Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 836 Reflections on the Second Great Magic and the Sunny Sky Witchstone

Locke stroked Jack's face, and a primordial fire appeared, spreading throughout Jack's body. Under the effect of the reverse refining technique, his injuries disappeared rapidly. Both his body and soul were restored to their original state after being burned by the primordial fire according to the reverse refining technique.

Jack remained unconscious, clearly exhausted from the previous all-out battle, and had not yet recovered.

Locke guessed that it must be an important component of the soul, something that had been consumed on the other side of the Abyss of the Mind.

Or it could be a problem with some deeper aspect of the soul's internal structure.

Of course, now that I've used the reverse cultivation method to extract his spirituality, restore it all at once, and then convert it back to its original state, it's equivalent to shutting down and restarting the computer. So Jack is out of danger now and just needs to take a nap.

The two black wizards' saintly avatars not far away were caught in an awkward situation, not daring to attack but also unsure where to escape.

A dark wizard's saintly incarnation attempts to invoke the name of the Pale Pilgrimage.

“We are the wizards of the Pale Pilgrimage, you cannot…”

The next moment, a large hole was torn open in his saintly incarnation. A green fern spear formed from a second-ring sea gold sand completely pierced through his upper body, ignoring the Blood Ancestor's true body's defense and regenerative abilities, and tore him to pieces in an instant.

The energy of the Two-Ring Fern Gun and World Tree Leaves is concentrated!

The crystal-clear, emerald-green fern spear also had an emerald-green leaf ring on its shaft.

The last of the dark wizard's saintly incarnations roared in fury.

"Do not."

His Blood Ancestor True Form clasped his hands together, grasping the two-ringed fern spear that was in a state of concentrated energy, trying to stop the spear from getting closer, but the spear still pierced his abdomen.

He was clearly the most powerful of the three dark wizards.

At this moment, he chanted a spell, and the filthy blood scattered in the air and on the ground from the shattered Blood Ancestor bodies of his two previous black wizards began to gather towards him drop by drop.

Blood tentacles lashed around him, wrapping around his body like octopus tentacles grabbing at him. The Holy Blood Sacrifice offered up all the bloodline power of the two Blood Ancestor True Body Saint Incarnations to him, in order to strengthen his Saint Incarnation.

During the year-and-two-week battle in the Heidelberg plane, he was the ultimate winner in the infighting. He laid the most contingency plans amidst the infighting and suspicion among the three dark wizards, and after Locke defeated the two, he effectively seized a portion of their power to strengthen himself.

Unfortunately, before that, Locke had already worn down most of the three people's total magical pressure and magical pressure intensity.

So even so, he can only perform at most the level expected of a second-circle wizard with a normal magic pressure of 10000.

The black wizard's face, the true form of a vampire blood progenitor, was covered in filthy blood. He was almost biting off his fangs, his body was arched, and even the three pairs of bat wings on his back were vibrating violently. His feet were floating in mid-air, and magical models appeared behind his feet, trying to stop him from retreating.

One after another, the magical artifacts on his hands and body shattered.

At the summit of Bright Peak, a crack appeared in a stone cup at the center of one of the three Celestial Ritual Instruments of Life Stealing, from which natural magical power leaked out.

Immediately afterwards, with a bloodcurdling scream, the black wizard's stone cup shattered completely.

In an instant, his saintly avatar, along with his life-stealing celestial instrument, was completely destroyed.

His saintly avatar was pierced through the body by the two-ringed fern spear. Then his pupils suddenly shrank, and his body turned into a fleeting shadow, a speck of dust. With a gust of wind, it shattered into countless fragments and vanished into the world.

The surface of the Two-Ring Fern Spear shimmered with emerald light, which was formed by the combined power of the forest formed by the rangers who wielded the Leaf of Power, and was added to the Two-Ring Fern Spear.

This is actually a resource optimization.

Even Locke couldn't efficiently utilize the power of the Forest Sanctuary, but these Rangers deepened his connection with the Forest Sanctuary and the Great Magic.

This is actually the internal transfer of resources within one's own power.

Locke took a step forward, and his saintly avatar automatically disintegrated, then appeared on the summit of Mount Bright, looking at the two remaining life-stealing celestial instruments before him.

With a casual wave of his hand, the two-ringed fern spear descended, transforming into a bolt of lightning that destroyed a ritual center and shattered the stone cup completely.

Then, he looked toward the final ceremony.

At the center of the ceremony, blood flowed and transformed into a human face formed from pooled blood.

"Eye Demon Wizard, wait. If you disrupt this ritual, you will destroy my immortality."

"A trade? Yes, we can make a trade. Don't you white wizards all like to make trades?"

"What do you want..."

