Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 712

Chapter 709 Second Ring Spell: Moon Goddess’s Blessing

A Dramatic Change in the Situation!

Previously, Locke had remained in the capital, completely neglecting to collect total magical pressure. Therefore, aside from the wizards in the Golden Crown Mountain viewing area who consistently paid attention to him, and a few acquaintances keeping an eye on Locke, most wizards focused their attention on the other three contestants.

But no one expected that the situation, originally one where Wizard Smith and the Emperor were joining forces to seize the championship and eliminate Edgar and Georgina,

would now see Locke single-handedly wiping out the entire world and threatening to wipe out all three of them, along with the Emperor, in an instant.

At this moment, the image on the Silent Throne reflected Locke’s gathering of a massive amount of magical pressure.

The seven Sun Ring wizard judges of the competition committee all sat upright, involuntarily looking at the silent plane projected on the Silent Throne, witnessing what was happening.

The accumulated magical pressure far exceeded the level required to cast a newly forged Great Magic.

What was he planning to do?

At this moment, the Silent Witch, sitting at the highest point of the viewing platform, uttered four words. “Kingdom Domain,”

responded the Truth Wizard of Green Steel City to her right. “Ancient technology, truly nostalgic. Seeing Kingdom Domain here again makes me think our Jungle Hand’s [Second World Project] has great potential.”

“This young man has a bright future.”

At this moment, the wizards in the spectator area began to discuss. Most of them had no idea what it was, only having heard about it from the Silent Witch. They figured that since it came from a fourth-ring wizard, it must be something powerful.

Kingdom Domains were something long outdated, no longer a primary focus of wizarding civilization after the Age of Stars.

But ironically, during the Age of Stars, it was the main means for wizards to reach second and third rings, and one of the pillars that shaped the 300 million magical kingdoms of that era. In

the Silent Plane, a massive amount of magical pressure, ley line power, magical tides, and national faith all flowed towards the Imperial Capital.

Centered on the Imperial Capital, a magical realm descended.

Once this Dharma Realm descended, it rapidly expanded, covering the entire Silent Plane at an astonishing speed. In the blink of an eye, the entire world was completely transformed.

The entire Silent Plane was now covered by Locke’s Kingdom Domain!

Besides the Prime Material Plane, the Silent Plane now possessed a World-Class Dharma Realm.

This Dharma Realm provided the Silent Plane with the same level of magical pressure support as the Prime Material Plane.

This Dharma Realm shared the same geographical space as the Prime Material Plane, only differing in phase.

Both the Prime Material Plane and this Dharma Realm resided on the same three-dimensional spatial coordinates, but the Prime Material Plane was situated on a three-dimensional space plus a time dimension, while this Dharma Realm was situated on a three-dimensional space plus a spiritual dimension.

This was precisely the essence of the Kingdom Domain.

The Kingdom Domain was established as a world on a spiritual dimension, therefore, there was no change in time there, only spiritual change.

This was achieved by leveraging the Spiritual Cultivation Society, using the Mind Network as a foundation, and the Evolutionary Moon as its core.

The Moon of Evolution can reflect the past and present, while the Mind Network can connect the spiritual existence of this person in the past and future. Combined, these two elements were created by borrowing the total magical pressure from the past and future of billions of beings in this world.

Once this Dharma Realm was completed, the total magical pressure of this world immediately doubled. The world’s will, like a dragon rising from the earth, shattered the Emperor’s Mind Network, rendering it unable to suppress the world will of the Silent Plane.

The world’s consciousness now completely favored him. Locke felt that his every word and action seemed to resonate with this world.

This represented a higher level of trust in him from this world, to the point that his words and actions, though not intentionally conforming to the world will of the Silent Plane, all aligned with its preferences.

This was the meaning of “Doing as one pleases, without overstepping the bounds!”

Locke did not use his own will to replace the world’s will, but at this moment, what he wanted to do was also what this world wanted to do.

Within the capital, Locke took a step forward, and in an instant, he left the capital and entered the Dharma Realm.

The Dharma Realm was filled with verdant mountains and clear waters.

This place seemed untouched by environmental pollution. Despite being the location of the capital, it wasn’t a massive industrial city with towering chimneys, but rather a primeval forest.

