Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 743

Chapter 740 The End of the Soul Decay Period!

As Locke descended from the sky and landed on the Dragon Mountain Range of the Atlas Mountains, his magical pressure also rose. The soul decline period caused by the soul limit between the first and second rings had disappeared when he successfully became a second ring, gaining a new soul level and potential.

At this moment, the powerful energy of the Dragon-Eating Beast made his soul incredibly active, and his soul power suddenly increased, even surpassing his magical pressure.

Although soul power and magical pressure are directly proportional, they are not entirely one-to-one.

At this moment, the Dragon-Eating Beast temporarily at least doubled Locke’s soul power. His soul essence had already been improved, so it was natural that his soul power could double, greatly increasing his combat strength.

The scales of the Sun-Shepherd Dragon were like radiating firelight, and the dragon calamity it triggered caused countless dragons to rise from the Dragon Mountain Range, attacking all beings outside the dragon race in the surrounding area.

Dragon roars appeared in Locke’s ears.

Locke saw Esther seize the opportunity to retrieve a second-circle enchanted plant, the Star-Attracting Rose, from her astral ring. The red rose petals were adorned with numerous illusory gravitational filaments that cascaded down, beneath which starlight scattered.

The Star-Attracting Rose’s imaginary roots seemed entirely different from those of the Shadow Fern; they appeared more advanced, possessing a main root rather than the shallow, sparse roots lacking hierarchy.

The Star-Attracting Rose, like a pagoda, hovered over Esther’s head, carrying her into the horde of dragons. Simultaneously, the rose emitted a stellar gravitational pull, transforming into an invisible barrier that blocked the attacks of countless dragons.

At this moment, the dense swarm of dragons filled the sky and the ground, making the entire world seem as if it were composed of dragons.

One dragon, unable to stop, was propelled by its companions and crashed into the Star-Attracting Rose. Instantly, the gravitational pull blasted the dragon into fragments.

The dragons behind it continued to be forced to crash directly into the Star-Guiding Rose.

At this moment, this horde of dragons also interfered with the Sith and Celtic wizards responsible for intercepting the Witch Esther, as well as several other wizards.

Locke’s dragon eyes narrowed sharply at this sight, for he had witnessed this

before. He had seen the Six Towers Land attacked by countless dragons in the ancient past through the History Replay Spell; at that time, the Six Towers Land even had a large number of second-circle wizards.

The six white towers of the Six Towers Land were the key barriers blocking those dragon hordes.

So, at that time, did the Dragon Plague directly attack the Six Towers Land?

But why the Six Towers Land? Or did the Dragon Plague attack all wizarding lands?

Or were the six white towers of the Six Towers Land not only barriers, but served other purposes?

At this moment, Locke heard one dragon roar after another, suddenly a powerful, loud, and terrifying dragon roar exploded in his ears, causing his dragon eardrums to bleed.

‘What’s going on?’ This formidable region is indeed eerie; no wonder it can isolate various wizarding lands. Even though I transformed into a second-ringed dragon using a world artifact, I suddenly heard a dragon’s roar in my ear just now. ‘

That seemed to be a warning, urging me to leave the formidable region as soon as possible, or something terrible would happen.’

‘It seemed to be very politely reminding me that even though we are all dragons, I cannot integrate into this formidable land.’

Locke twisted his dragon head, looking into the depths of the formidable land.

Before, he had only observed the outer edge of the formidable region from afar while sitting in a wizard’s airship, but now, as a second-ringed being who could directly see the flow of dimensional power with the n*ked eye,

Locke saw that these formidable lands were filled with alien dimensional power different from that of the wizarding world.

Moreover, this place was different from the Second Sky.

These alien dimensional powers were interconnected, and also connected to all the dragons on the Dragon Mountains, together forming dozens of bizarre dimensional power lifelike states.

In other words, for life forms below the second ring, arriving at the Dragon Mountains only meant seeing countless flying dragons covering the mountains.

But for those at the second ring, they could see bizarre life forms suspended in the sky, composed of dimensional power. These life forms resembled dragons but were not.

