Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 905

Chapter 900: The Sky Piercing the Ancient Sites of Meili!

27 days later, at the border between the Dark and Bright Realms, at the Ancient Ruins of Merri.

Due to the Starfield Sea’s Ascension Plan, the travel time between the various wizarding lands had been reduced from one month to 27 days.

This meant that the distance between the various wizarding lands was gradually closing.

Wizard airships descended from their docking points, and sections of suspended ladders descended, arranged in an orderly fashion to provide footholds.

Locke stepped down from the ladders, a star-bound ring on his finger.

The golden radiance overhead made Locke’s eyes momentarily uncomfortable. He looked up and saw that besides the sun, there was a golden palace above the clouds in the sky at the border between the Dark and Bright Realms.

It was those palaces that emitted dazzling light, casting a golden glow over the entire border between the Dark and Bright Realms.

Locke’s pupils contracted slightly, because for some reason, he felt that the palace in the sky, which he had never been to before, seemed strangely familiar.

That should be one of the five great ruins of the border between the Dark and Bright Realms—the [Golden City Ruins].

But I shouldn’t have ever been to that place.

The Golden City Ruins are one of the five major ruins of the Horizon of Darkness and Light. Legend has it that Golden City was once the region with the highest concentration of magic in the Eastern Boundary, only qualified third-ring wizards to reside there, and only sun-ring wizards to ascend.

In the past, Golden City was considered one of the most powerful regions in the magical world.

But now Golden City has long since fallen into ruin, and only formal wizards are qualified to enter. The number of ordinary second-ring wizards within is countless, and crystallized wizards seem to hold a fairly high status.

However, the Golden Cup competition is held at the Merri Ruins, not Golden City.

For most wizards in the Horizon of Darkness and Light, Golden City is more like a background hanging in the sky, something to be admired but never reached.

At this moment, besides the Golden City ruins, there are also numerous other architectural ruins in the sky.

Legend has it that at its peak, half of the buildings in the entire Horizon of Darkness and Light were in the sky. Now, although four of the five major ruins have fallen to the ground, most of them fell from the sky.

At its peak, the border between light and darkness was enveloped in golden light, and golden magic permeated the air as if it were the very air itself. Even the breath of a single animal might contain powerful golden magic.

Therefore, the winds formed from golden magic could easily lift cities and the earth.

This border between light and darkness was once known as the “Sky City Cluster.”

Locke disembarked from the wizard airship and found a small market belonging to the Golden Dynasty next to the dock, bustling with people.

Among the wizards who had disembarked from the same airship seemed to be spectators for the Golden Cup, wizard managers from the Shop Alliance, or even contestants.

One wizard manager from the Shop Alliance appeared to be conversing with some of the contestants on the airship. Whether it was because the contestants hadn’t investigated his identity or hadn’t expected him to personally send an avatar to participate in the competition, the wizard manager didn’t bother him.

The wizard manager of the shop alliance that represented the unknown small flying vehicles was pestering a contestant from the [Black Iron Mountain Wizarding Grounds], trying to discuss business related to flying magical plants.

Locke noticed that the wizard manager seemed to be using a persistent approach towards the wizard who clearly had no intention of cooperating.

“Wait, sir, wait a minute. If you want more discounts, we can talk…”

There seemed to be many wizard merchants on both sides of this small market, selling everything from magical artifacts to specialty golden magical plants, and various special magical items from the border between the obscure and the bright.

The variety was endless.

Locke stood in front of a shop filled with jars. The stall owner was an ordinary second-circle wizard, whose eyes lit up when Locke approached.

“Would you like some spirit ash, sir?”

“Would you like the spirit ash of the Greybone Deer King, or the spirit ash of the Ancient Troll Projector from the Troll World?”

Locke asked疑惑地问道, “Spirit ash? What’s that? I’ve never heard of it.”

The smile on the second-circle wizard stall owner’s face visibly faded, but since any second-circle wizard was a potential big customer, he still tried his best to explain, “Spirit ash is a recent research result from the Southern Wizarding Capital, but we also have it in the Borderlands of Darkness and Light.” “

It’s made by strengthening it with golden magic, allowing the residual spirituality of the soul to exist within the ashes, turning it into spirit ash. Spirit ash is divided into white spirit ash and black spirit ash. Black spirit ash imprisons the souls of others within the ash, while white spirit ash, which is what I sell, is just some spirituality left behind after those souls leave. Black spirit ash is banned by the White Wizarding Association; it can only be bought on the black market in the Southern Wizarding Capital.”

