568: Hit Product! 24-Hour Sales Hit!
Locke had just used the lingzhi magic plant to open the backend interface for Alsace's partner wizards when a prompt popped up asking if he wanted to pay for traffic. After Locke closed it directly, he saw the two products he had already launched under his account.
They were the Hydra Magic Plant and the Five-Headed Snake magic plant.
Locke saw that these two magic plants were currently being sold in 415 shops within Alsace's Golden Crown Mountain group district in the Yunze Wetland.
But currently, the sales for both magic plants were zero.
Locke frowned, a bad premonition rising in his heart.
He glanced at the Second Ring Magic item on his left wrist, the Angels Tears Bracelet, and began to consider how to manage a safe soft landing if his Hydra series met with a cold reception today.
Locke's expression remained unchanged as he checked the sales of other products displayed on Alsace's backend interface.
First of all, because it was September 1st, the entire partner backend interface had turned pink. The words'September 1st' were elaborately designed, appearing at the top of the backend page like blooming roses.
Then, there was the most important 24-hour real-time total sales leaderboard.
At this moment, the top ten on the leaderboard were no longer common Breeder supplies like general nutrient soil or nutrient solutions, nor were they common small-scale breeding equipment. Instead, they were magic bouquets composed of ten types of Rose Floriography magic plants.
The publishers behind them, whether individuals or studios, all showed that they had backgrounds from the Rose Council's academies. Even if they weren't from the Rose Council itself, they were from wizard academies in the surrounding areas of the Rose Council that had joint training relationships with it.
The Rose Council's cultivation and research of Rose-type magic plants had already reached an extremely profound level of accumulation. This wizard organization had existed for over four thousand six hundred years, and along with it, a history of rose magic plant cultivation spanning over four thousand six hundred years.
Locke scanned the total sales leaderboard. The first place was a bouquet composed of Big Red True Love Roses called Eternal True Love.
It consisted of one One-Ring Magic Plant, the Big Red True Love Rose, and ten apprentice-level multi-headed small roses. It was said to be able to convey the sincere love in a wizard's heart, transforming the love within into a rich, real-world floral fragrance.
A single Eternal True Love bouquet was priced at twenty thousand magic stones.
Locke noticed that this kind of bouquet likely carried a bit of aphrodisiac and Enchantment School spells. In short, when a relationship between two people wasn't quite there yet but some feelings were present, using such a bouquet would have the most appropriate effect.
It could allow the emotions between two people to reach a passionate state in a very short time, breaking the ice and taking that most crucial step.
In addition, these bouquets were meticulously arranged by Florists, a branch of Breeders from the Rose Council. By combining various different Rose-type magic plants, they could combine their effects to achieve a result where 1+1 did not equal 2.
This was the core of the Rose Council's Rose Floriography.
If the Eternal True Love bouquet matched its product description, it likely possessed the ability to express true love and transform a wizard's internal emotions into an actual floral fragrance. Therefore, even if not used to break the ice, it would have multiple uses.
Furthermore, with Rose University's years of operation on the September 1st True Love Festival, it was natural that a magic bouquet like Eternal True Love would become a top seller on Alsace on this day.
It would likely also be a top seller over in Frankfurt.
Locke glanced further. Second place was the 'Sweet Nothings Bouquet,' with the Secret Whisper Begonia as the main flower, and apprentice-level Magic Pearl Spiraea, Baby's Breath, and Snow Willow Leaves as the accent flowers and greenery.
It was said that two wizards holding it in their hands could hear each other's most sincere words of passionate love from their hearts.
Because it allowed one to directly listen to the passionate love in another's heart—revealing words that many wizards, who usually suppressed their emotions, would never say out loud—it was beloved by many witches.
The price was twenty-one thousand magic stones per bouquet.
Third place featured the Heartstrings Rose as the main flower, with multi-headed roses and Forget-Me-Not Baby's Breath as accent flowers, and Chamomile and Emerald Bead Grass as greenery. This bouquet was named 'One Heart and One Mind.'
The price was twenty-three thousand magic stones per bouquet.
The Rose Floriography effect of this bouquet was that the two wizards holding it could feel each other's emotional changes, truly achieving 'One Heart and One Mind.'
It reached a level that mortal couples could never achieve.
Beyond these, the remaining seven products on the total sales leaderboard were also similar magic bouquets.
Due to the existence of Rose Floriography, their effects were all very wonderful and, in a sense, very practical.
In reality, these magic bouquets were different from ordinary mortal world bouquets; they could be preserved for a very long time. In fact, with meticulous care, they could be kept for decades, and they could even be used to cast some common Botany magic.
If one insisted on using them as a weapon, it wasn't impossible, but generally speaking, wizards who chose to buy them would rarely use them as weapons.
Even if they fell on hard times, they could resell these magic bouquets through second-hand channels.
In fact, these magic bouquets were more like furniture or a fixed asset; once purchased, they could be used in the home for a long time.
Locke saw that it was currently ten in the morning, and the magic bouquets in the top three of the total sales leaderboard had already sold over a hundred and fifty orders each.