Lush and verdant, teeming with life.

There were only plants, no animals, for this was the realm of plants; every tree here was an embodiment of plant spirits and essence.

Locke had added ritual magic to the spell that summoned this realm, one of the reasons for its success.

He had borrowed the power of the Emerald Dream, much like the wizard Edgar created the Land of Spirits, drawing vast amounts of plant spirits from it and combining them with the kingdom’s domain to create such a realm of immense life energy. The scale of

this realm was beyond the capabilities of an ordinary second-circle wizard; its completion was due to a confluence of coincidences:

the emperor’s gullibility and dependence, his manipulation of the entire world, and his mental network’s suppression of the world’s will. And the world’s will, seeking to escape its predicament, chose him.

Similarly, the other three great spells in the Silent Grail War had greatly aided him.

Most importantly, through the Spiritual Guild, he had leveraged his borrowing from the Emperor a hundredfold.

‘Once this realm descends, the world’s will can naturally break free from the mental network’s binding and suppression,’ Locke pondered. ‘First, I’ve emptied the mental network.’ ‘

Second, the original principle of the mental network binding the world’s will was to use the oversight system to unify all mortals and chosen ones of that world with the Empire.’ ‘

In this way, all the world’s talents were incorporated into the mental network, indirectly binding the world.’

‘But after I let this world-class realm descend, everything changed. The Empire only ruled half of this world, and the oversight system couldn’t penetrate this realm. By expanding the world map, I reduced the Emperor’s Empire from a unified empire to a separatist force.’

‘A separatist force naturally cannot bind the world’s will.’

A full moon appeared behind Locke, falling from a great height as if crashing to the earth, finally hanging in mid-air behind him, illuminating the entire kingdom.’

The kingdom’s territory was borrowed from the emperor, so he has no control over it.

It belongs to this world;

it’s a public land.

This is why the world’s will supports him; otherwise, he would merely be a second emperor.

However, this is unimportant.

His Moon of Evolution can fully utilize this Dharma Realm.

Moreover, at this moment, he possesses the perfect timing and location; the Moon of Evolution directly resides in the Dharma Realm, which he can control with his immense magic. Most importantly, he has a follow-up attack.   He still has a backup plan!

