Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 919

Chapter 914 The Witch King: You have no idea how terrifying I am!

From the distant darkness, a figure of a Dark Evil King, as imposing as a mountain, appeared. He gradually approached, clearly aware that Locke had entered his dark domain, but he was still some distance away.

Locke immediately raised the Beast Claw Necklace, intending to activate the ancient protective magic from the Age of Stars era that had been left behind. Two beams of magical light appeared at his and Douglas’s feet, ready to leap into the sky to open a dimensional portal and return to the Black Hole Witch Peach.

Just as the two beams of magical light descended and opened the dimensional portal, Locke and Douglas saw the dimensional gate open and the scene of the wizarding world on the other side.

But at that instant, endless darkness suddenly surged in like ripples and waves, abruptly interrupting the dimensional portal.

Because the dimensional portal opened and closed so quickly, neither of them had time to pass through.

Locke heard a dark voice, like the chanting of some ancient ritual.

The ground beneath his feet began to tremble.

Douglas clutched his ears and screamed in agony, blood gushing from his mouth, nose, ears, and eyes. He knelt on the ground, screaming, the dark voice forcing him to utter his name.

He looked up.

“Douglas…”

Locke’s pupils constricted sharply.

Oh no.

From the darkness, a hand of the Dark Lord emerged, the massive hand grasping the name.

“Very well, from this moment on, your name belongs to darkness.”

Douglas screamed, all the colors of his clothes, the color of his permanent defensive field, the magical radiance of his soul seemingly being drained by darkness; his body was about to become completely black.

Seeing this, Locke gritted his teeth. He swung the Golden Wheat in his hand; the main plant factor of the Golden Wheat was the Radiance Factor. The Golden Wheat struck Douglas, forcibly absorbing the magical radiance emanating from his body into the magical plant.

The Dark Lord sneered. “You dare to compete with darkness for a target using such methods?”

“Today, you will all stay here…”

“Give me your name too, and become servants of darkness… forever perish…”

A dark voice penetrated his permanent defensive field and entered his soul. Locke groaned, opening his mouth to speak.

His mind raced, searching for a solution.

Golden Wheat had the ability to steal magical radiance. When darkness drained the color from Douglas, although he didn’t know the principle, he could at least intercept some of the stolen magical radiance, perhaps saving him.

But the problem was, if the holder of Golden Wheat, his own name, was taken by darkness, that would be

a huge problem .

It meant all his magical radiance related to himself would be chosen and extracted by darkness.

With Golden Wheat’s magic broken, the portion of Douglas he had saved, along with himself, would be taken away by darkness.

He had to find a way.

What to do now?

Fighting a being of the Sun Ring level was hopeless, especially since this was the opponent’s home turf.

Behind Locke appeared a Tree of Prosperity, which transformed into a golden tree, emitting a faint golden glow in the darkness, resisting the darkness with the power of the four seasons.

However, since only a single Spring Fruit, grown in the Three Caverns World, hung on the tree,

essentially only the Spring season of his Tree of Prosperity was genuine; the power of the other three seasons was too weak.

The power of the four seasons held out for a while, but was quickly overwhelmed by the darkness.

Locke frowned. What should he do now?

He ordered his Tree Fruit clone to hurry to the seventh floor of the True Knowledge Institute’s castle. Whether it was Catherine the Witch’s three-ring clone, or Trajan’s main body or clone there, they might have a chance to help him.

After all, once his name was taken by the darkness, both his main body and clones would be forced into the darkness.

Wait a minute, a name.

Locke’s eyes widened. Why did the Dark World need a name?

A name needs to be called out.

Why did the Dark Lord gain the power of a world once he pulled it into darkness?

How did the Dark World transmit its power?

Locke looked again at Douglas, whose remaining magical radiance was being absorbed into the darkness. Was it light?

Don’t be ridiculous. In the Dark World, everything is dark; visual abilities aren’t particularly useful here. Besides, this is the Dark World; how could energy be transmitted through light and shadow?

But regardless, the Dark World must have some way of transmitting energy, transferring the power of several worlds to the Dark Lord. At this moment, the Great Dark Evil King was also being transmitted through something in the darkness.

Locke summoned the Great Crying Dragon Sparrow from his Forest Sanctuary, and immediately a sharp cry rang in his ears.

Then, with that sharp cry, the speed at which Douglas’s magical radiance was being absorbed actually slowed down.

