Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 874

Chapter 870 Filling the Biggest Shortcoming and Returning to the Original State

At this moment, the Steel Giant was on the verge of death; Locke’s dragon flames had struck him directly.

Locke glanced at the Steel Giant in surprise, because according to his prediction, his attack should have killed him.

But now, the Steel Giant retained a sliver of life.

That’s right, it was the life magic contained within the Dragon Rose.

Locke realized that back then, the Rose Witch, with her status as a Third Ring Throne Wizard, had brazenly attacked him, transforming her dragon body into a Second Ring Magical Plant, and converting the essence of her dragon bloodline into the plant essence of a Second Ring Magical Plant.

But this also meant that the Dragon Rose had always remained merely a wild Second Ring Magical Plant, never carefully cultivated by a breeder.

Moreover, because it wasn’t naturally grown, it contained a contradictory power within it.

Life and destruction? Locke realized that his Dragon Rose, while unleashing dragon flames at his enemy, was also releasing a wisp of life force to heal them—a self-contradictory flaw in   artificial/wild magical plants

. This was because his normal magical pressure had increased to 19,000, and the Beast Panel had pushed it to the normal second-ring limit of 19,999, with some overflow.   This   was the reason he was so eager to utilize the Dragon Rose’s resources to further develop his traditionally proficient flying magical plant, the Great Green Leaf Dragon Sparrow, into a powerful second-ring flying magical plant.   Locke casually flicked his wrist, and a first-ring magical plant, the Great Green Leaf Dragon Sparrow, flew out from his Forest Sanctuary. After becoming a second-ring wizard, he had gradually planted the first-ring magical plants he had cultivated in his Forest Sanctuary.   This was partly for seed preservation and partly to have some spare consumables for battle.   As a second-ring wizard, he could slowly accumulate some first-ring magical plants using scraps from the laboratory.   Therefore, he hadn’t spent too much money on this.   At this moment, within the Forest Sanctuary, there were three adult, one-ringed Great Azure Leaf Dragonbirds. Supported by Locke’s solitary magical model, these three Great Azure Leaf Dragonbirds automatically flew out, like three bluebirds, using their false-rooted dragon tails to grab the Steel Giant’s neck, waist, and feet respectively, forcibly pulling him from the ground into the sky.   The Steel Giant was powerless to resist.   At this moment, the Steel Law completely disappeared. His original magic pressure was only 15,000, and after the Steel Law completely disappeared, it weakened to its limit.   Although he had magic pressure, he could not use it.   This was probably the consequence of power not being his own.   Locke floated to his side. The Steel Giant’s arms were hanging down, his body was facing upwards, and his head was drooping on his neck. He weakly opened one eye, “Demon God.”   ”The Supreme God will not let you go.”   His eyes revealed deep fear, and the deep-seated hostility towards Locke because of this fear.   Locke paid no heed to this, instead saying, “Tell me about Nicholas.”   ”Tell me, and I won’t kill you.”   The steel giant’s pupils constricted sharply.   ”How could you possibly know about Nicholas… His secret has been kept hidden by the Supreme God…”   ”Which giant told you? No, I won’t tell. I am completely loyal to the Supreme God. I am his die-hard follower, I won’t utter a single word.”   The steel giant gritted his teeth.   Locke suddenly understood.   ”I see. So some of the Giant Kings are loyal to Nicholas. Otherwise, you wouldn’t have asked me which giant told me. Even if it’s the worst, there are still giants who remain neutral.”   ”Nicholas is important to you, isn’t he? Whether friend or foe, you all care about him.”   The steel giant’s pupils constricted sharply.   He said nothing.   But he had still revealed crucial information to the demon before him.   His heart trembled.   He felt everything about him had been exposed.   For so many years, he had never felt so helpless.   No, he couldn’t say a word from now on, absolutely not. He absolutely couldn’t let the Demon God know about the existence of that forbidden thing. Once the Demon God knew about the existence of that forbidden thing, the two would merge…   Locke, with his hands behind his back, glanced at him and said, “You know that if you die without speaking, you will anger me. You are filled with fear of me. You don’t seem like the kind of person who would grit his teeth and remain silent, risking angering me and being killed by me, just to fight to the end.”   ”Then there’s only one explanation for this situation. Nicholas is indeed a very important person; he’s probably a giant.”   Locke gleaned everything from the expression on the Steel Giant’s face .   ”He’s still alive; he’s imprisoned. You’re terrified that someone will release him. Because you yourselves don’t know who’s on Nicholas’s side.”   The Steel Giant looked at Locke in horror.   In that instant, he felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar.   He swore to the highest god that he hadn’t betrayed him, but he had said everything.   The person before him had guessed everything just from his reaction.   This was terrifying.   The Iron Giant had never felt such utter terror from the absolute disparity in intelligence. He felt like a n*ked man walking in the snow in winter.   He felt again the powerlessness he once felt as a mortal.   Before Locke, his strength offered no solace.   Locke glanced at the Iron Giant, observing the defeated expression on his face and his speechless state. He waited a minute, then sighed.   ”It seems you don’t know any more information. Otherwise, you would have either told me or revealed it to me in exchange for not killing you. Or at least you would have shown some sign to buy yourself time.”   ”Even if you were truly prepared to die, you would have been eager for me to kill you, or afraid of revealing your secrets. Not this look of utter collapse. I’m very disappointed in you.”   The Iron Giant’s lips trembled.   ”I’m sorry.”   The Iron Giant hesitated. He didn’t know why he should apologize to Locke, but Locke’s few words had won him over.   He felt that standing before Locke was like a mortal standing before a god.   That enormous gap made him feel a sense of submission to Locke.

