Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 878

Chapter 873 The Truth of the Three Cave Worlds and the Acquisition of Huge Resources (Two Chapters Combined, 1.08 Million Words)

Orion, standing behind Locke, immediately stepped forward, preventing this mortal from the city-state of [Delius] from approaching Locke. He reprimanded him, saying, “As a ranger, how dare you speak to Lord Augustine like that and speak for those giants who want to destroy the world?”

After five years of confrontation, Orion understood the thoughts of the giants on the crater.

They wanted a war that would sweep across the entire present world of the Three Holes World, and then use this war to ignite the flames of destruction, thus reducing the number of mortals.

This confrontation between the city-state of [Delius] and the allied forces of other city-states was precisely such a situation. But now that the war giant was dead, the principles of war had vanished and were no longer apparent, and the ‘flames of destruction’ claimed by the crater no longer had a basis for being ignited.

The blacksmith immediately knelt before Orion, saying, “Lord Orion, I am utterly loyal to the Rangers. It is precisely for this reason that I must express my true feelings.”

“This is what I was told on my very first day as a Ranger—never ignore the genuine experiences you gain through your own feelings.”

“The Wind Giant’s real name is Eleanor,”

the blacksmith pleaded with Locke and Orion.

“Eleanor and I are…friends. She once told me that she knew there was something wrong with the crater, that she had tried to find the God-King, but could not find him no matter what.”

Orion spat dismissively.

“The gods always have their reasons. Enough, Teeus. I’ve had enough of your absurdities. Over the years, I thought you had dispelled their illusions after witnessing so many ridiculous things they’ve done. But I never expected you to be here, pleading with my mentor for them.”

“If my mentor had lost just now, then we… Delius, and everyone else, would have died, and the world would have been engulfed in a cataclysmic fire. Our world would have been destroyed.”

Teeus the blacksmith stood up, his anger palpable. “Orion, you shouldn’t deny all the achievements of the gods of the crater because of your own personal misfortune. Whether you admit it or not, the gods have done many good things.”

“For a long time, they ensured peace and prosperity for the world below.”

“They weren’t without merit!”

Teeus the blacksmith looked at Locke, about to kneel before him, but Locke frowned, stopping him from kneeling again.

“According to the principles of the forest, there is no hierarchy within it; all forest rangers are equal. You only need to bow to me, not kneel.”

Teeus immediately stood up and bowed to Locke.

“Please forgive me, Professor Augustine. It’s just that the Wind Giant is my friend, and I believe she is innocent. She shouldn’t have died.”

“This is my opinion based on the simple values of forest rangers, just as you taught us through Orion.”

Locke glanced at him and suddenly asked, “You and Eleanor are lovers?”

Orion looked at Teeus with a look of utter disbelief, his face filled with horror.

“Teacher Tree Man, Teeus is merely a blacksmith in our city-state. One of the warriors I personally defeated.”

Teeus hesitated, his face flushed.

“No, I… I’m not worthy.”

Locke glanced at him, then waved his hand. Instantly, a Great Azure Leaf Dragon Sparrow flew out like a bluebird, using its tail formed from fibrous roots to bind the Wind Giant sealed by the Winter Magic Plant. Immediately afterward, two more Great Azure Leaf Dragon Sparrows appeared, also like bluebirds, binding Orion and Teeus respectively with their tails formed from fibrous roots.

Locke said, “Follow me.”

Locke changed his back to the Magic Dragon Rose. The Magic Dragon Rose was a wild magic plant, powerful as it was, but unlike the magic plants he cultivated, he didn’t understand every detail perfectly.

Therefore, when simply moving, Locke used his cultivated Four-Winged Great Azure Leaf Dragon Sparrow.

A Great Azure Leaf Dragon Sparrow with four banana leaves—one large and three small—appeared behind him. Locke used the “Single Tree Cannot Support” technique, simultaneously controlling four Great Azure Leaf Dragon Sparrows of different levels.

This time, by perfecting the Leaf of Power and refining his ultimate magic, he essentially refined his own ultimate magic, thus becoming more proficient in botanical magic.

