Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 724

Chapter 721 Edgar, I’ll make you admit defeat wholeheartedly!

Antoine said to Locke, “Locke, I don’t know what happened either. Observe within this Dharma Realm for a while, and the Preston Witch and I will help you think it over and discuss it with you.” A

Great Green Leaf Dragon Sparrow appeared behind Locke, and using a first-circle botanical spell, Banana Wings, it flew above the Dharma Realm, surveying it in a very short time. Along the way, it encountered several Rain Mantises.

These Rain Mantises were as white as rainwater, like transparent bubbles, with only a Rain Flower Stone core in their core.

They resembled mantises, about the height of a person, with four legs and a pair of hooked feet.

The way these Rain Mantises moved through the rainwater was extremely unique. Basically, it was as if the rainwater and they were one. They were not passing through the rain, but rather merging with it. Therefore, their movement was not continuous, but flickering and discontinuous.

In the blink of an eye, they would move from one point to another.

Locke’s magical pressure, like a vast ocean, pressed down, causing the apprentice-level rain mantises to disintegrate before they could even get close. Only

three rain mantises, each with a magical pressure of approximately 1000 (one-ring level), manifested a [magical pressure shell] as [elemental shells], charging towards Locke and raising their mantis claws to attack him.

Locke’s Great Azure Leaf Dragon Sparrow swung its tail, and with the immense magical boost and overwhelming magical pressure, even a single one-ring spell and a one-ring magical plant displayed incredible power. The next moment

, the three rain mantises were severed in half, and the three Rain Flower Stone cores shattered horribly.

At this time, there were still hundreds of such one-ring level rain mantises in the magic realm. These rain mantises were creatures created from the worlds captured by the disc-shaped creatures, transformed into disc-shaped worlds, and converted into life forms.

Although they were all ordinary one-ring magical creatures with only basic elemental shells, their sheer numbers made them a formidable force.

If Locke were at the first ring stage, the elemental shell would have made killing even one of these rain mantises a considerable amount of magic. However, being at the second ring, he destroyed three in an instant.

But with at least a hundred rain mantises existing within the magic realm and the Disc World still being deployed, Locke frowned.

For a second-ring wizard, ten such creatures would be a minor matter; after all, they weren’t first-ring wizards, just a group of beings with limited strength due to their innate bloodline.

They acted on instinct and limited intelligence.

But a hundred such creatures would be troublesome.

A thousand would complicate matters.

And tens of thousands?

That would be a small-scale interplanetary war. As a second-ring wizard, Locke, according to the principles of interplanetary warfare in wizarding civilizations, should have some first-ring wizards and wizard apprentices as commanders. Now, as a lone commander facing a battlefield of such scale, he would naturally find himself in trouble.

The disc-shaped creatures continued to pour these creatures into the area, their numbers clearly staggering. If they didn’t find out why the other side could still directly intervene in the Dharma Realm even with the gates closed, then they would likely continue to pour in tens of thousands of first-ring level rain mantises, along with countless apprentice-level rain mantises.

Locke saw that these rain mantises, though fragile to him, were terrifying destroyers to the treants and ordinary trees within the Dharma Realm.

Destruction was everywhere ,

like pests in a vegetable garden.

While he could easily crush them, there were simply too many, and the Dharma Realm was too vast; he couldn’t completely eradicate them while traversing the garden.

The next moment, Locke returned to the mortal world from the Dharma Realm.

The mortal world was still shrouded in darkness, but in the uppermost sky, there were signs of Edgar battling Omega, the entire sky a blend of blue and green light.

Edgar’s Perfect Tree treants were projecting countless life-spear arrays into the sky.

Locke, flying above the earth, observed, “Although I still don’t understand what happened, I do understand why the Silent Plane was so easily invaded.”

“At least it’s one of the reasons it’s so easily invaded.”

“It’s a matter of the total biomass.”

The Preston witch, under Locke’s immense magic, said to him, “Total biomass? This biomass isn’t too bad. The Silent Plane has a very large biomass; among medium-sized planes, it’s one of the largest.”

“It’s probably because they obtained our civilization’s seeds, leading to their enormous population.”

Antoine said, “The canopy that the Zorro wizard created in this world was very effective, overcoming this world’s shortcomings and doubling the population.”

“Ten billion people… in a medium-sized world, this number is quite rare. Locke, the Silent Plane has a large biomass; this plane is very powerful.”

