Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 400

Chapter 398 The Truth and Goodbye to Great Wizard Sura

Chapter 398 The Truth and Goodbye Great Wizard Sura
In an instant, the entire area was completely filled with endless flames, like a solar storm, covering the bodies of Locke and Alicia.

Endless flames completely engulfed the two of them.

Only the two mages, the Dharma Saint and the Dharma Master, were bypassed by the flames, so they were safe within the one-kilometer fire field.

The Dharma Master, upon seeing this, looked at the Dharma Saint with immense admiration. “Is this the forbidden magic that only a Dharma Saint-level wizard can wield?”

“It’s truly too powerful. This magic can only be used when one’s mental strength is completely aligned with the elemental source of the Mage Saint Hall. It’s a forbidden spell that can destroy heaven and earth. Archmage Sura has banned any Mage Saint from using forbidden spells in the Mage Plane unless it’s during wartime. And today, I actually saw the Mage Saint take action…”

“Forbidden Magic: Flame Emperor.” The Mage Saint’s eyes blazed red, and he snorted coldly. “Foolish demons, no matter how many times you come, the result will be the same. We Mage Saint-level mages, under the guidance of the first Mage Saint, the ancestor of mages, the Great Sage Sura, have mastered the secrets of the [Domain].”

“Within this realm, I can control your body, your magic power, everything about you. I can control all the elements within this realm. In this realm, what is the difference between me and the gods in the stories?”

“In the three hundred years of glory of my Mage Plane, everyone who has comprehended the [Domain] has been immortalized in history, standing at the pinnacle of civilization in this world.” The Mage Saint’s eyes were cold. “You foolish demons are courting death by coming to the Mage Saint Hall City to provoke me.”

“I don’t know why Teacher Sura is so concerned about prophecies, but if you ask me, all prophecies are nothing but nonsense. Even those of us who have understood all the mysteries of this world cannot predict the future. How can anyone else predict the future?”

“let’s go.”

The Mage turned around and was about to return to the Mage Hall and the Mage Tower to activate the elemental pool over there to prevent the demon army from really attacking.

But the next moment, his pupils suddenly widened in shock. “How is that possible?”

The moment he lifted the domain, he saw Locke and Alicia standing in the domain out of thin air, unharmed, not even a hair was damaged.

Alicia was still pondering what a domain was, while Locke stood calmly, dressed in a white wizard robe, looking at the Sage with a calm gaze. “The power of your attack just now was far too weak. You have 1100 Magic Pressure, but the power of that spell is definitely not at the level of a first ring. It’s roughly 0.9 rings.”

Locke said, “But you clearly have 1100 magic pressure, and the spell model of that magic just now was also decent. So, why is this happening? Did you hold back?”

Sweat dripped down the forehead of the Dharma Master. After all, in his eyes, the Dharma Saints in the Mage Plane were gods, beings who knew everything about the past and the future.

It was the leader who, under the guidance of the great sage Sura, pioneered civilization and moved away from ignorance.

The forbidden spell was a curse that could destroy the world, but the magic just now couldn’t harm the two people in front of him at all.

The Sage’s pupils dilated. “That’s absolutely… impossible. That’s forbidden magic.”

“No demon can resist my forbidden magic. In the past hundred years, every time the demons were on the verge of victory, our Mage Saint Hall would send out a single Mage Saint, and that was enough to suppress their army.”

“And what is magic pressure? What is a spell model? Is the spell model the array formed spontaneously by those elemental spirits?”

The Sage’s eyes flashed with incomprehension. “Forbidden Magic: Great Wind God.”

He expanded his domain again and continued to increase the intensity of the forbidden magic. A thousand-meter-long wind blade slashed towards Locke. The devastating scene even caused the world to begin to change.

After all, it is just a medium-sized plane, and the world’s strength is far inferior to that of the wizarding world. If it is just life, it is not obvious, but once the intensity of the battle increases, the endurance limit of this world will be tested.

Just the direction of a 0.95-ring wind magician from the Shaping School caused the sky above this world to change violently, and even a solar eclipse to occur. The world is using its own way to warn all living beings that someone is using an extremely powerful force.

Of course, this kind of magic that is close to the first ring cannot cause real damage to this world. After all, it is a medium-sized world with relatively complete world power and world principles.

Reached the lowest threshold that can be called the world.