He had made significant progress.

Soon, they flew to the highest peak in the mortal realm of the Three Caves World. The summit of this peak was the closest point to the sky in the mortal world, with the sun hanging like molten gold above it.

Locke landed on the peak and, with a wave of his hand, used the “Unsupported Tree” technique to control the Mountain Dragon n*ked Fern, transforming it into a wooden dragon that continuously spread and grew, eventually blotting out the sun, its body coiling into a circle.

Although the wooden dragon’s body couldn’t create an impenetrable environment,

the [Wild Surge] energy emanating from the Mountain Dragon n*ked Fern would block the gaze of the gods. These gods possessed an extremely sophisticated power system, and [Wild Surge] energy perfectly countered all refined things while strengthening all primal ones.

Therefore, this place could effectively isolate the inside from the outside, preventing anyone from noticing.

Locke extended a finger, and instantly, a stream of energy resembling a large, crystalline winter plum blossom detached from the frozen wind giant’s ice block, then transformed into a gust of cold wind and returned to his finger.

In an instant, the ice block shattered.

Countless gusts of wind burst forth from the ice blocks, transforming into blades of wind that fled into the distance.

However, these scattered winds collided with the [Wild Surge] energy circle formed by the n*ked Fern of the Overgrown Mountain, causing her to scream in agony.

She was like a car crashing into a steel barrier.

The wind principles of the Three Cavern Worlds had completely severed ties with her, causing her to lose all power in an instant. She transformed from wind into human form and plummeted to the ground.

With a ‘thud,’

the Wind Giant crashed heavily to the ground.

“Demon God!”

The Wind Giant, Eleanor, scrambled to her feet, her eyes filled with fear and unease. She looked at Locke with terrified eyes, then retreated as she struggled to her feet.

Locke frowned, for the Wild Surge energy had affected her more severely than he had anticipated.

The Wind Giant’s connection to the plane principles of this world was exceptionally weak.

Actually, during the battle, I discovered that firstly, the Giant Kings’ methods of utilizing the World Laws were very primitive, and secondly, their connection with the World Laws wasn’t as strong as they thought.

Previously, whenever I pressed my demonic pressure against them, the collision of the demonic pressure forced a certain World Law that had originally resonated with them to retreat.

But this shouldn’t be happening at all.

If it truly was a leaf from the World Tree that granted them this ability, their connection to the Laws of the World shouldn’t have been so easily severed.

Locke asked the Wind Giant, “I’m asking you, do you know Nicholas?”

The Wind Giant paused, then her pupils instantly contracted, her reaction extremely strong.

“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

At this moment, the Wind Giant noticed Teus beside Locke, and she gritted her teeth.

The Demon God clearly knew about Teus’s relationship with her; the Demon God was actually using a mortal to threaten her.

No, she wouldn’t yield.

Locke asked the Wind Giant again, “As a giant of the crater, how could you not know who Nicholas is? And the two rings on your hands belong to Nicholas.”

The Wind Giant’s pupils suddenly contracted. She glanced at Teus, seemingly considering something, but ultimately she simply closed her eyes.

“Demon God, you are incredibly powerful, kill me.”

“I am no match for you. But it’s impossible for you to learn anything about Nicholas from me.”

The Wind Giant stopped pretending; she directly stated that she couldn’t tell Locke any information about Nicholas.

Locke raised an eyebrow, speculating about the relationship between the Wind Giant and Nicholas, as her loyalty to Nicholas exceeded his expectations.

No wonder the Divine Eye wanted to use him to kill her.

Theeus, listening anxiously, shouted to the Wind Giant, “Eleanor, tell Master Augustine what you need to say! You’ll die if this continues!”

The Wind Giant frowned. “No, Theeus, you don’t understand. Some things are more important than life. I won’t say anything.”

The Wind Giant seemed stubborn, her brow furrowed as she looked at Locke. “Demon God, you can just kill me.”

Seeing this, Orion, who had always been hostile towards the Wind Giant, also remained silent.

