Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 760

Chapter 757 The Mystery of the Doppelganger and the Magical Plant Pinellia

: The Fruit of the Ancient Tree of Pinellia. To create a doppelganger, one only needs a second-ring ancient tree to hatch its fruit.

This doppelganger is identical to oneself.

However, this doppelganger is filled with natural spirituality, as if it were one’s second body.

Locke used his wizard’s spiritual vision and saw a profound natural spirituality behind the doppelganger, like a natural avatar.

When Locke’s main body made a movement, his doppelganger did the same.

He raised his right hand, and the doppelganger raised his right hand as well. He lowered his right hand, but the doppelganger did not lower his right hand; instead, it made a gesture of invitation to Locke.

“Good morning, Mr. Augustine.”

Locke was not surprised and returned the greeting, “Good morning, Mr. Augustine.”

Although he hadn’t used the doppelganger potion to create a doppelganger with ten thousand magic pressure as he had initially planned, using the fruit of the Ancient Tree of Life in conjunction with the Ancient Tree Fruit Doppelganger technique achieved a similar effect.

The avatar of the Ancient Tree Fruit before him possessed a magic pressure exceeding ten thousand, and it was equipped with the passive first-level spell [Nature’s Language], granting it the ability to easily communicate with forests and grasslands.

The Ancient Tree of Life was no ordinary second-level magical plant.

Its fruit contained the creative power to cultivate life, making it extremely special—a unique magical plant fruit with the potential to possess life itself.

Each fruit was a sliver of life essence; using this fruit to create an avatar, if one modified the spell model, it might even be possible to create a completely new living being.

At this moment, he was the operator of both the avatar and the original.

If a first-level wizard were to do this, it would feel like operating two computers with one person.

But he was a second-level wizard with immense magical power.

He used his soul to control his original body, and his immense magic to control the avatar, thus becoming one person operating two systems.

The avatar created using the Fruit of the Ancient Tree of Life naturally had a calmer personality, spoke less, and possessed a stronger natural affinity with nature than his original body.

Therefore, when one’s consciousness manipulates this clone, its personality undergoes slight changes, creating the illusion, for oneself or others,

that there are two different people.

But this is indeed an illusion.

Locke’s main body and the clone’s pupils cleared of confusion, and they stopped greeting each other. The

reason he had greeted himself earlier was because he had fallen into the illusion that the clone before him existed independently.

However, he activated an advanced meditation technique, entering a state of “no-thought,” allowing the spirituality of both his bodies to return to a blank spiritual state, freeing himself from all personality and thought changes caused by his physical body, and then discovered… I am still me! The me within

the Ancient Tree Fruit clone is me, and the me within the main body is still me.

There is no difference between the two.

They are both me.

Locke’s eyes cleared, and his main body spoke, “No wonder this kind of clone magic can’t be learned by first-ring wizards; they’d probably go insane if they saw too much of it.”

“This mystery of clones is too much like a mystery of the womb.”

“If I get caught up in the mystery, I’ll mistake my clone for another person, and my main body will forget that memory.”

Locke’s Ancient Tree Fruit clone spoke, “But what if someone doesn’t realize the ‘mystery of clones’?”

Locke’s main body said seriously, “That would be terrible. That person would split themselves in two based on their own perception.”

“Although it doesn’t actually happen, it’s only because they haven’t deciphered the ‘mystery of clones’ that they mistakenly perceive different personalities as different people, causing their true self to fall asleep, and both bodies—whether the main body or the clone—are controlled by the sleeping true self.”

The Ancient Tree Fruit clone uttered a few words, “This magic is dangerous.”

The two exchanged a glance, and Locke’s main body nodded.

Of course, this danger only applied to first-ring wizards.

At this moment, Locke took out a magic box from his astral ring. This was a magic box given to him by the Silent Witch, and he hadn’t had time to open it before to see what was inside.

Now, he took out a magic key, placed it inside, and gently turned it.

The magic box opened instantly, revealing a second-ring magic plant lying quietly within. It was about the size of an adult’s forearm, with green leaves and a purple stem. Its overall shape resembled a rapier, with three compound leaves at the very top, each

leaflet being oblong-lanceolate.

