Chapter 428: Both comrades and friends!
Noon, Bailong Street.
Alicia said to Locke: "I saw you won the championship of the Moss Shield Medal Competition and the Thousand-Eyed Vine Competition. Your two kinds of eyegrass shined in the southeast corner and won the well-deserved championship of the two competitions. The wizards of the Philaide family, some people have been taking this matter these days. Come out and say it.
Only the Shadow Eye Grass is a project under the Philaide family, so the Philaide family and the old wizard Collins both have the method of cultivating the eye grass. But the problem is that Locke's Shadow Eye Grass and Golden Eye Grass were developed by him, so they have nothing to do with the Philaide family.
But who would have known that Locke was the younger brother of Wizard Anthony, the acting head of the Philaide family, and the breeder he specially invited to stand up for him.
At the same time, both Eye Grass projects were born out of Youying Eye Grass, so during this period, Wizard Anthony always had a smile on his face. Locke's success also enhanced his prestige.
Not only that, Locke is now very popular in the Plutarch family, which has also indirectly contributed to the power of the Antonine wizard in the Philaide family.
For this reason, many of the materials Lock needed to participate in the Yunze Cup were proactively provided by Wizard Anthony on the gray fog stone slab.
Locke said on the street of Bailong Street: "It's just two small games, so it's easier to win. Both kinds of eye grass are considered good among the magic plants in the ring."
"Winning is within my expectation."
Alicia is currently not wearing a white wizard robe, but a bright red wizard robe. She seems to like red, but she is no longer as childish as before.
The current style is very mature.
It also fits her current social status.
Alicia smiled and said: "Only you can say this kind of thing. You won two small competitions and let some members of the Plutarch family understand that you are really working on the project. Now the rumors have been reduced a lot. "Although there are still many people with evil intentions who talk about us. But the rumors stop with the wise, Locke. Soon those people will find that they are all wrong. You are not making money, but working on a project seriously."
Alicia explained to Locke: "It's just that there are really few family wizards in your research group. Are you sure you don't need some outstanding family wizards? I have many relatives who also told me that they can help you."
Locke nodded. "I am definitely short of people here, but I need them to provide resumes and conduct ability tests. What I am short of are capable people." Alicia smiled and said: "Okay, in a few days, I will have someone send the information to you. Among them is my cousin, Julian's son. Julian and Eric has always been very close, and recently I don’t understand why he always wants to send his son to your research group through me. "
"In short, you can decide these things yourself, Locke." Alicia sighed and said, "I have been reflecting a lot recently.
Especially after seeing the social structure of the mage plane. Perhaps my grandfather has always wanted to change the current status quo of the Six Towers Land. But after I became the acting head of the family, I could feel how impossible it was to change my mind. ”
“The Plutarch family themselves are the leaders of the family wizards. If we want to reform, we must first reform ourselves.”
Locke listened silently and did not interrupt.
Sophia Witch reminded herself that if she just worked on the project honestly, she would be done. If she got involved too deeply, she might get involved in the complex grudges of the Plutarch family.
Besides, I, a fledgling first-level wizard, do not have the knowledge to guide all the wizards in the Land of Six Towers how to live.
That is not what I should do now.
Alicia confided to Locke: "I think this time you are all composed of civilian wizards. If you can get a place in the Yunze Cup, it will be a huge change for me and the land of Six Towers." The fact that the local civilian wizards in the land facing six towers can be so good is a fact." Alicia said: "Although the changes in the system are either earth-shaking or slow, it cannot be done overnight. But after experiencing the incident with the airship, I feel that my whole thinking has changed."
"Wizards of the scholastic school often say that death will inevitably take away something from the undead. Even if they are resurrected with psychic magic, the resurrected person will never be the same person, and will have memory loss, confusion, nonsense, or loss of humanity and turn into a beast."
"But I think that a wizard who is infinitely close to death will also bring about huge changes in himself." Alicia looked at Bailong Street and frowned. "After that incident, I have changed a lot."
h "I want to make the land of Six Towers better, worthy of the resources I have obtained here."
h "I want to make the Plutarch family better."