He sensed that the Wind Giant was different from the King Titan and War Titan he had encountered before.

Seeing the Wind Giant’s persistence, Locke suddenly had a guess and asked, “Nicholas, is he your teacher?”

The Wind Giant, Eleanor, simply said, “You demon god, you can destroy me now.”

Seeing her reaction, Locke guessed the truth. He proactively released a magical radiance, mixed with his own spiritual essence.

“Eleanor, look at this.”

The Wind Giantess, Eleanor, looked up, a look of confusion on her face.

The next moment, her confusion turned to horror.

“Teacher…? You’re Teacher Nicholas?”

Because Eleanor had received the response of the Wind Principle of the Three Worlds, she also possessed a second-ring level rank. She naturally noticed that Locke’s spiritual essence was the same as Nicholas’s.

Eleanor was utterly horrified.

“Teacher, how are you still alive?”

“Didn’t you and the God King disappear?”

Eleanor’s face lit up with joy. The fear in her eyes vanished instantly. She stood up from the ground, and then her body suddenly shrank, becoming only three times the height of a human.

Although she still looked like a giant, she no longer had the towering height of a human.

Eleanor said to Locke, “Professor Nicholas, I’ve finally seen you again.”

“You have no idea how I’ve spent these past years. I tried to find you and the God-King, but I searched everywhere, and I couldn’t find you or the God-King. It’s as if you’ve vanished.”

“I searched the entire crater and the sky, the Wolf Giants searched the entire Wolf Hell, the Water Giants searched the entire mortal realm and the sea realm, but we couldn’t find you. We’ve waited for you for so long. Our former comrades were either killed or betrayed by the ‘God Above Gods’.”

Locke frowned.

The Wind Giantess had clearly been in this world for a long time, and should have been searching for his other half for some time as well.

He had previously thought that the God-Eye had hidden his other half somewhere in this world, and because the world was so vast, he hadn’t found it yet.

But now it seemed that his other half wasn’t even in the mortal realm, or perhaps in one of the three higher planes.

Locke asked doubtfully, “What is the relationship between Nicholas and you giants?”

Eleanor looked puzzled.

“Professor Nicholas, the eleven giants on the crater, and the giant in the Wolf Hell, were all personally appointed by you.”

Upon hearing this, Orion and Teus looked at Locke with surprise, which quickly turned into admiration.

Orion looked at Locke excitedly and said, “So, Professor Tree Man, you are the god of the crater.”

Locke remained silent.

He wasn’t a god, just a nature guardian and wizard.

Moreover, the timeline didn’t match up.

Could it be…?

Locke immediately looked up at the plane of the Three Hole Worlds.

“Yes, the present world of the Three Hole Worlds is unstable, and the spacetime order is also unstable. Among the three upper planes, they are basically all related to the flow of time.”

Perhaps one of the upper planes could confuse the timeline, causing his half-body to recreate the twelve giants after arriving in this world.

That means the giants on the crater are not the same group of giants he first observed with the Void Cube.

This is indeed a possible occurrence.

After all, those giants were merely responders to the principles of the various worlds, so their individual characteristics were insignificant compared to the characteristics of the principles of the three world planes, making them extremely easy to be swallowed up.

Locke whispered, “So, mortals in this world can become gods, and the giants on the crater have changed more than once?”

Eleanor said, “Yes, Teacher Nicholas.”

The wind giant no longer showed fear towards Locke, nor did she have such strong resistance. She was like a rather innocent girl, expressing to Locke her pain at not seeing her teacher for so long.

“Teacher, where have you been all this time?”

Locke pondered, then said, “The situation is complicated. I am both your teacher and not your teacher. Nicholas is me, and I am not Nicholas.”

Locke gave Eleanor a brief explanation of the endless void and the wizarding world, wanting to tell her that the world was not just as big as the three world planes.

But Eleanor seemed to have difficulty accepting this concept.

“Teacher, are you saying there are other planes within the crystal wall system? I know that.”

