Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 277 The Seed of the Myriad Jun Grass
Carly gritted her teeth, her lips turning white. As a life form approaching a first-ring wizard, the Lightning Elemental Lord's surface was crisscrossed with currents, like the nascent form of a perpetual defensive force field. This magic continuously backfired on her through the roots of the Guardian Tree.

But in order to gain Locke's complete forgiveness and to make her relationship with Locke closer, turning it into a normal master-disciple relationship, Carrie was going all out at this moment, refusing to undo the control-type plant magic even though her body was trembling.

At this moment, Locke was flying in mid-air, his magical pressure constantly rising. He glanced at Carrie and another first-class wizard apprentice.

After calculating their maximum endurance time, they flew across the thunderstorm zone and arrived above the Thunder Elemental Lord's head. A purplish-black magical pressure accompanied the swing of the Black Lock Bamboo Sword, and spell models of "every plant a soldier" surrounded the rare magical plant, forming emerald green spell models.

The Thunder Elemental Lord sensed the enemy above it and was immediately shocked and enraged. Its body had no detailed outline, resembling a plastic bag floating in mid-air, except that it was composed of bolts of lightning.

The roots of the Guardian Tree were wrapped around its body, and the plant magic spell models on those roots were breaking apart little by little, while the roots of the Guardian Tree were also turning black.

The Thunder Elemental Lord quickly raised his hands, first bringing them together, and then pulling them apart again, revealing a series of violent and unrestrained lightning bolts between his hands.

A voice from a first-ring lightning magic wizard echoed across the wasteland.

A fleeting moment of brilliance is the greatest achievement!

The lightning elemental lord gathered all the electric arcs in its hands and on its body into its palm. Then, it pushed forward, and a highly compressed blue beam of lightning energy shot towards Locke's brow. The moment it passed through the air, it ionized the air, creating arcs of electricity.

This is a magical ring: a beam of positron light!
Locke wanted to use Plant Mimicry: Raptor to dodge, but he suddenly realized that his body was already covered in static electricity from his previous battle with a large number of lightning elements. At this moment, the highly condensed lightning magic would follow him and automatically lock onto him because of the static field on his body.

At this moment, Locke could accurately sense the philosophy of this first-ring lightning magic wizard during this exchange—lightning magic pursues instantaneous power, and all previous exchanges were merely for this moment.

Locke could almost feel a first-ring wizard standing before him, telling him that the real danger of lightning magic was not the flashes of lightning, but the moment of utter silence that followed.

"There's no time to dodge. Then I won't dodge. When paths cross, the brave prevail." Locke's eyes hardened. He raised the Black Lock Bamboo Sword, used the "All Plants Are Soldiers" technique, and poured all his magical pressure into it. Instantly, the Black Lock Bamboo Sword was wrapped in purplish-black magical pressure, forcibly resisting the incoming beam of electric ions, and actually trying to forcefully cleave the magic apart.

Locke activated his ancient biological bloodline, and a natural demonic eye appeared on his forehead. At the same time, he concentrated all his magic power and unleashed a powerful earth elemental magnet, which landed on the lightning elemental lord.

Instantly, all the magical energy on the lightning elemental lord's body was detonated, turning into a violent explosion.

Locke landed on the ground amidst a cloud of dust, panting softly. "I never imagined that I would be outmaneuvered by a lightning elemental lord in this secret realm."

"We should be more cautious in normal times."

"I was too relaxed after passing through two great secret realms. The Black Lock Sword Bamboo was charred, but luckily it happened in a secret realm, not in real life. In reality, my rare magical plant is still safe and sound. If it hadn't happened in a secret realm, my losses would have been too great. I must learn from this. However..." Locke opened his right hand, revealing a Tesla Electric Flower, a seed, and a core crystal of a Thunder Element Lord.

At the last moment, he swiftly flew to the Thunder Elemental Lord and with a single sword strike, cleaved this elemental lord, the most powerful being in this secret realm, in two.

Kill it.

The Electric Flower has a chance to drop only after killing the more powerful lightning elementals in this secret realm, but it now seems that this magical plant can be obtained 100% of the time by killing the Lightning Elemental Lord.

Locke put away the magical plant that Angron had been longing for and placed it into his astral ring.

This magical plant is a potion-consuming type, only usable as a material for making potions. Although I don't need it now, I might need it someday. Therefore, I don't plan to take it out and trade it with Angron.

The Lightning Element Core Crystal is the life core of the Lightning Element Lord. Only slightly higher-level elemental life forms have this body structure, making it a good material for creating golems.

But the last seed made Locke pause for a moment, because it was the seed of a high-level magical plant, a first-level magical plant—[Ten Thousand Pound Grass].

"A good harvest," Locke said. "The Thunder Whip Grass is quite rare even among first-ring magical plants; it belongs to the rare first-ring level of magical plants."

"It is said that the Ten Thousand Jun Grass possesses extremely high intensity of lightning energy, and its whip is incredibly heavy. When combined with the corresponding first-level magic, it becomes the most terrifying weapon."

"I never expected that I could obtain the seeds of this magical plant by killing the lightning elemental lord in this secret realm."

Locke looked at the two first-class wizard apprentices who had rushed over.

Carrie quickly asked, "Senior, are you injured?"

Locke shook his head slightly and said to the two of them, "Let's leave this secret realm. We've already reached our limits. Staying any longer will only increase our burden of death without any additional benefit."

Carrie and another first-class wizard apprentice nodded quickly in agreement.

They had all died in the Wizarding Realm and knew the pain of that kind of death; moreover, it was hard to say whether such a death in the realm would have any side effects.

Although the academy claims there are none, it's not uncommon for first-class wizard apprentices to experience the agonizing pain of death repeatedly after dying once in a secret realm. This suggests that death in a secret realm can indeed cause damage to the soul.

It's only mild.

But if someone's soul is born with a special quality, then he's in big trouble.

After Locke led the two away from the secret realm, he accepted their thanks and returned to his residence alone.

Having used up my three chances in the secret realm, my understanding of first-circle magic has deepened, and I can immediately begin attempting to break through to become a formal wizard.

All that's left is to head to the Forbidden Forest and retrieve the sealed research project. But before that, I need to get the advancement potion and then try to break through to become a formal wizard in the Forbidden Forest.

Locke glanced at Carrie and another first-class wizard apprentice behind him with respect. "With Harun Vera's network of connections protecting me, I don't need to worry about any unexpected trouble at this final moment."

"But it's best not to reveal to anyone that I'm preparing to break through to become a formal wizard. It's not too late to talk about it after I've broken through."

"Although breaking through to become a formal wizard is not bad, I am still a little unwilling. I want to see the true face of that special research project before making a decision, and see which first-circle magic to inscribe on my magic pressure structure."

(End of this chapter)