Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems-Chapter 266: Monthly Income, 36,000 Magic Stones

Two weeks later, at night.
Locke was in the medium-sized botanical garden next to his three-piece set. Just as Wizard Halen Vera had promised him, the approval for the medium-sized botanical garden came through within three days and was passed and certified by the association.
Within a week, the academy had delivered the alchemical cottage for the medium-sized botanical garden.
This medium-sized botanical garden had three hundred acres of land inside. This way, his increasingly numerous magical plants could all be cultivated.
At that time, within this one week, his medium-sized botanical garden had already taken initial shape in terms of planting scale.
Thanks to the full support from Halen Vera and his network, in just one week, Locke had opened up a hundred acres of magical fields for Perseus Eye Lichen, a hundred acres of magical fields for Two-Ball Plane Tree, and a hundred acres of magical fields for Jade Iris Lichen.
Although these three hundred acres of magical fields were currently still in the soil cultivation or seedling nurturing stage, all three hundred acres of magical fields had already taken shape, and his initial investment had surprisingly cost less than a thousand magic stones.
The estimated future investment, because various first-class wizard apprentices were taking turns helping him almost for free, the total cost that should have been at least around fifty thousand had now only required an investment of ten thousand magic stones to get all three major magical plant projects up and running.
At the same time, this ten thousand magic stones also included the reconstruction of a hundred acres of Crystal Palm Fire Lotus magical fields in his other two small and medium-sized botanical gardens, plus the newly opened thirty acres of Invisible Mandrake Vines, and another ten acres of magical fields for Wiregrass Bull Sinew.
Similarly, Locke's personal pharmacy, thanks to the help of many hands, had now tripled its production of Memory Ointment, maintained the same output of Minor Viridian Potion, but the production of Bear Spirit Jade Bile Detoxification Potion was three times what it was before.
This way, his pharmacy could produce 1,000 doses of Memory Ointment per month. After deducting the share given to his fellow disciples, he could earn a net profit of 7,000 magic stones.
The production of Bear Spirit Jade Bile Detoxification Potion had become three hundred doses per month, which could bring him a net profit of twenty thousand magic stones.
In other words, his pharmacy, with the help provided by Halen Vera, had developed rapidly and directly became a super pharmaceutical workshop that could earn a net profit of twenty-seven thousand magic stones per month.
Locke had checked the ranking of his personal pharmacy. His personal pharmacy's ranking had surged to the top three in an extremely short time and showed a tendency to become the number one apprentice-level pharmacy.
There were countless potion shop managers trying to contact him daily, wanting to obtain supplies of Bear Spirit Jade Bile Detoxification Potion. He had ordered his assistant Terry to handle them all.
Similarly, the magical fields in his three relatively large botanical gardens had recently spent only 5,000 magic stones but created collective procurement contracts worth a total of sixty thousand magic stones for him.
At the same time, the various scattered magical fields, added together, had reached a monthly income of 9,000 magic stones.
But on the magical plant side, what was really valuable was the Jade Iris Lichen, the main material for Bear Spirit Jade Bile Detoxification Potion. Once the hundred-acre magical field for this magical plant was fully established, the academy leadership would only purchase more Bear Spirit Jade Bile Detoxification Potion, and it could even be sold outside the academy.
He could earn even more money.
Also, the Two-Ball Plane Tree, once the work on conquering this rare magical plant was completely finished, could also absorb enormous amounts of resources as a result.
Additionally, the treatment center had settled his previous payments, giving him fourteen thousand magic stones in treatment compensation.
Locke calculated that currently, his predicted monthly income would reach a terrifying thirty-six thousand magic stones, while his savings had reached fifty-one thousand magic stones.
And his monthly expenses were his previous various resources with a fixed monthly expenditure of 8,000 magic stones, plus now through researching abyss-type potions, he had reduced the side effects of Beholder Potion. He was taking 20 doses of Beholder Potion every month to accelerate his learning of archaeology, so the cost of Beholder Potion was 6,000 magic stones. Two doses of Fission Potion per month cost 400 magic stones.
Adding the monthly consumption for researching Beholder Potion, which was about 2,000 magic stones spent on experimental materials each month, his monthly consumption was around sixteen thousand magic stones.
