Chapter 889
Arthas's magical plant test on the Golden Dragon Claw Air Plant!
Chapter 889 Arthas's magical plant test on the Golden Dragon Claw Air Plant!
The Dark World.
The Dark Lord's palm fell like the heavens, obscuring the light of countless worlds plunged into darkness. In the shadows, someone sang hymns of praise, pleasing the endless darkness.
But just as the nameless wizard's body was about to be covered by countless darkness and turn into a shadow.
Suddenly, a black sun appeared in the sky above the Dark World. The black sun was even darker than the darkness of the Dark World itself, making the magical radiance of the Dark World seem like a cluster of stars shining brightly.
The Dark Evil King looked up in terror at the dark sun in the sky, gritting his teeth.
"Sacrificial magic. They're coming again."
"They have been gone from this world for a long time, and now they have reappeared."
"The Tower of the Black Sun has returned."
The black sun seemed to be the spire of the Tower of the Black Sun, its lighthouse. The moment it appeared, it disrupted the entire dark world.
The nameless wizard seized the opportunity and immediately used the [Three Thousand Peach Killing Curse]. Countless pink peach petals surrounded his body, and the next moment, he disappeared from the spot.
……
On the Vanguard, Locke received a message from his senior brother. He opened the Water Hyacinth System and saw that his senior brother had sent him a message.
"Junior brother, quickly give me back my name."
Locke paused for a moment, then consciously tried to recall his senior brother's name. Like the moon reflected in water or a flower in a mirror, there was always something separating him from that real name.
But the next moment, it was as if he saw through some kind of fog.
Then a name appeared deep within his soul.
Trajan!
As soon as the name appeared, Trajan the Wizard sent himself a message within the Water Hyacinth System.
"Thank you very much, junior brother. We owe you a lot this time."
"This time, in my attempt to retrieve the Heartbreak Flower, which is extremely important to them, I was met with a full-scale blockade by the Great Lord of the Dark World. I gained a great deal, but also suffered numerous injuries, and almost didn't make it back."
Locke asked doubtfully, "With your abilities, how could you possibly not be able to return while exploring the world?"
Trajan the wizard replied to himself.
The vast emptiness is boundless; who can guarantee eternal invincibility? Only through caution, pragmatism, and step-by-step exploration of the truth can one truly succeed.
"This time I made two major unexpected discoveries. First, the Dark World is much larger than the area explored by the previous group of explorers, and there isn't just one Dark Lord there. Furthermore, I discovered numerous ancient wizarding ruins within the Dark World."
"Secondly, I brought back a magical plant called the 'Sad Flower,' which is very important to their territory in the Dark World."
On the Vanguard of Exploration, Locke saw a picture sent to him by the wizard Trajan. It was a magical plant the size of a pearl, very small, white as rice grains, and looked as if the flower would fall apart if the wind blew.
The old pirate Henry instinctively reached out to take a look, but Hussein's clever positioning prevented him from sticking his head out.
Henry coughed and chuckled awkwardly, "It's a professional habit, a professional habit. We like to look around when we're on the ship."
Locke turned his attention back to the picture of the Heartbreak Flower, examined it closely, and discovered that it was a magical plant he had never seen before.
Trajan's discovery could very well become a new source of profit for their lineage, or it could be a key area for future development at Mount Golden Crown.
Of course, this requires Trajan to publish articles, apply for projects, and work hard to gain his teacher's approval. Only then can the teacher take these materials to Mount Corona and persuade them to invest resources in the project.
The wizarding ruins of the Dark World, and the Dark World itself, may very well become the future targets of Mount Golden Crown, but this remains to be seen.
Trajan's great achievement in the Void Exploration mission of the Sun Ring Wizards will likely influence the future development of the Wizarding Academy.
The wizard Trajan said, "I have returned to the wizarding world through a dimensional teleportation array in a wizarding ruin. By the way, junior brother, how was your dimensional exploration?"
Locke recounted his experiences in the Three Holes World to the wizard Trajan.
Trajan replied to him after a while, saying, "I didn't expect your experiences to be so much more impressive than mine."
"The two great divine races, the wizards of the Southern Witch Capital, and a super-lush and verdant spiritual energy vein—the harvest is quite substantial."
Locke replied to him, "No way, senior brother. How can my gains compare to yours? Neither of the two great gods are in their complete form, and the Titans left that world long ago."
Trajan the wizard sent him a message.
"Don't underestimate yourself. It was your first time exploring the void, and I was worried you wouldn't be able to adapt. I didn't expect to gain so much in just four months. As for that super emerald green spiritual energy vein, are you planning to entrust the academy to help you explore it, or will you build the exploration facility yourself?"
