Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 536

Chapter 533: The Invasion of Disc Creatures and the First Coming Ones

Inside the Golden Crown Mountain Library, Locke was looking up books in the free area and comparing Albert’s detailed information with the information in the classics.

“The runes inscribed on the permanent defense field clash with mana. This situation also occurs in the Yunze Wetlands,” Locke’s eyes narrowed. “As expected of the Jinmaon Mountain Library in the Yunze Wetlands, this kind of soul-related information, unavailable in the southeastern region, can be found in the free area here.”

“The method of identification is the magic pressure map. Let the wizard drink the map potion, and use the mass spectrometer to map the magic pressure map of the wizard for the next hour.”

“If the graph is continuous, it proves that there is no foreign matter in the soul. Albert’s situation is different. If the graph is broken, it means that there is a foreign matter in Albert’s soul.”

Locke’s expression shifted slightly. “A spectrometer? I remember there’s one in the Healing Hands Clinic in Lilith’s cabin. It’s a bit old, and the version is outdated, but it should be usable.”

“If that doesn’t work, we’ll have to borrow equipment from Verdantia University. If that doesn’t work, we’ll have to borrow equipment from the nearest wizarding land.”

There is no way. It is lucky that only a wizarding organization in the southeast corner can possess such advanced equipment.

Although this kind of thing is here in Jinman Mountain, no matter what level of experiment, there will be several most advanced spectrometers.

Locke summoned the Gray Mist Slate and used video communication to contact Albert and Harun Vera.

He informed Harlan Vera and Albert of the results.

Harlan Vera looked thoughtful. “You mean to say that you think Albert’s problem is that there’s something foreign inside his soul?”

Locke said calmly, “After looking up similar cases in the Yunze Wetlands, it is indeed true. And if this is the case, then he can indeed use the Forest Sanctuary to advance to a full-fledged wizard.”

“Because the Forest Sanctuary’s main defensive magic isn’t engraved on his soul, the magic will be less affected. However, if this problem isn’t resolved, even if he becomes a full-fledged wizard, it will be difficult for him to continue materializing his mental power.”

“Problems with the soul are no small matter, even for a wizard.”

If his mental power is not materialized, Albert will only be an ordinary formal wizard for the rest of his life and will not be able to make any progress.

Albert’s face lit up with excitement. “Locke… I just want to become a formal wizard. As long as I can become a formal wizard, I’ll be satisfied.”

Albert quickly realized that Harlan Vera was also present, so he immediately changed his tone. “Master Augustine, please help me solve this problem.”

“I’m very grateful to you.”

Harlan Vera glanced at him and knew that he and Locke had a good relationship and that he was not an old stubborn person. Since Locke was willing to let Albert interact with him as an equal, what could he, an outsider, say?

Harlan Vera smiled and said to Locke, “Locke, it turns out that you gain more experience when you go to a big place. I can’t believe that you have a solution to the problem that has troubled our Lilith Cottage for a year and a half, a problem that many of our potion masters are confused about, just by meeting Albert once.”

Locke said calmly, “It’s not that I’m that great, it’s just that there’s a lot of relevant information here at Yunze Wetland.”

At present, my biggest gain in Yunze Wetland is that I can access this high-quality information at will.

Locke himself even looked up knowledge in the library that was only known to many high-level wizards in the southeast corner, such as the Erosion Curse, but it turned out that such things were readily available in the free area.

Harlan Vera said, “Even if it’s just becoming a formal wizard, it’s enough in our southeastern region. A formal wizard with the power of Mist is exactly what our Lilith Hut is in urgent need of right now.”

“Locke, I’ll leave it to you. It’s our honor to have students like you and Witch Sophia at Lilith Lodge.”

Harlan Vera said, “Now, your knowledge of potions may have surpassed mine. So as a wizard and a potion master, I am also very curious about one thing – if the foreign object in Albert’s soul really exists, is it congenital or acquired?”

Locke glanced at Albert and said, “It’s very likely acquired. If it was congenital, he should have some physical symptoms.”

“For example, confusion, loss of the ability to distinguish between truth and falsehood, and so on.”

“In other words, it’s impossible for Albert to maintain normal cognition.”

Harlan Vera frowned, looked at Albert, and said, “That’s strange, Albert, what exactly did you come into contact with?”

Albert frowned and fell into deep thought. “I don’t know either.”

Locke looked at the data set on Soul Alien Body Syndrome in his hand and said, “When a soul is affected by foreign objects, it is usually due to a bloodline mutation or a soul experiment by a high-level wizard. If it is not one of these two situations.”

