Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 520

Chapter 517 Summoning the Ferryman of the Underworld!

Chapter 517 Summoning the Ferryman of the Underworld!
Locke summoned the Sea Sand Tree Fern to his front. The Sea Sand Tree Fern was a false wood tree fern, so its body had a height that ordinary fern magic plants did not have, and it was two meters tall.

Its appearance has changed slightly, from a green spiral staircase to a shape similar to a green pagoda.

It is still the resurrected pinnae, and the edges of the triangular pinnae are covered with golden spore powder, but the area of the triangular pinnae has become larger, and the height of the tree fern has also become higher, which results in the amount of spore gold powder that can be produced by this sea sand per unit time being greater.

Tree ferns are much more powerful than ordinary ferns.

The whole body of the Shining Sea Sand emits a faint golden light. This is the natural flash that appears after the golden magic is enhanced, which represents that this Sea Sand has a very powerful golden magic power.

Locke stretched out his hand and summoned it. As a magical plant with golden magic attributes, Locke established a connection with it with almost no effort, forming a magic grafting relationship with it, and at the same time incorporated it into his own distributed psychic network.

Locke chanted a spell softly and used the golden sand torrent spell model. Suddenly, the shining sea sand changed from a green pagoda into a golden-green pagoda, and turned into a golden sand torrent that soared into the sky, like countless condensed blades waving forward.

Its scale is more than twice as large as before.

“The shining sea gold sand can actually better unleash the power of my Burning Golden Sand series of spells.” Locke felt the shining sea gold sand at his fingertips, and his mind moved slightly. Those golden sand blades shot forward turned into a storm, covering the entire ecological garden. However, because of Locke’s control over his spells, no damage was caused to the ecological garden of this special laboratory.

This is a first-level botanical magic: Golden Sandstorm.

At the same time, Locke used the sixth magic of the Burning Golden Sand Flow series. He stretched out his hand in front of him, and the golden sand storms automatically condensed into a golden hand made of golden sand, as big as a house, and then slapped towards the air in the ecological garden.

Before Locke let the golden sand palm hit the ground, the ground had already been squeezed into a palm imprint by the magic pressure generated by this golden magic.

This is a first-level botanical magic: Golden Hand.

The fire bead tomato flower worn on Locke’s right index finger automatically activated the Yanming spiritual energy, and a series of flaming light wheels attached to the golden hand.

The original golden hand turned into a red-gold hand, the temperature was scorching and the air was distorted.

Locke watched this scene with satisfaction. The last two magic spells of the Burning Golden Sand Flow were the most powerful spells in the entire series. They could even be used in the first ring crystallization stage. However, they were relatively complicated to learn and he had never been able to fully master them.

It was not until recently that I obtained the Immortal Dragon Scale and learned how to use this golden hand.

The mysterious dragon bloodline with golden attributes can enhance one’s understanding of golden magic and bring talent bonuses that cannot be replicated by first-ring wizards.

Locke then tried to recite the spell of the seventh spell, and the golden hand turned into a finger, which was still red-gold in color and was blessed by Yan Ming’s spiritual energy.

That was the seventh spell of the Burning Golden Sand Stream—first-level botanical magic: Golden Finger.

Golden magic has the characteristics of being difficult to destroy and difficult to be affected, and the Golden Finger takes this characteristic to the extreme. The golden finger attacks the enemy, and the nature of gold does not change, so it cannot be easily changed or destroyed by defensive magic. Once it pokes the enemy, the heavy magic pressure will gather at one point and completely destroy the enemy’s body.

The Golden Hand is only a range attack, while the Golden Finger is more difficult to cast and requires a high level of magic pressure. Even with Locke’s current magic pressure, he cannot use the Golden Finger too many times.

Locke calculated in his mind that his normal magic pressure was only enough to use the Golden Finger twice, and with the abyss energy, he could use it three times.

By using the beast panel, the total number of uses should be able to be increased to six times, or barely seven times.

The Golden Finger is the most difficult to learn among the Burning Golden Sand series of magic. Even if a wizard has become a second-ring wizard during the learning process, he still has not learned the last magic of the Burning Golden Sand series.

That’s perfectly normal.

If it weren’t for the immortal dragon scales, Locke would not be able to master this last magic.

“With the Golden Finger, I now have a super high-output attack magic, so I won’t be at a disadvantage in battle.”

Locke pondered.

He put the shining sea sand into the star ring, then turned and left the special laboratory and went to the Quetzalcoatl Ancient Pavilion in the middle of the night.

The Quetzalcoatl Ancient Pavilion is open 24 hours a day, and today he has to refine the Cinder King’s secret brew for Leonis.