And Locke’s tendency to utter his name… vanished.

In the darkness, the enormous silhouette of the Dark King, who was gradually approaching, suddenly froze.

“Did you notice? Damn wizard…”

Locke finally realized.

In the Dark World… sound is key.

Sound transmits energy, so after the Dark Lord orchestrated the fall of a world into darkness, the Dark Great World likely transmitted its power to him in some form of sound.

This place, perpetually dark, was actually a feast of music.

Sound was key here!

And the dragonfire of his Great Roaring Dragon Sparrow would explode when scorching the air, which would obviously slightly affect the transmission of power in the Dark Great World.

It was a pity he hadn’t developed a magical plant specifically designed to create sound waves to interfere with the Dark Great World.

The Great Roaring Dragon Sparrow behind Locke emitted a sharp screech as it scraped against the air.

The Dark Great Evil King let out a disdainful laugh.

“So what if you discovered it? This power is far inferior to that wizard’s.”

“Turn it upside down.”

The next moment, Locke felt as if heaven and earth were turning upside down. He felt like a tiny object falling into a black porcelain bowl in the hands of the Dark Evil King.

Locke and Douglas both became objects within this bowl.

Locke saw countless thin threads appearing on their bodies. Locke and Douglas

were horrified to discover that their permanent defensive force fields had disappeared in this space.

Douglas had lost his permanent defensive force field, while Locke had degenerated from a second-ring permanent defensive force field shell to a first-ring permanent defensive force field.

Locke gritted his teeth and said, “Dimensional reduction…”

He had experienced this once before. The demons and monsters in the darkness wanted to kill him and dragged him into a shadow play-like area, resulting in the loss of his permanent defensive force field due to dimensional reduction.

This time was better because he was now a proper permanent defensive force field shell, so he had only degenerated to a permanent defensive force field.

Douglas screamed as the last glimmer of light in his eyes vanished. He was then limply suspended by threads of shadow, like a character in a shadow play.

The Dark Lord chuckled, “Heh heh, I love watching you beings of the Prime Material Plane slaughter each other. Your greed, stupidity, and arrogance are the best nourishment for darkness. Come, a grand slaughter begins…”

Douglas automatically chanted a spell, and a bolt of lightning descended from the sky, transforming into his weapon—the Lightning Blade, a magical weapon from his Constructivist school.

He gripped the Lightning Blade and thrust it towards Locke.

The Lightning Blade, imbued with the energy of lightning, erupted instantly upon impact, aiming for Locke’s throat. The blade struck Locke’s permanent defensive field, instantly annihilating it.

Locke instantly realized that in this environment, a Crystallized Wizard could actually break through his defenses.

The reason was simple:

his permanent defensive field had been reduced in dimension.

Since they are all first-ring spell models, there is a possibility of breaching their defenses.

However, even a first-ring permanent defensive field is permanent, making it extremely difficult to breach.

The Dark Voice reappeared in his ears.

Even though the sound of the Great Roaring Dragon Sparrow temporarily interfered with the energy transmission of the dark world, the degree of interference was limited.

In this dark shadow play space, Locke even suspected that the Dark Great Evil King might suddenly amplify the Dark Voice in his ears at any moment, forcing him to utter his name.

Douglas chanted the incantation again, summoning a ball of flame in his hand. The flame condensed into a spear, which he wielded like a puppet in a shadow play, attacking him.

Behind him was the Dark Great Evil King, who manipulated the dark threads on his body.

Above this shadow play space, many demons and monsters that only existed in the dark world gradually attracted attention. They stared wide-eyed in the dark space, then began to laugh loudly.

“Hahahaha… infighting…”

“This is brilliant. The dramas orchestrated by the Dark Lord are always the most spectacular. When will we finally see the Dark Lord himself enter the shadow play and become the protagonist? That will be the most exciting moment.”

“Infighting… infighting…”

Locke frowned, looking up at the pairs of crimson eyes in the dark spaces on the stage.

“Strange.”

“But I must find a way to escape this shadow play space, otherwise, to them, I’m like a figure in a painting. What can a figure in a painting talk about escaping?”

But the last time he was able to escape, it was because the fourth-circle Truth Wizard of the Wizarding World personally intervened.

Wait…

Locke suddenly remembered that when the Truth Wizard of unknown identity intervened before, he actually created three pine cone-like fruits.

He only used one.

There were still two left.