“So you’ve come into contact with some alien life form. Don’t you have any impression of it?”

Albert had a dull expression, as if he was deep in thought, but no matter how he thought about it, he had no memory of when he had come into contact with some alien life forms.

“For the past two years, I have been staying in Lilith’s Hut, preparing to be promoted to a formal wizard. I have never left the house.”

Locke had a guess in his mind. “During your two years at Lilith’s Hut, did you hear anyone calling for help, or did you hear someone calling you while walking?”

Albert thought hard. “No, after Andy died, you and Sophia left Lilith Cottage, and I was almost alone for a long time.”

“Back then, I enjoyed rescuing injured creatures in the wild. If I had to say rescue, that’s the only thing I did. Oh, right…”

Albert said, “I remember one time I heard a pink rabbit with an injured left leg crying for help in the wild. But after I bandaged its wound, it ran away.”

“But that night, I had a very strange dream.”

Locke immediately asked. “What dream?”

Albert thought for a moment and said, “It was a blue light, a blue ring, that appeared beside my bed. I woke up suddenly and realized that it was just a dream.”

Locke and the image of Harlan Vera looked at each other, and they both thought of the ghost bride that the Blood Lord summoned at the headquarters of Lilith’s hut. However, that ghost bride was just a facade, and there was something more powerful behind her, something that had never been a human, or even a life form from the main material plane.

Back then, Locke once led a large-scale ecological event and temporarily suppressed that life form with the power of the earth.

But Locke knew that the unknown life form could not be eliminated in this way. It was still trying to completely enter the main material plane and enter the wizarding world.

Harlan Vera said to Locke, “Could it be that this thing was summoned by the Blood Lord?”

Locke nodded. “I’ve speculated before. Many victims of Soul Alien Syndrome have come into contact with alien evil gods or some otherworldly evil creatures.”

“There was once a team of first-class wizard apprentice explorers from the Yunze Wetlands who entered a new colonial plane. In that tropical rainforest, which appeared to be only at the primitive tribal civilization stage, they encountered the evil gods worshipped by those primitive tribes. After they returned, without exception, they all failed to advance to full wizards.”

“The reason is that, during the process of destroying the evil god, some of its soul fragments managed to enter their souls. This is the characteristic of the evil gods in that plane. When their existence is destroyed, their soul fragments will be automatically absorbed to become the next evil god.”

“And after careful consideration, I realized that the only unknown life forms Albert could come into contact with were those that I had suppressed using the earth’s ecology.”

Locke said: “Besides, I also found its information in Yunze Wetland.”

Locke held up the magic book in his hand and showed it to Albert and Harlan Vera. On the magic book, there was a circle emitting an eerie blue light. “This is a disc creature, something that originated in our wizarding world.”

“This is what the Earth Wizards are studying. Disc creatures are a distorted, extreme force of nature created by violent, large-scale geological catastrophes that have caused natural forces to remain in an extreme state for a long time.”

Locke said, “The earth wizards of Yunze Wetland discovered this thing a long time ago and have been trying to capture this disc-shaped creature.”

“The disc creatures were created due to a geological catastrophe that the earth wizards could not locate. At some point afterwards, the natural life energy of the wizarding world that had recovered eliminated this problem.”

Locke flipped through the information in his hand and said, “Natural forces in their normal state only protect life. However, natural forces like those of the disc creatures, which are essentially extreme, are exactly the opposite. They only want to destroy all life in this world.”

Locke said, “Disc creatures are a kind of twisted natural life form that is unique to the wizarding world. They are strange enough even for us wizards. At least first-ring wizards have no way to destroy disc creatures.”

“Why is that?” Harlan Vera asked.

Locke said, “Because the disc creatures are essentially part of the nature of the wizarding world, albeit a part that has been excluded by the wizarding world. A first-ring wizard cannot destroy nature itself. This is almost a matter of rules.”

“Earth wizards call the disc creatures dark natural life forms. If a dark natural life form wants to return to this world, it must be summoned by the life forms of this world itself. Then, by using the life forms of this world itself, whether through possession or fusion, using various strange and varied methods, it can return to this world.”

Locke said, “As a dark, natural life form, the disc creature naturally hates all normal life. Therefore, it desperately desires to return to the wizarding world.”

“However, the disc-shaped creature beneath the ground of Lilith’s hut should not have fully descended yet, otherwise the entire Lilith’s hut would have become a dead end for life.”

