Chapter 578 Winning over Locke’s new journal
Locke ate the white peach, returned to his dormitory, and slept in his bedroom for three full days. When he got up again, he found that three days had passed.
When he thought about the points that would be deducted from him, Locke's expression changed slightly.
But when he opened the Ganoderma lucidum plant, he found that as his direct leader, Team Leader Celtic had used his authority to sign in for him.
Although this matter was a bit unruly, the Celtic team leader told himself not to talk about it outside.
Locke immediately breathed a sigh of relief. Even if he does not need to worry about being eliminated due to points issues, he still has to worry about not being able to get a jade peach that should belong to him because of points issues.
Well now, this worry has been resolved.
Loke got up and washed himself, then came to the living room.
Locke looked at the time on the standard alchemy clock (standard furniture of the academy) made by the alchemist apprentice in the living room, and then realized that it was already noon.
Moreover, I have been sleeping for three days and three nights.
"Using the Queen's Board may consume more than just magic pressure. If it's just magic pressure, I should be able to basically recover after repeated supplements and a night's rest at most." Locke looked thoughtful.
Entering the Queen's Board itself involves certain risks.
But as a wizard, it is impossible to completely avoid risks.
Thousands of people compete for freedom in the frost sky. Only by constantly improving can one become a high-level wizard and pursue the path of truth.
Happily, I also gained a lot.
Two wood elf maids quickly served Locke breakfast, while a dark elf servant reported to him that while he was resting, several wizards sent several letters.
Locke held the three letters in his hand. He didn't expect that he had only slept for three days, but so many people had sent him letters.
The first letter is from the Fund Management Department of the White Wizard Association, which has approved my application for defense and agreed with me to conduct the final defense in half a month.
There is no other way, you must gather three respondents to hold a defense.
Those second-level wizards also have limited time, and it is impossible to travel all the way for a first-level wizard.
Hence, I can only make up for their time.
The second and third letters are all to Gregor and Williams. After Locke asked them to participate in the breeders' competition, he asked them to fill in their own addresses.
This way, as a tutor, I will be able to notify them very conveniently, and I will also be able to know the status of their participation in the competition as soon as possible.
Second, it is a kind of protection.
Lock, who has experienced the inside story of previous competitions, dare not gamble on human nature in this aspect.
There is no need to reveal the addresses of the two apprentices.
Just write your address directly to avoid any troubles in your life.
Locke opened the two letters and nodded with satisfaction. Both Gregor and Williams successfully passed the second round and ranked at the top.
Gregor's results were average, ranking 57th.
Williams's result was 11th.
Even though she had her own research topic and experimental data, she could not get this ranking without hard work and talent.
"Very good, then the two of them can enter the third round." Locke smiled. "Time is really amazing."
"The time when I participated in the apprentice breeder competition is still vivid in my mind, as if I participated last year. Thinking about it carefully, it is indeed not long since I became an official wizard."
"Back then, I won the first place in the Apprentice Breeder Competition, so can I recreate my past glory with these two students?"
"The Wizard Mentor can completely intervene in the progress of the students' works with guidance. According to the information I have previously investigated - the Apprentice Breeder Competition, on the surface, is a competition between apprentices, but in fact it depends on the strength of the teachers behind it, followed by The students' own level. "
Locke said indifferently: "Just look at the level of Williams and Gregor."
Locke looked at Ginny, the red dragon and half-dragon maid assigned to him by Ekaterina, and said: "Ginny, help me give these two letters, as well as this set of questions and reading lists, to Gregor and Williams respectively, and tell them if they don't understand anything, they can come and ask me."
"In addition, tell them that they can do their best in the finals. Don't worry about the rest."
Ginny saluted Locke and said, "Okay, little master."
"It's just that, little master... there is one thing I want to tell you. When you were sleeping, a dark wizard with a face covered once came to Golden Crown Mountain and came to find you."
"He said he was an old friend of yours, and his name is Warwick. I told him that you were busy and could not go out to receive him for the time being. As a result, he seemed very angry and left as if I had neglected him."
Locke was stunned for a moment, because his two-year appointment with Warwick has not yet reached the date, and there is still one and a half years left.
But why did Warwick come to look for himself in advance?
Locke glanced at Ginny and said, "Oh, he's just a bit more sensitive, and he doesn't have any objections to you."
Ginny smiled and said, "Little master, you are so considerate. I really thought I had neglected him."
"Before he left, he said that at four o'clock in the afternoon three days later, at Dragon's Blood, Meet in private room 31 of the witch kitchen in the assembly castle. If you don't come by then, he will leave automatically. "
Ginny said: "Ah, counting the time, it is almost this afternoon. It is noon now, and there are only three hours left before the appointed time."
Locke was slightly speechless.
He still remembered that he had added friends on the gray fog slate, so why did he take the initiative to look for him in person? Was there any sudden change in the plan?
Locke nodded and said: "I understand, Ginny. Go ahead."
Locke frowned, thought carefully, and decided to keep the appointment.