Locke looked down at the earth. “The biomass is large, but that’s not what I’m talking about. You can’t just look at the total amount of data without considering its composition.”

Antoine walked on the surface of the Moon of Evolution, looking down at the ground from the sky, and immediately realized. “Wait, you mean plants… This world has basically lost its concept of the wild; it’s highly industrialized with cities. Since this world has neither plants nor wild animals, the so-called biomass refers to the spirituality of these billions of humans.”

Locke said, “Yes. The spiritual composition of this world’s biomass is too homogeneous. Homogeneity easily leads to problems. So, although the biomass is large, it’s still easily invaded by the disc-shaped creatures. Have you noticed? The blue light of Omega Ω can parasitize the retinas of those humans’ pupils, but it can’t parasitize plants.”

“Or rather, I think it can’t parasitize beings with less than a certain level of self-will. If the plants in the Silent Plane had more spirituality, the disc-shaped creatures would have had a greater difficulty in invading. Now, after Edgar and I modified this world with our plant magic, we’ve managed to bring some plants into this world, but it’s still not enough.”

Locke said, “That’s why I don’t believe Omega can truly assimilate others and make the beings of this plane become one with it. The disc-shaped creatures’ ecological invasion capabilities don’t include this ability. But it is indeed showing this ability now.”

“Moreover, it has the ability to invade the Dharma Realm. Where exactly is the problem?”

Locke wanted to use his supernatural intuition to pinpoint the issue, but this damned ability was too unstable. When he tried to use it and focused his energy, he felt his mind go blank.

Antoine looked thoughtful. “What you say makes sense. If the other party only possesses the ability to mislead higher intelligent life forms, then it means it doesn’t actually have the ability to assimilate the life forms of this world. It’s just deceiving us.”

The Preston Witch said to Locke, “Locke, the dragons’ supernatural abilities are self-triggered; we don’t have the ability to actively trigger them. Moreover, supernatural abilities are extremely susceptible to the influence of various highly spiritual beings.”

“Omega’s true form is too close to us. It’s a sun-ring level being.”

“Sun-ring level spirituality has undergone a fundamental change; its gravitational pull alone is enough to interfere with your supernatural abilities. Furthermore, compared to wizards, the disc-shaped creatures have the advantage of an overwhelmingly large amount of magical pressure.”

Disc-shaped creatures are essentially unique beings capable of freely navigating the endless void. They

can basically be called a void swarm.

Their total magical pressure is essentially at the plane level.

While the wizards’ ultimate magic is unique and powerful, wizards were originally individual beings; even with ultimate magic, they cannot compete with a plane in terms of total magical pressure.

Locke said, “If the number of plants in this world could account for one-third of the total number of living beings, Omega wouldn’t be able to invade this world so easily.”

Locke realized this and suddenly stopped in his tracks.

The dozen or so apprentice-level rain mantises and the waterfall colossus near him, before they could even get close, were crushed by the magical pressure emanating from Locke.

Locke was emitting a purple magical pressure light, a result of excessive magical pressure.

This light signified that the magical pressure had accumulated to a certain level, causing a special reaction; there were countless articles in the wizarding world researching this light alone.

Many second-circle wizards had conducted related research.

Antoine asked with concern, “Locke, what’s wrong? Why did you suddenly stop?”

Locke replied, “The plan has changed. Regardless, that realm is one I intend to take with me, and those rain mantises are wreaking havoc within it, destroying my assets. I must stop them, and a backup plan I left behind before the competition is now usable.”

“When this backup plan can be activated and used is entirely not up to me, but to the people of the Twin Demon Realms.”

On the Moon of Evolution, Antoine stood on the smooth rock surface beside the Golden Branch, astonished. “A backup plan? You left a backup plan before the competition?”

Antoine hadn’t expected Locke to still have a trump card up

his sleeve. At this moment, Locke’s magical pressure surged.

The heavens and earth trembled.

The entire Silent Plane seemed to tremble before this magical pressure.

The Silent Plane was only a medium-sized plane, and Locke’s magical pressure was already at 16,000—far too high for the Silent Plane.

Within the realm of magic, as Georgina faced her siege, she looked at Locke in astonishment. “You opened the gates to the realm? That makes sense; at this point, there’s no need to close them. But why is Locke pushing his magical pressure to its limit at this moment? What is he trying to do?”

