Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 1044

Chapter 1030 The Successor of the Five-Colored Dragon Throne!

A day later, after a full day of rest, Locke returned to the Hanging Gardens and used a magic field. He activated the magic array on a stone altar next to the field’s ridge and placed a succulent plant on it. This was the [Agricultural and Livestock Altar] that the Hanging Gardens provided for each magic field.

It had multiple integrated functions, essentially a hodgepodge, a high-level breeding device. Each Agricultural and Livestock Altar could cost around ten million magic stones to purchase, but if maintenance costs were included, the price would be astronomical, because the principle of wizarding society was that the price of consumables would always be far greater than the price of equipment.

As a red magical light flashed on the Agricultural and Livestock Altar, the succulent plant within was forced to release itself. A crimson mist pressed down on the magic field, while the Great Azure Leaf Dragon Sparrow and the Great Crying Dragon Sparrow within the field attempted to fly upwards.

In an instant, the Great Green Leaf Dragon Sparrow was crushed by gravity, falling to the muddy ground and turning into dust. The Great Crying Dragon Sparrow let out a piercing, mournful cry, flew upwards for a while, and then could no longer ascend.

The Agricultural and Animal Husbandry Altar can forcibly extract particles from the interior of a magical plant through the superposition of more than ten kinds of magical arrays. By capturing these particles, the environment in which the magical plant exists can be simulated.

This is a mainstream use of the Agricultural and Animal Husbandry Altar. After all, wizards often face unknown worlds, and at such times, by picking a magical plant from that world, placing it in the Agricultural and Animal Husbandry Altar, and activating the array, they can obtain the environment of that world, which is very beneficial for cultivating magical plants.   ”Is this the world of hadrons?”

Locke   , wearing a Focusing Monocle, looked at the world composed of black and red particles. Elemental particles were forcibly captured by hadrons, and spirituality was being absorbed into each other. All magical power was being continuously absorbed into the hadrons, and the immense pressure caused the Great Azure Leaf Dragon Sparrow to instantly turn into dust. The   Great Roaring Dragon Sparrow was also overwhelmed.   ”This is a forbidden zone.”   Locke was stunned for a moment. No wonder Antoine couldn’t find any breeders to help him develop magical plants that could fly on ancient planets. This level of difficulty would cause problems even for any second-ring breeder.   The difficulty was simply too great.   Even Locke was at a loss for words.   ”I promised to help Antoine develop this flying magical plant so that he could continue to bring me materials from ancient planets in the future.”

“Such a dangerous place, I’d better not go myself. I don’t have the time either.”

Locke pondered, “Let’s try the Moon Cultivation Method to see if we can induce an adaptive evolution in the Great Crying Dragon Sparrow.”

Locke stretched out his right hand, and a beam of moonlight shone on the Great Crying Dragon Sparrow before him. Instantly, the Great Crying Dragon Sparrow absorbed the crimson rust mist, its evolution accelerating. Its banana leaves swayed continuously, and then the changes seemed to become increasingly significant, but the Great

Crying Dragon Sparrow’s flight altitude actually decreased. Locke frowned; he could feel the Great Crying Dragon Sparrow’s life force rapidly diminishing.

This meant that the Great Crying Dragon Sparrow’s life was nearing its end.

Locke waved his hand, immediately channeling his own spiritual energy into the Great Crying Dragon Sparrow, slightly slowing down the decline of its life force. However, it seemed that after a certain point, the magical plant’s life force rapidly declined. At this point, even if Locke wanted to use other spiritual energy to replenish the magical plant’s life force, it was already too late.

With a loud bang, the entire magical plant burst into flames, then turned to ashes and fell to the ground.

“The Moon Cultivation Method isn’t unusable, but the dimensional information of this Hadron World is something ordinary magical plants can’t withstand,”

Locke pondered. “I need to replenish the magical plant’s life force with spiritual energy. However, just now, the Great Roaring Dragon Sparrow’s spiritual energy rapidly depleted.”

Locke quickly took out paper and pen, wrote down several empirical formulas, and guessed the degree of spiritual energy depletion. However, after comparing them several times, they all seemed somewhat off.

