Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 996

Chapter 988 Regional Association Fund and the Ultimate Magic: False Serpent Corpse Vine!

The vaporization wizard hesitated. If he led Locke and Heidi escaped, he would offend her, and if Locke left, he would be doomed.

But the next moment, he suddenly spat out a mouthful of black blood at Locke, containing pale green filaments. Locke remained calm; his Permanent Defense Field blocked them. His innate magical eye instantly detected plant spores mixed in with the blood, constantly dispersing into the air.

Therefore, he took out a wizard’s mask from his second-ring exploration suit from his astral ring.

This would prevent the spores from entering his body through respiration.

Locke glanced at the wizard and noticed that he was completely controlled by spores in his blood, with mycelium-like structures appearing on his skin. It seemed this wizard had been sabotaged from the beginning by his colleague at Golden Crown Mountain, who had fed him spores containing fungal magical plants. When he tried to betray her, these spores lurking in his blood would erupt.

Locke used the magical plant’s information to access Heidi’s file and found that she had published one article in a second-ring, first-zone journal, seven articles in second-ring, second-zone journals, and many other journals of various levels. She had also won numerous breeding competitions in lower-level wizarding territories, and she was likely over fifty years old. In a sense, she was a breeding genius, a wizarding genius, with a bright future, at least within the Golden Crown Mountain Academy system.

Although she was currently only a tenured lecturer at Golden Crown Mountain, she still had the potential to become a full-fledged wizarding instructor. Logically, it was hard to believe she would so drastically ruin her future.

Locke discovered that this witch’s greatest expertise lay in the breeding and development of mushroom-type magical plants, possessing numerous related developments. Among them, she had developed three classic mushroom-type magical plants: the Stalactite Boletus, the Neon Umbrella Mushroom, and the Death Green Hat Mushroom. The

Stalactite Boletus is an agricultural magical plant, a second-circle magical plant, capable of enhancing the overall vitality and accelerating the growth of second-circle earth-attribute magical creatures, as well as increasing their magical pressure. It was her proudest creation, and it was with this creation that she won multiple championships in the Cloud Marsh Wetlands, earning her the qualification to remain and teach at Golden Crown Mountain.

The Neon Umbrella Mushroom is a glowing mushroom weapon-type magical plant. The mushroom contains a special energy-locking structure that can release a spell-like ability—rainbow rays—with high thermal damage. This is a second-circle magical plant that can decompose the corpses of magical creatures, producing an enzymatic bioluminescent reaction through a complex mechanism, thereby releasing powerful rainbow rays.

The glowing mushroom-type magical plant possesses the unique ability to convert bio-energy into light energy.

The Death Green Hat Mushroom, however, is a poisonous mushroom, a type of star-ring mushroom. Even if a star-ring wizard ingests it, the chance of death is extremely high. This appears to be a special type of spore-derived toxin; high temperatures, acid treatments, and electric shocks cannot destroy it. It can penetrate deep into a wizard’s cells, disrupting the organism’s ability to synthesize normal cells, causing acute organ failure, and rendering the wizard or the target completely unable to regenerate.

In other words, this breeder had previously been pursuing the development of mushroom-type magical plants.

Logically speaking, this should have absolutely nothing to do with this so-called undead magical plant.

Her three most prized magical plants are simply three different research directions within mushroom magical plants. Frankly, it’s already remarkable for a wizard to be proficient in one direction, let alone so many.

Locke glanced at the wizard in the vaporization stage before him, knowing that the other party had likely been poisoned by the Death Green Hat Mushroom, and that Heidi the witch was clearly trying to attack him by activating the spore-derived toxin of the Death Green Hat Mushroom.

She hadn’t expected her innate magical eye to possess such astonishing insight, and immediately reacted, donning her wizard’s mask. “Heidi, I’m tired of playing cat and mouse with you.”

The crimson peach in Locke’s hand coiled around his wrist, transforming into a magical plant weapon resembling a tree claw—this was the Peach Guardian Spell! A Great Roaring Dragon Sparrow appeared before him, then, empowered by his two ultimate spells, it rapidly flew towards the depths of the laboratory, destroying anything in its path with Attila’s Chain Lightning spell.

Simultaneously, the Great Roaring Dragon Sparrow swiftly approached the witch’s location.

It wasn’t just that Locke’s combat power was exceptionally strong; among Star Ring wizards, he lacked experience. However, the opponent’s ultimate spells seemed extremely unstable due to her fusion with the undead plant, preventing her from displaying the normal combat power of a Star Ring wizard.