Above the Silent Plane, Wizard Edgar looked down at the earth, a look of confusion on his face.

What was Locke trying to do, pushing his magical pressure to its limit? He hadn’t done this even when using powerful magic before.

On the other side, Omega looked down at Locke. “These two wizards are so troublesome, damn it. My true form has already used void gravity to completely lock onto this plane.”

“Once my true form completely devours this plane, I will descend and utterly kill these few minor second-ring wizards. A mere few wizards dare to offend me repeatedly.”

The disc-shaped creature Omega is a being referred to as an Outer God in multiple worlds within the Endless Void.

Its more common name in the Endless Void is not the academic designation from its home wizarding world: Disc-shaped creature.

Instead—Omega, the Fallen Water God!

At this moment, within the Silent Plane, Locke voluntarily withdrew from the state of “Doing as One Pleases Without Overstepping the Limits.”

While this state could enhance his intelligence and other overall qualities, it had a drawback: his spirituality was too closely integrated with this plane, making many things inconvenient,

especially those unrelated to the Silent Plane .

Locke then did something else: he transformed the Mind Network into a chessboard and threw it out.

The Duke of Westminster instantly noticed Locke’s voluntary withdrawal from the Mind Network!

He stood in the Emperor’s Hall, staring at Locke in astonishment. “How could anyone voluntarily relinquish the throne?” “Don’t

you want to be emperor?”

At this moment, in the sky above the Silent Plane, Locke smiled. “I used the Mind Network simply to use the ‘Doing as One Pleases Without Overstepping the Limits’ state to properly study and research the great magic of this world. At the same time, I also wanted to find out about the emperor of this world and what was happening within the Mind Network.”

The Mind School was something he had never encountered before.

This thing can’t be brought out of the Silent Dimension, so it’s useless to me. In fact, I’d have to devote a lot of energy to maintaining the mental network.

Holding this thing would only reduce my combat power.

Locke said, “I’m a wizard, not an emperor. What kind of emperor do I want? Grand Duke, I never intended to take over this mental network from the beginning.”

“Moreover, I want to return it to its true owner…” “

Zorro, I’ve helped you fulfill your original plan.”

Locke put his hands behind his back and looked coldly in the direction of the Grand Duke of Westminster. “Emperor, you are ultimately just an emperor, and only an emperor. So, you still haven’t told me the truth.”

“Since the sorcerer Zorro elevated you to the Grand Duke of Westminster before his death, he couldn’t have been without plans for his mental network. Yet you haven’t mentioned his plans for the mental network, for this world, or for his successor. I know you’ve been hiding something from me.”

“You think that if you don’t tell me, I won’t know? But you forget that I’m in a state of ‘doing as I please without overstepping the bounds’ in this world, and I have the incarnation of a saint. The things you’ve told me about Zorro are enough for me to guess his true plans before his death.”

At this moment, Locke pointed at the mental network floating in mid-air.

The Grand Duke of Westminster’s lips trembled.

No.

He knew everything.

He knew about Zorro’s plans.

How did he know?

If he knew, what was he?

No!

At that moment, the moonlight of the Evolutionary Moon descended, and Locke, using the moonlight of the Moon Mirror, connected the spirituality of most of the beings in this world with the Emperor chess piece.

Simultaneously, as if activating a hidden function already present in the chessboard itself, the Emperor chess piece was directly activated, beginning to continuously merge with those spiritualities.

Locke transmitted his voice to the entire world: “I solemnly inform you all of the last wish of the wizard Zorro before his death. He wanted all of you to be your own masters. I do not know whether this is right or wrong, but out of respect for my wizard ancestor, I will fulfill his promise regarding his immense magical arrangements.”

In an instant, the spirituality of all billions of beings in the Silent Plane, regardless of gender or age, was connected to the Emperor chess piece.

The Duke of Westminster, witnessing this scene, was filled with rage and despair. “No!”

He was plunged into utter hopelessness.

Because, too, he was connected to that chess piece in spirit.

He reconnected his spirit to the Emperor chess piece, but what good was it? At that moment, all the native inhabitants of the Silent Plane were already connected to that piece.

At that moment, the Grand Duke of Westminster seemed to see that afternoon again, that study, where Zoro Rick was fiddling with his chessboard. He suddenly looked up at the Grand Duke.

