Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 763

Chapter 760 Root Realm! The Essence of the Struggle for Academic Lineages!

Locke’s Ancient Tree Fruit clone returned to the Free Library and opened the Second Ring Wizard Treasure Map, examining it closely.

It was a sea chart, showing an archipelago.

Many unpredictable red dots dotted the archipelago. Locke counted seventeen markers pointing to the treasure’s coordinates, each constantly moving.

As Locke touched the treasure map, the number of red dots gradually disappeared, until only one remained.

Locke looked at that red dot. “I see. The main reason Zoe Witch gave up on searching immediately is that this map has an encrypted combination lock.”

“This is a second-ring level encryption. It’s estimated that only wizards who meet certain requirements can make the treasure show the true correct target. Otherwise, even if you can see the real treasure map, the route indicated on the map will be wrong.”

“No. Since it’s a second-ring wizard’s treasure, it probably won’t be so stingy. It will probably correspond to different rewards based on the different characteristics of a wizard and the different routes they point to.”

“But it has nothing to do with the treasure left behind by that second-ring wizard from the pure-blooded human era.”

Locke removed his palm from the map, and immediately seventeen red dots reappeared on the map, each surrounded by densely packed guiding routes.

Locke blinked his right eye and put the map into the Cosmic Light contact lens in his right eye. At the same time, his main body on Golden Crown Mountain took out the wizard’s treasure map from his contact lens.

Meanwhile, Locke’s Ancient Tree Fruit clone suddenly sensed a sharp decline in the power of his botanical magic after the wizard’s airship entered the Second Sky.

“What’s going on? Is it because of the changes in the laws of the world that my botanical magic is weakening? No, botanical magic is one of the least affected by the different worlds.”

“The laws of life still exist in the Second Sky.”

At this moment, Locke stood up and, through the Time Crystal window of the free library, saw the [Vulcan Palace Guardians] attacking the airship.

It seemed that different palaces existed in the Second Sky, and these palace guards were constantly attacking the wizard’s airship.

These Vulcan Palace Guardians were surrounded by the laws of the planes—the laws of life.

Since the laws of life existed, it meant that there was still a living element within the world’s laws of the Second Sky, so his magical power shouldn’t be declining at all.

Locke observed the fiery clouds in the sky the following day, along with the guards of the Vulcan Palace, and pondered, “It doesn’t seem like a decrease in magical power caused by a different world law.”

“At least a fifth of my power has decreased,”

Locke thought, “It’s like I suddenly fell from somewhere…”

Locke suddenly seemed to realize something and looked at the dimensional laws within the cabin.

“The airship is still within the Wizarding World, or rather, the world law of the Cloud Marsh Wetlands. So I haven’t left the world law of my Wizarding World.”

“It’s not because the world law changed that my power decreased.”

“But it is indeed because I left a certain environment that my botanical magic power decreased. The biggest difference is probably that there aren’t as many second-ring, first-ring, third-ring, and fourth-ring botanical wizards here.”

Second-ring wizards are extremely sensitive to energy and dimensional power, so they can directly see the energy flowing in the air with their n*ked eyes.

Currently, the air composition within this airship, whether elemental or dimensional, hasn’t changed at all; the only difference is the lack of much of the radiance of life magic.

‘Although the exact reason is unknown, the number of wizards in the same magical subfield within a region seems to influence the power of a certain spell,’

Locke pondered. ‘So, when I left Cloudswamp Wetlands, my botanical magic power dropped by one-fifth out of nowhere. This wasn’t because I became weaker, but because I returned to the normal level expected of a second-circle botanical wizard with a magic pressure of 16,000.’

‘No one was supporting me anymore.’ ‘

That’s how significant the influence of different schools of thought is on wizards.’

‘No wonder high-circle wizards need more and more wizards from a particular school.’

That is to say, for high-circle wizards, increasing their magical power not only requires increasing their own power, but also increasing the number of wizards in a certain direction in their surrounding environment, allowing these wizards to support their own power and thus boost their magical power out of nowhere.

Locke said, “But when I was a first-ring wizard, moving among the various wizarding realms, I didn’t seem to sense any changes in the strength of botanical magic. This means that for a first-ring wizard, this kind of lifting might not exist, or its effect might be minimal.” “

The biggest difference between a first-ring and second-ring wizard is the difference in their ultimate magic. Therefore, this special lifting mechanism works on ultimate magic.”

Locke’s clone closed his eyes,

sensing his own ultimate magic. Simultaneously, his main body also closed its eyes in the Victoria Magic Glasses Shop,

sensing its own ultimate magic. The clone sensed nothing beneath the ultimate magic, Evolution Moon, but the main body sensed a phantom object resembling a square platform supporting it.

Clearly, the problem lay with this object.