Deep within the laboratory, Heidi the Witch was observing the entire facility through the Frost Magic Mirror. She sensed the Great Roaring Dragon Sparrow rapidly approaching, and her expression turned grim.

“Damn wizards,”

Heidi the witch grumbled.

“One, two, none of them want anything good for me. I’m just trying to explore the truth. Without the constraints of ethics and morality, my exploration will be much faster. Are all those high-ring wizards really innocent?”

“Am I the only one in the dark, and everyone else is white?”

Heidi the Witch stared at the Ganoderma lucidum plant, frantically sending messages to Association President Fula.

It was Association President Fula who had invited her to the Tianjiang Riverbank, promising her protection if she joined and brought all her projects and patents there.

“Fula, you ungrateful liar, you opportunistic villain!”

Heidi the Witch thought, her eyes dark and unsettling as she swept her gaze across her apprentices, her expression frantic.

She continued sending messages to Association President Fula like crazy.

“Didn’t you say you’d help me establish a wizarding academy on the Tianjiang Riverbank?”

“Didn’t you swear everything would be fine?”

“You kept inviting me to participate in your Tianjiang Riverside White Wizard Association’s ‘Tianjiang Riverside Fund,’ telling me to apply, and even saying that as long as I came, I would definitely get approval. I could get your association’s funding support to find a local wizarding academy to collaborate on a course for related commercial development. And what happened? After I arrived, you immediately told me there were competitors, what’s with that Rose witch? Tell me!”

The next moment, Heidi’s message to Association President Fura was rejected.

Heidi instantly unleashed her magical pressure, her dark pupils filled with rage.

Star Ring Wizards, to some extent, are already cross-wizard level beings, able to have interests in multiple wizarding realms, completely different from ordinary second-ring wizards.

The commercial development zones in the wizarding world are essentially based on academies and shop alliances. Therefore, to tender for interdimensional warfare weapons, President Fura plans to combine the highest-level Tianjiang Riverbank Fund with the funds allocated to shop alliances or wizarding academies along the Tianjiang River, allowing them to offer courses. These courses

will cultivate wizards in specific fields, increasing talent in that area.

This is also how Star Ring wizards apply for local White Wizarding Association funds outside their own academies: by becoming guest or honorary instructors at other wizarding academies, offering courses, securing projects, and applying for funding.

However, this only applies to high-ring wizards in top-tier institutions in upper-level wizarding territories; for wizarding academies in lower-level wizarding territories… (The sentence is

incomplete and requires further context to translate accurately.) The wizards within the academy could afford to play this game.

However, it was clear that Association President Fula was diversifying her bets, not placing her hopes on one side. But the desperate Heidi witch, at this moment, obviously believed the promises made when she was summoned.

Meanwhile, Locke, using the Great Roaring Dragon Sparrow, pinpointed the opponent’s location and charged into the laboratory, using

his innate magic eye to perceive danger and anticipate crises. The Crimson Gold Peach, under the influence of the Peach Guardian Curse, transformed into a peach tree claw. Due to its ability to absorb all the gold in the world, it was incredibly heavy and unstoppable, crushing any mushrooms that attacked it with a single swipe of its claw.

By the time he reached Heidi witch, he had entered the deepest part of the laboratory and saw a… The corpse of a wizard apprentice lay in the depths.

At this moment, the deepest part was clearly the Ice Mirror Chamber, where a magic mirror worth at least fifty million magic stones was installed. Locke’s eyes flashed with surprise.

He couldn’t use the other equipment in this laboratory, and the laboratory data was basically useless to him.

He had to hand it over to the White Wizard Association.

But this Ice Mirror Chamber was an unexpected delight.

Now, only one first-class wizard apprentice remained in the Ice Mirror Chamber. This first-class wizard apprentice had a magic pressure of 500, and his wizard robes bore the emblem of Mount Golden Crown, clearly indicating he was a Golden Crown wizard apprentice kidnapped here by the witch Heidi.

At this moment, the wizard apprentice slumped to the ground in despair, looking fearfully at the witch Heidi, who resembled a demon.

“Teacher, calm down, it’s me, it’s Trix… Please don’t kill me too. It’s me…”

The witch Heidi held a shield-shaped mushroom, which continuously gathered magical energy, preparing to unleash a rainbow of light upon his body. That was the Neon Umbrella Fungus, the Star Ring Magic Plant she had developed.