“Rick, tell me, what would this world be like if everyone were their own master, everyone could be their own lord?” “

According to all my knowledge, this society cannot exist without a head. To create a canopy, there needs to be someone in charge to maintain it. The magic recorded on the Seed of Civilization also needs a monarchical system to sustain it.” “

I think there must be someone in this world who can come up with a better solution than me, a better plan than my canopy project. Perhaps they can easily solve the problem of the sky in this world. And there must be someone who can devise a mental network—a vast magic—that transcends the monarchical system, but I can’t. This is the limit of my abilities…”

Zoro picked up an Emperor chess piece. “So I can’t think of a structure other than monarch and subject. I feel there’s no society more stable than this one. So, there will be emperors, grand dukes, and barons, but… what if we didn’t have a figurehead republic, but instead made everyone an emperor?”

“Then, this system still works.”

“My ultimate magic still works.”

“It’s just that everyone is their own master.”

The boy, then called Rick, widened his eyes and looked at Zoro, saying, “Your Majesty, please stop. What are you saying? It’s too scary. I don’t understand at all. And… I see many people, and they are very bad.”

“If they are not controlled, they will definitely bully the weak. They can’t make decisions at all. If they do, they will become even worse and bully even more people. Is that kind of world really good?”

It was still Rick, the Grand Duke of Westminster, trying to persuade his overly idealistic older brother.

“Brother, although you are very powerful, but…”

“In short, if everyone could manage themselves, that would be wonderful. But it is precisely because that’s impossible that emperors and kings are needed. Only their existence can manage this world. It’s like a person can’t be without a head…”

Zoro Rick leaned on his desk, looked at Rick, and suddenly laughed, “Rick, don’t you believe everyone wants to become better? Don’t you believe them?”

“But I think that if we don’t give them the chance to make mistakes, they won’t even have the chance to become better. This world has given kings and emperors thousands of years, but I’m still not satisfied with this world, so I think we can give everyone in this world a chance. As for what the future holds, I don’t know.”

Zoro Rick’s eyes shone brightly. “I’m an idealist, never practical. I’m sorry, Rick, I can’t listen to you.”

Rick said, “Your Majesty, you’ve read too much of the inscription on that stone. But the so-called Great World of the Other Shore recorded on that stone may not be true.”

At this moment, the scene before the Grand Duke of Westminster overlapped with the scene from that afternoon.

The Emperor’s position in the Mind Network was completely merged with the spirituality of all the natives of this world.

Simultaneously, a beam of mental light rose from the chessboard, the white light falling directly into Locke’s hand.

Locke heard Zorro’s voice in his ear. ‘Rick, I knew you would keep my last wish. This is my gift to you.’

‘I modified the Mind Network’s response protocol; the Emperor piece is no longer exclusive, but a protocol.’ ‘

But I worried about the consequences of my actions. I really wanted to give them a chance, but I also knew that things might not go as I intended. The future world will be chaotic, you will become very dangerous, I am very worried about you, Rick.’

‘So, this is my last gift to you, a gift to repay you for keeping your promise. This is a beam of my mental light, the hope in my heart, which can guide you in crucial moments.’

Locke’s eyes flashed with surprise at this powerful beam of hope left by a Star Ring Wizard; he hadn’t expected such an unexpected gain.

He was simply eager to break free from the mental network, refocus his attention on his ultimate magic, Evolution Moon, and utilize that last trump card. He

also wanted to help Zoro fulfill his dying wish.

Locke sighed, “Zoro, you trusted that Emperor Rick too much.”

“Alright, now I can concentrate. Twin Demon Realms, I thank you for giving me such a powerful trump card.”

At that moment, Locke suddenly placed his right hand behind his back and stretched out his left hand towards the sky.

Simultaneously, a hand appeared in the skies of both the mortal and magical realms, grasping the moon and then, as if picking up a porcelain bowl, taking it down from the sky.

Locke chuckled, “Edgar, very well. Since you’ve worked so hard, let me show you how I won this match. Edgar, you’ve forgotten, I’m a breeder and a potion master.”

“And from the very beginning of this match, I haven’t used any magic associated with either of these identities.”

“Because I’ve been waiting for this moment.”

“Edgar, I’ll make you lose fair and square. I’ll show you the true power of my ultimate magic, Evolution Moon.”

Locke smiled, pinching the moon.

(14,000 words updated today, so I’ve made up for one missed chapter. Two more chapters owed.)

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