Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 463 The Frontier Town of Kalimra
The Void Airship passed by the Eternal Garden, but Locke could sense the powerful magical plants within it with just a glance.

It seems that there are not only first-ring level magical plants, but also second-ring and third-ring level magical plants.

Yunze Wetland is a region with high magic and martial arts levels. The concentration of magic tides here is extremely high, and a large amount of power is concentrated in those individuals. There are even magic plants of the second and third ring levels in the wild.

Of course, if a magical plant of that level were to fall into the mortal world, it would be extremely easy for a single magical plant to affect several mortal countries and regions, creating a unique environment where human society and magical plants coexist.

This is also something that breeders like to study.

Meanwhile, the airship passed the Sky Garden and headed to a town on the shore of Cloud Lake. Locke saw that there were no other cities around the town, only the town itself on the shore of Cloud Lake, and that the town had many wizard towers inside.

A defensive array of thirty wizard towers constantly protects the city.

Even so, from time to time, the Mekanis' hypersonic cruise missiles would streak across the sky, leaving trails of fire in their wake, and strike the defensive shield covering the town.

The orange-red flames and the semi-transparent magical shield create a unique composition.

A message from the crew sounded inside the airship: "Attention all passengers participating in the Yunze Cup, the area ahead is our destination, the forward town of Kalimra."

Currently, due to attacks and interference from the Mekani, all facilities related to wizarding organizations in the vicinity have been evacuated from the area near Cloud Lake. Only this forward town of Kalimra remains as a forward base for attacking the Mekani or resisting their harassment.

'The town of Kalimra's Frontier is also the main venue for this year's Cloudze Cup. Participants will travel to the town and deploy their created tactical-level magical plants into the subordinate plane's wizarding army within Kalimra's Frontier, representing our wizarding civilization and guiding their war against the Mekanis.'

This competition will use a points-based system and a judging panel.

The Yunze Cup Competition Committee has invited one hundred senior wizard instructors and wizard mentors from various breeding colleges and schools in Yunze Wetland, as well as chair wizards, to form a panel of one hundred and thirty judges, together with thirty first-ring wizards from our competition committee. Each judge can dynamically score the entries designed by the participating teams, and the final ranking will be based on the total accumulated points.

"Furthermore, this competition is jointly sponsored by the Hansak Alchemy Workshop Alliance, the Arthas Plantation Alliance, the Shelley Apothecary Alliance, the Rousseau Law Firm Alliance, and the Joseph Golem Shop Alliance from Yunze Wetland. Paid viewing is available; various screening rooms will be set up in Yunze Wetland for wizards with subscriptions to watch the entire competition."

'Dear contestants, your every move will be watched by the entire Yunze Wetland, and the honors and achievements you attain in the competition will be recognized by the entire magical world of Yunze Wetland.'

'In this competition, you will forge an honor that transcends death, and spread your fame throughout the lands of wizards.'

Locke looked at the window of the Time Crystal, "No wonder the Yunze Cup Committee is so rich that it even has a special wizard airship for the participants to ride. The first reason is that the Three Swamps Land itself is a transportation hub and logistics center of the Eastern Boundary, making it convenient to travel to and from."

"The second reason is that the Yunze Cup has been commercialized, and the number of wizards who subscribe to watch it is definitely not small."

The Yunze Cup competition is essentially a high-quality video version of a journal, and the video recordings of their participation in the competition are high-quality video articles.

With more than ten times the number of breeders compared to the Southeast Corner Region, Yunze Wetland, a paradise for breeders, is estimated to have great commercial value.

Locke muttered to himself, "With such huge commercial value, can the Mekani, as the other side of this competition, still be eliminated?"

"Can the tournament committee tolerate the extermination of the Mekani people?"

"If these are eliminated, won't there be no hens left to lay eggs?"

Locke's expression was strange. Based on his intuition, the problems hidden behind the Yunze Cup were by no means insignificant.