Locke pondered for a moment.
"I'm still thinking about it."
The wizard Trajan said, "There's no rush. Take your time to think it over. Once we've all returned to Mount Golden Crown, perhaps we can have a small celebration to commemorate our lineage's successful completion of two valuable void explorations."
Locke fell into thought.
Indeed, how to develop that super mineral vein is a real problem.
It is foreseeable that in order to develop that super mine, I will have to invest tens of millions of magic stones, and I will also need to find a professional earth wizard to measure the mine's reserves.
Whether to sell the entire line as a package or to build a magic heavy factory and develop it themselves are all questions.
Whether financing is needed to build the magic heavy factory is also a question.
In addition, the magic heavy factory will definitely produce pollutants like heavy particles of the celestial element, so we will need to build corresponding environmental protection facilities.
I don't want to see the nightmare from the Three Caves World the next time I go to the Emerald Dream.
That would truly be a nightmare.
Locke saw that the wizard Trajan had sent him a message.
"However, in doing so, Golden Crown Mountain would be offending the Dark Evil King Lord of that Dark World. The Dark World is extremely special; the darkness of any world can connect with the Dark World."
"Therefore, although the natives of the Dark World do not have mature interdimensional travel capabilities, they probably still have ways to interfere with the Wizarding World. Our lineage is very likely at war with the Dark Evil King."
"The Dark Evil King will stop at nothing to take back the Heartbreak Flower from my hands."
Locke sent Trajan a reassuring picture.
Then, he summoned Scarlett the Witch.
"Scarlett, my clone has delivered the Golden Dragon Claw Air Plant to you, along with related combat records. Please post them on the pre-sale section of Arthas's platform."
In the Golden Crown Mountain region, at the manor of the Arthas Shop Alliance, Scarlett the Witch, shortly after replying to Locke, stood up from her recliner and looked with curiosity at the magic box brought to her by an ordinary first-ring wizard.
The first-ring wizard's forehead was covered in sweat.
Even when placed in a special magic box, a second-ring magical plant exerts unimaginable pressure on a first-ring being.
Scarlett the Witch entered the password and opened the magic box. She opened the box a crack, and a golden light burst forth from it, dazzling her eyes.
"This is..."
Scarlett the Witch took a half step back and immediately closed the magic box.
She was slightly out of breath, looking at the magic box containing the golden dragon claw air pineapple, a flicker of fear flashing in her eyes.
"This is definitely not an ordinary second-ring magic plant. With the current equipment in our manor, it is simply impossible to conduct a complete test on it."
Scarlett the Witch realized that she could no longer keep up with Locke's growth rate.
"It must be sent to Arthas's headquarters in the Elven Great World for a professional evaluation by the experts there. After this job is completed, my privileges will likely be revoked by Arthas. Lord Augustine will probably cooperate with those officials at headquarters."
Scarlett the Witch sighed.
There is no alternative.
However, after completing this deal, she should be able to become a Platinum Trader. Next, she can consider using the advantages of this position to become a Second Ring Wizard.
It might work, or it might not.
Regardless, this was the closest she had ever come to becoming a second-circle wizard.
Becoming a Platinum Trader in Arthas grants her a chance to enter a second-circle wizarding realm, which is her greatest opportunity.
……
A week later, the second-ring breeder evaluators in the Elf World quickly received a batch of magical plant evaluation tasks from the Golden Crown Mountain region.
The evaluation tasks from Alsace headquarters were delivered in packages, meaning each package contained five products, and each package of five products was given to one reviewer.
The evaluators conducted a concentrated evaluation of the plant's traits.
These evaluators were all excellent breeders before, but as they got older and their creativity declined, they stepped down to the sidelines and became evaluators of plant traits.
At this point, an experienced reviewer ordered his subordinates to send him the data from the ten packages.
The reason these products need to be packaged is that Arthas headquarters receives a large number of evaluation tasks from various colony worlds, including good magical plants as well as those that are just trying to get by.
In order to ensure that these evaluators can work diligently and verify the characteristics of each magical plant, after these magical plant works are sent to the Elf World, they are scattered and rearranged by Arthas's staff and distributed to various evaluators, who then lead their respective departments to test the characteristics of the various magical plant products and issue test certificates.
This "package system" originated from Arthas's discovery that some high-level wizard evaluators, in order to save time, would have their lower-level wizards perform tests on obviously easy magical plants. This resulted in incorrect plant trait reports, leading to lawsuits against Arthas by merchants or customers, causing him to lose money. Therefore, Arthas designed the "package system" to prevent high-level evaluators from being careless in testing obviously inferior magical plants for the sake of convenience.