When his clone left the Cloud Marsh Wetlands, his ultimate magic, on the clone’s side, was essentially leaving that square, bluish-green platform, as if it had stepped down from it.

His true form was still in the Cloud Marsh Wetlands, so for his Evolution Moon, it was still on that platform.

At this moment, the blonde witch Victoria, dressed in a red silk robe and wearing a richly decorated, intricately carved silver monocle over her left eye, sat before Locke with her liquefied wizard student. Victoria nodded slightly to Locke with the look of someone looking at a junior, then smiled and said, “Locke, what did you see?”

“This must be the first time you’ve left the Cloud Marsh Wetlands since becoming a second-ring wizard, right? You saw… that Root Realm.”

Locke opened his eyes and looked at Victoria, saying, “Lady Victoria, is that thing called the Root Realm? I saw my Evolution Moon, under its support, increase its power by one-fifth.”

“Wait…”

Locke observed carefully and discovered that there were actually three Root Realms beneath his Evolution Moon.

The first was a bluish-green botanical root realm,

the second a bluish-purple potion-making root realm, and the third a yellow archaeological root realm.

The three root realms do not superimpose their power; each root realm merely supports the power of a specific magic within its own vast magical domain. For example, the Botanical root realm supports the botanical magic portion of the Evolution Moon. Of

the three root realms, the Botanical is the largest, its area vast and seemingly boundless, yet incredibly thick, like the earth beneath the heavens, with numerous intricate details.

Next is the Potions root realm, only two-thirds the size of the Botanical root realm.

The Potions root realm can only increase the power of one’s Potions magic by approximately 15%.

Finally, the Archaeology root realm is dilapidated, extremely small, and almost nonexistent, offering virtually no improvement to one’s Archaeology magic.

However, one’s Evolution Moon is primarily based on Botany, secondarily on Potions, and secondarily on Archaeology.

Since both Potions and Botany are life sciences, they are relatively easy to harmonize.

Therefore, the vast majority of one’s Evolution Moon is actually supported by the Botanical root realm.

Locke shared these observations with Witch Victoria. “The botanical root realm seems to have been formed and strengthened by the resonance of magical power from the various botanical wizards of the Cloud Marsh Wetlands.”

“Furthermore, this root realm can only support phenomenal things, so it can only support the most powerful magic of a wizard, and has almost no effect on first-ring wizards. This is because a first-ring wizard is merely an individual, while a second-ring wizard is a natural phenomenon. Therefore, one phenomenon can be supported by another.”

Witch Victoria nodded and smiled. “Your ability to recognize it as support shows your observational skills are acceptable. If you can notice that it’s formed by the resonance of magical power unintentionally emitted by various wizards in the air, then you are excellent.”

“Your insight is quite good. Katya didn’t tell you about the root realm because she wanted you to observe it yourself. After all, every wizard would be moved when they first see a root realm.”

Witch Victoria became serious. “Are dragons able to soar high in the sky because they are powerful? Not only that, but also because the magical winds of this world are strong. The stronger the magical winds, the higher they can fly.”

“Behemoths, as the overlords of the earth, can support an entire mountain range. Is it because they possess immense strength? No, it’s because the solid earth provides them with support.”

“Every first-ring wizard, at the first-ring stage, is always very concerned with their own personal strength, striving to improve themselves, while neglecting the supporting role of the environment. But for second-ring wizards, they can directly observe the flow and changes of planar power and principles with their n*ked eyes, directly see the existence of the Root Realm, and their own great magic is also supported by the Root Realm. Therefore, second-ring wizards, from all aspects, realize the power of the [group and environment]. “

And therefore, they better understand why the White Wizarding Association supports each school of magic.”

“They better understand why both the association and the academy are vying for resources, because whichever school receives funding will become stronger, and a stronger school makes it easier for its wizards to learn that kind of magic.”

“However, this is only the most peripheral and superficial knowledge within the factions, because it only affects a large area,”

Witch Victoria explained. “Take your teacher and Rose Witch Anna, for example. They are both botanical wizards, so their botanical magic and that of their students are supported by the Botanical Root Realm.”

“Hmm… More advanced knowledge is too complicated for you. This involves the Ladder of Truth. In terms you can understand, the conflict between your teacher and Rose Witch is mainly due to the exclusive authorization of the high-ring wizards’ laboratories, the competition for project funding, honors, titles, and most importantly, the competition for resource allocation.”

“The main reason is that their research paths are too similar. Therefore, the White Wizarding Association can only use relatively limited resources to focus on supporting one Throne Wizard, using this path to become a fourth-ring wizard.” “

The other one will be forced to change their research path, finding a significant difference within their existing research. As a result, it is very likely that one of them will lose the possibility of becoming a fourth-ring wizard.”

