Synthesis Wizard

Leaving the Puppet Factory, Amy led the three to tour the Magic Plant Garden before heading straight to the warehouse.

The final stop of the base tour was the warehouse.

As they approached the warehouse, Xieman heard a melodious music from afar.

“It’s a violin,” said Artir, closing his eyes and listening for a moment, his tone certain.

“Mhm,” Kore nodded, “The musician’s skill is outstanding, even better than my previous violin teacher.”

Xieman scratched his head, he couldn’t discern the difference, he just thought it sounded nice.

“It’s Little Grillie playing, she loves to play the violin.”

Amy said, leading the way towards the warehouse.

Xieman and the other three suppressed their confusion and quickly followed.

Upon reaching the warehouse, they discovered a small chair placed in front of the door. A tiny figure was sitting on it, intently playing the violin.

The little figure was only about twenty centimeters tall, slender and delicate in appearance, looking like a girl who had been shrunk countless times.

She had pale green skin with slight scales, deep green hair adorned with shells and pearls, and a shawl woven from various seaweeds, giving her an uncanny beauty.

Artir’s eyes sparkled, “So cute!”

Xieman hesitated, “Is this… a little elf?”

“Xieman is right, Little Grillie is a Grilie, a helper Su Nan summoned from another world just a few days ago.” Amy said.

Another world summoning? Grilie?

Xieman and the other three listened, feeling awestruck.

“Don’t underestimate Little Grillie’s age, she has lived for many years. Grilies are a rare immortal race.”

The three apprentices widened their eyes in astonishment.

Immortal race!

Doesn’t that mean they live forever?

Are there such races in this world?

At this moment, the melodious violin music slowly stopped, followed by a delicate and pleasant voice.

“Amy, it’s not a good habit to talk about a lady’s age behind her back.”

“Why? I’m telling the truth.” Amy turned around in confusion.

Grillie, who had walked over, glanced at Amy helplessly and sighed, no longer paying attention to the idiot. She turned to Xieman and the others, smiling slightly,

“Nice to meet you, I’m Grillie, the newly appointed warehouse manager.”

Xieman and the others snapped out of their astonishment and quickly introduced themselves.

“I know you all, Lord Su Nan told me about you.”

Grillie smiled slightly and motioned for them to follow her, leading them to a bulletin board.

“Take a look at this.”

Xieman and the others focused their eyes on the board, discovering that it was filled with tasks.

Caring for magic plants, cleaning the lab, extracting Silver Moon Flower, maintaining Clay Golems, repairing humanoid targets, making Lower-Grade Revitalization Potions, making Lower-Grade Dragon’s Blood Potions, making Brute Force Potions, refining Blackrock Beasts…

There were about twenty or thirty tasks in total.

Each task was labelled with its location, time, access conditions, and the contribution points earned upon completion.

Among them, tasks like caring for magic plants, cleaning the lab, and maintaining Clay Golems offered the lowest contribution points, only single digits.

Next came extracting Silver Moon Flower and repairing humanoid targets, offering more than ten points each.

However, the former required basic knowledge of potion-making.

The latter required mastering the Zero-Ring Spell, [Repair].

They were not something they could take on at this time.

As for the following tasks of making various potions and refining Blackrock Beasts, they were even further out of reach.

Looking at the tasks, Artir pondered and turned his head to ask, “Grillie-sama, are the contribution points earned from completing tasks used to exchange for certain items?”

“Just call me Grillie.”

Grillie nodded, confirming Artir’s guess.

“You’re right, contribution points can be exchanged for resources here.”

“There’s a rule among Wizards, it’s called equivalent exchange.”

“If you want to obtain something, you must pay something of equal value, including knowledge.”

“The previous meditation methods, knowledge, and potions were gifts from Lord Su Nan as your teacher.”

“But from today onwards, you will have to earn resources through labor.”

Grillie led the three to another bulletin board, which listed various resources.

From small items like clay, silver, Blackstone iron, Silver Moon Flower, and various books, to large items like Super Ability Potions, Secondary Magic Items, and Rune Gems, which made Xieman and the others’ eyes light up – they had already learned from Amy how valuable these items were – everything was available.

Even Steel Golems were available for exchange!

They were quite excited.

But when they saw the contribution points needed to exchange for a Steel Golem, their hearts skipped a beat, and they immediately dismissed the unrealistic idea.

“You guys are lucky.”

Amy said from the side.

“The Starsea Continent is resource-scarce these days, many things on this board can’t be found outside, only Su Nan can get them.”

“As long as you work hard enough, you won’t lack resources to quickly improve your strength.”

Xieman, Kore, and Artir were inspired by Amy’s words.

Over the past half-year, through studying books and chatting with Amy, they had already understood the importance of resources for a Wizard Apprentice.

Without sufficient resources, it would be difficult for a Wizard Apprentice to even meditate and increase their spiritual power, let alone pursue truth.

Now, their teacher had provided them with a platform.

A platform where they could exchange resources for labor.

As long as they worked hard to earn contribution points, they could continuously grow stronger, until one day, they became strong like their teacher!

“I’ll be staying here in the warehouse, if you want to take on tasks, check your contribution points, or exchange items, feel free to come find me anytime.” Grillie said.

After saying that, she picked up her violin again.

Seeing this, Xieman and the others wisely bid farewell and left.

On the way to the residential area, Amy continued to chatter: “Don’t underestimate Little Grillie, even though she’s small, her archery skills are amazing, and she can use various Charm spells, Detection spells, and Invisibility spells, even I’m no match for her.”

Xieman and the others responded half-heartedly, their minds wandering to other things.

For young apprentices, everything they had seen was so new and strange.

Before today, they had read many books and believed they had a certain understanding of the world of Wizards.

But after seeing the facilities of the base with their own eyes, they finally felt like they had lifted a curtain and caught a glimpse of a corner of the Wizard world.

Their previous assumptions were nothing more than the thinking of a frog at the bottom of a well.

Xieman felt it even more deeply.

Thinking about his dream of living in a castle, he couldn’t help but laugh at himself, his past self was truly shallow and ridiculous, the world was far vaster than he thought.

Compared to the vast and mysterious world of Wizards, a mere noble castle was like a grain of sand, insignificant.

“I must become a Wizard, see more of the world!”

At that moment, the young apprentice secretly made up his mind.