Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 913

Chapter 908 Summer Prosperity and the Concept of Atavism

Locke fell into contemplation. The Russell Throne had only shown him the basic data of the Golden Spell; to obtain the subsequent data, he would need to reach some kind of agreement.

There’s always a price to pay for what you gain.

The key question was: was it really necessary to obtain this Golden Spell?

Locke recalled the Golden Spell again. Its main idea was to utilize the unchanging nature of gold. While other magical powers ebb and flow, the power of golden magic possessed constancy. By strengthening this characteristic of “constant gold nature,” it was possible to summon the hidden golden magical power within magical plants.

The overall framework was complete and would definitely have an effect on magical plants.

The crucial issue was that to strengthen this aspect of the Golden Magic—the constancy of gold nature—he needed to obtain the sun’s trajectory at the boundary between light and darkness for hundreds of years.

Moreover, the past trajectory was useless; he needed the new trajectory from the last few hundred years.

Two trajectories appeared in Locke’s mind: one was the past trajectory of the sun at the boundary between light and darkness, and the other was the current trajectory.

When the two trajectories overlap, it’s the moment when eternal power descends, awakening ancient golden magic.

It can also be understood as sacrificing future changes to strengthen the unchanging past.

Therefore, the key points are twofold: first, the trajectory of the sun at the boundary between light and darkness; second, it must be the current trajectory of the sun.

That means data needs to be collected again.

Locke, lost in thought, suddenly frowned, because the sun in his mind vanished, replaced by the view of the boundary between light and darkness he saw from his wizard airship.

Locke looked at the Russell Throne with a strange expression and asked, “Your Majesty, in the distant past, was the boundary between light and darkness located on the sun?”

A look of surprise appeared on the Russell Throne’s face.

“You can actually see this illusion.”

“I don’t know. I’m also a third-ring wizard who has grown up in the last thousand years. And that history is too distant. This illusion… I can see it too, but I don’t know if it’s real or not, or rather, I don’t know its specific meaning.”

Locke lowered his head in thought. If the wizarding land of the boundary between light and darkness wasn’t even on the ground, then its current location wasn’t in its ancient position at all.

At least not entirely.

The more Locke thought about it, the more he felt that the ancient boundary between light and darkness was likely not on the sun, but in the sky, because the current location of the Starfield Sea was the highest point in the entire Eastern Region.

Because it was so high, it lacked the kind of gradual increase in magical tidal concentration gradient with wizarding lands as steps, as envisioned by the Starfield Sea, making it extremely difficult to reach now.

This wasn’t just a matter of planar distance, but also of vertical space.

Perhaps the Starfield Sea and other wizarding lands appeared close together on a planar map, but in reality, the height difference between them on a three-dimensional map was extremely large.

So the former boundary between light and darkness must have been located at a very high position.

At this moment, a stone pillar suddenly fell from the sky in the corridor of the past. In this corridor composed of spirit macros, old spirit macros were interconnected, forming a new spirit macro, which then summoned a large number of spirit macros to gather, forming a special spirit macro pillar.

This pillar was a huge eye with a bunch of mechanical gears on its back, and Locke took a closer look at this pillar.

The stone pillar quickly shattered, revealing its golden radiance, transforming into a pure gold pillar.

The mechanical gears within the pillar’s mechanical eyes continued to turn.

Locke said, “Could new things related to golden magic from the Boundary Between Darkness and Light appear in this corridor of the past?”

The Russell Throne replied, “Indeed. But only things with sufficient qualifications can appear in this corridor.”

“It seems the alchemist geniuses in the Boundary Between Darkness and Light have developed another special symbol representing golden magic.”

Locke looked at the Russell Throne, wanting to decline the invitation.

The reason was simple: although he hadn’t fully decided on the direction of his special grant application, using golden magic to enhance ancestral evolution sounded good, but like the magic plant crystallization technology, it was something someone else had told him about—something that sounded good.

Therefore, for him, the difference between the two wasn’t significant.

He was currently still thinking about how to further refine ancestral evolution, creating a more perfect version, rather than the current piecemeal one.

Once completed, it would undoubtedly greatly benefit his Evolution Moon and even the Tree of Prosperity.

Locke pondered, the Evolution Moon and the Tree of Prosperity appearing simultaneously behind him.

Atavism was an evolutionary mode comparable to Surging Evolution, but its perfection in his hands was insufficient!

If he could complete it, he might be able to forge his ultimate magic to a new level.

Simultaneously, evolution and prosperity were like the relationship between vertical and horizontal axes.

The Tree of Prosperity’s spring prosperity was built upon the first type of Myster power as its core, driving the four seasons to achieve extreme energy prosperity. Each cycle not only didn’t decrease energy but actually increased it.

