Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems-Chapter 185: Undercurrents Stirring

One week later.
In his office at the Healing Hand Treatment Center, Locke organized a preliminary draft of materials about Jade Iris Lichen that he was preparing to submit to the breeder competition.
This material still needed some refinement before it could be submitted to the competition committee.
At the same time, he looked at the treatment results of his Bear Spirit Jade Bile Detoxification Potion over the past week.
First, he had completely cured the previous sixteen magical plant curse patients, and also treated five additional magical plant curse patients who had appeared over the following five days.
Meanwhile, leading Andrew and Axi, he had brewed over a hundred bottles of Bear Spirit Jade Bile Detoxification Potion within the week, treating a total of 67 patients.
Among these were victims of magical plant curses as well as other curse victims.
Among these patients, some had been afflicted with troublesome Consciousness Splitting Curses, others with problematic Multiple Self Curses, and various other difficult curses.
The Bear Spirit Jade Bile Detoxification Potion had demonstrated good therapeutic effects in all cases, even better than many of the original specific remedies for those curses.
Because this potion's principle for removing curses was to strengthen the person's own magic resistance, this removal method was the least harmful to the cursed person's vitality and even had certain benefits for their body.
After this week, Locke had received notification from the treatment center's upper management.
The treatment center leadership had decided to let their team begin trying to use Bear Spirit Jade Bile Detoxification Potion on wizard apprentice patients afflicted with common curses like Thousand Sores Curse and Bleeding Curse.
This indicated that his Bear Spirit Jade Bile Detoxification Potion had demonstrated amazing treatment efficiency against multiple types of curses.
The academy's upper levels had begun considering expanding the use of Bear Spirit Jade Bile Detoxification Potion to ordinary curse conditions to continue testing its performance.
Locke had also begun collecting data and writing articles during this week, just waiting to go to the library to submit them.
At the same time, the academy's upper management had begun urging Locke to quickly conduct phase three trials of the Bear Spirit Jade Bile Detoxification Potion so this potion could officially enter Chimera Trading Market and become a publicly sold remedy.
At his workstation, Locke wrote an Outstanding Project Award application for his Jade Iris Lichen cultivation plan.
He hadn't understood this process before, so he had never applied.
Now that he knew about it, he naturally wanted to apply and extract some money from the academy to expand his Jade Iris Lichen magical fields.
Half an hour later, Locke stood up and said to Andrew and Axi, "You two, I have something to do this afternoon, so please handle the work for me today."
Andrew and Axi naturally had no objections.
Locke immediately left the Healing Hand Treatment Center and headed to the public library, which was where project applications were submitted.
Moreover, Locke needed to publish several newly written articles and check the ratings of his previously published articles.
"Teacher gave me one month to strengthen myself and execute the infiltration assassination plan," Locke thought, "First, I should consider continuing to study archaeology to enhance the ancient creature bloodline modifications in my body."
"This would most directly improve my combat power, and would also allow me to withstand using more Beholder Potion and Fission Potion, or even forbidden drugs with greater side effects."
"If I can get another Outstanding Project Award approved, I'll have over eleven thousand four hundred magic stones in savings. I can first use this money to purchase some equipment and magical plants, learn some powerful plant spells, quickly improve my combat power, and once again enrich my spell pool to fully utilize my current mana." Locke pondered.
He didn't consider that 2,000 of those magic stones were originally given by the academy for testing the Bear Spirit Jade Bile Detoxification Potion and expanding Jade Iris Lichen cultivation.
Because once this kind of money was distributed, how to use it was his own business.
This small amount was just pocket change anyway, and he might as well use it for urgent matters first.
Moreover, after this month ended, his salary from the treatment center would be distributed.
His team had treated so many patients this month, which would amount to a fairly large sum.
Of course, since the treatment center provided him with patient sources, most of the profit still went to the treatment center's side.
This was different from the income he received from patient sources shared with Witch Sophia.
...
After Locke left the treatment center, inside the office where Anglon's personal workshop was located at the Healing Hand Treatment Center.
Anglon stood in the middle of the office, frowning deeply as he addressed his assistant Kali Ackerman, other second-class wizard apprentice assistants, and another junior, first-class wizard apprentice Newk.
Anglon's expression was very unpleasant as he looked at the materials in his hand, saying, "Bear Spirit Jade Bile Detoxification Potion?"
"This is troublesome."
"Now the academy's upper management is very interested in this potion project, with extremely high regard, almost comparable to the level of attention given to the projects held by us several potion wizard seeds. Outstanding Project funding has already been distributed."
"If this continues, the treatment center's several positions this year won't be monopolized by our workshop, and might even threaten my desired Exceptional Therapist position."
"The academy's upper management seems to believe that the merit of this potion is comparable to my achievement in solving the Mother-Child Giant Corpse Blood Curse."
Anglon's eyes were gloomy, "You all know that I desperately need the reward behind the Exceptional Therapist title, the [Hive Mind Potion]."
"This potion would be a waste if given to anyone in the academy other than wizard seeds like me."
"You're still far from the threshold of becoming formal wizards. Only in my hands would it achieve maximum resource utilization."
Kali Ackerman said despondently, "But senior, what's done is done. What should we do now?"
First-class wizard apprentice Newk's eyes flickered, "Senior Anglon, why don't we use our teacher's network to try solving this matter from other angles?"
"We could find a way to get Locke Augustine removed from the treatment center."
"He has a project in hand, right? We could completely find a way to make him focus on his Bear Spirit Jade Bile Detoxification Potion experiments."
"As long as he's not at the treatment center anymore, he won't be able to compete with you for the title."
Anglon immediately denied this, shaking his head, "No. First, the academy's upper management is now paying attention here, which is different from situations we've encountered before."
"Our small maneuvers might be discovered."
"Second, this would require using Teacher Halen Vera's network, and the teacher would definitely notice. But... recently the teacher has been quite appreciative of Locke Augustine..."
Anglon's eyes were gloomy, "I can't be certain of the teacher's attitude toward this matter then. You all know that the teacher greatly appreciates talented people."
Anglon clenched his fists, his eyes containing anger, resentment, and a trace of contempt. He hadn't expected that what he wanted would be threatened by a greenhorn who had just advanced to first-class wizard apprentice.
'I'm a wizard seed in potion studies at Lilith's Cottage, and this newcomer is really lacking in perception, daring to offend me,' Anglon thought gloomily. He looked up at everyone in the workshop, saying, "You should all work twice as hard."
"The future definitely won't be as comfortable as before. As long as our workshop's treatment volume still exceeds Locke Augustine's team's treatment volume, those four reward positions will still be in our workshop's hands."
Inside Anglon's workshop, everyone's expressions varied.
What Anglon said was indeed correct, but the problem was whether this could be achieved.
The treatment efficiency of Bear Spirit Jade Bile Detoxification Potion had been repeatedly tested and experimented with over the past week, and had been proven to have extremely high treatment efficiency against curse magic.
How could they compete with Bear Spirit Jade Bile Detoxification Potion relying only on themselves?