Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems-Chapter 202: Anxious Zack

In the Custom Magical Plant Competition Committee office.
After hearing what senior breeder Jonas Cortez said, one formal wizard judge smiled and raised a document in his hand with the name of Green Sprout Workshop written on it, "Actually, the champion will most likely come from those few workshops. It's very difficult for individuals to beat those workshops."
"Those workshops have greater advantages in cultivating combat magical plants, and they also have comprehensive data from previous years to reference."
"As for individual breeders, not only do their skills depend entirely on their own talent, but they also lack complete production processes and accumulated practical combat data from previous years, making it difficult to compete with workshops."
"Even if they rely on momentary genius to develop a magical plant with good data on paper and even commendable practical effects, those magical plants all have some hard-to-detect minor flaws."
"Unlike the combat magical plants developed by major workshops over several generations, their shortcomings have been improved to the limit, and their technology is very mature!"
"Moreover, our battle department also has long-term experience using these types of magical plants. The advantage couldn't be greater."
This formal wizard raised the magical plant materials sent by Green Sprout Workshop, "The apprentice-level magical plant [Gear Iron Brambles] that Green Sprout Workshop sent this time has been improved very well."
"They strengthened the response speed of [Gear Iron Brambles], and even used the Mana Co-frequency Cultivation Method to make this magical plant undergo specific beneficial mutations again. Although the defensive power didn't increase much, the toughness and durability greatly increased."
"The person in charge of this project is Mary from Green Sprout Workshop."
This formal wizard chuckled, "It's really remarkable that she could think of it. She actually found a direction for improvement in this apprentice-level magical plant that seemed impossible to improve."
"She truly deserves to be the most talented genius among the young students in the breeding field at our Lilith's Cottage in recent years."
Upon hearing the name [Gear Iron Brambles], the formal wizards present all smiled knowingly, showing expressions of understanding.
Green Sprout Workshop's Gear Iron Brambles was already an ancient project that had lasted one hundred and fifty years.
Except for its name, this magical plant had long since become completely unrelated to the earliest specimen.
Through generations of people taking over this project and improving this magical plant, it had become the battle department's preferred standard apprentice-level defensive magical plant.
Gear Iron Brambles, combined with the plant-type spell [Thorn Armor], could possess powerful defensive capabilities and even certain physical attack reflection abilities.
Senior breeder Jonas Cortez coughed, "It's not that absolute. We should give those young people a chance."
"We can't let young breeders outside Green Sprout Workshop have no chance at all."
"I see that the defensive magical plant works sent by Vine Language Workshop and Cloud Pine Workshop this time are also quite good, and there are some works sent by individual breeders that can also give me some surprises."
"As long as they're in the top three, they'll all have procurement contracts, so whether they're the champion isn't that important."
Jonas Cortez smiled, "Of course, Gear Iron Brambles' practical combat data is very comprehensive. The battle wizards from the battle department use it frequently, which is indeed a huge advantage."
The wizards present all nodded in agreement.
Wizard Jonas Cortez glanced at Zack and said, "But sometimes, some surprising accidents need to occur."
"Otherwise, the academy's competition hosting behavior would become meaningless."
"It's precisely because of this that I, as the main judge, am very interested in the final results of this competition."
"I hope the young people at this academy can present more situations that will brighten my eyes."
After everyone finished discussing, they began working on their respective tasks.
The formal wizards' time was precious, so some would accelerate the completion of their tasks, while others would send trusted students to help them with competition review work.
Zack stood in a corner of the office, looking at the document in his hand.
This document was exactly the materials for Perseus Eye Lichen that Locke had submitted.
A flash of confidence passed through his eyes.
He had great trust in the data and characteristics of Perseus Eye Lichen, and Locke had even included practical combat video materials of Perseus Eye Lichen against a first-class wizard apprentice vampire.
This would undoubtedly add many points to this magical plant work.
However, what made Zack somewhat worried was that while Perseus Eye Lichen was very good, it lacked one crucial thing.
That was the lack of past deployment records in wars.
The original version of Perseus Eye was Jade Iris Lichen, and Jade Iris Lichen was only one of the main materials for Bear Spirit Bile Potion. Not only did it have no record of participating in wars, it had no relation to combat magical plants at all.
This was the greatest flaw of Locke's Perseus Eye Lichen.
Combat magical plants were different from other magical plants after all. The evaluation conditions weren't about looking at data on paper.
Practical performance and past war deployment records, as well as battlefield performance, were also very important points.
Data could be falsified, performance could be incomprehensively considered, but practical combat records were the hardest golden standard.
A flash of anxiety passed through Zack's eyes, 'The biggest problem with Locke's Perseus Eye Lichen is that it has no actual war deployment records.'
'Locke's works are all procured by me. The higher his work's award ranking, the more rewards I can get, and the higher my status in the procurement department.'
'I hope these judges can see the excellence of Perseus Eye Lichen and not let this small flaw cause a pearl to be covered in dust, or lower its deserved ranking because of this.'
Zack fell into deep thought. From the current situation, if things continued this way, the first place would most likely go to Green Sprout Workshop's improved variety of Gear Iron Brambles.
The top three places would very likely be occupied by the top three workshops within Lilith's Cottage because they had historical battle records.
He had to think of ways in other aspects, otherwise under the complex competition rules of the custom magical plant competition, the actual position of Perseus Eye Lichen would be severely underestimated.
Zack looked up at Wizard Jonas Cortez, and a flash of inspiration crossed his mind, 'Got it. Locke, oh Locke, you help me, I help you. We two are already a community of interests.'
'Wizard Jonas Cortez's favorite student is first-class wizard apprentice Clifford Stevens. He's also a formal breeder, and it seems he didn't participate in this competition. Then I can completely invite him to dinner at the Witch Kitchen, and through him, make the main judge of the competition, Wizard Jonas Cortez, pay attention to Perseus Eye Lichen.'
Zack's eyes flickered, 'At the same time, I can also mobilize my connections to try to invite the captains of combat squads from the battle wizards' side, especially those few with whom I have good relationships, to consider privately purchasing Perseus Eye Lichen first.'
'For trial use.'
'This way, wouldn't Locke's work have actual battle records!'
'Although it can't participate in multiple classic fierce battles like Gear Iron Brambles with rich hardcore war data, it can slightly compensate for Perseus Eye Lichen's shortcomings.'
Zack thought, 'Right, I also need to invite Locke to dinner recently to tell him about this matter. And if I do so much work but don't tell him and he doesn't know at all, then I'd be too disadvantaged.'