Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 405

Chapter 403 The Origin of the Demon

Locke looked at the Great Wizard Sura and said, “Great Wizard Sura, as long as I help you, you will help me in the competition? I wonder if this promise still counts now? After all, you can only give me 500,000 magic stones to help me build your project in the City of the Holy Hall.”

Facing Locke’s question, the smile on the face of the great wizard Sura became more sincere. He said, “Of course it counts.”

“Even if I don’t show up, I can still do it. I can sponsor you to compete and let the Six Towers participate in this year’s Yunze Wetland 15th Battle Magic Plant Competition, the Yunze Cup.”

“I can let Alicia do all of this.”

Alicia was a little flustered. Her prestige in the Six Towers wasn’t enough to make such a big decision. “Grandfather, I…”

The Great Wizard Sura smiled and said, “I have collected quite a bit of evidence against the older generation of the Plutarch family, especially the two old wizards in the Crystallization stage.”

“Alicia, with these leverages, you can convince those old guys to work for you.”

“Alicia, you can come to me secretly in the future. Now that you have discovered my plan, it is even better this way. I can guide you and help you gradually improve your prestige in the Land of the Six Towers.”

“Locke, as long as I give Alicia the leverage I have over those old guys, she can help you apply for competition opportunities, funding, and participants. Not only that, with the leverage I have, Alicia’s support for you will be increased. You can also get more projects.”

“Participating in competitions and investing in projects can all be done with open accounts.”

The great wizard Sura seemed to have made a decision and began to seriously negotiate with Locke, and took the initiative to make greater concessions.

Locke nodded slightly. If that was the case, this deal would be more worthwhile for him.

He helped the great wizard Sulla to complete this project in the City of the Holy Hall of Magic. In return, the Plutarch family, as his financial sponsor, helped him obtain more high-quality projects and participate in some valuable competitions.

In fact, in this process, as long as he can complete the project, it will not just be a simple transaction between him and the great wizard Sura.

But I grew up with Alicia.

Because as long as she continues to win games, Alicia’s prestige in the Six Towers will gradually increase as the apparent financial backer.

Essentially, this is a mutually beneficial thing.

However, Great Wizard Sura and Alicia are unable to realize this for the time being.

This also ensures that Locke does not have to worry about the great wizard Sura suddenly changing his mind.

Locke said: “Okay, then we have a deal.”

The Great Wizard Sura curled his lips into a satisfied smile. He pointed to the resource library in the wizard tower and said, “By the way, you and Alicia can use these resource libraries as you please. There are many magical creatures and magical plants unique to this plane.”

“It just so happens that these magical creatures can be studied by Alicia, and the magical plants can be studied by you.”

“Once you leave this plane, Alicia will purchase the necessary materials and use some methods to gradually launder the 500,000 magic stones into funds for Locke’s research.”

“I can teach you all this in detail later, Alicia. This is what you should do as the ruler of the Six Towers.”

The great wizard Sura talked to Alicia, mainly about how to study people’s hearts, how to manage funds, and how to control the family business.

Locke, on the other hand, was content with the quietness. In the Land of Six Towers, he only wanted to be a simple tutor, play games, gain some resources, and use it as a stepping stone for applying for a teaching position. Therefore, he had no interest in participating in the conspiracies of the Land of Six Towers.

These things have little to do with me, or rather, if I dare to show any interest, I am afraid it will arouse the strong fear of the great wizard Sura.

Locke glanced at the great wizard Sura. Who knows whether what the great wizard Sura was saying to Alicia was a test of his own character.

It is better to try to maintain the image of a simple researcher.

For an old fox like this who has been in power for many years, how can he allow others to peek at his bed?

It would be better for me to be more cautious in my future actions in the Plutarch family.

Knowing that the person in power in the Plutarch family had been secretly manipulating the entire family and the Six Towers, Locke felt a little regretful at this moment, thinking that some of his previous actions were too rash.

In the future, I should be more careful when visiting other wizarding lands.

A strong dragon cannot defeat a local snake. Who knows what kind of conspiracy is hidden in this wizard land?

At this time, the great wizard Sura glanced at Locke secretly, and then saw with satisfaction that Locke showed no interest in what he and Alicia were discussing, and was not even listening.

This made the great wizard Sura more confident in Locke.

The great wizard Sura suddenly smiled at Locke, pointed at Locke’s left hand and said, “Dear Locke, sometimes when I see you, I feel like you are my grandson.”

“How I long to have such a wonderful grandson like you.”

The great wizard Sura said, “I can find a way to help you remove the magic of destined death on your left hand.”

“This is for you.”

