Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 706

Chapter 703 The Seeds of Civilization in the Age of Enlightenment and the Demonic Plant Legion of the Land of All Souls

With the completion of the Great Magic: Shadow Fern, the Land of All Spirits appeared in this world, restoring some vitality to a world that had almost lost its flora and fauna.

This world originally lacked the concept of “demonic plants,” but due to the wizard Edgar’s Great Magic, which connected this world to the Emerald Dream, a large number of plant spirits poured in.

These spirits, flowing out from the Land of All Spirits, would seek out a plant to parasitize in the wild and factories of this world, thus giving rise to the initial concept of “demonic plants.”

A large number of wild demonic plants evolved.

The Land of All Spirits is the underworld of plants, the place where plants die.

Therefore, as long as such a cycle of life and death for plants is established in this world and connected to the Emerald Dream, demonic plants can be recreated in this world that previously lacked them.

In the 17 provinces of the eastern empire, wild grass suddenly sprouted rampantly underground in many areas. Apprentice-level low-grade magical plants such as [Nether Armor Vines], [Soul-Eating Vines], [Wailing Thorns], [Soul Vines], and [Humic Tethers] appeared in various regions of this world, destroying and overturning factory foundations, sending machines flying, and knocking over boilers…

These magical vines are the ecological community guardians of the Land of All Spirits within the Time Shadow Fern’s Great Magic, guardians of the Land of All Spirits borrowed from the Emerald Dream. They

are both guardians and ecological communities.

These All Spirit Vines appeared simultaneously with the Time Shadow Fern, combining to form the Land of All Spirits.

On the streets of the imperial capital, a vine suddenly transformed into a All Spirit Vine – Soul Vines – under the infusion of the Land of All Spirits. Its enormous size made it a gigantic gray vine, constantly grabbing at anything that could move around it.

But the next moment, a bolt of mental lightning struck, and the vine turned to ashes in the flames.

Locke frowned; clearly, with Edgar unleashing his ultimate magic, it could no longer be concealed.

The Emperor had found his target and led his mental network to attack.

Two second-ring level beings clashed.

The capital began to mobilize, telegrams flying back from the rebellious provinces on the front lines, declaring a state of total war for the entire empire. All manpower, resources, and troops from the empire’s seventy-eight provinces and the mainland were mobilized and transported by rail to the 17 eastern provinces to eradicate these apprentice-level magical plants.

Clearly, Edgar had become the Emperor’s primary target.

Locke looked at the [Soul Ivy] at his feet. “This kind of apprentice-level magical plant is rare even in the wizarding world. Although it’s a low-level magical plant, its growing environment is extremely rare; I’ve only ever seen it in books.”

“Is this the material basis of the Land of All Spirits in this world?”

“If so, then this Land of All Spirits is essentially very similar to the Kingdom Domain.” Locke pondered: ‘The Kingdom Domain is a special magical realm created using a spell model.’

‘The Land of All Spirits is also a special magical realm created using a spell model, but the difference is that in the Kingdom Domain, it’s the product of the convergence of all the citizens of the magical kingdom and the power of the ley lines, while this Land of All Spirits is the product of the convergence of ley line power and plants.’

‘Aside from the difference in their main components, there are no other differences.’

In that case, it’s no wonder the Kingdom Domain was eliminated by ultimate magic.

Ultimate magic is compatible with the Kingdom Domain, but the Kingdom Domain is not compatible with ultimate magic.

Although the Land of All Spirits, created by the Shadow Fern, which resembles the Kingdom Domain, isn’t exactly the same, its general framework is similar.

Locke looked eastward. “In that case, Edgar is temporarily in the lead. Being in the lead means having the initiative. Edgar could easily take this opportunity to find the three of us beforehand and attack us, driving us out of this plane. However…”

Locke looked east, where he saw the mental network that enveloped this world mobilizing massive amounts of magical pressure to suppress the Land of All Spirits, attempting to stop its spread and destroy it.

The mental network continued to suppress the world’s will while simultaneously destroying the outermost regions of the Land of All Spirits.

This prevented the mental network from completely sealing off the sky.

Some meteors would be summoned down by the Star Prayers, occasionally streaking across the sky and falling to the earth.

