Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 846

Chapter 842 Published in the Second Ring Road, First District Journal

Douglas, facing the Brandy Wizard’s questioning, immediately steeled himself.

He had been feigning compliance with the Brandy Wizard for some time, or perhaps the Brandy Wizard had underestimated him, believing he had him completely under control.

Or perhaps he dared not resist.

Douglas swallowed hard, then said to Locke and the Brandy Wizard, “I…I want to return to Group Two.”

The Brandy Wizard’s face darkened instantly.

A calculating glint flashed in his eyes.

Damn it, he had thought this dark wizard had broken down and become numb, but who knew he would dare to defy him, suddenly turning against him at the crucial moment.

The Brandy Wizard considered the situation for a moment, realizing he didn’t have a good reason to keep this person. Forcing him to stay would be too inconsistent with his usual kind-hearted persona.

The key was that he had wasted a considerable amount of time on this low-ring wizard, still unable to determine the level of that fortuitous encounter.

This made the Brandy Wizard less motivated to force Douglas to stay in Locke’s presence.

After some thought, he concluded that even if Douglas returned to Group Two, he could leverage his advantageous position within the True Knowledge Institute to find a way to get Douglas to hand over the fortuitous encounter he possessed.

At this moment, Locke most likely hadn’t noticed Douglas’s unusual behavior and was simply short of a errand boy, hence the request for his return.

If he overreacted, it might alert Locke, and he might even find himself in the wrong, forced to return Douglas.

Therefore, the Brandy Wizard’s expression shifted several times before he finally made his decision.

Brandy Wizard looked at Locke and smiled, “Since Wizard Douglas wants to return to Group Two, I have no reason to stop him. I’m not that petty. Wizard Locke, you can take Douglas with you.”

“This boy came to me earlier, wanting to work for me, and I gave him that opportunity out of pity. Since he wants to go back to Group Two, then go back.”

Brandy Wizard looked at Wizard Douglas and said seriously, “But you can’t just come and go as you please here. Once you leave, don’t even think about returning to Group Three.”

“There are many excellent wizards who want to come to Group Three.”

Douglas understood the subtext: even if he went to Group Two, Brandy Wizard wouldn’t let him go and would still come looking for him.

Locke glanced at him, eager to leave. After all, the longer he stayed with Brandy, the easier it would be for him to find an opportunity to spread rumors.

Locke said, “Since that’s the case, then I’ll take my men and leave.”

Brandy had no choice but to dispel the barrier, letting Douglas step out, while simultaneously casting a gloomy glance at Douglas, a look as sharp as a venomous snake’s.

Douglas then followed Locke, and the two turned and left the third group’s laboratory.

Just as Locke exited the third group’s laboratory, he saw a former colleague from the sixth group in the corridor of the True Knowledge Institute. The researcher greeted Locke.

“Lord Locke, hello.”

He glanced at Douglas.

Locke immediately said, “This man was originally in my group, but Brandy the Wizard took him away when I wasn’t looking. Now I have an article to publish and need someone to do the work, so I’m taking him back.”

Locke and Douglas quickly left.

The researcher stood there, stunned.

He was a little confused; why was Lord Locke explaining so much to him, so clearly, as if afraid he hadn’t understood?

Wait…

Lord Locke is going to publish an article?

Could it be an article about the second ring?

The researcher was a local wizard, with a second-ring wizard in his family, so he had heard rumors about the difficulty of publishing in second-ring journals.

‘Lord Locke has only been a second-ring wizard for less than a year, is he already about to publish his first article?’

The researcher turned his head, startled, and immediately bowed to the Brandy Wizard.

But he glanced at the Brandy Wizard strangely.

Strange.

The Brandy Wizard was usually a very nice person, often mingling with them, the lower-ring wizards. Why did he look so grim today? Was he unhappy?

The Brandy Wizard looked in Locke’s direction, his eyes deep.

“Locke Augustine…”

Locke’s actions left him no room to speak out of turn.

The Brandy Wizard suddenly smiled and rubbed his forehead.

“He’s really not easy to deal with. Not that idiot Zoma.”

“Fortunately, he won’t pose much of a threat to me next year . After all, he’s only just become a second-ring wizard, and his foundation is quite limited. Generally, a wizard has already exhausted all his accumulated resources by the time he becomes

a second-ring wizard.” “The probability of him getting special funding next year is not high. So, my main opponents are still Zoma and Zeno, among others. However, I have full confidence in my Flesh Tree. These magical plants, unique to the Forbes world, with their vascular bundle system like human blood vessels, are truly amazing.”

…

Golden Crown Mountain, Laboratory Group 2, Locke’s office. At this time, the Sith wizard had already arranged a private office for Locke, which was the basic treatment for a second-ring wizard.

Locke no longer had to squeeze into an office with other researchers.

Locke handed a bottle of Holy Spring Dew potion to Douglas, then looked at him and said, “Why did you provoke Brandy for no reason?”

Douglas hesitated, feeling a long-lost warmth. After experiencing the torment of that bastard Brandy, he realized that not everyone in the white wizarding society was a good person.

That guy is too cunning.