Locke thought for a moment and understood her purpose; clearly, it was intentional.

Killing these apprentices wasn’t out of spite or complete madness, but rather to show him that she really could kill.

Then, she attacked this first-class wizard apprentice from Golden Crown Mountain, intending for him to rescue her, thus creating an opportunity for her to escape or retaliate.

These were things an apprentice couldn’t possibly understand, so despite the apprentice’s constant pleas to Heidi, she remained coldly indifferent.

“Good boy, you are a good boy. You’ve followed me for so long. Other students secretly report me, but you are the most loyal. Not only do you not report me, but you also proactively tell me about those who do. When other wizard apprentices wanted to apply to me but were secretly discouraged by my other students, you told me everything.”

Heidi smiled.

The wizard apprentice pleaded hastily, “Yes, yes, Master, I’m utterly loyal to you. I’ve never betrayed you, and I’ll tell you everything that happens in private.”

Heidi the Witch smirked, her eyes crazed.

“Doesn’t that just prove I’m worth it? Now, do me a little more. Die, Trix.”

Locke watched calmly.

Heidi’s expression changed slightly when she saw Locke’s lack of intention to stop her. She looked at Locke with a cold smile.

“Committee Member, as a member of the Ethics and Morality Review Committee, you saw me about to kill the Golden Crown Mountain apprentice with my own hands, and you didn’t stop me. Tsk tsk, it seems we’re the same kind of people, both ruthless in achieving our goals. You’ve violated your principles, and so have I. We’re evenly matched; we shouldn’t be enemies.”

Locke raised an eyebrow, pointing to the Peach Tree Claw on his right hand.

“Peach Guardian Curse, can be absorbed once, and only once from magic killed by the Peach Guardian Curse before I willingly give up. Heidi Witch, I’ve destroyed quite a few of your Death Green Hat Mushrooms along the way. You’re finished, Heidi.”

Heidi Witch’s expression changed drastically. She spat out a stream of blackish-green blood, and her hands began to rot and decay. This was because the Death Green Hat Mushroom’s spore toxins could inhibit human cell synthesis and rapidly cause cell apoptosis, leading to acute multi-organ failure in an organism. At this moment, her hands were naturally destroyed, and the Neon Umbrella Mushroom, a Star Ring Magic Plant, fell to the ground.

Heidi Witch turned and glared angrily at Locke.

“Committee member, your victory was unfair. You actually used my magic to attack me…”

Locke shook his head. “Heidi, for a wizard, his greatest weapon is composure. And you have clearly lost that ability. Your perception has declined to such an extent that you didn’t even notice the spore toxins you created permeating the air.” “The spore toxins of the Death Green Hat Mushroom are indeed very potent.” “

President Fura is probably preparing to invite you to join the Tianjiang Coast and compete for the Tianjiang Riverbank Foundation, isn’t she?”

Heidi the Witch’s face showed surprise.

“She told you? That bitch betrayed me?”

Locke said, “You misunderstand. You’re too sensitive. Heidi, the Tianjiang Riverbank Fund is the largest fund this wizarding region branch can issue.” “It’s normal for Fula to invite you to participate. It’s just that this kind of wizarding region-level fund is deeply tied to the development direction of the local wizarding region. In other words, it has long been targeted. Me, Rose, and perhaps many others, even some dark wizards. Because they all know that obtaining this fund will give them a huge advantage and the full support of the White Wizarding Association.”

“Heidi, you have no hope.” “

In this sense, Association President Fula has indeed played you.”

The first-ring fund, the second-ring fund, and the special-grade funding are all issued by the White Wizarding Association headquarters, and the key individual sub-projects are also issued by the White Wizarding Association headquarters.

But the Tianjiang Riverbank Fund is just a wizarding region-level fund, and its size and level are related to the level of the local White Wizarding Association.

This is something that the local association can decide on its own.

Heidi the Witch roared, trying to stand up, but her feet, poisoned by the Death Green Hat Mushroom, began to fester and turn to pus. “That bitch Fura,”

Locke said, taking a wary half-step back.

“In a way, the reason you couldn’t join the White Wizard Association is because I contacted the Tide Wizarding Tower beforehand. Fura probably arranged for them to invite you to join, to be affiliated with the Tide Wizarding Tower, but it seems they’ve already made their decision between us.” “But Heidi, you’re too crazy. Your current state seems strange to me; I feel like you’re being controlled by some kind of magic.” Heidi roared, “No one can control me. What can the poison of a mere Death Green Hat Mushroom do to me?”

