Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems-Chapter 197: Witch Sophia's Insights

After obtaining the resources and having something planted in his body by Locke, Leoni Murphy developed some loyalty toward Locke.
In his view, he already belonged to Locke and had successfully pledged allegiance to him.
This was the rule of the black wizard world.
A slave either had to grow to the level of a slave master himself, or choose a slave master who could serve as his backing to pledge allegiance to.
Once this slave master planted something in the slave, such as curses to control him, then this slave belonged to that slave master.
Therefore, for some reason, when Leoni Murphy looked at Locke again, he felt more secure.
He thought to himself that he should have pledged allegiance to white wizards long ago. White wizard slave masters were surely less cruel than black wizard slave masters.
Moreover, white wizard slave masters had cultivation potion resources available.
Leoni Murphy bowed to Locke, then said respectfully, "Master, for me to be transferred back to the Blood Curse Court, I need to have major meritorious achievements."
Locke said coldly, "What counts as major meritorious achievements?"
Leoni Murphy immediately answered honestly, "For example, obtaining important intelligence from the white wizard side, or destroying some important research equipment or research projects of the white wizards, etc."
"As long as I can meet the requirements, I might be temporarily transferred back. Master, my main work at the Curse Ritual Research Institute was geometric folding of curse techniques. If you need me to work for you, please feel free to command me. When master is happy, I am happy. When master is angry, I am angry. I..."
Locke frowned slightly. He didn't understand curse magic at all and had no idea what this so-called geometric folding of curse techniques was.
Locke waved his hand, "You may go first. I have people in the patrol team, so your basic safety can be guaranteed. The prerequisite is that you cannot directly harm or indirectly harm any white wizard."
"Also, whenever you have any important intelligence, you must immediately find a way to notify me."
"Otherwise our agreement is void."
"Furthermore, I don't accept double agents. Once I discover this, I will kill you immediately. And any information about you cannot escape my eyes."
Locke's gaze was cold.
Leoni Murphy bowed to Locke, "Master, please rest assured. From today on, I am loyal only to you."
"The Blood Curse Court's management is very chaotic. I currently have no supervisor above me. Before Sephilin dies, no one should notice me..."
After Leoni Murphy expressed his loyalty to Locke once more, he carefully hunched over and left the road, entering the forest beside it and stealthily departing.
Locke watched his departing figure and fell into thought.
He had gained a black wizard spy, which wasn't bad. Moreover, he had original research on magical plant curses, which would be extremely helpful for his subsequent breeding work on the Jade Iris Lichen series of magical plants.
He could completely use this more complete data to breed second-generation Jade Iris Lichen and Perseus Eye Lichen, upgrading them.
Many excellent magical plants underwent minor upgrades every few years. After decades, except for having similar names to their predecessors, they might not even be considered the same magical plant anymore.
This type of magical plant was generally the key research focus of major laboratories and project groups, with rapid iteration speeds. Lilith's Cottage had quite a few such project group magical plants.
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In Witch Sophia's office, Locke told Witch Sophia about the magical plant curse materials he had obtained and the fact that he had recruited a black wizard spy.
Witch Sophia returned the materials to Locke. "Locke, I'm leaving Lilith's Cottage soon, so I don't need to read these magical plant curse materials. However, I suggest you can use these materials to publish several articles. These articles happen to be content that the White Wizard Library lacks."
"You can obtain quite a few contribution points."
"As for that spy," Witch Sophia smiled, "you did excellently."
"I do have some black wizard spies, but none are connected to the Curse Ritual Research Institute led by Sephilin's wizard mentor."
"The black wizard apprentice you control will be very useful for my operation. I have some high-level black wizard spies who can completely help him forge major meritorious achievements, allowing him to be transferred back to his original Curse Ritual Research Institute."
"If that doesn't work, I can completely leak some important project materials from my laboratory, letting him return with real achievements. Then you can use Summon Tomb Spirit to help me determine the location of their base and how many defensive spell formations are around it."
Witch Sophia said with satisfaction, "Locke, you've truly made a great contribution this time."
"However, you learned black wizard archaeological spells?"
Locke nodded slightly to Witch Sophia. "Yes, teacher. I just wanted to expand my knowledge, and somehow I learned part of it."
Witch Sophia nodded with satisfaction. "It's because of the special bloodline in you."
"That seems to be a bloodline from a magical creature that couldn't possibly come from the southeastern quadrant. So I didn't detect it before, and I helped you hide the examination records, which can save you many troubles."
"Plus, that archaeologist named McCarthy at Chimera Trading Market provoked you... so you learned archaeological spells."
"Excellent. Archaeological spells are very useful magic, very helpful for researching ancient bloodlines and ancient magical ruins," Witch Sophia said with interest. "It's naturally wonderful that you have this talent and can learn this type of magic."
"The City of a Thousand Towers possesses massive amounts of super-ancient magical ruins. The City of a Thousand Towers Academy has extensive special recruitment and special subsidies for talents in this area."
"Not just the City of a Thousand Towers."
"Many universities in the Star Domain Sea have additional skill requirements when recruiting faculty."
"After all, things are different now compared to before. Requirements for official wizards have become much more competitive," Witch Sophia rubbed her temples. "After all, the Star Domain Sea is a big place, and official wizards from various wizard territories are flooding in, so finding work there is very difficult."
"If you have some special skills, it's very advantageous and can give you great advantages when passing faculty assessments."
Witch Sophia shared with Locke her insights about passing the Star Domain Sea faculty assessment. "In the future, when you undergo faculty assessments, you'll definitely need these experiences."
Locke quickly said, "Teacher, I'm still very far from being an official wizard. My current mana hasn't even reached 600 yet..."
Witch Sophia smiled and said nothing.