In front of the three compound leaves was a small flower bud, a typical spathe structure of Araceae magic plants, also known as the energy-locking structure, the spathe.

The spathe is one of the most typical characteristics of Araceae magic plants. Its shape resembles a flower coat, usually consisting of a leaf curved into a ‘roof,’ with a small flower (spistil) resembling a corncob in the center.

In other words, the flower is wrapped within specialized leaves.

Like an incense stick inserted in a temple, it is called a spathe.

At this moment, atop this magical plant stood a budding flame, and within this bud, the plant’s flower, radiated a magical glow like that of summer, exceptionally beautiful, like a summer evening glow, like the setting sun.

Its purple stem was as hard as steel, possessing sparse imaginary roots that penetrated the spiritual sea, covering its surface.

Locke’s Ancient Tree Fruit clone glanced at it and immediately exclaimed, “It’s powerful!”

Locke nodded. “This is Pinellia.”

“I’ve seen the Second Ring Magical Plant Atlas. Among ordinary Second Ring Magical Plants, there are relatively few that can compare to the Black Demon God and the Red Demon God, and this Pinellia is one of them.” “

Pinellia even has the potential to absorb a large amount of energy and resources, causing its imaginary roots to evolve into even higher-level imaginary roots, potentially becoming a Star Ring-level Magical Plant.”

Pinellia is a magical plant of the Araceae family.

At the ordinary second-ring stage, it possesses powerful summer magic, partially influencing the weather in its region, causing the surrounding area to remain perpetually hot.

Locke looked at its top; the flaming bud atop this rapier-shaped magical plant resembled a blazing lamp, emanating summer magic.

Just opening the magic box had caused the surrounding temperature to rise several degrees Celsius, and all the surrounding energy was increasing, including his own magical pressure and spirituality, which were involuntarily rising upwards.

Summer governs upward movement.

Summer magic causes all things to become hot and rise upwards, hence the term “upward movement.”

Locke coughed, his throat itching from the summer’s magic. The surging magic within him was ultimately aimed at his throat.

An ordinary wizard would likely have lost their voice due to the energy rushing to their throat. A

wizarding apprentice might have had their head blasted apart by the abnormal summer magic within Banxia’s Flame Buddha’s Emblem, causing a surge of magical pressure.

Locke immediately recognized the powerful characteristics of this magical plant.

“This is a magical plant that can dominate summer.”

“It can render someone mute, or cause all their energy to surge upwards… This is likely a magical plant once used by the Silent Witch. Of course, she wouldn’t have any reason to give me a magical plant she used, so it’s probably one of her favorite types.”

After all, Half Summer possesses the ability to instantly damage an enemy’s throat.

This would render them mute.

The Ancient Tree Fruit’s clone said, “The Silent Witch gave it to us, probably because of the characteristics of Pinellia.”

Locke’s main body said, “That’s right. Pinellia possesses the [Convergent Evolution] characteristic, forcing surrounding magical plants to undergo convergent evolution, similar to the Rafflesia and the Giant Rafflesia, except that Pinellia is a second-ring magical plant.”

“She gave me Pinellia. If I can extract from Pinellia the special natural magical structure that causes the surrounding magical plants to undergo convergent evolution, then I can use this special component, just like using the No. 2 Tyrant Element, to cultivate all the ecological communities under my Moon of Evolution with the magic of summer through the Moon’s Cultivation Method.”

“I am indeed very interested in summer magical plants.”

“The Silent Witch is indeed generous, actually giving me this kind of magical plant. I remember seeing it in the botanical catalog in the library a few days ago; Pinellia ternata, a second-ring magical plant, is quite rare, with special growth conditions, unlike the common second-ring magical plants,”

Locke pondered. “All my Sea Gold Sands are no longer suitable as my main weapon, even the second-ring Sea Gold Sands. Those are just wild second-ring magical plants; how can they compare to Pinellia ternata, a magical plant meticulously designed by second-ring wizards over thousands of years?”