However, these matters were not his concern, so Locke only had a few thoughts about them before putting them out of his mind.

Locke asked Montgomery, "Are the Hydra and the tetraploid rust beads ready?"

Montgomery nodded and said, "Boss, of course. We can buy a lot of related supplies on this airship. We spent five magic crystal cards to buy some supplies, and yesterday we completely tested the Hydra and the Tetraploid Rust Beads."

"And it was sealed inside a fake planter." "Once it enters the town on the outskirts of Kalimra, it can be handed over to the wizards of those subordinate planes and used in the war."

Montgomery said in a low voice, "I never expected the outside world to be like this. It feels very different from the closed environment of the Six Towers."

"totally different."

"But I feel better here. Boss Locke, will our match be watched by many wizards from Yunze Wetlands? Then we need to work hard."

'Boom~'

The airship suddenly began to shake violently. Locke saw hundreds of mechanical warships appear outside the Time Crystal. The surfaces of those mechanical warships were covered with cannon barrels and vertical missile launch silos.

The cold, mechanical battleships, like vengeful ghosts, are the vengeful fangs of the rampaging machine spirits that perished in the tide of wizard civilization.

A peculiar sound appeared in the sky, seemingly some kind of sonic attack, causing Locke to frown and feel very uncomfortable.

At the same time, a cold voice appeared—'Annihilate all forces of the invading wizard lord, annihilate all minions of the Nightmare Legion, System 0213, continue the mission.'

'Confirm the executing unit...'

'Activate annihilation mode...'

The next moment, countless cannons rained down on the wizards' void warships, but the expected tremor did not occur.

The void warship where Locke and his group were located activated a defensive array. Six special symbols appeared around the void warship, neutralizing the kinetic energy of all missiles and shells that hit it.

Locke recognized it; it was a spell from the Protection School, one he had only ever seen in books before—the Kinetic Energy Nullification Spell.

Once this spell is placed on an object, the defensive array will generate corresponding, but opposite, kinetic energy when the object is attacked by any kinetic energy, thus nullifying all kinetic energy.

In other words, this is a defensive spell specifically designed to counter melee combat and physical damage, and can completely nullify any physical attack.

Locke realized what was going on. "Ultimately, whether it's a cannonball or a missile, they are kinetic energy weapons that primarily deal damage with kinetic energy. Using the [Kinetic Energy Nullification Spell], which was developed based on the magic of the Force School and is a defensive spell, can nullify most of the opponent's attacks."

"Most of the Mekani's weapons rely on kinetic energy damage, which is too simplistic and makes them easy targets."

"Hmm... This magic is also very effective against bloodline essence masters who have strong physiques and like to fight hand-to-hand. However, I remember that this defensive magic has two drawbacks: it consumes a lot of energy, which individual wizards can hardly bear, and it is difficult to defend against attacks other than kinetic energy. Therefore, few wizards are willing to choose such a targeted defensive magic as their permanent defensive force field."

At this moment, in addition to the wizard airship he was on, seven or eight other airships that had been directly teleported over via the network appeared around him.

At the same time, magical fireworks appeared in the sky above the town of Kalimra's Frontier, displaying the message: "Kalimra's Frontier Town welcomes the leaders from the Wizarding Civilization."

At the same time, around the wizard tower in the outlying town of Kalimra, hundreds of enormous plant tentacles suddenly appeared. After being replenished with magical energy, they grew rapidly and transformed into plant tentacles thousands of meters long, attacking the mechanical battleships of the Mekanis who were trying to intercept the approaching void warships like whips.

In an instant, the Mekanis' mechanical battleship turned into hundreds of dazzling fireballs in the air, and the entire mechanical battleship was destroyed in a very short time.

But after these battleship groups were destroyed, even more machine Gundams emerged from beneath Cloud Lake and launched an attack on the town at the forefront of Kalimla.

Locke stared at the sheer size of it, astonished. "Is this an intelligent race created by the second-ring wizards working together?"

(End of this chapter)