Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 725

Chapter 722 The Reverse Refinement Method Belonging to King Otto!

A phantom image of a second-ring magical artifact flew out of Locke’s left hand. This artifact was the bronze cauldron given to him by King Otto. After flying out, the bronze cauldron immediately fell to the ground and rapidly expanded, transforming into a small mountain that directly crushed a large number of rain mantises.

A large number of rain mantises were crushed by this artifact, and the rain flowers shattered.

After their death, their spirituality transformed into a torrent, absorbed into the bronze cauldron. Then, a flame appeared within the bronze cauldron—the Primordial Flame.

With Locke becoming a second-ring wizard, he could fully unleash the power of this Primordial Flame. From the perspective of a second-ring wizard, the reason this Primordial Flame was so powerful was because this flame contained the original state of planar power—the primordial power.

In other words, a first-ring potion master possessing the Primordial Flame was essentially using a portion of the characteristics of a second-ring wizard beyond their level through this rare magical item.

Locke recalled King Otto, whom he had encountered within the Historical Boundary Marker. King Otto had passed on the art of reverse potion-making to him, hoping that he could ensure his most important invention would shine in future generations.

Now was the time to fulfill his promise.

Locke tapped the bronze cauldron three times with his fingers, and an extremely complex magical model appeared within it. This model was in the shape of a human, with three parts, each with a ring.

Then, a phantom ‘human’ composed of spiritual energy appeared on this complex magical model.

Meanwhile, at Golden Crown Mountain, Little Peach Mountain, and the Gate of Hell, the wizards of Golden Crown Mountain were battling the dark wizards of the Twin Demon Realms. The two sides exchanged countless spells, the battle was fierce, and countless exquisite magics were displayed.

At the same time, Ellen Fox, a second-circle wizard of the Twin Demon Realms, looked at the battlefield on the side of the first-circle wizards, his expression strange.

He noticed that the wizard shoes worn by the wizards of Golden Crown Mountain were pure magical plant shoes, yet their effects were extremely good.

These wizard shoes are almost on par with those designed by the most skilled magic weavers in the Cloud Swamp Wetlands’ top wizard shoe shops alliance.

The Great Snow Peak Pineapple Wizard Shoes, due to the Pixiu angle fractal constraint equation, the glandular root sac energy-locking structure, and the presence of agave ketones, possess exceptional magical plant characteristics as a pair of pure magical plant wizard shoes. On the battlefield, they significantly accelerate the speed of the Golden Crown Mountain wizards.

This has caused the first-ring dark wizards of the Twin Demon Realms, who should have had a speed advantage, to find themselves at a disadvantage. Thus

, even if a dark wizard could defeat a first-ring wizard from Golden Crown Mountain, they found that their opponent could use the acceleration function of the wizard shoes to forcibly escape.

A single pair of wizard shoes can have a significant impact on the battle.

Fortunately, at this moment, only a first-ring wizard on the Golden Crown Mountain side possesses such a pair of wizard shoes.

Moreover, the dark wizards of the Twin Demon Realms attempted to steal the wizard shoes using the Twin Siphon Organs, only to discover that the shoes were ingeniously designed, perfectly tailored to the limits of their magical abilities.

The Great Snow-Capped Pineapple Wizard Shoes were precisely designed to prevent first-ring dark wizards from stealing them, requiring second-ring dark wizards to intervene.

However, for second-ring dark wizards, there was no need to use the Twin Siphon Organs against the first-ring wizards of Golden Crown Mountain.

Therefore, this battle was a very enjoyable experience for the first-ring wizards of Golden Crown Mountain.

A first-ring power magic wizard who had lost the battle, stepping on the Great Snow-Capped Pineapple Shoes, left two icy tracks on the ground. He then glided across the ground as if ice skating, the leaves of the Great Snow-Capped Pineapple flying beneath his feet, constantly accelerating his movement.

Meanwhile, the dark wizards of the Twin Demon Realms pursued him, but because they could not keep up, they missed their chance.

A group of second-ring dark wizards were dispatched to handle the battle on the first-ring side. Several second-ring dark wizards, witnessing this, were displeased.

“What’s going on? The wizard shoes from Cloudze Wetlands have made another breakthrough. They’re no longer making magical artifact wizard shoes, but plant-based ones?”

“Technological routes need iteration to keep up with the most advanced products. How can those first-ring level wizard shoes be so effective on their first appearance?”

Second-ring dark wizard Ellen Fox said in a deep voice, “This means that behind those wizard shoes, there’s at least one breeding genius hiding, surpassing the breakthroughs many wizards have made day and night with a single flash of inspiration.”

“But this isn’t stable.”

