Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 301 The Plants' Collective Strike

Locke hid in the mortal buildings of the port city, frowning as he looked towards the Dark Gate in the sky.

It seems that the Dark Wizards Alliance is truly planning a full-scale attack on the White Wizards Association.

“Let’s observe the situation first. I’m not a die-hard Lilith’s Hut, so I can only protect the academy and fulfill my contractual obligations within reasonable limits,” Locke said. “If the situation becomes too dangerous, I should leave here as soon as possible.”

"It would be best to restore the defensive barrier of Lilith's Hut first. As long as a large-scale life force field barrier can be opened, it can effectively stop those dark wizards from attacking Lilith's Hut."

Locke saw a group of skeletons wearing white bone crowns leading a large army of skeletons down the street.

The Skeleton King is a high-level undead life form, and among the black wizard organizations in the southeastern corner of the region, the Bone Cult seems to have conducted the most research in this field.

“Most of the first-ring wizards in the academy seem to have gone out during this time, so was their home raided?” Locke pondered.

The Skeleton King has the ability to summon skeleton mages from corpses, and the skeleton mages have the ability to summon skeleton warriors from corpses. Therefore, a single Skeleton King can raise an army of skeletons in a very short time.

At this moment, the Skeleton King's forces were hunting down mortals in the city. A large number of mortals screamed as they were caught up by the skeletons and mercilessly killed. Then, a skeleton warrior wielding a bone spear crawled out from their corpses.

The Skeleton King laughed heartily, wielding a bone staff. The top of its skull was covered in magic circles, seemingly controlled remotely by a formal wizard of the Bone Order. "Not enough, not enough, not enough! We need more skeleton warriors!"

"Hahaha, the number of enemies is limited, while the number of my skeleton army is increasing every moment."

"The skeleton army should be like the ocean, overwhelming the enemy."

"Kill kill kill."

He pointed the white bone in his hand forward, and several bone blades flew out, landing on the oxcart of a family of three artisans who were fleeing, intending to kill them.

But the next moment, the bone blades suddenly missed their mark and landed elsewhere.

At the same time, all the skeletons present, including the Skeleton King, had their necromancy forcibly deleted and purified in an instant, and one after another, the souls that had been forced to remain in the skeletons were able to leave the bodies of the neither-living nor-dead beings.

Locke walked through the alleyway, his eyes calm.

The sheer number of skeletons was utterly futile against the enduring defensive field of a first-ring wizard.

No matter how many skeletons your army has, they're just a bunch of weaklings. Once the life force barrier is activated, they'll all be forcibly purified.

Necromancy poses no threat whatsoever to a first-ring wizard in the Sea of ​​the Dead during the apprenticeship stage.

The Skeleton King's bones were rapidly decaying, and the soul fire within its skull flickered and leaped incessantly, filled with fear and unease. "A formal... a formal wizard... it's actually a formal wizard."

"No... my skeleton army, ah..."

Its massive skeleton was forced to reveal a dense array of psychic magic runes, and one rune after another was forcibly destroyed under the pressure of the life force field barrier. Then, the various psychic arrays on its body began to shatter.

The soul fire within the Skeleton King's skull could no longer be restrained, and the flames suddenly went out. The skeleton of the Skeleton King knelt on the ground in vain, lowering its skull. The white bone crown on the skull also fell onto the bluestone brick floor and shattered into two halves.

Locke examined the small remaining necromancy array on the Skeleton King's body. "Hmm, the Skeleton School of the Bone Order's necromancy is quite interesting."

"Using a spirit array to force the soul to be bound within the skeleton, forming soul fire, and then letting these skeletons devour each other to form high-level skeleton undead."

Locke examined the skeleton king, using the remaining magic to deduce the characteristics of the Bone Order's universal magical philosophy. "This... there are traces of a wizard apprentice's soul being devoured."

"The souls and bones of those black wizard apprentices who failed in the competition in the Bone Order were used as materials for skeletons, weren't they?"

