Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 512

Chapter 509 The Truth of Ritual Magic

The axe transformed from Mist’s power collided with the spider legs strengthened by the Blood River Plane. In an instant, Locke had an illusion. He saw a blood-colored tide as big as a small mountain in front of him, hitting him hard.

Locke was knocked away by this huge force.

Nidhogg’s pupils suddenly shrank. Even though the highly compressed power of Mist was no match for the Blood River, which had achieved a completely overwhelming victory in terms of total strength, the axe formed after the extreme compression of Mist’s power was like a stone cutting into tofu, cutting through his permanent defense field and severing one of his spider legs.

Nidhogg gritted his teeth, feeling a huge threat, and his eyes betrayed extreme malice. “This man cannot be allowed to remain in the Six Towers, or my Basil family will never rise again.”

“One great wizard of Sura is enough.”

“I don’t want another Great Wizard Sura to appear.”

The ritual magic circle behind Nidhogg started working again, borrowing more power from the Blood River Plane. His body swelled up again, and patterns covered the surface of his skin.

“Power, Blood River Plane, give me more power.”

A blood-red protective shield formed around his body. He pressed forward, stepped on a small hill, and walked directly towards Locke.

Locke looked at Nidhogg moving like a mountain and was slightly stunned, because the opponent’s strength had obviously exceeded the first ring level.

“By drawing on the power of other planes, one can leverage external forces to increase one’s own strength beyond the limits of an individual. Is this ritual magic?”

The large green-leaf dragon bird behind Locke flapped its wings, and he moved quickly under the attack of the opponent’s huge body to avoid the attack of the opponent’s remaining four spider legs.

Locke frowned. He realized that after using the simplified version of the extremely powerful magic, Nidhogg could actually break his natural force field.

Continuing to fight would be seriously disadvantageous to oneself.

The King of the Dead, whom he summoned, picked up the bone sword and wanted to approach Nidhogg, but before he got close, he was blown down by the magic pressure mixed with the power of the Blood River plane, and the next moment, he was destroyed by one of its spider legs.

After all, it’s just an archaeology spell in the gasification stage.

The master in Locke’s hand limits the level of the archaeological undead he summons.

At present, he only mastered the three archaeology spells: Historical Pointer, Summon the Undead King, and Summon the Tomb King.

The more advanced archaeology spells in the Witch King’s Grimoire are slow to learn due to the level limit of the suzerain.

As history repeats itself, I am also learning quickly, but I have not yet fully mastered it.

Nidhogg spit out poisonous threads like meteors, and with his spider intuition, he predicted Locke’s movements. Several times, the poisonous threads had already touched Locke’s body and successfully transmitted the blood poison, but the next moment Locke used the primordial fire and the means of alchemy to refine the blood poison completely.

“It’s only a first-level bloodline poison. I can still handle it. Besides, I’ve endured so many different bloodline poisons from Wizard Basil before. Plus, I have a lot of his memory fragments. My understanding of bloodline poisons has greatly improved.”

Locke looked at Nidhogg, “There’s nothing we can do. After all, he’s a wizard in the first crystallization stage.”

“That’s the only one I can use.”

The other party obviously has bad intentions, and this matter cannot be resolved peacefully.

The mark of the original rune appeared on Locke’s forehead, and a terrible aura emerged from Locke’s body. At the same time, his entire heart stopped beating for a moment. The next moment, when his heart started beating again, a huge natural force gathered towards him.

Even the nature in the poisonous valley cheered for Locke after he revealed his identity.

With the help of the beast’s panel to increase the magic pressure, Locke’s magic pressure officially exceeded 9000 for the first time and directly reached 9999.

Although the data on the beast panel can be doubled, every increase after 9000 will make a huge difference, and there is the problem of soul limit, so Locke’s magic pressure cannot exceed 10,000.

As long as they didn’t break through the soul limit for the second time, no wizard could possibly break through 10,000 magic pressures!
At that time, Nidhogg’s magic pressure and Locke’s magic pressure were exactly the same for the first time.

Moreover, Nidhogg felt a huge threat from Locke, and the fear that penetrated deep into his bones exploded in his heart in an instant.

Nidhogg was startled and quickly used the viper pupil power of the school of psychic science to look at Locke, trying to intimidate Locke, but Locke used dragon power to bounce him back, and he fell into a moment of distraction.