She opened her mouth, and a withered vine attacked Locke.

The Great Crying Dragon Sparrow in the sky automatically descended, attaching itself to Locke’s back, then quickly moved him in place, dodging the attack of the withered vine.

Heidi the Witch laughed heartily.

“Hahaha… This is my power! Look, this is the power of my exploration of truth…”

Locke paused in mid-air, observing the situation and dodging all of the opponent’s attacks.

“It’s not that I’m truly afraid of her, it’s just that her current state makes me feel very strange.”

“Someone tricked her into fusing with the undead plant; she’s now partly undead.” “

And her current mental state seems to be controlled by some kind of magic.”

Locke’s innate demonic eye opened, and the gaze of a ferocious beast silently observed the witch’s situation.

“Found her.”

He caught the moment Heidi used magic; she vaguely made some connection with the corpse of an apprentice on the ground. Clearly, the other party had been pretending to be a corpse, whether to evade his investigation or to ambush him.

In any case, it didn’t matter.

Because he had found him.

Heidi turned around, seemingly about to use the withered demonic plant in her throat to destroy the Ice Mirror Chamber. The opponent had successfully grasped his greatest need—to protect the Ice Mirror Chamber.

Because she needed to turn and attack the equipment behind her, luring Locke to protect the Ice Mirror Chamber, and then perhaps the guy who had been pretending to be an apprentice’s corpse would suddenly make his move.

This was probably why he had manipulated Heidi to kill so many apprentices.

The next moment, Heidi’s withered vines touched the Mirror Chamber, but Locke ignored them. The magical power of the Death Green Hat Fungus on his peach tree claw dissipated, and he attacked the corpse directly, intending to use the Peach Guardian Spell to seize its magical power. Anyway,

the Ice Mirror Chamber was protected by a magic array; such a large piece of equipment couldn’t be completely destroyed in a short time. He could simply find someone to repair it. But this mastermind behind the fall of the wizards of Golden Crown Mountain had to be eliminated first!

Just as Locke’s Peach Tree Claw was about to touch the corpse, the apprentice’s “corpse” on the ground suddenly rolled over.

He appeared to be a middle-aged man with stitched marks on his forehead, only one eye, the other tightly closed. Simultaneously, as the Peach Tree Claw was about to touch him, countless withered vines sprouted from the ground, enveloping his body, leaving only his one open eye exposed.

“Crack!”

The Peach Tree Claw drew magical sparks from the withered vines on his body.

A somber incantation reached Locke’s ears, and immediately, withered vines erupted from the ground. At the same time, the witch Heidi behind Locke quickly switched targets, summoning withered vines to attack Locke.

Under this double attack, Locke spun around, the Peach Tree Claw arcing through the air, slicing all the surrounding vines in half.

Only then could the “corpse” barely dodge . Locke’s attack merely severed most of the withered vines that had been binding his body, leaving a large gash on his chest.

Clearly, if he hadn’t suddenly counterattacked, Locke’s blow would have cleaved him in two.

Heidi, the witch, clutched her head in a daze.

The middle-aged necromancer chuckled softly, “You actually saw through me. No wonder you’re a wizard from Golden Crown Mountain.” The first-class wizard apprentice in the Ice Mirror chamber looked at the man in terror.

“My lord…you…you’re not dead?”

the necromancer chuckled dryly.

Heidi, clutching her head, clearly in a terrible pain, looked at the necromancer who had suddenly appeared before her with a mixture of confusion and shock.

A series of voices reached Heidi’s ears.

The necromancer chuckled, “Fool, didn’t you realize your teacher was my puppet from beginning to end? Just a first-class wizard apprentice after all. I’ve actually been controlling the entire lab. Oh well, I’ve already gained too many experimental results thanks to this witch.” “

The academic level of the wizards of Golden Crown Mountain is indeed impressive.”

“Through her, I’ve obtained quite a bit. I originally thought I could get even more experimental data, but unfortunately, I’ve been targeted by the ethics review committee of your White Wizarding Association. Tch, what a nuisance.” “

Boy, you can die now.”

The necromancer raised his hand, reaching for the first-class wizard apprentice. The next moment, he appeared before the apprentice, his palm touching the wizard’s chest.

