Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 664

Chapter 661: Plundering War! Demonic Black Hole! Demonic Storm!

After Locke completed the contact with Witch Scarlett, he returned to the Ashes Cult on Reef No. 13 in the Jade Flower Enclave, and then contacted Wizard Warwick, Wizard McKinley, Witch Charlie and others, and together they submitted articles to the Star Sea journal “History of One Ring”.

The four people came out of the White Wizard Association on the main island of the Qionghua Enclave. They immediately sighed and lamented that it cost them 80,000 magic stones to submit a manuscript to the Star Domain Ocean.

Wizard McKinley was indignant. At this time, his right hand had been replaced with an alchemical prosthesis, which meant that he could grow another arm.

Although as an archaeological wizard, he is definitely not good at life magic, but for injuries of this degree, Locke can make him grow a new arm in a short period of time.

However, Wizard McKinley seemed to want to try out the feeling of a magic alloy arm, so he directly bought a magic prosthetic arm.

Wizard McKinley said, “Star Sea is really going too far. Just for a single submission, they’re asking for 80,000 magic stones. This is sheer robbery! We’re robbing the colonized planes, and they’re robbing us. Together, all the wealth of our Qionghua Enclave will eventually flow into Star Sea!”

Witch Charlotte couldn’t help but retort. “Most of the magic stones are flowing into the Star Sea. The Star Sea doesn’t need to use such means to harvest you.”

“It’s because the magical tides in the Star Region Sea have been too strong recently, making the transmission of matter and information increasingly difficult.”

Wizard Warwick said, “That’s true. Previously, the handling fee for submitting a manuscript was only 30,000 magic stones, but recently it has increased to 80,000 magic stones. This is due to the recent abnormal continuous price increases.”

Locke suddenly remembered an article he had read in a free general knowledge journal, which said that in order to maintain a constant magic tidal concentration gradient between high-magic areas and low-magic areas, the two areas would naturally produce a barrier force.

That is, a high-magic area will involuntarily rise into the sky and turn into a special area of the world.

In essence, the floating islands in the Qionghua Enclave work on a similar principle.

The higher the magic tidal concentration gradient is, the higher the altitude will be in this world, while the lower the magic tidal concentration gradient is, the lower the altitude will be.

Of course, there are a series of complex conditions involved.

But in short, if the Star Sea really becomes a high-magic area, it will become increasingly difficult for the Star Sea to connect with the other 52 wizarding lands in the eastern boundary.

In the end, it is very likely that the speed of time flow and the rules of the world will be different.

Because the magic tidal concentration gradient between the Star Sea and other wizarding lands in the eastern boundary is too different, an invisible force that refuses contact will be generated between the areas.

Witch Xia Li said, “So this can be considered the birth pangs of reform.”

“The Star Territory Sea is currently carrying out a demonic upgrade plan. Many things in the Eastern Boundary will change, and some things may even change overnight.”

Locke said: “No wonder Xingyuhai wanted to collectively upgrade the magic of fifty-three wizards. If not, Xingyuhai would probably become a lonely family.”

Wizard McKinley shrugged. “The labor pains are only for this era, but for us individual wizards, it’s not labor pains, it’s cutting flesh. Eighty thousand magic stones, split between the four of us, that’s twenty thousand each. My salary at the Ashes Cult is only sixty thousand a month!”

“This is one-third of my salary this month!”

Wizard Warwick coughed, reminding him not to reveal too many school secrets.

Witch Xia Li glanced at them and said, “This income is already quite good in the Qionghua Enclave.”

Locke also nodded.

Although in Yunze Wetland, the average monthly income of a wizard and potion master in the first crystallization stage is about 100,000.

But this is the Viburnum Enclave, and Wizard McKinley is an archaeology wizard.

Although the Ashes Cult only paid him 60,000 a month, he also had other benefits, such as the allocation of entry quotas to the Wizarding Realm and other projects within the academy.

Locke estimated that Wizard McKinley’s monthly income was around $100,000.

But if the other party occasionally discovers some very useful things during archaeological excavations and sells these things or technologies, they may be able to make more money in a short period of time.

