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Chapter 669: Do you have the Apocalypse Wizard Stone in your hands?

Chapter 669: Do you have the Apocalypse Wizard Stone in your hand?

 Wizard Forbes took out a sample of wizard shoes from the astral ring and put it on his feet.

  The scaly leaves of the Snow-topped Pineapple adapt to the soles of his feet and undergo certain minor morphological changes.

 Wizard Forbes was slightly surprised, because when he tested wizard shoes in the past, those newly established wizard shoe brands had a problem, that is, there were always problems with small details of one kind or another.

 Because for the manufacturers and designers of the newly established wizard shoe brand, they lack relevant experience and can already work very hard to do the main functions, let alone pay attention to all the small details.

 But the production technology and design drawings of this newly established wizard shoe brand are very reasonable and complete.

 Wizard Forbes said: "This researcher should have found a mature manufacturer for production, otherwise the details would not be so exquisite. You see, although this enchantment does not use high-end technology, it is engraved along the path of the special leaves of the pineapple magic plant."

 "The craftsmanship is mature."

 Luca The wizard looked at the information and said: "It's the production line in Alsace. The Alsace Shop Alliance has recently been investing in the production capabilities of major colonial worlds, and it seems to be bearing fruit."

"Forbes, how do you feel about wearing these wizard shoes?"

 "Can they still be used?"

 Wizard Forbes felt the feeling of his own feet. Wearing this pair of wizard shoes is not much different from wearing a pair of ordinary shoes.

 But he only moved slightly, and suddenly the specialized fleshy root of the snow-topped pineapple, which was like the ice blade of a skate, drew an ice mark on the ground, and the ground was filled with ice magic.

  "Huh?" Wizard Forbes exclaimed. He slid on the ground and saw an ice mark on the ground. In an instant, he was on the ground and slid a thousand meters away.

 Wizard Forbes kicked his feet slightly, and suddenly a railway-like ice track appeared under his feet, and he himself was gliding on this railway ice track at a very fast speed, like a waltz.

 Hand, not only is he fast, under the influence of these wizard shoes, his movement path is elegant, flexible, smooth and fast.

  One semicircle after another appeared in the mid-air.

 The face of Wizard Forbes became serious, "It really surprises me. Not only is it still usable, the performance of these magic plant wizard shoes is actually on par with the performance of the latest products of Merloch Magic Steps and Thoras Barefoot (30k)."

 Wizard Forbes' right foot shifted slightly, and suddenly a rapidly rotating circle appeared on the railway ice track he was in mid-air. He himself was drifting rapidly on the spiral circle track.

   He is a moon ring wizard, so he has completely mastered the use of Snow-topped Pineapple just after he got started.

 As long as his feet deviate in a certain direction, he can automatically use the characteristics of the snow-topped pineapple to slide through a spiral track in the sky, which makes his entire movement very elegant.

  Wizard Forbes had a look of disbelief on his face. "It's hard to imagine that this is actually the work of a small brand just established by a personal wizard. The performance is very good, comparable to Melody's Magic Steps and Solas's Lightfoot (30k)."

“Although I have used them carefully, I noticed that in some details, the performance is sufficient and the details are relatively insufficient, but it does not affect the details of use as a war weapon. This is just a matter of comfort, and there is a little learning problem.”

The use and learning of various wizard shoes such as Merloch Magic Steps and Thoras Barefoot (30k) have been specially debugged.

 Hence, when wizards use these two brands of wizard shoes, they will find it very simple, as long as you only use its basic functions.

  Lunar Ranger 01 and Shadow Dancer 86 both have this feature.

 But when Wizard Forbes used the pair of Snow-topped Pineapples 02 (the first version was the ordinary Overlord transformed into a pair of Snow-topped Pineapples), he still noticed some strangeness in its use.

 But this is an irrelevant matter.

 Because all those who use wizard shoes are wizards, for wizards, learning how to operate them is precisely the lowest cost.

  No wizard can even figure out a pair of wizard shoes.

 Wizard Forbes fell to the ground, and the snow-topped pineapple turned into two fireflies and fell into his hands. He looked at Wizard Luca with a serious expression and said, "If I say that these wizard shoes not only don't look like the work of a novice, but instead look like the work of a master, would you believe it?"

Wizard Luca raised his eyebrows. "Not to mention that this is just a new brand, but the biggest difference between magic plant wizard shoes and magic weapon wizard shoes is probably energy and technology. The technology of magic weapon wizard shoes is mature, and the most important thing is the energy issue."

"Magic weapons can have a variety of energy-based alchemical equipment, while magic plants need to use the roots or leaves of plants and other organs to absorb and transform specific external magic tides and various energies."

"Among movable objects, magic plants of the same volume cannot achieve the same energy output and durability as the magic weapon wizard shoes."

