Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 462 The Eye of Cloud Lake: The Magical Plant Garden and the Eternal Garden

The wizard airship quickly entered the second sky realm. Compared to Locke, who was riding the void warship for the second time, the other students, including the four first-ring wizards in their project group, all looked at the transparent window of the Time Crystal with surprise and horror.

Having lived in the wizarding world for decades, none of them had ever imagined that there was a second sky above their heads.

Many students looked pained, clearly because they had suddenly entered the second sky and their magical pressure or mana had become disordered, which was a symptom of magical pressure disorder.

Locke then contacted the crew to activate the pressurization system in the cabin, supplying air from the Wizarding World to the cabin.

The Magic Pressure Disorder is a symptom that occurs in rare cases when a wizard suddenly enters an environment enveloped by the world principles of an alien world, from the world principles of the wizarding world.

The ailment can be cured by urgently supplying more air from the surface of the wizarding world into the cabin.

Sitting next to Locke, Montgomery glanced at the massive storm formed by the power of the world outside the window, then looked at the remarkably calm Locke, and couldn't help but sigh, "I never imagined the outside of the Six Towers Land would be like this."

Locke said, "There is also a free library inside the Void Battleship, where you can freely consult materials. There are many spell models that have been published for many years, or some very useful little theories. If you are interested, you can go there and read them at will."

"In addition, the public library will also have equipment to increase the concentration gradient of magical tides, which can be considered a miniature semi-wizard's secret realm. It should be a great opportunity for students. But don't rush over there. First, stabilize the magical pressure in this pressurized chamber before you go."

The students immediately cheered.

Locke added, "Second-class wizard apprentices should stay in this pressurized chamber. It's too dangerous for you to leave, and your magic level is too low; you won't gain anything even if you go to the free library."

Some of the students who were cheering suddenly became depressed.

A second-class witch apprentice whispered, "How could this be, Master..."

Leopold chuckled and said, "In that case, I'll stay in the pressurized chamber and teach the second-tier wizard apprentices who remain here. Professor Locke, what do you think?"

Locke glanced at Leopold and said, "You are now a first-ring wizard. You can make your own decisions and have full membership in the White Wizarding Association headquarters."

"According to the laws of the White Wizarding Association headquarters, every White Wizarding Apprentice automatically gains membership in the White Wizarding Association headquarters and complete personal autonomy upon becoming a first-ring wizard."

Leopold nodded immediately. "I understand, Professor Locke."

Suddenly, the second-class wizard apprentices, who had previously looked regretful, were surprised by the unexpected turn of events, and smiles returned to their faces.

Those first-class wizard apprentices who were initially very happy were suddenly unsure whether it was worthwhile for them to go to the free library inside the airship or to stay in the pressurized cabin and attend classes together.

Hesitation appeared on their faces.

Locke glanced at the harmonious atmosphere within the project team, a slight smile playing on his lips, and then refrained from further concern.

……

A month later, the airship accelerated halfway through a special net channel and arrived directly above Yunze Wetland.

The Cloud Marshland, Thunder Marshland, and Rain Marshland, these three marshlands, naturally attract more network paths to these three wizarding lands because of Cloud Lake, and thus transportation is exceptionally developed.

Yunhu has brought a great deal of convenience to the Sanze region, both in terms of logistics costs and other expenses.

The travel time between the major wizarding lands within the Eastern Boundary and the Three Swamps is approximately one month, with little difference between them. Therefore, some logistics even pass through the wizarding lands of the Three Swamps to travel to and from the major wizarding lands.

In other words, the Three Swamps Land is a distribution center for goods exchange between the wizarding lands of the eastern boundary and the wizarding lands outside the boundary.

As a result, the Three Swamps region has a highly developed industry and commerce, resulting in a massive commercial economy rarely seen in other wizarding lands, and the formation of numerous large-scale shop alliances.

These alliances bear many similarities to the companies of the previous era.

The commodity economy has further developed here. It is said that most goods that are prohibited from circulation in the major wizarding lands can be purchased here using the currency—magic stones.

Even the Land of Three Swamps remains a distribution point for magic stones, a place where currency is used to exploit people. It has simply become a logistics center and a mid-to-high-level processing center for magical materials.

Through the window of the Time Crystal, Locke saw a beam of light shooting into the sky outside, enveloping the entire airship. "This is... not an energy surge, but a sudden increase in the density of the magical tide. The scale is simply outrageous."

