Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 708

Chapter 705 Second Ring Magic Starlight Projection

Time rewinds to five minutes earlier.

Wizard Smith discovered that the Emperor’s magical pressure had returned to its peak. The recovery of the total magical pressure reserves within the Empire and the Mind Network, along with the return of national confidence, had led to a further increase in the total magical pressure within the Mind Network.

He immediately used the ultimate spell, Celestial Meteor, to project a meteorite towards the Emperor’s palace in the rebellious province.

The meteorite broke through numerous obstacles and fell directly in front of the Emperor.

Then, upon landing on the palace floor, Wizard Smith used the star power projected by the ultimate spell, Celestial Meteor, to create a stellar power clone of himself.

Second-Circle Spell: Starlight Projection!

This spell model, based on stellar power, can create a clone with only one-tenth the strength of the original.

The advantage is that this starlight projection clone can project multiple clones of himself throughout the world, and even beyond, wherever a meteorite from outer space can land.

Wizard Smith’s current magic pressure is 11,000, so his Astral Projection has a magic pressure of 1,100.

However, he has added a Great Magic Rune to this spell model, causing the magic pressure of the Astral Projection clone created by this spell model to rise from one-tenth of the original’s strength to one-third of the original’s magic pressure.

Therefore, the magic pressure of this Astral Projection becomes 3,665.

The difference is quite significant.

After all, 1,100 magic pressure is only for an ordinary first-level wizard, while 3,665 magic pressure is already for a first-level wizard in the Spirit Power Transformation stage.

After adding the Great Magic Rune to the Astral Projection spell model, he essentially inserted this spell model into the slot of the Celestial Meteor, enhancing the Celestial Meteor’s ability to carry certain information by projecting meteorites onto the earth.

This is why Wizard Smith’s current Celestial Meteor Great Magic can project meteorites onto the earth and grant the finder a minor wish, thus bringing them into the Protoss race.

This is because this starlight projection spell model serves as a functional supplement to the extraterrestrial meteor.

Normally, quickly constructing a spell model and adding a massive magic rune to it would be quite difficult for him.

However, he now has an assistant, and with the help of the second-place finisher, coupled with his own efficient use of time, he was able to construct a second-circle spell model in such a short time, and add a massive magic rune to it. This is

also his only massive magic rune at present.

Meanwhile, in the Emperor’s Hall, the Emperor looks at the star-studded wizard Smith, who seems like a star god descended to earth.

The Emperor sat on his iron throne and said, “Do you know that before you brought the stars, there were very few stars in this world? I once briefly left the prime material plane of this world to see it, and my world is in a sparsely populated area of planes.”

“At the beginning of creation, the prime material plane of this world did not form many demiplanes on the crystal wall system. The stars visible to the n*ked eye are generally demiplanes on the crystal wall system, or light emitted from other planes outside this world.”

“Starlight is refracted light from other planes.”

The starlight projection avatar of Wizard Smith curled his lips into a smile. This avatar resembled a star god, standing 3 meters tall, its entire body composed of compressed starlight in a translucent shell, with dark blue veins of light flowing inside, like the Milky Way.

With each step it took, it left a beetle-shaped constellation mark on the ground, which would dissipate after about 3 seconds.

In the Emperor’s eyes, a nebula burned within the core of this avatar’s chest, its breath carrying the gravitational pull of a comet.

So powerful, so imposing.

Although the magical pressure seemed vastly inferior to his own, the Emperor had a strange feeling that this avatar was extremely troublesome.

Smith’s starlight projection avatar said, “Impressive insight. You’re a wizard?”

The Emperor paused, his eyes darkening. “When you first entered this world, I suspected you came from that great world.”

“You came from the [Greater World of the Other Shore], didn’t you?”

Beneath the Silent Throne, many wizard spectators whispered amongst themselves. The Greater World of the Other Shore… how long had it been since they’d heard that name?

In the Enlightenment era, because the wizarding world was keen on sharing knowledge freely and viewed the Endless Void as a potential future ally and brotherhood, the

various colonial worlds at the time didn’t call the wizarding world the Nightmare Legion or the Great World of Truth, but rather the Greater World of the Other Shore.

The wizarding world was considered a paradise-like dreamland.

Smith’s starlight avatar didn’t respond, after all, he didn’t know that the common perception of the wizarding world at that time was the Greater World of the Other Shore.

He didn’t care about that either.

The Emperor asked, “Why do you say I’m a wizard?”

Wizard Smith simply replied, “According to the laws of my world, the pan-magical race wizard law, you accepted the gifts of wizarding civilization, so you can be considered a wizard.

