Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 658

Chapter 655: Doubts in the Mortal Era and the Construction of the Abyssal Ecological Community

Chapter 655: Doubts and Structures of the Mortal Era
A dark sun has appeared in the center of the city. The entire city will enter a different dimension with this dark sun.

Locke looked up at the alien space and saw that it was a completely dark world. In the darkness, there seemed to be tentacles as huge as stars moving.

An angel descended from the sky. After she landed, the sacred golden angel disappeared, and Witch Xia Li walked out from the angel. She glanced at Locke. “Huh? Locke, what are you doing? Let’s go.”

“The city is about to fall into that strange space.”

Locke was about to leave, but he just stood there, looking at the mausoleum of the princess’s bedroom, a thoughtful look on his face. “Wait a minute, Senior Sister. Actually, I have a question.”

Witch Charlie was stunned for a moment. “Question? Do you have any new discoveries? But it’s too late. The city is about to fall into that dangerous realm. The two dark wizards have already used the Underworld Ferryman to leave.”

“If we don’t leave now, we will probably fall into that space along with this city.”

Locke looked at the statue of the princess in the mausoleum and frowned.

If I remember correctly, this bedroom is located in the center of the city. It is the resting place of the Loom Princess and also the place where her echoes are stored.

Locke walked to the center of the bedroom, where the princess’s coffin was placed. It was a coffin as tall as a person.

Locke placed his hand on the coffin, and suddenly he realized that this was a two-ring witchcraft coffin. Even after 70,000 years of historical changes, it still retained its basic functions because it had been in this well-preserved tomb.

It’s just not as good as before.

But even so, unless it is opened violently, there is absolutely no possibility for Locke to open it.

Locke tried to put it into the astral ring, but who knew that the coffin was connected to the city’s foundation and could not be taken away at all.

The foundation of this mausoleum city is probably connected into one piece.

Witch Xia Li looked at Locke and said, “Junior brother, what happened?”

Locke said, “I feel like something’s wrong. The logic doesn’t make sense.”

Witch Charlie glanced at Locke’s left wrist. Because he was in a very dangerous situation before, Locke had already taken off the Angel’s Tear bracelet on his wrist.

Witch Xia Li looked back at the black sun rising from the city and gritted her teeth. “Although this is our first meeting, we feel like we’ve known each other for a long time. I trust the Lord Throne’s judgment of you, so from the beginning, I was certain of your abilities.”

“Okay. I believe you.”

“As an archaeologist, any doubts you uncover at the site need to be thoroughly investigated. Too many archaeologists, because they don’t do this, end up completely mistaking their research direction, wasting most of their lives on the wrong research direction.”

Witch Charlie took out a magic key from her star ring. The magic key was about the size of a broom.

“This is the Hector Key, a second-ring magic weapon that can only be used three times, but it can open all second-ring and lower magic locks in this world. There is only one chance left.”

“I’ll give it to you.”

“Only by using this magic weapon can we make it in time.”

Locke said, “Senior Sister?”

Witch Charlie said, “You possess super intuition, so I must trust your instincts. Most importantly, what does your archaeology codex tell you? My codex says: The first essential point of archaeology is to learn to ask questions and not let go of any doubts.”

“There was once an archaeologist who misidentified a civilization as a race because he found a gigantic skull. It was later discovered that it was just a group of giant slaves of that race.”

“There are also archaeologists who, after discovering wizard ruins, did not conduct detailed stratigraphic investigations. As a result, they failed to discover another wizard ruin beneath that ruin, and thus mistakenly attributed that ruin to the wrong era.”

“If we go in the wrong direction, it could very well lead our archaeological research over the next 50 years astray. If that happens, our field of archaeology will be ruined.”

Witch Charlie said warily, “Junior Brother, as your elder, I must tell you that archaeology is different from botany and potions. Due to the non-repeatability of excavations and the long verification cycle of archaeology, the direction of archaeology must be determined carefully.”

“For other crops, at most a few years of research will be wasted, and it will soon be discovered that the research direction is wrong.”

“But for archaeological research, once the direction is wrong at the beginning, it will lead to the wrong research direction for 30 to 50 years. Especially since this ruins is about to disappear, the major article we conduct on the ruins investigation is even more important.”