Although these three were already considered today's major hits, and today was the True Love Festival, a special commemorative holiday led by the Rose Council.
But to be honest, at the First Ring stage, the number of wizards with enough money to buy these magic plant bouquets was still very limited.
So the fact that these hits could sell over a hundred and fifty orders so far meant that the number of Formal Wizards in the Yunze Wetland was sufficient and that they were wealthy.
Of course, the wizards behind these three super-hits likely had special permissions on Alsace, allowing them to sell not just in one district, but possibly in multiple districts or even across the entire Yunze Wetland.
However, that was likely a special cooperation between Alsace and the Rose Council for the True Love Festival.
Because even a Second Ring Wizard normally wouldn't enjoy such permissions.
Locke switched interfaces to look at the product category rankings. His current track wasn't the total sales leaderboard, but the sales leaderboards for various sub-categories within the product classifications.
His Hydra series magic plants should be on the defense magic plant leaderboard among One-Ring Magic Plants, and specifically on the tactical magic plant leaderboard within defense magic plants, as well as the tactical vine magic plant leaderboard in the third-level sub-category.
At this time, Locke saw that the top three on the defense magic plant leaderboard had each sold about a dozen orders. This number already far exceeded their usual daily sales growth.
Locke switched to the tactical-level defense magic plants and suddenly realized that there really wasn't a problem with his Hydra Magic Plants, because currently, not a single order... had been sold for any of the ten tactical-level defense magic plants on the leaderboard.
Moreover, because his two magic plants were newly listed and had priority weight, they were actually ranked first and second.
As for the third-level sub-category sales leaderboard, the tactical-level defense vine magic plant leaderboard, there was no need to even look at it, because this leaderboard couldn't even fill ten spots for tactical-level defense vine magic plants.
In all of Alsace, including the two magic plants he had contributed to this field, there were only seven related magic plants in total.
Furthermore, as Locke looked at two of the magic plants with very comical names, he felt that these two were just there to make up the numbers, or that their publishers had been quite casual.
They might be long-term partners with Alsace, so they could publish some rather casual magic plant products since no one would buy them anyway.
Alsace only had to provide them with an interface, wasting a bit of memory.
"It seems that tactical-level defense magic plants at the First Ring level are quite hard to sell in the Yunze Wetland," Locke thought with a headache. "If that's the case, I need to think about what to do for my next step of research funding."
"If Witch Mason and the others ask me for money now, I won't even be able to provide the advance funds for them."
"The study tasks my mentor arranged for me will also be impossible to continue due to a lack of money."
Locke said, "If it really doesn't work out, I'll ask Witch Scarlett for the Hydras and Five-Headed Snakes she can't sell, and I'll try taking them back to the Southeast Corner Region to sell."
"At least I can recoup my costs; it won't be a total loss. I can manage a safe landing. It's just that afterwards, it might be difficult to continue cooperating with Alsace."
Locke sighed. Fortunately, in this half-month, his research group had basically analyzed the functional mechanism pathways of 26 types of pineapple magic plants, and the seven types of natural magic structural component had also been analyzed. With another half-month to a month for organizing and wrapping up, the project could be concluded.
However, research related to tyrant element no. 2 required more funding; otherwise, they could only scratch the surface, or hand it over to a research group with funding to complete it, or even involve higher-ring Wizards.
After all, Locke needed the queens chessboard equipment to compare the two substances at the Force level and issue relevant data, so that Wizards in the Overlord breeding technology-related industry chain could have more choices after seeing the data.
But in that case, many subsequent interests would have nothing to do with Locke.
Locke was essentially making a big pie but didn't have the capacity to take a bite, only able to hand the pie over for others to swallow.
Although this was something many talented One-Ring Wizards would experience, Locke was certainly a bit unwilling at this moment.
But if he really lacked money, even if he was unwilling, he could only temporarily accept reality.
Locke returned the materials in his hand to the library, feeling somewhat dispirited. He returned to the dormitory but quickly composed himself.
He went into the simple laboratory equipped for him inside the dormitory and settled his mood.
"I have nothing to feel bad about," Locke said. "Failure is normal. Did I forget how I comforted Albert before? I can't become unable to accept failure just because things were smooth sailing before."
"Failing once isn't scary, but if my mood is affected and leads to being half-hearted in everything I do next, causing a series of failures, then I can't blame bad luck, but only my own poor psychological resilience."
Locke composed his mood and placed the tissue extract of the Overlord Pineapple into the vital extraction cauldron, a mid-level Breeder equipment he had borrowed from the public laboratory.
After extracting the pure substance from it, Locke drew it into a syringe and injected it into a nearby First-Class Wizard Apprentice level Oriole Flower.
Less than half a minute after the injection, the Oriole Flower suddenly began to undergo a change. The small yellow star-shaped flowers began to grow wildly, the branches and leaves became larger and thicker, and streaks of catkins flew about.
A metallic red cuticle appeared on its surface, and rows of thorns grew out. The red metallic cuticle looked like the color of rusted iron.
"Although I don't have a queens chessboard, using this relatively simple experimental method, I can also see the difference between Tyrant Element No. 1 and tyrant element no. 2."
