Chapter 124

Chapter 124: Becoming Famous

Chapter 124: His reputation began to grow. After

purchasing a bunch of magic resources, Locke left the Chimera Market with satisfaction.

When I returned to my home, it was already dark.

But Witch Sophia sent one of her elf servants to wait at her door and deliver a letter to her.

Locke took the letter, ignored the elf servant who saluted him, opened the letter, and found that it was a reply from the Breeder Competition Department of the White Wizard Association.

“Huh? I did pass the preliminaries after all.”

Locke saw the standard letter written to him by the competition department committee, which congratulated him on being selected for the finals and invited him to attach his second magical plant work and the document report of the second magical plant work to continue to participate in the finals of the White Wizard Association Breeder Competition.

“Only the top three hundred entries from the entire Southeast Corner region will advance to the finals,” Locke said. “This is a long-standing competition organized by the Southeast Corner White Wizarding Society. Basically, all qualified breeder assistants will participate to compete for resources.”

“So, the entries for the preliminary rounds will be in the thousands.”

“But my work stood out among thousands of works.” Locke looked at the ranking list of less than 300 people that was sent with the letter, and an inexplicable emotion appeared in his eyes.

If before, he was just gradually exploring the wizarding world of the Southeast Corner in Lilith’s cabin, but now he finally made his mark in this area, participated in the Southeast Corner competition for the first time, and won.

Locke looked at the ranking list and began to search for his own work’s ranking. “My work ranks… fifth!”

“My work actually ranked fifth.”

Locke looked at the brief reason for the award on the ranking list – “Excellent work, perfectly enhancing the power of Palm Fire Lotus. The committee unanimously agreed that if Palm Fire Lotus were not relatively simple, the ranking could even be higher by two places.”

Locke’s eyes were subtle and he was a little excited. His work not only won the preliminaries in the entire southeast corner, but also achieved a good result of fifth place in the preliminaries.

Overwhelmed all the breeders in the southeast corner.

“But what kind of perverts are those in the top four? They actually rank higher than my Crystal Palm Fire Lotus.”

Locke quickly scanned the top four and found that the authors of the top four works were all first-class wizard apprentices, and they were not newly promoted first-class wizard apprentices.

They have participated in this competition more than a dozen times, hoping that this kind of competition will win them magical resources.

Therefore, they are familiar with the scoring criteria of the competition and are experienced.

The first four works do look better than his own Crystal Palm Fire Lotus.

“There are still many expert breeders in the southeastern region, so I still can’t be careless.” Locke pondered, “I heard from Teacher Sophia that when everyone participates in the preliminaries of the White Wizard Association Breeder Competition, they will definitely not give their full strength.”

“Because the purpose of the preliminaries is just to get into the finals.”

“Therefore, many breeders with strong abilities will not give their all in the qualifiers. Many who can usually make it into the top 100 in the qualifiers may not even make it into the top 100 in the finals.”

“So, I have to keep working hard.” Locke clenched his fist. “In the preliminaries, there were people ranked higher than me. In the finals, there will be more and more masters.”

“It seems I must put in some effort in this area, otherwise I may not be able to enter the top 50 and receive a large amount of magic stone rewards.”

Locke’s purpose in participating in this competition from the very beginning was to obtain a large amount of magical resources, and other purposes were incidental.

Of course, if I can win a good result in this competition, it will be much easier for me to apply for various things from the college in the future.

Locke’s eyes became serious and he walked back to his room to meditate tonight.

Every big leap forward is made up of small improvements, accumulated bit by bit.

…

Lilith Hut, in a mortal alley in a port city, in an inconspicuous semi-basement with only one window above the ground.

Most of the remaining room is below ground level.

This is the house where the poor among mortals live.

When it rains, rainwater will flow back into this semi-basement. When the rain recedes, the corners of the semi-basement house will become moldy and emit a pungent odor. Ordinary people cannot live here at all.

Even in such a dirty living environment, there are ten dark wizards in black wizard robes, sneaking around and discussing their private plans.

The eyes of these dark wizards emit red blood-red light in the dim environment, and their terrifying fangs are revealed when they speak. These dark wizards are all from the Blood Curse Court, and have been transformed into vampires by accepting the blood curse.

“Damn those White Wizards! Their combat power isn’t strong, but they’re quite cunning. Their weather wizards semi-permanently altered the climate in the heart of our Blood Curse Tribunal, damaging our school’s resource reserves.”