Inside the potion room on the second floor of the Quetzalcoatl Pavilion, Locke said to Leonis, “I’m sorry. I agreed to prepare it for you in two days, but I got so busy doing an experiment that it’s already been half a month.”

Leonis shrugged. “It’s okay, it’s normal. Every wizard is very busy. I often encounter this kind of thing. You only made me wait for half a month, which is good enough.”

Leonis said, “Last time, I waited for a famous potion master to make a move, but he stood me up for a whole year. After a year, my potion was finally prepared. During this process, he kept saying that he would prepare it tomorrow…”

Leonis said regretfully, “We don’t have many potion masters in our Dark Wizard Land, so the people we can find are limited. Aside from archaeologists, other non-combat wizard professions are difficult to develop in our Dark Wizard Land.”

Locke nodded, then took out the Primordial Fire from the Star Ring. In the past half month, he had read the recipe of the furnace potion several times, and found some simple training materials to practice.

At this moment, using the primordial fire, preparing potions is naturally a piece of cake.

Locke summoned five crucibles, used the primordial fire, and made them float in the air. At the same time, the primordial fire kept changing, from the magic flame of the wood element to the magic flame of the gold element. In a short period of time, it changed seventeen times in a row.

This is the difficulty in refining the furnace potion.

At the same time, Locke added the main and secondary materials of the furnace potion, then put in the auxiliary materials to suppress the toxicity, and finally put in the marginal materials.

An hour later, Locke mixed the liquids in the five crucibles together, and a pot of potion liquid appeared in the crucible, flowing slowly like magma.

Locke poured the liquid into a bottle of Time Gold Crystal potion, and then continued to follow the same method. It took another two hours to prepare two bottles of furnace potion.

Locke pushed open the door of the potion room and rubbed his brows. It took him a lot of energy to prepare three bottles of difficult furnace potions. If he didn’t take potions to replenish his energy, he could only prepare three bottles of this kind of potion a day at most, and it would affect his ability to do other things.

After all, time is not a problem; the biggest problem is actually energy.

Locke drank a bottle of energy potion to relieve some of the fatigue he felt.

Leonis came forward, picked up three bottles of furnace potion, and drank one without any hesitation. All his clothes were burning in an instant, as if he was wearing a coat of fire. It was the fire of the phoenix.

At the same time, there were red lines on his chest that looked like cracks in the skin, which was the magical energy rippling in his chest.

Locke’s guess was correct. Leonis was looking for him and wanted the furnace potion because of some kind of blood in his body.

Locke sat on a stool next to the round table, waiting for him.

These dark wizards all have a habit of using something immediately once they get it.

This has been a habit they have developed over a long period of time.

Half an hour later, Leonis’s eyes flashed with surprise. “The Crucible Potion can indeed accelerate the formation of the Phoenix bloodline in my body.”

Leonis kept the coat of fire covering the surface of his skin. Because of the transformation of his Phoenix bloodline, he seemed to have the ability to ignore high temperatures.

Leonis said to Locke, “Thank you, Professor Augustine.”

“In fact, there are many areas in potion science that can complement our archaeology. Many of the ancient bloodlines we have unearthed require the assistance of potion science to form. Unfortunately, due to the prejudice between dark wizards and white wizards, most potion masters will not cooperate with us, nor dare to cooperate with us. And those potion masters who cooperate with us only want to profit from us.”

“Those difficult things, things I want to communicate carefully with them about, are things I can’t ask them to do.”

Locke nodded slightly. “Alright, Leonis, as agreed, you should hand over half of the historical materials in your Fairy Book to me.”

Leonis smiled. “Of course.”

He spread out his right hand, and a goblin book automatically appeared in his hand. “This is the historical data I have collected over the past two hundred years. My archaeological talent is not as good as Warwick’s, nor am I as diligent and hardworking as Warwick, so my efficiency in collecting historical data is much lower than his.”

The Fairy Book shot out a beam of magical energy, which contained a large amount of historical information about negative energy particle fields. This historical information was then infused into the Dragon Book that Locke summoned at the same time.

The Dragon Book automatically turned pages and underwent drastic changes.

Three minutes later, the Dragon Book suddenly closed, and the Dragon Book emitted a magical pressure equivalent to the first ring of liquefaction stage.

“Historical materials are the food of the Book of the Sect Leader.” Locke looked at the Dragon Book beside him.

With the half of the historical materials that Leonis gave him, he was able to reach the first-ring liquefaction stage of his Book of the Overlord without obtaining the remaining two-thirds of the historical materials from Warwick.

Now that the Book of [Master] has reached this level, his archaeology will progress very quickly. Locke is confident that within six months, he can improve his understanding of the Modo language to a corresponding level.

After all, archaeology is a discipline that emphasizes practice and hands-on work.