Witch Victoria said with a relaxed expression. “I never had any intention of becoming a fourth-circle wizard. Not every wizard has to become a fourth-circle wizard.”

“In my opinion, a third-circle wizard is enough. I can’t keep pushing myself anymore. Staying in the third-circle realm, teaching students every day, and working on the subjects I enjoy—that’s enough. Why keep pushing? Pushing might not even yield any results.”

“Being a third-circle wizard, even in death, allows one to enjoy the blessings of their past life. They will naturally possess the aptitude of a seventh-level elemental child, and retracing the path of magic will be easier than for ordinary people. Your friend Antoine is an example.”

Witch Victoria looked at Locke and smiled, “However, there’s one thing you’re wrong about. Root Realms aren’t formed by the resonance of a wizard’s magic power, but rather by the resonance of the overflowing magic power of a wizard’s ultimate magic.”

“Have you forgotten that the energy dissipation of your ultimate magic, which is still in its early stages of development, is extremely high? Therefore, a Root Realm is formed by the resonance of ultimate magic power from second-circle wizards of the same second-level discipline in a region, forming a network that can capture the magic power dissipated by the first-circle wizards of a region, thus continuing to strengthen it.”

“But this isn’t a spontaneous process. It requires a region to produce a third-circle wizard of the same second-level discipline.”

Witch Victoria continued, “In other words, there must be a third-circle wizard in this region for a Root Realm to form.”

“The Cloud Marsh Wetlands have many Root Realms, which creates an advantage that other wizarding communities can’t catch up to.”

Locke asked, “Then, Teacher Victoria, doesn’t this mean that only theories that can form Root Realms can become second-level disciplines?”

“According to what you’ve said, whether or not a root realm can be formed is directly related to whether this doctrine has three-ring wizards and enough two-ring wizards, and even one-ring wizards.”

The witch Victoria glanced at Locke in surprise.

“Indeed, your thinking is very sharp. You’ve immediately grasped the key point of the problem. That’s it.”

Locke then understood that the conflict of interest surrounding Boniface University’s new textile science was much greater than he had originally thought.

He had previously thought that at most, the new textile science wizards at Boniface University would just be clamoring for a split, and that the so-called split was just about dividing profits and power. But now it seemed that they were going to divide up the root realm itself.

‘So, whether or not a root realm can be formed is the key to whether a magic category is a second-tier category.’

Locke pondered: ‘Then the primary goal of the new textile science right now is not to challenge for a first-tier discipline. It should be said that that’s just a grand goal, to give the wizards of the new textile science a sense of purpose.’

‘What they’re fighting for now is to first make the new textile science a second-tier discipline, that is, to form its own root realm.’ However, that would require drawing many wizards away from the textile science foundation. This would weaken and lower the textile science foundation, reducing its supporting role. ‘

This is a serious fundamental conflict of interest,’

Locke thought, considering even more.

Therefore, the different development directions of the three wizarding lands in the Three Swamps reflect their different attitudes towards the foundation.

Clearly, the reason the Thunder Swamp chose to develop three centralized wizarding universities was to create three super foundations to compete with the Star Domain Sea; otherwise, it would be impossible to compare with the foundations formed by the numerous wizards in the Star Domain Sea.

Therefore, the three resource-intensive wizarding universities in the Thunder Swamp are all single-discipline wizarding universities.

That makes sense.

The Thunder Swamp is pursuing extreme development, but can a wizarding land develop based on three separate magic categories?

No.

Just the lack of a specific magic category, leading to high material prices in certain environments, would be very troublesome.

Therefore, the Cloud Swamp Wetlands must take on the comprehensive development path of the Three Swamps, pursuing comprehensive development and addressing the shortcomings of the Thunder Swamp.

Even more so, it provides the Raize Lowlands with an environment to counteract the gravitational pull of the Starfield Sea.

The advantage of integrated development is a complete supply chain of magical categories; a wizarding land can possess multiple root realms. However, the disadvantage is the inability to form a super root realm.

Locke realized this; it’s like his own Evolution Moon, supported by three root realms. A wizard’s ultimate magic is rarely truly pure.

Therefore, multiple root realms have their advantages, and a single super root realm has its own benefits.

But perhaps the Three Swamps’ influence isn’t solely due to the geography of Cloud Lake that creates the synergy among the three wizarding lands; the root realm issue alone has led to the integration of the three major wizarding lands.

Cloud Swamp Wetlands and Raize Lowlands each fulfill different responsibilities within the Three Swamps.

Rain Swamp is even stranger; there are no medium-to-large-scale wizarding academies like those in Cloud Swamp Wetlands, let alone top-tier wizarding academies like those in Raize Lowlands. Instead, there are a bunch of small and medium-sized wizarding academies.