“There are also some smaller planes on the Creation Lotus. Did you enter the mortal world from those planes?”

Locke frowned, because those were merely demi-planes within this world. Explaining the differences between demi-planes, elemental planes, upper planes, and the various worlds in the endless void to the natives was difficult.

After all, they had never seen the endless void with their own eyes.

Locke could only say, “You can understand it that way.”

Eleanor said to Locke, “But no matter what, as long as you’re back, that’s good. After you come back, maybe the God-King will come back too.”

“Everything will be alright then.”

Locke asked Eleanor, “Eleanor, I want to ask you, what exactly did my avatar Nicholas do in this world, and why did you doubt the ‘God-Supreme God’?”

The wind giant Eleanor frowned and said to Locke, “We were originally just mortals.”

“No different from mortals in the present world. The twelve giants on the crater were originally gods born of nature, unlike us. But those giants were more ferocious than we are now; they fed on humans. The God-King, just like now, is impossible to find. What’s in charge is that… evil eye.”

“In that era, that evil eye allowed the giant gods to devour us at will. But then, you appeared, teacher.”

A look of admiration flashed in Eleanor’s eyes. Nicholas’s name was exceptionally useful in this world. When the wind giant discovered that Locke was Nicholas, her eyes shone brightly as she looked at him.

“You taught the tribe civilization, raising the level of civilization for mortals and giving them dignity. But that’s not all. You discovered a secret and used it to create a treasure called the ‘Book of Gods.’ Under the influence of this treasure, you modified the original logic of the ‘Gods Above Gods’—that is, only the descendants of people with specific identities could resonate with the laws of the world.”

“You transformed it so that only those who perform certain specific actions could trigger a response from the laws of the world.”

Locke suddenly understood.

No wonder the laws of this world responded in an open-source way. He had been wondering why that divine eye had such a magnanimous heart.

As long as someone performed an action that conformed to a law of the world, they could receive a response from that law.

It turned out that the open-source creator was his other half!

No wonder the Eye of God hated his half so much. His half had added to and modified the foundation of the Eye’s world system, practically turning it into his own. Of course,

the Eye of God would hate Nicholas.

But why did the wolf avatar hate Nicholas?

Locke pondered for a moment, guessing it was because the arrival of his half had disrupted the balance of this world.

Moreover, the wolf avatar would naturally fear his half.

As a second-circle wizard, he naturally realized that this world was being targeted by other wizards. Having lost his complete wizard identity, he would naturally feel fear, and might even join forces with his original enemy, the Eye of God, to plot against him.

Although the Eye of God was his enemy, vying with him for this world, the arrival of his half created a basis for cooperation.

Orion and Teus listened to this shocking news in horror.

So, the predecessor of a god was a human!

So, a human could become a god!

Their long-held worldviews were collapsing.

Locke pondered, “Did I open the principles of the world, which were originally only accessible to specific individuals and their descendants, to everyone?”

Locke realized the true identity of the principle of the world that had almost resonated with him—it was the Book of Gods.

This explained what had happened.

The second-circle wizard of the Transfiguration school in the Southern Witch Capital within the Demon Wolf Hell, upon discovering that he was Nicholas’s true form, immediately attempted to establish contact with the Divine Eye.

The two had set a trap for him.

But the Divine Eye was clearly more cunning than the second-circle wizard; he deliberately sent giants down to kill him, wanting him to kill those who resonated with the principles of the world, making the principles of the world fear him, precisely to prevent him from resonating with the principles of the Book of Gods.

Once he resonated with it, he would directly plunder all of the Divine Eye’s influence in the Three Cavern Worlds.

He might even take away some kind of divine foundation.

However, he couldn’t yet ascertain the other party’s identity, nor could he immediately trouble his teacher, the witch Catherine, over such a small matter; she was already busy enough.

Locke asked, “Then how did my avatar, Nicholas, perish?”

The Wind Giant, Eleanor, shook her head in confusion. “Back then, you had a group of giant kings by your side. They followed you into the crater.”

“Later, the Eye of God offered you peace, so you and we entered the crater.”