“It highly depends on one person’s talent. I remember that the white wizards’ shop alliance hated this kind of unstable innovation.”

Ellen Fox suddenly acted, using his twin siphon organs on the power master from Golden Crown Mountain. The next moment, he forcibly stole one of the wizard’s shoes from the other’s feet, forcing the power mage to retreat quickly using the remaining shoe on his left foot.

Ellen Fox looked at the large snow-capped pineapple wizard’s shoe that had appeared in his left hand; he saw the name “Augustus” on it.

The next moment, he forcefully crushed the shoe, and the large snow-capped pineapple immediately withered and its roots rotted. “So it was his wizard’s shoe design. Locke Augustine.”

The other second-ring dark wizards immediately looked at him. “Lock Augustine? Never heard of that name.”

“I think I’ve heard of him. He’s a researcher from Golden Crown Mountain who’s recently gained some fame, but he’s only a first-ring wizard. So if you haven’t heard of him, you probably wouldn’t care even if you heard the name.”

Wizard Ellen Fox said, “I’ve met that breeder.”

A dark wizard chuckled, “Hmm? Met him? So he didn’t have anything stolen from him by the infamous leopard-stealing wizard Ellen Fox?”

Ellen Fox smirked. “Just a first-ring wizard. Even if he has some talent, he’s still just a first-ring wizard. These geniuses from Golden Crown Mountain all have one bad habit: arrogance. It’s a common ailment among those hypocritical white wizards.”

“He did indeed have something important stolen from him.”

A large mouth in the palm of Wizard Ellen Fox’s left hand extended a tongue, from which emerged a moon.

It was the magic that had been stolen from Locke by him: Full Moon Growth!

“The predecessor of the Moon of Evolution!

” Wizard Ellen Fox chuckled. “I remember the effect of this Full Moon Growth spell. It allows magical plants exposed to its light to instantly undergo a dramatic transformation, growing rapidly. It’s magic that can alter the growth rate of magical plants. Once used, I can immediately cripple the first-ring magical plant wizard shoes worn by those White Wizards of Golden Crown Mountain.”

“Heh, he himself didn’t expect that his wizard shoes would have such a huge flaw because of his own magic. If all the wizard shoes were destroyed in an instant, I think his newly established Augustus Wizard Shoes brand would probably lose all its reputation.”

“We might even face huge compensation payments,”

Ellen Fox, the wizard, smirked maliciously.

The other two second-ring dark wizards exchanged a glance and burst into laughter.

At the same time, Ellen Fox said, “This way, we can quickly resolve the victory that Golden Crown Mountain achieved at the first-ring stage due to those wizard shoes.” However,

Full Moon Growth was merely a blueprint spell for a powerful spell that Locke had barely completed at the first-ring crystallization stage; at this moment, it was still very rudimentary.

Therefore, such a Full Moon Growth could not directly cover the battlefield and lock onto the first-ring magical plant wizard shoes worn by five hundred first-ring wizards.

First-ring wizards were not like the familiar races under the Disc Creatures who were born with first-ring power; every bit of their power was acquired through research and learning.

Perhaps compared to second-ring wizards, they were weak, but they were certainly not powerless or lambs to the slaughter.

Therefore, there was only one way to deal with them using Full Moon Growth.

Ellen Fox, the leopard-stealing wizard, raised his left hand, channeling the magic within his Twin Siphon Organ—a

powerful spell—into the Full Moon Growth spell he held. Every dark wizard in the Twin Realms possessed a Twin Siphon Organ as their ultimate spell.

Ultimate spells were a wizard’s second soul, their second source of magic, and since the wizards of the Twin Realms had already pledged everything to the Twin Realms, they naturally had no spare power to create a second ultimate spell. The

Twin Siphon Organ was their ultimate spell.

It was just that each dark wizard used the same ultimate spell in a different way.

At this moment, Ellen Fox, the leopard-stealing wizard, transferred all the magic stored within his Twin Siphon Organ to Full Moon Growth.

A massive moon appeared on the battlefield.

Many wizards from Golden Crown Mountain looked up, astonished, at that corner of the battlefield.

This was… a botanical spell from the School of Life?

Used by a dark wizard?

No, it must have been stolen.

At this moment, many wizards from Golden Crown Mountain felt a sense of foreboding.

Ellen Fox, the wizard, burst into laughter. “Locke, you yourself handed me your weakness. So…”

His expression shifted slightly.

Wait a minute, something’s not right.

Ellen Fox felt a sudden unease, realizing that the Full Moon Growth had practically been given to him by Locke.

And Locke had sold his product during the Demon War, so had he really not anticipated this?

