Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 458 Yunze Cup Highlights

That evening, Locke returned to his room in the White Dragon Tower and immediately began learning the first archaeology stage spell from the Witch King's Codex: Summon Historical Ghosts.

This is a spell that copies specific information about a person from a negative energy particle field and replicates it in the present world within a short period of time.

The resurrected character cannot exceed 70% of the wizard's own magical pressure, can only exist for one hour, and can only summon one historical ghost. However, this spell has endless uses and can be evolved into many powerful archaeological spells.

Moreover, this spell can be used to summon historical ghosts to fight and delay enemies, and also to inquire about ancient history.

It has many clever uses.

Locke couldn't help but sigh, no wonder archaeologists held such an extraordinary position among black wizards; this category of magic was indeed exceptionally powerful.

As the night passed, in the early hours of the next day, Locke sensed the prompt from the Gray Mist Slab, opened it, and saw that the group leader of the Yunze Cup finals group had tagged everyone and posted a video message.

Locke clicked on the video message, and a scene immediately appeared on the gray mist stone slab—

First, a wingless, cylindrical hypersonic missile fell from the sky, landing in a wizard's meeting hall and instantly collapsing it.

The next scene shows countless steel flying mechs flying in the sky, launching attacks on the wizards on the ground.

Locke glanced at the Mekanians in the scene with surprise, clearly noting the presence of a mechanical civilization.

Then came a mountain of massive Gundams charging toward the wizarding forces, bombarded with artillery fire and fully loaded with ammunition. The sky was filled with mechs, the ground with Gundams, and hypersonic cruise missiles launched decapitation strikes against the wizards' leaders from beyond the line of sight.

The next moment, the mechs dropped a large number of thermobaric bombs on the ground, burning the oxygen in the air, and then a large number of unmanned automatic turrets began to fire countless bullets in all directions.

Following the first round of decapitation strikes using beyond-visual-range hypersonic missiles, the next phase involved a combined air, land, and sea assault with overwhelming firepower.

Meanwhile, in this footage, the wizarding forces, specifically the mages of the Suarez plane, a subsidiary plane of Yunze Wetland, suffered heavy casualties. Firstly, they were slow to react to the Mekanis's long-range decapitation tactics, resulting in the immediate killing of many powerful first-class wizard apprentices.

Secondly, during the suppression of firepower, they were caught off guard by the enemy.

Locke keenly realized that the Mekanis were not just an ordinary mechanical civilization; the bullets and ammunition they used seemed to have been specially modified by a wizarding civilization.

For example, the bullets seem to be made of still iron, a special magical alloy material that cannot be destroyed by magic, which is enough to deal with the magic of many wizards.

The high-energy explosive material inside bombs and missiles was very familiar to Locke; it was the Fire Magic Potion, a medium-difficulty potion among the first-level magic potions.

Its energy density is extremely high, far exceeding that of any high-energy gunpowder made of ordinary materials. Therefore, under continuous bombardment, a magician at the level of a first-ring wizard was actually killed by the firepower of the Mekanis.

The Mekani people are undoubtedly defining another way of waging war.

At the same time, music and an introduction appeared in the video, and Locke realized that this was a highlight reel used to build atmosphere and put pressure on the participants before the Yunze Cup entered its final rounds.

When will the war end?

When will the blade finally fall?

The Mekanis originated from a technologically advanced civilization that was conquered by a team led by a second-circle alchemist. Through alchemical modifications, they gained power surpassing that of their original civilization.

At the same time, they were endowed with superhuman physiques by second-ring level cybernetic engineers, giving them mechanical-flesh cybernetic bodies, mountain-sized bodies that were both mechanical and flesh-and-blood.

The fusion of magic and technology—magical cannons, gauss bullets, hypersonic cruise missiles—defines a new future in beyond-visual-range warfare, presenting a severe test for all breeders.

The video feed shifted again. Locke saw the final frame freeze on a steel fortress flying out from beneath Cloud Lake, accompanied by a cold, mechanical voice: 'Annihilate all forces of the invading wizard lord, annihilate all minions of the Nightmare Legion, System 0213, continue mission.'

'Confirm the executing unit...'

'Activate annihilation mode...'

At the same time, after this video, the image freezes on a supercomputer deep within that steel fortress, a machine jointly modified by mechanical technology and magical civilization.

Video narration: [A second-ring alchemist, for experimental observation purposes, inserted the original super-machine soul of this technological civilization intact into a modified version of that civilization, and then observed its choices again. Due to an unexpected event during the experiment, the Mekanis and the machine soul escaped and began indiscriminately attacking our industries in Cloud Lake.]

Young, promising breeders, you will determine the outcome of this war of revenge waged by those mechanical ghosts against our wizarding civilization!

The winner of this Yunze Cup will receive a prize specially sponsored by the second-ring alchemist wizard 'Raymond Griffin': a first-ring level, expensive alchemical equipment, and a Death Ray Sphere.

Locke was bewildered. He absolutely did not believe that the so-called alchemist Raymond had accidentally caused the experiment to go out of control and that the Mecanians had escaped.

'Could it be that they deliberately released them to cause a massive influx of Mekanis, then observed the reaction of the super-mecha spirit implanted with magic?'

'It's not impossible, and because it can't be proven intentional, they can escape punishment. The Mekanis fled to Cloud Lake. I remember that below Cloud Lake is the dumping ground for magical experiments from the Three Swamps. Generally speaking, if an experiment goes wrong there, the wizard won't face too severe punishment.'

Locke became increasingly convinced that the wizard Raymond had deliberately leaked the information through experimentation.

Meanwhile, in the small group, all ten participants appeared to discuss the topic.

Edgar David, the wizard from the first-place Sunshade Peninsula, sent a confident emoji, followed by a determined emoji, and finally two emojis—a fist and a ball of fire.

The second-place winner, Diana the Witch from Yunze Wetland, said, "I see, but my research team is fully prepared, and I will completely destroy the Mekanis."

It seems that the Diana Witch project is going well.

The third-ranked Yennefer remained silent, and it was unclear how his experiment was progressing.

The fourth wizard from the Razer Lowlands said, "If someone hadn't hired a dark wizard to steal my data, the results I produced would definitely be better than they are now."

Needless to say, the wizard in the Razer Lowlands has never recovered from the trauma of having his data stolen.

The fifth person, Alaric, asked Locke the question he wanted to ask in the group chat, tagging the group admin: "Was it really an accidental leak, or an intentional one?"

"The more I look at it, the more something seems off. Why would they enhance the creations of the technological civilization we conquered, that so-called 'machine soul,' without any modifications, and even put it into the magic supercomputer?"

Similarly, the wizards behind them also started a heated discussion.

From their discussion, Locke saw that some were full of confidence, some were full of complaints, and some wanted to use the last bit of time to catch up.

In the final month before the finals, each wizard had different information due to the different project progress of each research group.

The group admin tagged everyone again, "Dear participants, the finals will officially begin in one month. We will be providing you with free boat tickets, inviting you to bring your project teams to Yunze Wetland to participate in the final battle, conduct a real-world war test, and witness the war between the secondary plane wizards and the Mekanis!"

"Please seize this last month as the best opportunity to catch up!"

(End of this chapter)