The huge wind blade with a diameter of one kilometer fell towards the heads of Locke and Alicia, trying to cut them in half. The magic saint widened his eyes, but the next moment, his pupils suddenly shrank, because Locke raised his right hand and grabbed the kilometer-long wind blade with his right hand, and then the entire wind blade was incredibly caught in Locke’s palm.

The solar eclipse that was originally occurring in the sky suddenly stopped, as if someone had pressed the pause button.

Locke squeezed his right hand slightly, and suddenly the entire kilometer-long wind blade’s surface was covered with cracks. Suddenly, it shattered with a loud bang. Countless tiny wind element fragments fell to the ground, scraping out deep grooves in the mud.

Such great power is indeed powerful, but it is no match for Locke’s single-handed grab.

The Mage suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, then gritted his teeth and looked up at Locke. “How could such powerful demons exist? They don’t even have a trace of demonic energy. Could they be demons? No, they are demons. Otherwise, they couldn’t be us mages, who would provoke the hostility of the elemental spirits and could use magic.”

“But how could such a powerful enemy exist?” The Sage looked at the Dharma Master beside him. “Run! Run as far as I can’t see you. No, even just running as far as I can’t see you is useless. Run as far as you can. The forbidden magic I’m about to cast is too powerful. I can no longer guarantee your safety.”

Locke watched the scene with great interest and said to Alicia, “The principles of this world are far simpler than ours, so the impact of first-ring magic here will be more severe and on a larger scale. For example, that 0.9-ring magic just now looked massive, but in reality, I was too lazy to even raise my hand.”

Alicia nodded and said, “Yes. Actually, if that magic hits us, we don’t need to pay any attention to it. Your life force field and my permanent defense field [Dragon Scorpion Carapace] can completely ignore that apprentice-level magic.”

The core bloodline of the Plutarch family is the dragon scorpion bloodline, which is an artificial magical creature that is a mixture of the bloodlines of a flying dragon and a scorpion. The culmination of this is the [Dark Cave Scorpion Woman] created by the great wizard Sulla using magic spells.

The dragon scorpion has the powerful defense of a scorpion, and the dragon blood strengthens this defense, so the defense is strong. Therefore, the defense of Alicia’s permanent defense field dragon scorpion carapace is also very impressive.

The dragon scorpion’s defense is even far superior to that of the same-level permanent defense field. Even a crystallized wizard cannot break the dragon scorpion’s carapace. The only drawback is… this thing only covers the upper body, not the lower body, neck and face.

It is a partial defense, but the advantage is that it can completely protect the heart area in the chest.

At the same time, its surface can secrete magical toxins, poisoning anyone who touches it.

Therefore, the dark wizard who was on the airship before was able to hurt Alicia.

Dragon Scorpion Carapace is the kind of spell that needs to be used well and cannot be used mindlessly. The gap between the upper and lower limits is huge.

Locke looked at the Mage Saint and said to Alicia, “I think I know why he can only use 0.9-level spells and can’t fully unleash his magical pressure. You see, when he uses his magical pressure to the extreme, a slight vibration will occur between his domain and his soul. This vibration will intensify as he uses magic, causing his soul to bear a huge burden.”

“Essentially, his soul is still at the apprentice level. He’s just using a so-called domain, or rather, using that giant magic circle to create a special elemental particle field to envelop his soul, creating a temporary level of magic pressure. But no matter what, it can’t change the fact that he only has the essence of an apprentice-level soul.”

“So, when he tried to use first-level magic, his soul would be instantly destroyed by the weight of it. It was like he was holding a large knife in his hand, but he was just a child, unable to wield it easily.”

“Therefore, the magic he casts will never reach the first-ring level. The mages of this plane gradually increase the power of their spells to reach the first-ring level. They call them forbidden magic and believe that using forbidden magic will consume one’s life.”

“But in essence, this is simply because their power system has serious flaws. And in my opinion, even so, this problem is not unsolvable.”

Locke raised his hand and caught a thousand-meter-long earth snake that the opponent had attacked with all his strength. Then he grabbed it suddenly, and the whole earth snake began to disintegrate and turned into pieces of stone that fell down.

The mage’s face showed shock. He kept coughing up blood, as if he couldn’t understand why he desperately used three forbidden spells that could destroy the world in the mage plane, but was unable to hurt the two demons opposite him at all.

That male demon is really too powerful.

Could it be that he really has the ability to kill the great sage Sura?

The Mage felt a surge of fear in his heart. No, the great sage Sura brought magic and civilization to this world and saved mankind from the rule of brutal feudal lords. He suddenly appeared from the sky like a god.