At the same time, Locke seized the opportunity and poured all his magic pressure into the natural force field, turning it into an emerald green spear. The spear instantly cut off another spider leg of Nidhogg, leaving it with only three legs, turning it into a three-legged spider.

Nidhogg’s eyes showed both anger and fear. “Damn it! He can even enhance himself.”

“Potions, breeding, botany, archaeology, blood studies…”

“His methods are so numerous that it’s impossible to defend against them.” A look of doubt crossed Nidhogg’s mind. “How could a common wizard possibly have so many resources to study? Is he truly a super genius? I’ve completely offended him. No, I absolutely cannot let him get away with it.”

“I have no way out.”

Nidhogg’s eyes flashed with madness. “The Blood River Plane has lent me more, much more. I want even more power.”

The next moment, an illusion of a river of blood appeared in the sky, and a river of blood rushed into his soul, actually lending him more power through ritual magic.

“Hahaha…” Nidhogg looked at Locke and said viciously, “Foolish liquefied wizard, you will never understand the power of a crystallized wizard. The power I borrow from ritual magic has no limit.”

Nidhogg’s spider legs, empowered by more than a dozen common bloodline spells and the power of the blood river, swung towards Locke. The huge impact force created a groove in the ground before it even got close to the ground.

Locke directly used the power of Mist to confront it head-on. The next moment, one of Nidhogg’s huge spider legs was cut off by the power of Mist and was knocked away, and Nidhogg also turned into a two-legged spider.

But even Locke, who used the ferocious beast template, was knocked away by him. The natural force field was completely broken up in an instant, and the weapon compressed by the permanent defense force field also broke into pieces.

Fortunately, he had immortal dragon scales to protect his body, so he was not killed by the kick just now.

Locke rolled on the ground. The situation before him was more dangerous than ever before.

This was his first battle with a wizard who was one level higher than him. The opponent’s ritual magic was indeed powerful. A mediocre wizard was completely suppressed by him before using the ritual magic. After using the ritual magic, even if he used the power of Mist, the ferocious beast panel, the immortal dragon scales and archaeological methods, he could only beat him to this point.

Locke used the Great Green Leaf Dragon Bird to avoid the poisonous threads spit out by the opponent and looked at Nidhogg. “Is his strength still increasing? Could it be that what he said is true, and the support he can get from the Blood River Plane is unlimited?”

“How is this possible?”

“If that’s the case, I have one last trick.” Locke’s eyes were determined. “End my own life in the secret realm and force myself out. Once I’m out, use the White Dragon Ring to summon the power of the White Dragon Tower and fight Nidhogg for authority.”

Locke dodged the opponent’s attack with difficulty, ready to attack his heart at any time. Suddenly he looked at Nidhogg and said, “No, something is wrong with Nidhogg.”

At that time, Nidhogg was frantically attacking the surroundings. He fell into madness, “This wizard cannot be left alive!”

“Can’t stay! Kill! Kill!”

A huge river of blood began to boil around him, and Nidhogg’s body grew bigger and bigger, but at the same time his body began to become transparent.

Nidhogg suddenly woke up. “No, I used ritual magic, and the power I borrowed from the distant void was too much.”

“Oops, this has exceeded a limit.”

“Oh no, the blood river has locked onto my soul and is asking me to pay its debt.” His eyes were clear for only a moment, and then, as the blood river continued to infuse power into him, his body continued to grow larger, and soon he was like a giant that connected the sky and the earth.

His strength has obviously increased from beyond the first ring to close to the second ring. Locke even suspects that his current body has the strength of the second ring.

The problem is that it was entirely the result of the Blood River infusing power into his body.

Then, the Blood River began to recall his body and his soul, to take back the power lent to him, and at the same time to take back his body and soul.

Originally, in the wizard’s secret realm, one would not die no matter what.

But at this moment, Nidhogg broke this limit. Because he used ritual magic unscrupulously and borrowed the mysterious power of the distant void, he was now completely out of control.

Locke didn’t know what would happen if his soul was summoned to the Blood River, but it seemed like it wouldn’t be a good thing.

“No!” A trace of rationality appeared in Nidhogg’s eyes again, but his rationality did not last long, because he now possessed the power equivalent to the second ring, and he turned into a giant as big as the sky and the earth.

He connects heaven and earth.

He treads on a poisonous valley.