  "This is the key point."

  "You and I, as botanical wizards, should know this. Among miniaturized high-speed moving objects, plants have always been the weak side."

 Wizard Forbes shook his head and said: "This pair of magic plant wizard shoes has a performance that is not inferior to the top-level magic weapon wizard shoes of Yunze Wetland."

Wizard Luca lowered his head and pondered. "Then this is strange. Look at how small this pair of pineapples are, they look like the size of a palm. You said that a magic plant of this size can perform that kind of performance, which I can't understand. How does he solve the energy conversion efficiency and energy absorption efficiency?"

    If that's the case, I think , there is likely to be more than one special energy-locking structure in this magic plant."

  Luca Wizard kept thinking about the unique energy-locking structures of various magic plants, and then wanted to use his magical knowledge in the field of breeding to combine a method to create the pair of magic plant wizard shoes in front of him.

 But in the end, he shook his head slightly.

 Because his reason told him... he couldn't do it.

As far as the first-level magic plant he knew was concerned, without imaginary roots, it would never be able to absorb and transform magic energy efficiently. However, if imaginary roots were added to the magic plant, because of the characteristics of the imaginary roots, the magic plant would inevitably develop into the second-level stage.

 The cost and the user's magical power threshold will go up, and this is not the first level wizard shoe they want to test.

 Furthermore, even if imaginary roots are added, the magic plant cannot move so fast because of the characteristics of the imaginary roots.

  This is the Achilles’ heel of the former pure magic plant wizard shoes.

 Wizard Luca looked at the pair of wizard shoes handed over by Wizard Forbes. As a breeder, his curiosity prompted him to involuntarily want to explore how Locke did this.

 But his goal was blocked by the triple magic leaves on this pair of wizard shoes.

  "Triple magic leaves? He has got all these things. It seems that he has already settled them."

  Wizard Forbes smiled and said: "This Augustinian wizard should have expected that a wizard would want to crack the mystery of his pair of magic plant wizard shoes. "But I advise you not to delve into this matter. Behind him is the Academic Committee, the Catherine Throne."

"Do you dare to crack the technology of Lord Throne's students before he publishes an article?"

  Luca wizard coughed. "The triple magic leaf is a mature, crack-resistant precious plant factor. Since he put this precious plant factor into the pineapple magic plant, it will be difficult to crack it in a short to medium time, unless he takes the initiative to announce the relevant plant essence and plant factors."

  "However, I am still very curious about how he was able to strengthen the magic plant to this point."

 Luca Wizard put his hands behind his back and said, "The future life is terrible."

 Luca Wizard himself also put on this pair of wizard shoes and conducted a test, confirming that this pair of first-level wizard shoes indeed has the ability to catch up with top first-level wizard shoes.

Wizard Luca said: "Absolutely. The Pineapple Wizard Shoes are not his original creation. The young first-level breeder who provoked the Magic Weavers, was plotted by the Magic Weavers, and died on the plane conquest was the main originator of the idea of the Pineapple Wizard Shoes."

"But before he could become a second-level wizard and continue to study on the path of the Pineapple Wizard Shoes, he died inexplicably."

"However, he is the only wizard who can strengthen the air pineapple wizard shoes to the present level. He has already gone very deep into the field of pineapple magic plant. I really don't know what kind of energy locking structure he has mastered, which can actually improve the energy absorption efficiency of this air pineapple magic plant so much."

Wizard Luca sighed: "He is worthy of being a master of the wizard of the throne."

 Wizard Forbes coughed. "Luka, you and I are both of this age. You should also know that it is better to say less about sensitive content. We have no evidence."

   "Would the Demon Weaver kill a breeder just because he is likely to advance to the second level wizard and his main research direction is on the air pineapple magic plant wizard shoes? This kind of thing cannot be said casually without evidence."

   "What's more, before Locke Augustine, no one would have thought that this was a promising path."

   Luca Wizard nodded. "That's true."

 The two continued to test, and they tested about twenty-one people. The famous Wizard Shoe Shop Alliance in Yunze Wetland all sent submission samples this time.

 But after discussion, the two unanimously decided that there were only three final draft candidates, namely the Shadow Dancer version 86 of Meloqui's Magic Steps, the Radiant Ranger version 01 of Solas Barefoot (30k), and the Snow-topped Pineapple version 02 of Augustus Wizard Shoes.

  The two began to discuss. "Twenty-one submissions, including the works of our own people, have been tested and scored. As testers, we can also provide a more subjective final evaluation opinion."

  "After testing, among the 21 wizard shoes, There are only two old top wizard shoe brands and the dark horse brand Augustus Wizard Shoes, which are of the same level.” Forbes Wizard thought: “I think we should choose the Augustus Wizard Shoe Brand as our final evaluation.”