” The Emperor asked, “You want to join forces with me?”

The Emperor was adept at political maneuvering, and in an instant, he understood the true purpose behind Wizard Smith’s roundabout approach and conversation.

Wizard Smith glanced at the native Emperor with surprise; he hadn’t expected the other to react so quickly.

Wizard Smith said, “Let’s temporarily set aside our conflict of interest and eliminate the other wizard first. This will benefit both of us. He’s my competitor and one of your enemies.”

“Eliminating him means I’ll have one less competitor, and you’ll have one less enemy. What’s not to like?”

The Emperor’s eyes flickered. “So this is what the people of the other world are like. Heh, I’m relieved. It seems there are no such noble people as described on that meteorite; those words kept me up all night.”

“Now it seems we’re all the same,”

the Emperor said. “Deal. Let’s join forces and eliminate a common enemy.”

Wizard Smith paid no attention to the native’s words or his opinion of him.

In his eyes, none of that mattered.

Wizard Smith continued, “There’s one more thing. That man in your capital named Locke Augustine is also from beyond the heavens, just like me. I must kill him.”

The Emperor’s eyes flickered beneath his armor; he instinctively doubted Wizard Smith’s words. “No, I refuse.”

“First of all, I can’t verify the truth of what you’ve said.”

“Secondly, even if what you say is true, this man is a loyal subject to me, and he is of great help to me at this moment. I cannot lose his help. If you want to ally with me, then you cannot attack Duke Schiller.”

The starlight projection of Wizard Smith twitched at the corner of its mouth.

Good heavens, how did that guy Locke manage to climb to such a high position among the natives?

And have such a high level of trust!

Wizard Smith thought for a moment, but could only give up helplessly. “Alright, but you must cooperate with me and help me eliminate the fourth wizard hidden in your empire.”

The Emperor said, “That’s fine.”

Thus, the two successfully joined forces.

At this moment, Wizard Smith watched as his meteorite and the Emperor’s mental explosion simultaneously hit Wizard Edgar.

He laughed loudly. “I don’t actually have an absolute conflict of interest with the Emperor, I only have an absolute conflict of interest with you contestants.”

He wasn’t here to conquer the plane, but to participate in the competition.

Defeating the Emperor was just an optional option.

As long as he could win the competition in advance, it didn’t matter if he ignored the Emperor.

Even if the Emperor won in the end, it didn’t matter.

Because he only needed to defeat the other contestants.

At this moment, Edgar’s saintly avatar suffered a severe blow.

A second-circle wizard’s soul is deeply connected to the source of magic, so when Edgar was attacked by these two second-circle spells, and his permanent defensive field was torn apart, it was essentially the Shadow Fern that was bearing the brunt of the attack.

Within the Land of All Spirits, constructed by the Shadow Fern and numerous other fern-like magical plants, large areas at the edges were collapsing, individual Shadow Ferns were spontaneously combusting, and the entire Land of All Spirits was in turmoil. The Land of All Spirits

could no longer control the spirits of the plants, causing a large number of plant spirits to fly out of the Land of All Spirits and enter this world.

The balance of life and death was broken once again.

The world consciousness, which had just begun to recover, was immediately severely damaged and suppressed again by the mental network.

The world’s will quickly realized that Wizard Smith had not only betrayed Edgar but also the world.

Edgar angrily turned to look at Wizard Smith. At this moment, Edgar’s magical pressure mass was still 13,000, but his total magical pressure was rapidly decreasing.

The quality of magical pressure is maintained by assets, namely the framework of Great Magic, while the total amount of magical pressure is maintained by the flowing magical pressure of this world.

Currently, the Land of All Spirits is in great chaos, the balance of life and death has been broken, and the world’s consciousness has been suppressed again, naturally causing a significant drop in Edgar’s total magical pressure.

Wizard Smith gave him a strange look. “Strange, you possess two Great Magic runes. You could have used Great Blessing to share some of the authority for Great Magic with a wizard from your Quinjol, and then had him help add the Great Magic runes to a second-circle spell.”

“But you didn’t. Even now, you still won’t do anything.”

“Never mind, it’s none of my business. Efficiency first.” Wizard Smith glanced at the heavily injured Edgar, leaving him and the Emperor behind, and rushed towards the west of the Empire.

In his agreement with the Emperor, he was only responsible for severely injuring Edgar; whether the Emperor could eliminate Edgar was none of his concern.

Otherwise, he would be working for the Emperor, and once the Emperor dealt with Edgar, he would immediately turn his attention to him.