Locke said, “Originally, Edgar had the lead. However, he was the first to unleash his immense magic, provoking the Emperor’s full-scale counterattack. Although the Land of All Spirits had been established, the Emperor had cultivated this world for many years, and the total magical pressure of his system was still the greatest.”

“Therefore, it became a battle between the Emperor, the native inhabitants, and Edgar.”

“The Emperor’s native mental network… used a large amount of technology from the wizarding world, but he didn’t obtain all of it.”

“Moreover, it was some kind of outdated technology. The Inspectorate system was inspired by this and created by him, or perhaps by some native inhabitant of this world.”

Locke looked at the book in his hand. “The Emperor collected a large number of books in his library, which only his close confidants could read. No one else could see them, but this allowed me to easily obtain the essence of knowledge from this entire world.”

“It is now confirmed that the Emperor received knowledge from the wizarding world.”

Locke opened a picture book, revealing an image of a meteorite from outer space.

The meteorite fell from the sky, bringing knowledge and civilization.

Locke frowned as he looked at the special characters on the meteorite in the image. “The Age of Enlightenment? This seems to be an antique artifact from the wizarding world.”

Locke snapped his fingers, and his legendary history book appeared before him as a giant paper dragon, simultaneously scanning the negative energy particle field information from the book into it.

Locke read the text. ‘This is the first year after the Age of Enlightenment. A year has passed, the wizarding world is thriving, and the total magical pressure of our world is recovering.’

‘This proves that our initial choice was correct.’ ‘

Now, one year after the establishment of the Siming Waters Council, all members of the Wizarding Council swear an oath to the White Wizard Association—to the truth, that from now on, knowledge will no longer be the private treasure of the wizarding monarch.’

‘To fulfill our promise, we have entrusted the meteorite wizards to transport a portion of the knowledge of the Siming Waters Wizarding Land to the endless void. The place where the meteorite landed will be the place where knowledge spreads.’

‘We firmly believe that knowledge should always be free and open, and that everyone in the world who wants to learn should be able to easily access any knowledge they need.’ Following this logic, we believe knowledge should be open to the entire void.

“If one day knowledge is no longer free and open, it means all our past efforts have been in vain. Our era will come to an end.”

Locke paused, stunned by the sight. “Was there ever a time when all knowledge in the wizarding world was free and publicly available?”

“The Enlightenment…”

“It seems the wizarding world is different in every era. In the modern magical age, the most precious treasure in the wizarding world is knowledge. Almost all knowledge is charged for… and much secret knowledge is hidden as the inheritance of schools.”

“But back in the Enlightenment era, was all knowledge free and publicly available? This discovery is quite astonishing.”

“What happened later that led to charging for knowledge in the modern magical age? Could it be that the end of the Enlightenment era was marked by the start of charging for knowledge?”

Locke pondered. “No, Mount Golden Crown and the wizarding airships have free libraries.”

“Knowledge is simply categorized; some is free, and some is charged.”

“So, in the modern magical age, the major wizarding universities no longer selflessly share their knowledge systems with all interested and capable wizards, allowing them to freely roam the ocean of knowledge, as the wizards of the Enlightenment era did.”

Locke looked thoughtful.

He incorporated this historical material into his legendary history book, planning to consult relevant documents upon his return and then publish an archaeological article related to it.

The wizarding civilization of the Enlightenment era seemed to have consciously inscribed knowledge on meteorites and sent them into the endless void, hoping to spread it.

This fulfilled the “Oath of Open Knowledge” made to the truth by everyone when the White Wizarding Association was first established.

Clearly, after obtaining this knowledge, the emperor of this world did not follow the meteorite’s instructions to make it free and open, but instead decisively kept it private,

placing it in his library and shelving it. Access to his

library was limited to high-ranking officials within the empire.

That is, fewer than ten people in the empire could enter.

And these ten people, holding high positions, were inevitably busy and unlikely to have time to read.

Therefore, the knowledge of an entire world gathered together simply sat quietly gathering dust in the library. However,

for some unknown reason, the emperor even allocated funds to the library every year to have people organize and maintain the books in this library without any readers.

Locke said, “So that’s why the Emperor’s mind network has elements of the wizarding world.”

“But there’s still a question. Given the Emperor’s current personality, did he really come up with the oversight system and mind network himself?”