Douglas bowed sincerely to Locke.

“I believe you’ve already seen through the trick. Thank you, Archmage Augustine.”

Locke nodded slightly.

“Why is Brandy making things difficult for you?”

Douglas stiffened, because he couldn’t very well say that Archmage Brandy had noticed his abnormal advancement speed and followed the clues to discover that he had a great fortuitous encounter, could he?

Douglas’s mind raced, and then he said, “Probably… because I have a fortuitous encounter in my possession.”

Locke smiled enigmatically.

Douglas said to Locke, “Archmage Augustine, you saved me, so I’m willing to share my fortuitous encounter with you. I possess a copy of ancient magical knowledge, [Kingdom Domain], which I obtained unintentionally.”

“If you wish, I can give you this knowledge.”

“The Kingdom Domain is…”

Locke stopped him, casually using his second-ring level dimensional power to construct a simplified version of the Dharma Realm, namely the Kingdom Domain.

Douglas’s eyes widened.

“You possess the knowledge to create the Kingdom Domain… this…”

He hadn’t expected that Locke would actually possess the magical heritage of the Kingdom Domain from the Age of Stars.

At this moment, even the Witch-King Lagmamon, who had remained silent, suddenly shrieked in Douglas’s mind, saying: ‘This is absolutely impossible.’

‘Even I cannot create a Kingdom Domain in this era. The environment has changed; how could he possibly create a Kingdom Domain in this era?’

‘The Age of Stars has passed.’

Douglas was about to speak when

Locke suddenly said, “The Kingdom Domain is the foundation of the Age of Stars. Although the Age of Stars has been gone for many years, there are still many clues to be found. Douglas, it’s not surprising that I possess the knowledge of the Kingdom Domain.”

Douglas froze instantly as the voice of the Wizard King echoed in his mind, followed by the voice of the Great Wizard Locke speaking before him.

It was as if the two were conversing,

yet also as if they weren’t.

Therefore, Douglas was momentarily unsure whether Locke possessed the ability to hear his Wizard King teacher speaking through his body.

Logically speaking, even the Wizard of Brandy hadn’t noticed anything unusual about him.

Lagmamon suddenly spoke again in his mind, “Don’t worry, he can’t hear me. It’s probably just a coincidence. This person is unusual. Although he seems easier to talk to than Brandy, he’s actually more troublesome.”

“But don’t worry, in my opinion, he’s a good person.”

“I advised you before not to change your goals because of temporary setbacks. You should be more patient and wait. But you couldn’t wait. You were eager to find a second-circle wizard to unlock the secret treasure for you, to make up for the defects in your Five Elements Reversal Permanent Defense Field, and to advance to the second-circle wizard level.”

“Child, you were too hasty. That’s why you suffered because of Brandy.”

Lagmamon decided to say a few more words.

“I only did this as a precaution, but did you really think I was so old and useless that an ordinary second-ring wizard could detect my existence? I was a Wizard King of the past! A third-ring Archmage of the Age of Stars!”

Locke glanced at Douglas and suddenly said something that chilled King Lagmamon, silencing Douglas.

“Douglas, as far as I know, third-ring wizards of the Age of Stars were generally not ordinary Wizard Kings.”

“I knew a third-ring wizard named King Otto. Third-ring wizards of the Age of Stars were capable of ruling the world.”

King Lagmamon suddenly fell silent.

Locke glanced at Douglas.

“Give me the knowledge of the Kingdom Realm you possess. Although I have a version more suitable for this era, I can take a look; perhaps it will give me some new ideas.”

Douglas was somewhat frightened. He nodded to Locke and said, “Yes…”

The Wizard King Lagmamon suddenly spoke in his mind, “It should just be a coincidence. But it shows that this person has a deep understanding of the Age of Stars. Or, he can indeed sense some anomalies. Douglas, don’t give him the knowledge of the Kingdom Realm you know.”

“That was just a simplified version I tailored to suit your comprehension and this era. I originally thought this would be enough to impress the second-ring wizards of this era. Who would have thought that the level of ordinary second-ring wizards in this era is stronger than that of the star-ring wizards of my time.”

“To see the power of planes directly with the n*ked eye… Wizards of my time had never heard of second-ring wizards possessing this ability. This seems to be a unique ability possessed only by wizards who have attained second-ring status through Great Magic. Wizards who have attained second-ring status through the Kingdom Realm should not have this ability.”

“Anyway, give him this new document I gave you. It’s the original version of the Kingdom Domain knowledge. The second best I know.”

Douglas quickly said to Locke, “Great Wizard Augustine, I need to write this down. This will require some ink, paper, and time.”

Locke asked, “How much time?”

Douglas replied, “At least a month.”

Locke raised an eyebrow. “A month? Right, for you, the Kingdom Domain is high-level knowledge, and writing it down would be very stressful. I don’t have time for a month, I’ll give you one day. After that, you need to do something else for me.”

“I have a project to participate in the Little Rest Cup competition. You need to help me write the project summary and assist me in writing a second-level article.”

Locke glanced at him.

The witch Catherine’s task for him was to monitor him without his knowledge.