"As for the final result, it will be discussed by the war committee at another meeting."

 Hich Although according to convention, the final evaluation opinions of the two of them basically determine which design plan to adopt.

  Wizard Luca hesitated. "From an emotional point of view, it is better for us to choose Augustus Wizard shoes. But from a rational point of view, I think we need to consider it carefully."

 "Does the newly established wizard shoe brand really have such high production capacity?"

 "This is just a sample. If anything happens, we will be fined."

 Wizard Forbes said: "He can cooperate with Alsace. Since he has a stable cooperation with Alsace, we don't have to worry about his production capacity."

  Luca wizard nodded. "Yes. But there is another problem. There is a certain risk for both of us to use this brand of wizard shoes that no one has heard of before." If the performance is poor, we may encounter some troubles."

Wizard Forbes suddenly said: "By the way, what are the prices of the Radiant Ranger and Shadow Dancer? What is the price of the Snowtop Pineapple?"

Wizard Luca quickly flipped through the information. "Hmm... the price of the Radiant Ranger is 350,000 pairs, and the price of the Shadow Dancer is 300,000 pairs."

   "Hmm? The price of Meloqui's Magic Steps is so low this year?"

Wizard Forbes sneered. "The price of a pair of wizard shoes is almost three times higher than that of magic weapons of the same level. Customized magic weapons and luxury magic weapons can easily cost 500,000, but these are mass-produced wizard shoes."

  "It's actually so expensive. Now it's only 50,000 cheaper. Do I have to thank them? What's the price of the Augustus wizard shoes?"

  Wizard Luca flipped through the information, then blinked, a little in disbelief. "Fifty...fifty thousand?"

 "The other party only quoted 50,000."

 "No, this price is too low."

 Wizard Luca rubbed his eyes. "The average price of wizard shoes is 2-5 times that of magic weapons of the same level. This is the first time I have seen wizard shoes sold for less than the average price of magic weapons."

"Fifty thousand..."

 Forbes Wizard looked at the first three products of the Augustus Wizard shoe brand, "Their previous products were all 20,000 magic stones per pair. For themselves, this 50,000 magic stone pair has doubled the selling price."

Forbes Wizard said: "I am in this Augustus Wizard shoe store. The brand shows care, earnestness, enthusiasm, and professionalism. It has the professionalism of an old wizard shoe brand and the humility of a new brand. "I see the future in it. Since the unit price is so low, we have no pressure to choose it. Even if something happens, we can't be blamed in the future. After all, the price of this thing is very low."

 Wizard Luca thought for a moment, hesitated, and then said: "That's true. Then in our final selection in the field of wizard shoes, let's write down these Augustus wizard shoes."

 Wizard Luca was still a little dazed when he said this.

 Even Jinmianshan cannot be without seniority tendencies. After all, store alliances or brands with long experience will definitely perform more stably, cooperate more maturely, and have fewer mistakes.

 Hence, in all past reviews, they rarely chose the work of such a pure newcomer.

  Whenever the works submitted by the magic weavers can be more cost-effective, even if they are only half as high as they are now, he will immediately reject the choice of Wizard Forbes.

  After all, for war equipment, the most important thing is that everything is stable.

 It's just that the magic weavers have gone too far recently.

 Perhaps, it is indeed time to give newcomers a chance.

 After the two discussed again and determined that Locke's wizard shoes had good anti-theft capabilities, they dared to write their own decision in the opinion letter.

 I will recommend to the War Committee to purchase the Augustus Wizard Shoe Brand Snow Peak Pineapple 02 Edition.

  The war between the demon world is a war between Jinmian Mountain and the Twin Demon Realms under certain conditions. Therefore, there are certain rules for the equipment purchased by Jinmian Mountain.

  Don't purchase at will.

 In war, magic items of tactical level and above cannot be used.

  Only single-level items can be used.

  If the intensity of the war is not controlled, the continuous use of strategic weapons by Golden Mian Mountain and the Twin Demon Realm could easily lead to a real fight between the two wizarding forces, which would be of no benefit to both parties.

 Once the scale of the war gets out of control, it may turn into a terrible thing that destroys everyone. Even Yunze Wetland and the Twin Demon Realm may be destroyed in the war.

 Wizard Forbes wrote his opinion and immediately smiled: "I hope this incident can teach those magic weavers a lesson, so that they can have some pressure and know how to reflect. After all, Locke's identity is very important, and it cannot disappear so easily."

  Luca wizard shook his head slightly. "Do you know it's hard to get back? The alliance between these two shops is really too big. Not only the alliance between these two shops, but also the entire magic weaver industry has been rotten to the core. Even if some wizards decide to draw a clear line with them, they will often only be persecuted by those who are complicit."