'Boom~'

The next moment, the ceremony abruptly shattered.

The giant, blood-red face also collapsed, turning into a rain of blood that splattered on the ground.

Locke extracted the spirituality of the three second-ring wizards, which formed a huge spiritual radiance in the Heidelberg plane. Then, a bronze cauldron descended from the sky and contained them.

The spiritual energy within the bronze cauldron surged, and a spiritual aura flickered on its surface. Locke spent some time creating three portions of the Zero Potion.

In this way, he would have eight portions of the Zero Potion.

The moment he completely killed the three dark wizards, an inevitable drop in magical pressure occurred in the Heidelberg Plane, and the blood river that had appeared at the edge of the Heidelberg Plane began to recede.

The riverbed has dried up, the water has disappeared, like a withered river.

Locke glanced at the changes in the Heidelberg plane.

"I see. The Stealing Life Ritual can summon a river of blood to this world; a single ritual summons a tributary of that river. That's why this world initially agreed to let them perform the Stealing Life Ritual here."

"Now that the ritual is gone, the three blood river tributaries will also fade away. However, these blood river tributaries were originally unusable in the Heidelberg plane."

This is a serious deception.

The Blood River entered this world, seemingly giving it a vast river that attracted it. However, this world will soon discover that the Blood River has absolutely no connection to it or the beings of this plane.

It was completely unable to draw upon all the power within the Blood River.

"Ah~ah~ah!"

As the Blood River receded, the overflowing waters formed a giant human face that looked toward Locke's direction.

“Lock Augustine, we meet again. Powerful bloodline holder, this time without the surveillance of the wizarding world, and with you as a second-circle wizard. I can appear before you with greater precision.”

“Accept the knowledge I give you, and as long as you perform the ritual to summon me here, I will lend you my power. As I promised you before, it will be an irresistible power.”

Locke glanced at it expressionlessly. The will of the Blood River plane had actually appeared at this moment when the tributary of the Blood River had dried up.

"I am not interested."

The human face formed by the ripples on the blood river shattered instantly, and the blood waves crashed against the rocks as the tide receded.

“Locke Augustine, this is the second time you have rejected me. You will one day embrace the great Blood River. I am the destiny of all those with powerful bloodlines, and I will obtain the bloodline within you.”

Locke frowned as he watched the Blood River completely disappear from the world.

'what happened? ’

Why is Blood River so concerned about the bloodline within me?

Or is it the same for everyone with powerful bloodlines?

Locke said, "However, the will of the Blood River Plane is a bit too human-like. The degree of human-likeness of the will of this special and unique plane is unparalleled even in the endless void. Talking to me is almost like an individual life speaking to me."

Locke looked at the eight Zero Potions in his hand. With these eight Zero Potions, his Lunar Essence was now more abundant.

Moreover, the fact that the Heidelberg plane was covered in forests at this time helped it recover some of the lost magical pressure, although it was not fully restored.

His own forest sanctuary extended into a second lower-level forest in the Heidelberg plane.

'Using lower-level forests can solve the problem of insufficient land area—only 10,000 mu in the half-plane.'

Locke pondered, 'As long as the Moon of Evolution exists, through the Ecological Corridor, i.e., the Forest Alliance Spell, I can create a lower-level forest here for my Forest Sanctuary.'

'In the future, my forest can be laid out to extend into all the worlds of the endless void.'

'This is quite a unique, extremely powerful spell.'

Locke remained in a state of doing as he pleased without overstepping the bounds, when suddenly he realized something.

"Hmm? Does this world want to make a deal with me?"

Locke turned to Susan and said, "Susan, my good girl, take good care of Jack and all the Rangers."

Susan looked up at Locke. Although this was her first time meeting Locke in his true form, she could still sense that Locke's rational and calm tone was exactly the same as that of the treant lord.

Susan said to Locke, "Please rest assured, Lord Tree Man."

Locke gave a wry smile; he had already said that he was not a tree person.

At the same time, he turned and took a step forward. In an instant, his figure disappeared from the Heidelberg plane and entered the world hall that this world had summoned him from.

The World Hall is a scene resembling an underground forest, lush and verdant.

Locke walked here, reading the information here.

Unlike the Blood River Plane, which had a plane will that seemed to be a single person, the Heidelberg Plane was not large, and its plane will was not unique.

Therefore, the Heidelberg plane does not have the same tactile sensation as a human.

Locke could only read the trees in the World Hall, trying to understand, or rather guess, the thoughts of the World's Will by observing their types, shapes, numbers, and distribution.

"A trade? The Heidelberg plane seems quite anxious about its declining magical pressure and the decreasing level of civilization among its life forms." Locke's expression turned strange.