“Then, you were invited by the Lord of the Dire Wolves to enter the Dire Wolves Hell, and you never returned. The Dire Wolves Giant was also one of your men, but he searched the entire Dire Wolves Hell and couldn’t find you there.”

Locke nodded slightly.

That must be it.

It’s estimated that the Demon Wolf Wizard betrayed his own half, collaborating with his original enemy, the Divine Eye, to deliberately manipulate his own half.

The location of his half should be the same as the location of the God-King.

However, neither should be in the three upper planes of the Three Cavern Worlds, nor in the present world, nor within the Crystal Wall system.

Locke guessed that the most likely scenario is that the two are secretly imprisoned by the Divine Eye somewhere within the Imaginary Sea River of the Three Cavern Worlds.

This will be difficult to find.

The Three Cavern Worlds are already vast, and the Imaginary Sea River represents the possibilities of the Three Cavern Worlds, equivalent to the trajectory of thousands upon thousands of possible Three Cavern Worlds, thousands upon thousands of times larger.

If the Divine Eye has indeed built a prison there, finding his own half and the God-King will become extremely complicated.

Moreover, the fact that they can do this indicates that the other party indeed possesses a highly advanced civilization.

Locke released the Mountain Dragon n*ked Fern and asked the Wind Giant Eleanor, “So, Eleanor, you don’t really know the details of that eye either.”

The Wind Giant Eleanor shook her head.

“Professor Nicholas said that the gods of the crater were not what they are now. The gods of the crater had already been replaced once by that evil eye, so he was the second to replace the gods of the crater. Professor Nicholas originally planned to gradually expel that evil eye from this world.”

“He told us to maintain peace… war only needs to be kept within necessary limits, and he wanted to negotiate with that evil eye.”

“But as a result, after he went to the Wolf Hell, he disappeared without a trace.”

“Since then, we have been leaderless and have fallen into internal strife. Most of us have been turned by that evil eye, and only the three of us are still loyal to you.”

“Especially the Wolf Giant, he is your most loyal disciple. He volunteered to the Eye of God and, with the Eye of God’s help, entered the Wolf Hell, went deep into that place, and tried to find you there, and has always opposed the Wolf Lord.”

Locke asked, “If that’s the case, why did you still cooperate with the Wolf Lord when he attacked me?”

The Wind Giant, Eleanor, blushed slightly.

“In this world, there have been many rebellious individuals who have impersonated teachers, and we thought you were one of them.”

“Although we still pledge our loyalty to you, we have been watched by that evil eye for too long. Obeying his orders has become a habit.”

Locke nodded slightly.

He was glad he hadn’t killed that wolf giant before; if he had, he would have killed the wrong person. The

wind giant, Eleanor, was about to speak when a cursed spirit projected by Hussein suddenly appeared before Locke’s eyes. The other party was communicating with him using the power of curses.

Hussein’s voice appeared in his ears.

“Locke, come to the Sea Realm quickly. There’s a new discovery here.”

Locke said to Orion and the other two, “The Great Azure Leaf Dragon Sparrow will take you back to the city-state. Go there to train warriors and help my people build the digging well.”

The banana leaves behind Locke, one large and three small, trembled slightly, like the remnants of an ancient green dragon’s wings. Locke controlled the magical wind and quickly flew towards the direction of the Sea Realm.

The wind giant, Eleanor, seemed unwilling to leave Locke for even a moment and immediately followed.

“Professor Nicholas, wait for me, I’ll go with you.”

Five days later in the mortal realm, the two crossed the crater, flew out of the mortal world and the crater’s boundaries, and quickly flew away from the location of the Creation Lotus, arriving at the Imaginary Number Sea River.

This river looked like a normal river, except its size was exaggerated.

It was a river larger than the mortal world, and even larger than the Creation Lotus.

If a being lacking sufficient understanding stood on this river, it would only think it was an ocean, and wouldn’t realize that it was a river flowing from one hole to another, with a rapid current.

The Wind Giant, Eleanor, gritted her teeth.