A dimensional door opened behind Nidhogg, trying to suck him in completely. At this moment, his body became semi-illusory. It was a special phenomenon caused by the dimensional principles from the Blood River plane infusing into his body.

It’s not a good thing anyway.

Nidhogg suddenly lowered his head and sent a spiritual invitation to Locke, “Locke Augustine, I’ve been keeping an eye on you since you walked out of the poison pool.”

“Sign a contract with me, and I will grant you unlimited power. You can borrow unlimited power from me, a strong body, and unlimited self-healing. I can give you a body that will not die or fail.”

“Sign a contract with me…”

Locke looked at the god-like ‘Nidhoggr’ and knew that the person who was talking to him was not a wizard from the Basil family, but a will of the Blood River Plane, perhaps the will of the Blood River Plane, or perhaps something else.

“So this is ritual magic,” Locke said solemnly. “Those wizards who invented ritual magic are truly audacious. This is simply a loan from a special, advanced world with overactive wills in some distant void to the wizards of the wizarding world.”

“If you use it with caution, it’s fine. But if you lack willpower and use it recklessly, the other party won’t mind and will completely devour the wizard who borrowed its power.”

“Recover the interest.”

Locke’s expression changed slightly. He had no reason to agree, especially now that he saw with his own eyes that the other party was about to devour a wizard.

‘Nidhoggr’ is still waiting for Locke’s response, but perhaps it is because Locke has only used a lot of means to increase the magic pressure to 9999. He only has the blood of the three-eyed tiger-eyed cat and is in the first ring crystallization stage, so he is not a real crystallization wizard.

Therefore, after waiting for a while, Nidhogg found that Locke had not responded yet, so he stopped waiting and suddenly said coldly: “Locke Augustine, the door to the Blood River Plane is always open to you.”

“In the infinite void, I am the most generous. I can promise you to lend you infinite power!”

The next moment, ‘Nidhoggr’ took the initiative to walk into the plane door, and Nidhoggr finally struggled. After all, he was a ring crystal wizard with 9100 magic pressure.

So, facing the threat of death, he still made a final effort to save himself.

It’s a pity that the Blood River Plane directly increased his magic pressure to an exaggerated 15,000, and raised his strength to the level of the second ring.

In this way, it is equivalent to the Blood River Plane and the Wizard World jointly investing in him, and the Blood River Plane now holds the majority of shares, so it can be directly pulled away from the Wizard Plane.

“No! Help, Eye Demon Wizard, save me!” Nidhogg was like a drowning man trying to grab a life-saving straw. He stretched out his hands and grabbed around, and actually asked for help from Locke, the enemy he wanted to kill before.

But in the end he still walked into the plane gate. At the same time, the moment he walked into the plane gate, a magical tidal torrent was spewed out by the Blood River Plane behind the plane gate.

“What is this?” Locke’s eyes flashed with confusion. “Did the Blood River Plane spit back all the magical power contained within Nidhogg’s soul?”

“So, the Blood River Plane only wants Nidhogg’s soul?”

“From the perspective of energy conservation, the Blood River Plane just took back the power it had lent to Nidhogg and returned the power to the Wizard Plane. Therefore, only Nidhogg’s soul was pulled away.”

“The Blood River Plane wants souls? No, they want high-value souls,” Locke realized. “And, at least the soul of a wizard in the first ring crystallization stage.”

Locke took the initiative to open the Druid Ring and summoned a dimensional gate in mid-air to receive the purest magical tidal energy formed after Nidhogg’s death, including his spell model, magic pressure structure, bloodline power and true blood being decomposed by the Blood River plane.

These magical tides are very pure. Just collecting them in the druid ring will be of great benefit to the one hundred acres of forest sanctuary and save him a lot of money on buying soil and fertilizer.

It just so happens that I am really out of money recently.

In the past, in order to make the Forest Sanctuary into an adult forest, he had spent all the money in his pocket.

After Nidhogg was sucked into the Blood River Plane, Locke fell from mid-air. He closed the original rune and released the Hydra at the same time. Just then, all the magic pressure in the Hydra was exhausted.

In this battle, I actually used all my skills and almost lost.

“Is this the power of a wizard at the first crystallization stage?”

“The difference of one level makes a world of difference in the fight.” Locke said thankfully, “Luckily, the opponent’s ritual magic got out of control, so it can be considered a self-destruction.”

(End of this chapter)