“These spirit ash aren’t just useful for necromancy. Look, you can buy a jar of spirit ash from me, and also a Magic Orb.”

The second-circle wizard stall owner held up a bead about the size of a basketball.

“By shining the Magic Orb on the spirit ash, you can summon the powerful spirit of that deceased warrior to fight for you. How about it, are you interested? One Magic Orb only costs 500,000 magic stones, and the spirit ash of a second-circle creature like the Graybone Deer King also only costs 500,000 magic stones.”

“Although they are all one-time use items, for just one million magic stones, plus the magic power of a second-circle wizard, you can summon a powerful second-circle creature to fight for you. It’s definitely worth it.”

Locke waved his hand, somewhat speechless.

“No need.”

He had archaeology spells, and although he couldn’t summon a second-circle being now because he hadn’t obtained the Black and White Codex, he really didn’t need such things.

The stall owner seemed to want to persist, so he continued to tell Locke about the benefits of spirit ash, even suggesting that Locke use spirit ash as fertilizer.

The second-circle wizard stall owner said, “This is also a research experiment. Think about it, no one has ever used spirit ash as fertilizer before. If you buy it, even if you don’t use it, you can still use it for this cutting-edge research, isn’t that great…”

Locke asked, “Won’t the negative energy particle field of the spirit ash affect the growth of the magical plants?”

The second-circle wizard stall owner was speechless.

“This…”

He was so busy making things up that he forgot to make his words logically sound.

Locke smiled at him and turned to leave.

Locke contacted Barrett through the spirit mushroom magical plants and learned that he was transporting magical plants to the competition venue on the other side of the Merri Ruins via a magical carriage caravan.

They were crossing a large wilderness.

There didn’t seem to be many mortals in the wilderness at the boundary between light and darkness.

This was for historical reasons. On the one hand, as the former leader of wizarding lands, there were indeed relatively few mortals here, while the wizard population, especially the number of apprentice wizards, was unusually large.

On the other hand, the decline of the Boundary Between Darkness and Light in those days has not completely disappeared, and many dangerous creatures still seem to remain in the wild.

Barrett, a wizard, sat in a carriage traversing an unnamed wilderness and sent a message to Locke: “I’m traveling with several wizards from the Spiral Basin. They told me they were also going to participate in the Golden Cup. Because traveling together is safer, I joined their group.” “

Team leader, the Boundary Between Darkness and Light is completely different from our Cloud Marsh Wetlands. The wilderness here is far too dangerous.”

“I’ve never seen a group of apprentice-level magical creatures daring to attack a Crystallized Wizard in the wild, but I’ve encountered one here.”

“The magical creatures and beasts here seem to retain a trace of golden magic. They are difficult to kill, with strong defenses and vitality. Even with only one breath left, they possess extremely powerful aggression.”

Barrett sat in the carriage when suddenly the wheels seemed to be struck by something, and with a sound of the carriage shaft breaking, the carriage stopped abruptly.

“Hmm? Team leader, my magic carriage seems to be broken.”

“I need to get out and check.”

On the other side, Locke realized something was wrong.

“Barrett, tell me your coordinates.”

Wizard Barrett hesitated for a moment, then sent the coordinates to Locke. He then got out of the carriage and saw that his first-class wizard apprentice coachman was lying on the ground, his throat covered in blood.

At the same time, a wizard he had been traveling with in the Spiral Basin seemed to be facing away from him, clutching his abdomen, bleeding profusely.

“Help me… help me…”

Wizard Barrett immediately stepped forward. “What happened? He was fine just now.”

“Wait…”

Barrett’s face immediately turned serious.

Because he realized something: formal wizards all have a permanent defensive force field. Even if attacked by magical creatures in the wild, they would either die or be completely unharmed.

Being injured like this, with his back turned, should be quite rare, right?

At this moment, the wizard suddenly turned around, revealing his face, but he had no face at all.

What was initially just a tail resembling a wizard’s form turned to reveal a snake’s tail with black scales.

At the same time, Wizard Barrett heard a scream behind him.

Turning around, he saw that the surroundings had inexplicably turned from day to night, with only the magical glow emanating from the magic carriages.

The apprentices on the carriages, as well as the official wizards protecting the group, were all dead.

The wizards from Spiral Basin who had accompanied him had barely survived the battle against the snake’s tail; however, one of the Spiral Basin’s official wizards had been struck by the tail and his lower body was crushed.

He himself had been thrown away by the tail.

