Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems-Chapter 189: Obtaining Two Rare Magical Plants

Rapid-Fire Peas were not magical plants that naturally grew in the wild.
This type of magical plant was born in a breeder's laboratory. It was a special magical plant that a senior breeder had cultivated by grafting ordinary peas with multiple powerful magical plants.
Therefore, the seeds of this powerful magical plant could not grow normally in natural environments.
They required some hidden special procedures from that senior breeder before the seeds of this powerful magical plant could develop.
This part of the special procedures had not yet been disclosed by its developer.
Locke looked at the Rapid-Fire Peas on the reward list and said, "I want one of these magical plants."
The dwarf scholar Orr noted it down and asked with his head tilted, "Are you certain? Locke breeder, once confirmed, it cannot be changed." Locke nodded.
The dwarf scholar Orr said, "The public library has a public resource storage warehouse. Reward resources of this level can be directly collected from within the public library. I'll arrange for someone to help you extract the resources right away."
"What do you choose for your second reward?"
Locke looked at the list and fell into contemplation. With the Rapid-Fire Peas, he could learn a powerful 0.8-circle attack-type plant magic. As for defensive magical plants, he had Perseus Eye Lichen specifically targeting curse magic.
Perseus Eye Lichen, after his modifications, also had certain resistance capabilities against physical attacks.
Moreover, he still had the Night Walker Cloak on him.
'The list contains all rare items, so I should choose carefully and select what I need most right now. However, there are no mana-increasing potions or magical resources on the list, probably because they're too precious. There are also no special escape-type magical items.'
After much consideration, Locke said to the dwarf scholar Orr, "I'll take another Rapid-Fire Peas. Do you currently have enough of this magical plant in your resource warehouse?"
With two Rapid-Fire Peas, if Locke could obtain a third one in the near future, he could perform synthesis.
By then, even if he couldn't figure out the special synthesis formula, just synthesizing three rare magical plants would bring a huge improvement in trait abilities.
Especially since this was a magical plant meant to serve as his main damage spell component, every point of trait ability improvement could provide a noticeable power boost to his spells.
The dwarf scholar Orr hesitated for a moment, "Oh, we do have more."
"There are still four Rapid-Fire Peas in the warehouse, all preserved at low temperatures using special enchantment arrays."
"But isn't this a duplicate choice?"
Locke smiled, "I just happen to be interested in Rapid-Fire Peas. By the way, could I directly purchase the remaining two Rapid-Fire Peas from your library warehouse with magic stones? If so, Scholar Orr, you could name a price."
The dwarf scholar Orr immediately shook his head, "Locke breeder, I'd be very willing to help you with such matters. An excellent breeder genius like you would naturally be interested in rare magical plants like Rapid-Fire Peas, but unfortunately the academy has special regulations about this."
"The supplies in the resource warehouse cannot be traded for magic stones."
"Those are all special rewards for academy students."
A flash of disappointment crossed Locke's eyes, because recently there had been no circulation of Rapid-Fire Peas in Chimera Trading Market either. This meant that his chances of gathering three rare magical plants for synthesis within the remaining less than a month were not great but the dwarf scholar Orr changed his tone, "However, Locke breeder, you can still purchase them with contribution points."
"Locke breeder, you have published six B-grade articles and thus obtained 300 contribution points, while your two published A-grade articles earned you 200 contribution points."
"At the same time, the Outstanding Apprentice title will grant you 100 contribution points. That means you currently have a total of 600 contribution points. You can completely exchange 400 contribution points for one Rapid-Fire Peas from the warehouse."
Locke nodded slightly. The ratio of contribution points to magic stones in the library was 1:10, which meant 400 contribution points were equivalent to 4000 magic stones in lateral funds.
No, actually contribution points were far more difficult to obtain than magic stones. According to Lilith's Cottage Academy's customs, this lateral funding would need to be doubled.
That is to say, one Rapid-Fire Peas only required 400 contribution points to exchange within the library, but if taken to the market, it might be equivalent to 8000 magic stones to purchase.
Moreover, currently even having money wouldn't guarantee immediate purchase, requiring queuing and waiting.
Locke narrowed his eyes. No wonder wizard apprentices in the academy all wanted to publish as many articles as possible, and higher quality articles.
Essentially, an Outstanding Apprentice title had brought him two rare magical plants equivalent to 800 contribution points, which would be equivalent to 16000 magic stones in lateral funds at Chimera Trading Market.
This was money that ordinary first-class wizard apprentices absolutely could not come up with but they could obtain it by publishing articles. This gave those first-class wizard apprentices the motivation to compete for titles, honors, and designations.
The dwarf scholar Orr thoughtfully asked Locke, "Locke breeder, would you like to exchange?"
Locke frowned. Actually, contribution points were extremely difficult for others to obtain, requiring deep thinking and having to leech off others' research resources everywhere. If one's mentor wasn't supportive, it would truly be despairing when publishing articles but for him, publishing articles was as simple as eating and drinking.
As long as he continuously developed new potions and new magical plants, publishing articles was really too easy.
The only problem was that there might be a bunch of first-class wizard apprentices trying to leech off him.
He wouldn't lack contribution points but Locke still asked, "How many contribution points does it generally take to exchange for a wizard secret realm entry opportunity?"
The dwarf scholar Orr smiled knowingly. Everyone worked so hard to publish articles and accumulate contribution points, wasn't it all for the chance to enter wizard secret realms?
"Generally speaking, relatively ordinary wizard secret realms require fifteen hundred contribution points."
"Wizard secret realms of the Forbidden Forest level require at least two thousand contribution points."
"The contribution points needed to enter wizard secret realms are not fixed. They fluctuate at different time periods, determined by how many wizard apprentices enter during the same period. This involves many complex issues, because some wizard secret realms belong to the academy itself, some are shared with several wizard academies, while others belong to the White Wizard Association."
The dwarf scholar Orr pointed to a wall behind the library, "If there are recent fluctuations in contribution point exchanges, we will post notifications on the notice board over there."
"This pricing has always been under macro-control by us general scholars."
Locke frowned slightly. One secret realm generally required over fifteen hundred points, while high-level secret realms actually required over two thousand.
He quickly recalled the level and number of articles published by Witch Sophia and the contribution points that could be exchanged. "According to this exchange ratio, my teacher Witch Sophia could only enter wizard secret realms four or five times."
The dwarf scholar Orr's eyes widened, "Being able to enter wizard secret realms four or five times is already quite a lot."
"Many first-class wizard apprentices can't enter even once. And sometimes, they can get some benefits. Some wizard mentors have opportunities to enter low-level wizard secret realms, and these entry opportunities are the only chances for those mediocre first-class wizard apprentices to enter wizard secret realms."
"So, wizard mentors have great influence."
"For outstanding first-class wizard apprentices, many titles and designations come with opportunities to enter wizard secret realms. So they can compete for titles and designations, using this method to obtain opportunities to enter wizard secret realms."
The dwarf scholar Orr raised his index finger and gave an example, "For instance, the Wizard Seed title comes with the opportunity to enter an ordinary wizard secret realm once a year, and the opportunity to enter a high-level wizard secret realm once every five years."