The apprentice immediately broke out in a cold sweat, his mouth agape as if he were gasping for breath.

He felt he was about to die.

But in reality, Locke held the necromancer’s hand, looking at him coldly.

The first-class wizard apprentice’s pupils dilated, and he slumped to the ground. For a moment, he seemed to see death, and he felt that he was already dead.

But in fact, he hadn’t.

The first-class wizard apprentice looked at Locke and said, “Committee Member.”

The necromancer looked at Locke, “Have you seen the Heart-Piercing Spell?”

“Committee Member.”

Locke smiled faintly. “This   unfamiliar dark wizard

, I didn’t provoke you, yet you dare to provoke me. This person is a student of my Golden Crown Mountain, and you want to kill him in front of me? Do you take me for granted?” The necromancer grinned.   ”You must have seen the Heart-Piercing Spell, but seeing it and being able to easily stop it are two different things. This white wizard’s so-called committee member, it seems you have some strength.” ”   Hehehe. This is a twelfth-circle spell.”   The witch Heidi, standing to the side, clutched her head and screamed in pain.   ”This… what is this…”   The necromancer looked at her.   ”I see, as expected of a Star Ring Wizard, she still retained some of her mind even after my necromancer whispers.”   ”I thought I had completely destroyed her mind.”   The witch Heidi screamed, clutching her head.   ”Something appeared in my mind. I… Committee member… protect my student Trix, I’m beyond saving.” A glimmer of clarity flashed in Heidi’s eyes.   ”My body has fused with the necromancer plant, I’ve become a necromancer controlled by him. This necromancer is the mastermind behind instigating me to violate academic ethics. He…”   Heidi’s last shred of sanity vanished again, and at the same time, her immense magic began to crumble.   This caused a massive fluctuation in the surrounding magical tides. The   surrounding magical energy surged, impacting again and again.   The necromancer’s expression turned serious.   ”It seems to have failed.” ”   This experiment has failed again. It’s indeed difficult to control a wizard with immense magic in this way.”   Locke looked at the necromancer and said, “Let me ask you a question. You said the Heart-Piercing spell is a twelfth-circle spell, so you shouldn’t be a native wizard of the wizarding world. Where are you from?”   The necromancer revealed a strange smile.   ”Ignorant and arrogant wizards of the modern magical age. I am a wizard of the wizarding world.”   ”Just not of this era.”   ”Truly ignorant. You think you’ve won? Have you really won? Standing at the crossroads of time, you are terrified, you don’t know where the future leads. If you truly knew the right path, we wouldn’t have reappeared. I come from… the Dark Ages.” Locke’s gaze was serious. “The Dark Ages? Someone told me that in that era, they didn’t want anyone to break through to the second circle.” The necromancer’s gaze shifted slightly. He looked Locke up and down, as if he had gleaned something from his words, but he quickly realized what he meant.   ”I don’t know why, but you seem to possess something I despise. Yet you are still an arrogant wizard of the modern magical age who knows nothing.”   He extended his left hand, which Locke hadn’t controlled, and placed it on Locke’s chest.   The next moment, a spell model array appeared in his palm.   But the next moment, Locke’s Peach Tree Claw swung, severing Locke’s arm in an instant.   ”Great Magic: False Serpent Corpse Vine!”   A huge, withered vine appeared behind him, looking just like a giant serpent, which swooped down to attack Locke.   The giant serpent’s attack was incredibly fierce, and it seemed to have a special resistance to botanical magic. Locke’s life magic began to automatically collapse upon contact with it. “Bang!”   The Peach Guardian Spell collided with the fake serpent corpse vine, and Locke was sent flying.   The witch Heidi immediately spat out the dried vine from her mouth and attacked Locke.   The necromancer seemed extremely excited.   ”My necromancy completely counters you botanical wizards. Moreover, I even seduced the wizards of your Golden Crown Mountain, making them upgrade my necromancy for me. Using your laboratory, I made my necromancy 2.0 version, so I can keep up with the times.”   ”Die, Commissioner.”   ”This witch is unusable. I didn’t expect that even after using some tricks to deceive her and afflict her with my necromancy whispers,” “I still couldn’t successfully turn her into a zombie. But Commissioner, you… I can try. Watch me inject the corpse poison into your body.” The fake serpent corpse vine attacked Locke.   Faced with a pincer attack, logically, Locke should have unleashed his ultimate magic. However, his supernatural intuition suddenly warned him that if he released his ultimate magic, he would die instantly or be rendered helpless.   Locke climbed out from the laboratory wall, hunched over, coughing up blood.   ”I said… Dark Wizard, don’t destroy my Ice Mirror Chamber.”   The necromancer was stunned. “What?”   The next moment, a towering arrow appeared in front of him and struck him directly in the head. In an instant, his head was destroyed by Locke’s Peach Blossom Thorn Arrow.   The Peach Blossom Thorn Arrow possesses the power to ward off evil and is specifically effective against necromancy.   Moreover, this was a combination of the Peach Blossom Thorn Arrow, the Spring Thunder Arrow, and the Spirit Breath Divine Arrow.   The Spirit Breath Divine Arrow can infiltrate into the opponent’s life force, providing tracking and concealment, as well as 100% defense penetration. This was a spell that Catherine the Witch favored in her second-circle stage, possessing unparalleled destructive power.   This arrow directly destroyed the wizard’s head.   Instantly, his fake snake-corpse vine let out a miserable scream, and then, as if the magic had been backfired, it was suddenly bounced back and slammed into his body.   Meanwhile, the power of the undead whispers on Heidi’s body diminished instantly, and she temporarily broke free from control.   ”Committee member… he went into hiding, taking advantage of my fleeting observation of the mechanism by which the mushroom-like magical plants decomposed corpses to pique my curiosity, leading me to study the undead magical plants. In my relentless pursuit of truth, pushing the boundaries of ethics, my soul sank infinitely into darkness. I blurred the lines between life and death, but I never imagined I would be the first to suffer the backlash.”   ”I’m beyond saving. Committee member, kill me. Don’t let him continue to taint my soul, taint Golden Crown Mountain. He has a wealth of incriminating evidence; he wants to ruin Golden Crown Mountain’s honor. You must kill him, or at least deprive him of his evidence—specifically, the evidence of me. Also… please bring my student back to Golden Crown Mountain. Although he has done many bad things and is not innocent, I am willing to bear all the blame.” “Put all the blame on me. These students have no choice but to obey their teacher.”   ”Committee member, please give these young people a chance to repent.”