Because he hadn’t gotten too close and had dodged in time, he wasn’t completely hit. However, three of the bamboo swords within his permanent defensive force field, the Bamboo Sea Sword Formation, were shattered. The remaining two swords automatically sensed the danger and transformed into sharp blades, piercing the snake’s tail.

This forced the snake’s tail to retreat.

The wizard Barrett stood up, feeling that he might have broken ribs.

At that moment, the food in his stomach seemed to be churning violently.

Barrett took a half-step forward and immediately felt a terrifying magical pressure pressing down on his body.

No… something’s not right.

This is… a second-circle level!

At this moment, the two wizards from the Spiral Basin also turned to look at the remaining survivor, Barrett.

They looked at Barrett in horror and said, “A second-circle level magical creature suddenly attacked our convoy. My God, in the wilderness at the border of light and shadow, we only left the city slightly and we were attacked by a second-circle level magical creature!”

“What do we do now? We have three crystallized wizards now. If we unite and think of a way together, we can at least find a way to survive.”

The first wizard from the Spiral Basin, clutching the magic box to his chest, said nervously, “This is something Lord Yennefer asked me to escort. If I don’t deliver it, I’m doomed.”

The other wizard from the Spiral Basin glanced at him. The magic box in his hand was the work of the chief wizarding instructor of Neher University in the Spiral Basin.

This time, three second-circle breeders from Neher University entrusted them with escorting their work.

Because a joint escort would be safer, they were allowed to travel together.

They never expected to encounter something like this here.

Wizard Barrett said, “Although I don’t know why that second-circle creature attacked our convoy, I don’t think wild magical creatures would target something too difficult to eat. The three of us will stand together, each in a permanent defensive field, and attack the creature’s tail. We’ll rush towards the edge of the night.”

“I think if we show we’re not easy to deal with, perhaps it will eat other people’s corpses…whether it’s carnivorous or eats magical items, it might spare us.”

The other two wizards from the Spiral Basin naturally didn’t object.

Under the harassing attacks of the snake’s tail, the three finally managed to huddle together, all of them injured.

If an ordinary first-circle being encountered such a second-circle magical creature, or even lured and killed, they would likely die instantly, without any chance of resistance.

However, the first-circle wizards possessed permanent defensive fields, which gave them the means to maneuver tactically and fight back.

A wizard from the Spiral Basin clutched the Pandora’s Box given to him by Yennefer, then looked up in horror at the night sky, where even a few stars lingered.

“Could this second-ring magical creature possess the ability to teleport, or perhaps it can manipulate time?”

“It can’t possibly manipulate the night

, can it?” The night in the wizarding world was unlike any other.

Another wizard from the Spiral Basin said, “It might manipulate space. We could be transported to another world through a dimensional portal. That means even if we rush out now, we’ll be in another world.”

A sense of despair crept over the three of them.

No one could have imagined that simply escorting a competition entry for their high-ring wizards at their wizarding university, and pausing briefly in the wilderness at the boundary between light and shadow, would lead to such a terrifying magical creature attacking them.

Now, the three had no choice but to press on.

But the next moment, they saw two snakes, resembling wizards’ tails, charging towards them from both ends.

The creature was clearly after them.

Therefore, there was no possibility of it changing targets, or finding them too troublesome.

A chilling, malevolent aura emanating from a second-ring magical creature assaulted the three of them.

Barrett, clutching the magic box containing the Great Roaring Dragon Sparrow, gritted his teeth, “Team leader…”

He discovered a problem: he could no longer contact the outside world through the Water Hyacinth System.

Furthermore, his magic power was rapidly waning.

What was happening?

Barrett saw that his permanent defensive field had a gaping hole due to his declining magic power.

The permanent defensive fields of the other two were also beginning to break down as their magic power rapidly dissipated.

…

At the Merri Ruins, the Golden Cup competition committee invited the wizards seated in a UFO-like aircraft to disembark. This team consisted of one Sun Ring wizard, three Moon Ring wizards, and four Star Ring wizards. They hailed from the Land of Dragonfall, wizards from the Holy Land of the Wind Bearers, and wore silver badges with a pair of swan wings on their chests.

The staff of the Golden Cup competition committee, upon seeing these wizard representatives, immediately beamed with smiles.

The Boundary Between Light and Darkness had long been in decline, while the Land of Dragonfall was a recently rising wizarding region, growing increasingly powerful. The Golden Cup, as the face of the Boundary Between Light and Darkness, was prestigious and ancient, having been held over three hundred times.

However, inviting the wizard representatives from the Windbringer’s Holy Land had been a considerable effort.