Within this cycle, a miraculous scene from the Three Cavern World was inserted into the four seasons’ cycle, stopping the cycle in spring, thus creating spring prosperity, or eternal spring.

This was also why his own body in the Three Cavern World failed to create the Tree of Prosperity directly using the power of the four seasons and Myster power.

Because when he used Myster power to simulate the four seasons, he forgot that in some regions, there weren’t distinct seasons, but rather a single season as the dominant element.

His other half, however, realized that he couldn’t directly grasp the truth of the seasons’ prosperity by focusing on the overall cycle of the seasons as he saw fit.

Therefore, he decided to begin with spring. He combined the dimensional response system of the Three Cavern Worlds to create a miracle of spring, using this miracle to freeze the cycle of the seasons in spring, creating eternal prosperity.

It wasn’t about permanently freezing the seasons in spring,

but rather ensuring that every moment of the cycle exhibited the generative power and prosperous attributes of spring.

This was originally difficult to achieve, but his other half spent over a thousand years devising the principle of the completed Book of Gods in the Three Cavern Worlds to create a miracle singularity, thus achieving this.

If there were only the cycle of the seasons, how could it be called a Tree of Prosperity?

It was precisely the godless prosperity of the Three Cavern Worlds that redefined the season of spring, allowing every moment of the energy cycle to maintain a state of spring’s prosperity.

Of course, having only one season is unreasonable; it’s merely a preliminary step in pursuing true, perfect four-season prosperity.

Due to its unique planar characteristics, the Three-Hole Plane inherently has only one season—spring. However, based on his own investigation, the total biomass of plants in the Three-Hole Plane, despite the eternal spring, does not exceed the biomass of plants in the distinct four seasons of the Wizarding World.

This indicates that eternal spring is not true prosperity.

Locke closed his eyes, countless phantoms of golden magic flowing past him. In this place, his supernatural abilities seemed to be pushed to their limit.

His supernatural abilities were the bloodline power of the World-Destroying Dragon.

And at this moment, the Golden School’s foundation at the boundary between light and darkness was so powerful, and he was standing on the Corridor of the Past, hence Locke’s supernatural abilities were so strong.

He immediately realized that the complete atavism equivalent to the Moon Cultivation Method and the excavation of the Prosperity Tree in Summer Prosperity would be the moment his great magic underwent a second forging.

He would become a Star Ring Wizard.

Therefore, the special grant should either focus on ancestral evolution or on the prosperity of summer.

Furthermore, ancestral evolution seems to have some connection to the prosperity of summer.

Just as Locke was about to explicitly refuse the Russell Throne, the Russell Throne suddenly waved his hand, and the spirit of the mechanical eye on the golden pillar materialized, appearing before Locke.

The Russell Throne said, “There are some things I want to confirm again. Also, before you make a choice, you need a deeper understanding of golden magic.”

“This golden construct might help you recognize golden magic more easily,”

the Russell Throne softly incantated. Instantly, countless golden magical auras converged into the beholder construct, and the laws constructed from golden magic entered the construct, transforming into golden threads that aided in the materialization of the golden beholder construct.

The three-headed golden dog not far away silently stood up and moved from its original position.

The three-headed dog glanced sideways at the Russell Throne, pondering, “Lord Russell… he’s still the same as before.”

At that moment, the Golden-Eyed Demon construct, after being enhanced by some kind of golden holy magic, instantly transformed from its original ethereal state into a tangible physical entity.

Countless gears within the construct began to spin, unleashing a [Golden Gaze]—a modified version of the second-circle spell [Powerful Petrification Spell]—towards Locke.

Locke immediately summoned a Golden-Eyed Grass to shield himself, but the next instant, upon being struck by the gaze, the grass instantly turned into a piece of gold.

Locke looked towards the Russell Throne.

The Russell Throne smiled and said, “Rest assured, all the battles that took place in the Corridor of the Past only occurred within the Spirit Realm. They did not exist in reality. You are not in mortal danger, nor have you suffered any financial loss. I am the Grand Judge of the Boundary Between Light and Darkness; I know the law.”

“I will not do anything illegal.”

Locke immediately felt relieved. He also wanted to test the strength of the golden beholder construct. Instantly, a four-winged, large-leaved dragon-bird appeared behind him, circling around the golden beholder construct. The mechanical gears inside the golden beholder started turning, continuously firing the [Golden Gaze Spell].

A golden gaze spun in place, and the moment it touched the Corridor of the Past, it turned everything in the corridor into gold.

“Hmm? This is…”

As Locke circled the construct, he prepared to wait for it to recover its energy or stop attacking, to find an opportunity to counterattack.

This so-called new symbol of the Boundary Between Light and Darkness, another research product of the alchemists’ genius class, he also had the desire to fight it.