A man as efficient as Wizard Smith wouldn’t make such a foolish mistake. ‘Let the Emperor and Edgar both weaken each other, then I’ll banish Georgina the Witch from this world. Next, I’ll launch a surprise attack and eliminate the exhausted Emperor and Edgar.’

‘That leaves Locke… whatever he wants to do, he hasn’t even unleashed a Grand Magic spell, nor accumulated the effort needed to do so, so I’m guaranteed to win.’

A cold calculation flashed in Wizard Smith’s eyes.

As a wizard of the Smith family of Storm Tower, he was taught from a young age that efficiency was paramount.

For efficiency, everything else could be ignored.

‘Kill Georgina the Witch, devour the world’s capital she possesses, and my Great Magic’s total magical pressure can expand again,’

Wizard Smith pondered .

As for how to find Georgina the Witch, it was actually quite simple.

The Emperor couldn’t find her because he wasn’t a true wizard and hadn’t received a complete education in wizarding civilization.

As fellow second-circle wizards, finding each other in this world was relatively easy.

At this moment, Wizard Smith arrived in the western province of the Empire, riding the wind and flying through the sky. Then, one hundred and eight stars appeared behind him, forming a meteor shower, transforming into celestial meteors.

Then, countless meteorites rained down from the celestial meteor demiplane.

These meteorites fell towards the western region.

Wizard Smith’s eyes were cold. These offensive spells weren’t meant to attack Georgina the Witch, but to eradicate the foundation of her charity.

His plan was clear.

Finding a second-circle wizard hidden in the vast sea of people in a very short time is indeed a pipe dream, but the opponent can’t escape. Since

the opponent wants to unleash a massive magical attack, he can’t escape the Charity Society, so he’ll launch a wide-ranging attack on several western provinces.

From the sky to the land to the sea, he’ll launch a comprehensive attack,

sweeping through these provinces with a meteor shower to force Georgina Witch to come out.

If she doesn’t stop him, her entire Charity Society will be doomed, and when the apocalypse arrives, their so-called charity will cease to exist.

Whether Georgina Witch chooses to stop him or not, she’ll lose.

Wizard Smith mentally calculated the probability of the opponent stopping him and found it to be quite high.

However, this move also has three major problems.

First, it offends the World Will, and after doing so, the World Will will likely no longer favor him.

Second, it offends the Emperor.

Third, this competition is still under the surveillance of the Eye of Truth; such a massacre can be considered malicious destruction of civilization.

It was estimated that a massive amount of Civilization Credits would be deducted.

However, after careful consideration, Wizard Smith realized that the benefits of winning the competition and securing the championship for Storm Tower far outweighed these three consequences, so he proceeded anyway.

Moreover, the premise for these three problems to occur was that the witch Georgina did not interfere at all.

But that was impossible.

If she did not interfere, she would likely end up at the bottom of the rankings in this competition.

Wizard Smith stood in the sky, a smile playing on his lips. “Efficiency first. This method is the most efficient.”

At this moment, the world will of the Silent Plane expressed severe anger towards him, and even the Emperor in the distance did not expect that his partner, a person from the Great World of the Other Shore, would be so evil as to do something that even the Emperor, who considered himself a villain, would not do.

Wizard Edgar glanced at Wizard Smith with contempt.

Below the Silent Throne, the Storm Tower’s team leader nodded in satisfaction. “Clean and efficient, as expected of a wizard from our Storm Tower.”

Wizard Rush smiled. “No matter how many years pass, the wicked nature of you wizards from Storm Tower will never change,”

Wizard Chad Schultz agreed. “Although this method complies with the competition rules, this is a commercial competition, to be broadcast live throughout Cloudze Wetland.”

“Your behavior during the competition also represents the image of Storm Tower in the eyes of so many wizards, and future students. Storm Tower is one of the seven top academies in Cloudze Wetland; why must you win in such a dishonorable way in front of everyone?”

The Moon Ring Witch from Bonifacius University nodded in agreement.

The Storm Tower team leader, blushing, retorted angrily, “A competition is a competition; winning is the basic requirement. What are you talking about values for? Students from Cloudze Wetland and other wizarding lands, and future professional wizards who may cooperate with us, will only cooperate with the winner and enroll in the winner’s academy.”

“If we lose, then we get nothing at all.”

At this moment, in the Storm Tower spectator area, many wizards were cheering, stating that Wizard Smith embodied the oldest and most traditional wizarding practices in Cloudze Wetland.

