Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 404 Time Flow and Soul Science

With a wave of his hand, the great wizard Sura caused a demon that had been imprisoned to let out a painful wail.

Immediately afterward, in less than 30 seconds, the demon's body rapidly transformed from a physical form into the shape of a stone golem, and then its body began to crack.

Then, the demon's body shattered, turning into pieces of stone that rolled on the ground. A distorted energy of the earth burst forth from its dead body, ignoring the obstruction of multiple magic arrays, and quickly passed through the magical alloy metal floor of the laboratory, entered the earth's veins, and headed in an unknown direction.

Upon witnessing the gruesome death of their companion, the remaining nine-headed demons, whose intelligence was only comparable to that of advanced mammals, immediately roared in a sense of shared grief. However, they were unable to break free from the magical chains binding their bodies and completely integrated with their body parts.

Those magical chains are the work of wizards and alchemists of the Protection School. They are first-level sealing magic called "Sealing Chains," which can bind to a person's body and integrate with their body tissues.

It cannot be forcibly broken free.

Because once you break free, you are also damaging your own body. It is a common alchemical item used to restrain first-level creatures. It is very valuable and this level of sealing item cannot be purchased in ordinary places.

The great wizard Sura said, "I deliberately captured these demons to experiment on. The first is to find the place where demonic energy gathers, and the second is to find a way to prevent demonic energy from entering the earth's veins and going to unknown places."

“Unfortunately, I am neither a Constructor specializing in Earth Magic from the School of Evocation nor an Earth Wizard from the School of Life. Therefore, I have never been able to fully grasp the number of ley lines in this world, nor can I pinpoint the location where the other party gathers demonic energy,” Grand Wizard Sura lamented. “Furthermore, no matter what magical materials I use to restrain the demons, I cannot prevent their demonic energy from flowing into the ley lines after they die.”

"Over time, I fear that some unforeseen bad things may happen in the ley lines of this plane."

There were no wizards in the Land of Six Towers who were proficient in these two areas, and he did not dare to send people to find powerful architects and earth wizards in a grand manner, as he had done with recruiting potion masters. He could only consult some information and do some related research on his own.

Locke watched this scene and pondered, "Those demonic energies are actually a variant of earth energy, so no matter what magical alloys or materials you replace them with, Grand Wizard Sula, it will be difficult to block the natural conduction of earth energy."

"The other party is exploiting the fundamental principles and mechanisms of the world. If the earth's vein energy could be cut off so easily, then the world would become very fragile and energy would easily become blocked."

Locke plugged in the formula and mentally calculated the result after he modified the underlying principles of the world. "Then this world would become a place where a magma ocean and an ice ocean meet. But obviously, this world is not only not like that, but also a life plane. Therefore, the flow of ley line energy is extremely high. No matter what magical materials you use, Grand Wizard Sura, it will be difficult to restrain the ley line energy."

Clearly, this mechanism was designed by a very skilled dark wizard.

The entire mage plane is a chessboard where the great wizard Sura and the dark wizard are playing a game of chess from afar.

The current game is a war between the City of the Holy Law and the Demon Race.

Locke pondered, "But magical plants naturally have the function of absorbing the energy of the earth's veins and consolidating the energy of the earth's veins in a region. If we use the method of magical plants, we might be able to prevent the flow of magical energy into the earth's veins."

Grand Wizard Sura's eyes lit up immediately. He turned to Locke and said, "Locke, you have a solution? Then, Locke, you can help me with this second project."

Locke's heart skipped a beat. 'Oh no, this stingy old man is trying to exploit me again. I've fallen for his trap. Does he think I'm a perpetual motion machine? I have to help him solve the problem of the natives using first-level magic, and I also have to help him stop the demons' demonic energy from flowing into the earth's ley lines.'

'I also have to manage three projects and organize people to compete...'

Locke looked at the Grand Wizard Sura, who was deliberately showing a look of surprise in his eyes, speechless. 'This old man is too cunning; he's trying to see if he can still squeeze some more out of me.' 'No, I must refuse immediately. Even if I do have some spare energy, I want to spend my time on myself.' Locke shook his head. 'No way.'

As a deep sense of regret appeared on Grand Wizard Sura's face, Locke calmly stated a fact: "In this mage plane, you can only give me 500,000 magic stones in total. With such a small amount of money, it's already quite an achievement that I can manage to complete your first project by scrimping and saving."

“It’s absolutely impossible for me to give you another project. Grand Wizard Sura, I can’t do that. If you’re interested, you can find another excellent breeder.”

Locke said modestly, "After all, I am just an ordinary breeder."

Locke became increasingly suspicious that the Grand Wizard Sula wanted to take advantage of the situation to get him to take on a second project, squeezing out his time while also getting him to contribute his own money to subsidize the second project.

Although this conjecture was somewhat far-fetched, Locke became increasingly suspicious that this was the true thought of the old fox before him.

In the wizarding world, it is very common for senior wizarding mentors to exploit their students and junior mentors.

Grand Wizard Sura's face showed a hint of regret. "Alright, then forget it. I'll just do the research myself. The more people know about this kind of thing, the less safe it becomes."

As far as Grand Wizard Sula was concerned, Locke had not yet made any achievements in breeding science in the Land of Six Towers, especially in the Plutarch family. Therefore, Grand Wizard Sula could not figure out Locke's level of breeding science. He only estimated that, based on Locke's past experience and that he was a high-level breeder at the level of a normal first-ring wizard, what Locke said might indeed be true.

Just helping him with his first project would require all his energy, so Grand Wizard Sula didn't insist. On the contrary, he was genuinely worried that Locke's focus would be diverted and that none of the projects would be completed properly.

High Wizard Sura said, "I'll send you away from this plane now. Because the plane's gravity affects the speed of spacetime, and there are other complex factors involved, time in the Wizarding World is not exactly one-to-one with time in the Wizarding World."

"Roughly speaking, it's been six days in the Mage plane and one day in the Wizarding world."

"So, it's only been a little over half a night since you returned to the wizarding world."

Locke did some mental calculations and realized that, in terms of the wizarding world's timeline, the Grand Wizard Sura's plans in this wizarding plane only started fifty years ago, not three hundred years ago.

'He's clearly using two bodies to circumvent the difference in time flow between the two worlds, thus avoiding the problem of premature aging or wasted lifespan,' Locke pondered. 'However, ultimately, his soul still needs to travel back and forth between the two worlds. Logically speaking, with only two bodies unaffected by the time flow, his soul shouldn't be just five hundred years old.'

In other words, the physical body can, in turn, influence the soul?

'This resulted in Grand Wizard Sura's lifespan in the wizarding world being only close to five hundred years, failing to reach the lifespan limit of a first-ring wizard?'

Locke glanced at the old fox before him and pondered, "So, judging from the experience of the Great Wizard Sura, the body should be something as important as the soul, not something I thought, where my soul is the most important thing."

"After you get back, you can look up some information on the study of the soul. This part of the knowledge is indeed quite interesting. The relationship between the body and the soul seems to be one of mutual interaction, rather than a one-sided interaction."

(End of this chapter)