"These are not the most critical. The most critical thing is the high-level magic weavers in the Rose Council."

  "If the source of water is smelly, how can this river not stink?"

  "Forget it. Now that young man should be able to make an astonishing amount of money at once. I wonder if his wizard shoe brand can really continue."

  ...

  Golden Mian Mountain, Dragon Blood Gathering, Witch's Kitchen, Private Room No. 1.

In the private room, Wizard Smith was wearing a white wizard robe with three white bird feathers dotted on his shoulders. He looked at Locke with a gentle smile and said, "Brother Augustine, we finally meet. I have been ordered by the wizard of the third ring of the Storm Tower, and your golden... Mianshan several times. "

  "Oh, this is the wizard leader of the Thunder Demon Society."

  "You should have met." Wizard Smith stood up, looking not arrogant and domineering at all, completely different from Antoine.

  He is gentle and elegant, as if he were an ordinary young teacher. His clothes are not luxurious, but he looks a bit ordinary.

 Locke sat down in front of him and found that the wizard leader of the Thunder Demon Society was looking at him with hatred.

A flash of malice flashed in Locke's eyes, and he sat down in front of the two of them as if nothing had happened. He then directly took away a cup of wizard wine in front of Wizard Smith, and then poured it into the empty cup in front of him.

  He picked up the wine glass and smelled it. "Peach Blossom Drunk?"

 "This kind of wizard wine can make even a wizard in the crystallization stage drunk. It's expensive. I remember a pot costs five thousand magic stones."

 "Smith, you are willing to bear it."

 Locke drank it directly. As a magician, he was not afraid that someone would poison himself.

 Wizard Smith's pupils suddenly narrowed slightly.

 And the Thunder Demon Society wizard looked at Locke with a look of hatred, but there was a trace of fear in his eyes.

 For some reason, he felt a chill on his back. He was obviously still alive, but he seemed to have entered the stage of death.

 Locke looked at Wizard Smith and said, "Tell me, what do you want from me?"

 Wizard Smith seemed to be caught off guard by Locke's behavior. He smiled and said, "Locke. People with status like you and me can naturally communicate easily."

 "I asked this wizard to take a trip to the River of the Abyss for me a few days ago, hoping to obtain a special resource."

  "It's a pity that the Thunder Demon Society seemed to have a conflict with you, so almost the whole army was wiped out."

  Locke said: "It has nothing to do with me. I didn't kill the person. If you think there is a problem, you can go to the Holy Master Tribunal or the Ethics and Moral Review Committee."

 Wizard Smith frowned. He had been there before, but if there was a possibility of winning, there was no need to talk nonsense here.
It's better to think about who put you in this desperate situation. That's your real enemy. Stop talking nonsense, do you have anything to trade? If not, I will leave. "

The wizard leader of the Thunder Demon Society suddenly fell into thought and glanced at Wizard Smith secretly.

 Wizard Smith frowned. He felt like a soft knife met a hard nail. The wizard in front of him didn't seem to accept the move at all.

 The fake smile on Wizard Smith's face disappeared. "I see, it may be easier to communicate if we open the skylight and speak openly. Let me ask you, did you get the Apocalypse Wizard Stone in the wizard's ruins?"

Locke said: "What is that?"

Wizard Smith glanced at Locke in confusion. "Then you didn't go for the Apocalypse Wizard Stone. Then what did you go for?"

  "It is a special natural wizard stone that fell from the outer world to the wizarding world through meteors. We at the Storm Tower had previously observed that an Apocalypse Wizard Stone fell into the ruins, as did the people sent by the Rose Council."

 Wizard Smith had a look of ridicule towards the Parliament of Roses on his face. "That gang of soft-footed shrimps from the Rose Council personally sent people into the ruins this time, and they ended up with almost the entire army being wiped out. I have to say, you were very ruthless."

 Locke said: "Again, these things have nothing to do with me."

 Wizard Smith obviously didn't believe it.

 His eyes were strange, and he seemed to fully believe that a small project team of the Thunder Demon Society and the Council of Roses, affiliated wizard organizations of the Storm Tower, would be almost completely wiped out in the ruins of the mausoleum, entirely because of Locke's calculations.

 Either it is the calculation of another female holy master.

But the female holy priest went into retreat as soon as she came back and has disappeared. After discussion, they determined that the highest status among the four was Locke Augustine.

 The two minor characters in the Qionghua Enclave are irrelevant.

 The whole action is more like three wizards accompanying the crown prince of Golden Mian Mountain, just like his position in the Storm Tower.

 Hence, Wizard Smith preconceived the idea that the Apocalypse Wizard Stone was most likely in Locke's hands at this moment.

 (End of this chapter)