Fighting these constructs is equivalent to understanding their structure, and understanding their structure is understanding the designers’ thought process.

Exchanging ideas with these ideas allows one to accumulate knowledge.

However, Locke paused for a moment. As he circled the construct, a question flashed through his mind: due to the unique nature of gold magic, the gold element remains constant.

Therefore, the energy output of normal objects fluctuates, but constructs created by gold magic… do not.

Multiple waveforms reappeared in Locke’s mind, overlapping and canceling out each other out, becoming eternal.

Golden magic possessed the characteristic of continuous and stable output.

“A perpetual defensive field…this is the characteristic of a perpetual defensive field. These constructs contain extremely sophisticated golden magic, and they also possess the characteristic of permanence.”

Locke immediately realized that the technology of the perpetual defensive field used by first-ring wizards naturally contained some core elements of golden magic.

In other words, all wizards received the gift of golden magic upon becoming first-ring wizards.

‘Bang!’

The four-winged Great Azure Leaf Dragon Sparrow behind Locke was struck in a corner, and instantly, starting from that corner, the entire Great Azure Leaf Dragon Sparrow turned golden.

‘Damn it.’

Locke was immediately knocked down.

The gear structure inside the golden construct of the Eye Demon immediately began to rotate and change, fine-tuning and transforming the model of the Golden Vision spell.

The beam of golden gaze was instantly transformed into countless scattered golden gaze rays, all locking onto Locke and attacking him.

But the next moment, Locke retrieved the Great Roaring Dragon Sparrow from his Astral Ring.

During his descent, he suddenly soared upwards, avoiding all the gaze attacks.

The Great Roaring Dragon Sparrow’s speed far surpassed that of the Four-Winged Great Azure Leaf Dragon Sparrow, so the golden gazes couldn’t keep up with Locke’s speed, colliding and being completely annihilated in the air.

The gears inside the eye of the bewitching golden construct began to turn, and it immediately altered the spell model structure of the golden gaze, fine-tuning it. The golden gaze continued to disperse into smaller ray-type attacks, locking onto Locke’s aura and relentlessly attacking him.

‘I see. This bewitching construct is essentially a special kind of golem. It’s probably some kind of war machine, at least a tactical weapon of the second ring.’

‘It possesses the power to instantly suppress the enemy on the battlefield and turn the tide of battle.’ This golem is most unique in two ways. First, the entire golem is a born demonic eye, capable of locking onto an enemy’s aura, analyzing their movement trajectory, and actively modifying its internal spell model based on the enemy’s state. “

I estimate it has many internal functional modules, allowing it to adjust these modules according to different situations to actively modify its primary attack method, the [Golden Gaze Spell].” “

The second characteristic is that it’s a permanent construct. Although I don’t know how it achieves this, it should be something only golden magic can do.”

Locke took out the Araceae plant, Pinellia ternata, chanted a spell, and used the “Summer Grass Firefly” technique. Instantly, a magical spark appeared, rolling towards the golden construct of the beholder.

The golden construct of the beholder immediately adjusted its spell model, and a golden gaze pierced through the magical spark, turning it into gold.

But the next moment, Locke appeared behind the beholder of the beholder, holding a second-ringed sea gold leaf, which transformed into a golden fern spear, ready to pierce it.

At this crucial moment, the beholder, through the rotation of its internal gear mechanism, spun in place, shifting the direction of its gaze to Locke himself.

“Hmm? This beholder’s fighting style is quite agile.”

“Is the Boundary Between Light and Darkness trying to develop alchemy?”

A massive golden beam of light erupted from the beholder’s pupils, attacking Locke.

It had anticipated Locke’s sudden appearance behind it and had preemptively set a trap, waiting for the moment Locke appeared to attack from behind before unleashing its golden rays.

Just as the golden magic was about to strike Locke, the Great Roaring Dragon Sparrow behind Locke suddenly erupted with dragon fire. He instantly and swiftly shifted to the left, dodging the attack.

Seeing this, the Russell Throne nodded slightly; the Great Roaring Dragon Sparrow’s movement speed was indeed very fast.

This speed even exceeded the adaptability of the Golden Beholder’s construct.

This meant that no matter how the Golden Beholder’s construct changed its modules, it could not keep up with Locke.

The Golden-Eyed Demon construct, through the meshing and rotation of its internal gears, looked at Locke and launched a new attack. In that instant, Locke’s pupils dilated sharply.

Within this corridor of the past, his golden magic talent seemed to have been amplified to an unbelievable level.

The golden magic displayed within the Golden-Eyed Demon construct earlier uncontrollably surfaced in his mind.

