Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 775

Chapter 772 Zaramberry, a Debt Slave, and the Evolutionary Moon Within the Forest Alliance Curse

Cloud Marsh Wetlands and Golden Crown Mountain within the Forest Alliance Curse. In the laboratory of the two dune planes, due to the Rose Council’s previous design, the climate of the entire dune plane is now completely out of control. Air pollution is further damaging the dune plane’s ecology, leading to its deterioration.

Zaran Bailey’s original plan was to restore some vegetation to the dune plane, reversing its continued deterioration and creating a dual protection through vegetation and air pollution. However, this plan, with no environmental treatment implemented, has instead worsened the situation for the dune plane.

Zaran Bailey himself is burdened with enormous debt due to Golden Crown Mountain’s massive demands for repayment. After auctioning off all his assets and taking out substantial loans, he is still insolvent and has become a debt slave, signing a contract of servitude with the White Wizarding Association Bank, one of the five major banks.

The White Wizarding Association Bank will send a debt restructuring committee to auction off all of his existing assets, including a shop alliance he established and the workforce he can employ for the next two hundred years.

In other words, he would have to work for the White Wizarding Bank for free for two hundred years before he could pay off his debts and escape his status as a debt slave.

At this moment, Zaran Bailey was shackled on his ankles and wore a second-circle magical artifact of the Protection School around his neck. He was also covered in numerous Protection School sealing spells; even his ultimate spell, Seabuckthorn Ecology, was sealed by Protection School blocking magic chains. Any slight movement from him would cause all his magic to erupt and suppress him instantly.

The Sith Wizard stood beside Locke and said, “Many laboratories in the Dune Plane are still usable. I’m contacting some of my friends to come and deal with the environmental pollution in the Dune Plane. Of course, the Academy will also send professional environmental protection wizards; I heard they are ecological restoration engineering experts from the Hand of the Jungle.”

The Sith Wizard sighed.

“Back then, I was truly blinded by greed. It seems that even a Sun Ring Wizard, once controlled by their own greed, can become uncontrollable.”

“I fully believed that Zaran Bailey’s plan would be the quickest way to break the technological blockade with the Rose Council, but I never imagined it was a trap.”

Locke’s true form stood beside him, inwardly sighing. Who would have thought that Zaran Bailey was actually a spy?

The losses to the Dune Plane couldn’t be compensated by Zaran Bailey alone, and the Sith Wizards dared not let the witch Catherine fill the gaps, so he had to bear the rest himself.

Furthermore, Mount Golden Crown would bear a portion of the burden, thus mitigating the problem.

The Sith wizard lamented, “I never imagined that Zaran Bailey could become a second-ring wizard with the support of the Rose Council wizards. Of course, he himself didn’t realize anything was amiss.”

“He just thought he had a series of extraordinary encounters, making becoming a second-ring wizard very easy. He never imagined he’d become a pawn in the hands of high-ring wizards.”

“Those so-called extraordinary encounters were all things that turned him into a pawn.”

Locke comforted Sith Team Leader, saying, “Team Leader, at least with the experts from the Jungle Hand here, the Dune Plane won’t completely collapse.”

Sith Team Leader nodded, “Indeed. Although I usually dislike those Jungle Hand wizards, in critical moments, only their ecological experts can help me stop this vicious cycle.”

“The magical tidal energy in the Dune Plane is constantly decreasing. I originally wanted to draw upon the Imaginary Sea of the Dune Plane to fill the mortal realm and compensate for the declining magical tidal energy and ecological collapse. But after much deliberation, I think it’s not feasible. I’ll just have to wait for the ecological restoration experts from the Hand of the Jungle to arrive,”

said Sith Team Leader. “I’ve been badly ripped off because of Zaran Bailey. I’ve lost at least 30 million magic stones.”

“This is still the academy’s mercy… The main debt was taken over by Zaran Bailey, so he needs to work for Golden Crown Mountain for two hundred years.”

Locke looked at the Sith group leader and asked curiously, “Wasn’t it the White Wizard Association’s direct bank that lent him a loan and used it to pay off his debt?”