A wizard at the first crystallization stage can make a lot of money as long as he works hard in one field long enough.

Warwick and McKinley escorted the two to the wizard’s airship docking station. Warwick said to Locke, “Locke, Charlie, we have now compiled our archaeological findings and submitted them to the One Ring History and the Istorian Archaeology Awards.”

“The return address is Qionghua Enclave, Ashes Esoteric Cult, so I’ll notify you immediately when I get a reply.”

“Thank you both for joining me in exploring the abyss ruins this time.”

“Really? Don’t we need to celebrate?” Wizard Warwick said regretfully. “I’ve prepared some good wizard wine. Strong enough to get us all drunk.”

The value of wizard wine lies in its ability to make a wizard drunk.

This function alone is enough to motivate many wizards to buy it at a high price.

After all, a wizard rarely loses his mind and can speak nonsense. But as long as you have a glass of wizard wine in your hand, you have a reason to speak nonsense or say things you dare not say under normal circumstances.

Afterwards, you can just say that you were drunk and talked nonsense.

Whether you are really drunk or pretending to be drunk

Just for this rather practical function, Rainswamp, the main production area of wizard wine, can make a fortune and develop it into a trillion-dollar magic stone market.

However, Locke had no intention of selling wizard wine. There were indeed many breeders who were in the business of selling and improving wizard wine.

The winemakers who brew wizard wine are themselves a variant of the breeder profession.

But the problem is, according to Locke’s understanding, this is an industry that is even more perverted and class-based than wizard shoes. Basically, if you are not a wizard from some academy in Rain Swamp, you can forget about making money in the wizard wine industry.

You can sell on a small scale, but once you become famous, suppression and destruction will begin.

The power behind it is so powerful and deeply rooted, and it is a wizard-level power, so Locke never thought of encountering this bad luck.

At least in the early stages of the first and second rings, Locke would not consider doing the wizard wine business if his magic level was not high enough.

The water behind this is even deeper and much more complicated than the wizard shoe market.

Locke said to Warwick, “Mr. Warwick, I appreciate your kindness. However, my senior sister and I are busy returning to Jinmaon Mountain in Yunze Wetland to conduct experiments. Your jar of wizard wine will probably make my senior sister and I drunk for seven days.”

“So, we understand.”

Wizard Warwick smiled and said, “It is indeed a waste of time. In that case, I will practice my profession here. We will continue to cooperate if there is a chance in the future.”

Locke said: “Okay, this cooperation is very pleasant.”

After Locke said goodbye to them, he boarded the wizard airship with Witch Charlotte.

When this huge and bloated airship rose to mid-air and immediately climbed into the sky, Locke looked down at the Qionghua Enclave and saw that the floating island in the Qionghua Enclave was constantly absorbing magical tides from the earth.

The wizard’s airship quickly climbed 50KM, entered the second sky, and then passed through the webway and entered a waterway in the second sky.

The airship is like a boat sailing on a river.

Witch Charlotte was sitting in the free library, opening a magazine and flipping through it idly.

Locke was equally bored and was searching for ecology-related journals or literature in this free reading area.

He sat in a corner of the library, looking out the window through the Golden Crystal of Time, and thought, “I can make the Sea Sands also appear like Pixiu horn spirals, to enhance the power of the Sea Sands.”

“At the same time, whether it’s the Overlord Mark, the Pixiu Horn Spiral, or even the Abyss Devourer, I can actually spread them through the Moon’s gravity.”

“Although Mirror Moon is already sufficient as the essence of my great magic, I believe that my moon magic can still be transformed into a better ecological cycle, gaining higher quality and a more wonderful essence.”

An idea popped into Locke’s mind. “The Moon Magic Mirror can reflect my magic. So, most of my magic can be applied to the magical plants illuminated by the moonlight through the moon’s gravity.”

“By making good use of this mechanism, we may be able to create a better ecosystem.”

“Of course, this also carries a significant risk.” Locke, perusing the ecological literature in his hand, mentally conceived his own grand magic. “Such a large-scale interference with a region’s ecology is bound to cause a massive ecological collapse. I’d better find a plane to conduct relevant ecological experiments.”

