Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 471 The Witch Sophia's Attention
In the Starfield Sea, the City of a Thousand Towers, [Partinos], inside the laboratory of a fourth-ring Starfield scholar, the witch Sophia watched the match with her second-ring senior brother through a special device in the laboratory.

The second-ring wizard senior couldn't help but nod and say, "Witch Sophia, I didn't expect that your student could actually complete our work outside the Starfield Sea, and with such a high degree of completion. Although it's not quite what we originally envisioned in terms of merging with our original permanent defensive force field, in reality, overlapping the permanent defensive force field is indeed more realistic."

"After all, the resources, data, and equipment required to integrate a permanent defensive force field are not something that your student's Six Towers area can provide."

The second-ring wizard senior brother watched the competition with great interest. "However, this cross-wizard level competition held in Yunze Wetland is quite interesting, even more interesting than I thought. I didn't expect that there would be a competition of this quality outside the Starfield."

The second-ring wizard senior brother smiled and said, "Thanks to the development policies of the White Wizard Association in the Eastern Boundary, the wizarding lands throughout the Eastern Boundary are rapidly improving. Only when those lower-level wizarding lands in the Eastern Boundary develop can our Starfield Sea acquire more talent."

Sophia the Witch stared intently at the screen, looking at the hydra plant that Locke had cultivated, and nodded slightly.

"Although I believed he could do it from the beginning, I didn't expect the level of completion to be so high."

"As expected of my student." The witch Sophia turned off the equipment with some regret. At this moment, her aura was extremely unstable. Sometimes it seemed to distort the surrounding spacetime and interfere with the laws of physics. At other times, it seemed to have weakened to the point of having no magic power at all.

Sophia the Witch's magic pressure has reached 9999, and she is only one step away from breaking through.

The second-ring wizard senior brother said, "Sophia, you should hurry up and go to the medium-sized world core—the World Hall—that your teacher prepared for you. You have already completed the magic circle of that world and created an energy cycle, so 'polluting' the World Stone in the World Hall will be a piece of cake."

"Advancing to the second ring of wizarding is more important than watching your students compete."

"I believe your student can understand you."

Sophia the Witch nodded slightly. "Indeed."

"Senior brother, the laboratory will depend on you to keep it running until I successfully advance to the second-circle wizard."

Sophia the Witch turned and left the laboratory, raising her right hand with her thumb clasped in her palm and four fingers pointing upwards, and declared to the Eye of Truth: "I, Sophia Serafina, will abide by the declaration of the White Wizarding Society and always remember our sacred mission—to reshape the ignorant world with truth and order."

“I voluntarily accept the supervision of the Ethics Review Committee of the White Wizarding Association.”

A radiant light from the Eye of Truth appeared behind the Witch Sophia, and a cold, merciless voice spoke in her ear: "In the name of the Supreme Truth, we declare—the contract is established."

The witch Sophia transformed into a magical ball of light and rushed directly into a dimensional portal inside the laboratory.

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In the battlefield between the frontier town of Kalimra and Cloud Lake in the Cloud Marsh Wetlands, the Mekani people frantically unleashed their firepower at the No. 3 Sureas Legion, but none of them could break through the eight layers of permanent defensive force field.

This number is simply outrageous.

A permanent defensive field at the first level is difficult to break through with any offensive magic except for ritual magic, which can bypass it.

And now there are actually eight such permanent defensive force fields.

The Mecanians in the sky even dispatched mechanical warships to drop large bombs on the No. 3 Sureas Legion.

A large mushroom cloud of fire erupted from the sky above the No. 3 Sureas Legion, but soon a mage shrouded in eight layers of permanent defensive force field emerged from the fire cloud.

Locke observed the situation. "Commander, two layers of your permanent defensive field were destroyed in the explosion, but it has now been fully restored."

"The Mekani's Cluster Fire Demon's Fury Potion Bomb seems to be severely lacking in attack power at its current tonnage."

"keep going."

"Don't stop. They can't break through your defenses. Go straight into the Iron Fortress."

The water hyacinth communication system, which is the Ganoderma lucidum plant in Locke's hands, emitted the worshipful voice of a commander from the Suryas people: "Respected Wizard, the magical plant you bestowed upon us is truly too powerful."

"I have never felt that war could be so convenient and so easy."

"We will follow your orders and continue our advance toward the Steel Fortress."

Locke did not respond. He sat in his chair, still somewhat curious about where the Mekanis had gotten so many Fire Demon's Fury potions.

Even a first-level potion can be diluted with a certain proportion of water and used, but the quantity could not be this large.

With such a large number, even a second-ring wizard couldn't handle it all by himself.

Concocting potions requires magic, so the Mekanis themselves could not possibly make them.

They don't even have the ability to obtain souls, let alone potion-making, which requires a more acute understanding of soul power.