The Sith group leader said, “Golden Crown Mountain believes he still has some labor value, so it paid the White Wizard Association to buy his debt contract.”

Locke nodded. This was equivalent to Golden Crown Mountain buying Zaran Bailey’s debt. So, in a roundabout way, Golden Crown Mountain became Zaran Bailey’s creditor, while Zaran Bailey, due to bankruptcy caused by his debts, had to work for Golden Crown Mountain for two hundred years for free.

After all, the mess he made was too big.

He was also pitiful.

No, actually, both the Sith wizards and the Zaran Bailey wizard had become victims of the academic war between the Rose Witch and the Red Dragon Witch, and both of them had to bear the losses of the Dune Plane.

Locke couldn’t help but feel alarmed and wary of this situation.

As his magical level increases, the projects he will undertake will become increasingly larger, and the greater his abilities, the greater the environmental changes he can make.

Consequently, the responsibility he bears will also be immense.

Therefore, he should learn from the lessons of the Zaran Bailey and Sith wizards.

When undertaking ecological restoration in the future, he must adhere to the principle of least intervention, avoiding short-sighted gains that could lead to long-term damage.

Clearly, the Zaran Bailey wizard fell for the trap due to foolishness, while the Sith wizard fell for it because of his impatience and lack of thorough investigation.

The Sith wizard nodded to Locke.

“Locke, thankfully I have someone like you in my Group 2. From now on, you will receive priority support from all the resources within my Group 2. Do whatever you want.”

“I will have someone handle the environmental pollution in the Dune Plane. As for the water problem, I have already solved it. I have reached an agreement with the Storm Tower to restore our water supply.”

“However, we can no longer grow desert roses at our base,”

the Sith Wizard said. “I will arrange for the apprentices to harvest and sell the Dune Roses that have already been planted as soon as possible. Locke, you can find some drought-resistant desert economic crops that can be grown in my Group 2 underground base.” The Sith Wizard continued

, “I still maintain that if Group 2’s research is to be done better, it must focus on the commercial market. Only with sufficient external funding can we better conduct our Group 2’s research and complete the tasks that Lord Throne has given you and me.”

The Sith Wizard had clearly come to regard Locke as an equal, having become a second-ring wizard himself.

A Sun Ring Wizard and an ordinary second-ring wizard are both at the second-ring stage; at most, one is an ordinary person, and the other is a powerful one.

But they had indeed reached the same level.

The Sith wizard quickly left.

On the other side, Zaran Bailey, the wizard who was wearing magical shackles and working for Group 2 for free, looked at Locke with a complicated expression. After the Sith wizard left, he asked Locke in a hoarse voice, “Locke, you won your competition with me.”

Locke glanced at him.

Zaran Bailey, the wizard, suddenly spoke, “Locke, you and I have never been enemies, have we? I was merely a pawn of the Rose Council, and now I realize I’ve been part of their schemes from beginning to end.”

“And you, you are someone the Rose Council has never been able to control. Everything about you terrifies them.”

Locke turned to leave the fifteenth basement level of Group 2 and return to his office on the thirtieth basement level. He was here because he currently had priority access to Group 2’s facilities.

This meant he could use the thirty magical fields in the laboratory at any time.

Because desert roses were prohibited, all the magical fields had to be cleared.

Locke figured he could plant some pineapple magical plants while he was at it; after all, air plants were drought-resistant, so using public resources for private purposes wasn’t unreasonable.

At this moment, the wizard Zhalan Bailey spoke again in a hoarse voice: “Locke, actually, I’ve come out ahead. Looking back on all my previous experiences, I realize how arrogant I was.”

“That period of soul decay was terrifying.”

“If it weren’t for the Rose Witch’s secret push, I wouldn’t have been able to get through it. Like someone trapped in a swamp, I couldn’t break free no matter how hard I tried.”

“So, becoming a second-circle wizard is already a gain. As long as I’m a debt slave to Mount Golden Crown for two hundred years… Mount Golden Crown is my alma mater after all, and they won’t make things too difficult for me.” “

I’m already lucky. I’m grateful for Empress Catherine’s mercy; without her intervention, I’m afraid I would have been even more miserable. But my future is probably limited to this. Two hundred years from now, I’ll only regress, not progress.”

