Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 553

Chapter 550: Brilliant Fern Spear and Giant Magic Plant

Chapter 550: The Glorious Fern Spear and the Giant Magic Plant
Locke opened his eyes and saw that he was lying on a bed covered with soft velvet sheets. The bed frame was made of precious magic gold, carved with snakes and lions, and the four golden pillars were covered with laurel vines.

A half-dragon servant, upon seeing Locke stand up, immediately knelt down and saluted him, “You are awake, Master Augustine.”

Locke rubbed his eyebrows and looked at the bright sunlight that shone through the gilded window and projected onto the ground, forming a colorful light.

Magic gold is the masterpiece of alchemists. Magic gold made with different techniques has special functions and effects, but they all have one common characteristic: the nature of gold is immutable and difficult to be changed by external forces. Therefore, it has always been the first magical material chosen by high-level wizards for their expensive furniture.

It is a high-end luxury item that a first-ring wizard cannot afford.

Locke ran his fingertips over the magical gold of the bed frame. “Where is this? How long have I been sleeping?”

The half-dragon servant said to Locke, “Respected Master Augustine, this is the lounge where Master Catherine entertains guests. You have been sleeping here for a week.”

Locke frowned slightly. It seemed that the speed of time in the Emerald Dream was different from that in the wizarding world. He only felt that half a day had passed in the Emerald Dream, but a week had passed in the wizarding world.

No wonder, wizards who fall into the Emerald Sleep cannot control how long they have slept.

Locke even suspected that the ratio of the time flow rate in the Emerald Dream and the wizarding world was not fixed. After all, the Emerald Dream was an idealistic world.

Therefore, every time you fall into the [Emerald Sleep], it is indeed an act that contains relative danger.

Ritual magic is always very dangerous.

Locke spread out his right hand, and saw a strange hexagonal seed floating in the palm of his hand. It looked like a crystal, like the divine nature possessed by gods in the fairy tales of the wizarding world, or the dragon crystal that stored the dragon soul of a dragon.

This is the seed of the ancient tree of life.

At the same time, Locke spread out his left hand, and saw a large amount of spirit in it. That was part of Isisdal’s spirit. At this time, this part of the spirit passed through the dream gate in his sea of consciousness and returned to the Emerald Dream.

After all, if it is not in the Emerald Dream, this part of the soul will be lost over time and eroded by the physical rules of the wizarding world.

In the Material Plane, the soul/spirit is extremely vulnerable without the protection of a body or shell.

But as long as Locke summons this part of the soul, this part of the soul will automatically be injected into the magic plant that Locke wants to inject. Although there will be losses, it can be used for a long time.

Moreover, Locke could sense that summoning the power of Isisdal’s spirit to strengthen his own magic plants did not count as using ritual magic.

“This is a gift from Isisdal herself, not from the Emerald Dream, so it cannot be counted as part of the transaction.”

“Only when I use ritual magic to summon the power of spirits will I have to pay a price.”

Locke was thinking, and at this moment he found some mysterious knowledge appearing in his mind – the sacred space specific to all ritual magic, that is, the magic circle.

Ritual magic is a completely closed field magic, so the construction basis of its rune array is a circle, which is the sacred circle.

It was a creation from the School of Spells and was deeply embedded in the wizards’ power system. Locke realized that if the wizard from the School of Spells who created the Sacred Circle were still alive, his status in the wizarding world should not be low. He just didn’t know whether he was a three-ring wizard, a four-ring wizard, or even higher.

But the sacred space he invented, the magic circle, has permeated the ritual magic of wizards.

Locke also obtained the complete rune array diagram in his consciousness to construct the ritual magic to summon the power of the Emerald Dream.

At the same time, he also knew that after he had helped the Emerald Dream through the trial and purified Isisdal in advance, preventing Isisdal from becoming a second-ring or even third-ring nightmare, he received gratitude and gifts from the Emerald Dream.

That is the special authority of the power of the Emerald Dream – the enlargement of the magic plant!

Locke asked the half-dragon maid, “Where is the mentor?”

The half-dragon maid bowed her head to Locke and said respectfully, “My master has left the castle. She said that if you wake up, you can do whatever you want.”

“Just don’t go into the corridor in front of the round table meeting room. There are many second-ring magic plants, and even third-ring magic plants, in that corridor. It will be very dangerous if you get close.”

The half-dragon maid looked at Locke with admiration. “My master usually places a Red Devil on the outermost edge of that corridor to prevent others from entering.”

“It’s just to warn others.”

“The Master always loves dangerous and powerful things and regards them as beautiful. However, you possess the Immortal Dragon Scales, so it is actually difficult for you to die.”