At that moment, many wizards on the battlefield had their wizarding shoes flash with magical light.

This was a spell model Locke had pre-placed in these wizarding shoes after obtaining permission from Golden Crown Mountain.

Simultaneously, Ellen Fox’s expression changed drastically, because the instant he poured most of his magical pressure into the Full Moon Growth, a lunar eclipse occurred.

The Full Moon Growth seemed to slowly close its eyes, like a lunar eclipse.

At the same time, the magical energy he had infused into the Full Moon Growth suddenly vanished.

“This is… a scam!” Wizard Ellen Fox roared.

He realized that the instant he used Locke’s Full Moon Growth, it was hijacked. Instead of a lunar eclipse, the entire moon disappeared.

All the energy contained within the Full Moon Growth had been stolen by Locke.

The Evolutionary Moon has a unique characteristic: wherever the moonlight is, that’s where the moon can appear.

The moonlight of the Full Moon Growth and the moonlight of the Evolutionary Moon are both Locke’s moonlight. Therefore, the instant he used Full Moon Growth was also the instant Locke could descend upon the Evolutionary Moon.

Simultaneously, Locke used a pre-arranged plan to allow his own Evolutionary Moon to descend and devour the Full Moon Growth of the same origin, completing an energy hijacking. He then temporarily drained all the moonlight from the Evolutionary Moon that had descended there.

Thus, a scene resembling a lunar eclipse was created.

This also meant that Ellen Fox, who could have stolen the Moon of Evolution that Locke had placed there, was now powerless to do so because Locke had drained the Moon of Evolution’s energy.

After all, Locke had transferred away the entire moon’s resources.

In a flash, thoughts raced through Ellen Fox’s mind, and he finally realized that he, a dark wizard thief, had actually been successfully scammed by a white wizard researcher.

He was instantly enraged. “Damn white wizard, I’m going to court…

no…

how dare a thief like me sue a researcher?”

Meanwhile, in the Silent Dimension, Locke directly extracted all the energy from a dark wizard with 15,000 magic pressure and used the Magic Pressure Reverse Refinement Technique to refine it into spiritual energy within a bronze cauldron.

Normal potion-making extracts energy and spirituality from various materials, while the Reverse Refinement Technique extracts materials from energy and spirituality.

At this moment, all this energy transformed into the spirituality of ‘humanity,’ which automatically formed the pattern of ‘humanity.’ This energy and spirituality flowed continuously within this ‘humanity,’

creating two energy metabolism pathways .

Where these pathways passed, energy upgrades and transformations occurred. Then, the two pathways connected, end to end.

Along these pathways, three energy wheels formed, each restoring a portion of the spiritual energy. Then, the three energy wheels merged together.

The energy underwent three restoration reactions—reduction reactions that even Locke couldn’t comprehend.

Then, a completely blank spiritual potion of zero appeared within the bronze cauldron, transforming into a shimmering pool of azure water. At

this moment, both the contestants inside the arena and the spectators outside watched this scene in astonishment.

Due to the special setup of the Silent Holy Grail Tournament, the audience couldn’t see the entire process of Locke’s reverse magic pressure refinement; the key details of the spell models and the crucial refining steps were all hidden.

It’s like watching a TV show; you can only see that the person has completed the task and the general framework, but you can’t see how it was done, like watching a class or demonstration.

This way, it only serves as a reference and learning resource, while protecting the contestant’s privacy and research results.

But at this moment, many people realized that Locke had just used a potion-making technique that, while technically potion-making, didn’t seem to be a common method.

Many wizards were whispering among themselves, discussing whether this was a unique innovation from Golden Crown Mountain in potion-making; they’d never heard of Golden Crown Mountain being so skilled in potion-making!

The seven judges of the daytime environmental assessment exchanged ideas. “Have you ever seen this refining method before?”

“No, absolutely not. This seems to be a refining method that violates the general principles of potion-making. I just don’t know what it can produce. If I could see the complete process, perhaps I could glean some clues, but right now I can only see a few unimportant steps.”

“Forget it, if we actually saw something this good, Golden Crown Mountain would be asking us for patent licensing fees.”

At this moment, the Silent Witch’s eyes flickered slightly, while the Truth Wizard of the Green Steel City Jungle Hand laughed, “Reverse refining method, I remember that potion-making in the Origin Lands of the Central Region has only just started. What’s going on? Has this little guy had any contact with the Origin Lands? This discipline is one of the current strategic development directions of the Origin Lands, there’s no reason for them to license it to an ordinary researcher from the Cloud Marsh Wetlands of the Eastern Region.”

The Silent Witch didn’t speak.

As a breeder, she wasn’t very interested in the so-called emerging potion-making.

