Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems-Chapter 190: Three-Eyed Tiger Cat Fossil

Locke nodded. That meant to enter wizard secret realms more frequently, one needed to strive for more titles.
Top-level apprentice titles like Wizard Seed could even grant the privilege of entering ordinary wizard secret realms once per year.
However, since he would be acting together with Witch Sophia recently, there was no need for him to start considering entering the Forbidden Forest secret realm or exchanging for another wizard secret realm entry opportunity right now.
Locke said, "Then I'll exchange 400 contribution points for one Rapid-Fire Peas."
This way he could synthesize a magical plant that was extremely rare at the apprentice level.
This could maximize his combat power enhancement. When conducting the infiltration mission in a month, it could both protect him and increase his ability to plunder spoils from black wizards.
The dwarf scholar Orr said, "Very well, I'll arrange it for you right away."
Soon, a halfling second-class wizard apprentice pushed a cart over. On the cart were three exquisite large black vine-speech boxes.
Locke opened the three vine-speech boxes and inspected them, confirming there were no problems.
Inside each of the three vine-speech boxes was a Rapid-Fire Peas plant. The pod portion of this magical plant was cylindrical, resembling a steel tube with a trumpet-shaped opening. Below the trumpet opening was a small red pouch.
This thing would secrete a special mucus with natural 0.5-circle burning magic at the moment the magical plant spat out pea fruits, then spray flame fruits outward.
The stem portion of this magical plant was bulging, like having a big belly.
That was because inside the main stem of the pod were steel-hard iron bullet peas, approximately six hundred stored.
So the entire magical plant was very large, about the length of a person's arm.
The roots of the Rapid-Fire Peas were coiled like springs, because these roots would burrow into the soil to stabilize the plant's balance at the moment of the Rapid-Fire Peas' attack.
Most of the roots, stems, branches and leaves of this rare magical plant were similar to ordinary peas. Only the leaves in the head area were needle-shaped. These needle-shaped leaf blades served the function of heat dissipation, actually being the heat dissipation leaves of the Rapid-Fire Peas.
By gathering large amounts of wind elements, they dispersed the high temperature instantly generated during shooting into the air. That is to say, at the moment of shooting, the Rapid-Fire Peas would create high temperature in the surrounding air.
Essentially, this was the 0.3-circle spell model [Heat Dissipation] that the Rapid-Fire Peas came with.
High-level magical plants might carry multiple passive spell models like high-level magical creatures, with more complex natural magical structure components within their bodies.
However, ultimately, Rapid-Fire Peas were artificially designed magical plants in laboratories, so this magical plant was different from most magical plants Locke had encountered before. Its entire body showed signs of being designed.
After inspecting the three Rapid-Fire Peas plants, Locke recalled the supporting spells for this magical plant. This magical plant seemed to have been specially cultivated by certain wizards, so there were many related supporting spell models.
For example, Rapid Fire Curse, which increased the shooting speed of Rapid-Fire Peas by three times, forming metal torrent ammunition fire suppression against enemies.
There was also Pea Bullet Split Curse, where when Rapid-Fire Peas shot out one steel pea, the bullet would split and one could become two.
If Rapid Fire Curse and Split Curse could be used together, they could form even more terrifying fire suppression against enemies.
Moreover, Rapid-Fire Peas had a supporting potion, apparently called Pea Refill Potion, which could quickly replenish the missing pea ammunition of Rapid-Fire Peas through the potion. At most three Pea Refill Potions could be used on Rapid-Fire Peas per day.
Locke remembered that the academy's public classrooms offered courses on the Metal Torrent series spells related to Rapid-Fire Peas.
That course also included the brewing of Pea Refill Potion formulas or introductions to potion purchasing channels. Therefore, he only needed to spend 500 magic stones to enroll in that course to learn the complete set of Rapid-Fire Peas related spells.
Locke placed the three large vine-speech boxes into his astral ring. In the astral plane, the three Rapid-Fire Peas plants would stop growing and there would be no preservation problems.
However, the storage space of the astral ring was limited.
After exchanging for the three Rapid-Fire Peas plants, Locke greeted the dwarf scholar Orr, then left the public library and headed toward Chimera Trading Market.
Locke went to a potion auction house of Lilith's Cottage. Long ago, he had pre-ordered a Three-Eyed Tiger Cat fossil at the potion auction house, but had never received it but this morning, the auction house had sent someone to notify him that this item was now in stock.
At the back of the potion auction house, Locke found the operator. This auction house operator became more respectful upon seeing the Outstanding Apprentice badge on Locke's chest.
"Respected Breeder Locke, half a year ago you pre-ordered a Three-Eyed Tiger Cat fossil at our auction house. At that time we were out of stock, but now we have it in stock."
"Since you are a high-intent customer, and that customer is rather short of money, perhaps we won't go through auction but complete this business through direct transaction."
"Would you agree?"
Locke nodded.
This was entirely beneficial to him with no drawbacks.
He knew the auction house had this rule. Some people who came here to consign items for auction needed to quickly gather magical resources for certain reasons, so they would choose direct transactions with certain high-intent customers.
Of course, this would result in some financial loss, since auction prices would definitely be higher.
The auction house operator's smile remained unchanged. "The consigning party requests 2000 magic stones."
"Would you pay immediately, or..."
Locke frowned slightly and immediately shook his head. "Too expensive."
"Although Three-Eyed Tiger Cat fossils are precious, ancient creature research is a niche field. And fossil research of ancient creatures is an even more niche specialty within the already niche field of ancient creature research. This price is completely unreasonable."
The operator wanted to say something, but Locke made a show of failed negotiation and turned to leave.
He knew the consigning party was currently urgently trying to raise magic stones, and there wouldn't be many people wanting to buy this type of fossil.
This thing was precious. But in white wizard society, there were too few wizards who could conduct related research, so buyers were destined to be very scarce.
Sure enough, after he made a show of leaving, the operator was obviously somewhat panicked, apparently not expecting Locke to be so decisive.
He hurriedly stepped forward and said to Locke, "Locke breeder, I can tell you the consigning party's bottom price is 1200 magic stones."
"I apologize for my previous lack of honesty."
"If you can agree, we can complete the transaction immediately."
Only then did Locke stop. He thought about it, 1200 magic stones was indeed quite reasonable, fitting the price for quick transactions of ancient creature fossils.
The price was even slightly below normal prices.
After all, Three-Eyed Tiger Cats were considered quite powerful among ancient creatures, being genuine magical creatures approaching First Circle level.
'With this fossil, I can accelerate the improvement of my archaeology skill level, and can use this fossil combined with the two cat slaves in my hands to further purify bloodlines,' Locke thought. 'Perhaps I can find a way to extract ancient creature bloodlines with certain purity in the near future, then enhance the purity of this ancient creature bloodline through synthesis, ultimately obtaining a qualified Three-Eyed Tiger Cat bloodline.'
'If successful, this would have enormous effects on improving my combat power. My constitution could also be enhanced, allowing me to use more forbidden drugs. My learning progress in archaeology could also be rapidly improved.'