The half-dragon maid said, “Legend has it that the immortal dragon scales possess special powers.”

Of course Locke knew that the immortal dragon scales of a true dragon had the power to prevent death, but he didn’t want to test the limit of the immortal dragon scales at all.

If a wizard possesses the Immortal Dragon Scale, he can try to use it to prevent the arrival of death. That is, after reaching the official wizard lifespan limit of 500 years, he can still use the Immortal Dragon Scale to maintain his own lifespan. According to Locke’s calculations, with the Immortal Dragon Scale, his lifespan has at least doubled.

Moreover, even after a thousand years, he could use the immortal dragon scales to more easily find ways to prolong his life.

But he didn’t want the old man to hang himself, so he took the initiative to test the limits of the immortal dragon scales.

After all, his own mysterious dragon bloodline is only at the first level of the Qi transformation stage.

Locke said to the maid, “Can I borrow a bay leaf or an oak leaf?”

“Is there another glass of water?”

The half-dragon maid was stunned for a moment, then said, “Of course.”

“Besides, Queen Catherine said that from now on I will follow you and serve you. You can deploy me at will.”

Locke glanced at the half-dragon maid in confusion. This was equivalent to Witch Catherine assigning herself a formal wizard-level guard, just like Senior Brother Anthony once ordered Witch Claudia to obey his orders.

Later, Witch Claudia followed him out of the Six Towers and returned to the Filaid family.

It’s just that the relationship between him and Anthony is special, but he is just an ordinary researcher in the research group of Witch Catherine. He has never heard that Witch Catherine would assign wizards to serve other researchers in the Academy of True Knowledge.

Locke nodded slightly. “I see. What’s your name?”

The half-dragon maid said respectfully, “I am Ginny, a half-dragon red dragon from the Flame Song clan.”

“I am a member of the master’s family.”

Locke gave her a puzzled look. “Isn’t the mentor a bloodline wizard? How could he have a dependent race?”

The subordinate race is a thing that is produced due to the peculiarity of the great magic of the bloodline wizard. Logically speaking, the great magic of the botanical wizard will not produce subordinate races, but will have other functions and powers.

Ginny saluted Locke and said, “Master Augustine, the master possesses the blood power of a true dragon. With this blood power alone, she is equivalent to a three-ring blood wizard.”

Locke suddenly realized.

That means that Witch Ekaterina is both a third-ring botanical wizard and a third-ring bloodline wizard.

However, Locke was still very curious about the botanical wizards and their dependent races. He wondered whether these dependent races were part of the great magic of the witch Catherine.

Things like permanent defensive force fields and extreme magic will be upgraded as the wizard advances, and they are the trump cards that every wizard has.

Logically speaking, the great magic of witch Catherine has reached a height that is impossible for the great magic of second-ring wizards to reach.

Ginny fetched a bay leaf, an oak leaf, a half-filled wooden cup of water, and a piece of magic chalk.

There was no other way. I had just learned ritual magic, so naturally I wasn’t as skilled as those wizards who had been in the first ring crystallization stage for years in using ritual magic. They didn’t need to use magic chalk or something like that, and could use magic to construct a ritual magic circle in mid-air.

According to his memory, Locke drew two concentric circles on the ground with white magic chalk, and quickly wrote a line of rune characters in the concentric circles. As he finished writing, this [sacred space], that is, the magic circle, began to light up with magical light.

This magic circle can isolate the inside and outside, creating a magical field that will not be disturbed.

At the same time, Locke drew a more complex magic rune array within the magic circle, placed a laurel leaf on the left, an oak leaf on the right, and a cup of water in the middle.

Locke then recited a spell, and at the end, he said: “Memory is the soul of plants. Every root that grows downwards is searching for its former dreamland.”

The next moment, a world force that did not belong to the wizarding world descended.

Locke took out the Sparkling Sea Sand from the Star Ring. Immediately, this magical plant was infused with the essences of countless plants from the Emerald Dream. The Sparkling Sea Sand quickly grew larger, becoming twice its size.

This is the special privilege given to you by the Emerald Dream.

Ordinary botanical wizards can only use ritual magic to summon plant spirits and strengthen their magical plants, but the Emerald Dream gives them the possibility to use the world power of the Emerald Dream more deeply in the main material plane.

That is to use ritual magic to summon the power of the world and bless the magical plants, forming a special phenomenon in the Emerald Dream. Those plants are blessed by the power of the world and become huge.

That is to magnify the power of a magic plant twice out of thin air.

But because this is not the Emerald Dream after all, but the Wizarding World, the most it can do is double its size, and there is a time limit of one minute.

Locke looked at the shiny sea sand in his hand, which had become as tall as two people and very thick, and was extremely satisfied. The sea sand was already like a pagoda.