So, he needed to calculate the rate at which the spiritual energy had depleted and establish a corresponding formula.

But the key problem was that he needed to quickly replenish the rapidly depleting spiritual energy of the Great Roaring Dragon Sparrow. Even a little bit wouldn’t be enough, because a plant without spiritual energy would die.

Just like a person suffocates if they don’t breathe.

Spiritual energy is the hidden life force of all things; if an object loses its spiritual energy, that life will perish.

Locke realized that it wasn’t just a coincidence that he had discovered the ability to replenish the life force of a failed magical plant using spiritual energy; rather, it was due to his advancements in spiritual energy cultivation that he seemed to be able to replenish the life force of a living being when it was about to die, thus delaying its demise.

This ability seemed particularly useful for cultivations that were more difficult to cultivate.

Locke sighed, waved his hand, and dispelled the magic array of the Agricultural and Livestock Altar. The mortal plant within the altar had already lost a third of its life force.

Using the Altar of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry requires consuming the constituent particles of that magical plant.

“In that case, I can only prioritize the big picture for now.”

“After all, researching hadron plants isn’t my most pressing need right now; it’s just a bonus. If it really doesn’t work, I’ll have to give up.” “

It seems that to use hadron plants to complete the Moon Cultivation Method for the Great Roaring Dragon Sparrow, my spiritual energy skills need to improve by at least one level.”

Locke pondered, “I synthesized the magical plant I tricked from the Rose Witch once, but I didn’t successfully obtain a magical plant that can fish out that special spiritual energy. So this project must also be stopped.”

“If I continue synthesizing, even if I use up all the materials, I probably still won’t get what I want.”

Locke looked at the sea gold in his hand. It was a sea gold plant with star-like spots on its surface. This was the semi-finished second-ring sea gold plant synthesized by the synthesis cube.

“I can only take it one step at a time.”

Because he had tried to contact the Rose Witch before, but unexpectedly, this time the Rose Witch didn’t respond, and no matter how long he waited, she didn’t reply.

Locke had never experienced the consequences of his clone magic being destroyed, so he wasn’t entirely clear on Rose’s current state.

However, this meant that both the hadron plant and the special metal-attribute spiritual energy were currently hindered. On the other hand, he had an idea on how to make the iron tree bloom.

It was still about spiritual energy.

He had just realized that the simplest way to make the iron tree bloom was to give it abundant vitality.

After a simple test using verdant spiritual energy, Locke, the wizard Moromuta, and the witch Plankonia discovered that the iron tree, which had previously shown no signs of blooming, had actually sprouted its first flower bud.

This meant that they were on the right track.

The reason they couldn’t achieve it yet was because Locke’s spiritual energy cultivation method wasn’t high enough.

When Locke walked to the magical field where the iron tree was planted, he saw Moromuta and Plankonia being affectionate. He raised an eyebrow, and Moromuta, as if seeing Locke, quickly turned around with Plankonia in his arms and bowed to him.

“Mr. Locke,” said the wizard Moromuta, “after a day of repeated verification, your previous guess was indeed correct.

The secret to making the iron tree bloom lies in spiritual energy. As long as one’s level of spiritual energy cultivation is high enough, one can give the iron tree life and make it bloom.”

A smile of relief, as if a puzzle had been solved, appeared on Moromuta’s face.

“Boss Locke, we’ve finally found a way to make the iron tree bloom. Why do you look so unhappy?”

Locke asked calmly, “Is this a good thing?”

“My teacher gave me this iron tree. At first, it was a seed. Then, the Green Dragon Throne gave me a True Dragon Crystal, and using the Pan ritual, the seed sprouted.”

“And then this seed grew into this tree—like a streetlamp. In short, the spiritual energy cultivation method required to make it bloom is quite advanced.”

Locke stretched out his palm, and a flower bud fell from the iron tree.

“Teacher Catherine, you’ve truly gone to great lengths for me,”

Moromuta belatedly realized, looking at the iron tree.

“This—the flower buds that are stimulated will begin to wither when there is no replenishment of spiritual energy. That means the iron tree needs to bloom in one go.”

Locke nodded.

“I’m afraid so.”

