Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 465 The Attention of Second-Ring and Third-Ring Wizards
The entire void warship trembled violently. Suddenly, a Mekanian chose to self-destruct. The planetary gear system that constructed its body and gave it near-ring-level mobility suddenly collapsed, with gears and springs flying everywhere. The materials used were actually magical alloys.

The Mekanis cannot be considered a purely technological civilization. Instead, the core of their technological civilization was secretly taken away by the second-circle wizard behind them, stuffed into the body of a wizarding civilization, and then the framework of a technological civilization was maintained.

The vengeful machine spirit believed it was carrying out the mission assigned to it by the original technological civilization, but it was actually just acting according to the will of the wizards.

Even if that wasn't its intention.

After the Mekani self-destructed, the high temperature of the solar furnace alchemy array within its body was released, quickly destroying the kinetic energy failure shield of the void warship Locke was riding on.

In a short time, three more Mekanis destroyed the kinetic energy shield by using the high temperatures generated by their self-destruction.

The Kinetic Energy Failure Shield can almost completely suppress attacks that primarily deal kinetic damage at the first level, but it is utterly powerless against high-temperature damage, as fragile as an eggshell.

The sound transmission array inside the Void Battleship rang out, and crystal balls floated over in the corridors of the Void Battleship. At the same time, hundreds of thousands of True Sight Crystal Balls appeared around the Void Battleship, and in an instant, they all became invisible and entered a state of etherealization.

It is a state that cannot be hit by attacks and cannot be seen.

The level of technology behind it surprised Locke.

These True Sight crystal balls are definitely not low-level.

The sound transmission arrays emitted a message: "[The competition is currently in the recording phase. All areas except for living and private zones will be broadcast live. Attention all participants: Senior wizard mentors, second-ring wizards, and even third-ring wizard judges from Yunze Wetland are already seated on the judging panel, watching your performances.]"

Locke pursed his lips speechlessly. The Yunze Cup tournament committee was really something else. Was this situation designed to increase viewership?
However, if a large number of second-ring and third-ring wizards are watching the entire competition, then performing well will certainly not be a disadvantage.

Locke quickly realized that perhaps some high-ranking wizards would be interested in some of the things he had shown and would want to collaborate with him on some project.

For high-ranking white wizards, robbery is the most pointless and inefficient thing in the world. If they want something, they can simply invite first-ring wizards to participate in a project collaboration.

Young first-ring wizards need money and fame, which these senior wizards happen to have and can afford.

The needs of advanced wizards are far more complex than those of younger first-ring wizards, and many of these needs do not seem to be practical, short-term gains.

Not far away, on the top of the void warship carrying the wizard Edgar David from the Sunshadow Peninsula, a branch suddenly sprouted from the alloy floor of the void warship, and a green bud emerged from the branch.

The next moment, the tree branch transformed into a long spear, piercing through all the Mekanis on the surface of the void warship where he was located, like skewering meat, and pinning them all to mid-air.

The tree branch, like a spear, absorbed the hostility of the Mekanis, forming an invisible war domain that sucked them in. Then, battle fluctuations appeared within that invisible war domain, and the next moment, a pile of scattered debris was thrown out of it.

Locke saw this scene through the observation window of the Time Crystal and immediately raised his eyebrows. That must be the so-called War Spear of the Ancient Tree of War.

In the first stage of botanical magic, there is theoretically a strongest spell model. After all, the magic pressure at the first stage has a limit. So how to convert magic pressure into spell power depends on the conversion efficiency of the spell model.

Therefore, it is indeed possible that the most powerful spell model exists within the first-circle botanical magic, and this model is updated almost every hundred years.

However, the first-level spell [War Spear], which combines ancient treants' botanical magic, is different. It has always been a first-level spell with the highest damage output.

Locke was also seeing the War Spear in person for the first time outside of the book. He never expected that the combination of botanical magic and ancient war treants would be so powerful. In just an instant, it sucked hundreds of Mekanis into the war domain space and crushed them into fragments.

Locke looked at the war domain, a question flashing across his mind. "After those Mekanis fell into the war domain of the ancient war tree, they disappeared from the sky. Could it be that the war domain is a kind of spatial magic? But there are very few botanical magics that involve space at the first stage."

