Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems-Chapter 131: Doubled Mana and One Month

A month later, in Locke's study.
Locke pressed his palm against the amethyst matrix.
Immediately, immense magical pressure descended upon it. The amethyst matrix rippled wave after wave, with undulating surges, and a number appeared within the amethyst.
446!
A flash of surprise crossed Locke's eyes. "Worthy of what I spent over twelve thousand magic stones for, the result of fully utilizing the beginner's benefit period of the advanced meditation method."
"When I just became a first-class wizard apprentice, my mental strength was 220. Later, I practiced with ordinary meditation methods for over two months, but barely increased my mental strength by one point. That means during the beginner's benefit period of the advanced meditation method, I actually gained a total of two hundred and twenty-five points of mana."
"If it weren't for the beginner's benefit period, how could I have possibly doubled my mana directly in one month, with mana depth equivalent to someone who had been a first-class wizard apprentice for several years."
He had already doubled his mana, and the more total mana one had, the purer the mana became, and the higher its quality.
So the improvement in strength was exponential.
Now when Locke cast cantrip models like Green Grasp, Mayfly Flower Cannon, and the Vine Surge series of spells, their power could increase out of thin air, reaction speed and casting speed also improved comprehensively, and the number of times he could use them increased significantly.
Locke's magical pressure and surface magic resistance were also more than double what they were before, allowing him to withstand more powerful spell attacks and external radiation pressure.
This improvement in strength brought about by increased mana was more of a comprehensive enhancement.
Locke suppressed his excitement and thought, "However, having left the beginner's benefit period, my mana progress speed can't possibly be this fast anymore. It's unlikely to see the phenomenon of increasing eight or nine points of mana in one night again, but rather the phenomenon of taking two or three nights of meditation to increase just 1 point of mana."
"And the further along, the more difficult it becomes to increase mana."
"From what Andrew and Axi told me, after mana exceeds six hundred, it becomes very difficult to increase further. Even using advanced meditation methods requires painstaking practice, or using large amounts of mid to high-level magical resources for acceleration."
"After mana exceeds eight hundred, it becomes even more exaggerated." Locke thought, "Andrew told me that after mana exceeds eight hundred, very high-quality magical resources are needed to accelerate its growth."
"So wizards in the southeastern quadrant, after their mana exceeds eight hundred, begin attempting to use a type of advancement potion to directly assault the threshold of becoming a formal wizard."
"Because after eight hundred, improving mental strength becomes very awkward. The mental strength quality is too high, requiring large amounts of advanced resources to accelerate its growth. But wizard apprentices themselves aren't formal wizards and can't find so many advanced resources."
"At that time, a wizard apprentice's mental strength isn't like a formal wizard's mana, with such high quality that it can directly attract more planar energy from the void, so meditation progress becomes very slow."
"Mental strength exists in a relatively high quality state, yet not that high, in a slow-progress valley period." Locke looked at his reflection in the study mirror, "How many wizard apprentices in the southeastern quadrant who can't obtain advancement potions are consumed to death in this valley period."
"Stuck at the eight hundred to one thousand stage for their entire lives."
"But if there are advancement potions, it seems possible to use the power of potion studies to directly break through this stage and force advancement." Locke became troubled. "It's just that I've been mixing with those potion studies assistants for so long, yet still haven't found out what advancement potions are."
"It seems this thing, like advanced meditation methods, is under strict information blockade by the White Wizard Association of the southeastern quadrant."
"I can't access it until I reach that stage. And I can probably only obtain such magical resources through the academy."
Locke thought of those wizard seeds within the academy, like Anglon, Mary, and Albert. Did they have qualifications to access advancement potions?
Locke walked out of his study. The magical pressure on his body formed a protective layer covering his surface skin, strengthening his magic resistance.
Now his mana could compete with those veteran first-class wizard apprentices, so he had one less shortcoming.
He ordered his cat-girl maid to clean the house while having his gray dwarf servant open the laboratory door.
