Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 806

Chapter 803 Peach Killing Curse and Void Ship Seizure

The Peach Boat used peach branches as masts and peach blossoms as sails. The peach blossoms harnessed elemental winds, flying at the very edge of the wizarding world.

Locke noticed that the Peach Boat’s main root, the Imaginary Root, extended into the Imaginary Sea, directly drawing spiritual energy from it. Through peach leaves, it transformed this spiritual energy into magical winds, which the peach trees on the branches used to fly through.

This might be the secret to the Peach Boat’s ability to fly in the void.

The Peach Boat flew on magical winds, harnessing them with peach blossoms, decomposing the spiritual energy from the Imaginary Sea with peach leaves, and quantifying it into magical winds through respiration.

This Peach Boat undoubtedly possessed countless research achievements.

Locke, Trajan, and the others entered the void. Due to the Infinite Mountain, they encountered almost no dimensional gravity, and the Peach Boat directly left this world.

Trajan looked at Locke and said, “Junior brother, be careful. The void environment is very different from the planar environment.”

Locke, Trajan, and Valerie Quinn all felt, for a moment, that some kind of darkness enveloped their vision. Then, it was as if someone had been in an air-conditioned room on a hot summer day and suddenly stepped out into a scorching world.

For a brief instant, Locke even felt that everything in the wizarding world, including the principles of the planes, was leaving him; everything was moving away from him.

A vast, boundless void appeared before him.

That was the Great Void.

There was no up or down, no time, no space, no concepts, no spirituality, no magic, and no matter; everything was nonexistent.

There was no birth, no destruction, no strength, and no weakness.

Everything here seemed to have no meaning.

“It’s not even a blank.”

Locke, having come into contact with the Zero Potion, compared the current state to it. The Zero Potion represents the initial spiritual state of things, while this state isn’t even ‘nothingness.’

Because there’s no concept of ‘nothingness’ or ’emptiness.’

Valerie Quinn suddenly bent over, gagging.

Trajan frowned. “Valerie, you still haven’t had enough real-world experience.”

Valerie managed to lift her head, looking back at the Wizarding World, which appeared as a giant sphere of white and blue.

In that instant, she realized she was standing at a great distance, looking down at the Wizarding World.

For a moment, her perception of size was completely distorted; her soul, her consciousness, couldn’t process it. That vast world had become a giant sphere beneath her feet.

Her instincts couldn’t comprehend what was happening.

So, she gaggled again.

“Ah…”

Valerie Quinn clutched her head, muttering to herself.

“Size, humans, elves, orcs…continents, oceans, skies…”

Valerie Quinn opened one eye, looking at the wizarding world again, her pupils suddenly filled with terror. She looked at Trajan and said, “Teacher, is our world a beast? Why do I see that world breathing, as if it has life…”

“That world is chasing us.”

“Teacher, speed up the Peach Boat, that world is going to eat us.”

Trajan frowned.

Locke, however, realized what was happening

. It was cognitive dissonance and collapse.

Wizards, or beings, suffering from this disease see everything as if it were breathing.

Valerie Quinn seemed extremely terrified, as if something really was chasing them from behind.

She pointed to a void that was clearly empty and said to Locke, “Uncle-Master, do you see that? The Wizarding World is a monster. It’s alive, and it’s attacking us. Those are its tentacles…”

Locke frowned. He hadn’t expected to witness this kind of cognitive dissonance for the first time in such a situation, especially since it was Trajan’s direct student.

Trajan scolded, “Valerie, that’s just the Wizarding World’s weak gravitational pull on us. Because we’re in the near-Earth void, we’re still within the Wizarding World’s gravitational field.”

“Stop looking at the Wizarding World. Just stop looking, close your eyes, and then use advanced meditation to enter a state of thoughtlessness for about five minutes. With your level, you should be able to recover.”

Valerie Quinn seemed very frightened, even trying to grab the mast of the peach boat controlled by Trajan, a peach branch that resembled a staff.

This branch floated above the peach tree,

like a small, suspended staff.

The witch Valerie Quinn reached for the branch. “Teacher, we need to change direction.”

Wizard Trajan gave her a cold look. “You won’t even listen to me, Valerie?”

Valerie Quinn hesitated, glancing back repeatedly, her expression growing increasingly terrified.

She was finding it harder and harder to control herself.