Locke flipped through the Book of Dragons and discovered that the bias of the historical materials collected by Leonis was different from that contained in Warwick’s Book of Demons. The historical materials in Warwick’s Book of Demons were quite balanced, while Leonis was more concerned with information related to the outer plane of the Fey Wilds and various ancient tombs.

Locke glanced at Leonis. The old man had a harmless smile on his face and looked like an honest man.

But after reading the historical information he collected, Locke became suspicious. This old man Leonis seemed to be a tomb robber.

If you think about it carefully, the first time he saw me, wasn’t I wearing a newly unearthed “artifact”?

Locke spread out his right hand, pointed his fingers upward, and moved them slightly. Suddenly, the Book of Dragons folded itself and turned into a paper dragon, a lifelike red dragon. This paper dragon emitted a magical light.

Locke chanted a spell, then said, “Borrow a ferryman from the past five hundred years!”

Suddenly, the negative energy particle field gathered like countless chains, turning into a black eggshell as tall as a person. Then the eggshell suddenly broke, and a ferryman with a body as black as ink appeared, and there was a black ark at his feet.

This is already a relatively advanced level of magic in the Witch King’s Grimoire. Previously, Locke had been unable to learn it because of the low level of the Sovereign’s Book.

This is a first-level archaeology magic: Summoning the Styx Ferryman.

This is a historical phantom that uses a large amount of historical materials to summon the real Styx Ferryman, but he does not actually exist.

It’s just that while the spell is effective, the Styx Ferryman will think that he really exists.

At this moment, the Styx ferryman looked at Locke and said, “A gold coin from the underworld.”

“I can take you wherever you want to go.”

Locke frowned. He didn’t know what the gold coins of the underworld were, but it should be written in the Magic Codex of the Witch King that Warwick had traded with him.

Leonis threw a gold coin from the underworld to him.

“Give.”

“How can we just summon the Styx Ferryman like this? Although the Styx Ferryman is the best means of transportation for us archaeological wizards, if we don’t pay a single Underworld gold coin after summoning him, the Ferryman will turn against us and attack us.”

Leonis said, “First-level archaeologists are merely users of historical materials, so they still need to abide by the rules within these materials.”

Locke caught the gold coin from the underworld and then handed it to the ferryman of the Styx.

When the Styx ferryman saw the gold coin in Locke’s hand, he immediately revealed a greedy look. He took the gold coin and said, “Where are you going?”

Locke recalled the rules of the Styx ferryman. A real ferryman could naturally take them through most areas where the Styx flowed, but this was only a historical projection of the Styx ferryman. Moreover, there was no place in the wizarding world where the Styx passed, at least he didn’t know where it existed at the moment.

This historical projection of the ferryman actually doesn’t have any great magical powers, but it will be a very useful means of transportation.

Locke said, “Take me for a walk. Let me see your speed.”

Locke jumped onto the ark behind the historical projection of the Styx ferryman. The ferryman did not stop him, but just held up an oar and prepared to leave.

At that moment, Leonis also jumped onto the ark and threw a gold coin from the underworld to the Styx Ferryman that Locke had summoned. “This spell model for summoning the Styx Ferryman is really useful. I used to use it when I was on the run.”

“Also, it can be used to carry people, but for each person who walks up, you need to pay one Underworld gold coin. It’s a bit expensive.”

“The ferryman’s ship automatically enters the [Spiritual Realm] state, so as long as we board the ferryman’s ship, we will enter a state that other wizards cannot observe with the n*ked eye. At the same time, the ferryman’s ship is also not slow, and the shuttle speed is very fast.”

“It’s just a bit lacking in flexibility. It’s very fast when walking in a straight line, which makes it very suitable for escaping and short-term travel. However, in combat, due to its lack of flexibility and defense, its effectiveness is limited, making it easy to be targeted.”

“Of course, because of the invisibility of the spirit world, as long as the enemy doesn’t understand it, it will still be difficult to deal with.”

Locke also wanted to test the power of this Styx Ferryman. “How do you get the Underworld Gold Coins?”

Leonis immediately said, “Underworld Gold is the currency of the Underworld. Do you know the Styx? The Styx plane is part of the Underworld. The Underworld is the only special plane of a large scale in the endless void.”

“The underworld is where many souls go after death.”

“There are still many secrets about the underworld, and not all souls go there. These secrets between life and death even conflict with each other and seem full of contradictions. But in short, the underworld gold coins come from the underworld and are the hard currency of the underworld.”

“We archaeologists can trade with the creatures of the underworld and the Styx to obtain underworld gold. The contact information of those underworld creatures is easy to obtain. The magic book in your hand should have records. There are several first-level minor spells that can contact them.”

Leonis said, “If you meet some of their small requests, they might actively trade Underworld Gold Coins with you.”

