Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 934

Chapter 929 The Significance of Falling into the Abyss and Atavism

Locke had Douglas and Mason the Witch fetch him paper and pen, and began to work out the equations.

A day later, Locke had designed a complex variation of the Golden Spell using thirty sheets of draft paper. Mason the Witch and Douglas exchanged a glance, both seeing surprise in each other’s eyes.

Without using the Queen’s Chessboard to assist in the deduction, directly making large-scale modifications to the spell model?

Mason Witch exclaimed, “Is this the power of a second-circle archmage?”

Douglas replied, “No, I don’t think most second-circle wizards could do this.”

“It’s just that our leader is so skilled,”

Mason Witch said, puzzled. “But if we used the Queen’s Chessboard, wouldn’t it be faster and better to modify spell models? When I worked with those second-circle wizards, I saw them all using the Queen’s Chessboard to do it.”

Locke suddenly turned to her and said, “Using the Queen’s Chessboard to deduce spell models seems to speed things up and provide assistance, but in reality, compared to a spell model that a wizard adjusts from start to finish, there will be imperceptible deterioration in the spell model.”

Mason Witch looked puzzled.

Douglas, however, seemed to have thought of something and nodded in agreement.

Locke said, “The Queen’s Chessboard is merely a choice made by wizards out of desperation. However, there’s no need to use it for auxiliary deduction of spell models that can be modified quickly.”

“Spell models modified using the Queen’s Chessboard will lack detail.”

“The most terrifying thing is that they’re difficult to detect.”

Locke inserted the Golden Spell into his Atavistic Evolution, and then an Evolutionary Moon appeared behind him. From this moon shot out two enchanted blades, one silver and one gold. The two enchanted blades swirled around a green foxtail grass in front of him, beginning to modify its plant factors and summon the potential hidden within this magical plant.

The green foxtail grass grew wildly, releasing a golden radiance.

It was like the radiance of the sun.

Locke’s spirit was shaken.

“As expected. Just this level of golden magic incorporating into my atavism magic is enough to enhance the positioning accuracy of my atavism.”

“However…”

After transforming into golden foxtail grass, the green foxtail grass didn’t become the golden whip-like wheat in Locke’s hand. Instead, the golden foxtail grass’s spike-like flower swelled up, drooping downwards like lanterns.

Then, this flower swelled like a lamp, emitting a faint glow. Because this mutated foxtail grass absorbed the surrounding light, everything around was dark, except for this lantern-like golden flower emitting a faint glow.

Many previously hidden magical powers in the air were forced to reveal themselves under the influence of this light.

Magical powers that had only existed faintly in the air now appeared incredibly conspicuous.

Everything was dark, yet everything was bright.

This magical plant, like a candle, illuminated things that were originally hidden in the ‘night’.

Because Locke hadn’t infused the plant with the Zero Potion this time, he couldn’t stabilize its form. So, when Locke canceled the Reversion Evolution spell, the plant tore open like ripped clothing, its golden exterior shattering to reveal the green foxtail grass plant inside.

Douglas looked at the green foxtail grass in front of Locke, surprised.

‘This time, there was no damage to the plant. Little Boss’s magic was so powerful.’

Locke had just recorded this scene using the True Sight Crystal Ball. He said to Douglas, ‘Organize the recorded scene, create images using the Illusion School’s spell models, and incorporate them into my article.’

‘If you don’t know how, you can ask the other wizards in Group 2 for help, find a wizard who knows Illusion School magic.’

Douglas immediately took the True Sight Crystal Ball and nodded, ‘Okay, Little Boss.’

He turned and left to find someone to help.

The images created from the spell models of the Illusion School could be of great help, showcasing the wizard’s experimental results in the article.

Locke, however, fell into deep thought.

‘After enhancing the atavism with the preliminary golden spell, it actually exhibited an atavism with higher positioning precision, and produced an additional key plant factor of Golden Wheat.’

‘But… the magical plant characteristics produced by this plant factor are something I’ve never even seen before.’

He had seen Golden Wheat in the past.

By reading the negative energy particle field of the special necromancy hidden within the golden foxtail grass, he created a historical reenactment, entered it, and personally witnessed the boundary between light and darkness filled with Golden Wheat fields. At that time, the boundary between light and darkness was possibly the most powerful wizarding land in the wizarding world.

However, the Golden Wheat he saw then did not exhibit the magical plant characteristics of the lantern-shaped Golden Wheat he had just seen.

