Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 463

Chapter 461 Two Old Friends from the Past

Chapter 461 Two Old Friends from the Past
Locke took the Crystal of True Knowledge, thought for a moment, and said, “This time when I entered the Mage Plane, I found that the overall scale of the demons has been reduced.”

“The threat to you should no longer be that great. Perhaps you can have a wizard from the Plutarch family enter this plane to protect you while you try to break through to the second-ring wizard.”

Great Wizard Sura shook his head slightly. “The wizards within the Six Towers have complex minds. I don’t trust them.”

“I once attempted to implement institutional reforms in the Six Towers. I made changes five times in total. Each time, it was very successful at the beginning, but after a year or two, it returned to its original state. During this process, many family wizards became wary of me, believing that I had betrayed them.”

“Therefore, I cannot easily trust those family wizards, even those from the Plutarch family.”

Locke opened his mouth to speak, but after thinking for a moment, he remained silent.

Witch Sophia had warned herself not to get too involved in the feuds of the Six Towers. Besides, it was difficult for her, an outsider, to comment on such matters.

Great Wizard Sura glanced at Locke and smiled, “You think I’m weird, don’t you? That’s because the environment I was exposed to when I was young was different from the one you’re exposed to now. The Six Towers back then was even more chaotic than it is now.”

“At that time, the Six Towers were in turmoil due to dark wizards, and it was difficult for wizards to trust each other. If the wizard leader failed to meet the wishes of those wizards, he might be secretly killed. Today they are your students and subordinates, but tomorrow they will be the executioners who slit your throat and the throat of your family.”

“For a wizard who grew up in such an environment, suspicion has become a mark buried in his soul that can no longer be eliminated. Moreover, being prone to suspicion is a huge flaw in my character. I have been fighting this flaw all my life, but it is more stubborn than any disease.”

Great Wizard Sura said, “Are you wondering why Alicia was so innocent when you first met her?”

Locke nodded slightly.

Between the two of them, it was the great wizard Sura who was talking, while Locke was just listening without saying anything or offering any opinions.

The Great Wizard Sura, hands behind his back, said, “I believe that how to behave and control others’ hearts can be learned gradually over three or four years. However, sincerity, kindness, responsibility, courage, eagerness to learn, perseverance, and rationality—the most beautiful qualities in life—are precisely the most difficult to cultivate.”

The great wizard Sura stretched out his right hand, and instantly his blood power condensed into a blood butterfly, which landed on his index finger. The blood butterfly slightly fluttered its wings.

Great Wizard Sura said, “These qualities can greatly increase a person’s potential. Throughout my life, I’ve been plagued by suspicion, selfishness, narrow-mindedness, and pettiness, which have severely limited my achievements. Therefore, I’ve placed special emphasis on Alicia’s development, teaching her something I lack from a young age—kindness.”

“Alicia possesses more compassion than any other wizard in the Six Towers. That kindness will guide her thinking, making her fall in love with thinking, wisdom, the Plutarch family, and the Six Towers.”

“The ability to handle affairs, cunning, deception, and lying can all be cultivated over a few years. But kindness is so precious that it’s hard to acquire. Therefore, I can only keep Alicia in the simplest environment possible, so that she can gain what I don’t have—kindness.”

“And during this year, I try to teach her the second half of the course plan I have assigned to her.”

Guilt flashed in the eyes of the Great Wizard Sura. “In reality, I was quite selfish. I exploited Alicia, making her live according to my plans. I deliberately cultivated her kindness, instilled in her a sense of responsibility towards the Plutarch family, and ensured that she would not abandon it.”

“I’ve always felt guilty towards her. She should have been free to pursue whatever she wanted, just like you, with endless possibilities. But I trapped her in the Six Towers.”

“I don’t know if my training plan is correct.”

The great wizard Sura laughed at himself and said, “You said so many words at once.”

“When I was younger, I was more like Eric than Alicia. Of course, I was much more capable than he was. But now I’m indecisive and have become a person that even my younger self wouldn’t understand.”

Locke hesitated for a moment and asked doubtfully, “Then, Great Wizard Sura, there is something I want to ask you. What exactly happened between you and the dark wizards of the Spiral Basin? It seems that you are more than just enemies with them.”

It was rare for the great wizard Sura to say so much, so Locke took the opportunity to ask this question.

Great Wizard Sura was stunned for a moment, then sighed. “The dark wizard’s name is Uriel.”

“He used to be my article writer.”

“When I was young, all my articles were written by him. But I really just wanted to be friends with him at the beginning. However, I didn’t know that I was just simply being friends with him, while my family—the upper echelons of the Plutarch family at the time—were secretly pressuring him every day to give me his research results.”

A flicker of regret flashed in the eyes of the Great Wizard Sura. “No, I had sensed this long ago, but I was always greedy, so I pretended not to notice. Later, I hurt this former friend, and in a moment of weakness, I helped him escape to the Spiral Basin.”

“Later, the next time Uriel’s name was mentioned was in the Spiral Basin journal, Spiral. He gave up bloodline magic and turned to studying prosthetics.”

“He has published many high-quality prosthetics articles there.”

Great Wizard Sura sighed. “As for why he’s competing with me for this Mage Plane, it’s because one of my former assistants, the witch Medea, used prophetic magic to discover my entry into this plane and found a Planar Gate entrance to this plane in the Spiral Basin. My luck is truly unfortunate.”

“Witch Medea brought Wizard Uriel into this plane to compete with me for its resources. She did this to avenge me for driving him out of the Six Towers.”

Great Wizard Sura sighed. “It wasn’t that I wanted to expel her from the Six Towers. She was one of the key clerks responsible for the Six Towers’ reforms during my fifth attempt. After the fifth attempt failed, the family wizards needed to vent their anger. So, I had no choice but to expel her and everyone else from the Six Towers. I told them I was simply deceived by those civilian wizards.”

“The witch Medea held a grudge against me and vowed revenge on me. Apparently, she succeeded.”

Great Wizard Sura came back to his senses. “Alright, that’s too much to say all at once. Wizard Locke, I wish you good results in the Yunze Cup.”

Locke remained silent the entire time, just acting as a simple listener. Before leaving, he exchanged a few polite words with him, then passed through the plane gate, left the mage plane, and returned to the White Dragon Tower.

Early the next morning, Locke took his project team to the wizard airship docking station and boarded the airship.

Heading towards Yunze Wetland!

(End of this chapter)