In his eyes, his teacher, the great sage Sura, is the god of magic in this world.

“Teacher, I will absolutely kill this child of prophecy for you.” The Mage Saint continuously increased the efficiency of his magic pressure, bringing his spells infinitely closer to true First Ring magic. He waved the wooden staff in his hand, “All the spirits of this world blessed by Archmage Sura, please become my strength and destroy my enemies. Forbidden Spell: God of the Sun!”

In an instant, a surging magical wind roared out from the caves on the ground of the Mage Saint Hall behind him. At this moment, more than 50% of the transformed special elemental particles converged on him.

The entire area within a thousand meters centered on the Sage was enveloped in a layer of blazing white light. The power of this magic was indeed very close to that of a first-level magic, though it was still a little short.

The price of casting this forbidden magic is that the mage must completely burn his soul.

“In other words, the Mage Saint Hall City is the root of this mage system. If that Mage Saint Hall City ceased to exist, the mage system would cease to exist either,” Locke pondered. “In essence, these mages are merely individuals with powerful mental powers, not wizards. They simply provide humanoid patches to the magic of the Mage Saint Hall City, continuously improving that magic.”

“Even so, the total amount of elemental spirits provided by the Mage Hall within a given timeframe can only allow mages within this system to simultaneously cast two spells close to the first level.”

“In other words, the upper limit of this mage system’s power is to cast two first-level spells simultaneously.”

Locke became a little more serious and used the technique of compressing the defensive force field, covering it on his palm, preparing to break the opponent’s magic with his bare hands again.

Moreover, he began to consider whether to kill the native to see if there would be any repercussions after his death.

He was really curious about whether there would be any repercussions after the death of a living being whose soul did not have a permanent defensive force field structure but whose magic pressure reached over 1000.

Just when the mage was about to push his soul to the limit, a hand suddenly appeared on his shoulder and used its magic power to pacify all the restless elemental spirits, and the magic naturally dissipated into nothingness.

Whether it was the Mage Saint, Locke, or Alicia, their pupils shrank slightly.

Because the person who came was an old man with a white beard, wearing a yellow cloak, with eyes full of wisdom. His appearance was exactly the same as that of the great wizard Sura in the outside world, but he currently had a physical body.

Locke’s eyes flickered. “Doppelganger? Twins? Puppet?”

“This old man is indeed feigning illness. I was right. When we were at White Dragon Tower No. 2 in the Land of Six Towers, I felt that his illness was a bit strange, so I stopped treating him and just read his medical records and focused on my three projects.”

“Luckily, I didn’t treat him like those two did, otherwise it would have been a waste of time. No wonder he drove away the famous healer [Nikos Santos] in Spiral Basin. Of course, if the fake illness was cured by the wizard Santos, it would be troublesome.”

Locke remembered that Santos had been yelling about something fishy going on before, and now it seemed like what he said was true.

There really is something shady going on.

But the shady thing is that the old man is not sick at all, he is just acting here for everyone!
The great wizard Sura gently patted the mage’s shoulder and said, “Okay, Faral, it’s okay.”

Faral looked at the Great Wizard Sura, extremely excited. “Teacher!”

The great wizard Sura snapped his fingers and immediately activated the backup plan he had left in the native’s body using the innate ability of the bloodline of the first-ring magical creature, the elder tree demon [Powerful Human Charm]. Immediately, the native’s pupils dilated and his eyes were dull, and his mind was completely controlled by the great wizard Sura.

The great wizard Sura glanced at him casually. Faral was just a native, so he certainly wouldn’t take him too seriously, nor would he really consider him his student.

“Farral, you saw nothing today. You went out and destroyed two demons. The two demons were destroyed by your domain. You once again defended the honor of our three hundred years of civilization history of the Mage Plane.”

The indigenous magic saint immediately fell into a daze and began to repeat the words of the great wizard Sura.

Then, he turned around sluggishly, and regained his senses at the moment he turned around. Then he ignored everyone and returned to the City of the Holy Hall of Law happily.

The Dharma Master before was accidentally killed by his domain during the battle.

Alicia couldn’t believe what she saw. She said to the great wizard Sura, “Grandpa?”

The Great Wizard Sura turned around and gave her a doting look. “Yes, it’s me. Alicia, you’re here. You’ve really grown up. I’ve thought of all the possibilities, but I never thought you could reach this plane through your own efforts.”

Great Wizard Sura looked at Locke. “This must be Alchemist Augustine. You are truly young and promising. Thank you for your continued help to my granddaughter Alicia.”