“Their foolish potions have also contaminated our water sources and land. If mortals eat food contaminated by these potions, their constitutions will become resistant to our curse, which will become very troublesome.”

Vampire Howard, in the darkness, twisted his neck as if there was something wrong with his neck, twisting it constantly, and he was a little neurotic.

“The academy’s leadership has forbidden us from casually casting curses on the mortals within our territory. During this period, casting curses on them will easily cause them to develop targeted resistance to curses.”

“The academy’s leadership is worried that this is a massive experiment conducted by those hypocritical white wizards. They are using the mortals in our territory to test and develop physical and bloodlines that specifically create resistance to the curse that already exists in our school…”

“White wizards are always so hypocritical!”

“We want revenge, we want to kill.” Howard’s eyes flashed with a mixture of bloodlust and neurotic anger. “The academy’s leadership has issued a top-level revenge order, ordering us apprentices lurking in Lilith’s Hut to begin a targeted hunt against the breeders and potion masters there.”

“This is a response to the provocative actions of the group selling d*rugs.”

“Didn’t those pseudo-saints recently release the Breeder Competition Qualifier Rankings? The academy’s leadership asked us to conduct a targeted hunt based on the rankings on that list.”

“Hit them hard and make them feel fear!”

“Hunting according to that list is absolutely correct,” Howard said nervously. “If we can kill even one of their geniuses, the academy will reward us with a massive amount of magical resources.”

“Don’t say the academy didn’t give you a chance before. Now the opportunity is right in front of you. If you want to become a first-class wizard apprentice, or even a formal wizard, with our limited qualifications, how can we not work hard?!”

Most of the dark wizards present were only at level 1 and 2.

Only Howard’s qualification is level 3.

Unlike the white wizarding society which pursues geniuses to the extreme, the black wizarding society also pursues geniuses, but the standards are relatively low.

That’s because in the dark wizarding society, resources are the most important thing.

The dark wizard society is not like the white wizard society, which has a relatively reasonable allocation of resources. If geniuses have no resources, their development will be very limited.

More importantly, dark wizards have a lot of ways to take shortcuts. The biggest motivation for many people to learn black magic is that they are destined to be mediocre for the rest of their lives if they learn white magic. Only by learning the extremely radical black magic can they make a breakthrough.

Although these hopes are largely self-deception.

The other wizard apprentices from the Blood Curse Court looked at each other. When they heard that the academy would give them huge rewards, their eyes were full of joy. Of course, they wanted to get these huge rewards.

But when they thought about the current situation, they became a little scared.

“But Howard, with just us second-class and third-class wizard apprentices, there’s only so much we can do as undercover agents here.”

“Those useless white wizards have been hiding in their greenhouse-like homes. They never come out…”

“We don’t have enough strength…”

A powerful demonic pressure erupted from the vampire Howard and weighed down every apprentice of the Blood Curse Court present.

The wizard apprentices of the Blood Curse Court were all horrified.

“Howard, you have become a first-class wizard apprentice? You made the breakthrough here? How is that possible?”

“Oh my God, even though you have a third-level qualification, you are only 25 years old. It’s impossible for you to become a first-level wizard apprentice so quickly. Moreover, half a year ago, you were still a second-level wizard apprentice!”

A second-class wizard apprentice vampire said with intense jealousy and greed in his eyes: “How did you do it? Can you tell me this method as well?”

Vampire Howard smirked. “That’s what I was going to say.”

“I was able to become a first-class wizard apprentice because the academy’s top management conducted an experiment on me. Also, the academy will provide us with special support. This is because the academy has banned mortals in the territory from eating food, which has caused a large-scale famine.”

“The academy’s leadership is simply taking advantage of this famine to create a wave of undead creatures. Soon, the undead wave will split into three waves and attack the territory of Lilith’s cabin. Chaos will then reign.”

“And chaos is the perfect opportunity for us in the Blood Curse Tribunal to fish in troubled waters.”

“As for the matter of the first-class wizard apprentice…” Howard chuckled. “The academy’s leadership told me to disclose this to you all.”

The nine vampires from the Blood Curse Court suddenly had eyes filled with astonishing greed and jealousy towards Howard.

They all craned their necks, ready to listen to Howard’s secret of how he could become a first-class wizard apprentice in the territory of Lilith’s Hut.

(End of this chapter)