Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems-Chapter 201: The Competition Committee's Discussion

Room 107.
Locke looked at the room full of medium-quality parasitic magical plants and nodded slightly.
The quality of the magical plant seeds in this room was quite good among medium-grade magical plants, belonging to the relatively rare types.
He made a brief selection and indeed found two parasitic magical plants suitable as additional ammunition for the Corrupt Soil Taro King: Tuber Mines and Thunderbolt Electric Potatoes.
Tuber Mines were a parasitic type of potato magical plant that looked grayish on the surface. They had to parasitize inside other magical plants, with a layer of parasitic aerial roots on the surface that could absorb energy from inside other magical plants.
In return, these Tuber Mines would protect their host magical plants, exploding when the parasitized magical plants encountered danger.
Similarly, Thunderbolt Electric Potatoes were also this kind of parasitic magical plant.
On their electric potato vines, there was also a light purple parasitic aerial root (roots that grow in the air).
The surface of these electric potato vines was hung with many electric potatoes, which would explode upon contact with enemies and deal thunder elemental damage.
Essentially, Thunderbolt Electric Potatoes contained natural magical structure components similar to the [Electric Palm Technique] inside them, so once they exploded, they naturally equaled a 0.3-circle Evocation School spell.
Locke chose between Tuber Mines and Thunderbolt Electric Potatoes, and ultimately selected the Thunderbolt Electric Potatoes, because he lacked elemental damage type magic, and Thunderbolt Electric Potatoes could well compensate for this shortcoming.
Tuber Mines were purely explosive spells that didn't involve elemental damage.
Thunderbolt Electric Potato vines were a parasitic type of magical plant that could parasitize inside his Corrupt Soil Taro King, forming a symbiotic relationship. His rare medium-high quality magical plants would provide energy to them, and with some fine-tuning of his spell model Mayfly Flower Cannon, he should be able to enhance the attack power of the Thunderbolt Electric Potatoes fired in the future to the 0.5-circle level.
This way, Thunderbolt Electric Potato ammunition wouldn't be useless in his battles.
While the Mayfly Flower Cannon fired spore ammunition outward, it could also simultaneously fire Thunderbolt Electric Potatoes to increase damage, or it could fire Thunderbolt Electric Potatoes alone. Either way, the applications were quite broad and could effectively supplement his combat deficiencies.
After Locke exchanged ten seeds of this parasitic magical plant with Ruby, the two headed toward the mine ladder along the hollow iron floors of the underground space.
Ruby kept thanking Locke for his guidance along the way, while Locke nodded and silently planned the future in his mind as he walked.
First, he needed to cultivate Thunderbolt Electric Potato vines and Large Green Leaf Bananas as quickly as possible. Second, he needed to hurry up and finish learning the Metal Torrent series spells that complemented the Rapid-Fire Peas. Next, he had to complete the academy's tasks.
He needed to complete the third phase experimental work for the Bear Spirit Jade Bile Detoxification Potion, quickly implement the sales work for Jade Iris Lichen and Perseus Eye Lichen, and his sixth magical plant work should fall on the flying magical plant [Large Green Leaf Banana].
His personal pharmacy was currently in its just-opened state and should quickly consolidate the sales of Memory Ointment while beginning to consider what new potions to develop after the Bear Spirit Jade Bile Detoxification Potion.
His personal pharmacy still needed to quickly decide what direction of potions to develop in the future.
Locke focused on several potions he commonly used during meditation, such as Stardust Tears Potion, Weeping Blood Nightshade Potion, and Energy Potions but these potions were particularly difficult, and their formulas hadn't been made public yet.
He hadn't chosen to synthesize them before for this reason.
There was a big difference between magical potions and magical plants.
Magical plants didn't require knowing specific formulas and original cultivation methods. One only needed to synthesize to obtain specific methods for improving them, at most needing to purchase original breeds.
But when he synthesized magical potions, he could only obtain information about the improved formula part, unable to know the original magical potion formula. Without knowing the original magical potion formula, having the improved formula information left him with nowhere to start.
Furthermore, those magical potions required measured dosing. Quantity and stable consumption were far more important than single-dose effect improvements.
Therefore, Locke hadn't chosen to synthesize those magical potions when lacking funds but in the future, after the pharmacy developed stability, perhaps it could develop in the direction of improving these commonly used meditation potions.
This way, he could both reduce the money spent on buying cultivation potions and possibly earn more money while further improving his meditation speed.
Although he didn't know why, even Witch Sophia had mentioned to him several times that if he could quickly reach 800 mental power, he should do so as soon as possible.
This could greatly improve his chances of becoming a formal wizard.
Locke also thought about that custom magical plant competition hosted by the academy's battle department, wondering how it was going now.
Today should be the registration deadline, right?
He wondered whether his Perseus Eye Lichen could win first place in this competition!
There were also many breeding masters in the academy, so he couldn't underestimate his opponents.
If he could win this competition, it would be of great help to him in terms of both funding and reputation.
On the mine ladder, Ruby looked at Locke, who had fallen into deep thought. She wisely chose to remain quiet while secretly looking at Locke with admiring eyes.
'Someday, I too want to become a formal breeder like Senior Augustine here, becoming part of protecting and balancing the natural ecosystem.'
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At Lilith's Cottage, in the office of the Custom Magical Plant Competition Committee among the many alchemy cottage buildings where the battle department was located.
The formal wizards who were committee members responsible for leading this competition were organizing the materials from this competition's participants.
In addition to these formal wizards, the office also contained people like Zack, who was responsible for battle department procurement and bidding.
There were also other procurement and bidding managers responsible for magical plant directions like him.
At this moment, they were all in this office, reviewing the materials submitted for this competition together with the formal wizards.
Senior breeder Jonas Cortez was one of the main judges for this competition.
He said to his colleagues and those procurement and bidding managers, "Everyone must first organize these registration materials."
"And preliminarily arrange a ranking table."
"The primary principle is that practical performance should outweigh data specifications. The breeder's past achievements and the level of their workshop are also important evaluation criteria."
"Some magical plants produced by small workshops may look very good in the data, but in actual use, they have many shortcomings and are essentially useless."
"After preliminary ranking, we'll have a rough idea of which works can win the championship."
"Then, we'll conduct practical tests on these submitted magical plant works. The ones with the best practical results will be the top three works!"
"We can give them procurement contracts as rewards."
"Of course, during this process, the comprehensive practical data of those magical plants from the past will definitely occupy a larger proportion of the scoring."
"This will be safer."
"So we also need to compile and examine whether the original versions of these magical plant works have been applied in past wars and how their war records are."