“I don’t want a problem to be discovered due to our negligence, but because we didn’t investigate it in depth, it would mislead us and all the wizards involved later.”

Witch Charlie placed the key on the coffin, and immediately there came from inside the coffin the sound of some light magic lock being unlocked.

“Alright. It’s open. You don’t have to pay me. It’s a joint excavation after all.”

Locke said to her: “Senior Sister, thank you for your trust in me.”

I didn’t expect that Witch Charlie would directly use the last chance to use the second-ring magic weapon to verify this idea for me. I just expressed my doubt.

It may also be because of her rigor as an archaeologist.

Locke pushed open the coffin, looked inside, and was stunned for a moment.

There was nothing in it.

Locke immediately suspected that this was a fake tomb. “Is this a fake tomb?”

Witch Charlotte shook her head slightly. “The Age of Stars is a long time, and there are many magical kingdoms.”

“The customs and systems may be completely different.”

“But… judging by the remains from the Age of Stars that have been excavated so far, this should be the true main tomb chamber. Look at that dehydrated, carbonized demonic plant in front of the coffin. It’s a cornflower wreath.”

“It’s used to protect the main coffin.”

“This kind of magical plant is extremely rare. In the Age of Stars, the Magic Kingdom’s ability to mobilize resources was not as great as that of the major wizard academies today. So, logically speaking, this is a real coffin.”

“And, you see… there are traces of resonant magic here. This means that the resonant sound that erupted from the city center earlier… originated from here.”

Locke’s face was serious. “If this is the real coffin of the Loom Princess, then why is it empty?”

“Where’s the princess?”

“Where’s the princess’s response?”

“Will that historical boundary spell consume the princess’s echo?”

Witch Charlotte frowned, wanting to speak but stopping herself. “Given the Grandmaster’s attitude towards the princess, it’s unlikely he would completely consume her resonance. However, a First Ring wizard’s resonance couldn’t possibly last that long, so it must have been specially processed to last for seventy thousand years.”

“Therefore, I am more inclined to believe that special treatment may have been done…”

“Junior brother? What are you doing?”

Locke jumped directly into the coffin, frowning. He squatted down and stroked the surface of the coffin with his fingers. “Perhaps, there has never been an echo in here. This echo may be problematic.”

Locke used his hand to remove a half-rotten magic cloth covering the coffin, and then he and Witch Charlie’s pupils suddenly shrank.

Because, under the cloth, there was a line of text left – ‘Ezra Clarkson, I saw everything you did in this tomb – Maxwell Wizard left his name here!’

Witch Charlotte was stunned when she saw the two unfamiliar names. “Maxwell? Ezra Clarkson? Who are they? Isn’t this the tomb of the Princess of the Loom? Why is there no princess in her final resting place, but two unfamiliar names and a strange sentence?”

Locke said, “Look, there’s also a pig’s head pattern he drew.”

Following Witch Ekaterina, Witch Charlie, who always had a serious temperament, also had a strange look on her face at this moment, because there was indeed a wizard on the coffin, and a laughing pig head pattern was carved on it.

You know what, this pig head pattern is quite cute.

Moreover, looking at the traces, it doesn’t look like the magic technology of this era, it seems to be quite old.

This is also an antique.

It just doesn’t match the history of this mausoleum, it should be from two different eras.

Witch Charlotte immediately examined the remaining items and locations within the coffin, but found nothing further. “According to the clues we’ve uncovered along the way, a second-ring wizard cannot enter this city. Only a first-ring wizard can.”

“But we, along with four great archaeology professors, entered this city together, which was extremely dangerous, and we left many traces along the way. Could someone have sneaked into this mausoleum and stolen the princess without anyone noticing?”

“wrong.”

Locke said, “The princess was most likely not in here from the beginning. Wizard Maxwell must have entered this tomb in another era and saw or obtained some secret, so he left a message here, saying that he saw through Ezra Clarkson’s trick.”

“Ezra Clarkson is the wizard of the Tower of the Black Sun. That’s right. My guess was correct. The curse of expulsion on King Otto is actually quite weak, otherwise it wouldn’t have been broken by the four of us, and his reputation is already known to us.”