“All mortals and wizards in Lilith’s hut are likely to perish. This is because the disc-shaped creature is the embodiment of extreme nature that has existed for hundreds of thousands of years since the great disaster!”

There was a flash of fear in Albert’s eyes.

Because the disc creature that Locke talked about was so weird, so weird that it sounded like it was in a state that even a first-level wizard could not deal with.

Locke told Harlan Vera, “However, disc creatures are the dream research material for earth wizards. The earth wizards of Golden Crown Mountain have been trying to capture more disc creatures for research. Most disc creatures are, in essence, the embodiment of the distorted extreme earth.”

“Most of them tend to distort the earth, but there are also some that distort the sky and the ocean. They will also attract the attention of the sea wizards and sky wizards of the School of Life.”

“Teacher Harlan, if Lilith’s cabin feels troubled, I can tell this matter to Jinman Mountain. I think the earth wizards of Jinman Mountain will be happy to do it for us and eliminate the disc creature.”

Harlan Vera’s eyes flashed with interest. “So, thanks to the Blood Lord, our Lilith Cottage now possesses a resource point that wizards of the School of Life dream of?”

Harlan Vera immediately refused. “No, Locke, if that’s the case, it’s like we’re sick and need to seek treatment from other wizards.”

“But in fact, there are such unique life forms under the land of our Lilith Cottage. They are our best research resources. We also have a life school and earth wizard magic category in Lilith Cottage.”

“Besides, we have a lot of botanical wizards from the School of Life in Lilith’s Cottage.”

“Breeder, potion master.”

“So, let’s do our own research. Locke, ahem… I still hope you can keep this a secret from Golden Crown Mountain.”

Locke was a little amused.

Indeed, for wizards, such dangerous things may bring about great discoveries. It is both a danger and an opportunity.

What wizard would resist such a hard-earned opportunity?

Opportunities always come with risks.

Locke nodded: “This is the college’s own business, I won’t say anything more. I just need to focus on the work I am responsible for.”

Albert asked Locke, “But, Locke, why did that disc creature invade my soul after I saved a rabbit?”

Locke looked at Albert seriously and said, “The Blood Curse Court should still be at war with us. Then, you should understand that for a curse caster, any form of consent is actively allowing the curse to enter your body.”

“The same thing happened to the disc creature. You offered your help and saved the rabbit it incarnated as. So, from its perspective, you allowed it to enter your body.”

“Your soul.”

“To respond is to agree.”

The expression on Albert’s face was one of unacceptability. He had never imagined that the origin of all his misfortunes and pain in the past two years was just a rabbit he rescued in the wild two years ago.

Albert said: “But these are two different things, this…”

“I can’t accept…”

Locke said, “I know what you can’t accept. But this is the nature of the disc creature. It’s the embodiment of extreme natural forces and is naturally hostile to living things. The morality, laws, kindness, as well as evil, hatred, and extreme emotions of living things are all tools it uses to destroy us. So it took advantage of your accidental act of kindness and entered your soul.”

Locke said: “This world is so dangerous.”

“That’s why we wizards are needed. Exploring the unknown of this world is to prevent people like you from being exploited by beings who were never meant to be human simply because of a small act of kindness.”

Albert was stunned. “Locke, you really look like a wizard mentor now.”

“Thank you for your guidance. I understand. Please help me become a formal wizard. If so, I want to explore this issue after becoming a formal wizard, just like you said, so that those who come after me will no longer have to endure this pain.”

Locke held up the information in his hand and said with a smile, “Actually, you are already a latecomer, Albert. You have already enjoyed the benefits brought to you by those explorers.”

“Without so much information, I wouldn’t be able to pinpoint your problem so quickly. Let’s make a magic pressure variation spectrum first.”

“We must confirm what type of disc creature it is, or have actual proof that it was the disc creature that invaded your soul, causing foreign matter to appear in your soul and repel the permanent defensive force field engraved on the surface of your soul.”

Harun Vera looked at Locke silently, and he smiled with relief.

Perhaps he could only be a mediocre first-ring wizard in his life, but he achieved new success in the field of teaching – he trained an outstanding wizard.

At least I taught it for a while.

And that’s what he wanted.

Locke discussed with Albert for a while in the library and gave him a reading list for studying the Forest Sanctuary, as well as some things that needed to be prepared.

Both using the magic pressure mass spectrometer and purchasing red holly require funds.

But fortunately, the Mist Power Research Center in Lilith’s Hut has provided one million magic stones of funding for this project.