In the audience area of Kungudin Building Materials Academy, Wizard Mike clenched his fist. “How could they let these people gain the upper hand? It’s really frustrating to watch.”

The Sun Ring Wizard beside him chuckled, “Mike, although Storm Tower’s methods are unscrupulous, prioritizing efficiency over other aspects, their method is indeed the most efficient.”

“So it’s not surprising they won. You and I will just watch. By observing this grand competition in the Cloud Marsh Wetlands, we, the wizards of Kungudin Academy, can better understand what this wizarding land is like.”

“Of course, we, the Kungudin Building Materials Academy, originate from the Nine Plains Mountain wizarding land. So, personally, I cannot accept this approach.”

“In the Nine Plains Mountain, winning must be won beautifully. Values must transcend winning and losing themselves.”

“If you have to abandon your values to win, then you might as well lose.”

Wizard Mike nodded in agreement.

In the Nine Plains Mountain wizarding land, values are very important.

Therefore, after losing the Academic Status Challenge, Kungudin Building Materials Wizarding Academy, to prevent its emphasis on quality from being altered, moved away overnight.

Kungudin Building Materials Academy could accept losing, but it absolutely could not accept the fact that the entire academic rules of construction in the Nine Plains Mountain Wizarding Lands would have to be changed.

In the Storm Tower’s audience area, the main sentiment was that Wizard Smith’s approach was actually the most rational.

A large group of wizards from the Storm Tower region’s wizarding academies were praising Wizard Smith.

The two second-ring wizards from the Tower of Transformation exchanged a glance and helplessly remarked, “The Storm Tower region truly lives up to its reputation as one of the last few regions among the ten regions of Cloud Marsh Wetlands.”

Cloud Marsh Wetlands has ten regions, seven of which are led by a top-tier academy.

The other three regions are alliances of medium-sized wizarding academies, managing the overall situation there.

The seven top-tier academies can continuously recruit the best students and the best formal wizards from Cloud Marsh Wetlands and the outside wizarding lands, attract the most substantial investment, obtain the best equipment, and also possess a large number of magazines and journals, and host numerous awards.

Therefore, generally speaking, the regions where the seven top academies are located will rank higher in academic rankings than the regions dominated by the alliance of the three medium-sized wizarding academies.

However, the Storm Tower region is an exception. Most of the wizarding academies in this wretched place have the influence of Storm Tower.

Any wizarding academy in the Storm Tower region that might threaten Storm Tower will be suppressed in advance.

Therefore, the Storm Tower region is the only region with top-tier institutions that could possibly rank at the bottom in the academic rankings of Cloudweed Wetlands.

Several times, it has even been at the very bottom, which is truly eye-opening.

In the Silent Plane.

Seeing countless meteors falling towards the entire western region of this world, Wizard Smith stood in the sky, looking down at the earth, quickly searching for Georgina’s location.

‘Still no action? If this continues, I will destroy half of this world in an instant.’

Wizard Smith was a little anxious. This tactic was rather extreme.

He was mainly betting that the witch Georgina wouldn’t dare to let the charity she had built up in this world run into problems.

But if Georgina the Witch didn’t appear, and he truly destroyed the region, he would be completely forced onto the path of speedrunning.

Because this action would directly offend everyone in the world.

If he couldn’t speedrun, he would be targeted by everyone, and he would truly be at the bottom this time—not just a normal bottom, but a

bottom after meticulously planning and engaging in various controversial actions, with most of his civilization credit points deducted.

Therefore, Wizard Smith was quite nervous at this moment.

Georgina the Witch’s actions would determine how he proceeded in the competition.

The next moment, a golden spinning machine the size of a house appeared in the sky above the Western Province, with three stools placed around it.

Wizard Smith breathed a sigh of relief.

Georgina the Witch had finally appeared.

This way, she could block his magic, and he wouldn’t have to resort to extremes.

The golden spinning machine spun pieces of golden, translucent fabric, transforming into a huge carpet that covered the sky above the Western Province, blocking the meteor shower.

Georgina the Witch’s eyes, hidden behind her mask, revealed fury. “Wizard Smith, the White Wizarding Association has strict laws. We are propagators of truth, not destroyers of the world.”

“This match will be broadcast live to the entire Cloud Marsh Wetland; it’s a public commercial competition. What if the dark wizards see this? How will they view us?”

Wizard Smith smiled. “But this is indeed the most efficient way. Georgina, you’ve lost.”

“You came out and stopped me. You helped me, but you hurt yourself. Georgina, you’ve lost.”

(End of Chapter)