Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 316 The Cruel Deal Behind the Scenes

Locke composed himself. "But Dean, can a Crystallization Wizard curse me from a distance?"

Dean Earl Thompson laughed and said, "Of course not. The difference between first-ring wizards is not that great. Even a second-ring wizard cannot kill you without ever having seen you or had any contact with you."

"But actually you have a flaw that you revealed to the female leader of the Ghostly Holy Cult."

"You killed one of her official wizards. The Ghost Cult is different from other wizarding organizations. The entire dark wizarding organization is actually her personal property. All wizards of the Ghost Cult must separate a wisp of their soul during their student years and place it into their magical artifact, the Soul Torch. From then on, their life and death are in the hands of the Ghost Cult's leader."

“But it is actually a combination spell,” Headmaster Earl Thompson explained. “You killed one of her first-circle wizards, and your soul remains in that soul torch. With that, she can cast a ritual spell on you to drag you into the River Styx.”

"Only one chance."

"Similarly, anyone who kills her first-ring wizard can do the same. Therefore, the Soul Torch is both a magical artifact to protect the official wizards of the Ghost Cult and a trap to eliminate the enemies of the Ghost Cult."

"Even if someone kills a wizard of the Ghostly Holy Church, the crystallized wizards of the Ghostly Holy Church can use this to kill the wizard who killed their official wizard."

"To be honest, you shouldn't have killed the Ghostly Wizard so casually. Ghostly Wizards are the best at preserving their lives, and not only are they good at preserving their lives, they are also good at taking their killers with them before they die."

Dean Earl Thompson instructed Locke.

Locke felt a cold sweat break out; the problem lay in this very aspect.

Because he didn't understand the treachery of ghostly arts, he stepped into the other party's trap. Fortunately, he has a wizarding organization behind him, otherwise, the situation he just faced would have been relatively unsolvable.

Locke asked, "Dean, thank you again. But have you been staying in this building the whole time?"

Dean Earl Thompson chuckled, “Yes. This is a trap specifically set for those dark wizards, but I must stay in this building to turn the tide at the crucial moment.”

“To prevent the situation from really getting out of control.” Dean Earl Thompson glanced at Locke and said, “Besides, there were indeed signs that the situation was really getting out of control before.”

“I had already planned to give up on the plan, but you gave me a surprise, so I persuaded the college’s higher-ups to place their hopes on the ecological transformation plan you proposed, and you completed the task perfectly, just as I expected.”

Dean Earl Thompson laughed and said, "I knew you could do it. You truly are an outstanding graduate of our Lilith Hut."

"This is actually a deal. The White Wizard Association made huge concessions with its resources, which is why we agreed to make our Lilith Hut an important battlefield node in the war between the White Wizard Association and the Black Wizard Alliance."

Dean Earl Thompson's expression turned serious. "The losses are just a bit greater than we imagined."

"The number of black wizards in the southeastern corner region has grown so rapidly."

Dean Earl Thompson muttered to himself, “It’s time to begin a great purge. What has happened in the past will always happen again, and what has been in the past will always reappear.”

History is a circle.

“Our Lilith Cottage suffered considerable losses this time. The deal I made didn’t yield as much profit as I had hoped.” Locke sensed that there seemed to be some information hidden within this, information that he was not yet qualified to know.

Therefore, he keenly sensed from the academy head's words that there seemed to be some connection between the black wizard society and the white wizard society.

Indeed, I should have realized earlier that it's impossible for two seemingly completely different and isolated societies to suddenly appear in a wizarding world.

The Black Wizard Society and the White Wizard Society are like two completely isolated worlds.

But this is unreasonable. Even if there is a historical period in which a wizarding world forms two factions, generally speaking, this period is unlikely to last too long.

Moreover, the gap between the social structures of the two camps should not be as large as it is now.

There must be some connection between the Black Wizard Society and the White Wizard Society; the two societies must have been the same one long ago.

It's just unclear whether the White Wizarding Society separated from the Black Wizarding Society, or whether the Black Wizarding Society separated from the White Wizarding Society.

After learning the whole truth, Locke couldn't help but sigh that he was fortunate to be a first-ring wizard, not a wizarding apprentice.

Otherwise, he might not even have the right to know the truth at this moment, and would have thought that his academy had been attacked by dark wizards, but he never expected that this attack was actually something that the White Wizard Association had planned for a long time.

In places unknown to us, many deals are being made.

Dean Earl Thompson became serious. "If this plan succeeds, it will severely damage the dark wizards. I estimate that the southeastern region will be embroiled in large-scale wars for the next fifty years."

"The association has completely broken ties with those dark wizards."

"But it doesn't matter, because in the previous fifteen years, the association has been gradually launching a wartime economy and misled the dark wizarding society under the pretext of our development. This has led the dark wizarding alliance to believe that we are afraid of war, resulting in the collapse of our society's financial chain, complete bankruptcy, and the complete deterioration of our industries."

"But in reality, we are forcing the Black Wizards to wage small-scale wars against us, which will gradually escalate into medium-scale wars. Once our wartime economy is fully established, that will be the moment to launch a full-scale war, and that will be the moment."

Dean Earl Thompson stated a harsh truth in a calm tone: "At the same time, we have established a complete industrial alternative chain, which can ensure that the impact on our economy is minimized in the event of a full-scale war."

"The dark wizards have completely fallen into our trap. Their numbers and power now seem to be far too many."

Dean Earl Thompson looked up, his gaze seemingly piercing through the ceiling of the underground building, seeing the brutal battlefield where white and black wizards were locked in combat. "The Great Purge should have been initiated ten years earlier."

At this moment, on the battlefield, the black wizards and the white wizards' official wizards were fighting each other. On the white wizards' side, in addition to the official wizards of Lilith's Hut, there were also the official white wizards from Verdandia University, Four Seasons Garden, North Nivelheim University, as well as the Secret Fire Institute and Valerian Conjuration University, who had been hiding in the shadows.

The six parties united to collectively annihilate the wizards of the Black Wizard Alliance within the [Seal of the Holy Sword of Light].

(End of this chapter)