This can be considered as Locke’s horizontal project.

I’m just collaborating with my old alma mater.

Locke removed the gray fog slate, and at the same time he received a letter sent by an owl messenger, which stated that he had passed the application for the third-class Zhenzhi Academy fund and was awarded 300,000 magic stones. At the same time, he could use the equipment in the laboratory worth more than 30 million magic stones.

For example, the ice magic mirror, daylight magic mirror and electromagnetic magic mirror in the laboratory.

If you only need to verify a discovered natural magic structure component, you only need to use a structure comparison machine, and at most use the ice magic mirror.

In fact, the structural comparison machine is enough, and the use of the Ice Magic Mirror is just for the sake of rigor.

However, if he wanted to analyze the new natural magic structure components, he would also need to use the two magic mirrors behind the breeder’s three magic mirrors.

Each magic mirror is difficult for outside wizards to access.

“I have a synthetic magic cube to help me determine my research direction. I won’t need 300,000 magic stones to complete those four projects.” Locke pondered, “In order to complete the first-class Zhenzhi Academy funding project as soon as possible, there’s no need to wait for these funds to be approved one by one.”

“Using a portion of these 300,000 magic stones, we can continue to discover more fertility coexistence relationships between pineapple-like magical plants and avian magical creatures.”

“The acre of magic field near the Dahongshan banyan tree will be used to discover more symbiotic relationships between pineapple magic plants and avian magical creatures. I will also rent a few acres of magic field to plant the four pineapple magic plants I have designed a research framework for. I will analyze them as soon as possible and complete the project.”

After Locke returned all the information, he went to the Dragon Blood Market and rented an acre of normal matrix magic field at the foot of the mountain from the Fertile Field Contract.

At the same time, Locke purchased a large number of breeding materials, preparing to plant a large number of Big Yellow Duck pineapples, and plant more Big Yellow Duck Crown pineapples.

When Locke finished a busy day and returned to his dormitory, it was already midnight.

In a simple laboratory in his dormitory, Locke was looking at a lightning bee living in a giant yellow duck crown pineapple in an isolated eco-bottle, and the queen bee pattern appeared on its body.

Locke confirmed that the role of the Royal Lightning Field was to cause the lightning bees to undergo a bloodline transformation and transform into lightning bee queens.

What surprised Locke was that he also placed an electric ant, an apprentice-level magical creature, on the surface of this big yellow duck crown pineapple. As a result, the electric ant also underwent some kind of blood mutation and turned into an ant king. The magic pressure was actually vaguely between the first ring and the apprentice level.

Locke had a strange expression. “It might sound a bit harsh, but this ant’s soul is already higher than the souls of the natives of the Mage Plane, the colonized plane of the Six Towers.”

“On the one hand, this is due to the high concentration gradient of magic tides in the Jinmaon Mountain-Luxu Bridge area. On the other hand, it’s due to the natural magic structure components similar to the royal lightning field secreted from the scaly leaves of the Big Yellow Duck Crown Pineapple.”

“It’s just amazing.”

Locke thought of something. Since lightning bees and electric ants can evolve by sucking certain substances on the surface of the leaves of the giant yellow duck crown pineapple, then the three-eyed tiger-eye cat transformed into a two-ring creature, was it also because it consumed some plants in the natural environment at that time?

Is that demonic plant extinct now, or does it still exist?
If it is extinct, then it would be very difficult for me to transform the bloodline of the three-eyed tiger-eyed cat to the second ring level.

Unless you combine archaeology and breeding to directly revive that ancient magical plant.

Another point, Locke said, looking at the large yellow duck and crown pineapple in front of him. “Basic research does always lead to unexpected discoveries.”

“The symbiotic relationship between magical plants and magical creatures isn’t just about enhancing their reproductive abilities; it can also manifest in many other aspects, such as allowing the symbiotic magical creatures to evolve or transform in certain specific ways.”

“The natural magical components secreted by the giant yellow duck crown pineapple are an example of this. So, if I continue this kind of research, I’ll be able to discover more magical plants that can help magical creatures evolve their bloodlines.”

Locke pondered, “If I can help the Three-Eyed Tiger-Eye Cat bloodline evolve, will this project be considered a first-class fund project at the Institute of True Knowledge, or even a special-class funding project?”

“Let’s take it one step at a time.”

“Adapt to circumstances.”

There are still too many unknown things about Jinmian Mountain, and what I have seen so far is just the tip of the iceberg.

(End of this chapter)