Meanwhile   , in the Prime Material Plane, the Emperor was consumed by immense rage and the madness of betrayal.   He roared, “Duke Schiller, you won’t get away with this!”   At the same time, the Supreme Executive Council in the capital suddenly issued a decree—Duke Schiller had colluded with rebel forces, intending to rebel; all of Duke Schiller’s property was confiscated, and all his titles and positions were stripped.   In the Dharma Realm, Locke’s eyes revealed a hint of surprise. The fact that the other side could act so quickly meant that the Emperor had already prepared to declare him a traitor. A simple order and a complete process were all it took to announce to the world that he was a traitor.   The Emperor, after all, is an emperor; indeed, once the cunning rabbit dies, the hunting dog is cooked.   ”But…”   Locke shook his head. “It’s no use.”   ”I’ve never held any position in the Spiritual Order. You’ve stripped me of all my titles and positions in this world, and you can’t stop me from summoning the Dharma Realm.”   ”This is the inevitable trend, and it cannot be changed. Emperor, don’t you understand?”   At this moment, in the Prime Material Plane, the wizard Edgar suddenly attacked the emperor. He flipped his left hand, and the projection of the Time-Shadow Fern appeared in his palm. Countless ghost vines extended from the Land of All Spirits, trying to pull the emperor and his imperial palace into the Land of All Spirits.   Edgar’s thinking was clear. ‘That Locke guy is indeed not to be underestimated, but the emperor is so weak right now. If I absorb the total amount of participating magic pressure from his side, it will be a supplement for me.’ ‘   Although I can no longer seize the initiative against Locke, it’s better than doing nothing.’   He wasn’t the only one with this thought.   At this moment, the wizard Smith no longer cared about killing the witch Georgina.   Although the witch Georgina’s condition was not good, she could still put up a fight. In the clash between two great magics, the outcome wouldn’t be decided so quickly.   But the weakened emperor was undoubtedly a highly coveted prize.   Therefore, Wizard Smith immediately forgot his alliance with the emperor and instead sought to seize his power.   At this moment, the witch Georgina’s expression also changed slightly.   In fact, if Wizard Smith had attacked her earlier, she would have been immediately eliminated. Unlike other people’s ultimate magic, her ultimate magic relied on the combination of her alchemical spinning machine and the spiritual essence of a large number of mortals in this world to form an ultimate spell.   Essentially, her ultimate magic contained a large number of mortals.   But now the problem arose: Locke had borrowed all the spiritual essence of all mortals under the imperial system at once, and with the world’s help, directly created a world-class magic realm for the world.   In other words, all the excess spiritual energy of these mortals’ future spirituality would be invested into that magic realm.   Locke’s borrowing wasn’t just based on the reflection of the Evolutionary Moon throughout history; moonlight can appear at any time of day, and as long as moonlight can appear there, a moon can be forcibly hung there.   It wasn’t just about the mental network itself reaching its peak, connecting a person’s past and future spirituality.   It also depended on the world’s acceptance of Locke borrowing from the world’s past and future.   The combination of these three factors, along with the approval of the spiritual society and the Emperor, made this feat possible.   Therefore, the Loom of Fate immediately became a losing proposition, because every bit of spiritual energy it earned by untying the knots of fate had to be directly paid to Locke’s magical realm.   Thus, Locke’s blow to Georgina far exceeded that of the other two, almost equal to the blow to the Emperor.   Locke’s act of borrowing severed the very root of her immense magic.   Fortunately, she had feigned composure, preventing Wizard Smith from seeing through her act; otherwise, he might have targeted her first.   Georgina’s expression changed slightly. This time, she represented the New Textile Science of Boniface University in the Silent Grail War. If she were eliminated with the lowest score, she would be a sinner against the university and the New Textile Science.   Their New Textile Science would suffer a huge blow before it even began.   This couldn’t be allowed.   There was only one way left.   And this method…

Georgina grew increasingly angry, convinced that Locke was doing it on purpose.

“Locke has already borrowed all the spiritual energy and future growth potential of this world. All future energy growth in this world must be prioritized for Locke’s realm,”

Georgina said. “Therefore, if my Destiny Weaver remains in the present world of the Silent Plane, I am doomed to fail. Even without anyone targeting me, I will be eliminated from this world due to the collapse of the Great Magic.” “My

only chance of survival is to enter the realm Locke summoned. Currently, all the power of this world is within that realm. Only by actively joining the realm with my Destiny Weaver, becoming a part of it, can I possibly reconnect with the spiritual energy through weaving destiny and regain energy.”

“But in doing so, I will be indirectly controlled by Locke,”

the witch Georgina gritted her teeth. “Damn Locke, it’s hard to say this wasn’t intentional. Skinning, dismembering, and dismembering—so clean and efficient. Even a competitor is exploited to the extreme. Such a mindset… those dark wizards are nothing compared to you.”

“However, this is indeed the style of us white wizards. Our actions still conform to the eight virtues of white wizards.”

Georgina the witch worried that Wizard Smith, having regained his senses, could only chant a spell, forcibly opening the gate to the magical realm, and then stepping out, taking the Spinning Machine of Fate into the magical realm.

At the same time, Edgar was about to pull the terrified emperor into the Land of Spirits when suddenly he realized something, and a chill ran down his spine.

“Locke, your schemes are so vicious. I almost fell into your trap again. This emperor is the bait you released; whoever takes it will die instantly.”

“Are you trying to end this match now, fighting four second-ring level beings at once and winning?”

Edgar immediately reacted, chanting a spell to stop the magical vines spreading from the Land of Spirits.

The next moment, the magical vines were ripped apart by a shower of meteors.

The meteors fell to the earth, projecting beams of starlight.

Second-circle spell: Starlight Projection!

Wizard Smith’s ten starlight projection clones surrounded Edgar, preventing him from competing with himself for the emperor.

Meanwhile, Wizard Smith used one starlight projection clone to grab the emperor’s arm, about to carry him towards the celestial meteor demiplane cluster in the sky.