His monthly income was thirty-six thousand, while consumption was only slightly over sixteen thousand magic stones.
This way, he could accumulate twenty thousand magic stones every month.
His botanical garden and pharmacy, with the help of Halen Vera's network, had fully unleashed their terrifying money-making power, accumulating astonishing magical resources for him.
And by bringing so many projects into Halen Vera's network, he had also brought a tangible and powerful vitality to this network, like fresh water injected into a pond.
This made Locke almost immediately become a star within this network, even half a core member. Over these two weeks, Locke didn't know how many people he had greeted and how many people he had met.
Witch Sophia's previous prediction was correct. Once he entered this network, like a fish entering the ocean, all his previous accumulations instantly transformed into income and exploded.
Of course, this was also because he had received full support from Halen Vera. Otherwise, he definitely wouldn't have had so many hands to instantly secure such a large venue and spread his operations so widely.
This network had provided him with far too many conveniences.
Locke stood in the now-empty botanical garden, looking at a Two-Ball Plane Tree before him, revealing deep thought.
On the two main trunks of this Two-Ball Plane Tree, a Corrupt Soil Taro King had been grafted onto each, the grafting had been successful, and they were approaching maturity.
Previously, he had tried grafting various rare magical plants, but in the end, only the Corrupt Soil Taro King had succeeded. Black Chain Sword Bamboo and Gentleman Orchid had failed.
The Two-Ball Plane Tree, as a universal-type rootstock magical plant, wasn't omnipotent after all. There were always rare magical plants that couldn't be successfully grafted.
At this time, after two weeks of cultivation, these two Corrupt Soil Taro Kings were approaching maturity. The Two-Ball Plane Tree required an extremely large area, with only one Two-Ball Plane Tree able to be planted per acre of magical field.
But at this moment, the two rare magical plants, the Corrupt Soil Taro Kings on this Two-Ball Plane Tree, had matured and bloomed with corrupt soil flowers on the tree.
Locke carefully cut down these two Corrupt Soil Taro Kings using the grafting knife that Mentor Halen Vera had given him, "With these two Corrupt Soil Taro Kings, I can use Mayfly Flower Cannon to control three Corrupt Soil Taro Kings."
"With the Dryad energy and distributed psionic network, I can indeed operate more Corrupt Soil Taro Kings than ordinary wizards. Being able to simultaneously control three Corrupt Soil Taro Kings, my combat power has risen even further."
"Moreover, the closer I get to First Circle, the more I need to start considering a very important question, what should I choose for my First Circle permanent defensive force field magic?"
Essentially, all the magic a wizard learned before inscribing their First Circle permanent defensive force field was preparation for this magic.
Their magical knowledge and experience would converge here into their unique First Circle permanent defensive force field.
This point was also what Halen Vera had reminded him of a week ago and he had indeed witnessed firsthand that the spell chosen for the First Circle permanent defensive force field determined one's combat power after becoming a First Circle wizard.
Like Rashid Tariel, because his First Circle permanent defensive force field was poorly considered, this caused him to have significant vulnerabilities after becoming a First Circle wizard, making him more fragile than ordinary First Circle wizards.
As for Witch Gabriel, her First Circle permanent defensive force field was Arcane Divination, which possessed various wonderful intuitions.
Essentially, a First Circle wizard's permanent defensive force field would never be a standard-issue magic, but rather reflected the wizard's magical philosophy, either creating new magic or modifying existing First Circle magic.
Therefore, this part indeed required careful consideration.
Once inscribed, there would be no opportunity to re-inscribe. In the future, one could only make minor modifications based on it.
Locke's eyes shifted slightly, "My mana has now reached 781. It's time to go to the wizard secret realm, the Forbidden Forest, to harvest a wave of magical resources. Essentially, wizard secret realms are all specially prepared realms for cultivating wizard apprentices. There are large amounts of resources related to advancing to formal wizard there, as well as materials related to First Circle permanent defensive force field magic."
"I should ask Mentor Halen Vera's opinion to see if he has any special arrangements. Perhaps I can find the direction for my permanent defensive force field."