The next moment, the necromancer’s whispering magic surged again from Heidi’s body. Her eyes glazed over, then her gaze shifted to that of the necromancer. “Damn it!”

the necromancer raged.

“You even have this kind of attack method? I couldn’t see your attack trajectory at all, and you actually ambushed me. I won’t give you another chance.” His original head, or rather the head of the body he was using, had been destroyed by the Spirit Arrow, so his consciousness directly entered Heidi’s body.

“I am a twelfth-circle necromancer, I am a master of the Dark Ages.”

“Modern wizard, don’t underestimate me.”

The fake snake vine reappeared behind him.

Locke finally understood why he had sensed danger earlier.

“Your ultimate magic… can parasitize other people’s ultimate magic… Your current ultimate magic is parasitizing Heidi’s ultimate magic; you have no original body. You’ve been living by parasitizing other people’s ultimate magic, which is why you’re so eager to create a second-ring wizard zombie so you can find your original body.” “

Are you a wizard from the Pale Pilgrimage?”

“No, while your magic is related to the Pale Pilgrimage, some of your spells are very primitive. You’re definitely not a modern necromancer. Who are you?”

Seeing that Locke had realized this, the necromancer did something strange. He turned to control Heidi and the body he was using to escape, immediately determining that he had no hope of winning this battle.

Because at this moment, he didn’t have a fully activated Astral Ring power.

His only chance of winning was to trick Locke into revealing his ultimate magic.

But the problem was, Locke was so cunning, not using ultimate magic at all, not giving him a chance to use necromancy.

A fierce killing intent flashed in Locke’s eyes.

“Trying to leave? Get back here.”

He realized the opponent’s immense magic was extremely strange, considered peculiar and powerful even among necromancers. Therefore, he transformed the Crimson Gold Peach from its claw form into a bow and arrow, then summoned the Sky-Supporting Jujubes. He casually plucked three jujube branches and began shooting them at the wizard’s back. In an instant, Heidi the witch was struck by an arrow, and the necromancer’s body was also struck. The three jujube arrows instantly transformed into spring thunder, erupting in a flash to destroy both bodies.

In a single instant, both bodies were completely destroyed.

Locke then plucked the fourth jujube branch and shot an arrow at the vine snake.