Locke continued, “Let’s go back and look at the books in that library. I didn’t expect such an unexpected find.”

…

In the viewing area below the Silent Throne, the seven Sun-ring wizards of the tournament committee whispered amongst themselves.

“In previous years, many contestants guessed that the Emperor’s natives had some form of contact with the wizarding civilization, but none of them truly uncovered the secrets. Unexpectedly, it turns out that the seeds of the Enlightenment era’s civilization once fell into that world.”

“During the Enlightenment era, numerous void-plane civilizations that were close to the wizarding civilization were born.”

“The Enlightenment era… was indeed a great era, but also a foolish one. In any case, that era has ended. Free knowledge? That’s impossible…”

“None of the previous contestants helped the Emperor spread his teachings. Naturally, they couldn’t enter that library. After winning the competition, they wouldn’t have time to read books in the library to pass the time.”

“Look at the other three contestants, aren’t they all working diligently, outwitting the Emperor’s henchmen, scheming against other contestants, and developing their own immense magical pressure?”

“But this contestant from Golden Crown Mountain… he hasn’t moved an inch in ages. Is he really competing?”

The audience was bewildered and began to discuss.

Although Locke, by infiltrating the Emperor’s camp and entering the library, uncovered the origins of the Emperor’s mental network and oversight system, thus solving a secret previously unsolved by the contestants,

his total magical pressure remained unchanged after entering the library.

Instead, through his continuous preaching, he actually increased the Emperor’s magical pressure.

Originally, the Emperor’s total magical pressure should have collapsed under the dual pressure of the apocalyptic crisis and Edgar’s immense magical attack, but through Locke’s cult, his magical pressure became increasingly stable, leading to a deadly battle with Edgar.

On the viewing platform, the witch Camilla of the Nexus looked frustrated. “What is that Locke guy doing? Is he doing archaeology over there?”

On the other side, Hussein frowned, then suddenly relaxed. “The onlooker

sees most of the game. So that’s what you were planning. You’re really cunning, Locke.” The senior partner of Mithril Law Firm next to him, a Sun Ring Wizard, looked at Hussein and said, “Young Hussein, do you know that contestant from Mount Golden Crown?”

Hussein nodded and said, “Yes, we’re friends.”

The senior Sun Ring Wizard partner said, “Then you’re in luck. Mount Golden Crown is full of trouble; you won’t be short of work from now on. That’s good too; our Mithril Law Firm has indeed been looking to expand our business to Mount Golden Crown recently…”

In the audience area of Mount Golden Crown, some wizards were looking at their own contestants with suspicious eyes. They were all a little confused, not understanding what Locke was up to.

Meanwhile, the wizards of Solas’s Lightfoot and Melochy’s Magic Step in the audience area were the happiest after observing Locke’s inaction.

Several wizard agents from the Wizard Shoe Shop Alliance chuckled to themselves.

“This guy is competing with us shop allies for market share. The more successful he is, the better his products sell. The more we lose money; the worse he performs, the more carefree we can be.”

“If Golden Crown Mountain ranks last this time, that’s not bad either. It’ll suit our purposes perfectly.”

Meanwhile, on the other side of the arena, wizard Zaran Bailey was arriving from the 2nd Research Institute.

Because the Silent Grail War has a long duration, many wizards don’t stay the entire time. They do their own things while having their students come to film the matches.

They also have these students stay here to inform them of important moments in the competition, so they can come from elsewhere.

For example, the week Locke and his group infiltrated the Silent Dimension wasn’t very interesting, so the arena was at least half empty.

Now, with Edgar’s powerful magic, many wizards quickly watched the videos recorded by their students at ten times the speed and then immediately took transportation to watch the match.

Zaran Bailey looked up at Locke’s magical pressure, a flicker of fear and unease crossing his eyes.

Locke’s magical pressure during the competition was already overwhelmingly higher than his, exceeding it by a full two thousand!

In other words, if Locke had just a thousand more magical pressure, he would have gained one more Great Magic Rune.

For a second-ring wizard, the difference in combat power resulting from one more Great Magic Rune was enormous.

Zaran Bailey sat on the stool, somewhat restless, but Locke’s current inaction offered him a slight sense of relief.

‘Don’t be afraid. If this continues, he’ll be last. That way, he won’t be able to compete with me for the special grant.’

