[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-wizard-starting-with-synthesized-gems":3,"chapter-wizard-starting-with-synthesized-gems-wizard-starting-with-synthesized-gems-chapter-141":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1265561,1693,"Chapter 141: Pierre's Suggestion","wizard-starting-with-synthesized-gems-chapter-141",141,"\u003Cp>Locke comforted Pierre and Lorne with a few words, warning them not to casually take on such missions in the future, then hurriedly left with the sealed vampire Howard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pierre and Lorne finally breathed a sigh of relief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before leaving, Locke had specifically asked second-class wizard apprentice Gabby to return with the two of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching Locke's departing figure, Lorne sighed, \"Thank goodness we have a friend like Locke, otherwise we'd be dead this time. I should have known better than to take that mission, this money isn't easy to earn.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pierre was also frightened in retrospect. Just thinking about the curse from earlier made his heart race. \"Yeah. I'm not going out anymore.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'll just stick with Locke's pharmaceutical laboratory. One hundred magic stones per month is already enough to cover the magical resources I need.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pierre looked ashamed. \"I was too greedy, nearly getting myself killed for more magical resources.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lorne looked at him enviously. \"You're still lucky, having a special constitution that lets you earn so much money so easily.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Not like me...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pierre's eyes flickered, he was completely clear-headed now. \"Memory Ointment is fundamentally meant for second-class wizard apprentices and above.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This stuff has virtually no side effects.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If Locke hadn't happened to live with us during his third-class wizard apprentice period, how could I possibly have gotten such a good opportunity?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Such good opportunities must have been reserved by those with connections long ago.\" Pierre said, \"I heard from Senior Terry that Locke is even tutoring a formal wizard's son recently.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The current Locke is different from before. His social relationships are much more complex now, we can never go back to how things were.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pierre advised Lorne, \"Lorne, I'm a local from the southeastern quadrant, so I understand this aspect better than you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That Locke could live with us during his wizard seed period was our luck. So I suggest you make good use of this luck, you could also be an experimental subject for him.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lorne looked stunned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pierre seemed to take it for granted, saying, \"I've long heard that pharmaceutical laboratories have enormous demand for experimental subjects. In the future, Locke will continue recruiting third-class wizard apprentices for experimental data.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I think since we have this relationship, we should use it to become experimental subjects for Locke. As you saw today, it's much safer than taking missions outside.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And the earning efficiency is fast too.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lorne felt something was strange about this, showing a puzzled expression. \"Um... what you're saying seems right. It's just I never thought my wizard path would take such an odd direction.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pierre spread his hands and laughed, \"Look, I'm about to become a second-class wizard apprentice soon. If you don't hurry up, among the three of us, you'll be the only third-class wizard apprentice left.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We all enrolled together and took our first public class together.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pierre continued, \"Senior Terry said that after completing three months of experimental data on me, their personal pharmaceutical laboratory will also conduct a long-term tracking experiment using Memory Ointment.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"About a year in duration.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I suggest you seize the opportunity to sign up.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After thinking for a moment, Lorne's expression showed struggle, hesitation, and deep thought, before he nodded seriously. \"Pierre, I think you're right.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gabby, who had listened to their entire conversation, glanced at the two who were enthusiastically planning to use connections to sign up as experimental subjects, feeling somewhat speechless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Gabby thought, 'Senior Locke already has his own personal pharmaceutical laboratory? And he's developing new potion formulas too?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'That's so fast.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Memory Ointment... from what these two third-class wizard apprentices are saying, it seems very effective and would be enormously helpful to me, with minimal side effects.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'I'm tempted too.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'I wonder when Senior Locke will sell it publicly, listing it for sale in the magic shops at Chimera Trading Market. I wonder how long I'll have to wait.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shapeshifters needed powerful memory and high compatibility with ether elements (shape elements).\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason they needed such high memory capacity was that shapeshifters needed to understand and analyze a magical creature before they could transform themselves into that magical creature.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, shapeshifters' demand for memory far exceeded other categories of wizard apprentices.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There had been shapeshifter learners who, because they misremembered a magical creature's anatomical structure, experienced magical backlash and were left with permanent deformities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was just one of many magical backlashes that could occur to shapeshifters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So hearing Lorne and Pierre discuss that Locke had actually developed a rare potion that could enhance memory, even Gabby was moved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gabby glanced at the two, feeling somewhat strange. 'Actually, there's another way to use the Memory Ointment they're talking about early, I could also sign up to be an experimental subject.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'But generally, pharmaceutical laboratories only recruit third-class wizard apprentices as experimental subjects. I'm already a second-class wizard apprentice. Even if I wanted to apply, I'd probably be rejected.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Especially for such an already mature potion.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the laboratory within Locke's three-room suite, inside the alchemy cottage, this simple laboratory had some basic experimental equipment, including a set of [Restraint Cages] manufactured by the Enchantment School.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These were the cages for confining magical creatures and slaves, Witch Sophia's magical creature breeding room and the slave inn had many such cages.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The magical power of creatures imprisoned within would be maximally suppressed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Howard, severely wounded and purified by Minor Viridian Potion, was imprisoned within and naturally had no possibility of escape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such restraint cages could even confine powerful high-level magical creatures like dryads.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Locke used the simple alchemical experimental equipment in the laboratory, such as illumination lamps enchanted with lighting spells, to begin testing Howard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Due to his undead body, Howard had already recovered from some injuries, especially his throat wound had healed considerably.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Howard in the restraint cage began continuous screaming. This black wizard gripped the iron bars and started cursing Locke incessantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He cursed from Locke himself to Locke's parents and ancestors but before long, he began begging for mercy, crying and claiming he was also forced to become a black wizard. Though he had killed many people, he pleaded for a second chance to reform.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon after, seeing that Locke continued ignoring him, Howard revealed his true nature, saying that when he escaped, he would personally snap Locke's neck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Locke ignored him throughout, simply using different basic alchemical experimental equipment to conduct various tests on him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This equipment was all basic laboratory fixtures, items the academy had included when allocating this laboratory to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was considered a first-class wizard apprentice benefit. The individual items weren't expensive, but there were many miscellaneous pieces of common laboratory equipment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a series of tests, Locke produced a test report.\u003C\u002Fp>",1122,"2026-06-05T16:22:57.671Z",1,"novelbin.me","434ca2d9867642d5c6971e3602cfd2c030dfdb33c04a06a0e1c773b524b495d2","wizard-starting-with-synthesized-gems-chapter-142","wizard-starting-with-synthesized-gems-chapter-140",578,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fwizard-starting-with-synthesized-gems-cover.jpg"]