Locke placed the magical plant in his hand, a special magical power flowing from it, seemingly the Silent Witch’s magical pressure, allowing him to effortlessly graft his magic onto the plant.

Then, he used [One Tree Cannot Support], raising the rapier-like magical plant, Pinellia ternata, and thrusting it forward. A blazing fire, wreathed in summer heat, pierced through the air and fell straight ahead.

A rock in the demiplane ahead was directly pierced by this flame.

Then, the entire rock was enveloped in summer flames, and within these rising flames, the rock was scorched and shattered into several fragments, which were then propelled upwards by the heat of the flames.

After hovering in the air for a while, the rock finally landed on the ground.

Locke looked at the half-summer plant in his hand, a thoughtful expression on his face. “Just a general spell, yet it’s so powerful. If I could learn the half-summer’s exclusive second-circle spell, ‘Summer’s Thorn,’ wouldn’t it be even more powerful?”

“Generational Alterance can also be used on half-summer plants, further amplifying its instantaneous magic pressure multiplication.”

Locke made up his mind that he still needed to learn Summer’s Thorn soon, but he didn’t know if there was a spellbook for Summer’s Thorn in the free area, because it was a relatively new spell model, so it was very likely not.

He glanced at the Forest Sanctuary. After becoming a second-circle wizard, he needed to stabilize his current magic pressure and also needed to increase his second-circle spell pool to increase his magic accumulation.

Moreover, with himself and the Ancient Tree of Life becoming second-ring beings, the area of the Forest Sanctuary could be increased, and the level of the magical plants within could be enhanced.

This demiplane was actually relatively small.

It needed to be expanded.

Perhaps he could ask the Witch Victoria to find a way to increase the area of this demiplane.

But…

all of this would cost money.

Locke felt a headache coming on just thinking about all these expenses.

Locke said, “Let’s further develop the wizard shoes and earn more money. We need to press our advantage and sell as many pairs of wizard shoes as possible while the hype surrounding the Silent Grail is still going strong.”

Unfortunately, his research on second-ring wizard shoes was insufficient.

There was a major problem that hadn’t been solved: the cost of grafting the imaginary root, so he hadn’t dared to act on it for the time being.

But releasing a few more first-ring wizard shoes would be enough.

He also needed to find a plane to activate the heart-shaped spell on his forehead, and then use that opportunity to test the testing ring given to him by the Witch Catherine.

This wasn’t urgent.

He could use the coordinates of the plane he won from the Silent Grail plane.

Moreover, conquering planes is extremely expensive.

He needs to prepare again.

Counterintuitively, conquering planes isn’t necessarily profitable in the short term, as the act of conquest itself requires vast resources and money.

Therefore, many second-ring wizards go bankrupt because they engage in too many plane conquests simultaneously.

Whether it’s war, exploring the void, or crossing world barriers, it all costs money!

Locke blinked his right eye, left his demiplane, and returned to his dormitory. He frowned at the unstable magical pressure of the clover on his left hand.

“Why is Teacher Sophia’s magical pressure so unstable?”

“It’s stabilized a bit in the last few days.”

“I should still ask. At least I need to know her current situation.”

“I wonder what happened to her.”

Locke used the second communication spell on the clover, and soon he contacted a wizard wearing a clover ring in a distant starfield.

Locke spoke, “Teacher, I’ve observed from the changes in the ring’s magical pressure that your condition is very unstable. Is something wrong? I’m now a second-circle wizard; is there anything I can do to help?”

After all, she was his first teacher in the wizarding world.

No sound returned from the other end of the ring.

Locke frowned.

Just as he was about to speak, a voice that wasn’t Sophia’s appeared on the communication channel.

“Are you Locke Augustine?”

Locke frowned.

The voice continued, “I’m Sophia’s senior brother in the laboratory. Sophia told me that if you contact her, I should connect your communication spell for her.”

“Don’t worry. Sophia is fine now. However, she is indeed at a very crucial moment for her future.”

“She’s gone to take her major exam.”

(End of Chapter)