Each had three pairs of dragon wings and multiple deformed heads resembling dragon heads, their eyes glowing red. Hanging upside down like alien demons, their gazes were fixed on the earth, filled with malice as they looked at all those who had intruded into the chasm, while simultaneously gazing into the distance with hostility towards the Cloud Marsh Wetland Wizarding Land.

A question popped into Locke’s mind. ‘What…what are these things? Why are there so many alien powers in the Wizarding World? If they devoured other worlds without digesting them, that was my previous guess, but now that I think about it, that doesn’t make sense.’ “

The power of the second sky and this chasm-like land is actually…”

In Locke’s eyes, the power of the chasm-like land and the power of the wizarding land were mutually convertible through the ley lines, the sky, and even circulating air currents.

This meant that these dimensional powers and the principles of the world were still part of the wizarding world.

That’s strange.

What exactly are these things that don’t exist in other worlds, and how were they formed?

“This time, taking on Professor Ekaterina’s private secret mission can be considered a private service I provide to her outside of my work at the academy,”

Locke pondered. “But it’s worth it. Through this world’s wonder, I can transform into a dragon, and temporarily as a true dragon, I’ve discovered that the Dragon Mountains, as a chasm, aren’t primarily about the dragon race itself. It seems that even foreign dragons cannot integrate into the chasm-like land.” “The chasm-like

land is essentially self-contained. The energy conversion between the two dimensional powers… seems to contain a huge secret.” “Never mind, it was just a warning anyway. I can stay here until Esther the Witch escapes successfully,”

Locke thought, as he saw seven vetiver spikes hurtling towards his dragon wings.

This was… the Celtic wizard’s magical pressure.

The Celtic wizard appeared before him, different from the flamboyant figure he had seen before, and different from the friendly one he had later. Now, the Celtic wizard’s face was cold, his eyes indifferent, and his attacks ruthless.

It was the attitude of a wizard facing a strange dragon.

The Celtic wizard swept his icy gaze at Locke, intending to use the second-circle botanical spell, “Seven Stab Segments of Vetiver,” to finish him off.

The Celtic wizard thought: “It’s this unruly dragon who caused the dragon anomalies in the Dragon Mountains, triggering the dragon calamity. If I eliminate him, I can avert the calamity.”

“If the Dragon Plague awakens the dragons deeper within the Dragon Mountains, or even attracts more powerful dragons, that would be disastrous; it would never end.” This

is the crux of the Dragon Plague’s troublesome nature.

The Celtic wizard told the other second-ring wizards of Golden Crown Mountain, “You go after Esther, I’ll kill this stupid dragon. You mustn’t let her leave the Golden Crown Mountain region!”

The Sith wizard was already aboard a mahogany tree boat, viewing the dragon horde as the ocean, and the tree boat flying above it. No matter what, the dragons couldn’t capsize the boat.

Because the dragon horde was like the ocean, when the tide rose, the boat rose; when the tide fell, the boat fell.

The magic of the Sun Ring wizards had reached such a profound level that Locke, upon seeing it, was momentarily astonished and immediately realized he couldn’t understand such magic.

Mahogany is a large evergreen tree of the Meliaceae family. This magical plant is naturally well-suited for making materials for void warships. In the early days of void warships, when they were still in a relatively primitive stage, people liked to use the natural wood of these magical plants to build large wooden boats and sailing ships.

Locke had seen related popular science articles before, but he never expected that mahogany would be used so skillfully by a Sun Ring Wizard.

No matter how many dragons piled up, they could not get close to the wooden boat.

Individual dragons that approached the boat could only be crushed to death by the dragons behind them.

The Sith Wizard’s eyes were cold, as if he could not forgive Esther’s betrayal.

He used the Peach Arc Thorn Arrow model, and a jujube-shaped arrow flew out, suddenly disappeared in mid-air, and then reappeared, already hitting the magical plant above Esther’s head.

It directly shot down the plant with one arrow.

The Star-Attracting Rose instantly bloomed and withered, decaying in the blink of an eye.

His methods were astonishing; to ordinary second-ring wizards, the techniques of a Sun Ring Wizard were already miraculous.

Many second-ring wizards present couldn’t understand why the jujube plant would suddenly disappear and then reappear above Esther’s head after he shot an arrow.

Leaving aside the difference in stats, the magical attack itself was incomprehensible.