This is Jinmian Mountain, the territory of the White Wizard. In this regard, I have no worries.
In this case, there is no reason not to go.
Warwick has the historical materials and abyss ruins coordinates he wants.
Think about it carefully, the location marked by the coordinates of the abyss ruins is not a medium-sized abyss plane, right?
That would be interesting.
In the endless void, wizards can generally only use world stones from medium-sized worlds to advance to second-level wizards. Otherwise, the personal power of first-level wizards will not be able to compete with more advanced worlds, which will be counterproductive.
But there is only one world that is special - the bottomless abyss.
Because the Abyss is a super giant single plane formed by the convergence of countless planes of different sizes, it is the only plane that can be used to advance to the second level wizard.
Of course, using the abyss plane to advance to the second level of wizards does test the imagination of the wizards. Using the world stone from the abyss plane to create huge magic, it is not yet certain who will be the master and who the guest.
But this is indeed a direction that can be understood, especially since I have a certain understanding of abyss pharmacy and abyss energy system.
Locke was about to get up when he heard someone knocking on the door. He ordered the maid to open the door, only to see an ordinary second-level wizard standing outside the door.
"Please don't be surprised, Mr. Augustine." The second-level wizard who came here smiled brightly, "I am Bartolomeo Hayes, the wizard tutor at Quinjor University."
"I am here specifically to visit the Augustine breeder this time."
Locke was stunned for a moment, then calmly called the servant to entertain the second-level wizard.
The two of them sat down at the long table in the living room.
Locke said strangely: "Mr. Hayes, why did you come to see me specially? What is it that is worthy of your coming from Jonquil University?"
Wizard Hayes smiled and said: "Actually, it's not a special trip, but there happened to be a medium-sized wizarding organization nearby that invited me to give lectures, and I thought it was very close to Golden Crown Mountain, so I stopped by to make an appointment with you."
"I'm actually here on behalf of the District 2 journal "Life and Reproduction.""
Locke was stunned for a moment and blurted out. "Is there this journal among the journals in the second district?"
Mainly because I had asked Schneider to submit the manuscript before, and he had also scanned the name of the second district journal in Yunze Wetland.
There are a total of 46 journals in the first, second and second districts of Yunze Wetland.
But it seems there is no "Life and Reproduction".
PH As soon as Locke said this, he immediately reacted and said: "I don't mean to be negligent. Lord Hayes."
Wizard Hayes waved his hands, the smile on his face was a little awkward, but still easy-going. "This is indeed a problem in our "Life and Reproduction". To be honest, "Life and Reproduction" is a journal that has just been promoted to the first ring and second zone. It was founded by my teacher Barbatos, the young cadre wizard and the third ring wizard."
"Originally, it was a journal of the third district all year round, but it was recently promoted to the second district."
Locke nodded slightly and thought quickly: "Young Cadre Wizard is a title of the second ring. For a wizard of the sun ring, it is already a good title, but for a wizard of the third ring, it is just an ordinary title." 』
The highest title of a three-ring wizard is the Throne Wizard. Since the other party emphasizes that his teacher is a young cadre wizard and a three-ring wizard, it means that he is an ordinary three-ring wizard. 』
“Ordinary journals run by three-ring wizards... it will indeed be difficult to climb the area in the early stage. 』
For example, Witch Ekaterina has her own journal, which is the journal "Volcanic Plants" in the Second Ring and First District.
She does not have a journal.
Hence, her students cannot submit to the journals she organizes. Otherwise, the submission box of her journals must be filled with wizards from major Zhenzhiyuan every day.
It is probably for this reason that she did not run a first-level journal.
Locke has already guessed why the other party, as a second-level wizard, condescended to look for himself, a first-level wizard.
Wizard Hayes said: "That's right. My teacher, Wizard Barbatos, has always wanted to organize a one-ring-one-district journal as a guarantee for our division."
Wizard Hayes said openly and honestly.
Locke nodded slightly. Many journals are indeed the private residences of the students of major high-level wizards. It will be much easier for their teachers, students and their friends to go up.
Wizard Hayes smiled and said: "It's just that if you want a journal to be promoted to a regional publication, you need influential, high-quality articles and excellent submission sources. And if you want to attract excellent submission sources, you need credibility, and to have credibility, you need excellent submission sources."
This is a closed loop.
Only by breaking this closed loop can a journal be established, otherwise it will just be a pheasant journal that no one cares about.
Wizard Hayes said: "I know that "Life and Reproduction" may be looked down upon by an excellent wizard like you, but I still come here and want to make an appointment with you." "This is a top issue. "
Wizard Hayes said quickly: "Of course. Your corresponding author is Witch Ekaterina, and our journal does not dare to accept the article with Lord Throne as the corresponding author..."
"Even before accepting it, we will find a way to confirm it with Lord Throne, and only after getting approval can we dare to include it."