Garden Cave Heaven: Verdant Nursery is just the simplest spiritual energy cultivation method. At most, the Verdant Nursery is just refining verdant spiritual energy into spiritual energy cubes and then randomly stacking them together, even if there are three layers of Verdant Nursery.

But more complex spiritual energy cultivation methods require a more complex structure for this Garden Cave Heaven, that is, this flowerpot.

In addition to a more complex cave heaven structure, it may also be necessary to add various special spiritual energy.

That is to say, the Verdant Nursery is just the beginning of spiritual energy cultivation methods.

And the level of spiritual energy cultivation method required to make the iron tree bloom is far beyond that of Garden Cave Heaven: Verdant Nursery.

Locke said to the wizard Moromuta, “I’ll be leaving for a while. You two keep an eye on the cycad for me, and make sure it doesn’t get infested with insects again. Besides that, Moromuta, you need to pay attention to the roots.”

Moromuta asked, puzzled, “Why?”

“I mean, Mr. Locke, why do you want me to focus on the roots?”

Locke pointed to the cycad. “I’ve examined the roots of the cycad. Its taproot is thick, with very few fibrous roots, resulting in very low drainage. Furthermore, based on my previous examination using the Sunlight Mirror, I found that the cycad’s internal vascular system is very primitive, consisting only of channels formed by round pores between a few dead cells.” “

This means that this magical tree species, no matter how mysterious it may seem, is actually—very vulnerable to flooding. To put it bluntly, its weakness is water.”

“The most common magical disease affecting tree-like magical plants is root rot. If I’m away for an extended period, you’ll need to check the roots carefully every day. Understand?”

Upon hearing this, Wizard Moromuta was immediately alarmed. He quickly looked at the roots of the iron tree; if that was the case, root rot was indeed very likely.

“I understand. Don’t worry, with me here, I’ll take good care of the iron tree, at least to prevent any problems.”

Locke nodded.

“That’s good. I have an auction tonight—so I’ll take my leave now.”

He quickly left the hanging garden.

Locke rode the cloud whale, calculating the current situation in his mind.

First, he needed to improve his Spiritual Aura skill as quickly as possible. Once he improved his Spiritual Aura, he would almost certainly be able to obtain the Hadron Magical Plant and the remaining two special Spiritual Auras.

Of course, the metal-attribute Spiritual Aura would depend on luck.

Second, the Sea Queen’s Throne was also a problem.

He hadn’t even figured out how to tell her.

If he wanted to suspend the Potions course, the problem was that there were so many people in the Potions Accelerated Improvement Class; it wouldn’t be possible to suspend it just for him.

But the trip to the Valley of Despair Laboratory required everything to give way to this.

Locke prepared to return to his dormitory, change his clothes, and head to the Dragonblood Society’s banquet. However, upon entering, he saw Gregor standing at the door, hesitating several times whether to knock.

Locke looked at Gregor strangely. “Gregor, what do you need me for?”

Gregor was startled; he hadn’t expected Locke to be outside the door instead of inside.

Locke glanced at him.

“Your magical pressure—I know. You want to apply for an advancement potion from me, is that right?”

“Your magical pressure is already very active. Breaking through to become a formal wizard now will indeed significantly increase your chances of success.”

Locke pushed open the door, then led Gregor through the living room into the study. Locke then pushed aside a stack of books on the study shelf, took out a magic box, opened it, and took out a bottle of Sacrifice Potion.

Locke said, “Gregor, this is your Sacrifice Potion.”

Locke looked at the excited Gregor with a complex expression. In truth, Gregor’s talent was still considerably inferior to Williams’, after all, there was a year and a half difference between them when they attempted to become formal wizards.

And this time, Gregor might not succeed.

But Gregor was definitely the most hardworking.

Locke knew that Gregor had been using his part-time job as a tea master to obtain magic stones to increase his growth rate.

Looking at Gregor, Locke seemed to have a hallucination, a vision of the look Sophia the Witch had given him years ago.

Gregor had been busy all day, possibly just for a few magic stones.

Of course, he could help him. Even just a few magic stones slipping through his fingers, even just a thousand magic stones, would be enough to save him a lot of trouble.

But he knew that would be forcing growth.

