538: Obtaining the First Student
Half a month later, inside the dormitory of Locke Augustine.
Locke's magic pressure was currently at 9030. By using the compression method, combined with the unique environment of Golden Crown Mountain and the inflow from the Natural Prime Force Plane, he was still able to maintain a strong growth momentum of 1 point of mana per day during his First Ring Crystallization Stage.
At this moment, inside the potion room in his dormitory, Locke used magic flames, changing them eight times in succession. The liquid inside the crucible suddenly exploded, causing a chain reaction. Dozens of natural magic structural components clashed with each other, turning into an eruption of energy.
Locke promptly cast the Eternal Defense Field and used his Life Force Field, trying to compress the explosion into a ball the size of a basketball.
The next moment, the crystal wall formed by the condensed Life Force Field cracked, leaving a gap, and it nearly went completely out of control.
Locke immediately took out the Hydra, which had stored magic pressure in advance, from his astral ring and instantly used the Mister Power to forcibly suppress the terrifying power of the explosion.
This prevented the explosion from sweeping through the entire potion room, though the crucible wrapped in the Mister Power was completely twisted and melted by the power of the explosion.
Locke chanted an incantation, summoning the black hole witch peach to suck this pile of dangerous potion waste into the black hole deep within Golden Crown Mountain.
"The consequences of a failed mid-process concoction of the Lucky Potion are truly terrifying." Locke ordered his Wood Elf maid to come in and clean up, his expression looking somewhat unsightly. "The difficulty of concocting the Lucky Potion is extremely high; it truly lives up to being the third round of the Feathered Serpent Ancient Pavilion ladder."
"The essence of the Lucky Potion is to utilize the natural magic structural components inside a pile of magic plants to concentrate luck together, and then have the wizard drink it. Within one hour of drinking the Lucky Potion, this wizard will possess the maximum luck generated during the configuration process. But conversely, it also means that during the concoction process, if I fail, I will invite the maximum degree of misfortune."
"Therefore, just a normal potion failure will cause a huge magic explosion."
"The power of the magic explosion is unusually high, and the Eternal Defense Field of an ordinary One-Ring Wizard actually cannot defend against it. This means that when an ordinary One-Ring Potion Master is configuring the Lucky Potion, there is a probability of death due to the failure of the potion configuration."
Locke let out a turbid breath. "Not only that, long-term configuration of the Lucky Potion is dangerous for the Potion Master doing the configuration, regardless of success or failure."
"Under normal circumstances, a wizard cannot continuously configure the Lucky Potion. Otherwise, it will bring misfortune upon themselves."
The test for the third round of the ladder was indeed not that easy to pass.
Now, because he had left the Six Towers Land, and he and Alicia had no contact information, he had lost the ability to contact her directly.
He no longer had an external brain.
However, given his current strange relationship with Alicia, he wouldn't contact her unless necessary.
After all, in a sense, Alicia chose her family between him and her family, and he chose the Star Domain Sea between her and the Star Domain Sea.
"Yunze Wetland has a large number of books. I can make up for my shortcomings in the technique of configuring the Lucky Potion by reviewing those materials."
Locke reached out and summoned the Primal Fire. This flame, transformed from the primitive force left over from the beginning of the world, lay quietly in his palm.
"Let's use the Primal Fire to successfully configure a Lucky Potion first."
The materials at the Dragon Blood Market were very complete, so he had already purchased a set of materials for the Lucky Potion at the Dragon Blood Market before, costing 70,000 magic stones.
His current savings were 300,000 magic stones.
The price of raw materials for the Lucky Potion was very expensive; after all, this was the most difficult to concoct and the most powerful potion at the First Ring level.
If it weren't for the ladder test, it would be difficult for him to even touch the relevant potion formula.
Locke handled the materials related to the Lucky Potion with smooth, flowing movements, and added the two most important main ingredients: the powder crushed from the Granville Lucky Butterfly and the tail of an Eris Mouse. These two rare magic creatures were the culprits responsible for him spending 70,000 magic stones to gather a set of raw materials for the Lucky Potion.
At the same time, Locke added a Lucky Grass as an auxiliary material to remove the toxicity of the Eris Mouse tail.