“It just so happens that I have a month on the wizard’s airship, so I can carefully think about the relevant great magical ideas.”

“And it would be better to add some energy-locking structures inside my great magic.” Locke walked out of the free reading room and returned to his room in the wizard’s airship. The two return tickets were bought by Wizard Warwick for himself and Witch Charlie.

To thank me for helping him, he cracked the abyss ruins.

He returned to the room and came to the simple laboratory prepared in the room. He took out ten flower pots and prepared to conduct the air plant experiment.

“The deadline for wizard shoe design submissions is in a month, so I have to hurry and create my fourth pair of wizard shoes on the airship to participate in the procurement for the Golden Crown Mountain Demon World War. The details of the Snowcap Pineapple are not perfect yet, so I need to make some revisions.”

“The previous pair of large snow-capped pineapple shoes were just the first version. They need to be optimized within that framework.” Locke recalled the dark wizards from the Twin Demon Realm he had met before. “We need to develop a special design to prepare for the Demon Realm War. It would be great if I could have some dark wizards to experiment with. That would make it much simpler and easier to verify the performance of the wizard shoes.”

“Anyway, we only need to produce the design and samples within a month. So, as long as we can pass the centralized procurement of wizard shoes at Golden Crown Mountain, we can then use the major production bases in the colonial world of Alsace for mass production.”

As long as there is an order, you don’t need to worry about how to process it.

It is unlikely that there will be a situation where there are orders and channels but no processing, especially for a well-developed industrial and commercial society like Mizawa.

Locke looked at the big black diamond pineapple and the big snow-top pineapple in front of him, and waved his hand. Suddenly, the historical projection of ancient flowers appeared next to the two pineapples.

Twenty-eight days later, a notification sounded from the various sound transmission arrays within the wizard airship. ‘Dear fellow wizard passengers, hello.’

“Due to the recent increase in magical tidal concentrations and the improvement of waterways in various wizarding lands, the time required for voyages to and from various locations has been continuously decreasing. It used to take a month to complete the voyage, but now it only takes 28 days, and we’re already nearing the Yunze Wetlands.”

‘Please be prepared, passengers. We expect to arrive at our destination in half a day.’

“The Cloud Cruiser Vocational College and its entire staff express their respect to all the wizard passengers.”

Locke stood in the simple laboratory in his room, slightly surprised. “It’s already 28 days?”

“The time required to travel to and from the wizarding lands in the Eastern Territory is constantly decreasing. Of course, the cost of travel is still very high.”

Because of the special webway and the connection to the Cloud Lake in the Three Lakes, it only takes one month to travel to and from all the wizarding lands in the eastern border.

And if you really don’t take the special webway, but move from one wizard land to another, it will take at least half a year to get from the Qionghua Flying Land to the Yunze Wetland.

A round trip takes a whole year.

In fact, this time scale is the normal time to travel from one wizarding land to other wizarding lands.

Therefore, the Sanze area has become a logistics and freight center and a trading place for various magical resources.

Locke focused his attention on the fifty pineapple plants in front of him.

During these 28 days, he continued to use the finite element breeding method to cultivate subspecies of the giant snow-capped pineapple, and used synthetic magic to explore a better subspecies of the giant snow-capped pineapple with special spiral angles.

This is how fifty subspecies of snowcap pineapple were cultivated.

At this time, Locke raised his right hand, and according to his own design, the magic magnetic field accurately cut off the plant factors he needed from the fifty subspecies of air plants in one ring.

Then, Locke combined these plant factors into a set of plant essences and injected them into the seed of a large snow-capped pineapple.

Then, this big snow-capped pineapple grew out under the effect of Locke’s last moss pith and rapid growth spell model.

This large snowcap pineapple naturally has a wizard’s shoe-like appearance, and the leaves do not show the characteristic spiral angles.

During these 28 days, I mainly made some functional adjustments to the Snowcap Pineapple to better adapt to the scale and intensity of the Demon World War.

I have seen information about the Demon World War before.

In addition, I mainly added two major functions to this pineapple.

The first major function is anti-theft.

