Chapter 255

Chapter 255 Champion, Champion!

Chapter 255: Champion, Champion!

Locke returned to his residence and sat on the sofa. He first opened the ranking list of the academy’s custom magic plant competition. “The third place is the Gear Iron Thorn from Qingmiao Studio. This Gear Iron Thorn has increased its automatic response speed by 0.3 seconds, greatly increasing its usefulness in battle.”

“Indeed, the Geared Ironthorn is the most mature apprentice-level defensive magic plant in Lilith’s cottage. In terms of non-defensive curse magic, even the Eye of Perseus lichen cannot compare to the Geared Ironthorn.”

“But such a magical plant can only rank third.”

“It was beyond my expectation.”

Locke looked at the second-ranked list. “Second place goes to Gina Heike, a breeder from Tengyu Studio. She leads a team of six first-class wizard apprentices and developed the [Inverted Curse Snake Willow].”

Locke was stunned for a moment, then he remembered that the wizard Gina should be a student of the wizard Harun Vera.

This project also received the cooperation of a large wizarding organization outside Lilith’s Cottage, or in other words, some of the original experimental data of this project itself was provided to Gina by the large wizarding organization Four Seasons Garden.

The background of this off-campus cooperation project was briefly introduced in the introduction to the list of winners.

It was Harlan Vera who, relying on his influence, applied to the White Wizard Association on the premise of the Wizarding War, asking the Four Seasons Garden to provide some advantageous projects for joint research and discussion with the students of Lilith Hut, in order to demonstrate the White Wizard Association’s support for Lilith Hut.

Of course, Harun Vera provided such a good opportunity to his students.

Therefore, this time the witch named Gina emerged as a dark horse and actually surpassed Qingmiao Studio, which had been the champion of similar competitions for many years, in the customized magic plant competition.

Locke read about the specific effects of the Cursed Snake Willow and the general idea of how to cultivate it. “The Cursed Snake Willow can transfer the curse on itself to the snake willow itself, and that part of the snake willow will quickly wither. Once it withers, the curse effect disappears.”

“Or rather, it forced all the effects of the curse to wither a portion of the Cursed Serpent Willow.” Locke said, “Well, this is one of the traditional strengths of Four Seasons Garden.”

“They are indeed good at cultivating defensive magic plants of the death-substitute type.”

“Is it cultivated using the Whomping Willow and Black Shield Thorn, using the grafting and magic resonance cultivation methods? No wonder it surpassed the Gear Iron Thorn and ranked second this time.”

Locke saw that the judges of the competition committee believed that the actual combat effect of the Cursed Serpent Willow and the past performance of the original magical plant Black Shield Thorn were both good.

Comparable to the Geared Iron Thorn.

But the Cursed Snake Willow wins in terms of innovation.

This is exactly what Qingmiao Studio and Gear Iron Thorn lack.

Locke smiled. Apparently, some judges of the competition committee were dissatisfied with Qingmiao Studio for repeatedly using the same magic plant to earn prize money in the competition. Therefore, they deliberately ridiculed Qingmiao Studio in their evaluation, hoping that Qingmiao Studio would change its practices.

But I’m afraid this won’t have any effect.

Locke looked at the number one on the leaderboard, his pupils shrinking slightly. “First place, Perseus’ Eye Lichen Shield.”

“Developer—Individual, Breeder Locke Augustine.”

Although Locke had expected this, he was still a little excited when he saw that his work had defeated all the breeders in the academy and won the championship.

After Locke regained his composure, he looked at the comments.

These comments often reflect the judges’ attitudes and the key to why you won the championship.

Locke looked at the comments on his work and saw the following: “In fact, all of us judges find it hard to believe that this work is the work of an individual breeder, rather than from any traditional studio in Lilith’s Hut.”

“This defensive magic plant has performed very well in actual combat tests. Its ability to defend against curse magic can’t be called excellent, but it can be said to be perfect. It even has some ability to defend against a first-level blood curse.”

This defensive magic plant is truly perfect, both in terms of innovation and functionality. The original version wasn’t a traditional defensive magic plant, but the creator personally participated in actual combat three months ago, using it to break through a siege in a dark wizard’s encirclement, even killing dozens of them with it. His record was remarkable. Furthermore, subsequent research revealed that the wizards who used this defensive magic plant at the time all spoke highly of it, demonstrating its astonishing effectiveness in actual combat.

The combat team that previously endorsed this magical plant also confirmed its overwhelming victory in another small-scale conflict. Therefore, the committee determined that this magical plant completely crushed the Blood Curse Court’s current apprentice-level curse magic system, demonstrating the absolute superiority of Lilith’s Hut in the field of breeding.

‘This work is even eligible to receive a separate award and certification badge from the association after the cultivation method is published.’

“In summary, the committee has determined this defensive magic plant to be the champion of this competition and will award it a large-scale college procurement contract.”

‘At the same time, an additional 500 contribution points will be awarded, along with a top-level Academy Fund Outstanding Project Grant of 3,000 Magic Stones.’

Locke raised his brows. He had recently fallen into an economic crisis, but he didn’t expect that winning the championship in a competition would directly give him three thousand magic stones and a large-scale procurement contract.

In this way, he could immediately resolve the economic crisis and even become rich.

Locke put down the letter in his hand and opened another letter sent from the association.

“I won the championship in the college competition. I don’t know what the ranking result of the breeder competition is. As long as I can be in the top ten, that would be good.”

Locke opened the second letter.

He opened the ranking list in the letter, started from the 30th place, and began to scan his own name and the name of his works from the bottom up.

After searching around, Locke saw the name of Emerald Iris Lichen, who was participating in this competition, at the first place on the ranking list.

He actually won first place!

This was beyond his expectations. Winning first place in the college competition was understandable, but winning first place in the Southeast Corner Breeder Competition was something Locke had never expected.

After all, there are a lot of veterans in that kind of competition.

What happened?

The association’s competition committee actually ranked his magical plant first.

Some of the breeders who are still at the first-class wizard apprentice stage have even participated in competitions for hundreds of years, participated in dozens of competitions, and have accumulated a lot of weird experience.

In my situation, it should be difficult to get first place.

In fact, there is a consensus that the best in this kind of competition are often not the first place winners, but those breeders who have only participated a few times but have ranked relatively high.

Locke quickly glanced at the review. “The reason this work was rated first is…”

(End of this chapter)