The Great Wizard Sura pulled a black scorpion ring from the astral ring worn by his clone. “Put this ring on your right hand, and the spell of destined death will be temporarily blocked. If you wear it for six consecutive months, the prophetic spell will no longer be able to target you and will be permanently erased from you.”

“I’m loaning you this magic weapon temporarily. Remember to return it to me in six months,” Great Wizard Sura added. “It’s not that I’m stingy, but this magic weapon relies on the bloodline of our family’s Scorpion Girl as its energy source. You don’t have Scorpion Girl bloodline, so it’s useless to you.”

Locke took the ring, checked it briefly, confirmed that there was no problem, and put it on his right index finger.

The moment he put on the ring, the cyan mark on the back of his left hand vanished automatically. “Even you can’t immediately dispel this magic?”

Great Wizard Sura said helplessly, “I can probably guess who the dark wizard who cast this spell is. She’s a wizard in the first ring crystallization stage and can use ritual magic. This destined death spell was strengthened by her ritual magic, so it’s difficult to remove.”

“Ritual magic is the privilege of wizards in the crystallization stage. Only wizards who have truly reached the crystallization stage can use ritual magic. Even if one temporarily uses some special methods to reach the magic pressure level of a crystallization wizard, it will not work. This involves a special problem.”

The great wizard Sura said, “The demons in this world were created by another dark wizard. I used to wonder why that dark wizard would target this world at the same time as me, but now I think the dark wizard who first targeted me was most likely not him, but the dark wizard from the School of Prophecy who plotted against you.”

“Those wizards of the prophecy school always like to hide behind others and attack them from behind, never daring to stand out directly.”

With a wave of his hand, the great wizard Sura swung open the magical alloy door of a room in the hallway, revealing ten imprisoned demons of varying levels. “This world lacks dark elemental particles, so many of the magics of the School of Psychic are affected. And that dark wizard is an old enemy of mine, with whom I have an irreconcilable hatred.”

“He created these demons by modifying psychic magic according to the rules of this world.”

“Locke, Alicia, can you two figure out his general idea?”

Alicia shook her head slightly.

Locke glanced at the ten imprisoned demons in the laboratory and offered his conjecture. “They’re probably using earth elemental particles as death energy, using the deaths of a large number of lives to contaminate a region of earth veins, forcibly combining earth elemental particles with death.”

“However, the ability of earth elemental particles to combine with death is naturally not as strong as the ability of dark elemental particles to combine with death. So even so, the power of his psychic magic has still been greatly reduced.”

“I’ve killed a demon before, so I can probably guess what kind of technology was used.”

“These demons can essentially be seen as earth elemental creatures twisted by the power of death.”

Locke said, “If I’m not mistaken, the other party should be a dark wizard specializing in the field of cyborg synthesis magic of the School of Psychic Studies.”

The great wizard Sura turned and looked at Locke in surprise. “It seems you are even better than I expected.”

“You’re actually right. The other party is a cyborg from the Spiral Basin wizarding land—the dark wizard academy—Nehel University.”

The Great Wizard Sura said, “I know my old friend’s talent all too well. He once used only a single spell to create an army of deadly monsters using the simplest materials.”

“Those demons are his masterpieces. As long as we kill them, their demonic energy—actually, the twisted earth vein energy—will be transmitted through the earth and back to a certain location in this plane. There, an ultimate demon is being nurtured.”

“My old friend used a method used by their cyborgs to become a second-ring wizard, breeding the ultimate demon creature there, hoping to compete with me in the speed of advancement in this world.”

“But, judging by the situation right now, I’m probably one step ahead of him.” Great Wizard Sura fell into a rare trance, lost in some memories. “I know him all too well.”

“In the near future, he will definitely launch a desperate attack on the City of the Saint of Law. This attack is just a precursor.”

Locke keenly noticed two points from the words of the great wizard Sura.

First, wizards from different schools use the special resources of medium-sized worlds in different ways and methods to advance to second-ring wizards.

Second, the great wizard Sura seems to have a very complicated relationship with the black wizard behind the current demon race, and it seems that they are more than just enemies.

If it was a simple enmity, then the great wizard Sura would have gritted his teeth when he mentioned that wizard. Even if he was quite cunning, he would have kept it a secret.

But his eyes would not reveal such a complicated expression, lamenting that the world is unpredictable.

Locke thought for a moment and decided, forget it, these things have nothing to do with him.

All he had to do was find a way to dig out the secret of utilizing the special resources of the middle world from the old fox, the great wizard Sura.

Then, it was about using the Plutarch family’s funds to add more achievements to his resume.

(End of this chapter)