Ten minutes later, Valerie Quinn suddenly attacked. A cluster of peach blossoms appeared in her right hand, the crimson petals swirling like a vortex, hurtling towards Trajan.

This was the famous first-circle offensive botanical spell of Mount Golden Crown, the Peach Killing Curse!

This spell has first-circle, second-circle, and solar-circle versions, representing three major levels of spell models, a classic botanical offensive spell of Mount Golden Crown.

Valerie Quinn’s eyes were serious.

“Teacher, that monster is catching up. If this continues, we’ll all die.” Before

the peach blossoms formed by the Peach Killing Curse could even reach Wizard Trajan, they were blocked by the permanent defensive force field around him, resembling a solar corona, and turned into flames.

Trajan frowned. Cognitive dissonance wasn’t simply about a wizard seeing things that didn’t exist.

If that were the case, it would just be a matter of illusion.

The key was that if a wizard was already experiencing cognitive dissonance and seeing everything breathing, it meant her brain, her soul, her consciousness were malfunctioning.

Her personality would also be affected.

Trajan chanted a spell, and the branches of the peachwood boat instantly converged on her, forming a wooden fence around her.

Valerie Quinn was horrified.

“Teacher, let me go! That thing is coming! Quickly, to the left…”

The wizard Trajan threw a peach blossom to the left. The blossom flew through the air for a while, about a hundred meters away, before being crushed by an invisible force.

In an instant, its form, spirit, and magical energy were all pulverized.

Everything about the peach blossom was extracted.

The witch Valerie Quinn froze in place.

The wizard Trajan gave her a cold look. “Where do you want me to go? That’s an invisible vortex of energy in the void. If we get close, even I will die inside.”

The wizard Trajan chanted a spell, and instantly, countless peach blossoms flew out from his right sleeve. These blossoms, like a storm, spread across the invisible void ahead.

Within this storm, something manifested.

It was like an invisible, enormous vortex.

Its size was countless times larger than the peach boat beneath their feet.

Trajan’s Sun Ring-level Peach Blossom Curse was like an ant trying to shake a tree before this invisible vortex. As he finished chanting the incantation, the peach blossom tornado created by the spell vanished into the void.

Locke knew that Trajan was using his magical energy to outline that invisible void energy that could not normally manifest a form.

Valerie Quinn suddenly awoke.

Her breathing quickened, and she gritted her teeth, relying on the strength of her crystallized witch soul to withstand the immense soul damage caused by the cognitive dissonance.

She closed her eyes, trying to enter a state of “thoughtlessness” to forget what she had just seen of the wizarding world from high above. This way, she could avoid the damage caused by her soul’s inability to distinguish the size of what she saw from the wizarding world and the actual size of herself.

Twenty minutes later, Valerie Quinn exhaled a breath of stale air, then turned her back to the wizarding world, no longer daring to look behind her. She bowed to Trajan and Locke in apology, saying, “Master, Junior Uncle, I’m so sorry, I lost my composure.”

“I just did something very foolish,”

Valerie Quinn said, looking at Trajan with awe.

Trajan nodded slightly to her, then handed her a bottle of potion to restore her energy.

“I can’t blame you. Cognitive dissonance and collapse are quite normal.”

“And once cognitive dissonance occurs, your mind becomes abnormal, your judgment deteriorates, and your personality changes drastically.”

“Your problem is that, as a wizard, you’re too easily thrown off balance. When faced with problems, instead of calmly analyzing them, you shout and panic, even trying to seize control of the void spacecraft from me, attempting to steer us towards that truly dangerous abyss.”

“The so-called monsters you saw before were merely the weak dimensional gravity of the wizarding world. That was only because we were still in the near-Earth void orbit of the wizarding world. But because of cognitive dissonance, you mistook that dimensional gravity for the tentacles of a monster,”

Wizard Trajan questioned her.

“That’s why I didn’t let you accept missions from the Demon Hunter Division despite your repeated requests to go on missions in the Void.”

“While there are many first-ring wizards who undertake Void missions, it’s not suitable for someone like you with no Void experience. People like you have a nickname in the Void—’landlubber.'”

“This nickname specifically describes first-ring wizards like you who haven’t been to the Void.”

“Because second-ring wizards can use their ultimate magic to determine their correct location and size relative to the wizarding world, so they don’t have this problem.”