As soon as she left the mortal world, the Wind Principle within her and her responsiveness rapidly decreased.

Locke glanced at her strangely, not understanding why the power system designed by his half was so poor.

Perhaps it wasn’t a problem with his half, but rather that the underlying logic of the power system created by the divine eye was too flawed.

Locke gently touched the Wind Giant’s forehead, and instantly a primordial fire appeared between her brows.

“Your power system is too weak. The response you establish with the Law of Wind is far too weak, and it’s passed through more than one middleman.”

Indeed, Locke had long discovered that none of the natives of this world could directly connect with nature.

Since they couldn’t directly connect with nature, it meant that their connection with the Law of the World involved several middlemen.

The Book of Gods was likely one of these middlemen.

And that Divine Eye probably also created its own middlemen.

These middlemen resulted in the response between these crater gods and the Law of the World being so weak that it could break at any moment.

Just leaving the mortal world, the Wind Giant Eleanor was already on the verge of collapse.

And she hadn’t even left this world yet!

Locke used the Reverse Refinement Method as the main technique, employing Name Potion as a method, to capture the essence of the Law of Wind, and then directly refined a portion of the essence of the Law of Wind into her name.

Just like what he had done to Orion.

In an instant, the Wind Giant Eleanor felt that her connection with the Law of Wind had actually been strengthened.

Even after leaving the mortal world, the level of her connection with the Law of Wind hadn’t decreased much.

“Thank you, teacher,”

the wind giant Eleanor said to Locke.

Locke led her onward, and following the cursed spiritual threads of Hussein, they arrived at a midpoint of the Imaginary Number Sea River, a spot radiating a deep blue light.

Hussein then revealed his [Blood Ancestor True Form], standing on the river with his arms crossed.

He maintained his six-winged, six-eyed, six-armed form, his body bearing traces of werewolves and high-level tree spirits.

The height Hussein’s Blood Ancestor True Form maintained at this moment far surpassed that of all the giants on the crater; they all appeared so small before him.

The wind giant Eleanor looked at Hussein in awe, marveling at his power and feeling fear at not knowing who he was.

Hussein glanced down at her, his scarlet eyes sending shivers down her spine.

Hussein asked, “Locke, how did you end up with this little native?”

Locke said, “Hussein, the situation is a bit complicated. This might be one of my native students. I don’t know if it’s because of the power of my teacher’s Heart Spell or some other reason, but my half-body has somehow traveled through time here, deeply interfering with the civilization within this world. So, this person and the Demon Wolf Giant are both my students.”

Hussein looked astonished.

“That’s quite a novel explanation.”

“A new method of exploration and resource gathering invented by your Golden Crown Mountain?”

“To actually send a half-body in beforehand to collect resources, it certainly improves efficiency considerably.”

Locke smiled.

“Stop joking.”

Hussein deactivated his Blood Ancestor form, reverting to the noble young man in wizard’s robes. He said to Locke, “I’ve made a special discovery in the Sea Realm. Regarding your mention of time travel, I think it’s very likely related to this Sea Realm.” Locke looked in

the direction Hussein pointed and immediately saw that half of the upper plane, like a divine light, shooting into the Sea Realm, and at the same time, this divine light was like a glass tunnel.

A look of surprise flashed in Locke’s eyes.

“This half of the upper plane is actually an unstable time tunnel!”

It’s like a crack in rock strata; under the pressure from the earth’s depths, a hot spring will emerge.

An unstable spacetime in a world can also create a spacetime tunnel, but generally, this is relatively rare because the very existence of a spacetime tunnel has the potential to destroy the world.

If a spacetime tunnel is not controlled and suddenly expands, it could engulf the entire present world, pulling it into the imaginary sea and causing all things to return to their original state.

Therefore, a world generally tries to avoid the emergence of such a thing. However, the Three Cave World had a serious problem from the very beginning of its creation, which even led to the formation of a half-time tunnel-type upper plane.