At the same time, on the second void warship, the one carrying the witch Diana from Cloudze Wetlands, a moon pattern suddenly appeared on the surface of the entire warship, and then the legs of hundreds of Mekanis were simultaneously frozen into ice blocks.

The image of Diana the Witch appears on the void warship. She is wearing a silver wizard's robe, with a silver moon ornament on her forehead. One of her eyes is blue and the other is red. She holds a laurel wreath in her hand.

She swung her laurel-leaf scimitar, and instantly another group of Mekanis who were blocking her way in the void warship were frozen into ice blocks and fell from the sky.

Faced with a barrage of hypersonic cruise missiles emitting piercing sounds as they were launched at her, the Witch Diana swung her laurel wreath. The missiles were then blocked by an icy crescent moon that appeared in mid-air, followed by a collective explosion.

Waves of fire surged. Locke looked at the witch Diana, who stood coldly atop the void warship, and pondered, "That's a nymph laurel... The botanical spell she's using should be [Ice Leaf Crescent]. I remember Ice Leaf Crescent is the most powerful control spell among the first-stage botanical spell models."

"Diana the Witch and Edgar the Wizard, both of them are still in the first stage of crystallization, they are both formidable opponents. I wonder what kind of entries they have brought to the Yunze Cup this time."

Locke thought of his Hydra, and an absolute confidence flashed in his eyes.

Then, he saw the third-ranked wizard Yennefer make her move. She was wearing a wizard's robe made of wolf skin, walking on air, and holding a petrifying mushroom hammer. Every time she hit a target, everything she touched would turn to stone.

Yennefer's fighting style was very aggressive, so Locke took a few more glances at her.

Meanwhile, the void warship he was on had also suffered severe damage due to the Mekanis' continuous use of self-destructing energy cores and the sun-forging furnace.

Barbara the Witch and Montgomery, among others, said they could go out with Locke and fight the Mekanis, as long as they could fight their way through and reach the outlying town of Kalimra.

In fact, apart from the top three who suppressed all the Mekanis by themselves, the other participating groups all had a group of wizards working together.

Locke, however, remained seated inside the pressurized chamber and waved his hand, saying, "I don't need you. Everyone, please conserve your energy and make ample preparations for the upcoming competition."

"As for those Mekani people outside?"

“I haven’t been here in the Land of Six Towers for nothing.”

Locke flipped his right hand, and a sea ginseng that resembled a green spiral staircase floated in his right palm. At the same time, Locke's pupils turned into golden vertical pupils, and his skin turned golden.

At the same time, Locke activated the external bloodline factor module hidden within his bloodline essence, which was one of the three drops of true blood—the berserk true blood.

Then, his mysterious dragon bloodline began to boil.

At the same time, he used the second drop of true blood and went berserk for the second time!
His mysterious dragon bloodline was stimulated and exploited a second time, yet instead of weakening or being damaged, it became more active and stronger.

For those with truly potential bloodlines, a second berserk state not only does not harm them, but actually brings various benefits.

Locke, whose bloodline potential was awakened twice, had his botanical magic, [Golden Sand Waterfall], enhanced twice.

Locke, on the other hand, unleashed his full magical pressure of 7030 and used the abyssal energy that had brought his magical pressure to 1500 after consuming a large amount of the Mastermind Control Potion, thus strengthening his magical pressure to 8530.

This magic pressure is less than 500 magic pressure away from that of a wizard in the crystallization stage.

Then a golden spore storm, large enough to cover the entire void warship, appeared on the void warship they were on.

Instantly, hundreds of Mekanis were enveloped in a storm of gold sand spore powder. One after another, Mekanis burst into flames, exploded, and fell from the sky, crashing to the ground or to the cloud lake.

Montgomery and the others stared in astonishment at the scene.

I was horrified by the power and range of magic that Locke, as a liquefaction wizard, could unleash.

All of this was actually achieved by amplifying his own power with abyssal energy, while simultaneously using two drops of true blood to squeeze out his mysterious dragon bloodline and enhance his botanical magic.

It must be said that universal bloodline magic can indeed maximize the potential to unleash one's hidden powerful magical abilities.

With the help of the bloodline wizards of the Six Towers, bloodline magic combined with their botanical magic and the results of their breeding studies has created the storm that now hangs over the Void Warship.

The void warship he was on worked very well with Locke's magic, breaking through the Mekanis' mech forces and entering the forward town of Kalimra.

(End of this chapter)