Trajan the Wizard asked him, “Valerie, if it weren’t me piloting the Peach Boat today, but another Crystallized Wizard, what do you think would have happened?”

Locke understood. Simply put, a first-circle wizard’s rank is too low, so a mere glance at the wizarding world from beyond the void caused cognitive distortion, leading to illness.

But a second-circle wizard’s rank is high enough that such a thing wouldn’t happen.

Trajan the Wizard said to Locke, “Junior Brother, when you organize expeditions in the future, you will definitely recruit first-class wizard apprentices and first-ring wizards. You must be careful, these wizards can encounter this kind of problem.” “

In the early days of the Great Void exploration era, many wizards perished because of this issue. Back then, many primitive void-flying vehicles, after entering the void, followed very strange and chilling paths.”

“Even during the Great Void exploration era, some wizards believed that there existed invisible creatures in the void that could easily enter void warships and seize control. But afterwards, everyone discovered that it wasn’t some strange creature seizing control of the vehicles, nor was it anything else; it was simply that wizards with cognitive dissonance mistakenly believed something was chasing them.”

“They launched a mutiny within the void warships to escape.”

Locke nodded slightly. If Trajan hadn’t brought him out, he wouldn’t have imagined that low-ring wizards would encounter such a situation when entering the void.

It was indeed extremely dangerous.

After all, in the void, one can only rely on the aircraft beneath their feet. If someone intentionally sabotages the aircraft, even a second-ring wizard could be killed in the void.

Locke glanced down, and the vast, boundless, azure wizarding world appeared before his eyes.

Of course, because this was near-Earth orbit in the void, even if Valerie Quinn had destroyed the Peach Boat, he could simply jump out.

At worst, he could perform a giant parachute jump outside the wizarding world.

With the defensive capabilities and vitality of a second-ring wizard, he should be able to land back in the wizarding world, although it might take some time, and there was a possibility of serious injury and a mortality rate.

Trajan the Wizard said to Locke, “Cognitive dissonance in low-ring wizards is one thing, but what’s most worrying is cognitive dissonance in high-ring wizards.”

“Even second-ring wizards can experience cognitive dissonance in the Void.”

“Seeing the entire wizarding world, thanks to the Great Magic, won’t throw us into disarray, but directly seeing certain beings or phenomena in the Void with the n*ked eye is a different story. Do you know about Void Beasts?”

Locke replied, “Yes, Senior Brother, I’ve seen them.”

Trajan was somewhat surprised.

“Saw it? How did you see it? I don’t see many.”

“This should be your first time in the void

, right? Wait, you mean, when you used advanced meditation, you took advantage of that one-time opportunity to view the [Secret of Creation] and saw the Void Beast?” Locke didn’t hide anything and nodded, saying, “Yes, I was quite lucky. The prototype for my ultimate magic spell was also obtained from a feather from that Void Beast. I told my teacher about this, and he said that the Void Beast is a creature never recorded in the wizarding world.”

Locke described the beast’s characteristics to Trajan again.

After listening, the wizard Trajan shook his head.

“Hmm, I haven’t seen that void creature either. Since Teacher said it’s a void behemoth never before discovered, it must be true. Teacher has read far more literature than I have.”

“Locke, you’re lucky. But seeing a void behemoth in an advanced meditative state and seeing it directly with a wizard’s eyes are two completely different things. Locke, never look directly at any void behemoth in the void. You’ll die.”

Locke thought of Valerie Quinn earlier, who, because she looked directly into the wizarding world, actually started fighting for control of the Peach Boat, and nodded immediately, saying, “Thank you for the warning, Senior Brother. I will be careful.”

Entering the void is indeed extremely dangerous. They’ve only just entered, still in near-Earth orbit, not even completely leaving the wizarding world, and yet they’ve already encountered a ship-stealing incident. And

the one trying to seize the ship is none other than Valerie Quinn, a talented newcomer from their own lineage.

This shows how dangerous void travel is.

‘Void travel in the modern magical age is this dangerous.’ “So, how many wizards died on their journeys to explore the Void during the Great Void Exploration Era?”

A thought flashed through Locke’s mind.

“Were they willing to risk death to enter the Void? Was it to obtain resources?”

“Or was it to explore the truth?”

At this moment, Peach Boat had reached a higher near-Earth Void orbit.

Each time it left its original near-Earth Void orbit and entered a new one, Peach Boat would shake, as if it were about to disintegrate.