Alicia frowned seriously. At this moment, her magic pressure had a special shock. Locke keenly captured this and found that this change disappeared quickly after appearing for a moment.
Because it was so slight and so short-lived, if Locke had not been taking beholder medicine for a long time, which enhanced his sensitivity to mental power, and was extremely familiar with Alicia's mana fluctuations, he would not have been able to discover this at all.
"Alicia's magic pressure fluctuations have experienced a special change, and her whole person seems to have changed to a certain extent." Locke thought: "She must have undergone some unknown change just now.
Alicia looked at Locke and said: "After this period of time, I have realized one thing. This conclusion is extremely cruel - becoming excellent is killing the family itself."
"I can only understand my grandfather's thoughts now. As long as the Land of Six Towers becomes excellent, the family and the system here will be forced to change. As long as I can connect the evaluation system of the Land of Six Towers with the outside wizard land, those who deceive themselves can only face reality."
Alicia said to Locke: "Locke, you are the first step for me to try to do this. I hope you can get a good ranking in the Yunze Cup."
"You and I are both comrades-in-arms and friends."
Locke hesitated towards Alicia, thinking that the two were friends, he whispered: "Alicia, you have a good idea. But you will offend too many wizards."
"I suggest you take everything slowly. Don't rush.
Alicia said: "Of course."
"Grandpa, he told me the same thing. He also supported my idea very much."
Alicia looked at Locke, her face slightly red. "It is so reassuring to have a reliable comrade like you by my side. Back to the topic, Locke, how is your research team?"
Thinking of the research team, Locke was slightly worried. "The manpower has been selected in the early stage, and we are currently selecting the topic. But now the conflict between the Barbara Witch and the Tacitus Wizard in my research team is getting deeper and deeper, and their personalities are seriously inconsistent." "The second concern is the group meeting within this month. Each of the three of them has good individual abilities, but when they meet together, they always have arguments and always question each other, so the discussion is directed elsewhere."
“The project applications they submitted within this month were not as good as I expected. They were of very limited help to me and their work was average.” Locke said: “This is the first time I have led such a large research group. I am worried that there is something wrong with my management methods, which makes me unable to control the talents of these people.”
Alicia shook her head and looked at Locke with trust. "Why, Locke is the most reliable wizard, how could there be a problem."
"Perhaps their conflict is just an episode within the research team. Let it take its course, and you may be able to get good results."
"Give them some time, they might make something good for you."
Locke and Alicia looked at each other and smiled at each other. One of them was the acting head of the family, and the other was a small tutor without a teaching staff.
To a certain extent, the two of them really share the same problem and are really comrades-in-arms.
Two intern comrades.
The two walked for a while on Bailong Street. Alicia asked Locke to go to another store on Bailong Street. She thought it had a very valuable shop.
Alicia said to Locke: "I heard that the actual combat test of the Yunze Cup was conducted on those Mechanic people, right? Although our Bailong Street does not have an advanced artificial race like the Mechanic people, we have a shop called [Joseph's Doll Shop] in our Bailong Street."
"There are many golems there, which are specially used for wizards to perform spells or perform performance testing of magic plants, magic weapons and other items."
h "Perhaps, going to that shop can be helpful to you."
"That shop is opened by alchemists, and its headquarters is in Yunze Wetland. This is their branch. There are many kinds of golems to choose from, including flesh golems, steel golems, diamond golems, clay golems, ice crystal golems, rock golems, etc.—"
"Especially the Steel Golem. Part of the Mechanic's manufacturing technology is based on the Steel Golem. I think going to that shop and giving you a practice session will definitely be good for you to participate in the competition."
Faced with Locke's eyes, Alicia blushed slightly and explained: "I also looked up the information about the Yunze Cup during this period. So I know what the Mechanic people are."
Locke said to Alicia: "Thank you, Alicia. This must have cost you a lot of trouble."
Alicia shook her head and said, "I am your sponsor. Although I want to help you, this is also helping myself."
Alicia said: "By the way, how are you learning the master brain control potion? We can communicate and discuss from time to time, which should help you make the first bottle of master brain control potion as soon as possible."
"I asked my butler to send you a batch of substitute lower-level materials for master brain control practice."