At this moment, the Steel Giant sensed the change in the dimensional laws. He looked up, his eyes wide, for the entire dimensional laws of light in this world were responding and vibrating.

The Steel Giant screamed.

“No, God Supreme God, don’t kill me! I am loyal to you!”

“I will continue to fight. I haven’t betrayed you. I haven’t!”

“I will fight this demon god to the very end!”

“Don’t kill me!”

The next moment, the dimensional laws of light condensed into an arrow, which then fell towards his body. As if the light of the entire world had coalesced, the whole world dimmed in an instant. Only

this one ray of light remained.

It was a ray of light, and also an arrow.

Its target was the Steel Giant, who had been severely injured by Locke.

Just as the arrow of light was about to strike the giant, Locke suddenly reached out his left hand and grasped the arrow of light that had condensed the entire dimensional laws of light of the world.

The arrow of light rubbed against Locke’s hand, and sparks of magic appeared, and flashes of magical lightning flickered.

The dimensional laws of light of the entire world collided violently with the eternal defensive force field shell on Locke’s left hand.

The permanent defensive force field shell is three-dimensional plus one unknown dimension.

Thus, the Light Principle that condensed the entire world suddenly shattered, and the Light Principle of the Three-Dwelling World was even affected, plunging the entire world into darkness for seven seconds.

Light only began to return in the eighth second.

Locke looked up at the sky; this was another test.

On the surface, it was an attempt to kill the Iron Giant who had revealed the secret, but in reality, it was an attack on him.

That ‘God Supreme God’ wanted to test the upper limit of his power.

This old Deng is cunning.

He wondered what kind of enemy the wizard civilization in the endless void was.

Ordinary natives wouldn’t have such intentions; they even had problems with their cognitive abilities, not even knowing what power was.

Their definition and understanding of power would be flawed.

Only with sufficient understanding can one make correct judgments.

Therefore, one needs to stand high, because without standing high, one cannot see far.

‘It seems that the ‘God Supreme God’ hasn’t dared to leave the Celestial Realm and enter the mortal world recently,’

Locke concluded.

‘He turned the Celestial Realm into a tortoise shell.’

‘However, he also has advantages.’ “He’s been operating in this world for a thousand years, so he stands high enough. Currently, in this world, compared to my saintly avatar, he stands even higher, and therefore sees further. He can see more than I can.” “

Therefore, theoretically, as long as he maintains that height, above the Celestial Realm, he might find an opportunity to deal with me. This should also be his plan.”

Locke pondered, “If only I could trick him into leaving that tortoise shell of the Celestial Realm.”

“Actually, once he leaves the Celestial Realm, his current position of standing higher than my avatar will disappear, and he will lose all his advantages.”

Locke looked at the afterlife of the Three Cave Worlds.

“Judging from the clash just now, the so-called God-Supreme God hasn’t even fully mastered the sun and moon of this world; otherwise, the demonic pressure of that attack should have reached the Star Ring, or even the Moon Ring level.”

Then I would be in danger.

Therefore, that God-Supreme God’s rank should be at the limit of the ordinary second ring.

Therefore, he dares not, or cannot, allow the giants to receive a complete response to the principles of the world, obtaining a rank beyond the ordinary second ring.

At this moment, Locke floated in mid-air, glancing at his three Azure Leaf Dragonbirds, which resembled bluebirds.

The three Azure Leaf Dragonbirds, each with a ring, immediately took flight, lifting the giant high into the sky and carrying him at high speed towards the city-state of Antori in this world.