Because he read from this underground forest that the Heidelberg plane originally seemed to regard the vampire race as a race with supernatural abilities, and believed that their increase in strength represented an increase in the level of civilization of this plane.

This is clearly a serious deception.

Vampires have never been a normal intelligent life form, nor can they bring about a true leap forward in this life plane.

However, after the vampire race disappeared, the Heidelberg plane felt that its intelligent life had seriously degenerated. After all, without the supernatural power of the vampire race, the civilization of the entire plane would essentially be a feudal Iron Age.

Therefore, the Heidelberg plane is currently very worried about Locke's withdrawal.

After all, Locke was different from those three dark wizards. He didn't construct any great magic here at all. Instead, he used the World Tree Leaf to construct a great magic of endless void.

From the perspective of the Heidelberg dimension, this means Locke can leave at any time.

Therefore, this dimension is trying to make a deal with itself.

"This is... the Sunny Sky Witch Stone."

Locke looked surprised. He saw a large amount of witchstone in the Heart of the Plane, which was clearly an entire witchstone vein.

This type of witchstone is also the Sunny Witchstone, which is useful even to second-ring wizards.

The Sky-Blue Stone is a mineral that resembles the color of the sky, and can also be considered a special gemstone. Locke took a piece into his hands.

“Witchstone is extremely special. Worlds of different sizes may have witchstone veins. After all, it is a material that may have gathered at the beginning of the formation of the world.”

"It should be the Heidelberg Plane. Before the world was formed, there were some magic stone veins that fell into the core of the Heidelberg Plane. These Sunny Sky Magic Stones are not very meaningful to the world because the magic is contained within them, and it is impossible to develop the power hidden within them."

"wrong."

Locke was in a state of doing whatever he wanted without overstepping the bounds, so by capturing Heidenberg's dimensional power, he saw this scene: countless meteorites were outside Heidenberg's plane in the endless void.

The Heidelberg plane seems to be located in a special void region with a particularly large number of meteorites.

Some meteorites collide with the Heidelberg plane, and among these meteorites is the Clear Sky Witch Stone.

Locke immediately sensed something strange, because the matter inside the endless void was very sparse, but there was a continuous stream of meteorites in front of the Heidelberg plane, and among those meteorites were even very high-grade Clear Sky Witch Stones.

"The origin of these meteorite streams is highly suspicious. This indicates the existence of a peculiar void astronomical phenomenon in the void region near the Heidelberg plane."

"The scale of the astronomical phenomena in the Endless Void is extremely exaggerated. Although these meteorite streams appear near the Heidelberg Plane, their origin may be very far away in the Endless Void. But this special astronomical phenomenon is still worth exploring."

"This is the Sunny Sky Witch Stone."

"It's just that the difficulty of exploration might exceed that of me directly exploring other planes through the Golden Route and a mature dimensional exploration system."

Locke placed his palm on the Sunny Sky Witch Stone, and immediately the magical power on the azure stone gradually flowed into his palm. At the same time, he chanted a spell, and spell models entered the Sunny Sky Witch Stone.

As his magic power squeezed the magical power inside the witch stone, the magical power inside the witch stone was extracted. The pure, unadulterated magic power entered his magical pressure and slowly increased his magical pressure.

1 o'clock, 2 o'clock...

A full five hundred points.

But this also turned an entire vein of Sunny Witchstone in the core of this world into white stone.

Locke waved his hand and collected the white stones.

Sunny Sky Witchstone is a very unique and precious magical resource.

It contains a very high-level energy void magic that could only be found at the beginning of the creation of the plane. Second-circle wizards can directly absorb this magic to increase their magic pressure.

This is a rare find, and for a second-circle wizard, it can be considered a rare and precious magical resource.

These blank Sky Stones are excellent alchemical materials that can absorb energy. Although they are not as expensive as complete Sky Stones, they can still be sold to alchemists on the market.

I once saw a Sunny Sky Witch Stone at the Dragon Blood Market in Golden Crown Mountain; it cost ten million magic stones.

The Sunny Sky Stone that I just absorbed is likely worth around 50 million.

Therefore, I was able to absorb the vast magical power within this Clear Sky Witch Stone, directly increasing my magic pressure by 500.

Locke said, “This deal is acceptable. My Forest Sanctuary’s lower-level forests and Ranger system will be maintained, and even continuously improved, in the Heidelberg Plane, driving the civilization of the mortals in the Heidelberg Plane to rise. In return, the Heidelberg Plane will capture the Sunny Sky Stones in the void for me.”

"Is this considered supporting a civilized society in a medium-sized plane?"

"These dark wizards are really in a treasure trove, yet they don't know how to use it. There's a pile of Sunshine Stones right under their feet, but they haven't noticed them at all. Heidenburg must have hidden these stones facing them."