A Sun-ring wizard director from the Golden Cup competition committee, beaming, said to Quinn Bruce of the Windbringer’s Holy Land, “Mr. Bruce, it’s a pleasure to have you here. A flight expert like yourself is respected everywhere. Your presence will surely be a great honor for the participating wizards.”

“I hope you can find a sufficiently excellent product in the competition,”

Bruce, the wizard being sought after, naturally wore a cold, almost melancholic expression. He nodded slightly, maintaining a polite facade.

Thus, the Windbringer’s Holy Land delegation was invited to the resting area prepared for them by the Golden Cup competition committee.

Wizard Bruce whispered to his secretary beside him, “Sigh, because the Starfield Sea has been so aggressive lately, taking away a lot of our resources, the Dragonfall Lands want to unite with the Boundary Between Darkness and Light. They want a little prestige, so they want us to cooperate by winning the Windwalker Academy and the Golden Cup Flying Magic Plant Competition.”

“Otherwise, why would I give up so many promising alchemical machines and come here seeking flying magic plants?”

“Isn’t this a joke? The high-ring wizards’ ideas are truly outlandish. Maybe I’m just a low-ring wizard and don’t understand. But sometimes I think that’s just their level; they just like to give orders blindly.”

His Moon Ring secretary, a witch, coughed and said, “Lord Bruce, actually, we just need to maintain appearances. The high-ring wizards have their own ideas, but we have ours too.”

“We don’t know what they’re trying to do, but they probably don’t know exactly what we’re trying to do either. If there aren’t any good entries in the Golden Cup Flying Magic Plant Competition, then you can just find a third-rate developer, find some shops to promote it, go through the formalities, and make sure it passes the higher-ups’ scrutiny.”

Wizard Bruce nodded. “I think so too.”

At this moment, the Sun Ring Wizard Director of the Golden Cup Competition Committee, who was leading the way, had a complicated expression; he had overheard some of what was going on.

For now, they could only pretend not to hear.

They were the ones who needed their help.

Suddenly, a fiery cloud appeared above the entire Meili Ruins, and the magical pressure, as active as flames, continued to rise, eventually reaching the second-ring limit of 19,999. The

terrifying magical pressure slightly tinged the sky with gold and red, and even the Golden City ruins in the sky seemed to be surrounded by leaping flames.

Wizard Bruce was stunned, and the others were also stunned.

They all looked up towards the source of the magical pressure emanating from the sky.

Which second-ring wizard had released their full magical pressure above the Meili Ruins?

At this moment, in the sky, Locke summoned his Great Crying Dragon Sparrow. Using the Magical Dragon Rose to fly there was too slow; he probably wouldn’t be able to catch up. So he used the second Great Crying Dragon Sparrow he had cultivated—

the magical plant he had placed here as the mother plant.

A sharp cry rang out beside him, and then, the Great Crying Dragon Sparrow behind Locke, like a firebird, ignited all the banana leaves and roots, propelling him rapidly towards a direction outside the Merri Ruins.

Like a streak of flame across the sky, or a phoenix swooping down on its enemy,

the magical plant behind Locke rapidly increased its speed in a short time, increasing slightly every half breath.

In just a moment, it had approached the wilderness, and even before it got close, its immense and scorching magical pressure had already arrived.

That magical pressure pressed down on the second-ring creature hidden beneath the wilderness.

Locke’s voice howled through the scorching magical wind.

“You dare!”

At this moment, the wizard representatives from the Windbringer’s Holy Land all stared in astonishment at the firebird streaking across the sky. One of the wizard representatives suddenly spoke up: “The magical plant’s magical pressure conversion flight rate seems to be above 11, very likely 11.1.”

The Moon Ring Witch secretary beside Bruce nodded in agreement.

“Indeed. And the explosive power of that magical plant was truly impressive. I’ve almost never seen a flying machine as explosive as that.”

The Moon Ring Witch’s secretary looked up and saw the light in Bruce the Wizard’s eyes.

As a flying machine manufacturer, Bruce the Wizard had an incredibly accurate intuition for any magical flying objects.

“What is that? I want to turn it into a large flying machine.”

“What is that?”

“Quick, go in that direction and talk to that wizard.”

At this moment, after a brief moment of surprise, someone from the Golden Grail team suddenly whispered, “Lord Bruce, you don’t need to go. That creation seems to have already entered our Golden Grail Flying Magical Plant Competition. According to the entry information, if I’m not mistaken, it’s very likely the flying magical plant sent from Golden Crown Mountain: the Great Roaring Dragon Sparrow.”

(End of Chapter)