Locke guessed that it was most likely a special magical plant factor whose expression had been suppressed during the Golden Wheat’s growth due to other key plant factors.

During its own atavism, it suddenly manifested itself.

This resulted in the emergence of a power that the original version of Golden Wheat did not possess.

This was due to the increased precision of its atavism, and it happened unintentionally.

Locke pondered, “What exactly is the meaning of atavism?”

With his hands behind his back, Locke looked up and began to think, “Emerging evolution is large-scale adaptive evolution that occurs with the help of dimensional information, while atavism is evolution towards the past.”

“Spring Prosperity utilizes the Eternal Spring to maximize the life energy of magical plants, thus producing the special effect of temporarily replicating them.”

Locke thought, “Then what exactly is Summer Prosperity? Spring is the season of burgeoning energy, and this energy burst leads to replication. Summer is the season of rising energy; what is prosperity then?”

“Leaving that aside for now, to increase the chances of my application for special funding being approved, I need to add some special meaning to atavism, preferably something that can help with botany.”

After all, it was easy to imagine how the applications submitted this time would boast about the significance of their technology within magical plant crystallization technology. And magical plant crystallization technology didn’t need their boasting anymore; many wizards believed that this technological development path would completely replace traditional magical plant cultivation techniques in the future. Frankly

, Locke, seeing their confident pronouncements, began to doubt his own common sense.

Many wizards would likely have similar perceptions.

Locke pondered, “Even in the original version of Golden Wheat, the so-called ‘eliminated’ plant factors during the evolutionary process may not truly be eliminated now. Just like that mutated foxtail grass earlier, it suddenly possessed power that the original Golden Wheat didn’t have. This shows that some so-called eliminated plant factors were simply out of step with the times, and cannot be simply equated to being out of step with the times now.”

“Evolution can easily become a linear progression forward. The more advanced something is, the harder it is to go back. Evolution can lead to dead ends.”

Locke seemed to see an ever-forward evolutionary path before his eyes, evolution narrowing the road, while prosperity appeared at each node of this evolutionary path, causing each node to continuously replicate and increase in number.

Only when prosperity and evolution are combined can they create the future!

“Right, evolution can go wrong. Once it hits a dead end, there’s no going back. That’s why we need atavism. The significance of atavism lies in giving plant factors that have unintentionally disappeared during the evolutionary process a chance to reappear.”

“The significance of atavism for botany is that it allows us to find plant factors that can adapt to the current environment from the valuable pool of plant factors that have been evolved away in the past. This is indeed very meaningful to me.

” This is even a research direction.

And for an archaeological wizard, doing this is a great advantage.

Locke wrote these ideas into his application for special grant—

“Atavism gives magical plant evolution that has hit a dead end a chance to start over. There are many aspects of this technology that can be explored in depth.”

Locke exhaled a breath of stale air.

“In this way, in terms of research significance, my research should be able to compete with those articles on the magical plant crystallization technology route. I don’t have to worry about falling behind others in this area.”

“Besides that, I have another guess, though it only came to me recently, but I really need to verify it. It might help me with my application.”

The Moon of Evolution reappeared behind Locke, and he used Reversion Evolution again, forcing the magical plant in front of him to revert to the direction of the Lantern Golden Wheat from before.

Immediately afterward, the special necromancy within the magical plant suddenly manifested.

This was exactly what Locke was waiting for. He quickly seized the moment the faint necromancy appeared, placing his palm on it. Instantly, an incredibly complex spell model emerged from his palm, resembling many clocks superimposed on a large clock.

Locke stepped back, and the countless hour clocks on the spell model began to rotate backward.

With the blessing of his twenty Historical Auras, unlike last time, Locke immediately detected these negative energy particle fields and began to interpret them.

Soon, Locke successfully used Historical Recurrence.

“Borrowing a piece of heaven and earth from the past.”

Locke was engulfed by the magical radiance of history replaying itself. When he opened his eyes again, he saw hundreds of pale giants supporting hundreds of palaces in the distance.

“These so-called pale giants, their predecessors were the high-level divine guards created by the Titans, right? Just like that Sky God King. No, the Sky God King only reached half his potential…”

Locke glanced at the number of giants and was secretly alarmed.

At this moment, Locke indeed saw the group of golden dragons behind him, who were intensely discussing the current situation. At the same time, he saw another mutated dragon hidden among them.