However, there are always countermeasures for those above and policies for those below. This second-ring reviewer, [Kungu], usually gives these [Plant Packs] to his subordinates so that they can conduct an initial screening and then separate the ordinary plants from the excellent ones.
He personally inspected the excellent magical plants, while the ordinary ones were left to his subordinates or even outsourced.
This will save him a lot of trouble.
For high-ring wizards, time is life. Some want to use their spare time to work hard, while others just want to relax.
Kungu is the former.
Although he was laid off from the technical development department in Alsace, he still wanted to use his spare time and the resources he saved to do his own research.
Despite being over four hundred years old, he is still just an ordinary second-ring wizard with 17,000 magic pressure. He doesn't have many award-winning magical plant works, nor does he have a single article in the second-ring first zone. He only has three articles that were published in the second-ring second zone in the past due to good luck.
But Kungu still wants to seize every opportunity to make the most of his remaining time.
At this moment, Kungu was reading the documents. He crossed out all the products that looked ordinary and made a task list, which he then handed to his subordinates.
But at that moment, Kungu saw a preliminary test report on the magical plant traits of the Golden Dragon Claw Air Plant, and he was stunned.
"Pure magic plant wizard shoes? No, these are wizard gloves."
"This magical plant's trait..."
Kungu's pupils suddenly shrank, and he immediately realized that this was not a mediocre second-ring demonic plant breeding work.
The breeding level of this magical plant has reached a very high level.
Kungu rubbed his eyes and immediately said, "I see there's an expedited testing application. This magical plant creation can't be taken lightly. Although the applicant is just a low-level gold trader, if I mess things up with this kind of creation... I could lose my job."
For an old hand like him, it's perfectly natural to be able to distinguish between what's important and what's urgent.
This magical plant, with its astonishing initial test results, shone like a ray of light, and even among the other magical plants in the package, it was instantly recognizable.
Kungu said to a crystallization wizard at a workstation in the office, "Go and get that Golden Dragon Claw Air Plant. We'll conduct a separate test on it immediately today."
The crystallization wizard was momentarily stunned. "The intensive testing is scheduled for this afternoon."
“Boss, if we conduct separate testing now, it will obviously incur some unnecessary expenses and disrupt our work process.”
The Kungu reviewer said in a firm tone, "There's no why. Do it now."
The crystallization wizard was taken aback, because the Kungu old evaluator was also old, so he rarely had such a tough attitude.
The crystallizing wizard immediately realized what was happening, stepped forward, stopped the two high elf apprentices passing through the corridor, and relayed his orders down.
"You two go and retrieve the magic box numbered 0153 into the lab, and notify the team to begin testing."
The two high elf apprentices, both first-class wizard apprentices, were taken aback, as the afternoon was when the intensive testing was scheduled to take place.
A first-class wizard apprentice who was close to the crystallizing wizard asked in a low voice, "Teacher, what happened? Wouldn't conducting a separate test increase the cost?"
The crystallization wizard immediately looked extremely serious, as if he had discovered some kind of plan.
"Why are you being so talkative? There's no reason why, just do it now."
The two high elves, first-class wizard apprentices, were startled. They quickly bowed and said they would go to work, then turned and left to retrieve the 0153rd magic box.
Inside the warehouse, two first-class wizard apprentices, high elf natives, whispered, "It's rare to see such a gentle teacher so angry. It seems this Box 0153 is something very important."
Another high elf, a first-class wizard apprentice, felt a pang of regret. "I should have asked more questions. Our teacher must have his own reasons. He already knows what he wants us to do. What's the point of asking more questions? Are we any smarter than a crystallizing archmage?"
Arthas completed his review of the Golden Dragon Claw in just half a morning.
Kungu smiled as he looked at the data spreadsheet that his crystallization wizard had brought over.
The crystallizing wizard exclaimed, "This magical plant's magic pressure is 19999, which is practically the limit of a normal second-ring magic plant. Whether it's the instantaneous doubling of magic pressure or other data, I've never seen such impressive figures before. No wonder you wanted to test this magical plant immediately, sir; it truly stands out among all second-ring magical plants."
The Kungu reviewer glanced at him and smiled.
"You understand now? But you only saw the surface; you didn't see the real substance inside. After all, you're just a first-level breeder. You can't understand the intricacies behind it."
"This magical plant was bred using the Spirit Breath Cultivation Method. But I think he used a method, which I'm not sure if it was a completely new structured garden cavern. Half of the reason this magical plant is so powerful is its special imaginary root. This special imaginary root is simply a groundbreaking creation."
"Even among magical plant creations, it is extremely unique among second-ring magical plants. These tests alone are not enough. Go and get some common wizard shoes; I need to conduct morphological tests on wizard shoes."