Locke nodded and said: "That batch of materials is very useful to me. After all, the number of times I can fail is limited. The core material of the brain control potion is the brain of a ring of illithids. That material can only be obtained by entering the abyss and hunting illithids."
Alicia nodded. "That's good, as long as it can help you." Locke glanced at Alicia's magic pressure and said, "Your current magic pressure is still increasing too slowly. You said before that you would work with me to improve the formula of the one-horned rhinoceros potion. We can try it. If the improvement is successful and the positioning accuracy of the one-horned rhinoceros bloodline is increased, you can continue to improve your physical strength and increase your absorption of the mammon powder potion."
"By the way, can't the conjuration bloodline use spells to strengthen the bloodline?" Locke said: "Then we can try to enhance the one-horned rhinoceros bloodline from both the conjuration school and the potion school."
Locke really has no time to do anything else these days. Therefore, I have been working on projects, even making money horizontally,
because of this, I have been delayed.
Before, he had thought about whether he could synthesize some gems and sell them here.
Later, he canceled the idea because synthesis would take a long time, and he still needed to take advantage of synthesis opportunities every day to test formulas and conduct research on those projects.
There are no additional synthesis opportunities to synthesize gems. Besides, there is a problem with synthesizing gems. I am not an alchemist, so I cannot reasonably explain the source of a large number of high-end gems.
Hence, as for gems, Locke only plans to synthesize some high-grade gems for his own use instead of selling them.
However, he had the idea of selling some potions and magic plants, but now he is too busy and can only temporarily choose between projects and making money.
Hence, it has not been started yet.
Alicia's eyes lit up. "If we can combine the one-horned rhinoceros bloodline transformation potion, mammon powder potion and poison hedging potion, then we can definitely open a store here."
“This combination of potions can help a wizard quickly transform from an ordinary level to a liquefied wizard.”
"If we can open such a shop, we can make a lot of money. Even the three potions are very difficult to refine. The local potion masters in the Six Towers Land do not have such refining capabilities, even if they know the formula."
"Similarly, there are still physical requirements for the user, and it is not suitable for everyone." Alicia's physical fitness is still good. After all, there is a physical bonus from the exhausted female bloodline. This method is still not suitable for an ordinary wizard to take, as it will cause the body to explode and die.
But because there are many bloodline wizards in the Land of Six Towers, all of whom have relatively good physiques, this set of combined potions can potentially make a lot of money if a store is opened in the Land of Six Towers.
Alicia said: "Locke, maybe I can open a joint store with you in the land of six towers."
"It's okay to continue to call your potion series products in the southeast corner. It can be called the Augustus series potion store." Alicia said: "What do you think?" "Things will actually turn around like this."
"In this way, the project from the Star Territory Sea can indeed be considered and let my research team continue to work on it."
Alicia looked at the letter in his hand. "Locke? What's wrong?"
Locke put away the letter. "Actually, it's nothing. It's just that the progress of my research group was stuck for a month, and suddenly the results suddenly broke out today. Montgomery in my research group teamed up with Barbara Witch and Tacitus Wizard to come up with a new and good project application. Moreover, this project has a very good linkage effect with a topic I originally liked."
"I just revealed the meaning of this direction to them before, but I didn't expect those three people to give me such a big surprise."
"In this way, I can make up my mind to pursue the subject I wanted to do before."
After hearing this, Alicia immediately smiled. "I also guessed that things would develop like this. After I became the head of the family, the biggest gain was that I found that as long as things go their way, people will naturally appear who can solve the problem."
"Sometimes, you don't have to be so anxious. There is no need to make up for the conflicts within the team. The more you make up for it, the more quarrels will start. Just let nature take its course and they will solve it on their own. They are all first-level wizards."
Locke was suddenly speechless.
The person Alicia said, the person who appeared to solve the problem, couldn't be herself, right?
Locke found that Alicia seemed to have the kind of management style of hands-off boss.
It is completely different from the management method of the great wizard Sulla, who has to care about everything, manipulates everything behind the scenes, and hates others being out of his control.
These two methods have their own shortcomings and advantages.