Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 468 The finals begin

Three days later, ten legions of the Suryas people gathered outside the town of Kalimra. The Suryas people wore close-fitting military uniforms made from wizard robes, and they were all eager to fight.

At the same time, Locke's voice came from beside the commanders of the No. 3 Sureas Legion, which his team was in charge of, "Is communication all normal?"

The eight mages in Legion No. 3, who were equivalent to first-ring wizards, immediately stated that they could clearly hear Locke's voice.

At this moment, Locke and the others, along with all the participating teams, were sitting inside the screening room in the forward town of Kalimra.

Inside the screening room is a communication system connected to Qingwu Lingluo, also known as Yunze Wetland, which is a patch of water hyacinth magic plants growing on the surface of Yunhu Lake. By leveraging the amplification effect of Yunhu Lake, the Qingwu Lingluo system is far more powerful than the astrological system in the southeast corner region.

At this moment, Locke held a Ganoderma lucidum mushroom in his hand and spoke as if into a microphone. "Legion 3, proceed according to plan. Montgomery, Barbara, Tacitus, Leopold, we need to provide technical support from the rear."

"Five minutes later, attack the predetermined target, the Mekanian steel fortress. War objective: destroy the material entity of the Machine Soul—the optical quantum computer."

This is also the nominal goal of this competition, but Locke knows that the Yunze Cup tournament committee will not allow such a thing to happen.

The rest of the team was also giving instructions to the Suryas, issuing them one instruction after another.

Inside the theater, crystals of true vision appeared one by one, and then vanished in an instant.

The finals officially begin!
At that time, the Sureas people commonly used several magical vines as offensive magical plants during their apprenticeship, as well as a pumpkin shield as a defensive magical plant, and some legion-specific magical plants.

For example, the No. 3 Sureas Legion chosen by Locke possesses a magical plant called [Windwalker Bellflower], which can be carried on the waist and used with the corresponding 0.5-ring plant magic to increase movement speed.

The first-ring wizards of the Suryas typically use a bamboo sword called the Golden Sword Bamboo as part of their plant-based magic.

Because Yunze Wetland, as a wizarding civilization, only taught the Suryas people botanical magic, but never the crucial science of breeding, the overall level of the Suryas people was at least three hundred years behind the wizards of Yunze Wetland.

Moreover, the types of permanent defensive fields they can choose from, as well as the number of magical plants they can select, are limited.

This also led to the fact that, within these three days, the mage Suryas of the 3rd Legion was astonished the moment he came into contact with the Hydra plant, and was deeply shocked by the wizarding civilization.

Locke's hydra plant was an extremely terrifying thing even in the eyes of the native wizards, let alone the people of Suryas, whose knowledge was more than three hundred years behind the wizarding world and whose science was extremely incomplete, and who had been taught almost only botanical magic.

It can be said that Locke's Hydra once again left an indelible mark on the memories of those Suryas.

This increased their reverence for wizarding civilization.

At this moment, the Suryas charged towards Cloud Lake. All ten participating teams watched this scene from the theater, observing to understand the combat performance of their developed magical plants. The Suryas, wielding plant magic, clashed with the cyborg Mekanis. The Suryas' magical vines cleaved through Mekanis one after another, while the Mekanis' missiles and artillery rained down on the Suryas like raindrops.

Next came the first wave of attacks, as was customary for the Mekanis: a barrage of hypersonic missiles loaded with large amounts of fire magic potion as explosives, raining down from the sky towards the eight first-ring wizards of Legion 3, where Locke was stationed, carrying out a decapitation strike against the Surreyas Legion.

This is a common tactic of the Mekanis, who decapitate key enemy targets in the first wave by attacking from beyond visual range.

Locke said calmly, "Commanders, according to the training content of the past three days, use the Hydra Plant to deploy an eight-layer permanent defensive force field shield to block all enemy attacks."

Locke glanced around the theater; the rest of the team was also giving instructions to the Suryas people from behind.

On the battlefield, the No. 1 Sureas Legion chosen by Wizard Edgar David, consisting of eight first-ring wizards, took out a Tree of Life from their astral rings. The ancient Tree of Life released an incredible magical pressure around it. Its body was so enormous that life energy was almost condensed into liquid around it, and its spiritual liquid nourished all the troops. Anyone who was injured was rapidly recovering.

On the judges' panel, many high-ranking wizards discussed animatedly. A third-ring wizard from the Rose Council remarked, "Interesting. Is that the [Fountain of Life] from the Ancient Tree of Life?"

"Legend has it that the Tree of Life can nurture life and strengthen life races, and special springs can be generated around it to quickly restore the life and magic power of every living being. Who would have thought that the younger generation could surpass the older generation, and that Edgar David could achieve this at his age."

The third-circle wizard of the Rose Council said, "If he wins the championship, our Rose Council's High School of Truth needs such a talent."

John, a third-ring wizard from the Root Crown Court, nodded. "I didn't expect him to complete the project plan to this extent. He actually created the Tree of Life. In my opinion, this kind of tree person should be one of the most powerful tree people at the first ring stage."

Dean Richie smiled and said, "In my opinion, that Tree of Life is still not complete. If it were a complete Tree of Life traced back, it should naturally possess the power of a second-circle wizard."

"Hmm... it should be equivalent to the power of a second-stage transcendent. However, this transcendence is based on our wizarding tradition. Most of our wizarding races, before learning magic, do not have an individual strength that reaches the level of a first-stage transcendent. But in the vast void, there are races that are born equal to a first-stage transcendent, or even a second-stage transcendent. The Tree of Life should be born equal to a second-stage transcendent, so the Tree of Life that Edgar created is either not fully defined, or it is still in its juvenile stage."

Dean Richie, as the president of Boniface University, possessed extraordinary insight. "This is also the case with dragons. Of course, the witch Catherine knows this better than I do. True dragons are born as three-time transcendent beings. For them, reaching the third circle of wizards can be achieved simply by sleeping."

Catherine the Witch glanced at him but said nothing.

Dean Richie turned to look at the screen in the theater and saw the second team, Diana's army of Sureas, had also summoned a tree-man, which was being manipulated by eight wizards standing on its branches.

That tree-man was none other than Luna Laurel Tree-man.

It was a completely new kind of tree-person, with no precedent to follow. This laurel tree-person was extremely aloof. With a gentle wave of its branches, the laurel-crowned tree-person created a frost that stretched for thousands of meters.

Large numbers of Mecani Gundams, shrouded in frost, fell from the sky one by one.

(End of this chapter)