He didn’t have that much time specifically for monitoring him.

So, Locke thought of a better way.

If he could get this guy to work for him, wouldn’t that be equivalent to monitoring him indirectly?

It wouldn’t interfere with his work, and he could use it for work.

Perfect.

As for the second-ring journal he wanted to submit to, Locke had already decided: he would submit to *Jiaojie*, a first-tier journal in the Huiming-Yin region, a second-ring journal

located at the border of darkness and light. *Jiaojie* in the Huiming-Yin region has first-ring, second-ring, and third-ring versions: first-ring *Zhihu Jiaojie* (Knowledge Jiaojie), second-ring *Wanxiang Jiaojie* (All Things Jiaojie), and third

-ring *Shidai Jiaojie* (Times Jiaojie). “Jiaojie” is a collective term for

these three journals, and he would submit to *Wanxiang Jiaojie*. Because of his ancestral evolution and Golden Wheat, submitting to other regions would likely be difficult to get into the first tier due to the fierce competition.

But only in the Huiming-Yin region, with a high probability, would he definitely be ranked in the first tier. This

was solely due to the special relationship between Golden Wheat and the Huiming-Yin region!

Douglas swallowed hard. In some ways, he felt Locke was even more monstrous than the Brandy Wizard—this was too much!

He was asked to write in a day what would take him a month.

How could he possibly do that?

Was this the world of geniuses?

Douglas stammered, “I… this level of knowledge is too high.”

Locke said, “That’s the problem. If you have so much difficulty even writing down this knowledge, how are you going to record it?”

Douglas’s pupils suddenly contracted.

Locke said, “Forget it, I don’t like digging into things. I only care if you can do the job. Asking about the past is pointless. Douglas, remember, only your present is truly meaningful to you.”

“And for you, just doing your job well now will make me extremely satisfied.”

“As for your past, I don’t care.”

Douglas’s eyes gleamed with excitement.

Locke picked up a magical office tool provided by a Sith wizard from his desk. It was said to cost 200,000 magic stones, and it was considered the standard magical quill pen in this private office.

“This crystallized magic quill pen can help you withstand the soul pressure caused by your insufficient rank.” “

The Kingdom Domain didn’t originally exist in this era. So, strictly speaking, it can’t be considered true second-ring level knowledge. Using this magic quill pen, you can transfer the pressure on your body, naturally improving your efficiency.”

Douglas stared in astonishment at the quill pen in Locke’s hand.

He hadn’t expected that improving efficiency would be so simple; buying a quill pen worth 200,000 magic stones could directly solve his problem of being unable to write Kingdom Domain knowledge.

Locke walked out of the office, glancing at him as he did so.

‘The teacher was right. He does indeed possess an ancient soul. After several attempts, I finally confirmed it. Unfortunately, that old fellow hid it too well; even the dragon’s supernatural intuition and the Three-Eyed’s perception couldn’t detect him.’

‘That old fellow didn’t know that second-ring wizards possessed the ability to directly see planes, nor did he know that I could enhance this ability with the power of the Three-Eyed’s bloodline. He was too ignorant of modern magical knowledge, which is why I was able to outmaneuver him. He must be a third-ring wizard from the Age of Stars.’

‘Unfortunately, I could only hear fragments of his words.’

‘It’s difficult to hear his complete sentences. And, this old fellow’s voice, hmm… judging from the fragments, although it sounds like an old man, it’s likely a disguised voice.’

‘His true voice is probably not like that. That’s normal; the identity of a third-ring wizard in the Age of Stars isn’t difficult to guess.’

‘This guy is too cunning.’ It’s difficult to observe his entirety, and he seems to have a habit of constantly fine-tuning his spell model, meaning I might not be able to keep an eye on him all the time. Perhaps after a while, I won’t even be able to hear a single word from him.

Locke thought, “It’s alright, I’ve already gleaned some information.”

“This person is working right under my nose. I suppose nothing will happen.”

While Locke’s main body prepared to head to the void, his clone, with the help of Douglas and Gregor, began preparing to write a second-circle article to submit to “The Crossroads of All Things.”

A month later, Locke’s main body had already recruited a team and was leading them to the market to select void warships.

The old pirate was naturally happy to be able to stay at Golden Crown Mountain for another half month.

Hussein was no different; Locke then realized that Hussein was a master of time management. He brought several cases with him to Golden Crown Mountain this time, all from the Golden Crown Mountain region, and even from the vicinity of Golden Crown Mountain.

Therefore, at Golden Crown Mountain, he was able to both evade the Pale Pilgrimage’s pursuit and conduct business simultaneously, even fearing that his departure would disrupt his operations.

Meanwhile, Locke’s clone had finally obtained the original version of the Kingdom’s Domain data from Douglas. With the help of his student, Douglas, and perhaps even the ancient third-ring wizard, he completed the article in just one month.

He immediately sent it through the White Wizarding Association’s Dispatch Department, using a magical vortex to transform the article into magical winds, and dispatched it to the Golden Dynasty’s *Boundary of All Things* at the boundary between light and shadow!

(End of Chapter)