Locke crossed his arms and said, “The concentration of magic tides in this world’s mortal realm is rather low. But it’s alright, with the Azure Spirit Essence I discovered replenishing the magic power of my Forest Sanctuary, I can fish for magic power from there to support myself.”

The discovery of the Azure Spirit Essence mine was crucial.

Otherwise, even if he descended in his saintly avatar, he would be affected by the lack of magical tide concentration resources.

Locke’s Evolution Moon appeared in the sky. As the full moon appeared, the mortals of the mortal city-states across the Three Cave Worlds looked up at the moon that had suddenly appeared in the sky.

His ultimate magic had officially entered this world!

His ultimate magic runes hadn’t increased, because due to the beast panel, he had actually been using the same ultimate magic rune slot he would have obtained by using 19,000 magic pressure in advance.

With the appearance of the Evolution Moon, his ultimate magic was rapidly illuminating the mortal realm, transforming it into his own ecological community.

Almost instantly, all the plants in the mortal realm completely transformed into his ultimate magic’s ecological community.

From all corners of the mortal world, magical plant seeds from his Forest Sanctuary drifted over.

Locke extracted the verdant spirit ore he had discovered, transforming it into spirit rain, sprinkling it across the entire world, instantly creating vast forests of apprentice-level magical plants.

The magical tide concentration of the Three Cave Worlds increased.

The environment had transformed from a magic-free environment to a low-magic environment with a slightly lower magic tide concentration.

Locke couldn’t have achieved this on his own, but the problem was that the magic tide concentration in the mortal realm of the Three Caverns shouldn’t have been this low to begin with. It

was only because someone was constantly transferring resources from the mortal world to the higher planes that such a large difference was created.

Therefore, he was merely restoring some of the original state of the mortal world.

At this moment, Locke threw the steel giant in front of Orion and said, “Orion, what you see now is my true form. I could only meet you from outside the world, through a downgraded Red Holly Tree.” “

Orion, I now demand that you fulfill the promise you made to me. Kill this giant.”

Orion was stunned; he wasn’t actually surprised.

During the three years he studied under Locke, Locke had never hidden this from him, so he had long suspected that his tree-man teacher came from beyond the heavens.

Now, Locke himself confirmed his guess.

Regardless, Locke was still his benefactor, the teacher who taught him the true nature of nature.

He was still a ranger.

Orion asked Locke, “Then how should I address you?”

Locke replied, “You can call me Teacher Augustine.”

Orion immediately bowed to Locke, saying, “Teacher.”

He lowered his head, his expression full of respect. “Teacher, I will kill this giant.”

Locke looked at him. “I originally thought that after experiencing the betrayal of the gods, you would be wary of anyone who imposes external ideas on you. Why are you so obedient to me?”

Orion looked at Locke earnestly.

“You didn’t impose external ideas on me; you merely guided me to discover the true meaning of nature. For three years, you never directly told me what something was; you only guided me to discover my own secrets.”

“Only now do I finally understand that when you told me three years ago that you were the forest, you weren’t exaggerating.”

“You are a forest.”

“The days I spent learning from you have been a tempering of my body, mind, and soul. I am walking the path I want to walk.”

Orion looked up at Locke, who stood before him in his wizard’s robes, and he seemed to see an endless forest.

Locke was the forest itself.

And they, the forest rangers, were communicating with the forest of Locke.

Locke looked at him and asked, “Then I ask you for the third time, who are you?”

Orion pondered for a moment, then looked up at Locke and said, “I am who I am.”

“I am not anyone else, I am myself. I am neither Orion of Terella, nor a follower of the gods, I am not anything that can be pointed to by any superposition of external concepts, I do not need any external things to explain myself. I am who I am.”

Locke nodded with satisfaction.

In this way, Orion had roughly reached the level required by the advanced meditation method: “Seeing oneself clearly, without ceasing a single thought.”

Although this state was still far from the level required by the advanced meditation method: “I am not myself, yet I am still myself,”

it was enough to support one link of existence.

However, this state of his had actually been modified by himself, becoming a natural version.

Orion was actually in a special state of “not relying on external names” within the path of the forest.

And this “not relying on external names” was also something he had thought of and accomplished through himself.

Without using a false name, the forest lacks complex and abstract concepts. Therefore, the prejudices arising from these concepts naturally disappear, leaving only natural balance and the way of survival. Everything returns to the original state of living beings.

I am who I am, needing no acquired abstract concepts to define me.

Locke calls this special meditative state “Return to the Original.”

This is his advancement at the meditative level, combining wizard meditation methods with the natural way of the nature guardian.

Orion’s understanding of this wasn’t essentially his own enlightenment, but rather his own prior understanding, which he then verified and proved.