“After all, I’m a debt slave, not a faculty member or student of Mount Golden Crown.”

Wizard Zhalan Bailey pursed his lips and said to Locke, “But I’m still unwilling to be used as a pawn by the Rose Council without even realizing it, completely falling into their control.”

“Locke, I’m not reconciled.”

Locke walked out of the fifteenth underground level. Ever since the wizard Zaran Bailey targeted him and then the witch Mason, he had harbored no goodwill towards him.

However, Locke also felt a growing wariness towards the Rose Council.

He returned to the thirtieth underground level, where he received a message from the Silent Grail Committee.

It was a spatial coordinate system.

Three-dimensional space, plus one dimension of time, plus one dimension of void coordinates.

These five dimensions could pinpoint the location of a medium-sized world in the endless void.

The committee chairman told him,

‘Dear champion of this year, Locke, this is your prize: a plane that has never been explored before. The Silent Witch has specifically instructed us to choose a good one for you.’

‘The strength of this medium-sized plane is relatively powerful among medium-sized planes. Of course, because of this, the native inhabitants of this world may be very powerful.’

‘Champion Locke, you must be prepared. Colonizing planes, if used well, is a huge springboard; if used poorly, it can bankrupt you.’ “

The previous champion, Rush, made good use of the resources of the colonized plane he acquired, developing them himself and preventing them from falling into the hands of outsiders, which allowed him to become a Star Ring Wizard within three years.”

The tournament committee chairman, Wizard Tontatta, seemed very interested in the movements of each champion and contestant.

Locke replied to the message.

“Thank you, Chairman and Silent Witch.”

“But even Rush took three years to become a Star Ring Wizard?”

Wizard Tontatta replied: “Yes, three years is very fast. Ordinary second-ring wizards take anywhere from thirty to a hundred years to become Star Ring Wizards. Some even lack talent, resources, background, and a benefactor to help them, so they remain ordinary second-ring wizards forever.” “

You can ask your teacher how to become a second-ring Star Ring Wizard; I won’t presume to tell you. In short, you still need to read articles; reading too few articles is useless, and you also need resources.” “Only with the resources of an entire undeveloped, medium-sized world can you quickly become a Star Ring Wizard and bypass the time required for massive accumulation.” “

Generally, the champion of the Silent Grail can become a Moon Ring Wizard within ten years. Rush Wizard had other extraordinary encounters, which is why he became a Sun Ring Wizard.”

“There’s a significant hurdle between Moon Ring Wizards and Sun Ring Wizards. It’s difficult for everyone.”

After a while, Wizard Tatar sent a message: “However, it’s not necessarily true. The advancement speed of each Silent Grail contestant is getting faster and faster. Like the last Chad Wizard, according to past practice, he should still be a Star Ring Wizard, but last time I saw him, he was already a Moon Ring Wizard.”

“He must have had his own extraordinary encounters.”

“This can be attributed to the recent rapid development of magic, the increasing availability of resources, and… with the upgrading of the magical tide, the difficulty of advancement in the Eastern Realm is decreasing. In your generation, due to the Ascension Plan, the difficulty of advancement is decreasing again.” “

You’ve really caught a good time,”

Locke said, indicating that he understood.

At the same time, he blinked his right eye. Beneath the 20,000 mu of sea surface in his right demiplane, an old elemental conversion pool had been installed, forcibly raising the magical tides of the entire demiplane, thus enabling it to withstand the power of his Ancient Tree of Life.

Locke looked at his 10,000 mu forest.

Because he had superimposed the Moon Realm onto his Forest Sanctuary, the area of his Forest Sanctuary had increased from 5,000 mu to 10,000 mu.

Everywhere here were apprentice-level tree beings, a large number of 37 different kinds, all obtained by him from the Silent Plane.

At the same time, there were at least a thousand first-ring magical trees here, including Gem Holly, White Birch, Beechwood, Sentinel Holly, and Thorn Queen.

The Ancient Tree of Life, as part of the core of the forest, possessed an astonishing second-ring magical pressure.