Wizard Hayes said tiredly: "You can't imagine how difficult it is for us to run a journal. If it is a top journal in the first ring and second area, forget it. If a newly promoted journal like ours dares to publish their corresponding author's article in the journal without the consent of the throne, then it will be Violating some unspoken rules. "
"It's true that in the past, journals that wanted to take shortcuts tried to touch the Porcelain Throne. As a result, those journals, without exception, were boycotted by all, no one submitted, no one paid attention, and they were eventually canceled by the White Wizard Association."
"But I noticed, Augustine Breeder, you seemed to have asked your students to be the first author, and you were the corresponding author, and submitted them to several District 2 journals."
· "My target is the articles you want to submit to the District 2 journals."
· Wizard Hayes looked at Locke tentatively.
The two looked at each other and smiled.
Wizard Hayes laughed. "Then let's not beat around the bush. My goal is those journals, and I think this is also very beneficial to you. The purpose of publishing journals is to get contribution points. Contribution points can be exchanged for many things that are useful to you." Books. Of course, those planes are usually those that have been developed many times. "
"Thirty thousand contribution points, which means 20 area one journals, can also be obtained through 38 area two journals." Wizard Hayes knows what Locke wants most now, because this was what he wanted most not long ago.
"Furthermore, the White Wizards Association has regulations that only contribution points obtained through journals can be used to redeem colonial licenses."
"For wizards who want to redeem colonial licenses, the ratio of area one journals to area two journals, as well as area three journals, is also strictly limited."
"Journals in area four do not count."
Locke listened, and Wizard Hayes talked about this part of knowledge preciously.
Most of what he said I have gradually understood.
But there is one thing that I really didn’t know before.
That is, the colonization licenses exchanged for contribution points can be used to colonize the planes that have been developed.
This made Locke frown.
During the process of creating great magic for himself, the great wizard Sulla had an argument with his ghostwriter. During the argument, Locke also realized that after a wizard uses the resources of that world to advance, the world will gain part of his characteristics, and he will gain part of the characteristics of that world.
The world is no longer pure for those who come after us.
This causes the latecomer's greater magic to be slightly affected by the personal traits of the first wizard to use the world.
Although this effect is very slight, so slight that most wizards can tolerate it, some wizards still care about it.
Especially for those wizards who are not just targeting the second ring.
Great magic is very important, so for Locke himself, it is best for the world plane used to construct great magic to be a brand new world that has not been touched by wizards.
It turns out that even those planes under the colonial license redeemed within the contribution point system have already been developed.
Loke was in a daze for a moment.
The need for contribution points in my heart suddenly dropped sharply.
If a wizard publishes dozens of articles in the second area and more than ten articles in the first area, and finally only obtains one such plane, then unless he has no last resort, he might as well wait.
After all, now is not the time to wait.
White wizard society has a whole set of related clergy systems specifically used to allocate this type of resources.
You should be able to obtain the kind of resources you want.
Wizard Hayes did not seem to notice that Locke was distracted, and still said: "And there is an advantage for you to submit to our journal. Our journal has no seniority bias."
"Just like you contributors have no seniority bias, our journal also has no seniority bias. Those of you Rejected manuscripts can be published directly in our journal. "
Locke glanced at Wizard Hayes and thought for a moment, "But... I want to see the previous submission information for "Life and Reproduction."
I must at least make sure that this journal is not a particularly bad journal.
If an article with your own name is submitted to a journal that has a lot of connections, it will not be a good reputation for you.
However, if it is true as what the second-level wizard said, it is a journal founded by the third-level wizard Barbatos, and he hopes to be promoted to the first district and create convenience for their division, then it is not a loss to cooperate with him.
This way there is no seniority bias on either side.
Wizard Hayes showed a clear look and handed the information he had prepared in advance to Locke. "Take a look, Augustine Breeder."
"My teacher is a third-level wizard who has just been promoted, so this journal has just been promoted from the third area to the second area."
"I have been following my teacher since he was an official wizard. After he was promoted to a third-level wizard, my teacher immediately managed to get me a colonization license for a medium-sized plane. So, I also became a second-level wizard."
Wizard Hayes smiled and said: "We have big plans, so we are not just trying to settle down."
After reading the information, Locke confirmed that this was indeed a rising journal, so he said: "Okay, Lord Hayes. Then I will consider submitting to "Life and Reproduction" next time."
Wizard Hayes nodded and said happily: "Our journal is also preparing to become a regional journal, and we very much welcome young talents like Augustine Wizard to submit manuscripts."
"As the editor-in-chief of "Life and Reproduction," I can promise you that our journal will always receive your submission as soon as possible and seriously consider whether to publish it."
Locke saluted Hayes Wizard.
This is actually a value exchange.
This means that I will consider submitting articles to "Life and Reproduction", which currently has insufficient qualifications. In exchange, this journal will seriously consider articles with my name in the future and give priority to them.
If you are lucky and "Life and Reproduction" becomes a regional journal, then your favor will still exist.
Then, as the corresponding author, I can obtain some weak privileges in this area one journal.
This will become some kind of accumulation of one's own.