"After both are injected into plants, they both exhibit characteristics of making the plant thicker and larger. However, Tyrant Element No. 1 causes the plant to emit an unbearable stench, while tyrant element no. 2, after being injected into the Oriole Grass, has no odor but undergoes cuticle changes."
"However, the magic plant's energy shows an abnormal increase, and both the magic pressure level and spirituality level are in a state called the [Overlord State]. I just don't know the state at the Force level... that must be seen with the queens chessboard."
The next moment, the Oriole Grass exploded, turning into fragments and bursting into flames, quickly turning into ashes on the experimental bench.
Locke wasn't surprised by this; it was just that this Oriole Grass couldn't withstand the Overlord Element. Overlord magic plant breeding is a breeding branch cultivation method that has been developed for many years.
It needs to be carefully studied to be mastered. It's not as simple as extracting a pure Overlord Element and injecting it into a plant with a syringe to complete the Overlord transformation.
In fact, the Overlord cultivation method has also gone through over a hundred years of exploration to go from having no application to becoming a mature industry.
Locke said, "But this simple experiment has already proven that the tyrant element no. 2 I discovered has great application potential. The Overlord Pineapple I cultivated has very strong economic potential."
Speaking of economic potential, Locke remembered the Hydra again.
At that moment, he used the lingzhi magic plant again to open the Alsace collaborator backend interface. It was already past twelve noon.
Locke looked at the interface and was suddenly stunned.
Because at this time, his two types of magic plants were not at zero; instead, multiple orders had been sold for each. Five orders of Hydra were sold, and ten orders of Five-Headed Snake were sold.
Moreover, just in the short time he was looking at the backend interface, three more orders of Five-Headed Snake were sold, and one more order of Hydra was sold.
At the same time, the rankings of these two magic plants on the leaderboard were rising rapidly.
Because the Hydra and Five-Headed Snake were different from other magic plant products; others' selling prices were ten or twenty thousand, while his selling prices were one hundred thousand and two hundred thousand.
This meant they were harder to sell, but once sold, the money earned would be much more.
Six orders of Hydra already involved a huge sum of 1.2 million magic stones.
Thirteen orders of Five-Headed Snake already reached a large transaction volume of 1.3 million magic stones, which was no small business.
Locke's rankings for the two magic plants had now both entered the sales rankings for the defensive magic plant category on September 1st.
One was in ninth place, and the other was in tenth.
"Huh? It was 0 orders this morning, but by noon, it suddenly started to increase." Locke was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized that his Hydra series magic plants might be sold differently from those magic plants priced just over ten thousand.
Others went for volume; he went for quality.
Therefore, those magic plants would have many people placing orders from the start.
Whereas for his two magic plants, there might have been many Wizards watching at first, but the real customers hadn't arrived yet.
Moreover, this probably also involved the operational efforts of Witch Scarlett's team. They were likely negotiating with major Wizard organizations and had already achieved a certain level of success.
Next, Locke saw the sales numbers of his two magic plants soaring all the way.
He continued to conduct experiments related to the Overlord Element in the simple laboratory in his dormitory, observing the degree of attack power enhancement by injecting the Overlord Element into the apprentice-level magic plant Blood Thorn, and observing the degree of defensive power enhancement by injecting it into the apprentice-level magic plant Iron Shield Grass.
The Overlord Element is a multi-functional natural magic structural component that can comprehensively strengthen a magic plant, which is why this substance has applications in many areas.
The only drawback is that it might strengthen functional magic plants into combat-type magic plants.
During this experimental process, Locke had been observing the sales of his two products.
The results were truly a turn for the better.
Especially the Five-Headed Snake; by past five in the afternoon, 101 plants had been sold.
That is, a transaction volume of over ten million was completed.
This was an exaggerated transaction quantity.
Similarly, his Hydra had also sold thirty orders by past five in the afternoon, completing a transaction volume of six million.
According to the profit he could share, he could obtain over four million magic stones from the current transactions.
"Over four million magic stones?" Locke calculated this profit and was slightly surprised by it.
He had originally prepared for the investment to fail and to find a way for a soft landing immediately, but who knew that in one afternoon, his two magic plants had already sold so many.
At this time, his two magic plants occupied the fifth and first positions on the best-seller list for defensive magic plants, respectively.
The Hydra was in fifth place, and the Five-Headed Snake magic plant was in first place.
At the same time, the Five-Headed Snake even appeared in tenth place on the total sales list of the day!
At this moment, countless Wizards following the Alsace leaderboard turned their gaze to the tenth place on the total sales list.
In an office within the Rose Council Breeder Academy, a First Ring Crystallization Wizard stood up from his workstation in anger because just now, the [Pink Lover] bouquet promoted by his team had actually fallen off the Alsace 24-hour sales list.
"What is this Five-Headed Snake?" The Wizard's expression was ugly. "How could such a thing appear on the total sales list for the True Love Festival! A non-magical-bouquet product actually appeared in the top ten!"
"How is this possible!"
"It actually pushed my Pink Lover out of the ranking."Prem