Zaran Bailey exhaled a breath of stale air.

A wizard beside him looked up at the scene in Edgar’s direction, “That native emperor is so powerful! He can actually withstand Edgar’s complete Great Magic.”

Zaran Bailey looked in that direction. “That native emperor possesses some knowledge from the Enlightenment era, which is probably why he can become a second-ring being.”

“He’s ruled that world for many years, while the wizard Edgar, though indeed powerful, has only just arrived.”

Meanwhile, in the rebellious province, the wizard Edgar directly summoned a large number of [Vine Servants] from the Land of All Spirits to attack the emperor’s army.

The two armies were locked in a stalemate for a full week.

Countless battles were fought between the two sides in the rebellious province, and the emperor’s inspectors were granted the right to learn how to unlock genetic locks.

Each time they unlock a genetic lock, their physical functions and psychic abilities increase slightly; after unlocking three locks, they can even slightly distort reality with their will.

That would grant them a level equivalent to a second-tier wizard apprentice, the level of a gunslinger in this world.

As time passed, Edgar felt a slight headache coming on. “Why is the Emperor’s magical pressure so stable?”

Edgar complained to the gunslinger and the priestess beside him. “Originally, I summoned the Land of Spirits in the east of this world, causing panic among his people. His mental network system would naturally become unstable. His total magical pressure would continuously decrease, allowing me to immediately suppress the Emperor and put pressure on the other three contestants.”

This was the strategy Quinnjoll had instructed him to use.

It was a speedrun method that Quinnjoll had a Moon Ring Witch research and perfect for ten years.

But the problem was that the Emperor’s magical pressure wasn’t dissipating; instead, it was continuously infusing the inspectors with magical pressure through their mental network, rapidly increasing the power system level of the world they possessed.

Edgar dared not use ultimate magic directly, and could only use the ecosystem of the Land of Spirits to attack the Emperor.

Because if he used ultimate magic directly, with his current level, a single blow would surely shatter the Emperor and his mental system.

However, doing so would instantly deplete his magical pressure. If Locke, Smith, and Georgina joined forces and attacked him during this time, he could be immediately eliminated from this plane.

The wizard Edgar pondered whether to gamble and, while he still held the initiative, use a powerful spell on the emperor to instantly crush him and his ridiculous army.

But three other contestants were watching from the sidelines.

Edgar’s eyes sharpened. He decided to ignore it and use a powerful spell to crush the native army before him.

After all, he was the only one currently using a powerful spell.

If he hesitated now that he had the upper hand, what was the point of the competition?

Meanwhile, in the rebellious province, in an abandoned factory, countless ethereal vine servants crawled out from the corners and attacked the inspectors. The inspectors,

as if they had eyes in the back of their heads, raised their hands and fired a shot behind them. The bullet, accelerated by psychic power, directly shattered a decaying vine.

Then, a howling thorn suddenly crawled out of the ground, grabbed the inspector’s right leg, and dragged him down.

The inspector screamed as the howling thorn, with its leaves like black steel needles and its movements resembling a wailing cry, pulled him into the ground.

Inspectors raised their muskets, using their telekinesis to accelerate their bullets, firing shot after shot, piercing through the vines.

Their objective was to reach the Shadow Fern at the very center of the rebellious province.

If they could cut down the Shadow Fern, the Land of All Spirits would naturally collapse, the Great Magic would crumble, and the Emperor’s crisis would be resolved.

A severely wounded inspector climbed to the top of the abandoned factory, his eyes bloodshot and blazing with fury. “For His Majesty the Emperor!”

Driven by a sense of responsibility and extreme rage, he broke through his genetic lock, unlocking from the third to the fourth tier, his magical pressure instantly reaching the level of a first-class wizard apprentice.

Then, burning all his telekinesis, he sacrificed his life in an instant, firing a shot at the distant Shadow Fern.

This was the inspectors’ gunfighting technique—Sacrificial Bullet!

That bullet, imbued with his life force and concentrated into a single burst of energy, shot through the air like a magnetic field towards the thousand-meter-tall Shadow Fern.

But in the inspector’s despairing eyes, his life-infused shot, before even reaching the Shadow Fern, was enveloped by the Land of All Spirits, and then a first-ring level Thorn Queen descended.