At this moment, the wizards in the spectator arena heard the Truth Wizard of the Jungle Hand’s explanation, and their enthusiasm subsided slightly.

For a moment, they thought that Golden Crown Mountain was going to use this competition to showcase their innovation in potions, just like Boniface University.

But since this was an original creation of the Central Region’s leading wizarding land, it was different.

Locke had simply used a relatively cutting-edge potions technique.

The seven Sun Ring Wizard judges breathed a sigh of relief after hearing the Truth Wizard of the Hand of the Jungle’s words, as this special reverse alchemy method could almost be the starting point for a new third-level discipline.

If this was truly Golden Crown Mountain’s doing, then it was a huge undertaking, representing a shift in Golden Crown Mountain’s academic focus.

This would have a significant impact on the landscape of Cloud Marsh Wetlands, perhaps even causing major fluctuations in the stock market.

They all had money invested in the Cloud Marsh Wetlands stock market.

But since the Origin Land already had research in this area, this matter wasn’t as serious as they had imagined.

Meanwhile, on the four teams’ side, the Star Ring Wizard of Storm Tower remained silent, his face grim, as Smith had been kidnapped by the Twin Demons. The

Moon Ring Witch of Bonifacius University frowned, looking at Chad Schultz. Bonifacius University had consistently focused its resources on Potions, and if Mount Golden Crown truly made a significant breakthrough in Potions, the impact on Bonifacius would be substantial.

Fortunately, this seemingly unique and useful new Potions-making method had already been popular in the Central Region for some time. Even

so, it still posed a challenge to Bonifacius University. Among the seven top universities in Cloud Marsh, Bonifacius’s Potions program was the best, yet this novel method hadn’t been adopted by their Potions Department, while a wizard at Mount Golden Crown had mastered it.

This was a source of pressure for Bonifacius University.

The Moon Witch asked Chad Schultz, “Is this Locke Augustine your Golden Crown Mountain’s trump card?”

Chad Schultz, the wizard, paused for a moment, then, not wanting to lose face, affirmed, “Yes, he’s our ace.”

Rush, the leader of Quinnjoll’s group, glanced at Chad.

Meanwhile, in the Golden Crown Mountain spectator area, Wizard Fisher wore a strange expression. “Reverse potion-making—I’ve read about it in *Origins*. It seems to be a very advanced potion-making method. Anyway, the Origins people are touting it as if it’s the future of the wizarding world.”

“Locke’s method should be reverse potion-making. But where did he learn this cutting-edge technology? If he learned it, why didn’t he report it to the academy? Or did the academic committee already know?”

The Sun Ring Wizard of the academic committee coughed. “This…”

Wizard Fisher asked, “Moreover, this seems to be different from the reverse-refining potion formulas and brewing methods published by the Origin Lands.”

A potion-making instructor from the Senate whispered, “I don’t think this is some kind of learning or inheritance; it’s more like an independent discovery. If it really is an independent discovery, then it should be reported to the Academy immediately. Although, even if it’s an independent discovery, it won’t bring much honor, since the first honor is only given to the first person to publish.”

In the modern magical age, the academic rule in the wizarding world is that the first person to publicly publish valid results receives the greatest honor.

If someone discovers something first but doesn’t publish it, the honor and resources will still go to the first person to publish.

If someone discovers something later, but it’s an independent discovery, then they can share some of the honor and resources.

Therefore, the wizarding world is different now than before; no one dares to hide anything anymore.

If you have anything good, you have to publish it as soon as possible to prevent someone else from getting there first and publishing it for you, then all your research will have been for nothing.

Now, the Reverse Refining Method has been developed for a long time in its place of origin, establishing a third-level discipline within the Life Science School of Potions Reverse Refining. Therefore, even if discovered independently, it wouldn’t amount to much.

However, it could at least allow Golden Crown Mountain to claim some credit for this cutting-edge research.

The Sun Ring Wizard of the Academic Committee whispered, “Let’s not speculate. We can ask Locke directly after he leaves the arena.”

In the silent plane, Locke was unaware that his use of the Reverse Refining Method had caused a series of disputes.

The Reverse Refining Method was merely taught to him by King Otto; the Lunar Cultivation Method he was about to use was entirely his own creation! While

the Lunar Cultivation Method wasn’t as revolutionary as the Reverse Refining Method, being a completely disruptive method for potions, and merely a niche cultivation method for individual breeders,

it didn’t possess any disruptive power over breeding science, serving only as a unique breeding method within the field.

But it was entirely his own achievement, the result of his efforts as a wizard in this world, in botany and breeding.

This truly represented his magical level!

(End of this chapter)