Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 361 The Hijacking Incident
Inside the central control room of the Silver Shuttle of the Sun, the old wizard in the liquefaction stage stared wide-eyed. Through the huge projection of the School of Prophecy in front of him, he could see the exact location of the Void Warship at an altitude of 50KM and the information ahead.

Originally, the Sun Chasing Silver Shuttle should have entered the net channel in the second sky, but at this moment the Void Warship actually crashed into a giant magic painting standing in the sky.

The old wizard immediately realized that this was the work of the visual illusion magic sub-students of the Illusion School, the Quick Painters. They had painted a huge magic picture in the second sky and pretended it was the entrance to the Net Path. When their Void Warship was fighting the remnants of the Thunder God Palace, the situation was complicated, so they did not observe carefully and actually crashed into this magic picture.

Like prey caught in a spider's web, it plunged headlong into the trap.

“This sophisticated method must be the work of professional airship pirates,” the old wizard immediately judged. “It’s alright, the Sun Chasing Silver Shuttle has enough power to forcibly break free from this giant magic painting.”

"start up……"

The old wizard looked at one of the first-ring witches from their school with a puzzled expression. "Alexandra, your face?"

The witch known as Alexandra turned around, glanced at the old wizard with a puzzled look, and suddenly licked her lips. "Hmm? Is it time? The magic makeup I painted on my face is already up so quickly."

The spell model of the first-circle magic [Makeup Magic] on her face shattered instantly, and all the makeup on her face turned into murky liquid, flowing down her face and revealing one of the unfamiliar women's faces.

She tossed a card depicting a clown onto the center of the control room floor. On the back of the clown card was written the words "The Magic Thieves Circus".

The old wizard and all the wizards present changed their expressions drastically.

They hadn't expected that the dark wizard would use the speed painter's methods to infiltrate their side and enter the control room. But why?
How did these dark wizards manage to sneak in?

They clearly have all the necessary security measures in place.

The old wizard of the Silver Shuttle of the Sun spoke with difficulty: "It was the Ptolemaic family that hired you to intercept the high-level experts of the Hand of the Jungle. Is this how you boarded the ship? Because it involves the prestigious families of the Six Towers, we deliberately pretended not to have discovered it, not wanting to get involved in the internal strife between the prestigious families of the Six Towers."

“You seized this opportunity and used the Ptolemaic family’s name to get on the ship.”

The female sketch artist in the magic circus smirked, her red wizard robe transforming into a predominantly black one. She snapped her fingers. "Correct. Too bad there's no reward."

"We must kill that expert. As for this void warship, now that our Demon Thief Circus has come up here, don't expect us to leave empty-handed."

At this moment, the old wizard conjured a spell, and a powerful, liquefied magical pressure swept over him. His face was gloomy. "An ordinary, formal wizard is so audacious. To put it nicely, he's confident; to put it bluntly, he's just courting death and causing me trouble."

"You dark wizards, hijacking a void warship belonging to the White Wizard Association is a grave crime, a capital offense! Die!"

The next moment, his expression changed drastically, because a magic circle appeared beneath his feet, and this magic circle covered the entire central control room.

This is actually an exile formation.

In an instant, a portal to another dimension opened behind the old wizard, and before he could react, it sucked him in and teleported him out.

At the same time, the other first-class wizard apprentices and three ordinary full wizards in the central control room also cried out in alarm, because the sealing array was also targeting them.

This is a sealing sub-direction spell of the First Ring Protection School—Forced Exile.

They will be forcibly exiled for at least an hour before they can return to the area.

The sketch artist witch smirked as she watched. "Much easier than I thought."

"Of course I can't beat a wizard in the liquefaction stage. Besides, with the permanent defensive force field, even if I wanted to fight, I don't know how long it would take."

"But there's absolutely no need for a battle. Just use sealing magic to forcibly exile you for an hour, and that'll be enough for our circus to steal the entire void warship."

"I wonder if the leader has killed that Jungle Hand expert. Although the Ptolemy family's reward is insignificant compared to robbing this void warship, every little bit counts, and our circus... won't give up anything we've got."

……

Inside the library of the Void Battleship, darkness fell instantly. At that moment, a card with a clown image printed on the front was thrown into the middle of the library.

What Locke noticed was that the other party didn't seem to be primarily there to kill the strange old wizard Salvador.

The previous arguments seem to have been used to manipulate them and divert everyone's attention.

The free library on the Void Battleship has the largest concentration of formal wizards. If the enemy doesn't want to be besieged by the formal wizards on the battleship and suffer defeat, they must find a way to prevent this from happening at the very beginning of the hijacking.

The other party is targeting all the wizards in this library whom the circus believes pose a threat to their operation to rob the warship.

One after another, wizards in the liquefaction stage were sealed with magic and forcibly exiled into another dimension for an hour.

In the distance, at the library seats in the VIP area, the Plutarch family members' expressions changed drastically. The Plutarch family's old butler almost immediately pulled Alicia away from there.

"Miss, leave immediately! There's a dark wizard here, and your status is far too high. Let's use the portal right now, just the two of us, to return to the surface."

"Although we'll have to ride the wizard airship again, it shouldn't get us into any trouble."