If the resources of this demiplane weren’t insufficient, the magical pressure of the Ancient Tree of Life wouldn’t be just over 10,000, but rather the same as his own magical pressure, 16,001.

This forest already possesses the grandeur of an ancient forest.

Its total magical pressure is unimaginable; if it continues to expand, who knows how far it can grow?

“Currently, as the Forest Sanctuary expands, the more permanent defensive fields I can inscribe, the greater my total magical pressure will be,”

Locke pondered. “Currently, I have seven permanent defensive field spell models inscribed, and the current forest should be able to support the inscription of fourteen spell models. As the total magical pressure of the forest expands, the number that can be inscribed is expected to increase further.”

One reason he stopped increasing the number of his selectable permanent defensive fields before was that he already possessed two Myster powers, which was sufficient.

Another major reason was that at that time, seven permanent defensive field spell models had already reached the limit of his Forest Sanctuary.

Before he became a second-circle wizard and the Tree of Life broke through to the second circle, the strength of his Forest Sanctuary had already reached its limit.

Therefore, he only inscribed seven spell models at the first-circle stage.

Even then, forcibly inscribing spell models would only allow for about nine.

Nine should be the limit.

This is limited by the ratio of a wizard’s total magical pressure to the total magical pressure of the forest. Once the total magical pressure of the forest exceeds the wizard’s own,

the wizard ceases to be the core of the forest and their status weakens, eventually becoming just an ordinary tree within it.

Therefore, the number of spell inscriptions in a Forest Sanctuary at the first ring stage is actually capped.

Unless the wizard doesn’t care about their status declining to that of an ordinary tree and expands the forest at will.

The forest has no upper limit, but the wizard’s growth has one.

Without the Ancient Tree of Life, Locke estimated that at the first ring stage, he could only possess six spell slots for permanent defensive fields.

At this moment, a moon appeared in the sky above the Forest Sanctuary—the Moon of Evolution.

Not only that, this moon also appeared above both Witch Williams’ Forest Sanctuary and Wizard Albert’s Forest Sanctuary.

Others’ ultimate spells were all within a medium-sized plane because they used the core world power of that plane to prove their second ring.

But he used a leaf from the World Tree of the Natural Force plane to prove his second ring.

Therefore, his ultimate magic underwent a peculiar change.

Locke looked up at the sky above the Forest Sanctuary.

‘I never imagined that my attempt to fulfill the last wish of the wizard Levi’s and develop the Forest Alliance Charm would bring me such a reward.’

‘I’m not on the normal path of ultimate magic at all.’

Locke looked at the moon in the sky, troubled.

‘Normal ultimate magic is done in medium-sized worlds, using Worldstones. But I…’

He took out a Worldstone, placed it in his palm, and smiled bitterly.

‘What am I? I didn’t use a Worldstone at all, but a leaf from the World Tree that is very similar to a Worldstone. I didn’t achieve the second ring of a plane, I achieved the second ring of the Endless Void. Logically speaking, my ultimate magic should appear in the void.’

‘But I myself am in the void.’

‘So, my ultimate magic has become such a strange existence, existing only within my own Forest Alliance Charm.’

Because he didn’t use a Worldstone to achieve ultimate magic, the physical form of his ultimate magic doesn’t exist in any medium-sized plane.

Instead, it exists in the present world of the wizarding world, because this is part of the Endless Void.

He had proven the ultimate magic of the natural force plane, and this place was part of the void nature.

Therefore, he could only naturally entrust his Evolution Moon to the Forest Sanctuary and appear above all Forest Sanctuaries using the Forest Alliance Spell.

In essence, this meant that all the wizards who learned from his Forest Sanctuary lineage became part of his ecological community, part of his ultimate magic.

Locke didn’t know if this would work.

Anyway, the current situation was strange.

“As long as more wizards use the Forest Sanctuary and become formal wizards, I can make more formal wizards… become my ecological community.”

Locke said with a strange expression, “It seems I’ve found a different path. Next time, I’ll find an opportunity to talk to Witch Teacher Ekaterina.”

“Let’s see what insights she has.”

Back when he was a wizard apprentice, he used too many Rose Gems, and his mental power became tainted with the ether element, making his mental power heavier than that of ordinary wizards.