“If the curse of expulsion still wants to expel us, then we four archaeological wizards must be completely eliminated. Otherwise, if we are allowed out, we will quickly recover the missing piece of history from the Age of Stars.”

“Restore the nameless king’s reputation and complete the missing past of the wizarding world.”

“But this curse of expulsion not only didn’t affect the four of us, but it affected this city instead.”

“That expulsion curse is much more powerful than the expulsion curse we have fought against several times in the historical boundary curse space.” Locke said.

Witch Charlie swallowed. “You mean…”

Locke said, “I suspect there are two expulsion curses within this mausoleum. One is for King Otto, and the other is for Princess Loom.”

“I finally understand where the incongruity lies. Let me ask you, we know King Otto, his last name, and his family. So do we know the last name and family of the Loom Princess?”

Witch Charlotte was stunned and shook her head. “But we’re clearly using the princess’s echo. We learned so many names in the princess’s echo, but hers wasn’t the only one!”

Locke nodded. “Besides, what about the princess’s achievements? What did the princess do? In the historical echoes, the princess is just an appendage of King Otto. The princess looks like an ordinary person. This is even more problematic.”

“Can an ordinary person be the financial backer of our archaeological wizard ancestor? Can he design for 70,000 years and defeat the Tower of the Black Sun after 70,000 years?”

“Then there is only one answer.”

“The princess has also been cursed with expulsion!”

“And the curse of the Black Sun Tower on the princess is greater than the curse on King Otto.”

Witch Charlie was almost driven crazy by Locke’s inference.

They weren’t here to hunt for treasure, but to conduct scientific research, so she was completely brain-dead. “Did the Black Sun Tower’s curse on the princess outweigh the curse on King Otto? The inscriptions the princess left behind previously stated that the Black Sun Tower despised her!”

Locke said, “Ezra Clarkson, the Black Sun Tower’s human agent, has entered this mausoleum and tampered with it. Everything we see here was altered by him. If the Black Sun Tower truly despised him, why would Ezra Clarkson enter this mausoleum and go to such great lengths to use King Otto’s secrets to hide the princess’s secret?”

Witch Charlie shook her head and said, “If that’s the case, why didn’t the Grandmaster mention it?”

“Locke, everything you said is just speculation. There is no direct evidence to prove your point. It is uncertain whether this so-called Maxwell wizard is called this name or not. Maybe he is just a tomb robber, or some other kind of archaeological wizard.”

Locke’s tone softened slightly. “Senior Sister, this is just my speculation.”

“But the two expulsion curses are true. It’s also true that the expulsion curse on the princess should be more severe than the expulsion curse on the nameless king.”

“The Grandmaster didn’t say anything… perhaps he didn’t dare, couldn’t.” Locke recalled the young wizard’s words and actions. “His greatest hope in this matter was that I would inherit King Otto’s legacy.”

Witch Xia Li’s face lit up with joy. “Inheritance? Very well… Go back and tell the teacher, he will definitely be very happy.”

“With your help, the teacher might be able to open another archaeology research group, and she can just be a figurehead.”

Locke said, “Sister, the point is that I think that in the eyes of the Black Sun Tower, the threat posed by the Loom Princess should be greater than that posed by King Otto!”

“The creation of King Otto’s mortal age itself is very strange to me.”

“King Otto simply lived under the rule of an undead lich since childhood, and as a young man he had to defeat his ancestor, who had lived four lifetimes. What I’m saying is that King Otto must have received help from the Black Sun Tower in his early years.”

“Furthermore, he should have a partner by his side, perhaps the princess. That would be strange, considering the weak and useless princess we saw in the historical re-enactment. If the princess could defeat the Tower of the Black Sun, she shouldn’t have done nothing during the Echo.”

“King Otto insisted on separating power from authority, but why did he suddenly envision an age of mortals? Why would he trust the power of mortals…” Locke pondered. “If he didn’t believe that wizards could simply transform themselves into liches, why would he abandon wizards and completely embrace mortals?”

“There’s an inexplicable leap in logic here because the truth has been distorted. Also, the Black Sun Tower’s reaction is far too extreme.”

Locke found more logical loopholes. “The Helios Imperial Court was already fragmented. Even if they did nothing, it was only a matter of time before the Helios Imperial Court fell apart.”