Of course, the difference between second-ring magical plants was simply too great.

Because the second ring level essentially allowed for an infinite increase in power, it was the upper limit for most civilizations in the Endless Void.

Some civilizations even described dozens of levels within this system.

However, many were simply misguided, futilely creating new levels within the system.

A Sun Ring Wizard was the closest to the third ring in the wizarding system, so even though they were both second-ring wizards, the difference between an ordinary second-ring wizard and a Sun Ring Wizard was like the difference between an ordinary person and a world boxing champion, a world-class special forces soldier, or a world-class scientist.

The difference was enormous.

The difference in quality among the magical plants within the second ring was so great that there were four grades of imaginary roots alone: low-grade, mid-grade, high-grade, and perfect.

For example, the external origin imaginary root Locke possessed, obtained from the Time Shadow Fern, was a low-grade imaginary root. Its typical characteristics were that imaginary roots at this stage were shallow, sparse, and lacked a main root.

All roots were almost uniform in size and resembled a beard.

At this moment, Locke was unsure of the quality of the imaginary roots on the magical plants used in Esther’s fight with the Sith wizard.

‘Oh no, Esther has been knocked down. Wait, I have to take care of myself first!’

Locke flapped his dragon wings, flying backward.

The Celtic wizard was just an ordinary second-ring wizard, almost eliminated by Golden Crown Mountain; if it weren’t for the witch Catherine, he would have been expelled long ago.

Therefore, he could understand the magic he currently possessed, and even the parts he didn’t understand, he could quickly grasp and devise a countermeasure within a short time.

Thus, facing the Celtic wizard’s [Seven-Segment Grass Nails of Stasis], after two half-meter-long vetiver grass nails were driven into Locke’s chest, he continuously dodged backward while using his dragon claws to counter the five vetiver grass nails. With

each swing of his dragon claws, Locke avoided the opponent’s strongest magical pressure, simultaneously attacking the obvious weak points in the spell’s model and areas where the magical pressure flowed less smoothly.

This caused the Celtic leader to fail to quickly use the Seven-Segment Grass Nails of Stasis to immobilize Locke’s body and lock his power as he had anticipated.

The Celtic leader was slightly surprised.

‘Strange, it’s just a dragon born destined to be a second-circle creature. These second-circle creatures, becoming second-circle creatures through ancestral bloodlines, are very easy to deal with; I should have controlled it with a single spell.’

‘But it didn’t work? This dragon is more troublesome than I thought.’ At this

moment, a vetiver nail in Locke’s chest gradually detached from his body and fell off like an iron nail.

Locke looked down at his chest.

The Stasis Seven-Segment Vetiver Nail was very likely related to the blueprint spell of the Celtic Leader’s Great Magic, although the opponent hadn’t used any Great Magic at all.

The Stasis Seven-Segment Vetiver Nail was just an ordinary second-circle spell.

This spell would turn vetiver into iron nails, driving them into one’s body, simultaneously freezing one’s blood, spirit, and magic flow, making one feel as if under a spell, immobilized.

Of course, this required all seven Stasis Vetiver Nails to be driven into one’s body at the same time.

Just now, the Celtic Leader could only allow two Stasis Vetiver Nails to hit him, and as time passed, he even forced out one more.

This showed that in the Celtic Leader’s eyes, dealing with a dragon with similar magical pressure to himself didn’t require much seriousness, so he had just casually cast a spell.

Locke pondered, ‘I didn’t expect that the usually unreliable Celtic leader would have a magic pressure of around 18,000.’ ‘

Moreover, both his spell modeling and understanding of magic are excellent, and his control over combat is just right. Mount Golden Crown is a gathering place for monsters.’

‘But now, I’m finally qualified to stand on the same level as the Celtic leader and fight him.’

Locke flapped his dragon wings and flew backward, but perhaps because he was still a new dragon, his flight and movement were somewhat clumsy, and he collided with the flock of dragons behind him, almost falling from mid-air.

The Celtic leader paused for a moment, then manipulated the Seven-Segment Grass Nails to attack Locke.

‘I was really overthinking things. I thought this dragon would be incredibly powerful, but it turns out it’s just a silly dragon.’

‘His movements are uncoordinated.’

(End of Chapter)