Locke's expression changed slightly. He felt his internal magical power fluctuating wildly, and his magical power increase rate had increased by at least half again. Moreover, his strength had increased out of nowhere.

This is mainly because the power of a wizard with the same magical pressure varies completely depending on the concentration of magical tides.

Just as Locke, a first-circle botanist wizard, would dare to use magic to fight a second-circle demon lord head-on in the plane of natural forces.

Locke looked down and saw that below the void warship was a lake with no end in sight, which could be called a sea even more than the ocean in his previous life.

The lake surface was rippling with blue waves, shrouded in a bluish mist, and also contained many unique aquatic magical plants and aquatic magical creature communities.

The sudden increase in the concentration gradient of the magical tide above Cloud Lake resembled a brilliant blue aurora in the sky.

Locke looked at the cloud lake, which was even larger than the ocean, and said in surprise, "It's hard to believe that there is a bottomless pit beneath such a huge cloud lake, which may lead directly to the heart of the world. I don't know why it was formed."

"No wonder some wizards also like to call Yunhu 'Yunyuan' (Cloud Abyss)."

"If you only look at it this way, Cloud Lake is just an ocean. But who would have thought that Cloud Lake is just a layer of liquid suspended on the surface of the bottomless pit due to some special phenomena?"

"The wizarding world is a world with many wonders. The great creations of its natural world are so complex that even the current wizarding society cannot fully understand them."

Five more days passed, and the Void Warship flew at low altitude, passing through a large area of ​​Cloud Lake, and finally arrived at Cloud Marsh Wetland located on the shore of Cloud Lake.

It was a typical wetland landscape, shrouded in mist year-round, with low-lying terrain, crisscrossing waterways, and countless shallow lakes, mudflats, and ponds scattered across its surface.

It always drizzles here, so when the airship flies low, a misty blue rain is falling.

From above Yunze Wetland, Locke observed that the city's layout was quite unique, creating a beautiful landscape between the urban clusters and the magical forest plants.

"By the way, the Hand of the Jungle can't get involved in the Three Swamps for two reasons. One is that the established powers in the Three Swamps are too powerful. The second reason is that the Three Swamps themselves have a very healthy ecosystem and don't need the Hand of the Jungle to intervene."

"There is another very special place where the power of holy magic masters is also suppressed. The Three Swamps is one of the regions where ordinary magic is most prosperous."

From above, Locke also saw the famous Magic Plant Gardens of Yunze Wetland. The Magic Plant Gardens in the city were scattered like stars and were exceptionally beautiful, even when viewed from low altitude, completely different from the style of the Southeast Corner Region and the Six Towers Land.

Magical plant gardens are large-scale gardens and green spaces that have been transformed using transformation magic, weather magic, and breeding magic, and have ecological, magical, strategic, and cultural functions.

The existence of the Magic Plant Garden mechanism fully demonstrates the balance achieved by the wizards of Yunze Wetland in their pursuit of elegance and practicality.

The Magic Plant Garden is home to a large number of beautiful magical plants, making it a delightful sight in itself. At the same time, it is also a research base for magical plant behavior, a collection base for magical potion materials, a training base for combat magical plants, a source of magical building materials for architects, and may even be a large-scale hybridization breeding experimental base, a magical biological environment simulation base, and so on.

It combines both recreational and practical functions.

It is one of the symbols of Yunze Wetland.

Sitting next to Locke, Montgomery looked out the window of the Time Crystal in surprise and saw the airship passing by a huge magical plant garden in the air.

The garden floated in the air, breathtakingly beautiful, as if it did not belong to the human world. Magical birds flew above the garden, creating an exceptionally beautiful scene.

Locke glanced at the garden and suddenly remembered a book he had seen in the free library of the airship that mentioned a landmark building in Yunze Wetland that represented the culmination of the magical plant gardens of Yunze Wetland—namely, the [Eternal Garden].

I never imagined that I would witness it with my own eyes now.

The Hanging Gardens are a sacred place in the hearts of breeders, containing countless varieties of magical plants, as well as a wealth of breeding experimental data and related knowledge.

Every year, many wizarding organizations apply to the White Wizard Association of Yunze Wetland to enter the [Eternal Garden] for scientific research.

If a wizarding organization were to open a laboratory in the Evergarden, it would almost immediately elevate the organization to a higher level, making it more respected by students and young first-ring wizards.

The level of breeding science and potion science in Yunze Wetland even far surpasses that of the Southeast Corner Region!
(End of this chapter)