Clearly, the Rain Marshland has taken a further step on the multi-root realm route, assuming full responsibility for all magical categories in the Cloud Marsh Wetlands and Thunder Marsh Lowlands.

This is because the seven top academies in the Cloud Marsh Wetlands now appear to support relatively powerful root realms, essentially representing a centralization of resources.

Locke pondered, “After learning about the existence of root realms, I understand the division of labor in the Three Marshes better. The integration of the Three Marshes is deeper than I thought, not just a superficial facade.” “

Then, will there be a day in the future when the root realms of the Three Marshes are shared?” “

Perhaps the development strategy of the Three Marshes is itself towards integration.

The three super wizard universities in the Thunder Marsh Lowlands are actually supported by the Three Marshes together.

Only in this way can they compete with the top academies across the Starfield Sea!”

Witch Victoria pondered for a moment, then said, “For you second-ring wizards, this is roughly how you can understand the Root Realm. For sun-ring wizards, and wizards of higher rings, you can try to understand it more deeply.”

“Let’s take the conflict between your teacher and the Rose Witch as an example. Their victory or defeat also involves a struggle for relative control over the Root Realm. For third-ring wizards, we can do much more based on the Root Realm.”

“We can create more variations. However, unless absolutely necessary, there’s no need to. That could easily trigger a war between academic factions and ignite key points of disagreement.”

“However, you’ve only just become a second-ring wizard; this is too distant knowledge for you. You only need to know that the Root Realm is a man-made object.”

“Therefore, there’s a lot of room for manipulation with man-made objects.”

Locke nodded slightly, stood up, and bowed to Witch Victoria, saying, “Thank you for your teachings, Teacher Victoria.”

“You’ve helped me understand what the Root Realm truly is and what its function is,”

Witch Victoria said, a slight smile playing on her lips. “You’re very polite, Locke.”

Locke asked, “Professor Victoria, do you have a way to upgrade the plane level of the demiplane inside the Cosmic Light Invisibility Lens…”

“Currently, this demiplane can no longer support the imaginary roots of a second-ring magical plant.”

Witch Victoria raised her eyebrows, revealing a surprised expression.

“A second-ring magical plant? A first-ring magical plant is already the king of magical plants, let alone a second-ring magical plant. Second-ring magical plants are high-level magical plants that can only grow in one or two in medium-sized worlds, and they are not even rare in the endless void.”

“A mere demiplane certainly can’t support a second-ring magical plant. Even the lowest-level, sparse imaginary roots of a second-ring magical plant will absorb the power of the imaginary sea within the plane,”

Witch Victoria sighed. “If a world’s imaginary sea isn’t strong enough, it will cause a lot of trouble. Normally, the existence of a magical plant is the optimal solution within the environment.”

“From a long-term perspective, the existence of a second-ring magical plant can help increase the energy within the world’s imaginary sea. However, in the short term, it will instead consume the power within the imaginary sea. And the imaginary sea is the key to a world’s survival. If it is arbitrarily drained, it’s like using a region’s groundwater—it’s like draining the pond to catch all the fish, leaving a legacy of disaster for future generations.”

“The world might collapse directly.”

“It’s like land collapsing due to the loss of groundwater support.”

“In the past, during the pure-blooded human era, the wizarding civilization chose imaginary magic for a period of time as a characteristic of second-ring wizards, but it was later abandoned during the era of wizarding despotism, and that’s why.”

“Switching to Greater Magic was arguably the only meaningful thing those incompetent wizard monarchs did during the autocratic era.”

Witch Victoria took a history book from her astral ring and handed it to Locke.

“You can take a look at this book; I’m reading it recently.”

Locke took the book and said solemnly, “Okay, Teacher Victoria, I will read it carefully.”

“We can always learn lessons and gain strength from history.”

Witch Victoria smiled.

“So, you can plant a first-circle magical plant in a demiplane by supplementing magical resources. But planting a second-circle magical plant in a demiplane is troublesome. It’s like directly using groundwater from a sinking area; it will cause the demiplane’s present world to collapse.”

Locke asked doubtfully, “Teacher Victoria, isn’t there any other way?”

If he couldn’t plant it in a demiplane, he couldn’t move his Forest Sanctuary with him, and he would have to think about how to protect it.

Perhaps he could establish an academy?

Locke shook his head slightly. He was joking; he still had to go to the Starfield Sea. Where would he find the time to find a place to establish a wizarding academy?

A second-circle wizard, at most, could establish a wizarding university in a place like the southeastern corner of the world.

Victoria the Witch said, “Hmm, I’ll try to think of a way for you. Actually, your request is rather unusual… other second-circle botany wizards don’t have such a strong need.”

(End of Chapter)