At this time, the small boat under their feet, supported by the ferryman’s oars, quickly moved forward.

Then, they, the ferryman, and the entire boat all entered the spiritual world, and were therefore in a semi-virtual + visually invisible state. They ignored the walls in front of them, passed through them, and walked through all obstacles on the White Dragon Street.

At that time, a series of very sophisticated magic traps from the defense school issued warnings, but the wizards on the White Dragon Street were all confused, because they could not see Locke and Leonis with their n*ked eyes, so they did not know why the magic traps issued warnings.

When Locke saw this scene, he immediately realized that this was simply a magical skill for escaping.

With this spell model, it is extremely convenient for archaeological wizards above the first liquefaction stage to escape.

As for why archaeological wizards need this kind of escape skill, it is actually not difficult to guess.

Locke even noticed that when this ferry boat passed through some magical defenses, it could actually pass through them directly because of the emptiness of the spiritual world.

Only some magic arrays of advanced protective schools will be blocked outside.

Locke tested the speed of the ferryman’s boat and found that the boat’s straight-line speed was extremely fast, only slightly slower than his own Big Green Leaf Dragon Bird. Although it would be extremely inflexible when turning, its speed would suddenly slow down.

But the problem is that the ferry boat can only enter the spiritual world in a virtual state, and generally speaking, there is no need to turn around.

And his own Big Green Leaf Dragon Bird is itself the top flying magic plant among the first-ring magic plants, so combined with his own plant mimicry: Green Dragon, its flying speed is even faster than the Ferryman, which is normal.

But the advantage of the ferryman is that he consumes little mana and has the ability to become a spiritual being.

After Locke played with Leonis for a while, he ordered the ferryman to cross the White Dragon Tower and try to leave the White Dragon Tower directly by boat.

The two of them and the ship passed through the outer wall of the White Dragon Tower.

“I just wanted to give it a try, and it actually works.” Locke was stunned for a moment, as the ferry boat actually passed directly through the outermost wall of the White Dragon Tower. “If that’s the case, this is indeed a good escape spell. Wait… something seems amiss.”

Locke frowned. After they passed through the wall of the White Dragon Tower, they did not appear outside the White Dragon Tower as expected and flew in the air.

They entered a dark space.

In this space, looking up, it is darkness; looking down, it is an endless abyss.

In the darkness, there are countless elements where fission reactions are constantly taking place. Powerful energy surges wantonly in the space, even to the point of distorting the space and causing it to have a tendency to slightly break.

Locke fell into deep thought after seeing this scene.

Leonis’s forehead was covered in sweat. “The six signal towers in the Land of Six Towers are all wonders of the world created by ancient wizards stained with ancient blood. It’s impossible to directly traverse them with a single first-ring magic.”

“However, I wanted to give it a try before, so I didn’t stop you. Now it seems that I have gone too far. Where is this place?”

Leonis looked at the terrifying elemental fission taking place in the depths of darkness and involuntarily used the permanent defense field [Blessing of the Fairy King].

A crystal green magic shield enveloped his body.

And Locke immediately unfolded his life force field.

Around the elemental fission that was taking place, even though they had collectively entered the state of spiritual emptiness, they felt as if they were constantly under tremendous demonic pressure, and their bodies were under tremendous stress.

Every moment here, every cell in their body is under terrifying radiation pressure.

“This should be the location of the elemental fission pool of the Six Towers Land.” Locke said: “We passed through part of the barrier of the Six Towers Land, but not completely, so we entered this hidden space.”

The archaeology spell model is indeed the most capable magic for exploring secrets. Now they have discovered the location of the elemental fission pool.

However, Locke felt the terrifying power from the elemental fission. The space here was distorted and turned into a series of rings that intersected with each other. Some spaces were divided into Chinese knot shapes by the gravity of the elemental fission.

“The gravity inside the elemental fission pool is too strong,” Locke judged. “The ferryman’s boat beneath us has been locked by the fission gravity and is heading deeper into the elemental fission pool, intending to be transformed into the fission raw materials within the elemental fission pool.”

“It’s hard to believe. This is far more powerful than a first-ring wizard. Even the total magical pressure of a second-ring wizard I’ve seen before is like an ant trying to shake a tree compared to this.”

They are now like stepping on the accelerator and driving to the edge of a black hole.

Leonis’s face turned pale. “So what should we do now?”

Locke looked at the ring in his hand. The White Dragon Ring emitted a magical glow. “It’s okay. I have the authority.”

“It’s unlikely anything will happen to me in the White Dragon Tower.”

“I have prior control of this ancient wonder.”

The next moment, a huge external force gushed out from the depths of the elemental fission pool. This external force pushed the ferry boat under the feet of the two people and pushed them out directly.

(End of this chapter)