It was the same type of magical plant that Locke’s Forest Sanctuary had also cultivated—a plant somewhere between vine and tree. The Thorn Queen was created by Edgar from the Land of All Spirits, using a vast amount of his magical pressure, and simultaneously transformed into a treant.

The moment the Thorn Queen treant appeared, it slapped the ridiculous bullet away.

Before dying, the inspector roared, “No!”

For a moment, on the battlefield, tens of thousands of inspectors shared a deep sorrow and anger at the deaths of their comrades.

On the battlefield, some, caught between life and death and a sense of responsibility, unlocked higher-level genetic locks.

Some inspectors, even under the magical pressure of the mental network, temporarily unlocked seventh-tier genetic locks at the cost of their lives—equivalent to the magical pressure level of a first-ring wizard.

In the confrontation with Edgar’s Land of Spirits, the inspectors, facing these inhuman opponents, were not only not defeated, but their sense of responsibility and courage as humans were awakened.

Under these circumstances, one by one, these inspectors broke through their genetic locks.

The world’s will manifested in them, becoming increasingly clear and active, moving according to their will.

Even though the world’s will was currently biased towards the four wizards, these inspectors were the most outstanding people in this world; their anger, their hope, their desire, could, to a large extent, influence the world’s will’s choices.

And when they faced the ecological community of the Land of Spirits, forced to unite in the midst of war, even Edgar noticed that the world’s will was increasingly resisting helping him.

Inside an abandoned factory, Edgar stood with his hands behind his back. “The strong always prevail. Alice.”

The young priestess hummed in agreement. “God.”

Edgar smiled. “Alice, I like that name. Alice, Tommen, I promised you I would show you the truth of this world.”

“So, watch closely, this is my ultimate magic.”

Edgar opened his left hand, palm up, about to unleash the ultimate magic, commanding the Land of Spirits to directly attack the Emperor. But at that moment, a tremor emanated from within the Land of Spirits.

Edgar decisively stopped. ‘The spell model of the Shadow Fern developed by my senior sister incorporates a portion of Quinnjol’s strength in group divination. In other words, my Land of Spirits possesses a certain divination ability, capable of warning me, though not powerful, it certainly exists.’ ‘

At this moment, the Land of Spirits is warning me, telling me to stop using the ultimate magic. Does this mean that if I use the ultimate magic now, I will be in dire straits? How could that be?’

Edgar pondered for a moment; he wasn’t stupid.

Edgar chose to stop. “Those native armies are still constantly increasing their power level, putting my ecosystem at a disadvantage.”

“Although it was a careless use of a powerful spell… Damn it, who’s stabilizing the Emperor’s magic pressure! If it weren’t for you, this Emperor wouldn’t be a match for me.”

Just after Edgar stopped, the sky suddenly darkened again.

Then, countless meteors fell from the sky.

One after another.

The total magic pressure of this world rose again!

A second powerful spell descended.

It was Wizard Smith’s meteor from outer space.

Edgar suddenly understood. “So that’s it. If I hadn’t restrained myself and used a powerful spell directly, and Smith had unleashed another powerful spell, then at this critical moment, I would have been eliminated from this plane by Wizard Smith because I had exhausted my magic pressure.” “

I was so close to being eliminated.”

Below the Silent Throne, in the audience area of the Storm Tower, applause rang out. Not only the wizards of the Storm Tower, but also the wizards of the affiliated wizarding organizations under the Storm Tower, all applauded.

The second-ring wizards of the Smith family beamed with joy.

“Finally! Haha, the second Grand Spell to descend, not bad at all, and the timing is perfect.”

“Haha, everyone, this is our Storm Tower’s Grand Spell, Celestial Meteor. This construction is a little different from the last one, please watch carefully.”

On the other side, the Moon Ring Witch on Quinjol’s side was somewhat anxious.

She looked at the arena in confusion. “Edgar, what’s wrong with you? Why didn’t you let one of your two teammates descend to that world after constructing the Grand Spell?” “

That way you could possibly defeat the Emperor earlier, seize the initiative, and expand your Grand Spell. How could I let you get into this predicament where you can’t advance or retreat?”

“Why didn’t you descend yourself, or one of your two assistants?”

(End of Chapter)