About five days later, they had reached a void region called [Level 13 Near-Earth Orbit]. They were now far enough away from the Wizarding World that it appeared as a small marble in Locke’s eyes.

The gravitational pull of the Wizarding World on them had become extremely weak.

Valerie Quinn kept her back to the Wizarding World, not daring to look at it.

Wizard Trajan gave her a stern look.

“Valerie, if you’re like this, you don’t even need to come here. You need to try looking at the wizarding world, even just one minute a day would be good. That way you can improve.”

Valerie Quinn immediately stood up and bowed to him. “Yes, teacher.”

She sat down and began trying to look at the wizarding world.

Trajan, with his back to her, smiled with satisfaction.

Locke, seeing this, pondered, “Brother Trajan is a strict teacher. He seems to intentionally maintain a strict image in front of Valerie. But he’s far from being that strict in person.”

Logically speaking, Valerie hadn’t even entered the void to perform any missions before becoming a crystallized wizard; either Trajan thought she was completely incapable, or he cherished her and

didn’t want her to take risks.

Probably the latter.

Trajan looked at Locke with a smile and asked in a low voice, “What do you think of Valerie?”

Locke replied, “Very intelligent.”

“Very good,”

Trajan said softly. “I think so too. Don’t let her hear, lest she become too arrogant.”

“I believe that if given another ten years, to fifteen years, she might become a second-circle wizard.”

“Not as good as you.”

Trajan the Wizard said, “Junior Brother, you are a true genius. But there are too many mediocre geniuses in this world.”

“She became a second-circle wizard before the age of fifty, which I think is already quite remarkable,”

Trajan the Wizard pondered. “No, it should be extremely remarkable. I dare not be too friendly in front of her, mainly because I am unsure of the general rate of progress for a wizard of her aptitude. I also became a second-circle wizard before the age of thirty.”

“So, I’m afraid that if I’m too kind, she’ll become complacent. Because I’m not sure if her slowness is normal or just lazy. Mainly, either way, it’s too slow for me.”

“But within the lineage, geniuses of this level are also very important,”

Trajan the Wizard murmured. “Geniuses who are too outstanding, like us, will eventually go down the path of innovation and cannot properly inherit someone’s teachings.”

“While geniuses of this level can perfectly inherit your teachings like golden rules.”

Locke deeply agreed and nodded.

At the same time, Locke discovered that many small void spacecraft had appeared in this near-Earth void orbit, and there was also a void port in the distance that had been stationed there for a long time.

The void port was churning out massive amounts of supplies.

Most of these supplies came from distant colonies, while others were transported from the wizarding world to various colonies.

Due to the ‘Second Sky,’ void transport seemed less convenient than air transport, so the wizarding world primarily relied on airships for transporting supplies.

Wizard Trajan glanced at the void port.

“That’s an extraterrestrial port. In the past, it was called the extraterrestrial battlefield; now it’s just an ordinary port.”

“Some dark wizards covet these void ports. Of course, few dare to directly attack the ports, but they intercept void transport ships.” “

Once a void transport ship enters the void for a long voyage, its location becomes difficult to pinpoint, and tracking is extremely challenging. Void travel itself is also dangerous, so dark wizards prefer to intercept void transport ships in near-ground void.”

“And our mission is to patrol the 13th layer of near-ground void orbit and capture dark wizard pirates.”

Wizard Trajan grasped the peachwood staff with his right hand, turned the bow of the ship, and headed into the distance.

“Ordinary void transport ships are afraid of encountering pirates, but we, as temporary demon hunters, are different. We’re going to arrest dark wizard pirates; their heads can be exchanged for money.”

“My magic eye has a special function; I can track dark wizards.”

“Let’s go. I know their location.”

Locke was also short of raw materials for blank spiritual essence lately; his own lunar essence wasn’t abundant, and evolving his magical plants required borrowing from Peter to pay Paul. Therefore, he was quite enthusiastic.

“Senior brother, that’s great! Let’s go!”

Wizard Trajan laughed heartily.

“Everyone says I’m crazy, but I didn’t expect to meet a kindred spirit. Junior brother, I like your personality. Hahaha, I won’t have to worry about being lonely anymore.”

Witch Valerie Quinn glanced at her teacher, then muttered to herself,

‘Junior Uncle, you’d never guess just how crazy my teacher really is. Sigh.’

(End of Chapter)