Locke immediately summoned the Great Roaring Dragon Sparrow and flew into the sky.

The Dark Evil King stretched out his left hand in dissatisfaction, and countless dark threads fell towards Locke.

“Everyone in this shadow play should be under my control. You should also fight among yourselves.”

The Great Roaring Dragon Sparrow behind Locke streaked across the dark sky with a fiery red flame.

Immediately afterward, Locke tied a pine cone to the second-ring Sea Gold Sand, and then used [One Tree Cannot Support] to transform the Sea Gold Sand into a Golden Fern Spear, which he then sent towards the Dark Evil King.

The Dark Evil King continued to utter a contemptuous sound that came from his absolute power.

The power he projected from afar was gradually breaking through the Sun Ring level, which meant that his true form was rapidly approaching.

Once his true form arrived, there was no need to continue this game.

However, he could actually end this game at this moment. The Sun Ring level magic pressure was enough for him to crush this young wizard in front of him. It was just that he had suffered too much at the hands of this young wizard’s elder, and now he wanted to get revenge once and for all.

Naturally, Locke couldn’t be given a quick death.

“Let me think, what kind of position should I give you in the Dark World from now on?”

The next moment, the Dark Great Evil King’s eyes widened, because Locke’s attack, the Golden Fern Spear, suddenly transformed into a white light, which abruptly pierced through his massive, mountain-like true form in the darkness.

His enormous true form, which resembled a mountain in the darkness, let out a miserable scream, then collapsed to one knee, crying out in pain.

A large amount of blood flowed out.

Countless dark sounds emerged from his blood, transforming into countless demons and monsters, heading towards the distance of the Dark World.

“This…whose power is this? This isn’t your power, wizard. Your victory is dishonorable!”

“Despicable!”

The Dark Great Evil King’s true form was severely injured by Locke’s magic. The fourth-ring wizard had transformed the Dark Great Evil King’s power into three pine cones, which were specifically designed to counter his power.

Last time, that pine cone only destroyed the Dark Great Evil King’s shadow puppet theater.

This time, however, Locke struck the pine cone directly at his true form, which was shrouded in darkness.

The Dark Evil King was naturally severely injured.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, after retrieving the Sea Gold Sand, Locke left a trail of fire in the sky, then returned to the ground, grabbed Douglas by the shoulder, and slammed him against the edge of the Shadow Play space.

Because the Dark Evil King’s true form was severely injured, the Shadow Play space was incredibly fragile. Locke’s attack with the Great Roaring Dragon Sparrow created a crack

. The dragon tail behind the Great Roaring Dragon Sparrow transformed into a fiery whip, shattering the space.

Locke burst out from within.

The various demons and monsters in the darkness, whose origins were unknown, laughed and joked. They were merely spectators, and as spectators, they were happy whether the Dark Evil King or Locke and his companions suffered a setback in this drama.

This was the nature of the beings in the dark world!

The Dark Evil King, enraged within the darkness, rose from the ground.

“Damn it.”

“Damn wizard…”

“Don’t even think about escaping. You’ve already entered my dark world, do you really think you can escape? I will never let you go. I will put you in my grandest shadow play, and let you perform for the big shots of the Black Sun Tower!”

The Dark Evil King felt that he had already suffered a setback at the Sun Ring Wizard, but now he was being humiliated by an ordinary Second Ring Wizard. He forced himself to stand up and tried to catch up with Locke and Douglas.

Locke, meanwhile, was flying in the sky above that ruined world, thinking of a way to leave this dark world.

The demons and monsters in the sky revealed pairs of scarlet eyes, watching Locke fly around like a headless fly. They were all watching the show,

waiting for these two unexpected intruders to meet their final fate.

Locke’s eyes grew more determined. The more desperate the situation, the more resolute he became. No matter what, he had to find a glimmer of hope in this world-exploring frontier region, which was equivalent to the new shipping route.

“The dimensional portal has been severed by the dark power of the Dark Lord. This world has completely fallen into the Dark World, and we don’t even know if we’re on the edge or at its center. Even if I were to fly out of this world now, I would directly enter the Dark World. How could I possibly escape?”

“If all else fails, we’ll have to find a way to protect our two clones. We’ll have to abandon this main body for now.”

Locke, who was holding Douglas, suddenly spoke, but his eyes gleamed, and Douglas’s face showed a weariness beyond his years.