“The Tower of the Black Sun does not need to intervene.”

Witch Charlotte pondered, “Indeed, if the Tower of Black Sun was resisting the advent of the Mortal Age, then King Otto’s Mortal Age would have failed long ago. Are they going to personally take action because they’re afraid of a Mortal Age that’s already collapsed?”

“Of course, it could also be that the Black Sun Tower has a habit of personally taking action.”

Locke said, “But the Tower of Black Sun didn’t personally take action against King Otto’s ancestor, the Undead Lich King. Instead, it used King Otto. Similarly, the Undead rulers, one of the four major problems of that era, were all defeated by King Otto, who was supported by the Tower of Black Sun and led his troops.”

“That’s the first half of the historical re-enactment, but the logic suddenly changes in the second half. The Tower of the Black Sun frequently and directly interferes with the world, as if it were forced into a desperate situation… But based on the historical content we understand, it’s impossible for the Tower of the Black Sun to be forced into that situation by the Mortal Era and the [Heliotus Imperial Court].”

Locke fell into deep thought. “We need to learn more about the relationship between the Black Sun Tower and the Age of Stars, as well as the specific methods by which the Black Sun Tower governs the Age of Stars, before we can further compare and reveal the truth.”

“Based on the current clues, I believe that the princess may have been more exposed to things that the Black Sun Tower could not accept during the Age of Stars than King Otto.”

“That thing is likely related to the way the Black Sun Tower ruled the Age of Stars. It may also be related to the reason why the Black Sun Tower has disappeared.”

Witch Charlotte suddenly looked up outside the bedroom and urged, “We really need to leave. I’ve just used the historical projection spell model to copy everything here. I’ve also copied the general outline of the entire city. Combined with the historical projections copied by the two dark wizards, we should be able to put together a rough replica.”

“Let’s leave here first and research the mystery. If we both fall into that black sun, even if we learn the truth, we won’t be able to publish it and tell the world!”

Locke nodded, but frowned. “If I can’t figure out the key questions in this mausoleum, it will be even more difficult to figure them out after I leave.”

“The princess is a man of great talent and vision, she must be no ordinary person.”

‘Otherwise, she would not have been able to defeat the Black Sun Tower. If she had anticipated that the Black Sun Tower would enter her mausoleum, would she have done anything? What should she do to ensure that the information passed on to future generations would not be tampered with?’

‘Take a gamble.’

Locke summoned the abyss devourer Sea Golden Sand, and at the same time Sea Golden Sand transformed into a King Fern Spear, and then stabbed towards the statue of the princess in the bedroom.

“Bang~”

The statue instantly turned into powder.

Witch Charlie was startled. “Brother? Are you crazy? Why are you destroying cultural relics?”

Locke said: “I can’t care less!”

“No?”

Locke poked at the coffin beside him, and immediately a big hole was poked in the coffin. Although this was a two-ring magic weapon, it had long been unstable due to the passage of time.

I didn’t use brute force to destroy it before because I just didn’t want to damage the ancient artifacts.

Locke used the Golden Fern Gun to continuously destroy the coffin. Locke felt it was too late, so he threw ten diamond meatballs down and used the Golden Eye Grass to protect himself and Witch Charlie.

The next moment, the coffin finally split in the middle, and a deerskin book about magical creatures flew away.

Locke quickly took the book and looked at the words written on the magical creature’s hide. He quickly read out: “The four major problems of the Star Age – immortal rulers, eternal war among the major kingdoms, and the reduction of all resources caused by the Little Ice Age…”

“But behind these four questions lies the real problem. I’ve discovered that the real problem lies with the Tower of Black Sun. I hereby warn all future magical kingdoms: Do not trust the Tower of Black Sun. I will usher in a new era…”

The next moment, the entire piece of magical creature deerskin burned with black flames, and in the next instant, the deerskin was completely burned.

Locke only had time to read one-tenth of the content…

Locke and Witch Charlie looked at each other, and there was silence for a moment.

It was not until this moment that they realized that they had greatly underestimated the secrets contained in this tomb city.

The secret was even restricted and hidden many times.

It is something that the two first-ring wizards currently cannot reach.