Later, it was only through long-term consumption of Wizard’s Tea from Mount Golden Crown, along with some magical potions and special magical peaches from Mount Golden Crown, that the side effect was eliminated.

Therefore, Locke was relatively accepting of the side effects that come with wizarding research into magic.

This was a risk that had to be taken in the pursuit of truth.

‘Speaking of which, I should use the magical fields in Group 2’s laboratory to cultivate a large number of pineapple magical plants and make good use of the equipment here to complete my design for second-circle wizard shoes,’

Locke thought. ‘I should also take this opportunity to help Mason and her two companions complete their application for a first-class grant.’

‘After all, if you use other people’s labor and don’t give them some benefits for a long time, even the best of friends will resent you. To maintain the team’s efficiency, you have to give them real benefits. I’m not a wizard lacking resources; it’s good to share something tangible with them.’

‘Oh right, I almost forgot about the Ghostly Holy Church. I still need to visit the witch Stephania.’

At this moment, Locke’s clone in the southeastern corner looked at the convoy he was following. He overheard the seven gaseous wizards in the convoy discussing the latest strategic meeting of the Southeastern Corner Black Wizard Alliance at Vildandia University.

Locke found this strange.

The headquarters of the Southeastern Corner White Wizard Association seemed to be located at Vildandia University.

Could it be that after he left the Southeastern Corner, the black wizards had already captured Vildandia University and occupied the White Wizard Association headquarters there?

‘No, the Black Wizard Alliance certainly doesn’t have that kind of power. There must be external intervention here. I wonder what happened to Four Seasons Garden and Lilith’s Cottage after Vildandia University fell. Patty must have been captured and brought to this convoy for this reason. But why didn’t the White Wizard Association here ask the White Wizard Association headquarters for help?’

Locke recalled wizarding law; he had previously read some of it, including some simpler chapters.

Right, the various White Wizard Associations maintained their independence, like independent countries.

However, if they were to seek help from the White Wizarding Association headquarters, it would mean they were no longer able to control the local wizarding lands, would need to pay large sums of taxes, and would require asset restructuring, which would attract strong jurisdiction from the White Wizarding Association headquarters’ tax department and other departments.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, the White Wizarding Association branch would not request headquarters intervention unless absolutely necessary.

This would be no different from filing for bankruptcy with headquarters.

That would allow the association headquarters to completely control all the interests of the wizarding lands for a long period of time!

Locke followed behind the caravan. Since this caravan was going to hold a strategic meeting of the Black Wizarding Alliance, he might as well follow them and participate.

He wanted to see who had intervened in the Southeast Corner Region.

Of course, the main purpose was to search for the Ghostly Holy Church and try to obtain the magic cast by the Ghostly High Priestess from back then.

That magic provided him with inspiration for the Styx Imaginary Root server, and he had no choice but to obtain it; it might be related to the crucial key to whether he could conquer the Imaginary Root.

Locke looked at Patty at the back of the carriage.

“Patty is… seemingly dead, but not quite. So that’s it, undergoing vampire transformation? The dark wizard forcibly turned her into a blood servant.”

“Patty, you’ve really fallen on hard times.”

At this moment, in the last carriage of the magic carriage convoy, Patty Aisa, a second-class apprentice witch, was serving Graeme Stein, the top-ranked candidate for witch in the Blood Curse Court, with a bitter face.

Looking at the tyrannical and unpredictable Graeme Stein, Patty felt incredibly bitter. She stepped forward in the carriage and said, “Lord Stein, the magical materials you need for your ritual are ready… right here.”

She held a plate covered with the beating hearts of various creatures.

Stein sneered, picked up a still-beating cow heart from the center of the plate, and chewed it.

“Not bad.”

“I wonder what the heart of a lowly, weak white witch like you tastes like.”

Patty’s face turned pale, and she quickly knelt down, holding the plate.

“Lord Stein… I served as a formal wizard and potion master at the University of Verdandia… I know a great deal about identifying medicinal herbs; I studied herbal identification… Oh, and I know many types of potions. With a blood servant like me, you will certainly have a greater advantage than other potential wizard candidates.”

(End of Chapter)