The main purpose of adding auxiliary materials to a potion formula is to neutralize the toxicity of the core materials and secondary materials.
Meanwhile, Locke skillfully manipulated the Primal Fire, making the magic flame switch back and forth between fire element and water element, and also between ice element and flame element.
Through various flames with different polarities, he tried to neutralize the two core materials with opposite properties as much as possible, and fuse the natural magic structural components within them.
Previously, every time Locke failed, he was stuck at this step, always unable to switch between the two groups of magic flames with opposite properties in time.
This step could also stump countless One-Ring Potion Masters.
The requirement for the accuracy of mana in this step was extremely abnormal. If it was even half a point off, it would cause a magic explosion, and the entire concoction of the Lucky Potion would fail.
Three hours later, Locke's face was slightly pale. He drank a bottle of Holy Spring Nectar Potion to restore his state, while picking up the Lucky Potion in his hand.
"Using the Primal Fire, one can succeed in the concoction... With the experience of successfully concocting the Lucky Potion, everything will be much easier."
Locke carefully put the Lucky Potion into his astral ring, preparing to find a time to drink a bottle of Lucky Potion to experience the effect of this potion.
Next, Locke left the dormitory and headed to the public laboratory for Breeders at the True Knowledge Institute.
He walked towards a small workbench of his in the laboratory. The work of the three magic mirrors mapping new natural magic structural components was already half done. With two more uses, the three magic mirrors would be able to complete the mapping work for the new natural magic structural components.
In addition, the symbiotic relationship between the other four types of pineapples and magic creatures had already been explored and understood because of the direction pointed out by the synthesis cube, and the final report had been written. In another half a month to a month, his first fund at the True Knowledge Institute would be completed.
At the same time, in this half a month, he had also prepared the preliminary experimental data for three types of pineapples—the Black Tear Stone Pineapple, the Snow Wave Flower Pineapple, and the Yellow Amber Pineapple—and their correlation with the reproductive capacity of three specific magic creatures.
Locke prepared to continue writing the final report, and at the same time write the project application for the second-class fund.
But when Locke returned to his workstation, he frowned slightly, because a First-Class Wizard Apprentice wearing a gray robe was standing next to his workstation, looking very nervous and uneasy.
Seeing him walk over, the apprentice immediately looked at him nervously.
Witch Mason, who was processing data at the laboratory workstation, whispered to him. "Your teacher has arrived."
At that moment, Locke looked at the First-Class Wizard Apprentice. He was about 1.7 meters tall, with a rather young face, about twenty years old.
In fact, he was only two years younger than himself.
But his magic pressure had already reached 700, very close to 800.
Locke looked at Witch Mason, "Is this the student assigned to me by the academy? The magic pressure is so high, it's already close to 800. I saw that the students assigned to you seem to have magic pressure between 400-600."
Witch Freya, sitting at the workstation next to Witch Mason, shrugged. "Locke, that's because the academy's high-level management treats us differently. The standard for students assigned to us ordinary researchers at the True Knowledge Institute is magic pressure 400-600, but the students assigned to you at the Hall of Advanced True Knowledge are 600 or above."
Witch Mason waved her hand and smiled: "Students who can enter the True Knowledge Institute and be jointly trained must be relatively excellent students themselves."
"Even if they are not the wizard candidate seeds of this generation of Golden Crown Mountain, they are very close existences."
"So, it's about the same."
Freya muttered: "The difference is huge. If I had a student with a magic pressure of 700, how much more work could they do? I would be so happy. Sometimes I get very annoyed looking at the group of students under me."
Witch Mason coughed once or twice to indicate that she should pay attention to the occasion.
Locke called this student out of the workstation area in the laboratory.
The two walked to the side of a ridge in a magic field.
Locke asked him: "What is your name? Introduce yourself. Are you a wizard candidate seed of Golden Crown Mountain?"
Gregor Robinson swallowed, feeling a bit nervous. In his eyes, Locke's magic pressure was as heavy as a mountain, towering and endless at a glance.
That terrifying magic pressure shrouded Locke's body, tempered and perfect.
This made Gregor very nervous.