“Locke, Douglas… no, it’s my magical radiance that must be reclaimed from the darkness, otherwise I will never be able to leave the Dark World. Of course, you can still leave now.”

Locke looked at Douglas in his hands, his eyes slightly brightening.

He released Douglas.

Because at this moment, it was the Witch King Lagmamon who was controlling this body.

The Dark Lord in the distance was stunned.

“How can a servant manipulated by darkness still have autonomy?”

“No.”

“You are not him.”

“Who are you? Damn wizards, are you trying to steal my Heartbreak Flower again?”

The Dark Lord felt deceived; otherwise, why would a high-ring wizard’s soul follow two low-ring wizards into the Dark World?

What kind of conspiracy was this?

‘Douglas’ calmly looked at Locke and said, “I can temporarily hold off the Dark World’s Grand Lord and open a dimensional portal, but you must help me at the crucial moment to reclaim Douglas’s magical radiance and bring his body back to the Wizarding World.”

“These creatures of the Dark World dare not follow us to the Wizarding World.”

“But I only have the strength for one strike at this moment.”

“Is that alright?”

Locke nodded knowingly. “Alright.”

At this moment, the Dark Lord suddenly burst into laughter; his true form had arrived.

At least his delaying tactic had succeeded.

As long as his true form arrived, everything would be resolved.

At this moment, the Dark Great Evil King exuded an evil aura, and his true form also brought with it some of his demonic and monster legions.

The Dark Evil King laughed heartily.

At this moment, ‘Douglas’ turned to face him, his eyes calm, and took a step forward.

“Without this young friend beside me, I truly lack the power to fight you. But if I borrow his power…”

‘Douglas’ waved his hand, and the Moon of Evolution appeared behind Locke. Simultaneously, his own dragon bloodline boiled, the Dragon Rose flew out automatically, and the Great Crying Dragon Sparrow flew back to the Forest Sanctuary.

Sun and Moon in Harmony!

A magical kingdom domain appeared beneath ‘Douglas’ feet, spreading irrationally throughout this dark world, using his toes as a base.

Countless lightning bolts crackled behind him.

‘Douglas,’ with his hands behind his back, said, ‘I’ve heard of a wizard called the Thunder King, who thinks he’s ahead of his time, invincible, and undefeated. Alas, it’s a pity that there are no heroes in this era, allowing a mere upstart to rise to fame.’

‘This native of the Dark World, watch closely, this is my lightning magic.’

‘Douglas’ drew upon the torrent of life energy from the plane beneath his feet, compressing the lightning energy within his kingdom’s domain, continuously compressing it.

Even the Dark King felt fear.

Because this was no longer a pushover situation.

Before, whether he was dealing with Trajan or other wizards, it was always a three-ring versus a two-ring battle, with the home-field advantage, so it was naturally incredibly easy, and he could fight however he wanted.

Even if he suffered some losses, his health was high, so it wasn’t a big deal.

But now the Dark King sensed that his opponent seemed to be on the same level as him.

The Dark Great Evil King took a few steps back, ‘You…who are you? Who are you all?’

‘Why is there the power of the Black Sun Tower here? What is your relationship with the Black Sun Tower?’

At this moment, all the demons and monsters in the darkness were terrified.

They no longer had the mind to be mere spectators.

The moment Locke revealed the dragon bloodline, these demons and monsters of the dark world all felt fear, terror, and panic. The Black Sun Tower, once the overlord of the dark world, was now its undisputed ruler.

They could no longer watch the show.

‘Douglas’ chanted a spell, and a crimson lightning bolt descended like a whirlwind—a third-ring Attila’s Lightning Chain.

In an instant, the lightning struck the Dark Great Evil King, simultaneously transforming into a chain of lightning that hurtled towards all the demons and monsters in the darkness.

The extremely compressed lightning energy exploded.

Locke looked back at the center of this world, where a withered peach tree stood, along with a… World Tree leaf.

Locke noticed this because the Witch King had forcibly extracted the life energy of this world, forcing the World Tree leaf to manifest, allowing him, with his keen sensitivity to the World Tree’s power system, to discover it.

“Douglas” said, “Locke…”

Locke shook the Great Crying Dragon Sparrow behind him, leaving a trail of fire in the air. Then, he used Golden Wheat to steal the magical radiance of Douglas from the Dark Great Evil King’s right hand.

Immediately afterward, amidst the terrified cries of the demons and monsters, he rushed into the dimensional gate.

(End of Chapter)