"Although the effect of absorbing the Sunny Day Magic Stone will decrease afterward, it will completely lose its effect when my magic pressure reaches about 18,000," Locke pondered. "My current magic pressure is a little over 16,500."

"If the Heidenburg Plane can continuously capture Sunny Sky Stones from the void, then I can use these Sunny Sky Stones to increase my magic pressure and reach 18,000 magic pressure as soon as possible. Then, by constantly farming the second-level projects in Golden Crown Mountain and obtaining the Tourmaline King Peach from the twelve magic peaches of Golden Crown Mountain, I can... quickly increase my magic pressure to 19,999."

Locke himself was somewhat surprised by this plan.

Because after becoming a second-circle wizard, it takes a huge amount of time to increase every bit of magic pressure, but I never expected that I would be able to access two resources that every second-circle wizard dreams of - the Tourmaline King Peach and the Sunny Sky Wizard Stone.

In this way, I can raise my magic pressure to a level close to that of a star ring within a few years!

Furthermore, the unintentional breakthrough in the construction of the power system during this World War is enough to allow him to see the path to advancement ahead.

However, he is different from others because of the talent of the dragon race. Essentially, he must possess two extremely powerful spells in order to advance to the Star Ring level.

Of course, my teacher said that he would make up for this deficiency for me.

I don't know how she arranged things.

However, Locke himself also had some ideas about the second ultimate spell.

Considering that forging a single ultimate spell is already extremely difficult, it's not advisable to open up a completely different path for one's second ultimate spell, as that would simply mean wasting even more resources and time.

Therefore, Locke set his sights on the Ancient Tree of Life, which had the greatest potential to evolve into a three-ringed magical plant!

Just as Edgar transformed the ancient tree of life in his hands into a perfect ancient tree-man, he should be able to construct great magic on the ancient tree of life and turn it into some kind of tree-man.

I haven't figured out this part yet; I still need to design it carefully.

In this way, he could use the Moon of Evolution to form a mutually beneficial ecological community with that tree-man, just like he and Edgar did in the Silent Grail.

Locke turned and left the World Hall.

This World Hall didn't actually exist originally. It was only because the World Will wanted to contact me that I was able to materialize it using the spell model that summons the World Hall.

In other words, a wizard who has not mastered the spell model for summoning the World Hall is powerless even if the World Will wants to contact him directly.

Unless it's a special type of plane will like the Blood River Plane.

Locke turned and left the World Hall, returning to the Heidelberg plane, where he appeared in front of Susan, who was lying under a tree, holding Jack.

Susan's eyes lit up with joy when she saw Locke. "Lord Tree Man."

Locke said, "Don't worry. Jack is fine now."

"He'll be fine after a good night's sleep. Susan, there are no more vampires in this world, so I'm leaving this plane."

Susan's expression changed instantly. "Lord Tree Man, after fighting with Jack for so long, I've also realized from the teachings the Leaf of Power gave us that this world isn't just ours. The world is vast, and there are many other worlds suffering terribly from those monsters."

"a lot of."

"We've gradually shifted from protecting our own hometown to wanting to protect more people and forests. Tree Man, may I leave with you too?"

Locke shook his head slightly.

He had already reached an agreement with the Heidelberg plane, and if he rashly took away its chosen one, the plane might turn against him in an instant.

Susan's eyes dimmed slightly.

Locke said, “Susan, your world is still in ruins, society is collapsing, and people are filled with fear. Now is the time for you to rebuild.”

Susan's eyes brightened slightly.

“Master Tree Man, I think so too. I believe that once the enemy is gone, our mission as forest rangers will change from protecting the forest and fighting the enemy to guiding people on how to live in harmony with nature and planting trees.”

Locke said with satisfaction, "Good child. Although you and Jack are not highly talented, you have good comprehension. From now on, you and Jack are my students. You are my fourth and fifth students."

"Don't worry, there will be no chance to fight the enemy in the future."

Locke waved his hand, and a moonlight gate appeared behind her.

"This is the ecological corridor I built. Your spirit can traverse the ecological corridor and, with the support of the forest, join the battle in distant lands through spiritual incarnation."

Even places you've never been.

"Our forests not only span mountains and seas, but also the void."

“Every tree in the forest can support each other; no one fights alone. Goodbye, Susan. Remember, you are never alone. You are part of the forest.”

As Susan watched Locke's figure gradually fade away, she anxiously asked, "Master Tree Man, how can I meet you again and receive enlightenment from your wisdom?"

Locke's voice was distant and ethereal.

“Susan, Jack, and all Rangers, when you meditate in the forest, that is when you communicate with me.”

(End of this chapter)