Upon seeing Locke, the mutated dragon grinned maliciously.

“Such pure golden dragon blood. If I eat you, how much will my bloodline power increase?”

“I will eat you.”

This Sun Ring-level mutated dragon immediately chanted a spell.

Sephiroth’s Grip!

But at that moment, Locke and the dragon chanted spells simultaneously, their voices rising and falling in rapid succession, one strong, one weak, one superior, one inferior. The mutated dragon suddenly stopped, puzzled. It looked at Locke strangely, because Locke had chanted the same spell almost simultaneously with him and successfully disrupted his spell with a single incantation.

To do this seemed simple, but it was actually extremely difficult.

Locke looked at the dragon; this was a later form of extraordinary spellcasting—simultaneous counter-spell.

There were two difficulties.

First, complete synchronization was essential, without the slightest misstep.

Second, an astonishing understanding of the spell was required.

Even with these two conditions met, the difference in magical power between the two must be minimal for the spell to be effective.

But this “minimal difference” referred to the difference between wizards possessing ultimate magic. A Sun Ring wizard’s ultimate magic had undergone four refinements, a world of difference compared to Locke’s own, which had only undergone one refinement.

But the problem was…

the mutated dragon before him, possessing Sun Ring-level magical pressure, truly only possessed Sun Ring-level magical pressure.

He hadn’t completed four refinements of his ultimate magic.

Strictly speaking, he was only at the Sun Ring level in terms of magical pressure. A true Sun Ring level wizard refers to a second-ring wizard who has completed four forging of a great magic spell and possesses Sun Ring level magical pressure!

The mutated dragon before him wasn’t even a wizard.

Locke wasn’t even sure where the dragon language magic it used came from.

Therefore, in terms of magical level, the actual difference between him and Locke as a wizard wasn’t that great.

The mutated dragon looked at Locke in surprise.

“How is this possible? What kind of evil trick did you use? Your incantation mixed with mine, how did that disrupt my magic and make my Sephiroth’s Grip fail?”

Locke didn’t answer it.

This was a spellcasting technique from later generations.

The second-ring free area in the Golden Crown Mountain Library had this, but the first-ring free area didn’t. Antoine had used this spellcasting technique when fighting him in the spell-fighting tournament.

The other golden dragons glared angrily at the mutated dragon.

“What is this? How did he infiltrate our ranks?”

“Who knows when he got in? Is he… a spy?”

The pale giants in the distance seemed to have also sensed the presence of the mutated dragon and were chasing after it.

Locke stared at the terrifying mutated dragon. He had only caught it off guard, which didn’t mean he could kill it head-on at this stage. After all, it was a Sun-level being.

He had no chance of winning in a direct confrontation.

‘Last time was too rushed; I was only focused on escaping.’ Sure enough. Just as I guessed, the pale giants’ primary target seemed to be this mutated dragon. The pale giants were chasing this dragon. ‘

Locke thought: ‘I can leave here now.’

‘It seems that the primary target of the Pale Pilgrims in the past wasn’t the Golden Dragon, but the mutated dragon.’

‘I…’

The mutated dragon in front of him suddenly broke off the finger of its left claw. As the finger broke off, it turned into a ball of black energy and disappeared.

In an instant, a gate to the abyss appeared behind Locke.

Locke turned back in astonishment to look at the abyss gate.

“This…this isn’t golden magic anymore. This is…no way, this is genuine abyssal energy. The abyss is an energy world; energy is a concept, it’s life. Abyssal energy appearing in this projection of the past within this historical reenactment…then isn’t the other side very likely the real abyss world?”

At this moment, the mutated dragon was looking at Locke with immense fear.

“This technique…”

“The power of your bloodline…the Tower of the Black Sun, you are the demonic dragon of the Tower of the Black Sun. Are you here to hunt me down?”

“Hahaha…I’d rather not eat you and enhance my bloodline than not kill you.”

“Fall into the abyss. This is a method I specially prepared for you demonic dragons.”

“Hahaha…”

The abyssal energy belonging to the Eye Demon in Locke’s eyes suddenly erupted, and in that instant, he was directly absorbed into the abyss gate.

Locke said, ‘Damn it.’

‘Now this clone of mine is going to fall into the abyss.’ This

is also one of the uses of clones. It’s best not to participate in dangerous experiments with your main body, but if something happens to the clone, there’s still a chance to recover.

(End of Chapter)