He intended to kill this strange necromancer to fulfill Heidi the witch’s dying wish and eliminate the threat to himself and Golden Crown Mountain. However, just as the arrow struck the serpent, it seemed to shatter a glass marble on the laboratory table. In an instant, an immense spell appeared above the serpent’s head: the Yellow Spring Heavenly Wheel.

Locke’s eyes were strange. He had initially thought the other party had no connection to the black wizards along the Tianjiang River, but it turned out the other party had used a special magical artifact to summon the Yellow Springs Wheel.

At this moment, the Yellow Springs Wheel opened six worlds in this space, a wind of the Yellow Springs blew out, and countless vengeful spirits crawled out from within.

Locke hesitated for a moment, because if he used the Great Spring Breeze Dragon Sparrow Spell now, he could ride the Great Roaring Dragon Sparrow to catch up and try to completely destroy this immense magic without a physical body for protection. After all, once this thing occupied a physical body, it could become a troublesome opponent, with its limits uncertain.

But after thinking about it, Locke paused.

It was an option,

but the dragon lich behind the Yellow Springs Wheel might very well detect the demonic dragon bloodline in his body.

And at this moment, he didn’t have absolute confidence in victory.

“Either strike a fatal blow, or prepare for a powerful attack,”

Locke pondered. “I’ve only just entered the Star Ring Wizard realm, and there’s a gap in combat strength between me and the Dragon Lich. Besides, he has a century of accumulated experience and a mysterious identity. If I enter the Yellow Springs Wheel’s range and he senses my dragon bloodline and locks onto me by the Yellow Springs Wheel’s Star Ring gravity, then I’ll be in trouble.”

“Never mind.”

“I’ll just play along.”

At this moment, Locke, who had already locked onto and was about to shoot the powerful magic, the Fake Serpent Corpse Vine’s Spirit Arrow, suddenly pretended to be pulled by the Yellow Springs Wheel’s dimensional gravity, deviating from its position and shooting directly into the Yellow Springs Wheel’s Dragon Yellow Springs Realm.

A jujube-shaped arrow disappeared into the Yellow Springs Realm.

The necromancer was immediately furious, annoyed at his humiliation.

“You remember this, arrogant modern wizard. I am the Withered Vine Ancestor from the Dark Ages, from the Withered Vine World, a subsidiary civilization of wizarding civilization.”

“I’ll remember this grudge.”

Locke watched coldly as he disappeared before his eyes, his arrow having indeed struck the Yellow Springs Heavenly Wheel and concealed itself through spiritual energy.

“The Yellow Springs Heavenly Wheel’s forging level is ultimately only at the Star Ring level. A wizard cannot fully master massive magic, especially one as enormous as the Yellow Springs Heavenly Wheel. This can bring advantages, but also disadvantages.”

The difference in control over the details between massive magic spells of the same forging level but different sizes should be enormous.

The Yellow Springs Heavenly Wheel was forged from six medium-sized worlds, which also meant it was easy to send one’s power inside without being detected by the dragon lich. “There’s no need for a premature showdown with them. Let’s see who they really are first,”

Locke pondered. “And if I’m not mistaken, they definitely want control of the Tianjiang Riverfront as well, so they must also be eyeing this regional association-level fund project. Rose, me, them, the investment bank, and others—we’re all probably eyeing the Tianjiang Riverfront regional association-level fund.”

However, regional association-level funds differ from headquarters funds. There’s more room for maneuver and more personal connections involved. After all, there aren’t as many wizards involved; the Tianjiang Riverfront is a semi-familiar society.

This is the biggest difference between regional and headquarters funds.

If headquarters funds are basically devoid of personal connections, then regional funds are full of them.

After all, a smaller pool attracts more powerful forces.

Locke remembered that one of the judges for the Tianjiang Riverfront fund was the wizard Jikunyue from the White Ice Tower.

Locke looked at the largely undamaged Ice Magic Mirror Chamber before him, nodding slightly in satisfaction. His biggest gain this time was directly acquiring such a Ice Magic Mirror Chamber worth fifty million magic stones.

Since this thing was secretly built by Heidi the Witch, it definitely doesn’t belong to anyone; whoever finds it owns it. “Teacher, teacher.”

“This is truly a wonderful job.”

“And while I’m at it, I’ll go check on the construction of the Great Azure Leaf Dragon Sparrow service station at the Tide Witch Tower.”