At this moment, facing Locke's inquiry about whether he was a wizard candidate seed of Golden Crown Mountain, Gregor blushed, his mind spinning wildly, fearing that this would make Locke dissatisfied with him.
"Teacher, my name is Gregor Robinson, and I am a Wizard Apprentice studying Botany." Gregor whispered: "Teacher, I am not yet a wizard candidate seed, but I can work hard to become a wizard candidate seed of Golden Crown Mountain."
"The wizard candidate seeds of Golden Crown Mountain will only be the top three in an academy, and generally their mana has reached 800. Teacher, I will work hard."
Locke nodded slightly.
He had expected this. Golden Crown Mountain would put a batch of their relatively excellent Wizard Apprentices into the True Knowledge Institute for joint training, and they could also serve as the lowest-level labor force within the True Knowledge Institute.
Therefore, they would not put the most excellent batch, those about to become Formal Wizards, into the True Knowledge Institute.
However, getting a student whose magic pressure had already reached 700 would be of great benefit to him.
In this way, helping him become a Formal Wizard would be much simpler.
Next, Locke exchanged a few words with Gregor and learned that his learning experience was actually quite simple.
First, he was a native of the Yunze Wetland, and then he was a Child of the Elements (Wood). After entering Golden Crown Mountain at the age of 16, he had been studying step by step.
The apprentice-level plant spells he learned were spells from the [Unstoppable] series, a magic series unique to the Yunze Wetland, and the supporting magic plant used was an apprentice-level magic plant: Iron Bamboo.
Locke glanced at Gregor, who looked very nervous. This could be considered his first formal student.
A student within the teaching system.
According to the contract, he needed to produce two students at the Formal Wizard level within the True Knowledge Institute before he could obtain the exit certificate.
Locke remembered when Sophia the Witch first met him; was he also this nervous at that time?
Locke smiled and asked Gregor for his Iron Bamboo. It could be seen that this Iron Bamboo had been carefully maintained by him, so it grew very well.
Locke said: "From today on, follow me and help me organize data. Start by learning to organize my data, and then help me do some work."
In this way, someone would be able to do the chores that plagued Locke, such as going to the finance department for reimbursement and purchasing various miscellaneous things.
Moreover, in his projects, besides discovering those unknown natural magic structural components, there were some more advanced experiments that this apprentice could not help him with, but all other trivial small experiments could be done by him.
It saved him a lot of trouble.
Gregor saluted Locke: "Okay, Teacher."
Locke said to him: "By the way, for our first meeting, I'll give you a better apprentice-level magic plant."
Locke gave him the Black Lock Sword Bamboo that Albert had given him. Although this rare magic plant had been damaged in battle before, it had long been repaired by him, as he was a First Ring Breeder after all.
"Thank you, Teacher." Gregor took the Black Lock Sword Bamboo from his hand. The next moment, the magic pressure infused by Locke burst out from the Black Lock Sword Bamboo.
"This..." Gregor swallowed. "Teacher, this is too precious. It contains your magic pressure."
"I..."
Locke shook his head slightly. "You are my first student, so it is only right that I treat you well."
Locke rubbed his nose. When he said this, the image of another witch would always appear in his mind.
He couldn't help but smile bitterly.
Was the image of Gregor in his eyes right now the same as his own image in the eyes of Sophia the Witch back then?
Gregor stroked the high-quality magic pressure transmitted to him from the Black Lock Sword Bamboo, and his own magic pressure immediately became restless and combined with it, which even brought some benefits to himself.
Gregor said to Locke: "Thank you, Teacher."
"My original wizard mentor was very strict with me. He had many, many students, and I couldn't see him once all year round. Even when we met, I couldn't talk to him, and he still doesn't remember my name to this day. But you seem to be different from him."
Gregor seemed to have opened up because of Locke's kindness. "I originally thought you would also be a strict person."
"No, no, I mean, you are still full of majesty in my eyes, but I didn't expect you to be so kind to us."
Locke smiled and said: "Your original mentor should be a wizard mentor from Golden Crown Mountain... He has many students, while you are my first student."
"Let's go. I'm going to the ice magic mirror room today. You help me organize the data at my workstation."
Gregor followed Locke quickly. "Okay, Teacher."