“However, since you’re here, it means that even if I deliberately pretended to be sick to hide my true intentions, some of my old enemies still seem to have noticed my true intentions.”

Great Wizard Sura looked at the back of Locke’s hand and said, “This is a magic from the School of Prophecy: Predestined Death. By spreading a large number of rumors in one place, making many mortals believe them, and then gathering these beliefs, all possible futures are converged into the future conveyed by the prophecy. In this way, the power of fate can be gathered, granting a wizard the greatest power to kill his enemies.”

“It’s complicated, isn’t it? I agree. The magic of the Prophecy School is always so slow. Ironically, time is of the essence in this world, so this slow pace often causes wizards of the Prophecy School, who claim to be able to manipulate fate, to miss out on opportunities.”

The Great Wizard Sura laughed and said, “So, when I was a student, I was very resistant to taking the course of visceral divination.”

“I think this kind of magic is meaningless. Using prophecy magic can easily distort fate. It can lead to someone who could have won, but because of manipulating fate, they’re backfired and end up losing. I really think this kind of magic is useless.”

“Right. I was studying on the Hikage Peninsula. Back then, wizards there didn’t yet advocate astrology courses. Instead, they preferred divination using animal entrails. I remember thinking of many ways to skip classes.”

Great Wizard Sura laughed and said, “Later, my mentor even forced me to learn visceral divination to appease the anger of the wizard instructor of that course.”

The great wizard Sura was like a kind old man, pulling the two young men aside and chatting with them about his past when he was young.

Locke glanced at the war-torn Mage Hall behind him, frowning slightly, but still asked. “Great Wizard Sura, of course, I know this matter has nothing to do with me, but as the potion master you invited to treat you, I’m still very curious why you deliberately feigned illness. So, now that I have nothing to do in the Six Towers, I can leave?”

Locke looked at the great wizard Sura cautiously.

The Great Wizard Sura looked at Locke, then at the look Alicia had given him, his lips curling slightly. “Wizard Augustine, please rest assured. My Plutarch family is a prestigious family in the Six Towers, and we would never harm our guests.”

“What’s more, I think you’ve done a great job on the three projects you organized. You’re a talented person, and as your financial backer, our Plutarch family has been able to work well with you so far.”

“You wouldn’t be able to get so much free money anywhere else.” The great wizard Sura smiled kindly at Locke and said, “As for my feigning illness, I naturally have a reasonable explanation. Actually, I was…”

The Great Wizard Sura’s expression changed. He turned to look at the Mage Saint Hall City behind him, then sighed softly. “Did you fail to advance to Mage Saint?”

For some unknown reason, the demon army in the distance stopped attacking and began to retreat in an orderly manner after the female native failed to advance.

Great Wizard Sura’s face was filled with unconcealed disappointment, as if the indigenous woman’s advancement was disappointing. Even for a shrewd wizard like him, it was unacceptable. “This shouldn’t be the case. Why, no matter how many times I try, can’t the 32nd Mage be born? Is there something wrong with the magic circle I set up?”

The Great Wizard Sura turned to look at Locke, his tone becoming more i*imate. “Locke, you just said that you have a way to make the indigenous mages of this world truly use the first level of magic. Is that true?”

“Can you tell me about it? I can make a deal with you. Don’t you like working on projects? My granddaughter can only give you 1.5 million magic stones for research, but I can give you more, and I can also provide you with more excellent manpower. Projects require not only funds, but also equipment and manpower. I can provide you with all of these.”

Great Wizard Sura said, “I can also recommend that you represent the Six Towers in this year’s Eastern Boundary Combat Magic Plant Competition. This competition is being organized by the White Wizard Association of Yunze Wetlands, the third largest wizarding land in the Eastern Boundary. It’s attracting participation from many wizarding lands in the Eastern Boundary, so it’s quite influential. At least eleven wizarding lands will participate this year. While it’s not a true regional competition, it’s certainly a cross-regional one.”

Great Wizard Sura tried to win over him, saying, “If you can lead your team to a winning position there, it will be of great benefit to your future teaching career. Furthermore, this competition has no entry restrictions. Anyone from the Eastern Boundary Wizarding Land will qualify for a spot. So perhaps this year, our Six Towers Land can make an exception and participate.”

“I can also support you in participating in other small competitions between multiple wizarding lands. But the prerequisite is that, Locke, you can help me and keep it a secret for me.”

(End of this chapter)