The second major function is to conceal the existence of the Pixiu’s spiral angular pattern to prevent it from being discovered by other wizards.

When fighting against the dark wizards of the Twin Demon Realms, the first thing to worry about is having your belongings stolen.

Locke had seen that the wizard shoe manufacturers had come up with many countermeasures to prevent this.

For example, after the wizard shoes are stolen, they will automatically fly back.

Or maybe the wizard shoes need to be bound to specific magic fluctuations, otherwise they cannot be used.

Or use enchantment to make stealing more difficult.

The core of the Gemini Demon Realm’s thief magic lies in the Gemini Siphon Organ, and the Gemini Siphon Organ of each dark wizard has its limits.

It is like a shark’s throat, which is not bigger than a whale’s throat. Therefore, many wizard shoes will be enchanted to instantly increase the coverage area of magic pressure in a short period of time to prevent a dark wizard’s twin siphon organs from swallowing him, thereby creating the effect of stealing.

The Gemini siphon organ is like a person’s throat and tongue.

As for this, Locke thought of a better solution – the Pixiu spiral angle constraint equations, which exist in the Snow-capped Air Plant. It itself creates a situation where the magic pressure coverage area (total magic pressure) of this magic plant is inexplicably larger than that of other magic plants under a certain magic pressure upper limit.

Locke increased the total amount of magical pressure of this air plant by continuously cultivating subspecies with a larger coverage area of magical pressure, that is, a larger total amount of magical pressure.

In this way, as a first-ring magic plant wizard shoe, its total magic pressure is extraordinary, and it is impossible to be stolen by the twin siphon organs of the first-ring stage Gemini Demon Realm Black Wizard.

It’s like a small fish can’t eat a baseball.

Locke released his magic pressure on the big snow-capped pineapple in front of him, and this magic plant spontaneously released magic pressure to counteract his own magic pressure.

Without any tools, just a simple test, Locke discovered that the total amount of magic pressure of this thing was abnormally unreasonable among the first-ring magic plants.

Of course, the magic tidal vortex created by this will be even bigger.

“This way, I can prevent my wizard shoes from being stolen by wizards from the Gemini Demon Realm.” Locke pondered, “Although I can find an enchanter later to enchant my magic plant so that it can automatically fly back to its owner, for cost control and functional considerations, there is no need to design such a function.”

According to the data from the Demonic War, the total amount of magic pressure of this large snow-capped pineapple is currently impossible for a first-ring black wizard to steal.

If it is stolen by a second-ring black wizard, it will make no difference whether it is enchanted to automatically fly back to its owner or not.

Moreover, this enchantment process is quite expensive.

If a pair of wizard shoes were to be enchanted in this way, it might cost thousands of magic stones.

Because you can’t make inferior enchantments, you have to make good ones, and good enchantments are still very expensive even in mass production.

While reading the materials, Locke gradually realized that when making wizard shoes, another key point of his job was to control the design costs.

The cost is too high, so no matter how good the function is, it will definitely not pass.

After all, this is equipment for the first ring stage, not equipment for high-ring wizards, and there is no need to consume a lot of resources to pursue extreme performance.

The second major function is to conceal the spiral angle, which is also necessary.

This is to keep their technology secret.

Locke looked at the large snow-capped pineapple in front of him. The spiral angles were no longer visible on its exterior, and the outside was covered with three layers of useless decorative leaves. The real air plant’s nutritional leaves were inside.

The three-layer decorative leaves have spell-like abilities similar to those of the enchantment school and can serve as a concealment. Locke took them from other magical plants through grafting and cultivation, and added the plant essence of the snow-capped pineapple to them.

Some magical plants naturally possess very powerful spell-like abilities of the enchantment school, which can be used to conceal certain important designs and functions.

Therefore, there is a complete set of methods in breeding that use special magical plants to conceal important designs.

These three layers of decorative leaves used for concealment can block various magical detections, and they also have a self-destruction mechanism if forcibly explored or disassembled.

Locke put the remaining pot of March orchid into the Star Ring, which was given to him by his senior sister, Witch Charlie.

After all, he had not prepared this special magic plant before, which was specially used to use the finite element cultivation method to intercept plant essence and provide the function of blocking certain magic plants.

