it actually resulted in a special synthesis formula within half a month. Moreover, the enhancement is very satisfying."
"In other words, as long as I have sufficient knowledge and continue to make progress in Breeding Science, the speed at which I create special synthesis formulas will also increase as my proficiency in the field of Breeding Science improves."
"By using the Grafting Cultivation Method to graft the sea gold sand with the most special tree fern magic plant among ferns, the sea gold sand was strengthened."
Locke looked at the entry for this glowing sea gold sand at this moment—
[Level 8 synthetic item, Glowing sea gold sand, created from sea gold sand and Cyathea tree fern using the Grafting Cultivation Method, with the Magic Power Resonance Cultivation Method used to strengthen the vitality of both and promote fusion.]
[The sea gold sand successfully transformed from an ordinary fern into a tree fern magic plant. The pseudo-wood structure of the tree fern made the sea gold sand's body much larger, its basic magic power became stronger, and all its powers were doubled.]
In other words, Locke used the tree fern to arborize the sea gold sand, thereby strengthening it.
Of course, a tree fern is not a real tree. Trees can keep getting thicker, but a tree fern is just a plant that looks like a tree formed by the accumulation of aerial roots, but in reality, it is still a fern.
It is impossible for a fern to continue growing its main body after reaching adulthood.
It is just that the tree fern uses its petioles and aerial roots to layer itself like armor. In fact, the true stem hidden inside is only a few centimeters in diameter, which still does not exceed the scope of a fern.