The original sea sand has been strengthened by itself, reaching a height that it could not have reached originally.

In a sense, he had already made great progress in developing the magical plant Sea Sand, which was beyond the reach of ordinary botanical wizards.

Locke snapped his fingers with his right hand, and suddenly the huge tree fern sea sand automatically transformed into a golden-green spiral spear, every detail of which showed its terrifyingness.

Locke summoned the golden sands of the Frozen Sea again. Within this minute, whatever magic plants he used would be doubled in size.

Locke turned the golden sands of the ice sea into a spiral spear.

Two huge spiral spears transformed from tree ferns floated in the air, emitting oppressive and dangerous magical pressure in all directions.

Ginny looked at Locke with admiration. “Amazing! Master Augustine, is this the ritual magic of the first crystallization stage?”

“Today, there is such a terrifying demonic pressure.”

Locke took out the Griffin Cube and pressed the center of the Cube with his thumb. The Griffin Cube automatically rotated, and countless small cubes rolled over. Then these small cubes turned into permanent defensive force fields simulated by alchemists, covering the spiral spear formed by the shining sea sand.

This is the Griffin Cube that Director Morrison gave to himself in order to silence him.

Using the Griffin Cube, one can slightly break the rule that only wizards have permanent defensive force fields, allowing one of one of his magic plants to also have a similar permanent defensive force field.

At this time, Locke waved his hand and added the power of Mist to the two spiral spears. The various magics superimposed together had superimposed the two spiral spears to an incredible level.

Magical lightning lingered on the two spiral spears.

The demonic pressure on Locke was also transformed into dragon might, which was then added to the two spears. At the same time, the abyss energy equivalent to 1500 contained in Locke’s eyes was also added to the two spears.

Then, at the moment when the magic pressure of the two tree fern sea sands reached an incredible level, Locke suddenly recited a spell, and a spell model hit the two spiral spears at the same time – the same spirit and branches!
That was, Locke used the magic of diamond flesh.

But now, he had an idea and used it directly on the two spiral spears. The two spiral spears were connected by the same energy and the energy was connected to each other.

Immediately afterwards, the two spiral spears suddenly combined together, entangled with each other, and turned into a spiral spear about as tall as four people.

Its demonic pressure reached an incredible level.

It seems to have reached a level that individual magic compression cannot achieve.

Maid Ginny couldn’t even stand under this magical pressure and could only hold on to the wall, sweat dripping down her forehead.

“Is this really the magic that a first-ring wizard can unleash?”

Locke watched this scene with satisfaction. With his skillful use of ritual magic and various magic combinations he already had, he finally made up for his biggest shortcoming at the moment, the insufficient output of conventional magic.

Although this magic was created by combining various magics, the spell model of [Golden Fern Spear] was not modified.

But there are many kinds of innovation. Principle innovation and structural innovation are innovations, and combination innovation is also innovation, and it is innovation at the more important application level.

You can also choose a new spell name.

Locke thought for a moment. “Let’s call it the Brilliant Fern Lance.”

“A new magic created by combining ritual magic, the Emerald Dream’s special authority for enlargement of magical plants, the power of Mist, the power of the same blood, the might of the dragon, the energy of the abyss, and the two special trees I cultivated, the sea sand.”

“This is my most powerful offensive magic so far.”

Locke’s power system can currently be divided into four types: botanical spells, abyssal energy, bloodline power centered on the Scorpion Woman Ring, true blood, and dragon bloodline, and archaeological spells based on identifying the Mordor language.

Among them, in terms of attack magic, the Glorious Fern Lance is currently the limit of the superposition of attack magic, while his own defense magic is achieved by relying on the Golden Eye Grass and photosynthesis, as well as the Power of Mist and Immortal Dragon Scales.

The consumables are Diamond Succulent, the mobility is Big Green Leaf Dragonbird and Plant Mimicry: Green Dragon, and the reconnaissance is Shadow Eye Grass.

At the same time, he can also use the beast body, two berserker movements and boiling blood to strengthen his body.

In addition, there are auxiliary means such as blood flame, blood harmony, blood flame enchantment, and various archaeological magic.

In short, at present, his spell library is already very rich and has various abilities, enough to deal with various emergencies.

At the same time, his own panel has become very exaggerated. He has a magic pressure of 9045, plus the abyss energy and the ferocious beast panel. It can be said that if he were to face the great wizard Sura now, if the other party did not use the White Dragon Tower, he would not be inferior to him.

Although the great wizard Sura possesses the bloodline of the Dark Cave Scorpion Girl and hundreds of first-ring magical creatures.