“March orchid is the most common, most effective, and most expensive special secret magical plant. Even if ordinary wizards know of its existence, they cannot afford to purchase it. It is a special magical plant with special functions that can only be obtained by breeders in a few areas such as Golden Crown Mountain.” Locke pondered, “Combining March orchid with the snow-capped pineapple will prevent the secret from being leaked for a longer period of time.”

This safe period is about ten years.

The triple magic leaves produced by combining the plant essence of March orchid have very powerful comprehensive blocking capabilities.

If you want to crack it, you can only use manpower and time to slowly grind it out.

Generally, no one would think that the uniqueness of their wizard shoes magic plants lies not in the special plant factors, but in the special leaf energy-locking structure. Therefore, as long as it is combined with the post-processing of the enchantment school’s spells, it will be enough to ensure that there will be no imitations of their products in the next fifteen years.

Of course, over time, this cannot be guaranteed.

Moreover, if there were a high-level wizard who was specifically targeting it, it would be very troublesome and should shorten the time required to crack it.

But that also takes time, and it violates ethics and is likely to attract review by the Ethics Committee.

Moreover, sooner or later I will write an article and publish the set of equations concerning the fractal spiral constraints of the Pixiu angle, so this short period of blockade is enough.

It is enough for me to make money and continue studying ancient flowers until I perfect the results and publish articles.

“Even if I didn’t announce it, a second wizard would have already known about this special spiral horn.” Locke thought of the witch Ekaterina. “It’s just that the teacher probably wouldn’t tell anyone without me.”

“Once we reach Golden Crown Mountain, let’s hurry over to Scarlett Witch. Luckily, we returned to Yunze Wetland early, otherwise I’d be worried I’d be too late and miss the deadline for submitting my design.”

“Bang~”

As soon as Locke finished speaking, the entire wizard airship shook.

All that was heard inside the wizard’s airship was the warning sound from the sound transmission array.

At the same time, Locke saw the small fang-shaped void aircraft outside through the window of the Golden Crystal of Time, and also saw the logo of the Twin Demon Realm on those aircraft.

The target of these aircraft is not the void battleship they are on.

It is a building where a certain wizarding organization is located.

However, the foundation of the building was broken, as if it had been grabbed and thrown into the air, and then targeted by the thieves and robbers from the Twin Demon Realm.

At this time, the small void aircraft of the Twin Demon Realm were besieging the building of the wizard organization.

At the same time, Locke heard a huge friction sound. He looked up and saw a black hole opening above the second sky, and countless buildings were falling from it.

Like rain.

The black wizard aircraft of the Twin Demon Realm swarmed forward immediately like sharks smelling blood.

The captain’s warning echoed from within the wizard’s airship. “Don’t worry, everyone! Our void warship has comprehensive security measures. Those terrifying dark wizards from the Twin Demon Realms won’t attack us!”

“Everyone, the Demonic War is about to begin, so the world power of the Twin Demon Realms is constantly invading the Yunze Wetlands, setting off a Demonic Storm. Buildings, people, magic tides, and everything related to them, even some concepts, that are swallowed by the Demonic Storm will be sucked into the Twin Demon Realms by the Demonic Black Hole.”

“Some of them are difficult to digest, such as the wizard academy that was swallowed by the demonic storm. These buildings protected by magic barriers were thrown into the second sky or the void, where they were attacked by the dark wizards, their ability to resist was eliminated, and they were plundered.”

“When the Demon World War begins, the Twin Demon Realms, once limited to petty thievery, will transform into terrifying plunderers and launch a war of plunder against the wizarding world. For countless years, the Twin Demon Realms have survived by plundering the wizarding world, but for some reason, the size of the Twin Demon Realms has never expanded much, remaining within a certain range.”

“Please rest assured, the Twin Demon Realms incident has nothing to do with this wizard airship. Please don’t worry about your safety. The opponent in this Demon Realm War is the powerful Golden Crown Mountain of Yunze Wetland. Therefore, the damage caused by these thieves is limited. Please don’t worry, fellow wizard passengers.”

(End of this chapter)