Wizard Smith laughed heartily. “Can’t compete for first place, second place is fine too. You’re all too ambitious, your appetites are too big, which only reduces efficiency.”

“I’ll be more realistic. There’s no hope of winning the championship now, so let’s devour this emperor and take second place!”

Wizard Edgar’s eyes flickered. ‘That idiot Smith. Should I remind him? Under normal circumstances, I wouldn’t bother reminding such a weakling.’

‘But right now, if I want to compete for the championship, I need someone to fight against the most powerful force right now, Locke.’ Thinking of this ,

Wizard Edgar immediately said to Wizard Smith, “Smith, don’t touch the Emperor.”

Wizard Smith narrowed his eyes. “What? You want to compete with me? Too late. Right now, if I absorb the Emperor’s total magical pressure and his mental network, I’ll become the contestant with the second highest total magical pressure.”

“Hahahaha… High capital, win. An age-old truth. I…”

Wizard Edgar said speechlessly, “Don’t laugh so loudly. It’s one thing for Locke to laugh so loudly, but why are you laughing so loudly? The Emperor doesn’t have any magical pressure left. Locke has borrowed everything he has.”

“Not only is it borrowed now, but it’s borrowed in the future. I ask you, if you swallow the Emperor’s mental network, aren’t you inheriting the assets of his mental network? So, who will pay the money that should be given to the Dharma Realm in the future?”

Wizard Smith’s expression froze. His starlight avatar looked at the Emperor in his hands with horror, as if he were seeing a terrifying being. “If I devour the Mind Network, then my Celestial Meteor will be the one paying the total magical pressure to the Dharma Realm in the future.”

“Locke deliberately threw the Emperor out there, scheming to make me devour him, so that my Celestial Meteor will become a complete sucker?”

“My Celestial Meteor will be completely drained and emptied by his Dharma Realm, becoming his laborer. Vicious, so vicious.”

“Insidious…so insidious…this person is indeed a thousand times, a hundred times more vicious than me.”

“I was fortunate not to be deceived by his kind appearance back then. If I had let him see my physical condition back then, I’m afraid I would have suffered even more and deeper schemes today.”

Wizard Smith looked at the Emperor with horrified eyes, then threw him away as if he were some kind of monstrous beast.

The Emperor, under his armor, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Although he didn’t fully understand why these people from the Great World of the Other Shore were so eager to attack him at first, and then avoided him like the plague,

the Emperor knew that, at least for the time being, he seemed to be out of danger.

At this moment, the Moon of Evolution appeared in the Dharma Realm, and a Moon of Evolution also appeared on the Prime Material Plane of the Silent Plane,

announcing its existence to the world.

In the present world, the gray sky, filled with billowing black smoke, had long been devoid of the sun and moon.

The sun would occasionally pierce the thick clouds for an hour or two each day, letting down a few rays of discolored sunlight, but the people of the capital city had not seen the moon for a long time.

Now, the Moon of Evolution fell from the sky, like a chess piece thrown violently into the heavens.

In an instant, the thick fog in the gray sky was dispelled, and the people of the capital city, and many other major cities in the world, looked up and finally saw the moon.

Beside the full moon lay a dark sun.

Due to the cooperation of the Silent Plane, the spirituality of the sun in this world changed along with the demonic dragon bloodline within Locke, cooperating with Locke’s use of the dual power of sun and moon to summon the Dharma Realm.

In the mortal realm, each plant, bathed in moonlight, displayed a magical glow that gradientd from silver to blue on its veins and petals. These plants and magical plants were all incorporated into the ecosystem of the Evolutionary Moon.

Within the magical realm, forests were enveloped in the light of their own Evolutionary Moon, radiating a magical glow that seemed destined to become an eternal, unchanging spectacle.

Locke’s immense magic merged with the kingdom’s domain, and at that moment, his assets and capital multiplied.

Locke directly pulled Antoine and the Preston Witch, located within the world’s crystal wall system, into this magical realm.

At this moment, Antoine and the Preston Witch looked at Locke with complex expressions. Antoine remained composed

, but the Preston Witch’s gaze held a mixture of awe and caution.