Alicia panicked for a moment. Unexpectedly, she shook off the old butler and said, "No, I absolutely cannot run away at this moment. I am a pure-blood wizard of the Plutarch family."

"Now is the time to fulfill my duty. I enjoy so many resources all the time, now is the time to show my value, suppress the dark wizards, and quell the unrest! Otherwise, wouldn't I have wasted all those resources?"

“Old Butler, we must subdue those dark wizards and protect the order here.” Alicia’s eyes gleamed with magical light, and a spell model appeared in her hand. “Besides, Old Butler, you are a wizard at the liquefaction stage, while those dark wizards are only at the vaporization stage at best.” “As long as you take action, they are no match for you.”

"As long as we can suppress these villains, we can not only save a lot of money on the magic gate, but also make my Plutarch family famous throughout the Six Towers."

The old butler was stunned for a moment. For a split second, he was almost convinced by his young mistress. After all, they had a teleportation scroll, so even if something went wrong, they could leave at any time and were perfectly safe.

But the next moment, reality told him that the outside world of the Six Towers was never so easy to talk to.

He looked down and saw a magic circle for forced exile appearing beneath his feet.

"No!"

The next moment, the runes on the magic circle wrapped around the old wizard's feet, and then he was transformed into a ball of light and forcibly sent into another dimension for an hour.

"Miss, run away!"

The old wizard pulled out a portal scroll from his body, intending to throw it to Alicia, but it was too late. He was sucked into the interdimensional gate along with the portal scroll.

All that remained was Alicia's pale face.

With her liquefied wizard bodyguard forcibly sealed away, panic finally appeared on Alicia's face. At that moment, the clown leader of the Magic Thief Circus appeared beside Alicia.

The clown leader used magical fluorescent light to illuminate the surroundings. He looked at the few ordinary formal wizards beside Alicia and laughed. "I didn't expect you wizards from the Six Towers to be so useless. You managed to seal all the wizards in the liquefaction stage so easily. What can you two or three cats do now?"

The Clown Leader looked at Alicia as if she were a valuable prey. "Young lady of the Plutarch family, you really should have used the teleportation scroll just now. That was your last chance to leave safely. If I capture you, how much money should I get from the Six Towers?"

Alicia's face turned pale. "Commoner wizard, how dare you speak to me like that? I am from a prestigious family in the Six Towers Land, you should at least give me the respect I deserve..."

The clown leader's smile vanished. "We dark wizards don't do that. Whoever is stronger has higher status, I don't care about this or that."

"Arrest her, she can be sold for a lot of money."

Meanwhile, in the darkness, the puppeteer manipulated a puppet, using an enchanted dark energy dagger to slash at the Salvadoran wizard's neck.

The Salvadoran wizard's Perpetual Defensive Field is not a defensive magic, but a magic related to ecological restoration that accelerates plant growth.

Therefore, with such a strike, the Salvadoran sorcerer would surely die.

The strange old man from Salvador, sensing the threat of death and seeing a faint, cold glint in his eyes, cried out, "Locke..."

The strange old man from El Salvador shouted as he ran off in a random direction.

But when Locke saw this, he not only ignored him, but instead put his hands behind his back and walked in the opposite direction as if taking a stroll.

Strangely, the dagger in the puppet's hand vanished the instant it touched the Salvadoran wizard's neck, because it was simply a phantom.

"What a joke, using such a low-level trick..." Locke walked to an open space. At this moment, his eyes were circulating abyssal energy, so even in the dark, he could see things normally and even see more things.

He reached out, grabbed the air, and pulled sharply. A puppet hidden in a dark, magical painting appeared behind him, along with the puppeteer who was operating it. A look of astonishment appeared on his face.

"How could you possibly see through it?"

His original plan was to use the illusion to feign an attack on the Salvadorian wizard, but he knew that the old Salvadorian wizard had another wizard protecting him, so his real purpose was to use the illusion to distract Locke.

As the old Salvadoran man fled everywhere, he emerged from the dark vision of the magic painting and reaped the old Salvadoran wizard.

Then, leaving Locke stunned, he tossed out another card from the Magic Thief Circus, leaving behind the formidable reputation of their Dark Wizard Circus.

To everyone's surprise, Locke saw right through it.

But how did the other party see through it at a glance that the phantom was just an illusion created by the motion magic painting, and that he himself was hidden behind the dark scene magic painting?

Locke said, “I have no objection to you killing El Salvador. He is indeed eccentric, and I know there are many people who dislike him. But you can’t kill him at this time. Because now I am responsible for protecting him.”

"You haven't heard of my name, the Eye Demon Wizard? No problem, you'll remember it soon enough."

In Locke's view, the Magic Thieves Circus's true strength was not that great; the entire troupe didn't even have a single wizard at the liquefaction stage.

They're just highly skilled at deception.

That's why they were in a hurry to eliminate all the liquefying wizards present.

The reason Locke was able to see through the illusion of the magic painting in an instant was simple: he had previously been in contact with a speed painter and had spent a long time with them.

Secondly, the illusion created by the other party still has flaws. For example, the excessive pursuit of geometric structure in the picture makes it lose the sense of imperfection that comes with a real person.

It merely used the cover of darkness to compensate for the lack of detail in the magic painting, but Locke could see normally in the dark and naturally could ignore this.

(End of this chapter)