"Using students as magical materials, that's really making the most of them. No wonder he's a dark wizard."

Locke waved his hand, and the entire Skeleton King began to disintegrate and vanish into thin air.

"I'm afraid the Bone Order will specifically transform some of their outstanding students into these Skeleton Kings. The original form of this Skeleton King was a first-class wizard apprentice..."

"It was created from his body." "Luckily, Raun and I didn't go to the Bone Order back then. What a hellish place that is."

Locke looked in the direction of his residence. "Forget it, I'll go check the defensive barrier around Lilith's cabin first. Returning to my residence won't help if I don't restart the barrier."

Suddenly, the ground trembled again, and Locke's expression turned serious. He looked up at the sky and saw a circle of aurora borealis covering the sky.

"this is……"

"The elements in the environment... have lost their balance, and the wood element is shrinking at an extremely rapid pace."

Locke frowned and looked around. "Have the plants gone on strike? The ecology of the Blood Curse Court is terrible. This is not something they could have done. It must be the Black Wizard Alliance providing them with technical support."

"No wonder Mikoto had to surround the entire Lilith House headquarters, separating the inside from the outside."

After bribing the entire area around Lilith's Hut, the Blood Curse Court caused a large portion of the land's vegetation to cease functioning; the forests began to wither, and the grasslands turned yellow.

After all the plants went on strike, the production of wood element particles in this area plummeted.

Plants are significant to the world's ecology and occupy a very important position.

At this moment, the consequence of all the plants going on strike is that the elemental balance in this region is further out of control.

The climate will gradually become more extreme, the atmospheric composition will change abnormally, arid areas will become even drier, and flood-prone areas will experience more severe flooding, but that's a long way off.

But at this moment, under the deliberate manipulation of the Black Wizards' Alliance, they are using a series of dark magic spells to accelerate the events that will occur after all the plants go on strike.

In other words, they are destroying the entire ecosystem of Lilith's Hut.

“Lilith’s Hut is the domain of botanical wizards,” Locke pondered. “Lilith’s Hut has a large number of public buildings, all of which are part of a special plant ecosystem. I’m afraid there are many other trump cards related to this ecosystem.”

"Is this how you intend to completely sever Lilith's Hut headquarters' ability to retaliate?"

At this moment, under the acceleration of the black magic, Locke could feel the life energy in the air rapidly decreasing, and the oxygen content was also dropping.

After a series of complex changes, even the temperature began to rise slowly. The most troublesome thing is that the headquarters of Lilith's Hut is in a port city, so the coastal area is also part of this special ecosystem.

At this point, the elements lost their balance, and the water, fire, wind, and earth elements all exhibited different characteristics of being out of control.

Wood is the greatest mediator of the four basic elements of the world, but at this moment, it is absent because the plants have gone on strike.

As a result, tsunamis, fires, storms, and landslides have occurred, and even the foundations of cities have crumbled.

This is not something that the ecology of the Blood Curse Court could create; it is the result of a joint spell cast by the dark wizard alliance of the southeastern corner region.

“This is indeed a rare opportunity to observe ecology,” Locke said, a first-ring botanical wizard who had reached the stage of studying overall ecology.

One of the ultimate goals of botany is to use magical plants to create a perfect ecosystem.

For botanical wizards, observing special ecosystems and their various changes can rapidly enhance their understanding of botanical magic.

At this moment, Locke suddenly sensed the intervention of the Nibelungen Astrological System. He relaxed his mental energy, agreed to let the other party's prophetic magic system connect with his mental link.

"You... are Locke Augustine?" Gabriel's voice held a hint of surprise. "Good heavens, I only wanted to use the Nibelungen Astrological System to check how many official wizards were still at the Lilith Hut headquarters."

"Who knew that Locke, you would become a formal wizard? Your magic... did your magic vaporize?"

Gabriel's voice was tinged with astonishment and envy. "How...how did you do that? I'm just a regular, officially recognized wizard."

(End of this chapter)