Hussein crossed his arms and said, “This is a sea eye. Once fully formed, it will probably be the most dangerous place in the Three Holes World. Fortunately, it’s only half there now. I think your half-body must have entered this sea eye, which is why you can appear in the past.”

“However, this sea eye is completely incomplete and extremely unstable. It’s completely unknown which time period it leads to, or even if it’s fixed to a specific time period. If we rashly enter, and get trapped in a time loop, only a third-ring wizard can get out.”

“Even if we die inside.”

Locke nodded.

He knew.

Time loops were terrifying. Even sending avatars or clones inside wouldn’t help, because the distorted time would catch up with the original body and all clones.

Therefore, this sea eye was extremely dangerous even for him and Hussein.

This was a natural force.

Hussein pointed to the minerals floating at the edge of the sea eye and said, “But look, there should be some special spiritual energy at the edge of this sea eye. There are also some special magical creatures inside. I’m interested in this. That’s why I immediately called you over to cooperate. That spiritual energy should also be very helpful to you, after all, it’s spiritual energy that exists near a spacetime passage.”

Locke looked into the world of the sea eye and saw a three-headed black sheep wandering and breathing within it.

“It’s actually a three-headed demonic sheep. No wonder even you, Hussein, are interested.”

“Those spiritual energies, I suspect, are likely [Sea Spiritual Energy], a type of energy that only forms under extremely high magical pressure. It’s probably produced by the compression of these energies by the spacetime tunnel in the Sea Realm.”

“How can we cooperate?”

Hussein nodded and said, “The three-headed demonic sheep is the core material for creating the Pan God Transformation Curse. I’ve been searching for it for a long time. I didn’t expect to find it here, so I don’t want to give up. If I can complete the Pan God Transformation Curse and add it to the ultimate magic runes of my ultimate magic, it will have a qualitative change effect on my ultimate magic.”

“In this way, I will have more confidence when facing the Primordial Wizard a hundred years later. Locke, it’s not just you who’s caught in the struggle for lineages; I am too.”

The Primordial Wizard’s trap is also a kind of struggle for lineages.

It’s just that his entire lineage might be a trap.

Locke could sense Hussein’s anxiety.

“I understand.”

Hussein smiled bitterly and mocked himself.

“I’m such a miserable person. During my apprenticeship, I worried about the Blood Curse Court; now that I’m a second-circle wizard, I worry about the Progenitor Wizard. Sigh.”

Locke said briefly, “The magical lineage you’ve been exposed to is problematic. Actually, you should have abandoned the Progenitor Wizard’s lineage and used the Mithril Law Firm’s magical lineage.”

Hussein whispered, “The Mithril Law Firm’s magical lineage also has pitfalls. If I accepted the complete Mithril Law Firm’s lineage, I might become a slave to the firm.”

“Forget about that. We can’t both fall into the time tunnel and be swept into the time vortex, but we still need to obtain the treasures within. I think the best way is for me to curse you, and then I’ll enter the Sea Realm. You don’t need to come in.”

“I’ll use my curse on you as a connection, turning it into a rope to help me establish a direction of return in the time vortex. I am a Blood Ancestor, possessing powerful immortality, giving me more room for error than you.”

Locke asked, “What blood curse?”

Hussein’s eyes flashed, “A two-hit kill blood curse!”

Locke fell silent.

Hussein said, “Only in this way can a powerful curse be generated, allowing me to pinpoint your location amidst the temporal turbulence.”

Locke frowned, because under normal circumstances, it was difficult for him to be hit by a two-hit fatal blood curse like the Grass Giantess,

due to the permanent defensive force field shell.

But if he intentionally chose to be hit, that was a different story.

The Wind Giant, Eleanor, sensed the strange atmosphere between Locke and Hussein.

Hussein glanced at Locke suspiciously.

“Locke, don’t you trust me?”

Locke said in a low voice, “Hussein, have you forgotten that I am a potion master? I am extremely sensitive to any residual power. Why didn’t you tell me that you recently came into contact with that eye?”

Hussein raised an eyebrow, his eyes smiling.

