Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems-Chapter 120: Big Shopping

Witch Kitchen, table number 5.
Locke thought for a moment. He could divide the Crystal Palm Fire Lotus into three batches and deliver them in three installments.
He could first open one hundred acres of magical fields, then plant the first batch of Crystal Palm Fire Lotus. With the magic stones paid by the academy, he could easily make full use of the plantation in his hands.
Already opened magical fields must be maintained with resources, otherwise they would gradually degrade and become barren.
But these were matters for later.
Locke nodded, "Alright, Senior Zack, I can sign this contract. However, I must wait until the academy pays me the complete 20,000 magic stones before I can sign this contract."
"Please don't take offense, I'm being cautious."
This was to prevent the academy from defaulting on him.
Suddenly creating some delay, trapping him and forcing him to breach the contract.
Although the probability of such a thing happening was relatively small, he had to guard against it.
He needed magic stones to expand his plantation, and also needed to use this batch of magic stones to maintain the consumption during the advanced meditation method's novice benefit period.
Zack smiled knowingly, "Of course."
"Being thorough is a good quality." He stood up, "I'll bring the magic stones and contract together tomorrow. I need to go busy with other things now."
After the three said their goodbyes, they left the Witch Kitchen together.
In the afternoon, Locke went to the Healing Hand Treatment Center and worked with Andrew and Axi to handle several patients who were afflicted with rather troublesome curses.
Then, in the evening he returned to his residence, took a bottle of Stardust Tears Potion and a bottle of Weeping Blood Nightshade Potion, then lit Four Seasons Fruit Core Incense in the incense burner.
Next, Locke sat on his bed and drank down a bottle of Energy Potion.
Locke sighed, "Meditation really requires taking potions."
"The more you take, the more powerful you become. You just need to use Deep Purple Jade to purify mana, otherwise your head will become pointed."
He sat cross-legged on the bed, his breathing began to slow, his mana fluctuations gradually approached the World Tree, entering a mysterious and profound special state.
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The next day, early in the morning, Zack brought twenty thousand magic stones in a spatial ring and brought the contract.
Both parties signed the contract.
Just like that, Locke officially obtained a magical plant procurement contract from Lilith's Cottage Academy.
Both were very happy. Locke got the resources he needed most, while Zack could earn contribution points from this.
As long as Locke's magical plants performed well later, he could even get certain subsequent rewards.
After all, he was the one who discovered and was responsible for purchasing Locke's magical plants.
After signing this contract, the two formed certain common interests. Zack became much closer to Locke, saying warmly, "Breeder Locke, I'll be going now."
Locke nodded, "Alright."
After Zack left, Locke looked at the heavy pile of magic stones in his spatial ring.
He immediately went to Chimera Trading Market, and first spent 7,200 magic stones plus all his savings at potion shops to purchase all the magical resources he needed for his remaining month of novice benefit period.
A second-class wizard apprentice service staff at the potion shop seemed to rarely see someone buy so many potions at once, paying over ten thousand magic stones.
At this moment, his head was a bit dizzy as he commanded two half-elf slaves in the shop to push a small cart with all the potions placed on it.
"Master Augustine, these are all the potions you purchased."
"And the Four Seasons Fruit Core Incense."
Locke nodded slightly, coldly saying, "Mm, help me put them all in my spatial ring."
After leaving the potion shop, he went to Lijin Secret Language and used his Platinum Star membership privileges to spend 4,000 magic stones purchasing an advanced breeder package sufficient for one hundred acres of magical fields.
The same quantity of basic breeder package would only cost 2,000 magic stones, but the basic breeder package only contained basic nutrient solution, basic nutrient soil, and ordinary rapid growth gel, which could no longer meet Locke's usage needs.
Crystal Palm Fire Lotus was already considered a relatively high-level magical plant, so it was impossible to mass-produce it using such a basic package.
The advanced breeder three-piece package consisted of high-grade nutrient soil, high-grade nutrient solution, and high-grade rapid growth gel.
Similarly, Locke also spent 100 magic stones purchasing a large quantity of farming tools, all of which he put into his spatial ring.
As for those materials like nutrient soil and nutrient solution, the spatial ring couldn't hold them, so the shop would send people to deliver them this afternoon.
Under Locke's shopping spree, he easily spent 11,300 magic stones.
The 20,000 magic stones in his hands hadn't stayed warm for long before most of them were spent.
In exchange, he had used this batch of magic stones to purchase large quantities of magical resources.
In the Lijin Secret Language shop, Yuri carefully helped Locke check for omissions, "Dear Locke, you're still missing sulfur crystals. Palm Fire Lotus needs soil mixed with certain sulfur crystal fragments to sprout. You don't need too much, but you definitely need some."
Locke was even more familiar than her, "Mm, I need about 1 ton."
Yuri smiled, "1 ton of sulfur crystals costs about 300 magic stones. I'll just give it to you as a gift. You're now a valued customer of our shop, I think Lady Irina would also agree to give you this discount."
Locke smiled at Yuri, "Then thank you."
He saved another sum of money.
Three hundred magic stones was quite a lot, enough to process three medium-quality enchanted items.
Locke thought for a moment, "Yuri, I also need to rent one of your shop's small weather control devices."
"The rental fee is one thousand per month, right?"
Weather control devices were equipment jointly created by First-Circle weather masters from the Evocation School and wizards from the Alchemy School, which could completely control the weather in a relatively large enclosed area and precisely manipulate every climate change detail.
The artificial sky on the wizard ship before used this type of equipment, but that was a large weather control device, while Locke's plantation currently only needed a small weather control device.
Palm Fire Lotus sprouting required maintaining a constant temperature of just over 40 degrees Celsius, so he needed to borrow a weather control device and use interdisciplinary power to cultivate Crystal Palm Fire Lotus.
Yuri nodded, "Good, I'll arrange it for you immediately."
Just like that, Locke spent another thousand magic stones.
This was even though he was too lazy to directly purchase those very simple herbicide, insecticide, and fungicide potions because he was a potion master's assistant.
These things were different from high-grade rapid growth gel, they didn't need frequent and large-scale use. One bottle mixed with water could be used on more than ten acres of magical fields.
Supporting disease and pest control potions for this level of magical plants, with his current level, he could brew casually because the difficulty was too low.
Much lower than the difficulty of configuring high-grade rapid growth gel.
To mass-produce high-grade rapid growth gel would require a pharmaceutical laboratory using large-scale preparation technology.
Locke silently calculated his expenses, as he still had a major expense of purchasing slaves that he hadn't spent yet.
"Let me manage this month first, I'll figure out next month's expenses next month. As long as I control costs well, it should actually be sufficient."
"It's just that I have too many other places that need money, I'm afraid expenses might be higher than income. That would be troublesome."
"I still have 7,700 magic stones left now. That's actually quite a lot."
"I've already submitted my Crystal Palm Fire Lotus for the preliminary round of the White Wizard Association breeder competition, don't know the results yet. If I pass the preliminaries, I'll need to immediately prepare magical plants for the finals, which is another expense."
"The pharmaceutical laboratory might also need money. Learning Minor Viridian Potion also requires money." Locke calculated in his mind, "Originally I thought getting so much money this time, I could buy extensively, but now it seems it's still not enough."
"At most I'll buy one more high-grade enchanted armor for protection, everything else will have to wait for now."
Locke thought of the archaeologists in Chimera Trading Market, and the cat-girl in his hands. Oh right, continuing to research ancient bloodlines also required money.
But Locke always felt that if he continued researching in this field, he might achieve relatively significant results.
He still needed to invest certain resources into it.