The Kungu evaluator reported the situation to the Elf Queen Ella Grant via Arthas's internal communication software.
That is, a Sun Ring Wizard who is native to the Elf World.
The Kungu reviewer pondered, "Although I'm now in a secondary role, there are still opportunities to improve and contribute. If you have a keen eye, isn't that an opportunity?"
"I'm not afraid of not getting good submissions for review. I'm afraid of getting them and not noticing them. If you want to get your boss's attention, you can't just do your assigned tasks."
'I'm so lucky; this piece just happened to end up in my assigned bag.'
The crystallized wizard's subordinate was taken aback. "Second-ring wizard shoes...those are very expensive..."
The Kungu reviewer pursed his lips and said, "Borrow."
The crystallization wizard's subordinate frowned and coughed, "Boss, I can't borrow the second-ring wizard shoes."
The Kungu reviewer frowned. "Then I'll go borrow it."
"I need to borrow wizard shoes from Blue Ribbon, Arthas, Melochy... all these shops in the alliance."
……
At Golden Crown Mountain, Locke's clone was stunned when he saw the two invitations delivered to his dormitory, because they were from Solas Barefoot and Melochy, inviting him to their respective themed events.
At the same time, he also received a third message, a letter from the brandy wizard.
It was a technical seminar organized by the Sun Ring Wizard from the Rose Council.
Locke frowned, because the Brandy Wizard had been sharing information with him lately, and he had responded out of politeness, but it only made things worse.
"Let's leave Brandy for now. Both Solas and Meloch have held events themed around Void exploration. According to information shared with me by the Witch Rose, after these events, the two families will be engaged in a battle of discounts to suppress each other."
"That will be a harsh winter for all the wizard shoe shops that rely on low prices to survive."
"Is their invitation to my event at this time a declaration of authority?"
Locke saw the magical plant test report that Scarlett the Witch had sent him. "Hmm. There's even a test comparison data report of various versions of wizard shoes from the two wizard shoe shops that are allied with them."
"I didn't expect Arthas to be so interested in my work. This saves me a lot of trouble."
Locke published these report data, along with his own edited dimensional exploration combat test report, on Arthas's pre-sale platform.
At the same time, Locke said to Scarlett the Witch, "Scarlett the Witch, you can contact the various void exploration teams now. Let's begin our plan."
Both shops are now targeting the Void Exploration Wizard customer base.
This group was originally the foundation of Solas's bare feet.
Essentially, this war was started by Melochy's Magic Step.
Therefore, both companies have been trying their best to find support from excellent wizard exploration leaders, hoping to get them to purchase related wizard shoes in order to increase the authority of their brands.
Locke pondered, "I have absolute confidence in the Golden Dragon Claw Air Plant."
"These wizard shoes have reached the top level of ordinary second-circle wizard shoes from the two wizard shoe shops in the alliance. But the cost is relatively low, and they can also be used as magic gloves."
"Success or failure hinges on this moment. As long as we use good products and win the hearts of those wizards from the Void Exploration Team, my Augustus Wizard Shoes Shop Alliance will officially take center stage in the Cloud Marsh Wetlands."
Only the Second Ring Road can be considered a true stage!
Only by entering the second-ring wizard shoe market can one truly enter the market for void exploration, and the wizard shoes themselves were developed for void exploration.
At this moment, Locke discovered that someone was looking for him on the Ganoderma lucidum plant. He saw that it was the wizard Daniel.
Wizard Daniel said to Locke, "Locke, are you aware of the academic exchange recently hosted by Master Patrick Finch, the Sun Ring Wizard of the Rose Council?"
“I’ve seen a lot of friends talking about this lately. They say that at the conference, Wizard Patrick will propose a revolutionary new type of magical plant and its breeding method. I think you should go and listen to it. I’ve got the tickets. I’m going to go; I have two tickets right now. If you want to go, we can go together.”
Locke raised an eyebrow, because if he remembered correctly, this academic conference was the one the Brandy Wizard had invited him to.
He thought about it for a moment.
Since it's an invitation from Wizard Daniel, there's no harm in going. It's perfectly normal to go out and exchange techniques with colleagues.
Working in isolation is definitely not advisable.
If it were Brandy the Wizard who invited me, I would have refused to do so to prevent him from deliberately conveying harmful information. But since it is Daniel the Wizard, I might as well go and take a look.
He was about to use the Golden Dragon Claw Air Pineapple he had cultivated in the Three Caves World to smash the two major wizard shoe shop alliances and launch a formal declaration of war against them.
If there's nothing else to do for the time being, spending some time at an academic conference is a good option.
(End of this chapter)