Locke extended his right hand to Orion, saying, “Then please, my student in the Three Hole World.”

Orion raised his dagger and walked towards the steel giant. The next moment, he plunged the dagger into the giant’s neck. The steel giant was already on the verge of death.

The instant Orion attacked him with the dagger, all his previous injuries were instantly amplified, and he died immediately.

His death strengthened the Way of the Nemesis—Leaf of Power—for the second time, stabilizing the Leaf of Power system.

At the same time, this completed the entire process of the Power Leaf system automatically deducing new Power Leaves.

The dagger in Orion’s hand was covered in red blood-red patterns.

“Ah~” Orion screamed.

At this moment, Locke frowned, opening his right hand forward. A golden oak leaf landed in his hand, with a first-circle spell model appearing on it.

“There’s actually such a thing.”

Locke’s expression was strange.

“There’s actually such a thing. Discoveries and research in this direction shouldn’t be written down casually.”

“Using it for a special grant application would be too wasteful.”

Locke sensed that Orion’s soul essence was being absorbed and assimilated by the Leaf of Power system, so he deliberately placed that power onto a half-finished Leaf of Power.

This half-finished product immediately absorbed Orion’s power, transforming into a first-circle spell model: Hunter’s Dagger.

Locke activated it, and the spell model of the Hunter’s Dagger – Leaf of Power automatically evolved.

“This works in conjunction with the Path of Nemesis – Leaf of Power.”

“By activating this spell model, life magic can be used to make a hunter’s dagger continuously increase its power by hunting a selected enemy, and inflict specific damage on that creature.”

“If a Nemesis is chosen to change, the hunter’s dagger’s accumulated energy and special attack will instantly disappear.”

“It needs to be re-accumulated.”

Locke was stunned.

This had actually happened.

The next moment, Locke immediately realized the key to the problem. The key wasn’t that his power system had actually generated a Leaf of Power without his help.

The key was that he had filled the biggest weakness that had always limited him!

A botanical spell model!

He had always been able to develop a large number of advanced magical plants and potions using the Synthesis Cube and the Moon of Evolution.

However, he had always had a weakness in developing botanical spell models.

He struggled to quickly develop spell models that matched his magical plants, so he could only use general-type second-circle spell models like “A Single Tree Cannot Support a Tree” to drive the magical plants he had developed.

This meant he couldn’t fully unleash the power of the magical plants he had developed.

He truly had a significant weakness in developing botanical spells.

However, at this moment, he had found a solution to this problem.

This Power Leaf system, which imitated the leaves of the World Tree, actually possessed the ability to grow alongside Rangers, absorbing certain qualities from their souls, and then evolving spell models on its own.

Locke’s eyes were subtle.

If he could develop a tree that could grow a semi-finished Power Leaf on its own, and then bring in a large number of Rangers, he could deduce new botanical spell models for himself.

Locke tried putting the Leaf of Power into the Synthesis Cube. Sure enough, the Leaf of Power was rated as a level 7 synthesis item. He could even synthesize it into levels 8, 9, and 10 by copying it.

Through mass synthesis, he could even obtain a second-circle spell Leaf of Power that would be useful to him.

Wait a minute.

Locke realized that this wouldn’t work.

Because the core of his current Leaf of Power system was on the Path of Nemesis – Leaf of Power, he couldn’t synthesize a Leaf of Power higher than the level of the Path of Nemesis – Leaf of Power.

That would cause his precious system, which he had worked so hard to build, to collapse.

He checked the level of his Path of Nemesis – Leaf of Power, which the Synthesis Cube rated as level 8.

‘In other words, to realize my idea, I must quickly catch up with my magic level and fully Star Forge it. In this way, I can synthesize without any restrictions.’

‘According to this botanical spell model development system, my biggest weakness will also be filled.’ Orion

looked at the dagger in his hand and asked Locke, “Teacher, this dagger seems to have changed?”

Locke snapped out of his reverie and nodded to Orion.

He had already memorized the spell model of this Leaf of Power, so he directly handed it to him.

“Take it.”

“Orion, I have something very important to do. Therefore, I need your protection to prevent the gods from potentially influencing me.”

Orion said to Locke, “Okay, teacher. I will kill any intruders!”

Locke nodded, his gaze falling on the verdant spirit mineral in the forest.

Since he couldn’t enter the celestial realm for the time being,

he would first obtain the verdant spirit mineral to complete his first spirit cultivation method.

He would then achieve the breeding level of a second-circle breeder by completing his second second-circle wizard shoe creation!

Of course, if, during this process, a god-god was lured down the mountain by him, that would be fine too.

(End of Chapter)