30: Chapter 30 The Alchemy School and the Magic Stone

When refining magic potions, it is best to forge a [magic cauldron], and ores of suitable quality have experienced a shortage due to the abnormal phenomena in "Boulder Town".

Coupled with the fact that Ross might spend a considerable amount of time using this [magic cauldron], it should not be easily scrapped, at least not during the apprentice stage.

The ores used for its creation are best sought out by Ross personally.

After all, if one were to directly purchase a finished [magic cauldron], regardless of its quality, the price of one hundred magic stones would be unavoidable.

The academy's market has always maintained a very stable state, and it won't sell things cheaply to you just because you are a newcomer.

In many civilized worlds, the survival of a civilization relies on harvesting successive generations of newcomers to continue.

Although the Wizard World is a transcendent civilization, it is ultimately inevitable for such a phenomenon to appear.

It's just that in a world where supreme power belongs to oneself, the descendants of the strong might have some advantages.

But for some wizards who have spent long, arduous years in the river of time, they no longer pay attention to their descendants, and even let them fend for themselves.

Therefore, under the rules established by some powerful beings, the Wizard World has always been in a state where transcendent forces flourish, while preventing the emergence of wizards who have lost their sanity.

The high prices of items like magic props and [Spell Model]s reflect this exact role.

Only the power obtained after a wizard exhausts all their effort and methods will be cherished.

On the other hand, perhaps it is to cultivate more comprehensive new-generation wizards.

As long as you can apply all wizard knowledge and abilities, you can completely develop slowly and become an all-around wizard.

This is akin to an ideological brand imprinted during the apprentice stage.

Through Ross's understanding, some wizards from the [Alchemy Faction] in the academy are adept at forging various alchemy items.

Magic props like the [magic cauldron] are naturally a breeze, but the knowledge Ross has learned so far does not yet involve alchemy, and this faction is also a money-burning field.

After many [Wizard Apprentice]s step into this trade, their strength becomes closely related to the quantity and power of the alchemy items they possess.

Some fledgling apprentices often misjudge the changes in battle and blindly throw out all these alchemy items during a fight.

The effect is of course explosive enough, but the magic stones melt away like butter.

Therefore, before some alchemy apprentices are promoted to [Official Wizard]s and have their own alchemy huts, they will accept some commissions, such as the refining of a [magic cauldron].

If Ross can provide the materials when customizing a [magic cauldron]...

For those [Wizard Apprentice]s of the [Alchemy Faction], Ross can simply pay a processing fee, which can save a lot of magic stones.

It can also ensure that the materials are not of too poor quality; after all, since there is an opportunity to go to the void to execute commissions, there will naturally be time to search for some high-quality ores.

This kind of resource-based town specially provides ores for the academy.

If abnormal problems hadn't occurred, as the main economic source for the local mortals, it would be impossible to let wizards go and investigate at will.

Although the strong can make the rules in the [Wizard World], an apprentice like Ross who is not even an [Official Wizard]...

still lacks that kind of domineering aura, though mainly it is because the Civilization Council stipulates the separation between mortals and wizards, and will not allow wizards to exploit mortals at will.

This time is also a rare opportunity.

Since Ross has accepted the "commission of Boulder Town", time must still be set aside to make some necessary preparations.

Field operations are not safe enough, especially some commissions issued by the academy.

Often, it is due to insufficient information that [Wizard Apprentice]s are needed to investigate or carry out missions.

If one suffers losses while executing a mission due to a lack of caution, the losses would outweigh the gains.

[Boulder Town] is at a certain distance from [Elius Wizard Academy], and the mere thought of the exhausting travel gives Ross a headache.

These days in the wizard academy, although there are physically and mentally demanding matters like planting magic plants and learning wizard common knowledge, it is still much easier than field work.

This is also Ross's first time cooperating with the academy's [Wizard Apprentice]s to execute a mission. Communicating with people is also a tiring matter.

[Elius Wizard Academy] is a regular wizard organization governed by the Civilization Council of the [Wizard World], so this wizard organization complies with the rules in all aspects.

It is not like the barbaric era, when some apprentices within the same organization would even engage in mutual slaughter.

During that period, even organizations formed by fairly peaceful white wizards might have dark places that never saw the light of day.

Even in the present era, some ancient vices from wizards continue to be passed down, only becoming more compliant and more covert.

Therefore, before this trip, Ross still prepared some countermeasures.

Now, as a Level 3 [Wizard Apprentice], although Ross's strength is still some distance away from a [Level 2 Wizard Apprentice]...

but his spiritual power is not low, allowing him to cast mastered spells more persistently.

After all, the [Spell Model]s mastered by Ross are quite numerous.

At least in this stage of a Level 3 [Wizard Apprentice], for most [Wizard Apprentice]s, being able to learn a [Hand of Magic] is already a welfare provided by the academy.

To master additional [Spell Model]s, one must at least complete an academy course to obtain five points, or twenty times the magic stones.

Some affluent apprentices might have a few more magic stones, but at most it just amounts to one more spell.

In fact, many [Wizard Apprentice]s do not learn too many [Spell Model]s before promoting to a [Level 2 Wizard Apprentice].

Although learning [Spell Model]s can enrich one's comprehensive abilities and slightly enhance spiritual power strength...

compared to that slight increase in spiritual power, the magic stones paid by the apprentices are far more.

Many [Wizard Apprentice]s have privately complained about the expensiveness of [Spell Model]s.

After all, for apprentices, they are still far from having as many channels and powers to earn magic stones as [Official Wizard]s.

Magic stones are not merely equivalents for price exchange among wizards; the original purpose of magic stones is to exist as something that helps wizards enhance their power.

The magic power contained in a single magic stone can keep a gorgeous magic-illuminated lamp shining brightly for 20 years.

In some places deficient in magic power, or in outer plane worlds, there might even be mana-free zones.

Magic stones that can replenish magic power also become scarce, so magic stones also have significant strategic utility.

It's just that in the [Wizard World], where magic power is abundant, the role of magic stones cannot be seen.

But there is no doubt that no wizard thinks they have too many magic stones, nor will any wizard waste even a single magic stone.

This is probably also related to hard-earned magic stones purchased for promotion resources during the apprentice stage.

It seems that every civilization will give its infancy stage the minimum amount of resources, avoiding the emergence of extravagant and wasteful groups within the civilization to the greatest extent.

This explains why the [Wizard World], despite already having the strength to conquer quite a few planes and worlds, still steadily marches forward in development.