Locke grabbed Witch Charlie and flew into the sky. “Let’s leave first. For now, this is all we can do. As archaeological wizards, at least we haven’t violated our duties by discovering that the entire tomb has been tampered with.”

Locke took her and flew towards the sky, his pupils turning into golden vertical pupils, and the blood power in his body resonated with the black sun under his feet.

At the same time, Black Sun, who had originally not cared about them, now actually had a certain attraction to the two of them.

Don’t let the two leave.

“Damn it, are you going to get rid of us too?” Locke gritted his teeth and used the Porcelain Moon Growth. Suddenly, a moon rose in the sky, reflecting the past and present.

All the demonic plants in the city rioted in an instant.

The magical power generated by this turned into a thrust, pushing Locke and Witch Charlotte out.

The black sun swallowed the entire city. A magic dragon seemed to emerge from the black sun, glanced at Locke, and then drilled back into the black sun.

Locke gritted his teeth and recited the ritual magic he had prepared before flying away. With the help of the dimensional power of the Emerald Dream, he summoned the torrent of spirits and the power of giant plants in the dream.

Two abyss-devouring sea golden sands appeared above his head, and at the same time, due to the power of gigantic growth, they turned into a mountain.

Locke discovered that using the Porcelain Moon to grow and resonate with the power of the Emerald Dream seemed to allow him to use more of the power of the Emerald Dream, so the ordinary gigantism was also enhanced at this moment.

Witch Charlie looked at Locke in confusion.

Locke chanted a spell, and the two golden fern spears combined together to form a brilliant fern spear as big as a hill!

The terrifying demonic pressure fell towards the black sun below like a meteorite.

Locke poured all his magical power into the brilliant fern spear. “Whatever secrets the Black Sun Tower may be hiding, I will eventually uncover them. Let me leave a natural mark on this city.”

The Glorious Fern Lance fell under the curse of expulsion, entered the black sun, and landed in the city. At the same time, it also entered the mysterious space along with the mausoleum city.

The roots of the Glorious Fern Spear’s grip quickly spread out in all directions, absorbing the surrounding energy to nourish itself.

The Brilliant Fern Lance is composed of Abyssal Devourers and can survive by absorbing Abyssal Energy.

Therefore, Locke simultaneously submerged his porcelain moon into the river of abyss, and then sent the porcelain moon into that world, hanging it in the sky above the city, turning it into a moon, shining on the brilliant fern spear to ensure that the fern spear would not be destroyed.

Locke said to Witch Charlotte, “This will give me the possibility to retrieve this city with my Brilliant Fern Lance after I become a high-level wizard.”

Witch Charlotte nodded. “I didn’t expect your botany skills to be so powerful that you could actually do something like this.”

Locke nodded slightly.

It is mainly composed of abyssal gold sand, which has special autotrophic organs and can absorb abyssal energy to survive, just like plants growing under the sun.

And this is the river of the abyss, and the growth of the porcelain moon can store and refract the energy of the abyss.

When all these conditions are met, Locke can use this combination to launch his glorious fern spear on the tomb city.

Moreover, Locke could vaguely see from looking down that a small abyss ecosystem had formed around the glorious fern spear that had turned into a hill and was inserted into the city.

Because when the Porcelain Moon grew into the Abyss River and absorbed the river water, it also sucked in a lot of primitive worms. Therefore, these primitive worms followed the moonlight into its own brilliant fern spear and used it as its habitat.

A small abyssal ecological community was formed in a very short period of time.

“It’s like fighting fire with fire,” Locke pondered. “The only ecosystem that has a chance of remaining within the special space of the Black Sun Tower and forming a connection with me in the future is the Abyssal Ecosystem.”

Witch Xia Li said, “It’s a pity that you put so much thought and resources into the Porcelain Moon. Now you’ve abandoned it in the city, and you don’t feel bad at all.”

Locke and Witch Charlotte are now flying over the Abyss River.

Locke smiled and said, “It’s a bit of a pity. But from my current point of view, there are too many mistakes in that porcelain moon growth. I have a better idea.”

“So, it needs to be reconstructed. I won’t feel too bad about sending it in.”

“Also, through the experiment just now, I suddenly realized that my Mirror Moon system can now attempt to construct a unique ecosystem.”

(End of this chapter)