Now, Locke has increased his strength to a level that he could not contend with six months ago because he has been in Yunze Wetland for four and a half months.

A minute later, Locke felt that the world power that entered his body was quickly leaving, and his brilliant fern spear was like a house with its foundation pulled out, quickly collapsing.

Locke raised his hand and put the two tree ferns into his star ring, while he sighed slightly in his heart.

He had just obtained the power of the world, and he actually had the illusion that heaven and earth were on the same page with him, and that his unparalleled power could make him his enemy.

That’s a very strange state.

With the blessing of the power of the world, you will fall into an illusion that standing behind you is not just yourself, but the whole world.

Locke fell into deep thought. “Ritual magic is indeed the youthful version of ultimate magic. Based on what I saw when Great Wizard Sura advanced to the Second Ring, creating ultimate magic at the Second Ring level and gaining one’s own magical source allows one to constantly maintain a state of unified power between heaven and earth, enabling previously unattainable heights to become possible, thus achieving a second transcendence of one’s race’s soul limits.”

“But ritual magic, by borrowing power, can temporarily achieve this state. In other words, a wizard using ritual magic can temporarily experience the second ring experience card.”

Because Locke had watched the great magic and the entire process of two first-ring crystallized wizards failing to advance to the second ring in advance, he now had a fundamental understanding of the great magic and ritual magic.

Locke looked at Ginny and asked, “Ginny, which came first, the maximal magic or the ritual magic?”

Ginny was stunned for a moment, then said respectfully to Locke: “Master Augustine, the Great Magic comes out first, and then the Ritual Magic appears.”

“It’s different from what most wizards know. Great magic first appeared, and then there were high-ring wizards. In order to strengthen the power of us young first-ring wizards, ritual magic was developed specifically for us.”

“He is a high-level wizard from the School of Summoning, a big shot in the Star Domain Sea.”

“Later, another high-level wizard in the Star Domain Sea added the Book of Rituals to the ritual magic. Then, another high-level wizard added the sacred space – the magic circle – to ensure the safety of the ritual magic.”

“I don’t know much about this, but those wizards who can deeply participate in the wizarding magic level have surpassed the level of third-ring wizards, or even fourth-ring wizards.” Ginny said, “This is what I heard from my master.”

“For specific details, you can ask my master, Witch Ekaterina, when you have the chance.”

The Star Sea, and the Star Sea!
Locke realized that the Star Sea was the pinnacle of magical civilization and the core of the wizarding world.

The Star Sea hangs high above the fifty-three wizarding lands in the eastern boundary, and is constantly exploring the limits of magic and expanding the magic system.

Locke said, “Then my guess was right.”

Locke said, “Ritual magic can’t just be something developed by the high-ring wizards of the Star Domain Sea to increase the combat effectiveness of the first-ring crystallized wizards. They shouldn’t be so bored. Such trivial matters are not something they should do.”

“Ritual magic is an experience card for extreme magic.”

“Ritual magic was probably created by high-level wizards to make it easier for first-level wizards to advance to second-level. My understanding and use of extreme magic have been further deepened when I used ritual magic.”

Locke whispered, “Using ritual magic is the best opportunity for a First Ring wizard to observe the window of world power.”

“Most first-ring wizards simply regard ritual magic as their trump card. This is absolutely a mistake.”

“The greatest use of ritual magic isn’t against enemies, but… for learning.”

In this way, those special planes in the endless void where the world will is particularly active have been collectively fooled by the high-level wizards in the wizarding world.

Among the three options provided by Witch Catherine, I chose the Emerald Dream, which had the lowest cost. This was a wise move.

Because if ritual magic is not used primarily for combat but for learning, then choosing the Emerald Dream with the lowest cost is the wisest choice.

Locke dispels the ritual magic.

Suddenly, the magic circle on the ground disappeared.

The laurel leaves and oak leaves, as offerings to the Emerald Dream, also disappeared, along with a cup of water.

Locke said, “But my current understanding may not be correct. I always feel that there is still a step missing.”

“From the first ring to the second ring, I need to break through the limit a second time. This is the second time. It’s very special. The previous limit-breaking was the first time. Once I break through the limit a second time, it means that I will become a multiple-time limit-breaker.”

“I have had multiple transcendent experiences.”

“But wizarding civilization itself is a transcendent civilization. We consider surpassing our own limits as normal, and breaking through the limitations of fate as our job.”

“Let’s continue exploring.”

Locke suddenly realized that he had been sleeping here for a week. “Oh no, then I haven’t clocked in at the lab for a week.”

Locke’s expression changed slightly, “Teacher, have you asked for leave for me?”

Ginny looked at Locke with confusion.

Locke’s heart skipped a beat.

(End of this chapter)