However, there are many secrets hidden behind the Mekanis, which are not worth thinking about at this stage, so Locke did not ponder them for too long.

Instead, they began to observe the situation of the other nine legions.

First, there was the tenth-ranked wizard from the Land of Dragonfall, who watched with a face full of grief and indignation as his Sureas Legion was annihilated by a cluster bomb dropped from a mechanical warship. Marius Lawrence's project team, already fragmented due to his own susceptibility to influence and the prevalence of cronies within the group, had barely managed to cobble together a large-scale tactical-grade magical plant, the Great Windmill Siege Grass.

It was an incredibly heavy siege engine, a plant that required a large number of golems to drag it forward. It could launch heavy windmill darts forward, which were incredibly powerful but very slow and had almost no defensive capabilities. It was a semi-finished product that could not be used in actual combat on the battlefield and could only be used in the laboratory.

So it's easy to imagine that when his troops went out to fight with this kind of thing, they were almost completely wiped out in no time.

In the screening room, Wizard Marius Lawrence sat up from his seat, glared at the other teams of contestants, and muttered to his own team, "It's all your fault for holding me back."

"I brought you in to replace the original members of my research group because I valued your impeccable resumes. But it turns out that none of you are as capable as my original research group members who had nothing."

"The breeders in the Land of Dragon's Fall have it tough, and you've ruined such a promising situation."

The magical artifact technology in the Land of Dragonfall is extremely advanced, but the development of breeding science is very uneven.

After speaking, Marius Lawrence the wizard left the theater dejectedly, ignoring the reactions of the wizards and students in his research group.

As a loser.

The other nine team leaders, after catching a glimpse of this scene out of the corner of their eyes, immediately paid even closer attention to all the changes on the battlefield.

Besides the tenth place being eliminated, the original fourth place was forced to change their research direction immediately because their data had been stolen once, in order to meet the Yunze Cup's requirement of complete originality.

After temporarily changing his research direction, the tactical-level magical plants his team created also had serious shortcomings.

It was a solar mycelium cannon, which could be created by five or more first-ring wizards using the botanical magic [photosynthesis] to gather sunlight and concentrate it into a cannon to attack enemies.

Its power is immense.

It utilizes the principle that plants can capture light energy, convert it into bioenergy, and then into other forms of energy, thus forming a tactical-level magical plant concept.

However, due to insufficient time for consideration and being a temporary change of target, it was used before the weakness test was completed in the laboratory. Then, during the war, the machine spirit behind the Mekanis analyzed its weakness, which was that this magical plant was afraid of... no sunlight.

As they passed, countless Mekanis flew through the sky, blocking out the sun and preventing the Sunlight Mycelium Cannon from absorbing sunlight energy. Soon, the fourth wizard from the Razer Lowlands also saw it. His Sunlight Mycelium Cannon was destroyed by the Mekanis with long-range artillery, and all the Suryas in his legion were slaughtered.

The fourth person stomped his foot and stood up. "Damn it."

He glared menacingly at Yennefer. "Damn dark wizard, if I find out who hired this dark wizard, I'll make her pay in blood."

Yennefer disagreed.

The wizard from the Razer lowlands looked at Locke and the others with resentment and envy, and could only leave the theater dejectedly.

As a loser.

With his departure, only eight contestants remained, and among them, the ninth wizard's army, equipped with the Wind Whisper Siege Flower, was also in dire straits.

One by one, the first-ring wizards of that legion died.

The Wind Whisperer can launch pollen in a fixed direction, summoning wind magic in that direction to form a strong wind belt.

The strong winds can suppress all the Mekanis and their artillery.

The problem is that every ten minutes, a half-minute pause is needed, and during that half-minute, the Mekani people have the opportunity to counterattack.

Edgar, who was originally in first place, Diana the Witch, who was in second place, and Yennefer, who was in third place, all focused their attention on Locke.

Inside the theater, Edgar spoke to someone who wasn't Diana for the first time. He looked Locke up and down carefully and said, "You're so young. You're only in your early twenties."

"I never expected that a wizard of this age would turn the tables on me in the breeding competition."

“I was rude of me to ignore you before.” Wizard Edgar stood up and nodded respectfully to Locke. “In this competition, you, like Diana, are a great threat to me.”

Locke was somewhat speechless, but out of politeness, he could only stand up and nod slightly in response.

Edgar is undoubtedly a score-obsessed person, and he only pays attention to those who are at his level.

The wizard Edgar said confidently, "But don't think you've got it all figured out. My Tree of Life isn't just limited to this."

The wizard Edgar smirked. "Fortunately, I had prepared a backup plan beforehand."

"Originally intended for Diana, but now I'll use it ahead of time. My treant, for your master... reclaim all the attention of the True Sight Crystal!"

Diana the Witch and Locke immediately turned their attention to Edgar.

(End of this chapter)