‘The construct’s spell model is open source?’ Yes, the number of alchemical modules required to construct an open-source spell model should be minimal. To conceal the spell model, many misleading elements need to be added. As a pure construct, for the Golden-Eyed Demon to cast its spell model, alchemists need to forge corresponding magical artifacts in advance, using these artifacts to form modules to activate it. ‘

For cost considerations, this Golden Vision spell will only be open source.’ Locke

immediately chanted the incantation, reciting the Golden Vision spell while flying. His left eye instantly transformed into a golden eye, unleashing a golden gaze that clashed with the golden gaze of the Golden Eye Demon construct.

The two were locked in a stalemate for a moment,

but ultimately the Golden Eye Demon construct’s gaze prevailed.

Seeing this, Throne Russell finally confirmed one thing:

“This guy truly has the ability to learn on the spot and remember everything he sees. The level of his golden bloodline is higher than I thought. It’s unbelievable, even surpassing my own talent in golden magic when I was young.” “

Unfortunately, he has already constructed two other extremely powerful spells within him, making it impossible for him to change course. If I had met him earlier, I could have guided him onto the right path.”

“Now his talent in golden magic is being wasted.”

Realizing this, Throne Russell immediately abandoned his plan to trade Locke to the Red Dragon Throne at all costs.

Of course, if he could acquire Locke at a slightly higher price, he would do it.

Locke threw out the second-ring Sea Gold Sand in his hand, which instantly transformed into a bolt of lightning, striking the Golden Eye Demon construct.

‘Bang!’

The Golden Eye Demon was knocked over, and numerous mechanical gears and parts flew out.

But the next moment, the internal structure of the Golden Eye Demon construct rotated, and even after being knocked over, it turned its pupils through the planetary gear system, aiming at Locke who was flying towards it.

A golden gaze struck.

The next instant, Locke summoned a Golden Eye Grass, but this Golden Eye Grass, after being illuminated by the golden gaze, did not immediately turn golden.

Locke touched the Golden Eye Grass with his finger, and the grass actually reflected the magic back!

The Golden Eye Grass possessed the ability to deflect energy attacks. The

Beholder Golden Construct was originally a second-ring construct, and its Golden Gaze would normally be impossible to deflect. However, after Locke learned the spell model of Golden Gaze, it became possible to intercept some of its energy and deflect it back.

‘Bang!’

A strengthened Golden Gaze was deflected back.

The Beholder Golden Construct was hit squarely in the middle, and it was immediately severely damaged. Countless parts flew off, and with a bolt of lightning, the second-ring Sea Gold Sand completely destroyed it.

The Russell Throne had a strange expression, because according to those in the Alchemist Genius Class, the Beholder Golden Construct was designed to provide crucial suppression even under the siege of five equally powerful second-ring wizards, creating a dominant construct on the battlefield.

This would become a new super-product on the list of military sales from the Boundary Between Light and Darkness.

The Corridor of the Past acknowledged the Golden-Eyed Demon construct, making it one of the symbols of golden magic at the boundary between light and darkness.

However, Locke defeated it in such a humiliating way.

This was mainly because Locke’s talent for golden magic was simply too high; he actually used a single-ringed magical plant to reflect the golden gaze back.

One wonders what the wizards in the alchemist genius class would look like upon seeing this.

The Russell Throne looked at Locke, ‘Indeed, choosing him for the Golden Spell project was the right choice.’

Locke looked at the Golden-Eyed Grass in his hand, which had completely turned to gold, and fell into deep thought.

In the instant of the battle, although his Golden-Eyed Grass was still turned to gold, before it became gold… the Golden-Eyed Grass had been strengthened.

Golden magic can strengthen magical plants.

The Tree of Prosperity appeared in Locke’s mind. The Tree of Prosperity itself was a magical tree designed by his half-body over a thousand years, supported by golden magic as its framework.

[Support] is one of the characteristics of golden magic.

Locke immediately recalled the golden magic that Throne Russell had cast earlier. That golden spell mainly utilized the immutability of gold, similar to the bewitching golden construct he had just fought.

Locke immediately realized it was feasible.

The battle with that bewitching construct had made him realize the potential of golden magic.

Through that battle, he already had a plan.

Locke looked at Throne Russell and said, “Your Majesty, I’ll take over your project.”

Throne Russell smiled with satisfaction.

“I knew that a genius like you wouldn’t make a decision without seeing and trying it yourself. After all, the more talented a wizard is, the more they trust their own judgment.” “

This crystal ball contains all the key experimental data from my seven students, but it’s still missing at least fifty-five years’ worth of data on the sun’s movement at the boundary between light and darkness.”

“You’ll have to find a way to solve that yourself,”

Throne Russell said. “I believe you can find a solution. After all, having completed a preliminary atavistic evolution of the golden wheat, you are the expert in this field.”

(End of Chapter)