Giving Gregor wealth he couldn’t obtain wasn’t helping him, but suppressing his growth and depriving him of the possibility of development.

Even the Witch Sophia, back then, might sometimes have been tempted to help him, but would have restrained herself.

However, necessary assistance was still possible.

Locke took out a bottle of prepared potion from his astral ring and said to Gregor, “Drink this potion along with the Sacrifice Potion. This will minimize the Sacrifice Potion’s side effects and indirectly increase your chances of success.”

Gregor gratefully accepted the potion from Locke and bowed.

“Teacher, if I succeed in becoming a formal wizard, the first person I will see will be you. I will come back to see you.”

Locke paused for a moment, then nodded.

Even in this era, breaking through to become a formal wizard meant breaking through the first racial limit, and the mortality rate was still very high.

Of course, Cloud Marsh Wetlands and Golden Crown Mountain were not ordinary places, but even so, Gregor still needed to face the possibility of death when attempting to become a formal wizard.

Using the Sacrifice Potion is essentially gambling with one’s life, racing against death.

Of course, if one slowly increases their magic pressure after surpassing 800, then drinking the Sacrifice Potion will significantly increase the success rate. However,

if it’s delayed too long, age becomes an issue.

In fact, Locke felt that given Gregor’s current magic pressure, if he could wait another six months before attempting the breakthrough, the success rate would be higher and the risk of death lower.

However, this was Gregor’s own decision, and Locke saw it in his eyes—a look he had never possessed before.

It was a yearning for his goal.

It was a thirst for becoming a full-fledged wizard this year.

Because he was already a year and a half behind Williams, he didn’t want to wait any longer.

At that moment, Locke even sensed the life force flowing from Gregor, this first-class wizard apprentice—a special kind of life force.

“Hmm? Why did Gregor’s spiritual energy suddenly rise?”

Locke glanced at Gregor, lost in thought. His magical pressure hadn’t changed, but the moment Gregor made his decision, his spiritual energy actually increased.

But Locke didn’t think it was because of this decision.

After all, spiritual energy was usually quite objective, difficult to change due to emotional fluctuations.

So what was the reason?

Gregor gave Locke a final bow, then walked out of the room, leaving with a determined air.

Locke watched Gregor’s departing figure, his eyes lowered.

“Gregor, a first-class wizard apprentice, but in that instant—”

“Why?”

Locke pondered, recalling the unique mystical meaning possessed only by the Star Ring Magic Plant.

“I didn’t expect that rapid progress in spiritual energy studies could actually find a breakthrough in Gregor.”

Locke mused.

“If my guess is correct, then perhaps I can achieve a breakthrough in spiritual energy studies in a short time.”

Locke changed his clothes and then left the room.

The magical carriage traveled through a valley at the foot of Mount Golden Crown, where an ancient wizarding town lay. The town was brightly decorated, adorned with dragon-shaped ornaments everywhere.

In the town square stood a statue of a five-colored dragon, which continuously spewed forth clear spring water.

When the witch Roy saw Locke arrive, her eyes lit up.

“Young Locke, you’ve finally arrived. Oh, this must be your first meeting. This is Mr. Gugo, the heir to the Black Dragon Throne; this is Mr. Adorian, a student of the White Dragon Throne; and this is Mr. Belial, a student of the Green Dragon Throne.” “

These are the most outstanding juniors of the Five-Colored Dragon Thrones currently in the Star Forging stage.”

“This must be your first meeting; I think you should have a good chat.”

Locke noticed that Wizard Gugo was actually a two-headed ogre, Wizard Adorian looked to be a man in his thirties, while Wizard Belial looked very young, dressed in an evening suit, and possessed a gentle and refined demeanor with a mysterious smile.

The wizard Belial greeted Locke first, “Greetings, Mr. Augustine. It’s a pleasure to meet you.”

“I’ve heard of you many times before, but I’ve never met you. It’s truly an honor to meet you at the gathering today,”

said the wizard Adorian, pointing to Belial. “You must be careful of him. He’s a student brought from the Endless Abyss by the Green Dragon Throne. I believe he hasn’t shed his savage nature. If you easily trust him, you’ll be in big trouble. However, his magical pressure is quite strong.

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