During this month, Locke had also learned to brew Minor Viridian Potion through repeated continuous practice. He had wasted 400 magic stones purchasing large amounts of low-level practice materials, plus later real materials for practice.
Honestly, if he hadn't freeloaded Witch Sophia's formula and sought her guidance, he would have needed to spend at least 500 more magic stones on a course, and the material costs would likely have been even more expensive.
Moreover, such private potion formula courses generally couldn't be purchased through public courses. Similar public potion formula courses typically cost between 800 to 1000 magic stones.
Locke quickly separated three portions of dryad bloodline, extracted the effective components from within, then used other materials, spending an hour and a half to quickly brew three vials of Minor Viridian Potion.
The most expensive material in Minor Viridian Potion was only dryad blood. Other expensive materials and materials requiring complex processing techniques had all been omitted by Sophia, leaving only the dryad blood as the main material plus some auxiliary materials.
While reducing efficacy, it also lowered brewing difficulty.
Although it was a potion simplified from a magic potion, the brewing difficulty of Minor Viridian Potion wasn't too low either.
With Minor Viridian Potion, he had thoroughly established his footing at the Healing Hand Treatment Center.
From now on, even without Andrew and Axi helping him, he could cure most patients afflicted with curses.
Locke looked at the three vials of Minor Viridian Potion in his hand. The emerald liquid in the potion vials contained many transparent, flawless small bubbles. Overall, the potion liquid itself looked like some kind of gemstone.
The improvement in mana was undoubtedly key to his ability to quickly learn Minor Viridian Potion preparation. The higher the mana, the lower the learning difficulty and learning cost for preparing such high-difficulty potions.
"Brewing minor potions takes half an hour per vial." Locke rubbed his temples.
"And it's very mentally exhausting. I should quickly establish corresponding production lines in my personal pharmaceutical laboratory, using those assistants to save my energy, having them do the repetitive labor portions of preparing Minor Viridian Potion for me."
"Three vials of Minor Viridian Potion, I can try synthesizing them to see what happens." Locke directly placed the three vials of Minor Viridian Potion into his synthesis cube. "Hope they can give me some surprises."
Locke looked at the botanical garden documents on his laboratory workbench. During this month, he had urgently developed one hundred acres of magical fields and, through planting the Crystal Palm Fire Lotus he had synthesized, had already delivered one thousand Crystal Palm Fire Lotus to Zack's side this month.
He needed to deliver 4000 plants to Zack's side within three months, in three batches.
This month he had only delivered one thousand plants.
But that was fine. In the first month, the magical fields had just been established, and he had just used advanced growth accelerator to forcibly ripen the Crystal Palm Fire Lotus, allowing the Crystal Palm Fire Lotus that originally needed at least a year to mature and be usable to be harvested in qualified quality within one month, yielding one thousand plants.
Later on, production would increase more and more. In the remaining two months, having those one hundred acres of magical fields produce three thousand plants would be more than sufficient, and could even be higher. It was estimated that about two thousand plants could be produced each month.
For the excess production, Locke decided he could directly trade with Lijin Secret Language, since not only the academy would purchase such magical plants, but other individual botanist wizards would also be interested.
Similarly, during this month, he had learned the 0.5-circle [Scorched Earth Bomb]. This spell model wasn't complex for his current self, and he had quite a few Crystal Palm Fire Lotus on hand, so practicing didn't create much cost pressure.
But Locke had recently been thinking about the monitoring issues for his botanical garden and pharmaceutical laboratory.
The alchemy cottage where the botanical garden and pharmaceutical laboratory were located had its own security functions, and ordinary first-class wizard apprentices couldn't easily break in.
But he should still place some monitoring magical products in the botanical garden and pharmacy, so he could understand the work progress and magical plant growth conditions of these two places at any time. If any emergencies occurred, he could also handle them promptly.
Locke pondered in front of the workbench.
"I can go to Chimera Trading Market to take a look. There should be shops that can solve this problem. Besides monitoring, I can also buy some magical locks and set up barriers to strengthen my security conditions."