“I don’t think it’s necessary. It will only increase the distrust between you and me. We still need to cooperate to safely enter the Sea Realm and retrieve its treasures.”

“If either of us doesn’t trust the other, we can’t do it.”

“So I don’t think it’s necessary.”

Locke reached out and immediately grabbed a spiritual essence from Hussein. It was the spiritual essence left on Hussein after the brief contact between the divine eye of the supreme god and Hussein.

That was proof that Hussein had directly witnessed that eye.

The afterimage of that spiritual essence existed within his eye.

Therefore, contact between things would leave a spiritual essence on another through light and shadow.

However, it was only an afterimage, so it couldn’t be used.

An ordinary wizard might not leave a spiritual essence on another through contact, but that divine eye was different; it wasn’t a normal life form.

It was like a being constantly radiating the spiritual essence from its name, trying to leave its essence wherever it went.

Therefore, the moment Locke encountered Hussein, he realized that he had just come into contact with that eye.

Hussein’s smile vanished as he watched Locke crush the spiritual essence in his hand.

“You don’t need to doubt me. I am who I am. I will always make the right decision.”

“Have you forgotten that I was once a dark wizard? I’m now being hunted by my own lineage, lacking resources. That Divine Eye wants to make a deal with me, giving me a book called the Book of Gods, the Book of World Principles. If I can get that book, I can obtain at least twelve second-ring level blood servants. Tell me how tempting that is? With these blood servants, I won’t have to worry about the Blood Demon Palace of the Pale Pilgrimage hunting me down. Don’t you think so? You should know my character, if we were truly friends.”

“Locke, my only good friend, I remember we haven’t fought in a long time

, have we?” “I wonder who is stronger between us right now?”

Locke smiled at this.

“I see.”

The next moment, Hussein transformed once more into the towering Blood Ancestor’s true form, while Locke summoned the Demonic Dragon Rose, floating in mid-air.

Their powers collided directly.

The surrounding imaginary sea winds swirled and clouds churned, waves crashing endlessly.

The Wind Giant, Eleanor, said to Locke, “Teacher?”

Four magical plants appeared around Locke: Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter. Using his previously acquired knowledge of the seasons, combined with the cyclical power formed by the three major energy fields of the Mist Force, he created a rudimentary model of a spell depicting the cycle of the seasons.

Behind Hussein, the Divine Eye appeared, laughing loudly.

“Hahaha… As expected of the Nightmare Legion, Hussein, I admire you. Everyone looks out for themselves.”

“Don’t be afraid, I’ll help you.”

Locke glanced at the Divine Eye.

“I see. You made some kind of misjudgment.”

The next moment, Hussein turned, his blood claws directly grabbing at the Divine Eye, unleashing a two-hit kill blood curse.

He had already placed this two-hit kill blood curse on the Divine Eye when they first met in the Sea Realm.

However, at that time, the Divine Eye mistakenly thought he had only greeted Hussein and suffered a minor injury.

Hussein had been waiting for this cunning Divine Eye to appear before him a second time.

He was the type who liked to solve problems quickly, regardless of the potential gains.

After all, destroying the opponent always meant acquiring some spoils.

Therefore, what he initially wanted wasn’t the Book of Gods; he was an introspective person, indifferent to the twelve blood servants and the debt slave from the Pale Pilgrimage, who was merely there to oppose the Blood Demon Palace’s “ancestorship.”

Thus, his initial goal was to have the Divine Eye appear before him a second time.

Then, he could complete the two-hit kill blood curse.

But to achieve this, he and Locke needed to trust each other.

Locke trusted Hussein because Hussein wasn’t one to seek externally; he believed the Divine Eye’s allure for Hussein was unfounded.

Besides, Hussein could obtain what he wanted directly.

That’s how powerful he was.

Hussein trusted Locke because of their past relationship, and also because Locke clearly used a poorly constructed spell model—

it didn’t look like a real fight .

The two had already exchanged signals!

At that moment, God’s Eye was caught off guard and struck by Hussein’s bloody claw.

(End of Chapter)