Antoine said, “Locke, well done. You truly deserve to be a researcher from Golden Crown Mountain. You have demonstrated the academic excellence of Golden Crown Mountain.”

Locke, hands behind his back, smiled and said, “It’s alright.”

At this moment, under the moonlight of the Evolutionary Moon, all the trees in the entire magical realm were imbued with Locke’s moonlight. Under the moonlight of the Evolutionary Moon, these trees, mostly ordinary, gained intelligence and transformed into treants.

The first Great Rune Locke added to the second-circle botanical spell was the second-circle spell, Moon Goddess’s Blessing.

This was a spell that the witch Catherine had once taught him.

Now, with the help of two first-circle crystallized wizards, he was able to quickly add Great Runes to this spell model.

The Moon Goddess’s Blessing spell can collectively bestow upon the trees of a forest an effect equivalent to the first-circle botanical spell, Treant Enlightenment. Unlike

the first-circle stage, this spell could only be used one-on-one in the early stages, and even at the first-circle crystallization stage, it could only be used one-on-many.

Moon Goddess’s Blessing could imbue an entire forest with treants.

With the addition of Great Runes and the Evolutionary Moon, Locke’s spell’s effect became to imbue at least one-third of the forest area in this magical realm with treants.

This is far faster than the original method of honestly planting plants or searching for them in forest reserves to cultivate treants and accumulate biomass!

At this moment, the entire magical realm is filled with his own treants.

The existence of these treants further reduces the energy dissipation of his Great Magic ecosystem, further increases the instantaneous magic pressure output multiplication rate, and improves eight indicators including energy compatibility and energy stability.

The existence of individual treants can enhance various fundamental aspects of Great Magic.

This is also why Wizard Smith insisted on using Star Prayers.

The existence of intelligent life can elevate the status of a world plane, naturally also enhancing the various fundamental manifestations of Great Magic.

Therefore, Locke not only needs ordinary ecological communities but also treant ecological communities based on intelligent life.

‘With treant communities, I can also solve the problem of my forest sanctuary being unguarded and unable to accommodate animals and insects.’

‘For me at the first ring stage, this was a difficult choice. But unexpectedly, for me, a second-ring wizard, it’s a problem that can be solved easily.’

Locke stood with his hands behind his back. “Although I have something I want to do, I think the competition is more important. If we can win now, we should win now. I bestow my greatest blessings upon you both, hoping that you will do your utmost to help me and drive the other contestants out of this plane.”

Antoine nodded. “Of course.”

“Locke, someone has entered the magic realm.”

Locke glanced at the witch Georgina. “This one will be dealt with last. Her Destiny Spinner has willingly submitted to my magic realm, which can maintain the phase disturbance between the magic realm and reality.”

“If there is a Destiny Spinner to reduce the disturbance, the loss can be reduced.”

As Locke spoke, it was as if the world itself was speaking.

It was clearly his idea, yet he had done it, and the world was thinking the same way.

“I gave her only choice: to take on this responsibility for me and reduce the phase disturbance of my magic realm. This is the only way for her great magic to survive.”

At this moment, not only was the heavens and earth helping him, but his thoughts and ideas also perfectly aligned with the thoughts and ideas of this world. Naturally, he anticipated the enemy’s moves and completely outmaneuvered the witch Georgina.

Antoine’s eyes flickered. This version of Locke both frightened and excited him.

He wasn’t the main character in this competition, so he would only listen to Locke and wouldn’t do anything unnecessary.

The Preston Witch lowered her eyes to Locke; the usually proud and willful witch was now subconsciously obeying Locke’s commands.

Locke stepped forward, and in an instant, he teleported to another part of the magical realm. Then he took another step forward. He

immediately stepped out of the magical realm and into the mortal world,

appearing before the Emperor, Smith, and Edgar.

Upon seeing him, Wizard Smith’s eyes blazed with fury. “Beast!”

The Emperor felt betrayed upon seeing him. “A treacherous villain disguised as a loyalist!”

Wizard Edgar looked at Locke, his eyes flickering; he guessed one of Locke’s hidden plans.

But if that was the case, it wasn’t necessarily a bad thing for him.

(End of Chapter)